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THK BKE: OMAHA, TL'KSUAV. KKHRUAHY lit. M2. 4 T 1 i (J. 0. P. Leaders Preparing for .Missouri Drive Strong Atumit Will He Made t Kt placc Jamr A. Keed With JftpuLIuiin Sen . atur Next Fall. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO. Kansas l'jy. F-h, Republican leader hrre and in Mt. Louis are preparing to nuke the most of what ni'l.iMii to tlum mi unusual oppor. tmuty to ctcet republican United Natis senator (rout Missouri this ,ur tn succeed James A, i'.eed, tii mot-rat. The steady growth of the rtpul.lt party in tin Mate to a point tli.it has shifted Missouri from the sure democratic to the doubt I u col iiiiiii, ami the hitter tritc among the democrats are the chief consul ctjtinii on which republican hopes nic b.isrd, WIk tin r Senator Reed will be a c 1 1 itl.t t f (or rtiiiotnitiatiou it un til t.un. The senator it now in the state making a (civ speeches and lookinj over hiii fences, but he say he has not decided whether he will Mrk re-election, lie has talked ol retiring troni public life and remov ing to New York to practice law. N)iue of his closest friend, however, in c convinced he will he a candidate. As an irreconcilable opponent of the attitude of the Wilson adminis tration on the Versailles treaty, the league of nations, and many other issues, Kced has created considerable hivoe iu the democratic party in Missouri, from which arises some doubt of his ability to win rcnomiu ation and considerably more doubt of the possibility of his election. Vow Vengeance on Reed. The rcKiilar democrat and the followers of Woodrow Wilson, who arc now niamlestini: their devotion conspicuously by their 7cal. for the . Wilson memorial foundation, are down on Kced and vowing ven geance. Ihey will support anv 00 ponent in the primaries and if Reed .should be nominated they will vote for the republican candidate by the thousands, according to some of the anti-Kccd contingent. Reed's strength lies in his political organization and in his hold on the population of German extraction, an important factor in Missouri. His opposition in the democratic party is largely organised and lacking in strong leadership, wherein would lie his chief chance of success in the primary. The only candidate for the demo cratic nomination, so far formally declared is Krcckinridge Long, a voting man who was third assistant secretary of state in the Wilson ad ministration. He was defeated, for the senate by Mr. Spencer, republi can, in 1Y20, but has gone after the place again with redoubled vigor. He i- going up and down the state mak ii.g speeches, chiefly in glorification of the league of nations and other Wilson ian policies, evidently design ed to solidify and keep alive that bit ter opposition to Reed in the demo cratic party which flamed forth once in tiic denunciation of the senator by the Missouri legislature and again in 'the refusal of the party to accord l.im a place in the delegation to the Saiv Francisco convention in 1920. Managers Enthusiastic. The managers of the Long candi dacy are enthusiastic over the pros pect, reporting significant bulletins of anti-Rced sentiment wherever the senator's young antagonist has made speeches. Whereat the friends ol Reed smile and murmur' that this has happened before, but somehow has not been registered at the polls. Republican National Committee man Balder and other republican leaders are confident they can defeat the democratic candidate, whether he be Reed or Long. They count on a serious division of the demo crats in either case and profess to perceive no danger of similar dis sension in the republican party. No candidacy for the republican nomination has been formally an nounced, but it is not doubted that Walter S. Dickey, long the million aire angel of the party is Missouri who recently purchased the Kansas City Journal, will get into the field before long. Dickey was defeated by Reed six years ago. . Judge Landis to Devote . More Time to Legion Chicago, Feb. 20. Judge K. M. Landis, who announced his resigna tion from the federal bench Satur day, told of his plans td devote more time to the American Legion besides his duties as supreme dictator of or ganized baseball. "The American Legion is the greatest insurance policy this nation has," he said. "It is our standing guaranty -of peace and liberty. I am deeply devoted to the , Legion and shall help in whatever way I can." Judge Landis said that one of the first things he will do when he leaves the bench will be to make a swing around the baseball training camps in the south to ascertain if promising rookies have not been giv en a fair show, as some of them claim. Ex-Banker Dies at 98 Tasadena, Feb. 20. William Lar sen, 98, retired banker of Green Bay, Wis., died at his winter home here yesterday. He is survived by a widow, three sons and five daughters. Heiress, 16, Who Will Wed Equestrian, 57 "Automobile HoteP Planned in Chicago Chicago. Feb. 20. Flans for an "automobile hotel," 25 stories in height and designed especially to help relieve the congestion caused by the increasing number of motor cars, were made public here yester day. A similar "hotel," it was said, would be b uilt in New York and another in Cleveland. The plans for the Chicago build ing have been completed and it was proposed to begin work within the next few weeks. The capacity of the building will be 1,100 cars and it has been de signed to provide a regular hotel lobby with its conveniences for the . car owner 1 - HlHWll I f?- wv - ' . . .. . J ( ' -' t(T ' ? .. . . '1 . s 1 I w: Mathilde McCormick. This is a picture of Mathilde Mc Cormick, 16 years old today, grand daughter of John D. Rockefeller and daughter of Harold F. McCormick. millionaire head of the International Harvester company. Mr. McCormick announced her engagement Sunday night to Max Oser, horseman of Zurich, Switzer land. The announcement aws a 33 word statement in which Mr. Mc Cormick said it was "hastened by a few weeks by the fact of the recent newspaper publicity." "Mr. Oser is not three times Miss McCormick's age, as the newspapers stated," said Emil L. Burgy, Chicago interior decorator, who says he is a first cousin of the Swiss equestrian. "He is older. He is 57, not 47, just my age. I am his cousin. I should know." Friends of the McCormicks say Mr. Rockefeller must have sanc tioned the announcement. Max Oser's right name is Max von dcr Muchl. son of a German count whose widow remarried, ac cording to Burgy, who says his father was a brother of Oser's mother. Oser has a fortune of his own, Burgy says. Friends of the McCormick's say the consent given to the engage ment by the family was in line with the training of the children, who al ways were given free rein in self expression, so long as tlicir own whims and desires did not seriously interfere with their welfare. Royal Family of Russia :v Slain Suddenly in Night Bolshevik Story of Execution Published Czar and Family Ordered Into Basement, Lined Up Against Wall and Shot by Revolver Squad Reds Seek to Justify Execution. Ekaterinburg, Russia, Feb. 20. (By Correspondence of A. P.) A bolshevist account of the execution of the late Emperor Nicholas and his family, which took place here on the night of July 16, 1918, has been made public . in a pamphlet written by P. Bykoff, former chair man of the Ekaterinburg soviet. It was inspired by the communist opinion that the story of the execu tion should be told from the bolshe vist side. But apparently it did not meet with the approval of the higher officials for, although it was pub lished in the closing days of 1921, it was immediately withdrawn from circulation. The book was printed by the state printing department of the Ufal district government in this city and gives a general review of the labor revolution in the Urals. The last chapter in it records the emperor's death and is entitled "The Last Days of the Czar." Obviously Censored. The book was obviously censored carefully before it was published, as it lacks many details of the execu tion which ordinarily would have been given by eye witnesses. It at tempts to justify the execution by explaining that the. Orenburg Cos sacks were then threatening Ekater inburg from the south; the Czecho slovak forces were pressing in from the east and letters had been re ceived showing that plots were be ing formed to deliver the imperial family to the counter-revolutionists. Two extracts from letters are quoted as evidence of the existence of these plots. According to Bykoff s account, the last words of the emperor when he and his family were led unexpectedly into the basement of their prison and told that all the Romanoffs must die were: "But are we not to be taken anywhere?" The empress and her four daugh ters (Grand Duchesses Olga, Tati- ana, Anastasia and Marie), and the little czarevitch and the remaining members of the household of 11, were so stunned that they said nothing when Avdieff, the commandant of the house, ordered them to line up against the basement wall and pro nounced the sentence. Executed With Revolvers. Bykoff says that a firing squad of four shot the former imperial fam ily with revolvers. The identity of the members ot the execution squad is not revealed. The pamphlet places the responsi bility for the execution of the Romanoffs directly upon the Ural district soviet, which decided early in July, 1918, that the czar and his family must die, and entrusted the execution of the sentence and the destroying of the bodies to Peter Ermankoff, an old workman of the Upper Ifsetsky works. , Avdieff, commandant of the house, read the sentence, according to Bykoff s story, and there were only four witnesses. But it is not indi cated whether Avdieff shot or even witnessed the death of the imperial family. There were no statements in Bykoff's account which indicate that the Ural district soviet carried out the execution under direct orders from Moscow. The Romanoffs were in their ordi nary clothing when shot. It was not their custom to retire until long after 10 o'clock at night. Conse quently all were still dressed when the illfated group of 11 was unex pectedly ordered to the basement and shot. Bykoff's story says the guards outside the house and the public were kept in ignorance of the shooting by a noisy automobile outside which drowned the pistol reports. At 1 o'clock the next morning the 11 bodies were secretly removed, from the "house and taken to a neighboring wood. There the cloth ing was removed. The bodies were burned first and then the clothing. Bykoff says the jewels and frag ments ofy jewelery which Admiral Kolchak's officers later claimed to have found in the ashes were prob ably concealed in. the clothing and overlooked by the men who disposed of the bodies. In addition to the czar and Czarina Alexandra and their four daughters and one son, the persons who met death in the basement were Prince Dolgoroukoff, Dr. Bodkin, who was physician to the Romanoffs, a lady-in-waiting and a man who was nurse to the czarevitch. The names of the last two are not given in Bykoff's pamphlet. Grand Duke Michael, brother' of the late czar, was shot at Perm in July, 1918, according to Bykoff's ac count, and the Grand Dukes Ser gius Mikhailovitch, Igor Konstanti novitch, Konstantin Konstantino vitch and Ivan Konstantinovitch were killed about the same time at Alapaievsky, north of Ekaterinburg. These members of the Romanoff family had previously, been held as prisoners in Ekaterinburg, but were transferred because of the uncertain position of Ekaterinburg with "the approach of the Czecho-Slovaks. Springfield Man Nearly Loses Life as Home Burns Springfield, Neb., Feb. 20. (Spe cial.) Fire destroyed the five-room home of W. D. Shaal here yesterday. Mr. Shaal was alone in the house at the time of the fire and almost suffocated ' before rescued. The firemen were unable to save the house or contents. The loss is es timated at $3,000, partly covered by insurance Bee Want Ad3 Bring Results - Steamships Arrival!). Baltimore, Feb. 19. H. It. Rogers, Port Lobo; Indian (Br.), Azores; Lefchnven, (Du.), Rotterdam: Hampton, Portland, Me.: Jia.l. Wheeler, Norfolk; Strassa. (Swede), Narvik. New York. Feb. 19. N'oordam, Rotter dam; The Mlstocles, rireaus; Wurttem bursr, Hamburg: Vauban, Buenos Aires. Port Eads, Feb. 18. Cody, Rotterdam; Coppename. Tela: Jacob I.uckenbach, Mobile; Klfuliu Slarus, (Jap) Norfolk; La Perouz, (Fr.) Europe. Galveston. Feb. ID. Paul H. Harwood; Tampico; Edgefield, Antwerp. Departures. Hamburg, Feb. 18. Winnekahda, New Tork; Sexonia, New Tork. Queenstown, Feb. -19. Celtic (from Liverpool), New Tork. New Tork, Feb. 19. Huron, Rio Jan eiro and Buenos Aires; Gallisto, (Du.) 57 Plays a big part in daily eating HeinzTomatoKetchup tastes good enough to eat with a spoon. But it has a bigger mission in life than that It dis tributes its goodness to everything it touches, and makes meal after, meal taste better. . HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP 1 Overseas 'Enemy' Victors in Great 'Battle for Tokio' ft fMMM Attackrri (!ome Vft Arro Pacific by Land, Sea auJ Air in Military .Maneuver. Tokio, Feb. 20,-Secrft report made ly the Janane.e army general jiaif ami naval hoard of command dicloc that in the recent great mili tary and naval maneuver, called "the battle for Tokio," the city wa taken by land, ea and air by "the enemy" coming wet arrot the Pa cific. Although no political allusion wai made to that, the atta k wai up posrd to he aurli as would be launch, ed by a country of the power of the I'nitcd State. A;rcraft Over City. 1'hci.e army and navy report arc the real basi for the unexpected a hociaiioti by Japan agaiiM radical re. ductkuis in submarine Mrrngthi pro poed at Washington. They ato ex plain the ktubborn opposition of the army to the economy plans of the Japanese diet. Ihe ecrct report on the battle for Tokio" decide three important thine. The first : that hostile air cralt oared over the city, dropping incendiary bomba at will, and on the buildings within the grounds of the imperial palace itself. The second point is that a hostile army was able to paa the cordon of dcMrovrrs and submarines that theoretically lined the route all the way from Guam, and entering Tokio hav was able to laud its troops and join another army, which, having landed near the base of Mount Fnpi and battled its way across the Ila l:one mountains, already was on the plains to the westward of Yoko hama. Attack Succeeds. The third is that the crack im perial household troops and the Isuded first division were unable to j resist the attack on Tokio itself and slowly retreated, with bitter fight ing in the streets themselves, losing all the palaces and the embassy dis trict. Then blowing up the bridges, they took their final "stand along kyobasm and Mlionba-.hi, in tne heart of the business sections, with Marounchi and its banks and the Tokio railway station and central postoffice in the hands of the enemy. U. S. Warehouse Robbed of 20 Barrels of Whisky Detroit. Feb. 20. Six armed men bound and gagged the watchman at d government warehouse here near midnight and escaped with ZJ bar rels of bonded whisky, which they loaded on a motor truck. The rob bery was discovered when an inveS' tigation was made of the watchman's tailure to punch. his time ciock. Police estimate the whisky to be worth $50,000. Samuel Alberts, the watchman, told police a man wearing a police man's uniform asked admittance to the building, saying he had been in formed an attempt was to be maae to rob the place. Accompanied by another, who represented himself as a detective, the supposed officer en tered and thrust a rvolver into Al bert's face. Four other bandits, without haste, wheeled the liquor out of the building. A federal investigation will be started, it was announced by gov ernment authorities. Blind Girl Reads by $ucces$ .of Optophone Sure, ayt A', V, Jf'orlt Musical Light Rays New York. Feb. 20-Rays of light converted into harmonious musical (oundi yesterday were demonstrated to be medium by which totally blind persons may read newspapers, magaiines and books. Describing the ter, which took place In Jersey Ciiy, th New York World declared that Ms Margaret Hogan, blind girt, read the front page of a newspaper by means of an "optophone," tht in vention of Prof. E. E. Fournier D'Albe, former instructor of physics at the University of Birm ingham, England, Ten years have elapsed since Frof. D'Albe first brought bis op tophonetic idea before the London optical convention. It was announced yesterday that Miss Hogan had proved the prac ticability of his machine. The optophone projects light by means of a tiny photographic lens through five rows of oblong per. forations in a revolving disc and reflects it back to be transferred into sound by selenium cells. These rays of light, to the un technical observer, appear as the five parallel bars of a musical staff, producing as they play over each letter five notes of the musical scale si, sol, do, re, mi and sol again on a higher key. So delicate is the registration made that even the smallest of type can be read. Five Kissless Years Win Divorce for Man Chicago, Feb. 20. Five years without a kis was one of the rea sons for granting a divorce to Wil liam M. Scudder, clubman and head of the American Radiator company, from Mrs. Helen K. Scudder, one of the heirs to the fortune left by Frederick R. Swift, both of whom have been prominent in Chicago so ciety. "She did not give me a single kiss from 1910 to 1915," Mr.- Scudder testified. "1 know of no reason ex cept that she disliked me and pre ferred not to have me come near her." The wedding of Mr. Scudder in 1900 to Miss Helen R. Swift, daugh ter of Frederick R. Swift of New Bedford. Mass., was one of the note worthy events of the social season. Mr. Scudder was graduated from Harvard in 1899, after serving with Roosevelt's Rough' Riders in the war with Spain. Lone Bandit Hobs Guests at Dinner of Over $30,000 I Man Admitted 1V !!ostr TuWei Jewel From Diuers nd Seize Hag From Sideboard, Deal. X. J.. Feb. .M-A dinmr party at the home of Mrs. Sarah It. Kohrrtooii was interrupted atuidjy night by a masked bandit who was admitted by the hostess, and at the puint of a revolver, robbed her of a han.f-ag which idie to.d the rwlic co'itiniied jewelry vVued at $U,H.(1, tripped her four guests of their Ml- ualilcs, and escaped, H.e jewel were akT fro-n a ife in the Hotel Mc.Mpiue, X, Y the dav before with the intention. Mrs. Robertson said, of placing them in a safe deposit vault in Ai bury I'arli. Mrs, RobcrH'm was called to the front door while entertaining her gurts and there was coufionted by a masked robber who lore 'a dia mond sunburst from her throat and with the weapon pressed against her body, forced her to return to the dining room. Before the startled guests could realize what was happening the ban dit flourished bis revolver, com manding all to put up their hands and warned them not to make an outcry. While the intruder instructed his victims to turn over their valuables, Mrs. Robertson tried to conceal the handbag with her jewels that lay on a sideboard. The robber observed brr, Intern, and snatched it fiom her, lidllif nun tin the .mi that fad !en deiv.ited on the dining lablr by the (inihteued ggrt, the bandit then warned all to ket quvt f.r five minutes, backed out of the room and fed. Prisoner Confesses to Salt Lake Murder San Bernardino, Cat,, Feb. 20. Roy K, Uonnrll, arrested near line recently. iometed jestcrday t MierirJ Flurry of Salt l ake lity (hat iiihcial au that he lirnl the shot which killed C A. l'aus there ic eeiiily. Uonnell's ktatrmrnt was made, the sliri ill said, atier he bad disclosed to the prisoner the detail of a con fession by (!. L liriKhtuti, held in Salt Lake ti'v in ruiincclion with the killing. iJuiiiirll charged that Bn'iihion had planned a robbery of 1 au' home and had furnished a re volver for Use in the ein-rprie. He declared, the sheriff said, that An ticline W'acastrr, housemaid, ad mitted tlicin to the home and tluit there had been ro intention to shoot Fans, but that the weapon was discharged when his thumb slipped off its hammer. Hill and Maxwell Trial Taken to Boone County Central City. Neb.. Feb. 20.-(Spc- rial.) District Judges Frederick W. Uutton and A. M. l ost granted change of venue in the i-e of E I'. Hill and John Maxwell, chatgid with the murder of Boolin V. Coo Icy. Their decision was based upon the fact that a petition had been cir culated which, in their judgment, had served to prejudice people in all sections of the county. This ca-e will be tried in Booue county, torn- r.itncing May 15. .Vuuirroui JnitrU IVlnt in Coloradu Fre ldddup ,lainoi, Colo, j-ri, rH m,(rr. PU qprtt wne 4'icstfd today by ihe sbenil's oil'ue, Ut lang't aul railroad detectives in eHMifttioit with the robbing of ihe rxpiesi r mi Ueuur and Km tir.mdc Wrslriii pa.triier Ham No, I to and the honing t,( M4iiui (imiea, ihe e. prrt iiirttruuer Saturday liitflit. 'I lie robbery and shouting occuned as the tram wa bating ilii ciiy, t,lu' obtained by the authorities were said to nidnate that the leader of the lob bn hvrd here, l Ionic is in a critical condition. Get Well the Chiropractic Way 414-26 Securities Buildinr Corner 10th and Farnam Sts. 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