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J The Omaha Daily Bee 1 a"k ' jVOL. 60 NO. 259. Ai.. I II 'I II III 111 Colombian Pact Urged Republican Leaders, Including ; Friends of Roosevelt, Line Up in Support of $23, 000,000 Payment. Borah Denounces Terms ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chlcarn Trlbune-Omalta Bee leased Wire. Washington, April 14. Ratification by the senate next Wednesday of the $25,000,000 treaty with Colombia is now regarded as a probability, al though a dozen or more republican senators, led by F.orah and Kellogg, will tight the pact to the last ditch. With the elimination of the apology to Colombia, impugning the acts of Theodore Roosevelt and with Presi dent Harding's recommendation of ratification tor the purpose of re storing friendly relations with Colom bia, the majority of the republicans, including such friends of Rocscvelt as i.ouijc ana miox, are icauy 10 vote for the treaty. Borah Opposes Payment. Senator Borah denounces the pay ment of $.'5,000,000 to Colombia .is a confession of American turpitude in connection with the secession ot Panama, even though the apology has been eliminated and charges that American oil interests in Colombia are responsible for the revived effort to ratify the treaty. "We owe Colombia nothing,1 and the stain of dishonor should not be put upon this government; the brand of shame should not be put upon the character of Roosevelt," said Senator Borah today. The senator, however, declared his willingness to support a treaty Jlkat would adequately pro tect the American oil interests in Colombia. ' . Lodge Supports Treaty. Senator Lodge, deems the treaty necessary to carry out the Harding administration's program for pro tecting the canal and says $25,000,000 is only halt the Colombian claims for canal and says -$25,000,000 is onlv half the Colombian claims for canal and railroads rights that passed to the United States, . Senator Knox of Pennsylvania who, as a former member of both the Roosevelt and Taft cabinets, had much to do. with the Panama trans action, delivered a carefully prepared speech in which he praised the con duct oi President Roosevelt. "Our entire course from beginning to end," he said, "is sacred to our rights and duties and to the gov- . . , . t - - e. a.- ernmg rules ana principles, i.mrci-, national law"' - 1 The senator places the blame squartly : upon Colombia. Neverthe less, he contended, the senate should ratify the treaty largely as a mat ter of generosity to a nation whose mistakes "enabled the United States to derive vast benefits. Senator Pomcrene of Ohio, rfemo- Turw to Para Tirp. Column One.) Famous California Hotel Destroyed By Fire of Unknown Orgin -Santa Barbara, Cal., April 14. Fire, the origin of which was still unknown last night, yesterday de stroyed the Ambassador hotel here, one of the largest hostclrics on the Pacific coast and known to thou sands of tourists all over the coun try. So far as known, no lives were .lost. , The blaze was discovered by a tele phone girl after it had burned through the ceiling of a room ad joining her switchboard. -" Alf occupants of the hotel except one woman employe, who was car ried down a fire escape, made their way out unaided, it is believed. The hotel had 700 rooms. The damage was estimated at $1,500,000. Insur ance was given $265,000 on the building and $227,000 on the con tents. " .- : -' ' Former Chief Justice Is Indicted for Perjury Cleveland, O.. April , J4 Former V 1,11.. I ' ... - - ' May E. Necley, chief state s witness, and two others were indicted by the grand jury for perjury in connec tion with the second scandal trial of McGannon, charged with the murder of Harold Kagy.-of which he was acquitted. Others indicted were E. J. Allen, a newspaper reporter, and C E. A. Burke, a former . reporter, on the charge, of intimidating a witness. Bill to Sell Surplus War , Food Abroad Introduced Washington. April 14. At the suggestion ot Secretary Weeks a resolution requesting theVar de partment to sell its surplus ,of 1 canned foodstuffs to foreign coun "'.. "'tries was introduced by Chairman Kahn of the house military com- mittee. Passage would pernrtt ths . ' disposition of 81,000,000 pounds- of meat abroad. .. ' .- Rail Executives Meet to Discuss Regional Boards St.' Louis, April 14. Executives of the railroads in the southwest met here today to discuss the proposal of the big four brotherhoods of rail road employes that regional boards of readjustment be formed. It was planned to go thoroughly into the natter, and obtain a definite expres sion of the sentiment of the officials. Two Drowned "When Canoe Capsizes in Clinton River Clinton. Ia., April 14. Lester Braroe. 26. bookkeeper for the Ciid- ahy Packing company here, . and James Brooks, a factory worker, nere drowned when their canpe cap :zed just bcow Little Rock island; Cstsrsa as hsCIi slsltw Mty M. Ill P. 0. Hubbys Come Easy to Cafe Cashier War Ruined Boy's Looks and Guy Didn't Have Job So Frances Left Hurriedly in Auto With George. Grand Island, Neb., April 14. j (Special.)-Enoch Ardcn has nothing ! on Roy Yates, returned overseas sol dier. Yates is a Kansas City boy and used to be a switchman for the Belt Line of that city. Four years ago he met Frances Smith, a depot res taurant cashier. They were married. Then he enlisted. Frances went to Chicago to work. ' After a year word came that Roy Yates had been killed in action. With the passing o4 time Frances was transferred to .Milwaukee. There she met and married Guv McCracken, another switchman. With the prcs ure of economic conditions Guy found himself laid off indefinitely and the cbuple came to live with Ed Smith, an uncle of the girl, who rents a small farm several miles northeast of Wood River, this county. Wednesday Fiances received a tel ephone call to come to town and bring her husband to the depot. There she 'found Roy Yates, who had just been released from an eastern hospital, lie had lost one arm and his face wa slightly disfigured. He had traced Frances to Grand Island. The meeting resulted in McCracken agreeing to give Frances up to her first husband and McCracken re turned to the Smith farm with Roy and Frances, where they planned to go to Chicago to straighten a few things legally, As the family sat at supper Frances I Total of 8,000,000 Men Now Affected By British Strike Federation of General Work ers Willi Membership- of 1,500,000 Votes to Join Triple Alliance. . By le Associated Frees. London, ' April .14. A conference held this morning between Premier Lloyd George and officials of the triple alliance, which has called a strike for Friday night in support of the striking miners, was con cluded within two hours without any progress apparently having been made toward an adjustment of the grave labor situation. It was., reported that the preniiet made a Jorig statement, : appealing strongly to the railway men and yue'Wakr -up til triple - iffiaiice, with tne askinar them to exercise restraint and not precipitate a crisis. The. situation this afternoon ap peared gloomy, x "Asked to Use Ballot. During the conference, it devel oped, Mr, Lloyd George made a plea to the labor men that they resort to the ballot, suggesting that they put "their case to the nation and saying that the government would do like wise with its case and let the nation decide the issues'. "Starvation is not your only weap on," said the premier, "you have ex actly the weapons you had before, the weapons ot civilization persua sion, argument and reason. You can leave it to the nation to decide,' "You have your plan, we have ours. Put it up to the nation and we will Diit ours to the nation. If the nation tlccides that your plan is the right one, why should you starve your people in order to acheive something which you can acheive by reason, if reason is on vour side." These declarations were made by the nrcmier when he was pointing out the impossibility of the govern ment accepting the miners' demands fon a national pooling: of profits, uhirh he defined as "nationalization up to the point of meddling, and not of manatrinsr. whtch.is a worse iorm of nationalization." 8,000,000 to Be Affected. The Federation of General Work ers, representing 1,500,000 persons in more than 100 industries outside the trinle? alliance decided today to Sup port the triple alliance in its. strike in the interest of the striking miners. Whether the call for a strike to bv the "triple alliance" will be universally obeyed m.iine ftnilKt fill Figures printed by ' the Daily Graohic purport to show that it the fir.! alliance" strike should ac- ta11v result and should last three ,et it will result in 8.000,000 per sons being thrown put of employ ment. Another result, ot sucn a strike. , it is said, would be that the national census, fixed for next week, would be postponed. . U. S. Blamed for Japanese - Intervention in Siberia Peking. April 14. American re sponsibility for the presence of Japa .c in mheria has been-intimated ta a memorandum sent to Washington by the government ot tne tar eastern republic, at Chita. The memoran- dum asked wnetner mc the allies' intervention m Sibem have been attained and when it will end definitely. Sir Arthur, Vickars Shot . To Death and Home Burned Dublin, April-14. (By The Asso ciated Tress.) Sir Arthur Edward Vickars, former Ulster king-of-arms, was" shot dead this morning at Llstowel and his residence was burned. , Hungarian Premier Resigns London, April T4. A dispatch to the London Times from Vienna, says that Paul Teleke. Hungarian premier, has resigned, owing to dissatisfaction of his conduct during the visit to Hungary of former Emperpr Charles., Si 1171. UUK Ml iini i. was seen to hurry downstairs to an automobile waiting in the road and was whisked awav. Behind her she left a note: "Dear Roy and Guy: I'm leaving with George McDonald and we're going' cast to be happy. Roy, the war ruined your looks and Guy you. don't have a job and I Jove George, though you ve Dotn Deen goon to me. FRANCES." The two men had the old bachelor uncle bring them to Grand Island. Both restlessly paced the platform of the Union Pacific depot until the first Union Pacific train went east. Yates went into the smoking room j and sat down, sobbing. ! Yates and McCracken say Mc- j Donald had been a Northwestern J passenger brakeman who, ''both in i Chicago and Milwaukee, had shown! much attention to Frances. The two men took the train east in the hope ; lion and the remainder is from fees, of locating the girl. . The university is given an increase "I want Yates to have her, she's of $746,000, making a total of $6, really his," said McCracken. 1 171,000. This includes $360,000 for a -Prior to her advent into the job: memorial gymnasium to be con- as restaurant casincr ates saia nis wife had been a vaudeville actress and singer, but that an operation for topsilitis ruined further dramatic prospects. Ed Smith, her farmer, uncle for whom she has been keeping house, accompanied the young men on the train. Thev believe that the couple will motor to Milwaukee or Chicago find expect to beat them there. President and Hughes Pleased Bv French Note Regard Promise to Place Yap Question Before. Supreme . Council Forerunner to Acceptane of U. S. Terms. Chicago Tribunc-Onmlia Bee leased Wire. Washington, April 14. President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes arc encouraged over the French note in reply to the recent American note to the four principal allied powers regarding the Japanese mandate over the Pacific island of Yap. . ' ' Premier Briand's promise to place the Yap question before the supreme council at its next meeting, Wash ington regards as a forerunner of acceptance by France of the principle laid down by the United States that it has not surrendered and, cannot - iFCTW - "t?t afty i,s rigl,U ;iti.' former Gentian overseas possessions, lite trench note, however, may mean delay in the formulation ot the treaty program by the United States which is to follow adoption of the knox resolution ending the technical state of war with the central powers. Although President Harding hopes to be able to submit to the senate a revised form of the. Vcj sailles treaty, stripped of all provision, which inter fere with American rights ami inter ests, he cannot do it unless the allies will recognize the rights' of the United States in the German over seas possessions as described in Sec retary Hughes' note dispatched to the powers last week. France now says that the American note cannot be finally answered un til the supreme council meets. The reason assigned is that the powers, in acting on the Yap mandate, did so jointly and that a revision or re versal of their action sought by the United States must necessarily be considered jointly. Washington offi cials recognize that there is strength to this position and that it would be unbecoming of France to come out openly at 'this time in recognition of the- American- principle before it had consulted with Great Britain, Italy and Japan. Mexico Will Hold Up All Oil Concessions . Mexico City, April 14. Permits for the exploration and exploitation of petroleum lands in. Mexico will be withheld by the Department of Commerce and Industry until Article Twenty-seven of the constitution, governing sub soil 'rights in this country, is given official interpreta tion, it was declared by Rafael Zu baran Capmany, head of that depart ment last night. He added that eon tracts made in violation of this rul ing would not be respected. Extensive concessions granted Jose Y. Limantour, secretary of the treas ury during the administration of I'orfurio .Diaz, have been nullified and plans have been completed for their return to the government, it was officially announced last night. Ex-Police Court Clerk Held As Embezzler Acquitted Los Angeles, AdHI 14. Clvde Johnston, former clerk of the Los Angeles City police co'urt was ac quitted by a jury in superior court last night of the alleged embezzle ment of $30,000 of bail money de posited in the police court. ' I he police court safe was found open several months ago with the money missing. Johnston reported it as a case of burglary. The prose cution tried to prove he had "staged" the safe opening to cover an alleged shortage in his accounts. Spanish Communists Quit Congress of Socialists Madrid, April 14. Communist delegates to the Spanish socialist congress, in session here, announced their secession from the . organiza tion early this morning, following a vote which rejected a proposition that the party declare its adhesion to the third international of Mos cow. , ' - 1 The vote stood 8,808 'in .favor of a reconstruction of the party and 6,025 in favor of the intcrnationale. OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1921. Financial Bill RoAdv J E lations for Biennium Increased $1,360,000 Over House Measure Com mitee Completes Work. Uni. Gets More Money Lincoln, April 14. (Special.) Carrying a total of $22,860,000, an in crease of $1,360,000 as provided for in the house, the general appropria tions bill for the coming biennium will be icported out by the senate finance committee tomorrow. Of the total amount provided for in the general appropriation bill about $17,000,000 is raised by taxa structcd at the city campus in honor of the Nebraska soldiers who died in the w orld war". The appropriation is conditioned upon a like amount be ing raised by the citizens of Ne braska. The house struck this pro vision from the bill when it was be fore the lower branch for considera tion. Increase Uni Fund. On a showing by the university authorities that the appropriations for salaries and maintenance as triiqmed down by the house would not meet current expenses, more es pecially since a recent senate resolu tion cut out all incidental fees charged to certain registrants, the senate committee increased this fund by $300,000. The senate added a new item oi $75,000 to establish a trade school for disabled soldiers who have to be sent out of the state under the present conditions. The federal government pays the expenses of maintaining this school. Agricultural extension is boosted $25,000. The $300,000 for thenew state re formatory, originally in the general appropriation bill, has been trans ferred to H. R. 622, the emerg ency bill, to make it available before tfi.e general appropriations can be used at .the beginning of the fiscal year in July. This is a board of control item. Increases Are Granted. The senate committee added $80, 000 to the board's appropriations, which now total $4,008,300. The house appropriation of $3,000 for the York reformatory - is increased to $40,000; the Burkett Soldiers Home hospital from $100,000 to $150,000, and the -Norfolk hospital kitchen' from $25,000 to $35,000. The normal board is given an additional $190,000, bringing the total up to $1,375,000. , The $75,000 originally assigned by the house to the department of pub lic welfare for law enforcement is transferred to the governor, whose (Tarn to rage Two. Column Fonr.) Amount of Liquor to Be Given on Prescription Left Up to Physician New York', April 14. Federal prohibition directors were advised by their superiors in Washington that hereafter physicians . prescribing wines will not be limited to one pint in 10' days. ' This announcement was made by Director C. R. 0'Connorv who stated that this interpretation had been placed on the ruling of Former At torney General Palmer, that vinous liquors should be removed from re strictions governing the prescribing of whisky for medicinal purposes. "Thus it will be seen," Director O'Connor said, "that the quantity to be prescribed is placed in the sound discretion of the physician, who should use extraordinary care not to abuse this right." Reparation Obligations to Be 150 Billion Marks 'Paris, April 14. Germany's obli gation to the allies will be fixed at between 130,000,000,000 and 150,000, 000,000 gold marks by the allied re paration commission, says the Echo de Paris. The newspaper adds the exact figure will depend upon the so lution of certain questions still being considered. In case Germany resists settlement, the newspaper declares, it is accepted by the allies that France will recall two classes of recruits to the colors and proceed to occupy the Ruhr basin. This district includes the most important coal mines and industrial plants in western Germany. Two Soldiers Confess to Attack on Civilian Nurse Tacoma, Wash., April 14. Lau rence Bogart and Everett Impyn, soldiers at Camp Lewis, confessed today to an assault Monday night upon a civilian nurse, camp officials announced. The men will be turned over to tederal authorities, it was said. Penalty for the offense under federal statutes is death by hanging. Flour Reaches LoAvest Mark For Almost Seven Years Minneapolis, Minn., April 14. For the first time in almost seven years, flour sold under $8 a barrel at the mills here today. One of the large mills reduced its quotation for family patents from $8.20 to $7.90. Today's range for family patents was $7.908.15 when sold in car lots in 98 pound cotton sacks. July Wheat Sells Below $1 For First Time Since 1916 Kansas City, Mo.,, April 14. Wheat for July delivery sold below a dollar a bushel today for the first time since 1916. Today's closing price was 98 cents, a drop of 21-4 cents since yesterday , . riatei r Germany's Doom Was Sealed at 5 o'Clock On Wednesday Afternoon, Jan. 31, 1917, Says Daniels in Story pf Navy in War A rallar at tha Stata department In th lata afternoon ot January Si, ill?, Harli thlnva happening, and Washtntton la never the earns again Former Secretary Dan tela foreshadow s atartllnc disclosures aa narrative of navy a part in war Ia written Reveals eec-ret document discovered alnce armlatlce In which Uermany'a decision to launch U-boat campaign la shown to data from December, 11, and the possibility of American Intervention Is discounted Daniels telle for flret time how detailed plan for mobilization of United States navy was Issued to all ships and stations at the very hour when tha German submarines began their wanton assault on civilisation Former secretary acted without waiting for cabinet meeting When president sum moned him the navy was ready. BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS. Former Secretary of the Navy 1913 to 1921. Copyright. 19!1. by John F. Dllle. Copyright hy National wiper Service Copyright In (ireat Britain, Canada and throughout Europe. All rights reserved. In cluding transition Into foreign language. Including the Scandinavian. Authorized reprinting for any purpose forbidden. ARTICLE I.- About 5 o'clock on the afternoon on Wednesday. January 31, 1917, a dapper ltitle man presented himself at the office of the secretary of state. From the moment life was never, the same again in Washington. Events, incidents and episodes of tremendous importance and public in terest occurred in the navy department, as in all other departments, until the day when certain commissioners from Berlin signed their names to a document which Marshal FocW presented to them in the forest of Senlis. As secretary of the navy I lived through those crowded months in the atmosphere of suppressed excite ment which is inseparable from the capital of a great nation at war. A Inend recently asked me my im pression of eight years as secretary of the navy. 1 replied: "Four yean of quiet then h on all sides, to make' Sherman's expression nauti cal." Department heads, upon whose prompt and efficient action tremen dous interests depended, had to keep their own heads amid the rumor and intrigue, criticism and conflict of ad vice which wispcr'ed or thundred in their ears. They had to keep their heads through days and nights of anxiety, when they were sending precious lives over 'seas of peril and into enterprises of danger. They had to keep their heads when sud den emergency demanded instant de cision and action. Gives Inside Facts. I am going to tell the story of those thrilling days as we saw. .and lived them in the Navy de partment, and present somethings that have never yet been told about the part the navy played. I want you to know certain in side facts concerning the message which that dapper little man car ried to the State department, whereby he jolted Washington out of its routine, and I am going to give you a view of the momentous cabinet meetings which followed his visit. I shall tell you the story of a certain "S. W. Davidson," who went to London before the United States declared war, and of the conversation I had with him before he left. You will recall the dispatches you read three years ago concerning the giant German gun which, from a re- Third Man Held For Robbery of Bridge Tollman State Agents aud Deputy Sheriff From Bluffs Nab Suspect in Sioux City -Identifies Man. Charles Anderson of Sioux City is held in the county jail at Council Bluffs as the third man implicated in the robbery of Charles Vander loo, tollman on the Douglas street bridge, on the night of April 2. His hearing is set for April 21, his bond is fixed at $2,500 and he is charged with robbery with aggravation. Harry Bolden, shot by Vanderloo as the bandits were making theif escape from the bridge, and Mickey Brienzo, alleged driver of the car, who was arrested later in Sioux City as an accomplice, are the other two men held for the crime. Bold en is in the county jail and Brienzo is out on bond. " Bolden -and Anderson have been identified by Vanderloo as the' two men who walked into the tollhouse and held him up. He engaged in a gun battle -vith thcin as they ran towards their automobile and hit Bolden. The wounded bandit later was left at a Missouri Valley drug store by his companions and was arrested, by Sheriff Walter Milli man. A few days later State Agent O. O. Rock and Sheriff William Grbne weg of Council Bluffs brought Mickey Brienzo to the Bluffs from Sioux City on the charge of being an accomplice. .H is believed to be the third bandit who drove the car for the two gunmen, but did not leave the wheel during the rob bery. ',:.' State Agent Long and Deputy Sheriff Gillaspy have spent the last 10 days in Sioux City, working on this case. Their investigation final ly resulted in the arrest of Ander son, who was identified by Van derloo as the second gunman. Belligerents Fire on U. S. Hospital Unit in Asia Minor Constantinople, Afiril ' 14. Skir mishing is going -on between. Turks and Greeks in the Bardizag region of Asia Minor, where it is reported neither of the combatants is respect ing the American flag hoisted over the Near East Relief stations, shots havincr been fired at the American Women's hospital unit of Mrs. Mabel Nickerson. Miss Bernice Everett, of the Wel lesley college unit, has been cut off in Brusa, .although the orphans in her care have been transferred fro'm that place to Bardizag. Five Irish Policemen Are Ambushed by Fedamore Mob Dublin, April 14. Five policemen were ambushed last night at Feda more, County Limerick, one of them being killed and four wounded. A Sinn Fein shoe factory here which was used as an assembling shop for bombs, was raided last night and two persons in it were ar rested, By Mstl 1 tr. titles 4th Km. Only sne 8uiH, $: Dally Only. M: . 4 C-mUIOs 4th Zm (I f). Dally as Suitfty, tit; Dally Oily. li: uada Oaly. t mote distance and a carefully con cealed base, was killing women and children in Paris. You will remem ber the shock of horror you felt when you read how shells had fallen in the little church of St. Gervaise on Good Friday, 1918, turning the sacred prccints into a hideous sham bles. Do you know that the United States played a part in ending the bombardment of Paris? It will in terest you to learn how our navy contributed to the reicf of the shell shaken French capital. Nation with Child's Heart. And I will tell you a joyful tale. America is yet a young nation, and it has a strong, clean child heart. That is why, perhaps, when it went to war its sailors based some of their code signals on nursery rhymes. Only a child-hearted nation would have thought of that. No German could think of such a thing, atrd in that very fact lay the usefulness of their signals. They were a part of our intelligence service. - Just what part I will tell you before my story ends. We have heard a lot about the im portance of cables lately, and a little island, about 10 miles long, in the Pacific, bearing the comic opera name of Yap, has assumed a promi nence out of all proportion to its size and commercial value merely be cause it is a convenient cable station. You would think from all this talk that cables are absolutely essential to the maintenance of world-wide com munications. Beyond doubt they are of tremendous importance, and no nation can afford to neglect its in terests in the matter of submarine telegraphs. But what would you think if I told voir that had Germany been able to sever the cables by which the United Stales was linked to London and Last Survivor of ' Famous Ride Dies Bluffs Man Was Commander Of Escort to General Phil Sheridan in War. Maj. Weidner Harvey Spcra, 87, commander of the. escort to General Phil Sheridan and sole surviving of ficer of that 'famous ride from Win chester to Cedar Qreek in the civil war, died yesterday at his horoe, 735 Madison avenue. Council Bluffs. He is survived by his widow, one son, William A. Spera; two daugh ters, Mrs. Gail Hamilton and Mrs. O. C. Arnold, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of Coun cil Bluffs. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Saturday afternoon from the home, with burial in Walnut Hill cemetery. ' ' Mr. Spera was born in Ephrata, Pa. He organized a troop of cavalry in his home county in 1861 and was comissioned captain. Later he was promoted to major and he served with the Seventeenth Pennsylvania cavalry throughout the war. He was in command of the escort which ac companied'. Sheridan on his famous rMe and he was aide-de-camp to the general during the remainder of the war. ( He became a newspaper man fol lowing the war and edited papers in Philadelphia. Harrisburg and Read ing, Pa., before coming to Council Bluffs in 1881. He has been a resi dent of the Bluffs for 40 years and was one of the best-known civil war veterans in this vicinity. ' Nine Slightly Injured " In Passenger Train Wreck ' San , Francisco, April 14. Six passengers and the conductor, brakeman and news agent were in jured slightly in a collission of two Southern Pacific San Francisco-Los Angeles passenger trains ' at La Rose, between Rosamond and Mo jave, Cal., company headquarters re ported here. The trains were travel ing at a low rate of speed and the tracks were cleared quickly after the collision. - The injured included J. Mende, Brooklyn, N. Y. Federal Agents Probing Peonage Report in Texas Dallas., Tex.. April J4 federal Department of Justice agents are in vestigating alleged violations of the peonage act in the vicinity of Big Srrines. Tex., r. M. bpencer, spe cial agent, said today. According to reports. Mr. Spencer said. Mcxi can laborers are said to have been held in chains on some west Texas ranches to prevent them leaving be fore discharging their indebtedness to land owners. German Gold Reaches N. Y. New York, April 14. Nearly $5.- 000,000 in German gold com, the first such shipment since the war, arrived here on the steamer Stock holm from Gothenburg, consigned to Kuhn, Locb and company, bank ers. The gold, mostly in marks, came from Swedish banking houses, which had accumulated it through payments for goods sent into Ger many over a period of year c; ( i 1 I j l ! I I j , . , ' 1 ; TOSEPHLTS DAK1EIS. I. Paris and American headquarters at Chaumont, we could nevertheless have communicated instantly with Lloyd' George, or Clemcnceau, or General Pershing? In like manner, although with more difficulty, we could reach every ship in the United States navy, wherever stationed, from the China sea to the Bay of Biscay. ; ' The miracle which made this pos sible was created within a few mouths after we entered the war, and its ac complishment lifted from our shoul ders one of the big anxieties which had been almost constantly present the . fear that some enemy raider or submarine might cut the cables, leaving us isolated from our soldiers in France, our allies and our fight ing squadrons in war zone waters. I want to tell you in some detail how this miracle was worked and about the great wireless station which can flash radio messages about the world. . . , Indians' "Wireless" System. The early pioneer wending his way with his wagon' train across. our western prairies saw in the smoke signals , of the Indian ; the earliest Turn to TageF We, Column Tiro)' Nomination of Two Ambassadors Given to Senate Harvey and Herrick Lead List Of Appointments Trans mitted by President Hard ing for Confirmation. Washington, April 14. Nomina tions of George Harvey, of New York, ' to be ambassador to Great Britain, and Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, to be ambassador to France, were sent to the senate today by President Harding. At the same time the president transmitted more than 30 names of men he had given temporary ap pointments while congress was in recess.; The list included the name of John J. EsCh of Wisconsin to be member of the Interstate Com merce commission, whose conhrma tion was held up by ' opposition at the last session. Among the .new nominations were: A. D. Wakon, to be United States attorney for the-District ot Wyo ming. . , . Charles D. Vons of Monte vista. Colo., to be register of the land office at Del Norte, Colo. Toseoh Montgomery, to be register of the land office at Lewiston, Mont. Albert Halen to be register of the land office at Vernal. Utah. 1 James Frederick Drake, to be reg ister of the land office at. Pueblo, Colo. . ' ; Charles . G.- Dawes . of Chicago, who served as a - brigadier general in the American Expeditionary force and recently headed .a committee which investigated , governmental re lations to service men, was r nomi nated for the rank of brigadier gen eral in the officers reserve corps. The following were nominated to be receivers of public moneys: Mrs. Oddie Lcfghurst at Vernal, Utah; William .- Ashley at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Harry R- Grier at Carson City, Nev.. and Roy Henry Fuller, at Havre. Mont. "National Hospital Day" Is Approved by President Chicago. April 14. President Harding, in a letter to M. O. Foley, executive secretary of the National Hospital Day ' committee, gave his hearty endorsement to "National Hospital Day," May 12. when 8,000 hospitals throughout the country will spread broadcast information of the true scope of hospital serv ice., '. . ' ; The Weathei Forecast. Rain and colder Friday. , Hourly Temperatures. 6 a. m St I 1 p. m ST a. m SI t p.m 3 T a. m. . SS S p. m..,. M S a..m.. Si 4 p. m A S a. m At I 5 p. m ...SS III a. m AH I A n. m M II a. m M I 7 p. m. SS " li noon 57 ' p. m 61 Shipper' Bulletin. i hipm-nts In all directions hsndUd dur- j tnr the next lila 3i bouri may. )t made safely, 1 THREE CENTS Railroad Agreements Abrogated National Compacts Defending ' Working Conditions of Employes Caucclcd by Railway Labor Board. Order Effective July I Br The Associated Trees. Chicago, April 14. National agree ments defining working conditions for employes on all American rail roads formally under the federal rail road administration were ordered . abrogated, effective July 1, by the railroad labor board. The board called on the officers and employes of each railroad to select representatives to "confer and to decide" as much of the rules con troversy as possible. "Such Confer ences shall begin at the earliest pos sible date," the decision said. The decision affected alt railroad employes except those in train serv ice, who are under separate agree ments between the railroads and the four big brotherhoods. In connection with the conference negotiations, the board . laid down a set of 16 principles which are to serve as a foundation for any rules which may be agreed to. The pres ent general rules hearing before the labor board, in progress since Janu ary 10, will continue until hoth sides have completed their testimony, fol lowing which the board "will pro mulgate such rules as it determines just and reasonable as soon after July 1 as is reasonably possible and will make them effective as of July 1." Principles Outlined. The 16 principles outlined by the board were drawn up by Henry T. Hunt of the public group and upheld the right of the employes to organ ize for lawful purposes, the right of employes to negotiate through their own representatives, the right of seniority and the principle of the 11 eight-hour day. It was specified that "eight hours work must be given for eight hours pay." It was specified that "eight hours' work must be given for eight hours' pay." Espionage should not be practiced by either side, the decision said, and employes' representatives should have the right to make an agreement applying to all employes in the craft or class of the representatives. : ' The 16 principles outlined were a follows: , "An obligation rests upon man agement, upon each organization of . employes and upon each employe to render honesi- efficient and eco nomical service to the carrier; ' "The spirit of co-operation be- , tween the management and em ployes being 'essential to efficient opeiation, both parties will so con duct themselves as to promote this spirit. ' , "Management having the respon (Tarn to rare Two, Colafon Three.) Farmers Urged to Form Strong Organization in Fight fojr New Laws Washington, D. C, " April 14. Farmers should build up an organiza tion capable of presenting facts to congress on matters affecting agri culture, Secretary Wallace declared before the conference of the Ameri can Farm Federation bureau. He "deplored" the complaint that appropriation! for agriculture are in the nature of subsidizing a class, since they are for the benefit of the farmers. Such appropriations are actually more for the benefit of the consumers than of the farmers, he said. Chairman McFadden of the house banking and currency committee, an nounced that examination of the fi nancial support of farm organiza tions, begun in the last session, would be continued. The executive committees of the National Milk Producers', association and of the National Grange met in preparation ior .the meeting tomor row of a number of farm organiza- ' tions which will endeavor to agre on a legislative program. Australian Commissioner Received at White House Washington, April 14. Mark Sheldon, high commissioner of Aus tralia, and Mrs. Sheldon were re ceived at the White House by, the president and Mrs. Harding. Mr. Sheldon's visit was under stood to be merely to pay his re spects to the president, but he is to confer tomorrow with Secretary Hughes. It was regarded as pos sible that the question of -the status of former German possessions in th Pacific might be touched on at th conference. British Deny Chalmers to Sail to U. S. to Discuss Debt London, April 14. Lord Chalm ers, permanent secretary of the treas- ury, will not sail for the United States Saturday, in connection with the British indebtedness to the United States, as reported, and no similar mission ' is being arranged, according to official circles here to day. Three Persons Rescued Beaumont, Tex., April 14. Only three of the 22 persons on board the Bowie Line steamship, Colonel Bowie, which foundered last night in the Gulf of Mexico of Tampico, have been rescued, according to a wireless from the Norwegian steam er Cissna to the Gulf Export and Transportation company, owners of the vessel. Promicut Pbysician Dies Ann Arbor, Mich., April 14. Dr. B. G. De Nancrede, 74, prominent iurgepn, died here today, "