The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL 51 NO. 282.
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TWO CENTS
Russians
Plan to Quit
Socialism
I realized Kerognilioit of Pri
v :le Property llighl Pro
urcJ in Decrees by the
Soviet Government.
Want . Foreign Capital
Moscow, May !2.-(By A. P.)
Legalized recognition of private
ptoivrty rigtits in money, industrial
and agriculture product and other
personal property, ami to a certain
extent in real estate, it proposed in
decrees which the soviet government
prepared for presentation before the
u!!icd-Kusian control executive com
mittee for parage at its opening scs
n 'ii today.
The committee, which in effect is
t!.e Russian parliament, is tiiut asked
! make U't enabling forcigti capi
t; I to work hand in hand with soviet
Ivussia and also to pass another de
crre giving pcisants prolonged tcn
ii.'e of land which they now hold,
' as well as tli; right to lease land
under certain circunictauees. '
To Recognize Private Property.
The decree recognizing private
properly, as drafted by the rommiv
i aria t of juMicc, provides that for
eigners outside of Kussia shall be
' tfiven the rights of protection of
ilicir property fcnly on condition that
Russians are granted the same rights
Moscow. May 12.-(ByA. P.)
The soviet central executive
committee officers have ordered
a stay in the execution of the II
persons, convicted of having op
posed the requesitioning of
church treasures and participa
tion in disturbances. The stay is
operative pending appeal to the
supreme tribunal. Eight of the
convicted are priests, two , are
laymen and one is a woman.
abroad, but foreigners within Russia
also legally arrange for the right
lo do business, would be granted the
same rights as Russian citizens.
. The right to own buildings is lim
ited by the decree to suiull struc
tures. The decree also would le
galize the regular arrangement of
ciimmetciat agreements, providing
for the usual annulment of such ar
' TJingomcnts in case of frauds or other
misrepresentations. ' ' -
"A Step Backward." "
''Tlie decree purpose? to make pos
sible the collaboration -.-pf soviet
Kussia with the capitalists of Europe
and America," says" Economic Life.
"It is not a mere demonstration for
the present Genoa conference, which
is falling through, of for the near
future. - It is a measure for continued
upbuilding, making it ', possible to
'strengthen ourselves economically to
consolidate our work and to give
guarantees; to our friends in the
(1'wp to Pace Two. Columa four.) .,
Substitute Bonus
Bill Introduced
Would Give Veterans 50 Per
Cent Cash Payments Re
f erred to Finance Body.
Washington,- May 12. A substi
tute soldiers' bill, under widen- vet
erans would receive SO per cent cash
payments, was introduced today by
Senator Bursum, republican. New
Mexico, and referred to the senate
hnance committee. - .,
The balance due to ; veterans
.would be covered by certificates of
indebtedness payable September 30,
1927, and drawing interest at the
rate of 3Yi per cenffrom next Oc
tober 1. ' -- ' . " "
Aside from the cash and certifi
cates option, veterans would be per
mitted to select vocational training,
"aid. under .'the land purchase . plan
veterans could - make; homesteads
upon any public lands, paying $1.25
: per acre by means of the certificates
ot i indebtedness. If the land cost
less than the face value of the cer
tificate the difference would be paid
- in cash. .
Veterans entitled to only $50
would be paid in full. Payment
would be at the rate of $1 a day for
domestic service and $1.25 for for
eign service, with the maximums
, $500 and $625, respectively, as in the
house bill. -
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- Hearing in Case Against
Ex-Bank Head Postponed
Plattsmouth, Neb., May 12. (Spe
cial.) Hearing in the case of the
" state . against Charles ' Parmele,
charged with indirect borrowing
while at the head of the new defunct
Bank of Cass County, again has been
postponed, this time to June 10,
William Deles Dernier of JLlmwood,
appointed by the county commis.
sioners as special judge, was present
to begin hearing of thee ase, but as
his bond had not yet been approved
' by the commissioners, on agreement
ot both parties the postponement was
granted. ,
The state has presented a new com
plaint against Mr. Parmele, embrac
ing 17 counts, instead of the three
. preferred m the former bill
Kansas , Bachelor for Over
7 1 X ears low rroud f ather
Kansas City. Mo., May 12. Peter
Halbauer. 72, has been married less
than a year,, but he is no young
; bridegroom to call married life a
v failure. Just now he is receiving
; congratulations for beinir a proud
daddy, the father of Peter, jr., born
a few weeks ago, Mrs. Halbauer is
. .35. the mother of four children by a
v former marriage. . Halbauer was a
bachelor or over 71 years. -
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Says French Didn't
Force Her to Depart
tPygy Hopbine n
Ban on Pictures
Arouses Wrath
of Peggy Joyce
"I Think This Is Outrageous!"
Exclaims Actress on Arrival
in New York Will Sec
Her Lawyer.
New York, May 12. Customs
officials late today seized a diamond
and emerald plaque valued at $14,000
belonging to Peggy Hopkins Joyce,
which, they asserted, the actress had
not declared when she returned to
day from Paris on the Mauretania.
New York, May 12. Peggy Hop
kins Joyce, returning today from
France on the Mauretania. bubbled
oyer with indignation when on the
trip up the harbor from Quarantine
she was shown a Washington dis
patch stating that the Motion Picture
Theater Owners' of America had
banned any films in which. she might
be featured, "in the interest of a
clean screen."
Miss Joyce's baggage was ordered
detained 'and sent to the appraiser's
store. Customs agents later subjected
her to an' examination, but declined
to comment. 1 .-"
"This is Outrageous!"
'I haven't committed any crime."
asserted the actress, whose name has
been mentioned in .dispatches from
Paris' in connection with thai recent
suicide there of "Billy" Krrazuriz,
attache of the Chilean embassy. The
Errazum family has indignantly
denied reports that the attache died
because of unrequited love of the
actress. ' '
"I think this is outrageous, she
continued. "If it has come to pass
that my name is associated with men
who have been charged with crimes,
the day of chivalry in America is
gone. I have confidence in the fair
play of my American .brothers and
sisters, and that they will give me a
square deal.
Denying that, she had been hur
ried out of F ranee because of the
Chilean's suicide she said:
"The French police never came to
see me about the suicide. The French
people mind -their own business, and
that is more than I can say about
some Americans abroad."
The actress said she intended to
take up the theater owners' ban with
her lawyer here before proceeding
to Norfolk, Va., for a month's rest.
Passport Revision -A
in China Is Asked
Shanghai, May ,12. A request for
the revision of the American' passport
regulations has been made' to the
state department through Consul
General E. S. Cunningham by -the
American Chamber of Commerce. .
The present : American regulations
provide that if a passport has expired
and it is desired to renew it, applica
tion must be accompanied by $10
gold. Approximately 90 days is
necessary to forward the application
to Washington and . obtain renewal
of the passport In the meantime,
if the aoDlicant desires to travel on
business trips in the far feast, it be
comes necessary for him;, to obtain
an emergency passport from the lo
cal consulate This also costs $10 .
In its letter the chamber points
out that local British residents may
obtain passports from .their consul
general for ... $ gold such pass
ports being valid for two years and
renewable for four further, periods
of two years each upon payment of
a fee equivalent to 50 cent gold.
The chamber asks that' similar pro
visions be made by the United States.
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Big Merger
Wisconsin Senator Demand
Department of Justice Stop
Proposed Consolidation
of Steel Firms.
Says Monopoly Planned
Omaha Br t WIN.
Washington, May li-Without
opposition the senate today adopt
ed the resolution of Senator La Fol
lette, Wisconsin, calling upon the
attorney general and the federal
trade commission for information as
to what action they intend to take
with reference to the propocd mer
ger of independent steel compir.ies.
Adoption of the resolution was pre
ceded by an address by Senator La
Follette, in which he demanded thai
the Department of Justice take step
to prevent this merger. He denounc
ed the United States Steel corora
tion and assailed the decinion of the
supreme court of the United Stittts
in discussing the govemnent dis
solution suit, a on of the "i.iost in
defensible decision ever renJeied by
any judicial trihu siii."
Senator La Folnc, besides dwell
ing on the plans u.r a coint:ntiot
of six or seven . :ndepenJent steel
companies, also r'-fcired to the pio
posal of the eth Miem Steel com
pany, announced yesterday, to pur
chase the LackawaiUia company.
Charges Monopoly Planned.
Senator La Follette charged that
the purpose ot the proposed merger
is "the elimination of whatever com
petition now e::i-i'.s in the steel in
dustry and the ci-cliou of a situation
where pric,s may be fixed upon a
monopoly bn'.z sithout feat of de
tection. ' .
"The coiuintuit on of thu merger
must be pr.v.':wcJ." said Seuafoi La
Follette. "This ,'s iie agi of steel.
Iron and steel today lie at the base of
every human aciiivily. Without steel
our farms cannot be cultivated, our
railroads would rrue to operate, our
industries would be prosinJed and
our very homes could not be built.
"The men who control this basic
commodity control the nation. A
little more than 20 years ago they
secured complete control of one
half the industry by the formation
of a corporations great that it stag
gered the nation. They could control
the other half of the industry only by
agreements at understandings with
the so-called mdpefwjent companies.
These agreement worked well dur
ing the : periods of prosperity, but
they were inconvenient, and like all
these gentlemen's agreements, were
likely to be broken when there was a
scramble for business, v
Formation Illegal.
; "Today they are proposing to
bring the' other half of the industry
under one consolidated control - so
that in future, instead of operating
through the medium of understand
ing to which there were a dozen or
more parties, they will be able to
make firm and binding agreements
between the two great corporations
which ' will dominate the industry.
Gary dinners will no longer be neces
sary.' Instead, the heads of the two
great corporations will be able to sit
down at a lunch' table and. without
fear of detection, fix the price of
every pound of steel sold in the
United States.
"The formation of the United
States Steel corporation was illegal
and should have been prevented when
it was first announced 20 years ago.
This is not' merely my opinion. It
is an' inseparable part from the opin
ion which the supreme court of .the
United States rendered in 1920, dis
missing the suit against the United
States Steel corporation,- one, of the
most remarkable and, to my mind,
indefensible decisions ever rendered
by any judicial tribunal."
Reserve Fund Draft
Made for Failed Bank
Lincoln, May 12. (Special.) J. E.
Hart, secretary of trade and com
merce, announced that an assessment
of 10.8 per cent on bank guaranty
reserves would be necessary to cover
$240,000 missing from the failed Bank
of Cass County, Plattsmouth. ;
. After this draft is "-made. Hart
stated, there would be $1,982,3 18, left
in the guaranty fund.
Three, separate . complaints ! em
bracing 17 counts . have been filed
against C. C. Parmele, former presi
dent oi the bank. They charge that
he borrowed funds of the institution
directly or mdirictly, in violation of
the law to the amount of $37,872.
These reported borrowings occurred
in 1919 au!920. v
Two Portuguese Aviators
Picked Up' by British Ship
Libson, May' 12. (By A. P.)
The Portuguese cruiser Republics
sent word this afternoon that it had
taken on board Captains Coutinho
and Sacadura, the Portuguese avia
tors who attempted to fly their new
hydro-airplaine yesterday from Fer
nan Noronha, off the Brazilian coast,
to St Paul rocks and return. They
were picked up by the British steam
er Paris City after their machine
fell, and later transferred to the Re
public. - ,
Neither of the aviators was any
the worse for his experience, the
message stated. ;
j Singer Cancels Tour
Ponca City, Okl., May ; 12.
Madame Ernestine Schumann
Heinke will be unable to fill her en
gagement to sing here tonight be
cause of a severe cold, it was an
nounced by the American Legion,
sponsoring her appearance. The re
mainder of her tour has been can
celled on advice of het physician. "
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Abcon, N. J. May 12.-Preident
ll.rdini. after an ill-day trio by
motor (tout Washington, arrived here
late this afternoon sud went at once
to the Sesview Golf club, where he
played a round of golf with Senator
Edge of New Jrey, his hot, and
pthrr inrmbrrt of h party.
The president, who rame to New
Jerey lor a "lacstion" week-end,
traveled loly through Maryland
and Delaware without auy particular
demonstration, tint a lie crord
the line into N'ew Jerey, he found
school children wailing to greet him
in almost every town. At Klmar,
several thousands were standing
along the roads or grouped at a
grandstand. The president stopped
and fuade them a short speech.
Witness Declares
Beauvais Sold
Stillman letters
Former Policeman Testifies
Missives Written by De
fcitdant Purchased From
Indian for $15,000. ,
I'oughkeepsie, K. Y.. May' 12.
Testimony that two letters written
by Mr. Anne U. Stillman to Fred
Beauvais, Indian guide, had been
purchased last week from Beauvais
tor $15,000 by one of the lawyers
representing James A. Stillman, di
vorce suit plaintiff, was understood
to have been given late today in the
trial of his case.
The testimony was attributed to
Edmund Lee, former Xew York po
liceman, now employed as a detective
for Mr.' Stillman. The two letters
were those which ended. "Lots of
Canadian Love," and were signed
"Kathitio," the Indian word meaning
"Dear Flower."
. Mrs. Stillman was asked yesterday
to admit authorship of them.
According to Lee's testimony he
and Severidge Johnson, investigator
for the plaintiff, went to Montreal
with a New York newspaper man
and after conducting negotiations
with Beauvais, one of Mr. Stillman
lawyers followed them to Canada
and paid the" guide $15,000 for the
two letters.
Lee's testimony was an 11th hour
surprise. Both sides tentatively
closed their cases shortly after he
left the stand. Mrs. Stillman. who
was not in the hearing at the time,
said "outrageous, preposterous,"
when informed of the report and
added: . .
c-' ' It's framing, by detectives."
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Couple Confesses
Big Bond Theft
Pair Arrested in Savannah,
Ga., After $500,000 Worth
of Certificates Stolen.
Savannah, Ga., May 12. John
Vardeman, alias J, W. Holiis and
Bertha Fern Vardeman have made a
"clean breast" of the robbery of the
Chase National bank in New York
City of $500,000 in securities, accord
ing to detectives who have, been
working here on the case. They
added that the $30,000 worth of
bonds still missing, probably would
be recovered within a few hours. .
The robbery of $500,000 worth of
Liberty bonds from the Chase Na
tional bank of New York has occu
pied the attention of detectives since
April 17.
A country-wide search led opera
tives to Savannah, where the Varde
man family recently established.
Henry Hirsch, a jeweler, arrested
on suspicion of having aided in the
disposition of the bonds, was re
leased from jail in New York Fri
day under $30,000 bail. . He declares
his innocence on the ground that the
woman with whom he negotiated was
known as Mrs. LeBlanche, ,who had
received the bonds from a wealthy
New Yorker to aid in establishing
a theatrical venture. , , ,
Declare Dividend
Denver, May 1,2. The Continental
Oil company declared a dividend of 1
$2 a share on the capital stock of the
company, payable June 15. 1922, to I
stockholders of record at the Close I
of business, May 25, 1922. I
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"Love and Learn"
It's full of laughs, with here And there bits of near tragedy
throwing dark shadows across the plot this romance of the
college co-op dining hall. Lanky determination of Sophomore
Joe, part time waiter in the co-op, is pitted against the avoir-. ,
dupois and automobile of "Fat" Franklin for the love of Lela
of the soft blue eyes, with the wistful light in them. Which
wins? Let Peter Clark Macfarlane tell you in his Blue Ribbon
story in next Sunday's Bee. . It's one of the best fiction offer
ings The Bee ever has published. ' v,
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YouH want the unusually fine Mother's day cover of the Roto
gravure Section for next Sunday and you'll want,-too, for the
children the special page of jnimal pictures, showing their old
friends, the bears, deer, buffaloes and others, ready for, the
summer opening of the parks.
The Bee's many Sunday features have made it the favorite
Sunday newspaper in thousands of Omaha homes. ' .
FOR ALL
THE
FAMILY
The
Sunday Bee
!aVAMywwwMwww
Candidates in Good
to Join in Par
Marchers Will Assemble at 3 in Front of
house Nellie B. Donn Again
in First Place.
f STANDING OF THE
Candidate:'
Miss Nellie 8. Donn, Unim Pacific , ......
Miss Elizabeth Kaufmam.. livestock interests
Miss Ella Fcnn, McCord-Brady Co.. ...
Miss Kathrine O'Brien, Burlington.. .....
Miss Kathleen Rossiter, Orchard-Wiilhelm ..
Miss Anna McNamara. M. E. Smith & Co.'
Miss Elizabeth Pace. Council Bluffs.
Miss Irene Rice, Alliance Timea....
Miss Gladys Hitchcock, York, Neb.. ...;..,
Miss Myrtle Wood. Wabash. Neb , . . .
Mrs. Agnes Hall, Missouri Valley, la.,
Miss Anna Funk, Salon de Beaute..', ........
Miss Grace Endres, Nebraska City. ........
With a total of 29,927 votes, Miss?)
Nellie B. Dann, Union Pacific can
didate, again topped the list today
in the Omaha Bee Good Will con
test. .'-';
- After holding first place for. 10
days, Miss Donn was displaced on
Wednesday by Miss Elizabeth Kauf
mann, representing the livestock in
terests of ' South Omaha, "who has
now moved back to second position,
though she is within 169 votes of the,
leader. ".
All the candidates' in the Good
Will election, with many of their
friends and those backing their Can
didacies, will ' take part in 'a joint
parade this afternoon, beginning at
3, from in front of the courthouse.
This parade, participated in by the
various interests competfng in the
contest, will show the spirit of Rood
will prevailing among the candidates
who are eager to win places in the
national delegation to be taken, to
France under the auspices . of ; the
American Committee for Devastated
France. '. - -
In connection with the candidacy
of Miss Donn, the Union Pacific wilf
have 100 girls on the streets sell
ing flowers for Mothers' day. The
girls will be out early and flowers
will' be on sale by 7:30 in the morn-
The Union Pacific-dance, held last J
(Torn to Past Two, Column Four.)
FOR ALL
THE
FAMILY
rviviwiiviwtnmnjmi
Mother's Day
t
Will Election
ade This Afternoon
Court-
CANDIDATE3.
Total VBte
.'... 227
29,758
.'. .14,457
,,,.....10,703
......... 8.729
......... 8,211
,.. 3,503
2,087
.... 1.823
......... 1.540
......... 1,350
......... 888
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Creamery Company v
Wins in Rate Suit
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Washington, May 12. (Special
Telegram.) The' Interstate, ' Com
merce commission today found, in
the case of the Fairmount Creamery
company against the director gen
eral of. the railroads as agent of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
road, that rates on gas and fuel oil
from midcontinent fields in Kansas
and Oklahoma' and from Joplin and
Kansas City, Mo.; to Crete, Has
tings and Grand Island, Neb., and to
Sioux City, la., arc unreasonable and
reasonable rates are prescribed.
; The Fairmount Creamery com
pany, with its main offices in Omaha,
had complained that it was charged
unreasonable rates on oil products
to its plants in Crete and Grand Is
land, from Omaha and South Oma
ha to Crete and Grand Island, etc.
The Hastings Gas company and the
Grand Island Gas company .were
complainants ? also. ' 1 The reduced
rates are to be put into effect July 8.
$100,000 Addition
to West Point Home
West Point, Net May' 12. (Spe
cial.) Monsignor . Joseph Ruesing
has begun work on the $100,000 ad
dition to. the present Home for the
Aged in this city. The home was.
started 17 years ago with a large"
frame dwelling. Several ,brkk. ad
ditions have bee. mad? since and the
buildings as they. now stand,' are
valued at $100,000. In addition to
the. Home for the Aged, an emer
gency hospital is to be constructed
and. wilt be taken cart of by the sis
ters in charge of the home. The
home, as it now stands, accommo
dates about 100' persons. Applica
tions are being received daily so that
an addition was becoming a neces
sity. After completion the home will
house about 250 persons.
Brotherhood of Railway
t Clerks Elects Officers
Dallas, Tex.,. May 12. Edward H.
Fitzgerald of, Cincinnati, was re
elected grand president of the Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks, Freight
and Express Handlers, and Station
Employes, and Phil E. Zicgler, also
of Cincinnati, re-elected editor and
manager of The Railway Clerk, of
ficial publication of the brotherhood,
at the brotherhood convention to
day. .
Five' vice presidents were elected
as follows:
R. F. Dee, New Orleans: J. H.
Sylvester, Spokane; George M. Har
rison, St. Louis; Grover " Milam,
Kansas City, and C. R. Briccland.
IjPittsburgh,
0'Bryan Is Found
Guilty of Stock
Fraud by Jury
Third Defendant. Brought to
Trial by Attorney General
in "BluSky' Cases ;
,V' v I Com&tea. r " '
Robert C. 'O'Bryan was found
guilty of conspiring to sell stock in
the Great Western Commercial Body
company after it was insolvent, by a
jury in District Judge Goss' court
yesterday afternoon after 23 hours"
deliberation. - '
The O'Bryan trial was the third on
indictments returned by last fall's
county ' grand jury called at the re
quest of Attorney General Davis. In
the first, W. V. Mathews pleaded
Ifuilty and was sentenced to the state
penitentiary. In the second, -the
trial of T. H. Matters, the jury dis
agreed although it stood 11 to one
for conviction.
. Clemency "because of extenuating
conditions existing at the time the
unlawful acts were committed" was
urged in the O'Bryan verdict, which
was delivered by Foreman Edward
B. Ransom;'?
O'Bryan has three days in which
to file motion Tor a new trial. His
attorneys said they would filea mo
tion in arrest of judgment on the
ground that O'Bryan was forced to
testify against himself before the
grand jury. ' 1 '
The maximum penalty on this
charge is $10,000 fine or two years
imprisonment, or both. :'. .'
Seven others are to come to trial
on the same indictment which re
sulted irt O'Bryan's conviction.
Pennsylvania Coal
Mine Dynamited
Pittsburgh, Pa.,' May 12. The
Peterman mine, in Penn township,
near here, was blown up early today
by a heavy charge of. dynamite
which threw stones almost a quarter
of a mile. Sheriff Robert W. Wood
side, with a big force of deputies, left
Pittsburgh shortly after 9 a. m. for
the mine, where, it was reported, a
body of coal strike sympathizers had
collected.
Mr. Peterman;' owner of the mine,
said shortly before dakbreak the men
bad planted a heavy charge of dyna
mite in the mouth of the drift, com
pletely destroying it. ;
No one was hurt by the explosion.
Sheriff Woodside refused all infor
mation concerning the explosion. .
The Peterman mine ordinarily em
ploys 25 men, but had been closed
since the strike was called. ;
To Check Strike Riot '
Haverstraw,'- N. Y., May 12.
Twenty state troopers were ordered
into Haverstraw today to guard the
town against threatened oubreaks of
1.000 negroes, who were on srike in
the 35 brick plants here. It is ex
pected more troopers will arrive from
Albany and Troy this afternoon.
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Bomb Plant
at Chicago
Is Raided
Gun, Ammunition anil Ex
plosives Seized Following
Confessions Revealing
Operations of Gang.
Authorities Threatened
OnUR Ha Iuwi WW.
Chicago, May 12. A bomb fac
tory where all the explosives used
by the gangster terrorist in recent
outrages i believed to have been,
manufactured, was raided this eve
ning. Magazine pistols, ammunition, jim
mies, fuses and detonating cap
enough to fill a large suitcase, were
seized, along with James Mahcr,
notorious safe blower who ha
served several sentences in state anc
federal prison.
The raid came after three confes
sious, said to disclose in detail the
operations of the bombing ring, wert
in the hands of the police. The con
fessions are said to involve the three
"king pins" of gangster rule "Big
Tim" Murphy, "Frcnchy" Madcr
and "Con" Shea, three of the eight
under. indictment for the murder of
Lieutenant Lyons.. The confeiilona
are of such startling nature that con
viction of the men for murder is po
lively assured, according to one
authority closely connected with the
drive against gangster rule.
Find Woman in House.
It is believed the confessions came
from Isadore Braverman, a dominant
figure in the "fixture hangers' un
ion;" Bobert McCloud. posing an a
clerk in the headquarters of the
building trades council, but whose
real job, the police assert,' was the
slugging of workmen, and "Smash"
Hanson, also a slugger.
The tip that led to discovery of
the bomb factory was supplied by
an out-of-town business man, whose
identity is withheld. In the factory
the raiders found a Mexican woman,
who i believed to have carried the
explosives to Joe Moran and Lloyd
Bopp when they dynamited their
way out of jail two years ago.
Assistant state attorneys assigned
to the investigation of the bombing
and murder cases were flooded with
anonymous letters and telephone -calls,
threatening their lives and that
of Chief of Police Fitzmorris, and
general destruction of Chicago by
explosions "if one labor man remains
in jail by sundown, Saturday " -
Day's Developments. J
Outstanding features of the prcs.
cnt war on the labor camorra today
included the following:
Mayor Thompson hastened back
from the cast to assist in the cam
paign and announced he will back
Chief of - Police ' Fitzmorris -to the
limit. . . f . . . . "
Judge David, who took "Big Tim"
Murphy and "Frenchy" Mader from
the custody of the police and turned
. (Torn to Pa Two, Colump Fin.)
Posse Eluded by !
Diamond Bandits
. -
Police, Sheriffs Deputies and
. C. of C Men Lose Trail (
of Highwaymen. ; '
Two flavlfirlit rtiamnn1 hatiffits wUn
made a $5,000 haul in Nebraska City
i nursoay morning, : successfully
eluded posses in their flight toward
Omaha. '
Police, ! sheriff's ' deputies and
Chamber of Commerce men patroled
highways leading into, Omaha most
of the day. . "
They traced the bandits in their
motor ear thrrtnirtv T mtici;il A.k.
land, Gretna and then lost the trail. -
At uretna tnc bandits represented
themselves as members of the posse,
filled their plunder car with gasoline
and oil and continued On their flight. '
"A train blocked us at Elkhorn '
when the bandits-were almost within
our grasp," said George Carey, leader
of the Chamber, of Commerce posse.
"We believe the bandits turned west
when they found all highways into
Omaha well guarded." -V
- "The bandits now are hiding in "
Omaha," was the positive statement
of Capt. John Briggs of South Oma
ha police station, who commanded
the car of officers dispatched to
Louisville.
"If we had been sent direct lo
Ashland instead of Louisville, we
might have intercepted the pair." '
Sweden to Hold Plebiscite 1
' on Prohibition Question : '
Stockholm, May 12. The govern
ment announced that the consultative -plebiscite
on prohibition will be held
August 27. The riksdag recently .
voted to submit the question to the
people at large. , :
Sweden, at present, is on a liquor'-,
rationing basis, whereby every head
of a family and all single adults,' male
and female, are entitled to certai
allowances of strong liquor. There
s no restriction on the sale of light
wines and beers. " The liquor, wine
and beer trade is a government mon
opoly and yields a large revenue to
the date. -
I .. I. I I I M II Ml J
Knights of Columbus at
West Point Plan Initiation
West Point, Neb., May 12. (Spe
cial.) Fifty men will be initiated in
the Knight of Columbus here Sun
day. Among the prominent knights
expected here for the event are:
Deputy William McNichollas of
Lexington; District Deputy Whalen
of Hastings; District Deputy J. H. .
Heine of Fremont; P. H. O'Gara ot
Hartington; J. H. Kuhl of Osmond.
The attendance, including visitors, is
expected to be from for to five hun
dred. In the evening an elaborate
banquet will be. served. -
