THE DEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. MAY 14. 1022.
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Squabble Again
Threatens to Split
Genoa Conference
reunion oi Mieiana ana
France en Russian Af
fair Apparently Ir
reconcilable.
Genoa, May 13.-(By A. P.)-Ai
the result of the meeting of the eco
nomic conference's aub-commission
en Russlon affair today the situation
became so critical that it seemed
, doubtful whether the British and
Trench positions could be reconciled.
M. Barthou, head of the French
delegation, declared at the meeting
of the aubcommtmon that France
would never content to having
mixed commiiiioni on which the
Kuiiian aerved give consideration
to Russian credits, debts and the
treatment of foreign property na
. tionalized in Kussia.
Chief Differences.
The chief differences of opinion
regarding the proposed mixed com
mission of experts, suggested in the
Kussian reply were these;
First Whether the Russians
should be included.
Second. Whether the mixed com
mission should meet at Genoa or
, eitewhere.
Third. Whether the work of the
mixed commission should beam iin
mediately or after the breaking up of
the conference.
Fourth. Whether the mixed com
mission should be divided into three
subcommissions, one for Kussian
public debts, another for credits to
be granted to Russia, and the third,
to consider the private property
question, or whether three mixed
commissions be appointed, each deal
tag with one of these subjects.
"Serious Discussion."
After the adjournment of the meet
, ing. which was taken at 1:15 p. m.,
until 5 o'clock, the British delegation
announced that "serious though
friendly" discussion had occurred.
Prime Minister Lloyd George in
opening the discussion, raid the Rus
sian reply in substance showed the
soviet delegation wished to come to
aome arrangement if possible.
Everybody, Mr. Lloyd George re
marked, had their difficulties with
public opinion and it was not right
for other statesmen to criticize the
soviet reprerentatives too severely.
Serioua for Europe.
He said he thought the breaking
up of the conference because of the
Russian document would be serious
for Europe and Asia.
M. Barthou, for France, said that
five weeka of consideration of the
Russian question at Genoa had been
without result and it was unlikely
that further consideration of them by
commissions named by the Genoa
conference would be useful.
The Russians had shown clearly,
i he said, that they would only take up
? the time with propaganda.
This conflict of opinion gave rise
to the serious doubts as to whether
the two positions were susceptible to
reconciliation.'.
Proposes Truce,
Mr. Lloyd George said a break up
of the conference would send the
Russians home to a great population
in the grip of famine and pestilence,
who would fear that the doors of
hope had been shut upon them with a
clang. Nobody could doubt, he said,
that fierce resentment would ensue
which would menace not only Rus
sia's neighbors, but the peace of the
entire world.
He proposed a truce on the basis
of existing frontiers, leaving a final
settlement of the frontier question
until the commission had finished its
work and definite treaties could be
signed.
He emphasised that it was essen
tial above everything else that the
Russians be represented on the pro
posed commissions, otherwise the
meetings would merely be a repeti
tion of the meeting of the inviting
powers, which had produced the Lon
don memorandum, and this would be j
a waste of time.
"The truce must be reciprocal," he
said. , I
While the Russian note has virtu
ally disrupted the program of the
conference, and it appears that a gen
eral agreement with the Russians at
the present meeting is improbable,
a commission may be formed to in
vestigate such questions as credits,
debts and the treatment of foreign
private property in Russia, with the
hope that something constructive can
be accomplished.
The dominate task is to reconcile
communism and private property
. rights. .,: . . .
While the pessimistic are claiming
the conference dead and saying that
for decency's sake it will be given a
ceremonious burial, Prime Minister
Lloyd George of Great Britain,
alarmed at the possibilities of new po
litical crises, is striving with other
leaders to create a binding truce
which will prevent new schemes and
put off the dangers of war. ;
He hopes that such a truce, with
the proposed commission of inquiry
into Russia's problems, will prove
helpful in maintaining peace and
bringing about the gradual economic
reconstruction of Europe.
Must Continue.
"The economic conference must
Continue its labor and so render con
flicts among peoples impossible, de
clared the Italian foreign minister,
Signor Schanrer, today, addressing
the newspaper representatives at the
conference. "Before it adjourns
there must go forth throughout the
world a message from Genoa that
there will be no more aggressions
among nations." ;
France to Withdraw
From Meets on Russ
Paris, May 13. (By A. P.) The
-French delegation will remain at
Genoa to take part in deliberations
on other (questions properly before
the conference, although it will have
-tiinor more to do with, discussion
with the Russians, it was said at the
fnr;r tffirf this, trmrnitiff Aa far
vji ; o- -
as the Russian problem is concerned,
the comerence is considered oy me
TTrnr1t ivnv.rnmpnt at an nr1
(urn twin outer countries rrganiiiig
Hie treatment oi the soviet delegation
ia not a reason (or drawing out. haw
ever, ai long as there remains other
important questions to ducu.s, tt was
declared.
Instructions wei sent along three
lines to M, Barthou, head the
trench delegation at Genoa, atier the
receipt of estrtdiy'a dispatches, it
ai auara.
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Jail Terms Sought
by Attorney
Whole Court Section May Be
Devoted to Gearing Docket
of Liquor Cane. ,
One entire section of Douglas
county district court probably will be
devoted exclusively to tryiim Imuor
cases, beginning Monday.
County Attorney A. V, Shotwell,
folio in a conference yesterday
morning with Police Sergeant Frank
Williams, head of the morals squad,
announced he would request Presid
ing Judge Leslie to designate a sec
tion ot tu ceourt lor u ca.es now on
the docket.
bhotwell would have all these cases
prosecuted by Deputy County At
torney John Veager.
Strongest Cases Ahead.
He asked Sergeant Williams and
his morals squad to investigate thor
oughly every case now on the docket,
to enable him to determine which are
the ttrongst from the standpoint of
the state, so these may be pushed
ahead and be prosecuted to the limit
"Some Omaha attorneys are trying
to barnstorm' my office with offers
of guilty pleas," said Shotwell.
Hut they will not succeed. 1 shall
not accept a guilty plea and allow
prisoners to get off with a mere
$100 fine unless Set Williams' in
vestigations prove to me the state's
case against them is flimsy.
Co-operation Promised.
"Every case in which Set. Wil
liams and his men find sufficient
evidence to make a strong case for
the state will be prosecuted to the
limit.
We must get some jail terms .and
possibly some penitentiary sentences
out of these cases.
We will not accept guilty pleas
and these Omaha attorneys might as
well realize that now as later."
His conference with Sgt. Williams
was most satisfactory, Shotwell in
dicated, and the leader of the police
morals squad promised his complete
co-operation in this drive to clear
the court docket of the flood of cases
now pending and secure a large per
centage of convictions.
Mexican Mob Throws '
American Girl in Ditch
Elizabeth Mreater, a Methodist mis
sionary worker of the Torreon dis
trict, is at Durango City suffering
from a broken thigh bone, received
when she was thrown into an irri
gation ditch by a member of a Mex
ican moo tnat arove ner ana live co
workers. Mexicans, from the village
of San Juan de Mezquital on May
4, according to reports from the in
terior today. .
Key. J. P. Lancaster of El Paso,
presiding elder of the Torreon dis
trict, received news of the mob's ac
tion in a telegram at Torreon City
and rushed to. Durango, according
to advices received here by Mrs.
Lancaster, who said her information
was that one of the Mexican work
ers was also badly injured. The co
workers consisted of one woman and
four men.
Virginia Man Charges
. Irregularities in Bank
Beatrice, Neb., May 12. (Special)
Sensational charges were made in
an answer hied in the district court
by J. R. Price against the State Bank
of Virginia, which seeks to collect
three notes from the plaintiff, one for
$2,900, the other for $700 and the
third for $600. Price charges that he
gave J. F. Krenz, cashier, of the bank,
a note for $2,900 without consider
ation, at the request of the' latter to
assist him in covering up alleged ir
regularities in his books to deceive
the bank examiner who was at that j
time engaged in making a check of
the bank. Price states that he is li
able for the collection of the two
smaller notes, but that the one for
$2,900 he does not owe; that he has
repeatedly asked the bank to return
it, but that Krenz has refused.
American Society to Build
School House at Cantigny
Washington, May 13.; Erection of
a school house at Cantigny, France,
where ueneral Pershing in his official
report declared American troops
demonstrated their "fighting qualities
under extreme battle conditions, has
been decided upon by the National'
Geographic society. I he school
house, it was announced today by the
society, will be designed as a memor
ial to the American soldiers who
fought at Cantigny.
Christian Child Education
Week in Grand Island
Grand Island, Neb., May 12.
(Special I elegram.) iseven of the
17 church organizations of the city
are observing Christian Child - Edu
cation week. The program began
Sunday with a parade. , ihe seven
churches are those represented in
the Ministerial union. Other fea
tures of the week were a canvass of
the city for religious affiliation and
a pageant at the Liederkranz audi
torium, ' ' '
Raymond House Burned.
Leadston, Idaho, May 13. The
Raymond house, known to every cat
tle buyer and stock dealer in the
west as Lewiston's pioneer hotel, to
day is reduced to ashes as the result
of a tire last night.
Gandhi's Son Sentenced.
Allahabad, India, May 13. (By
A. P.) Dewadas Gandhi, son of
Mohandas K. Gandhi, the nonco-
operationist leader, has been sen
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
Keep Cl.an It Pays
DRESHERBROS.
S317 Faraam Stmt AT tantic 034S
Dyers, Cl.an.rs, Hattm, Furrier.
Tailors aa Rug Claaatr. Cold
Storafa for Furs.
Men's S or 3-pica suits clisasJ
91.50
Shotgun Killers .
Shoot Two Men
in Barber Shop
Slay Proprietor aud Man Be
ing Shaved in Italian Sec
tion of Chicago Woman
Murdered,
art.:... ... i m
vim ,,, it I.J. wo turn
armed with fthotguns today witktd
ifrt ft Itairtutp swttAn i a). V,k wi.t
Italian tmrilfxtt ct ewt afumjI ati.al.-
out warning, killing the proprietor
and a man who wsa being shaved.
I he murderers escaped.
Woman Beaten to Death.
Cleveland Msv 11lfr. I f.l..
Silberberg. 45, wife of Aaron Sillier-
bera. B broker and awnn ni a rhsin
cf motion picture theaters, was beat
en to death and annirnilu IJ,.,(
of diamond rings valued at several
thousand dollar in hp ,n.im..i ,'
a fashionable residence section yes-
icraay siternoon,
Shft uas ffiimrt ititPAntcUu, Im tUm
living room by her daughter, II,
wncn me emm returned trom school
for Itinrh. Sll rll4 AH ! Anarai-
ing table in a hospital a few minutes
later without regaining conscious
ncss. Her skull was fractured in
two nlaccs. hnth ta
and there was a deep gash below her
icu eye.
The livlnir ronm o.iva viitn aI
a desperate atruggle. A man's eye
tooth was found under a small table.
It had been broken off short and is
the only clew police have to the iden
tity of the murderer.
Hold Up Train.
Phoenix, Arit.t May 13,Two
itiaU4 bsudus shortly before mid
mabt U t maht held up a coiubum
tioa train on the Arwona k New
Mealco railroad about 15 miles from
Clifton, An, and ecapd with four
pouches of mail and a few packages
taken from the mad car, according
to a telephone message received here.
Ihe passengers er not molested.
Value of the contents of tin stolen
pouches vould not be ascertained last
night. '
The robbers atopped tbe train by
piling ties on the track. The robbers
fed after directing the engineer not
to move the train for 20 minutes
longer. He complied with the order.
The train consisted of a passenger
car, a combination mail ana baggage
ear and four or five freight cars.
There were only three passengers
aboard the train, which wis bound
from Lordnburg, N. M., to Clifton,
Aria.
Thurston County Sheriff
Suspended by Governor
Lincoln, May 1J, (Special.)
Governor McKclvie today suspended
Sheriff Charley Rutledge of Pender,
pending filing of an ouster suit in
Thurston county district court by
Attorney General Clarence A. Davis.
The governor stated that under the
law he did not have power to sus
pend County Judge Frank Flynn,
but that ouster proceedings would
be brought against Flynn in Thurs
ton county district court by A. M.
Smith, county attorney.
One affidavit in the eovernor's
office states three of State Sheriff
Gus livers deputies and a federal
officer went to Pender and posed
there as bootleggers and auto thieves.
They reported they negotiated for
the purchase of a barn there through
Mientf Kutledge as agent, in which
they claim they told him they were
going to store stolen automobiles
and booze.
Bee Want Ads bring results.
G. 0. P. Working
for U. S. Security,
Says President
lfai Sought Better Under
standing in World Chief
Executive and Wife
Retting in N. J.
Ab.econ. N. May 13. President
and Mrs. Harding today were enjoy
ing a week end rest at the Sea View
Golf elub, near here, after their auto
mobile drive from Washington yes
terday, and the president's appear
ance at the dinner given by the Wo
nieu'a Republican clubs of New Jer
sey, snd the bankers' convention in
Atlantic City last night. Almost per
fect weather was promised them and
it was expected they would find
complete relaxation from their
routine of official and social duties.
. Secretary and Mrs. Weeks and At
torney General Daugherty have ar
rived and complete the official party,
to which Senator Edge is host.
Republican leadera here were in
terested in the address by the presi
dent at the women's club dinner. His
expression of friendship for the
state's two senators were noted.
"The administration," he said, "is
not better aupported anywhere than
it is in New Jersey, I have more
than a personal fondness for Senators
Edge and Frelinhuysen. I cannot
always beat them at golf, but I know
where to find them when there : are
difficult problems to solve.
I hope, he added, "you people
think as much of them as the execu
tive in Washington does."
Mr. Harding said the administra
tion had worked to bring about a
better understanding in the world
and a new security lu America,
"In that oik," lie continued, "the
republican party has not done alt it
Imped to do, but it has done a lut,
and will accomplish much inoie."
U. S. Dt'tiiaud Data on
Projected Steel Merger
Washington, May 13. Picsidcutl
of the more than half a doscn inde
pendent steel companies mentioned
in connection with the reported pro
jected merger were called upon to
day by the federal trade commis
sion for "full and specific information
aa to the plan oi proposed merger
before the plan is consummated or
actual transfers made," ,
The commission's request, made
after receipt of the LaFollctte reso
lution adopted yesterday by the sen
ate, was addressed to the presidents
of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance
company, Republic Iron and Steel
company, Lackawanna Steel com
pany, International Steel and Iron
company, Youngstown Sheet and
Tube company. Steel and Tube Com
pany of Amerira, Hrirr Hilt Steel
company and the Bethlehem Steel
corporation.
Announcement was made in con
nection with the request that the
commission had its attention called
formally to the projected merger
last December 27 and since that time
it has had the matter under investi
gation. Isadore Duncan Flies
From Moscow to Berlin
Berlin, May 13. Isadora Duncan,
dancer, has arrived from Moscow in
an airplane.
A dispatch from Moscow May 10
said Isadora Duncan and her 27-year-old
poet husband, to whom she was
married recently, were tn leave that
night for Berlin on an airplane hon
eymoon trip,
Flood Refugees
in Louisiana
Face Disaster
1,000 Driven From Homes by
' Water! of Mississippi
Are in Danger of
Starvation.
New Orleans. La.. May 13,-Mbre
than a thousand persons driven from
their homes in Concordia and Cathou
parishes by the Mississippi river
floods snd now congregating at Dig
Island and Holloway in Rapids par
ish, are facing disaster onlri afford
ed immediate relief, Dr. C. M. Ab
bott, director of the Rapids health
administration, stated here today
alter investigation of conditions in
the flooded area.
Dr. Abbott satd that refugees
were living in corn cribs, barns,
tents, house boats and crude sharks,
under pitiful conditions and that
many of hem were sick. Cattle and
hogs dying of starvation, he said,
are adding to the menace of disease
and to the existing distress.
$600,000 Damage.
Bristol, W. Va.. May 12.-Dam-age
estimated at JOOO.IHX) was caused
in Bristol and vicinity last night by
waters from Beaver Creek which
llrtfwloft a rtnzen streets in the center
of the city, as well as business houses
and stores, ihe nooa was causca oy
a cloudburst near Waldon, Va.
The high waters began to recede
late at night, leaving the streets cov
ered with debris. .
. The Bee leads all the other papers
in sport news. Kcad ihe lice tirst.
Government Set Up
by Gen. Chang Tso-Lin
'Ticutain, Ma IJ.-tBy A. T,.
An independent actniitfiit
been t uo by lien. Chan a To
J in. deir.tej military governor ol
Mukden, A declaration of mde.
pendente issued from p. Iicdt'
ters at Luanchow says that, haviiis?
been divested by the president of
authority in Manchuria, Mongolia
and Jehole, he henceforth repudi
ates alt instructions front the presi
dent snd all treaties negotiated by
him.
The declaration set forth that
Chang intends to make favorable
treaties with friendly powers in the
name of the regions enumerated
and will assume reponsibiliiy for
the protection of foreign lives and
property there. Foreign diplomats
must communicate with hint at
Luanchow.
Chang has received help from
Janan in the pat.
News front the Kaiping mining
area is increasingly grave. The
American military forces which are
in charge of the railway in that sec
tion are considering the advisability
of withdrawing all foreigners. It
this step is taken it will probably
result lu incalculable damage to the
mining property.
Judge Weara Straw Hat
District Judge C A. Goss was the
bright star in the court hours Sat
urday. He appeared with a new
straw hat.
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Let Us Also Remember the Mothers ot
THOUGHTS of loving reverence, for the one who
loved and protected us in childhood and maturity
are universal on Mothers' Day. The unspoken words
and undone deeds of affection crystalize on this day.
i It is particularly apt at this time to give a thought to the mothers
and children of Devastated France and the good' work of the' Amer
ican Committee which has pledged itself to the rehabilitation of the
war-torn areas and the sufferers who live there.
, d Gratitude for war-work well done by American mothers and their
daughters was responsible for the bold plan of sending representa
tive business women of America to convey the good will of America
to France.
f Due to the influence of the American Committee, it has been
made possible to offer to American women a trip to France for ex
cellence in the work of raising funds for the Committee's work.
The donation of funds and service has reduced the cost of these
trips to a point where only 6 cents of every dollar raised is devoted
to the trip ; 94 cents goes to the work of the Committee.
" f The fourteen candidates entered in the Good Will Contest spon
sored by The Bee are each striving to raise funds for the Commit
tee's use. Each dime they collect counts as a vote. Each vote counts
toward the trip these young ladies are working to earn.
I Pelp these candidates in their effort to carry the good will and
gratitude of America to France. While you think of your own
mother, think also of the thousands of French mothers, who with
their children are suffering the after effects of a terrible war.
Remember Your Mother
and Remember the Mothers and Children of France
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