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I ! 3 I j ; i ' i 1 i i i I V I THE NKK: OMAHA. THUItsnAY. DECKMnKR "0. 1015. BRINGING UP FATHER Copyright. 1"IJ. International News Pcrvlc. Drawn for The Bee by George McManus I WHAT M vou I fM HfT WJrc- U WHAT RE fJ TALKW 1 FOR TWO Plt f WLL BOTW OU AlO THE DAN ) T" .H,r I C BK ,7 ? " E 1 AOOOT -rooRFOTXtR IDCOHOMI J W ! WE WERE MARRIED I MUEVEO THiT. BM): rUieT IT tRVe Mt RWHT I WOl to WNOT TO MOTHER SOMttOOD S WE O M HAPP-r ( V. TOO I ' LL- 1 ' Sn!? 0EOTOtKT WITH 1" J OLD CORN BCE' FOREVER AMD K TOM L. SHEYLIN, STAR ATHLETE, DIES Young Millionaire Who Tried to Coach Tale Team to .Victory, Dies Suddenly.' ' WEAKENED BY TJLAESIIfCr STUUT MINNEAPOUS. Minn.. Den, :. Thomas) K gherlin ol Minneapolis, millionaire lumberman and Tala foot ball coach, died at hli bom bera of pneumonia. Mr. Bhevlln contracted a cold while training the Tala foot ball squad last fall. Mr. 8hTl!n'i illness assumed serious proportions last Thursday, and since then be has been gradually declining. Yesterday be suffered a re lapse and a Chicago apeclallst hur ried to this city by special train. After leaving- Tale at the close of the foot ball season, Mr- Shevlln went to Cali fornia to ret. Lett Wednesday ha re turned to hts horns tier, and the fol lowing: Oar waa taken sick with pneu monia. A number of physicians were summoned to attend him, but the patient gradually sank until death came today. Shevlln played foot ball at Tale four years ago. belnt captain during hla last year, In IMS, when Tala had one of tha greatest teams In Us huitory, . Since the days when he more a "T" at Tale, Bhevlln had always stood ready to come to the aid of hla alma mater as foot ball adviser and coach. Last fall h struggled hard to whip tha , Tale, ag gregation Into shape to meet Harvard, and th subsequent overwhelming defeat preyed on hla mind. During training he lost twelve pounds. The rest In Cali fornia did him good, but because of business matters at homa he Cut short his vacation and came home still la a somewhat weakened condition. Probably "no more sensational athlete ever played on Tale teams than Thomas Lee Shevlln. Ha waa an all round ater In athletics, being Identified while at Tale with virtually every branch of sport. However, his greatest fame came from proweas on the gridiron. Kor four years h was accorded the honor of being picked for All-Amerlcan end, Shevlln played on th Tale team for four seasons, beginning with 1902. As a senior' be captured the eleven. During his career Tale defeated Harvard four times and Princeton three times. On the Tale track team fihevlln also shone as a atar, earning a "V." He played en th base ball team In his fresh man year. After his graduation Phevlln was held responsible for several victorias for hi school on th gridiron. Twice h ram out of th northwest to pull th Ells out of th mire. His work last fall In lead ing Tale to victory over Princeton la of recent history. Mr. Ehevlln as SI years old and Is sur vived by a widow and two children. Breakdown On to Strain. Slaay ef Tom Shevlln'e friend did not loam until 1st last night that he was confined to his bed. Cloae friends believe that th strain of his work with th Tel squad thin fall weakened him physically. They notnted out that In mo when Mr. Shevlln left his business and rushed to New Haven In reply to distress signals from th Ells he waa several daya recuperating after th cloae of th foot ball season. Only aeven other men In th United States carried aa large an amount of life Insurant-, as Shevlln, according bis bualnesa aeaoclatea. TO ROLLER SKATE AGAINST TIME TONIGHT. v; :--; ;;"' ." ' ' MISS ANNA WATERMAN. Miss Anna Waterman,' whom her friends say la one Of the speediest roller skaters in the west.' will endeavor ' to lower the quarter-mile mark for women speed skaters at the Omaha -Auditorium roller rink this evening. Miss Water man has not yet decided whether aha will be paced by' one of the male akatera or whether she will skate alone. The track around which aha will skate the axhlbl tlon quarter mile will be twenty-eight lapa to tha ml'o. so that sh will have to make tha circuit seven times. Since the opening of the roller akatlog, at the Auditorium this seaaon Interest In skating among the feminine. Sc' has In creased a good deal. U Is said that (here are-some of the fastest akatera. In th country In Omaha, and among these Miss Waterman's friends believe that shs Is easily tha beat Th smooth floor make It an Ideal course for faat work, and Mlsa Waterman's friends thmk that she will set a mark that It will be almost Impos sible for any other woman skater to equal. . , . Miss Waterman has roller and to skated for several years, but prefers the rollers to th Ice skates. Hhe la an adept on both and likes to speed. She takes a long, graceful, sweeping stroke which la greatly admired. WILLARD-FULTON GO DECLARED OFF Tom Jonei Announce Scheduled Twenty-Round Boat at New , . Orleans Won't Be Held. WAS ' SLATED FOR MARCH 4 NEW ORLEANS. Dec. !9.-Tha twetity- round fight for the ieavywelght cham pionship, scheduled, for .March 4 In thin city between Jess Wlllard and Kred Ful ton of Minnesota waa definitely declared off let todoy by Tom Jonea, Wlllard's manager, ' and Tommy Bums, local pro moter, who was a partner of Domlnlck ). Tort orloh In promoting the f!s;ht,- . I . Hears no Word. . ; MILWAUKEE, Dee. .-T. 8. Androwa. local- boxing promoter,' .through whose effoita'tha Fulton-Wlllard bout was ar ranged, aaid 'tonlirht. he had received no word that th tout which waa scheduled to take place In March had been called off. Andrew sold his previous offer of 131,000 for a ten-round go between Fulton and Wlllard at Milwaukee duHng the third week In February still stood. What Collins Sara. CHICAOO. Dec. 29 Mike Colllnx, Ful ton's manager, had not received word from New Orleana tonlRht. but he said ha had no doubt Wlllard would meet Fulton, as, Tom Jones, the champions manager, had promised when the first doubt about the New Orleans match arose three days ago, Colllna aald: I have fa'.th In Jones assertion that If Tommy Burns called off tha New Or leans match he would alve Fulton the first chance at th champion and that ha 'would rathef Tom Andrews got the go then to permit Hums to chance the terms of the match as original ly i ranged," to Arlington Trim3 Up Townsend Seconds The Townsead Seconds journeyed to Arlington. Ken.. Tuesday night and T defeated by the score of N te 14. The lineup: TOWNHENi8. ARLINGTON MsrKarland ...KK.IUF Ludwlg lliter C.V Johnson Mukkovlla 11.(1 K1 lillfry KUMum .I.URU FsaMtc bubstltutr: Moure for Nicholas. Uoals from ik-i1: Mart srisna 3i. M. holnon, i.eisier. fieue i.imoii u, Jonnson Ksiwtt 1. Uilfry (I). Time of halvvs: e ll, mlntiies. Referee: C. Wetgel. plre: Osrtnvr. I'm- American Jockeys Can't Ride in Hungary liKRLIN. (Via Indon., rsc. .Th mplo niant ef American jockeys on Hun K&ruia race horses tiaa virtually been etoppej through a resolution . proposed by tne Hungarian Jockey club, which, excludes foreign jockeys from all racea ths stakes of which are below I" ,000 row nil. The resolution la wortlad ao as lo affect "foreigners," but Americans sre almost the only foreigner riding on Hungarian tracks. Peters Says He Will Meet Caddock After Some Other Matches Charles Peters aaya he la willing to meet Earl Caddock at the terma men tion by Caddock winner take all but that he haa several matchee In sight for the Immediate future, and that when these are wrestled he will take on Cad dock, 'M'hla information waa conveyed to th sporting editor of Tha Ree by Pet Loch, local representative of 1'etera, after he had read the Craddock challenge In Tha Be. Loch aaya Peters will not only wrestle winner take all. but he will make a side bat of II.OiiO besides. The matches which Patera destrea te wrestle before taking on Caddock are with Rtrangler Lew la, Carl Eklund and Westergaard. Petera won a boat of friends In Omaha by th splendid showing he made at the Auditorium laat week against the blk Greek. Kuvaroa, and he I counted en aa a corner. Hla friends say he will meet any of these wrestlers who are striving for a match with Joe. Steelier, Loch says It will be a couple of montha before Petera has tha other matches off his hand, and then he wUI be ready for Caddock. Caddock's manager wanted th match at Council Bluffs or Lincoln, while lxch will Insist on the match being pulled off la Omaha. Loch says It will make no difference to the wreatler what th rent on th Auditorium la. as they will get an per cent of the receipts snd the promot era will have to pay for ths Auditorium and the advertising and th preliminaries out of th 40 per cant. Caddock's only objection to Omaha was th high rent of the Auditorium. r Slewavrk laStarellwai fare,!. Your swmiich snd bowels need clean In? out. !'r. King's New I4fe Pills give luii-k rtli' f Or.ly Sc. AH drug g!(.Ad- ei i i-m.Tit. Xad The tee Want Ads. It pays! Schmidt Pictured as Victim of War of Capital and Labor LOS ANOELF.3. Cel.. Dec. .-Mathew A. Pchmldt, charged with the murder of one of the twenty men killed when the Los Angele Times building wss blown up years ago, was pictured today in tne arguments of defenaa attorneys at his trial aa the victim of a war between capi tal and labor, with capital represented by the I'nited States Ftee! corporation. opratlng through the National Erectors' association, and labor by the Interna tional Aasociatlon of Bridge and Struc tural Irun Workers. 'In most rases the defendant, the man on. trial, la the main substantial fact. raid Job Harrlman, one of Schmidt's counsel, who took up the closing argu ments to the Jury today. "But in this case he Is not. In this case It Is a strug gle hetween the . National Erectors as sociation, basked by the billion-dollar Steel trust, and the labos organisations snd there Is no use trying to dlsbulse the fact." Dealing with the testimony of Ortie McManlgal. the avowed accomplice of James II. McNamara. who confessed hav ing lynamlted the Times building, Hani man declared that McManlgal had testi fied to gain hla liberty. He advanced the belief that McManlgal himself had suggested a campaign of dynamiting and ( a riled It out with th aid of three or four offtciala of the Ironworkers' union. Harrlman also laid stress on the fact that tho prosecution declined to cross- examine Schmidt when he was placed on the aland and denied all connection with the alleged conspiracy to deatroy the Ttmea. "We threw the door wide open?" aald Harrlman, "tout they did not take sdvan tage of It. because they were afraid." NONPAREIL CLUB TO KEEP ; ; Of EN HOUSE NEW YEAR'S The Nonpareil Athletic and Social club will hold open house New Tears aay from 1 to p. m. at 1321 Vinton street. Roast pig. athletic program and dancing will be features of the occasion. ' All members and their friends are Invited. French Off ensive in Yosges Broken, Berlin Announces BERLIN, Dec. 29. (Via London.) The offensive movement undertaken by the French In the Vosbes, at Hlrsateln ,1s said by the German war office to have broken down last night. The report concedes that the French penetrated Qerman positions on Hart- mana-Wellerkopf, but says they were ex pelled later. The statement follows: "Western theater of war: Westende (Belgian) waa bombarded again by an enemy monitor without result -i. ' "The advance on HlUsteln (three mllea southwest of Hartmans-Wellerkopf) which we reported yesterday, broke down under our fire during the evening. "The French twic attacked noslttons on Hartmana-Wellerkopf. , where our troops had recaptured. They penetrated certain polnta In our trenches. After the first attack the enemy was driven off everywhere Immediately. Fighting for the possession of "pertain trench sections con tinued. I'p to the present the French have lost five officers and more than 300 when, who have geen captured. "The British lost to aeroplanes yester day. One waa forced to descend at a point north of Lens. The other, a large .battle aeroplane, was shot down in an aerial battle north of Han. On December" 27, a third British aeroplane was de stroyed by fire west of Lille. "Eastern theater: An advance by a strong Russian division on the coast . near Raggasrm. northeast of Tukum, fslled. To the aouth of Plnsk, a Russian field guard poat wss destroyed by a sur prise attack. "Balkln theater: There is nothing t report." Mron; Winds Caase Neeratgta. Don't suffer: get a 25c bottle of Sloan's Linlmenti it penetrates to the painful parts st once. Kills the pain. All drug gists. Advertisement. Read The bee Want Ads. Xt pays J pose. He Charges Cattle ( Inspectors Under PackersMnfluence CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-The federal bureau of animal industry and Its relationship with the Chicago stock yards were crltl- Iclsed today before the United Statee sen ate committee Investigating the hoof and mouth disease. That the influence of packing house Interests had an untoward effect on vet erinarians waa the opinion of Colonel Watson French of Davenport, la, one of the wltnessea. '1 do not mean to charge that veterl- narlana as a claaa ar corrupt, but they are only human, and they are underpaid," said Colonel French. Wilbur W. Marsh of Waterloo, la., a breeder ef dairy cattle, aald: "I feel that the veterinary department of' the bureau of animal Induatry has grown Into a veritable bureaucracy which favors its friends above the at rangers." Senator Kenpon of the committee aaked if the witness had any auggestlona to help the live atock situation. "1 would suggest that a department of government and a cabinet officer would not be mora than la needed to take chars of the live stock business of this coun try." refilled Mr. Marsh. 'Thla bualness Is th greatest eeonoralc factor In the life of the nation." Will Probe Charge of Immorality in Camps of Movies LOS ANGELES. Cel.. 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Follow this weeks episode: "Buying a Bank with Bunk.' It is the newest of the -.1 fjyj ft THE NEW ADVCWTVCCS Of Oi , : It shows Burr Mcintosh a jfinished versatile actor and gives Max Figman full play for his unique comedy effects. r i .I-';.'. PATH t (y)) DCCHAWCE Forniabes your theatre with theta pictures. There is no reason why yon should not . see this great masterpiece of Pathe" Motion Pic hare. You can start now. To be sore, he will be new to you, but he will be perfectly under tandable, for each one of these Wallingford episodes is abso lutely distinct and apart. George Randolph Chester, the creator of Wallingford, himself declares that at no point during his virile narrative of these quaint charac ters haa he so dramatically infused life into the printed page. It is one thing to see the motion pictures, but a far superior delight to read in combination with them . the story every week in the SUNDAY BEE