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of Nebraska State Dournal FOUNDED IN 1867. REMOVAL OF COUNTY ATTORNEY M'GRAW OF M'PHERSON COUNTY STILL ON TRIAL Defendant to Take Witness Stand Tuesday Afternoon -Sheriff Shriver Quizzed, About Change of Mind. J. A. McGraw of Tryon, the only attorney living in McPherson county, a grazing region, is on trial before Governor McMullen with the office of county attorney as the stake.

He holds that office with Its little emoluments and his ac cusers are demanding that the govb ernor oust him. They allege he has tailed to enforce prohibitory laws, the eighteenth amendment. He de nies the charge, The governor began taking testimony at 1 o'clock Monday, adjourned the hearing at 5:30 p. until 3 p. m.

Tuesday. Mr. McGraw is to take the stand on his own behalf at that time. Governor McMullen will spend the forenoon Tuesday as a member of the state board of pardons and paroles, taking testimony in matters relating to the board's work. Victor H.

Halligan, attorney of North Platte, appeared for the complainants, Ira E. Cumpston, T. Jones and J. P. Childerston.

T. F. A. Williams and D. H.

McClenahan are attorneys for McGraw. At the close of the taking of testimony Tuesday both sides will submit briefs on legal questions involved. Sheriff Changes Mind. The taking of testimony given by dozen witnesses moved along during the afternoon without incident until almost the last witness. Hector A.

Shriver, county sheriff, was called by the defense. He had signed an affidavit last January against County Attorney McGraw. He signed another last month in favor of McGraw. He was sharply cross questioned by Attorney Halls gan about his change of mind. He was asked why he changed his mind, why he said in January that he could not get along with Graw and, like the rest of them, would have to resign just as his predecessor had done.

did change my mind, yet I did not exactly change my mind," he said in one of his several answers. "The affidavit 1 signed last January was drawn by Ira Cumpston and I told him at the time I signed it I did not like all it contained, it went too far. I had told him what I wanted to say in the affidavit." The sheriff also said he went (Continued on Fare Col. 8) WATCHING SCHOOL STOPS Police Have Keen Eyes for Ordinance Violators Near Schools. Violators of the ordinance gOVerning school stops were closely watched by the police Monday and twelve people were booked at the police station for not observing the rules.

They were: Lawrence Anderson, Wahoo, who pleaded guilty at the city hall and paid his fine; E. L. Williams, 2601 A street; H. M. ton, 464 North Sixteenth street; Ward, 1729 street; Eleanor, TipE.

G. Smith, Beatrice; H. B. Kipney, Havelock; C. W.

Williams, 421 West Fourteenth, College View; August Ractke, 2761 Sumner; G. E. Gration, Omaha; W. C. Miller, Yutan; W.

S. Hollock. Springview; and Merle Beattie, 421 Fifteenth street. Extra police were called several times Monday afternoon to the streets surrounding the coliseum on the university campus, because of the heavy traffic. So many students and instructors are using cars during registration week that they often choke the intersestions until passage cannot be made in any direction.

street, between Ninth and Twelfth, continually jammed all day Monday. LEGAL FIGHT FOR ESTATE Control of and Accounting of Fortune Left by Late Henry Timken Sought. NEW YORK, Sept. legal battle for control and an accounting of the estate of one of the daughters of the late Henry Timken, retired St. Louis carriage manufacturer, who, with his sons, founded the Timken Roller Bearing company, was started here today.

The opening gun in what promises to be a long drawn out and involved procedure, came with the filing of a petition in the New York county, surrogate's court by John H. Fry, whose wife, who died, in 1921, was a daughter of Henry ken, for the removal of the Fifth Avenue bank of New York and its attorney, Herbert M. Teets, as executors of the estate of Georgia Timken Fry. The estate was valued at about $10,000,000. ALLEGED SPIES IN RUSSIA GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE LENINGRAD, Russia, Sept.

12. -(P)-Of the twenty-six alleged spies charged with espionage in Russia in behalf of the British intelligence service, nine were sentenced today to death by shooting. Thirteen were given prison terms varying and from six months to eight years, four were acquitted. MEXICO TO BUY PLANES. MEXICO CITY, Sept.

Universal today says it has learned that a commission of army aviators which has sailed from Vera Cruz for Europe will purchase airplanes to the value of 500,000 pesos (about $250,000) for the Mexican government. The commission was sent by the government to study aviation conditions abroad. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927. THREE CENTS. JURY DIFFICULT TO PICK Fixed Opinion in Many Cases Delays Trial of Mayor Duvall of Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 12. -(P)-Fixed opinions of prospective jurors today impeded progress in the trial Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis on a charge of violating the corrupt pratices act. When court adjourned eight chairs held men who bad passed the first examination made by defense attorneys.

Nineteen others had been excused cause or for personal reasons. The specific charge against the mayor is that he promised William H. Armitage, republican political leader, the privilege of naming two persons to board of public works and also to select the city engineer in turn for his support in the last campaign. Duvall also is charged with having failed to list $10,000 campaign contribution from Armitage. CARS QUIT TRACK AT SHARP CURVE Twenty Passengers, Injured, Several Seriously, in 1 a Rock Island Wreck Near Centaur, Mo.

Twenty. ST. LOUIS, Sept. persons were injured today, several seriously, when the Pullman, diner and observation cars on an eastbound Rock Island passenger train, heavily laden with summer vacationists returning from Colorado Springs, left the track near Centaur, thirty-three miles west of here. A number of the passengers narrowly escaped death when the Pullman car, breaking loose from the train, rolled down a twenty foot embankment and turned over in ten feet of water in the Missouri river.

Quick rescue work on the part of the train crew and passengers prevented any fatalities. The observation car and diner also were disconnected and rolled down the embankment, but stopped on the edge of the water. W. E. Dunlop, fifty-two, conductor of Eldon, said the wreck was caused by a "sun kink" in the rails, due to expansion by the heat.

The train, en route from Colorado, had just rounded a sharp curve on a high embankment overlooking the river when the gineer, Robert Hudlow, of Kansas City, felt a sudden bump under the engine. He applied the brakes suddenly, stopping the train within a few hundred feet. By the time Hudlow could reach the rear of the train, C. W. Blaske, St.

Louis, baggageman; Charles Taylor, St. Louls, mail clerk, and Deak Ewing, Kansas City, Pullman waiter, had started rescuing the passengers in the partly submerged Pullman car. Taylor swam out to the Pullman car and carried the passengers, some injured, to Blaske and Ewing on the bank. They rescued ten persons, all that was in the Pullman car. All the injured were brought to St.

Louis in the bag. gage and chair cars of the train, and taken to hospitals. UNENDING LOVE DIES OUT Musical Comedy Star Who Promised Fidelity to Prisoner Husband Asks Divorce. CHICAGO, Sept. 12-(P)-Fannie Brice, musical comedy star, who caroled "He's My Man" across the footlights and promised unending love for Jules "Nicky" Arnstein, her husband, when he went to prison, today filed suit for divorce.

Arnstein was recently released from Leavenworth penitentiary after serving a sentence for his connection with a $5,000,000 New York bond theft ring. The comedienne charged her "Nicky" had been too friendly with a Chicago woman and had turned up his nose at her when she. had her own nose repaired by a plastic surgery operation. "After I had my nose fixed," she said, "he suffered an inferiority complex and said that since I had become beautiful, I was not the same Fannie he used to know." Miss Brice professed know nothing of Arnstein's recent activities. They were married in Brooklyn in 1919.

They have two children, six and two years old, and the mother asks custody of both. ENTER IN THE AIR DERBY Wood and Schiller of the Royal Windsor Have Opportunity to Show Skill. HARBOR GRACE, N. Sept. Wood.

and C. A. (Duke) Schiller, navigator and pilot of Canadian monoplane Royal Windsor, announced tonight that they would hop off at noon tomorrow for Old Orchard, Maine, weather permitting. The fliers, who abandoned their attempt to fly from Windsor, to Windsor, astrous trans-Atlantic flights, arEngland, A as a result of recent disrived here tonight from St. John's stopping en route to aid settlers at Kelligrews fight a forest fire.

On arrivti here Wood and ler found messages telling that their plane- had been entered in the Spokane air HEAD OF ROAD EMPLOYES. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 12. -(A)-Charles W. Mitchell of Milwaukee was elected president for the Veteran association eleventh consecutive, term by of the Milwaukee railway, meeting in annnual convention here today.

W. A. Carrick, also of Milwaukee, was re-elected vice president. These two officials, together with five other veterans, constitute the board of directors. I STORMY WEATHER HOLDS UP AIRMEN ROUND WORLD FLIERS TIED AT OMURA, JAPAN.

Belief at Tokyo Is That Attempt to Span the Pacific at this Time Would Be Suicidal. TOKYO, Sept. -Dispatches from Omura said stormy weather is holding up the flight of the American roundthe-world monoplane, the "Pride of Detroit," there. William S. Brock, and Edward F.

Schlee, co-pilots of the ship, had intended to hop off for Tokyo today, but they are expected to wait until tomorrow unless the weather improves. Japanese fliers were extremely doubtfuly today that the American aviators, William S. Brock and Ed. ward F. Schlee, now at Omura, Japan, would succeed in flying their monoplane, Pride of Detroit, across the Pacific to complete their air journey around the world.

Effort Would Be Suicidal. When informed that Brock and Schlee had announced firm intention of flying across the 2,480 miles of landless ocean from Tokyo to the tiny Midway islands, the Japanese airmen said the effort would be suicidal. The islands are of coral sand, difficult for a land plane to use in alighting or departing. An attempt to reach America by way the long line of Kurile of Japan and the Aleutian islands extending hundreds of miles from the Alaskan peninsula would be most hazardous, said the Japanese experts. The Kuriles and Aleutians, shrouded in fog, are storm-swept, and altho successfully negotiated by the United States ar my world fliers in 1924 the route is considered unsafe, except under organized safeguards.

Meanwhile, Brock and Schlee were planning to resume their flight toward Tokyo tomorrow from Omura, after two failures to reach their Japanese destination from Shanghai and Omura. Forced back by storm and fog, they were determined to try again to reach the Kasmigaura airdrome near Tokyo before continuing their flight across the Pacific. The Omura-Kasumigaura hop is about 600 miles. In their effort to break the world circling record of twenty-eight and one-half days, Brock and Schlee have been out seventeen days from (Continued on Pare 2, Col. 6) BRITISH SEAPLANE SINKS Chances of English Winning Schneider Cup Race Given Big Set Back.

VENICE, Italy, Sept. Great Britain's chances of winning the Schneider cup, the contest for which is to be held here, suffered 8 setback today when the British seaplane Crusader crashed. Lieut. Harris M. Schofield, member of the British team, had a narrow escape from death.

Taking in the Short-Bristol training machine, the only British equipped with an air cooled motor, Schofield was able to bring it only few meters above the water, when it overturned, pinning him underneath. He was rescued by bystanders. The Crusader sank. The British airplane carrier Eagle, with racing machines aboard has arrived here, accompanied by three destroyers. Driving a 450 horsepower Vickers machine at an average speed of 142 miles an hour, Lieutenant Schofield last July won second place in the annual airplane race at Hendon, England, for the king's cup.

ACCUSE OREGON COWGIRL To Be Charged With the Murder of Her Husband, "Slim" Harris. LAKEVIEW, Sept. -Lorena Trickey, noted Oregon cowgirl, tomorrow will be formally charged with the murder of her husband, "Slim" Harris, also a widely known rodeo performer, who was stabbed to death in this picturesque frontier town on the night of Sept. 2. A complaint against the cowgirl will be filed in justice court tomorrow by District Attorney Combs.

A preliminary hearing will be held tomorrow afternoon. Miss Trickey is a A prisoner in the Lake county jail. Jealousy was, alleged by investigators to have been the motive. arrived in advance of his to arrange for a rodeo, and stories of attending parties and keeping company with another cowgirl were said to have reached the wife on her arrival here. The prosecutor announced he had eighteen depositions to support his charges.

REPORT LEHFELDT DEAD Dispatch from Africa Tells of Educator's Body Found Behind Locked Doors. LONDON, Sept. -An Exchange telegraph dispatch from Capetown, South Africa, says that Dr. Robert Alfred Lehfeldt of the Rand university was found dead in his room today, his hands fastened with a chain and the door locked. It is believed he died from poison.

Robert Alfred Lehfeldt was a noted British educator. He was born in 1868 at Birmingham and held posts in St. John's college, University Cambridge; Firth colloge, now the of Sheffield, and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, as professor of. economics since 1917. He was the author of textbooks on physical chemistry, electro chemistry and economics.

NO LOSS IN REGISTRATION More Than 13,000 Children rolled on Opening Day of Lincoln Schools. Registration in the Lincoln schools for the opening day was fully up that of last year, 80 cording to Superintendent Lefler. The enrollment Was more than 13,000, but the exact figures were not available Monday night. Two schools had a double kindergarten I enrollment, one for morning and the other for afternoon, preventing teachers from filling out definite reports. Students advanced from the ninth grade of the Twen ty-sixth and street junior high school were not expected to report until afternoon.

Many children absent from the city, also enter late. The enrollment for the year 1925-26 for the Lincoln schools, exclusive of the annexed districts, was 14,060. The enrollment at University Place was 1,327, and at Bethany, 396, making a total for the whole district of 15,783. UNABLE TO SOLVE MYSTERY OF SHIP Destination of Vessel With Large Cargo of Rum Remains Unsolved After Attempt at Investigation. PHILADELPHIA, Sept.

As much mystery tonight surrounds the identity of the rum ship the destination of its reputed captured here Saturday night a and $2,000,000 cargo of alleged liquor as when the ship was seized. Efforts definitely to identify the steamer and ascertain whence it came were frustrated today when the sixteen men arrested as the ship was taken over by customs officers, failed to show up for a hearing before United States Commissioner Horace R. Manley, thus forfeiting $500 bail each which had been furnished in cash when the men were released yesterday. George W. Coles, United States district attorney, recommended that the navy department be asked to protect the ship, now anchored in the Delaware river, from raiding hijackers.

The vessel, a tanker, which came into port under the name of that is not plainly distinguishable, "Bulko," placed over another was seized late Saturday night. Elaborate arrangements quickly to unload the vessel aroused suspicions of customs officers. string of railroad box cars was at the pier and a force of stevedores was on hand to do the work. The cargo was said to consist of canned tomatoes. As the customs officers appeared there was a general rush from boat.

The stevedores vanished, the captain and other officers disapand only fifteen men were captured. Flags of many nations were found in one locker. A customs guard told him one of the crew laughed over the capture, sayIng: "If we, slip. three cargoes in we can afford to lose one." HOPE TO CONTROL RIVER AND DROUTH Conference to Be Called at Omaha to Study Diversion of Mississippi to Semi-arid Lands. OMAHA, Sept.

-A conference on drouth control in Omaha the last of October that will rival in size the Chicago flood control conference of last June, is the goal of Congressman W. E. Sears and C. E. Childs, head of the Omaha chamber of commerce traffic bureau.

They conferred today on plans for calling together here next month every one interested in diverting the flood waters of the Mississippi river system to semiarid lands of the west. United States senators and congressmen, governors, officials of chambers of commerce, attorneys general, state legislators, bankers, business men and farmers will be invited to discuss plans for eliminating the periodical drouths that have cost the central west hundreds of millions of dollars in crop shortages. ADMITS STARTING FIRES Chicago Traveling Salesman Arrested at Pittsburgh After Being Trailed. PITTSBURGH, Sept. E.

Monheimer, Chicago traveling salesman, tonight confessed to setting fires in seven western Pennsylvania hotels within the past few weeks, police announced. No date has been set for a preliminary hearing of the charges of arson placed against pending arrival here of his parents. Monheimer was arrested here Saturday after a state policeman had trailed him for several weeks. NOT URGING REVOLUTION Eamon de Valera, Irish Republican Leader, Denies Any Such Intention. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Sept.

de Valera, republican leader, issued a manifesto today which appeared as an advertisement in the newspapers, denying emphatically that he had any intention of fomenting a revolutionary movement, and promising that If his party is returned to power, the people shall be "taken into the fullest consultation" on important questions involving their REPORTS SIGHTING OLD GLORY WRECK SCENE OF DISASTER REACHED BY RESCUE PARTY. Newspaper Man Aboard Searching Steamer Claims Finding But Says No Sign of the Crew. NEW YORK, Sept. Daily Mirror tonight announced the receipt of the following bulletin from Douglas Muir, St. John's N.

newspaper man aboard the S. S. Kyle, the vessel chartered by the Mirror to search for the missing monoplane "Old Glory." "Located wreckage of Old Glory latitude 51.17 north, longitude 39.23 west, at 4:20 p. m. No signs of crew.

Particulars The monoplane Old Glory, sponsored by William Randolph Hearst, at 12:39 p. m. E. S. T.

Tues which took off from Old Orchard, day, Sept. 6, carrying pilots Lloyd W. Bertaud and James D. Hill and Philip A. Payne, managing editor of the Daily Mirror, as a passenger, disappeared in the early morning of Sept.

7. Last Sighted 350 Miles Out. The plane last was sighted the steamship California at midnight Tuesday about 350 miles sea off the Newfoundland coast. Four hours after an SOS was heard by the steamers Carmania, Lapland and Transylvania, followed by a message giving the location of the Old Glory in distress as "five hours out of Newfoundland east." All three vessels rushed to the rescue. Wide areas near the source of SOS were patrolled during the but daylight hours of Wednesday no trace of the ill fated plant or its occupants was found altho the officers, maintained and passengers on ships the keenest scrutiny of the rough seas The steamship Kyle was char tered by the Daily Mirror and last Saturday put out to search for the missing flyers.

Rewards totalling $25,000 for the finding of the men already had been offered by Mr. Hearst, backer of the flight. Picks Up Piece of Plane, ST. JOHN'S, N. Sept.

(P)- The government steamer Kyle, chartered by the New York Daily Mirror to search for the missing trans-Atlantic monoplane Old Glory, reported to the government piece tonight of that the phanbad picked today, up but a (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) SEATTLE HEARS THOMPSON Chicago Mayor Speaks on Flood Control Problems of Mississippi Valley. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. William Hale Thompson of Chicago, speaking before the commercial club here today declared that "control of the Mississippi river by the federal ment and creation of a lake to the gulf channel of nine feet means more to the prosperity of the country than any other activity we' can engage in." The "Chicago crime wave" was largely "political propaganda," Mayor Thompson told interviewers. "We have one of the finest police departments in America and there is no more of a crime wave than in any other large city." He referred to four Chicago policemen who accompanied him on his tour as "the pride of the department." The Thompson party is to leave tomorrow morning for William Randolph Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, thence to Los Angeles.

The mayor spoke tonight over the radio. PROTEST SOVIET RUSSIA Zionist Congress Ends Session With Jab at Communistic Tendencies. -BASLE, Switzerland, Sept. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) The adoption of a strong protest against the government of soviet Russia for alleged persecutions carried on' by the communist authorities against Zionists in Russia was one of the last actions of the fifteenth Zionist congress which ended its session here yesterday. The session was presided over by Miss.

Henrietta Szold, the first woman to be elected to the Zionist executive in Jerusalem. The resolution expresses the hope the congress that the Jewish communities thruout the world will this protest and the demand to release the Zionist prisoners. The budget of the world Zionist organization for next two years as adopted by the congress calls for the raising of £632,000 ($3,180,000) each year. ALFONSO SIGNS DECREE King of Spain Makes tion of National Assembly Possible. MADRID, Sept.

convocation of a. national assembly been made possible by a decree signed by King Alfonzo at Sebastian today. The motives of such convocation on the fourth anniversary of Premier Primo de Rivera's seizure of power is somewhat of a mystery, but is generally interpreted as an endeavor on the part of the existing regime to pass to a more constitutional administration by peaceful evolution. It is believed the government will not permit assembly to make any real decisions. Its powers will consultative, and it is understood that its principal task will be to draw up a new electoral law and new constitution.

The Spanish constitution can be changed only by A constituent cortes elected for that purpose. THE WEATHER. Nebraska: Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday, probably local thunder storms in west portion: continued Iowa generally and Kansas: Continued warm and fair Tuesday and Wednesday. and South Dakota: Mostly cloudy Tuesday Wedneeday with probably local thunder showers; not much change In temperature. SERRANO OPENS CAMPAIGN Mexican Presidential Candidate Speaks Before Large Audience at General MEXICO Sept.

Francesco Serrano formally opened his presidential campaign today, speaking at Puebla before a large audience. General Serrano devoted his speech principally to a defense of the principles of the Mexican revolution, especially to that doctrine opposing the re-election of a presiHe vigorously criticized the candidacy of former President Obregon as 4 repudiation of the principle against re-election. FLIERS RISK LIVES TO RESCUE BLIND Royal Windsor Crew Enter Farm House During Forest Fire to Save Man from Burning to Death. HOLLYWOOD, N. Sept, (P)-Phil Wood "Duke" Schiller, who interrupted in Newfoundland their projected flight from Windsor, to Windsor, England, today risked their lives in rescuing a blind man from a burning house at Kelligrews, twelve miles from here.

Four farm houses were destroyed when a forest fire swept a large area near that settlement. Wood and Schiller had left St. John's in mid-afternoon to drive to Harbor Grace, where they planned to refuel their plane, the "Royal Windsor," preparation for hopping off tomorrow for Old Orchard, on their return flight to Canada. A second automobile with newspaper men and photographers accompanied them. At Kelligrews, eighteen miles from St.

John's, the party came upon the forest fire. Members of the fire patrol commandeered the cars and their drivers to take to the upper gullies where the blaze them was at its height. There in a thickly populated farming district, the flames driven by a forty mile southwest wind were encircling several farmhouses. Embers and smoke driving across the roadway made almost impossible. The fliers and their companions decided to aid the settlers in ing their homes.

Wood, Schiller and Fulogoni, a photographer, entered the burning residence of John Dwyer on being told that a blind member of the family had been cut off by the fire in an upper room. With wet cloths tied about their faces the three made their way upstairs and brought the man out safely. MAY ADMIT OTHER FAITHS Ministerial Association Considers Plan to Take in New Members. The Lincoln 'Ministerial association, at its meeting Monday, decided to hold over until next meeting a proposition to allow to membership religious leaders from beside those known as evangelical. A committee which has had the plan under consideration reported favorably for the admission of pastors of all denominations and creeds which heretofore have not been members.

Rev. B. F. Wyland, who led the discussion on review of movies, also brought up the matter of the coming community campaign. Rev.

Ray E. chest, member of the chest board, declared the drive for funds is apt to be something of a failure under the present organization unless something is done to secure the help of labor. "At" the present time promotion luncheons and campaigns are carried on with the chamber of commerce as headquarters, he said, do but nothing is being done to secure the backing of the laborers. He also believes that the churches and ministers are being left of the activities to a certain degree. Without the support of the religious bodies he does not see how the chest's campaign can be a complete success.

AWAIT DETAILS OF KILLING News of Assassination of Italian Vice Consul Stirs Interest in Paris. ROME, Sept. -News the assassination in Paris today of Count Carlo Nardine, Italian vice consul there has caused a deep impression here and further details are being awaited. Particular interest centers on learning if the crime was motivated by political reasons and if this should prove the case it is felt likely that it will bring up again the question raised at times in the Italian press charging anti-fascist plots in France by Italian political exiles. LANDS AHEAD OF TIME.

NASHVILLE Sept. (P)-The Dixie and Northern Air line 'inaugural plane making its way to Jacksonville, from Detroit, landed here at 4 o'clock, central time, two hours ahead of its schedule. The ship was to remain here over night. JAILED FOR INTOXICATION. C.

L. Stiles, 104 street, was arrested late Saturday night by Police Officers Walt Goeglein and Lieutenant Rymer and was lodged in the city jail, charged with intoxication. UNABLE TO SEE NEED FOR EXTRA SESSION House' and Senate Republican Floor Leaders Advise Against It. CONFER WITH THE PRESIDENT Regular December Meeting Time Enough 1 for Action. CANDIDATES NOT DISCUSSED Representative Tilson, However, Satisfied Mr.

Coolidge Has Eliminated Himself from the List. WASHINGTON, Sept. to the white house for their views of the necessity for a special session of congress both Senators Curtis of Kansas and Representative Tilson of Connecticut, republican leaders of the senate and house, emphatically informed President Coolidge, just back from his vacation in the Black Hills, that they saw no need for one. Senator Curtis said also that he could see no advantage in calling the senate together ahead of the regular meeting time in December to take up the contests against the election of Senators-elect Smith of Illinois and Vare of Pennsylvania, both republicans. Considerable fireworks are in prospect over each contest and apparently he did not think a month of discussion would dispose of them.

At Variance With Others. The views of both Senator Curtis and Mr. Tilson were at variance with that of some other administration leaders, among them Senators Smoot, of Utah and Jones of Washiugton, both of whom during visits to the summer white house in South Dakota urged the president to call a special session. Refreshed by his first night's rest in the remodeled white house after a two day journey from the Black Hills, Mr. Coolidge went to his desk a little late this morning, walking thirty-four yards the executive offices in place of the ride of thirty-four miles required in South Dakota.

Desiring to make some headway toward clearing up the special session question which has been hanging fire all summer, the president CRIMEA HAS EARTHQUAKE Severe Shocks Felt at Sebastopol and Other Parts of Russia. SEBASTOPOL, Sept. The earthquake which was felt over a great area today is reported to have exceeded in power that in July, which shook up the whole Crimea. In Sebastopol many houses were destroyed, thousands of tourand native residents are living outdoors, as the shocks continue. quake was also felt at Odessa, Kiev and other cities in south Russia.

At Odessa three shocks were felt. The last, at 5:20 a. m. today, shattered windows and upset furniture. In some places the tremors lasted twenty seconds.

The inhabitants of Sebastopol, Simferopol and Novorossick passed the night in the streets. Slighter shocks were felt between Kiev Odessa. Geologists believe that the epicenter of the earthquake was in the Caucasus where the process of the formation of the mountains still is going on. Five slight shocks lasting about three seconds were felt at Simferopol this morning. CAT BANDIT IS INDICTED Five Charges Filed Against William Baker, Self Confessed A Terrorist.

CHICAGO, Sept. E. Baker, Chicago's self-confessed "cat bandit," terrorist of scores of north side women, was indicted on five counts by the grand jury shortly after noon today. Authorities said Baker would plead guilty to three charges of robbery with a gun and two charges of burglary when he appears in court for trial. Following the testimony of witnesses in the five cases selected against Baker by the prosecution, he was held yesterday to the grand jury bonds totalling $250,000.

His wife, Mrs. Helen Baker, held on a charge of accessory after the fact of robbery, was released from jail today and allowed to sign her own bond of $1,000 when she appeared for hearing on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. CLUBWOMEN INTO COURT Sixteen Summoned at New York in Connection With Games of Chance. NEW YORK, Sept. prominent club women of Long island today were summoned to appear before the Nassau county grand jury in connection with alleged operation of games of chance at a recent society bene fit bazaar, Fifty persons, including the mayor and chief of police of Long Beach, N.

have received subpoenas in the campaign to check gambling. TYPOTHETAE PLANNING HOME NEW YORK, Sept. Typothetae of America gathered here in their forty-first annual convention today, ratified plans for the erection of a national headquarters building in a city yet to be chosen. made it his first business to sult the two leaders, whose views, naturally, Parts, are expected to have considerable weight with him. Thinks Coolidge Eliminated.

While Mr. Tilson later declared he believed there was no question but Mr. Coolidge had definitely eliminated himself from the republican presidential race in 1928, by his statement that he did not choose to run next year, there were indications that Senator Curtis was not so clear about the meaning of the announcement. However, neither indicated that he had discussed this statement with the president. The legislative program received attention the conferences which were held separately by Mr.

Coolidge with the two leaders who had an opportunity to talk things over together in a reception room before their meeting with the president. Later Senator Curtis had little to say about his talk with the president, except as to a special session. Showing Representative Tilson long list of increased appropriations asked for next year by the government departments, the president made it plain that congress must choose between increased expenditures and tax reduction. Mr. Tilson said he favored tax reduction up to $300,000,000, but said 12 this was to be accomplished congress would have to go light on the appropriations program, Framing of.a Tax Bill.

Expecting Chairman Green to assemble the house ways and means committee the last of next month to frame a tax bill, Mr. Tilson said he favored giving this measure and the appropriations measures the first call of business in the house in December. He also is anxious to take up a flood relief program and to consider Boulder canyon dam legislation, and he will leave here tonight to inspect the flood area as well as the Colorado river dam site. Farm relief also was expected to come up at this session by Mr. Tilson, and he said this subject was mentioned at the white house (Continued on Page 2, Col.

6) ELLEN M. THROOP CALLED BY DEATH Husband and Father of Pioneer Equipped First Capitol With Doors and Windows -Son Born in Covered Wagon. Ellen Marie Throop, eighty-three, widow of Heartiest Throop, one of Nebraska's settlers, died at her home at 5107 Huntington avenue at 6 p. m. Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Throop, with their year old son, her father, Andrew Johnson, and several cousins came to Nebraska in 1866. They bought up one hundred and sixty acres of land with college script on Oak creek, near where Valparaiso now stands, and began task of rearing a home upon the prairie, with only crude tools and the material at hand. One of Mrs.

Throop's most vivid memories of those early days was the difficulty the pioneer party had in crossing Oak creek. The stream was quite high, the steep, and their oxen floundered and fought for footing until exhausted. It was necessary to unload the wagons and pack household equipment to dry land by hand. A year after the Throop and Johnson families came to the new land, Nebraska was organized as a state and the site of Lincoln was decided upon as the capital. Mr.

Throop and Mr. Johnson contracted to put the windows and doors into Nebraska's first capitol building. The money earned on this contract was used to complete their own homes. Mrs. Throop's second son was born in a covered wagon on Oak creek and was the first white child born in Valparaiso precinct, possibly the first in the county.

Among Mrs. Throop's recollections were grasshopper ravages, treme winters, crop failures, tragedies and joys of pioneer life, picnics, trips to early Nebraska City and then later to Lincoln. Funeral arrangements will not be made until the arrival of her children. HEAT RECORD BROKEN. MILWAUKEE, Sept.

the temperature rose to 91 here today at 3 p. it broke all records of the local weather bureau for Sept. 12. The former record was 88 for Sept. 12, 1876.

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