The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 31 NO. 20.
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OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUAUY 13, 10:'J.
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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-
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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.-
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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
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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
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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." . . '
