Nebraska Newspapers

    The Omaha Daily Bee
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OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922.
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Says Agreement Broken
4'.liiii!il, April J, I'liimi coal
in- t who i.mimI work htlir
,''. iii ihf ihhhm l.iiiifiiiiu.iit and
i i llif. itr 1 1 In, were ilri i.irril il.iy
I'v John 1. Lewi, rftidrnt of 1 lie
t. inif J M uff Worker, of America
in l.c ilrtiruii ill riul iiK "llic in
pin nun i( mining operation Hi the
r-ilir poi i,r lUtr," lull "the rr
niiiiptmn of cnl production rntirelv
liprnd iim tlie lulurc altitude of
ll ceil operator. "
Mr. l.rwi UMilt thi dci lratiotl
.n..i the home labor committee
which i liniiiif hearing on (lie
I'.Und ir,i)luion tit direct appoint
ment by lli (rrid'iit of a loiinnii-
Hi intrttiuate the coal imlutUy
Ii.ruing the resolution iindrr con
. deration, the United Mine Worker
)reidrnt aerird llut In organi-
Si raiitmi, I'a, A t il J. 'I'liuu
.tii'l, of niiiir worker in the
Sainton iilrtct, where approxi
mately O.UiHI men anil hoy arc
idle a a reMilt of the mine mis
priMion, were out tmUy in search
oi employment in oilier industries.
I'liililum rnntuctor in many sec
tion of tin tily were hiring min
er. The tipitiMoii remained 100
prr t r nt rllectivc today.
ritinn would welcome "any impar
tul and judicial investigation of the
grneral condition in the bituminous
and anthracite roal industries, and
priially the fact relating to invest
ment and profit, operating practices,
I'onsertation of furl resources, appli
cation o( uniform methods of safe
guarding the I lie and limb of the
workers and industrial relation and
koiidilioiis.
Commission Should Be Free.
SutW -an investigation body." he
added, 'Should be rlothcd with full
Vomer to ascertain the truth to send
lor person and paper and to take,
t'fitmiony under oatli. The personnel
of tich a commission should be rec
from political equation and the
miner worker should be given ade
quate representation thereon."
"As to the adjustment of con
trovert between operator and
mine workers, we have becu tradi
tionally oppo.-ed to government in
tervention," Mr. Lewis continued.
"Wc have been convinced by experi
ence that surh adjustments may be
more effectively and equitably work
ed out both In the interest of ihe pub
lic and of thoo engaged in the in
dustry by conference and agreement
between representatives of the oper
ator and the mine workers. If the
operator had maintained their con
tract with Mi, the present deplor
able condition of affair in the soft
coal industry would not have arisen.
All differences would have been sct-
(Tiin, In Pat" T. Column Two.)
Man With 13 Wives
Sentenced to Prison
, Indianaooli. April 3. Isiah
Moore, who ha U marriages to his
credit, was sentenced to serve from
two to 14 years in the state re
formatory on a charge of embezzle
ment and was fined $1,000 and costs
and disfranchised for five years.
Moore, who is said by police to
have confessed to having at least
I.? wives in various parts of the
United State, also was sentenced to
serve from two to five years in the
slate prion on a charge of bigamy.
Moore pleaded guilty to the bigamy
tlargc.
Moore is said to have embezzled
5512 from Miss Harriet ' Evans of
Mexico. (Ind.) school teacher, his
13th wife.
Moore, according to the police. Is
said to have obtained more than
5J.70O from his 13 wives. In each
cae after he had been wedded a
week he disappeared.
Enforcement -of Dry Law
Magnificent, Says Haynes
Buffalo. X. V.. April 3. Roy
Haynes, federal prohibition commis
sioner, here declared that the en
forcement of the federal prohibition
law is going on magnificently. The
Uw is being enforced, he said, better
than the mol confident prohibitionist
could have expected. He declared
there are 30 organizations working
to convince the country that prohi
bition enforcement is a failure. He
denied that any crime wave is due
to prohibition, asserting it would be
a, logical to attribute such to woman
saiirage. The chief difficulty in en
forcing the law. he admitted, is the
apathetic citizen.
Women Smokers Told They
Rik Ruining Their Eyes
Ronton. April 3. Women are
wa-ned not to smoke tinder peril of
T-i.nire their eyeight by Dr. t. A
Va! of Columbia university school
tt erUometrv. who spoke before the
contention of optometrist here.
"No individual who ha as bighlv.
Ifrloped an organism as the female
ef ne recie hould indu'ee in a
rcttc a now crful as tobacco,'
tai l Dr. WYJ
Marshal Named for
District of Columbia
Edgar C. Snyder.
Nomination of
Edgar C. Snyder
Sent to Senate
Was Adie Newspaper Man
in Omaha 11 Years and
lice's Washington Cor
respondent. I'.dgar C. Snyder, Washington cor
respondent of The Omaha Bee, was
i.ominated by President Harding
yesterday to be United State mar
shal for the District qf Columbia.
Mr. Snyder's name was sent to the
senate vesterday afternoon. Confir
mation Is considered certain, the ap
pointment to be effective probably
April 11.
The Xcbraskan's appointment had
the indorsement of the Nebraska del
egation in congress and of Washing
ton newspapermen, with whom he
had served for many years.
Mr. Snyder was an active news
paper man ih Omaha for 11 years,
from 1884 to 1895. He was city edi
tor of the Omaha Republican at first,
and later reporter and city editor of
The Bee. In 1895 he went to Wash
ington as The Bee's correspondent, a
position which he held continuously
for 27 years, one of the longest
records of newspaper service in the
national capital. few newspaper
men in Washington have been better
known about the capital or at na
tional political conventions.
Mr. Snyder is a member of the Na
tional Tress and the Gridiron clubs,
having been president of the latter
famous organization in 1915.
Farmers Active
in Sewer Election
Hold Mass Meeting at Grand
Island in Interest - of
New Outlet.
Grand Island, Neb.,-April 3. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Twenty farmers re
siding along the Wood river, w ithin a
short distance of the outlet of the
city's sewer system, late today took
a hand in- the most important issue
before the voters at tomorrow's elec
tion, by warning the citizens of their
determination to sue for damages in
the event the sewer bond proposition
is rejected.
At a meeting attended by them,
resolutions were adopted determining
upon this court andt also appointing
a committee to wait'upon the Ameri
can Beet Sugar company and the
Loup Valley Packing company with
the renuest that these industrial in
stitutions equip themselves with dis
posal plants and cease dumping their
refuse into the river. As long as a
vrar aro thrcr romo atnants cot to
gcther for an organized effort to rid
themselves of the sewer outlet nui
sance, but were dissuaded from prior
action by the promises of the city
officials to submit a bond proposition
as tnnn as nlans could be pertectea.
There is douDt m many minus
whether the $300,000 proposition will
nrrv Th ritv has been notified
lone since by the state board of
health, that it must put in the dis
posal plant, which is a part of the
plan. "
One of Last Survivors of
Custer's Army Dies in Ohio
Akron. O., April 3. Reuben L
Harris. 73, one of the last survivors
of Custer's armv. which gained fame
by fighting the Indians in the west
in the 70s ot the last century, is
dead here. He was engaged on a
surveying corps with Custer's band
whrn" the Sioux launched their at
tack which practically wiped out the
party.
"Human Wolf Wounded
Harrison, Ark., , April 3. Yates
Standridge. known as the "Human
Wolf," lately paroled convict who
holds the record in the state for the
number of times he escaped from the
penitentiary today lies wounded
here as the result of a running fight
in which Harry Campbell w as killed.
The fight is believed to have been
the result of a deal over a keg of
liquor which Standridge and his
nephew, Alonzo Standridge. are said
to have brought to Harrison from
their home m Newtown county Sat
urday night.
Shakeup In
Print Shop
Explained
Secretary Mellon Says Di
niUnttl of Director Wilmctli
and 23 Officials Makes
for Ilcttrr Efficiency.
No Question of Honesty
Hjr Till. Auorlalm! Vrr.
Washington, April 3. The reor
ganization of the bureau of engrav
ing and printing, through the ex
ecutive order issued lat Friday by
1'rcsident Harding, removing Jamc
L. Wilmcth. it dirertor, and .'8
other officials, wa explained on the
ground of "efficiency" by Secretary
Mellon. No charge involving the
honesty of any of the dismissed bu
reau officials have been tiled. Treas
ury department officers said.
Mr. Mellon' announcement of the
change made in the administrative
personnel of the bureau wa the
first light thrown upon the presi
dent's action since the announce
ment of the order at the White
House. Meanwhile speculation has
been rile in official circles over the
sudden removal of the officials and
resolutions were introduced in both
senate and house today, seeking to
elicit further information from the
president.
Senator Caraway, democrat, Ar
kansas, introduced a resolution call
ing upon the president to explain
the changes made, if not incompat
ible with public interest, as to the
cause of the action taken in the bu
reau and under what authority of
law the changes were made.
Action Follows Complaint.
Representative Moore, democrat,
Virginia, at the same time intro
duced a resolution for the appoint
ment of a special house committee
to investigate the changes.
Reorganization of the "bureau
heads, according to Mr. Mellon,
came as a culmination of a num
ber of investigations into the
operation of the plant, following
complaints as to the efiicicency of
its operation. The seeming abrupt
ness of the change, he explained,
by the unexpectedness of the an
nouncement, although he recalled
similar sudden, changes in official
positions during the McKinley ad
ministrations. - - '
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Wadsworth, Mr. Mellon said,
made a number of investigations of
the bureau, as did other' treasury of
ficials, while Director of .Budget
Dawes brought A. R. Barnes from
Chicago to look into the efficiency
of the output of the plant. . Mr. '
Barnes, he declared, is the proprietor
and an engraving establishment
somewhat approaching the magni
tude of the government plant and is
considered an expert on the subject.
Waste Found in Methods.
These various investigations, Mr.
Mellon continued, disclosed condi
tions in the bureau warranting
changes. Waste was found, he said,
losses to the government running
into large sums because of paper
being spoiled in the new presses,
lack of modern methods for keeping
plates and other unsatisfactory con
ditions. Assignment of Justice department
agents to the bureau by Attorney
General Daugherty, Mr. Mellon de
clared, was merely a matter of pre
caution in going over the stock in
the plant, as there were no specific
charges of irregularity or defalcation
against any of the dismissed em
ployes. Treasury accountants have
been put to work chacking up the
bureau's operations, he declared,
"but such a step has always been
the custom when a change in' the
directorship takes place."
Say Farmers Evaded Paying
for State Hail Insurance
Lincoln, April 3. State hail in
surance policies became available to
Nebraska farmers April 1, with the
law permitting policy applicants to
?pay the premium June 1. 'As 114
policy holders last year directed their
banks' to stop payment on post
dated checks for this purpose, there
by receiving a two-months' protec
tion' at no cost, A. L. Drian, hail
adjuster, said today he would sug
gest to the department that these
114 farmers be denied insurance this
year, if it was solicited.
The bank order has been changed
this year, making it impossible to
evade payment.
Nebraska Hotel Company
' Hearing Put Off to, April 21
Lincoln, April 3. Postponement
until April 21 rfor hearing final
arguments in the receivership litiga
tfo of the Nebraska Hotel company
and the Nebraska Building and In
vestment company was granted by
the state supreme court today, after
attorneys for the interveners had
filed supplemental briefs. Efforts
are being made to set aside the sale
of various properties to Eugene C.
Eppley of Sioux City for $1,000,000,
which includes hotels at Omaha,
Kansas City. Scottsbluff, Table Rock,
Columbus. Franklin and Lincoln.
Attorneys to Ask New Trial
for Woman Who Slew Mate
Lincoln. April 3. Attorneys "for
Mrs. Willctte Snook, found guilty
Skturday of second degree murder
in connection with the fatal stabbing
of her husband, stated that they
would file a motion for a new trial
in district court today. 1
Former Butler drains' of $60,000
Jewel Vj Serv, Police Head Says
at 1
Ma,
vs .oric
tu ..uay for Bigger Game, Commissioner
."Believes Arrests Predicted Soon.
Ht The AwarUlr4 Frm.
New York, April 3. Police Com
iniskioiirr r.urinlit today asserted that
a former butler wi the brain of the
$00,000 jewel robbery in Washington
qiurc yesterday.
This man,, according to the com.
tr.isMOiicr, robbed Albert K. Slut
tuck, retired banker, in 1917, and re
turned again to rob. Thit time it
wa a bolder deed for bigger game.
Before the jewel were whinked from
the hou-c. Mr. and Mr. Sliattuck
and their eight servant were im
prisoned in a wine vault, where they
were saved from the danger of suffo
cation by the ingenuity of Mr. Shat
tuck in unscrewing the bolt with a
penknife and coin.
c have arrested one of the rob
bers and hope to have them all in
custody in a short time," declared
the commissioner.
there were indications mat tne
police, convinced that the job wa
engineered by a master robber with
the technique of a Parisian apache,
might sift New England for trace of
a band operating against the houses
of the wealthy m various state.
Other Robberie Reported.
The New England angle wa in
troduced by Maj. Osbom Field oi
1' if tli avenue, who called at police
headquarters with the information
that last year the summer home of
his father-in-law at Lenox. Mass,
was robbed by a French butler who
never had been apprehended. His
Court Excludes
Depositions in
Arbuckle Trial
Statements of Chicago Phys
ician Thrown Out of Record
Woman Witness Causes
Sensation.
San Francisco. Aoril 3. The en
tire deposition of Dr. Samuel Sea
bury Graves of Chicago was exclud
ed from the record of the third man
slaughter trial of Roscoc. (Fatty)
Arbuckle today after a long argu
ment between counsel. A portion of
the. deposition had been read into
the record.
Dr. Graves' statement was held by
Judge Harold Louderback to be of
no value because the physician could
not be absolutely certain that a wo
man he treated about 10 years ago
was really Virginia Rappe, movie ac
tress, for whose death Arbuckle is
on trial.
The court also abbreviated the ad
mitted portion of the sworn state
ment of Dr. Paul Ralph Hirschman
of Chicago. Only about 10 per cent
of his affidavit was allowed in evi
dence. In this he declared that he
bad met Miss Rappe when she lived
in Chicago and had seen her double
up with pain after taking several
drinks. ' ' .
Mrs. Helen Adeline Whitehurst of
Chicago caused something of a sen
sation when she repudiated that por
tion of her deposition previously
taken in which she was reported to
have stated that Miss Rappe had
been seized with attacks at her home
on several occasions. She said the
seizures occurred only twice.
F ilming of Church Goers
Causes Record Attendance
Woodsficld, O., April 3. A. novel
and effective means, of augmenting
church attendance was used here
recently, when a movie film artist
advertised that to complete a reel of
local scenes folk would be filmed
leaving the churches. Record-breaking
congregations greeted all the lo
cal places of worship as a result.
Finance Body 0. K.s Farm
Loans of $95,000 in State
Washington. April 3. (Special
Telegram.) The War; Finance cor
poration announced that from March
30 to April 1 it approved agricul
tural and livestock loans in Nebras
ka amounting to $95,000, and $82,000
in Iowa
Thieves Carry Grain From
Beatrice Elevator in Auto
Beatrice. Neb., April 3. (Special
Telegram.) Thieves entered the
Farmers elevator here last night and
carried off a considerable amount of
grain in a motor car. .
You can
phone your
"Want'.'Ad
to The Bee
from 8:30
a, m. to
9 p. tn,
17th and Farnam
AT Untie 1000
Millionaire in 1917 and Re-
own home at .Sunkbride, Ma,,
wa entered March .'2 and the al
leged robber arretted at Springfield,
he said.
Another reference to New Eng
land wa made by Eugenia Unset, a
I rciuh ailor. who wa grilled after
In arrest a one of the robber band.
According to the police, Diasct ad
milted he recently came from Cmi
neticut where he nerved a term after,
having been convicted in Hartford
for carrying a piMnl.
Diasrt'a story wa that he had
been induced to join in the Shatttick
robberv by a mysterious Frenchman
named Henri, wluini he had met in
Madison Square park and who, the
police believed, wa the former
Shaltuck butler.
Appear at Police Station.
Mr. Shatturk appeared at police
headquarters bright and early and
wa assured the best detective were
being put on the case. He was taken
to the rogues' gallery to sec if he
could discover there a picture of the
butler.
"It was the most outrageous and
highhanded crime I had ever heard
of." said Mr. Shattuck, "especially
when one considers that there were
2,000 persons seated in the park di
rectly opposite the house at the
time."
. The former bank head said his
wife was under a physician's care,
having been prostrated with fright
while imprisoned in the small, air
tight, sound-proof wine vault.
Edniistcn Sends
Out Petitions for
Complete Ticket
Third Party Head Moves tp
Comply With State Law'
Eyesight May
Return.
Lincoln, April 3. (Special Tele
gram.) J. H. Edmisten, third parly
chairman, today, sent petitions for
nomination of a full state ticket to
250 of the 500 signers of the third
party pact at the Grand Island con
vention. Under the state law no
officer can be nominated in a third
party unless one-half of the signers
of the party pact put their signatures
on the nomination papers. There
were 500 signers to the pact.
Edmiston was encouraged by his
physician in connection with his al
most total blindness of last week. As
fast as his strength will permit a den
tist is extracting his teeth. The
blindness is caused by poison froi;i
the teeth in the opinion of specialists.
"I'll never consent to fusion," Ed
misten said tonight. "It was fusion
which killed our populist party years
ago, and we'll not play into the
democrats' hands a "second time."
American Bank Head
Being Tried at Lincoln
Lincoln, April 3. (Special.) The
trial of Dr. Frank P. Dwiggins, for
mer president of the defunct Amer
ican State bank, charged with hav
ing aided and abetted in borrowing
$30,611.25 from the bank in an 1m
lawful manner, opened today in the
Lancaster county district court.
Similar indictments have been re
turned against John W. Tulleys, Da
vid Clark and Albert S. Sandlovich,
former officers of the bank. They
will be tried separately. ;'
Bill Modifying Parole
' Law Is Passed by Senate
Washington, April 3. A bill pass
ed by the senate and sent to the
house, modifies the parole law so that
prisoners who have served one-third
of their sentences or fifteen years in
the case of life sentences, shall be
eligible for - parole. Another pro
vision would discharge prisoners ob
serving paroles for five years. The
bill is a committee substitute for an
original measure by Senator Owen,
democrat, ' Oklahon and was ap
proved by Attorney General Daugh
erty. , ;
Robber Seizes $5,000
While Inspecting New
Bank at Washington
Washington, April 3. The Mer
chants' Bank and Trust company, a
new institution, opened its doors to
day within a block of the United
States treasury and invited the pub
lic to make an inspection of its
quarters. Four hour after the doors
swung open au unidentified man en
tered, joined the other guests, but
unlike the others, grabbed a package
of bills containing $5,000 as, he pass
ed the paying teller's window.
The paying teller leaped from be
hind the counter and with pistol,
pursued the hdldup man up Fifteenth
street, shooting in the air as he went.
Hundreds of government clerks, out
for the noon hour, pursued the flee
ing bandit and a pedestrian walking
casually along heard the tumult, saw
the running man coming and grab
bed him. He held him until the tell
er and the police arrived. The $5,
000 was recovered and the uninvited
guest at the bank's opening was sent
to police headquarters
Republican
Men Hold
Barracks
t) Valera Forres Break Up
Meeting Atldreictl hy
Michael Collins After
Woman Shot.
Free Staters Searched
Mullinar. County Westmcath, Ire
land. April 3. An Incident (rom
which sensational development rt
expected here occurred today when
100 free ttate troop marched to the
gate of the barrack occupied by
Irish republican army adherent of
Eamon De Valera and were refuted
admission. ,
Dublin, April 3.-(By A. P.)-Thc
meeting addressed by Michael Col
lins at Castlehar, County Mayo, last
night was stopped' by members ol
the Fourth western division of the
Irish republican army after stormy
scenes in which a woman was
wounded by a bullet, according to
account reaching Dublin this niorn
insr. The chief of the provisional gov
ernment and hi party returned to
their hotel and the officer who had
proclaimed the meeting at an end
followed, declaring that none would
be allowed to leave until Mr. Collins
and his friends had surrendered their
arms.
Telegraph Wires Cut
The accounts received here do not
state whether the Collins party wa
disarmed, merely saying that "some
people who left the hotel were
searched."
The telegraph wires around Castle-'
tar were cut and when the newspa
per correspondents there boardtd a
train for Athlone they were ordered
by two officers to go to the barracks.
The newspaper men , were con
veyed to the barracks in'automobiies,
where tljey found A. McCabe, a
member of the Dail Eireann, with
Commandant Kilroy and his staff.
The commandant stated that Mr.
McCabe had admitted he was the
first to draw a revolver at the meet
ing'. Mr. McCabe then, in the pres
ence of the correspondents, said he
believed he was the first to draw,
the dispatches say. .
Woman Wounded.
A Dublin man, said to be Charles
Brync, a member of the Collins
party, was arrested and accused of
the shooting. Mr. Collins then told
the representative of the Irish Inde
pendent, Dublin newspaper, that he
had visited Mr. Bryne in the barracks
and found him in a cell with only a
plank for a bed, and no bedding. He
said he had asked Commandant Kil
roy to parole Mr. Bryne, Mr. Collins
(Turn to Page Two. Column I'It.)
Bryan Challenged
to Prove Beliefs
Man Interrupts Speech
Former Nebraskan on
"God and Evolution."
of
New York,' April 3. Six thousand
men and women at the Hippodrome
were thrown into an uproar when
a man interrupted William J. Bry
an's lecture on "God and Evolution,"
and demanded that Mr. Bryan prove
that there was a personal God and
to say whether his conception of
God was "male or female."
From all parts of the audience
came cries of "Put him out." The
man, who later said he was Eman
uel B. Lopes, , stood his' ground in
the orchestra. ,
Mr; Bryan answered by saying he
did not appear at the ' meeting "tc
teach school' but declarer that it
the interruptor did hot believe m
a personal God he did pot want him
to teach his unbelief in the public
schools. .
"If any other atheist or agnostic
wants to ask a question I am ready."
said Mr. Bryan.
"Put him out," yelled spectators.
"I'm not an atheist or agnostic,"
shouted Lopes. - ;
"I don't expect you to admit it
before an audience," replied Mr.
Bryan. '
Lopes sat down and , Mr. Bryan
continued. ,
'
Fremont Deputy Resigns,
- Files for, Sheriff's Office
Fscmont,' Neb.. April J. (Special
Telegram.) Deputy Sheriff Winter
stecn resigned from office today and
announced' himself a candidate on
the republican ticket for the job
held by his former superior officer,
Sheriff W. C. Condit. Winterstecn
is the eighth candidate in the field
for sheriff. 'His resignation 'follows
a misunderstanding that arose within
the sheriff's office and a heated dis
cussion last Saturday night between
the sheriff and his deputy. Winter
steen has been connected with the
sheriff's office since September, 1920.
Neither official gave any explanation
of the dispute that resulted in Wm
tcrstcen's leave taking.
Blodgett Farm Sold
Beatrice, Neb., April 3. (Special
Telegram.) The 157-acrc farm of
Sarah Blodgett, eight mile cast of
the city, was sold today to Mrs.
Minnie Ruyle for $130 per acre. The
price is below the average paid for
farms in this section of the state.
Premier Who Gained
Support for Policy
f it ' 4
David Lloyd George.
Governor Small
Anxious to Have
Women on Jury
Legality of Panel Challenged
Because Members of Fa'r
Sex Were Not Included
by County Supervisors.
Br The Amorlatrd Tr.
WaukcKan. III.. April 3. Cover
nor I.cn Small wants women to il
on the iurv which will try him on
charge of conspiring with Fred E.
Sterling, lieutenant governor, and
Vernon Curtis, a Grant Tark banker,
to embezzle state funds.
Todav the governor attacked the
legality of the jury panel became
the Lake county board of super
visors had failed to include the
names of women voters in it.
Taken by surprise, attorneys for
the state obtained 48 Hours to pre
oare their answer.
Attorneys for the governor read
an affidavit signed by him asserting
that the board of supervisors had
failed to comply with the legal re
quirement that names of 10 per cent
of the qualified voters be placed in
the jury box and had. in fact, listed
only 10 per. cent of the male voters,
ignoring the women.
Should the governor's contention
be uoheld bv Judge Claire C. Ed
wards and women seated, the Lake
county court house may have to be
remodeled before the trial can be
held. The court house has one large
dormitory with 12 single beds for
jurors and as the Illinois law for
bids scoaration of jurymen, some ar
rangement would have to be made
to furnish, privacy for the women
jurors.
Judge Edwards has already aiv
nounced that the jury will be con
fined throughout the trial, which ' is
expected to last anywhere from
three to five months.
Advertising Drives
Sweeping Country
Chicago, April 3. National adver
tising campaigns in newspapers are
sweeping the country, F. Guy Davis,
western manager of the bureau of
advertising of the American News
paper t Publishers' association, de
clared' in a speech here today.
"Business houses that never before
used any extensive newspaper space
are doubling and tripling their news
paper appropriation's for this year,"
he said. "This has grown, not from
propaganda, but from the necessities
of the present day's business situa
tion." There was a firm in 1920 that
started to use newspaper space for
national advertising for the first time.
Last year this firm, using space in
40 American newspapers, was en
abled to declare a 7 per cent.dividend.
and this year is planning to advertise
in 200 American cities.
"A magazine increased its circula
tion from 450,000 to 1,500,000 through
this national newspaper advertising."
Operation Would Have :
Caused Death of Twins
Chicago, April 3. Any operation
attempted on the "Siamese twins,"
Josefa and Rosa Blazek, who' died
last week, to separate the . bodies
would have resulted in their imme
diate death. .'. " , ;.
X-ray photographs, taken after the
bodies had been removed-to the un?
dertaking rooms, showed one., con
tinuous U-shaped spine and many
intermingled organs . would neces
sarily have been severed to separate
them. ' .
The Weather -
Forecast. (
Probably showers Tuesday;
much change in temperature.
not
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Highest Monday.
Davenport
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Pueblo
Confidence
Is Affirmed,
3720 94
Member of Lower Uouu
Endorse Cow-rnnu'iit's
Policy on Geneva Confer
em e After Debate.
Amendment Is Rejected
Hy T .taaartattal PrfM.
London, April 3. The house ot
common, after an unexciting debute,
adopted by the substantial majority
of 278. Premier Lloyd George' reso
lution calling for confidence in th
government's policy on the cominj
economic conference at Genoa. Th
vote was 372 to 94.
Prior to this the house, by a vott
of 379 to M, rejected an amendment
propoxed by John Robert Clyne,
liihnrite. which, while approving an
international economic and financial
conference, declared that the govern
ment wa not competent to represent
the country at such a conference and
lid not1 have the coiitidcnc of the
ounlry. This result i regarded a
crccdingly tatisfartory for the prime
i. hunter, a the combined laborites
a. d independent liberals number
al tut UH) and the "die hards" about
50, all of w hom might have been ex
pei ed to yppose the premier' reso
luti n.
Speech Noteworthy.
Tl. prime minister' speech invit
ing p rliament to vote confidence in
the g vcrnmrnt's Genoa policy was
nolewi rthy, inasmuch as it touched
only i, fitly upon the political crisis
A linnn and because it endorsed the
French policy toward Russia, al
though Joyd George himself dis
played much sympathy for an en
tirely conciliatory attitude toward
Russia, and further, in that it sought
accommodation with the soviet gov
ernment, lest by waiting it might
cvcnttiaMy be necessary to deal with
a still more irreconcilable or militar
ist regime, which might embroil the
whole of Europe.
While emphasizing that nothimr
could be gained by waiting for the
overthrow of the soviet administra
tion, the prime minister accepted the
French standpoint, demanding guar
antees with respect to Russia's debts
and obligations, and stipulating a
period of probation of six months
or a year, b'ut less if Russia gave the
necessary guarantees before full rec
ognition was accorded. The premier
indicated his belief in the insincerity
of Nikolai Leininc and the soviet
form of communism.
Would Stabilize Exchange.
Perhaps the most interesting of
Mr. Lloyd George's proposals - was
that exchange should be stabilized at
some maintainable figure, but no de
tails were given as to how he pro
posed to effect this except that it
might be attained by some form of
international co-operation and pre-
sans
The debate which followed the
premier's speech was rather tame.
It was early realized that there
would be no breakaway of the un
ionists, wliich would endanger the
confidence resolution, hence interest
dwindled until division was taken. ,
The rather unusual course of de
manding division on the main res
olution was followed after the Clynes
amendment was defeated, when fin
ally 94 members recorded their op
position to the resolution of con
fidence. -The. prime minister and his sup
porters managed to, keep the whole
question resolutely on the Genoa
decision, but a motion will be
moved on Wednesday by Sir Wil
liam Joynson Hicks, unionist, to the
effect that "in the opinion of . this
house, lack, of definite and coherent
principle in the policy of the pres
ent coalition government can only
be remedied by the establishment of
a ministry composed of men united
by identity o political principles."
Corn Is Foundation of U. S.
;Farm Wealth, Avers Adams
Chicago, April 3. Corn is the
foundation of America's agricultural
wealth and is a "splendid starchy
vegetable dish." cheaper than pota
toes or rice. W. N. Adams, presi
dent of the Corn Millers' federation,
told a meeting of that body here to
day. ;
The history of the country, Mr.
Adams said, "is marked with corn,
from the period when it sustained the
colonists, rationed the revolutionary
army, caused men to cross the Alle
gheny 'mountains and open up the
vast prairies of the Mississippi val
ley and saved the south alter the
civil war to the present.
"Yet the American farmer has
never received the returns from this
crop that its value merits." he said.
"because it has .come to be looked
upon as largely an animal food.
Attempt to Hold Up I. C.
Tram m Illinois Foiled
Rantoul. 111.. Aoril 3. What is be
lieved to have been an attempt to
hold up a crack Illinois Central train,
the Seminole Limited, here at 11
o'clock last nigjit, was reported to
day. An electric signal in the south
yards was not ooeratmsr and when
John Mahan. division superintendent
of signals, went to repair it he found
a man climbing down the pole..
Mahan fired at the man, who re
fused to halt. Two other men ap
peared and Mahan returned to the
city building and obtained aid. Latrr
it was discnvcied that one of the
signal wires had been cut,