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.
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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.
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THE MYSTERY GIRL
By CAROLYN HELLS. (Copyright. 1022.)
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(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!”
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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
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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,)
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