THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 12. VjZ2.
Colonel Grilled on
Secret Hanging at
Gicvres. France
) monJ TrlU Sfinle Frolm
He Saw No K"aiMM for Vui
lie Ilufculion Officrri
Deny Charge.
ton. Tn. II. Army of'
f.ceri were called in tuday by the
senate committee iuvc iigttn
hargrs llut American, soldiers ha
1 ... H l,mi,.,.,l in I-rfcnr trl rtlffk II
on testimony of firnirr sericc ntcii
In ilia alii arA illrlfiil f erill joill.
Dr. H. fc. Jo. Danville. III., t
Inflation tu jtroti with the sixteenth
iiilantrv. deiUred he heard of lit)
lynchwtit at tiondrecourt, and that
that facility. Ktrrl lUrriion ol
Wilmington. N. C- had trained tha
he uw a Mcxicjit lynched near
ijondrccourt.
Would Have Known.
"U a nun in the Sixteenth iitfan-
Irw liml trrii handed an eharerd could
vou have heard ol it?" Chairman
ISramhgee akcd.
I (ihiim if.nahli' m 111 rrtilird.
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Senator Vat"ii presented to tlie
roinniittre an ailidaiit hy J. A. Mc
Donald of YouiiKtown, O,, setting
lorth that he wa at the Helens
prison in France when Private Fitz
gerald was shot and killed .hy a Ser
jeant toopcr or Nuippa 01 acw las
I IF)
McDonald said he was ready to
tffttifw in .iiftmtrl i"if rrriMtt f lt illlflll V
tu that effect by Edward Duncr of
. i -
;an rranciMu.
Details of the execution of a sol
dier at (jievrcs. on June 20, 1919. was
Kivrn bv Col. Charles J. Symonds of
tamp ancrtnan, wno was m cuui
mand there at the time. The al
lowi. he laid, was erected the nitrht
of May 19, the execution was secret
and was not Vnown generally until
the nest day.
No Callows at Cievres.
"I saw no reason ior making it
public because the crime was not
committed at Gicvres," he added. "I
directed that nobody should attend
but a certain number of witnesses."
"Was there any other gallows at
Gievrcs?" Chairman Brandagee
asked.
"Not while I was there from
February, 1918. to July, 1919."
Some witnesses heretofore had
testified that guards Iiad told them of
the hanging of upwards of a dozen
soldiers at Gievrcs. , t
Colonel Symonds was shown a
picture of a gallows at Gicvres, as
.submitted by a former service man.
. "It-corresponds closcljr to the .one
at Gievrcs. I blieve it is the one I
ordered erected there," he said. . -j'
Questioned on Execution.
Questioned regarding , testimony
that two negroes were lynched near
Gicvres, Colonel Symonds said he
could not conceive of anything of
the kind happening without a report
of it reaching him.
Senator Watson, democrat,
Georgia, wiose .charges of illegal ex
.....v.i.. 1rl . tli. ' investigation.
sharply crossnexamined Colonel Sy
monds concerning the "secrecy sur
rounding the execution at Gievres.'
F "yas the soldier hanged in a uni
form?" Senator Watson asked.
"Yes. The body was taken down
and buried in the regular way. The
grave was" in a separate part of the
cemetery.".
Creditors Seize Property
o'f Safety Razor Company
"Ail of the property of the Vibrat
ing 'Electric Safety Razor company
iif Council Bluffs vas seized yesterday-
by creditors under an execution
issued from the district court upon
the demand of the Harlow Advertis
mgucompany of Chicago. The com
nay was originally organized at
Lincoln and a factory was establish
ed' 'in Council Bluffs with general
offices-in .Omaha. Many of the
largest stockholders live in Grand
Island and, yicinity. . -
3ay! Omaha Gangster .
,; ; More Like Professor
Okmulgee, Okl., Jan. H. (Special
Telegram.) Three gangsters, one 'of
thetu believed seriously wounded, are
still at liberty, having escaped after
they,, with three other, men, had bat
tled with officers, who sought -to ar
rest t,hem on suspicion Monday morn-
iug. 'f ","." '. - '' : J :' .
' Orie gangster, James Sexton; of
Tulsa, is dead as a result of a wound
he. received in the fight. Two men
giving their names as Ed Lansing
.and Frank Hadley, and claiming to
have come here from Omaha, are in
jaib.They had a complete set of
.bank-robbing tools in their posses
sion. Lansing's apparent education
land, finesse mark him rather as a
college professor than a gangster.,
Fireman Killed as .
j Engine GoesvDoAVnank
! Portsmouth, O.; ' Jan. 11. J. G.
Callahan, Russell, Ky., fireman, was
''killed, S. B. Caldwell, brakeman,
Xhinnville, Ky., and Louis K. Perry,
engineer, Russell.'. Ky., were badly
injured and scalded .when . the en
,:gine, tender and three "coal cars of
a freight train on the Chesapeake &
Ohio Northern plunged down a 100
foot embankment one and a half
miles north of Sciotoville early this
morning. (. -
The 'engine rolled over several
times and landed upside down.- A
huge" "if ill, weakened by heavy rains,
j was given as the cause of the acci
jdent. ;;-, - - -
Wheel Tax Warning.
C F. Bbssie, city clerk, reports
that wheel tax licenses for this year
.jvill be. delinquent on February l. .
Many vehicle owners are calling
at the clerk's office for 1922 plates.
On and after February 1 the police
will round up delinquents.
Fire Damages Homes.
I Beatrice, Neb.; Jan. 1 1. (Special)
--Fire damaged the homes of Lyle
Purcell and F. Z. Fuller. The fires
were caused from defective flues.
The loss is, covered by insurance..
; ' County Board Meets.
. Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 11. (Special)
'-iThc board of supervisors met in
annual session at the court house
and re-elected "Ben Gable chairman
pa the first ballot, r
Prominent Nebraska
Odd Fellow Dies Here
Jacob Marks.
Jacob Mark. 54. one of the most
prominent Odd Fellows in Nebraska,
died yesterday. He had been a
resident of Omaha 40rs. For
many years he was a traveling sales
man in the territory adjacent to
Omaha, but recently has been in the
coal business here.
lie is survived by his wife, two
sons, Harry and Louis; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Sarah Vorzimer and Mrs.
.. .. l .l 9
.iose iousem; one nromer, j. c
Marks, and one sister, Mrs. J. Le-
vintf.
Funeral services will be held Fri
dav niorninif at 10 from the resi
dence, 315e Linroln boulevard. The
services will be in charge of the Odd
Fellows, of which Mr. Marks was a
ivember of the sovereign grand
lodge.
Lawyers Argue
Futures Trading
Tax Is Punitive
Counsel for Board of Trade
Present Final Statements 1
Againgl Act Before Su- .
preme Court.
Washington, Jan. ' 11. Counsel
for eight members of the Chicago
Board of' Trade presented final ar
guments in the supreme court to
day in their suit which challenges
the constitutionality of the futures
trading act. The contention ad
vanced was that the tax was puni
tive and in the term of a penalty to
enforce regulatory, provisions of
transactions over which the federal
government has ' no control. The'
government also opened its argu
ment today. '
Solicitor General Beck declared
that ''wild orgies" on" grain ex
changes caused congress to impose
an excise tax which carried certain
exemptions under which the . tax
would not be imposed or collected.
He added that should the court hold
unconstitutional the features of tlv
law in- issue, those who brought tlio
appeal would be subject to a tax of
20 cent? a bushel on. all future trad
ing in grain, 'without ability to re
lieve themselves from that tax. by
admitting agricultural co-operative
tssociations to membership ; and
otherwise qualifying as a contract
market. He contended that there
could' be no question of the power of
congress to place any tax it pleases
on . any .. transaction ' on grain or
other exchanges.," ' .
Grain traded- in on-the Chicago
Board of Trade has . ceased to be an
article of interstate commerce,
counsel-, for- the . eight .-members
claimed, before . such transactions
are made. Importance of regulating
membership on. the exchange', and
the value of exchange property-were
emphasized on stating the opposi
tion of those bringing the proceed
ing for the admission of agricultural
co-operative .'associations . to meru
bersjiip. ; V-'" ' .. .'.'"'.' v. .!,'.. -
Rules, of the exchange prohibiting
rebating of commissions were pointed-out,
in connection with that pro
vision of the law which "permits co
operative associations 'to shire- ?x-
change profits among themselves,
and brought from Justice Brandeis
the suggestion: that corporations
which are represented now on the
exchange distribute among their
members dividends representing
profit derived in part from commis
siohs on trade on the exchange.
Henry S. Robins, in making the
argument for those opposing the
Jaw, insisted it was the taking of
property without due process of law.
Omaha Couple to Have
Two Wedding Ceremonies
A double ceremony to be per
formed by the protestant minister,
Rev. E. H. Jenks and a Catholic,
priest, Rev. John Kelly, will unite
Miss Mary Fuller and Paul Shirley,
son of Michael Shirley, prominent
Omaha contractor, some time in the
near future. . . -
Shirley obtained the two marriage
licenses from the clerk of court late
Tuesday. An attempt to ascertain
the date of the proposed wedding
proved of no avail.
Victim of Auto Accident
Regains Consciousness
Although internally injured and
suffering from shock, Mrs. Alfred
Laliberty, 2534 North Forty-Eighth,
avenue, the most severely injured of
the victims of the automobile ac
cident last Sunday afternoon, is
showing marked improvement at the
Swedish hospital here. She re
covered consciousness yesterday.
Engravers Back to Work
New York, -Jan. 11. Three hun
dred striking photo engravers re
turned to work yesterday following
ihe signing of the new working
agreements by 11 photo engraving
firms, officials of the photo engrav- I
era' union announced, i
Fortification of
Jan Isles Puzzles .
Anns Conference
U. S. Concerned Over Que
tion of Whether Island
South of Jujiuii Are to
Be Fortified.
Washington, Jin. 11. (By A. P.)
While they waited word from To
kio on the final draft of the 1'acilic
fortitirations provisions, the naval
"Big Five" oi the arms conference
went ahead today with the discus
sions of other features of the five
power naval limitation treaty.
Aside from the fortification, arti
cles and various annexes to the
treaty, the five delegation chiefs
were in virtual agreement on all por
tions of the treaty text. Before the
five came together each of the dele
gations had met separately to review
the few points remaining at i-sue.
Dunns- the day the Shantung ne
gotiations also were renewed by the
Japanese and Chinese groups, with
an understanding that the dead
locked question of the Tsing Tao
Tsinanfu railroad should be held in
abeyance while an effort was made
to reach decisions on other contro
versial elements.
.The delay developing over refer
ence of the fortifications article of
the naval treaty to Tokio led to a
general belief that no plenary session
of the conference would be possible
before next week.
On the fortifications article the
chief difficulty is understood to have
arisen over a precise definition of the
geographical area to be embraced in
the Pacific fortifications "status quo."
The big unanswered question is
whether a string of Japanese islands
extending 300 miles to the southwest
of the main Japanese archipelago arc
to be included in the territory where
further fortifications is prohibited.
Though little, public attention has
been drawn to the matter of the ex
tent of fortifications to be permitted
to Pacific islands, the general board
of the American navy attaches a good
deal of importance to it. Fortifica
tion of the string of islands south
ward from the Japanese mainland
would control the approaches by
naval vessels to the whole north
coast of China and would constitute
an effective military barrier.
School Economics Will Be
Discussed at Lincoln
. Lincoln, Jan. 11. (Special Tele
gram.) Whether the Nebraska As
sociation of City school lords at
its annual meeting tomorrow will
adopt resolutions which will throw
it into line with the retrenchment
policy of the state directed by Gov
ernor McKelvie in demanding a cut
of $1,000,000 in state appropriations
to ease, the financial depression was
a mooted question tonight among
school board members here for the
meeting. y'
That the recent publication -of a
statistical table showing that 40 cents
of the average tax dollar went to the
sqhools has brought them under
close scrutiny was admitted and prac
tically the entire program is taken
up With economic school subjects,
Business Depression
Slight at Grand Island
Grand Island, Neb., - Jan. 11.
(Special.) A survey of the deposits
in the six Grand Island banks on
December 31, as compared with De
cember 31, 1920, shows that this city
has been but slightly affected finan
cially, although a large number of
its . hundreds of railroad employes
have temporarily been out of em
ployment and that prices of all farm
products are low.- The check shows
that the total amount on deposit at
the end of 1921 was only $5,000 less
than the total amount at the end of
December, 1920.
Eagle J. Ciemnoczolowski
Re-Enters Business Field
Cotesfield, Neb., Jan. 11. (Spe
cial.) Eagle J. Ciemnoczolowski is
again back in business after retiring
two years ago at Elba on account Of
traveling men not being able to get
his name correct when he gave them
an order for merchandise. He will
now be an operator for the Fairmont
Creamery company here, and the
company is preparing special, blanks
cn their checks for him to sign his
name 'as operator.
" Injured -by Pitchfork. .
Callaway( Neb., Jan. 11. (Spe
cial.) A pitchfork sliding off a load
of hay at Arnold struck Emory
Parsons,, as he was passing and two
of the tines entered the . face and
neck.
Sure Relief
FOR INDIGESTION
6 BlLL-ANS
Hot water .'
Sure Relief
ELL-AM S
25 and 75$ Packages Everywhere
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Habitual Drunkards
Increase in New York
New Vork. Jan. 11. Despite
claims of tlx "dryt." the year V)l
s Ut as municipal institutions of
penal servitude go lor the incarcrra
lion of those who fell off the water
wagon, if they were ever on it, came
thin a shade of 100 per cent In
create in the number of commitment
for intoxication over the number of
sentences iinpoed in 1920.
According to Dr. Jamrs A. llamil
ton, commissioner oi correction, who
houses all who in:;t on public mani
festations of rebellion against Messrs.
Volstead, Anderson, etc., there were
1,028 persons arrested for public in
toxication in as compared to
HI perous the year preceding. Ol
the total, 158 were women.
Special Prohibition Agent
Ordered to California
Washington, Jan.' 11. E..C. Ycl
lowly, chief general prohibition agent
now engaged in inspection work in
the south, has been ordered to San
Franoiwro to co-operate with State
Director Mitchell in reorganizing the
California prohibition force.
Farmers in Polk County
Atk Offices Discontinued
Osceola. Neb., Jan. 11. (Special.)
At the first annual meeting of the
Polk county board of commissioners
petitions were presented asking the
board to discontinue' both the office
of highway commissioner and that of
farm agent -..'..
' Harry Dennis, Jr., has just won a
" prize of $1,000 because he is the
. most perfect baby in five states-
' Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan
and Wisconsin.
He is the three-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Dennis, of 7 South
Michigan Avenue, Battle Creek,
.Michigan.
The Most.
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Farm Credit Body
Defended at Meet
Dureau Convention Reverse
Self and Urges Elaborate
Highway System.
Des Moines, Jan, II. (Sprcial
Telegram.) A complete revcrwl of
the former good roads stand, and
ktatinch dcfcne of the Iowa Farm
Credit corporation wrre the features
of the first day's srs.ion of the Iowa
harm bureau convention here lues-
'ay.
In making recommendations for
19.'.', Secretary E. 11. Cunningham
urged that state-whie farm-lo-mar-ket
road system be inaugurated. "1 hi
is interpreted as a direct slap at the
State Highway coniiniiioii, with its
present cross-county primary syntem.
The bureau was aked to suKKCtt a
new secondary road system to be
partly maintained bv funds from
auto license fees which have been ex
clusively devoted to primary roads.
Ice Harvest at Osceola
Starts ott Blue Kiver
Osceola, Neb.. Jan. ll.J(SpeciaI.)
Osceola's icehouses are being filled
with . an extra fine quality of ice
from the Blue river. Last year al!
ire used in the city was manufactured
at the ice plant and the com was
much hiRher than is charged for
natural ice. . I
ft
ARRY DENNIS
an enviable record for per
fect health and physique. Not
only was he Michigan prize
baby for which he won $500
but also he has been adjudged
the best baby in five states, win
ning $1,000 more.
"He has been raised on Eagle
Brand," Mrs. Dennis writes us, though,
of course, her own care and his fine
constitution have been partly responsible ,
for his splendid development.
Harry Jr.,was put through the most rigid
and careful tests, and then retested. He
competed against many thousands of fine,
healthy children, so that his achievement
is most exceptional.
,1Q?undess other mothers besides ,
Mrs. Dennis have found that Eagle T 1
Brand makes strong, robust, sturdy '
children perfect physically and of
keen and active mentality. Thou
sands of them have testified to its'
v benefits. Physicians recommend it
for babies - who are undernour
ished, weak and underweight. For
EAGJLE BRWD
CONDENSED MILK
Organist Must Pay
$4,575 'Vamp1 Claim
IJncoIn. Jan. It. (Special Trie-
(ram ) A Lancaster enunty juiy
at tiaht awarded Mrs. hltie Smith,
K t M 7$ verdict nint Mrs. I or
I'crry, 44, a w Mow and former f burets
ergsnUt at University Place. Mrs.
Smith urd for JIO.iMi, claiming that
Mrs. IVrry "vamped her hu.hand to
turn an rktrnt that lie drtrried her
and four children, lord ig tier to At
m wattling,
Tettimouy dUclosrd that Smith
irote es.ly in the morning to write
love sonnets about Mrs, Perry and
on t timtma eve bettowed ki on
Mrs, rrrry in the ptetence of Mrs
Smith.
$25 (Graduating Dm?
Limit for Norfolk Girls
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. ll.-(Siecial
Telegram,) lhe hoard of F.dura-
tion ruled that girf students of the
19 22 graduation class will have to
eliminate competition in dress. The
rules call for a simple cotton drcts
with neik not loo low and not to
exceed $25 in cost.
Lincoln Woman Near Death
. From Burns; Dress on Fire
Lincoln, Jan. II. (Special.) Mis
Mary Mrkiin. 65. is near death in
a hospital here, the result of burns
suffered this morning when her drc
caught fire from a gas stove. A
roomer heard her screams. Nearly
all her clothing was burned from her
body.
has made
rertect Baby m Five States !
Eagle Brand is very easily digested
and has proved itself invaluable in
stubborn feeding cases.
Would YOU experiment
v 'with your baby's food?
What mother who has her baby's
welfare at heart would experiment
on him with foods whose purity
is doubtful? Mother's milk is ,
best for baby, of course. But if
-wii.-. wi. ach una
I EBo"R5TiTwMPA
Future Trading
Act to He Armied
V, S. Supreme Court Will
Hear Test Suit on Law A
esing 20 lVr Cent Tax.
Wathington, Jan, II A brief sm
r orting the act aring a u of 20
cent a buthcl on certain contract
sales of grain for future delivery was
hied hy the Department ol Juttue
yesterday in I'nitrd Mates supreme
;owrt. in the cae of riuhe iiirinheM
of the Chicago Hoard of Trade srrk
imr to tett the validity oi the act.
Argument in the c. which wa
eppraled Ironi a Icciion ly jinln
Landi. are set to brain toils v.
The britf asserts that "future trad.
ing" in gram amount in some year
to more than 20.uk),u(I0,(Ki0 buhrk
r three times all the grain produced
in the world, while the amount rt
grain which actually cnangrs lunAi
in Chicago, where live-sixths of this
(tailing is said to be done, Is a small
fraction of I per cent of tbese bil
lions of bushels. Transactions in
Ml, (he brief sets forth, amounted
to 51 times the amount of wheat pro
duced in the I'nited Mates.
Claims hy the plaintiffs that the
future trailing act is unconstitutional
brcaie the tax h prohibitive oi
"tradinir in future." and is merely
a regulation of the business of board
e f trade and chambers of commerce
is answered in the brief with th
for any reason you cannot nurse
your baby, don't take risks with him. Eagle
Brand has been the standard baby food for
sixty-four years. For three generations it has
reared splendid, healthy little boys and girls
given them the fair start that every child ought
to have.
Eagle Brand is not really a special or prepared
food at all. It is milk country milk and pure
sugar. It is the natural food for children when
mother's milk fails.
4sk your grocer
Eagle Brand is available every
where. Any grocer has it It is
always sure, safe, dependable
uniform wherever and whenever
yougetit.
THE BORDEN COMPANY
Borden Building New York
Maters alio tf Btritu'i Evaporate J Mift, Btrdn's'
Ckonlott Mailed MM and Btrdem't CmflOiemtry.
itguiiieni mat tne motors tf con.
liic.t iu providing for the 4x may
lot b inquired jnta and that the
protuion in the law for lmiion to
r.iriuberthip in the hoaiJ rf !.!
f a rrprrtmutive of a eo-oix-utiv
sovia!ton does not involve the tak
ing of property without due process
CI law,
Stanton County Fair to He
tHeld September 19 l 22
Stanton. Meh. Ian II. (Soetial ) .
II.- A it.. lU. iu r,ullll (jir
of the Miiui Cuunty Agricultural
atsiKiation wrr set nerc at "
nual mrc l in u lor September 't to
The BoiV'tioo i" be vrr
bt-kt of lnuiMul condition, li(t
ulans are hriiiulmade for the com
ing (air.
l he follow imr Vis men were named
on the board of ilirrror: Charlr
Mllllr.il.lt I'rvln
K I'ont. II. L).
Miller, J'eter Davn
.on, C. O. Drinc.
Wiil... I'. II.. :,.l, ... l.r...i,rilt I
K, Chace. TheodoVe S'aiuiir. 1. C.
lhse, l.li !et, U-lwald .Neumann.
Arthur Maderow. V. I. l'ctcrson
and John A. KhrhA n't.
. I lie board of directors elected tne
following otVicers: Jl"hn A. Lht
harrit. m.'.iilf nf I Ik' fliii' vice
preident; II. I), Mpllrr, treasurer,
and Lrvme E, ront.ltecrctary. Mr.
Khrhardt uai n.imrHtil. Wili- tn at
tend the state mectii t at Lincoln.
MacNUer to Talk.t Norfolk.
Norfolk. Neh.. Jan. VI. (Special
Telegram.) IJauford MLcNidcr. na
tional commander of tit. I American
Legion, is coming to N'orilk to de
liver an address under the iupices
of the local post this month.
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