The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL 31 NO. 1C2.
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OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1921.
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Price Probe
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Altorury General Directs In-u-stigation
in All Parts of
Country of Ketail
Prices.
Holds Rates Too High
Washington, Dec. 2. Investiga
tion of retail prices of food, furl,
.shoes and clothing in all parts of the
country was ordered today by At- , sonvillc several weeks ago in ac
mr.wv" General DauifherK-. I cordancc with his annual custom, of
- Mr. Daugherty said that in many
localities prices wore too high and
retailers' profits were "unconscionable
and that every effort will be made to
put retail prices on the proper level."
Mr. Daugherty instructed Director
Uurns of the bureau of investigation
to assign men as soon as possible to
arums parts of the country simulta
neously to collect information upon
current retail prices of food fuel,
shoes and clothing and at the same
time to report the wholesale prices
i f corn, wheat, beef, meats of all
hinds and on the hoof in order that
comparisons might be made of the
retail and wholesale prices of food.
Retailers Organized.
In many parts of the country, Mr.
Daugherty declared, retailers have
organizations which tend to keep
prices high.
' "There . is not a doubt in j the
world," he said, "that all over the
country retailers have an under
standing." The attorney general said that
while there were many retailers who
were not charging excessive prices,
he intended to go alter organizations
operating contrary to the law, and
particularly professional organizers
who sold new schemes for beating
the law behind a declaration of an
association to. advance competition.
Use Result as Lever.
Results of the department's inves
tigation, Mr. Daugherty said, would
be used in an effort to' bring down
ictail prices where they were too
high. '
Prices, he said, would never go
down to their pre-war level, but
they could be .brought .. into the
proper relation" with reduced wages
and reduced costs of foodstuffs. The
publication of the comparative prices
it) different ; localities, he asserted,
would do much to right the situation
and he said it Was planned to present
the data gathered to the various
states for local action, with the co
operation of the federal government
where necessary.
Doctors Divided on
Whisky as Medicine
Chicago, Dec. 22. (By A. P.) '
Three thousand and sixty-three phy
sicians in Indiana and Illinois, re
plying to the alcoholic liquor ques
tionnaire sent to 53,900 doctors by
the Journal of the American Medical
association, divided almost equally on
the value of whisky as a therapeutic
agent, while a big majority declared
they did not consider that wine and
beer had any value in medicine.
The Journal, iu its issue of De
cember 24, will announce the tabula
tion in these two states, the first in
which the canvass has been com
peted. . .
The doctors returned a majority in.
iavor of restrictions on the prescrib
ing of whisky, wine and beer, and a
limit on the number of prescriptions
to be issued by any one physician.
Additional Farm Aid Bills
Introduced in Senate
Washington. Dec. 22. Senator Mc
Cumber, republican, North Dakota,
introduced two bills designed to give
further relief to farmers in crop fail
ure areas.
One measure would set aside
53,000,000 from which farmers in crop
failure sections could borrow for the
purchase of seed grains to the maxi
mum of $300. The other bill would
reimbuse farmers who received loans
from the government in 1918 under
the seed purchase fund of that year
and who later borrowed from pri
vate sources to repay the government
advances.
Driver Seriously Injured
When Car Rolls Down Bank;
Milwaukee. Wis.. Dec 22. Lewis !
Yarman of Milwaukee is in a serious
condition today after dropping 175
feet jn his automobile late yesterday,
down a 45 degree incline over the
lake bluff. Mr. Yarman's car is re
ported to have skidded over the curb
and rolled sidewise down the bluff,
coming to a stop 20 feet from the
water. Police say that the machine
must have turned over 20 times.
Congress Adjourns Over
Christmas and New Year's ;
Washington, Dec 22. Congress !
recessed late today until January 3
for the Christmas and New Year;
holidays. The house adjourned at 4 ;
o'clock and the senate at 4:50. All
jcsiiiess will be suspended during the :
ccess except for tariff hearings by!
he senate finance committee. - j
Missouri Bank Rohhetl
loplin. Mo.. Dec. 22. Two masked
bandits late today robbed the Bank;
ci F.xctrr at Exeter. Mo.. 60 miles
MMitbeaM of here, and escaped in a ;
B.otur car with $5,000 in cash
"Marse Henry" Watterson
Dies in Florida Hotel
; Converses With His Wife
j Shortly Before the End
i Death Comes
Peacefully.
j Jacksonville. Fla., Dec 22. Col.
I lenry Watterson, known to the
I American people as one of the last
! snrviving members of the old school
of journalism, and to his friends as
".Marse Henry," died early today at
a hotel.
j . Death came peacefully, the vener
I able editor retaining consciousness
almost to the end and conversing
during his last half hour with his
wife, son and daughter.
Colonel Watterson came to Jack-
spending the winter m -norma,
usually at Fort Myers. He con
tracted a slight cold Tuesday and
while seated in a chair yesterday
morning soon after breakfast, he
suffered nn actute bronchial attack
and was ordered to his bed by his
physician. His condition grew
worse during the day and night and
the end came at 6:15 o'clock this
morning. The immediate cause of his
death, his physician said, was heart
failure superinduced by congestion
of :Ve lungs.
"Bands Will Play 'Dixie.'"
Thus "Marse Henry" passed to
that "beautiful shove," where, last
October Jic wrote his comrades of
the Confederate army, he was sure
"the Ronnie blue flag will be flying
at the fore and the bands will be
playing 'Dixie' on paratfj: and the
pretty girls wjll be distributing 'The
Chattanooga Rebel' (the newspaper
published by him during the war
between the states), to groups of
ragged, red-nosed angels who have
not forgotten the rebel yell."
Henry Watterson, journalist,
author, statesman and lecturer, dis
tinguished as the most brilliant news
paper writer of the south and for i
years as one of the most powerful I
L W. W. Blamed for
Explosion Near
State Guard Camp
Arizona Officers Probe Blast
In Phoenix Said to Have
Been Directed Against
Troop Headquarters.
Phoenix, Ariz.. Dec. 22. In con
nection with an explosion in a small
frame structure near the new State
Highway building here today, local
authorities are investigating a report
that Industrial Workers of the
World have shipped two and one
half cases of high explosives and 27
alarm clocks, equipped to set off the
explosion, into this district from
California.
The explosion itself did only about
$1,000 worth of damage, but authori
ties are investigating 011 the theory
that it was intended to destroy the
Highway Department building, in
which are the headquarters of the
Arizona National guard.
The explosion occurred just before
state employes were due to report
for dutv this morning. All the win
dows in the highway department
building and many in houses for
several hundred yards were broken
by the force of the explosion.
Officials claim that no explosive of
sufficient force to, do damage that
w-as done was stored in the building
in which the explosion occurred.
There was no powder or other
powerful explosive in any of the
buildings on the highway depart
ment's property unless it was put
there by some one not connected
with the department, Thomas Mad
dock, state engineer said. .
The car was not only
hub deep. There were
no tires visible at all
only a black box wear
ing a ridiculous mob
cap of white where
their Christmas tree
had ridden atop.
Just as they were
ready to give up, they
saw the shadow of a
house and a light
shining through the
window.
Snow in the Pass
By Georgia Wood Panfbora
A BLUE RIBBON .hort story
of CbrUtmat ia
Next Sunday's Bee
leader in the councils of the demo-
cratic party, was born at Washing-
ion. u. v... rcunidiv iu. ioiw. i lis
father, Hon. Harvey Watterson, iis -
tinguished as a journalist and diplo
mat, was a member of congress and
editor of the Washington Union.
Henry Watterson grew up in the
political atmosphere of that storm
center of national politics and be
came familiar with all ' important
questions of the day at an early age.
Defective Eyesight.
Owing to defective eyesight, which
troubled him. all his life, Henry Wat
terson did not attend the public
schools, but received a careful edu
cation from tutors at home. He was
not yet of age" when he began his
journalistic career as a writer on the
newspapers of the national capital.
He wrote musical and dramatic criti
cisms, also many sketches and es-
(Tum to Fajte Two. Column Two.)
Freight Tariffs
On Farm Produce
Cut 10 Per Cent
Reduction for Experimental
Period Is to Take Effect
January 1, Ov Soon
Thereafter.
A reduction in the railway rates on
grain, grain products, hay, butter,
eggs, cheese, and other commodities
will be made by carriers to become
effective January 1, on one day's no
tice, or as soon thereafter as the
tariffs can be amended.
This announcement was made last
night by Frank W. Robinson, freight
traffic manager of the Union Pacific
lines for Omaha.
A reduction of 10 per cent, apply
ing generally throughout the United
States will be made on cotton, butter,
tggs, cheese, poultry, live or dressed;
cotton seed, cotton seed huilsi un
manufactured tobacco, fruits, fresh
or green, not including canned or
preserved; fruits, dried or evaporated,
other than candied, canned, crystal
lized, glaccd or stuffed; vegetables,
fresh or green; vegetables, dried or
evaporated;, wool and mohair.
Reduction Experimental.
This 10 per cent reduction is to
continue in effect for an experimental
six months' period ending June 30,
1922.
Effective September 20, rates on
live stock in excess of 50c per 100
pounds-, were reduced 20 per cent.
These reduced rates were published
to expire December 31, 1921. It has
now been arranged that this 20 per
cent reduction shall be continued
until June 20, 1922, and that other
rates on live stock on which reduc
tions have not-been made are to be
reduced 10 per cent, such reductions
to be undertaken January 1. A
greater reduction will be made on
grain and grain products, and hay, in
compliance with the opinion' of the
Interstate Commerce commission in
the case recently decided.'
Apply. Only in West.-
These reductions apply ' only in
western territory, that is, west of
Chicago, St.. Louis and the lower
Mississippi river territory, In' the
so-called - western group territory
west of Chicago, and east -or Den
ver and Cheyenne, the reduction in
wheat, wheat products and .hay will
be 13 per cent; on corn and corn
products, the reduction will be 21.7
per cent. . . - .
In the territory west of Cheyenne 1
and Denver the reduction on wheatj
i 1 1 m. 1 11 .
ana wncai piuuutis, ana usuauy re
lated substances will be 10 per cent,
and on corn and coarse grains, the
reduction will be 19 per cent on the
present rates.
Busy on Rate' Cut.
Lincoln. Dec 22. (Special.) The
I Nebraska railway commission was
j busy today preparing the rate slash
; orders requested by the Burlington,
I one cutting freight -on hay and grain
i and the other on all other farm
! products. "
Purchase of Grain for Aid
j Of Russians to Start Today
' Washington, Dec. 22. Purchase of
: American grain for the relief of the
; famine-stricken people of Russia, for
' which an appropriation of $20.000.W
. is made in a bill on which congres
sional action was completed today,
, will be started tomorrow.
De Valera's
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Clare County Council Votes,
17 to 5, in Favor of
Treaty as Only
Alternative.
Dail Adjourns to Jan. 3
lly the Associated TreH.
Ennis, Ireland, Dec. 22. The
Clare county council, the constitu
ency of Eamon de Valcra, voted to
day, 17 to 5, for the treaty between
Ireland and Great Britain and re
quested Mr. De Valera to use "his
influence for the maintenance of na
tional unity.
The resolution admitted that there
were grave objections to the treaty,
but declared there was no rational
alternative to its acceptance.
"Rejection of the treaty," the res
olution added, "would be almost cer
tain to involve us in a war of an
nihilation, because our people will
be divided and because world opin
ion, instead ot being witn us, as
at present, will be against us."
Adjourn Debate to Jan. 3.
Dublin, Dec. 22. The dail eireann,
77 to 44, decided late today on a
motion submitted by Michael Col
lins, to adjourn debate on the Irish
treaty until January 3. It was not
tin; jiiuijuu uul an aiiicuuiiiciLi un
which the vote actually was taken.
The amendment introduced and sec
onded by treaty opponents, called
for continuous sittings, day and eve
ning, until a decision was reached
on the treaty's ratification or re
jection. Defeat of the amendment auto
matically decided the motion. With
few exceptions the vote followed the
party lines of those favoring or op
posing the treaty.
Nobody tonight believes, of
course that if a vote had been tak
en on the treaty itself the majority
would have been so great, but there
is no doubt in the minds of observ
ers that this vote roughly approxi
mates the sentiment for and against
the treaty. This is denied by some
treaty opponents, who assert that it
was not a fair test, as. many depu
ties disliked the debate continuing
through Christmas.
1 Atmosphere Tense.
When it becomes apparent -that
there was to be a party lineup on
the vote, the atmosphere became
tense with excitement. De Valera's
face was stern and grim when the
figures were announced. Consider
able elation was shown by Collins
and his adherents. Desmond Fitz
(Tiirn to Page Two, Column One.)
Girl, 1 5, Rebuked at
Table, Kills Herself
Thermopolis, Wyo., Dec. 22. Al
berta Woods, IS, living at Grass
Creek, 40 miles from here, shot her
self through the heart with a .22
caliber revolver after her father had
reproved her for dipping her spoon
into a jam pot at the table, according
to word reaching here.
The girl left the table, went into
another room and shot herself, ac
cording to the report, after writing
a note which said:
"Dear Papa: '
"I am giving up my life.
"You can take your spite out oil
some one else.
"I am through for a while."
Committee Fails to Find
Excessive Prices at Norfolk
Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 22. (Special
Telegram.) The state price investi
gation committee completed its work
here and Secretaries Stuhr. Hart and
Kennedy . returned to Lincoln. A
right meeting with laboring men
testifying concluded the hearings.
The commission indicated that a
brief summary of the hearings here
would be issued later. The conclu
sions of the entire investigation are
to be submitted to the governor. No
outstanding case of excessive prices
was found here. I
Burglars Steal $100,000..
York. Pa., Dec. 22. Burglars ear
Iv today broke into the Mount Wolf
tank and stole $100,000 in securities
from safety deposit vaults.
Wedding Tangle Unraveled
Pretty Omaha Clerk Gets License, to Remarry
Bigamist Husband Paroled From State Prison
At Her Request. - - i
Lincoln, Dec. 22. (Special)
Esther Nord, pretty Omaha depart
ment store clerk, "made good" her
promise to the state board of par
dons and paroles that if Harry D.
Sncthen were paroled from the pen
itentiary they would start out right
on their new life as lawful ma'i
land wife.
Miss Nord. her cheeks aglow with
color from the chilly weather and
hec eyes glistening in anticipation
of her lover's release from the state
penitentiary in a few hours, ob
tained a marriage license from the
Lancaster county court this after-1
aeon.
Christmas
r7FSIEST "VTHt CMflryiNAi Y- WiSH THeHC) f CHRISTMAS OQCMxf. woOE(t, IP 1
timc of- the ybwI scftNMMe is ufcj A 5anTy To come in June, 1 1 ,VAL
Christmas Shopping represents a big investment of time, thought, energy, and money
4 ItS WORTH I
) all The trouble ' r I tc
BUT
Galligher Worth
More Than $75,000,
Attorneys Assert
Will Is Filed While Friends
Try to Raise Money for
Burial; Benefactor
Rewarded.
Thomas Galligher will be buried
decently, as befits a man of solid
financial attainments. And Thomas
Galligher, yesterday acclaimed , a
pauper, with his body resting on a
pauper's slab while his friends sought
vainly to raise funds for the burial,
will pay the bill.
Galligher's will was filed in county
court yesterday afternoon. A mem
ber of the law firm of North & Dono
von announced shortly after filing
.the will that Galligher's estate might
total between $73,000 and $100,000 in
value.
Although the will has not been
opened, G. P. North, attorney who.
drew it for the aged Galligher last
summer, admitted that Miss Ida
Walling, 441 Paxton block, a woman
real estate dealer, was named sole
executrix and legatee to the estate.
Niece Gets Little.'
To Mrs. Fred L. Smith, Galligher's
lit! wtin tr! on unnlira firm Tuna.
day to be named administrator o;
the estate, was lett only a nominal i
amount, according to Mr. North.
"We did not file the will before'
Thursday because we were busy with i
other cases, and because we did not ;
believe it was right to engage in a I
nntm,-.r. .1,. -Mil nt;i tr, !
ftineral services were performed," ex- i
plained Mr. North
Galligher died alone and appar
ently penniless in a rooming house
at 1909 Douglas street, last Friday
night. He was to have been buried
yesterday, but "acquaintances who
were raising money to pay the ex
pense of the burial did not report on
their success," a member of the firm
of Brailey & Dorrance, undertakers,
! explained.
Gallieherls estate includes some!
3,000 acres of timber and coal land!
in Virginia," said Mr. North.
"I
(Tarn to Pare Two, Column Six.)
'v.n i.. ,,,-,;,! j w 1
Well be married Christmas daj,
was tier sole comment. j
Snethcn was convicted of bigamy,
it being charged that he married :
Miss Nord when he had a wife.
"It was worth the time I have
spent in the ,peii the few weeks of
real love and bliss I had with the
girl I love before the officers got
me." Snethen has said.
Since, his imprisonment, wife No.
i nas obtained a divorce and wile
No. 2. who is Miss Nord, has prom
iwd the board they will be rcmar
ricd..
Investment arid Dividends
tCopTTtfht: mi: ftr Taa Chime TribWM.1
JUST THINK OF THE DIVIDENDS!
Harding Considers
Pardon for Debs
War Law Offender May Be
In List to Receive Freedom '
On Christmas.
Washington, Dec. 22. Christmas
freedom for war law offenders was
given final consideration by Presi
dent Harding' tonight at an after
dinner conference at the White
House with Attorney General
Daugherty. Announcement of those
selected for executive clemency, it
was said, is to be made tomorrow.
The president was understood to
have gone over with Mr. Daugherty,
the digest prepared by the Depart
ment of Justice containing the his
tory of the 197 war. law violators and
to have taken up each case separate
ly. It was reported in official circles
that the case of Eugene V. Debs was
considered as an individual case up
on its merits, as were the other war
law offenders. . .
Terrc Haute, Ind., Dec. 22 Rela
tives of Eugene V. Debs today
stated they had reliable ' information
to the effect that Debs would reach
Terre Haute Saturday evening from
Atlanta penitentiary.
juail JVllied in
Billi"-
HoMim WanfP in TasnPr
. Wa"ted J" asPer
Billings, Mont.. Dec 22. A man
'ho as k,JJed ,hel Kst ?'8ht .by
Patrolman t rank Floyd, following
the b?y J p- K. Kogen, a tailor,
was identified today by a former fel-
low emP,0y f the Midwest Refining
company at Casper. Wyo., as Earl P,
Pike. A message from the sheriff at
Casper stated that Pike was wanted
in that city on a charge of robbery.
The shooting took place on one of
the main business streets after Pike
and a companion had held up Kogen,
The robber got two diamonds valued
at $900, a gold watch which Kogen
said is worth $200 and about $40 in
cash.
AH Holiday Records Broken
Bv-New York Postoffice
New York, Dec. 22. Postmaster
I Morgan announced today that the
New - York postoffice yesterday
j broke all holiday records when it
(handled 7,915.254 letters and 559,536
i parcels. The postmaster has cm
i ployed 2,500 temporary clerks to aid
the regular staff of 15,000. . .
France Urges President '
To Call Economic Meeting
Washington, Dec. 22. A resolution
by which President Harding would
f)e authoriied and direr(cd? to ca
an international economic conference
was introduced in the senate today
Dy senator ranee, republican, Mary
land. The conference would be held
in Washington in March, 1922.
Christmas Mail Increases
Washington, Dec. 22. The Post
office , department's injunction to
"mail early" is being observed with
satisfactory "results, ihe department
announced tonight. Christmas mailt
handled up to December 21 approxi-
mates an increase of about 20 nfr
cent over last year,
iT
Farmers Free to
Organize Their
Own Loan Firms
Such Companies Will Receive
Every Assistance From War '
Finance Body, Says
N. B. Updike.
Farmers who wish to organize loan
companies to co-operate with the
War Finance corporation are not
only free to do so, but will receive
every assistance from the state di
vision of the corporation. They do
not need to consult with Washington
for special permission. This an
nouncement was made today by N.
B. Updike of the corn belt advisory
committee of the Wrar Finance cor
poration., '"It seems to be the opinion of some
farmers that there is something dif
ficult about the farmers organizing
loan associations so they can get
money direct to finance their busi
ness," said Mr. Updike. "My under
standing is that wherever a local bank
is not ' taking care of the needs of
farmers who can give good notes, the
War Finance corporation will be'very
pieasco to nave tne larmers lorm a
local financial company.
"The capital of such a ' farmers'
corporation might amount to $10,000.
If the farmers don't want to do it all
they should get the local merchants
to take stock m it. As long as the
organization can get good notes, it
can borrow 10 times its capital from
the War Finance corporation. It is
is to be hoped that all country banks
will meet the emergency, but if they
do not, it is advisable that farmers
and merchants form their own finan
cial corporation.
"It is not necessary to go to Wash
ington to arrange this. All the in
formation can be obtained from War
Finance headquarters in Omaha. The
constitution and by-laws used by
such loan agencies as already have
been started in several counties of
the state are available, together with
with full instruction on how to start
a similar company."
Man Killed in 60-Foot Fall
Deadwood, S. D.. Dec. 22. (Spe
cial Telegram.) John Vanephs was
fatally injured when he fell 60 feet
from the top of the scuth mill of the
Homcstake Gold Mining company
at Lead, alighting on a mass of rock.
The Weather
. Forecast.
Nebraska Snow Friday, probably
clearing Saturday; colder Saturday
and in inorth and west portions Friday.
Iowa Probably snow Friday and i $16,000; I'tah, $002,000 and Wyom
Saturday; colder Saturday in west ! ,nS. $806,000.
portion.
Hourly Temperature.
S . m Ill p. m IN
. m tit p. m 1
1 . m 13 S p. m 13
m 14 t p. m 14
a. m I IV & p. m
1 . m. IS p. m tn
1! a. " Ml p. tn
IS aoeii 11 g p. m -a
Highest Thursday.
Chynne ... M I Poi-blo ZD
Ivenport II I Rapid City t
lnvr H ( Rii Ijik 42
t'n Mntnm ! 1 Pant Fe n
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Phertdnn
Ulwl'f ?! I Sioin v ;t
orlh riatte J Valentine :
Plan to Run
For Senate
Abandoned
Governor Expresses Desire t
Finish Term Without Hin
drances Incident to
Personal Campaign.
Endorses No Candidate
Lincoln. Dec. 22. (Special.)
Gov. S. I. McKclvie will not be a
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for United States senator.
The governor made this an
nouncement today.
Two reasons, the governor said,
dictated his course. First, lie wished
to finish his service as Kovcrnoi
without the prejudices and hin
drances incident to a personal cam
paign aiwl, second, he desires to re
turn to private business.
Governor McKelvie said he has
not endorsed the candidacy of any
one else for the senatorship, this
statement being in answer to a ques
tion as to whether or not his state
mint today had any connection with
the reported plan of Attorney Gen
eral Clarence A. Davis to seek the
nomination.
Howell Is Candidate.
National Committeeman R. B.
Howell of Omaha is the only avowed
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for senator. Congressman Al
bert W. Jefferis of Omaha and Mr.
Davis are prospective candidates.
The governor's statement follows
I shall not be a candidate for
United States senator. This de
cision is in accord with the pref
erence that I have at all times
had in mind, my principal, reason
therefore being that I desire to
close my four years of service t.s
governor and complete . the pro
gram that has been inaugurated
during this period without the at
tending prejudices and hindrances
that accompany a personal political
campaign. This I consider of far
greater importance than any per
sonal political ambitions that I
might have.
Freedom of. Conscience. ,
There is also the further fact
that I am anxious to get back to .
private life so that I may give my
time and attention to my private,
affairs and have a respite from the
manifold cares and anxieties of
public life. I have had the satis
faction of doing the things that I
started out to do and I have not
been deterred in the performance
of my duty by questions of ex
pediency or any other petty con
siderations. With this fact in
mind I can at least retire to pri
vate life with a freedom of con
science that will be sufficiently .
compensating for the sacrifices it '
has been necessary to make in
thus serving my native state.
Nor would I lose this opportun
ity to thank the people of Ne
braska for the splendid manner in
which they have co-operated with
me in promoting the interests of
good government. The readjust
ment period must, of necessity, be
fraught with many hardships and
widespread confusion of thought,
and I am sincerely hopeful that
carefully considered and unpreju
diced ' action will so prevail
throughout this period that the
course "of constructive progress in
this great commonwealth will not
be seriously obstructed.
German Officer Who "4'
Took Antwerp Dies
Berlin, Dec. 22. (By A. P.) Gen,
Hans von Besler, who captured Ant
werp and who was later governor
general of the German occupied terri
tory in Russia during the war, died
today in a sanitorium near Tpts
dam. General von Besler was born in
1850 in Pomerania. He was educated
at the Wilhelm gymnasium in Berlin
and 'entered the German army , iu
1868. He saw service through the
Franco-Prussian w?r. became com
mander of the 65th infantry in 1888
and a year later was made quarter
master general. In 1894 he was pro
moted to a major generalship and
raised to the rank of the nobility.
At the outbreak of the world war
he directed the German operations
against Antwerp. Later he was trans
ferred to the eastern front and be
came governor general of the occu
pied territory in Russi-
Nehraska Gets Big Slice
Of New War Finance Loan
Washington, Dec, 22. -Anoroval of
205 advances for agricultural and
hvc stock purnosfs aifkrecatinfr
$6,917,000 was announced tonight by
rne A ar finance corporation.
The loans includnlr I'olnrartn
$3.0(10: Idaho. $13,000: Iowa!.
$899,000; Montana, $329,000 Nc-
liraska. $375,000: New Mexico.
Emma Goldman and Berkmaa
Plan Visit to Stockholm
Riga, Dec. 22.-( By A. P.) Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berknian,
the deportees from Amrcica who
came here from Moscow recently,
left Riga today for Rcval. Esthoni'a.
Bcrkman told the correspondent they
were going to Stockholm.
They were facing deportation bark
to Russia, as their extended permis
sion to say in Lctvia expired
day,