Elks’ Building
Is Dedicated at
Impressive Rites
s —_
Colorful Parade Precedes Cor
nerstone Laying—Grand
Exalted ^uler of Or
der Presides.
(Continued From Pace On*.)
«vest corner of Fourtenth_and Hodge
streets. He called on the four charter
members present to arise, which
brought forth loud cheers.
Omaha Lodge Larges).
“Today,” ha continued, “Omaha
stands in the foreground of all Elk
dom ami No. 39 enjoys the proud dis
tinction of having the largest mem
bership in the grand lodge of any
lodge of the order. This lodgs' vteual
ize* the future possibilities of the
growth of this metropolis and opens
its hospitable hearthstone to future
thousands who will unite under its
principles for the good of man.”
Misses Leola Jensen and Margaret
Killian placed purple aiid white flow
ers, th«f colors of the lodge, on the
cornerstone. -
At a luncheon given by the Omaha
lodge yesterday noon in Hotel Fon
tenelle for the visitors. Grand Exalted
Ruler Masters spoke briefly, stressing
the thought that the order of which he
Is the head is endeavoring to be of
real service to the communities and
the nution.
BWe must go forward to better
things.” the exalted ruler said. "The
world needs industrial and interna
tional peace. tVe need a better con
ception of the relations herween men.
Let us help solve some of the prob
lems that trouble this old world. Our
order stands for charity, justice,
brotherly love and fidelity. Are you
helping to life up the less fortunate?
Remember that one of the leading
characteristics of our order is service.
Law Respect L'urged.
*‘I have observed a growing disre
gard for law In some communities.
Tlie Elks are doing their best to pro
mote good citizenship. We are doing
our full share to make decent, up
standing American citizens. We
should observe the laws even if we
may not personally be in accord with
some of them. We had a chance to
debate the laws before they were
passed, but when they are once passed
we have no alternative but to respect
them.”
Mayor Dahlman gave the welcom
ing address at the luncheon. J. U
Killian, exalted ruler of Omaha lodge,
presided. Among the attendants were
Brig, Gen. Halstead Darcy, Col. Har
vey W. Miller, Col. Frank Halstead,
Col. Harry A. Eaton, I.leut. Col. E. D.
Powers, MaJ. Thornton Rogers and
Capt. Leslie E. Toole of the United
States army. Gov. C. W. Bryan was
escorted by Mayor Dahlman.
The parade, which moved from Six
teenth street and Capitol avenue to
the Elks building, was led by mem
Mhe police department. Lin
a contingent of 150 which
a band under the direction
r Babich. Among the units
e of march were the Omaha
S, ..lilitary organizations and
t from Fort Omaha and Fort
dets of Central High, Omaha
Technical High and Creighton uni
versity; Creighton and public high
school bands, Council Bluffs Elks and
high school band, American Legion, !
Des Moines uniformed Elks, Shenan
doah Elks band, Omaha Elks. Creigh
ton R. O. T. C. and Omaha /EHts
bowling teams.
A dinner for the grand lodge offi- ;
cers was given at Hotel Fontenelle in
the evening. »
Detroit Seeking Another
$1,000,000 Loan From Ford
Dstroit, May 26.—An additional loan
of 14,000,000 Is being sought from
Henry Ford by the city of Detroit,
It became known today. The Ford
interests already have loaned the city
*2,000,000, of Which *1,000.000 is for
general expenses over the Interim ex
tending to July 15 when tax collec- |
tiog^ begin, and *500,000 represents j
an advance on street railway bonds 1
to finance extensions and Improve
ments.
By obtaining lie loans from the Ford
Motor company the city will save
tiSbrly 11,000 a month In interest on
each million borrowed, according to
William J. Nagel, city controller.
A motion picture screen with the
surface embossed In small squares
has been designed to make s picture
clearly visible from all angles.
To Star in European Opera
.Mm**. Georgette Lebiune*Maeterlinck, first wife of (lie eminent novelist,
Maurice Maeterlinck of Belgium, sailed for Europe recently. She'll star
in (ianna Walska’s theater in Paris.
All Northern Ruhr
Cauldron of Unrest
(tontinueU From rage One.)
propagandists and organizers of the
soviet, secretly left Rerlin and was
reported to be on his way to the
Ruhr.
German Executed.
Although the French military
authorities have made no effort to
check the red wave, they executed
at Dusseldorf today a German work
er who had taken part 1% the blow
ing up of Ruhr railways in April.
Many persons were wounded, news
paper plants were wrecked and stores
looted at Bochum.
Shots were exchanged between
communists and volunteer police at
Muenster. but no casualties were re
ported, v
Essen was comparatively quiet, al
though there was an undercurrerif of
unrest.
Famine is threatened at Gelsenkir
chen, where the food shops have been
sold out. Railway traffic has been
paralyzed at Dusseldorf by strikes.
Strikes among steel and iron work
ers, railway men and miners spread
to serious proportions. At Rem
scheid and elsewhere steel and iron
workers struck, demanding 50 per
cent wage increase.
Troops Seize Marks.
Berlin, May 26,—On the heels of
news of violent red upheavals
through the Ruhr today came a re
port that the French troops at Essen
had raided the reichsbank and seized
75,000,000,000 marks.
The Ruhr is secting with unrest
and all day and tonight there were
frequent clashes between the com
munists and the German police, while
the French military authorities stood
aside and watched the struggle
which threatens to tie up all Indus
try in the grea. Industrial district.
Sunday is expected to be a day of
fighting and clashes throughout the
Ruhr, as all the workers will be idle.
The communists in Westphalia have
issued a proclamation calling upon
the proletariat to support a general
strike throughout the Rhineland and
the Ruhr. Two Russian soviet "cour
tiers," sai4 to be acting between Ruhr
communist leaders and Moscow, were
arrgsted at Dortmund by the republi
can police.
Before leaving Berlin for the Ruhr,
Karl Radek, the ■ rmmunist, issued
the following proclamation:
"We will not accuse Lord Curpon
of having hired the assassin of Vas
lav Vorovsky at Lausanne. We will ■
not allege that the I-nusanne murder
was the beginning of a carefully
plotted series of assassinations of
soviet officials and envoys. But X
will say one thing: When we begin
killing we will aim straight, and the
death toll of our enemies will he far
greater than our own."
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In the' daily business routine of
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policy of trustworthiness prevails
—never lax, ever on the alert.
Our relentless adherence to this
policy we believe to be one of the
greatest assets that we possess,
and it is on such a foundation
that we bid for the patronage of
Omaha women.
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in pricings and in service.
Featuring on Our Second Floor
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-a •
Girl Victim of Fake
Wedding Returns
(Continued From I'ntce One.i
talnment. Frequently he met Maxine
bfyond sight of her home in the morn
ing and drove her to school, often
< hey would drive to Omaha for dinners
or lunches.
Plans for their elopement material
ized on the same day on which the
father accompanied his daughter to
school to investigate reports of her
truancy. The young man promised
to take Maxine to sunny California
after thp ceremony.
Married ut Malvern.
She met him when she left school
Tuesday and they drove to Glenwood,
la., where she says he obtained a
marriage license. They then con
tinued to Malvern, la., where they
were married by a Presbyterian min
ister, according to her storv. They
spent that nigh;, Wednesday and
Wednesday night iq Omaha and the
Bluffs.
On Thursday (he newlyweds drove
to Fairmount park, where the hus
band asked his firide to wait until
he transacted some business In
Omaha. Their suitcases wore packed
for the trip to the Pacific coast and
they planned to start that day. He !
failed to keep his promise to return. 1
The girl-wife waited until late in the
night for him.
After her return home, police in
Vile Bluffs and Omaha immediately* |
launched a nearrh for the mintrinf?
husband. They Investigated record*
•in Mills county and coul<) find no
trace of the purported marriage cere- 1
mony in Glenwood or Malvern. It in
believed that the girl war duped by j
the man with the a**istance of con- i
federates.
Bar of (.'rred Is Lowered
l>v Northern Baptists
Atlantic City, N. .1., May 2B.—The I
bar of creed was lowered by the 1
Northern B aptist invention today ;
when it was voted that the presi
dent of the I nlversity of Chicago
need not hereafter be a member of
that denomination. The delegaten
were almost unnmimous In abolishing
the custom of choosing the head of
that university from among Baptist j
educators.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
More Arrests Are
Expected in Hum
Conspiracy Case
l ive Attorneys Charged With
Scheme to Defraud Gov
ernment Through
Wholesale Bribery.
Cleveland, May tS.—More arrests
may be made Sunday In Ihe alleged
conspiracy to violate the Volstead law
land defraud the government through
I wholesale bribery, United States At
torney A. E. Berstern said today,
after Fred Counts, former prohibition
;tgent here; his brother, A. Frank
Counts, Cleveland attorney; Joseph
H. Shearer, former Ohio prohibition
director, and Samuel A. Hoskins, Co
lumbus attorney, had been released
on $5,000 bail each.
The four, all lawyers, were taken
before Federal Judge David C. West
| enhaver and formally charged with
two spe<$fie counts, based op 37
alleged "overt acts" growing out of
The. Aurbaeh alcohol diversion con
spiracy in which Xaiuis and Abraham
Auerbaeh and three others pleaded,
guilty and were sentenced to Atlanta
recently.
Blaines Polities. .
Politics, personal motives of ven
geance against him because of his
impartial enforcement of the national
prohibition law and spite work have
resulted in the charges against him,
Fred Counts asserted. According to
the indictment, which was returned
secretly by the federal grand jury
Thursday, thousands of dollars were
paid by the Auerbach conspiracy lead
ers through intermediaries lo A.
Frank Counts and Hoskins.
Conspiracy, which carries with it a
possible penitentiary sentence. Is
charged in both of the two counts in
the indictment, returned against the
four men.
Hoskins is charged with the alleged
acceptance of $1,700 at one time from
Louis Auerbach through Samuel Rem
brandt. Cleveland attorney, now in
Atlanta and $21,000 from Auerbach
through another party at another
time, this money being paid for ob
taining permits for withdrawal of
ethyl alcohol from a Cincinnati ware
house, which was used for purposes
in violation of the Volstead act.
.Accused of Tultfng Money.
A. Frank Counts is charged with
receiving money from Louis Auerbach
at various times in the sums of $5,000, ;
$16,000 paid at the rate of $4,000
weekly and $40,000.
Joseph H. Shearer who, while he
was prohibition director for Ohio, had
desk rootn in Hoskins' office, is
charged with obtaining permits for
withdrawal of ethyl alcohol by the
Auerbachs and otherwise aiding and
abetting and advising the conspiracy.
Fred Counts is charged with refus
ing and failing to prosecute the A tier
backs, with receiving a list of the
agents, employes and customers of
the Auerbachs so that he might know
who was to receive protection from
liquor prosecutions and wttn removing
records from the prohibition office in i
Cleveland, when he retired ns agent
in charge which, it is alleged, he later
offered for sale to the Auerbachs for
$500 and later for $260.
Doctors Challenge Rules
Controlling Prescriptions
\ By International New* Service.
Butte. Mont., May 26.—Challenging
the right of congress and the internal
revenue commissioner to place re
strictions on the practice of medicine,
more than 60 Butte physicians have
organized the Association for the
Protection of Constitutions) Rights, 1
The organization will make a teat
case of the suit recently filed by
t'nited States District Attorney John
L. Slattery against Dr. J. B. Freund,
of this city, charging violation of the
law iiertainlng to liquor prescriptions.
Dr. Freund is charged with Issuing
102 liquor prescriptions within 90 ;
days, two more than tb« nnmber al
lowed by law. with issuing two pre
scriptions to the same patient in less
than 10 days, and with writing a pre
scription on other than a regulation
form.
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1314-16-18-Dod^e St.* * • Om«hd
I urco-Greek War
Pact Clears Clouds
_
(I mitlntieil From Pugs One.)
ihp agreement the Kuropean powers
lia\e lieen seeking for a fortnight,
i The happy ending of the war
threats is expected to favorably in
fluence the remaining near eastern
! negotiations and force an accord on
the isdnls still disputed. Ineidentally
lit will further the proposed revision
'of the Turkish American treaties,
which are still in the stage of informal
I conversations.
Kssential Points.
The essential points in today s
'agreement are: Greece admits that It
owes indemnity to Turkey, while Tur
key renounces enforcement of pay
ments; the two powers agree to recti
fication of the boundary between east
ern and western Thrace and to the
restoraion of ships seized from one an
other since the armistice: the Turks
agree to waive indemnity in view of
Greece's precarious financial condi
tion, and Greece consents to the
cession to Turkey of Karagatch and
the railroad from Karagatch to the
Bulgarian frontier.
The meeting began in the same at
mosphere as attended the collapse of
the previous conference on February
■1. The prieipal delegates, notably Sir
Horace Humboldt. Great Brit»in, and
General Belle, France, solemnly ap
pealed to Ismet Pasha, head of the
Turkish delegation, to waive all
claims to cash indemnities and accept
the offer of Karagatch.
drew I'rges Agreement.
Mr. Grew who, until early in the
morning, had conferred with Ismet
t’asha and M. Venizelos counselling j
moderation, added America's voice to
that of Europe. Mr. Grew pointed
out that hoth Greece and Turkey had
been engaged in a long struggle, and
hoth were confronted with problems
of internal organization demanding
selfcontrolled statesmanship. Turkey,
he said, seemed determined to re
organize its national life on modern
democratic lines and it would seem in
conceivable that it would thrust this
object aside in favor of w;*r.
The settlement followed a long de- j
hate, after which Ismet Pasha and M. ;
Venizelos shook hands and sat down ,
and chatted in the most friendly man
ner.
M. Venizelos thanked all the pleni
potentiaries. as well as the American
minister, for their efforts toward
peace, Ismet Pasha remarked that
he hoped Turkish conciliatory attitude
would help to Influence the settlement
of the remaining problems between
Turkey and the allies.
Torvite Offered
Ambassadorship
to I nked States
Hritisli Premier Asks < !liam
Iterlain to Accept Post
Which (ieddes Is Expect
ed to Resign Soon.
By I'nUfriuil Servlet.
London. May 26.—After a twoliour
conference this afternoon between
Premier Stanley Baldwin -and Austen
Chamberlain it was reported that the
premier had tried to induce the leader
of the tory dissenionlats •> accept
the ambassadorship to Washington
in case Ambassador (ieddes resigns,
which he is expected to do on account
of ill health.
Tps action, while it would Identify
Chamberlain with the Baldwin gov
ernment. it was pointed out. would
practically remove him from the
field as.a possible aspirant do the
premiership If the new government
does not last.
The selection of Reginald McKenna
to be chancellor of the exchequer as
soon as his health will permit, while
it has - received the approval of fi
nancial circles, has added ntlle
strength to the Baldwin regime.
Tipt the appointment has been re
ceived in a chilly mood by the tories
was evidenced hy the curt refusal of
Sir Frederick Banbury to give up a
safe London seat to make way for the
radical who became a liberal and af
ter reaping great honors has now
turned tory.
All other tory members of the
Lloyd George government, unless
Chamberlain succumbs to tlie temp
tation of the offer of a first-class am
basaadorship or other high office, will
be outside of the breastworks when
parliament convenes.
Lloyd George is in a hitter mood
as his speeches indicate. While he
refrained, owing to a great personal
esteem, from attacking Bonar I-aw,
he is eager to open a finish fight on
the Baldwin government.
Loot \ allied at $7.">.
J. niartt. 1828 North Twenty-first
street, reported to isjlice Saturday
that thieves had broken into his home
durins his absence and stolen 125 in
cash and a watch and watch chain
belonging to Lewis Micklen, a room
er, valued at $50.
Young Girl Confesses
She Kidnaped Infants
Mt \ (kv&vRr&'rV&rVU.rw.
__ !«r*~
Mildred Warren um, a 14y ear-old
girl, has been arrested In St. Paul,
Minn., <m charges of kidnaping a baby
from in front of a department store,
where it had been left by its mother.
In a basement where she lived, the po
lice found two other scantily dad in
fants. She told the police she stole
the liable# because she loved them
and they took the place of a younger
brother who died.
1 wo Per Cent Immigration
Hill Favored by Johneon
B> International News service.
San Franciaco. May 26.—The 2 per
cent quota immigration bill, based on
tho 1890 census, provides the most
practicable solution of the Japanese
question on the Pacific coast.
This was the unanimous sentiment
expressed at one of the most Im
portant meetings held here in recent
months, ealled for the purpose of
discussing immigration legislation
bearing on the Japanese problem,
Congressman Albert Johnson, Wash
ington, framer of the measure, de
clared immediately after the adjourn
ment.*
"Insofar as It concerns the oriental ;
problem." Congressman Johnson de
clared. "it was the unanimous senti
ment that this bill will solve it ef
fectively. with the least offense and
without doing injustice to anyone.’’ j
Chinese Soldiers ^pMl
in Drive on
I< cntiinoal frulti rare' llnr
».i“ hinted furlh«-r that the u’pi'^U
I tic corps was considering lala^B
steps to size Die real and perso^H
property of certain high official pi^fl
ters in an effort to force actlon-i^B
of the Pekin government. ^B
The next rlay(Ccneral Tien's IrooH
began to file Into the hills in the
rection of the Paotzuku stronghold.
Demands have been made at va^B
"bus times during the past two wee^B
by foreign circles in Shanghai t^H
the powers undertake tic r< i.-use^H
the captives, either by da. -t negot^H
Dons with the handits, or by the
of foreign troops
The diplomatic < orpa. howevt^B
maintains that to deal directly wiH
the bandits would relieve Pckhi of lH
responsibility for the safety of thfl
foreign prisoners and. so far. has rcB
frained * from initiating such pouiB
parlers. 1
rew Foreign Troops Available. ■
As to a foreign military drive on thel
! outlaw stronghold, it is generally be-1
lieved in Pekin "and Tientsin, a tielief I
| which the captives themselves have I
expressed, that such action would I
enhance the danger of the 'prisoner*' 1
death at the hands of their captor*. |
Moreover, foreign quarters at Tient- |
sin point out that thet'e are not S.000
foreign troops in the international
compounds there, a force entirely in
adequate to undertake operations in
the treacherous hill country of
Shantung against bandit gangs said
to aggregate 10,000 men. •
The dose of the thii-d week since
the 14 were first j
less tension than prevailed last Satur-I
day. At that time the bandits hadfl
threatened to kill some of their prison-1
ers if their demands were not met w
by Tuesday. May 22. But Tuesday I
came and went, and no executions 1
followed.
There is no death threat abroad to
night, and hopes are held out that the
lives of all the prisoners will be spar
ed by their kidnapers, but, with Gen
erai Tien’s troops launching their
drive against Paotzuku, there is con
siderable anxiety in foreign quarters
for the safety of the prisoners.
Newspaper Man Die*.
St. Paul. May 26 —Walter G. Me
Murchy. 51, former editor of the St.
Paul 1 tally News and head of tl.e
Washington bureau of the News since
1912. died at a hospital here early to
day after a year's illness. A widow
and a daughter survive. «
This Store Will Be Closed All Day on Memorial Day.
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Sales /
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Pussy
Willow Talcum
Double compact with
powder, rouge and
lipstick, 79c.
Prophylactic hair
brushes, 39c and 49c.
4 Interwoven
Socks for Men
Half Price
The well-known quality
remains unchanged in
these famous socks, but
the price has been de
decisively changed be
cause the sizes are bad
ly broken. But if yours
is here, you’ll get a big
sock bargain in these
close-outs.
Lisle Socks, 25c a pair.
Black, brown, white
and pongee, sizes 9L£»
and 13.
Silk Socks, 35c a pair or
3 for $1.00. Size 9'4.
Silk Socks, 75c a pair.
Some hand - embroi- ,
dered clocks included,
incomplete size range.
Wool and Silk and Wool
Socks, 35c a pair or 3
for $1.00. Not all sizes.
M • in Floor
Handkerchiefs
At Lower Prices
% Men’*
Initial handkerchiefs of
fine lawn, 5 for $1.00.
Boy*’
15-inch, all-linen hem
stitched handkerchiefs,
25c each.
White cambric hand
kerchiefs witl# colored
corded border, 15c each
or 2 for 26c.
Women’*
Crisp lawn and .linen
’kerchiefs with dainty
embroidered corners,
19c each.
Main Floor
Month End Sales
A Watched-for Event
The small quantities, short lines and odd numbers
that are bound to accumulate in the business of
storekeeping which are offered to our customers
in these once-a-month sales at substantial reduc
tions, are eagerly watched for by those shoppers
who wish to save in the purchase of Thompson
Belden merchandise.
Every item in this ad is an unusual value and
other articles carrying w'orth while savings, but in
quantities too small to advertise, can be picked up
by the thrifty shopper.
_ Sweaters \
Reduced 25% to 50%
Woolen Sweaters $1
About 50, all told, of these lightweight slip
ons and side-ties in smart sport shades.
Pure Silk Slipons $5
Black, blue, sand, henna and .iade are the
colors in which you may choose pure silk slip
on sweaters at this renuft-kable price. Sizes
16 to 20 years.
Fibre Sweaters $8.95
New tuxedo and side-tie sweaters of a splen
did quality in sand, navy, jade, black and
jockey.
Sizes 16 to 42. >
\Just in Time for the /
Holiday Outing!
Month End Sale, of
Umbrellas and Parasols
$5 to $7.50
Silk parasol novelties in
sport shades, light col
ors suitable with sum
mer frocks and street
shades comprise this
beautiful collection,
which has been sharp
ly reduced for quick
selling. Fancy handles
and materials of good
qualities e m p h a size
these unusual values.
$1.45
Well made black rain
proof umbrellas with
good- looking ring
handles. Keep one in
the*house for guests.
50c to $3
Children's parasols and
umbrellas in a great va
riety of colors and
styles.
friAin Moor
Final Clearance Prices
in Our May Salr of
Fine Undermuslins
Second Floor
Fur Scarfs
20% Discount
This important reduc
tion on all fur capes
and scarfs.
Third Floor
Porch Dresses
$3.95
Reduced Va to V2
Vou couldn’t ask fop
prettier styles in vpile.
dimity, tissue and ging
ham than are shown in
this group of 35 house
frocks which have been
sharply reduced for the
Month-End. Queen and
other standard makes
in sizes 16 years to 44.
Second Floor
Corselettefr
Reduced to 98c
A lightweight striped
flesh coutil in this cool
est of summer corset
styles. Well made with
four garters and elastic
gores to assure a good
fit.
Second Floor
Brassieres
Repriced at 98c
All sizes, but not in
every style, will be
found in this odd lot of
brassieres in flesh bro
cade, checked ginghams
and white linens. Won
derful values, for all
have been reduced and
many were much, much
higher priced.
Second Floor
$3.95
Leghorn
Sport Hats
A tailored trim of
georgette and em
broidered chenille
make these a fetch
ing style for sports.
Desirable color com
binations.
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