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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 31 NO. 20. if4 as Sma-CIt SUIIs Ww 14. IM .1 OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUAUY 13, 10:'J. Mall It MM), tl . l OHMS M Mal 14 ), .' Mi ! Hf Hu " K.U v4 SIMM l M 1'A TWO CENTS President Opposed to Bonus Plans Harding Will Communicate icm Officially lo Way. ami Mean Commit' tee Today. Postponement Possible By GRAFTON WILCOX. Omaha ti U4 W lr. Washington, Til), R President Harding h rejected boih plus lor financing soldier bonus proponed ly republican leader in congress. Uuy are apprehensive tbe chief executive is preparing to ak them again to postpone all hontis latio". ' Today the president Kt it be Inowii tint fie U opposed to milo sition of uncial t.txe. to a return to anv taxation which lias cither hcen reduced or eliminated, to pay ing a bonus through issuance g.nrrnmciit bond. Tomorrow the prcMdent will com iniinicate liis view officially to the wavs and means committee and the senate finance conmiittee by letter. What his recommendation will be is worrying every republican mem ber of congress, who ha been fav oring soldier bonus legislation at this session. House Is Puzzled. Some leaders arc convinced the president will reassert to congress that the country cannot stand the financial strain of a honus. Keoresentativc Fordncy. chairman of the ways and means, committee, itisiMs tonight bonus legislation will be passed at this session. In some quarters a belief is held t'lat the president may favor some sort of a general sales tax as a means of financing the compensation uiii, but republican leaders have informed him a careful canvass of the situa tion shows that a sales tax will meet defeat because of the opposition of Agriculture, labor and other elements. Furthermore, Secretary of the Treas ury Mellon has taken the position that regardless of the merits of the sales tax as a basic scheme for taxa tion it would cause administrative difficulties to add to other forms, of taxation. Bond Issue Opposed. Oh the suggestion of a bond issue the president stands back of Secre tary Mellon's recent declaration that new borrowing by the government would seriously embarrass the ex ensive refunding operations which must be undertaken during the com ing year. The president is said to convinced it would not be possi ble to obtain funds for the bonus through a bond issoe without caus ing an increase in interest rates and disturbing the lib'erty bond market. Th bonus question was again a subject of debate in the senate to day. S-nator King of Utah, democrat, assailed republican leaders for their vacillating attitude on the question and chided them for running to President Harding- with their troubles. 'T recall." said Senator King, "that it was riot very long ago that our republican friends were denounc ing the democratic party for its sub serviency to President Wilson. It was charged that we were, rubber stamps. Where is the boasted in dependence of the republican lead ers and the republican party today? Watson Defends Bonus. "This brave and courageous re publican majority is afraid to act. It does not dare act in the day- (Tura to Fage Ihrw, Column Three.) New York Exchange Sued for $25,000,000 New York. Feb. 14. The filing of a $25,000,000 suit against the New York stock exchange, the estate of Jacob H. Schiff and others, named as managers of the reorganization of the Chicago aifd Eastern Illinois Railroad company, for alleged failure "to account for profits derived from coal lands owned by the company," became known today when Supreme Court Justice Gicgerich granted a motion to eliminate Seymour L. Cromwell from the list of defendants. The suit was brought by the Mer cantile Fire Insurance company and the Narragansett Mutual Fire Insur ance company of Providence, R. I. In the complaint, a copy of which was filed w ith the order to dismiss, it is alleged that the railroad com pany purchased a large coal acreage having a mining tonnage estimated at 508,000,000 tons, and that the United States Steel corporation, which is made a codefendant in . ef fort to attach funds believed to be due the railroad, agreed to purchase 3,000,000 tons thereof a year. Senate Passes Measure lo Increase Patent Office Pay Washington, Feb. 14. The house bill to increase the number and sal aries of patent office employes was passed today by the senate and now goes to President Harding. Com mercial organizations and patent at torneys have been urging passage of the bill for a year to relieve the; con gestion in the patent office and to hold its experienced experts in the government service. 3IcFadden Would Extend Federal Bank Supervision Washington. Feb. 14. Trust and safe-keeping departments of nation al banks would be brought tinder the supervision of the comptroller of the currency under a bill intro duced today by Chairman McFadden of the house banking committee. The measure also nrovides for federal rxaniination of the departments, sjhe banks to pay the cost. Ponzi Methods in Chicago jLodjie Tells I "Heavy, Heavy, Hangs Over Thy Head" iNettea $ij,&uu,uuu, unarge Third Concern Raided by Police in Three Days I5e lieved to Have Swindled Foreign-Horn Citizens of ?1,500,000-One Promoter's Kise From Penniless Start More Remarkable Than That of Bischoff. Cliicsao. IVb. 14. While Kay niond Kiachoff. the boy speculator whose transitions with stuck) aid workers were iil to have netted him million, was being examined today by a tt free in bankruptcy ap pointed by Judge Kenrsaw M. Lati no, pome wairjnit cnarging opera lion of a eon 1'idr nee game were is ued for bun, for hi broihcr-in-low. I . J. Occr and hi clerk, Joseph IJorrk. 'J he warrant were i..-ued at the request of a dorn persons who said Binhoff had obtained money from them under false pretense. Chicago, Feb. 14. Investigation of the dialings of the Western Land Operators company, the third con cern raided by authorities within three days and believed by tlu-m to have swindled foreign born ciiucns of more than $1,500,000, was under way here today by government agents. Within three days alleged swindles totalling approximately fo.SUOsKH), ac cording to conservative estimates by officers, were disclosed with the ar- rests Saturday of Raymond I. I'ischoff and the arrests yesterday of three employes of the Western Land Operators association and three em- ployes of the American Aovacuhte company. Moving Spirit. Leslie Harrington, said by police to be the moving spirit in the affairs of the American Kovaculite company and Charles Unrich and Charles Phillips, genera! manager and presi dent of the Western Land Operators company, are being sought by the police. The raid on the offices of the Western Land Operators company was made last night at the request of 300 creditors. Just as the police believe they have established a con nection between the working of Bischoff and Harrington, s6 have they come to the belief that the Western Land Operators company was connected with the other two and that the three were operating huge swindles jointly. The inves tigators indicated today that the to tal losses to the families who invested their savings in the companies may run much higher thai, the figure now set. Harrington, the police said, fled the city yesterday, a short time be fore his establishment was raided. Three other employes of his concern also are missing. The raids and arrests followed the hearing cf UUchoff lit Id before Judge Landi yesterday and in which llikchofT admitted knowing Harring ton and said he bad loaned Marring' tun money on several occasions. Harrington's ri.e in high liiiance was even more rapid than that ol KiKlioif, the government investi gator aid. Starling when he was P1 actually penniless, according to the iuvrMigalors, and upon the sug gestion ol I'ctcr Zilvitis and John T (iaudus, former agents of L!ichofT, who wanted lo use him as a figure head for their own bent-tit in organ ising an independent company, he obtained desk room in the office of an attorney, but his business grew to such proportions that in a month he had established bis own oflice.anu hired many of iiischuff's own nun. Rents Suite. He rented a suite of rooms at a large hotel recently and attracted nmtli attention at Thanksgiving time, when he gave a dinner to i)0 overseas men. lie regaled this per formance at Christmas. Last July he gave a Lithuanian picnic, which was attended by 10,000 persons, the investigators said. A meeting of Harrington's field agents, 40 in number, was held last Sunday, they said. A Lithuanian policeman, who is said to have in vested $7,000 in Harrington's notes, heard of the meeting, walked into the room, fired several shots into the ceiling and departed with $7,000 in cash. Luke Byrne. $50-a-weck president of the $5,000,000 concern, and Thomas Moran, secretary, met Ilar riiiKtoti at a dinner, they said, and later were given positions. "We never knew much about tiie business." Bvrne said. "All we did was to keep the books and write letters at Harrington's direction. All the money was taken in by him and deposited by him." M. F. West, arrested in Aurora, Colo., in connection with the West ern Land Operators company inves tigation, is said to have started rus venture here last August. To the investor he held forth an attractive proposition, which would yield 100 per cent in six months, they said His regular interest rate was monthly on $100. Prospects were told that the com pany owned thousands of acres of land in Montana and Colorado. No particular piece of property was specified as security. Republican Progress Senator Refutes "Do .oth I iiig' Charges of Democrat! at Dinner of Ma's tliueU I-egiMalhc. Won Armament Objcctj, , Senate Measure Adds 20 Judges Committee Agrees to Report Bill Aimed to. Facilitate Business of Courts. Washington, Feb. 14. The senate judiciary committee, as a means of relieving congestion in certain judi cial districts, agreed today to report a bill providing for 19 additional United States district judges and one additional circuit judge. The com mittee, it was said, will propose that the fourth circuit, consisting of the states of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina shall have an additional judge. It will also propose that the additional district judges shall be distributed as follows: r Two to Massachusetts, Mftvo to southern New York and one each in eastern New York, eastern Penn sylvania, western Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, northern Illinois, eastern Michigan, Minnesota, eastern Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, Mon tana, northern California, southern California, northern Texas, Arizona and northern Georgia. The committee recently agreed to an increase of 13 district judges, but because of pressure from other dis tricts, has now agreed to add six more districts. Members of the committee, predicted tonight that there would be opposition upon the floor of the senate to this extension of the list, but asserted that the com mittee would stand solidly in support of the bill as agreed upon today. In addition to increasing the num ber of judges, the bill also carries other provisions ajmed at a more efficient handling of federal court business throughout the country. Wage Hard Fight on Scottsbluff Bonds " Scottshluff, Neb., Feb. 14. (Spe cial.) The climax to one of the most bitterly fought campaigns in the history of Scottsbluff will come Wednesday when voters of the city will pass upon the question of issu ing bonds of $300,000 for the con struction of a new high school. Even opponents of the measure admit that present school facilities, badly overcrowded, threaten the health of the children, but it is urged against the bons that the hard times which this agricultural community is passing make it ' un wise to incur even the slightly high er taxation that would result from the voting of the bonds. Ward meetings during the closing days at all the school houses are attracting unusual interest. Plan Dirigible Flight Washington, Feb. 14. A trans continental flight by the 600-foot dirigible Roma via the southern end of Rocky mountains to San Fran cisco is contemplated by army air service officials, thev announced today. Good Roads Body FavorTax on Gas Association in Meeting at . Lincoln Endorses Fuel Ley. Lincoln, Feb. 14. (Special Tele gram.) The Nebraska Good Roads association at its annual meeting here today almost unanimously en dorsed the gasoline tax for road building submitted to the special ses 'sion of the legislature by Governor McKelvie and turned by that body. The road men again went on rec ord as favoring the completion of road building provided in the federal aid program. Officers of the asso ciation were re-elected. They arc: O. G. Smith, Kearney, president; Charles H. Roper, Lincoln, secretary-treasurer, and William Key, Wakefield, vice president. Trio Identified as Men Seen Near Murder Scene II. L. Mclntyre. 3030 Ames av enue. Union Pacific employe, yes terday identified George Garmclo, Celso Fergo and Petro Lopez, Mex icans, as three men he saw near the scene of murder of Policeman James Scott last Thursday. These three were among 50 other Mexicans picked up by Detectives Ryan, English and Murphy Monday night. ' . Garmelo has a wound in his right hand, which a police surgeon said was caused by a bullet, although the Mexican says it .came from a nail. Chief of Detectives Van Deusen said yesterday that Officer Scott, walking his . beat, discovered the men whom he thoug'ht bent on robbery and they opened fire when he ordered them to surrender. Cadet Pilots Are Injured in Airplane Accident Lawton. Okl., Feb. 14. Harry J. Wright, 23, St. Louis, cadet pilot at Post field, Fort Sill, was fatally in jured and Archie S. Yandcll, 22, ca det in the observation school, is not expected to live as a result of in juries received -when they attempted a landing in their airplane near the post late today. Wright, until re cently, was stationed at Carlston field. Arcada, Fla. His father is now at Aberfoyle, Tex. Yandell's home has not been learned. New Era of Rising Prices Coming, Edison Jobbers Told New York. Feb. 14. A new era of soaring prices during 1922 was predicted today by William Maxwell, first vice president of Thomas ' A. Edison. Inc., in an address before the Edison Jobbers association. "Ex traordinary expenditures by states and municipalities for public works: probably similar expenditures by the federal government, and the soldier bonus plan, if adopted, would com bine to br.ing about a secondary period of inflation." he declared. HoMon, Feb. 14.- r,.. 1. 1,V... ........ I.. vongri- Miiec it u ,u ... and what is has done .nal affairs through the t .nieut con fereuce, formed the subject of an ad lire by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge tn the republican members of the M.isatliusrits legislature at a dinner here tonight. The three great objects of the United Mates in the armament con forme, said the senator, were the limitation of armament, the termina tion of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the attainment of "all we conld for the benefit cf China, in which the dominant feature was the return of the nrovmee of Shantung. "In all lime of these objects." lie continued, we were successful. I do not underrate in the least the earnest good will and co-operation that wc received irom all our coi leagues representing the other na tions, but the lead in the conierencc belonged to the United States be cause we issued the invitations, and that lead we had throughout. Al most everv nronosilion. certainly all of any importance, was brought for ward DV tnc American ociegauon Has Enviable Record. The republican "party since it last came into power, lias made a record in international and domestic ac complishments by which it may ask the country to- stand "without fear or nnsciviiie." said Senator Lodge, Urging republicans to pay no heed to the outcries of political opponents who call the present congress a do nothing body, but rather to go forward in the good old republican way and carry on," Senator Lodge reviewed the achievements of , the party since it gained control of con gress in March, 1919. I know, he said. 1 am speaking within hounds when I say that no congress in lime of peace has ever shown such an amoulit of important effective and remedial legislation as has been enacted by the present con gress since it has been in session." Proud of Record. The republicans, he said, "found the worst situation economically which any party in this country had ever been called upon to face and we have a right to be proud ot our record." . Senator Lodge dwelt at length upon the fruits of the armament con ference, which, he said, we owe to the wisdom of President Harding in summoning it." - More was done by the conference for the world's peacd in 12 weeks, he added, "than has been done anywhere else in twice as many years." When the republican party gained control of congress in 1919 it pro ceeded to reduce appropriations of the Wilson administration for the last year by .$1,500,000,000, Senator Lodge said. "It also repealed war appropriations aggregating more than $8,0000,000,000 and continued to (Turn to Page Three, Column One.) LOOK fJrl'SWiV t V i'm to Be. TwiiE TH E Wl L 6UW 'h h If J Federal Courts Are Swamped With Fake Stock Cases One Judge Working Every Day Would Be Kept Busy 1,000,000 Years to Clear Docket, Daugberty Says. Washington, Feb. 14. Dockets of the federal courts throughout the country are swamped with fake stock swindling cases in which more than $140,000,000 has been taken from incautious investors. Attorney General Daugherty said tonight. There are. he added, a total of 480 of these cases in the federal courts, in which 74 persons have been ar rested or indicted. "It would take one judge,' work New Party Adopts G. I. Platform in 5th District Complete Organization at Holdrege Meeting and Name Cecil Mathes as Com- . mitlee Chairman. " Holdrege, Neb., Feb. 24. The Fifth congressional district conven tion of the progressive party today adopted the platform of the. Grand Island convention. County and dis trict organization was completed with the election of Cecil Mathes of Bluehill as chairman of the district committee. J. H. Edmiston, chairman of the state central committee of the par tv; A. II. Bolen of Lincoln and ing 12 months a year. 1 000,000 years, Mayr E'drige of Grand Island were - - - - .. J . I am mi fir if cnpal-rc I hi nrPCft1t an. Mr. Daugh U. M. W. Declares : Pay MusTNot Be Cut Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 14. Thel wage scale committee, reporting to the special convention of the United Mine Workers of America here to day, declared "in the most emphatic manner our opposition to any reduc tion in mining prices and insist that the present basic wage schedules be maintained." Under the discussion of policy, the committee recommended a general suspension of mining if no agreement is reached by April 1, such action to be subject to a referendum vote of the union before March 31. Three Mountain Climbers Injured by Avalanche Portland. Ore.. Feb. 14. Twelve members of the Mazamas, Portland's Mountain Climbing club, were swept by a snow slide 300 feet down the side of Marys peak, 10 miles west of Corvallis, Sunday. One woman was hurt seriously and two men were injured. The, climbers, after reach ing the peak yesterday noon in a blizzard, were sliding on the snow when the avalanche gave way, carrying them down with terrific speed and landing them in a ravine, buried in snow. Special Hospitals Urged for Menially Defective Washington. Feb. 14. Establish ment of special hospitals for men tally defective former service men in each of the 14 veterans' bureau districts has been recommended by the medical experts who met here recently at the request of the bu reau, it was announced today by Director Forbes. The plans of the veterans' bu reau expenditure of $16,000,000, pro vided in the pending Langley hos pitalization bill, which has the ap proval of President Harding, Mr. Forbes said, would cover the hospi talization plans for the insane as well as other proposed medical projects. Daugherty May Turn Tables on Prisoners at Atlanta Washington, Feb. 14. A massive wooden table, heavily inlaid, adorned the odice of Attorney General Daugherty todaj'. It was the work of a prisoner in the federal peniten tiary at Atlanta. "I have asked the pardon attorney for his record," Mr. Daugherty said, "and I may turn the tables on him." to. clean up the docket erty said. Oil Fakes Lead. Most of the cases, he explained, were fake oil stock companies, al though the swindling schemes ranged from bucketshops and min ing stocks to patent "elephant catch er" promotions. Rich harvests are reaped by swindlers, he asserted, because people do not take pains to investigate what they put their money into. The Department of Justice, Mr. Daugherty continued, conies into the prosecution , of such cases through violation of the postal law3 in the use of the mails to defraud, but, he declared, that in his opin ion, the matter was one tor state action. A conference of state blue sky law commissioners, he suggest ed, should be held to frame a uni form law carrying a uniform pun ishment for stock swindlers. Missouri Fertile- Field. Quoting from his reports. Mr. Daugherty said that the northern district of Missouri led in the amount involved in pending fake stock cases, with a total of $31, 792,000, while the northern district of Illinois had the greatest num ber of cases with 43, the northern district of Texas stood second with 42 cases and the southern district of New York had 38 cases. As an instance of schemes ap pealing to credulous investors, Mr. Daugherty cited "the famous ever glades case." in which $750,000 had been obtained on the stock of a company formed to drain and farm rich Florida lands and sold on the argument that there was no frost in Florida. After the stock had been disposed of, he added, the frost cam. This case, he said, had been pend ing in Chicago several years and had already rost the government about $200,000, but he was studying the advisability of pressing it. among the speakers. The present ad ministration was scored for heavy taxes and lax methods. John Franklin of Beaver City an nounced that he will withdraw his name from the republican ticket, on which he has filed for nomination for congressman, and will file on the progressive ticket. A committee of five members was appointed to select a congressional candidate. Eight of the 18 counties in the Fifth district were represented at the meeting. No Deaths for Over Year . Record of Town of 200 Souls Montgomery, Mass., Feb. 14.- The first death since 1920 occurred when Samuel W. Coe died at the age of 82. Montgomery has a popula tion of 200. Mr. Coe had resided here more than 50 years and last Thurs day he and. Mrs. Coe passed their 59th wedding anniversarj-. Youthful Bandits Rob Minnesota Bank of $2,500 St. Tan!. Minn.. Feb. 14. Two youthful, unmasket bandits held up the Cherokee State bank in the western outskirts of the city today, forced W: J. Christians, president, into the vault and escaped with $2,500 in cash. Catholic Priest Held for Slaying of Brother Montreal, Feb. 14. The Rev. A. Dclorme. a Catholic priest, was ar rested tonight on a charge of having murdered his " half brother, Raoul Delorme, an Ottawa university stu dent, whose body-' was 'found, in a suburb of the city, January 6, with six bullet holes iu the head. Father Delorme, who had been under police guard all day, was taken into custody after a coroner's jury had found him criminally re sponsible for his brother's death.. The long. missing will of the stu dent, -who took" out $25,000 insur ance at . the alleged direction of the clergyman, just four days before his death, was found today and disclosed that the Rev.' Delorme was chief heir of the estate. WoVkman Who Married,; Heiress Returns to Job Philadelphia, Feb. 14. Ananstace Andrevitch Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky, who recently married a Chicago heir ess, Mrs. Marion B. Stephens, has entered upon the normal life of a citizen at Ridley park. Today he filed an application to join the local volun teer fire company. Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky returned to work at the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1 today. Last night he was called upon by Burgess W. J. John son who extended greetings of the townspeople to him and his wife. To Receive Edison Medal New York, Feb. 14. Cnmmings C. Chestny. . electrical engineer of Pittsfield, Mass., will receive the 1921 Edison medal at the 10th midwinter convention of the American Insti tute of tectriral Engineers Thurs day evening. The award was made for "early developments in alternat ing curreuf transmission." The medal previously has - been awarded to Elihu Thompson, Frank J. Sprague, George Weslinghouse. William Stanley. Charle F. Brush. Alexander Graham Bell. Nikola Tes la and W. L. K. Emmttt Tears Brought to Appleby's Eyes in Heart-Balm Suit Mention of Dead Wife Makes Man Sued for $33,000 Cry Woman Tells of Betrothal. , ; Mrs. Anna Appleby testified yes terday in her $35,000 heart balm suit that John Appleby promised to marry her, and told lodge friends and relatives of the betrothal. The trial began yesterday in Dis trict Judge Goss' court. ''When I bought my wedding trousseau, negligee, shoes and other clothing, Mr. Appleby told me how glad he was," said Mrs. Appleby, who is a divorced sister-in-law of the defendant. "He told me he was going to buy a new suit so I need not be ashamed of him." Tells of Bedside Tears. Mrs. Appleby said Appleby came to her home when she was ill and said, "I want you to get well. I don't want to bury another wife." He was crying when he said this, ac cording to Mrs. Appleby. Appleby wiped tears from his eyes as A. L. Sutton, his attorney, ques tioned Mrs. Appleby in regard to the death of his client's wife. The ques tions, objected to by counsel for Mrs. Appleby, were sustained by the court. Questioned About Wealth. Mrs. Appleby, a nurse at the tune Appleby's wife was sick, cared for her until she died, she testified. Appleby took the witness stand for a few minutes to answer questions pertaining to .the amount of proper ty he owned. y Girl Bandit Caught in Holdup Attempt Chicago, Feb. 14. The bandit career of Eva Daley, 22, was ended last night when she entered a gro cery store and attempted to hold up the proprietor, according to the po lice. The grocer grabbed her gun and held her until a customer called the police. The police say they believe that she is the girl who has been leading a band of robbers on holdups and burglaries here for several days. Oklahoma Bank Robbed. Fawhuska. Okl., Feb. 14. Two unmasked men .yesterday robbed the American National bank here of about $100, locked the cashier and a number of other persons in the vault and kidnaped the assistant cashier. The Weather Forecast. Wednesday fair; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures. R a. m..........11 1 p. m 9H 6 a. m 10 t p. m tH 1 a. m t 3 p. m ... SO a a. m 7 4 p. m ft a. in.... 7 5 p. m 34 to a. m ...10 S p. m S'i If a. m IS 7 p. m itu 13 noon St I 8 p. m ts Highest Tuesday, rhfyenn. 3(1! Pueblo SS Davrnport 3! npll City ......3! lenvr SH'Salt Lk ...... .SO r Mnln 3ifnia F SH Tol City .....i;Hhrlrlan ; I.ii!r sti Sioux City -J North ntle ....111 Valentin 31 MiippnV Hutlrtln. Prt'e-t ahlpmiMilii nurlr.c tti nrit f4 Hour from temperatures aa foMowa: North, S degrees below; "eaaf, 10 decrees above; south. 15 degrees; wtV o decrees. Ireland on Brink of Civil War Proi-jutt of Inir-riul Strife Srrjowd)" Diet'Un'tn in Xorlh !'!rin Siiiiin;; Con timirs in Hrlft. Consider Kidnapings Belf.nt, Feb. 1 4.-1 By A. P.)-A Urge body of troop piared on tl. streets of Belfaat Utt this afternoon. They wtrf the first to be sent hert since the renewed outbreak of disor ders begun. Dublin. Feb. 11 (By A. P.) Great apprehension has been caused here by the British government's cessation of military evacuation, as It is believed by many leading Irish men that this act plays directly into the hands of the opponents of the Anglo-Irish treaty. London. Feb. M.-(By A. P.) Announcement that the ministry re garded it ss necessary to suspend ths evacuation of British troops from southern Ireland was made by Wins ton Churchill, tbe colon! secretary, in the house of commons today. Ths sole resson for the suspension, he said, was the disturbed situation on the northern border, and not because of anything that had happened in the southern part of Ireland. Belfast. Feb. 14.-(By A. P.)-Forty-two of the kidnaped Ulster unionists, it was stated today, haw requested Premier Craig of Lister to. liberate immediately the Managhan football players held prisoner in Li ster, the unionists declaring they themselves would be held captive until the football prisoners were re leased. Snipers continued their grim work in the disturbed sections of Beliait this morning and by midday the death roll since Saturday had been increased to 18 by the deaths of two men who were victims of flying bul lets in the streets during the noon hour. The number of wounded at the same hour had reached the total of approximately SO. Sniping Frenquent. In the main thoroughfare of the city business proceeded apparently as usual, but in the storm centers tbe sniping was frequent and dangerous. William Waring, a caretaker cf Orange hall in Clifton street, was shot in the-neck today and is in a serious condition. A truckman leading a horse through Clifton street, near the scene of the Waring shooting, was stopped by a man who fire point blank at him, wounding him in the abdomen. He fs in a critical condi tion. In Armored Cars. The police today were again pa troling the troubled districts in ar mored cars. The majority of the shops alnng North Queen street have suspended business. The cabinet of northern Ireland, presided over by Sir James Craig, this morning took up the situation hi connection with the kidnapings from Tvrnno anrl Kprmanach. It was said a statement would be issued during the afternoon. Four of the children wounded in voctprHav'c hnmS attack in Weaver street died in the hospital during the mVliK Twentv-two oersons were. wounded by the missile, but 12 were sent home atter hospital treatment. London, reb. 14. (By A. r.j (Turn to Pmr Three. Column One.) Man Says Assassins Hired to Kill Taylor San Francisco, Feb. 14. A state ment that he met two' armed tramps at Lathrop Junction, near Tracy, Cal., last December, and that they notified him that they had been hired to go to Los Angeles and kill a mo tion picture director by the name of Taylor, was made to Captain of De tectives Duncan Matheson today by a man giving the name of Charles Carson, who said he was a sea cap tain sailing out of the port of San' Francisco. Matheson is inclined to doubt his story. Carson said he knew one of the tramps, whom he called Bill Burns. Burns was wearirfg a cartridge and holster containing a loaded pistol. Later he saw Burns and his com panion and another man leave in a railroad car in the direction of Los Angeles. Carson said he was released from a Santa Clara, Cal., hospital a week ago and did not know of the murder of William Desmond Taylor until four days ago. Fear of Burns, he said, kept him away from the police until today. The Los Angeles police were noti fied of Carson's story. He is being kept under surveillance by the San Francisco police. War Finance Corporation - ' ' Loan Nebraska $451,000 Washington,' Feb. 14. Amon the loans for livestock and agricultural purposes announced by the War Fi- , nance, corporation as having; been made February 9-11, were: $76,000 in Idaho, $231,000 in Iowa, $40,000 in Missouri on livestock in Colo rado, $673,000 in Montana, $451,000 in Nebraska, $508,000 in New Me ico, $25,000 in New Mexico' on live stock in Texas. $290,000 in Oregon, $159,000 in South Dakota and $270, 000 in Wyoming. Mississippi Man Impeached for Being Drunk on Duty Jackson. Miss.. Feb. 14. WithoiU a dissenting vote : the Mississippi t-ouse voted to impeach George R. Edwards, railroad commissioner from the northern district, for a?-. leged high crime and misdemenort on the charge that he was "repeats edlv drunk while m the discharce of his public duties." . . '