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The' Omaha Daily. Bee VOL. 50 NO. 201. tatani MMi-Clau Maltir M 21, I9M. al Oman . 0. Uaaar Act af March I. OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921. K Mall it ynrl. I ail da 4th It. 9 Hit aai tuty. $1: Dally Only. M: ua, M OuHIca 4th Zaaa (I yaar). Pally Ma Ilk; Dally Oalr. I2; uada Oaly. ti THREE CENTS All Bills to Stop Aliens Are Doomed! Little Prospect of Legislation To Prohibit Immigration, . Either at Present Session Or the Next. House Measure Defeated By ARTHUR SEARS KENNING. t hlxago Tribune-Omaha Bh Leaned Wire. Washington, eb.' 6. T.hore is now no prqspect of the passage of legislation, cither by this or the ..next congress, completely suspending im migration for any period. It will be impossible in the remaining, mouth of this congress, to pass any immi gration restriction legislation, save possibly an extension' of the passport vse system, and Interest now cen ters upon the restriction bill that will be framed soon after the next o.'grcss is called in extraordinary st ion. ' . 'i"he Johnson ' suspension bill foundered ou the rotks in the senate tu muiiuce on immigration of which Senator Colt of Kliode Island is chairman. The other members of the committee are Dillingham of Vermont. Penrose of Pennsylvania, Sterling of South Dakota, Johnson of California, Keyes of New Hamp shire and Edge of "New Jersey, re publicans', and Gore of Oklahoma, King of Utah. Harris bf Georgia, Harrison of .Mississippi and Phelan of California, democrats. . Passed by House. Johnson ot caiitornia, wing 01 i Utah and . Harrison of Mississippi.! are the couspicbous restriclionists of the committee and the only one with whom the suspension bill found favor. This bill which was framed bv the, house immigration committee of which Representative Johnson of Waji'narton is chairman, was passed , by ia house. It provided for the. I suspension of immigration for one year. ' Chairman Colt of .the senate com mittee and Senators Dillingham, and Sterling, all of whom have special ized on immigration questions, were imahcrablv opposed to the sus pension bill from the start and they carried a maiority of the committee with them. They hold that the com plete prohibition of immigration is wrong in principle and advocate vari- oui -systems or restriction. , The hearings on the suspension hill had not oroceeded far Mvhen these senators asserled that no iTiergeticj'jdstifTiiisr .hk had been demonstrated. ; Despite the testimony of immigration offi t'als that millions of Europeans arc terying to get to America and that more than. 1.000,000 probably will arrive this year. Chairman, Colt and his supporters coined that the, pass ,port vise regulations and the inade quacy of oceaii transportation would operate to stem the tide of new com ers until Weell considered restric tion legislation could be enacted. Enioloyers Oppose Bill. , Great opposition to the suspen sion bill by various employing inter- (Torn tt Tig Two. Colnma Wtc.) . Publishers Demand Free Importation of Newspaper Print Stock Chit-ago ribBBt-Omh Bee l.ed.Wlr. Washington, Feb. 6. Thflat news print paper should continue to come in from Canada free of duty was advocated 1y both American paper manufacturirs and newspaper pub lishers today before the house ways and means committee. s The position of the manufacturer? were set forth in a statement pre sented by Henry W. Stokes of Phil adelphia and others on behalf of the .American Pulp and Paper associa tion. It was contended that the dif- lerence ill ' cost ot production oi news print paper in this country and r Canada iustifv a tariff of three- quarters of a cent-a' pound, or $15 a ton. !... -t It was1 slated,' however, that in as much as 40 , per cent of the news print paper used in the United States is bought from Canada it is in the public interest that such a .duty, if imposed, Should be suspended in the case of news print importations from Canada and applied only by executive order whenever it may be shown that the Canadian provinces are maintaining or imposing restric tions that are unfair. White House Motor Car Immune From Coppers Chicago Trtbnna-Omaba Dm iMMd Wire. Washington, Feb. 6. The Wash ington police started out to enforce traffic regulations with a. vengeance. Hundreds cf motorists were arrest ed for various violations and the only offender ' known to have es caped, with impunity was the White House chauffeur. President and Mrs. Wilson went for a drive in Potomac park during the afternoon. The rule prescribes that the speedway be circled from right to left only. Nevertheless, the White House car entered the speed way from left to tight and was al lowed to proceed, although others had been arrsted previously for this violation. Fanner Loses Thumb and it Two Finger m Corn Sheller Broken Bow, Neb., Feb. 6. (Spe cial.) Ralph Ash. 5, residing. 18 miles north of Broken Bow, lost the thumb and first two fingers of his right hand in a corn sheller. He was oiling the machine and in trying to catch himself when his foot slipped, plunged his right hand into the ma chinery, . . . "Get Bergdoll" is Demand Of American? in' Euro S. Dignity and Pride Action in Making Humble Themselves to Army Slacker Now in Germany. , , . BY FLOYD GIBBONS. Cbiraga Tribune (able. Copyright 1051, Paris. Feb. 6. American dignity and pride has been sorely injured in Europe by Washington's actiou in making American soldiers on the Rhine humble themselves on account of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the slacker, who escaped from America and now is being made a hero in Germany. . ' ' , Americans in Europe are begin ning to ask whether Bergdoll, the pacifist and draft evader, was not a fighter after all. The opinion is being formed here that he has licked Washington to a frazzle. Americans in large numbers on this side arc writing to the editor of the European edition of the Chicago Tribune, denouncing the situation. The European edition of the Trib une today begins a new campaign with the slogan, "Get Bergdoll."' Suggested by Letten I The crusade was suggested in the j following letter published today: "To the Editor of the Tribune: You are an American, The Tribune ts the only upstanding, outspoken Ameri can medium in Europe. It is your op portunity and duty now to do the real American thing and repair the stain that has been placed upon all Americans by the pussyfooted, pa cifist Washington administration that ordered our American soldiers, on the Rhine to apologize to an ene my with whom we are still at .war. "This insufferable embarrassment Omaha Opinion Is Registered ... Against Bill House Rojl No. 1 Rejected hy . Every Test Applied! to Show Local Puhlic Opinion. Lincoln; Feb. 6. (Special.) "Let Omaha adopt 'home rule and settle its own problems." , , That has been and is the, plaint of out-state legislators when Omaha disputes come before them. The theory is that in matters , of Purtey"HfcaP hould have 'what its citizens want. By that theory the majority of the Douglas county 1 delegation in the lower house expect out-state mem: bers to join them in defeating House Roll No. 1, the water board's bill to give itself additional power in handling electric light mattcrsl . Omaha Against the Bill. Insofar as Omaha opinion has expressed-itself, through elective offi cers and civic bodies, it is pointed out that it is against the bill. The "lower houe. delegation . from Douglas county stands 8 to 3 against the bill, with one non- . ; committal; -v Mayor Smith, who made pub-f , " lie ownership of public utilities a plauk of his platform, is em-' phatically against the bill. The Omaha Real Estate board, which stood with the water board in earlier campaigns, is against, the bill by the decisive vote of 46 to 21. None of the , various active civic organizations has indorsed the bill. , '' An analysis of the three favorable votes oiv the Douglas .county dele gation makes the showing still more o------ ------ ., - . . .l.t strikinar. Ut tne inrce, one is ot Representative Bowman, step-son " ?:AV,Cai,,il T"tCr ,1 ,2' water board. 1 Ins leaves out xwo of the twelve Douglas county mem bers favorable to the bill, after per sonal connections are eliminated. Men of Independent Views. In past years, water board legisla tion has sometimes won against Douglas countv opposition on - the plea that the delegation was "ma chine made," and not truly represen tative of the electorate. That argu ment, even supporters of House Roll No. 1, admit does not apply against the present Douglas county "delega tion. The personnel has won high tribute from out-state members, who assert that it out-ranks any Douglas county delegation in recent years in the ability, and independence of its members. ', , A further evidence of present pub lic sentiment in Omaha toward the watf board, is cited in the defeat of Charles R. Sherman, a veteran of the board, when he was a candidate for re-election last yea. It was the first time since Omaha has owned the waterworks that a member of the board has been defeated when he sought re-election. The Douglas county majority believe that Sher man's defeat at the same election which named them to the legislature is sufficiently indicative of what Omaha thinks of further extensions of water board policies. Negro Fails to Raise Late Lamented and Lands in City Jail Miami, Fla., Feb. 6. Joe Thomas, j an aged negro, got into, trouble through failure to make good a con tracts bring back to life the late lamented husband of a negro wo man. She said she gave him $15, and the deceased's gold watch. He said he buried the timepiece at the grave to rouse the sleeper, but it didn't work. The court said it look ed like false pretense and bound Thomas over. 1 1. J. .T Injured by Washington's j Soldiers , on ' Rhine ! is visited upon our national rcputa-. tion because two Americans tried to do the thing that every real Ameri can would like to ido, namely, 'Get Bergdoll.', 1 "This millionaire German slacker has kidded America off her feet. He has laughed at our country and our law's. He has evaded and Jiood winked our civil authorities. "He has turned the tables on our military, ana now he has reduced the nation to the position of humbling itself and mak ing an apology on his behalf. -"What Is Wrong." . "What is wrong in Washington? Are there no Americans left in pub lic life who can strike back' for this slur Is, the spirit of Lincoln, ot urant ana ot Kooseveit aeaar ui Stephen Decatur's words mean any thing any more? Has the American Legion forgotten our battle dead and gone in for tea fights? Are Our Gold Star mothers forgetting their fallen heroes? ' ' , "Isn't it time to make the eagle screech or jVn't there any screech leh in the old bird? Let us forget every thing else for one minute and 'Get I Bergdoll.' ' , "The Tribune has done many big things in Europe, Mr. Editor, and real Americans over here aie thank ful for them. Here is a bis job for yon. Break out with a new slogan. Make it, 'Get Bergdoll' Raise hell about it until the sniveling little pup is yanked out of Germany and placed in his traitor's cell." Jail Breakers Walk Into Arms v Of Authorities Federal Prisoners, Playing "Hide and Seek" With Of ficers on the Platte River Island, Taken at Kearney. j , v Kearney, Xcb., Feb. 6. (Special Telegram.) After a successful game of hide and seek for two days with officers of Hall and Buffalo counties, Harry L. . Grover and Milo Long, federal prisoners who dug their way out of the Grand Island jail Wednes day night, walked into the arms of sheriffs at the Grover home, here The officers, failing in their efforts tp locate the fugitives on an island in the Platte river three miles south of Kearney, on which the two men were in hiding, concealed themselves at the Grover home. Grover and Long unsuspectingly walked into the trap last night and gave them selves up without resistance when they saw that the officers had the drop ou them. The men had been reported barri caded in a hunting vshack on the is-, land, heavily armerl and ready to put up a desperate fig"ht to avoid recap4 . , .wJ them when arrested. Frank Dynes, w;ho was the third member of the jail-breaking trio, walked into the city hall at Kearney Saturday and gave himself up to au thorities."" He told officers that the other two men were concealed on the island and said that Long was' responsible for the jail delivery. Both Grover and Long asserted last night that Dynes had been the ring leader and had planned the es cape. They admit that had road con ditions been favorable an automobile would have -been stolen and that' they would have endeavored to have put as many miles as possible be tween themselves and Grand Island. one Sheriff McCutcheon, Deputy Sher- :a r , T:i W lckwire of Q d land ,returned t0 that city -ith their, prisoners this morning, The men were indicted by a fed eral grand jury i:i Omaha on a charge of interstate traffic in stolen automobiles. President Refuses , To Mix in Rail Scrap Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. Pres ident Wilson refused the request of railroad labor union representatives that he investigate railroad execn .tives' claims before the railroad la bor board that the carriers must ad just wages or face bankruptcy. He also declined to submit the matte?" to congress. . Confidence was expressed by the .president that all questions dealing with railroad labor and management might be left safely to the railroad labor board and the interstate com merce commission. He accordingly informed the labor and railroad rep resentatives that he was submitting copies of telegrams from them to j inesc Domes. i . I Fillmore County Farmers Want Highway Improved Tl'eneva, Neb., Feb. 6. (Special.) One resident of each township crossed by the road from. Geneva to Clay Center was appointed on a committee to consult the county board of supervisors about improv ing the highway. It is the desire of Fillmore farmers along the road that it be made a county highway, from the Saline county to the Clay county 'line. The gathering to dis cuss the plan was presided over by James Burke of Geneva. ' . .-. Bolshevist Propaganda. - " Berlin, ( Fell. 6. Articles urging student volunteers to proclaim a soviet government are being printed by the Neue Zcitung, bolshevik or gan, at Munich, it is announced in Munich dispatches v to m rite uwn .Biography Confessed. Mail Bandit, Im prisoned Nearly Half o Life, Finds Way to Get Money Honestly. True Identity Hidden Benjamin Fuller, confessed forger and robber of the United Spates mails, has discovered a way to make money honestly. . He began his life of crime at the age of seven ' years. He has had many adventures and narrow escapes, he says. And now he has decided to "cash in" on his experiences Dy j writing his autobiography. Fuller is a younjr man. He admits Fuller is not his right name bue de clines to supply cither his true iden tity'or the name of his home town. He was arrested when he attempted to pass a check on. the Brandeis stores and yesterday admitted he had served tinte.in many prisons. "I've already started to write the story of. my life," he said last night. "Jt will be a verv interestine storv. l assure you. Autobiography of Bad Boy. "What will I call it? Why, I think I'll call it the autobiography of a bad boy. "I'm only a boy, you know, if a bad one. I reallyjhaven't grown up." Fuller attributes his' life of crime to the influences of a hardj-hearted stepmother. His father is an in fluential business man, he says. : "I wasn't a bad youngster at heart," said Fuller "But when my mother died things began to go wrong, father married again soon and the woman lie married didn't care for me. ' She influenced father against me niad him think I was ba(K-and finally I was sent to a re formatory. ' , "When I was 7 years old I es caped from the reformatory and got back home.' I thought I'd' be wel come, but found I wasn't. So one night I took a little bread to keep me from starving and ran away from home. If I hadn't I'd have been sent back to the reformatory. . A Thousand Hells. "Since then I've gone, through n thousand hells, and not a single heaven. I air. now 29 years old. I've sp'ent'H years of that time jn confinement." .; Fuller's only robbery ' job was committed in Kalamazoo. Mich., in November pf 1920, according to his confession, when he. stole a govern- n.lcnt niau Pou.c:? ,rcnl a rauroaa sta- uc &iik i.uuiauicu pJ,UA 111 checks and drafts,. only a small part of which was negotiable, he said. Part of the checks were for old soldiers and pensions for widows, he admitted. He cashed some of these checks in New York and Canada, and de stroyed the others, he asserted." Fuller said he. determined to reveal (Turn to Paaje Twe. Column One.) Houston Attorney Is Tarred and Feathered ' . By Unidentified Men tbivaco Tribune-Omaha Be Leaned Wire. -Houston, Tex., Feb.' 6. B. I. Hobbs. an attorney, with only a coat of tar and' feathers to hide his nakedness; was dumped out of an au tomobile on one of the principal business district streets at midnight tonjght. The automobile left him in the street before the crowd and po lice, which quickly gathered knew what had occurred. The police took Ilob.bs to headquarters and question ed ; him and then sent him to his home, where, w.nile attempting to get rid of his tar and feathers he told of the attack upon him He said he was hauled from his bed late Saturday night by five men, who gained entrance to his home on the plea of wanting to see him ou important business. He was taken downstairs and shoved into a wiat iug automobile. Thcu he was blind folded and the car was driven, he judged, several miles out into the country where a stop at a lonely point was made, and his head was shorn of the l.ong jhair he usually wears and the coat of tar and feathers applied. Madison Man Pleads Not ' Guilty to Statutory Charge Madison, Neb., Feb. 6. (Special.) Preliminary hearing for J. E. Brown, alleged assailant of Mrs. Martens, was continued . to Febru-ary-lJ to enable Brown to obtain counsel. He pleaded hot guilty to the charge of an attempted statu tory offense and his bail fixed at $5,000. He is being held in jail. Wooden Leg Destroys Faith in Providence; Wearer Lands in Jail Uncago, l'eb. . o. Wade Uuuey s X Feb. 6. Wade Duffe faith in Providence i forever shat tered. ' He has knocked wood on his cork leg and invoked good luck for the last time. He's going back to Blue Earth, "Minn., to face his frandfather from whom he stole $9,000 in securities and cash. He was arrested last Thursday as a vagrant, but was identified by the cork leg. "I'da been alt right if I. had canned that 'tree and. bought a crutch," he said. "Well, it was like this: I needed some money last July, I wanted "to see the world. I Ava. tired of my father's farm. I met three fellows I learned after ward they were safeblowers, and they said "they would get my grand father's dough if I would show them where he kept it. I did. They got it. I never saw them again." Deputy Sheriff Bachtle left for Blue Earth with McDuffv tonieht. The charge is grand larceny. Will Editor Harding Run the Government Like a Newspaper? - t i - '. . ' lOanrrtskt: Ml: r Ttt Chbasv Tritaw.1 : - i , v I 1 ) ., ; ' J CHARLEY, U ' rV I -TAKE-. A r h HUSUeOVERToW V . ...vV ( wVtaxi? V 'x V Jap embassy and jT n J jX GeT A 2000 WoRD '"jysf TwtJ ' ."-w gf V Jbo interview with Tte Bandits Wreck Bank at Orchard;" in Auto Vaults Blown Open and Loot Estimated at From $2,000 To 10,000 Taken Early Sunday. s " O'Neill, Neb.; Feb. 6. (Special Telegram.) The Citizens ;State bank of Orchard was robbed at 3 Sunday morning, the two ' doors t the bank vaults being blown and the safety deposit boxes rifled. The mag nesium steel safe in which the bank funds were kept was not touched. Bank officials estimate that " be tween $2,000 and $10,000 ; worth of Liberty bonds were taken. H. R. Browning, assistant cashier of the bank, was an eye-witness to the robbery. He had been out to a so cial function, and after eating lunch at a nearby restaurant, walked past the bank on his way home. As he came in. front of the bank, a man standing in the doorway stuck him up and ordered him to enter the banking room with him. i " Three others were in the direc tor's ' room, where Browning ' was taken, bound and gauged. ,One or two others, he says, were -working on the vault doors, which were.jn another room. The furniture of the vault' and safety deposit room were wrecked by the explosion and several of the boxes jammed in' such a way that the. bandits could not open them. Browning was left iuuhe bank and managed to work loose shortly aft er their departure. He at once turned in a fire alarm, arousing the entire town. As the villagers were assem bling, a losed car, supposed to con tain the bandits, rushed through the Crowd and escaped towards the east. The six bandits are supposed, to be from Sioux City and came to O'Neill Friday night. Saturday after mid night they broke into a " section house, securing gasoline, : oil " ' and tools. ' The bandits, as described by Browning, answered the description ot tne six men seen nere saturaay. , The Citizen State bank of Orchard is capitalized for $30,000. T. A. Dray ton of Orchard is president; E. R. Gurney of Omaha, vice"' president; W. S. Bowen of Orchard, cashier, and H. R. Browning of Orchard, assistant cashier. ' - Governor of Reserve Board Is Optimistic .New York. Feb. 6. D'scussing credit expansions arising from the participation of the United. States in the war. WP. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board, mini mized the danger of a business col lapse or financial crisis. "I say this in all candor," the as serted. "We are 'now looking for ward toa i year of constructive "de velopment. I want to say that in trinsically there is no comparison to day with conditions a year ago, wheri there was uneasiness and apprehen sion among the best informed over the badly expanded credit. Business r is now rapidly, reaching a new level and approaching a sound and sane basis." . , - ' . . Passengers Safe.. San Francisco, . Feb. 6. The 19 passengers who "were on the steam schooner Klamath wb.cn she went ashore at Dclmar, 80 miles north of San Francisco, early Sunday .morn ing, were taken to Point Arena to i!ay. " . Woman Sells Punch Bowl to Buy New Hat; Hubby Beats Her Up Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Tensed Wire. Chicago, Feb. 6V Punch bowls do not mean anything since the eigh teenth amendment became more or less effective and Mrs. Evelyn Neil son .grew weary of polishing up ths large, cut glass bowl, part of her household treasures. .Spring is not" far. distant - and the stores w;ere showing, 4me - lordly. :jicw-iiatsUs&o Mrs. Neilson sold the punch bowl and invested the returns in a, new hat. -'- ' Her husband,' - Hetimcr Neilson, waxed; wroth ''.over . the transaction and gave friend wife a sound thump ing. .' - . ; "That hateful old bowl was obso lete, anyway," she told Judge Sab bath. "It just'made a Tot 'of extra work for me and I would get a lot more comfort out of a hat." , "I agree with you;" said the court, as he indicated that he would grant her' a divorce. ( . Strike of Kansas Miners Is Called Alexander Howat, Orders Men In Two Pittshurg Coal Mines i To Lay Down Tools. , 4 . . Pittsburg, Kas., Feb. 6. Alexan der M. Howat, .president pf the Kan sas miners, announced today he had called a strike--of 200 mjners cm ployed in the two mines of the G. IT. Mackic Fuel company. Iji calling it, Howat said he. had acted on di rections of the union's district board, The. walk-out, is tli first - to' be called since the passage of. the Iav creating, the state court of industrial relations a year ago. , ' ' Howat and other mine union offi cials.are under injunctions not: to call strikes in the Kansas coal fields, and county officials tonight were understood-to be considering 'what steps to take. . . X , Explaining the strike, Howat said: - "The -action was taken after the failure of the operators to out into effect an award made more than two years a$o in the case of Karl Mish mash." - , Man Who Put Beads in Moonshine Arrested thlrago Tribune-Omaha ltee I.ea.eil Wire. Hammond, I nd.. Feb. (j. Federal ; .,-,o,:k.-:.. t J :.. - ' found in a rew kind of bird in Hammond todav. His : name, is Steve Varcro nd he w'as thr i inventor of brad oil'iisrf in discing- seui' ing hootch. Steve noticed that his customers were not content with melHng or .tasting .his moonshine, !f KWSh Wat?h .Warm Bureau bo depar the 1. tie beads that linger in the , 3t Washi ,on ap, rovc;hi$ real stutf so he invented, a concoc- npporl-!fIeilt as cce.ssor - to county tion which beaded the boozf. and did a trout H C. Hn.-iri r ,t.. a land office bus'ness until-his place was raided and thc'sccfct disclosed, lie says the bead cil. cost him $2 an ounce. - . . - Hardling May Appoint Esch on . Interstate Copnnerce Body Washington, ' Feb'fi. Representa tive J. J. Esch rff jWisconsin, who will retire after'- years of service, probably will i be' named by Mr. Harding as a member of the inter state tommcrce commission, accord ing to general reptrrts. Mr Esch was defeated for renomination. Mr.- Esch was chairman of the in terstate commerce committee ' and aided 'in the framing of the Esch-Cummins-transportation act. 1 Heavy Sleet and Snow Storms Rage In Middle West ' Old Man Winter" Rudely Awakens Nebraskans to Fact That Winter Isn't Over- Slight Temperature Drop -1 - . . "Old ManWmter sprang wick- ed surprise on Umana and iseorasua and Tniva in trneral when he set Mother Carev to picking her" chick - , . c' j ens early Sunday morning, causing many a sleepy c-.t.zen to bestir him- self earlier than usually is his voiit on the day of rest an4 rummage Jay of rest an4 rummage a dusky basement f or he . : .i f ivel put away m the fond , through a snow shov . . Mrtrf. (n.r cr-.-,y Lava Ceasing her activities about noon, j Ma1 Carey got in touch with Jupiter i "PImv" who send down a fine mist, ! nait sleet and. halt ram, coating the cleared sidewalk v.jth a defy to non skids, and .crusting the snow, evi dently in the belief that "save the surface and you save all." Naturally the temperature had tc take a sudden slump, but not sr. much as might have been expected and the mnvnrv ar-f.llv k-ia rise a little in Omaha after 1 in the afternoon. The mercury hovered near the 20 above mark most of the day.' Out-state didn't fare so well, either in snowfall or temperature. McCook was visited by sjiow flur ries, followed bv rain which waft freezing, with a temperature of 25 above, according to the 4:40 p. m: report received by the Western Union wire chief. Here's the waw lie had the weather in. other Nebraska towns sued up. f ' Hastings, raining and freezing; North Platte, snowing, northwest wind, 20 above; Lincoln,' snowing, cold, high wind. The 7 o'clock report showed a drop of four degrees in temperature at North Platte, with the snow con7 tinuing. Weather at Valentine . was cloudy, northwest gale, 18 above. . Reports from Iowa at 4:40 were: Davenport, snowing, 30 above; Ce dar Rapids, cloud', 30; Ottumwa. cloud5 25; Des Moines, six inches of snow, 30; Sioux City, snowing, strong northeast wind, 12; Waterloo, i snowinar since 10 a. m., northwest wind. 20. u earner at .Minneapolis. .Miun.. was doudv. 10 above: Wichita. KaNi.. fir.-, T mile l -t..j.. cn. North Dakota, clear and calm, 2"5; ! Kansas City. Mo., cloudy, 55 . ' ' i Department Won t Approve 1 ' r . 4 ,v'"uu.. ""u iFFV,""I,e"1 i.ougcpoie, .cr., r co. o.lJe spite :r.- fact that G. F.. Hurkc is a practi cal farmer and the unanimous ; Af i. i i .- . signed to becom assistant to state comatv agent leader, R. E. Holland. Mr. Gould will retain the office until a qualified substitute tis ap pointed. - . The Weather Forccat. Nebraska Far Momfciy strong shifting 'winds. with Hourly Temperatures. s ...... .....IS .'.... a i n. s D. m. 7 a. m. S a m. 9 a. in 10 . ni. It a. m. 11 noon. 3 p. 4 p. m. m. ss .St f p m. 31 I p. m. tt 1 1 p. m. JO 8 p. in. Sec reey on U. S. Loans Denounced Policy of Keeping Negotia tions With Foreign Coun tries Concealed, Scored By Senate Leaders. Big Task for Harding fhirasa Trllmna-Oinalia Iiee Leaned Wire. Washington, Feb. 6. The Wilson administration will follow a policy of hands-off .with regard to Amen ca's $10,000,000,000 foreign loan fo:' the remainder of its term. It is quite content to leave the task oi collecting the principal and inter est to the incoming republican ad ministration. Information to this effect wasjcon veyed to the Senate today in the form of a letter from Secretary oi the Treasury Houston to Senator' Lodge of Massachusetts. The letter was to the. senate for the enlight enment -of senators who were ,puzi led hy dispatches from England telling of Austen Chamberlain's speech to the effect that the British govern ment has proposed the cancellation of the foreign debt but that the United States had objected. Mr. i Houston wrote to Senator Lodge: "The Liberty bond act. contem plated that the secretary of the treas ury should negotiate an rxchansc ot demand obligations of foreign gov-' crnmcnts held bv the United State i for long time obligations. Accord ingly, the negotiations to that end involving a postponement of the time for payment of interest, was under taken. This is all set forth , in mv annual report of 1920. Such ne gotiations have not been coucluded except that during August, 19'0, m arrangement was made by the Brit ish government in respect of $122. 017,633, of its obligation held by the United States as et forth oil ' page 63 of mv annual renort oi 192Q. ' Negotiations Oral. "Under khis arrangement, $17.-. 633.57 of the principal, together with accrued interest, had been paid; the accrued interest cm the remainder becomes due April and May, 1921; thereafter, interest is payable semi annually and the principal becomes due in equal annua installments dur ing April and May of the years 1921-2-3-4. The negotiation? before mentioned were conducted almost entirely orally. There have not been any official proposals on the subject i mar. wouia m any way-bind this gov Jernment or the foreign governments. . wllwl" i.w- tl.... .... . . t ,1 eign goveJment contained in their demand obligation held by t he ! Untied States to cive lone fimo oh. ! !j?ati?n' if requested, fa exchange . 1 therefor, j ,For obviol,s T during the remainder of my term of office, proceed further with such oh-' i'!'gtious- having my successor free, ; i !'gtlous- 'wing my successor irec, ; Vn"ifronti:lueh?ln i,h" out a"y committments having been r .,, "nm Tajta Two. Column Four) lnr n Two. Column Four) . . , ' Chicago Labor Czar Wanted for Robbing Mails Eludes Police Chicago Tribiine-Omahik Uee Leaned W ire. Chicago. II!., Feb. 6. Although "R: t:. m i... I., . . " ... j.T.f oor. ar 19 B,v"'8 crvicws to tile pa pcrs, protesting that he i heinc "framed," the police and government tl-lltlie tlQVA 1Jk-.. . . .. k 1 .. I . arrest him on a charge of engineer ing the robbery of $100,000 in a reg istered mail sack at Pullman . 1.. i ( -nuvt-fxiucr. , Murphy's friends say he has gone into hiding until his lawyers can ar range a prooer defense and provide the $50,000 bonds demanded by the government for his release. - Assistant United States .Attoniov Milroy says the Rovernment has positive proof that Murphy and Vin cenzo Cosmano were members of tne band that stole the registered mail pouch. Cosmano was arrested yesterday and hurried to the jail in, uaukegan to prevent attempts by Ins friends to liberate him. Clarence U Darrow will appear as his atior ney. but has not been able, so far, to Secure the $50,000 bail. Senate Sidetracks Ford; bey Tariff Bill rblrago Trihune-Omalm Ilea U-aaetl Wir'. Washineton. Feb. fi Y.Vl,l' i. the demands for action pi! the big annual appropriation hills. iiimi a Hropnauoir In s. rFiinh. Ieadcrs ll)e senate sidetracked the emfgcncy tariff bill, temporarily, to niaKc way tor tne sundry rivt -hi . Jfmo";l,1c senators taunted them ' w',h statenients that they were afraid ? a .sl"' bill and dared tliem to bring it to the vote next week. It is understood that the sidetrack- 1 ing of the bill was due in Urge part to .the visit of. Harry 1 M. Daugherty. who brought word that President-elect Harding would call an extra session much sooner than had been expected unless' the legis lative jm'was broken. Atlantic Coast Fleet Now on Way to Panama Valparaiso, Chile. Feb. ' 6. The United States Pacific coast fleet sailed for Panama this evciing after a five-day visit, to join the Atlantic fleet for maneuvers. Prior to the departure. Admiral Rodman visted the governor of the province and the mayor, expressing thanks for the hospitality accorded the Americans. The Spanish infante. Ferdinando Bevcra, who . visited Admiral Rodman out he New Mexico today, was accorded a salute of 21 guns. .