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f t ' Greatest Bar to American Naval - Plan Is Removed Termination of Anplo-Japan-fie Alliance Docs Much to Open Way for Limita- tion AgreemenL By GRAFTON WILCOX. Chirac TVttHin-Omh IIm I-sd Wlr Washington, Dec 11. The great est obstruction to triumph for the American natal limitation program, the Anglo-Japanese alliance, was re moved here. Now for the 10 year naval doliday, agreement on the capital hip ratio proposed by the United States, and the bringing of the Washington con ference to a aupcr-ctiinax of achieve ment for. the peace of the world. Having removed a Rrave possible cause of war, the delegates of the potters represented here propose next to consummate the underlying pur pose of the conference, the limita tion of the great nava armaments of the world. ' Expect Agreement Soon. Flist to be determined in bring ing consideration of the naval pro gram to a conclusion is the 5-5-3 ratio, of capital ships to be accorded the linked States, Great Britain and Japan. ' Today's accomplishment is be lieved here to make acceptance by Japan of the 60 per cent capital ship basts almost a certainty. How soon agreement on this wil be announced could not be stated definitely to night, but the prediction was general that it would be forthcoming within a few days. r - ' ' : Baron Kato. the. head of the Jap anese delegation,, said tonight that final word from his. government on this Important phase of the sonfer ence had not been received, .but that it was expected" almost hourly. ; As soon as the issue is decided, it is probable that another plenary ses sion of the conference will be held to receive the announcement.. Re ports are current ; tonight that a plenary session 'might be called early next week,' but American con ference officials'ea'id.that there could be nothing definite about it at this time. '" -'V Successful Outcome Predicted. The spirit of the .delegates at to day's session reflected a suc cessful outcome of .the naval reduc tion controversy. " Mr. Balfou of Britain, speaking of the four-powered agreement and its effect on the pur poses of he Washington conference said:- -.. ;. t "Nothing is more germane to its spirit and nothing that we could possibly have done .would better pre pare the way. for that diminution of naval armament' which I hope will be one of our greatest trimuphs." Prince Tokugawa of Japan sa:d that Japan would rejoice in the pledge of peace upon the Pacific ocean made today and endorsed the utterances pfMtr; Balfour in predict ing success. of .the disarmament pro gram. . . Support of De Valera " In Ireland Weakening l i 1 f.t-f- - " ' (Centlnearm Face One,) Arthur Gnffith wtll:b the. first chief of the new Irish free state. Tom Johnstslti'Thr-secretary of the Irish labor party, told me that labof would fake-ne part in the pres- . ent quarrel. It-is 'true that it is not directly , represented in dail, having stood aside t& allow' concentration on the national demand, but it will not even try to influence the votes of the members of labor constituencies. :.! gather that labor is inclined td simpa1- 'thize with the insistence for the "full republican demand, but this, it most ' be understood, is the political labor which is. inclined toward bolshevism and numerically is not influential. It also has, & grudge against the Irish republican police which it accuses of havincr heloed the employers in the recent Strikes in Limerick and else where. , London, Dec. 11. England is opti " mistic While waiting for Wednesday's meeting of dail eireann. Sir Jimes Craig, the Ulster pre mier, completed his conferences with Premier Lloyd George and will re turn to Belfast, after having discussed Ulster's fiscal status un der the treaty and the question" of the readjustment of Ulster's boundar ies. It is stated that Ulster has asked that the,- boundaries commission deal with tha nine counties instead of the six now constituting the district, as if it sacrificed certain Catholic areas in Tyrone and Fermanaugh it "could be compensated by the inclusion in the northern district of certain Protestant areas n Cavan, Donegal and Monag han. . 1." ' ' ' Crain's only comment was: "The situation has not materially changed." New York, Dec. 11. Attacks on Great Britain and the peace terms of? fered Ireland, voiced by speakers at the convention of' the Friends of Irish Freedom, were cheered-by more than 1,700 delegates, representing every state. " D. S. Cohaian, state supreme court justice, who was elected permanent chairman; received a welcome when he declared Irish in America would never be satisfied and would never cease work until' Ireland was grant ed a government "with the -same in stitution and the same freedom that America has." He also attacked British influences which he said were seeking to control American opinion. . . : "We give notice to England." he declared,-"that Mr. Harding and Mr. Hughes are not going to be able to have their present scheme of alliance put through any more than Mr. Wil son and Mr. House put through their league of nations. Reduced Holiday Fares Via the Burlington Route Fare and one-half round trio from all stations to destinations to which the one-wav fare is $2j or Ies: mm mum reduced fare. $2.50. Children of half-fare age half above fares. raf nf ale. December 22 to 24. in clusive: final limit, January 4. These reduced fares would include such cities as Chicago, St. Louis." Kansas City, Denver and intermediate terri tory. Information and tickets. City Tirtfft Offire. 14!6 Dndee Street Phone. Douglas 1684; Depot Ticket umce, Jf none,- jjougias o saw, - - Work of Omaha Poetess .. . Recognized by Magazines Mrs. Julie Hammond Plans to Publish Mys tical Writings in Book Form. Mrs. Julie Hammond, 2425 Cur dette. street, is an' Omaha poctes ' whose work has been recognized by, publications here, and elsewhere. She expects to gather her poems in a book to be published next spring. A blending of various romantic strains from her ancestry accounts ' for the mystical motive of many of her poems. For she is a New Or- leans Creole, with Spanish, French, , Cuban and negro blood. Her parents died when she was very young and she went to live in Virginia with the family of Mrs. Ellick McVeigh Miller, a novelist. Here she found just what she craved books. And from these books she educated herself. She has never' gone to school. Her earliest published work was printed when she was 16. She has had poems published in Life, the In dianapolis Freeman, the Monitor, Omaha, and in other papers. One of her most appreciated ooems is "Tune Time." It has a lilt and rhythm that, typify the beauties5? ot June: , , , r Sunshine and blua skits, and Ilslds ot r living gruen; Hill and UI berierktd with flowers, ot vary bua and (been. Bong bird and butterflies on golden win sirteam; Muslo ot the running brook, and drowsy . murmuring slream. Moonshine- and starshlna and winds . tluit njftly nigh; Airy clouds of fleecy white, that idly Wander by. , Old frlnnds and new Invea now meet with hearts atunn; To wonders ot tlia earth and aky and thia is June. . . . Body of Slaughter Found in Woods Discovery Corroborates Story Of Killing of Desperado Told by Escaped Convict. By Tba Associated Press. Little Rock.. Ark.,' Dec. ll.--The body of Tom Slaughter, -notorious bank , robber and murderer, who fought many gun battles-with officers,- only to lose his life ' at the' hands of a companion, ..was found near the ashes of t his camp fire in the woods 20 miles northwest of Benton. ' . The discovery corroborated the story told by J. C. Howard, the convict who killed the desperado. According to Howard s story, the group of seven convicts,. two, white?, and five negroes, after - abandoning the automobile in which they escape ed, kept together and on sev eral occasions heard members .of the posse searching for them. Late in the afternoon they came to the secluded spot,, where, they, camped. Howard said-.that .Slaughter; warned the others of the party that he would kill them if they "slackened.".. Howard said he watched his chance and got the promise of Jim Wells and Clifton Taylor, negroes,' to "frame up" on Slaughter and the other negroes. They disarmed the other negroes as they slept. Howard then gave a yell and-, as slaughter started to arise,, shot him three times. Howard and the two negroes, Wells and Taylor, surrendered. -. Huskers Answer Call Superior. Neb., Dec. 11. (Special) The report that cornhuskcrs were needed inv the-f-yicinityvof superior brought' men' in numbersand corn- picking is being' rapidly completed. Gridiron Club Abandons Satire at Annual Dinner " '"'- ' ' ' --.''-.. V Winter Function5 Rivals Versailles. . Conference in . Number, of . Notable Figuresv;.res6nti : ; ' -. Speakers Deliver Notably Frank and '.'z , .J Informing Addresses. . v, ' Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leased Wire. - Washington, Dec 11. rNot even at the Versailles conference were so many of the great figures in the af fairs of the world brought together in one dining room as assembled last night as the guests of the Grid iron club at the club's annual winter dinner. i Not only were the president, . the vice president and the cabinet pres ent but the guests also included all the principal delegates attending the .conference, the French, Belgian, Japanese, Italian and British am bassadors, the ministers from Por tugal, China and, the Netherlands, eminent senators and representa tives, famous business men and financiers, and distinguisheajour nalists from all parts of the world. In one aspect, the dinner was a plenary session of the men who hold in their hands the forces and powers that are guiding to their des tiny the chief nations. Unlike a plenary session of the international conference, however, this was a closed and not an open session, for it is a rule of the Gridiron club that no speech at a club dinner shall be reported. Thus it was that under this implied pledge of confidence, famous personalities delivered no tably frank and informing speeches. Satire Abandoned.- - Naturally the 'form of entertain ment offered by the club to its guests was attuned to the interna tional character of the gathering. In treating the conference, how ever, the club for once abandoned its customary methods of satire, wit and humor and dealt with the sub ject in a thoroughly dignified and re spectful fashion. The keynote was sounded early in the proceedings when a member of the club ad dressed the assembly as follows: "Five great powers, meeting here in Washington,- have achieved in a month's time, more than ail the world achieved for disarmament in a quarter of a century of aspiration and effort. To these five cowers the I Gridiron club tonight pays homage, THE . u f I - i , . ;, v , I Stillman Defense Charges Effort to Bribe-Witnesses Attorney for. Wife of Banker Presents Affidavit in Sup- , port of Accusation , Against Plaintiff. lly The Associated Press. Pcughkecpsie, N. Y., Dec-11. Ac cusations that two Canadians had been bribed to testify against Mrs. Anne U. Stillman and- that agents for James A. Stillman .attempted to corrupt 11 others' into giving false testimony opened a fresh counter at tack upon the banker in his divorce suit- ... .,. .' ' . . ..' '' The charges were made in open court before Supreme Court Justice Morschauser by J. F.- Brennan, chief of Mrs. Stillman's$;ounsel, and John E. Mack, guardian ad litem for her son, Guy, 3, .whose legitimacy the banker impugned.;-Mr. Brennan pre sented an affidavit signed .by himself; outlining - the allegations ' and, ' ex plaining that they would, tie borne out by the testimony,' of, witnesses, to be called at Montreal beginning ; Jan uary 11. ',".!, .' Mr. Brennan's. ' affidavit named: several witnesses who, he, said'; would be called .to testify'; that 'a'ectlts of Mr. Stillman ;atffiipp.ted.,;to,;.'Jbribe them in 1920 , abewt the'.time" the banker instituted thVldivorce suit. .The affidavit natned Joseph and Ferdinand Page, tcjih .of Latuque, Quebec, as the two who were bribed before ; testifying.;: : agajnst-,jJ, Mrs; Stillman. -Mr.- Brennan told the' bank-' er's lawyer, Outerbridge Horsey' that agents for i-Mr. Stillmun who; sought to corrupt witnesses were J." Albert La Fontaine and Francois, Lajoie and added there were others who were guilty. Eleven witnesses named in the affidavit would, Mr. Brennan stated, swear that agents-. for Mr;';Srrllmart sought .to bribe 7theni.','w4th'. consid erable sums of money if they would falsely swear," "they witnessed mis conduct by Fred Beauvais, Indian guide, and Mrs. Stillman. The affidavit renewed charges that Mr. Stillman was guilty of miscon duct with three women,-Florence H. Leeds and two identified only as "Helen" and "Clara." We feel that it is fitting for us to look upon five symbols "Which repre sent those tewersj banded in com mon cause,- vwhosf.-; -work here is translating the great .vision into fact. The symbols. we shall-show you are net those of .war, but cf peace. To night they stand together as closely bound by ties ot'brotherhood as they were in the" da. bf a world tragedy. We ask you; ' gentlemen, to look upon them."'" r vr- -Flags-Borne i In. One by one "the silken banners' of Japan, Italy, France, Great Britain and the United States were borne into the room, each by a bearer at tired in the military uniform of the Country represented and each herald ed by the nationa! anthem of that country, played by the Marine band. Every flag was received with tumul tuous applause, all present standing. When the five had been grouped a member of the club announced: "To these five flags, united iri the task that a barrier against war shall be built high and strong and im perishable, the Gridiron club offers its salute." To the music of "The Star Spang led Banner" the flags were marched off and the gaiety of the evening began. Part of the equipment of the din ing room was a radio installation. The guests were informed that "nine months ago, the good ship, Normalcy sailed on an uncharted sea. Through the wireless, the Gridiron club will be kept informed tonight of her movements." , Periodically throughout the eve ning the -operators anounced the messages as they were received. Among them were the following: "Running on even keel. Band playing. . Everybody singing. Not a care in the world. ish all could see our prond ship as she. plows majestic ocean. : P. ,S. Our" smoke screen is working fine." "This message -has been .relayed via Milwaukee ana it. Louis: : "Three miles off" shCre. ' Deep water. No . bars. Rear Admiral Wayne Wheeler at the helm. .Whew I Jow the wind blows," DEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1921. New Area of World Relations Opened By Pacific Pact 'Big Four' Agree to Respect Rights of Each Other Under Terms of New Agreement. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO. t'hU'Ma Trlbuns-Omah M ltutf4 Win, Washington, Dee. 11--A new era of international relations in, the re gion of the Pacific ocean, if not in the whole world, was opened when the text of the new four-power peace stabilization treaty was read at the plenary session of the con. ference on the limitation of arma ments and formally accepted by the plenipotentiaries of the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan. ' ' "Gcntlcriien," ' said Chairman Hughes in adjourning the confer ence. "we have been dealing with a very simple paper. Probably you would not be able to. find an inter national document couched in more simple or even briefer terms; but we are again reminded that the great things are the simple ones. I firmly believe that when this agree ment takes effect we shall have gone further-in the direction of securing an enduring peace than by anything that has. yet been done." Terms of Treaty. The treaty provides: 1. That the United Stat;?, the British empire, France and Japan agree to respect the rights of each other pertaining to their insular possessions and dominions :n the Pacific oean. 2. That .' if ..any controversy "arising out of any Pacific question" should . develop . concerning such rights, which does not yield to dip lomatic settlement and becomes a menace to the accord of the powers, it shall, be submitted .to a conference of all -of them; for. adjustment. 3. , -That -if any power other than the four .signatories, menaces their rights they shall consult each other to reach' an understanding on mea sures to be taken, either jointly or separately, to .check the aggression. 4. That the treaty shall be in force. .10 years, after-which period it shall, continue, in. force indefinitely,, subject to,-, the. right's- of any of "the four powers to terminate it upon 12 months' notice.- 5. That upon the deposit at Washington, of the several ratifica tions of the treaty, the Anglo-Japanese alliance shall be terminated.- . Accepted With Proviso, - The treaty originally put forward by the British government as a so lution of the Pacific problem was accepted by the American plenipo tentiaries with the proviso that it shall not operate to interfere with the settlement of America and Japan, of the question of the status of. Yap and other former German islands in the- north Pacific mandated to Jap Ian ,or impair the American objec tion's to, certain provisions of the madate for south Pacific islands. The negotiations between the United States and Japan on the Yap question are on the point of success ful conclusion and announcement of the settlement of the cable, radio and commercial rights involved is expected within the next few days. The question of American rights in the south Pacific is in process of doplomatic discussion with the al lies. , Immigration Exempt. The question of Japanese immigra tion is exempt from the operation of the treaty. A dispute between Amer ica and Japan over the immigration of Japanese into the United States, for example, or over the California alien land law could not be brought before the conference of the four powers for adjustment. "It should be observed," said Senator Lodge, in presenting the text of the treaty to the conference, "that the controversies to which the proposed treaty refers do not em brace quesions which, according to principles of international law, lie exclusively within the domestic jur isdiction of the respective powers." Another important point that was stressed is that the treaty, although it terminates the Anglo-Japanese al liance and is accepted by Great Britain and Japan as substitute there for, is an alliance in no sense of the term. Its purpose is the professed purpose of the Anglo-Japanese al liance to safeguard peace but it does not obligate any of the signa tories to come to the defense of an other with naval or military forces. No Provision for Force. .-. "There is no provision," said Sen ator Lodge, "for the use of force to carry out any of the terms of the agreement and no military or naval sanction lurks anywhere in the back ground or under cover of these plain and direct clauses." Unusual significance attaches to this utterance and to the further fact that Senator Lodge was hosen to make the announcement of the agreement on the treaty. Senator Lodge is chairman of the foreign re--lations committee of the senate, the consent of which to the ratification of the treaty will be asked by Pres ident Harding. If the treaty provided for any semblance of an alliance between the United States and other powers or for the employment of force to car ry out its terms, as in the case of the league of nations covenant,- opposi tion probably disastrous opposition could be expected from the senate. Endorsed by Delegates. When Senator Lodge had present ed and interpreted the treaty it was endorsed by the chiefs of delegations in turn. First came M. Viviani, who announced the adherence of France, in an eloquent and impassioned ad dress pledging the spirit of his coun try's tragic sacrifices on the battle field to the fulfillment of the ideals expressed in this treaty. Mr. Balfour explained that the Anglo-Japanese alliance never was aimed at the United States, but con ceded that Americans naturally ques tioned its import when "interna tional tension began to develop in the Pacific by which he was under stood to refer to friction between the United States and Japan. He also admitted that the reasons for the .creation of the alliance no longer Atlantic Exchange Tickle Dial to New Machine Switching System Put Into Service At Midnight 7,G00 Subscribers Affected , 'Experts Present When "Cut Over" Is Made. Two master minds of the telephone industry of the world were in Om aha Saturday and were present at midnight when the Atlantic board at the telephone exchange wai "cut over" to the machine-switching sys tem. . - - They arc Dr. Frank B. Jewett. vice president and chief engineer of the WeMern Electric company, and Bancroft Ghorardi, vice president and chief engineer of the American Tele phone &i Telegraph company. With them was Karl W. Water son, assistant chief engineer of the American Telephone & Telegraph company. Jewett and Ghcrardi have had vital parts in the 10 years' development of the' machine-switched telephone to its present state of perfection. Omaha is the first city to have the new system, they said. ansas City and Patterson, N. J., have sys tems in progress of construction. All Atlantic Users Affected. All of the 7,600 Atlantic telephones were switched . from the . manual switchboard to the new machine switching mechanism at midnight, and the new service was in full op eration at the Atlantic central .office Sunday. '...'., Only Atlantic, telephone users were affected by the change. Jackson, Douglas, Harney, Webster, Ken wood, Walnut and Market subscrib ers are giving their calls to an oper ator today as in the past. The first call recorded from one Atlantic number to another after the "cut over" was at 12:02 when Miss Ethel Brown, Atlantic ' 0059, dialed a call to Miss Melva Bouvia, Atlantic .3873. . Two minutes before, or exactly at midnight, as the "cut over" was ef fected, a Harney exchange operator picked up a call from Atlantic 0310 to Harney. 1163. This was the first actual call .' under the new dialing system. The change in the service fur. nished Atlantic telephone subscribers was carried out last night without ceremony. Careful and detailed pre parations had been made, and re hearsed, which resulted in the switch being made almost in the twinkling of an eye,.- 4 . existed, both Germany and "Russla'i having become impotent for aggres sion. . ' . . Replacement Best Course. When' it came to germinating the alliance, however, England, found it self likely to be misunderstood by Japan if it were abrogated by Brit ain, and by the United States, if the alliance were not dissolved, Mr Balfour, went on. Hence, it was de cided that the best solution would be the replacement of the worn-out al liance by an agreement of all the powers in the Pacific. He called at tention to the fact that he was Brit ish prime minister when the Anglo Japanese alliance and the Anglo French entente were created and that he always had stood for a close ac cord with the United States. He looked upon the treaty now agreed upon as the fruition of policies with which he had been identified. Nothing could better prepare the way for achieving the great purpose of the conference the reduction and limitation of armaments, Mr. Balfour said. Prince Tokugawa spoke briefly but earnestly in support of the treaty in behalf of Japan and then the repre sentatives of Holland, Portugol, Bel gium, Italy and China, although not parties to the agreement, added their endorsement of its spirit and pur poses. Convicted Murderer Escapes From Prison (Continued From Pose One.) wheel so that the car ran onto the curb, leaped out, fired a shot at the owner of the car to terrify him, and then clambered into a big touring car, apparently waiting for him, and that is the last seen of him; "The only way we can hold O'Con nor is in the morgue," said Chief of Police , Fitzmorrrs, , as he.' sent out every available detective in squads, armed with riot guns, with instruc tions to kill him on sight. "We will have him back before Monday morning dead or alive," said the detectives, as they started to comb the city in high powered cars, traveling in squads pf four and iive. : Defied Police. O'Connor, after- killing .Detective Sergeant O'Neill,, defied the police for many, months."1:. He 'said,;, after he was captured, that he attended many dance halls, rode freely through the parks and did not restrict his movements in any way. . ... - Eventually however, the chase be came so hot that he went to Minne apolis. ' After a drunken -carouse there, he entered a ..sleeping car, armed- with three magazine pistols, and undertook -to. terrify., the negro -porter. The" latter kicked him in the face, knocking him from the car. The engineer came back to the assist ance of the porter, and with a larcre monkeyl wrench, beat O'Connor un til he became tractable. ,-He almost escaped detection when arraigned the following day on a charge of dis orderly conduct and assaulting with a deadly weapon. This would have enabled him to go free after a few weeks in a Minneapolis jail, but some one recognized him as the Chicago all around murdered and he was extradited. Denied New Trial . Every . effort had been made by his attorneys and his friends in the criminal world to save him from the noose, but Saturday the Illinois Su preme caurt denied him another trial Among the murders charged against him, but for which he was never tried or escaped punishment, were the killing of Jimmy Cherin, who had been his pal. He had refused to kill for "Tommy" and all the in dications wert that "Tommy" killed him. Harry Emerson, one of the men arrested for the hold-up and robbery of the Illinois Central station at Randolph street in 1918, said O'Con Phone Users Get Numhers Now While highly pleased with the man ner in which the change to machine switching service took place, tele phone officials are urging At lantic subscribers to limit their calls for a few days to only those which are necessary, because the operating forces which handle calls originating in the Atlantic central office and terminating at some one of the manual switchboards are entering upon their new duties for the firnt time.' ' Both Jewett and Ghcrardi had big things to do in the war. As colonel in the signal corps and as a member of the .navy- department special board for anti-submarine warfare, Col, Jewett directed the construc tion of a majority of the electrical apparatus which was used in the late war, among them the method of locating submarines by sound range. He also aided in the perfec tion of the wireless telephone. Between his miliary and naval duties, Col Jewett was kept busy, and at the close of the war was decorated with the distinguished service medal. Col. Jewett is an officer, director and member in many electrical and scientific or ganizations. Long in Phone Industry. Mr. Gherardi has long been con nected wilh some of the largest telephone and telegraph companies in the country. He played an im portant part in the connection of the subway and cable from Boston to Washington, the trancontincntal line1 and development of wireless telephony! During the war he was a member of several governmental advisory' 'boards and did important work with cable communications. . Asked as'tq whether the wireless telephone would ever be practical for commercial ' purposes, Mr. Gherardi said: "The wireless is like one big party line. When too many try to use it at one time there is much confusion.; There will be more development, - of course, but in its present; state it is most practical for communication " with ships or airplanes." According to W. B, T. Belt, pres ident of the company, the new machine-switching system cost about $2,000,000,.' ' nor had fired the shot that killed Policeman Dennis Tierney, who in terrupted the robbers. Six months later a gang held up the Stockmens Trust and Savings bank and George Raymond, one of the gang, was killed by detectives. Then began the search for O'Connor, supposed leader of the band. In an attempt to arrest him for this and other crimes, Sergeant O'Neill was shot to death by O'Connor. State Authorities Rule Lorenz Must Have License New York, Dec. 11. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, noted Austrian surgeon, will discontinue all operations immediate ly, in view of a ruling of the New York state medical authorities made public, that he may not continue holding clinics unless he procures a state license. The announcement that Dr. Lor enz would discontinue actual opera tions, but would act in the capacity of a consulting physician, as allowed by law' was made by Dr. Jacob Sobel, representing the city health department. r r i r i a Woman, Nonpartisans' Choice for Governor - I l wy Miss Alice Lorraine, Madison, N. D., is the first woman to be nomi nated for governor in the United States. She will be the nonpartisan league's candidate in the next North Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Warden Must Show Cause For Holding Mrs. Peete San Francisco, Dec. 11. An order directing the warden of San Qucn tin State prison to appear December 17 and show cause why he should not release Mrs. Louise Peete, who is serving a life term for the murder of Jacob Denton in Los Angeles, on the ground that her conviction by a jury on which 13 members served, was in violation of the United States constitution, was issued by the United States district court. Baker's Cocoa The Food Drink That Suits Everyone old and young, the well and the ill. It is not artificially flavored, but," hav ing the delicious, natural flavor and aroma of high-grade cocoa beans of which one never tires, may be used at every meal ; v : j Trade-mark on every package. ; uta.u.m. pat, orr. WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD. ESTABLISHED 1780 DORCHESTER MASSACHUSETTS Booklet of Choice Recipes sent five es 39 Where the year, has 309 days of sunshine and there's every sport under this sun. 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Fri day. He had hauled a load of wheat to market, returned home and loaded bis wagon again before en tering the housr. Mr, Yates had lived on the same farm for 50 years, having taken it as a homestead when coming to Fillmore- county from Madison, Ind. His wife and three children survive hint. His daughter, Mrs. Blanche Yates Pangle; and a soji, Clark Yates, reside near Geneva and Harry Yates, a son, lives in Tor rington, Wyo. Mr. Yates was a veteran of the civil war. His funeral was held at 2 p- m. today, conducted by the Ma sonic order and members of Wilsou post No. 22, G. A. R., acted as hon orary pallbearers, while his nephews officiated as the active bearers. Blair Man Working in Omaha Dies Suddenly in Hospital Blair, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Anson Reeves, 24, who had been working in the Omaha stock yards two months, died in an Omaha hos pital. He is survived by his wife and daughter, Maxine, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Reeves, two brothers and one sister. 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