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MILITARY METHODS
TO co INTO EFFECT
AT PEN|TENT!ARY
Officers and Employees Will Be
Organized as Uniformed
Guard.
ORDER OF PRISON BOARD
ALSO APPLIES TO INMATES
BODY Acts to Secure MorciEi-
hcient Administration of
Reform System.

Following Recommendations hv
SUPERINTENDENT 81 the ronitcn,iar,
Comes Il wood .hy penitcu,isry
board Yesterday afternoon adou,.d
resolutions loo&.us toward more rf.
''g'"n, administration of its program,
Tor 'ho bcttorm.nt of conditions
'i'"n@ ,hc prisoners. appointed :. nov
assistant superintendent :s wclI as
several other officers. r.org,niz.I ,l,..
-"'Td and other "nploy.s. putting
Them a. VOL as thu inmates. ON q
military basis.
tnt action .; rI" board iu adopting
to, recommendations OF Supcrtnt.nd
"nt Wood was unanimous. W Il
saunders OF EIacksburg, who Was
:hrcni. concurring in ia. resolutions
adopted hy the other four members
In resolution adopted by th.
board on May :, It was pointed on,
tat proper and satisfactory dis.i-
pine is not maintained at the psni
t"nt'ary ana il The brnnch prisons
hat The police dcpar,n.n, Of ,h.
h"n't"nt:ary ard hranch.s ar. mo-,
"r*''n.zcd or conducted on 4 doyir,II..
i"HIS' ana ihai tn" best interests OF
ihr Commonwealth ana the S,a,.
c"uN!cts required "A REORGANIZATION of
IA" administrative ana police services
e N" renitemtiary, The state Farm
an! IA" state convict ROAD fore
c"ups
requested Recommendations.
f'"!i%!n@ that the program which
~ A"H mapped out I" max" the pen
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Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Bodies Of War Heroes
Saved as Fire Burns
Hoboken Army Piers

Hoboken, N. J., Aug. 24.-Five
hundred bodies of American soldier
dead, awaiting shipment to the
homes of relatives, were removed
to safety when fire of unknown
origin swept over the ARMY water
front reservation here, destroying
piers five and six, and an adjoining
army storehouse and barracks.
Pier four. at which the giant liner
Leviatllan and the transport Whea-
ton were docked, was saved with
difficulty. The flames licked the
sides of the Leviathan, damaging a
small section of the woodwork on
the bow and the forward mast, bus
a fire boat wedged its way between
the liner and the burning pier and
successfully fought off the flames.
When the fire broke out Capt. H.
S. Wilbur, officer of the day, called
out the entire army personnel, about
$50 men, who started removing the
bodies. -Four hundred longshore-
men, on duty at nearby piers, as
sisted.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Weak Cirder Is
Blamed for Wreck
OF Big Dirigible g
Gondolas Under Airship Be-
come Death Trap for Mem
bers of Crew Following
Explosion.
Nv The Associated Press.

Howden, England, Aug. 25.-The
cause of the disaster to the LR-l, ac-
cording to the best information OBJ
tainable here, the base of the Destroy
ed dirigible. was the breaking OF a
longitudinal girder amidship, made OF
an aluminium alloy, cutting the air.
ship in halves. An explosion Of
either hydrogen or petrol occurred
Immediately after the g:rder gave
way and flames burst through the
structure, but the explosion, it is de-
clared, was not the cause of the
breaking up of the airship.
The break occurred in the part OF
the airship where gi.der was
strained when it was first brought to
Howden. The girder hac been re-
inforced, however, and the ship
found to be perfectly air worthy, it
was said. None of the authorities
here, it was said, would venture any
opinion regarding the cause OF the
break
To Hold Public Funeral
London, Aug. 25.-The American
and British victims of the disaster
to the ZR-2 at Hull last evening
will be accorded a great public fun
eral. probably in London, it is con-
sidered certain. The air ministry to-
day had the project under advise
ment and an announcement regard
ing it was expected at any time.
Meanwhile, all England. profound
ly stirred by the destruction of the
giant dirigible-the greatest of all
air disasters-is giving expression to
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Thirty Persons Led
From Burning Tenement
Over Ironing Board

New York, Aug. 25.-Thirty per-
sons, trapped on the fifth floor of a
burning tenement house, were pilot
ed to safety over an ironing board,
six inches wide at one end and nine
inches at the other, which was held
on the edge of two roofs. while the
endangered people, among them a
woman 70 years old, crawled across.
Meanwhile from below and ad-
joining windows, hremen sent up
two walls Of water to keep the res
cued and rescuers from choking
with smoke. and to keep the flames
from destroying their precarious
bridge. After it was thought every
body had been taken over the roofs.
it was found that one woman was
missing. Firemen found her uncon-
scious on. the floor o. her bedroom
and carried her over the ironing
board to safety. Fire did conlpara-
lively little damage.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Women Badly Hurt
In Auto Accident
Driver of Machine Disappears
After Bringing One of Pas
sengers to Auburn.

Auburn, Neb., Aug. 25.-(Special
Telegram. 1.-TWO women were
seriously injured when an automo.
bile. driven by an unidentified man
turned turtle on the highway, two
and one-half miles east of Stella.
Mrs. Able Ahart. Dow City, Ia,
sustained a deep cash extending the
entire length of her face and up into
the scalp. The flesh was cut to the
bone and part of the lip was severed.
Two hours were required by a
physician at the Auburn hospital,
where the woman was taken follow
ing the accident, to stitch the flesh
together.
The other woman, whose name has
not been learned, sustained several
broken ribs and severe bruises.
The driver disappeared after TAX
ing Mrs. Ahart to the hospital. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Ahart, the car in
which they were riding was almost
run down by another machine as
they turned onto the main highway
at an intersection. To avoid COL
lision their driver swerved to one
side and the machine crashed into
the ditch. turning turtle and then
righting itself. The second car did
not stop. The driver of the car in
which the two women were riding
was uninjured, according to Mrs.
Ahart, who claims ignorance OF his
identity.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Trading in Futures
Not Affected by New
Grain Control Bill

Chicago, Aug. Designing of the
Capper- -Tincher grain marketing
law by President Harding brought
a flood of inquiries to grain ex-
changes as to whether contracts for
future delivery must be closed out
before the measure becomes effec-
tive. ....
THE new law" said Secretary
John r. Mauff of the Chicago Board
of Trade, recognizes ' the legality
of futures trading. 1t provides reg
ulations for grain exchanges under
a commission composed of the sec
retary of agriculture. secretary of
commerce and the attorney general
of the United States. 1t provides
that cooperative bodies that be-
come members of exchanges must
assume the same financial RESPONSE
bilities as other members. Neither
the tax nor the penalties of the law
are to be imposed until after four
months.
ut is unfortunate that critics of
the exchanges have spread reports
that the new law is to eliminate
futures trading. The economic value
of contracts for future delivery has
been recognized in this law"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Mine Battle
Raging In
Coal |. Fields
Boone County W. Va, Sheriff
With 300 Deputies Fight
ing Large Body Of Armed
Men at Blair.
Residents Flee Town

Charleston. w. Va, Aug. 25.-H
w. B. Mullins, prosecuting attorne,
OF Boone county. located at Madison
reported this evening that Sheriff
Don Chain of Logan county, will
500 armed deputies. is now engaged
in battle with large body OF armct
men at Blair. i'll Logan county.
Blair is near the Boone count,
line. Mullins said that authentic
reports" he has received are to the
effect that residents OF Blair. includ
ing old men. women and children
are fleeing the town in the direction
Of Madison.
Mullins said "a large group o.
heavily warmed men" had reached
Rock creek. three miles from Mad
ison, this evening. He said he could
not estimate the number
Blair is said to be one of the few
mining towns in the Logan field or
ganized by the United Mine Workers
of America. The president of the
local union at Blair was i'll Charles
ton early this week. and according
10 {. F. keeney. district president
OF the miners, reported that the men
there were prepared for trouble"
and had dug trenches to protect
themselves from possible attack in
the hills surrounding the town"
Say Fighting Local"
The town is located about 10
miles from Logan and trouble has
been reported from there frequently
OF late" Keeney added Officers OF
the United Mine Workers here de-
scribed the fighting at Blair. AS
"local" and mot connected with the
Marmet situation or including men
from Marmet camp"
A man who said he was Sheriff
Don Chain answered the telephone
in the Office of the Logan county
sheriff tonight.
What is the situation in Logan
county," he was asked.
"We are not giving out any infor-
nation" was his reply.
Asked whether there was fighting
going on at Blair, he said:
Il cannot say anything about it,"
as he hung up the receiver.
Phone Wires Cut.
Pittsburgh. Aug. 25.-Sheriff ]. L.
Hill OF Boone county told The
Associated Press over the long dis
tance telephone that all wires be-
tween Madison and Blair had been
cut and that he was without infor-
nation concerning . reported en-.
gagenient between marchers and
deputy sheriffs at Blair.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Receivers
Named For
VAN. Mill.
Liabilities of Largest Floor.
ing Mill in State Will
Run Close to
$1,000, 900.
Omaha Firm in Charge

With liabilities of close to $1,000
900 the Observation-Disclosures Milling
company OF Schuyler, Neb,, largest
Of its kind in the state, went into
the hands of receiver yesterday.
Federal Judge Woodrough named
the Peters Trust company to act in
that capacity. c. ]. Claassen will
serve for the trust company, which
put up a $4,000 bond.
Bankruptcy proceedings were start
ed in federal court yesterday by Carl
Modesitt, holder OF $4,000 stock.
Lost Huge Sum.
The company lost the huge sum
of $6S8,6l2l5 between July II. 1920,
and July 2, 1921, he states in his
petition. Depreciation of company
property will bring the total loss up
to $l,000,000, he says.
Total liabilities OF the company
are listed at $888,0l5,28. There is
$500, ,705.83 owed to banks in New
York, Illinois and Nebraska, of which
$575,000 is totally unsecured and
1921. .705.83 is secured by drafts for
in transit. More debts
and taxes. amounting to $82, As
raise the liabilities to the $888,0l528
figure.
While expressing the belief that
the company, with increased capital,
could be run so as to be advantage
ously sold, the petition requests the
Judge to take such action as is re-
quired to close up the company's
affairs.
Want Assets Sold.
THE assets should be sold and
into cash to pay debts and
capital stock liabilities on several is
sues of preferred stock" the petition
reads.
Eastern banks are said to have de-
,lined to furnish the capital needed
% effect a reorganization and keep
he company from going under.
The company is said, in the pc
:ition. to have disregarded its con-
tract to preferred stockholders in
ailing to maintain redemption
und for the purchase of outstanding
ponds. The deficit in this fund is
sl2.500.
The capital stock of the company
S given as Sl,500.000. There is out
standing $464, 900 i'll common and
475, 900 in preferred stock. -..
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Western Roads Oppose
Reduction on Hay and
Grain Freight Rates

Washington. Aug. 25.-Reductions
in freight rates on grain and hay
asked by the western states. would
result in an annual loss to the west
ern roads of $63,700,0O0 and would
reduce their return ON capital IN
vested to l.67 per cent, L. E. Wett-
ling, manager OF the bureau of sta,
tistics ior western carriers, testified
before the Interstate Commerce dom-
mission.
Earnings of western carriers On
freight traffic for the current year
will amount to only $145,887.00o the
witness estimated. a..
He testified that even in the lace
OF wage cuts made by the railroad
labor board. effective July |, the re-
ductions asked would be disastrous
to the carriers.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Navy Men Hope
Disaster Won't
Hurt Blimp Work
Although Deprecating Catas.
trophe, Officials Plan to
Continue Experiments
If Congress Willing.

Washington, Aug. 26,-Despite
the loss of the ZR-2 before actual,
becoming naval property, officers o.
the naval bureau Of aeronautics con.
fidently hope the navy will be per.
nlitted to continue its rigid airship
program. They point out that Amer.
lea already has gigantic hangar a,
Lakehurst. N. J., completed at a
cost of 100000 and capable OF
housing two ships of the size of the
ZR-2, as we'll as other complete ia
cilities.
Although appropriations were
stopped before the ZR-1, was com.
pleted most of the necessary strue-
tural material is already manufac.
tured and awaiting assembly, much
of the envelope has been fabricated
and nearly all the material for its
completion purchased at a cost of
about $l,000,0OO.
Much Helium Stored.
For months the naval gas extract
ing plant at Fort Worth, Tex, has
been storing helium gas and suffi-
cient gas of this type has been as
sured to fill the envelope of a ship
as large as the lost ZR-2.
Plans for the ZR-1 call for an air
ship of slightly smaller size than the
ZR-2, length of go feet, diameter
about 80 feet, and gas capacity of
approximately 100000 cubic feet.
The total cost is estimated at s., ,50O,-
600. While designers of the ZR-2
departed somewhat from the struc-
tural lines of the Zeppelins, the
naval designers said their plans for
a ship incorporating the latest de-
velopments of the original rigid
builders, the Germans, of whose
plans more than 100 were filed here
for reference.
Build Own Ships.
The reports that the ZR-2 fell in
two pieces tended to cause belief in
naval circles that structural failures
were the prime cause OF the
disaster, brought about perhaps by
too sudden a strain on some weak
part. ....r..
1t is not thought that the navy
will endeavor to purchase from
England any of its remaining rigid
a;rships, but that construction in
America will be undertaken if others
are authorized.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Mexican Bandit Chief
Executed by Rurale:

Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. 25.-Mexican
rurales have executed Domingo
Domingues, alleged bandit leader
and another alleged bandit, and are
pursuing members OF band who
are said to have killed Bennett
Boyd, Is. of FL Paso, ON the. Ojitas
ranch, Chihuahua, and SteFenson
Bunk, storekeeper, in a raid last
week, according to word reaching
here.
This information was brought by
travellers from the vicinity OF the
Ojitas ranch. who made a report OF
the killings to o. P. Brown, former
bishop of the Mormon church in
Chihuahua.
The rurales or rural police, have
driven the band near the American
boundary and United States Off
cials have been asked to watch for
the bandits.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Illinois Man Confesses
To Murder Of Wife in June

Granite City. H., Aug. 25.-Arthur
Dorman confessed, Police Chief Clark
said, that the body Of the woman
found murdered and buried in a
crude grave in wheat field near here
June Is, was that of his wife, Nora,
and that he had murdered her. He
said she had been "eNtravagant"
with his meager salary, "had gone
out with other men," and had allowed
Kim and his son. John, only 81 a
week apiece spending money.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Stockholders of
N.-S.-F. Firm Insists
Stock Not Be Sold
Say Fowler Family Should
Not Be Allowed to Sell
Shares Unless Same Priv
ilige Granted Others.

Fremont, Ncb.. Aug. 25.-(Special
Telegram. Thirty Fremont stock.
holders of the Nye-Schneider- Fow-
Ter company held meeting to con-
slider the organization plan sent out
from Chicago by a stockholders
protective committee.
Creditor banks have secured the
aid of Julius Barnes in the reorgan-
ization. He is to be placed at the
head of the company and given an
option on S5 per cent of the stock
to assure him of complete control.
The option provides that he may
purchase the stock before August,
1922. for $40 share, and have FIVE
years to exercise such option at per
cent annual compound interest based
on the $40 share. Price of the stock
is subject to such modification as
may be revealed by an appraisal as
of August |, 1921. of the properties
to be. made by Vice President Van
Vechton of the Continental and Com
mercial National bank of Chicago, in
no case to exceed $50.
The reorganization plan provides
that Frank Fowler and members of
his family deposit their entire hold
ings and then additional stock will
be put into Mr.. Barnes hands
through certificates issued through
the depository banks at Chicago to
make 55 per cent of the stock out
standing. At least IL per cent more
must be deposited with the Chicago
stockholders committee. to give the
latter two-thirds for absolute con-
troll.
Stockholders have received no
statement sas to the condition of the
company. They are ignorant as to
whether the valuation of stock as
set out by the protective committee
comedies with the values shown in
the inventory made by the firm. The
attending stockholders are eager for
the company to continue in busi-
ness and stated that they merely
wanted to take steps for the good
of all concerned. w. ]. Court
right, local attorney, is attend
ing meeting in Chicago today
looking after local interests.
Stockholders adopted set of
resolutions in line with the results
and decisions formed at the con-
ference in referring to Mr.. Fowler,
former president of the N. S. F.
company. The resolutions state,
"We insist that Mr.. Fowler and
family, as holders OF the largest sim
gle amount of stock, do not sell the
same unless the rest of us have the
same privilege. And we, as between
ourselves, should none OF us sell un-
til we get report from the execu-
tive committee on basis that we
can all sell if we wish"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Iowa Student Dies While
On Vacation in Colorado

Denver, Aug. 25.-Lowell Barry.
26, Clarinda. Ia, student of the
University of Chicago. died here fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis
which struck him suddenly at the
Estabrook ranch, near Wellington,
Colo. where he was spending his
vacation. Barry was rushed TO a
Denver hospital on an early morning
train, but physicians were unable to
save his life. Barry was said to
have been leader in athletics at
the University of Chicago, which nc
attended for the last two years.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
American Oil Men
Start for Mexico

New York, Aug. 25.-A delega
ton of prominent American oil men
left here Wednesday on a special
train for Mexico City, where they
will confer with officials of the
Mexican government on differences
arising from taxes on oil export.
The delegation was made up of
Walter c. Teagle, president of the
Standard Oil company of New Jer-
sey; ]. w. Vandyke of the Atlantic
Refining company; Amos L. Beatty
OF the Texas company, and H. F.
Sinclair of the Sinclair Consolidated
company.
Edward L. Doheny. the fifth
member of the delegation, who is
now in. Los. Angeles. plans to join
the party later in the week.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Germans Sign
Peace Pact With
United States
State of War Formally
Brought to End With Ger
many in Berlin at
$50 O'Clock.

Berlin, Aug. 25--(By The Asso
ciated Press.)-The treaty of peac.
between Germany and the Unitet
States was signed here at $50 O'CLOCK
this evening.
The delay in signing, which was
scheduled for Wednesday, resulted
from an unexpected technical point
raised in connection with the for
nlalities as arranged by Ellis Loring
Dresel, the United States commits
sioner, and DR.. Friedrich Rosen, the
German foreign minister, yesterday
Signing Postponed.
The ceremony OF signing was tc
have occurred at noon "Wednesday
at the foreign Office, but it was post
poned at the request Of Mr.. Dresel
who asked the privilege OF queryin2
the Washington government on the
mooted point. .
At both the headquarters of the
American commission and the Ger
man foreign office it was said tilal
the tecl1nicality which involved thu
delay did not affect the contents OF
character of the treaty, as both gov.
ernments reached a full accord or
the official text some days ago.
Conference Postponed.
German editors had been sum
moned to the foreign office Wednes.
day for a discussion of the treaty
but the conference was postponed
pending receipt by Commissioners
Dresel of a reply from Washington
Although, the point which was re-
ferred to Washington is said to be
of minor technical importance, Com.
missioner Dresel preferred to obtain
a ruling upon it from the American
State department.
The signing occurred in the office
of Foreign Minister Rosen in the
Wilhelmstrasse. The function oc-
cupied about 10 minutes. Ellis Lor-
ring Dresel, the American commits
sioner who was seated opposite the
foreign minister at the latter's desk,
signed botl, copies of the treaty first
and then pushed the document across
the desk to Herr Rosen, who affixed
his own signature.
Contains Three Articles.
The German foreign minister, in
signing, expressed qualification at
this act for the resumption of friend
ly relations between the two nations,
Mr.. Dresel replying with reciprocal
sentiments.
The treaty consists of three ar
,icles, the preamble citing sections
2 and 5 Of the Porter-knox peace
resolution. Article | says:
Germany has undertaken to &C
cord to the United States and the
United States shall have and enjoy,
all the rights, privileges, indemni-
ties, reparations or advantages speci-
fled in the aforesaid joint resolution
of the congress OF the United States
of July 2, 1921, including all the
rights and advantages stipulated for
the benefit of the United States in
the treaty Of Versailles which the
Unred States shall ,ully enjoy, not
withstanding the fact that such treaty
has not been ratified by the United
States
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Railroad Unions Unable
To Agree on Strike Ballot

Cleveland, Aug. 25.-After two
days of conference i'll all effort to
prepare a joint strike ballot to the
40o, 900 members of the five big rail-
road transportation labor organiza-
tons, the chief executives, executive
committee members and assistant
grand officers of the engineers, fire.
men, trainmen. conductors and
switchman were unable to agree on
the wording of the ballot and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
decided to prepare a separate bal
lot, the other four organizations
agreeing on one ballot.
| The ballots. it was understood, will
be mailed to the members next week
and a referendum vote completed
about October J..
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Minneapolis Tramway
Granted Increase in Fares

St. Paul, Aug. 25.-The state rail.
road and warehouse commission
granted the application of the Min
ncapolis Street Railway company
for 7-cent cash fare. or four tick
cts for 25 cents, effective September
|. The present fare is 6 cents
straight.
The new rate is temporary aud
will remain in force until the conf
mission has had an opportunity to
determine a "fair" valuation OF the
company's property on which 10
make the basis for a permanent fare.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-26
Peggy Now Pursuing
Quiet Life in Paris
Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright. 1921

Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright, 1921.
Paris. Aug. 25.-lt is the quiet life
for Peggy Hopkins Joyce this tim
She is living in an expensive !
in the Hotel Majestic, near a
Etoile, with maid. She rises 4
noon, lunches usually at the Ritz
motors in the Bois de Bolougne duri
ing the afternoon and frequently
dimes at the Cafe dc Paris. In the
evening she attends the theater.
Peggy refuses to see anyone en-
cept a mysterious stoop-shouldered
young man known as NJ. De Merton,
banker.