Nebraska Newspapers

    he Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 50 NO. 241
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THREE CENTS-
Testimony
In Stillman
Suit Aired
Workmen and Guides aT"Sum
mcr Ciunp in Quebec Tell
Stories of Wife's Al
leged Misconduct.
Judge to Pass on Letters
4 hii-ago Trthune-Oiiiahu Iter lcard Wire.
New York, March 27. Text of
testimony of James A. Stillnian and
Canadian Indian witnesses in his sen
sational divorce case against Mrs.
'Fili" Stillnian is published here to
day. ' The witnesses tell of repeated in
stances of alleged misconduct of
Fred Beauvais, Canadian lndi an
guide at the Stillnian summer camp
at Three Kivers, Cjuebcc, and Mrs.
Stilliuan.
In his divorce suit, Mr. Stillnian,
president of the National City bank,
names Beauvais as co-responder.t
and challenges the legitimacy of Mrs.
Stillman's 28-months-old son, Guy
Stillnian. v
Mrs. Stilhnan has countered with
charges that Mr. Stillnian, posing as
"Mr. Leeds," had an affair' with a
former chorus girl, now "Mrs.
Florence Leeds," and that he is the
father of Mrs. Leeds' 30-months-old
baby, Jay Leeds.
The text of testimony revealed to
day was taken at the hearing here
last December before a referee ap
pointed by the court.
Stillman First Witness.
Mr. Stillnian was the first witness,
lie admitted paternity of three
children. Anne. 20; "Bud," 17, and
Alexander. 11. An objection by John
K. Mack, guardian of Guy Stillman,
appointed by the court, prevented
Mr. Stillman disclaiming Guy as his
son.
Francois Lajoic, a French-Canadian
lawyer of Quebec, acted as
interpreter for the witnesses from
Canada, none of whom spoke Eng
lish well.
Following Mr. Stillman, the next
witness was Harry Brenon, a carpen
ter and woodsman, living at Grand
Anse, Canada. He is a French
Canadian. He was questioned by
Outerbridge Horsey of Mr. Still
man's counsel. He identified sepa
rate photos of Beauvais and Mrs.
Stillman.
Brenon said that he saw Beauvais
and Mrs. Stillman together a num
ber of times in the winter of 1918
and in the early winter of 1919. On
one occasion he said he - looked
through the kevhole into Mrs. Still
man's room and found it unoccupied,
lie then looked into Beauvais' room.
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OCC11 ivjjcuict in nwiuy
"What did you see?" he was asked.
"I saw twoVersoris, Fted Beauvais
and Mrs. Stillman.
Q. "Well, what did you notice?"
A. "They appeared to be sleep
ing" Iiectorinc Renault Lafontanrc was
the next witness. During a heavy
rainstorm in 1917, he said. Mrs. Still
man and Beauvais came to his home
.for shelter. Mrs. Stillmaiv wanted to
take a bath and both went upstairs,
Mrs. Stillnian to her room and then
to the bath.
Q. "What happened after that?"
Av "Well, Beauvais went into
Mrs. Stillman's room and began to
tarry things to her." ,
Ferdinand Page, another v French
Canadian, corroborated the story of
Brenon. claimig that he too saw
Mrs. Stillman and Beauvais sleeping.
Await Alimony Decision.
Further testimony in the divorce
rase has been held up pending
'Justice Morschauser's decision on
Mrs. Stillman's fight for $10,000 a
month alimony and counsel fees, said
to total $75,000 for defense of Guy
Stillman's birthright and chances-to
inherit a share of the Stillman mil
lions. The question of whether the "con
fession" letter alleged to have been
written by Mrs. Stillman to Mr.
StillnKin will be permitted to figure
in his suit for divorce will be an
swered by Justice Morschauser when
he files his opinion, some time this
week, on the alimony and counsel
fees.
This was ascertained definitely to
i' day in a well-intormed quarter. At
torneys for the banker are known to
regard this "confession" letter as the
crux of their case.
The six letters' reported as having
been written by Beauvais to Mrs.
Stillman, also will be the subject of
adjudication by Justice Morschauser.
It also was stated that attorneys
for Mrs. Stillman might ask Referee
dleason to appoint a commission to
go to Canada and taks the testimony
of Beauvais. Attorneys for the
banker, confident that Mrs. Stillman's
side would not ask the guide to ap
pear voluntarily, were represented as
likely to take this course to strength
en their fight. According to this
same informant, Mr. Stillman's coun
sel were astonished when the "Leeds"
affair came out.
Chicago Man is Arrested
For Selling Guns to Negroes
Chicago, March 27. More than
1,000 negroes have armed, themselvvs
recently vitlt revolvers and ammuni
tion it was learned through the
arrest of Fred Bitter, owner of a
gun shop, and Virgil Meyers, a
young negro. Young negroes on the
south and west side have been mak
ing secret purchases of weapons for
some time, and the police have been
searching tor the place where they
were sold.
!Well-Knovn Newspaper Man
And Author Dies in Chicago
Chicago, March 27. Col. M. A.
Aldrich, a veteran newspaper editor
and author, died here. He was one
of the founders of the Milwaukee
(Wis.) Journal." and later managing
editor of the Boston Globe. Detroit
Evening News. St. Louis Star and
other papers. His best-known book
was i "History of the United States
Marines."
Bathing Girls Not In It
With Senate, Says Jerry
Postmaster for Solons Hasn't
Missed Session in 18 Years;
Took Vacations at
Lincoln.
Lincoln, March 27. (Special.)
Florida, with its sun-kissed sea
shores and California with its, as
yet, uncensored bathing girls lolling
on the beach hasn't the charms for
Jerry Wilhelm of Dorchester, Neb.,
that a session of the Nebraska legis
lature, possesses.
For 18 years, Jerry Wilhelm, his
hair now gray and his step falter
ing on a wet day when rhcumat:cs
get in their work, has looked for
ward to a session of the legislature
as his vacation.
It used to be that Jerry couldn';
afford a vacation of any other de
scription. But in recent years for
tune has smiled on his family. A
daughter is Mrs. George Roberts of
Omaha, whose husband is reputed
wealthy.
"She wants me to take it easy, but
this is more fun than seashores and
bathing girls," Jerry said. "Maybe,
if they cut bathing beach scenes out
of moving pictures after they get
a censor board I'll have' to take a
trip out there once in awhile. But
not now."
Postmaster of Senate.
For nine sessions Jerry has
borne a title at legislative sessions.
This year he is postmaster' of the
state senate. He has been sergcani-
at-arms. At one time, before the
antiquated windows of the lower
house absolutely refused to work
any longer and could be raised to
let a little fresh air in the room,
there were a number of superin
tendents of ventilation on the pay
roll of a kind-hearted, free-fisted
bunch of legislators.
"They had a hard time placing me
those days," Jerry said. "There
were four superintendents of venti
lation and sanitation then, and I got
up late in the session. Finally they
made me superintendent of the su
perintendents of ventilation."
In the days when old John Bar
leycorn had rooms in the basement
arid many legislators had a thirst
Women Street Car
Workers Success
Report Sa's Fair Sex Can Be
Employed Without Con
flict of Laws.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee. leaned Wire.
. Washington, March 27. The con
troversy ov-er women street car con-
dnctrs and-ticker agents and their
jobs is studied and discussed by the
Women's Bureau of the . United
States Department of Labor in a re- ' ;
port made public. iThe report
answers "yess" to the much
agitated question of whether wom
en cajj be employed on street rail
ways successfully, satisfactorily, and
with due regard to their health and
well-being.
On the basis of investigations in
Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit and
Boston, where women have been suc
cessfully employed under regulated
schedules of . hours, the bureau de
clares the dismissal of women from
New York car lines was not made
necessary by the night work law.
This is proved by the fact that women
are employed as conductors in Kan
sas City without ever having had
to work at night, and women ticket
sellers are employed in Chicago
without night work and without any
handicap in any degree.
Women employed in street rail
Ways like the work, the report stales,
because it pays them so much better
than do many other occupations
these same women have followed.
Comparison with pay in former oc
cupations in the case of 34 women
who were interviewed, showed five
street railways oaid them frnm S'7
to $39 a week, where most of them i
had received $5 to $18 a week in '
their former occupations. ' j
Lieutenant W. D. Coney
Repc
orted Near Death
Natchez, Miss., March 27. The
condition of Lieut. W. D. Coney,
trans-continental flyer, showed "a
change for the worse today and phy
sicians announced they "had kittle
hope for his recovery. A bulletin
said his temperature was 103 1-2 and
that an indication of pneumonia had
been noted.
Special prayers for his recovery
were offered at all the local churches
today, at the request of the Natchez
chapter of War Mothers. Mrs. E. F.
Coney, the lieutenant's mother, ar
rived today.-
Music iai? Flees From
Over - Enthusiastic.
Crowd of Admirers
' New York. March . 27. William
Mengelberg, Dutch orchestra con
ductor, became so flabbergasted when
400 admirers tried to kiss him, slap
his back and shake his hand before
he sailed for home, that he stumblel
into his stateroom and locked the
doors. i
The crowd, mostly women, clus
tered on the steamer Nieu Amster
dam, for an audible admiration party
to the conductor.
After he dashed to his stateroom
his admirers refused to leave the
boat without seeing him again.
As sailing time approached, ship
officers persuaded the musician to
unlock his door and greet the crowd.
He began to speak, but the en
thusiasm of his listeners bubbled over
and they tried to embrace him en
masse. Four women kissed Mr.
MengXlberg, and two women fainted.
which carried them to the state
house basement to emerge in leg
islative halls an hour later, un
steady of foot. load of voice and
unfriendly in disposition, Jerry had
a job on his hands. Ftfr the lobby
ists, too, were ready to fight with
something besides their tongues.
Jerry was talking about the strenu
ous times of the sergeant-at-arms
in those days and pointed to a one
armed ex-service man now enjoying
the job in the lower house.
"He'd never been able to do it in
those days," Jerry said,
v Knows Statesmen.
Jerry knows Nebraska statesmen
of the last 20 years like a music
teacher knows the scales.
"I've1 seen hundreds of them strut
into the state house at the opening
vol a session like a prize horse at
a, county fair and xI've smiled as I
watched the mgo out like a dishrag
after a pink tea," Jerry said. "Going
to the legislature makes a man out
of some fellows and it rrrakes con
ceited asses out of others."
Jerry is a veteran of the civil war.
He says he used to listen to all the
debate, but "somehow I get sleepy
these days and can't stay awake."
So after the mail is distributed in
the morning and Jerry has served his
patrons, one finds him snoozing in
a big pivot chair in the senate post
office. Big Fire Destroys
1,000 Tokio Homes
Loss Estimated at $12,500,000
Many Injured in Panic
Caused by Blaze.
By The Associated Trcsa.
. Tokio. March 27. Fire which for
a time imperiled the entire city of
Tokio Jasl, .flight detwyft.cL J.QQ0
houses in the northwestvpart of the
city, injured 133 persons, made
thousands homeless and caused a
loss estimated at about $12,300,000.
Included in the property-destroyed
were three hospitals, a bank and
several large business houses.
For four hours a violent wind
drove the flames toward the heart
of the city, causing a panic. Four
thousand troops aided the firemen,
but it was only when the wind let
down that their efforts succeeded.
Scenes of terror were witnessed in
manv sections. The despairing ref
ugees from the districts stricken,
companies by carts loaaea witu iur
niture blocked the streets, the con
fusion being increased by sightseers.
Many of the half-frozen fugitives bore
infants. The mounted police bad
great difficulty restraining incipient
rioas. The imperial gardens were
openedjto the sufferers.
The fire burned so fiercely and
with such brightness that the skies
were illuminated by a fiery halo vis
ible for hundreds of miles.
The diet adjourned when the
fire's threatening nature was re
ported. Judge Takes Evidence
For Bergdoll Release
Under Advisement
Kansas City, March 27. Hand
cuffed to a military guard and dress
ed In the olive drab he declined
to wear during the war, Erwin B.
Bergdoll. Philadelphia millionaire,
convicted of draft evasion, appeared
before Judge T. C. Pollock in federal .
rnnrt. ,ihP?, liahw. mmm nm.P,H. I
court, where habeas corpus proceed
ings have been instituted seeking his
release from the military prison at
F'ort Leavenworth, Kan.
After the hearing Judge Pollock
announced he would take the matter
at issue in the hearing, the ad
missibility of evidence to show Berg
doll had received notice to report
for military service, under advise
men:. Bergdoll listened to Maj. C. C.
Crcsson, who had prosecuted the
court-martial case against him, tes
tify that Bergdoll had told him that
he received the draft notice and 'T
knew all the time you were after
me.';
When ' the hearing was over he
started back to the military prison
at Fort Leavenworth. He is a broth
er of Grdver Cleveland Bergdoll.
Dupont Country Estate
Will Be Sold at Auction
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire.
New York. March 27. "White
Eagle," the 250-acre country estate
of the late Mrs. Alfred I. Dupont,
located at Roslyn, L. I., valued at
more than $1,500,000, is to be sold
by public auction on April 28.
"White Eagle" is one of the most
celebrated country seats in America
and no money has been spared to
make it such. It adjoins the home of
Clarence H. Mackay, and is near the
homes of Harry Payne Whitney, J.
Pierpont Morgan, Otto H.-Kahn,
Nicholas F. Brady, Thomas H.
Hitchcock, Harry Payne Bingham,
Egbert H. Garv and Onuond G.
Smith. " '
3 Killed By
Tornado In
Miota
$ & Rusliniore Practical-
VTy Leveled by Wind Storm
Blizzard Raging
South Dakota.
in
Barns Razed at Hastings
lly The Assoclnlcd Prcsa.
Worthington, Minn., March 27.
A tornado following an all-day .'ain,
swept west of here between 6:30 and
7 p. m. tonight, killing Dave Ander
son, his son and another person
at Reading, eight "miles northwest
on the Rock Island road, and prac
tically leveling Rusfimore,' eight
miles west on the Omaha road, ac
cording to meager details received
here. All wires arc down.
Blizzards and heavy wind and rain
storms, accompanied by thunder and
lightning with) dropping temperatures
late today and tonight, gave the
northwest a variety of weather for
Easter Sunday.
In South and North Dakota and
western Mincsota, blizzards tvere
reported from some sections. Grand
Forks, N. D., was in the grip of a
blizzard which began at noon. A
30-mile wind prevailed and the tem
perature dropped from 30 to 14 de
grees. Ortonville, in western Minnesota,
reported the worst blizzard of the
year. Communication with . many
South Dakota points wasjntcrruptcd.
Tornado Near Hastings.
Hastings, Neb., March 27. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Tornadic winds
caused extensive damage at Hansen
and between Hansen and Trumbull, a
few miles northeast of Hastings,
about 3 Saturday morning. In Han
sen the lumber yard and home tf
F. E. Fuller were unroofed, be
sides minor damage to smaller build
ings. Some live stock was killed.
Southeast of Hansen windmills
were blown down and chimneys
wrecked. Barns on the Eli Harmon
and Truman Barrows farms were
wrecked. Near Trumbull barns be
longing to John Bicrman, John Wis
ner and Paris Ditlemore were de
stroyed. Forty telephone' poles were
blown down between Hastings and
Hansen, cutting off communication. '
Rain followed the twisters.
At 3 this afternoon Local Weather
Forecaster Kent warned the locality
of possible danger due to a condi
tion of temperature and barometric
pressure similar to that which pre
ceded the Omaha . Foster storm
The witid gained velocity all day;but
at, 4 conditions became more sta
ticrary and it was believed alt 'dan
ger was past.
Reports that F-dgar had been wiped
out were groundless, but inquiry re
vealed that sand which had been
used on the streets there was so
thick in the air that people could not
see 25 feet. Hail caused some dam
age at Kenesaw. A light rain was
general in this section.
Wind in Custer County.
Ansley. Neb., March 27. A wind
storm of much violence in parts of
Custer county caused the wrecking
ot ouiDiinaings ana me Killing 01
ac-jlive stock.
Seven Injured inIowa.
Fonda, la., March 27. Seven per
sons are known to have been in
jured, two of them seriously, when a
tornado struck the town at 8 o'clock
last night. Considerable property
damage, which included the destruc
tion of all the buildings on the
Pocahontas county fair grounds,
with the exception of the grand
stand also resulted.
George Weinbreiner, who siifiered
several broken ribs, was the most
seriously injured. He was in his
home when the storm struck and
partially wrecked it. His wife,
mother and daughter were uninjured.
Mrs. Ed Carter suffered a
wrenched back when her home was
demolished. Mr. Carter and their
daughter were blown from the house
into the street, but were practically
uninjured.
Hiram Weise was struck in the
face by a flying timber while driv
ing his car. His condition is not
serious. ,
A. L. Brand was driving a team
along the road when the tornado
struck. He was thrown about 60
f nc T.. ,n
but escaped injury. The team
wagon and driver were picKca on.
the ground and hurled over the fence
into the fair grounds.
The home of L. V. Moore was
badly damaged when a barn, which
had been torn from its foundation.
None of the members of the Moore
family were injured,
A number of barns and small
houses also were destroyed in the
vicinity.
Blzzard at Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls, March 27. South
Dakota is experiencing one of the
most severe blizzards in its history
last night, according to reports. At
Huron and Watertown 12 inches of
snow fell in less than three hours
and there were no signs of abate
ment. A strong wind accompanied by
snow is raging here and the tempera
ture, still, dropping rapidly, had de
scended to l(r degrees above zero at
11 p. m. The rapid change in
weather is expected to cause damage
to cattle in the prairie districts. Tele
phone. and telegraph service out of
Sioux Falls is badly disrupted.
New Airplane Speed Record
Made by Eddie Rickenbaeher
Los Angeles, March 27. Eddie
Rickenbaeher, American ace in the
world war, made a new record
when he flew from Oakland to Los
Angeles, 385 miles, in two hours and
32 minutes. The previous srecord
was three hours and one minute. His
average flying time was 151.8 miles
per hour.
Solve
Harding to Probe
Care Being Given
Former Soldiers
Will Name Committee to In
vestigate Conditions for Dis
abled War Heroes in
" Near Future.
Washington, March 27 President
Flarding decided to have an exhaus
tive investigation made of the man
ner in which the government is car
ing for disabled war veterans. With
in a few days, it was announced, he
will select a special committee of in
quiry. The president, it was said, is de
termined to lay the situation before
congress and the country, to correct
any abuses that may have developed.
The investigators will be instruct
ed to recommend any remedial leg
islation. Decision to inaugurate an inquiry--;
was readied oy me nresiuem aiicr
hp hnfl rnntVrrprl with Omrlps (,
Dawes of Chicago, who served in
France as a brigadier general h.W . tnc old level, while in others they
Galbraith, national commander of would be reduced as much as $10
the' American-Legion; Thomas W. weekly.
Miller, alien property custodian, and j The men demand the maintenance
a former overseas veteran; Assistant ' the national wage scale and sug
Secretary Roosevelt of the Navy de- j Kest that there be a pool of profits
nartment. and his personal physician, i whereby tlie strong mines would
eng. Uen. U t.. sawyer, incy dis
cussed in detail with the president
the soldier relief problem. Later
they went over the situation with
General Pershing.
The president and Mrs. Harding,
accompanied by Mr. Dawes, attended
the morning service at Calvary Bap
tist church.
Naval Officers
Hope
to Find Missing
Men in Free Balloon
Pcnacola, March 27. Although
four days have passedsiuce Chief
Quartermaster G. K. Wilkenson and
four companions left the naval air
station here in a free balloon, offi
cials at the station still arc hopeful
of the safely of the five.
Search of the area to which the
wind might have blown the craft
has been made by dirigibles, sea
planes and-Eagle boats without suc
cess. Failure to find any .trace of
the balloon was taken by station
officials as indicating that the craft
cither drifted to some unfrequented
spot, or that the men were picked up
by fishing boats. Asthe duration
of the average fishing cruise is three
weeks, officials said they would not
abandon hope until the end of that
period.
Four Delaware Convicts
Punished at Whipping Post
Wilmington. Del., March 27. At
New Castle county workhouse here
four negroes felt the sting of
the Delaware whipping post law.
Those whipped were: Warner Lew
is, convicted of larceny and sentenced
to one year in prison and 20 lashes;
Leonard Barrett, highway robbery,
10 years and 40 lashes, and John
Richardson and Horace Archie, high
way robbers, 10 years and 40 lashes
each.
New Gold Discovery '
Fairbanks, Alaska, March 27.
This city is enjoying its first real
mining sensation in years with tnc
discovery of gold on Coeomo cree!:,
within three miles of town.
S.
It With a Handsaw
(Cor.yniht: MI'M ; By Tb ChidfO Tribune
England Facing
Big Coal Strike
I m
iners Threaten to Walk Out
April 1 If Present Wage
Scalers Reduced.
By JOHN STEELE.
Chicago Tribune, Cable, . Copyright, 19?1.
London, March 27. England is
threatened with a coal miners' strike
on April 1, unless some agreement ii
arrived at between now and then by
i mine owners and workers. J he
trouble arises from the fact that the
government gives up control of the
mines on that date.
Under government control wages
were fixed on a national basis and
these were the same in all fields.
This arrangement was sati.n'actory to
the men. When the government's
preparation to relinguish control, tns
owners served notice in all fields
that contracts would be terminated
id that wages -would be fixed in
each field independently, in accord
ance with the current prices of coal
and profits.
I nder this scjieme in some lields
the wages would lie maintained at
euaoie uie weauer ones to maintain
the present rate of pay.
Burglars Steal $300
Worth of Sugar From
Grocery Store Here
1 - . t . i
Burglars were unusually active in
; Omaha Saturday night' and Sunday,
i ' Will iam Ronan, grocer, reported
i to police, that burgiars entered his
J store through a rear window and
I stole 30 sacks of .sugar, valued at
! $300.
burglars broke into The Omaha
Raincoat company store.-Nineteenth
and Farnam streets, and stole 12
raincoats., 'five umbrellas and one
bolt of cloth.
Lon Kidd, 2714 Yates street, re
ported the theft of a revolver and
a suit of clothes.
A burglar took Slf from the
trousers' of T. .A. Ferris. 1913 Doug
las street.
C. J. Diniusou, 2621 Blondo street,
was held up by two men near his
home and robbed of $30.
The Hope Mission, 2110 Lake
street, was broken into and $65
stolen. '
Thirteen Prisoners Injured
In Two New York Collisions
New York, March 27. Thirteen
persons were injured in two rear
end collisions here tonight. Nine
were injured when a south-bound
Third avenue elevated train crashedH
irto' another discharging passengers
at a station. One woman was taken
to a hospital.
A collision earlier in the evening
between two Manhattan-bound cars
on the Queensboro bridge resulted
in injuries to four persom
Greeks Advance Eight Miles.
Athens, March 27. Tonight's com
munique from Greek army headquar
ters on the campaign in Asia Minor
says the Greeks have advance eight
miles toward Eski-Shehor and Afiiin
Karahissar. taking 3(H) prisoners,
four cannon and a large cju'ntitv
of material.
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Plumb Plan League
To Renew Fight on
The Cummins Law
Organization for Nationaliza
tion of Railroads Declares
Act Failure After
Year6 Trial.
Chicago Tribune-Oinnha Hee I.eaftoil Wire,
Washington, March 27. Willi
the-railroad issue looming large as
a problem of the special session of
congress and Senator Cummins pre
paring to demand an investigation
of railroad operation, revenues and
its excessive cost, the Plumb Plan
league, agitator of railroad nation
alization, sounded a renewed dec
laration of war on the Cummins
Esch railroad law.
"After a year's trial the Cumniins
Esch law is a proven failure.'' ?ays
a statement issued by the league.
"That much is admitted by the
railroad interests, now preparing for
another drive on congress. Their
lobbies at Washington are framing
measures through which they hope
to secure new and colossal privileges,
and their propagandists are turuinr;
out a Hood of material asking to
establish public opinion supporting
their unreasonable demands.
"The transportation bill has
ceased to serve the purpose of the
financial group that has played ducks
and drakes with transportation. Un
der it they secured approximately
$1,000,000,000 from the public
treasury and an increase of freight
and passenger rates which, in nor
mal times, will net them more, than
$1,500,000,000 a year. In addition to
these subsidies, they have gathered
in other benefits of great value, i'h.:
net result to the public whic'n has
been so generous with the railroad
Srroup, is a broken down transporta
tion system, demoralized commerv.
ruined farmers and an army of S.OOii,
000 idlt workers." "
Companion of Chester
Is Held Without Bond
In Kansas Citv 'Murder
Kansas City, March 27. -Fred
Roberts, charged with first degree
murder in connection with the death
of Florence' Barton, society girl, was
ordered held without bond for trial
by Justice M. H. Joyce. Roberts
is accused of driving the car on
the night of the murder in which
bandits held up Miss Barton and
Howard Winter, Iifr fiance, .kill
ing the girl and wounding her com
panion. J."H. Walker, a state prisoner,
testified that Roberts, who ako is
serving time at the state penitentiary,
told him he drove the bandit car the
nigh of the murder.
penhcel Chester, now in the county
jail, also is charged with murder in
connection with the affair.
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Democratic
Tariff Plan
Weakening
Protectionist Doctrine for
American Industries Crow
ing in Favor Sentiment
Chauiii in South.
U. S. Banker for World
By ARTHUR SEARS HENN1NQ.
Chicago TrlliuiiF-Omnhn llro I4-iini'iI Wire,
Washington, March 27. We now
have with us again tariff revision
upward, this lime, for the protec
tion of American production and
for the production of revenue. -
With the I'niled States a creditor
nation for the tirst time in its his
tory, however, the century-old po
litical question takes on a new as
pect. Instead of the I'nited Stales
owing Europe billions of dollars,
Europe now owes us ? 14,000,000,0; V,
or government loans and credits
by American business interest. We
have succeeded Britain as the
world's banker.
So now, mingled with the 1 old
time, pleas for protection for "in
fant industries" and protection to
equalize the cost of production at
home and abroad, we hear argu
ments from . orthodox high protec
tionist quarters in favor of moderate
duties which will encourage foreign'
trade and enable the debtornations
t pay their debts to the United
States in commodities, as did the
United States when it owed Europe.
Democratic Stand Weakening.- -
Likewise democratic devotion . tci
free trade or a tariff for revenue
only appears to be weakening. The
solid south, with its expanding man
ufactures and its keen comnctition
with the foreign growers of some
agriculture products, is shot through
with protectionist doctrine. It's a
south far different from that which
dubbed the protection of 1828 th
"tariff of abominations.""
The tariff heretofor. was chiefly
a domestic question, being framed
for the specific purpose of keeping
out imports which compete with
American manufacturers. Now it is
urged that the tariff be used also
as a weapon for getting more liberal
treatment in foreign countries for
the exoort oroducts of the United
States, the movement along this line j
having crystalized into a demand, j
for a bargaining tariff. j
A few classes of manufacturers j
such as the makers of automobiles :
the steel manufacturers and the can- j
ninff industrv. all of which are most
concerned in developing foreign
markets and are able to hold their
own in domestic markets with a
moderate degree of protcoyi- .htj
willing to nave uie new v1""-1!-''
apply to their own products. In the
case of a great majority of manufac
turers however, there is little evi
dence of willingness to accept lower
rates of dutv. either on the broad
theory of facilitating the payment at ,
the foreign delA or with the spectrin
purpose of encouraging reciprocal
relations and favorable treatment
toward American products.
New Law Compromise.
Those desiring a more liberal
tariff policy base their argumenti
chiefly on the "advantage of encour
aging reciprocal relations. There is
little disposition on the part of any
element in the republican ranks de
liberately to sacrifice ylomcstic mar
kets in order that the foreign nations
mav pay their debts.
The tariff law which will be placed
on the statue books probably not
much earlier than October 1, will be
the result of numerous compromise!!.
The house ways and 'means com
mittee, which conducted hearings
fur six weeks in January and Feb
ruary and for the last week ha
been engaged in the actual drafting
of a bill, is likely to show a ten
dency toward extreme protectionist
views
The house committee may. reject
the proposed bargaining tariff. 'Ifie
senate finance committee probably
will tone the bill down, giving llior:
attention to the developing of- erc
port trade and tnay approve a "bar
gaining tariff". The measure as final
ly enacted into a law. probably wiil
contain rates of duty averaging
somewhat le.-s than in the forrjief
Paync-Aldrich law. TITe highest
rates of dutv will be urnvided for
chemical and other industries built f
i . . .. i i i .
up uunng ine war ana wnicn are-stm
in the "infant" class. Dcsirabilify of
building up the so-called war indui
tries yill be an important phase 'ff
the tariff questions. There will T)c
numerous commodities on which
rates of duty will be- little if any
higher than m the present Under
wood law. -"-Benefit
to Agriculture.
Agriculture will receive more con
sideration than ever before in the
framing of the general tariff law and!
in this connection votes of a cotr
siderable number of southern demo
crats can be counted upon for the
protection of products in which their
states are interested. .
The foreign exchange problem is.
one of the new elements entering
into the situation. One of the result,
of the present aLuiLrnial exchange ,
conditions has been the decision of
the republican leaders, with the apa
proval of President Harding, to put
through congress at the beginning
of the special session, a bill aban
doning tlpi present method of bas
ing import duties on foreign "values N
and substituting a system of Amer
ican valuation.
Various, complicated schemes for
obviating exchange difficulties under
the present foreign basis of valua
tion have been proposed, but prob
ably will he rejected. , '"'
Military Papers Stolen
kailoviteh. on which Genera! Wran
gcl is staying. Gold, silver- and
jewels alo have been taken itort
the vessel.
Constantinople, March 27. Im- HT
portant military documents rezard- II
ing the Crimean campaign have been fj
stolen from the shin, Alexander Mir- 7
f.