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r The Omaha Daily Bee kVOL. 50 NO. 214. ttfnt at 8khiiI-CI Matttr Way ?L ISM. at' Onahl r. 0. Uadar Act MartlT 3. Irj. OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921. B Mall H ytail. Inatat 4th Zaaa. Dalit an on. 9: Dalit Oaly. : tunda, 14 Outildt 4th Zaaa (I (tar). Call a Suadu. Ill: Dally Oal. IU. luadur Oaly. H THREE CENTS Hearing of LandisCase Is Heated Stormy Scenes Occur at Ses sion of Judiciary Commit lec Investigating Impeach' mcnt Charges. Welty Is Reprimanded II' Tlta Aatutciatwl I'rma. Washington, Feb. 21. Somewhat stormy scenes occurred before the house judiciary committee today with the precutation of impifach mcnt charges against Federal Jtidge Landis by Representative Welty, democrat, of Ohio.. Mr. Welty read his charges as outlined bcfqre the house last week and was subjected to a crossfire of questions. Representative Walsh, republican, jf Massachusetts, wanted to know if Mr. Welty. had any proof that Judge l.andis in acting as supreme arbiter of org-auicd base ball had neglected his official duties. "Wlicn you are trying to catch a rabbit vou've got to follow his H acks." 'Mr. Welty replied. "I am trying to unburden myself." Witness "Called Dwn." ..,,-, . ... !. . f... -...1 en, give us inc idiis uu uuu i maKe so many ' speeches," admon ished Chairman Volstead. 'The Ohio .member then offered a telegram from District Attorney Clyne saying 921 criminal and 309 other case wefc pending in Judge ' Landi' court. "flow liyiny were tried last year? Chairman' Volstead asked. "If you want to know you can find out." Welty replied. , . . "I've done nothing to be insulted bv you,", announced the chairman. "J u-3n( d rivll niKtt'pr. nprlarincr it was outrageous that Judge Landis should be drawing S-42,000 from organized base ball, Representative II listed, republican, New York, insisted, the committee wanted facts on which an indictment could be drawn. Will Show Bribery. "In other words, a legal way to in. peach him if we can," suggested Representative L5ois. republican, Iowa. "I am going to show that these' base ball players are guilty of bribing- Judge Xaudjs." Mr. Welty shouted. ' . . This statement was made in regaru to the indictments tor inrowms games. . , Representative Gard, democrat, Ohio, wanted Mr. Welty to get down to brass tacks on his charge that Judge Landis, had nglecfcd his om- .tfial duty. - . - Motive Is Simple. v Acceptance by Federal Judge Lan- , .'fu: Si? 500 annual talarv as supreme arbiter ot basekTnj9 decision, belore becoming el- ball, while serving on might go unchallenged "if the motive (Turn t re Two. Column Three), v, 0 Taxicab Driver is Murdered; Entire . Family is Missing Houston., Feb; -'l-1'16, uoy,,, A. Lynn, Victoria uxieab driver, has 21. The body of been' found by officers on the banks of ihe-Colctta river, It. had been stripped of clothing. Wliether the man had been .-hot or beaten to death i- not known. . Lynn and the family oi H H. Strum had been missing. l ive nieivarc being sought in con inction with the hunt for the Sturm - Vcar which had been sold to the turms was abandoned near ic Kiriii bv two men who called Lynn s f,.., iimt tmvn to continue .aMcau hi-"" k- - . . i heir journcv. Lynn car was tounU t-.tr Sundav. blood-stained and. burned, nfar the San Antonio river. The Sturm family, consisting ot Murm his wile, two children and a tep-brother-in-law. left Houston Saturday morning for ictoYia. -where Strum planned entering busi :i : iraraec proprietor. Topeka Woman Poisoned ' o T a . Lloctors oay ai 1114UCS1 Topeka, Ka-. fcb. 21.-Miss Kathleen Foley who died myster ioufly Friday night, was the victim o "poisoning. 'doctors W. J riner and C. B. Van Home testmed at tlie inquest today. Chocolate candy was found in the pocket of a coat which the woman threw aside unon her return trom a neighbor's house shortly betore her death. The candy is to be ex amined. . --7 , George Y. Cruise, Wichita sa es man and companion ofOliss Foley, refused to testify . at the inquest. Arraigned on a charge ot attempting "to bribe Miss Foley and her mother to leave the state, he pleaded not guHty. Cruise is accused of trying to prevent Miss Foley from testify ing at his trial at Wichita on a charge of murdering his third wite. Bed Wing Business Man tt i o J C.U.i Prrti Ranl- Had Bonds Stolen trom Bank Red Wing, Minn., Feb. 21. Liber- tv bondr-vatiicd at ?2.00U. said to have been the oilcs stolen January 24 from the State Bank of Afton, foimd by county om- cials in two banks today. .Accord y ing to bank ofticials the bonds had been advanced as collateral for loans to P. J; Beltz, local business man. Beltz pleaded not guitty when ar raigned today it Sillwater on charge of robbing the Afton bank. 1 Hehas confessed to authorities that he held up the State bank at Stock holm, Wis..' Saturday. Pass Election Laws , Bismarck, X. D., Feb. 21. Bills which seek to change several elec--tion laws, including one providing that there be no party designation of candidates for state offices, were parsed by the North Dakota hous today. v Illness of Caruso May Improve Voice New York. Feb. 21. There are indications that Eurico Caruso's voice will be better than ever after the illness which nearly caused his death last week, said a statement is sued today at the Metropolitan Opera House. "This illness, unfortunate as it has been has given his voice and throat the first real rest they have had in 25 years and this must be of great ad vantage to the most strenuously ex ercised vocal organs in the world," the statement declared. "There remains, then, merely the question of a complete recovery of constitutional strength. At no time has there been any injury to or dif ficulty with the voice." League Council Spends Day on Publicity Plan No Decision Reached Com-, mitteen on Amendments And Article XVlII Arc 1 Appointed. By The Awtoclated Press. , Paris, Feb. 21. Though matters of great importance are to be-considered by the league of nations council, which opened today, the council spent most of the day in dis cussing publicity without reaching a decision. Two currents were mani fest, one favorable to the fullest publicity, as demanded at the last Geneva assembly, the other resist ing anything more than the bare communication " ' A committee ,was appointed to consider amendments to the league covenant. A. J. Balfour, Great Britain, being chosen as chairman, with these members: M. Viviaui. France;, Vittorio Scialoia, Italy; Senor Branco, Uruguay; Dr. Fdward Benes. Czecho-Slovakia; Wellington Koo, China; M. Agaywa. Japan i M. Beichmann. Norway; Senor Goih zalcs Hotelia, Spain. Two additional members are to be selected later: Another committee was appointed to consider article XVIII of the Versailles treaty, having rcferv .t tl.i intprnrptatimi of the U V. V.. tu lv . . . . . I . . . . value of treaties up to the time of registration with the league. Mem bers of this committee arc Signor Scialoia, Italy; Raoul Fernandez, Brazil; Henri Fromageot, France; Professor Strvcken. Holland, and Sir j' Cecil Hurst, "England. Will Revise Sevres Treaty. London,Feb. 21. (By The Asso ciated Press.) Revision ' of the treaty of Sevres, o as to give, Tur key additional territory in Thrace, now occupied by the Greeks, was de cided upon by Mr. Lloyd Gcoffcc and Yf R ,4 trulav in rnnsnttations ore- itl, J ai - ceding the near east conference here X 1119 Viv i. li .w.w " a Tcctive, however, requires the ap proval ot the allied colleagues or me French premier and the British prims , minister. , According to this Franco-British i agreement, the frontier line in j Thrace will be moved westward, ex- tending frcin Enos, on the Aegean, I to Midia, on the Black sea. This would take from Greece one-fourth i of the territory - it now occupies I tUir and fflrl it tn the CoilStailti- noplc district. v kJ Tit Trk also, under this ar- ranegment, are to be allowed repre sentation on the international com mission controlling Constantinople. It is understood that" Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand agreed that the Greek question might be settled speedier than had been thought. Congress -Asked to "Vamoose Vamps" in Moving Picture Films Ihicaco Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wir. Washington, Feb. 21. Dr. Wilbur1 F. Crafts said lie is not promoting any Sunday lav.' in congress, but is chiefly interested in "vamoosing the vamps, the dope peddlers, the boot leggers and" the 'bookies.'" He asks that police powers be used to stop the exhibition "of the nude, theVtmi-nudc, and bare leg ged and .disrobing women it batb i? beaches, and forbid the use in outside advertising, of pictures ob scene under the tests of the courts thai they would sugges; impure thoughts to the young and inexper ienced! and arouse improper pas sion." Petitions for such action arc be ing circulated, not only in Washing ton, but also in other cities. Williams Enters Bank Richmond, Va., Feb. v 21. John Skclton Williams, comptroller of cur rency, today accepted the chairman ship of the board "of directors of the Richmond Trust company. Firewater Provided For Hotel Fontenelle Xo water for .the Fontenelle ! The nianagemcnt ,ld guesfs o this bos- tejry found themselves in dire straits yesterday evening when a main on Eighteenth and Douglas streets burst and the water supply in that immediate vicinity - w as cut off. ' ' And to think' that John Drink w"ater is putting up there during his stay in the city. What was he to do? For a while it looked as though a callwould have to be made upon the home brewers of the city to come to the rescue. But in , the nick of time some one thought of the 'Jarge reservoir on the roof of the hotel, which had been put there for 'exactly such an emergency. -,. Therefore, instead of notifying the local brewers, the manager notified the fire department, which, filled the reservoir from a water main a block downvrtie street. Cp I a n f i fi 11 OeietllUll Of Hudres Is Popular; t New. Secretary of State Will ' - ... , He Morfc lhau blorilied'' Clerk" Fletcher to.Be Under, Secretary. Hoover to Have Portfolio ARTHUR SEARS PENNING. Clilrugn Trlhunr-Oinnli Dee I. rased Wire. Washington, Feb' 21. Charles Fvans Hughes, arriving in Washing ton from St. Augustine today, found plenty of evidence that republican senators and repicsentatives are united in applauding his selection by Mr. Harding for secretary of state. Even Senator Johnson of Cali fornia whose coolness is frequently alleged to have cost Mr. Hughes the presidency in 1916, praised the in dependence of the i'.ecretary desig nate, as evidenced particularly by ; his denunciation of the expulsion of j the socialists from the New York I legislature and his menrdefense of the direct "primary system against attack by political bosses. Mr. Hughes devoted most of the day to winding up his law practice and late in the afternoon he had a talk with Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania, former American am bassador to Chile and tee Mexico, who will be under secretary of state in the Harding' administration. Fletcher Big Aid. Mr. Fletcher, who resigned a year ago in a letter warmly criticizing the .Wilson policy in Mexico, is a trained diplomat and w ill be relied upon to supply what Mr. Hughes lacks in knowledge of the technique of diplomacy. With Senator Fall of New Mexico in the cabinet and Mr. Fletcher in the State department the administra tion will be well equipped to deal with the Mexican question from a thorough first-hand knowledge of the situation. . ". For ambassador to Great Britain the selection of Elfhu Root, a can didate for secretary of state, is be in or cfrnti cr1v urtred bvisoine of the of Mr. Harding.' It it not unlikely that Myron T. Mer rick of Ohio will be scntjwck to In--:- ...u-A rm!nA a nnniitjir X aria wiicic .it k r ambassador. Advices received by senators from St. Augustine are to the effect that Herbert Hoover will be secretary of ccminerce and circumstantial con firmation was forthcoming in the an nouncement that Mr. Hoover has nnrrliased ' a Washington residence i jat 2300 S. Street, where he will be 'a near neighbor of Fresident W;ilson. Uncertainty in Posts. Congressman Langley of Ken tucky returned from St. Augustine asserting that the selection of A. T Hert for secretary of the navy is. stil) beyond ddubt. -It was also reported that the choice of A. . (Turn to Pate Two, Column Fpor). Airplane Patrols of National Forests Saved $35,000,000 New York, Feb. 21. Airplane pa trols guarding national forests saved approximately $35,000,000 worth of standing timber from forest dires during the last season, according to a 'report of the Manufacturers' Air craft association martjp public today. -Between 900 and 1.000 fires were reoortcd bv patrols from airplanes : loaned to the forest service by the , armv air servic.. Most of these fires, it was said, were extinguished by ground forces working under di rections of the air patrols. Efforts are being made by the as sociation, its officers said, to secure a larger appropriation from congress in order to carry on and extend the patrol work. The work for the most i part has been carried on in Oregon, j California, Colorado and other west- crn states. I Two Youths Are Killed . By Carbide Explosion j. Port Angeles, Wash., Feb. 21. Impromptu chemical experiments with cans of cakium carbide cost the lives of two youths at an abandoned logging camp near here. Lyle Davis. 16, and V. Rice, 21, who were killed, and a younger brother of Davytf found some cans of the substance at the camp. They punched holes in the cans and lighted the escaping fumes. Then they threw the cans into a well to see how much gas would be formed when . the sub stance struck the water." An explo sion followed. Bids on Government Paper Show "a Decided Drop Washington, D. C. Feb. 21. Bids ! to supply the government with pa per dfcring the next six months were received today by the joint congres sional printing committee and were said to show a decided drop m prices quoted Jaimary 31, when for-1 mcr bids were ejected. j The low bid for news print today was 5.48 cents a pound, as com- Pared with 6J8 cents in the last bids. Book paper was quoted from 2 to 4 cents a nound below the for-1 mer bids The new bids, it was estimated, will snmp the government $300,000. Bonus Legislation Will Be I Held Until Extra Session ! , Washington, D. C, Feb. 21. Sol-J dier bonus legislation will be de layed by. the senate until the extra' session, Chairman Penrose of the fi nance committee said today in con nection with a statement by Senator McCwnibe'r, republican. North Dako ta, that he was preparing "forllie senate" and the American people" a statement of costs of. the relief pleasures, i Building-Collapse in . Cleveland Kills Two Cleveland, Feb. 21. 'IVo n;en arc known to be dead and two others were injured in the collapse today of three floors of the old Masonic temple building. Workers are searching the debris for other vic tims. , , Five men were unaccounted for ; tonight, according to II. Ci. Schncll. timekeeper of the Cuyahoga house ' wrecking company, which is razing I the building. Nathan L. oglovru, '6, vice president tif the wrecking" ompany, and Fred Zoedcr, 67, day watchman 4or the concern, were crushed to death. An investigation to determine whether there had been any criminal negligence has' been ordered. . Sarpy Residents Speak in Favor Of Annexation Pro-Consolidation Faction Be fore House Comniittce Plead For Druescdow Bill; Say County Behind Times, y Lincoln. JJeb. 21 (Special Tele gram.) Hundred for and against the Druescdow Sarpy county con solidation bill appeared before a house committee tonight when the pro-consolidation faction was given an opportunity to plead for the bill, which docs not demand a merger, but leaves the proposition to be de cided by a majority vote of the Sar py county residents. Representative Druescdow opened the meeting. He pointed to the anti consolidationists in (he room wear ing badges bearing the inscription 'Sarpy county always," and said: "It was the same old story when the South 0maha annexation bills were up. ;The cousins, aujits and grandmothers of the office-holders came down to the" legislature and pawned themselves off as represent ing the sentiment of South Omaha on the plan. . People Favor Consolidation. "But when it came to a vote we found the people they claimed to I represent were in favor of consoli- dation by a big majority. The sam? j will prove true in Sarpy county if this legislature wilt let. the people of that county decide by a vote." I n- r ii D, f pii, tl.l ! the committee he was born in Sarpy county 50 years ago and the roads then were better than they are to-, day, Decause in mose uays mere were no heavy trucks to cut into the roads. "We'll never get good roads until we unite .with a. progressive conn Ity." h? said. "As for the taxes, they are only a tune nigner in uougias county than- thev arc m Sarpy county and look at the difference in the roads and improvements of the two counties." ' M. J. Beuber of Sarpy county, paid hjs respects to the anti-annexation-ists by saying that the "whole town -of Papillion had taken the dogs and i cats and themselves to Lincoln toV " day to pack this meeting," ' Claims Unfair Methods. Beuber charged Sarpy county with being behind the times! refusing to sanction good roads that a majority of the progressive citizens wanted and claimed that unfair methods were pursued in getting signers to a petition against the consolidation bill. "They told us that the bill pro vided for the annexation of Sarpy and Douglas counties," Beuber said, (Turn to Tag Two, Column One.) Engagement of Japanese Prince is Announced Tokio. Feb. 21. (By Tlk Asso ciated Press.) A statement issued yesterday declares that the "intrigue" in the court has ended with an ofltcial confirmation of the engagement of Crown Prince Hirohito and the Prin cess Nagako. The statement says that the question merely concerned blood and inheritance. It adds: "Although it is true politicians and mischief-makers tried t make it appear that the question involved intrigue connected' with jealousy of the Cho-Chu and Safsuma factions to obtain influence, court and gov ernment circles wish . to say that such a contention is .groundless. "Agitation for the postponement of the trip of the crown prince to Europe arises from apprehension of danger to him abroad by Korean malcontents." ' Foul, Play Suspected in Death of Topeka Cfiuple Topeka, Kan., Feb. 21. Foul play is suspected by officers who early today found the charred bodies of Charles Owens and his wife in the j fuins' of their heme near Berryton, about 12 miles southeast of here. The house had been destroyed. "v tvens was reputed to have alway kept money in the house. HisXbody was found on a pallet on the kilfchen floor where lie slept. The bodji of . . .. . . : Tl , his wile was tound on the lloor tear i her bed m an adjoining room. I - Authorities found considerable , blood on Owens pillow. Hi? : skull had been fractured, -it was aid. . . c . 16-Year-UId Boy Sentenced To Imprisonmenffor Life V ,, . V.. . Aurora, III., r e.b. 21. Judge CUfLs sentenced rranklin Gossette, 10, to the penitentiary for life todayt for the murder of Mrs. Jesse Lovelctte, jat the state training school for boys at 5t. Charles. He .confessed he struck her over the head with a stove shaker as she slept. Oil Drops Again Pittsburgh, I'a.. Feb. 21. The principal purchasing companies to day announced a iurthcr reduction, ranging from H cents on Ragland to 50 cents on Pennsylvania, in the pricc of crude il. The quotations arc: Pennsylvania grade crude, S3.25: Cabell. l.; Somerset, $1.75: Somerset light, ?2; Raghnd, ?P- A New Endand Menace To U. S. Charge of Judge Cohalan iii r r ." l i Japan Be Assisted by America in Enforcing Doc- trine ' to Read "Asia For Asiatics." Chicago, Feb. 21. That England was a menace-tothe United Stales and the- menace must be removed before this country could be as sured of peace was the declaration of Judge Daniel F. Cohalan of New York tonight in an address at a Washington day' dinner given by the Committee,of One Hundred for an Irish republic. He said that the United States should insist on England's freeing Xanada and the West Indies as a basis of negotiations for ,the settle ment of hc? war debt to this coun try, declaring England through war preparations in these places was pre paring for a conflict with the United States. "The British empire must be dis membered if the world is to have peace," the judge continued. "There are only three great pow ers left England, Japan and the United States and we should turn our attention to helping Japan ,cre ate an equivalent of the Monroe doc trine, which would read 'Asia for Asiatics.' , - .- "Let us encourage her to turn her attention west instead of east. Such conduct on our part would not alone relieve any tension between Japan and ourselves, but would remove from Australia and Canada their fear of Japan and their dependence upon the British fleeV It would preserve the people of Asia and prevent Eng-j land or any other country from at-i tempting to seize the lower half of i Asia." x I t- Nationalists Lead , j In German Elections i Berlin, Feb. 21. Results oi the Prussian elections tabulated up to this evening follow-: Nationalists, 35 r people'sparty , 34; centrists, 24: democrats, 14; ma pority v socialists, 59; . independent socialists, 15;, communists, 15. Count Von fiernstorff was' elected a depufy representing the democratic party in the' reichstag elections in Schleswig vester-dav. ' ' ' . America nRepresentative Ot . u j n..: ! n Reparations Body (Juits Paris! Feb. 21. Col. C. D. Smith tjday announced .his withdrawal as American representative on the Aus trian branch of the allied reparations commission, saying he would not participate -further, on instructions Lrtl 111.110 troln Washington His statcmeiit was couc hed in the c,n, ,.rll,c c ,i,a, nam. w. j Bovden in Paws Saturday when the j latter withdrew from the'"rcparatons (commission. j ! Temporarily Insane, Man r.M r? . i n .1 Kills Father and Brothers j ForUWortln Tex.. Feb. 21. Berg Kobiifson, young larmcr ot near Alcdo. Tarrant county ' killed his father. Will Robinson, and his two brothers, Jim and .Will, jr., during a temporary fit ' of insanity today, according to police. The slayer was placed in jail. j Most Married Missouriaii Dies atsPoplar' Bluff Home Poplar Blnff. Mu Feb. -M. Wil liam L. Tillman, 79; reputed to have been married more times than any other resident of Missouri, diederc last night after a brief illur-s. His 11 ih i)ifc died last week. , i ; i . - Broom Sweeps Clean Second Blizzard ! PredictetfiriEastj Tractor Snowplow and Steam Warfare Partly Clear New York Streets i New York, Feb. 21. Greater New i York succeeded only partly today in , freeing itself from the winter's ! thickest covcrintr of snow. ' Tonieht lli'p wnthpp hnrraii nridicted the f probable arrival before dawn of an other blizzard. . . More than 20,000 workmen strug gled to release the streets and rail-, way tracks from the hard-packed snow and high drifts that clogged them. They began work Sunday De fore the storm that lasted almost 24 hours had died down. Baby snow plows of other winters were augmented by huge' caterpillar tractors that shaved the thick white beard off the streets, scooped it into automatic carriers and- dumped jt into large trucks. More than 150 of these tractors were used. The New York Central sent out locomotives equipped with a new melting device to burn snow off its tracks. A steam fjet running from the en gine boilers to the rails furnished the heat. Brooklyn and. Staten Island seemed to suffer most from the storm. Staten Island ' was without milk and the tood supplies were dwindling. Transportation there was practically suspended. 1 Street Cleaning'Commissioner Leo asked the board of estimate for an appropriation 'of $1,000,000 to pay for the warfare arfailist snow. Liquor and Jazz Music Needed on IL S. Ships i Washington, Feb. 21. Liquor and iaz music were variously suggested to ' the shipping : board today as a means of enabling Am-erican passen ger ships to compete1 on an equality with foreign lincrSv . The., proposals were advanced at a,' conference held by the board with'T'epresentatives of the Pacific coast ports oii the' alloca-; tionajof new ship to the weSt coast and the establishment, of trade routes to the orient,; ., E. F. Blaine of ,Sattle, Wash, aid he did not believe American ships were going , to be well patron ized if there were "soft drinks," prayer books and hymnals in their saloons," while Roger D. Pinnep ol Astoria, Ore., declared people of his district were of. a different opm- ion regarding liquor and "as to the hvri,n. bhook,s J ult, 0llt a, jazz music on board and-keep within the law." James A. Emery of San Francisco, said he agreed with .Mr. Blaine with the qualification " that "the ships Oiight to be dry, but the passengers wet." . 7 : '. Illinois Farmers Giv Corn to European Belief Chicago,, II!., Feb. 21. Tficnty six hundrcd bushels of corn, gift of Woodford C'luntyWarmcrs for the starving of Kuropc and Aisia, were loaded in cars at Eureka on the first of srore.N f "Corn days" j.to be observed in Illinois. - Lorn s!ll!!H machines were set up in the mam street. The cobs were sold and the proceeds will.be added to the relief fund. Trust Fund Provide for ' Prohe of Graft in New York Ntw York, Feb. 21. Creation of a trust fund of $75,000 by" Edward Hatch, a New York merchant, to be used in financing graft inquiries in the city administration, dnlf in event of his death as a result of corruption exposures bv former Governor W hitman, . Final Plans for Capitol Will Be Ready This Year Governor McKelvie Estimates That Contracts for Work Will Be Let Late in 1921 Or Early in 1922. Lincoln, Feb. 21. (Special.) Final-plans for the construction of Nebraska's new $5,000,000 capjtol will be completed towards the latter part of 1921, Gov. S. R. Mcfcelvie in formed members of the legislature today in a special report to that body. The governor is chairman of the cap itol commission. By the time contracts have been awarded and work is ready to start, the commission is confident that building costs will have declined sufficiently to work a saving of $2, 000,000 to the taxpayers of the state, the ge-vernor states, over the peak prices paid in 1921. Contracts for the work will be let just as soon as the final plans have been prepared and sufficient money has accumulated from the capitol Jevy to warrant a start in the actual construction of toe building. 1 he governor estimates that this will be late in 1921, or at the opening of the building season in 1922. The com mission chairman says that it was deemed wise to proceed slowly with the work of building a new state cap itol and the results so far have jus tified the course followed b.v the commission. . The report goes into detail of the competition whereby Architect Good hue of New York city- finally was awarded the contract for furnishing the plans and supervising the build ing of the new capitol. Final ar rangements of floor space have been agreed- upon and the architect has started the work of drafting the final plans for the building, the gov ernor states. Irish Home Rule to Go Intcj Effect April 5 London. Feb. 21. The provy council has decided-'hat the home rule- act for Ireland shall go into effect April 5. The first step is to be the issuance of writs for elections to the new parliaments, which prob ably will take .p!aj:e three weeks afterward. The Belfast parliament will assemble in June. Present prospects seem to be that there will be few candidates for the 6uthern parliament and it seems doubtful whether this parliament will be formed. Mail Clerk Shot Ly Bandit Dies in Minneapolis Minneapolis, Feb. 21. Z. E. Strong, railway mail clerk, shot Friday night by a bandit, died to day. The shooting occurred when Strong refused to obey a command of ht robbers while the latter was holding up clerks on the mail car on train number 2, the North Coast limited on the Northern Pacific railroad. The Weather Forecast Tuesday Fair, and colder. Hourly Temperatures. ft ni . . . . S a. in. .. 7 a. in ... . a. m. . . , 0 a. m. . . . 10 a. tn 1 1 a. m . . . IS noon .iU I 1 p. m. p. m ..JW . l . .SI . ss 3 p. m. 4 p. m. 5 p. m . 6 I. m . 7 p. m. II p. m ..41 Miipprra' nullrtlll. Prolfi-t ,-hipnierita during Ihc nel 51 t(- .18 hnur-, from tompcraluro fi Iowa: North and rarf, degrees; utti, 30 il.'jrocs; weal, :0 degrees Rail Rates Increased In Nebraska Passenger Fares Raised 20 Pet Cent and Freight Tariff 3,") Per Cent by Fed eral Court Decision Roads to Put Up Bonds Inflective today, railroad passenge". rates in Nebraska will be increased 20 per cent and freight rates 35 per cent, under "a federal court decision handed down yesterday by Judges Sanborn, M linger and Wade, sitting . in joint session at the hearing ol an injunction suit brought by the State Railway commission against the railroads to restrain them from charging interstate rates in Nebras ka. Comparative Rates. How the 20 per cent increase af fects passenger fares in the state ij shown by the following fares to representative points in Nebraska from Omaha, before and after the new ruling: 1 Union Pacific Fremont, was $1.19; now $1.43; Grand Island, was $4.68; now, $5.62; North Platte, was $9.12; now $10.94. Northwestern South Uorfolk, was $3.96; now $4.76; O'Neill, was $6.38. now $7.67; Chadron, was $14.48; now $17.39. Burlington Lincoln, was $1.78: now $2.14; Hastings, was $4.90; now $5.89; McCook. was $9.17; now $11.01; 'Alliance, was $13.64; now Ordered to Put Up Bonds. The 'court ordered the railroads to put up bonds of $200,000 under the condition that if the injunction be found, in the future, to have been wrongfully entered, the defendant , will be required to refund the excess rates paid by complainants. The judges overruled the motion of the State Railway commission to remand the hearing to district V.UUI I. According to the decision of the court, passenger rates in Nebraska will advance to 3.6 cents a mile to conform to interstate rates. ' Attorneys at Hearing, Representing the State Railway commission at the hearing were: Hugh La Master, assistant attorney general, Nebraska; Victor E.Vii son, in behalf of the shippers; Thorn (C A. Brown and H. G. Taylor, both members of the commission. The railroads were represented as tollows: Missouri Paoiiic, J. A. C. Kennedy and Yale Holland; Union Pacific, C. A. Macgaw, H. A. Sand britt and J. M. Soubey; Burlington, Bruce Scott and Judge T. L. Roof, Northwestern. Wvmore Dressier and A. A McLaughlin? Rock Island, E. P. Holmes Wilson to Recommend Taking German Bond For Belgian War Debt Washington, Feb. 21. President Wilson is expected to recommend to congress before he leaves office that authority be granted for the United States to accept German bonds to be applied against the debt that Bel gium owes America, it was learned today at the State department. .While the United States is not committed to any agreement, it was explained that there was an nnder- j standing reached at the Paris peace couicrence mat sucn recommenda tions should be made ij the legis lative bodies of England, France and the United States. It was incident to the claims of Belgium for priority in reparations and was agreed to by the represen tatives of the three great powers as a practicable means for an immedi ate lightening of Belgium's financial .. burden. General Pershing to Be Real Head of Army Washington. Feb. 21. Gen. John J. Pershing will be general of the army in fact, as well as in name, during the coming administration, it was asserted definitely today by omcers ot the general army staff. All general army orders will be issued through General Pershing and not by the secretary ot war. ac cording to these officers. Upon formal appointment of a new secretary of war. General Per shing will be called into council, it was stated, and will either be named , chief of-staff, or be permitted to designate the chief of staff who will operate under his direction. Man Killed Instantly as Train Strikes Automobile West Point, Neb..- Feb. 21. (Spe cial Telegram.) Adolph Vossen. 42. was killed instantly at a crossing t"mr and rt,i.!,,l, ,,i1A .' .i.- . ...... ,114, ia mis, j i mis, city wncn tne car in winch he was riding was struck by the morning passenger train. " The train was traveling at a speed of about 40 miles an hour when it struck tfce car. Vossen recently moT'rd to this county Trom Missouri' and was mar ried. The accident apparently was due to negligence of Vossen. as the road as clear at this crossing. Whes of Alien Enemies May Gel Back Property Washington. I). C, Feb. 21. The house passed today the senate bill "amending the trading with the ene my act to permit American wives of citizens of Germany and Austria-' Hungary to recover property confis- ' cated by the government provided they were married and in postessiot: of the property before the I'nited States entered the war. House approval alo v,as Riven' the , Nolan bill, extending for six months : patent privilege to citizens of for eign countries that afford Americans similar ri'Jits s