The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 60 NO. 264.
GolombiannJRail WaH
Pact Passed
By Senate
Treaty Providing for Pay
ment of $25,000,000 to South
American Republic Rati. '
ficd After Long Fight.
Harding's Power Shown
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chleag Trlbnae-Oaukti Be LeaMd Wire.
' Washington, Aprili 20. The
Colombian treaty, a bitterly con
" tested issue in American politics for
nearly a . dccude. was ratified in
" amended form by the senate today,
by a vote of 69 to 19, 10 more votes
in the affirmative than the requisite
two-thirds.
To "remove all the misunder
standings" between the two nations
growing out of the secession of Pan
-4111.L ' illlU UUlllCUiaiC IClUKUllllMI
thereof by President Roosevelt, the
United States, under the trtaty, is
to pay $25,000,000 and grant valuable
canal privileges to Colombia and
Colombia is to artfcgnize Panama
and the boundary line laid down in
the pact. The apology to Colombia,
whick was m the treaty negotiated
by Bryan, was stricken out, though
Kooscvclt defenders continued to de
nounce the money payment as con
fession of guilt and a yielding to
blackmail.
' i Victory for Administration.
1 he action of the senate i was a
sweeping' victory for the Harding
administration in its first real test of
strength. It was accomplished in
the fac of sharp party revolt through
an alliance of the administration
forces who have for yven years
been contending that reparation
must be made to Colombia for con-'
duct in the acquisition of the canal
zone. " '
The new administration's power
ful grip on the senate was empha
sized all the more, forcibly - by the
fact that hardly a republican could
' be - found who was not at heart
. against the maty. . Many of them
frankly declared their opposition, but
supported the pact because they
were not .willing to bolt on, so im
portant an issue at the very outset of
the new administration. .
Fifteen republicans and four demo
crats constituted the opposition when
the votes were counted.. Two more
senators, a republican and a demo
crat, were placed against it, so that
21 senators would have, been record
ed in negative had all been present,
v Amendments Beaten.
The administration I iorces 'aided
byr thtf. 'democrat" iweY strong
enough to resist successfully every
insurgent atttmpt to modify the pact,
although several amendments came
: perilously near adoption.4.- ; . ;
The republican ranks were thrown
into considerable confusion when
Senator Borah of Idaho proposed
an amendment which provided, in
effect, that-nothing contained in 'the
treaty should be regarded as a con
fession of wrongdoing- by Theodore
Roosevelt in the acquisition of the
canal zo'ue. Republicans found it
difficult to. vote against the amend-
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democrats supporting it almost to a
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Pil Ereann Denies
Dublin Castle Review
Of General Conditions
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h:Vfana today issued a lengthy state-
weekly -review of the general situa
tion tn Ireland, issued by Dublin
Castle, April' IS, which outlined the
num'.ier of casualties, ambuscades.
attacks on police barracks, assassina-
tiuiia ana murucrs oi civilians attriou
ted to Sinn Fciners.
i"Thc inaccuracy of the official
communiquc,"-says the statement, "is
obvious even td" those least acquaint
ed with- risb conditions. It does'not
mention the war in Ireland, waged
with merciless barbarity by the crown
forces." -.. .- ' .
Under, the heading "estimate of
total disfrcss," the Dail Eireann gives
a tabulation of the cases of unemployment,-
distress and povertv in Ire
land, wir!iagrandotal of 751,339.
Three Held in Gigantic
v ' Movie Theater Fraud
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v.vcinQ, jpru -u. jn mves- i
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ligation i started by threats.
com
plaints and protests received ; by
mpvie film -exchanges in the United
States has resulted in the discovery
of a plot to defraud theater managers
throughout South; America and Mex
;ce of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, police and postoffice officials an
nounced today; ; - ' ".
Twto, Spaniards and an Argentinian,
held pending . investigation of the
thefts of a number of valuable films,
are charged with using the mails to
defraud.
Numerous checks from South
American and Mexican theater man
agers in payment, for films which,
it is alleged, were not shipped, were
seized..-'; - ' - ' '
11 German Communists Are
, Sentenced for Plotting
Berlin,; .jpril 20. Eleven com
munists j conyicted of having mad:
the recent attempt to blow up the
Victory monument in the Koenigs
plati were today sentenced to long
terms of imprisonment in the peni
tentiary. The evidence,, implicated
Max Hoela." one of the- alleged lea.t
ers of thecommunist uprising -in
middle Germany, who was arrested
tn Berlin April 15. .
IIeTl "Talheimer, .editor" of the
Tote Fahene iRt
of the communists,, :'s been placed
under arrest. . - .. . , .
(ntme
Omth P.
W. ess
A. B. Allen of Tecumsch, who has
been recommended by the Nebraska
delegation in congress to President
Harding for appointment as collector
of internal revenue at Omaha. -
Film Exchanges'
Policy Sustained
By Federal Court
Judge Woodrough ; Finds for
Defendants Who Refused
Pictures to Chain of Ne
, braska Theaters.
. New York attorneys won a decision
over Omaha barristers yesterday in
federal court , and simultaneously
brought to an end the $750,000 dam
age suit filed by Charles G. Binderup,
tormer owner .ot a chain of motion
picture theaters, against half a dozen
film exchanges and the Omaha Film
Board of 1 rade.
Federal Judge J. W. Woodrough
took the case into his own hands at
2:30. yesterday afternoon and found
for the defendants.
The suit was filed, two years ago
under the Sfeertnn antitrust act. -
Binderup charged the Pathe, Vita-
fraph; Fjrj JationaU .Univejasl,
arnous Flayers-Lasky and members
of the Omaha Film Board of Trade
with restraint of trade in. that they
refused to sell him motion pictures.
V. Hearing of the case took up the
past three days in federal court.
The ablest' of attorneys were em
ployed by the various film exchanges
to fight the case. ' Wimmial M. Sea
bury, former judge in the circuit
court of appeals in New York City,
led the defense.-::
Extreme Nationalists
Attack Communists
OvAr Tralian FWrinn !
"I
Rome, April ,20. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) Tuscany is ' the
scene of armed combats between ex
treme -nationalists ; known as the.
fascist! and communists and social
ists ver the electoral campaign.
There has been much fighting and
bands- , of ; "fascisti .. ; mountel " on
camions scour the country seeking
communists, . while the , latter ' are
staging ambushes. - .
, Fascisti raiders captured a com
munist and clubbed and shot him to
death. Later they captured several
communists 'whom they loaded on
the camions. One of the prisoners
who became troublesome was shot
and mortally wounded. They also
raided a house suspected to be. a
socialist stronghold and killed two
men who tried to escape, capturing a
thirdi. .
, Near Siena 'the' fascisti burned a
communist meeting place. Two men
were killed and a score wounded in
a battle at the gates of the town of
San Sepoloho. Fascisti at Montal
cino, attacked communist, headquar
ters, which was set on fire. Under
similar circumstances " a workman's
club at Prato was destroyed. , ,f
in i
rropuecy on oione in xwver
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Bottom Revealed by Drouth
Geneva, April 20. A severe drout!:
is prevailing in Switzerland, and the
Rhone and, Rhine rivers have dwin
dled to ; half their normal, size. At
Genthoud the stone bottorm of 'the
lake has appeared, revealing this in
scription, dated 1862,;,"When you see
me again the world will be in tears."
In Lake Thun a similar, inscription
has been revealed,-.' .
Culinary "Artist' at ;
Rummage Sale Buys '
.Genuine 'Old "' Muster?
.: Philadelphia. Pai April 20;-Dur-ing'
the ' course" of a rummage sale
here yesterday a cook who admitted
she knew a great .deal more about
culinary dainties than, art purchased
an old picture of a1 green tree on
which birds of 'many species were
perched. , ', T ,.;-? V j
On " the way ' home the cobk
stopped in an -art' shtfp, thinking she
might sell the frame. . ; ; ;
' "That picture - is a genuine ( John
James Audubort', who. you know,
was regarded as one of the most fa
mous painters-of birds in this coun
try," the salesman informed her ind
offered her ' $1.00 for it. Syhich the
woman refused. . .
."That picture stas richt on the
4 wall iu my room,". he rcpli .
(MMI - Claw Natter u n. ISM. l
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Billip sfth
Managerial Inefficiency Blam
ed in 55,000-Word Docu
ment Presented Labor
Board hy Unions.
Co-Operation is Remedy
Br The .Mtc:a(ed Prc.
Chicago, 'April 20. Wastes
ainouning to $1,000,000,000 annually
were laid to managerial inefficiency
on American railroads in a detailed
exhibit placed before the railroad
labor board today as part of union
labor's fight against a reduction of
wages. Recoverable wastes were
estimated by the employes at $578,
500,000 a year and other wastes, im
possible of estimation, would equal
that amount, it was declared.
The evidence submitted in the
55,000 word document is aimed at
the railroad's contention that the
present national agreements make
tor laoor conditions not in tne in
terest of honest., efficient and eco
nomical operation." The. employes
point out alleged wastes in the ores
cnt railroad administrations and
maintain that if those deficiencies
and defaults in management were re
dressed and repaired there would re
main no reason for attempting to re-
ouce wages. As a method of cor
recting wasteful methods and in
creasing the efficiency of employes
the exhibit advocated co-operative
effort between- management and
workers and added that this co
operation could best - be obtained
through the .medium of uniform
agreements reached by collective
bargaining.
Kecoverable aucl easily estimated
wastes were divided by the exhibit
under nine heads having to do large
ly with construction and care of
locomotives and shoo machinery.
cost accounting and labor turnover.
Much Unnecessary Waste.
The wastes which the unions said
could not be estimated irf terms of
money included a variety q sub
jects ranging from defective1 r,rain
equipment and tracks througlAal
legatjons of incompetent and ex
travagant management. '
In. the last class emphasis was laid
upon publicity and advertising and
on what the unions thought were un
necessary legal expenses. Such ex
penditures, it was claimed, have
served to increase and have been
charged . wrongfully to operating
costs. ,
It was 'also charged that much of
the; defective; equipment which the
managements of the road are using
as an argument for the need of de
creased 4ageco8t8, could have been
avoided if the roads had ' declared
less liberal - dividends and .used a
proper proportion of their earnings
The following tabulation, repre
sents those wastes estimated by the
unions ; witnesses and for which
authorities are quoted, giving speci
fications and explanations as set
forth in the body of the exhibit.
Modernizing locomotives wouH
mean an annual saving of at !ea;t
$272,500,000. -
"Locomotive Operation Better
methods of coal purchase, coal in
spection, careful receipt and efficient
firing of the locomotives an annual
(Turn to Tg Two. Column Two.)
TL ' CI. 1
inorne oeiectea as
General Councillor for
U. S. Grain. Growers
Chirjuro Trlbnae-Omaha Bte Leased Wire.
Chicago, April 20. Clifford
Thorne was employed today as gen
eral councillor for the United States
Grain Growers, Inc. Heads of the
various organizational 'departments
were also selected as follows:
Sales, J. M. Anderson, St Paul;
transportation, W. H. Robinson,
Cleveland; organization, W. G. Eck
hardt, Dekalb. 111.; legal, Judge P.
E. . Donnell, Waco, Mo.; financial,
W; F Schilling; Northfield, Minn.;
statistician,. R. C. Obrecht, Topeka,
Kan.;- informational. Frank M.
Myefs, Fort Dodge, la., and pooling,
. n. nyae, Alva, Ukl.
These department head and C. H.
Gustaf son,. president of the new or
gAizatifin,' compose the executive
committee. Each department will
be governed by a committee of three
except that headed by Mr. Eckhardt.
which will have five members.
Russia Bans Deportees
Sent From United States
i Riga, April 20. (By the Associ
ated Tress.! The United States no
longer will be able to deport its
undesirables or send its willing Rus
sian residents to soviet Russia with
out previous negotiations and the
consent of the soviet government in
each case, under . a soviet decision
made in 'a note to the Letvian gov
ernment. , The ruling will prevent
further deportations from the United
States to soviet Russia unless the
latter's jierniission for the entry of
such deportees into Russia is gained.
Slavs Draw Up Guarantees
Against New Charles' Coup
Vienna, April 20. Guarantees
against a return to the Hungarian
throne 6f former Emperor Charles
are being prepared at Belgrade by
Jngo Slavia, Czecho-Slovakia and
Roumania, and will be presented to
the Budapest government in a fevr
days, says the South Slav News
agency.
Small .Fortune Discovered l.
In Home tf Aged Recluse
Red Cliff, Colo., April 20.- Nearly
$12,000 in cash,' hidden in a cabin
owned br Charles Miller.- aeed
recluse, who died recently, was dis-'
covered today by Eagle county of- j council, the newspaper adds,
ficials. The morry was secreted be- The foreign office said it could
hind picture frames, utensil?, crcv- j neith?r confirm nor, deny the fore
ices and pigeonholes . . : going report.
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OMAHA, THURSDAY,
Wilson Drops 'Doctor
Title, Used for Years,
Since His Retirement
ashington. Aoiil 20 Former
rrrsidcnt Woodrow Wilson has no
more use for title of distinction,-not
ewn the "doctor" bv which he has
l-cen known for the greater part of
n s ine Deiore entt-nng the White
House.
Since his ; retirement from the
White House the cards the former
president leaves at the homes of
trends when making a call bears
only the simple inscription:
"Mr. Woodrow Wilson
2340 S Street."- -
Mr. Wilson has avoided active so
cial life since his retirement to tlje
house on S street but he is punc
tilious in returning the calls of old
friends. Almost invariably he is
accompanied by Mrs. Wilson.
Charge in Stokes
Case Shattered
By Photographs
Pictures Show Testimony of
"Peeping Scenes" False
Letters by Plaintiff In
troduced as Evidence.
New York, April 20. Mrs.. Helen
Elwood Stokes opened fire on the di
vorce suit of her husband, W. E. D.
Stokes and at the outset refuted the
"peeping scene" stories involving
one of many co-respondents.
At the same time Mrs. Stokes be
gan . active presentation of her
charges of cruel and inhuman treat
ment, in an effort not only to beat
Stokes charges, but. to win herself a
decree.
The "peeping scene" was shattered
by photographs. A professional
photographer, R. A. Cowan, submit
ted more than half a dozen he took
for Mrs. Stokes counsel. The photo
graphs show it impossible for anv
one to see from an extension roof
into the rooms formerly occupied bv
Edgar T. Wallace, a rich western oil
and mining man.
Two of Stokes' witnesses, Mr. and
Mrs. Zenas Matteossian, testified they
"peeped" from the extension roof and
saw Mrs. Stokes and Wallace in his
apartment.
Beginning presentation of her
case, Mrs. Stokes' attorneys present
ed a number of letters written by
Stokes to a negro detective in Chi
cago. Names and contents were not
disclosed. Justice Finch is going to
read them first.
In one of these letters, according
to Mr. Stokes' own lawyer, the mil
lionaire asked the negro sleuth to
verify his allegations that his wife
had been the mother of several chil
dren of whom Stokes was not the
father.." ,-? . . ' V- ;'-:-'-v ,
Herbert Smyth of counsel for Mr.
Stokes-mader a rvigorou' protest
against the admission of the letters
in -evidence. .. - - .-; -
Attorney Littleton, representing
Mrs. Stokes, declined to state what
letters he had included in the batch.
He added that the letters "were
written by Mr, Stokes and put into
the hands of a negro in Chicago to
be circulated to .the humiliation of
Mrs. Stokes."
Tribune Files Suit
For $2,876,063 Against
Officials of Chicago
Chicago. April 20. The Chicago
Tribune started suit in superior
I court to unravel to exporting busi
ness ot rranic n. Alesce and Austin
J. Lynch, the two building special
ists on street improvements. The
bill alleges there is a conspiracy to
cheat and defraud the city. It
seeks five main objects, namely:
1. Repayment of more than $1,
000,000 paid the experts for services
last year.-
2. Repayment in full of all sums
subsequently paid them. '
3. The prevention of the payment
of any more money to them.
4. The names of the conspirators
and their method of operation.
5. The names of persons to whom
Mesce and Lynch are alleged to
have paid money. , ;
The defendants in the suit are:
Mayor William Hale Thompson,
George F. Harding, city comptrol
ler; Michael J, Faherty, president
board of local improvements; Mescc
and Lynchr 'The total involved in
the suit is $2,876,063, according to
an official estimate of Mr. Faherty.
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Dividends on War Risk
Insurance Ready Soon
CI"Vno Tribune-Omaha Bc La'd Wire.
Washington, April 20. Director
R. H. Cholley-Jones of the bureau
of war 'risk insurance announced
that the first checks In payment of
dividends to policy holders on gov
ernment converted life insurance will
be mailed from the bureau in about
two weeks.
Owing to the amount of clerical
wolrk involved in the payment of the
dividends, the anniversary dates of
which have passed, it is expected that
it will be June 1 before all of the
dividend checks will have been
mailed from Washington.
olders of converted policies which
have been in force for one year will
receive, following their anniversary
date, not less than $u per thousand
of insurance and those in force two
yeSrs will receive two dividends.
Japan Cabinet Decides to
Remain Firm on Yap Stand
Tokio, April 20. (By The As
sociated Press.) The cabinet yes
terday decided there was no reason
to alter Japan's policy on the Yap
mandate question because of the re
cent American note on the subject,
according to the Nichi Nichi todav.
The decision of the ministry will be
reported Friday at an extraordinary
meetinc of the dinlomatie advisory
APRIL 21, 1921.
cPT F there Till "ibuee I no) '
Sine th inttr 'nnt of thm
The most ffeucioos J kZZS SJ , r- n
, WORLD1. tsSgFfe- WEU. SHOW U'tMzl?) p
JsTtc- . That this & the 7 ' crs
IQST UNHEALTHY J ' SJ '
hi country hat nJJtnly iicom vry rtligiotn, judging from tht million of bottln of ekmrnmrngnm mitd
(Ar choico winot import od for tacrqmontal purpose. On tht othor hand, tha hmolth of tha toantry hm dm
mmaoniy ihattro4t imdgtng from
New Reparation
Proposal to Be
Made by Germany
: f
I ' I Mil I
Under Plan Country Would
Pay 3,000,000,000 Gold
Marks During 10
Years.
Paris,' Apry.. 20.7-r;They Temps to
day puDiisnes ; a cnspaicn nnaer a
Cologne, date. line, giving what our
ports to be proposition which the
newspaper- says Germany will make
to the allies Wednesday or Thurs
day.
According to the Temps, - Ger
many proposes to. pay to the allies
3,000,000,000 gold marks during 10
years, and also yearly payments
equal to one-fifth of the 'a!ue of
German exports to allied countries
during the preceding year.
lo realize a part.ot tne above .in
demnities, says the dispatch, Ger
many proposes tox issue an inter
national loan of 10,000,000,000 gold
marks, upon which she is prepared
to pay interest up to 5 per cent. The
loan would be guaranteed by rail
road earnings and also by partici
pation up to 20 per cent in German
private inriurtrics. Germany then
would be ready to discuss the total
of its debt to the allies.
Germany also will pffer repara
tions in kind, saying ' German con
tractors and labor would undertake
to reconstruct a certain percentage'
of the work in northern France and
also that German industry would
supply French owners, whose prop
erty was destroyed with materials
which would be paid for by bonds
which the trovernment of German-.v
would deliver to French owners.
The Temps in commenting on the
dispatch, says: . ;
"Berlin is convinced that the
proposition will be rejected by the
allies, but insists on presenting them
publicly, hoping that a certain part
of opinion abroad will consider them ;
sufficient to bring pressure to bear
upon the allies not to occupy the
Ruhr region"
Mexican Troops Search
Hills for Bandit Gang
'El Paso, Tex., April 20. Mexican
federal. ' troops , from - garrisons
throughout Chihuahua are centering
near Corral to search the foothills
for a band of 25 robbers, 15 of whom
were mounted, who robbed the
Mexican National ' passenger train
Monday night of 90,000 pesos. Part
of tire, band held up the passengers
while the remainder looted the bag
gage car, breaking open - the safe.
None of the passengers was injured.
Alberto Terrazas, son : of - former
governor Luis Terrazas. of Chihuahua
was taken from his berth but later
released.
Gen. J. J. Mendez, commander Of
the Juarez garrison, said that Enrique
Creel was not on the train as was
reported, creel was a lormcr.gov-J
ernor ot Lhihuahua and former am
bassador to the United States.-.
The genral also said that Nicolas
Rodriguez, who is said to have led
the bandits, . was a lieutenant in
Villa's army but that he and Villa
Juror in MacCurlain Case
Killed by Constabulary
Cork, April 20. Timothy Sullivan,
a prominent Sinn Feiner, was shot
and killed by the constabulary last
evening. He was called on to halt
and was shot as he was endeavoring
to escape, i . .,
Sullivan was a juror at the inquct
of the late Lord Mayor MacCurtam,
which rendered a verdict of willful
murder against Premier . Lloyd (
George. Viscount French, lord lieu- i
tenant of Ireland; Ian MacPherson.
rmcr chict secretary lor
andiothers. ,
Irclan '.,
A!. ?,r- ") 4tk
OutH 4th Im (I mr. 0ll (
Arising From the Tomb!
tCopmcht: 191: By Ttm Chicico Trlbw.J
mor or U latt Mr. Bmrltytw
tho amount of liamor reavirod for modieimml
Southerners Ask
Aid for Industry
Representatives of Tariff As
sociation Appeal to Con
gress for Protection.
Clilcao Tribune-Oinaliu. Bre Leaaed Wire.
Washington, April 20. Republi
cans of the house ways .and means
committee saw hopeful 6igns of-break-ing
further into the democratic solid
south today when1 representatives of
the' southern' -tariff , association'ap-1
pealed for protection to southern in
dustries.' -, v " '
The committee was told-that the
south favored a protective tariff. Re
publican leaders and Chairman Ford
ney in assuring the southern men that
congress would enact a protective
tariff law, could not resist the temp
tation to make a few political refer
ences. -, . i 1 -
The chief spokesmen for the south
ern delegation were John H. Kirby
of Houston, Tex., president of the
Southern Tariff -association and also
president of the National Lumber
Manufacturers' association, and
George M.: Thurmond of Del Rio,
Tex., representing the sheep and goat
industry oi that state.
Mr. Thurmond told, the committee
that he voted the republican ticket
in the last election tor the first time
in his life, but that he did not expect
it to be the last time. , x
"In my judgment," he said, "the
best ' republican propanganda that
could be put out is to protect south
ern industries by a proper tariff law.
Body Believed to Be
That of U. S. Aviator
Is Found in Mexico
Mexico Citv. April 20. A bodv
believed to be that of a lost Ameri
can aviator has been found near
Vega De Los Ladrones, Coahuila,
within 10 miles of the international
boundary; This information was
transmitted to the war office by
General Anlaro, ;chief of military
operations in the northern zone.
The body was found by a ranch
man near a wrecked airplane flying
the American flag. . ?
Geueral Amaro was instructed to
communteatc with Major General
Dickman at San Antonio, The war
office said it was possible that the
body was that of a peon, who had
lost his way and that the pilot of
the wrecked machine had found' his
way safely back across the border.
The newspapers in reporting the
incident, renewed their criticism of
American -aviators, crossing the bor.r
der, cither intentionally or by flying
so close that they alight in Mexico
when making a forced landings v
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Chicago Society. Leader . ,
Leases House in Reno
Lnicago, . April 20. Since most
pcopie can see only one reason tori
living 111 .ivcnv, vincago society was
unusually Interested by the news
that Mrs. Mason Phelps had taken
a six months lease on a Kcno home.
It had been rumored for some time
in the. same circles that all was not
well between Mason Phelps, inter
nationally known amatenr golfer and
sportsman, and his wife. .
The Phelps wedding in 1913 united
two prominent families and was one
of the important social events of
the year. ,
Aland Island Plebiscite
Is Opposed by League
Stockholm, April 20. League of
nations ' delegates who have been
studying questions relative to the fu
ture status of the Aland islands
have decided a plebiscite should not
be' arranged for the inhabitants of
the archipelaeo. savs the Geneva
correspondent of the Da?cns Xv-
hetcr, of this city.
Bally tni Sanity. St: Dlll Only, M; liimUy. 14
. Ill) Dtllf Only, 112; Sunaw Only, is
Anti-Alien Law
Organization Is
Plan of Senators
Representatives of 11 West
ern States Perfect Body to
Seek. Common Ground to
.' Jap Tangle.. .
.'Washington,' April '20j -Senators
l-andrt- representatives -rfro- 1 1 "--far
western states perfected an orguuza
"tion today tvith" a, view to finding a
common ground upon which they
can work to solve the. -question of
Japanese immigfatiou.. ;
Senator Johnson, republican, Cali
fornia, was-made chairman of the
organization and directed to appoint
an executive committee composed of
one senator and one representative
from each , of the 11 states,' Cali
fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Utah, Nevada,' Arizona, New Mexi
co, Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.
Senator Johnson announced that
he would appoint the executive com
mittee at an early date and begin
efforts to unite other states with the
work. He added that the problem
was one of mutual interest demand
ing immediate attention.
V. b.. McClatchy, of Sacramento,
representing the Japanese Exclusion
league , of California declared that
unless the Japanese were, excluded
they ultimately , would swamp the
H'hitQ races. " . .
Within the last three months. Mr'.
McClatchy said," several states, had
shown a desire to co-operate with
California, in enacting anti-alien land
bills, similar to that recently passed
in California. In Oregon and Idaho,
he added, land bills had been pro
posed in the legislatures, but action
on them had been postponed in
definitely because of telegrams from
Washington saying that such action
by the states would embarrass the
federal government. . ;
. In the house todaw Representative
Raker, . democrat, California! pro
posed an amendment to the consti
tution providing that no child, "here
after oorn in .the United- States, of
foreign parentage, shall be eligible
to citizenship : in . the United States
unless both parents are eligible to
become citizens of the United States."
British Miners Demand
National Wage Board
; London, April 20. Demands for
the - establishment of a national
wage .bpard, and a national wage
pool iave been reaffirmed by large
majorities by district committees of
miners throughout the country, it
is claimed by the Daily Herald, the
organ-of labor. , The newspaper
clams that these meetings .which
were held preparatory to the con
ference of the miners' federation of
Great Britain here on Friday, stood
14 to 1 in-fayor of the demands of
the union; ' .
The-miners propose that there
shall be'levied a certain amount on 1
each ton of coal, this money being
usca ior tne purpose ot establish
ing the wage pool.
British mine owners, who met
yesterday announced that they had
completed proposals which met
many of the demands of the miners
and would care for men who vere
inadequately paid.
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THREE CENTS
JackCudaliy
Shoots Self
At His Home
Son of Late Millionaire Meat,
Packer Commits Suicide
After failure to Nego
tiate $10,000 Loan.
Wife Former Omaha Girl
By Th Aiioctated Trent.
Los Angeles, April 20. John Pr
(Jack) Cudahy, son of the laU
Michael Cudahy, internationally
known meat packer of Kansas City;
who was found dead today in his
bedroom with liis head shattered by
a shotgun wound, committed suicide
after failing to negotiate a $10,000
loan with a Chicago bank, Detective -Sergeant
McMahan said tonight.
McMahan said Mrs. Cudahy, tin
widow, told him her husband re
ceived a letter yesterday from an
officer of the bank informtng him
the loan could not be carried unless
"vouched for" by another member
of the Cudahy family. Today, ac
cording to McMahan, Cudahy re
ceived a telegram from -the relative
in question, declining to vouch for
the loan.
Mrs. Cudahy also said, according
to McMahan, that her husband had
been despondent for some time. Sha
was the first to reach the. room iri
which the tragedy occurred, after the
noise of the shot alarmed the house
hold. ,.
Wife Omaha Woman.
Jack Cudahy, son of, Michael
Cudahy, millionaire packer of Kan
sas City and Chicago, was married
in 1899 to Edna Cowin, daughter
of the late Gen. John C. Cowm of
Omaha.
In the next 10 years, four children
were born to the couple, who became
residents of Kansas City, where Jack
was an official in his father's busi
ness. . .
At 1 o'clock the morning of March
6, 1910, Cudahy and his chauffeur
crept into the drawing room of .the
Cudahy home in Kansas City, and
leaped upon Mrs. Cudahy and a visi
tor, Jere S. Lillis, president of the
Western Exchange . bank, promi
nent in Kansas City society and
eirlier a club friend of Jack's.
Aided by the chauffeur, Cudahv
bound the banker with ropes and
mutilated him "with a butcher knife.
Refuses to Prosecute.
Lillis, who later spent months in
neaitn resorts, retusea to prosecute.
Airs. Cudahy obtained a divorce
from her-husband, but in Tune, 1912.
agreed to remarry "for the children's
sake." ;-".. ----: . ...
During the war, Cudahy, then a
resident of Los Angeles, was com
missioned a captain, but later order-
ed to return to civilian life bv a mili
tary board. , ' '
Just last Saturday, Jack was found
registered tinder the name of J." P.
Clark in a downtown L03 Angeles
hotel.
He registered under , the name at
thrliotel March 21, giving his home
town as Glendora.- -' 1
He would not assign the reason
for cloaking, his identity.
About two months ago, Cudahy
(Tnra to Pare Two, Colnma Three.)
Court Room Packed
At Hearing of Tryon
Man for Wife's Murder
Tryon, Neb., April 20: (Special
Telegram.) Housewives deserted
their homes and stores were practi
cally closed here as practically every. .
citizen of the village endeavored in
crowd into the little court, room of ,
the county court house at the pre-'
liminary hearing of William Morris
rancner, charged with the murder of
his wife and then dragging her bodv
over the prairie at the end of a rjspeV
The hearing, which had been post
poned one day due to the difficulty
in oDtaining witnesses, started short
ly after noon. Neighbors of Morris,
who lives .about 25 miles from this '
place, were present, but in cafjy tes-
timony could give but few details,
of the crime. , , - - .
Some of the witnesses had not heen
examined when the court adjourned
shortly after 6 tonight.
Amendment to Road
Measure is Killed
Lincoln, April 20. (Special Tele
gram.) Douglas county members
forced a reconsideration of Senate
File 180 in the, lower house this after- .
noon and struck out the Byrum
amendment which provided a method
by which Douglas county could
force the paving of a road to Fort -Crook'in
Sarpy county by paying
60 per cent of the cost.
. "WJiethcr the amendment was con
stitutional or not, was questionable,''
Representative I. A. Medlaiyof Oma-
ha, said, "and we did not want anv- .
thing to interfere with our $125,000
appropriation for. the road provided
for in the appropriation bill which
lne senate has passed and which will
tuuic ui) ior consideration m
house shorth." .
tin
With the Byrum amendment de
leted, Senate File 180 merely pro-'
vides for reducing sizes of benefit
zones in order to insure paving of
the . scenic road from Albright to1
Bcllevue. -
Rene Viviani, Frencli Envoy,;
Sails on His Return Home
New York. April 20. Rene Vivi-"
ani. who has been in this countrv"
i.early a month as special envov
from the French government, board- ,
ed, the steamer France shortly be
fore noon today to return to his na- 1
live land. ' "
Aside from expressing general
satisfaction over his trip, officially
end socially, the former French pre- '"
mie jjjadc no statement.