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THREE CENTS
Final Vote
Blocked on
Censorship
Debate in House Ended by Ad
journment To Resume
Discussions at Monday
Session.
Berka Measure Carries
Lincoln, March 11. (Speciaf Tele
gram.) -A final vote on motion pic
ture censorship was blocked in the
lower house late this afternoon when
those opposed to censorship pushed
through an adjournment motion. It
ended hours of debate on the motion
picture problem.
The house must decide Monday
whether to continue the fight then or
set a special date for consideration
of motion picture regulation bills.
Possibly the house will turn the bills
over to the sifting committee.
It looked ominous for those op
posrd to picture censorship when
the house adjourned. Omaha mem
bers and others whose votes were
crtain to go against the censorship
bill wanted to go home on an early
train and if the house had failed to
adjourn, the proeensorship faction
apparently had vietdry in their hand.
They fought the adjournment
motion.'
Berka Bill Carries.
In the preliminary skirmish, a
motion by Foster of Omaha to vote
on the Berka bill, memoralizing con
gress to pass a federal censorship
law. carried. The Berka bill passed
without a dissenting vote. '
Then McFarland of York moved
to indefinitely postpone his regula
tion bill which would make it a mis
demeanor to show any picture tend
ing to disrupt morals of youth and
old age.
"Withdraw my bill in favor of the
Byrum-GifTord bill," McFarland
said. The withdrawal of the McFar
land motion left two bills for con
sideration. One was the Byrum
GifTord bill and the other the straight
censorship bill providing for a paid
commission of three in Lincoln to
censor pictures before they are
shown in the state. The Byruni
Giffofd bill provides a jail sentence
for picture show and theater men
who show pictures or scenes por
(raying first degree murder, statu
tory offenses and scenes involving
undue exposure of the body.
Showmen Lose Hope.
Apparently motion picture men
hare lost hope of succeeding in
quashing all regulation hills and
turned their forces behind the By-rum-Giffprd
bill fn an attempt to de
feat censorship.
J. Reid Green, sponsor of tic cen
sorship bill, moved that it be ad
vanced to third reading. Byrum
moved as a substitute that the By-rum-Gifford
bill be advanced to third
reading. 1
Byrum, in support of his bill, de
clared censorship created more jobs,
was unAmerican in its nature and
failed to make as stringent regula
tions for straight dramas as his bill
did." i
'The girlie, girlies in the regular
theater and some of the scenes and
lines m them would put the motion
pictures to shame." Bvrum declared.
A dozen spoke in behalf of the
censorship bill before adjournment.
Representative Good said:,
"The motion picture people are
killing their own business the ame
as the saloons did. We would have
saloons now if it hadn't been that
the owners refused to obey, the law
and clean up their .joints. The
motion picture exhibitors pejsistently
refuse to clean un their nurtures "..
T he gallery was filled with women.
Scores of telegrams from club
women throughout the state were
received by members todav urging
support of the censorship " bill,
i "
Woodrow Wilson Now
Fully Established in
Washington Home
Washington, March' 11. Wood
row Wilson rounded out the first
week of his return to private life
with a privatec dinner at which B.
M. Baruch of New York and Nor
man H. Davis, former under secre
tary of state, who has been retained
in the Harding administration as the
American member of the internation
al communications conference, 'were
guests. It was said to signalize Mr.
Wilson's intention to keep in touch
with men and affairs.
The former president, it is said, is
r.ow fully established in his new
1'ome and has suffered no setback
in heatth. His principal household
difticuty, his friends report, has been
to find room in his new house tor
hi library of 8.000 volumes.
Mr. Wilson spends some part of
every day dictating-to a stenograph
er attempting to dispose of a heavy
correspondence, and with Mrs. Wil
son, frequently takes motor drives in
the afternoon.
Senator Cummins of Iowa
Confers With President
Washington, March 1 1. Senator
Cummins of Iowa, one of the authors
of the transportation act, conferred
with President Harding today at the
White House, but said the matter
discussed was appoinments. The
railroad situation was not taken up,
the senator said, adding that he did
not expect to talk with the presi
dent on that subject until next week.
Colorado Fuel and Iron
Foundry to Put on 1,000 Men
Pueblo, Colo.. March 11. The
Colorado Fuel and Iron company to
day announced that owing to im
proved conditions in the steel in
dustry, 1.000 additional men will be
employed commencing next Monday
morning. Four idle mills will reopen,
running two eight-hour shifts.
Body of Langdon Will
ReachU.S.onMarch15
San Francisco, March 11. The
body of Warren II. Langdou, who
was killed by a Japanese sentry in
Vladivostok fast January, will arrive
in San Francisco March 15 on the
army transport Sherman, officials
of the Twelfth naval district said to
rt a v.
The transport will be met here by
Capt. Cecil G. Langdon of Mare Is
land, a brother of Lieutenant Lang
don. and other relatives.
Referendum on
Soldier S BoilUS i
Passed bv House
American Legion Charged
With Bad Faith Twelve
Refuse to Cast
Votes.
Lincoln, March 11. (Special.) A
$10,000,000 appropriation for a o!
diers' bonus will be submitted to a
vote of the people of Nebraska under
the terms of the SturdevatU bill
which passed the committee of the
whole of the lower house today by
.i vote of 57 to 32.
The bill provides that cx-soldiers,
sailors, 'marines ami nurses shall re
ceive $15 for every month of service
during the war, with a mini
mum of $50. '
This bill followed on the heels of
a bill passed two days ago provid
ing for a $2,000,000 appropriation to
be placed on Interest to go to dis
abled soldiers and their families, to
be handled by the officers of the
American Legion.
Would Call Referendum.
The Sturdevant bill as first con
structed provided that an appropria
tion be made by the legislature.
Representative Mears put in an
amendment calling for a referendum
on it. This amendment carried.
Representative Rodman declared
that American Legion men in the
house were acting in bad faith in
backing the Sturdevant bill with the
Mears amendment.
"We were told by the American
Legion men in the house that if we
put the $2,000,000 appropriation bill
through they wouldn't demand an
other," Rodman said.
Passed Legion' Bill.
It was declared that the $2,000,000
appropriation bill passed several
days ago was the bill demanded by
the American Legion lobby while
the Sturdevant bill was demanded
by World War veterans and some
members of the American Legion.
Following Rodman's denunciation
of American Legion members in the
house, they declined to vote on the
Sturdevant bill, excepting Represen
tative Griswold, Avho voted against it.
"I-am an--American Legion manl
but I think it is up to the federal
government to provide the boniis,"
Griswold said.
Representative McKee, father of
five sons in the service, voted against
the bill.
!'My boys can make their own liv
ing," McKee said.
Vote on Measure.
The vote on the Sturdevant bill
follows:
For: Anderson (HamiUon). An
derson (Knox), Beans, Bethea. Bock,
Cole, Davis, Druesedow, Dyball, Fos
ter, Franklin. Frost. Gilmore, Green,
Hakanson, Hoare, Hoffmcister, Jac
obs, Jeary, Johnson, Lauritsen, Lun
dv, Lynn, McFarland, McCleflan,
McLeod, Mears, Medlar, Mcllor,
Mickey, Moscley, Murphy, Nelson,
O'Gara, Osterman, Palmer, Park,
Perkins, Peterson, Rank, Robertson,
Ruddy. Sandquist, Smith. Sommer
lad, Staats, Stephenson. Strong,
Sturdevant, Thompson. Vance, Yo
taw, Webster, Wight, Wood and
Young.
Against: Acton. Armstrong, Ax
tell, Barbour, Beckman, Behrens, By
rum, Clizbc, Downing, Dysart, Ep
person, Essam, Frazier, Clifford,
Good. Goodrich, Gould, Griswold,
Hanner, Kendall. Leftwich. McKee,
Miner, Morian, Nieweddc. Rodman,
Snow, Sprick, Ullstrom, Wallace; and
Williams.
1 Not voting: Bowman. Doug1a.
Frantz, Hascall, Nutzman.- Randall,
j Reed. Reneker. Wcsterhoff, Wolfe,
eiser and Anderson (speaker.)
Papers Claim Roads Charge1
Too High Rate on Newsprint
Washington. March 11. Nine
newspapers filed complaints today
with the interstate commerce com
mission alleging that unreasonable
rates were charged by the railroads
on newsprint paper. The complain
ants were:
Enid (Okl.) Eagle;' Dennison
i Tex.) Herald; Wichita Falls (Tex.)
Record News; El Paso (Tex.) Times;
Kansas City (Kansas) Journal;
Miami (Okl.) News; Hastings
,(Neb.) Tribune; Fort Smith (Ark.)
Southwest American, and the Hutch
inson (Kan.) News.
Trailing the
Rum Hounds
A thrilling and detailed de
scription of methods used and
diffifulties encountered by
Omaha and federal sleuths in
trailing bootleggers and home
brewers will be a feature of
next Sundays Bee. ' Dont
miss it.
A collection of photo
graphs of worl( and play in
Omaha "Night Life" is of
fered on Page One of the
Rotogravure Section. On
Page Two is a series osfr
ing light and shadow pictures
of screen stars.
Railroads'
jWajuts
ay
Association of Executives An
nounced Concerted Move
Will Be Made to Reduce
Pav of Skilled Men.
Great Western Leads
IVv AstHH.'lnled Prehn.
I Chicago, March 11. Virtually ail
of the larger western railroads to
! day had swung into line in the policy
started a few days ago by several
eastern railroads of taking steps to
bring about reductions in the war
time wage scale of unskilled em
ployes. The reductions will be urged, rail
road officials said, to keep the roads
out of bankruptcy and enable them
eventually to reduce traffic rates
which were said to be "higher than
the public can bear." Various rail
road presidents declared the roads
were existing entirely on credit.
None Will Escape.
At the same time came statements
from officials" of the Association of
Railway Executives that lower rates
of pay for skilled workers probably
would be sought after the wage for
unskilled men had been settled.
One road, the Chicago Great
Western, took the lead among the
western lines in the matter of re-'
ductions by announcing that it pro
posed a 20 per cent decrease in lii;
pay of every employe, from the
president down, with the exception
of train service men, telegraph
operators and unskilled men. The
pay of unskilled workers would be
brought down to conform with the
rates paid in cither industries, if pos
sible. Conferences will be held with
the employes at Oehvein, la., March
19. About 9,000 men would be af
fected. The Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, and the Chicago & Alton
were two roads to announce today
that they would seek reductions for
unskilled employes. The former
proposed a reduction of 8J-S cents
in pay of unskilled workers at a
meeting with representatives of em
ployes yesterday. '
All Follow Leaders.
The Santa Fc; the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul; the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific, and the Chi
cago & Northwestern announced
proposed reductions last night. The
Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern previously had announced
conferences with their employes.
The Illinois Central had no of
ficial statement to make, but it was
understood that this road find sev
eral others expected to take the
same action as the other lines.
The Chicago Great Western
railroad, which yesterday announced
that it would seek conferences con
cerning wage reductions for its un-
(Turn to rage Two. Column Two.)
Opening Arguments
Heard in Rate Case
Before Supreme Court
uasnmgton, u. .. March 11. i
In opening arguments before the su
preme court in the Wisconsin rate
case, counsel for that and 42 other
states declared that the transporta
tion act as construed by the Inter
state Commerce commission to give
the commission control over state
rtes, "is destructive of our dual
form of government and contrary to
the spirit of our constitution."
Counsel for the railroads argued
that the commission had full author
ity to right the injustices caused
where a state had "claimed an un
fair advantage over a sister state
who has acted liberally in the pub
lic interest."
M. B. Olbrich, special counsel for
the state of Wisconsin, appeared for
the principal appellant and John E.
Benton, general solicitor of the Na
tional Association of Railway and
Utility commissions, represented the'
numerous state bodies.
Omaha Printer Seriously
Wounded While on Train
A. Rhode, about 40, 617 South
Sixteenth street, an Omaha printer
for the last 10 years, lies critically
wounded in the Ensworth hospital
at St. Joseph, Mo., with a bullet
through his left lung.
Rhode shot himself on a Burling
ton train en route from Omaha to
St. Joseph at 1:30 yesterday morn
ing. The bullet entered his breast
just below the heart, passing out
through the back. Physicians state
that his recovery is doubtful.
Rhode supposedly was on his way
to visit a brother, Charles, in St.
Joseph. His mother is a resident of
Piattsmouth. Neb.
! Heirs to $800,000,000 Estate
i Organize to Fight in Court
' Portland, Or:.. March II. Heirs
to the $800,000,000 estate of the late
' Col. Jacob Baker of Philadelphia
have been enrolled in two associa
i tions of Baker heirs to fight in courr
j for possession of the property, ac
; cording to a statement today by O.
j N. Ford of Gresham, Ore., who said
! he is one of the heirs and a mem
j her of the board of directors of the
Baker Heirs' association of Detroit,
Mich.
j Russians Form Regime
j To Supplant Soviets
' London. March 11. Reports fiom
! Rcval today state tJiat Russian emi-1
j grants are forming a government
I there, to include representatives of
j all the anti-bolshevik parties, which
soon will enter Russia. The flood
I of Russian refugees over the frontier
ha suddenly ceased, the reports say.
: and it is presumed the soviet outhori-
ties are preventing anyone from Wiv
ing Pctrograd.
Missouri Legislators
Engage in Fist Fight
Jeiierson City, Mo., March 11.
Representatives Hubbard of Law
rence county and Burch of Sullivan
county engaged in a fist fight in the
cloak room during adjournment for
lunch today.
The fight resulted, according to
witnesses, over differences over the
veterinary inspection bill.
Neither sustained serious damage.
L
Lavvson Given
Life Sentence
III State Prison
Wife-Slayer Found Guilty' of
Murder in First Degree;
Jury Out Only 3 1-2 -Hours.
Bunicll Lawson was found guilty
of murder in the first degree for the
slaying of his young wife January
2-1, and sentenced to life imprison
ment in the Nebraska state peniten
tiary by a jury in District Judge
Troup's court at 9:25 last night.
The jury had retired for delibera
tion at f.
Young Lawson tolk the verdict
calmly, although showing some
signs of apprehension as the jury
men filed into the court room, lie
sat with his face buried in his hands
until the last word of Foreman Theo
dore K. Rud's finding had been read.
He was then returned immediately
to his cell in the county jail.
Neither the prisoner's mother,
Mrs. Hope Lawson of Little Rock,
Ark., "nor the sister of his murdered
wife. Miss Eulalia Wortstnith, were
in the court room.
This murder trial was one of the
longest on record in the local dis
trict court. It started Monday,
February 28. Nearly two days were
required to get a jury. Adjourn
ment was taken last Friday evening
until Monday morning. Since Mon
day the case has been pushed, so that
altogether it took 10 days.
T'he court room was crowded
throughout the hearing.
Lawson was charged with murder
in the first degree. County Attorney
Abel Shotwell, leading the prosecu
tion, fought for the death penalty.
The defense was emotional insan
ity, an attempt being made to prove
that Lawson came of a family in
which there has been insanity and
also that his mind had been weak
ened bv disease.
Immediate Action on
Tariff Legislation Is
Promised by Penrose
i "
Washington, March 11. Speedy
action on .tariff and tax revision at
the special session of congress was
promised today by Chairman Pen
rose of the senate finance commit
tee. He said the object of the con
ferences arranged for Monday be
tween republican members of con
gressional committees and Secretary
Mellon of the treasury was to ar
range a program "behind which all
republicans can put their shoul
der.' "We cannot look for improved
business." said Senator Penrose,
"until the tariff and internal reve
nue legisation is outlined and gov
ernment extravagance stopped."
Urging less interference by the
government .in business, Senator
Penrose said he favored abolishing
"all of the autocratic mushroom gov
ernment boards all the Wilson
boards which rose during the war."
Mrs. Brandeis Unaware
Suit for Divorce Filed
Madeline Frank Brandeis, whose
suit of divorce from Ervine John
Brandeis was filed in district court in
Omaha Thursday afternoon, is win
tering at the Beverly Hills hotel in
Los Angeles, and was unaware her
divorce suit had been filed, she told
newspaper men there yesterday.
Mrs. Brandeis told them, however,
the petition had been prepared and
she expected it would be filed soon.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Foster said
yesterday that the summons on
Ervine John Brandeis to answer the
suit of his wife, Madeline Frank
Brandeis for divorce, would be served
by leaving at "his usual place of
residence."
War Degrees Slill Figure
In Howard College Awards
Cambridge, Mass., March 11.
War degrees still figure in academic
awards at. Harvard college. Jn an
announcement today, it was stated
that about half of the 87 men given
the degree of A. B. were granted it
with 25 per cent allowance "for hon
orable service in the war."
Award degree was conferred post
humously on Richard B. Yarnum,
'21, of Oakland, Cal.. word of whose
death in Paris reached here a few
days ago. Yarnum was a former
aviator who was in France as the
holder of an American field service
fellowship at the University 'of
Toulouse.
Sleeping Sickness Found.
In Town in Wistfcisiu
Wausau, Wi., ' March 11, Seven
cases of sleeping sickness in or near
this city and one death from the
disease in the village of Biruamwood
have been reported to the health au
thorities here during the past week.
OMAHA. AUTO
SHOW
March 14-19
CITY AUDITORIUM
, Clarke G. Powell, Mgr.
Omaha Charter
Bill Is Passed
By Senate Body
Committee of Whole Passes
Amended Measure After
Recommended hy Cities
And Towns Committee.
Lincoln, March 11. (Special)
The Omaha charter bill ivas referred
out of the senate committee on cities
and towns with a favorable recom
mendation this morning and passed
through the senate committee of the
whole.
The bill carries with it the amend
ments prepared by the committees
from the Chamber -of Commerce,
Real Estate board, and members of
the city commission.
lliese amendments were explained
in full to the Douglas county dele
gation at a meeting here a week
ago. The bill also carried amend
ments proposed last night at a meet
ing of the cities and towns commit
tee of the senate.
Proposed by Zimman.
These provide . civil service com
mission for the Omaha police depart
ment and power for the city coun
cil to call a special election to vote
bonds not exceeding $225,000 to re
pair and modernize the Auditorium.
The Auditorium amendment was
proposed by City Commissioner
Harry B. Zimman, who said in his
plan, the basement of the Auditori
um would be completely excavated,
and stalls put in and rented for a
icitv market. 1 he rent trom these
stalls, he argued, would, in time,
pay for the bond issue.
Another amendment proposed by
Col. Amos Thomas provides for call
ing a special election to vote bonds
for an armory in Omaha for the
Nebraska National guard, the
amount of the bond issue to be de
termined at a later date.
Hearing Tuesday
Commissioner Zimman aUo urged
that policemen and firemen salaries
should be fixed in an amendment
put in with that bill. This was not
included, however, in the charter bill
which was put up to the third read
ing today.
The charter bill introduced in the
1 lower house, however, does carry
this amendment.
A hearing .on the house charter bill
will be held next Tuesday evening,
according to an announcement todav
by Robert Druesedow, chairman of
the house committee on cities and
towns.
Woman Kills Three Children,
Shoots Three, Kills Self
Lovcll, Wyo., March 11. Mrs.
James Walters, wife of a prominent
rancher in the Big Horn basin, last
night shot and killed three of her
children, wounded three others, and
reloading the revolver, killed herself.
Two of 'the children were reported
to be dying, while one may live.
Mrs. Walters' is believed to have
been insan'c.
West Point High School
' Holds Declamatory Contest
West Point.- Neb.. March 11.
(Special.-) Richard Krausc of the
local high school will represent West
Point at the district declamatory
contest. His subject will be, "The
Wid Olive Branch." Miss Adeline
Oelscblaecer took second place and
S Miss Kathryn Rcimcrs, third in the
! contest here.
. Mining Engineer Killed
San Pedro, 'Cal., March II. Kred
' W. Nash, a niiiifiig engineer of na
tional repute, was killed when the
j automobile he was driving plunged
100 feet down the side of a precipice.
The Danger
(Copyright, 1121, Tha Chicago TribiiDd.)
Anti-Saloon League
Declares Open War
On Opinion of Palmer
Boston, Mass., March 11. Three
ways of overcoming what he termed
the erroneous opinion of former At
torney General A Mitchell Palmer
that beer and wine can be prescribed
as medicine were outlined by Wayne
B. Wheeler, general counsel of the
Anti-Saloon League of America
here today.
"First,", he .said, "we will ask the
attornoy general to revise the
opinion.
"Second, we will endeavor to get
the renjaining nine states that have
no enforcement codes to do what
the other dry states have done and
prohibit the prescribing of beer for
medicinal purposes.
"Finelly, we will ask congress to
change the law in this respect if it
is necessary to do so.
"In the meantime the brewers can
not make any real beer until the new
regulations are made, and then only
in very small quantities, as it can
only be used in nine states under
strict regulations."
Man Who Helped Draw
Final Covenant' Says
League is Successful
Philadelphia, March 11. The
covenant of league of nations was
declared a success, in that it met
the first real test when it was ac
cepted by the competent governmen
tal authority of nearly every coun
try in the world, by David Hunter
Miller of New York, here tonight.
Mr. Miller, who with J. B. Hurst of
the British foreign office, drew the
final draft of the document, spoke
before the Philadelphia Public
Ledger forum on the peace confer
ence. Mr. Miller w-as attached to
the mission of Col. E. M. House and
later appointed technical adviser to
the American commission to nego
tiate peace at Paris. '
"The covenant has two schools of
critics," he said, "and perhaps three:
those who think it goes too far,
those who think it does not go far
enough and those who approve of it,
but do not like some of the people
who wrote it."
Chinese Murderer Is
Hanged in Wyoming
Rawlins, Wyo., March 11. Yec
Geow, Chinese murderer, went to his
cieath early today with a smile on his
face. The death trap of the gallows
was sprung at 12:24 o'clock and
death was not pronounced until 13
minutes later.
Yee Geow was -convicted of the
murder of ;Thomas Holland at Chey
enne on September 10, last. Several
requests for clemency were made to
Governor Carey, who at the last mo
ment appointed a committee of doc
tors to examine his sanity. He was
pronounced sane.
He refused to make a statement.
Merger of Southern Pacific
And Rock Island Planned
Los Angeles, Cal., March 11. A
merger of the Southern Pacific, the
Rock Island and the El Paso and
Southwestern railroads is being
considered, according to a statement
by N. L. Amster of Boston, mem
ber of the board of directors of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad, made public here today.
Mr. Anistcr said no formal proposal
had as yet been made by any of
the lines to the others. Southern
Pacific officials here said they
knew nothing of such a plan,
Revolutionists
Send Ultimatum
To Soviet Heads
Surrender of Pctrograd De
manded bv March 25 Under
the Threat of General Bom
bardment and Offensvie.
London, March 11. Revolution
ary authorities at the fortress of
Kronstadt have sent an ultimatum
I to the soviet authorities in Pctro
grad, ' demanding the surrender of
the city before March 25. If the
city is not given up, the ultimatum
declares, there will be a general
bombardment, it is asserted in an
Abo, Finland, dispatch to the Lon
don Times. Wholesale arrests and
executions of workmen are said to
have occurred at Oranienbaum,
Systerbak and Petrograd.
Kronstadt last night sent out a
wireless dispatch denying bolshevik
statements that the fortress was
without food, says a telegram from
Stockholm. To the contrary, there
is plenty of food and ammunition
there, the message stated.
"Artillery fire from Kronstadt has
been extremely well directed," the
wireless dispatch is quoted as say
ing. "The fortress of Todleben and
all other soviet batteries on the
Karelian peninsula have been com
pletely demolished. Two of the four
12-inch guns at Krasnoye Gorka
have been silenced by. shells from
the battleship Petropavlovsk. Kras
noye Gorka has been isolated, the
railroad to it has been destroyed
and a thaw has placed the surround
ing marshes in such condition that
the fortress has been cut off from
the rest of the bolshevik forces."
A great anti-bolshevik movement
in the vicinity of Minsk, white
Russia, is reported in a Reuter's dis
patch from Helsingfors. Soviet
troops are said to have mutinied
and murdered bolshevik commissars
there.
Another dispatch mentions street
fighting between the bolsheviki and
anti-soviet units in Kiev.
Prominent Banker of
U. S, Sues for Divorce
New York, March 11. James A.
Stillmbn, president of the National
City bank, has begun an action for
divorce against Mrs. Sillman, the
former "Fifi" Potter, and Mrs. Still
man has started a counter suit, it be
came known here today.
Although attempts have been made
to keep the action secret, filing gf the
suits was confirmed by Supreme Jus
tice Morschauser. He has appointed
John E. Mack of Poughkecpsie
guardian of Guy Stillman. born in
1918, whose inheritance rights arc
said to he involved.
The Stillmans were married here
June 3. 1901. Bishop Henry C. Pot
ter, uncle of James Brown Potter,
the bride's father, performed the cer
emony. Her Another, a well-known
beauty, went on the stage in 1886
after a.separtion from her husband.
The Weather
Forecast.
Probaby snow and colder Satur
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acT09.
HAVING ASKS
MEDIATION IN
PACKER ROW
President Urges Employes and
Employers to Join Lahor
Department in Settling
Wa;gc Cut Dispute. ,
Davis Sends Telegrams
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING,
flili-BSo lYIIiunp-Oninhn llrr loaurd Wire.
Washingon. March II In an en
! deavor to avert the threatened strike
i of packing house employes. President
1 Harding tonight asked the employes
and employers Jo join with the Dc
partment of Labor in settling tha
dispute over the reduction of wages
and lengthening of hours to be put
into effect by the packers next Mon
day. After a conference with the prcsi"
dent in which the plan of action wa
evolved, Secretary of Labor Davi(
sent identical telegrams to the pack
ers and Secretary Lane of the Mca
Cutters' union, requesting that each
side appoint two representatives tu
assi-t the Department ot Labor in
making an investigation such at
would promote a peaceful settlement
of the controversy.'
Telegram to Packers.
The telegram addressed to ih4
Armour, Swift, 'Morris, Wilson and
Cudahy companies follows:
The federal government is deep
ly concerned about the mainten
ance of industrial activities in full
est understanding and hopes there
will be no interruption of the con
tinuity of employment in the great
packing industry. If the Depart
ment of Labor can be helpful in
promoting understanding and can
aid in any way to avoid the cessa
tion of operations, such service by
this department will be given most
gladly.
The whole problem of industrial
readjustment is of such widespread
public concern that the Depart
mcnt of Labor, with the knowledge
of the Departments of Agriculture
and Commerce, requests that two
representatives of employing'
packers will report to' this depart
ment to make possible such in
quiry into the situation as may
prove helpful in leading to a just
and satisfactory solution. I am
sending a like request to the em
ployes and am acquainting them
with this request to, you. Surely
there must be a just solution and
the good offices of this department
are tendered in the hope of find
ing that solution, so essential toy
the promotion of the common .
good.
Discussed in Cabinet.
Secretary Davis put in the whole
day studying this first problem of
his administration of the Department
of Labor. When he reached his
office at 7::30 a. m. he found on his
desk the Omaha telegram from thl
(Torn to Vage Two, Column One.) '
President Discusses
Department Questions
With Official Family
Washington, D. C, March 11.-
Many problems of departmental ori
ganization together with various
pressing question? of public policy,
were discussed by President Hardin.qf
and his cabinet at a three-hour mee
ing. "' .
Departmental patronage is said tci
have been one of the subjects left;
out of the canvass. Several of th
secretaries were ready to recomniemt
important appointments within their
departments. Their sugestions, how
ever, were put over to be discussed
privately with the president.
It was said that few decisions wer
reached,, most of the discussion he
ing of a informative nature. Th(
reorganization plans to be inaugm
rated arc understood to have been)
touched on only incidentally.
Harding Requests Benson 1
To Continue on Ship Boardi
Washington', March 11. President
Harding rque'sted Chairman Benson
of the shipping board today, "to con
tinue to function as though the boardl
were fully organized."
The request embodied in a lctte
sent by the president to Chairmanl
Benson was not interpreted a
meaning that Admiral Benson would
be continued permanently as head of
the shipping board, but merely to
give the practically memberless
board a definite status pending tha
nomination of new members.
Fritzi Sclieff Anderson r.
Granted Divorce Decree
Waterbury, Conn., March 11. i
Fritzi Scheff Anderson, comic opera
star, was granted a divorce in tha
supe'rior court "it the grounds of in
tolcra'. le cruelty and intemperance.
Her husband did not contest tha,
case. This makes tier third divorce.
She told the court her husband
bad frequently struck her in th
face, blackening her eyes. He also
refused to work, sl.e said, and had a
liquor bill of $75 a week.
Her husband was "a charming
man" when sober, she said.
One-Step Father of All '
Dancing Evils, Officer Says
Kansas City, March 11. The one
step was placed under the ban in
Kansas City, Kan., under regulations
covering public dance halls issued bv
N. V. Reichenecker, welfare officer,
"The one-step," said the officer,
"is the father of all dance evils. From
it come the 'grizzly hear,' the 'tod
dle' and other varieties of alleged
dancing which permit the tloc rm
brace and the cheek-to-chcek glides,
If we eliminate the onc-Mep tffo
mate them all." " ' v
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