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Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Deadlock Exists
In Negotiations
For Irish Peace
Premier Lays Results Of Par
leys Before Country on Eve
of Convening Of Dali
Eireann.
BY The Associated Press.

London, Aug. ls.--England
today faced a crucial period in ne
eoiiations looking to the establish
ment of peace in ireland. The action
OF the British government yesterday
in making public letters exchanged
between Prime Minister Lloyd
George and Eamonn De Valera.
Irish republican leader. showed the
people that virtual deadlock
existed, although the door was de
clared to have been left open for
further parleys. II.
Reports from Dublin which might
indicate what the Irish republicans
would do to counter the unexpected
move of the government in giving
the correspondence to the press were
anxiously awaited.
1t would appear that the prime
minister sought to lay the Irish
problem before the country on the
eve OF the meeting OF the Dali Fire
ann, which convenes tomorrow.
Synopsis of Terms.
The government terms were, in
brief, as follows:
Dominion status for Ireland, with
complete autonomy in financial mat
ters, but without tariff or trade re-
striction between the Islands. Ire
land would maintain defense forces
and police, but its territorial forces
would be kept within reasonable
limits"
Ireland would maintain its own
postal system, but would grant Eng
land air defense and communication
facilities. Ireland would have con-
troll of it's own educational and in
dustrial affairs, but the British navy
would maintain its hold on the seas
around the island A share of the
United Kingdoms debt would be
assumed by Ireland, the exact
amount to be fixed by arbitration.
Demanded Independence.
Mr.. De Valera in reply demanded
full independence for Ireland and
suggested a treaty OF association
with the British commonwealth
group. Treaties regarding trade
ana limitation OF aTlIlaHleHtS Wcts
uyged by the Irish republican chief
tain, together with mutual agree
ments as to air, railway and other
communications. The Ulster prob
lem would be left to the Irish Them
selves for solution, Mr.. De Valera
declaring that the employment OF
force was not contemplated.
The attitude of the Ulster govern
ment was made plain by the making
public at Belfast of letter to Mr..
Lloyd George from Sir James Craig,
the lister premier. Sir James ex-
pressed the loylty of his government
to the empire and reiterated his
readiness to confer with Mr.. Lloyd
George and the Sim Fen as to some
means of setting the Irish con-
troversy, but declared he would not
support the Sim. Feir III what he
described was a "move to coerce the
government to repudiate the Irish
act" and ito press for wider pow
erS,"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Mexican Caruso'' Seeks Aid
To Develop Wonderful Voice

Syracuse, N. Y, Aug. ls.-The
Mexican Caruso" paid visit to Sy-
racuse day or two ago. This Ca
ruso's" name is Signor Roberto
Amanda. He speaks only Spanish.
He is a graduate of several educa-
tional institutions in Mexico City,
whence he halls. Amanda has "a
rich, wonderful voice." according to
Mary Garden, before whom he says
he sang in Los Angeles, but it must
be trained, said John Mccormack,
who, Amanda stated, also praised his
Sweet tenor" but recommended a
season or two under voice culture
artist. Amanda is 28, but he looks
much younger. His appearance in
Syracuse followed a more or less
trudging of highways from the
coast. He said he had used his
voice enroute to pave the way tor
a square" meal, and Good Samar-
itan here and there had helped him.
He is destined for New York to con-
suit the Spanish consul general
there. From that dignitary Amanda
hopes to obtain assistance to enable
him to secure the necessary instruc-
tions which, he believes, will lead to
that height in voice control and
sweetness before which the operate
world will bow.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Nab Rum Runners
In Pistol Battle
U. S. Marshals Capture Six
Members of Nation Wide
Gang After Long Chase.

New York, Aug. 15.-Six heavily
armed bootleggers, members of a
countrywide gang of hooch runners,
were vanquished Sunday in thrill
ing pistol battle between IS men,
bcrs OF the gang and IA deputy Unit
ed States marshals on the Jericho
turnpike near Huntington, L. l.
More than 100 shots were ex-
changed. All but six of the rum
runners escaped after firing volleys
into the automobiles loaded with
dputies and which were pressing
them closely. The others were beat
en- into submission and are held. The
deputies say at least two of those
who scaped were badly wounded.
At the outskirts Of Huntington
they came across two seven-passen-
ger cars, each heavily loaded. Some
of the occupants were recognized as
rum runners, but when they were or
dered to stop they opened fire and
sped away. After a long chase in
which many motor cars took part.
one OF the cars was run down and
six of the men were captured. Sew
enty-five cases of whisky were found
in the cars.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Vessels Seized
Because Company
Broke, SaysLaske
Ship Board Head Makes As.
sertion in Speaking of Rec
ords That Will Be Pre-
sented at Hearing.

New York, Aug. l5.-The impel-
ling reason for the recent seizure by
the United States shipping board OF
nine passenger liners chartered by,
or ailocated to, the United States
Mail Steamship company "was its
knowledge that the company was in
solvent" A. D. Lasker, chairman OF
the board, declared last night. The
allegation was contained in a state
ment summarizing documents
which, he said, would be filed in the
federal district court in proceedings
brought by the company to regain
possession of the ships.
"Such insolvency." the statement
read, mot only endangered the 2x-
istenee of the sole American pas
senger feet in the north Atlantic
ocean capable of competing with es-
tablished European lines, but threat
ened to pile up against the ships
further large charges, besides those
already contracted, which the new
shipping board apprehended the
government in the end would be
forced to pay
''If the board is awarded posses
sion of the ships by the court" Mr..
Lasker said, 1T will call for bids
from responsible, efficient sea-oper-
ating companies to operate the ves-
sells" Its paramount desire, he ex-
planned, is to keep the ships running.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Circulation Of
US. Newspapers
Gains in 5 Years
More Than IL Billion Copies
OF Daily Papers Printed An
nually, or One for Every
Three and Fifth Persons.

Washington, Aug. 1s.-More than
eleven and quarter billion copies OF
daily newspapers are printed an
nually in the United States, aver
aging one copy a day for every
three and one-hfth persons Of the
country's total population, latest
statistics of the bureau of the CEN
sus show.
Circulation of the nations 2,433
daily newspapers aggregated ST.
735,o37 copies a day, an increase OF
1873 per cent in the five years since
1914. The circulation of the 592
Sunday newspapers was lo,029,S34
copies each Sunday during 1919, an
increase of 14.9 per cent.
The aggregate circulation of these
daily and Sunday newspapers, there
fore, was ll,270.55o,3l6 copies, or
1866 copies per capita for the year.
Total circulation of the country's
zO,431 newspapers ard periodicals
aggregated l5,475,l45,l02 copies for
the year, an increase of J per cent
per issue in FIVE years. That in
cludes daily. Sunday, tri-weekly,
semi-weekly. weekly, monthly, quar-
terly, and all other newspapers and
periodicals.
The printing and publishing in
dustry's products were valued in
1919 at s., ,52S,856,5 SOB. of which news.
papers and periodicals contributed
$80S,066,O3s, and newspapers alone,
$6l2,7l8,5ls, an increase of HOO per
cent in FIVE years.
Newspaper subscriptions and sales
aggregated $204,95S,2l4, an increase
of 1869 per cent.
Advertising totaled S407, 200, ,30l,
an increase of 1915 per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Tax Plans Changed
By House Committee
CONTINUED From Page One.)

levy sections already referred to, the
bill proposed repeal of all of the
transportation taxes, effective next
January /, increased exemptions to
heads of families and married men
having incomes of less than $4,000,
decreases nthe levies on candy,
sporting goods, furs and art and art
works: the sustitution of manufac-
turers' taxes for the so-called nuis-
ance and luxury levies and other
changes.
Additional revisions include exemp-
ton from taxation of the salaries OF
the president of the United States
and the judges of the supreme and
inferior federal courts and also
amounts received by individuals as
compensation, family allotments and
allowances under provisions OF the
war risk insurance and vocational
rehabilitation acts.
A change also is made in compen-
sation, the bill requiring them to pay
the normal corporation tax in lieu
of the levies on policies when writ
ten and all other personal taxes ex-
cept the corporation stock fax and
certain stamp taxes. Foreign lite
insurance companies would ray on
the net income from sources within
the United States.
Personal service corporations,
freed by the supreme court from cor
poration taxes, would be brought
specifically under the corporation in
come tax and provision is made that
if the partnership tax of the 1913
act on individual stockholders OF
such corporations should be de-
clared invalid, there shall. in addi-
ton to all other taxes, be levied, COL
lected and paid on the net income
received during the calendar years
1918, 1919 and 1920 by every per-
sonal service corporation, tax equal
to the taxes imposed under the ex-
cess profits and income surtax pro-
visions of the present law. -.-. a..
Farm Bodies Exempt. -
Exemption from taxation would be
granted to farmers cooperative pur-
chasing organizations as well as 70
selling organizations where the ma
terials purchased are turned over TO
members of the organizations, at
actual cost plus necessary expenses.
Other revisions provide that no
amusement tax shall be levied on
admissions, all the proceeds of which
inure exclusively to the benefit OF
persons in the military and naval
service or to persons who have
served in such forces and are IN
need; that the jewelers. tax OF ) per
cent on eyeglasses and spectacles
and the manufacturers tax OF , per
cent on portable electric fans shall
be repealed and that a tax OF III
per cent shall be imposed on lenses
for cameras weighing not more than
100 pounds.
Some of the new administrative
features in the bill are designed to
speed up settlement Of claims involv-.
ing hack taxes. estimated to total
ST SOC, 100000. The time for deter
mination and final assessment OF any
tax due under the new bill would
be three years after the return was
filed, instead of FIVE as at present,
and the amount of tax due under
any return made under prior tax
acts would have to be determined
and assessed within FIVE years after
the return was made. unless the com.
missioner of internal revenue and
taxpayer consented to later time.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Chicago OperaCo.
Personnel Chosen
Returning Favorites Headed
By Mary Garden, Muratore,
'Calli-Curchi and Others.

New York, Aug. ls.-Bringing
signed contracts with. s. stars and
principals, the largest and most i'm
portant snare of songbirds ever pre-
sented by the Chicago Opera COM
pany, George M. Spangler, business
manager, returned to the United
States on the Lapland following a
l0-weeks' tour of the opera centers
of Europe with General Director
Mary Garden.
Mr.. Spangler declared that he
would withhold detailed announce
ment of the personnel of the old and
new artists and the opera to be pre-
sented until his arrival in Chicago.
He stated. however, that 81 of the
artists were returning favorites,
headed by Mary Garden, Muratore,
Galli-Curci, Rosa Raisa, Schipa
and Baklanoff, and that of the 2l
new stars and principals several were
the reigning sensations of central
Europe and South America.
1--WE will present opera 10 weeks
in Chicago, opening November IA
at the Auditorium" said Mr.. Span
gler, ''in French. Italian, German
and Russian. Our New York sea-
son opens January 23 for five weeks
at the Manhattan Opera house to be
followed by a transcontinental tour
of eight weeks of the principal cities.
including the Pacific coast, making
a season of q weeks"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Man Accused Of
Priests Murder
Regains Poise
Hightower Taken to Redwood
City, Where Hearing to be
Held Thursday-Tries to
Recover Letter.

Redwood City, Cal, Aug. Is
William E. Hightower, accused of
the murder of Rev, Patrick E. Hes
lin, was brought here today from
San Francisco, where for four days
he has been subjected to examina-
ton by officers in an effort to wrest
confession from him.
Hightowcr was brought here be-
cause this is the seat of San Mateo
county, in which Father Heslin is be-
lleved to have been slain and in
which his body was recovered in a
search by lantern last Wednesday
night. 1t was here that warrant
was issued for him and here. next
Thursday, he will be given a pre-
liminary hearing.
Hightower's attitude reverted to-
day to the self-possession which was
evident in the early stages of his
examination. Last night, at the end
Of day in which the officers had
adduced witness after witness to con-
trovert his story. he seemed on the
verge of breakdown. But today he
was calm and cynical as ever.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Sarah Bernhard Says
viii Say FarelUeu to
Americans Next Year

Paris, Aug. l5.-"I am many years
old, but my determination never to
retire from the stage is irrevocable.
Please reassure America regarding
my health. / have a bad cold, but
my youth will enable me to pull
through. l hope to say farewell to
America personally next year"
This telegraph message | received
this morning. from Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt, from her sick bed in
Belle Isle, from which her doctors
fear she will never arise. ,
From independent sources it is
learned that she is afflicted with
severe cold on the lungs and COM
plications are feared.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Harding Selects
Representatives
OfU.S. at Meeting
Personnel of Commission to
Participate in Disarmament
Conference Tentatively.
Chosen.

Washington, Aug. l5.-President
Harding has made up his mind on
the personnel of the United States
commission to participate in the
Washington international conference
on reduction Of armaments, but he
cannot foreclose the subject until
exchanges with the participating
powers have defined some regula-
ton as to the number of represen-
tatives each nation will have at the
conference table.
Speculation as to the probable
membership of the American dele
CATION has not changed the list as
published in The Bee several
weeks ago after the president had
told some of his advisers that he
had in mind the men he would like
TO name. Secretary of State Hughes
already has been designated to head
the commission. For his colleagues
the president is said to be consider
ing today, as he was two weeks ago,
the following:
Expected Personnel.
Elihu Root former secretary of
state.
Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of
the foreign relations committee OF
the senate.
Philander c. Knox, former secre-
tsry of state, and republican men,
ber of the senate foreign relations
committee.
Oscar Underwood of Alabama,
democratic senator and friend Of the
president.
George w. Sutherland, former re-
publican United States senator from
Utah and international lawyer.
If more than five Americans are
to be named it is possible t!.at the
president may appoint woman on
the commission, or some member OF
the house of representatives. That
the president will appoint Mr.. Root
is believed to be certain by those
who have discussed the subject with
him.
Sentiment for Woman Member.
Senator Lodge, by virtue of his
position as chairman of the foreign
relations committee, is obviously
entitled to head the representation
from the senate. Senator Knox, the
president believes to be eminently
qualified for membership On the
commission, not because he is a
senator, but because of his familiar
ity with diplomacy and international
relations. Senator Underwood is
being considered as a representative
of the minority political party. The
president is known to admire I'm
derwood and to have great conf
dence in his ability. Former Sena-
tor Sutherland is regarded by the
president as eminently qualified for
the delegation. He was at one time
seriously considered for secretary
Of state.
Whether the president will ap-
point woman to the delegation no
one knows. The president himself
does not know. He would like to.
it is believed. Agitation for this by
women's organizations continues
daily. The National League OF
Women Voters has asked the presi-
dent for an opportunity to present a
resolution urging the name of a
woman on the commission and on
any advisory commissions which
may be formed during the confer
ence.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Iowa Property
Values Higher
Increase of $l8,443,764 Over
1920 Announced by Ex-
executive Council.

Des Moines, Aug. l4--Iowa prop
erty of all kinds, in 1921, increased
in total taxable value $l8,443,764, the
total value in 1920 being $l,lO3,349
996, as compared with $l,l2l, ,793,760,
according to the announcement OF
the executive council, which was
made public few days after the an
nouncement that the tax levy tor
The year had been increased to S.7o
mills.
Deducting total of $8,S08,o1 for
soldiers exemptions the next taxable
value of all property amo@rted to
$1,l12,984,853 this year, the council
announced. In 1920 the net taxable
value OF all property was 81, l,lO3,34o,-
900, there being no exemptions.
Following is the total taxable val
ues of various classes of property in
1921 and 1920:
Land ,sss. rs. .iss, .s5 .sss,sss.sos SsaS
Forest a and ind fruit
r1rn tsss' lot: sls. s.sss ,.z4sI4ss sIsss
fss erty .......... @ 147,s2a.os 15s.On,1s5
erty s2s,25s 310.9l0
Telephone and
telegraph lines 7.9l5,b7s 6.93S,SS5
Ira n 8 m | S sion
lines .......... l,3ZS.8SS ..'',..'..
Railroad, interur-
ban and sleep
ing car prop
erty .. 90.516,428 S1,196,454
Total taxable
value ........l l.l2l,1SS,Ib0 l,loS'5As'sso
Soldiers exemp-
ton. personal
property 2sS,7Zz ..........
Lands and town
lots ,,. S,610,1S5 ...........
Net taxable val
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Private Firm to
Do Repair Work
For Erie System
Leases Shops and Roundhouse
At Marion, O., to Local
Company-Rail Board
Nav Take Hand.

Marion, O., AugA 1S.-The Erie
Railroad company today announced
that its local shops and roundhouses
had been leased by the Railway
Service company of Marion and
would be operated by that concern
beginning Immediately. The Rail-
way Service company is an organi-
zation founded by local manufactur-
crs and capitalists and it will take
over all repair and other work now
done in the shops, an announcement
stated
w. A. Baldwin, manager OF the
Ohio region of the railroad, in
statement said that the plan was
adopted with the idea that local
conditions can best be appreciated
and most inteligently met by the
knowledge and interest of local su-
pervision and support" Much OF the
maintenance and construction work
OF the railroad had heretofore been
done by contractors in communities
through which the road runs. it was
said.
Rail Board Interested.
Chicago, Aug l5,-Announce-
ment from Marion, O.. that the Erie
railroad has leased its shops and
roundhouse there to a local oper-
ating company, which will handle
the roads repair work, may bring
Intervention by the United States
railway labor board if there is any
evidence of a concerted plan on the
part of the roads to follow the prac-
tice generally. a member OF the
board said today.
"If it is done to such an extent as
to appear to be an evasion OF the
transportation act" the board menk
Der said, this board no doubt VIII
take some action" tt' NV
Not Subject to Board.
The Railway Service company,
formed at Marion to operate the
leased shops, would not be subject
to the boards supervision under the
transportation act, it was pointed out,
as it is not a common carrier.
Hence, members of the board said,
its employees will not come under the
boards wage and rules orders. ..
If the roads follow the leasing plan
generally it will have the effect,
member of the board said, of re-
moving the shops crafts from the
benefits of the Esch-Cummins act.
He advanced the opinion that the
board would have the right to con-
slider such a step a violation of the
law
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Troops Sent to Suppress
Strikers at Cotton Mill

Raleigh, N. c.. Aug. 1s.-Two
companies of National Guard troops
were ordered to Concord oy Gov
ernor Cameron Morrison tonight to
suppress disorders growing out OF a
strike of cotton mill workers in prog
resS there for several months
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16

The number of arrests in Washing
ton, D. c., for violation of traffic reg
rlations is about 2,220 to $500 a
month. One-fourth Of these are for
driving at excessive speed and the
next highest total for arrests for vio-
lation of the lighting regulations.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16

To command from pedestrians the
respect they show operators of auto
mobiles, a driver of a horse-drawn
wagon in New York City has in
stalled an electric horn such as is
used on motor vehicles. The dry
cells are beneath the drivers seat
and the push button is conveniently
1ocated
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Arraig gnlnent Of
Couple Held For
Murder Postponed
Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain
And Arthur Burch Given
Until Aug. % to Plead
To Charge.

Los Angeles, Aug. l5.-Arthur c.
Burch and Mrs. Madelynne Oben-
chain, arraigned today in the supe-
rior court here on an indictment
charging the murder of ]. Bolton
Kennedy, asked for an extension of
time in which to plead. They were
granted until August q.
Under the California law the de-
PENDANTS were entitled to two
days' extension Their attorneys
requested this be extended to a week,
to which Judge Sydney N. Reeve
consented.
Mrs. Obenchain appeared to be
on the verge of collapse as she list
ened to the reading of the indictment
which charged she and Burch killed
Kennedy, her former sweetheart, in
front OF Kennedy's cottage on the
night of August 5. Burch displayed
no emotion. .... ...
Mrs. Obenchain was brought to
the court room by woman deputy
sheriff. They walked from the
county jail to the hall of justice
along the street on which both
buildings are located. Mrs. Oben-
chain leaned heavily on the deputy's
arm while on the street and while
climbing long fight of stairs to
the court room. She was greeted
in the court room by Ralph Oben-
chain, her former husband, who sat
with her during the proceedings.
Burch was brought to the room
over the bridge of sighs," covered
passageway connecting the Jail with
the hall OF justice. AS he entered
the room, Mrs. Obenchain glanced
casually in his direction, then looked
away. The eyes of the prisoners did
not meet during the entire proceed
ings.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16
Tuesday Favorite
Day for Suicides
Misfortune Causes IS Per
Cent Of Tragedies-Unem-
ployment Comes Next.

New York, Aug. 1s.-Tuesday is
the favor;te suicide day, at least in
New York, and the amazing increase
in self destruction has led to an
analysis of causes which show that
Is per cent are the victims of mis-
fortune. Next in order come un-
employment, love affairs. i'll health,
disgust with life. financial troubles.
fear of parents or school worries and
divorces. ..5.
Here are the figures for the six
months of 1921 and they are suffl-
cient to cause unusual anxiety:
C..:ls. =. IT, .,,ho1a SNvofry.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16

According to a schedule of produc-
tion in one of the largest automobile
plants in this country, it is planned
to turn out new car every 20 sec
onds during this month. With Is
working days in the month this
means that l05,l00 cars are to be
made in July,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16

Persons who have probed the
psychology of the increasing suicides
say many of them are due to lives
broken by the war. Then there is
the vast number of unemployed
chiefly men who scan the Sunday
papers for positions, seek a place
Monday, find it already filled, and
with another week Of hunger ahead
of them, they keep solitary tryst
with the grim stranger that comes
but once. This explains why Tues
day has become the chief suicide day,
at least in the cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-16

The Chamber of Commerce of
Phila adelphia is looking for a site
for a municipal camping ground for
use by automobile tourists.