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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1921. ) Tried foch Stand lb Question o Arms Conference rat Possibility of 'I 1. ! Tl . . eu-uauau rroiec five Alliance. '""to n-nr i un wilv.ua. Vanhidgton, Dec. 30. Italy real i'lInS'" 11 vf.irit tr tne obstinacy o( f .1111. in reiuMiig lo yicia on uic 0t submarine itsuc at the Washington , f been hinting at the possibility of ,'. A British-Italian entente, although ytnev hope such a protective alliance J will not be necessary. ;' "Italy sincerely hopes," said an au thorized Italian spokesman yester day, "that the stand taken here by Trance on naval armaments will not compel Great Britain and Italy to conclude an entente." Failure of the conference to bring about naval limitation alt along the , line, he said, would be unfortunate and he feared that one of the results -would be another naval construc tion race on submarines and auxil iary vessels. "Such a consummation will cause the people of the world, who arc being taxed, to' ask if there is dan "gcr of a new war," he said. . "The American people," he con tinued, "now have a clear idea of the disnositions of the different na tions. We all thought that no na tion would again attempt to domi nate any continent. We hope now that no nation thinks of attempting to-assume an attitude of domination of any continent. The public opin ion of the world will condemn any such course. France, we hope, has no idea of seeking to obtain the hegemony of Europe." Italy, it was said would try to keep up with France in naval con struction as far as France goes, al though the final decision would be with the Italian parliament, ftvhich alone can decide the appropriations. The Italians believe the Frenteh po sition was "taken for political con sideration and without any real in tention of building, because France does not possess the money with which to execute such an ambitious program. i Increase Shown -s ;... In Rail Returns Commerce Commission Es timates Net Earning of 4.6 Per Cent for November. Washington, Dec. 30. -Estimates made yesterday by the bureau of railway economics, tased on reports to Interstate Commerce commission from 127 railroads out of a total of 200,. indicate that the net operating income of the railroads for Novem ber wilt be approximately $80,000, "'U08,represetiting a return of 4.6 per cent. '.. ' The net railway operating income of the 127 railroads, which include 63 eastern, 25 southern and 39 west ern railroads, was $49,225,426 in No vember, an increase of 47.7 per cent over November, 1920, when it was ,$33318,398. The railroads in the eastern dis trict reported a net railway operat ing .income of $30,249,051,. those in the southern $5,263,339 and those in. the western $13,713,036. . Operating revenues of the 127 rail roads amounted to $355,586,496, a de crease M 21.6 per cent when com pared with November, 1920. Operating expenses totalled $283, 950,195, a decrease of 29.0 per cent. Harding Wants Human Touch In Caring for Ex-Soldiers Washington, Dec. 30. Interest in. the men and the "human touch" in handling : disabled soldier problems will be insisted on by the president and by himself, Col. Charles R. 'Forbes,1 director of the veterans' tfurcau, told the educators who met here, yesterday to discuss, with gov ernment officials the policies of re habilitation, i r "Wre are now using 5.000 schools throughout the country for training ex-service roert for placement train ing," said Colonel Forbes. "We have approximately 101,000 men receiving vocational training and about 32,000 men awaiting assignment; 425,000 men have registered for vocational education. So you will understand that rehabilitation and education will be our greatest problem having to do with the future of the ex-service ir.cn." - Prosecution of 131 Cases '. Under "Dry" Law Abandoned Pittsburgh, Dec. 30. Prosecu tions of 131 persons charged with violation of wartime prohibition and the national prohibition' act were abandoned in federal court 3'ester day. , , .- District Attorney Lyon stated that . during the early stages of prohibition many violations occurred, a number of them through ignorance .and that the court dockets had become clogged with its cases, there being about 200 still pending. Government witnesses had disappeared in some cases, and in others arrests had been made without the necessary search warrants. . Scientists Now Able to Predict Earthquakes as Well as Storms Oaklv. Cal, DecS0. The Uni versity of California announced ;es- '4.'v'plriat earthquakes may be pre B. By with the same precision as ' XT frfCi5,! a result of the r-j jery by A C Lawson, pro bTSJ ot geology, that earth move- jAtE8re tn antecedents as well as eecurey fequence of earthquakes.' detecti ling' to the announcement. ""f i,n or hf Mrtn creen fable scientists to determine Fra,nf accuracy ine lonncoming noakes and warnings may be to the residents ot district w eeteL orther investigations are to be on hy W. W. Campbell, !f Aned i BRINGING UP J1L LEAVE TMlt IDOC J x-n YOU MEEONT THINK P ( WELL- t Ue I f Tn I SS 1 I XtL A, -1 I 'J '' Wife Flees With Baby in Airplane ' From Cuba to U.S. Husband Pursues in Secoifil ''Ship" Flight . Follows Cjuarrcl-7" Woman "Asks pivorce. ' Nutlcy.yiO-J., Dec. 30.-A wife's flight wit 11 her baby from Havana to Key yfet, Fla., in an airplane and her.fiusband's pursuit of her in an other plane, which failed by only two hours of catching her, was told in the suit for " separate maintenance brought by Mrs. Beatrice Horter of Nutley against her ; husband, Glad stone. Horter was arrested at his parent's home on a writ obtained by his wife. Mrs. Horter stated in her complaint that she and Horter were married June 3. 1917, and that after he had enlisted, seen service overseas, and returned to this country in May, 1919 they went to live on a sugar planta tion in which he was interested, two miles out of Havana. In January, 1921, she said, a child was born to them. Takes Airplane. , In April last, according to her charges, they ' had a quarrel during which he told her to leave. Acting on this she took the infant in her arms and walked the two miles to Havana. There she rested a while and took an airplane for Key West, where, under an assumed name she registered at a hotel. , '", Horter discovered her absence a short time after she left and follow ed her post-haste to Havana. Learn ing there that she had fown to Florida, he engaged a plane and-set out after her. - . , . Takes Train for North. Arriving at Key West he imme diately took a train for the north, expecting to find she had gone to her Mutley home. But while he was hurrying around New Jersey Mrs. Horter was waiting in Key West. When Horter failed to find his wife at the home of her parents, he returned to Cuba. A few days be fore Christmas he returned to Nut ley to visit his own .people but did not call upon his wife. She learned that he wished; no more to do with her, and on that she began her ac tion. . Troops That Helped Germany In East Africa War Unpaid Berlin, Dec. 30. (By A. P.) The native troops who fought Ger many's war in East Africa under Colonel Von Vorbeck, have not yet been paid off by, the 'German gov ernment for their four years of serv ice. The German peoples party has addressed a brief inquiry to the gov ernment in which it is suggested that the "national debt of honor" be met forthwith. . ' Ex-Senator Urges Credit System for Small Farmer StAjaul, Ike- 30. A credit sys tem that would give relief to the farmer with a small acreage as well as to the farmer with large holdr ings of land was urged by A J. Gronna of L'akota, N. D former United States senator, in an address yesterday before the joint congres sional committee investigating short time rural credits. Steamships Antral. San FranclKO, Dec. i. Empire Strife, Hongkouz. Shanghai. Honolulu; Lehigh, Portland, Me. r Naples, Dec. 52. Caronia, Ne Tork. Antwerp, Dec '22. Kroonland, Now TorW. , Genoa, Dec. it. Kifuku Mara. Port land. Ore. f Fullmouth, Dec 25. lolcos, Portland, Ore.' Shanghai, Dec 25. Empress ot Aia, Vancouver; December 28, Arabia Maru, Tacoma; Mont Ragle, Vancouver. De cember 37, Pine Tree State, Tacoraa. Hongkong, Dec. SS. West Jena, San FranciacA. . r Iteemrtaree. Ne Tork, Dec 2t. Ryndam. Rotter dam; Panaa, Hamburg. Hongkong, . Dec 27. Kashira Maru, Tacoma. Manila, Dec 23. Tobama Maru, San Franelaco. A CriMobaJ, Dec 21. Seine Mara, Port land, Ore. i gents of the university have granted $4,000 for the purchase of a . Koss photographic latitude telescope to be used in the wrk. .- According to the announcement, it is well known that cn the occasion of the April, ' 1906, earthquake in California there was a relative dis placement of the earth's surface stratum on the two sides of the San Andreas fault line amounting, in the Bolinas. CaL, region, to as much as 24 feet In the comparisons of the results of the positions of these observing stations made at diyent erechs, no doubt was left reprelinTt rt1 movements on a weet, (n thertrfhe earthquake phe- FATHER ISLEEPY-TIME TALES THE TAIZOY TURKEY PR0UDF00T ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY CHAPTER VII. Half Wrong. It was no wonder that Turkey Proudfoot was angry. Everybody in the farmyard was laughing and looking his way or $o it seemed to him. Since he couldn't see any joke, he "You clidn-t spread tjour tail.". Turkeji Proudfoot explained., decided to leave his silly neighbors and go off into the fields where he could be alone. So he walked slow ly away, holding his head high and. stepping in his niot elegant man ner. . To his great disgast peals of laugh ter followed him. And though he had intended to march off without saying another word, this last out burst so filled him with rage that he couldn't resist spinning about to glare and gobble at his tormentors. He turned so quickly that he sur prised Master Meadow Mouse with one of his tiny feet lifted high in the air. He surprised him so much that Master Meadow Mouse stood stock still and didn't even bring his foot down, but held it off the ground ag if it had frozen stiff and couldn't be moved. At first there was a most joyful look on Master Meadow , Mouse's face. But'it faded instantly into one of doubt and dismay.- To tell the truth, Master Meadow Mouse hadn't expected Turkey Proudfoot to turn around and catch him right in his mimicking act. . ' ' '. "Ah, hal" cried Turkey Proudfoot. "So it's you that they're laughing at, eh?" '- ' -i. , Master Meadow Mouse was so up set that he murmured faintly," "Yes, it's me."- 'IWell, I don't blame them," aid Turkey,;. Proudfoot. "You certainly look . very queer. Why are' you holding your foot off the,, ground like that?" "I was in the midst of taking a step when you turned around and startled me," ' Master Meadow Mouse explained.' "And I don't know whether to -set my foot down ahead of me or put it behind me." "Don't be 'alarmedl Turkey Proudfoot said, "I never frighten folks of your size. You're too lit tle for me to pay much attention to.: I must say, however, that you have a very odd way of walking." , " By this time Master Meadow Mouse had recovered from his sur prise and wasn't afraid in the least. Now he laughed heartily. "I was walking the ' way" you walk," he cried. "Oh, no" Turkey Proudfoot ex claimed. "No, indeed! You cer tainly weren't." He didn't ask Mas ter Meadow "Mouse's pardon for contradicting. ' "I'd like to know why I wasn't," Master Meadow Mouse replied somewhat hotly. "I was strutting right behind you, all the way across the yard.- That's why. everybody was giggling." ' ' , ' "It's no wonder they were poking fun at you," -Turkey Proudfoot told him. "You amused the neighbors because you thought you were strut ting, while you really weren't" Master Meadow ' Mouse put his foot down on the ground. He was puzzled. "I don't know why I wasn't strut ting," he retorted. "I was raising my feet just as high as I could lift them." - "Ah yes!" said Turkey Proudfoot, "But you forgot one-thing." "What was that?" Master Mea dow Mouse demanded. ""Vou didn't spread your tail," Turkey Proudfoot explained, "And that's half of strutting." "I-I didn't know it." Master Mea dow Mouse stammered. And then he darted away, to. hide in Ihe grass bevond the fence. ' ' . He felt much ashamed to have made such a mistake, i . 'Copyright, 1121. tor Metropolitan News paper Service.) U. S. Arbitration in Packer Strike Asked in Oklahoma Oklahoma City, OkL, Dec 30. Mayor John Walton, 1at night m a message to the White House, asked President Harding for federal arbi tration in the local" lacking bouse 7 0. My Marriage Problems Adele (iamsoa'f dew Phase or - . "REVELATIONS OF A WIFE" lOaftngas, UU at Urn Why Does Bess Dean Avoid the . : ' Women at the Station? , I do not know when I have been bo exhilarated, so l thrilled wuh triumph as I was when my car swooped over the crest of the hill, and I knew that I had hopelessly distanced the discourteous motorist who had tried to crowd my car at Dead Man's Curce. Of courc, :t was the most futile of triumphs, my enthusiastic delight absured to the last degree, but, well no one save a feminine motorist can understand, and any one of the craft understands only too well. That Bess Dean was kneeling on the scat of the tonneau ' watching through the window of the back cur tain for the other car, I knew by the w'ay her voice sounded. She was as excited as a small boy who has just won a game of marbles. "He's a long way back!" she carolled, "Madge, I'll never 'forgive you if you let him catch up with us." "I'll have to, before we get td Kingston," I said, "for he's just the type to drive like fury down that long, twisting hill, and I wouldn't go over 25 down that for a farm. But I'll put some speed 'on for a while, so that we'll be well out of sight before he reaches the top of the hill, and then, after a while, when he comes in sight again, I'll draw up to the side of the road and pretend to be fussing with the cir while he goes past. Will you keep watch, so you can tell me whan he comes in sight again?" Madge's Plan. As I spoke I sent the car along at the greatest speed I dared, aided by the fact that another long,, level stretch was in front of me, and at the end of that another hill which I knew would compel the man be hind me to slow down again. : "Will. I keep watch?" Bess Dean restarted. "I'll tell the world that I'm the original little Mabel with her face against the pane., You keep the ship headed sou' by sou'west. I'll sing out when. I see breakers be hind." -. , ' - My lips quirked into a jmile at her nonsense; and I felt my anger against her melting away. It is my fortune or misfortune that I cannot remain angry at ony one who can rouse my laughter. , - "Don't let 'em curl too close,"-1 tossed back. 'I want to make the thing plausible.' . "I'll sing out the second he heaves in sight,' she promised, and we sped along for 10 minutes before she called excitedly; "Here he is, and coming- like blazes!" I swept the road in front of me with my eyes. We were just com ing, into a little hamlet whose prin cipal structure was a store and ga rage. It had a driveway ' leading around it, and I headed the car for it, turned in and switched off the motor, calling to Bess even as V turned into the driveway: "Get out quick and start for the store door. He'll think we stopped here on purpose." "That's the ticket!" She was out of the car as she spoke,: but her manner was leisurely as she sauntered toward the steps of Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings at Sinfully Low Prices Be amongst the first here Saturday morning. j Come to share in the most sensational valued giving ever attempted in Omaha. Fixtures ' , LT for Sal eb j iota Apo MAccifc in ruu. fACE OF COLONS IN THE SUNDAY BEE the store. And when the man be hind us came tearing past, his face blackly scowling, but his eyes fixed straight on the road before him, his head turning neither to the right nor to the left, Bess Dean doubled her self almost to her knees with laugh ter. Lillian Is Sifent. "Don't ask me to go in that store," she said, still chuckling, as she came back to the Car. "I shauld disgrace myself giggling. Oh! Did you see his face? He could hang, draw and quarter you this minute." "Get in," I said, sharing her laughter. "I never intended you to go to the store we haven't time. I suppose the storekeeper will think we ve just escaped from some sani tarium, but I can't help it. We have to make that train at Rhincbeck, and while this man has helped things along by making me go faster for a little than I ordinarily do, yet we still have a long way to drive." . I had backed my car into the road as I spoke, and in a moment we were again bowling along the wonderful stata road. We saw no more of the man we had outwitted, , had no more unpleas ant experiences, and I found myself wondering at Lillian's silence. She had replied courteously with every appearance of interest to the girl's earlier remarks but she had not joined in the merriment over the race, which even I had shared with Bess Dean. Could it.be, I thought, that she resented my driving fast? I ban ished the thought, for Lillian is never fussy, and I resolved to put all speculation aside. We traveled through Kingston, across the ferry, and reached Rhine beck without any trouble. As we drew up to the station I noticed a group of women standing on the platform, but pajd no attention to them. And then behind me I heard Bess Dean's voice curiously agi tated. "Olv Madge! Would you mind leaving me at one of the stores in stead of here? I've forgotten some thing I must buy. And then you needn't wait. I'll get along "splen didly, and thank you so much." Jewel, Flower, Color Symbols for Today By MILDRED MARSHALL. According to the gems which rule today, this is a day for lovers. The talismanic jewel is the moonstone, which, according to ancient beliefs, arouses love and gives to lovers the power to see into the future. It is most effective when the moon is full. The natal stone for today is the diamond, the symbol of betrothal, which was believed ' by the ancients to lose its brilliancy when the love of which it was the . emblem grew cold. - Today's color is pale blue, the color sacred to Venus, the goddess of love.- -, The lily-of-the-valley is today's flower. Significant of purity and the beauty of youth, it is especially des ignated for weddings and all festivi ties given for young people. (Copyright, 1021, by Wheeler Syndicate.) Goodbye, Omaha: Saturday night is the last of the D. & M. Clothes Shop. 1$ Saturday is Clean-Up Day. Balance of stock to be virtually given away. " - JL U p- JLTi Future is? 1312 fARNAM STREET Drawn Dog Hill Paragrafs By George Bingham As soon as Yam Sims sells seven ty-nine more packages of blueing he. will receive his handsome stem- winding brass watch as a premium, . Ellick Hellwanger was tried at Bounding Billows Monday of this week on a charge of stealing a calf. On the witness stand he said he was not guilty and was allowed to go as nobody saw him while he was taking the calf. " ' The ladies. Aid of the church at Bounding Billows will give a supper and social Saturday night to raise money,1 with which to purchase some more mouse traps. Weeks Recommends Purchase of Land for Overseas Cemeteries Washington, Dec. 30. Purchase at an estimated cost of $111,000. of seven tracts of landin Europe for permanent American cemeteries was recommended by Secretary Weeks who, in a letter to Speaker Gillett, asked also that congress make an additional $745,000 available rar im nrovement of the cemeteries'. Secretary Weeks estimated that the bodies of 32,000 Americans who died overseas would not be returned to the United States. ;He said ar tangements were being made to con. centrate the bodies in six cemeteries in France, one in Belgium and one in England. - . The cemeteries which the war sec retary recommended should be pur chased and the cost of each wert Aisne-Marne, $20,000; Suresnes, $9,000; Somme. $11,000; Brookwood $31,000; St. Mihiel. $15,000; Oisne Aisne, $20,000, and Flanders Field, $5,000. . -,. ; Nothing Can Stop Bonus Bill, Says Congressman Muskegon, Mich., Dec. 30. "No power on earth -will prevent the pas' sage of a -soldier bonus bill at the present session of " congress, de clared Congressman Fordney, chair man ot the ways and means committee,-speaking here'last night. "Unless the republican party keeps its promise and passes the bonus bill, the veterans will reprove the party because it has been insincere," he added. , . for Sale for The Bee by McManus Never Has Omaha Known Such Sacrifices on High-Grade PH flu T Will Uliyj-lnlBov Choose without reserve from our might stocks any man's or young man's Lllf AT EXACTLY Here's Palace $20 suits overcoat f .. J palace $30 suits 0!at! Palace ? overcoats tor and ovi and oir ional These s on rays tt. ,o Palace. Sib Wl" " . J.::- I'V Not a Been Jteser toys' Suits or Clothing in the very latest styles, biiltRght. Both one and two-pant suits. Warm overcoats. Xow is the time to outfit the boy. Bring him in C 1 3 ' oaiuruay. . Every Sale CLOTHING & Daugherty Orders Return of Liquor - And Private Yacb' San Francineu, Dec, 30, -Order' for restoration to the owner t! t''' nurd yacht I'utrirM and the 100 cases of liquor found aboard. it r ciiitly wheu'th craft wa Uki u iiil'l !tf liritliliitluil IlLffMllk VL'llV teciivfd lv United State Attorney. ' John '17 AVilliain-i of San Fratioif? if 1 lure yrtcrday. The ya.cht U the properly of Jamca Shcvtau, wealthy New Yorker, whoc arret and ub kcqucut rclcte ou bond followed the jjcht' nci.ure n few wctki fo at Monterey. Hay, Cal. The order laiue from I'nilci Stiiici Attorney linicriil DausherU. vho mid , investigation had nrov I that the y itht vya under liritil registry and that prohibition a gel) had erred in sciintr it. ' ' ri... it. .. ;n 1 - .i t. f j in; nail mil piiuili iv its home port. New York, with it . . .. i . i . i i . i. . stizurc oruirn 'vanccieu ana . im i"! chtirgen against "jSIicwhii of violation T , if tin1 limiiir it will lir ilismiskei1. in af See Our Windows .... .i v r and rk El $30 I rcduc- v.. 1 ! me luv preyM : ' - - Overcoal Is Final COMPATT DOUGLAS. at U mm 1 . Tcktrv aslroi 1M i strike here. i