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1 AQnn wi ii'i 1 III LATE 1 EDITION JvUiCilMlai 31 VtWfi AdBb NEWS SECTION THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR. LINUULK. NHUKASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922. TWO CENTS. NEW NEW RATES PROPOSED TRANSCONTIFEFrAL READJUSTMENT IS OUTLINED.

Attorney for Interstate Commerce A Commiiiion Recommends Various Reductions in Freight Schedules. WASHINGTON. April 15 A read- jUBtment of transcontinental freight rates was proposed to the interstate oomraerce commlsalon tooay in a report of William A. Dlsque. attorney- examlner for the commiaslon.

Dtsque proposed that the commission denv transcontinental lines the establishment from socalled defined territories generally east of the Rocky Mountains of lower rates on various commodities to raciflc coast terminals than to Intermediate points. He also recommended the denial of authority to cHtabllsh lower rates on hemp from New Orleans and Galveston to coast terminals than from and to Intermediate points. Authorltv should be Dlsque reported, that carriers establish rates on sulphur from Louisiana producing points to coast ter-J mtnals rather than from and to intermediate points. Lower rates should be established, he continued, on coffee from New York. New Orleans and Galveston to Pacific coast terminal.s than from and to intermediate points, provided the terminals are kept on a parity.

Disque also that the Southern Pacific company be granted authority to establish lower rates on canned goods, asphalt, barley, beans, rice and dried fruit, froni coast terminals to New York than from and to Intermediate The report also that authority be granted transcontinental lines to continue lower rates on wool from Pacific coasts terminals than from intermediate points to defined territories but not to increase the existing oiiparitles against intermediate polttts. eagle I oy wihs contest HUGHES NOTE TO MEXICO HE SHOULD WORRY SIX IN TRAIN WRECK PASSENGERS INJURED IN DERAILMENT IN NEVADA. Broken Rail Throws Three Sleepers and Day Coach Off Track on Western Pacific Line Near Winnemucca. Landlords high poor other such Harry Humphries, of Los He should morry a build a house on it. Attached to his well-known completely furnished kitchenet and dining room, with seats for eight at the table.

room bungalow, IRISH REBELS HOLD PUBLIC BUILDINGS Bloody Clash Between De Valera and Free State Factions Feared When Griffith Speaks in Dublin. thome school. The pupils spent two days In collecting and transforming the eggs into works of aft. There were Sun Bonnet babies. Little Red Hen and her baby chicks, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Peter Rabbit and his family, Colonial sires and dames, white babies, black babies, and all sorts of spring flowers.

Every child in the school contributed to the happiness of the less fortunate child. The work was done under the dlreo- tion of the teachers in the art class of the school. klgh School Oratorical for Eastern Nebraska District Won by Roy Sicklan. OMAHA. April high school declamatory contests for the eastern district of Nebra.ska were held at Central high school auditorium Friday afternoon.

The winner of the oratorical con test was Roy flicklan of Eagle. Neb. In the dramatic contests Lois Ord of Auburn, and Alice Humbert of Omaha Central, won first and second place respectively and Earl Weekly of Valley, won first and second prizes In the humorous contests. The winners of the eastern district will enter the station contest for the state championship. Professor Adrian Newens of the unlversilty school of music at was DURLIN.

April Press) With Four Courts, one of the principal public buHdinge in the hands of Irish rebels, a bloody clash between the de Valera and free state factions is feared when Arthur Griffith speaks at Sligo on Easier Sunday while armed republicafis have taken over the town hall, the court house and other buildings. In face of this setting for a battle, Griffith, president of the Dail Eirrean and one of the leading supporters of the free state, Is determined to go ahead with hki plans for addressing a free state meeting. BELFAST, April Total deaths from snippers' bullets since Thursday reached five today with the shooting of an engineer as he sat in his cab at a railroad rtatlon and with the death a child previously wounded. Sniping between Catholic and unionist factlbns continued thruout the night. MAKE A RETRACTION OF BRYAN BAKHMETEFF IS MYSTERY FORMER AMBASSADOR TO BE aUESTIONED ABOUT SEMENOFF.

NATIONAL LEAGUE lOlSlI mm FRANCISCO. April passengers were injured early today when eaatbound overland train No. 2 on the Western Pacific was derailed two miles west of Winnemucca, according to W'ord received at the Western Palflc general offices here. The names of the Injured have not yet been reported. A broken rail cauaed the wreck.

On day coach and three sleepers ewre derailed. BOVIEmRATiY IS DIRECTED AT FRANCE Purpose of Conduct at Genoa Conference Shown to Be Aimed at Providing Excuse to Maintain Army. BROOKLYN AT NEW YORK. Brooklyn QGX9 QSG9 ESBJB New Yoik ansi OXSD DQia-CERB Gardinier, Shriner, Decatur and Causey, Barnes and Snyder. BOSTON AT PHILADELPHIA.

Boston usm KDEXI BSD Philadelphia DBD OKXl RffilH and Hubbell, Fillingim and Henline. CHICAGO AT CINCINNATI. oisni SI BEEl im EXi -Chaves, Freeman and Hartnett; Donohue SEEKSTO END CONTROVERSY EARLY AGREEMENT OVER RECOGNITION PORTENDED. 0 1 Chicago Cincinnati Batteries and Wingo. Obregon Government Practically Ready to Agree to Proposed American Tireaty of Amity.

Pittsburgh St Louis Batteries- 1 1 0 00 0 PITTSBURGH AT ST. LOUIS. sum Adams and Gooch; Haines and Ainfsmith. Committee of 100 Will Invite Him to Attend Sunday School Convention Despite Attitude on Evolution. Representative of Defunct Czarist Regime Has Been Intriguing Washington hy Evidences of Wealth.

FARMERS MUCH BETTER OFF SMALL ROOF FIRE. Thp department made a run to nil street, and crossed street at Tenth just after the parade had cleared that Intersection, A roof fire caused by chimney sparks at the home of Mrs. Grant, did small damage to the house. Head of War Sees ICO Per Cent Improvement Since Last Year. WASHlNtrTON.

April position of the farmer is 100 per cent now than a year ago, Eugene Meyer, director of the war finance declared today upon his return from a survey of economic conditions in the country. The agriculture outlook for the coming sea.son is promising, Meyer said. Easier money conditions prevail in the east and that Influence has been felt In the widespread liquidation of western loans, he said. Economy is being practiced on all sides, he added. PUPILS GIVE EASTER EGGS.

Children of the orthopedic hospital have received a large basket of Easter eggs from the pupils of Haw- KANSAS CITY. April olutlons asking that William Bryan be invited to attend the Inter- naitiQual Sunday SelMml association convention here in June were dnEsr.i^t by Tffr at the begluing of the meeting this afternoon. Committee leaders predicted the resolution would pass. They declared e.he inteniatlonal convention committee had Insulted" Bryan by deleting his name from the program of speakers because of his stand against the theory the human race sprang from monkeys. WASHINGTON.

April subpoena was issued today for Russian ambassador Bakhmeteff to testify Monday before the senate labor committee on the hearings relative to alleged atrocities of General Semenoff. cossack leader In Siberia. Bakhmeteff Is said to be in North Carolina. WASHINGTON, April be solved within the next Narrow Escape From Drowning. BEATRICE, April ten-year-old son of Tuttle of West Beatrice was rescued from drowning by Leo who found the lad clinging to the, end of a boat In the Blue river just north of the Court street bridge.

Almost half frozen from exposure in the cold water he was rushed to his home by Mr, Werner in his auto, and Is reported lo be recovering without any 111 effects. BACK BROKEN HAS CHILD. IXINTXIN, April woman has died in the district after living for three years with a broken spine. She was paralyzed from the waist down. Seven months after the accident In which her spine waa broken the woman gave birth, painlessly, to a child which is still living In excellent health.

CALLING FOR THE WIFE few days. Bakhmeteff will be Invited to appear Monday before the senate labor commission to tell what he knows of General Semenoff, cossack chieftain, now in In New York, and whom SenatOi Borah wants ejected from the United States as an undesirable. Bakhmeteff. it is claimed, welcomed Semenoff with open arms when he came to Washington recently. Bakhmeteff has been playing the role of the of mystery" by his continued presence in Washington since the overthrow of the Eus.slan Imperial government.

His ability to maintain the palatial embassy, purchased by the old regime, has aroused great curiosity. Where he obtains the money to and assist the wandering Russian nobles who drift into Washington occasionally, Is one of the chief topics of discussion. after aval OIL RESERVE PRIVATE INTERESTS SAID TO BE SEEKING CONTROL. Nunamaker. St.

Louis MOSCOW. April purpose of soviet strategy at the Genoa economic conference became apparent here today thru press comment and utterances of various officials. Russians believe: by initiating discussion of Rrmamemt, Russia put France In a posltloit of opposing disarmament and therebyl attracted world disapproval toward France, 2 the disarmament discussion put Russia in the position of being an advocate of disarmament to prevent war. opposition to disarmament discussion provided Russia with an excuse to maintain her army at Its prtwent strength. An order to the army by Trotsky, of war, appeals to mldiefs fd stand firmly at their posts, declaring refusal to consider armaments at Genoa, proves that the capitalistic nations want to retain the CpLollr means to suppress weak peoples.

Ljwaia. TO spe WW er jail General Semenoff, Former Leader of Cossacks, Not to Get Out for Sunday. NEW YORK. April Gregory Semenoff, who four years ago this spring, was leading his eossacks in a reign of terror thru Siberia, WIU spend Easter Sunday In jail. No effort was made today to secure release of the former and it-was stated by his attorneys none would be made until Monday.

MARRIED WRONG SISTER. GBNPIVA, April Franz Oserhelm, a Hungarian army officer, is trying to divorce his wife, who im- AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK AT WASHINGTON. New York BKIBI Wuhington QOD ffSBU Hoyt and Schang; Erickson, Phillips and Gharrity. PHILADELPHIA AT BOSTON. Game postponed on account of rain.

DETROIT AT Cleveland 0EBI Stoner and Bassler; Bagby and ST. LOUIS AT CHICAGO. 106 1 1 ,2 1 10 1 RSIII Chicago Vangilder and Severeid; Wilkinson and personated her sister at the altar. Captain O.serhelm was to marry the second of three sisters named Banner, at Bregenz, Lake Constance. The eldest sister, however, loved him determined to marry him.

On the wedding day doped her sister and, heavily veiled, went thru the marriage ceremony with the captain. When they returned to the hotel, she confessed the deception and declared her love for the captain who left alone for Hungary. you love me as much as "Yes. said he with his nose burled in his newspaper. That ought to have satisfied her, but she had to ask, Oh, I know.

Habit, I Minneapolis Tribune. Senate to Ask Denby and Fall Whether They Contemplate leasing Teapot Dome in Wyoming. WASHINGTON. April senate today took steps to Inquire into an alleged attempt by private oil interests to get control of the naval oil reserve in Wyoming. A resolution by Senator Kendnck, Wyoming, was adopted, calling on Secretary of Navy Denby and Secretary of Interior Fall to inform the senate whether they planned to lease the Tea Pot dome.

Wyoming naval oil reserve, to a private concern, and to give all the terms of the proposed transaction. LONDONDERRY JAGGED. LONDONDERRY, Ireland, April 15. municipal jag here has resulted In two deaths, many Illnesses and much sympathy for people in the United States. Thieves removed casks of whisky from a local distillery and opened them In the street.

Soon crowds of men, women and children with glasses and buckets were at tre scene. Many became Intoxicated. Onb man collapsed and died In the street. Another died later. Scores of people were 111.

It was found the whisky was immature. cc tl cui SS ity LONDON, April Nor bum, fifty-nine, w'ent to a department store and bought himself a pair of binoculars, with night lenses. He appeared next day before the Middlesex county for watching lovers on the seats in Hyde park thru his new' purchase. Norburn offered a plea of The magistrate offered Norburn the choice of a ten dollar fine or a week in the hoosegow. FIRST VICTORY TO LITTLE NAVY SIDE Adherents of Naval Force of 67,000 Maneuver to Have Showdown Come on Direct Vote on Amendment.

April navy men" In the house, won a temporary advantage when they succeeded in maneuvering proceedings so that the showdown will come on a direct vote on an amendment increasing the number of enlisted men provided for from 67,000 to 86.000. The advocates made a strong effort to get a test vote first on an amendment revising appropriation in the bill to provide for the higher personnel. 'The amendment for 86,000 personnel will be offered by Representative Vare, republican, Pennsylvania. lower get a thousand The once shell shattered little city of Louvain. Belgium, is to have a mopu ment that will remind the gallant citizens that America came to the rescue of civilization In the worl war.

Here is the American tect's drawing of the memorial lib rary soon to be eretced there. 'The original library was sgcked and estroyed by German Invaders. WASHINGTON. April tary of Stafce Hughes has sent a new note to Mexico In an attempt to setlb' the differences between the Uuited States and that country. The whole tenor of the note tin derstood to portend an early agree ment between the and Ameri can recognition of the Obregon gov emment.

The new Hughes may be more strictly said to be merely a com munlcatioa because of the absence of diplomatic believed to have been dispatched yesterday. It wm addressed to George T. Sum American charge d'affaires in Mexico ('ity for communication to Foreign Minister Panl of Mexico. Thin note was in reply to a communication from Panl and both these are a part of the negotiations that have been go Ing on for some time between Wash Ington and City In an attempt to secure a basis of be tween the United States and Mexico. This exchange of communications said to have shown a most conciliatory spirit on the part of the two governments and to have IndlcatiHl that the United States and Mexico wrill soon come to an agreement over controversial questions.

The Panl note, w'hkh now being replied to by Hughes, is understood to have stated that with certain varla (Ions and technical exceptions the Obregon government is ready to agree to tie proposed treaty of amity and commerce which Secretary Hugbe.s proposed to Mexico last summer and which was automatically to establish recognition. The reply from Hughes to Panl, it Is said, gave the impression that it the view of the American govemmeni that these tochnlcalltles can easily be overcome. How the Impasse which existed over the desire of this government that rcc ognltlon be extended automatically with the entering into a new treaty and the Mexican position that recog nltlon would have to be accorded first, has been It has been finally not yet known. Bui It is understood that the Impression given out by the exchange of notes is that this difference no longer stands as a barrier between the couii- triee. Oil Still a Problem.

The Hughes notes Is understood to deal directly with the question of article 27 of the Mexican constitution of 1917, on which have been base'd the confiscatory program of Mexico against American oil properties. It is believed that It can be regarded as certain that any agreement thab is being worked out by Hughes will contain guarantee against any future po! icy of confiscation. While note is understood to have expressed the hope and desire of the American government for an early resumption of relations with Mexico, It Is said that another warning is given In the note that there can be no recognition with a continuance of a confiscatory policy In Mexico. The note also Is reported to deal with other minor phases of the questions between the United States and Mexico as guaranteeing of church lands in Mexico against confiscation. ury Gave Verdict Against the Farmers Investment Company BecAuse of Injuries.

David E. Lower won a verdict for $1,000 In his $10,000 suit against the Farmers Investment company, trfbd before a jury In district court. The ury brought in a verdict Saturday afternoon. Mr. had alleged in- iurles that damaged him in the sum of $10,000 because of an automobile accident while traveling with Warren Lynch, president of the company on company business.

It was said the automobile was driven over a cul vert at a high rate of speed, that Mr. Lower was thrown against the machine and that by this Impact he sustained serious Injuries. TO REiTRTcT I mmigrants Senate Votes by Acclamation to Extend Three Per Cent Law for Two Years. WASHINGTON, April for the two years of the three per cent immigration quota law was voted by acclamation In the senate this af- temoon.Under the measure, a foreign nation can send here annually only three per cent as many immigrants as it ha.s nationals already in this count- WILL OUT SAN FRANCISCO. April K.

M. Landis, commissioner of hase- ball today wired President William H. McCarthy of the Pacific coast league instructing him to take steps necessary to prevent Manager Bill Kenworthy of the Portland Beavers appearing in coa.st league games. FIRST WOMAN MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE S. Countess de Noeilles, noveli.st and leader of Parisian society, was recently elected a member of the royal academy of science in Brussels, despite considerable opposition.

She is the first woman to be so honored by that woHd famous society. I.