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The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 51 NO. 48.
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OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1921.
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THREE CENTS
Ma v Lose
Everything
In Cfashes
Nebraskans Hard Hit by Stock
. Selling Swindle Savings
of Years Disappear in
Failures.
Losses Taken Quietly
Game losers!
That's a designation merited by
thousands of Nebraskans. "stung"
to the tune of close to $200,000,000
in stock-selling promotion schemes
in the past five years, it is esti
mated, Next to the expose of huge losses
and alleged crooked manipulation,
the outstanding feature of the recent
bursting of the "Missouri bubble," is
the quiet manner in which the heavy
!,.. m fh rrash nf their
iuia uavv iv - -
get-rich-quick hopes.
Shame, a sense of futility and with
some, the hope for "a silver lining"
to the "dark cloud" a false sense
that they may still recover, are ad
vanced in explanation thereof.
Shame Biggest Factor
Shame is the biggest factor in the
Jwall of silence" according to of-rT-:..i-
.inct iiirh with the sit-
nation. , ,
"Some of our biggest, requred to
.be cleverest business men don t
Muxm it known how completely they
J 'were hoodwinked," said one. ihey
prefer to set it down as 'business
losses.' " . . , .!.
The most pitiful class of all is the
large army of conservative investors.
the frugal, hard-worKing men anu
women who risked their allhe ac
cumulation of years of saving and
skimping in one bottomless pit.
They haven't any more good
money to send after the bad in long
legal battles.
Poor House Threatens.
Some of them are hard put to it
to save themselves from going to the
poor house. -
One such is a woman of 67 who
sank every cent she possessed,
( $15,000, into the Missouri Valley
A Cattle and Loan company, the com-
pany of which W. A. McWhorter,
now out on $25,000 bonds, was the
head.
"I never would have done such
a thing. I knew Detter tnan to pui
all my eggs in one basket, but my
banker, in whom I had implicit con
fidence, assured me it was as safe
as government bonds," wrote the
woman. "Now I have no one to
whom to turn and at my age and
time of life . must sk, help from :
others." .
Authorities Have Letter.
l ne woman s icucr is m m u""
f federal authorities.
They hope to ascertain whether
her banker .was one of the "bird
dogs" of stock promotion schemes
whether he betrayed his trust bv
splitting commissions with stock
salesmen in return for throwing his
influence their way, or whether he,
too, was deluded into believing he
had a "good thing."
A heavy loser in another defunct
company was an aged Bohemian liv
ing in Omaha who sank $40,000, his
1 accumulation for years.
I "This man and his wife have been
7 in business here for years, wonting
hard, living simply, in order to pro
vide for their old age and maybe a
visit back to the homeland before
' they die," said a friend of the fam
ily. "Now they must begin all over
again."
Endorsed Notes.
In one of the companies, expose of
whose affairs promises sensational
testimony, a group of Nebraska City
men of wealth, directors of the com
pany, were induced to endorse com
pany notes. .
tv,;. marl thrm individually liable
for the payment of huge sums of
money owed by the company.
In another company country stock
purchasers paid ior tneir siot wmi
farm products.
Now they have neither farm prod
ucts nor stock.
A well known Omaha insurance
gent lost heavily in at least three
of the failures, principally the Lion
' "I liked to dabble, with stocks;
1 certainly got my fingers burnt,"
he admitted ruefully.
Some prospective purchasers were
told that the land involved in com
pany leases was government land.
"These bonds are therefore the
same as government bonds," the
most gullible were in(ormed by
smooth-talking stock salesmen.
That hundreds of stockholders are
still of the belief that with honest
management, something 'of their
losses may be salvaged from the
(Turn to Fag Two, Column One.)
Man Leaves Money for Gas
Before Taking Own Lift
Chicago, Aug. 11. William ' Lar
son had gone through his 55 years
OI uie owing no man. 30 louay ue
fore he ended his life in the bath
room of his home he wrote a note
telling of his act and deposited 45
cents beside it to pay for the
he used in committing suicide.
The note read:
"I always like to pay my dcbs.
This is to pay for the gas I ue.
Going to pay the last big debt of
ail"
Rain Delays Trains
Salt Lake City, Aug. ll.Heavy
rain WorlnecHa v in the virinitv of
. , r . . r . .1
Caliente. Nev.. washed out the Salt
11KC at 1U3 .-ngcics imuuaua
track in several sections, causing six
passenger trains east and west
bound to be delayed, according to
jt 1-: 1 t f
the track a hole. 30 feet deeo and
more than 50 yards long, vas re
ported as due to the torrential
downpoua. -.--.
Burglar Leaves Rum
He Finds in Bag at
Methodists Meeting
Bay View,. Mich., 'Aug. 11. A
burglar who raided baggage at the
Methodist camp meeting grounds
here yesterday took silken finery of
the women but left a quart of
whisky. The liquor taken from one
of the rifled suit cases was left on
the floor.
Every summer the Methodists
hold a big camp meeting here and
speakers admonish their audiences
to "touch not. taste not, handle not."
That far the bad man was reformed.
"Thou shalt not steal," was thun
dered with equal fervor by the
speakers but the burglar apparently
was unable to heed that command.
Examiner Closes
Nebraska State
Bank at Sidney
Exhausted Reserves and
Credits Reasons Assigned;
Depositors Will Not Lose,
Opinion of J. E. Hart.
Sidney, Neb.. Aug. 11. (Special
Telegram.) "This bank is in the
hands of the department of trade
and commerce."
This notice, signed by C. G. Stoll.
examiner in charge, posted on the
door of the Nebraska State bank
here this morning, adds another in
stitution to the long list of those in
the state which have failed within
the last few months.
Poor collections are the reasons
assigned for the closing.
No Official Notification.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11. (Special
Telegram.) J. E. Hart, secretary
of the state department of trade and
commerce, returning from Omaha
tonight, said that he had received
no official notification of the closing
tf the Nebraska State bank at
Sidney. ,
"However," he said, "I have no
doubt but that the institution was
closed today. I was in Sidney last
Sunday and an attempt was made to
effect a consolidation between the
Nebraska State and the Liberty
State banks, in hopes the latter in
stitution would take over affairs, of
the other bank.
"I left instructions with C. G.
Stoll, examiner, to close the bank
if the consolidation move failed to
materialize.
"Late last night I received a tele
gram from Sidney stating that the
consolidation had failed, so I pre
sumed the bank would be closed
today.
. Expects No Losses.
"Exhausted reserves and credits
are responsible for the closing. In
other words, the bank could get no
more credit. I do not believe there
was any shortage. Just a case of a
bank getting too much slow paper
and failure to receive credit from
other institutions to carry it
through. ' ,
"I do not believe that after the
bank is liquidated and collections
made on slow paper there will be
any losses. However, I do not wish
to make a definite statement, as the
examiner has not finished his inves
tigation." .
The bank is capitalized at from
$200,000 to $250,000. according to
Secretary Hart. F. M. Woo'dridge,
who went to Sidney from Kimball,
Neb., several years ago, is presi
dent. Man Held in Denver
In Connection With
Nebraska Auto Thefts
Denver, Aug. 11. A man who
gave his name as F. M. Sykes, 25,
and who told the police he was the
son of a well-to-do Chicago real
..ctiif. nneratnr living at Willamette,
a suburb of Chicago, was arrested
here by Federal Agent R. L. Craft
whose investigations have resulted in
the recovery of a large number of
stolen automobiles and a number of
arrests in Colorado, Wyoming and
Nebraska. A charge of investiga
tion was placed against Sykes.
Sykes denies that he conspired
with a band of thieves to steal his
automobile which disappeared here
July 17 last, and maintains his ar
rest is a "frame up." Clews fur
nished Denver officers resulted in
the recovery of Sykes' car at Chey
enne, Wyo., and the arrest at Bridge
port, Neb., of two men who gave
their names as C G. Brown and J.
W. Moore. The men now are be
ing held in Omaha. Sykes formerly
operated a drug store at Bridgeport.
Prominent cheek bones,
drooping mouth, broad nose
and searing eyes that was
Bianca.
She was innocent of all
beauty, this wistful, sullen,
little Itatian girl. Marshall
Gaunt, the English artist,
called her
(
A Daughter
of Pan"
In- her he saw what he
expressed as "The Beauty
of Ugliness" and he painted
her portrait again and again.
She roused his intense curi
osity and exerted over him
an influence that in time
came to be sinister.
There is much of the bi
zarre and a plot of sustained
interest in this Blue Ribbon
story by Stephen McKenna.
It is one of the features of
Next Sunday's Bee
California
Priest Slain;
Man Held
Body of Curate Found in
Shallow Graven One Who
Led Police to Scene
Arrested.
Mystery Veils Motive
By the Aaaoclated FreM.
San Francisco, Aug. 11. A fog
that drenched and chilled shrouded
a little party of six in the midnight
bleakness of the beach 20 miles south
of here last night, and sputtering
lantern-light revealed a bullet-riddled
body of a priest in a shallow
sand grave, to which the police and
newspaper men had been led by Wil
liam A. Hightover, a baker.
Hightover guided them there as
one who, from deductions of clues
furnished by a woman of the night
life, had solved the eight-day mys
tery of the disappearance oi tR-jv.
Patrick E. Heslin, Catholic priest
of Colma, near here.
Taken from City.
Within 12 hours of this tragic
denouement, Hightover faced ac
cusations from the officers that he
led to this scene, th it he had slain
the priest. Search of his hotel room
here revealed a rifle of caliber similar
to shells found near the sandy
grave, as we'l as newspaper clippings
referring to rewards aggregating
$8,000 for information concerning
the priest. A piece of bloody bur
lap and a contrivancce of cartridges
and shrapnel were also found in
Hightover's room.
Meanwhile, Hightover was taken
from the hall of justice after sev
eral hours of gruelling cross-examination,
for a destination not dis
closed and a statement which police
issued that he had made po admis
sions that in any way directly con
nected him with the slaying.
"I firmly believe that Hightover
killed Father Heslin." declared Chief
of Police Daniel O'Brien, "but I do
not believe that he did it alone."
Chief O'Brien was one of the party
taken by Hightover to the grave of
the priest.
Motive Veiled in Mystery.
Mystery still veils the motive for
the slaying, according to police. On
August 2 he was called from his
parish house by a stranger and asked
to attend a dying man. The red
Morroco case containing the bread
arid wine of the sacrament was found
undisturbed in a pocket of the priest's
clothes. Money was not the object,
for a neat roll of currency was found,'
in one of the pockets, pierced by
one of the fatal bullets. .
The woman, Dolly Mason, to
whom a foreigner told of killing the
priest, according to Hightower, and
who told him, could not be found
today. Upon this woman rests the
story of Hightower.
Other angles which prompted
Chief, of Police O'Brien and Con
stable Landini of Colma to directly
accuse Hightower of the slaying in
clude the .following: 1
Hightower admitted that he was
in Colma about the. time the priest
disappeared.
He evinced a strange familiarity
with the site of the sand grave.
He was out of work and in need
of money.
Visits Spot Alone.
Hightower's story was that he
chanced upon Dolly Mason on the
streets here Saturday. He had
known her before, he said. She
told him then, he said, that a for
eigner, a bootlegger, had revealed
a large amount of money to her,
and a pistol with which he said he
killed a man. He said the body of
a slain man was in one of the caves
of the sand cliffs near Salada beach,
20 miles south of here. It was
guarded by a man kneeling and fry
ing flapjacks, he told her, High
tower said.
This recalled, said Hightower, an
advertising sign at this lonely beach
spot, and on Sunday he drove down,
according to his story, and found
the body. He brought a piece of
bloody burlap and some cartridge
shells back to his room, he said.
Three nights later, last night, he
went to the residence of Archbishop
A. C. Hana, head of the Catholic
diocese here, to tell of his find. The
archbishop was busy and he told of
it to a waiting newspaper reporter,
who . arranged with the chief of
police for the party which fqund the
body. '
Jugo-SIav Forces Burn 30
Albanian Villages Is Report
London, Aug. 11. Fighting on the
Driti in northern Albania be-
rurn fnrrPC D f Tnco-Slavia and Al
banians is reported in Avlona mes
sages, says a Central Mews aispatcn
(mm Wnme. The Tueo-SIavia are
alleged to have burned 30 Albanian
villages.
A force of 2,000 Jugo-blavs de
feated by the Albanians, adds the
message, retired toward Kesseve.
Five Reported Killed
In Rail Crossing Wreck
Vicksburgh, Miss., Aug. 11. Re
ports have been received here that
train No. 13 of the Yazoo & Mis
sissippi Valley railroad struck a
truck at a grade crossing at Anguilla,
Miss., 50 miles north of here this
afternoon, killing five and injuring
10 or 12. The injured are being
brought here for treatment.
Federal Judge of Kansas
Dies in Wisconsin Home
Wausau, Wis., Aug. 11. Judge
William C. Hook of the United
States district court at Leavenworth,
Kan., died today at his summer resi
dence at Sayner, near here. Judge
Hook was one of the most noted fed
eral jurists. Decisions rendered by
him in many important test cases
have subtracted nation-wide attention
Health of U.S. Public
Being Broken Down
By Too Many Baths
San Francisco, Aug. 11. Too
many baths, too much personal
cleanliness is breaking down the
health of the American public, said
Dr. J. Cameron Pickett, San Fran
cisco physician, in an address before
the annual convention of the National
Association of Chiropodists here.
Dr. Pickett's subject was skin
lesions and he declared that the
rapid increase in the prevalence of
these convinced him that America
had carried the subject of bathing
too far.
American TeHs
Of Hardships In
Russian Prison
Famine Largely Due to Con
fiscation of Grain by
Soviets, Captain Kil"
patrick Says.
By DONALD DAY.
Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1931.
Reval, Aug. 11. Having bathed,
donned fresh clothes provided by the
American Red Cross and filled them
selves with real food, the six Amer
ican just released from Russian pris
ons are beginning to feel more like
themselves. At first the men talked
but little, asking time to adjust them
selves. Later Capt. Emmett Kilpat
rick was prevailed upon to tell of
some of the suffering he had experi
enced. "When we were released," said the
captain, "officials told us that the
soviet had granted us an amnesty.
We did not discover the real reason
for our freedom until we reached
Petrograd. There we saw news
papers, which Kamlatiano translated,
containing Hoover's note.
-''I talked with men from Kuban,
Crimea, Omsk, Tomsk, Siberia and
other provinces. These men reported
that the famine was not entirely due
to the drouth, but was largely
brought about because the commu
nists confiscated last year's grain
crop, including the seed.
Fight for Food.
"Today banditry is prevalent in
Russia. Every night we could hear
fusillades in Moscow and many
wounded bandits were brought to
the hospitals. Some with whom I
talked tcld me they were fighting
for food. Now the Moscow hospitals
refuse patients unless they are able
to' provide their own food.
"In the prison in which I was
confined, I was reported to. be crazy
because I had several fist fights
with Polish prisoners who refused
to open their windows. The air in
our basement cells was terrible. .The
most horrible experience which I
was forced to go through was when
I was confined in a basement cell
next to the execution room. I was
under death sentence once and was
taken into that room. There water
runs over the floor constantly to
wash away the blood. I could not
sleep nights because of the constant
shooting between 2 and 4 in the
morning. There is more terror in
Russia than ever before.
Questioned By Woman.
"Practically the entire staff of the
soviet foreign office arrived at the
prison one day because of informa
tion which had leaked out, Mrs.
Louise Bryant was brought to my
cell. She questioned me regarding
Capt. Merion Copper, saying he had
done wrong in aiding the Poles and
would be punished later. Later I
read her brutal signed article in the
Moscow Isevestia, praising the prison
treatment accorded Americans. She
told of the good food we were re
ceiving when as a matter of fact we
were starving. She told how all we
had to do was to sleep when we were
too weak to stand.
"If America starts relieving the
Russians I hope it will watch the
food go down the throats of the
hungry, otherwise the communists
will be the only ones to be provided
for. Already the soviet is sending
out propaganda urging that only the
fit should get food. AH others must
die.
"A horrible tragedy is being en
acted in Russia today. Prisoners
captured on the battlefields of the
late war are rotting in prisons, all
records of them being destroyed and
their existence forgotten. They arc
now -actually starving because the
quarter of a pound of bread giving
them daily is not enough to keep life
in their bodies."
Daylight Holdups Get
$6,500 in Pes Moines
Des Moines, la., Aug. 11. Wil
liam Koopeker, messenger for the
Capital City State bank, was held up
within half a block of the city hall
by four men and robbed of 6,500
at 10 a. m. today.
The robbery occurred at East Sec
ond and Locust streets. The rob
bers drove up beside the messenger
as he was walking alone and un
armed on his way to the clearing
house, grabbed his grip and es
caped in an automobile. The grip
is said to have contained $6,500 and
a number of checks.
"Stool Pigeon's" Evidence
Not Good, Ruling of Judge
Federal Judge Woodrough refused
yesterday to grant a permanent
injunction closing the establishment
of Chris Rasmussen in Benson, on
the grounds that the testimony of a
government "stool pigeon" was not
sufficient to convict a man of selling
liquor.
The suit for injunction was the
first of a series of like suits which
the new United States district attor
ney, J. H. Kinsler, planned to bring.
Mr. Kinsler stated that the Volstead
act provided that places where it is
proven liquor has been -sold can be
ciosea permanently
A Law
Valera's Reply
Means Crisis in
England, Rumor
; :
Premier Lloyd George to Re
turn From Supreme Con
ference Text of Irish
Answer Secret.
Br The Associated Free.
.ParisTAug. 11. The British dele
gation, through Lord Riddle, this
evening informed the newspaper cor
respondents that ' Premier Lloyd
George, on receipt of the Irish an
swer to the peace proposals of the
British government and in view of
the deadlock on the upper Silesian
question, had decided to return to
London with his mission tomorrow
morning.
Text Kept Secret.
London, Aug. 11. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) The reply of Eamonn
de Valera, the Irish republican
leader, to the British government's
Irish peace proposals, was handed to
Austen Chamberlain, government
leader in the house of commons, at
noon today.
The tenor of the reply was with
held. The official explanation was
that it would be subject first to con
ferences by the cabinet and that it
was unlikely to be divulged for some
days.
Robert C. Barton, member of the
Dail Eirreann, gave the reply to Mr.
Chamberlain in the absence of
Premier Lloyd George in France.
Announced to Commons.
Mr. Barton was accompanied by
Art O'Brien, president of the Gaelic
league in London. Both of these
men had been De Valera's com
panions during his recent talks in
Downing street with Lloyd George.
Mr. Chamberlain announced in
the House of Commons this after
noon the receipt of the reply which
was immediately forwarded to
Lloyd George in Paris. -
A dispatch to Reuters from Paris
tonight says Premier Lloyd George
will return to London Friday owing
to the developments in the Irish sit
uation. It is rumored in French
sources, adds the message, that
Eamonn De Valera's reply means a
grave crisis.
General Wood Slated for
Governor-General of P. I.
Washington, Aug. 11. Major
General Leonard Wood was author
itatively slated today to have been
selected by President Harding for
governor general of the Philippines
and to have expressed his willing
ness to accept the post.
A bill designed to , remove all
doubt of eligibility of General Wood
for the governorship was introduced
by Chairman Wadsworth of the sen
ate military committee and under
stood to have been suggested by the
administration. It provides that ac
tive army officers shall be eligible
for "civil offices of the government
in administering its territorial pos
sessions." .,
King of Hedjaz Declares
Holy War on Greek Army
Angora, Anatolia, Aug. 8. (By
The Associated Press.) A holy war
has been proclaimed by the king of
the Hedjax as a measure for assist
ing the Turkish nationalists in their
fight against the Greeks in Asia
Minor, it was announced here toda.
The monarch in his call appeals for
the saving of Islam.
Spanish Cabinet Resigns
Madrid, Aug. 11. The cabinet of
Premier Allendesalazar resigned to
day. Former Premier Maura, it is
. 1 j. - - . If
Which Doesn't Work
King George Hard
Hit by H. C. of L
Sum Provided for Royal
Household Shows Big De
ficit Since War.
Br The Associated Press.
London, Aug. 11. King George
has been hard hit by the increased
cost of living during and since the
war. This statement was made in
the house of commons by J Austen
Chamberlain, lord privy seal; who
said that the' king's civil list (the
sum provided from public funds for
the expenses of the royal house
hold) had shown a progressive de
ficit for several years. '
The deficit in 1919 was 24,500
pounds and in 1920, 45,000 pounds
and it probably would be greater in
1921, despite a reduction in the state
functions and the strictest econo
mies which the king has initiated.
King George, Mr. Chamberlain
said, had been meeting the short
ages from a fund he had accumu
lated for. such an emergency and
had refused to give his assent to
a suggestion that the government
temporarily increase the civil list,
being unwilling to involve the pub
lic with an additional charge in
view of the serious state of the na
tional finances.
Mr. Chamberlain declared that
King George had favored a material
reduction in the ceremonial splendor
traditionally associated with the
British throne, but the government
had advised him that parliament and
the great mass- of the population of
the empire would prefer to main
tain the customary dignity of tho
crown.
Preacher Who Spoke 111
Of Yank Dead Mobbed
Oskaloosa, la., Aug. 11. Aroused
by alleged unpatriotic remarks con
cerning American dead in France, a
mob, said to have included a number
of ex-service men, last night esized
the Rev. W. L. Wilfond, an itinerant
evangelist preacher at a tent meet
ing, forced the man into an auto
mobile and carried him out in the
country to apply tar and feathers.
As the tar was being poured over his
head the man is said to have prom
ised to leave town and was released
without further punishment. The
police have issued an order discon
tinuing the tent meetings.
American Valuation for
Tariff Accepted hy Senate
Washington, Aug. 11 The Amer
ican valuation principle for assess
ing tariff in modified form was ac
cepted today by the senate finance
committee, Chairman Penrose an
nounced. Experts are working out
details which are to be presented to
the committee for ratification later
in the day.
Before finally deciding on the
question, republican members of the
committee voted to request the
democratic members to leave the
committee session. Senator Sim
mons, the ranking democrat, in
formed the republicans, it was said,
that he recognized the move as fol
lowing precedent established by each
party.
Curious Crowds Flock to
See Petrified Giant
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 11. Curi
ous crowds from all over eastern
Tennessee continued 'to flock to
Helen Wood, Scott ctJunty, where
a gigantic "petrified man" was found
several days ago. Cruise Sexton
found the 500-pound image while
prospecting for coal. It is a fairly
perfect likeness of a man, adorned
with horns and wings. It is the be
lief that the find possibly is a ore-
historia rehc of value, J" '
Man Attempts
Life Because of
Death Prophecy
Prediction He Would Commit
Suicide at 50 Leads Scribner
Resident to Stab Self on
Train; Condition Serious.
Fremont, Neb Aug H. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Depressed with the
constant memory of a fortune tell
er's prophesy 20 years ago that when
he reached the age of 50 he would
commit suicide, if not already mur
dered, Fred Struvehaver, 50 of Scrib
ner, stabbed himself 30 times with
a pocket knife in the attempt to take
his own life. Little hope is held
out for his life as some of the thrusts
are believed to have punctured his
lungs.
Struvehaver was a passenger on a
Northwestern train. As the train
pulled out of Scribner, occupants of
the smoker saw the man plunge the
knife time and again into his body.
The train was halted and backed
to the station where the injured man
was rushed to a physician. Cuts and
slashes in his throat were not con
sidered dangerous, but the wounds
of the chest are believed to be fatal.
When the attempted suicide was
questioned as to his motive for the
act, he explained that his mind was
controlled by a hypnotic influence
for the last 20 years, since the' for
tune teller made the prophecy that
he would either be murdered or take
his own life at the age of 50.
If he survives, an investigation as
to his mental condition will be made.
Catholic Priest Shot
By Methodist Pastor
Birmingham, Aug. 11. Father
.Tames E. Coyle, pastor of St. Pauls
Catholic church, was shot three times
and seriously wounded early tonight,
while sitting - on the porch of his
home. The assailant, who gave his
name as Stephenson and claimed to
be a Methodist minister, surrendered
soon after the shooting. He refused
to make a statement.
Mail Robbery Suspect
To Be Taken to Toledo
United States Commissioner
Bochler issued an order yesterday
for the removal of Harry Palm
er, a federal prisoner in county jail,
to Toledo, O., where he is said to
be involved in the Toledo mail rob
bery of last winter.
Palmer was arrested by secret
service agents here several days ago,
when he arrived from Chicago. The
warrant charged him with concealing
stolen postoffice property. When ar
rainged before the commissioner he
waived preliminary hearing. His
bond was fixed at $5,000.
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U. S. Invites
Allies To
Conference
Formal Invitations to Four As
sociated Powers to Attend
Disarmament Meeting ,
Nov. 11, Sent Out.
China Asked to Attend
By GRAFTON S. WILCOX.
Chicago Tribune-Omalia Bra leaned Wire.
Washington, Aug. 11. President
Harding's formal invitations to the
allied and associated powers to at
tend a conference in Washington,
November 11, on the subject of lim
itation of armaments and in con
nection with which Pacific and far
eastern questions will be discussed,
was cabled today by Secretary of
Mate Hughes to ureat uritain,
Franc Italv and Tanan. An invi
tation tn the irovernment cf China
to participate at the conference in
the discussion ot racinc ana iar
eastern questions, was also for
warded.
Th invitation, siened bv the sec
retary of state, declares at the out
set that present vast public expen
ditures by governments must be
greatly reduced to iree proaucuvc
labor of the world irom an eco-
nmV hurrlon tnn lipaw to be
borne." It points out the futility of
Icoking ior -stability or me assur-
nf nflal inctirp rii the SCCUT-
L 1 1 V. l v. iubi J""'" f
ity of peace while wasteful and un
productive outlays deprive euon
its just reward and defeat the rea
sonable expectation of progress."
Menace to World Peaoe.
The greatest encumbrance upon
ntrnri An H national orosperity.
the president says, is the enormous
expense of rival armaments.
"Avoidable or extravagant ca-
f tViie nature." the OOWerS
are told, "is not only without eco
nomic justification, but is a constant
menace to. the peace of the world
rather than an assurance of its pres
ervation." The president emphasizes that
11,... caoma tn lie tin GTOUnd fof
halting such expenditures unless the
powers can agree upon a saiisrac
tory basis" for their limitation and in
his opinion, the time is now oppor
tune for them to approach the sub
ject "directly and in conference." In
this connection the president makes
it clear that not only the question
of naval armaments should be con
sidered, but that relief for expendi
tures of all other armament should
be discussed. In addition to this,
the invitation says:
"It may also be found advisable
to formulate proposals by which, in n '
the interest of humanity, the use of
new agencies of warfare may be
suitably controlled."-
Discuss Submarines.
Although none of the new agen
cies of warfare are mentioned in the
invitation, it refers, of course, to the
advisability of the nations of the
world reaching an agreement to con-,
trol the use of poison gases and
other brutal agencies developed in
the great war. Whether the use of
the submarine in warfare will ccme
under this category was not dis
cussed in official quarters, but in
(Tarn to Fag-e Two. Colrnnn Two.)
Three Killed, Five
. Wounded in Attempt
To Rob Pay Roll Clerk
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 11. Polici
and sheriffs' deputies of half a doz
en Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten
nessee counties were searching for
members of a bandit band whose at
tempt to secure a pay roll here yes
terday resulted in the death of three
policemen and the wounding of five
other men. Those killed were Vin
cent Lucarina, police lieutenant;
Polk A. Carraway, patrolman, and
Howard L. Gamble, special officer
in the employ of the Ford company.
Carraway and Gamble were killed
when the masked bandits drove
alongside the car in which they were
guarding Edward McHenry, clerk
in charge of the pay roll, and de
manded the money and then opened
fire. McHenry jumped from the
car with the money, about $9,000, and
escaped. Although he stumbled, he
made the doorway of the Ford plant
with the money. ,
Lieutenant Lucarina was killed a
few minutes later when the car in
which he was starting in chase of
the bandits was mistaken for the car
of the latter and riddled with bullets.
Canadian Court Decision
Expected to Aid Rum Runners
Windsor, Ont, Aug. 11. Can
adian prohibition officials ' expect
liquor will pour across the border
into the United States in greater
streams than ever, because of the
court ruling here yesterday that the
Ontario temperance act does not
prohibit exportation of intoxicants
to a foreign country.
Disagreeing with American cus
tom officials, who stated that they
did not look for increased rum
running, the Canadians said ' that
orders from the United States al
ready were reaching breweries and
distilleries in this district and that
owners of these plants said they
would fill the orders.
Dirigible, to Have Wireless
On Flight Across Atlantic
London, Aug. 11. It has been an
nounced that the Z-2, the giant air
ship purchased by the United Slates
from the British government, during
its flight across the Atlantic, will
have the assistance of the Clifden
wireless station. The airship has
been fitted with a wireless direction
finding apparatus and it will take its
bearings from this. Clifden station,
during the flight wilt repeat a call
at; lmiiute mjervah)