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The Omaha Daily Beb VOL. 50 NO. 211. Smart Smitl-Clau M attar Miy 21. ISM. l Oaatta P. 0. UUir Act l Mirth S. II7. OMAHA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921. v Mall 1 1 nail. Imi 4th Oallr tm4 Suaaar. W: Bail 0l. IS: Suaaay, 14 OutaU 4tr) la II rarl, pally Suadaj. lit; Dalit Only. 112: iujr Oily. H THREE CENTS Harding Is Between 2 Tax Fires Advocates aud Opponents of Federal Sales Revenue Plan Putting Forth Effort to Win President-Elect's Support. Mind Open on Question By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chicago Tributra-Omaha H laad Wire. Washington, Feb. 17. Prodigious effort are being put forth by the advocates and opponents of a federal sales tax to win the support of President-elect "Harding before lie formulates the revenue revision rec ommendations he will lay before the next congress in his first message to that body. One faction of republicans is en deavoring to convince Mr. Harding that a retail sales tax not exceeding 1 per cent would be the most equi table and least burdensome : impost that could be substituted for the ex cess profits tax. Another faction is warning hjm that the imposition of a direct consumption tax. . of this character would prove so unpopular . to spell the defeat of the repub- ican party at inc next election. Keeps Open Mind. Although favoring the repeal of the excess profits tax. Mr. Harding is re ported by the leaders of both fac tions to-be preserving an open mind oil the question of a sales tax as a substitute for the profits taxes, if a substitute should be found necessary. Representative Bacharach of , the ways and means committee pre sented the arguments in favor of a sales tax to Mr. Harding at Marion and Representative Frear. also of the way and means committee, re turned today from St. Augustine w here hi submitted to the president elect the contentions of the.opposi tiilt to a sales tax. Not Opposed to Repeal , While believing that most of the criticism against the excess profits tax is unwarranted, Mr. Frear said today that he recognizes that there is a strong sentiment for its repeal and that probably this will prevail. He does not propose to offer serious objection to the repeal, however, "so long as na attempt is made to trans fer the burden from corporation earnings to the consumer -through the medium of a sales tax." "1 believe that now the corpora tions havo become accustomed to the excess profits tax," sai,d Mr. 1 Frear, "it can be 'continued in the ; future with comparatively little dif- (Tar ta Tf Two, tayhnni Ttnty Howat Is Arrested on Charge of Violating Industrial Court Law ( hleaio Trlboae-Omahn Be Leased Wire. Pittsburg, Kan., Feb. 17. Alexan der Howat, president, and August Dorchy, vice president, of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers, were arrested today on warrants charging them with Violating the Kansas industrial court law in con nection with the calling of the Mac kie strike. The warrants were issued on complaint of R. J. Hopkins, attorney-general, and Leo Armstrong, county attorney of Cherokee county. The two were taken to Columbus. The arrest is the first under the criminal sections of the industrial court law in the Kansas mine field. Both were sentenced to jail last April for contempt of court and again yesterday for contempt. . If held for trial, Howat and Dor chy will face the Cherokee county district' court, at Columbus. "I will take my case to direct test." Howat said. Mine IT of the .Mackic com pany is in Cherokee county. Mine J also involved; in the strike which be gan February 3r which developed irom a controversy over the ge of a miner., is in Crawford county. Staff PnmmiccirinAr . kurhutw vviuiiuwiviiwi Closes Boston Bank Boston, Feb.. 17. i he . lremont Trust company. banking institu tion with saving and commercial departments,- was ctosed late, today by Bank Commissioner; Joseph C. 1 .-Mien. ! Commissioner Allen's announce ment said: ' - "The Tremont Trust company is dosed as a result of unsound and unauthorized banking methods. "My action has become necessary of violation of banking laws of the commonwealth: secondly, because , the total of bad and doubtful loans :s such that the capital is seriously impaired.' ' , The notice1 as posted after bank ing hours, but a crowd soon gath- , ered and police were summoned. The company; which has a total caoital- ization of $1,220,500, has been the . most active here in soliciting bus iness by newspaper .advertising. General Attorney of Ford Aud His Company Resigns Detrpftr Mich... Feb. tf.-JHubert "E. Hartmann, assistant secretary and general attorney, for the Ford Motor company, today announced a resignation, effective March 15. He care a fiia rraenn a desire to enter ""business for himself, addintr that he expected to continue to haDdle some ot the company s affairs. . ' j Schooner Abandoned Boston. Ma?s., Feb. 17. The Bos ton four-masted schooner Horace C Monroe, bound in ballast from Lis Don to Jacksonville, Fla., was aban doned at sea, in a sinking condition Tnesday, advices received here an nounced. Captain John Hall and the irew of 13 men were rescued and U-uied at Gibraltar. " Miss Wilson Throws Down Gauntlet to U. S. Congress Daughter of President Takes Shot at Representative-Wood for Denun ciation of Community Center Work. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leased Wire. Washington, Feb. 17. Miss Mar garet Wilson, daughter of the pres ident, threw down the gauntlet to congress today in her address be fore the national woman's party con vention in behalf of community cen ter work and incidentally paid olf a long score chalked up by. the com munity workers against Representa tive Wood of Indiana for denounc ing the centers as "hot beds of so cialism" and the use of school build ings for community dances as r. waste of public money. ' 1 Is it any ot the business ot con gress," Miss Wilson demanded, "to j supervise the activities of speech" of those they represent? One reason that was. given in the senate for cut ting oiir appropriation Was that our j centers nere naci peen breeding un rest, I know of nothing that could uphold jthat statement, but even granting it, even if laws are broken in community centers, it is the bus'1 jiess o the cotir's or the Department of Justice to try the individuals who have broken the law. Defends Dancing. "Another statement made over in congress "was that they did -not wish to pay th ! expenses attendant upon dancing in our school bujld iiigs. Again I ask,granting that we have a moral right to use. the school buildings, is it .my of their busi ness what we do in them, whether we listeu to socialist speeches or whether we dance? It was even suggested the other clay on the floor of the senate that -we should not be allowed to talk politics in the cen ters. Isn't that' amazing? "Suppose that v,e should initiate a nation-wide referendum . to make new rules, for senate discussions. What an outcry there would he. It would not be a lawful proceeding, I know, and therefore impossible, but would it not be more'logical and rea sonable for us to make rules limit ing the discussion of those who are accountable to us than that they should make rules for 'our meetings? "The community center is the peo- Armed Invasion Of Pamir Region. Started by Reds' Communique Issued by India Office - - Says Offensive Commenced Last October j "... by Bolshevik Forces. i ' j London, Feb. 17. Armed invasion j of the Pamir region of central Asia, on the thresholds of India and China, was begun by Russian bol shevik troops last October, it is in-1 dicated by a communique just issued j by the India office. , The commu-1 nique gave the text of an "order ot I the day" sent out on October 10 by M. Sokolinkow, chief commissar on ! the Turkestan front, to a soviet di vision ordered into the .Pamir. It stated the men should "make them selves at home" and carry on bolshe vik propaganda with a view to in-, fluencing the people of India to re-f vOltagainst the British. "Comrades of the Pamir division." said the order, "you have been given a responsible task. The soviet re public sends you to garrison the posts on the Famir, on the frontiers of the friendly countries of Afghan istan and India. . The Pamir tabic land divides revolutionary Russia from India, which, with its 300.Q00. 000 inhabitants, is enslaved by a handful of .Englishmen. On this ta ble laud you. the signallers of the revolution, must hoist the red flag of the army of liberation. May the peoples of India, who fight against their English oppressors.; soon know thatv friendly help is not far off." Bandits Hold Up Patrons , Of Sheridan Pool Hail Sheridan. Wyo., Feb. 17. Be tween $1,600 and $2,300 was stolen by marked bandits who enterad a pool hall ar Diet, Wyo.. a mining camp near here last night, held up 18 men who were' playing pool and ransacked their pockets, the cash register and; the safe, according to intormation received today. . . Fire Destroys Cotton' j Ennis. Tex., Feb. 17. Six thou sand bales of cotton were lost here I last midnight in a fire which de stroyed three warehouses. The loss is estimated at $400,000. Officers j are working on a theory of incen- diarism. Features for Next Sunday's Bee Scenes at Mount Vernon, home of George and Martha Washing ton, photographed by Louis Bost wick, Omaha photographer, make a striking rotogravure page you will want to preserve. You will cet this page with The Bee fox next Sunday. Page Two of the Rotogravure Section is-a collection of snap shots of movie stars during play hours. The story of "a man who wins with a smile" is a strong human interest trie that will be another feature of next Sunday's Bee. He's an Omaha public officer. Others failed to get results with methods widely approved. He does things differently and with marked success. - i j f ' pics' ucd. machine." Mis Wilson contin "It works in tli;; open." Urges Disbandment. Mi is iison lorcsnaaowca inc aa- vice of political speakers to the con vention tonight by urging the wom an's party to disband and not to rc brganizc. There is no doubt, however, that the woman's party will remain in the field, cither under its present name or as the "National Woman's union," or "National Woman's Political un ion." Tiie only question now and the' one which will be totight out on the floor tomorrow, is whether it will concentrate o'n the removal of all remaining forms of legal and other discriminations against women, or whether, as a strong group within the party is urging, it will reorganize to work for disarmament. The. appeal of Woman's Interna tional League for Peace and Free dom, and of the National Woman's Peace society were receivedwith out bursts of applause this afternoon, but ?ny attempt to divert the woman's party from its program for the com f lete emancipation of women will be resisted to the end by pacifists and nonpacifists alike, who urge that such activities' should be . carried through other organizations than the woman's party. ' Belgian Teacher, Facing Exposure As Spy, Kills Self Madame Louise Thulicr, Asso ciated r With Tdith CaveH and Herself Condemned to Death, Commits Suicide. Paris, Feb. 17. Madame Louise Thulier, a Belgian school teacher, who was awarded the insignia of the Legion of Honor and the war cross during the great war,l has choseu suicide rather than iacc exposure as a spy and betrayer of patrt ,Jc friends, it is declared by today's newspapers. The woman, about whom revolved one of the most stir ring tragedies of the war, swallowed rat poison at her home in the village of , Wiherics, near Mons. yesterday when called to appear before a mag istrate. - Madame -Thulier was associated with Edith Cavcll, "the English nurse who was fcxecuted by the Ger mans in Brussels kPia October IS, 1915. and with CSuiffess Joahenna de Bcvillc, who was doomed to die by the Germans.' but whose sentence was commuted through the interven tion of President Wilson. She her self was taken prisoner by the Gcr maus and was sentenced to death, but King Alfonso of Spain made a plea in her behalf, and she was re prieved. . . During an investigation of espion age operations at Mons evidence was found, it is declared by newspapers here, that Madame 'Thulier had be trayed a number of companions, one of whom was Philip Baucq, an ar chitect, . , - ' F our Pennsylvania Plants . j For Beer Making to Reopen j Washington. F"eb. 17. Stockhoid- ers of four Pennsylvania breweries serzed by the government for manu facturing beer containing more than J5 of 1 per, cent of alcohol were warned today by Internal Revenue Commissioner Williams that they must "clacn house" if they expect to be permitted to resume business. It was recommended that officials and employes guilty of disregard of the law be discharged. Meanwhile, the commissioner said, it has been deccided to permit the companies upon sufficient bond to take possession of the plants and operate- them to tile extent of law fully utilizing the raw materials on hand at the date df their seizure. Pagosa Springs, Colo., Hit By Very Disanstrous Fire Pagosa Springs. Colo.. Feb. 17. A targe section of the business sec tion here was destroyed by a fire that started early today in Hard man's candy store. The loss at noon 1 was estimated at $250,000. Twelve buildings, including the plant of the Pagosa Journal, were destroyed or damaged. A bucket brigade fighting the flames saved a large hotel building. Agriculture Department To Study Insects of Hawaii Washington Feb. 17. Considera tion of measures to protect Hawaii from certain insect pests which are damaging crops in the United States will be given by the Department' of Agriculture at a hearing set - for April 15 at Washington. , The department stated today it had been informed there was danger of the stiffar cane and corn moth borer, Borah Armament Generally Accepted Forecast Of President-Elect's Naval Program Arouses Ire of Idaho Senator. Will Continue His, Fight Hi lea go Tribune-Onialia lice Leased Wire. Washington, Feb. 17. In a senate speech today generally interpreted as forecasting the new administra tion's policy towards disarmament and telated issues. Senator Mcdill McCormick of lllionois, just return ed from a conference with President elect Harding, declared for "the completion "of an American, navy, comparable in power and varied fight iug strength with any other." Senator McCormick toid the sen ate that the present agitation led by Senator Borah of Idaho, for an agreement to curtail naval building, would "confuse and hamper the president-elect in the heaviest duties he had to perform," and would "compound the difficulty," of the new president in securing a general himitation of armament by sea and land. 1 These statements aroused the ire of Senator llorah who quickly re plied that he would continue his ef forts in behalf of a disarmament agreement undeterred by prospec tive White House dictation. Senator Borah was unable to see, he said, how the program he had proposed conld possbily embarrass Mr. Hard ing. Will Back Own Judgment. "Furthermore," he added, "we have heard a vast amount of crit icism, in the last eight years about waiting upon ihe nod from the White House. Congress has been accused of abdicating, not only its judgment, but its functions. I have not participated in that so mucji as some, but let pie say here with the utmost respect for the president elect, that I shall not abdicate my judgment in this chamber during the next four years, any more than I have during the last eight years. "T c . ..c i'..:. i c.. sees fit to advertise to the world upon this question which involves the' future welfare of the human family, that it has no judgment, no opinion, no conscience, and no con- ! viction until the president-elect nods, the congress may do so, but1 l shall not be a party to it. Senator McCormick . began his speech s by summing up the argu ments made by Senator Borah in a recent speech advocating adoption of his resolution for a six months' naval building holiday to give time -for study of the question of what con stitutes, a modern navy. As he un derstood Mr. Borah's position, he said, it was "to have the president invite the other naval powers to a conference on disarmament, after we have stopped arming, while Japan continues to do so and while the British sea force is twice as power ful as the American." Cannot AgreeL ""I cannot agree with hi: said senator JJccormic::. I cannot agree that our shipwrignts and gunsmiths should Jay down their tools while Japan arms herself. I cannot agree that the limitation of armahieiUs should be fixed on a basis of a Brit ish sea power more dominant than ever in modern history." The Illinois senator contended that Senator Borah's arguments wcr. based largely upon the opinions of British navy authorities whom he sarcastically referred to its "literary admirals." He insisted that the capi tal ship was not obsolete and de clared that tin's opinion was held by the officers who were at sea and took part an the fighting during the war. He added: "It is not inertlv mistagen it is heer nonsense to rate of exchange, by the indebted- drain noon tV VrZuu . -V dram upon t.ic. i.ntish exchequer.' j N rl 1 Iir- 1 1 POrn I harorpH Wifh i fov.v- ,,.u. MiirrLi. leil I Athens, Ga., Feb. 17. A mob of 5,000 persons tonitrht stnrmi'rt the : Clarke county jail and after forci bly taking John L. Eberhardt, a ne gro, charged with the murder of Mrs. Walter Lee of Oconee county,. from the jail, burned him at the stake. The mob secured the neuro aftrr i A ....... . j r. . ' leaders . had climbed an elevator shaft to the top floor of. the county court nouse and Dunieri their wav into his cell with a blow torch. Mrs. Lee was killed earlv todav after she had been attacked on en tering a barn on the Lee farm. She resisted her assailant and ran back toward her home, but was shot from behind. Eberhardt was arrested about noon at a neighboring farm.' Sheriff Jackson tried to protect the jail, but a mob gathered in the vicin ity immediately before nightfall thousands of persons from surround ing Counties had assembled Rear Admiral Joseph Jayne Suffers Stroke of Paralysis Washington, Feb. 17. Rear Ad miral Joseph Jayne suffered a stroke of paralysis late last night while on duty with the Pacific fleet, returning from South American waters, the Navy department was advised today. He was taken aboard the hospital ship Mercy immediately and the ad vices said his condition was not criti cal and that he was expected to re cover. - Archbishop- Granted Passport Newark. X. J., Feb. 17. Passports for Archbishop Dougherty of Phil adelphia, soon to become a cardinal, and six priests r.f his diocese were obtained here today. The prelate wilj sail, Saturday, for. Rome. SfoSlueS 7 I' T Vof lliem strick- HtsZ "lrlL?& !- hM into the counto; i j . Home Folks Don't Count ' ' , j ' ' : 1 ief Loot in Robbery Of Postoff ice at Toledo Mounts rPostal IllSDCCtors Estimate Five Bandits Secured at Least Half Million in Nine Sacks of Mail. , Toledo, O.. Feb. 17. Estimates of the loss in then postoilicc mail rob bery earlv this, morning ranged aS high as- $500.000.. The-police- said the currency taken alone mav aggregate between $300,000 and $400,000. , The five bandits made a clean es cape with nine sacks of mail after holding up fcur employes of the main postoffice and compelling them to lie down on a loading platform while the robbery was executed. The pouches, four of them containing registered mail, were thrown in an automobile ar.d the robbers sped away. ' Later the automobile, a stolen one, was found abandoned, but sheriff's posses, police and postal inspectors found no further trace of the holdup men. . Republican Leaders ' . Start Drive to Speed Up Immigration, Bill Washington. D. C, Feb. 17. En actment of the immigration restric tion bill before March 4 was made the object of a drive started today by senate leaders. The movement was instituted after Senator Harris, democrat. Gcoigia. had advised speedy passage of the legislation, de The immigration, measure will be givc priv:legcd position tomorrow, ahead of :a!1 pending .legislation. A final vote next week was predicted. Althnutrh the bill will have priority. senate leaders said they expected to lay it aside temporarily for passage of several appropriation hills. .Slaver i( Fripnrl TtiKani Coroner 8 Jury Declares Xewton. 111.. Feb. 17. That F. R. Robertson, real estate and in surance man shot and killed Charles Sutton, member of the firm of Houscr and Sutton, hay and grain brokers here Tuesday morning in a m oi insanity unasiwuu brooding over financial fosses w as the theory virtually established after a complete - investigation of the affair by State's Attorney Isley and Coroner Live. Robertson, follow-in.!! the shooting of Sutton; fired a builet into his brain and died eight hours later. ; Man Given One to. 14 Years For Attack Upon Woman . San Francisco. Feb. 17. Thomas. Brady was, sentence to serve from one to 14 years in the penitentiary for an attack on Miss Jean Stanley. Foun other young men have been sentenced from one to 50 years for attacking Miss Stanley and hercom iVanion. Miss Jessie ' Mongomery of Reno. New, early Thanksgiving day. Judge Tries Out Auto, Then Fines Speeder MianATIa., Feb. 17. Seeing is be lieving. Municipal Judge Trice here holds, and when H. J. Jeasee, arrested ior motor speeding, protested that his car could net gtt up a speed of 15 miles an hour in two blocks, the court went out to see. Hopping into Jeasec's machine. Judge Price had it going 35 miles an hour in two blocks and hustled back to slap a $25 fine cn the offeiuki f ". : .1 ,.f ..,!., unless immijrraiion oarncrs woe pu; i . Censorship in of Jury Fate of Movie Bills in Hands Of House Committee, Which Will Hold Executive Session. Lincoln, Feb. 17. (Special Tele gram.) The movie case went to the jury tonight Following appeals' from club -women and others jfor a stringent censorship law that would bar sex and crime pictures from Ne braska, the standing children's code committee announced that the next step would he iQ; hold an executive session at which time the committee will pronounce sentence to be passed upon by the lower house and later by the senate. ; The meeting tonight ended a spec tacular scries of sessions, in which the value of sex and crime plays, always ending with virtue and justice winning, -was pitted against the evil of suggestion contained in, such pic tures. There are four alternatives facing the committee: to recommend the movie censorship bill ; to recemmmd the Byrum-Gilford antidote'' which specifies strict punishment for show ing of certain pictures: to recom mend the McFarland bill, which, is similar but les? diastic than the By-rum-Gifford bill, cr to turn all the bills out to the lower house without recommendation. Stuart Gould, business agent of the Nebraska Moving Picture Exhibi tors' association, declared he believed that the legislature would not take steps that would place three persons in charge of the pictures which thous ands see and, that the movie censor ship will be killed. Italian Authorities Prohibit Emigration 1 From Central Europe Trieste, Feb. 19. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Emmigration from central Europe 1o the United States has been suspended and the eastern frontiers ot Italy hav'c been closed, pending the cleaning up of the sani tary situation here. Hie most rigid regulations have been put into effect with regard to the movement of all emigration not covered by the suspension order. The cases of ' typhus here are under the strictest quarantine. No new cases were reported todWy. Italian authorities have forbidden railroad or sea passage to emigrants from Poland. Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-SIavia as a result of the dis covery that travelers from thost countries were in some, cases suf fering from typhus ffPtt. This regu lstion vvjll continue for one. month, during which time conditions among immigrants awaiting steamers here will- be thoroughly investigated. After that, no emigrants will be ; allowed to embark, until regulations i prescribed by the United States! government have, been carried out. t Counter Proposals Are Asked of Germany, Is Word Paris, Feb. 17. Germany has been asked by . England and France to communicate to them the counter proposals of the Berlin government before the opening of the London conference, which is fixed for Match 1, says the Journal. The newspaper adds "it would not be surprising if the conference should become un necessary because of the derisive character of the German offers." In this case, it is said, the allies will notify Germany of their decisions and give the German cabinet a few days to make known if it' accepts or refuser, to execute them. Rail Shops to Close Roanoke, Va., Feb. 17. East end shops here of the Norflok & West ern railroad will close Saturday until March 1 for lack of work, tinder no tices posted today. " " , Two Teachers Are Found Murdered: Slayers Sought Children on Way to School Find Bodies of Women, Brutally Beaten , to Deadi With Stick. Cleveland. O., Feb. 17. Miss Louise Wolf and Miss Mabel Foote, two young school teachers at th Parma High school," were 7 found beaten to death in a road in Parflia Heights, near here, early today. They were last seen leaving the school building late yesterday. A bloody stick was found near the bodies. Children on their way to school this morning found the two muti lated bodies lying jn the roadway. Part of the women's; clothing had been torn from their bodies and there were signs of a desperate struggle, in the snow. Police' believe ihe teachers were on their way to board a trolley car for home when killed. There are no houses in the imme diate vicinity of the spot where the bodies were found and no one in the neighborhood heard cries for help. Miss Wolf, who was 37 years old, was the principal of the high school. Miss Foote was the only other teach er in the high school. She was 24 years told. An liour after the bodies wtre found a posse of farmers was search ing the neighborhood for two roughly-dressed men seen hurrying along a road shortly before dark last even i'lg. Tracks leading toward a dense wood were bcir.g followed at noon. The women's lings were not taken, although a suilcasc they carried was torn open. - . . . . Fordney Leaves for Visit With Harding Washington, Feb. 17. Chairman. Fordney of the house ways and means committee, left today for St. Augustine, Fla., to seek the approval of President-elect Harding to a plan to put through at the extra session ot the new congress this spring,, a second emergency tariff to provide protection for all products of Amer ican industry. The measure Mr. -Fordney has in mind would be designed as a stop gap until a scientific tariff law could be framed in the light of after-thc-war conditions in the various coun tries. Conference Report on Cold Storage Passes Senate Washington, Feb. 17. The con ference report on the bill for govern ment regulation of cold storage was adopted today by the senate without discussion or a roll call.' It now goes to the house for final approval. Chairman Gror.na of the agricul ture committee, who charged yester day that the meat packers were try ing to "strangle the bilt." obtained unanimous consent to take up the conference agreement ahead of other pending matters. The Weather Forecast V Friday fair; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures, 5 H. Ill A m. nt. ti. in. S , m . lA 1.1 1 IS IS ....i.;m . ...V..st is . .37 . .; . .is . .t . .i n. m . . it. m . . ft. nt. . noon. , Miliiiicra' Bulletin. I'rottrt ahipn.i-nta during tint n-t 54 o 3. hoi;r from tpmpermurn s follow: Vorih. al and vest. 10 sres; loulb, 13 degrees. Texan Butt Of Attack In Congress Hoots and Cat Calls Accom pany Charges Made Against Representative Blanton by His Colleague. Defendant Howled Down - By Th Antorliitrtl l'rrv. Washington. Feb. 17. Hoots, cat calls and the word "liar" were shout ed in the house today, in the storm iest session in years. The uproar started when Representative Suni ners of Texas, having left a sick bed. appeared and supported by most members of his own state, at tacked his colleague, Representative. Blanton. Rumors had been circulated that the Texans were preparing an at tack, but it was held off until Mr. Sumners could direct it. When In stepped forward, holding a faded newspaper clipping, nearly every member was on the floor. Salary Increases Sought. Read by the clerk, the clipping revealed that Mr. Blanton. in a let ter to Texas newspapers, had charg ed members with a plan to raid the treasury and obtain salary inreases, which he alone had prevented here tofore. The press was asked ,to help, and many paper responded frith bitter assaults on those charg ed with backing the alleged salary grab. V f There waj a tense moment as the reading was concluded and Mr. Sumners, stepping close to , Mr. Blanton's seat, shook his fist in the latter's face, and shouted: v"And when you sent that state-' ment to Texas, you knew it was as ' false as hell.". Blanton Howled Down. The house broke into a wild shout, half the membership rising. Blanton, jumping up and trying to make himself heard, demanded the right to speak. , He was howled down, the chair sustaining a point of order that he could not be heard at that time on a question of per sonal privilege. Mr. Sumners, walking back and forth, continued. Blanton's eyes fol lowing his every step. The speech was constantly interrupted ' with shouting. Mr. Sumners declared the record showed no effort had been made 1o slip through a salary in crease bill, and that Mr. Blanton's claim that he was forced to remain constantly on he floor to block it was absurd and untrue. The ques tion had come up twice, Mr. Sum-i r.crs said, and it was blocked ' cn points of order by Representa tive Byrnes,' democrat, -Tennessee, and Representative Wood, republi can. Indiana. Mr. Blanton, he asserted, was not even "in on the wake." The demonstration reached re markable. proportions when a tap of the gavel marked the close of the time allotted for the speech. Dcmo- (Turn to P Two. Column Two) ! Man Slashes His Throat j After Shooting His! Wife And Trying to Kill Son j Des Moines, la., Feb. 17. (Spck-ial j Telegram.) Charles Saunders, 55. snot his wite, Margaret, 3s. through the head and slashed his throat with a razor, after shooting at his son, Frank, 13. at their home here today. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are in the Samaritan hospital in a critical con dition. Mrs. Saunders is expected to recover, but her husband has but a slight chance to live. Mrs. B. F. Foreman, proprietess of the rooming house, t where the tragedy occurred, said there was an argument prior to the shooting. She entered the room and found the woman lying on the bcdmoaning. while her husband was leaning against the dresser mirror, blood streaming from his throat. He still held the razor in his hand and a pis tol lay on the floor. Passengers for U. S. Undergo Examination Paris. Feb. 17. Drastic measures are being taken in- the examination, of passengers bound to America from principal European ports, so that all steamers may have clean bills of licalth, it was announced at a conference of heads of Trans-Atlantic steamship companies with Dr. Rupijrt Blue, past surgeon-general of the United States public health service. All second and third-class passen gers, it was explained, are being sub jected to a thorough medical exami nation. The baggage is put under heavy steam pressure and extraor dinary personal cleansing processes have been adopted. The new regulations mean second and third-class passengers must reach the port of embarkation at fca?t four days before the departure, said Dr. Blue. Lowden Has Definitely Declined Cabinet Office St. Augustine. Fla., Feb. 17. For mer Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois has definitely declined to be considered for secretary of the navy and will not be appointed to any post in the initial makeup of the next ad ministration. Admiral to Retire Washington, D. ('.. Feb. 17.-Kc.ir Admiral C. J. H.;oger. who has been head of the navy general board sin"e the death oi Admiral Dewey, will return to the retired list at his own request. February 28. Admiral Bad ger retired in August, 1915. but hi-. services were considered so neces I sary that he w::s retained on active J duty by special act of congress. V, r