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F The Omaha Daily Bee NO. 89. Elian It 8m4-CUm Mltttf Mtr U. IMS. 1 Oataa P. 0. UMff Aot at lint 8. IS7I. OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921. H mil (I yur). Dally SulUly, l?.50: Otlly Mir. $J) Sandiy, 12.50; loluli la Umti Statu, Canada aH Mult. THREE CENTS s Bank Probe 11 jf T. 1 may involve Directors Missing Cashier of Octavia In stitution Not Alone Re sponsible for Failure, J. E. Hart Says. Forged Notes Reported Lincoln, Aug. 1. (Special.) Re sponsibility for failure of the Octavia State bank does not rest alone on the shoultlers of E. A. Rusher, miss ing cashier, and others must bear the burden, financially if not crim inally, according to a statement is sued this afternoon by J. E. Hart, secretary of the department of trade and commerce, following late re ports from E. A. Fricke and E. R. Brock, special examiners, poring over the books of the failed Butler county bank. ' "It is another case of a one-man bank where the directors were noth ing more than figureheads and failed to exercise properly the power given them under the law to scrutinize care- luily and absolutely direct the man- agemcnt of the bank," Hart said. "I cannot say until the audit is complet ed whether the directors can be held criminally responsible, along with Rusher, but as far as moral and fi nancial rcsponsibilitv is concerned they must shoulder their proportion ate share." The directors of the failed bank are: George Halm, father-in-law of Rusher and president of the institu tion: L. L. Meek, vice president; C. E. Davenport, J. K. Fortuna and E. A. Rusher. Third Missing Bank Head. This makes the third missing bank head this year who, after writing notes to their wives disapp",red. leaving shortages for their fellow bankers to meet, througn payment in the state guarantee fund, in ad dition to numerous other failures in which the persons held responsible have been apprehended, ror ihe first time Hart, who is mild man nered, soft spoken and gray-haired, expressed disgust in the continued failures of banks and crookedness on the part of certain bankers. In discussing the Octavia failure today, Hart nearly knocked news paper men off their chairs when he emitted the following with as much ease and fluency as a "doughboy" who found himself on guard duty Christmas eve in France with Paris only a few kilometers distant: -"I. am. getting sick and tired of the crookedness of these ' bank cashiers and the carelessness" bf their direc- or. and T think the oublic should Understand mar usually wncn a ihu cashier goes wrong it might be avert ed td ,a large extent by proper su pervision of directors who are there for that purpose." Love and Pride Responsible. Love, family pride and the alleged ambitions of Rusher's brother-in-law, William Hahn, to cut a niche in the financial world are all interwoven from to Tat Two, Column Fir.) Judge Orders Probe Of Flogging of Man and Woman in Birmingham Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 1. Whip ping of a man and woman here on July 23, by a masked mob, was "one of the most outrageous crimes ever committed in the history of Jefferson county," Judge H. P. Heflin said to day in ordering the grand jury to exhaust every legal means to punish the mob leaders. He characterized members of the mob as "criminals who struck at the very foundation of liberty and law." "Put the stamp of your disapproval vpon this thing," said the judge to the jury, "and exhaust every legal means in your hands to find out the perpetrators of this outrageous crime. Then indict them and bring them before the courts of your county, try them .and if they are found guilty convict them and give em a touch legally of what they ueserve and what they are trying to do as self-appointed administrators of justice in your county." The investigation developed from the flogging of Mrs. Kate Alexander, grocer, and C S. Cooley. a putcher. California Alien Poll Tax Law to Be Tested in Court Oakland, Cal., Ajig. 1. Interna tional treaties made by the Unittd States are involved in a test of the alien poll tax law of California, be gun today with the arrest of Heikichi Teru, secretary of the Japanese busi ness Men's association of Oakland, vho refused to register or pay the fee as required by law. Tern was taken to the county jail where he was released on a writ of habeas corpus. Under an agreement with state authorities the test case will be taken directly before the Cal ifornia supreme court. Italy Will Participate" In Disarmament Confab Rome, Aug. 1. Premier Bonomi announced in the senatt today that Italy had heartily accepted "the in vitation of the United States to the disarmament conference in Washing ton. Similar announcement had been made by the premier to the chamber ef denutiec in hia sneeeh at the nnrn- ir.sr of Darliament recently. 1 Sweet Bill Passes Senate Washington, Aug. l.-r-The confer ence report on the Sweet bill, pro viding for the consolidation of all government activities dealing with war vetertns under one bureau, was adopted by the senate and now awaits touse action, He's "Trouble Shooter" For Banks of State Kf s ' " til Life Tenner Bid le Prison Farewell After Nine Years Former Companions Line Walls of State Penitentiary as Man Who Slew Gar dener Starts for England. Lincoln, Aug. 1. (Special.) The big iron doors of the state prison clanged behind Homy Burroughs, 71, for the last time p.t 8 this morn ing. Half an hour later, Burroughs was on a through train to Chicago, speeding toward New York where he, will embark Friday for Liverpool to meet his nieces and nephews, now grown women and men, who were little children when he sailed for America with his wife in 188.1. Burroughs started serving a life sentence for the murder of E. B. Sayles at Plattsmouth February 9, 1912. Since that time he has been in charge of the prison greenhouse. Bids Plants Farewell. Burroughs spent all Sunday walk ing through the greenhouse, caress ing the plants and talking to them in an undertone. Sunday night his cell was filled with friends and Well wishers among the convicts. This morning, as he stepped into an automobile, shouts from the prison walls were: "Good luck, Henry, old boy." One voice coulci'be heard calling: "God bless you." Tells His History. Before leaving, Burroughs told a little of his life history. "Mv life in America is almost a blank unless I jog my memory," he said. "All I see these days is the green grass of . England and the faces of my nieces and nephews as I bade them goodby back in 1883. Lured by Dollar. "I came to America with my wife and we were rather 'cold blooded in cutting loose from our relatives, but we were prey to the lure of the American dollar. "When we arrived here we found that the American dollar, like the English shilling, came more plenti fully to the man who worked with his brain than to the man who worked with his hands. "We spent several years at Dun lap, la., and there I lost my wife. I couldn't stand the bitter memories there and went to Plattsmouth. Finds Companionship. "There I found companionship in Savles." His voice trembled. Sayles and he were gardeners on the outskirts of Plattsmouth and grew to be great cronies. "I 1 never will know why I I killed him. He was the best friend I had in this country." Then Burroughs walked out of the prison where he met Deputy Warden D. G. Kavanaugh who was the last to shake hands with him before he stepped into the machine which whisked him away to the railroad station. His sentence was com muted a week ago. Philadelphia to Be "Bombed Off Map" in Sham Battle Philadelphia, Aug. 1. Philadelphia was to be "bombed off the map'' by a hostile fleet of airplanes today. Eighteen bombing planes and two pursuit planes were scheduled to ar rive from Mineola, X. Y., shortly be fore noon. The sham bombing of Philadel phia completes the maneuvers of the army planes. New Y'ork was "de stroyed" last week, following a fate similar to that of Washington, Nor folk, Newport News and Richmond. Judge Orders Grand Jury To Probe K.K.K. Activities Houston, Tex., Aug. 1. Declaring that "we are- facing a condition verg ing on anarchy worse than Russia ever felt," and branding practices of taking men out without giving them a fair trial and subjecting them to indignities as damnable, cowardly procedure," Judge C W. Robinson, in criminal court today charged the new grand jury to investigate "every unlawful transaction in this county." Congress Asked to Provide Authority for Liberia Loan Washington, Aug. 1. Legislation authorizing payment to Liberia under the $5,000,000 loan to that country previously arranged for was asked by President Harding ' today in a letter transmitted to the senate. An accompanying letter from Secretary Hughes to the president said a "moral obligation'' rested upon the United States to make this loan. UC A irl . O. lOMl Starving In Russia Relief Will Not Bolster Up Political Soviet Regime, Opinion of Federal Officials. Hoover To Be in Charge By GRAFTON S. WILCOX. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be I.rasrd Wire. Washington, Aug. 1. America will help the starving people of Russia unofficially, and will do it in such a way as not to bolster up the political soviet regime which this government believes embraces a false and destruc tive economic theory. In his note on the political atti tude of the United States toward soviet Russia several months ago. Secretary of State Hughes declared that the soviet regime was rapidly bringing about the progressive im poverishment of Russia. Now Rus sia is starving and crying for help, its "progressive impoverishment" having reached the stage where the soviet leaders are willing to appeal for aid to a nation that believes in the recognition of private property. The fact that the soviet govern mental system has wrecked Russia economically and that Russia has ap pealed for food does not alter the position taken by the United States toward the Russian soviet govern ment politically in any way. What the future may bring forth, not even Secretary of State Hughes will ven ture to predict. If the government of R-ussia shoukl recognize proper ty rights and develop production through which it should establish a basis for credit, its relations with the United States might be altered, but not until then. Not Diplomatic Wedge. Asked today if the Hoover relief expedition into Russia might be an entering wedge toward restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia, administra tion officials declared the relief move had no such intention, but that no one 'could predict what changes might be wrought in Russia. The United States, it was pointed out, has no lack of sympathy for the starving and suffering people of Russia, and it will send aid unoffi cially and in a manner which can not- nossililv rntnnrmnise this fnv- - , j 1 - crnment. The Hoover relief measures will, tinder no circum stances, be permitted to assume any political character. Nothing but the relief of the, Russian -sufferers is -irr-vclved in the Hoover expedition. Mr. Hoover, as secretary of commerce, has nothing to do with the relief. He happens to be the head of the American Relief administration, which operates unofficially and in a humanitarian capacity. No one knows what the effect of the relief might be in Russia, but officials here do not believe that it will, of itself, bring any change in the Russian economic system which would halt her "progressive impoverishment." Before that can happ.-n Russia must have political relief. It has not yet appealed for that. No Trade Obstruction. This government insists that there is no obstruction on the part of the United States toward trade with Russia, but that there is no trade because Russia produces nothing and has nothing with which to pay for commodities and will not have until its government will grant security to property and life in order to give production a chance. Asked how the overnment would leceive Senator France's suggestion that Russia be given $4,000,000,000 in credit, administration officials smiled and asked: . "On what security ?" At the State department it was said that no official word had been received of the Soviet's agreement to telease American prisoners as a fore runner of American relief, but that nothing had been received to indi cate that this action had not been taken. Secretary of Commerce Hoover received, however, a reply from Maxim Gorky inclosing a reply from M. Kamineff, a soviet official, promising release of all Americans. Mr. Hoover, accordingly, is going ahead with his plans for relief and cabled Walter Lyman Brown, Euro pean director of the American relief organization, to proceed immediately to Rigo to negotiate details of the relief with the soviet authorities. Spanish Troops Have Won Very Important Victory London, Aug. 1. Spanish troops fighting their way southward from Melilla, Morocco, through the ranks of tribesmen who have hemmed in General Navarro, near Montarruit, have won an important victory, says a Tangier dispatch to the Daily Mail. The Spanish, who are under the command of General Cavalcanti, successor to the late General Silves tre, who committed suicide follow ing the defeat of the Spanish last week, have retaken Gourougou, Atalayot, Sidi Hamid, El Hadj and Nador, it is stated in the dispatch. Body of Soldier Killed in War Arrives at Hoboken Gothenburg, Neb., Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) Paul Michaels, employe of the Boston store here, has received word that the body of his brother, who was killed in the war, has arrived at Hoboken. Mr. Michaels states that he probably will have the body buried at Arlington National ceme tery. Heavy Rains at Beatrice Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 1. (Special Telegram.) Heavy rains fell in this section, delaying the work of thresh ing .and improving prospects for a j bumper corn crop, j Grain Growers Heads Ask Lower Salaries Chicago, Aug. 1. Salary reduc tions for 10 executive officials of the United States Grain Growers, Inc., totalling $29,700 a year, were an nounced todav. The action followed a request by C. H. Gusafson, pre; dent; Frank M. Meyers, secret. V. J. Eckhardt, treasurer, and CflO torci inorne, counsel, tnat iih salaries be lowered to $10,000 eacl,. Salaries of directors were cut from $25 to $20 a day. Salaries author ised by the board of directors when the company was organized were: President, $16,000; secretary, $12,000; treasurer, $15,000; general counsel, $15,000. Tax Plan Is Submitted Bv Mellon New Levies and Reduction And Elimination of Others Proposed by Secretary Of the Treasury. Memorandum Withheld Washington, Aug. !. A tax of 2 cents on bank checks, a flat license tax of $10 on all automobiles, irre-1 specttve of cost or horsepower, an increase of first-class post-age rates to 3 cents and an added levy on cigars,. tobcco and cigarets are un derstood to have been among tax revision suggestions presented today by Secretary Mellon to he house ways and means committee, meeting in executive session. Other suggestions were said to have included: A reduction of 50 per cent in trans portation taxes, both passenger and freight next year, and their elimina tion the year following. Repeal Soda Tax. Repeal of the taxes on soda foun tain drinks and ice cream. Repeal of the excess profits tax and elimination of the $2,000 exemption on corporations' incomes. Increase of the normal income tax on corporations from the present 10 per cent to 25 per cent. Elimination of the income surtax brackets above 40 per cent with the surtax' rates on incomes ranging from $6,000 to $50,000 increased. Would Raise $4,000,000,000. The revenue bill as revised in ac- i cord with these suggestions would be designed to raise aDoroximatelv $4,000,000,000 next vear. it was said. Mr. Mellon memorandum embody- : i . : - . . , i , i . . ii'S ins icws was witnneia, out Chairman Fordney promised to make it public tomorrow. Representative Garner , of Texas, ranking- democratic member of the committee, attacked the treasury sec retary's proposals, declaring that ev ery one of them constituted a shifting "of the taxburden from the classes to the masses." Secretary Fall Will Inspect Iirrigation and Oil Lands in the West Chlraro Tribune-Omaha Ih ImuiI W1p. Chicago, 111., Aug. 1. Albert Bea con fall, ex-senator from New Mexico, now secretary of the inter ior in President Harding's cabinet, those to assume the strictest incog nito on a visit to Chicago today. He is to stay 24 hours at the Congress hotel, enroute to San Francisco and the far west. "The residence of the secretary of the interior ought to lie west of the Mississippi river, rather than in Washington," declared the ex-sena tor, "because almost all of the work of his department comes from there. If he can not live in the west, he ought to make periodic trips of in vestigation. From Chicago I shall tro to Cali fornia, the northwest and the Can adian border. Perhaps it can be said that my greatest interest this time arc oil and irrigation. I am going to investigate certain oil leases, especial ly the naval oil base near San Fran cisco, and look over government irri gation projects in Washington state." Elevator Employes' Strike In Chicago Is Called Off Chicago, Aug. 1. The strike of grain elevator employes, started here month ago by the Chicago grain elevator and feed mill employes' union, has been called off, it was an nounced officially today. The walk out affected 800 men. The strike re sulted wnen tne men refused a new working agreement with the employ ers, involving reduced wages and changes in hours and working condi tions. The employers announced today that an "open shop" had been es tablished. Futures Trading Banned By New Law in. Minnesota Duluth, Minn., Aug. 1. A new state trading law put a damper upon operations in wheat futures today, snd no transactions were reported here. Trading in spring wheat was blocked through restrictions of the state law, limited receipts and prac tically no free stocks in the eleva tors. Old September wheat closed Vi cent up at $1.28J4 bid. and new September 2c off at $1.29 bid. Federal Dry Agents Seize Busy Brewery at St. Cloud Minneapolis, Aug. 1. Federal pro hibition agents took possession of the St. Cloud brewery, St. Cloud, Minn., on the charge that it was manufac turing beer of alcoholic-content as high as 3 per cent, according to H. L. Duncan, assistant supervising federal agent here, 1 North Pole To Be Goal ' Trip KV & v 0yY w York Physicist and Ex- Army Aviator Plan Flight v Across Artie Zone to Norway. One Plane to Be Used Chlraro Tribune-Omaha Bea I.ad Wire. Washington, Aug. 1. Plans for an airplane flight to the North pole and across the Arctic zone from Alaska to Norway, to be attempted in Sep tember, were announced tonight by Edwin Fairfax Naulty of New iork, a physicist who has been long in terested in polar exploration and avi ation. Mr. Naulty stated that the plans call for the use of only one airplane and an expeditionary party of four, which would include himself and three experienced pilots, all ex serivce flyers. His son, Leslie Fair fax Naulty, who will be associated with him in the enterprise, is going to Europe to take care of plans for continuation of the night from North Cape, via the Scandinavian capitals to London. The start of the important part of the flight from a scientific stand point the trans-Polar and trans Arctic flight is to be made from Point Barrow, Alaska, Mr. Naulty announced, and the route to the pole will be as far as night conditions permit, along the meridian of 155 west to the North pole. The dis tance from Point Barrow to the pole is 1,200 nautical miles and it is the plan that the first stop will be made half way between these two points. Stop at Pole. The second stop is planned to be made at the north pole or as near to that point as there is a landing for full observations to determine position and, after overhauling ?nd restorage. the route will be on to Spitzbcrgen, where the third landing is planned to be made west of An- drae Point, from which the lll-tated Andrae some years ago started on his prooected balloon voyage to the North pole. From Spitzbergen the fourth projected leg of the flight calls for a flight across Spitzbergen with a possible landing at Bear Island, it conditions warrant, and thence to North Cape, Norway. Mr. Naulty said that only one plane would be used for the flight. At first it was his plan to head a squadron of three ships, but dithcul ties of carrying on if one or more of the planes came to trouble, brought about the abandonment of this plan. Route of Flight. The complete route of the polar air flight will, according to Mr. Naulty's announcement, be from Seattle to Kitchikan, Alaska; Ketchi kan to Anchorage; Anchorage to Nome; Nome to Point Barrow, and thence across the polar regions to North Cape, Norway, and thence by taxi-flights via Christi'ania and Stock holm to London. The arctic flight proper, he explained, would start from Point Barrow. From that point across the pole to Spitzbergen, a dis tance of 1,800 nautical miles, will be regarded as the trans-polar flight. From Point Barrow to North Cape, a distance of 2,400 miles, -will be re garded as the trans-arctic flight. As the distance from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Point Barrow is about 2,000 nau tical miles, and from North Cape to London, approximately 1,500 miles, and probably 100 miles will be spent in observation flying around the pole, provide the plans succeed, the total distance covered by the flight from Ketchikan to London would be 6,000 miles. Boy Crushed Between j Two Passenger Cars Colnmhus. Neb.. Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) Walter Bozar, 17, was crushed and mstantlv killed bunday nignt De tween the vestibule passenger cars on a Union Pacific passenger train at the denot here. The boy, accompanied by three pals was beating his way from Garey, Ind going west, me Dooy was taken to the moreue. and the county attorney notified the parents of the accident. Woman Soon to Become Mother Freed From Prison Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 1. Mrs. Margaret Smith, who has served less than five months of a 2 to 14-year sentence for forgery, was pardoned today by Gov. Warren T. McCray because she is about to become a mother. The governor said he favored the woman's release because he did not want a child to come into the world stigmatized by prison birth. Mrs. Smith, who is the mother of two children, was found guilty of forging four checks for a total of $98 last March. Texas Legislature to Prohe Secret Order Activities Austin, Tex., Aug. 1. Governor Neff, in a message to the legislature today, submitted for consideration the operation of secret organizations, "organized for the purpose of mask ing and disguising themselves and violating the law of this state by in flicting punishment upon persons against whom no legal complaint has teen filed." He said he did so at the, request of 49 members of. the house who petitioned him last week. 342 Bellagra Cases in 29 Oklahoma Counties Oklahoma City, Aug. 1. Three hundred and forty-two cases of pella gra were reported today to Dr. A. K. Lewis, state health commissioner by health authorities in 29 counties; n the state. Leader of West Virginia Industrial War is Killed Picturesque Figure is Shot on Steps of Court House Where He Was to Go On Trial For Shooting Affray Private Detective Held For Crime Welch, W. a., Aug. 1. Sid Hat field's career in West Virginia ended today on the court house steps of this village. It remains for a coro ner's jury to pass judgment as to who shall" be held for trial on a charge of having fired the shot that ended the lite of a picturesque tigure in the industrial strife of Mingo county. C. E. Lively, a private detective, is being held pending a verdict. Hatfield, former chief of police at Matcwan, and central figure in the trial early this year of more than a score of men charged in connection with the killing of a private detective 14 months ago, together with his friend, Ed Chambers, also a defend ant in that trial, fell as a result of nistol shot wounds suffered as the two men were entering the little court house where Hatfield was to 1ace trial on another shooting charge. According to persons nearby, Hat field, with a party of friends, ap proached the entrance to the court house just before noon where they met Lively and a group of compan ions, but a moment later those on either side were noticed to assume a hostile altitude. Loud talking was indulged in and this was followed by the crack of pistol fire. No one, however, could or would say who commenced shooting. Hatfield and Chambers were seen to fall. Exam ination revealed that Hatfield had been shot in the chest and Chambers in the head and breast. One of the guns carried by Hatfield witnesses said he carried two had been dis charged, it was said by those who rushed forward. All chambers in the pistol were empty, it was said. It was stated further that Chambtrs had but one gun. Some of the shells in it also had been fired, it was de clared. The charge on which Hatfield was Date of Meeting On Disarmament Still Undicided Foreign Offices in London, Paris and Tokio Will Set Definite Time tor Conference. Washington, Aug. 1. Deternuna. tion of the date for the disarmament conference was understood today to rest largely in the foreign offices at London. Paris and Tokio. The dip lomatics reviews of the powers have conferred at length with Secretary of State Hughes concerning the ad visability of beginning the confer ence rovemrer ii. or upon some ether date and have in turn referred the question to their respective gov ernments. Cntil further instructions the received by the ambassadors, it is expected that do definite action will be taken. Representatives of foreign govern ments have made it plain, however, that they regard determination of the aganda as far more important than the firing of the date of meetitng. They are understood to have report ed in detail to their governments the desire of Secretary of State Hughes to leave the main embassy as much work as possible, but there is in creasing evidence that Japan is not alone in her insistence that the seCpe of the conference be more clearly outlined before the formal sessions ate begun. Although consideration of that phase of the plans for the con ference is not expected to give rise to further delay in issuing the invita tions, it is believed that the ambas sadors expect to receive from their home offices instructions as to the parts they shall assume in adding to or taking from the last of subjects that may be discussed. While Japan has made it clear that there are subjects which she would discuss with unwillingness, if at all, there appears to be a growing con viction that unless some limitation is placed upon the number of sub jects to be considered, the conference may be continued almost indefinitely. The chief object of Japan, it is un derstood, will be to drive to the front her right to expansion and in that connection her claims in Siberia, Manchuria and perhaps other re gions. Nomination of Cronin as U. S. Marshal Sent to Senate Washington, Aug. I. Nomina tions today included the following lo be judges in Alaska, Thomas .M. Keed, first division; Elmer E. Ritchie, third division; Cecil R. Clegg, fourth divisiur. To be marshal, Alaskan, George Beaumont, first division; Gilbert Stevens, fourth division. To be district attorney Alaska, Guy Ersin, fourth division. To be United States marshal, Ne braska, Dennis H. Cronin. Old Corn Held by Farmers in North Nebraska Spoiling Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 1. (Special Telegram.) Some old corn held bv farmers in north Nebraska is spoiling, it is reported, l lie new crop is as sured. Unusually heavy rains have held up threshing which has been in progress generally over the territory. Monday's rain was general all over north Nebraska. Noted Nebraska Aviator Will Fly at County Fair Deshler, Neb., Aug. 1. -(Special.) Robert M. Cochrane of Arapahoe. noted Nebraska aviator who won the cross-country flight at the recent aviation meet at Nelson, will givj daily exhibitions and carry passen gers at the Thayer county fair at Deshler, August 30 to September 2. I to have been tried today was in con nection with the shooting up of Mo hawk, W. Va., about a year ago. C. E. Lively was the "surprise" witness for the prosecution in the mmmmsnm trial conducted in connection with the death of Albert C. Felts, director of the band of private detectives which had been sent to Matewan for the purpose of evicting miners' fam ilies from the houses of a coal com pany. This trial was the culmination of a street battle in the West Vir ginia mining town one year ago last May 19. When the battle started that after noon, the detectives had completed their work and were on their way to the railroad station to depart for home. Drive on Truant Congressmen Is Made By Kissel Bill Introduced to Deduct From Pay of Lawmakers for Every Day They Are Absent From Duty. Chirag-o Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. 1. Truant con gressmen will have to reform and be gin punching the time clock if Repre sentative Kissel of New York has his way. He introduced a bill today for the payment of salaries of members of congress on the basis of their at tendance. "Awful," was the word he used to characterize the absenteeism which now prevails in the house. The Kissel bill proposes that after this congress, the pay of members be raised from $7,500 to $15,000, pro viding they attend each session and answer every roll call. Unless a member is given unanimous consent to be absent, the bill proposes he shall receive no pay for any week during which he fails to attend every session. In the event a member fails to answer 30 roll calls in any one ses sion or consecutively, ' Mr. Kissel would authorize the speaker or the vice president to declare his seat vacant. He proposes, as a further measure to insure attendance, that as a part of the regular business of both houses of congress that the roll be called just after the prayer and be fore adjournment By the system of payment advo cated by Mr. Kissel a member would have deducted from hi? pay $300 for each day he was absent during a 50 day session, $150 per day of absence in a 100-day session and $75 per day in a 200-day session. "If I had my way, after a member missed a dozen roll calls, I would fire him out," said Representative Kissel. Lightning Knocks Boys Unconscious Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 1. (Special Telegram.) Two brothers, Keith and Plymouth Hillman, 14 and 16, respectively, were struck bv liarht- ning and knocked unconscious, but it is believed they will recover. They were assisting in threshing on a farm northeast of town. When the storm came up they sought shelter under a wagon, which was struck by light ning. The boys are sons of Henry Hillman, a farmer. Turk Nationalists Await Reinforcements' Arrival Constantinople, Aug. 1. (By The Associated Press.) The Turkish na tionalists, according to advices from Anatolia, are holding positions east of Sivrihissar about 50 miles east of Eski-Shehr, while awaiting 30,000 re inforcements said to be expected from Cilicia, Mesopotamia and the Caucasus, whose arrival is desired before a decisive action with the Greeks is risked. - The Weather - Forecast. Tuesday fair and cooler. Hourly Temperatures. a. m A9 a. m 10 a. m 70 a. m K , a. m t ' a. m ;i) 1 V. p. 8 p. P. 6 p. p. 7 P. S p. ,.7 , . , .3 .S-8 , . .63 .! a. m . . (noon) 73 : Ml. .. ra. . . Highest Monday. 0 I PnrJ.Io .M .Mi lhivenp.irt lrnvr .... rtmi Molnn. lknllf City. I4uidr .... ortb, riatte T4 t RHntd ( Ity .71 Nnlt Ike lty . ! Kanta Ke ,1 I Mherldnn . .70 ) Hioux lty .94 I Talentlne , .90 Peace Era For ec ast By Harding Hope That Forthcoming Dis armament Meet Will Bring Freedom to World, Says President. Talks at Plymouth Rock Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 1. Ply mouth Rock, for three centuries a landmark of American freedom, was rededicatcd by President Harding to day as a symbol of "real human brotherhood" for all the world. Speaking at the tercentenary cele bration of the landing of the Pil grims the president declared his hope that the principle of toleration and liberty, for which our fathers croi led the Atlantic, might soon awake a tw world era in which peace and uri r .standing would be assured an tg the nations. He referred in pi c u!ar to the nation's effort towan iis armament, asserting his faith hat the movement would succeed. '. With his tribute to the Pilgrims, Mr. Harding linked a eulogy to the achievements of the English speak ing race everywhere and declared he was convinced that the mission of the race would encompass, even greater things than it had yet ac complished. The leadership of the English-speaking peoples in the pres ent world crisis, he said, could not be denied nor doubted by any one. Anniversary Celebration. The president's address, delivered within a few hundred feet of the spot where Plymouth Rock has been en closed m iron-palings to preserve it for posterity, was part of an anni versary celebration in which Vice President Coolidge and many other high officials of state and nation par ticipated. Characterizing the international situation as "more than promising," the president asserted that the seed of common tolerance and under standing planted by the fathers here was beginning to bear fruit 1,000 fold in the relations between nations. "A new hope looms today," said the president; "we are slowly but very slowly recovering from the wastes and sorrows and utter disar rangements of a cataclysmical war. Peace is bringing its new assurances; and penitent realization and insistent conscience will preserve that peace. Our faith is firmer that war's causes may be minimized and overburden ing armament may be largely dimin ished. And thesej too, without sur render of the nationality which has inspired, or the good conscience which has defended. . Outlook Is Hopeful. The international prospect is more than promising and the distress and depression at home are symptomatic of early recovery. Solvent financially, sound economy, unrivalled in genius, unexcelled in industry, resolute in determination, and unwavering in faith, the United States will carry on." In the course of his speech Mr. Harding praised particularly the part religious freedom and other New (Turn to Vmge Two, Column Two.) De Valera Says He Is Not Going to Return To Parley in London Dublin, Ang. 1. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Eamonn de Valera the Irish republican leader, tol newspaper men here today in re sponse to questions, that he h&4 no intention of visiting London this week, and that no arrangements hatS been made for a future visit there, The statement followed a speech which he delivered at the annual con gress of the Irish labor party. Thomas Ferran, president of the Irish labor party, addressing the congress, declared that labor hoped " the outcome of the present peac ne gotiations would mean peace and freedom for Ireland. But, he added, if the Irish negotiators deemed it advisable to turn down the British . proposals, they would have the co operation of the labor party in any. events that might follow. Mr. De Valera's speech referred to the support given the Irish cause by labor in America and elsewhere. He lauded the "self sacrifice" that has been displayed by Irish labor during the last two years. Woman and Daughter , Killed at Crossing Lynch, Neb., Aug. 1. (Special Telegram.) Mrs. Clarence Cooper and her daughter, Louise, 10, were killed when a Chicago & Northwest ern extra train crashed into a car on a crossing near here. Anna Cooper, 9, was seriously, but not fatally injured. Russians Offer to Release Greek Steamers and Crews Athens, Aug. 1. M. Chitcherin, Russian soviet foreign minister, has sent a wireless messaee to the Greel.- i foreign minister, offering the release ot two Greek steamers and their ctews, which are held by the Rus sians. ( M. Chitcherin said that the offer was conditional upon the release by the Greeks of two steamers belong ing to the republic of Azerhaijan, an ally of the soviet government. The Greek government is agreeable to this exchange. School Bonds Carry Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 1. (Special i eiegram.j l tic special bond elec tion, asking for ?lo5,000 additional money with which to complete Nor folk's new $500,000 high school building, carried successfully,