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THE EKE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921.. Airplane Deluxe Crashes to Earth On Maiden Flight Liner Built for Transcon- uental Service ly Alfred ' Law son Wrecked at ? Milwaukee. ' Milwaukee, May 9. The greatest plane ever built in America, a mam moth $75,000 flying liner with berths, shower balii and luxurious accom modations tor Jo passengers, crash ed to tike ground here Sunday on "taiiiR oc" for it maiden flight. Allied VV. Lawson. desicner and builder, the pilot, John 'Wilcox, and two Milwaukee newspaper men were in the plane, but escaped un hurt. The plane. was intended for com i tu'ial purposes and transcontinental-flights. It was planned to stop at LaC'rosse, then at Chicago, and fly from Chicago to New York. Law son had dreamed of putting scores of these big ships into service and of building even bigger and better sky liners. This was the first of the drcanu fleet. It has a capacity of three tons of freight or mail, its wings spread 124 feet, and has a body 60 feet long. It is propelled by three Liberty motors aggregating 1,200 horsepower, A great crowd assembled to see the big plane off this morning, and as the machine started taxying over the ground the spectators started cheer ing. The field is small. The plane rapidly reached the edge of it and began to ascend. There was only one space f cTr it to ascend, between a . house and a tree. The pilot started to bank the giant car and struck the tip of the tree with a wing. The airplane swung around, struck and broke a telegraph pole, and then went smashing down. Mr. Lawson estimated the damage at $10,000. He said the machine would "be ready again in two weeks. He is still determined to carry out his ideas of the transcontinental freight and passenger service. When the. service is installed, Mr. Lawson ays a man will be able to make the , flight from New York to Chicago while he sleeps. The plane will leave the eastern metropolis at 10 o'clock, with the passengers in their berths, and reach Chicago between 5 aand 6 o'clock the next morning. Ultimatum of Allies Acceptable to Germans (Continued from l'age One.) .M,,!itmi. rtr,ruiiint and the ultima tum for wisely having refrained from projecting the questions of guilt or oral responsibility for. the war into the issue. He tells his countrymen they have a thorny, rocky road ahead but that acceptance now will remove "the paralyzing burden of uncertainty" and enable Germany's economic organization to settle down- to producing the surplus - nrpHiH trt meet the terms. He con cedes that the result of the efforts in this direction probably will not he visible for the first two or three years. Smoot Tax Exemption Bill Attacked by Land Banks Washington, May 9.T-Senator Smoot's bill to repeal the tax exemp tion privilege of securities issued by joint stock land banks 6f tha federal farm loan system was attacked to day before the senate banking com mittee by representatives of the American Association of Joint Stock Land banks,. V. V, Howell, secre tary of the association, said the meas ure was "an insidious attack upon the farm loan system designed to undermine and destroy the entire system. Efforts to Increase Army Appropriation Bill Fail Washington, May 9. Efforts to increase the $1,200,000 carried in the army appropriation bill for training f of enlisted men failed in the house todav. an amendment tor an addition di. from $100,000 to $500,000 in the amount of salaries ot instructors pe ing voted down.' Slow progress was made on the bill and republican leaders expressed doubt that it would be disposed of I tomorrow. ' Governor Seriously Hurt In Attack by Communists Vienna. May 9.-rCommunists on Sunday stormed a meeting at St. Lorenz while Governor Rentelen of Styria was addressing, the audience. The governor was beaten, tnrown from a window of thc.building and then stoned. His condition is re ported to be serious. Slayer of Husband Pleads Not Guihy in Murder Case New Orleans. May 9. Mrs. Ma thilda Levee, who Saturday shot and killed her husband, Frederick Levee, on a busy street, pleacfednot guilty in city criminal court todiy. She was held without bail. Mr. and Mrs. - Levee formerly were residents of Los Angeles. Ship Steward Beaten and . Robbed by Striker, Charge New Orleans, La May 9. T. A. Colemap. chief steward of the tanker Crude Oil, of the Mexican Petroleum company, reported to the police to day that late last night he was se verely beaten by alleged union strik ers and robbed of $270. Edward Fagan, a fireman,' is being held. Greek Army .Morale Is Said To Be Excellent in Smyrna .. Athens. May- 9. Military condi tions in the Smyrna district of Asia Minor are highly satisfactory, and the morale of the Greek army there is good, Premier Gounaris told King Cotistantine and the cabinet yester day. The premier returned last week from Smyrna. B'nai B'rith Opens Annual Convention at St. Louu St. Louis, May 9. Flans for pro 1 moting the various benevolences em braced in the scope of the organiza tion, were under consideration here .today at the sixty-ninth annual con ertion, district grand lodge 2, Inde pendent Otder B'nai B'rith. I '..-. .... - y Quadruplets Celebrate Sixth Birthday 'ill- v VV-' - v 'J tl The Keys quadruplets .of Hollis, Okl., the only quadruplets in that state, will celebrate thcirsixth birth day on June 4 next. The'children, of average size and lively dispositions, are declared to be the healthiest and Get Bergdoll at Any Cost, March's Aim (Continued from race Onr.) "N'o sir, his action was entirely correct from the standpoint of in ternational law." answered the gen eral. . "Rut if those men had brought Ecrgdoll back it would have been entirely satisfactory to me." General March said he knew little of the circumstances which led to Bergdoll's escape. He said that Gen eral Harris had brought to his at tention the letter "written by Gen eral Ansell, attorney for Bergdoll, asking for the release of Bergdoll long enough to permit him to locate the mysterious pot of gold buried in the mountains of western Pennsylvania. He said he told Gen eral Harris to do nothing in the matter that was not entirely right. Later on, he said, he approved the order for the court martialing of Colonel Hunt, commander of Fort Hunt, where Bergdoll was im prisoned. Exposes Gold Plot. W. L. Alexander, redemption change teller of the treasury depart ment, gave interesting testimony bearing on the pot of gold. On Uctober 17, as he recalled it, James E. Romig, the Bergdoll family ad viser, stepped into his office with an enormous bundle' of bills, some of them goW certificates and .others federal reserve notes payable in gold on demand at the bank of issue or at the Treasury department. Romig wanted $50,000 in gold immediately. Alexander refused to give it to him without a written order from his superiors. Romig took the matter up ' with Assistant Secretary of Treasury Leffingwell and obtained an order for the gold. Alexander then paid' it over to him in ten bags contain ing $5,000 each. The total weight of the gold was more than one strong man could carry.. Romig finally carried it out of the treasury, into an automobile. Ou November 17, according to Alexander, Romig and a woman ap peared at the treasury with anoth er big roll of bills and demanded $60,000. gold. Again after much parleying and red tape their demands were heeded and $60,000 in 12 sacks, , weighing in all 240 pounds, was turned over' to them. Alexander thinks now that the woman was Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, mother of the escaped prisoner. U. S. Keeps Pledge. Alexander testified that the treas ury officials Were very reluctant to pay out the gold, but found that tliey were without authority to re fuse because of the character of the notes and the certificates presented. They called for payment in gold on demand, and the treasury decided that the government onust keep its pledge. Alexander- said. The bills and notes were ''done up," Alexander testified, in bundles of $500. They were wrapped with straps bearing the stamp of several banks. Alex ander's memory on this was vague, but he thought that the straps bore the stamp of the First National bank of Camden, and "the First, Second or Third National bank of Phila delphia." : Alexander described Romiff and Mrs. Bergdoll as "foreigners." The quantity of ' gold they took away Jrom the treasury was the largest ever taken at any one .time in his 20 years' experience, he said. "We thought they were some for eigners who believed that the gov ernment was going to be overthrown-, and wanted to get all th'ev could," said Alexander. "Mr. Pierce, the cashier, talked to them and told them plainly that if he had his way he'd put them in the penitentiary." Col. Julius A. Pcnn, assistant to General Harris, adjutant general ot the army, told how his chief had called him on the telephone and con sulted him. regarding the letter Gen eral Anscll wrote requesting the temporary release of Bergdoll. "General Harris said he thought it was a reasonable request of a re sponsible attorney and I thought so, too," said' Colonel Pcnn. Mails Out Papers. A new form of impudence ,by' Bergdoll made its appearance at to day's hearing. He is making a prac tice of, sending copies of German newspapers to Representative Kahn of California, chairman of the house military affairs; committee, and Sec-' retary of War Weeks. He always picks out . issues containing bitter anti-American articles. Representa tive Kahn laid before the committee, today a copy of the Ebenburger 2ti tung containing a report of the re lease of the two American detec tives who tried to kidnap Bergdoll. The Zeitung denounced the release of the American'detectives and gave a lurid account of how Germans were fleeing from the United States to escape persecution. Mr. Kahn informed 'the committee that the newspaper was addressed tn him .in, Bergdoll's handwriting. He had sent' the wrapper to Phila delphia and had the writing iden tified as Bergdotrs, he said. Patrolman Slain by Bandits He Surprises in Buralarv Ogdcn, Utah, May 9. Charles Manzell. Ogden patrolman, on his first shift after a leave of absence for war wnrlr. wa shnt tn rt?h K bandits early this morning when he came upon them robbing a clothing ; sinrc nere. i : The burglars escaped. happiest youngsters in Oklahoma. The four girls, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Keys, play together, eat together and do almost everything else together in perfect harmony. They have not been ill a day since No Protest Is Made To Free Canal Tolls n . (Continued from Tag One.) form declaration in favor of toll ex emption for all American ships, but he believes it should be done ' by means of an understanding with Great Britain, the other party to the treaty. Whether he will halt the proposed legislation pending nego tiations with Great Britain or leave that matter for discussion with Eng land after passage of the legislation remains to be seen. Favored in West. At the meeting today Senators Jones and Poindexter of Washing ton presented arguments in favor of their bills exempting all American ships from payment of tolls. Sena tor Borah has introduced a bill ex empting coastwise ships only. Senator Jones asserted that "an American ship of 6.000 tons has to pay $7,200 canal tolls, a ' burden which American ships should not be required to bear in using , a water way constructed and protected by the United States." "Tolls imposed on American ships constitute 3 per cejat of the invest ment, clearly a large proportion of their margin of profit," said Senator Walsh of Montana,, democrat. Knox Explains Situation. "There can be no misunderstand ing of Great Britain's position," said Senator Knox, who was secretary of state when the. British protest against toll exemption was received in 1912. "Great Britain knows the rule of the maritime .world respect ing coastwise vessels and it would be the last to seek to prevent our coastwise vessels from being 'given free use of the ffanal.. I am not prepared to sav by whom; tut it has always been clear to me that the i levying oi ions on uncricaii ves sels was inspired and hatched in this country." "Presumably by the railroad in terests?" inquired Senator Walsh. "It is to be presumed that.it was," replied Senator Knox. Senator Foindexter said that the "most" asinine" aspect of American policy is the requirement that Ameri can battleships and other naval ves sels pay tolls. ' This statement tc casioned much surprise, inasmuch as the committee ruled in 1915 that American naval' vessels :'were' ex empted from tolls because the y we're employed to protect and maintain the canal. Third Person Dies of Hurts Received in Plane Wreck Abilene, Tex., May 9. With the death late last night, of E. A. Lock ing, a civilian aviator,, the third fa tality from yesterday's airplane acci dent near Abilene was registered. Miss Margaret Pearson and; a me chanic of the name of Carson, who was piloting the machine, were the other victims. 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The chief of police in this city has received a let ter signed "The Tramways pick pockets association" complaining that the persons from whom they abstract pocketbooks have "the dishonest habit" of invariably declar ing to the police a much larger fi nancial loss than they have really suffered. They cite specific cases where one man claiming to have been robbed of 2,500 lire only lost 50, and another one, reporting a loss of 1,800 lire when his pockctbook contained less than 200. The letter argues that such ex aggerations are likely to cause strained relations among the pick pocket fraternity when a member of the association turns in a few hun dred lire when the loser claims to have lost thousands. Stereotyper. Holds Up Five Men; Ice Pick Is Weapon Sioux City, la., May 9. Working alone and armed with an ice pick, George A. Erickson, 31 years old, a stcrcotypcr, held up five men accord ing to a confession made to the po lice. 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One , new accusation was made against Jack Brophy. and two additional charges against Frank Harty when the civil service commission resumed its investiga tion of charges of collusion against the deposed police heads. One wit ness testified that Brophy took $200 lor the return of a stolen car and another said Harty took $50 to pro tect an alleged Rambling joint pro prietor whose place had been raided by police. Harty was also accused of seizing a quantity' of liquor which police records do not account for. Unique Court Order. A unique, court order was issued here today to permit Mike Vchar to leave the county jail twice a day to go home and milk his cows. The order was made after members ' of the Vehar family came into court . . , . .u and asserted tnat tne cows wouia let down their milk- only to Vehar himself Mid that efforts of others of the family to milk them were in vain. Flyer Dies From Injuries. Harold. H. Dtijardine, 22, oi Chi cago, engaged in commercial flying, died at Marshalltown, la., late yes terday of in juries sustained w hen his plane' fell oOO feet. A gust of wind is believed to have caused him to lose control. His skull was frac tured. Guy Wood , of Dcs Moines, his passenger, was slightly bruised. Dujardiive was a lieutenant in the world war. The fall took place at the flying field in the northeastern part of town at the old Country club grounds. Dujardine had just taken the air with Woods, giving the latter experience in flying in the wind. The plane had . not cleared the flying field before, the wind tore it from the control of the aviator. In the fall Dujardine was injured in the head by a portion of the plane landing on him. I lis skull was fractured, one eye b'cingt crushed out. He also sustained A broken leg and other serious injuries. Commencement May 20. Sholcs, Neb., May 9. (Special.) The Sholes consolidated school will hold commencement exercises on May 20. Prof. S..X. Cross of the Wayne State Teachers' college- will deliver the commencement address. FTERall the big point in clothes is Style. Almost all clothes give Comfort-Many give Service' "Ready" clothes give you all three; You Personal Service Months Three Months 1921 ... .for which send me The Beautiful Rotogravure Section) special offer ..State R. F.D , , ........ . . A Plane. 4-Mulc Team, Man Carrying Milk and He-Goat Make Awful Mess Shenandoah, la.. May '). The combination of a low Hying airplane, a four-mule team attached to a farm roller, a man carrying two-buckets of milk and lastly a hc-oat, brought about a chapter of rapid-fire, excit ing events on the Henry Read farm, near here, which did not result in any casualties or any greater loss than the dignity of Mr. Read and George Jones. , Henry was driving a four-mule power roller on one of his fields which, had just been plowed and was sitting with his chin resting on his knees thinking about everything in particular and nothing in general and singing his favorite, and justly fa mous song about one of his friends wearing a "yaller ribbon," when he was startled by hearing a sound like a stuttering Ford just over his head. He1 looked up and saw something that looked like a cross between a tazor-bacck mosquito and the aveng ing angel headed right for him. It seems that at just this time the four mules, which Henry was driving s.0 nicely with two lines, saw the flying demon, Henry says the mules ran off, but whenever he tells it the mules' look at him with an expression in their eyes, as much as to say, "We didn't feel anyone pulling very hard on the lines." While Henry was vainly trying to get the mules safely out of the way of the flying dragon and at the same time protect himself, things ef equal and more painful magnitude were happening on Mr. Reads farm, the janitor of the First' National bank, familiarly known as George, who does the milking for Mr. Read, was having troubles which made Mr. m MIL You have -T Read's difficulties look like a ladies' aid tea. in comparison. George had just finished his milking and was ro ing to ' the house carrying a full bucket of milk in cither "hand, when an old ram became frightened at the low flying devil, and, taking deadly aim and a running start, hit poor old George between the buckets with disastrous results. George went one way; it is said he went fast; the ram right after him and the milk nearly drowned them both. Jonnart Named by France As Ambassador to Vatican Paris, May 9. Charles Jonnart, former allied high commissioner in Athens -and former extraordinary ambassador to the Vatican, has been definitely selected by the French gov ernment, according to L'Eclaire to day; as France's ambassador to the Vatican. The mission, says the news paper, will be a temporary one, for a period of six months, but subject to renewal. Pope Benedict, L'Eclaire states, has chosen Monsignor Ccrrctti, papal undersecretary of state, as nuncio at Paris under the same conditions. Seaplanes at Hampton Roads To Bomb German Vessels New York, May 9. Two seaplanes, which for eight weeks have been proficiently dropping bombs in dummy battleships near the Rock away naval station, arrived yester day at Hampton Roads, where this week two German battleships are to be made targets in an aerial bombing test. Your Sweet Girl Graduate c .. WHEN you see "the other girls" will you feel that yours should have had a ; prettie: frock ? A white dress will be useful all Summer. Be fore it is too late, come and see how simple and inexpensive, and how perfectly designed for youth, our Commencement Dresses are The pricing will be a great advantage to you. Lafayette When you return. from a ride in the LAFAYETTE, you will say things in its praise that we could not in modesty set up in type LA FAYETTE-HAYWARD CO. Farnam Street at 28th Phone (D aluavs known there would be : : Bulgaria Forces Ponnln Irk T nKnii III rl f -c . n ah uiasses oi aot-ieiv iu? Under Compulsory Work Law. London, May 9. All classes o society in Bulgaria have been callec upon to fulfill their civic dutic! under the provisions of the compul sory labor law, which was adopted a year ago. The law provides tha men who had attained the age of 2' and girls who were 16 years old were to be called upon for a ccrtainj amount of compulsory labor for tha state. Men were to work 12 months and women six months, and none as allowed to emigrate until duties' imposed had been performed. within the scope of the law was "Ait fru - e i , .-.-, ,i . . uv.vuv, oi wnom ouw.uw nave been' at work, the labor done comprising road making, sanitary service, dig-j ging of canals, street paving and thd buildings of schools and reading) rooms. Conviet in California Pen Is Slain by Prisoncij San'Quentin, Cal May 9. Rufusi Acosta, serving a 10-year sentancej in the penitentiary here for murder was stabbed last night by a fellow prisoner, Manuel Lopez, and died within a short time, prison officials announced today. Lopez, they said, Harney 0345 such a car