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Tax Laws of
Nebraska to
Be Revised
House Notes to Concur in
Conference Committee's Re
port on Bill Providing As
sessment on Intangibles.
( Commissioner Appointed
f Lincoln, April 25 (Special.) The
republican party madi good today
its pledge to the people of Nebraska
to begin the revision of the state's
antiquated taxation laws when the
lower house, by a voti of 52 to 42,
decided to concur in the conference
committee's report on Senate File 65.
The senate concurred on the same
bill Saturday before the week-end
adjournment. The bill will go to
Governor McKcIvic for signature.
Ten members of the Douglas
count delegation voted against the
bill. Kd Smith voted for it and John
O. Yeiscr, jr., was absent.
Ten minutes after the lower house
0 concurred on Senate File 63, Gover
nor .Mckclvie announced the ap
pointment of W. H. Osborne, clerk
of the state board of equalization; as
state tax commissioner at a salary of
$5,000 a year and sent his name to
the senate for confirmation. The
senate, suspended its rules and in
stantly continued the Osborne ap
pointment. Osborne, with the sanction of the
state board of equalization, has
power to order reassessments in any
county where it is believed local as
sessors, through ignorance, careless
ly ness or cupidity, failed to make full
returns on property and intangibles,
under the terms of the new taxation
measure. '
Tax on Intangibles.
The bill also provides for a tax
on intangibles equivalent to 25 per
cent of what the tax on tangibles
shall be. The same bill, approved
by the republican majority of the
legislature, took cognizance of re
peated charges that big sugar com
panies, oil companies and others
handling movable and seasonable
goods cleared their warehouses and
tanks just before April 1, when the
tax assessor made his annual visit.
The bill attempts to correct this
alleged evil by putting an average
capital invested tax on sugar refin-
erics, oil companies, hay and grain
flk brokers and motion picture film
companies. The method by which
the "average .capital" shall be de-
cided is left to the tax commis
sioner. There was a sharp, short struggle
today "when the lower house was
asked to confer. Republican floor
leaders, Rodman of Kimball, Byrum
o! Franklin and Williams of Fill
more, admitted that the law might
prove to contain imperfections. They
challenged any party or group of
men to draw up a perfect tax law
and one that would satisfy everyone.
Big Companies Kicking.
"The beauty of this bill is that the
men who have conscientiously paid
their taxes aren't complaining, but
the big corporations in our cities
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Two Men Held in
An Alleged Race
Swindle in South
Cincinnati. April 25 Two fashion
ably attired men registering as
Thomas H. Blair, 33, Chicago, and
Walter G.VCarson, 25, Salt Lake
City, arrested at a downtown hotel,
were questioned here all day by
Thomas II. Diskin, chief postofnee
inspector in charge here.
Arrests were made on request of
federal officials at Huntsville, Ala.,
to which place the men will be trans
ferred. According to information received
by Cincinnati postal agents, the men
were involved in an extensive race
track scheme at Hot Springs, Ark.,
where a Rushville, lnd farmer was
reported to have lost cash and lib
erty bonds valued .at $25,625.
The prisoners say thev are in
. noccnt and will fight the charge
upon the ground of mistaken identi
ty. Police officials here say that the
Hot Springs game caught more than
100 wealthy business men of the cen
tral states. The Chicago and Salt
Lake record of the men under ar
rest here w ill be probed.
One Man Killed, Another Hurt
As Auto Leaps From Bridge
Atlantic, la., April 25. (Special.)
Harry Gleason, Audubon paper
banger, 53, was killed, and R. J.
Loveland, owner of the ' Audubon
Canning factory, . was-seriously in
jured when the lalter's automobile
crashed into the cement railing of a
bridge near Audubon. The car was
driven by Loveland and was going
at a terrific speed. When the auto
mobile hit the bridge railing it leaped
into the air and landed in the creek.
Gleason was a widower and the
father of four children.
Aviator Lands Airplane
In San Francisco Street
San Francisco, April 25. Charles
R. Parmclcc, aviator, executed a
descent and landed his plane safely
on the Embarcadero, the broad street
which parallels San Francisco wtter
front today, after the engine had de
veloped trouble and stopped in mid
air over the bay.
Parmelee had two passengers
aboard. They were en route from
Sansalito to the Marina field here.
After repairing a feed pipe, which
was the cause of the trouble, the
jyt party resuirtccF the journey.
Dies at Age of 82 in Paris
Paris. April 25. Charles Suru
guc, "the oldest poilu of France,"
veteran of both the Franco-Prussian
and the World war, died here
today, aged 82 years. He was made
an officer oi the Legion in 1919.
Girls Hair Shorn by
"Clipper" Who Sneaks
Into Home at Night
Kearney, Neb., April 25. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Fern Harmony, 14,
residing, with her patents five miles
west of Amerst, is a Buffalo county
victim of "Jack the Clipper."
Fern's abundant auburn lock.,
which extended to below the waist
line and were the pride and envy of
her girl friends, were shorn some
time in the night by a party who
slipped in through the kitchen door,
cut the girl's hair while she lay
asleep in bed in the same room with
two sisters and then made his exit
through the front door. Apparently
an auto awaited the clipper about
200 yards from the house, footprints
being clearly discernible on tin
ground leading to the car tracks.
It is believed the girl was the
victim of parties who have clipped
hair from the heads of girls at
Omaha, Lincoln and Central City.
Knox Resolution
To Declare Peace
Put Up to Senate
Reserves Rights and Privileges
Under Versailles and Trian
on Treaties Holds En
emy Property.
Washington, April 25. Progress
of the initial administration peace
polcy to end the state of war by
resolution of congress was made
today in both branches of congress.
In the senate the Knox peace reso
lution, revised in minor details, was
reported favorably by the foreign re
lations committee, and announce
ment was made by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, republican leader,
that it would be called up tomorrow.
Two similar resolutions, dealing
separately with Germany and Aus
tria, were introduced in the house by
Chairman Porter of the foreign af
fairs committee, who announced
they would not be taken up until
after the senate acts on the Knox
measure.
Democrats Confer.
Although the senate is to begin
formal consideration tomorrow of
the Knox resolution, it was not cer
tain today that actual debate would
star.t before Wednesday.
An informal conference tomorrow
between Senator Underwood of Ala
bama, democrat leader and minority
member of the foreign relations
committee, with a few other promi
nent democratic senators was
planned to discuss a course of pro
cedure., Senator Underwood said he ex
pected democratic action would be
similar to that with regard to the
first Knox resolution which was
vetoed by former President Wilson.
That . senate debate w'ould con
sume only a few days was predicted
by republican and democratic lead
ers. A final vote this week was
regarded possible.
Very Few Changes. ,
The final draft of the Knox res
olution reported today differs little
from Senator Knox's original meas
ure. It would repeal the resolutions
declaring a state of war witH Ger
many and Austria, reserve all Amer
ican rights and privileges under the
'treaties of Versailles and Trianon,
and hold, subject to further disposi
tion, the property of enemy aliens.
The committee vote on reporting
the Knox resolution was 9 to 2, ail
republicans present favoring and
the only democrats present opposing
it. Other democratic committee
members were given the privilege of
recording their opposition.
As distinguished from the senate
measure the Porter resolutions
would declare the state of war at an
end but without repeal of the war
resolutions. Representative Porter
explained it was "unnecessary and
perhaps unwise" to repeal the war
resolutions because such action
"miaht be construed as a disavow l
of the war."
Imports From Germany
Inceased Nine Times
Washington, April 25. Import3
from Germany last year were nearly
nine times as great as in the previous
calendar year and approximately"
half the average of trade for the two
years immediately preceding the war,
according to a summary issued by
the department of commerce.
During 1920 imports from Ger
many were valued at $88,838,230 as
compared with $10,608,141 in 1919,
with $184,211,352 in 1913 and $186,
042,644 in 1912. Imports for the first
two months of 1921 averaged $4,790,
000 a month, the summary said.-
Of the 1920 German imports,
potash fertilizer materials with 452,
085 tons valued at $21,042,623, formed
the larger group. Chemicals valued
at $6,797,843, of which $2,110,025,
consisted of coal-tar dyestuffs stood
jecond.
Leonard Wood's Steamer
j Is Being Towed Into Port
i Yokohama. Tanan. Anril 25. The
t disabled Uirited States shipping
hoard steamer enatchee, witn Maj
Gen
Leonard Wood and other
prominent passengers on board in
its maiden trip from the United
States, is being towed here by the
Admiral line freighter Edmore, ac
cording to wireless advices received
today.
The Edmore picked up the
Wenatchee at 11 o'clock last night
115 miles out of Yokahama.
High Court Refuses Review
In Southern Pacific Case
Washington, April 25. The su
preme court refused today to review
decisions of the California appellate
courts awarding lands in Keerns
county to the Southern Pacific Rail
road company and setting aside the
counter claims of the McKittrick Oil
company
Reparation
Prop ol
Pay nv ; ! . ,000,000,000
CdldViaTk.8 Forms Basis
Of Latest Indemnity A
Offer of Germany.
Billion by April 30 Asked
Hy The AwKH'lated Prom.
Berlin. April 25. The pavmcnt by
Germany of 200.000,000,lil)0 gold
marks ror reparations is, roughly,
the proposal submitted by Germany
for transmission to the allies, accord
ing to sources close to the govern
ment. The payments will be spread over
a period of from 30 to 42 years or
less, according to Germany's eco
nomic recovery.
Economic pledges in the wav of
goods and participation in German in
dustries arc ottered as guarantee, it
is stated. .
The ofTer, it is indicated, inclines
more toward the terms formulated
by the allies at the Paris conference
lust winter than to the offer made by
German v at the London conference,
which the allies summarily rejected.
Time Given for Inquiry.
The counter proposals, it was
learned today, refrain from propos
ing the assumption by Germany of
the allied debts to the United States.
The government is refraining from
making public today its note to the
United States in order fo give Pres
ident Harding, it was explained, an
opportunity to consider and make in
quiries concerning it if he desires, be
fore forwarding it to the allies.
The Reichstag will not be given the
text of the communication until
Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Simons an
nounced today that he would merely
present to the . Reichstag this after
noon "the status of Germany's for
eign relations," not divulging the new
counter proposals on reparations.
Billion April 30 Asked.
Paris, April 25. The allied repara
tions commission today sent a note
to the German war burdens commis
sion, demanding that 1,000,000,000
gold marks be deposited in the Bank
of France on or before April 30
Note Is Delayed.
Washington, April" 24. The only
information received by Secretary
Hughes today concerning the char
acter of Germany's counter proposals
regarding reparations was that con
tained in press dispatches. The com
munication embodying the proposals,
which was handed yesterday to Lor
ing D(essel American high commis
sioner at Berlin, by Dr. Walter Si
mons, the German foreign minister,
had not arrived when the secretary
finished his day's work.
It was assumed the delay was due
to transmission difficulties cither on
the cables or by wireless.
What course Mr. Hughes will take
in dealing with the question was not
indicated today. It was said, how
ever, that until he had studied the
counter proposals carefully the com-
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Three Captured
Robbing Store
Trio of Grocery Burglars Are
Nabbed by Conductor
Who Calls Police.
Three men were caught in the act
of looting the Ideal grocery. Thir
tieth street and Avenue B, Council
Bluffs, at 2:45 yesterday morning.
Charles Barnett, street car man
who lives next door to the grocery,
saw a car drive up to the grocery
and a few moments later heard the
crash of broken glass.
He notified the police, who hurried
to the store in time to catch two men
in the automobile, already partially
loaded with tobacco and staple gro
ceries.
The car, it was later learned, had
been stolen from R. Fercr, 1723
Charles street.
These two .men gave their names
as Llod GrirTen and Clayton Car
lisle. The third man, still in. the
store, escaped on foot. m
He was capture.d three-quarters of
an hour later at the Douglas street
bridge. He gave the name of Henry
Hunt.
All three are held by the Bluffs po
lice on charges of breaking and en
tering. All three men were arraigned in
Bluffs police court yesterday morn
ing, waived preliminary hearing and
were ordered held to trial in the dis
trict court under $1,000 bond each.
Ban on Patents Issued to
Foreigners Is Requested
Washington, April 25. Activities
cf German citizens in obtaining
patents from the American govern
ment embodying many of tho princi
ples of American railway artillery
and other ordnance led Secretary
Weeks to"ask congress today for leg
islation limiting the .. granting of
patents to foreigners. v
The war secretary said 201 ord
nance patents had been obtained
here by German citizens since last
July 1, and all transferred to Fred
crick Krupp, the great ordnance man
ufacturer at Essen.
Britain's Revenue Exceeds
Expenditures Last Year
London, April 25. Great Britain's
surplus of revenue over expenditure
during the last year totalled 230,
500,000, it was announced by Austen
Chamberlain, government leader in
the House of Commons, in introduc
ing the budrjet in the house this aft
ernoon. . Mr. Chamberlain moved the bud
get owing to the pressure of other
work oil Sir Robert Hornc. the
chancellor of the exchange, ,
Woman Killed Trying
j . Jo Escape Hospital
! San Francisco, Calif., April 25
Two women, Jean Davis, 30. and
Eunice Badino, 28. inmates of the
isolation ward at the city and county
hospital, lost their lives in a con
certed attempt by 10 women occu
pants of the ward to escape last
' night.
A rope consisting of sheets tied
together was suspended from one
of the two unbarred windows of the
ward, which is on the fourth floor.
Jean Davis was half way to the
ground when Eunice Badino started
to descend. The rope parted and
the two women fell to the pavement
below. None of the ward prisoners
escaped.
Mrs. J. L. Hiatt
Found Overcome
By Gas in Home
Husband Declares Death Due
To Accident, But Police
Discover Evidence of
Suicide.
As J. L. Hiatt, prominent Omaha
real estate operator, entered the door
of his beautiful Dundee home Mon
day afternoon he .was greeted by a
cloud of gas. He rushed through
the house to the kitchen, where he
found his wife dyiug of asphyxia
tion. One burner on the gas stove in the
kitchen and the gas pilot were found
open. The kitchen windows were
closed.
Hiatt called' the janitor, Robert
Hawkins. 2238 Charles street, and
then police. Efforts to revive Mrs.
Hiatt were futile.
While Hiatt declares that asphyx
iation was accidental police are work
ing on the supposition that Mrs.
Hiatt committed suicide because of
alleged marital troubles. According
to a report from Detectives Trapp,
Haney and Scott, Detective Trapp
found a note in a suit of clothes,
which had been apparently laid- out
for Mrs. Hiatt. The note, Detective
Trapp alleges, Hiatt grabbed from
his hand and destroyed, still insisting
that Mrs. Hiatt's death was acciden
tal. Note Left by Suicide.
Detectives Trapp, Haney and Scott
declared the note read:
"You may have your Julia. I
hope you will be more loyal to her
than you have to me. '
Trapp declares that when he de
manded its return Hiatt replied:
"You will have to kill" me before
I give it back."
Soon after word went out that
Mrs. Hiatt had died the house filled
with friends of the family. Word
was given out that Mrs. Hiatt had
been in the kitchen cleaning a pair
of gray trousers belonging to Mr.
Hiatt and had not noticed the gas
burners were opened.
The janitor declared he passed the
window 30 minutes before Mrs. Hi
att s body was discovered and that
he saw her sitting in front of the
window reading the newspaper.
lhe trousers -were still lying on
the kitchen cabinet Uble after the
body was found.
Believes Death Accidental.
Mr. Hiatt said he returned to his
home from his office at 2:45 Mon
day afternoon. He and Mrs. Hiatt
had planned to go downtown and
select some wall paper for a num--ber
of houses he was building.
"He said he found Mrs. Hiatt sit
ting on a chair in the kitchen, her
head resting on a table. She was
unconscious.
Hiatt discredits the police theory
and declares he is positive his wife's
death was accidental.
James T. Allen, who for years has,
been a close friend of the Hiatts,
said last night:
"There is nothing to the note
Story. There wasn't any note. The
Hiatts have been married and have
lived happily for the past 10 years.
They have never had any troubles
and there was no reason why she
should have wanted to commit sui
cide. The idea is preposterous."
Previous to her marriage Mrs.
Hiatt was Miss Winifred Rohan.
She was 38 years old. A sister,
Serena Rohan, lived with the Hiatts.
German Capitalists
Put Money in Argentine
Buenos Aires. April 25. German
capitalists are bringing their funds
to Argentina to escape taxation to
meet the reparations and other Ger
man post-war indebtedness. They
are trying to capitalize the textile
industry principally and also are de
positing large funds in the local
banks at the ordinary interest to
await the reawakening of Argentine
industries after the present crisis.
Two' German banks report de
posits of 88.500,000 pesos, compared
with 62,000,000 pesos in March, 1920.
Loans and discounts run 67,000,000
pesos, compared with 52,000,000
pesos. Cash in hand is 30.500.000
pesos, compared with 17,500,000
pesos in 1920.
Expect Resumption of
Traffic on K. C. & N. W.
Beatrice, Neb., April 25. (Spe
cial.) Optimistic reports come from
Topeka, Kan., where delegates held
a .meeting to devise plans' for the re
sumption of traffic on the defunct
Kansas City and Northwestern rail
road which runs from Virginia, Neb.,
to Kansas City, Kan. The "governor
of Kansas and the board of public
utilities will ask for a loan from the
Interstate Commerce commission
sufficient to put the road on a sound
financial basis.
Express and Freight Men
Open Hearings bn Wages
Cincinnati, April 25. Heads of
the brotherhood of railway clerks,
freight handlers and express and
station employes "conferred today
with officials of express companies
relative to wage reductions.
Can. Wood it enjoying the polite
Mr. Big Bill Haywood it reported
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Prof, and Mrt. Hiram Applegate of Kewanee, who had planned to spend their golden wedding abroad, have
been obliged to give ap the tript at they cod oat find their birth certificate.
Appropriation
Bill Is Held Up
By Disarmament
Representative Kelly Brings
Forward Proposal to Coin
plcte 1916 Naval Build
ing Program.
Washington. April 25. Disarm
anient discussion sidetracked con
sideration of the naval appropriation
bill in the house today when Repre
sentative Kelly, republican, Michi
gan, brought forward the committee
proposals to provide $396,000,000 for
the navy's next fiscal year of which
$90,000,000 would be used toward
completion of the 1916 building pro
gram. The expansion program, Kel
ley asserted, would help "to lift the
load now on the shoulders of the
world for armament construction and
maintenance."
"When these ships we are build
ing have been completed," he said,
"the United States will equal in sea
power any nation in the world and
will be in a position to offer pro
portionate reduction in armament."
Burton Favors Plan.
Theodore Burton, republican of
Ohio, former senator, supported the
committee spokesman in his declara
tion for an adequate navy and also
urged that these be the nucleus of a
large army for the United States. He
declared, however, that the "time
has come for an international con
ference for the sake of stopping this
maddening competition for the con
struction of armadas."
This view was endorsed by. Repre
sentative Byrnes, democrat, South
Carolina, who turning to taxation
features involved in military pro
grams said congress this year would
appropriate $5,500,000,000, or $50 a
head for each citizen of the United
States.
Representative W. Bourke Cock
ran, democrat, New York, intro
duced a resolution to authorize the
president in view of "dreadful eco
nomic conditions which can be rcni
cdied only by immediate and active
employment of all human hands and
capital in productive industry" to
offer on behalf of the United States
to disarm and in case of refusal to
meet "great military forces estab
lished anywhere resolutely by crea
tion of greater forces on land and
sea.
Farm Home Near Geneva
Is Destroyed by Blaze
Geneva, Neb.. April 25. (Special.)
The farm home of Donald Fisher,
six miles east and half a mile south
of town, was completely destroyed
by fire. The fire was discovered by
Mrs. Fisher, but it had gained such
headway that it was Impossible to
extinguish the blaze.
The fire is thought to have origin
ated from a spark from the kitchen
chimney. Furniture on the first
floor was saved, but all other house
hold goods and the entire wardrobe
of the family, was burned. The
house was owned by Ben. F. Hafer,
father of Mrs. Fisher, and the loss
of $2,000, was covered by insurance.
Insurance was carried on the de
stroyed household goods.
Anaconda Lode Locater
Is Dead at Home in Butte
Butte, Mont., April 25. Edward
Hickey, one of the locaters of the
Anaconda lode, died at his home
here today, lie was 80 veart old. ,
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Second Victim
Of Motorcycle
Accident Dies
Sister of Youth Killed When
Machine Collided With Car
Succumbs to Fractured
Skull.
Death took its toll, early last night
from the second v-rctim of the Sun
day automobile-motorcycle collision
at " Forty-second street and Lafay
ette avenue, in which Theodore An
derson, 21, and his sistr, Ruth, 18,
were hurled 60 feet, the former strik
ing a tree and the latter, a telephone
post.
Theodore died of a fractured
skull soon after the accident. The
sister, her skull also fractured, was
rushed to the Methodist hospital,
where she lingered until shortly
after 8 last night. Members of the
family were at the bedside when
Ruth died.
The collision occurred when the
motorcycle on which Theodore and
his sister were riding home from
church struck the fender of a car
driven by Mrs. Charles F. Gruenig,
6514 Florence boulevard. The mo
torcycle crashed into a -sewer open
ing, hurling its occupants from the
machine.
Tlie -pair . were rushed to the
Methodist hospital, , but the youth
died before a doctor could adminis
ter aid.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Anderson, were notified of the ac
cident by Rev. Mr. Nelson of the
Swedish Free church, of which the
boy and his sister were members.
U. S. To Resume British
Debt Negotiations
Washington, April 25. The
United States government will make
the first move toward a resumption
of negotiations with the British gov
ernment relative to its indebtedness
to this country, Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon said today.
The delay in the arrival of Lord
Chalmons, special envoy from the
British government, Mr. Mellon in
dicated, was due to the fact that thus
far officials of the United States have
not been ready to deal with the mat
ter. As soon as treasury officials are
fully prepared to discuss the ques
tion of deferring interest payments
and funding the present demand
obligations into long, term bonds,
notification will be sent to the Brit
ish through the State department.
Alexa Sterling Is Ninth
In Golf Meet at Brookwood
Brookwbod, Eng., April 25 (By
the Associated Press) Mrs. Temple
Dobell. former British woman cham
pion, won the scratch prize in the
golf match for women on the West
Hill course today with a score of
82 for the 18 holes.
Miss Alexa Stirling, American wo
man champion, was tied for ninth
place.
Small Boy Accidentally
Killed by Older Brother
Xaponee, - Neb., April 25. (Spe
cial. Francis Swanson, 5, was
killed bv his brother, William, 14.
when a shotgun which the older boy
was handling was accidentally dis
charged. The parents were in
Naponcc at the time of the accident.
By the time they reached their home
Francis had died, ;
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Mrs. Braiideis Gets
Divorce, Child and
$400,000 Alimony
No Specific Charge Made by
Her at Hearing Except
Husband Made "Harsh"
Remarks to Her.
Madeline Frank Brandeis, San
Francisco, was granted a divorce
from her husband, E. John Brandeis
by District Judge Arthur C. Wake
lev in district court Monday, the cus
tody of a baby daughter and $400,000
alimony. The money is to be paid in
sums of $.50,000 annually.
A check for $50,000 was handed
to the pretty divorce at the con
clusion of the hearing. No specific
charges were made by Mrs. Brandeis
during the hearing excecpt that her
husband made "harsh remarks" to
her at times. The defendant was not
in court but was represented b'y his
attorneys.
. Mrs. Brandeis, her mother and a
maid arrived In Omaha Sunday from
San Francisco. They will leave to
day for California.
Ervine Brandeis is expected to re
turn to Omaha this week from a tour
of several months in Europe. He will
assume active head of the Brandeis
interests in Omaha, George Brandeis
announced Monday.'
141. W. W. Report to
oerve rnson lerms:
Haywood is Missing!
Chicago, April 25. Dispirited and
lcaderless in the absence of William
D. (Big Bill) Haywood, who auto
matically became a fugitive from
justice, 10 I. W. W. members de
parted tonight for the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kas.
They were the Chicago contingent
of the 47 I. W. W. recently denied
a - new trial by the United States
supreme court and ordered back to
prison terms varying from five to
20 years.
- Haywood, who disappeared, about
a month ago and who has been re
ported as seeking bolshevik aid in
Russia, because of his failure to re
port on time will be branded as a
fugitive at midnight tonight and
every effort exerted by the Depart
ment of Justice to obtain his appre
hension, federal officials said. "We
have reports that he is now in Rus
sia, but will notify us of his willing
ness to return by cablegram within
the next few days," said one o'.ficial.
With four who departed last night
for Leavenworth, 14 members of the
I. W. W. in Chicago have been ac
counted for.
The prisoners were accompanied to
the train by "a sad-faced group of
wives,. sweethearts and friends. They
stood about in silent groups, several
of the women weeping in their hus
bands' arms.
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Tornadoes
Play Havoc
In Nebraska
Three Counties Are Swept bj
Twisters, Demolishing Farm
Buildings and Killing
Live Stock.
Loss Totals Thousands
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York, Neb., April 25. (Special
Telegram.) The farm house of Ern
est JoVnson, three and one-half miles
cast of Benedict, was demolished by
a twister which swept through the
county early Sunday night. A big
barn was blown down and one horse
killed. -Corn cribs, outbuildings,
windmills and telephone poles were
leveled by the storm. Damage to
property in the neighborhood of
Benedict and Grcsham is estimated at
$10,000.
Tornado Wrecks Buildings.
Red Cloud, Neb., April 25. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Damage totaling
many thousands of dollars was done
by a tornado which passed over this
section at 8:30 Sunday night.
The barn on the farm of W. A.
Romjuc, who lives just south of the
city limits, was demolished and sev
eral head of hogs were killed by the
storm. J. V. Wisecarvcr's barn, jut
north of town, was totally wrecked.
H. F. Cobbs, living 10 miles south
east of here, reports the loss of a
barn and other buildings.
The residence of Walter Rasse, six
miles northeast of the city, is said
to have been damaged. The tele
phone company reports a number of
poles down. The derrick at the
abandoned Big Chief oil well was
demolished.
Owing to the burning of a Burling
ton bridge two miles west of her
it was necessary to detour passenger
train No. 14 via Hastings last night.
Heavy Rainfall.
Norfolk, Neb., April 25. (Special
Teleeram.) A soakine rain, which
I 'vms r rlntid hurst nronortions in
some localities, was reported general
from Long Pine to Omaha and from
Winner to Norfolk and Columbus
Sunday night. Although streams
everywhere are swollen, no floods
occurred and there was no delay to
railroad traffic, reports from all parts1
of the eastern division of the North
western road indicate.
Telephone company wires were
slightly damaged by lightning which
accompanied the storm. Telephone
reports indicate the rain was heaviest
in the southeast portions of the Nor
folk district. Light rain was falling
around Winner Monday morning.
West of Lrfmg Pine snow fell on Sun
day, but it melted s fast as it
reached the ground.
Terrific Windstorm. '
Aurora, Neb., April 25. (Special
Telegram.) A terrific windstorm
wrought havoc in Aurora last night
at 9, doing damage to buildings ani
property estimated at several thou
sands of dollars. Buildings on tin
county fair grounds were partily
destroyed. The High school and
West school buildings also were
damaged. It is estimated that
$4,000 will be necessary to repair
the fair ground structures and
$1,000 for the school buildings. A
ham on the Peter Hansen place was
demolished and scores of small
buildings were smashed or over
turned. Some live stock was killed.
Snow at Ellsworth.
Ellsworth, Neb... April 25. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Rain that turned to
snow began falling early yesterday
continuing throughout the night.
This is the first moisture of con
sequence this spring and was needed
for crops.
High Wind Near Superior.
Superior, JS'eb., April 25. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Three-quarters of,
an inch of rain fell here last night,
with hail some miles west of here.
Buildings were overturned and dam
aged by the high wind between Red
i Cloud and Hastings.
Personnel of Shipping
board Is Completed
Washington, April 25. Former
Senator Chamberlain of Portland,
Ore., and Frederick I. Thompson of
Mobile, Ala., are understood to have
been definitely selected by President
Harding as members of the shipping
board. Both are democrats.
There were reports today that the
president had settled finally on five
of the seven members, but these
lacked confirmation at the White
House. This reported slate included
Charles A. Pie of Chicago as chair
man, Meyer Lisher of Los Angeles
and Rear Admiral Benson, present
chairman.
Suspected Slayer Denies
He Knows Father Is Dead
New York. April 25. Arrested in
Somerville, N. J. in connection with
the murder of his father in Orlando,
Fla., John R. Bryant today was re
ported .to have declared he did not
know his father was dead. Bryant
was taken in custody with his wife
and infant child after they had been
found in destitute circumstances.
The body of the father was found
buried in a lonely spot near Orlando
several weeks ago. A pet dog was
buried at his side.
Marine Engineers Break
Off Scale Negotiations
New York. April 25. Negotia
tions wero broken off today between
representatives of the Marine Engin
eers' Beneficial association and the
American Steamship Owners' as
sociation who have been holding
conferences regarding a contract to
supercede that expiring on May I.
Representatives of the men with
drew after refusing to make wage
reduction cf 20 to 30 per cer.t one.
of- the basis of discussion on drau-
ing the new contract.
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