THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1921.
)
Tried
foch Stand
lb Question
o Arms Conference
rat Possibility of
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. , .
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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
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AT EXACTLY
Here's
Palace $20 suits
overcoat
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palace $30 suits
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Palace ?
overcoats
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and ovi
and oir
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These s
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tt. ,o Palace.
Sib Wl"
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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
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stizurc oruirn 'vanccieu ana . im i"!
chtirgen against "jSIicwhii of violation T ,
if tin1 limiiir it will lir ilismiskei1.
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