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THE BEE:' OMAHA, SUNDAY,' APRIL ' 17, 1921. Germany at Work On New Proposal For Reparations Reconstruction of Devastated ' Regions and Assumption of Allied Debts Fundmcntals Of Counter Proposal. BY HENRY WALES. Chirac TrtbuB-Omafc B loiri Wire. Paris, April 16. (By Wireless.) Germany is preparing new proposals for reparations which Dr. Walter Simons, the foreign minister, favors transmitting to the allies through either the Swiss or American govern ments, ine plan oeing uraucu u VVilhelmstrasse embraces two pri mary points. . 1. Reconstruction of the devastat ed regions by utilizing German labor and material, but offering extra com pensation to France for not employ ing French workmen nor using French material. 2.. Assumption of the allies war debts in lieu of payment of repara tions by effecting a great interna- Dr. Simons, who has just returned to Berlin from Switzerland, Is anxious to obtain the consent or President Harding to mediate with the allies to prevent the French from beginning military operations against Germany on May 1. ' Dr. Simons wants an intermedl ary to urge the French to delay the extension of occupation until Ger many's new proposals are submitted, -but he points out that the details of the new offer cannot be complet ed until the disposition of upper Silesia is settled. Assured of Loan. " Germany reports that it has al ready been assured of the success of an international loan through the medium and guarantees of the re parations commission. The Dutch, Scandivanian, Swiss, Spanish and certain South American governments are . said to be willing vto participate in a large share of the loan, but the bigger American bank ing groups in the United States arc expected to subscribe the bulk of the necessary funds. Representa tives, of four great American bank-, ing' groups arc reported to have al ready pledged their support. ' It is reported in Paris that the United States has unofficially invited Ger many to send a diplomatic delegate to -Washington to represent Ger many when the senate acts on the separate peace resolution. AVilhelmstrassc is reported to have selected Count Montgelas as its. ' representative at Washington. He ...III Inl.rnrfl tile Herman VieWDOMlt and will be empowered to speak ou behalf of the rcichstag in discussing the projected separate peace. i French Officials Confer. v A government conference was held at the Elysee palace this rnom:. fag, when the highest t- official ot the Frenth republic discussed what operations would be undertaken if no agreement was reached with Ger many on reparations- by May 1. President Millerand, Premier Bnlnd, Barthbu, minister of war;' " M. Doumer, minister pf .finance;,,,, i. Louchcur. minister of the liberated regions; Marshals Foch and Fetam. Wigand were present. .'. , : It is rumored the military chief tains submitted plans for, occupation of the Ruhr basin and, Frankfort and an alternative plan of seizing a tine along the main server and es tablishing contact with CzechO-Slo-vakia, thereby cutting Bavaria away from Germany. ; The operations contemplate the utilization of 200,000 troops. Naval co-operation for controlling the ports rf Hamburg and Bremen are also understood to have been men tioned. . ' ' Packing House Workers ' - - In Argentina on Strike .) Buenos Aires, April 16. A general strike has been declared against the American packing house at La Blan ca", following the discharge of seve ral peons whose work had not been satisractoc. When the strike was ' called the beef workers finished the thev had Hecrun before auittintr. but the sheep dressers abandoned several hundred ' carcasses as they were.i There are 2,000 steers in the yards awaiting disposal. They must be fed and watered and it will prob ably be necessary to enlist the office stiff to do this work. wrl ir;iuj i, Small : n VlUMU 1UUI.II UJ wv. - ' f Playing With Revolver three Rivers, Quebec, April 16.- The 8-year-old son of Mrs. Aimee Bilodcau picked up a revolver he saw in a store where be went shopping with his mother. Unaware that it , was loaded, he pointed it at her and pulled the trigger. She was instant Iy killed. High Pressure Salesman . Found Guilty of Forgery "Onawa, la., April IC.'-George P. (Alfalfa) Johnson, high pressure stock salesman and promoter of the defunct $4,000,000 Alfalfa & Cereal Milling company of Sioux City, was found guilty of the charge of forgery in connection with the affairs of the concern. Police Drive to Make mew York City. "Dry" Floods Court Dockets -New York, April 16. The police campaign to wean New York away frjpm spirituous libations, as pre scribed in the state's new bone-dry Istf, began to assume far-reaching ramifications. ,leeardless of the fact that ap nreximatelv 650 arrests have been made withm the last week ind that grind juries have returned only 70 mtjictments. resulting in clogging the . ttockets and crowding jails, the 00- Wefc continued. to bring in alleged ; violators of the liquor laws rounded u in-raids on bar shops, grocery stores, private homes and other pbkes, which aroused official sus picion by means other tnan swing me doors. ,lTo alleviate this eongrestion and to crease the wheels of enforce tr.ent machinery. Assistant District Attorney Unger announced his in tention of asking for the appoint - went of two additional grand juries tm- devote their undivided attention ta. liquor cases. They Paste "Say, girls, are my eyelashes on straight ?" This question will, ac cording to well informed stylists, shortly become as commonplace as "is there any powder on my nose?" In many cases, the ultra-fashionable girls sav. Mother Nature failed to provide eyelashes long enough to furnish that mystic, alluring setting which milady covets for her big blue eyes. And so many beauty parlors are manufacturing eyelashes to make up for her deficiency. With a tiny speck of glue they can be affixed to the eyelid ao that the long, velvety "lashes", of pin feathers interweave with those provided by Mother Mature, shown pasting on her "eyelashes." . Western Union Cable Fight in Supreme Court j. Attorneys Deny Landing of Line Upon U. S. Territory Constituted "Physical Encroachment." Washington. April 16. The government-contention that a cable con- rcction constituted a "physical en croachment" upon the territory of the United States was ridiculed by counsel for the Western Union Tele graph company, in opposing before the supreme court, the appeal from lower court decisions refusing to enjoin the company from landing 4he Miami end of the Barbados- Brazil cable. , "The government's argument is that there may be an effectual in vasion by an alien invader over the wires of the domestic company," Rush Taggart, attorney for the company, said. "There is no phys-, ical connection save by messages, over the wire, which are commerce, It is only through imagination, the approach of a peacaful. unarmed cable ship - presents the wrinkled front of war." . Interference by President Wilson and his cabinet with the cable land ing was declared to have been utter ly without legal sanction. 5 . . Solicitor General Frierson, con cluding the government's case, said cable landing permits in SO years had, almost without exception, con tained a proviso against monopolis tic concessions such as was alleged to be contemplated by the Western Union's connection with the British Brazilian lines. Should cabinet of ficers be prevented from enforcing such a . requirement, he said, the government would be powerless to prevent that company from accom plishing its purpose except by cut ting the existing cables." Neola Man Killed in Air ; ' Accident at Washington Atlantic, la.,. April 16. (Special Telegram.) Lieut. James. Langin. son ot J. JU. JLangm ana wue oi k killed in an airnlane ac cident at Washington. The body will arrive-here' Sunday for burial. Lieu tenant Langin was 24 years ot age and was raised in Neola. He was a graduate' of the Neola High schoo' and entered the aviation service dur- inor the war. His oarents are Pio neers of the Neola community and lived on a farm new.- there for many years. . Lad Who Led Officer on Merry Chase Held hy Judge Walter Moore, 11, 2506 Decatur street, ed D. W. Miller, juvenne court officer, a merry chase through Rivcrview park and the bottoms t n day before he was caught and lodged in Riverview home. Yesterday Judge Sears put waiter and his Dal. Gale Eledge, 13. 913J4 North Thirteenth street, where they - couldn t run away again m the Kearney Industrial home. The boys stole bicycles in council Bluffs and rode, them to Omaha. Walter ran awav from the Ktver- view home last October, toor when committed there for his first offense. Six Negroes Are Arrested On Counterfeiting Charge Washineton. Aoril 16. Six ne groes, the eldest 21 years old and the youngest 14. are held here in connec lion. with an unusual counterfeiting scheme. Thev are said to have ob tamed several hundred dollars on spurious notes originally of $1 de nomination which were raised by pasting on them the corners of $20 and $10 condemned notes turned into the treasury, to be destroyed. Secret service agents are seeking a man said to be the author of the scheme. Steamships ArriTmU. New TorU, April 15. Frnc. Mvr. Karaakt, April 11. Royal Arrow, Ban yrancisno. - Manila. April 11. Croai Kcy.r Battl. Hon Kane, April II Dtuiala, San FrannUPO. ' Yokohama, April IS. .Wait Jaaaup, Seattle. 8hanrhal, April is. Newport, Portland, nrpmrtarn. Yokohama, April is. Coaxet, Portland. iwuiia, apiu 4-iaacaet. Baa Jrraa claco. 'Em Oh Now in tne pnotograpn a young way is 'Red the Rough' Making Love at Time of Rum Deal Courting Here When Cana dian Swindle Negotiated Bart Williams Alibi in U. S. Court. Details of a romance in Omaha last fall were narrated in federal court yesterday io defense of one of the four men for whose extradition on orgery and robbery charges the Canadian government is fighting. Bart Williams, alias "Red the Rough," is one of the four men hejd on Canadian warrants. The warrants charge him with im plication in the alleged robbery of 65 cAses of liquor and the alleged forgery of $60,000 worth of checks, with three comnanions, in Canada on November 22. Williams, according to testimony of, Edward Humple, living two miles south of the Douglas-Sarpy county line, was in the throes of a romance with Miss Bessie Wade last fall. Miss Wade, a pretty divorcee, for merly Mrs. Arthur West, made her home with the Humple family at that time, he testified. On her birthday, November 21, the night before the alleged crimes with which Williams is charged were com mitted in Canada, Williams was at the Humple home and gave Miss Wade a cameo pin as a present, the Sarpy man testified. , The pin, according to testimony of clerks in the Frenzer jewelry store in Omaha, was purchased, by Williams November 12, nine days be fore the iirthday anniversary. , Wiley Compton, Axel L. Pearson and Jack Howard, alias J. B. Shel ton. are the three men held with Williams on the Canadian warrants. She Shows Marriage Papers, Not Common Law Wife . Mrs. Jennie Schuler, 1911 Cuming street, flashed a new marriage cer tificate before the eyes of Judge Sears in juvenile court yesterday in answer to her divorced husband's charge she was Edward Campbell'3 common law wife. "We were married . early N this morning by Judge Holmes," '. sha said. "We intended to marry , May 1, anyway." Her. former husband, Herman Schuler, steeplejack, living at 171 S Chicago street, brought charges that the woman's home was not the proper place for their four children, whose custody she was granted over a year ago.' , , Judge Sears postponed deciston with reference to the children. Notorious Crook Sought in Murder at Stuart Bank Des Moines, la., April 16 (Spe cial Telegram.) Police here an nounced today that recent discover ies made' in connection with, the Stuart (la.) bank robbeny and the murder of Marshal Myers had Im plicated Earl LavaHier, notorious yeggman and bank robber, for whom a nation-wide search has been start ed. The finding of a black bag in a station locker here with some of the Stuart loot is thought to have fur nished the clue. - . . Footpads Listen to Plea After Taking Man's Money Two men 'forced S. V. Strong of fhWarn into an automobile on the Tenth street viaduct at the point of revolvers Friday night, he reporteu to the police, and drove with him to Seventh and Leavenworth streets where thav robbed him of $59.50. The men were dissuaded from binding and gagging him and leaving him lie there, Mrong saia. inrougn his earnest pleadings that they couU have his money if they'd let mm go. Army Orders. w..hm,lnn Anrtl 11). (Sprlal Tl- .r. .n t n rilr.i-tlnn nf ths prealdant, court of inquiry, a hereinafter conatltuted, 1 appotntsd to -mart at the headquartera, Ft. Crook, Nab.. t uch time aa tfca aan lor membtr dlreota, to ronaldar na- la I tv rnnnartlnn With the ClaiWlf IcatlOO of officer under tha proviaiont of Section KB ot tha national drfenee.ae aa amend ed by art of conareeg, approved Jan 4. Hit. Metnberi of tho court followj Col.' Leroy 8. Upton, general ataff; Col, William Naylor, aeneral etuff; I.lout. Col. H. B. Myer. general ataff: Lieut, Col. Claude 8. Frlea, general ataff. re corder; Maj. Thomaa S. Hayea, ordinance department. Dr. M. J. Baakln haa been appointed penalon aurgeon of Alliance, Neb., and Dr. C, H, Ultchall ot Lion. la. Recommendations Are Adopted by Women Voters Question of Election Laws and Primary Methods Only One to Be Passed Upon, t Cleveland, April 15. Delegates to the second annual convention of the National League of Women Voters practically wound up the business of the week's meeting here Friday by the adoption of the recommendations of the seven standing committees American citizenship, child welfare, election laws and methods, food sup ply and demand, social hygiene, uni form laws concerning women and women in industry. The convention adopted a resolu tion thanking former President Wil son for his timely assistance in se curing the special session in Tennes see" at which suffrage was finally ratified. A resolution by Mrs. Catt urging congress to make August 26, the day women were given enfranchisement, a federal holiday was unanimously adopted'. The Towner-House bill, providing federal standardization of schools and a section of the American citi zenship committee report was debat ed at some length. The principles of the bill were adopted but the convention voted to refer the bill to the national board of directors for final action. Section three of the American citi zenship report provides that Eng lish shall be made the national lan guage by making it compulsory in all public and private schools where courses in general education are con ducted. An amendment providing that only a course of English be compulsory was defeated. A plank in the recommendations of the food supply and demand com mittee recommending that railroads take over stock yards was eliminated from the report by the chairman, Mrs. Edward P. Costigan of Chi cago. Art Hammerstein And His Wife Are Seeking Divorce New York, April 16. Arthur Hammerstein, theatrical producer, and his wife, whose stage name is Claire Nagel, are living apart, ac cording to reports here today. Mr. Hammerstein has retained an attorney to represent him in any ac tion wnich may be decided upon, he admitted today. It is understood that the couple have not been living together for two months. . Mrs. Hammerstein returned to the stage in "Tickle Me". I recently. Her husband was quoted at the time as saying that he ap proved, of her step. . Mrs. Hammerstein could not be located today. World War Veterans 1 With Machine Guns To Hunt Rum Runners Detroit, April 16. Border patrols to check the international liquor traffic, composed of overseas veterans equipped with machine guns, power ful searchlights and a high-powered speed boat will be organized at once, Sheriff Irving Coffin announced to day. . An intensive campaign against rum runners in which police of river villages and the sheriff's force will co-operate will be started immediate ly and continued throughout' the summer, he said. Appropriations for a speed boat and searchlights will be asked by Sheriff Coffin at the next meeting of the board of county auditors. . A machine gun will be requistioned from the Detroit police department. Bruno Kiser and Harry Chamber lain, who served in France as ma chine gunners, have been selected to man the patrol gun, Thirty-five mem bers of the sheriff's' force are over seas veterans and all will be ordered to patrol duty, he said. Little Change Noted In Irish Conditions .j, - Dublin, April 16 No change m the general situation in Ireland has been revealed durinj? the last week, says the official weekly review. Mu ders of policemen decreased to four last week, as compared with eight the previous week, while military casualties increased. The total casualties to the crown forces num bered 26. i Trotter Sold for $6,000 By Omaha Woman Owner During the week there , were 25 ambushes, six attacks on police bar racks, three assassinations and seven murders of civilians, attributed to Sinn Feiners. There were seven at tempted murders, 35 raids , on the mails, and 66 arrests for outrages and political offenses. Sixty persons were interned and 1555 -released, leaving 2,596 interned. ; Captain Eugene, undefeated trot ter, wh has six races to his credit, has been sold by Mrs. O. M. Sm?th of Omaha to a Mr. Russell of Den ver for $6,000,. Mrs. Smith announced yesterday. - Mrs. Smith claims to be the only owner of an undefeated horse to make such a sale. She declared Captain Eugene will be left by his new owner in the Omaha barns, at least until the racing season opens. South Side Brevities Cigar and clgarett t a value of 1109 were atolen from the cigar atora f P. J. Trainer, !0S Q atraot. Friday night. Wanted, efflca ar eNnographlo work, either temporary or permanent. Wroy Tlbbita, 4111 8oulh Twanty-aeeond, atraet. To let, May lit. atora room. 4701 . 84th St., Ir. one of tha beet retail loca tiona on South Side. Rent reasonable, Al 1 Bergquiat Adv. Two baby evergreen tree. worth $4. were atolen from the nursery aalea yard cf W. J. Kyan, 2820 North Twenty-second treet, at 2416 O atreat, according to Bouth Bid police reooru. ' Railway Situation Is Key To Revival of Business President Harding and Cabinet Members Discuss Measures to Get Industry Back to Normal Basis Executives Say Abrogation of National Agreements is Big Victory. Washington, April 16.President Harding and the cabinet discussed measures to get business of the sountry going again and came to the conclusion that the key to business revival is the railroad situation. Every phase of business depression was considered and agreement was unanimous that the railroad problem was at the bottom of business ills. How the government can help wa the text of the cabinet discussion, but no announcement concerning remedies was made. To get business traffic moving at normal again, it was agreed, would result in a general resumption of business. To do this will be the government's aim, but how to help has not been definitely outlined. i In administration quarters the de cision of the United States raiiroad labor board abrogating national agreements covering working condi tions and hours of service of ailroad employes was regarded as certain to have an important bearing on a solu tion of railroad troubles. . Executives Claim Victory. From the viewpoint of representa tives of the railway managements in Washington the decision was a de cided victory for them in that it put the stamp of approval on (their con tentions , that they should not be bound by such national agreements. From the viewpoint that the board's decision included a number of prin ciples advocated by representatives of the labor union, the findings of the board were in part a compro mise, , . The national agreements will be terminated July 1 under , the order of the .board and . were nego tiated with representatives of the organizations of railway employes which are affiliated with the Ameri can Federation of Labor. The agree ments did not apply to the four big brotherhoods of railroad employes. The big four brotherhoods were not parties1 to the controversy before the labor board and now have under way negotiations with the railroads for new regional agreements. Paves Way for Seductions. In view of the fact that the rail road executives, in asking 'the board last January to abrogate the national agreements, immediately estimated that a saving of $300,000,000 annually could be effected in the wage bill if the agreements were terminated, it is believed, that the decision paves the way for a reduction in operating expenses. As new rules must now be formu lated, however, it is pointed out that it is not a settled fact that ali of the $300,000,000 can be saved, as was pre dieted when the executives asked that they be relieved from the conditions imposed by the agreements. The new rights to be agreed upon, how ever, will not be national in applica tion. This was the princial objec tion to the 'existing agreement under which the railroads contended great waste resulted because the standardized rules were not applic able to particular conditions on dif ferent roads. Machinery Prices Cut Battlte Creek, Mich., April 16. The Advance Rumley Thresher company announced a 10 per cent re duction in the price of all farm machinery it manufactures. The cut was made possible, it was saids by the recent reduction in steel prices. TT T.TD) TjJ has fought for clean, V iiU- honest and efficient city government- in Omaha for twenty years. arid capable public service in every public office he has filled. - WIRE as city commissioner May 3d. Vote for URE Emergency Tariff Bill Is Passed bv House, 269 to 112 Fifteen . Democrats Join Re publicans in Support of Emergency and Ami Dumping Measure. Tlf Tba Asaociatfd Prrsa. Washington, April .Republi can leaders, supported by all except eight of their party and'by IS demo crats, pushed the Young emergency tariff and anti-dumping bill through the house late Friday. The vote was 269 to 112, with two members voting present. Passage of the measure came at the end of a stormy session, during which a handful of democrats aided by a few republicans, had harassed the leaders of the republican side persistently for more than four hours. Charges that the republicans had bowed to the "dictation of the senate" were hurled not only by Representative Garrett, Tennessee, acting democratic . leader, but by Representative Newton of Tennes-J see ana Representative Lu;e, Aias sausetts, both republicans. No Changes Acceptable. Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee, precipitated the charges of senate dictation when he declared the senate would accept no changes in the bill as it was passed last session, not so much as "a crossing of a 't' or the dotting of an V." "Those are instructions," he added. Mr.. Newton, who had the floor, retorted that he would not "sur render iudement and intelligence both" on a "question on which hel felt he was right, senate orders not withstanding." . ,'T don't propose to have the house accept the dictation of the other body," lie exclaimed. Opportunity is knocking Read Bee Want Ads. , . . has given Qmaha honorable, faithful will repeat that rec ord when re-elected Depositors of Defunct North Dakota Banks Will Be Reimbursed, Bismarck, N. D., April 16. The state guaranty -fund commission de cided to " reimburse depositors of banks which have been closed in North Dakota, due to depleted re serves, when funds are available. The commission will pay according to the order of the closing of the banks, the first to benefit being the Tollcy State bank. Deposits in (hat bank at the time of closing last fall, amounted to about $350,000, which is approximately the sum available to the commission at present. Forty-four state and national banks have been closed in the state since last fall. A number have reopened. Samuel Gompers to Wed New York City Woman New York, April 1. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, authorized the announcement of his engagement to Mrs. Gertrude Cleaves Neuscheler of this city. The marriage will take place in the near future. Mr. Gompers, who is 71. lost his first wife through death a year ago. He is the father of six chitdren and has several grandchildren. Mrs. Neuscheler; who is 38, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. -Thomas J. Gleaves of Zanesville, O. Woman's Case Amazes Omaha A business man's wife suffered for two years with sore, watery eyes, which pained day and night. Final ly she tried simple camphor, hydras tis, witchhazel, etc., as mixed - in Lavoptik eye wash. This helped her AT ONCE. Another lady re- , ports "it leaves eyes cool and fresh." One small bottle Lavoptik usually helps ANY CASE weak, strained or inflamed eves. 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