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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 51 NO. 3. fatwrt M Mm-Ctut Mittw tUy M. IN, at IhM P. 0. Uw Act Hutu 3. l7. OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921. Until Juiu 2S. ky Mali (I Vr.), Daily 4 Sua., $7 M: Oallr Only. IS: Sua.. 12.90 Oatil4lli lout (I ar). Dally aa (aadajr. Dally Ool. 112: 8und Only. 13 " THREE CENTS Two Fleet Naval Policy Continued Leading Strategists Lo6e Cam paign for Reuniting Na- v " w krvw a uitva ju ill lantic Ocean. Pacific Fleet Stronger By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chicago Tribune-Omaha II r Leaiwd Wire. Washington. June 20. The liar ding administration has decided to continue the Daniels policy of divi sion of the navy into an Atlantic and a Pacific fleet, despite the opin ions of the leading naval strategists that such dispersal of the antion's set forces brooks disaster in the event of war. The Pacific fleet is to be made stronger than the Atlantic fleet by thc.Bssignment to the Pacific of all flirt ticttirAa 4111 in rf m nMnorfii t a1 burning first line battleships and the assignment to the Atlantic of the older coal burning ships. The total tonnage of the Atlantic feet as reorganized will.be 679I473. ; cvclusive of submarines and that of ST. the Pacific fleet 8.?.? 296. Th Paeifir fleet will be given two more first line battleships eventually than at pres ent, these ships being now under construction, but will lose one second line battleship. In the aggregate the Pacific fleet will be 45,300 tons heav ier than now. -. Nine First Line Ships. Til Ari will hp advert fVtrpnfiiallv nine) first line and six second line battleships in the Pacific fleet com- j . -.1. 11 i 1.1 : r .it l'uu wiui ii uttiucMiips ui au glasses in the Japanese navy. The Japanese have in addition four bat tle cruisers and arc building eight, while America has' none and is build ing six. The tonnage of the Japa nese navy is 540.426. . Secretary of the Navy Denby an nounced the plans of reorganization of the navy this afternoon.. When asked if these plans indicate the pol icy of the administration on the ques tion of reuniting the fleets he re plied: "It means a continua,tion of the policy of two fleets." The secretary declined to state the reasons for continuing the Daniels policy or to discuss the matter further than outlining the reorgan ization plans. The decision to main tain the navy in a divided state was made by the president, it transpires, - ftt- Ancititinor unitll fr TlntlHv. Secretary of State Hughes and other memi f the cabinet, vr ,v. v.. ;,- Composition 61 Fleets. PaotTcN:oast bases adequate fot- the. maintenance of the entire navy in the Pacific is said to have been a factor in the decision. At the same time the administration believed it unwise on account of the international situ ation in the Pacific to withdraw the (Torn to Fat Two, Column Three.) Farmers to Pool Orders for Coal Final Plans Completed for Buying 3,000,000 Tons as Saving of $1.50. thlcafo Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaed Wire. Chicago, June 20. Definite plans for the pooling, of orders for more than 3,000.000 tons of coal for the farmers of the middlewest were out lined at the second coal conference held in Chicago today. Farm bureau secretaries and presidents of 10 states, -including Ohio, 'Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin. Nebraska and Kentucky attended the conference. After a thorough investigation conducted by a subco"mmittee, the farmers find that they can buy coal at a saving of $1.50 a ton. Accord ing to the plan the individual farm ers wHl place their orders with their county farm bureau. There will be a state pool, instead of a . national nnnt ami ihf rtiirrhasin? aeent of each state farm bureau will contract fi lug limit ... . TVi Mai will Vie chinned in car load lots to local co-operative eleva tors and the farmers will pay cash at the cars. All of the coal will be distributed through the co-operative grain elevators and the final accounts will be audited by the American Farm Bureau federation, the organ ization that is fostering the move ment Funeral Services Held .For Congressman Mason Chicago, June 20. Hundreds of personal and political friends, includ ing a delegation of congressmen, at tended the funeral of Congressman William E. Mason today at the Third Unitarian church. A wreath from President Harding was on the casket. Cablegrams of. condolence from several foreign countries were received. Burial was to take place at Waukegan, 111. Mondell's Water Supply Bill Is Passed By House Washington, June 20. The house passed today Representative Mon dell's bill to permit equitable appor tionment of the water supply of the Colorado river among Arizona, Cali fornia, Colorado, Nevada, New Mex ico, Utah and Wyoming. The meas ure now goes to the. senate. Plan Aeroulane Meet Nelson, Neb., June 20. (Special) Arrangements have just been com pleted by Nelson business men for the first inter-state aeroplane meet and show to be held here Thursday. Friday and Saturday, July 14, IS and 16, A dozen ships with as many expert flyers have already been book Fifi Sheltered in Her Girlhood Life 4- 5 -J- Brilliant Athlete, "Whip" and Nature Lover .Jm 4- .J .J $ - Debut In New York Society At 18 (This i the third of a aerie of article teUlne FUI Stlllman'a own etory. They will appear exclnalvely In The Bee. The fourth article will be publlehed Wednesday In both mornlfif and evenlna; edition.) (Copyright. 1181, by tho Dally New. New York.) On the day before Christmas, 1879, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Brown Potter at their home, 37 East Thirty-seventh street. That is the way the announcement might have read. The child was Fiii Potter, whose fortunes as Mrs. James A. Stillman have been chron icled in the divorce court for the past 10 months. "My name, Fifi, dates from my earliest days," Mrs. Stillman says. "In my early childhood the servants were all French either from France or Louisiana, you see. Fifi is the most usual sort of nickname for any little girl in France. I suppose it comes from 'fille,' meaning girl, and therefore would correspond to 'girlie.' "I must have been fully S or 6 beforfe I knew a word of Eng lish. Afterward, wheen I did begin to speak English, the name stuck. People misunderstand the name or make much of it It's really nothing but a childish nickname." , Lover of Outdoors. In the Potter house at Tuxedo park presented to Mrs. Potter after she had made the colony a fashion able success little Fifi spent most of her childhood. She had the Berkshire foothills for playmates, and early developed that love of out door life which has been one of her distinguishing characteristics. Even as a child she had her mother's glorious Titian hair, with something of her vivacity and wit, friends say. Mary Doran, the nurse who stayed with the little girl after the separation of her parents, was her most constant attendant. New. York she was for only a few months in the vear, when she made Britain Ready For Conference On Disarmament Lloyd George Tells Imperial Council Co-Operation With TJ. S. Is a Cardinal Principle. By The Associated Press. London, June 20. Premier Lloyd Gsorge, in opening the imperial con ference attended by the overseas premiers, today referred to Anglo Japanese relations in terms gener ally regarded in American circles as assurance to the United States that any renewal of the agreement with Japan would be of a nature unobjec tionable to America.' " While he avoided a declaration on the direct issue, of the treaty, he al tuded to the wartime friendship with Japan and said Great Britain was anxious to apply this friendship to a solution of the questions con nected with the Pacific ocean and the far east, among them the future of China. Great Britain desired to avoid competition in armaments in the Pa cific, he declared, and he empha sized the willingness to discuss lim itation of armaments with the United States. He pointed out that the life of the United Kingdom, as also of Australia and New Zealand, was built on sea power "the basis of the whole empire's existence." Urges Co-Operation. Discussing relations between Great Britain and the United States, he said: " "Friendly ' co-operation with the United States is for us a cardinal principle dictated by what seems to us the proper nature of things, by instinct quite as much as by reason and common sense. "We are ready to discuss with American statesMen any proposal for the limitation of armaments which thev wish to set forth, and we can undertake that no such overtures will find lack of willingness on tiur part to meet them." ! The first session was without cere mony. Mr. Lloyd George welcomed the visitors, who he saiaTtnet as "equal partners in the dignities and responsibilities of the British com monwealth." He summarized post-war condi tions and said German disarmament (Turn to rare Two, Column Two.) Sports! Sports! Sports! The snappiest Sport Page in Nebraska is that of The Omaha Bee. You don't think so ? Then you haven't read it lately. The Bee Sport Page has been re-made. READ IT TODAY t READ IT visits to her granduncle, Bishop Henry J. Potter, or to her grand parents. Her mother became a legend to her a legend which her family made no effort to keep alive. The atmosphere was that of "the Potters of old New York" conser vative, quiet, aristocratic. While Mrs. Brown Potter was at the height of her brilliant career abroad, her daughter was pursuing a placid round of studies at home, taking her diversion toy riding, tennis, golf and driving. Brilliant Athlete. "Fifi Potter was a lover of the great outdoors even as. a child," says a woman of society who has spent many summers at Tuxedo. "We developed a healthy respect for Fifi Potter's abilities long before she was 16. She was a brilliant tennis player, and long before she came oue everybody at Tuxedo recognized her as a very good 'whip.' She had the charm which goes with that sort of healthy and unspoiled girlhood. It was a fore gone conclusion that she would be a great success in society." In summer the Tuxedo colony be came gay over night. The fashion ables from New York, who had first learned to know the place through Fifi Potter's mother, arrived in June to start .the season. First Dancing Party. All the summer gayeties were un known to the child who grew up in the midst of them. She was 16 when she went to her first dancing party. Her first step into the circle for which she was destined was made in a school girl costume and viewed with a schoolgirl's eyes. It was a momentous occasion. Ponies ' and books and . tennis had been her fare for all of her quiet girlhood. Her first party was the foreshadowing of that tremendous (Turn to Par Two, Column Two.) Labor Board Cuts Wages of Men on More Railroads Affects Employes Not In volved in Board's For mer Order of June ..First.' Chicago, June 20. Announcement of a wage reduction order affecting nearly all railroads involved in the $600,000,000 wage, award of July, 1920 and not named in the reduction or der of June 1, is expected this week, t was learned at the United States railroad labor board today. A brief hearing covering about 30 roads asking wage cuts was held to day. The board's decision on this case and on the hearing of June 5 when more than ISO roads presented petitions, w.ll be rendered simultane ously. The HcoMon, it was earned today, will be drawn as an addendum to the wage reduction order of June 1 and the reductions will be virt'wlly identical with the average 12 per crnt cr.t granted by that order The addendum will probably be ocmpleted by the end of this week," a member of the board said today. It is the board's intention to publish it as far in advance of July 1 as pos sible. The addendum order will be effective on that date, when the original reduction decision also goes into effect. " President Appoints Negro Collector of Internal Revenue i New York, June 20. President Harding has reached an agreement with state and local republican lead ers on the appointment of Charles W. Anderson, the negro republican leader, to the post of collector of internal revenue. A new internal revenue district is to be created, cov reing substantially the area of the old Third district, of which Ferdi nand Eidman was collector for many years prior to 1913. Anderson for years has been a mem ber of the republican state committee and during the Taft administration was internal revenue collector of the lower Manhattan district, the wealth iest in the entire country. It As refreshing. It is breezy. It has the Sporting News of the day and bright com ment and gossip also by "Bugs" Baer, Vieock and Menkc; special articles by a score of well-known specialists on particular topics, in cluding Jack Dempsey (himself); leads by The Bee Sporting Editor, Ralph Wagner. TODAY The Omaha Bee "Extra Dry Bill Meets Opposition Fear That Carrying, Prohibi tion to Extremes May De feat Its Own Ends; Assails Leaders Beer Measure In Senate Chicago Tribune-Omaha. Br Leased Wire. Washington, June 20. The new Volstead bill, designed to make the 18th amendment airtight, appeared to be blocked today by an array of opposition composed largely of "dry" congressional leaders, who are fearful that prohibition enforce ment if carried to extremes, may de feat its own ends. The bill not only would prohibit the prescription of beer as medicine, but would lay down new and drastic regulations for the use of industrial alcohol. Representative Volstead of Minnesota, its author, wants the house rules committee to declare it an emergency measure and railroad it through the house "as quickly as possible," subject to no amendment and only two hours debate. Pros pects are that the committee will not heed his request. To meet this situation, Senator Willis of Ohio, republican, intro duced a bill in the senate practically limited to the prohibition of beer prescriptions. He stated that he did not expect much opposition to a bill of such restricted scope. His pur pose was simply to prevent the wide spread use of beer as medicine, while the house argued out the questioin of further tightening up the pro hibition laws, he explained. Wheeler Attacks Clyne. Testifying today before the house rules committee, Wayne B. W heeler, spokesman for . the anti-saloon league, complained bitterly of the difficulties of enforcing prohibition in Chicago. "District Attorney Clyne couldn't be driven by 40 bloodhounds to start a prohibition case," said Wheeler. "Nevertheless, we have been able to kee Chicago from being soaked with liquor through the courageous action, of Attorney General Brund age, who, has gone into the federal courts and prosecuted the cases." Despite the fact that the rules committee was composed almost en tirely of "drys" there was an under current of resentment among the members at the tactics employed by the prohibitionists who are demand ing the immediate passage of the VolsteadbiU. At the conclusion of the- hearing, Chairman Campbell of Kansas, himself a stalwart "dry," took occasion to reply to threats from prohibition headquarters to de feat him unless he contributed his influences to hurried passage of the legislation. "I wish to say that I do not take kindly to criticism of this sort, from men of this sort, who have been making a business of prohibition," said Mr. Campbell. "I have no fear of such- threats, coming as they do from men who are being paid to lobby before congress on. the pro hibition question." Rebukes Freely Made. . Other members of the committee joined in rebuking the zeal of the prohibitionists. " . . Representative Fess of Ohio, chair man of the congressional campaign command, always counted as a "dry" leader, said: "I am a little worried that we are going too far. I am afraid we are putting too many restrictions on legitimate business." ' . Another strong prohibitionist, Rep resentative Pou . of North Carolina, said: "There is a feeling throughout the country that the provisions of the Volstead act are a little severe and should not be made more severe. People, are getting tired of congress writing so many don'ts oh the statute books." . Flaws in the Volstead bill were found by Alfred Van Buren, former chief counsel of the prohibition en forcement bureau of the Treasury department. Mr. Van Buren pointed "out that the new bill would change the regu lations which allow a doctor to pre scribe a pint of whisky every 10 days for internal use. He explained that it would allow one-half pint of alcohol for both external and internal use. This, he said, would be a seri ous .handicap and complication to many doctors who recommend al cohol fqr external application. Murder Mystery Blows Up; Body Found Is Old Mummy Pueblo, June 20. What promised to be a murder mystery ot the great flood here followed the finding last night of the skeleton ot a woman in a box in an alley off the main business district. Today R. H. Wim- mer, manager of the Gallup Saddlery company, blew the murder theory to pieces with the announcement that the "body" was the mummy of a cliff dweller which had teen in the store for at least IS years. The mummy floated into the alley dur ing the flood. State Inspectors Visit 6,164 Nebraska Kitchens Lincoln,' June 20. (Special.) Restaurant kitchens, v numbering 6,164, . have been inspected in the last year by inspectors from the state department of agriculture, ac cording to a report issued today. There have been 633 sanitary orders issued and 25 prosecutions started as a result of the inspections. International Trade Conference in Mexico " Mexico City, June 20. (By the Associated Press.) The first inter national trade conference in Mexico City, organized by the chambers of commerce of Mexico, was formally opened by President Obregon .with more than 500 delegates prcsetr Woman Pleads With Murderer To Kill Her Too Farm Hand Shoots Employer In Presence of Victim's Wife Is Captured by Posse Without Fight. Pender, Neb., June 20. (Special Telegram.) After seeing her hus band shot and killed before her eyes, Mrs. John G.. Schnier pleaded with the murderer, William Mattox, a hired hand at the Schnier farm, to kill her too. Mattox refused her plea and made his escape, to be captured later by members of a posse. He was lodged in the Pender jail, but may be removed to avert mob violence. The murder followed an argument over Mattox's pay. Schnier dis charged the hired man at noon and came to Pender to get the money to pay him off. : The amount of wages due was $170 and' the farmer was able to raise only a portion of this sum. After a lengthy argument, Mattox shot Schnier through the back of the head with a shotgun loaded with buckshot. The farmer died instant ly. : The wife, who witnessed the tragedy, fell on her knees before the murdeder as he stood with the smok ing gun in his hands and begged him to kill her too. Mattox pushed her rudely aside, climbed into an automobile and forced a relative of the dead man. who was visiting at the place, to drive him away. They drove in the direction of Rosalie. Sheriff Rutkedgc was notified of the murder at once. He organized a posse and pursued the escaping farm hand. One group of the posse, composed of C. t. Baker, J. h.. Mevers. H D. Heyn and V. L. Pen ny, Pender business men, overtook Mattox and captured him without a fight. - ' The shooting occurred about 2 p. m. today. Schnier, who was 30 years old, is survived by his wife and, a 5-year-old son. . - Gross Negligence in Hospital Is Charged Des Moines. Tune 20. (Special Telegram.) Charges of gross negli gence, which is alleged to have been direetlv responsible for two - deaths at Samaritan, hospital, the municipal hospital, were made today before the greater Des Moines committee. The indictment of the city's man agement of the hospital was made by a representative of the Polk County Medical association, who asserted that city physicians were handling cases for which they were not qualified. Operations were be ing perfored by men who had not reached -a required standard and po lice surgeons were daily overstep ping their bounds, it was alleged. A committee of representative business men was appointed to probe the charges. . Sunday Sale of Gasoline In Iowa Declared Legal Des Moines. June 20. .(Special Telegram.) The sale of gasoline on Sunday in Iowa was decided legal in' a test case decided today. . Sunday blue laws prohibit any work except of necessity. It was decided sale of gasoline is a necessity. Senate Conferees Decide . To Agree on Army of 150,000 Washington, June 20. Senate conferees en the army appropriation hill decided today to recommend that the army be reduced to 150,000 Ujnlisted men by next .October The Thermostat Nebraska Banker Sentenced to Pen Conviction Brands as Crim inal Bad Paper Placed to Cover Money. Lincoln, June 20.-r-(SpeciaIJ F, M. Ridings, president of the Farm ers' State bank at Halsey, Neb., to day was sentenced to one" to 10 years in the state prison by- the Thomas county district court at Thcdford ...... - Attorney General Clarence A. Davis, who prosecuted the case, said 20 1,000 certificates had been issued, 10 without any security, at all. The others were secured by alleged worthless bonds securing a loan on 5.000 acres of Michigan land, made by the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo, N. D. "This conviction is important," said Davis, "because it brands as criminal bad paper placed by bank officers to cover money drawn out and will no doubt cause many Ne braska bankers to. stop, look and listen before accepting notes and se curities for money." . Davis announced fhat charges against E. N. Dion, cashier, ttould be dropped, as Dion turned state's evidence, and Davis is convinced that he was a "goat" for financiers from Minnesota, who directed his actions. . . The original purchaser of tms bank was R. Earl Capron of Minne sofa, gridiron star with the Gophers two years ago and a member of their famous "al-star" team. Capron sold the bank to Ridings. ; 23,795 Arrested for Drunkenness in "Dry" Norway During 1920 Christiana, Norway, June 20. Norway is supposed to be . a ' "dry" country, but no fewer 'than 23,795 persons were arrested last year for being drunk and 34350 arrests were made for sundry misdemeanors traceable to the effects of intoxicants, it is shown in official statistics. While these figures indicate a slight falling off as compared with the previous vear, they are far in excess of those for. 1918. . Norway's broken coast line affords unlimited opportunities for smug gling; which has become, a regular trade, especiallv wih former German naval officers. Fast motor boats and small steamers ply between various isolated coastal points and German ports and most of the smugglers are heavily armed. Oil Tanks at Casper Burn Steadily for 48 Hours Casper, Wyo, June 20. After burning steadily for 48 hours, the fire which was started Friday when a bolt of lightning struck a big oil tank on the Midwest Refining com pany s tank farm.' finally was ex tinguished last night, with nothing but huge heaps of smoking debris and piles of melted and twisted steel to mark where had stood the seven giant tanks destroyed. According to an estimate given out at the com pany's offices this morning, the loss will amount to $874,700, which does not include $25,000 estimated expense in fighting the: flames for two days. Woman Assaulted as Thug Holds Gun on Companion Des . Moines, Jiune 20. (Special Telegram.) Otto Rasmussen, clerk. was held , un here Sunday night and robbed and his young woman com panion was assaulted while one ot the thugs held a gun on Rasmus sen. The couple were attacked on a lonely road and could not summon help, Giant Negro On Trial for Murder Of Grocer Rubens Thumb Prints ; on Bloody Razor Said to Be Those of Lfittier, Cbarged With " Crime. A web of circumstantial evidence pointing to John' Lattier, . negro, . as the murdered of .C. Rubens was woven by Chief Deputy County At torney Coffey yesterday afternoon at Lattierfs trial in District Judge Leslie's court. Rubens, 70, operated a little gro cery store at 623 North Seventeenth street. He was found there with his head half severed from the body about midnight, March 26. Yesterday C. J. We'sterdahl, 1715 Burt street, testified that he found a bloody razor in his front yard the morning of March 27. On this razor are thumb prints said to be those of Lattier. Lattier a giant negro, lived at 1808 North Twenty-fourth street. A postcard written by him was intro duced yesterday ordering from a St. Louis firm a razor of the same brand as the one found in the yard after the murder. In the home of Joseph . Bryant 1210 North Twenty-fourth street, a razor case of this same brand was found. Bryant is a half brother of Lattier. . This morning Hans Nielsen, Ber tillon expert, will testify regarding the thumb prints on the bloody razor and their relation to the thumb print of Lattier. British Antarctic Expedition Located . Vancouver, B. C, June 20. The British imperial Antarctic expedition which sailed from England last Sep tember landed on Graham island at latitude 64:50 south, longitude 62:40 west on January 12, said a dispatch today to the Vancouver Sun from the Sydney (Australia) Harald. The dis patch added that the expedition had found rich seal and penguin colonies at Enrood bay. Dr. ' John L. Cope, biologist and surgeon, commander , of the British expedition, said when he left on his five years' trip that he would attempt to reach the south pole by airplane. His ship, Thor I, was last heard from February 11, when a dispatch from Santiago, Chile, reported the expedition sailed from Port Stanley, Falkland islands, December 20, 1920. Four Persons Killed When Electric Car Strikes Auto Fremont, O., June 20. Four per sons were killed and two injured shortly after 11 o'clock last night when an eastbound car on the Lake- shore electric line struck an automo bile about three miles east of here. The dead are L. R. Silcox, Harold Silcox, 21, his son: Mrs. Eva Black and Miss Olive Miller. All lived in Norwalk, O. - The Weather - Forecast Tuesday fair; not much change in temperature. ; . Hourly Temperatures. S . m. . at. .A 1 p. m t p. m...... I p. m 4 p. m 5 p. ra p. M 7 p. S KlttU': 7 .' m... S a. m. . , ft. n... ..1 10 a. m.., 11 . m... 1U M) Nebraskaii Leads Fight For Ireland Senator Norris Urges Passage Of Resolution Condemn ing Practice of British Forces. Quotes War Pledget Chicago TrlbuiiP-OniHlis Dm l.Ml Wire Washington, Juns 20. Charges that the British forces in Ireland have been guilty of "cruelties and in human punishment without parallel in the history of civilization," were made in the senate today by Senator Norris of Nebraska. The senator urged the passage of his resolution condemning the prac tices of the British forces in Ireland and expressing the sympathy of the senate for the efforts of the Irish people to have a government of their own choosing. The resolution is companion piece cf the La Follette resolution recognizing the inde pendence of the Irish republic. Both tieasures are ( ow before the foreign relations conjinittee and Senator Norris' speech today was the openi ing gun of a vigorous campaign to force action in the measures at the present session of congress. Senator Norris contended that the British government has not only broken its promise, given during the war, to apply the principle of self determination to Ireland, but that since the cessation of hostilities, its conduct towards Ireland has been worse than ever before. Reviews British Policy. The senator reviewed the British policy in Ireland, recounted scores of atrocities attributed to British soldiers. He quotedat length state ments made during tnewar by Lloyd George, Herbert Asquith. Lord Robert Cecil, Winston Churchill, Andrew Bonar Law, Sir Edward Grey and others, who, he declared, led Ireland to believe that she would gain her freedom when the demo cratic deals expounded by President Wilson had triumphed over Ger-' many. ' "We have recently emerged from a great war in which we were one of the allies of Great Britain," said Senator Norris. "We , announced to the world, and Great Britain an nounced to the world, that the war was being fought for the self-determination of peoples. The American soldier and the British soldier who fALrvltfr r- 't A a 1... . mm .VUSt.fc Biuv VJf milt: VU WIG UftUlCi fields of Europe tficlieved they were ; nghtmg, yes. tnat they were dying, for the principle of freedom and the right of every people to govern themselves. "Not only the soldiers, but the men, women and children, who sac rificed in every home to keep the army at the front, all believed their sacrifices were being made for hu- . (Turn to Fag Twa, Celomn Oae.) Disabled Vets to Hold Convention Rabbi, Blinded at Montfau con, Will Deliver Invo cation. Detroit, Mich., June 20. A blind hero of the world war will be the center of attraction at the formal opening of the first annual conven tion of the Disabled American Vet erans of the World War here os June 27., He is Michael Aaronson, rabbi and student of the Hebrew Union college. Cincinnati, who as chaplain of the Disabled . American Veterans will deliver the invocation at the first day's session of the vet erans. Rabbi Aaronson at the outbreak of the war enlisted and served in the 147th infantry. Both his eyes were blown out when in the capture of Montfaucon in the Argonne he was struck by a shell as he was bringing back wounded American soldiers. Tuesday, June 28, addresses of wel come will be delivered by Governor, Groesbeck of Michigan and Mayor Couzins of Detroit. Ambassador Jusserand of France will deliver the greeting to the republic of France, and if Gen. John J. Pershing can be present he probably will make an ad dress. General Pershing has notified Captain Marx he will either be pres ent or send a personal greeting. In the afternoon a parade will be held. Tuesday evening there will be a French fete at"Belle Isle. On Wed nesday there will be a business ses sion and an address by Uel Lamkin, director of the federal board for vo cational education. Mr. Lamkin has 77,000 disabled soldiers in training and he will tell about their activities. Vera Cruz Marine Workers Renew Contract 3 Months Vera Cruz, June 20. Marine work ers who have been on strike here have reached an agreement with the Mexican .Navigation company to re sume Wrork wider the old contract for three months. The agreement in eludes a stipulation that all strike breakers employed during the strike will be replaced by union men. The conflict arose over the annulment of wage contracts between the employ ing company and the maritime union, the copany insisting that these con tracts be replaced by a system of individual understanding. Four Electrocuted Bellefonte. Pa.. June 20. Four men were electrocuted in the .western penitentiary at Rockview today for the murder of Szima Florian at Erie, ra., last cptemher. Jliey were Milton Hudson, Robert . Trammel. William Stragin, negroes, and Steve Schiop, a foreigner . . f. i
