Nebraska Newspapers

    The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 51 NO. 37.
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OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921. '
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TIIREI$ CENTS
Firm Stand
Taken On
Conference
Given Gun
By France4
Pays $800
Ncbraftkan Gets Freight Bill
With German Cannon Pre
sented by Clemenccau for
War Work.
Refund Sent From Paris
Tear-Filled
Eyes Greet
Hero Dead
"Frieda" and Judge Who
Paid Her Fare From Paris
Harding and Hughes Refuse
To Sanction Pleas for Pre
liminary Meeting on
Far East Issues.
Black-Clad Mother Halts Long
Procession Wlin She Flings
Self o ..- f Bearing
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Omaha Honors Fallen Heroes
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1 j r ? $
Some time last winter Judge L.
B. Fenner of Burwell, Neb., paid
a freight bill of $800.
The carrying charges were fur
"Frieda Krupp," according to the
bill of lading.
It is liot reported what Mrs. Fen
ner said, if anything, when the bill
for "Frieda'' was received, but
since the paper also specified that
"die" weighed ' 11,000 pound:!, per
haps Mrs. Fenner didn't care.
When "she" arrived, via the
U. S. ij. Wheaton, "Frieda's identity
was established as a large 10-centi-r.'.eter
German cannon, captured by
the French in the drive on Lille.
Parked in Square.
Now "Frieda" is parked in the
charming little square, given to the
children of the Nebraska village by
the county judge, erstwhile major
of the American Red Cross, on duty
in France and Serbia during the late
wa"r.
But the Nebraska officer was not
"out" the $800 freight fee for very
long.
The grateful French government
which presented the trophce de
guerre, soon discovired its "faux
pas" of sending the big gun "collect"
and reimbursed Major Fenner with
many expressions of "haute consid
eration'' and "consideration la plus
distinguce."
Gift From Clernenceau.
Indeed the German gun is a per
sonal gift to the Nchraskan, who i
gave such loyal service during the !
war, by Georges Clemenccau, the J
Tiger of France, himself. j
Jt was a reward of merit for the,
splendid organization Major Fenner
built up to handle and feed 4,500
prisoners of war who descended I
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upon inc uare ue i r.M anu ware uu
Nord canteens in Paris upon their
lelease from German prisons after
the armistice; to say nothing of his
service to soldiers of the allies,
wounded and well, and starving
French and Belgian refugees, dur- j
ing the stirring war day
"Mr, Fenner, if there is anything
I can ever do for you personally, j
will you be so kind as to "tell me i
what if is," said the great Clemen- ,
ceau, like a fairy godfather when he I
came to thank the Nebraskau for
is plendid service. ', !
Tells of Dream. j
Then Fenner told him about his i
dream of a little park for the Ameri
can kiddies.
"I should like to have one of the
captured German guns that are lined
up on the Champs Eiysecs, to per
petuate in their minds the spirit of
this war," the Nebraskan replied.
"You shall have it," replied
Clemenccau.
And he kept his word.
The cannon was made in the '
Krupp' gun works at Essen, Ger
many, in 1915. and has the name
"Frieda Krupp" stamped on the bar
rel. It was captured in 1918 by the
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Des Moines Tram
Service to Stop
Cars Will Not Run After Next
Wreek Until Property
Sold at Auction.
Des Moines, July 29. (Special
Telegram.) Early next week street
car service will stop in Des Moines.
It will be a permanent discontin
uance of service, calculated to pre
serve the street car property against
depreciation until it has been sold
under the hammer, cither by the re
covers or under foreclosure. It will
be a suspension that will continue
cither tne court ana receivers, or me
present owners of the car system,
or new purchasers, are satisfied that
operation can be resumed without in
curring further deficits each month.
Federal Judge Martin J. Wade, in
a memorandum made today, serves
notice on Des Moines to prepare for
suspension of service, which to him
seems "inevitable." The memoran
dum did not fix a date when cars
will cease to run. but the formal or
der to the receivers probably will
not be delayed many hours.
Wood Lake Man Armed With
Shotgun Held as Demented
Wood Lake, Neb., July 29. (Spe
cial.) Gus Wclke, prominent ranch
er, was taken into custody here by
Marshal Hickman. Mr. Welke is
believed to be demented as he has
teen acting very strange while in
town the last few days and it is re
ported that he has threatened the life
of his son-in-law, Everett Johnson.
It is said he also declared he would
kill himself and when arrested was
walking around town with a shot
gun and a supply of shells.
Los Angeles Jeweler Held
On Charge of Smuggling
Chicago, July 29. Hyman Finer
man, a jewler of Los Angeles, was
arrested today while waiting for a
Jrain enroute to the coast, on a
rharge ot smuggling $30,UUU worth
If diamonds into the country. Jew
lry worth $1,500 was found on his
I.erson. He declared he was in
"financial straits and had brought the
jewels from London where they had
been bequeathed him by his father,
'-ho' died rccentb
safer id
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Police Officer
Runs Amuck in
Crowded Room
Suspended Officer Fatally
Wounds Attorney and Kills
Self as Judge Rises to,
Pronounce Sentence.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaafd Wire.
Chicago, July 29. Just as Judge
Charles A. McDonald of the criminal
court was rising to sentence Harry
B. Kellogg, a suspended police ser
geant to 15 days in the county jail
for contempt of court, the police
man, who ifas in full Uniform, drew
his service revolver and began shoot
ing.
The first shot tore through the
judge's bench and passed between his
lees. The judge dropped down be
hind the bench. Kellogg then shot
and fatally wounded Lemuel Ackley,
the attorney who prosecuted him. He
then stepped back to the desk where
his own attorney was standing and
fired two shots into his own head.
Ackley died 45 minutes later at the
county hospital while surgeons were
making desperate efforts to save his
life. Kellogg was taken to another
hospital and, it is said, he will not
recover.
Panic in Room.
The sounds of the shots attracted
people from all parts of the building
and the floodtide of those rushing)
into the court room collided with the ,
panic-stricken crowd trying to ge
out. Inside the court room, both
wounded men lay on the floor close
to the bench, both bleeding profuse
ly. Mrs. Ackley and her daughter, who
had witnessed the shooting from a
rear seat, were in hysterics(and Kcl
lovg's 18-ycar-old son lay in a faint
across a bench. Half a dozen wom
en fainted and were trampled on
and crushed in the jam around the
door until the police fought their
way in and cleared the room.
Feud of Long Standing.
Miss Laura Ackley, daughter of
the wounded attorney, said a feud
had existed between the Kellogg and
Ackley families for several years.
Several days ago two women riding
by the house in a taxicab. fired eight
shots at Lemuel Ackley, jr., who
was sitting near a window. They
escaped and have not been identified.
The fight today was over a piece
of property. Kellogg had violated
an injunction against trespassing on
land in Arlington ' Heights, over
which he and Ackley had gone into
court.
"I believe Kellogg intended to kill
me." said. Judge McDonald. "He
began shooting as soon as I started
to sentence him and AckleV happened
to be in line of his fire. He had not
shown any animosity toward Ack
ley." ' :
Continue Search for
Body of Professor
Calgary. Alberta, July 29. Search
is being continued for the body of
Dr. W. E. Stone, president of Pur
due university, Indiana, killed in a
plunge down the side of Mt. Eon, in
the Canadian Rockies, according to
a correspondent of the Calgary Her
ald. Meanwhile Mrs. Stone is in an im
provised camp on the mountain
while the party that rescued her is
building a raft to convey her down
Marvel creek, the first stage of a
55-mile journey.-back to civilization.
Mrs. Stone, although suffering
from shock and exhaustion as the re
sult of her eight days' imprisonment
on a Mt. Eon ledge, is out of danger
and able to tell something of her ex
perience. Jessop thought that
his wife would be
amused but found
that his joke contained
enormous depths of
anguish.
The Oak From
the Acorn
By Clifford Raymond
Blue
Hctisa,
BLUE RIBBON fiction in
The Sunday Bee
r
Omaha Boosters
Shake Cheyenne
Dust From Heels
Betting Is Three to Two Spe
cial Train Makes 500-Mile
Run in 11 1-2 Hours,
Record Scheduled.
By FRED S. HUNTER.
Cheyenne. Why.. July 29. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Omaha's Ak-Sar-Een
Boosters packed their grips and
shook the dust of Cheyenne from
their heels tonight.
And take it from.tnose who know,
shaking the? dust of Cheyenne from
one's system is no small task. '
Next to the annual Frontier days'
performance, which came to a suc
cessful conclusion this afternoon, the
ieature. It meets yon when you ar
c.ust is Cheyenne's most distinctive
rive and stays with you until you
leave.
The Omaha special train is sched
uled to make a record run into
Omaha. The engineei has been giv
en 11 hours and a half to make the
run of more than 500 miles and with
three private cars of Union Pacific
officials bringing up the rear guard
the betting tonight is three to two
he makes it.
Omaha Trophi-s Awarded.
Two Omaha trophies were award
ed today. Carl Gray, president of
the Union Pacific, gave a $500 sad
dle to the winer of the cowboys'
bucking contest and J. Ervine Bran
dcis gave a $200 phonograph to the
winner of the women's bucking con
test. Lorena Trickey, who for the se
cond time captured the cowgirls'
all-around championship, copped the
Omaha phonograph. Lorena is one
tiding baby. She does all the tricks
and a few more to boot. She even
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President May Issue
Peace Proclamation
While on His Vacation
Washington, July 29. The possi
bility that President Harding may
issue a proclamation of peace with
Germany while he is on his New
England trip, was indicated today at
the White House.
Although Attorney General Daugh
erty has said that recommendations
to the president would be withheld
until Mr. Harding returns to Wash
ington, it was stated that an earlier
issuance of the proclamation might
be decided on.'
According to Mr. Daugherty. the
recommendations which are being the
subject of exhaustive study, can be
completed quickly if called for by
the president, but if not a week or
two more may be devoted to the
work.
Sidney Fire Department
Aids in Fighting Gurley Blaze
Sidney, Neb., July 29. (Special
Telegram.) The Sidney fire depart
ment went to Gurley, 12 miles north
of here,'-at 5 this morning where the
general store of Busse & Juedes and
the two-story brick garage, owned
by Bruce Wright, was totally , de
stroyed: The fire started in the ga
rage. Seventeen automobiles and all the
accessories were lost and Busse &
Juedes -saved about half of their
stock. The loss is estimated at ,$20,
000, partially covered by insurance.
It was feared the entire business sec
tion would be burned.
French Labor Federation
Favors Amsterdam Union
Lille, France, July 29.--The dele
gates to the convention of the gen
eral federation of labor, by a vote of
1,556 to 1,348, decided yesterday to
continue adhesion to the Amster
dam internationale. The minority
favored closer bond with the Mos
cow internationale
Coff
v on
ins
v y ELLA FLEISHMAN.
'"'My boy! Is this how you come
home to me?"
A black-clad mother flung herself,
both arms outstretched, upon the
flag-draped wooden box atop a
truck in the Union rtatior. train
yards, yesterday, while two mere
women in black and three tall broth
ers, formed a sobbing cordon about
all that remained of a soldier in
France.
The long procession of 110 similar
caskets was held up for several min
utes while the relatives wept over
their dead, pressing kisses on the
American flag under which he lay.
Not an Eye Dry.
Not a dry eye in the train yard
witnessed the touching scene, while
tears fell even from the eyes of
hardened soldier escorts, slowly
wheeling in thefr fallen brothers. It
took the procession more than an
hour to pass into the baggage room.
Emil Boudar, killed in the
Argonne, was the returned Omaha
hero.
It was his aged mother, Mrs.
Anna Boudar, 1312 South Fourth
street, who broke down at sight of
his casket.
With her were her three sons, Joe,
Ed and Frank; her daughter, Mrs.
Anna Hcwe. and two cousins of
the dead soldier, Agues and Ruth
Dryer.
Funeral Sunday.
His funeral will be held Sunday,
at 2, from Bohemian National hall,
with burial in the Bohemian ceme
tery. A similar scene was enacted when
Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Holdridgc of
Mount Clair, Neb., and their son,
C. B. Holdridge, 3320 North Fifty
ninth street, came upon the casket
of their son and brother, Ira Vern
I Holdridge. who died in the St.
Mihiel sector October 5, 1918.
j The Omaha brother, who served
! in France as well, was only 10 miles
' away on that date, but did not learn
! of his brother's death until the fol-
lowing January. He visited the
grave before he returned to this
country.
The Holdridgc funeral will be
held Saturday, at 2, at the Kramer
chapel, j Fifty-ninth street and Mili
tary -avenue, with burial in West
Lawn cemetery.
Mrs. J. W. Williams, 1815 Mander
son street, carried an armful of old
fashioned flowers which he loved, to
lay on the casket of her only brother,
Julius B. Tunnison. of Malvern. Ia.
His funeral will be held in the public
park there Sunday.
Mrs. Guy Sublet of Logan, la.,
was in the crowd to meet the casket
of her sister's fiance. Mack Dungan, i
of that town.
"My sister, Leona Myer. was so
prostrated she could not come. They
were engaged for six years and were
to be married m the fall of 1918. He
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Man Held for Murder
Starves Self to Death
Chicago. 111., July 29. Preferring
death by starvation to facing trial
on a charge of having slain his wife,
Andrew Brykajlo died in the county
hospital today as the result of a long
hunger strike.
He was taken to the hospital July
14 from the jail where he was await
ing trial when his condition became
serious, following his refusal to eat.
"I'll fool the hangman yet." he said.
"The, man unquestionably starved
himself to death," Warden Michael
Zinner of the hospital said. "I know
that he used to eat a little every day,
probably because of acute pains that
accompanied the self-starvation, but
he would not eat enough to sustain
life."
French and British Near
Break in Silesia Tangle
London. July 29. (By The As
sociated Press.) The controversy
between the British and French
governments over Silesia has
reached an acute stage. The latest
British note drafted by Earl Cur
2on, the foreign minister, endorsed
by the imperial cabinet and handed
the French government in Paris
this morning, being officially de
scribed as a "vigorously worded''
document.
"Hitchy-Koo" Show
Caused His Downfall
Hitchcock Declares
New York. July 29. Raymond
Hitchcock, the comedian, who re
cently filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy, gave evidence today in
support ot the claim that he was
broke.
He told Referee Townsend that
the frolicsome show. "Hitchy-Koo,"
caused his downfall, leaving him with
only notes, pawn tickets and scenery.
The show bogged down, at Philadel
phia, he explained, and he had to
pawn a watch that "Diamond Jim"
Brady had given him in order to
buy railroad tickets for the chorus
girls.
The referee, seeking to learn of
the comedian's assets, which he
listed at $125. asked about his town
house, his country home on Long
Island and his automobile. Mr.
Hitchcock said his wife owned them
all.
The actor declared his liabilities
were too numerous to mention
within two hours, so the case was
Adjourned to August 2
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All civic and patriotic or ganizations of Omaha were reprfeen ted at Union "station yesterday in
the huge throng that paid homage to the bodies of 111 returned soldier bodies.
At the left may be seen the Taft flag flying at half mast at the home of M. J. Greevy, deputy
city clerk, 2914 Hickory street, in response to Mayor Dahlman's proclamation that colors be flown thus
all over the city in respect to these bodies.
When Justice Taft was president he sent this flag to Mr. Greevy with a note from the White
house. It was raised with fitting ceremony.
At the top is a picture of a portion of the crowd which greeted the bodies, while in the center is
a section of the long procession of caskets which took more than an hour to pass.
Below is a group of two families which bowed their heads on the casket of Emil Boudar, 1312
South Fourth street. . Left to right, in the front roiy, they are, Agnes Dryar, Anna Howe,. Mrs. Anna
Boudar and Ruth Howe.' Standing behind therri. 1 ctttp ..right, arc Joe ,J3oudar,JFxajik Boudar and Ed-,
ward Boudar.- T T?yr:'y VT . ''. ' A .
Search Omaha for
Missing Cashier
Of Octavia Bank!
Could Not "Stand the Pres-
sure,
" He Writes Wife-
Secretary Hart Is Mak
ing Examination.
Friends of E. A. Rusher, cashier
of the Octavia State bank, who
disappeared Thursday afternoon,
writing his wife from Omaha that
he could not "stand the pressure,"
came to Omaha yesterday to search
for him.
"We do not believe Rusher has
done anything wrong," said Paul
Cosandier, who, with Paul Kruger,
participated in the search. "Appar
ently, he simply was overcome by
his difficulties and lost his courage."
Rusher's disappearance was re
ported to the state bank examiners'
office at Lincoln by Mrs. Rusher.
J. E. Hart, secretary of the state
department of trade and commerce,
left immediately for Octavia. Heavy
rains in the vicinity of David City
made the roads almost impassable
and he did not arrive in time to
make a thorough investigation of the
bank's books.
Mr. Hart stated that no examiner
was in the immediate vicinity of
Octavia and they would not arrive
in time to start an audit before Sat
urday. "My investigation has not been
deep enough to permit me to make
a statement," Mr. Hart said. He
planned returning to Lincoln and
said a definite statement of the con
dition of the bank would be made
Saturday. The bank's deposits were
S104.000.
Two Girls are DroAvned In
Attempt to Save Companion
Salt Lake City, July 29. Margue
rite Oliver, 19. and Pearl Freeman,
18, were drowned when they went
to the rescue of their companion,
lona Oborn, 15, in a swimming pool
at L'nion, near here. The Oborn
girl waded out of her depth and as
her two friends approached, she
grasped them, thus preventing them
swimming. The result was the three
girls went below the surface. Bur
ton Oliver, brother of one of the
drowned girls, hearing screams for
help, rushed to the scene and swam
ashore with the Oborn girl, who re
covered consciousness in 15 minutes.
The bodies of the two other girls
were recovered 30 minutes later.
Life Convict Killed in
Riot at Oklahoma Prison
McAlester, Okl., July 29. One
convict was killed, the shirt factory
was practically wrecked, and several
guards were slightly injured in a
riot which broke out in the shirt
factory at the state prison this af
ternoon. Mack White, life termer
lrom Pittsburgh county, was killed
when he atteniDtcd to rush the
guards. i
Harding Leaves
To Spend Week
In Mountains
President to Be Guest of
Secretary of War Weeks
At Home Near Lan
caster, N. H.
Washington, July 29. President
Harding left Washington, late to
day on the presidential yacht May
flower for an absence of more than
a week, most of which time will be
spent resting in the White moun
tains of New Hampshire. -
The first stop will be made Mon
day at Plymouth. Mass., where the
president is to deliver an ' address
at the tercentenary of the landing of
the Pilgrims. He expects to arrive
Tuesday by automobile at Lancaster,
N. H., where he will be the guest of
Secretary Weeks.
Mrs. Harding, apparently com
pletely recovered from the slight in
disposition which had kept her in
the White House for the last few
days, accompanied the president.
Also in the Mayflower party were
Speaker and Mrs. Gillet, Senator
and, Mrs. Frelinghuysen of . New
Jersey, Senator Hale of Maine, Sen
ator and Mrs. Phipps of Colorado,
Secretary Weeks, Representative
and Mrs. Walsh of Massachusetts,
Brigadier General Sawyer, the pres
ident's physician, and George H.
Christian, jr., his secretary.
Making the . trip by way of the
Cape Cod canal, the Mayflower is
expected to arrive oft Plymouth
about 9 o'clock Monday morning..
The president wrtll review a pa
rade before delivering his address
late in the afternoon, and during
the evening will witness, a pageant.
He will go aboard ; the Mayflower
again late Monday night and reach
Portland, Me.,--on Tuesday. From
that point he will go by automobile
to Lancaster.
A convoy of battleships and de
stroyers will join the Mayflower
at Hampton Roads and accompany
it to Plymouth.
Wool Schedule in Forduev
Tariff Bill Is Attacked
Washington, July 29. The wool
schedule in the Fordncy tariff bill
was the. special object of an attack
by. Senator Gooding, -.republican,
Idaho, in the senate yesterday during
a lull in the hearings on the meas
ure by the senate finance committee.
Mr. Gooding declared the old
Schedule K, in the ; Payne-Aldrich
bill, was "very -commendable" as
compared with the new wool
schedule. s
"The wool schedule in this bill is
not called Schedule K," Mr. Gooding
said, "yet I am sure it is worthy of
the name. What Schedule K did in
an indirect way for the manufac
turers, the wool schedule of the
Fordncy bill docs directly."
Senator Norris
Is Recovering
From Collapse
Would Have Been Able to
Continue Fight on Bill
Even If Senate Had
Not Adjourned.
By E. C. SNYDER.
Washington Correspondent Omaha Bee.
Washington, July 29. (Special
Tclegam.) Senator Norris, who col
lapsed Thursday afternoon in . the
cloak room of the senate after a
most strenuous day of debate on his
bill providing for the creation of a
farmers' export financing corpora
tion, had a comforable night and to
day was feeling much like himself.
Had not the senate adjourned over
until Monday he would have been
able to continue the debate tomor
iow. The rest, according to Mrs.
Norris, will prove beneficial to the
junior senator from Nebraska, as he
has worked unusually hard over the
measure which bore his name, now
sidetracked for the McNary substi
tute by a vote of 10 to 2 in the com
mittee of which Senator Norris is
chairman. s
The Norris bill provides for the
creation of a new corporation under
government control, to consist of
the secretary of agriculture and two
additional persons, to be known as
"The Farmers Export Financing
Corporation," whose capital stock
shall be $100,000,000, all of which
shall be subscribed by the United
States and which shall be permitted to
act as the agent of any person pro
ducing or dealing in - agricultural
products, "either in their natural of
prepared state within the United
States in the exportation and sale of
such: products.
Gives Additional Powers.
The McNary bill, which succeeded
the Kellogg -substitute, gives the war
finance corporation additional pow-
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- The Weather -
Forecast-
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somewhat unsettled Saturday and
probably Sunday, not much change
in temperature.
Iowa Partly cloudy and some
what unjcttled Saturday; Sunday
generally fair; not much change- in
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Urged
ree Uiscussion
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Clilraco Trlbune-Omuha Hee l.rned Wire.
Washington, July 29. President
Harding and Secretary of State
Iughes will not listen to pleas from
any source that there be held a pre
liminary conference on reduction of
armaments and far eastern prob
lems. The administration determined to'
take a firm stand in the face of many
unofficial reports, coming particu
larly from Great liritain, that efforts
would be made to bring about a con
ference in advance of the main con
ference, in order to accommodate the
Uritish dominion premiers, who are
greatlv interested in the outcome of
the discussions.
The president and his secretary of
state know that any such preliminary
conference, whether justly or tin
justly, would be regarded with sus-
picion by the world and particularly
by some of the powers which might .
not be represented at the prelimU ;
nary discussion." They insist that
nothing shall occur between now and '
the time for the conference which
could be construed as an attempt to
frame up an agenda or to determine
the scope of the discussions in secret.
Embarrassment at Versailles.
Much embarrassment arose at
Versailles over just that thing, the
practice of representatives of some
of the larger powers getting "their
heads together and determining what
should be done.
The president and Secretary
Hughes understand the postion of
the British premiers and their inter
est in far eastern questions. They
appreciate the difficulties that con
front them in getting to the United
States in November because of home
affairs, and are willing to do every
thing that can be done to accommo
date them.
The suggestion has been made
that the British dominion premiers,
while en route home from England,
stop in Washington for informal
talks with the president and secre
tary of state. There could be no ob
jection to that. Free interchange of
ideas are to be encouraged by the
Washington government in advance
of the conference and anything that
the British premiers may want to say;-
will be received gladly. - .
Wants Free Discussion.
What the president wants to do
and proposes to do, now that the
conference Ls assured, is to discuss
freely with all the powers invited to
participate in the agenda for the con
ference. That will be done and in
such a way that all of the powers
will know what is going on. There
will be no secrets. Suggestions made
by one nation will be communicated
to all the others and in this opem
manner the president believes a com
mon understanding regarding the
scope of the conference can be ar
rived at with a minimum of friction
and a maximum of harmony and
good will.
Dismiss Bribery
Charges on Judge
No Evidence to Substantiate,
Complaint Is Reason'
For Act.
Sapulpa. Okl., July1 29. The
charges ; that Judge Lucien -.. B.
Wright, of the district court qf
Creek county, accepted a bribe of
$10,000 in connection with the sale of
the Tommy Atkins interest in the
Tommy Atkins $2,000,000 oil land
controversy was dismissed 20 min
utes after justice court convened ten
day for the third day of the hearing.
Justice A. E. Pilts, in announcing
his decision, said "this court diV
misses the charges against Judga
Wright because it finds no evidence
whatever has been introduced to
support the charges filed in the in
formation." Bank Bandits Secure $9,000
In Robbery at Little Roclc
Little Rock, Ark.; July 29 Two
masked men held up the Citizens
bank at Bauxite, IS miles from here,
late Thursday, and escaped with ap
proximately $9,000 in currency and '
gold which they took from a vaults
Mrs. J. S. Rickcr, assistant cash-
icr, and J. A. Parson, a stockholder,
the only persons in the bank, were
covered with a revolver by one of
the men while the other rifled the
open vault. They then compelled
Mrs. Kicker and Parson to accom
pany them a short distance, from
town in a taxicab, there paying the
driver and ordering him to return
them to the bank.
Three suspects were arrested neat;
Bauxite early this morning.
Well-Known Democrat Dies !
Chicago, July 2. Robert Emmet
Burke.64, widely-known democratic
politician and candidate of that partv
for United States senator from Illi
nois at the last general election, died
at a local hospital today. Burke was
the only delegate to the democratic
national convention at St. Louis to
vote against the renomination of
Woodrow Wilson for the presidency.
Rediscount Rate Cut
Chicairo. lulv 29 Rerlnrt rti'.
count rates were announced by the
Lnicago tederal reserve bank, effec
tive tomorrow. The new rate i r
per cent for rediscounts of all classes
and for member bank promissory
rotes up to six months' maturities.
The old rates averaged 0 1-2 per cenL