Omaha Daily Bee
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OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921.
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THREE CENTS
The
Reds Must
Release All
Americans
100 Americans Still iu Soviet
Country Six Freed in Fair
Condition Following
Confinement.
Guarantee Is Offered
Riga, Letvia, Aug. 10. (By The
Associated Tress.) A guarantee
that all Americans remaining in
Russia will be given an oppor
tunity to leave that country if
they desired was offered today by
Maxim Litvinoff. soviet represen
tative, at a conference held this
afternoon with Walter L. Brown,
European director of the Amer
ican Relief 'organization, 'over the
question of American relief for
famine-stricken Russia.
Six Americans Released.
Riga, Letvia, Aug. 10. (By The
Associated Press.) Soviet Russia
has released six of the American
prisoners who have arrived at Narva
Esthonia, but the fact that only this
halt dozen of Americans were sent
out of the country was said li-;re to
day to threaten a long delay m and
perhaps the abandonment of the ne
gotiations for American famine re
lief for Russia. The six were Capt.
Emmit Kilpatrici Dr. Weston B.
iFstes, 298 West Twelfth street, San
Jose, Cal; John Flick,. X B. Kalma
tiano, Dr. Henry J. La Marc, 241
Market street, San Francisco, and
Russell Pattinger, 686 West Twelfth
street, San Francisco.
The prisoners, released under the
promise made by the soviet author
ities at the time help was accepted
from American relief organizations
tor famine-suffering Russia, reached
Narva last night in fair condition.
Movie Photographers.
Of the released men Captain Kil
patrick of Uniontown, Ala., was cap
tured while on duty with General
Wnngel's forces in south Russia.
Dr. Estes and Flick of New York
are . moving picture photographers
who went into Russia and were im
prisoned last year.
X. B. Kalmatiano of Racine, Wis.,
has been in Russian nrisons for near
ly three years.
Walter L. Brown, European direc
tor cr the American relief adminis
tration, Herbert Hoover's organiza
tion, through which it has been
planned chiefly to administer the
proposed famine relief, arrived in
Riga while the six Americans set
free "were on the way to Reval.
Maxim Litvinoff, the soviet ' envoy,
.eached-hcre about the same time"
inn ft tilt in Pnuii
0 Director Brown, it is understood,
will insist that every bona fide Amer
ican in Russia, whether in or out of
prison, must be given an opportunity
to leave Russia before the negotia
tions can begin. The State depart
ment has provided him with a list of
more than 100 Americans still in
Russia.
It was thought this forenoon that
a conference today between Mr.
Erovn and M. Litvinoff was ex
tremely unlikely.
On the Russian side, the negotia
tions are ready to be inaugm ated.
A staff of experts arrived with
the Russian envoy. Another member
cf his party was" Theodore Chalia
pine, the noted Russian operatic
basso, who plans to go to Ivigland
to sing on behalf of starving Rus
sians. AH six of the Americans were in
fairly Rood health and appeared to be
delighted with their freedom. Most
o: them said they were going to Riga,
wnence tney expectea to sail lor
America as oon as possible. None
of them knew the exact whereabouts
of Royal C. Keelcy. an American en
gineer, other than that he was running
a factory somewhere for the bolshe
vist. '
Arrive at Reval
Reval, Esthonia. Aug. '10. (By
The Associated Press.)-A special
bolshevist automobile, carrying the
six Americans who had been re
leased from Russian prisons, arrived
here at 6 o'clock this morning,
where the American" Red Cross will
sunnlv them with minfortahlp rlnih-
ihg to replace tlieir discarded Cos
,-i-r j -
sacks uniforms , and other , queer
habiliments.
Thio nondescript garb gave them
a strangely foreign appearance, so
that they could not be recognized as
Americans, as they rode in on the
bolshevist Conveyance.
-Bay Stat Constitution of .
j 1780 Held to Be Law
Boston, Aug. 10. The original
state constitution of 1780 is the su
preme law of the commonwealth and
not the rearranged constitution
adopted by the voters, November 4,
1919, according to a majority decision
of the supreme court handed down
today.
The court in a previous decision
also held the constitution of 1780 was
still in force and that articles adopted
Ly the constitutional convention two
years ago should follow as amend
ments and not be incorporated into
the rearrangement document.
American Professor Killed in
Fall on Excursion in Japan
Karuiza wo, Japan, Aug. 10. (By
the Associated Press.) William
Hyde Price, professor of political
econamy at the Japanese imperial
university and a prominent figure
in the American colony at Tokio,
was killed accidentally yesterday in
a fall down a gorge near here while
4n an excursion trip. He was born in
Titusville. Pa., in 1880.
Favor Movie Censorship.
Lincoln, Aug. 10.t-( Special.)
Resolutions favoring state censorship
of moving pictures were passed to
nay at a business meeting of the
Uoworth league' held in Lincoln. 1
Ask Supreme Court
To Prohibit Dances
In School Building
Lincoln, Aug. 10. (Special) The
Nebraska supreme court must de
cide whether dancing shall be per
mitted in the building occupied by
the junior high school at' North
Platte. ,
An appeal calling for a permanent
injunction against the use of the
building for dancing was filed in the
highest court of the state today by
the following persons: Harry A.
Brooks, Harry M. Porter, J. C. Wil
son, Robert A. Phelps, Eliza A.
Dolph, Tearl R. Stevens, ' Lucy M.
Skinner, Mabel C. Howard. Albert
I. McConncll and Edgar Moulton,
Dancing the night before the
morning when school takes up is not
conducive to study, is one charge on
the appeal. Conscientious objectors
to dancing children find an in
surrection on their hands every time
a. dance is held in the high school
because other parents with children
permit them to go, is another charge.
Expenditure of money by the Board
of Education for dancing is unfair to
the taxpayers, is the third charge.
A temporary injunction .gainst
dancing was issued at North Platte
by the late Judge II. M. Grimes but
a petition for a permanent injunction
tailed to
court.
get results in the lower
Supreme Council
Neutral on War
Of Greeks-Turks
Allies Put Aside f Silesian
Question to Discuss Con
flict and Disarmament of
Germany.
Taris. Aug. 10. (By The ' As
sociated Press.) The allied supreme
council today put aside the Silesian
question, now apparently near a defi
nite settlement, while awaiting the
reports of the experts engaged in
drawing the new boundary line be
tween Poland and Germany in this
area, agreed upon in principle be
tween r ranee and England yester
day. It was decided meanwhile to dis
cuss tne ureco-iurKisn situation
and German disarmament questions.
In taking up the former subject
the council decided unanimously to
adopt an attitude of strict neutrality
in the Greco-lurkish war, without
interfering with trading by private
firms with either of the belligerent
countries. v
Ambassador Harvey- said this de
cision was in conformity with the
policy of the United States previous
to its entering the world war and he
concurred in. the councils finding..
Premier Llovd George, m a speech
advocating neutrality on the1 part of
the allies toward the Greco-Turkish
conflict, alluded to American neu
trality during the war when the
American market was open to both
the allies and central powers, adding
that the latter were unable to take
advantage of the purchase of war
materials on account of the British
blockade. He asked Ambassador
I Harvey if such was his understand
ing on the question, and tne latter
replied that this was fully in accord
with the American viewpoint.
Police Claim They !
Have Information to
Solve Fogg Murder
The cftv detective department an
nounced yesterday that it has turned
over to County Attorney Shotwell
information which it believes will
be of material aid in solving the
murder of Frank Fogg, druggist,
Twentj'-eighth and Farnam streets,
the night of July 30.
James T. Saxton, 25, alleged to
be a dope addict, arrested by Detec
tives Frank and Aughc. .is said to
have made a confession of his knowl
edge of the murder. He is being
held without bail with Wilbert
(Tim) Ryan of Neville hotel.
Saxton and Ryan can identify the
man who ran from the Fogg store
at the time of the shooting, police
say, -
Four of Family Drown When
Rescue of One Is Attempted
Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 10. In an un
successful attempt to save his 9-year-old
daughter, Laura, Thomas Too
hey, aged 53, and three other mem
bers of his family were drowned
in Otter lake.
Laura, the youngest, waded be
yond her depth while bathing a few
feet from shore. Kathleen and
Dorothy soon got beyond their depth
and sank. while Miss Brossur, who
was close behind, returned to the
shore and gave the alarm.
Mr. Toohey and his son, Bernard,
who were near by, jumped into the
water and . swam to where the girls
had disappeared. They succeeded
in bringing them to the surface, but
were unable to conduct them safely
to the shallow waters and all sank
together.
Superintendent Melville retired
from Scotland Yard in 1903, after
one of the most thrilling careers
of any detective of modern times.
He specialized in political
crimes with such consistent and
startling success as to become
during his active career the chief
terror of the terrorists. He was
known throughout Europe as
The Anarchist Hunter"
How he took his life in hit
hands and posed as a Red to ac
complish his purpose of breaking
up one dangerous organization of
terrorists is told in another of
Nazariene Dean Kannibelle's tales
of "The World's Greatest Detec
tive Cases."
In Next Sunday's Bee
BankRobbed
Of$2,000by
TwoBandits
Cashier of Weston (la.) Insti
tution Locked in Vault
After Being Threatened
With Revolvers.
Robbers Escape in Auto
Shortly after Cashier James C.
Jensen opened the Weston Savings
bank in Weston, la., 12 miles east
of Council Bluffs, for business yester
day morning two men entered, flashed
revolvers on him and walked him
into the vault, from which he had
not yet taken the money.
One of the men scooped up $2,500
in the vault,- while the other kept an
eye on Jensen, then they turned,
closed the door on the cashier and
whirled the combination.'
A moment later Jens Laubcrsen
saw two men leave the bank, hurry
ever to the Ford automobile, climb
in and drive away. As he walked
past the bank he noticed no one
was there and thought he heard
pounding and muffled cries.
Police Notified.
He went inside, traced the cries
to the vault and listening closely re
ceived directions from Jensen how to
work the combination. When he had
freed Jensen, the pair notified
Omaha, Council Bluffs and Avoca of
the robbery.
Detectives from Omaha went to
fcuard the Illinois Central and Doug
las street bridges. Bluffs police and
deputy sheriffs hit the trail for
Weston, and former Sheriff John
D. Hazen of Avoca posted armed
men at all the bridges along the
Nishnabotna river, likely to be
crossed by the bandits.
Jensen's description of the robbers
told of one being dressed in blue
overalls with a dark coat and the
other in a dark suit.
Stop Ford Cars.
Bluffs officers on the way to
Weston stopped dozens of Ford cars
with two men dressed in overalls and
dark suits, but none of them proved
to be the robbers.
The fleeing bandit car was traced
as far west on the River-to-River
road as the John Garner farm, half
way to the Bluffs, and there the
trail was lost.
Officers believe the pair turned
north at the farm over the JIazel
Dell road which leads to the Lin
coln highway and freedom.
Bluffs officers returned at noon,
firm in the belief the robbers slipped
through the network of posses. Oma
ha officers were still on guard at
the bridges. ;
William Nixon, 369 Lincoln ave
nue, Council Bluffs, is president of
the robbed bank, and R. S. Spencer,
vice president.
Ranchman Fatallv
Burned in Vain Effort
To Rescue His Child
O'Neill, Neb., Aug. 10. (Special
Telegram.) William Coulter, ranch
man, will die as the result of burns
received in a vain effort to rescue his
2-year-old baby from flames which
consumed the Coulter ranch house
near here last night.
The blaze was caused by children
playing with matches. Both of his
hands were burned off in his frantic
search for the child. He also sus
tained severe burns on the feet and
body and serious internal injuries in
a leap from a second-story window,
after his , search had proved futile
and he was driven to escape by the
anguish of his burns.
The body of the baby was recov
ered later from the ruins of the
house. The father was taken to At
kinson, en route to the Norfolk hos
pital, but it was found impossible to
complete the trip.
Michigan Traction Firm
Goes Into Receivership
Bay City. Mich.. Aug. 10. The
Saginaw-Bay City Railway company,
operating local systems in the two
cities and an interurban line, went
into receivership today and an
nounced service will be suspended at
ridnight tonight.
Law rates of fare insisted upon
by the city councils of Saginaw and
Bay City and jitney bus competition
were said by Jthn A. Cleveland, vice
president of the company, to have
made it impossible to operate the
lines at a profit.
The company's liabilities were
given at $3,588,851, while th? value
of its assets is .placed at $5,000,000.
Newspaper Ads Declared Best
Antidote for Slumping Sales
San Francisco. Aug. 10. News
paper advertising, followed up by
attractive window displays, is the
best antidote for slumping sales, de
clared S. E. Conybeare of Lancas
ter, Pa., in an adress to delegates
to the national furniture dealers'
convention, which opened here yes
terday. It was estimated that ap
proximately 1,000 delegates from all
parts of the country were in atten
dance. Schooner Is Seized By
TJ. S. Customs Authorities
Philadelphia, Aug. 10. The two
masted American fishing schooner
Thomaston, from the Bahama Is
lands for Atlantic City was seized
here today by customs officers on
suspicion of violating the customs
regulations. ... "
One Killed in Tong War
Seattle, Aug. 9. One dead and
two wounded, all Chinese, marked
the outbreak of a tong war here
tonight, according to a report to
police headquarters,
were, rushed to the
shooting,
f
Riot squads ,
scene of the
Wants Compensation
For Grain Eaten by
Prairie Chickens
Lincoln, Aug. 10. (Special.) Be
ing a friend of the prairie chicken
may be a costly bit of philanth"" .
for Nebraska.
Ed Langin, owner of a ranch
Lincoln county, has written
George Koster, state game warden,
demanding that the state pay him $5
a day for small grain eaten by prairie
chickens. Langin does not state how
long he has suffered the alleged $5
a day loss from the appetite of the
prairie chickens.
Langin contends that the state is
responsible because it denies anyone
the right to kill prairie chickens ex
cept during a certain season.
Langin declares that if there were
an open season the year around on
prairie chickens the birds would soon
be nothing birt a memory and he
would be selling much more grain
to elevators.'
Mrs. Obenchaiii
'Wants to Punish'
Kennedy Slayer
Woman Held in Los Angeles
Murder Case Talks Freely
Expresses Faith in
Arthur Burch.
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 10. Ques
tioning of Mrs. Madelynne Oben
chain and Arthur C. Burch, under ar
rest in connection with the slaying of
J. Belton Kennedy, broker, resumed
today by the district attorney's of
fice, was intimated to be the prin
cipal part of the investigation of the
case to be pursued until the meeting
of the grand jury tomorrow.
District Attorney Woolwine said
he believed there was already enough
evidence to present to the grand jury,
but declined to discuss plans.
Talks Freely.
Mrs. Obenchain talked freely about
an interview she had with Woolwine
yesterday and said she had never re
fused . to answer a question unless
that question related to Mr. Burch.
She said she had declined to answer
questions of this kind on advice of
counsel and because "Burch must
fight his battle as I must fight mine."
She said she told the district at
torney that she invited Mr. Burch to
come to Los Angeles, saying the
thought it would be beneficial to his
health, but declined to say anything
about any meetings with him prior to
the shooting of Kennedy at Beverly
hills last Friday night. She said she
had told of her past life, including
her relations with Kennedy.
', Believes Burch Innocent.
She said she w4uld do anything in
her power to punish Burch or any
one else she thought guilty of the
slaying, but declared she believed
Burch innocent.
Woolwine said there were certain
reasons why he could not discuss
Mrs. Obenchain's talk with him.
Burch, according to relatives here,
has received two telegrams from his
parents in Evanston, 111., expressing
confidence in his innocence and
promising any assistance he might
need.
Typographical Union
Rejects Plan to Cut
Salaries of Officers
Quebec, Aug. 10. The Interna
tional Typographical union, at its
convention today, rejected proposals
to clip salaries and traveling ex
penses of executive officers. The
vote on the proposal was 168 to 99.
, These recommendations, the cen
ter of stormy debate, were made by
President John McParland. One
proposed cutting $50 a vear from the
$4,000 salary of Vice President W.
J. Barrett.
J. W. Hays, secretary-treasurer,
referred to a 'measly $5,000 per an
nrmi" salary paid the president and
himself. ,
President McParland said he got
along all right and saved money
even if he did have to press his
clothes at home, but he referred to
"pints of diamonds" worn by some
labor leaders.
Spanish Forces Pressed
. Hard by Rif Tribesmen
London, Aug. 10. Reports from
Melilla, says a dispatch to the London
Times from Tangier, are that the
Rif tribesmen have captured part of
General Navarro's position on Mount
Arruit. Navarro's column now is
said to consist of 700 fighting men,
all of the remainder being sick or
wounded.
There has "been a large increase in
.1.. r . :, - . . I
tuc enemy lorces in tne netgiiDor-
hood . of. Meliiia,
dispatches saw
Fighting has occurred between the
Spaniards and the tribesmen on the
Melilla plains in districts hitherto re
ported as loyal to Spain.
Oldest Lutheran inister in
U. S. MDies at St. Paul,' Minn.
St, Paul, Aug. 10. Rev. Nils
Brandt, 97, said to have been the
oldest Norwegian Lutheran minister
in the United States, died here early
today. He was born in Norway in
1824.
. For many years Mr.- Brandt was
connected with Luther college of De
corah, la. Funeral services will be
held at Decorah, probably on Fri
day. Father Philip J. O'Connor
Dies at San Antonio, Tex.
Sioux City, Aug. 10. Rev. Philip
J. O'Connor, well known Iowa Cath
olic priest, formerly pastor of St.
Joseph's church here, is dead at San
Antonio, Tex., according to advices
received here. He had been in poor
health several, vears. For 18 car
before coming to Sioux Citv. he was
a .pastor at Carroll. Ia. lie was
orn in Ireland in 1854.
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Yukon Miner Is
Believed Victim
Of Wild Beasts
Posses Hunt for Missing Vet
eran Gold Prospector
Known as Unluckiest Man
in Yukon.
Dawson. Y. T., Aug. 10. Posses
led by United States Marshal Pow
ers today were searching for Con
Van Alstyne, veteran Yukon pioneer,
who has been missing for several
weeks. He is believd to have fallen
into an old prospect hole or to have
been killed by wild beasts.
Van Alstyne, sometimes called the
unluckiest man in. Yukon, left his
summer camp on Mission creek a
few weeks ago1 on a prospecting trip
to Eagle, 100 mils north of Dawson.
He had been searching for gold in
this region for a quarter of a cen
tury. He first attracted attention
when he staked the famous claim
No. 16, Eldorado, in Klondike camp.
Believing it poor," he exchanged it
for another owned by Thomas
Lippy, who later mined $2,000,000
from the property, and his. successor
took further fortunes from it.
While Lippy went to Seattle a
multi-millionaire, Van Alstyne ob
tained very little out of Lippy's old
claim.
Seven Held in K. C. for
$25,000 Seattle Holdup
- Kansas City, Aug. 10. The local
nolice todav were holding two men
who gave their names as Edward
Patton of Portland, Ore., and Louis
Gordon of Seattle, Wash., and who
late last night made written state
ments that they were implicated in
a $25,000 bank messenger holdup at
Seattle, July 14, last. . The police
also were detaining two other men
and three women who were ar
rested at a downtown hotel with
Patton and Gordon. The other
members of the party, however, po
lice said, were exonerated by the
statements of Patton and Gordon.
There also was in possession of
the authorities $4,400 in currency,
said by private detectives who caused
the arrests, to bear' serial numbers
similar to those on money taken in
the holdup. The currency was in
possession of one of the women who
gave her name as Miss Elva Ducker,
San Francisco, and who, Patto'n told
the police, was his wife.
The other members of the party
gave their names as John J. Murphy,
San Francisco, a bookkeeper; John
J. Fox, Sail Diego, a solicitor; Miss
Milo Moore, Billings, Mont., and
Miss Myrtle Moore, Kansas City,
Ku Klux Klan Wants Bible
Read in Public Schools
Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 10.
(Special Telegram.) Supremacy of
the white race, protection of wom
anhood, sanctity of the home and
separation of religion and politics
are the announced purposes cf the
Grand Island kavern of the Ku Klux
Klan. as given out to the press by
the district organizer, at present
making headquarters here. In addi
tion, he stated that while this had
never been proclaimed especially,
the organization would work for the
reading of the Bible in the public
schools.
Western Senators Form 'Bloc
To Fight for Fair Treatment
Washington, Aug. 10. (By The
Associated Press.) Formation of a
western tariff "bloc" within the re
cently organized and uncfficial ag
riculture group in the senate was
announced today by Senator Good
ing, republican, llaho. The new
group is composed entirely of repub
licans from western states, Senator
Gooding said, allied to tight for
"fair treatment for the west"' in the
tariff bill.
I
Modernizing the
Woman Taken In
"Robbery Trust"
Prisoner Held in Worthington
Case Gives Federal Authori
ties More Information.
Chicago, Aug. 19. New revelations
of the amazing financial operations
of John V. Worthington and his
assistants were made by one of his
principal agents and gave the gov
ernment a much stronger hold upon
the "WallingfordVof Chicago.
John J. Epps, tried and acquitted
in the Toledo mail robbery, has been
held in jail here, unable to procure
the $10,000 bond, imposed. Hereto
fore he has declined to talk, but yes
terday he sent word to the federal
authorities that he wanted to make a
statement. He was taken to the
federal building and questioned at
length, but no hint was given as to
Ins testimony except that it was
highly imoortant.
The first woman arrested in the
case was taken into custody in New
York, charged with unlawfully cor
cealing records of mail robberies.
She is Miss Caroline Hess, secretary
to Arthur Goldsmith, who has con
fessed he .was Worthington's agent
in the cast. Miss Hess was held
under $1,500 bond.
Indication that Worthington had
planned to flee the United States
was found in the passport bureau.
He had applied May 21, shortly after
the Dearborn street mail robbery,
for a passport to England, France
and Jo and. it was issuca in
Washington, but held up in Chicago
because at that time Worthington
was under indictment, charged with
some minor ' get-rich-quick scheme
Policeman Killed When
Mistaken for Robbei
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 10. A tele
phone message trom Collicrvilie, a
suburb of Memphis, shortly after
noon stated that one Memphis po
liceman was killed and three others
were injured by a posse of sheriff s
deputies, which fired on them in
mistake for bandits, who earlier in
the day shot and killed two police
officers and wounded another after
an unsuccessful attempt to rob an
employe of the Ford Motor com
pany here of a bag containing $8,500.
Strange Ocean Currents
Blamed for Alaska Wreck
Washington, Aug. 10. (By The
Associated Press.) A; baffling phe
nomenon of ocean current tendencies,
just discovered, probably, accounts
for the loss Saturday of the steamer
Alaska and 47 lives on the California
coast, it was announced here today
by Col. L. E. Jones, director of the
coast and geodetic survey. Winds
driving parallel to the Pacific coast,
he said, set up new-currents which,
unsuspected by navigators, drift in
land, instead of exactly in wind di
rections. Ford Property in New York
Is Sold at Sheriff's Sale
New York, Aug. 10. The Ford
Motor company building and land at
Broadway and Fifty-fourth street,'
valued at about $1,000,000, was sold
fct auction by United States Marshal
McCarty for $676,000 to satisfy a
judgment of $600,000 and interest by
the Hotel Woodward company.
The Ford company contracted w ith
the hotel company in the early dayi
of the war to erect a hotel on the
property and give a 21-year lease.
A dispute and court action resulted.
8 Dallas Youths on Trial
As Street Corner Loafers
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 10. Validity of
an ordinance prohibiting street cor
ner loafing was to be contested in
trial tomorrow of eight young men.
including Gus King, foot ball star.
All arc members of well known fam-
ilies.
Seal
xox
Small, Following
Arrest, to Seek
Change of Venue
Illinois Governor Goes About
Business as Usual After
Giving Bond for
$50,000
Springfield, 111.. Aug. 10. A legal
battle over change of venue may
be the next phase in the fight of
Governor Len Small against charges
of embezzlement during his term as
state treasurer in 1917 and 1918. His
arrest yesterday after Sheriff Henry
Mester had besieged the governor's
office in the state house lessened
the tension at the capital which has
been at high pitch since the indict
ments were returned July 20.
The governor today went about
his executive duties as usual, having
given bond for $50,000 and it was
believed in many quarters that no
further action would be taken until
the governor and his indicted asso
ciates, Lieutenant Governor Fred
Sterling and Vernon Curtis, the lat
ter a banker of Grant Park, 111., ap
peared in the Sangamon county cir
cuit court on the first Monday in
September to answer to the indict
ments. Boy Bumed to Death
When Wind Upsets Car
Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 11.
Trapped in a flaming cook car, over
turned by a terrific wind east of
Frederick late yesterday, Mrs. J. J.
Schwartzbaugh and her 5-year-old
son received burns which resulted
in the death of the son at noon to
day. Mrs. Schwartzbaugh is in a
critical condition.
The storm which struck Fred
erick overturned barns, wrecked
small buildings and- twisted trees,
bringing with a hail which caused
considerable crop damage. A strip
east of Tolstoy was reported great-J
ly damaged by hail, with high winds
reported at Tulare, W'atertown,
Hecla and Ludden, N. D. Redfield
reported an inch and a half of rain
fall in less than an hour.
President and Wife to Go on
Vacation if Congress Recesses
Washington, Aug. 20. Should
congress recess late this month,
President and Mrs. Harding may
leave Washington for an extended
vacation. No definite plans have
been made, however, it was said to
day. ,
The president has hoped that he
might make a trip into the Pacific
northwest this fall, but it is not now
considered likely that he will get
that far away from Washington.
Un Armistice day, November 11.
the president will speak at Arling
ton cemetery here at a service for
unknown dead, and on the same day
is expected to deliver an address
opening the disarmament conff
ence. - The Weather
Forecast.
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day and probably Friday; slightly
cooler Thursday.
Iowa: Generally fair Thursday
and probably Friday; slightly cool
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Decrease In
Income Tax
Defeated
Proposal to Incresac Individ
ual Exemption Beaten in
House Committee Al
lowances Boosted $200.
Levy on Fares Repealed
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Br leased Wt,
Washington, Aug. 10. Proposals
to increase tax exemptions applying
to individual incomes met defeat to
day in the house ways and means
committee, with the exception that
the allowance for each dependent
was increased from $200 to $400.
The suggestion was advanced that
the present exemption of $1,000 for
single persons and $2,000 for heads
of families be increased to $1,500 and
$2,508 respectively. Chairman Ford
ney and other members of the com
mittee favored this action, but later
it was decided not to increase the
exemption applying to single per
sons, but the proposal to increase it
for heads of families was regarded
favorably. A suggestion was made
that the increased exemption be
limited only to incomes of less than
$5,000. Finally, however, the com
mittee voted against any change ex
cept in the exemption for depend
dents.
An increase in the exemption for
both single ' persons and heads of
families would have meant a loss in
revenue of between $40,009,000 and
$50,000,000.
Plan Voted Down.
In connection with the discussion
the advisability of decreasing the 4
per cent normal tax to 3 per cent
was brought upr but .voted down.
The committee made a number of
important changes in the program as
agreed upon at last night's confer
ence between President Harding,
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
and republican house leaders. Among
them were the complete repeal of
freight, passenger and Pullman
transportation taxes instead of cut
ting them in half and an increase in
the flat corporation income tax from
121-2 per cent, the figure proposed
last night, to 15 per cent. The tax
on express will remain,
' The result of today's changes was
to make a further net decrease of
$60,000,000 in anticipated revenues.
As the bill now stands, the yield will
be $555,000,000 less than the amount
which the present law is estimated
to vield in the fiscal year 1922. The
bill as it stood - last night Tepre.
sented a cut of $419,000,000. The
vield from internal taxes now will
be. $3,020,000,000 if ro further
changes are made.
Program Approved.
The committee formally approved
most of the features of the program
as framed at the White House con
ference. A statement issued from the
committee shows that formal ap
proval was given to the following:
Repeal of the excess profits tax ou
corporations, effective January 1,
1921.
Increase of the income tax on cor
porations from the present flat tax of
10 per cent and the proposed tax of
121-2 per cent to IS per cent, eU
fective January 1, 1921.
Retention of the $2,000 exemptions
on the income of corporations.
Elimination of surtax brackets
above the 32 per cent above $66,000
and retention of present lower sur
taxes effective January 1. 1921.
Increase of the exemption to heads
of families on account of children
or other dependents from $200 to
$400.
Removal of transportation taxe-
on freight, passenger, seats and
berths, eflectrve January I, V)Z.
Repeal of soda fountain tae and
substitution of a tax on the manu
facture of svrups and carbo-iated gas,
of 5 cents a pound.
Change Beverage Levy.
A change in the tax. on cereal
beverages from 15 per cent :.d val
orem to 15 cents per gallon.
A change in the tax on inn; juices
and all carbonated beverages from '
10 per cent ad valorem to 2 cents
per gallon.
A tax of 10 cents per gallon on
finished and fountain syrups.
Repeal of the proprietary stamp
tax and substitution of a tax of 5
per cent on the manufacture of tooth
paste, tooth powder, etc., and on
proprietary medicines.
Exemption from taxation of the
first $500 in stock and interest re
ceived as dividends from building
and loan associations as a means of
encouraging construction. '
Custer County Stockmen .
Organize Association
Broken Bow, Neb., Aug. 10. '
(Special.) Through the instrumen
tality of the Custer county farm
bureau, a meeting of the farmers and
stockmen was called for the pur
pose of organizing a Custer county
Live Stock Improvement associa
tion. The following officers were
elected: P. L. Gaddis of Comstock,
president; A. J. Van Antwerp, vice
president; H. F. Grabert, secretary
treasurer, and H. J. Klcihege, cor
responding secretary.
The next meeting is called for
Wednesday, August 24, at noon, to
be held at the county fair grounds in
the farm bureau tent.
Fort Crook Flyer Ordered
To Air Engineeing School
Capt. H. W. Cook, Fort Crook
aviator, has received orders to re
port to the air engineering school
at Dayton field, Ohio, at once. He
will leave Omaha for Dayton Satur
day, Cook is a Yankee ace with
seven victories to his credit.
Four test flights were made Tnes
lay in a Haviland-4 plane by Mai.
Ira A. Radrr and Capt. H. W. Cook.
