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General Economic Parley Proposed by Senator Borah J World Conditions Require Im mediate Action, Idaho Man Says in Offering Amend ment to Naval Bill. Washington. Dec. 22. — Extensive discussion of international affairs in expected to develop in the senate as a result of a proposal by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, for an in ternational conference to consider eco nomic. financial and business prob lems. Including German reparations, as well as reduction of land, sea and aerial armaments. * Senator Borah offered his plan as an amendment to the $330,000,000 naval appropriation bill, which was reported to the senate for preliminary consideration Friday. He proposed that the president be asked to call an in ternational economic and disarmament conference Instead of a conference merely to deal with limitations of naval vessels under 10,000 tons and military and naval aircraft, as pro vided In the bill as passed by the house. Quirk Action Required. In offering his amendment as a substitute for the house provision. Senator Eorah declared world eco nomic conditions required immediate action and he proposed that President Harding be authorized ami required "to Invite such governments to send representatives to the conference as lie should deem necessary and ex pedient with the object of arriving sit understandings or arrangements looking to the restoration of trade and establishment of sound financial and business conditions.” With reference to armaments, the Bornli amendment includes the house hill's provision as to the naval ves sels under 10,000 tons and aircraft with its provision for consideration of land and sea armaments. Senate leaders expect the Borah proposal, and an amendment by Sen ator King, democrat, Utah, calling for a land and sea disarmament confer ence, to go over until after the Christ mas holidays. Amendment Causes Surprise. Senator Borah's amendment caused general surprise, especially in view of his strong position in the past in reference to American participation in European problems. He was one of the strongest opponents of the lengue of nations and treaty of Ver sailles. but in bis statement today he made it clear that he believed action was needed to solve pressing eco nomic problems affecting American trade. German reparations, he said, were the "key to the European situ ation,’’ and lie thought his proposed conference might "break the dead lock on that subject.’’ "We are traveling in a vicious cir cle," Senator Borah declared. “VVe enacted an emergency and also a permanent tariff bill. Nevertheless the cry of distress from the producers of the country is even more piteous than at any time since the war. The farmer can find no markets abroad for surplus products and without a mar ket tvir his surplus products it Is im possible for him to realise the value of that which he produces.” Births and Deaths. - # Births. Lawrence and Vitals Donvan, hospital, hoc. .Fean and Julia Koeneka. hospital, hoy. Lloyd and Cecilia Hill, hospital, girl. Rudolph and Libby Zwolanik, Fifty-fifth end K streets, girl. Clarence snd Venetla Parsons, hospital, llrf. Joseph and Rose Markovlta, 5014 South Forty-first avenue, boy. Antonin and Alouisia Pinr.isa. 2313 South 1 Fourteenth street, boy. Hurry snd Kaie Cooper, hospital, hoy. .lames and Lillian Colliers, hospital, girl. Henrv and Edith West. 2324 North Sixty-fifth street, girl. William and Anna Kllnker, R. F. P. No. 7. Benson, hoy. William and Katherine McVay, 2513 South Eleventh atreet, girl. Francta and Effie Suber. 2708 Pinkney street, boy. Knud and Margaret Christenson. It28 South Eighteenth etreet. girl. Charles and August Martin, 1914 Pratt atreet, boy. David and Ada Baxtert 4234 Wirt street, hoy. T P. and Margaret Dlneen, 4643 Nicho las street, boy. Joseph and Helen Swenson, hospital, girl. William and Ethel Ross, hospital, girl. Edgar and Katharine Flak. 5217 North Twenty-fourth street, boy. Joe and Josephtna Kaiser, 6029 South Twenty-first street, boy. Deaths. Gertrude Stawtnak, Infant, 3407 Val ley street. Mary M. Week*. 71, 2764 North Forty eighth street. Mrs. Ann Sutherland, 86, 8326 North Twenty-fifth avenue. Kenneth llickr. infant, 5245 South Twenty-second street. William R. Poatle. 1. Fifty-eighth and O street#. William Fleming. 61. hospital. Mary Alice Johnston, 10, 105 South Forty-ninth street Ingre Mary Annerson, 84, 4208 South Twenty-first street. Iver Hansen. 70, hospital. Elizabeth Janftcke. 33.'hospital. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were Issued to the fol lowing couples: Nathan N Fnidenfeld. 12. Omaha, and Jeannette V. Springer. 24, Omaha. Claude M Cess*man. 45. Dayton, O , end Bessie Thomas. 47, Nebraska City, Neb. Lawrence A. Washington. 23. Omaha, and Viola W. Hansen. 21. Omaha. Frank Rear. 49. Omaha, and Eva J. Merkley. 34, Omaha James H. Ross. S3. Omaha, and Laura mae Bellingham, 23, Omaha Elmer C. Loy, 30. Omaha, and Emma M. Bragg, 27, Omaha. Alfred O. Ream*. 41. Peoria. 111., and Lucy E. Johnson. 39. Peoria, 111. Jarnsa C. Nelsen, over 21, Omaha, and Viola M. Tederien, over 21. Omaha. Albin D Peterson .over 21, Omaha, and }{axel \V hit!icad. over 21. Omaha. Raymond S Chew. 32. Omaha, and Irma G. Edwarda, 18, Omaha. Road Conditions j (Furnished by the Omaha Auto Club.I l.incoln highway, east: Hoads good, l.tneoln highway, weat:Roada good. O. L. H.: Hoads good. Meridian highway: Road# good i'orrthuaker highway: Roada good. S T. A : Roada good. Highland Cutoff: Roads good Black Hills Trail: Road closed north o! Benson du» to construction. In leaving i inishs. go west on irodge to Fifty-second street, thence north to Maple, thence w eat to two miles bej oti4 the city tlmlta, thence north to Black Illlli Trail. Roada good. a-_ Washington highway r Road* good Omaha-Tul»a highway: Road* good Omaha-Topeka highway: Roada good. King of Trails, north: Roads good. King of Trail*, sooth: Roads good. Ri\er to River road. Roada good White-War highway: Roada good. I O A. SbortUne: Roada good. Mug Graaa Trail: Boat!* good. BRINGING UP FATHER— U. 5. Peteat Office SEE JIGGS AND MAGGIE IN FULL PAGE OF COLORS IN THE SUNDAY BEE Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManus (Copyright 1922) 1WT INOIA TNOW THEt>E ARE. A WONDERFUL THE OEO RU»N^> OF PEACE. J kinC, COCOCU^j* HE HAD A THOOt>ANO /:»*£«<■* w>; - THAT'S vvmere Jf ^ H»S MOTHERS’ V coots IN’LWLIVEO. (Oi - I ■ ■■ ' 1 ■ \r HE FOONO OUT THAT OiO HE. ANN OF Hl^> V/IVE^s HM3 KU-U ANN? SMARR\£0 H\N\ FOR Hl*3 MONET • HE WOOED Copyright, 1922, by Inti Fwturo Sorviw. Im. ALL OF them:: THE MYSTERY GIRL By CAROLYN HELLS. (Copyright. 1022.) — - - - - -- ■* (Continued from Yesterday.) "He seemed honest and faithful. "He serried so—but he was silent and moody—a man one could scarcely understand." "Can you imagine his killing his master—granting the opportunity?" Mrs. Peyton considered. "I can Imagine it,” she said, "but I shouldn't like to say 1 would suspect him of it. }Io was soft-footed, and went about with a sort of stealthy manner, but I’m not prepared to say lie was wrong in any way." "Call in Ito. the other one." Ito came, and stood stolidly by. His impassive demeanor was not unlike that of Gordon Lockwood. Waring laid sometimes remarked this in a chafing way to his secretary. “Vou knew this NogIT" asked Mor ton. "Only since he came here,'* an swered the butler, in perfect English. "Vou liked him?" "Neither yes or no. He knew little of his duties, but he was willing to learn. He was respectful to me, and friendly enough. I had no reason to dislike him." Morton didn't seem to get any where with this man. "Well, what do you think of his character?" he said. “Would you say he was capable of killing his em ployer?" “All men are capable of crime.” said the Jap, in a low, even voice, "but he could not kill Dr. Waring and go away leaving the study locked on the inside." "Why did he go awa.v, then? "That I do not know. It may be he tired of the place here.” “But there was money due him." "Yes; that makes it hard to under stand.” Morton had an uucomfortabli feel ing that the Japanese was scornful of him, and, worse still, that the other listeners were also. "You may go," he told Ito, and then, turning to Lockwood, he said, a little belligerently, "Who is in charga here? To whom do I make my re port?” The question was like a bombshell. 1 All were silent until Mrs. Bates said: "I suppose I am what might be ca#ed In charge. You may report to me. “To you, ma'am?” Morton was clearly surprised. “Yes; as Dr. Waring’s affianced wife, and as his heir, I fel l am in authority. And also, I wish all re ports made to me, as I ant the one most deeply interested in learning the Identity of the murderer.” "If he was murdered,” supple mented Mrs. Bates. And Mrs. Peyton broke in. “You needn't think, Mr. Morton, that there’s such a thing as a secret en tranca’Or secret passage in this house, for I know there is not.” “Yet there are other theories, other possibilities,” the detective said, his air a little less important than it had been. "Suppose, now. that Nogi had robbed and murdered his master when he carried in the water tray. Just suppose that, and suppose that with his Japanese cunning he had devised a way to lock the door behind him— or, say he had gone out by the glass door and had locked that behind him.” "How?” cried Pinckney, his eyes wide with excitement. "Say he had previously removed a pane or glass—they are not large panes. Say he reached through, locked the door Inside—the French window, I mean—and then had put in the pane, reputtied it, and gone away.” "Gee!” cried the boy. "That could be!" "Of course, it could. And there are other ways It might have been accom plished. "Now, we don't say that did happen, but what I want to know is who is at the head of this investiga tion?” “I can’t feci that Mrs. Bates it,” Mrs. Peyton said, a little sullenly. “She was not married yet, and, there fore, as resident housekeeper, I feel rather in authority myself.” “But you say you are the heir, Mrs. Bates?” the detective Inquired. "Perhaps I ought not to have told that," Emily Bates spoke regretfully. “But Dr. Warlng’s lawyer will tell you. It is true I am the principal heir. It. is so designated In his will, which you will And in a secret drawer in his desk.” "You know where this drawer is?” "I do." ’’.Later on I will ask you to show us. If you are the heir, there Is no further question of your authority here.” And Detective Morton left the room. Twenty-four hours later Cray, the district prosecuting attorney, stood in the Waring study. The body of the master had been removed, and to Cray's regret he had not seen it before the embalmer’s work had removed the red ring on the forehead. "It was a sign,” he said to Mor ton, who was moodily listening. "A sign like that, left by the murderer, always means revenge.” “You agree to murder, then?” Mor ton. spoke eagerly, glad to have his theory corroborated. * “What else? Look here. Morton, it's got to be either murder or suicide, hasn’t It? Yes? Well, then to which of the two do the greater number of clues point? Sum up. For suicide we have only the locked room argu ment. I admit 1 don’t know how anyone could get in or out of this study, but, as I say, that’s the only sign of suicide. Now, for murder we have the absence of the weapon, the robbery of the money and the ruby, and sign of a circle on the dead man’s forehead. Wish I’d seen that. It was burned on, for it disappeared after the embalmer* took care of It.” "Oh, no. It wasn't as deep as a burn. More like an Impression left by a ring of cold metal or the edge of a glass tumbler.” "Very strange, and decidedly an Im portant clue. Kor, here's the queer part. The doctors declare the mark must have been made while the man was alive—now, how can that he ex plained?” "Give it up. It's too much for me. But it was too small a circle to have been made by the tumbler on the water tray. 1 measured it.” “I know; that's why I think it was a sign of revenge. Suppose the mo tive was revenge and the reason for revenge had something to do With a quarrel in which a small glass or cup figured. That's the idea, though, of course, it needn't have been a glass or cup at all, but something with a ring-like edge. Thus, there was a reason for the sign on the dead man's face.” “I see; though I never could have doped it out like that. "Oh, I don't say It's exactly what happened, but there must have been something of the sort, for what other hypothesis tits the case at all? We can't imagine Dr. Waring branding his own forehead, and then killing himself, cftn we?” •'Mo; and if he had, where's the branding iron—to call it that—and where's the dagger?” "That's right. Now, I propose to treat the matter as a murder case, and look for the criminal first, and then find out how he entered the locked room afterward.” "Pooh! those ’ocked rooms “You’re 'way off. Morton, when you sneer at a 'locked room.' "It was locked—I mean impene trably locked. There is no secret passage—of that I'm sure. Your in genious Idea of removing and replac ing a whole pane of glass was clever, I grant, but we've seen that not a pane has been lately reputtled. They're all framed In old. dried, hard and even painted putty.” “I know it. But some other such way might have been devised.” "Can't think of any. We've exam ined all the window sashes and door frame—oh. well, as far as I can see. the room was absolutely unenterable. But. notwithstanding, I’m going to work on a murder basis. Because In explicable as that spems, there are even more insurmountable difllculties in the way of th» suicide theory. Now, I suppose you've had the finger print expert in?” "No—I haven’t— not yet.” “Good Lord! What kind of a de tective are you? Well, get him, and put him to work. What about foot prints?” "Inside the room?” "Or outside, either. But inside, I suppose has been trampled by a score of people!” “You can't get footprints on & thick i i/2 PRICE > — ONE HOUR SALE »/2 PRICE ; “ i Ill order not to carry ovor a tingle toy we will tell all TOYS AT ONE-HALF PRICE SATURDAY EVENING AFTER 9 P. M. Our pricet are the lowett in the city. At that, all toys mutt be told at ONE-HALF PRICE. I »/2 PRICE I I SOUTH OMAHA V2 MICE' What Chance Has Ireland? / * • One of the most important political situations in the world today, Ireland’s dilemma, has dramatic elements which make Mr. Lloyd George’s Analysis, of the Irish Question The Most Interesting , Feature in The Omaha Sunday Bee December 24th. The vast political experience of Britain’s progressive ex-premier brings to you a clear, comprehensive view of Irish politics. This is the third of a series of 30 articles on current topics which are being written by David Lloyd George for The Omaha Sunday Bee and associated newspapers exclusively. vrATCH FOR IT NEXT SUNDAY rug," the discomfited Morton grum bled. "Sometimes you can. And a pol ished floor will often show marks. What hjive you done, anyway?" "There was enough to do, Mr. Cray," Morton flared back at him. "I have been busy every minute since I began, except for a few hours' sleep,” "Over 24 hours since the alarm was given. You've put in at least 12, then. What have you done?" "A lot. I've found out, to my o\yn satisfaction, that—if it is a murder— Gordon Lockwood knows all about it." "You suspect him?" “Bither of the deed, or of guilty knowledge." "And his motive?” "Money. That young man Is over head and ears In debt." "To whom?" "To shops—jewelers, florists, res taurants. All the debts a gay young blade would incur.” ‘‘You amaze me, Morton. L01’*5' wood isn't that sort." "Isn't he? You're deceived, like everyone else, by that Icy calm of his. 11c stares haughtily, and appears above and beyond ordinary mortals J but he's deep. That’s what he is, deep.” ‘‘Well, how did he do it?" "With this penholder. A smooth, sharp silver penholder. And he took the money and the ruby.” "And how did he leave the 'room?" "Don’t ask me that! That's his se cret. But, I've a notion he was in cahoots with that new Jap, the one that vamoosed. I theorize,” Morton waxed important as he noted the prosecutor's attention, "that the Jap had some grudge against Waring, and it was he who branded lijs forehead, and who contrived a way to leave the room locked behind him. Why, I read a story the other day, where a key was turned from the other Ride of a door by means of a slender steel bar through the key handle, and a string from the bar, leading down and under the door. Once outside the murderer pulled the string, the hnr turned the key In the lock, the bar fell to the floor and he dragged It under the door by means of the string." "Ingenious: but it Implies a door raised from the floor." "I know. And tills one Isn't. But It all goes to prove that there can be some way—some diabolically clever way to do the «4* ■k. And the Japa nese are diabolically clever. And so Is Lockwood. And If the two worked together they could accomplish won ders. Then Lockwood, with his wooden face, could disarm suspicion. The Jap, let us say. couldn’t, so Lockwood packed him off." "Interesting—by all theory.” “To be proved or disproved, then." “Yes, but meantime, you are. losing time on more practical investigation. Let's look outside for footprints—I Uncle Sam Says Car* of III* Hahy. “If hnbles were Well born and w<-#lJ cared for their mortality would bo negligible.’’ declares a folder on the care of the baby, which Is Issued by the Federal Children's Bureau. This folder tolls of the requirements for the nursery, the baby's bed. Health habits, fresh air, sleep, food, balh, dress, play and exercise. The f( Ider also suggests that the mother plan her dally schedule for the baby considering first what i* best for the baby, and next what ararnngement of hours fits In with her duties. Headers of The Omaha Bee tpay ob tain a copy of this folder free as long as the free edition lasts, by asking for “Children's Bureau Dodger No. 9." addressing the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. mean for anyone coming or going from this side entrance?" ‘‘The French window? Nobody comes or goes that way in this weather: the path isn’t even shoveled. That's used mostly in summer time." "Nevertheless," Cray opened the door, "somebody has been here." Morton looked out and stared hard. How had he come to neglect a matter of such importance. There were two plainly visible lines of footprints in the snow, one quite obviously coming toward the house and one going away from it. "There's your murderer," said Cray, quietly. "Oh, no." but Morton wriggled un easily "It couldn't be. No murderer Is going to walk through crusted snow, to and front the scene of his crime, leaving definite footprints like those!" "That's no argument. He might have come here with no .Intent of crime, and afterward, might have been so beside himself be couldn'^ plan safely.” <T« l*e Continued M»nc!».v,) Visit the “Electric Shop” Each day until Xmas ! we will make nn un usually attractive Rift offer. These gift com binations will change each day — ask about them. Nebraska ® Power <§. “ELECTRIC SHOP” OFFERS A HOST OF GIFT SUGGESTIONS Radio Concert Bring your family — meet your friends at the "Electric Shop." Open until 9 P. M. and you’ll «n.1oy the RADIO CONCERT each eve* ning. 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This is one of the most convenient of all port able lamps, since it is. independent of table or other support, and can be moved at will from chair to chair. Price Electric Toasters An Electric Toaster is an appreciated gift because of its lasting usefulness— most everyone likes toast, and most anyone would be delighted with a new toaster. Prices from— $4.85 to $8.00—$1.00 Down Why Not a Hair Dryer? Here is a gift suggestion that not one man in a hundred would think of, and yet a gift that ANY woman would thor oughly e*joy—and the coat is but— $18.50 We Guarantee Every Appliance We Sell— A Handsome Miller Table Lamps An Ideal remembrance from the family to Mother. Just a few left, pftce $10.00—$1.00 Down Boudoir Lamps An Appropriate Gift for “Her." Metal bases with glass panel shades In Ivory, Florentine and Bronze finish. 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