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FOR BRAHDEIS FIVE
File Up Fifty -Eight Points to
j Twenty-Four for the
I . AU-Stars.
DES MOINES FIVE CODING
The Brandcis Stores romped away
with an easy victory against an ag
gregation of local all-stars at the
Young Men's Christian association
last" nigHt, 48 to 24. The game af-
' forded the Brandeis team good prac
tice and the baskets were well dis
ributed. Manager Isaacson, an
nounced that the Des Moines Gas
cornpanjt team would play here Sat
urday night in spite of their eleventh
hour demand for a larger guarantee.
- The contract with this team does not
call for enough money to pay all ex
penses from Des "Moines here and
nomer team was to ne met in the
trip, but the Des MoineJ five was
unsuccessful in scheduling such i
game. All lowa teams nave a Whole
some rr-snr-rr tnr tnpm I hr linn
BRANDIES. , ALL-STARS,
Adams ......... R.F.I R.F Nordstrom
Burkenroad ....L.F.IL.F Maxwell
Stryker ; CJC Ktarns
Koran ....-..,,,,11.0. R.G...V, Ilairer
Schmidt
L.(l. Crowley
Substitute:
: f Schmidt' for Adams. Jones
for Maxwell, Ctohn for Adama. Field Koals;
Schmidt, Btryker (6). Koran (1), Burken
road (t), Adams, Cohn (6). Nordstrom (3),
Kearns (4), Maxwell (3), Jooes. Foul
goals: Burkonroad (3), Kearns (2). Ref
eree: Verne Moore. Time of halves:
twenty minute. i
Abolition of Draft
Rule to Come Up
nicago, uc, v-tuo owners oi
-the three class AA leagues, the Inter
national, Pacific coast and American
association, will meet jointly inCin
cinnati January 2, in the interests of
p.oblems to oe placed before the
National Base Ball commission on
that date.
Abolition of the draft rule in the
class AA organizations will be one
oNthe issues to be considered by the
commission, Thomas J. Hickey, presi
dent of the American association,
minuunccu ncrc tuuay. -
Ganzel Has Eye On
' Kansas City Club
Chicago, Dec. 27. John Ganzel, re
cently appointed manager of the Kan
sas City club of the American asso
ciation, has opened negotiations for
the purchase of the club, Thomas J.
Hickey, president of the association,
announced here today.
Ganzel has offered George Tebeau.
owner of -the franchise, $175,000, it is
understood.
St. Mary's Nose Out,
' Benson Methodists
The St. Mary's Congregationals
nosed out the Benson Methodists in
a close and hard fought game at the
Young Men's Christian association
last night, 30 to 28. Nicholson, Green
and Usher proved the big point-getters
for the Congregationalists, while
Russell and Campbell kept the Ben
son team in the running throughout
the game.- The lineup:
ST. MART S. BENSON M. E.
Green R.F-
Nlcholson ..L.F.
R.F Campbell
L.F. . ... Calvert
C Russell
R.G Sanborn
L.6 Babcock
Garrett C.I
Harper R.Q
Usher L.O
Substitutes: McFarland for Harper. Har
per for uarrett, tJabcocK ror ganoorn.
j-neips Tor Hancock, f ieia soais: ureeu
(2). Nicholson 7), Usher (3), Uacfarland
(2), Campbell (t). Ruasell ), Babcock.
Foul (oals: Oraen, Usher Russell (). Ref
eree: Verne Moore. Time of halves: fif
teen minutes,
Willie Smith, Golf Star, -";
Meets Death iif Mexico City
Mexico City. Dec. 27. Willie
Smith, golf professional at the Mexi
can rnimtrv -lnh. and formerly na
tional open golf champion of America,
died here today of pneumonia.
. . . .
' Willie Smith was professional at
the Mexican Country club for num
ber of years. He won the American
open championship at the Baltimore
Country club in 1899 and played in
the open championship tournament
of Great Britain and St. Aftdrews,
Scotland, in 1910,:, , , .
Sport Calendar ' Today
-ilf Opeahiff mi uinnal midwinter tour-,
nttmrnt at Plnhrtf, N. C.
AtliUtle Annual convention of Nttttonnl
ClltirBt Athletic oclatloh at New Verk.
Kosltir Mtt Well t. Johanj Ilundee,
twelve loundi, nt Columftuii, O.
Ye WIU 4et Inntont lleller
Dr. JJtll's Pine-Tar-Honey nootliei our
couch, allayn Inflammation, loossns tlie
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RS ZENA
Of all of the odd stories that come ,
out of the Metropolis from time to
time, the story of Miss Zena Keefe is
one of the oddest. Miss Keefe is ah
expert skater, and holds many ama
teur titles. When skating loomed on
the horizon as the latest fad of New
York society, Miss Keefe was always
found present at the Ice .Palace or St.
Nicholas rink. She attracted the at-
Camp'ti Selections
FIRST ELEVEN-.
, . . .Hasten, Minnesota.
. . . West, Colgate. .
. . . Mack, Yale. , -
. .. Peck- Flttuburth.
. . . . Oudmun, Harvard.
. '. . Hornuns, Colgate.
, . . .MnMeley, Yale.
. . . Anderson, Collate.
Ollphant, West Point.
Pollard, Brown. .
. . . Harlev, Ohio Mate.
SECOND ELEVEN.
. ...Herroa, Pittsburgh).
...Ward, Annapolis.
. . . Hogs;, Princeton.
. ...McEwan, Vfeat Point.
. . . Baehman, Notre llauic.
. 1 . Gates, Yale.
. . . Miller Pennsylvania. -.
. . Purdy, Brown. T
. , . .LeGore, Yale.
, . . . Casey, Harvard.
. . . Berry, Pennsylvania.
THIRD ELEVEN. '
.;. . Coolidge, Harvard. .
. . . Beekett, Oregon.
. . . Garrett, - Rutgers.
. . . PhUllps, Georgia Tech.
. . . .Heagmves, Washington.
...Ignlco, Wash, and Lee.
. ...Vowell, Tennessee, f
.'. . Cnrry, Vanderbilt.
. . . .Gllroy, Georgetown.
. . . .DriscoU, Northwestern. -
... . -UcCrelght, Wash and J
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Four Men Drown as
7 The Tug Goes Down
T
Panama, Dec. 27. The' canal tug
Reliance, formerly the Scully of New
York, sank off the Colon breakwater
in a heavy sea today. The tug's mas
ter, Peter Evans, San Francisco, and
three negroes were drowned.
Roger Bresnahan Signs
Roy Hartzell, Ex-yankee
Toledo, O., Dec. 27. Roger Bres
nahan. manager of the local American
Association Baseball club, announced
today that he. had signed Koy mrt
zelt. former captain of the New York
Americans, to play third base for To
ledo. Hartzell now is in Denver. He
was declared a free agent last fall by
the New York club, having served ten
years on tlje team.
Bresnahan said his object in sign
ing Hartzell Aa to have an experi
enced man af the third corner.
Bransfield Is Appointed
' Umpire by President Tener
New York, Dec. 27. William E.
"Kitty" Bransfield, former. Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia Natiortal league
player, has Been appointed umpire by
President Tener of the National
league, it was announced here today.
Bransfield has been an. umpire for
the last three years. In 1916 he um
pired in the International league.
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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER
CoprrfKht,
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tention of Louis Selznick,
a motion
picture producer, who planned to use
her in a picture, offering to star her,
but Miss Keefe declined, saying that
it would interfere with her favorite
amusement, , skating. It' was Miss
Keefe who introduced the fad of,"ice
skating teas"" to New York -society.
She is the ice-skating counterpart of
Mrs. VeTnon Castle,
Find.the Axe With
Which Louisiana
v Family Murdered
Minden, La., Dec. 27. The axe
with which John Nelson Reeves, his
wife and their two children are be
lieved to have been murdered in (heir
home near here, Christmas night, was
found todayy searchers about half a
mile from the scene of the crime. It
was covered with blood and matted
hair. The sheriffnd his deputies,
who searched the homes of some of
the negroes held in jail as suspects,
reported they hajl found bloody-clothing
therein, but the belief is strong
here thai) a white man was involved
in the crime. Nine negroes are be
ing held in jail as suspects.
It is said that Mrs. Reeves recently
received $3,600 in the settlement of
an estate and this, with the $500,
which her husband kept in the house,
is supposed to have furnished the
motive for the murders. None of
the money has been found.
Hugo Munsterberg
Left five Thousand
Cambridge, Mass.,' Dec. 27. Hugo
Munsterberg of Harvard university
left an estate of $5,000, according to
an appraisal filed in the probate court
here today. He died without leaving
a will, and his wife. Mrs. Selma I.
Munsterberg, has filed administration"
papers.
Culls From the Wire
Military trttnlng In elementary and sec
ondary achoola was voted down by the execu
tive committee of the American Peace league
at a meeting In New York City.
In their answer to the school board's de
cision In not granting a Chrlstmaa vacation
of one week, 16,400 school children of the
22,000 enrolled In the public schools of
Hcranton, Pa., remained away from aea
slons. '
A widespread' and unnecessary detention
of freight care In various parts of the coun
try, together with an abnormal shortage of
freight equipment Is Indicated by reports
of special agents of the Department of Jus
tice and Inspectors of the Interstate Com
merce commission. Federal District Attor
ney George W. Anderson stated at Boston.
Although the entire forces of the sheriff
chief of police and United States marshal
at' Hale Lake City have worked unceasingly
nil day, no clew has been obtained of the
prrson or persons who planted a bomb at
the home of Uovernor Spry of Utah Sun
dsy night. Rewards of $1,000 have been
offered for the arrest and conviction of the
bomb planters.
An opportunity for 10.000 civilians to re
ceive naval training during the coming
year will be offered under Navy department
plans completed, contemplating the use of
twelve reserve battleships for a summer
training erulse, the eetehiishment of roest
training camps at Han Francisco, Chicago,
.Norfolk, Newport and probably t'ensacola,
und the organization of motor boat squad
nns made up of owners of private motor
craft. ,
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MANN REPLIES TO GARDNER
Washington, Dec. 27. Revised fig
ures oil returns of the last election
show definitely that neither demo
crats nor republicans will have a ma
jority of the next house, necessary to
elect a speaker and that a handful of
independents will determine which
side will control the organization.
. Conceding seats to candidates in
possession of certificates of .election,
because they are certain to participate
in the organization of the house, the
personnel now stands: ;
Republicans, 214; democats, 213; In
dependents, 2; progressives, 2; prohi
bitionist, 1 Socialist, 1; contested, 2.
A majority is 218, hence, should either
democrats oc republicans win both the
contests, they still would be short of
a majority.
Maintain Strict Silence. .
XAI1 of the independents arc main
taining strict .silence regarding their
attitude on the speakership, but the
democratic and republican leaders'
agreed on how most or them will
vote, provide caucuses are held and
solidarity maintained by the .two old
parties. .
Kellcy'of Pennsylvania, a progres
sive, who formerly was a democratic
member of the Jiouse, is listed as a
democratic probability.
; Sr are Randall, prohibitionist of
California, who voted for Speaker
Clark, the last time, and London of
New Yorft, socialist, sits on the
democratic side now and. has beeif
shown favors by democratic leaders.
Shall 'of Minnesota, progressive,
the leaders agree, probably wouldlean
toward a republican candidate it con
vinced of his progessivism. He cam
paigned for the national republican
ticket during llicNast campaign, al
though opposed by the regular or;
ganization in his state. Fuller, inde
pendent, of : Massachusetts, also is
classed as a republican hope,
' Sugar Will Catch Martin.
Martin of Louisiana, progressive,
conies from a large sugar district of
Louisiana, and has indicated that as
surance of protection of the sugar in
tee'st would -be his first concern in
voting on the organization. He for
merly was a democrat, however, and
democratic leaders hope to get his
vote.
Contests, in which certificates have
hot been issued, are on in the Thirty
second Pennsylvania district, where
Representative Barchfeld, republican,
is contesting the election of Guy. E.
Campbell, democrat, who on the face
of the retjurnj won by forty-six votes,
and the Third New Jersey district,
where Representative Scully, demo
crat, is opposing the election of
Robert Carson, republican. Scully
now is reported to have a lead of
125 votes on the re-count, but there
still are about 3,000 votes to be passed
upon by the courts. At least wenty
seats, it is said, will be contested in
the house after it is organized.
Should the republicans seat both of
their contestants and hold other mem
bership solid for their candidate they
would need only two in six votes to
win the speakership, while the dem
ocrats would need five. On the other,
hand, should the democrats win the
contested seats, the republicans would
need four in six votes, while the dem
ocrats could win with three votes.
There is no question about the dem
ocrats voting solidly for Speaker
Clark, but there are some signs of
strife among the republicans. Representative-
Gardner already has an
nounced his opposition to Represen
tative Mann, livery leltort will be
made by leaders, however, to have-ihe
solid support of republicans assured
in conference before voting starts.
Mann Ii Confident,
Representative Gardner, who an
nounced yesterday that he would seek
to obtain a republican conference to
"formulate policies" for the future ac
tivity of the party in the house, did
not visit the capitol today. Mr. Mann
was there, however, and .tonight he
expressed the view that the repub
licans would stand united at least in
the organization of the house.
"I have nothing to say about the
speakership matter or the Gardner
episode," he said, "except that I still
hope that the president, through some
way in God's providence, may' aid in'
bringing about peace which shall be
lasting and permanent and provide for
disarmament and the removal of the
heavy burdens of military and naval
preparedness and if I can ill' the
slightest degree assist to bring about
such a result J would rather do that
than be speaker.
Charge Utterly Untrue.
"The charge of Mr. Gardner that I
am for Prussia and Frussianism is, of
course, utterly untrue. I am for Amer
ica first, last and all .the time, and do
28, 1916.
Drawn for
77"
Why They Stutter;
No Movies in M ind
New Yoric, Dec. 27. Describing
his new "disci very" in the "psy
chology of stuttering," before the
Anthropological and Psychology
division of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Sci
ence tonight,. Dr. W. B. Swift of
Boston said he had examined nor
mal talkers and found that usually
a mental picture like k moving pic
ture passes before the mind dur
ing talk.' Of fifty stutterers that
he examined, he asserted, there
are no pictures in their minds dur
ing stuttering. . - ,- -.
not take sides in' the European war.
in Mr, Gardner's opinion that is my
offense. '
."I suppose it is inevitable that in
the present situation in regard to po
litical control of the house every man
who gets a grouch will be tempted
to bluster around and say that he will
not play unless he can have his own
way. That is always one of the re
sults of a very narrow margin of
votes. But in the end I think the
republicans will have the good sense
all to get together and act as a
united party, at least in the organiza
tion of the house." ,
Representative Lenroot of Wiscon
sin, whom Gardner will support' for
spraker, had. no comment to make on
the situation. '
Dems"Will Tax Beer,
' Whisky, Cigarettes
- And Incomes More
Washington, Dec. 27. Issuance of
$U5,000.0(M) of Panama canal bonds,
increased income and estate taxes, ad
ditional taxes on whisky, beer, cigar
ettes and bottledwatcrs and higher
tariff duties on , coffee and tea are
proposed in a tentative program to be
considered by the house ways and
means committee, when it begins
framing revenue legislation to 'meet
the prospective deficit of $370,000,000
at tile end of the next fiscal year.
Some of the tax increases propqsed
n 1 7C ;..43 tl 10 a-vall.ifi nn
whisky, .$2 instead of $1.70 a barrel
on beer and a sufficient in:rease on
cigarettes, to brirlg in from $15;000,
000 to $18,000.000. ' ,.
Allies Lose All That They
Ever Gained on the Somme
Berlin, Dec. 27,-KWireless to Say
ville.) The almost complete cessa
tion of the fighting on the Somme
front during the last four weeks has
enabled the Germans to complete a
new system of trenches along tlie
whole front, says the military critic
of the Overseas News Agency in an
article today. He declares t,he irea
battle that began there on July 1, 1
may now be considered to have been i
terminated and declares that the fact j
of the Germans being enabled to re
construct their line means that all the
efforts and losses of the five months' ;
offensive by the entente forces were
in vain, as, if it were desired to re-J
sume the attack (t must be begun
all over again as in the beginning.
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loads of Dominions to See
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WILL MEET WAR CABINET
London, Dec. 27. The secretary of
state for' the colonies has sent a tele
gram to the dominions explaining the
purposes of the forthcoming imperial
conference announced by Premier
Lloyd George. The telegram explains
tha. what the government contem
plates, is not an ordinary imperial con
ference, but a special war conference
of the empire.
The prime minister of each of the
dominions is "invited to attend a
series of special meetings of the war
cabinet in order to consider urgent
ouestions affecting the prosecution of
the war, possible conditions on which
in agreement with our allies we could
assent to its termination and problems
which would then immediately arise."
. The premiers are urged to attend
at an early date, not later than the
end of February.
Rail Chiefs Want
Their Rates Raised
New York, Dec. 27. Unlesa rail
road rates are adjusted to make rev
enues conform proportionately to ex
penses, federal control of the coun
try's railroads is inevitable, according
to the annual report of the general
executive committee of the Railway
Business association, made public here
tonight. .- ,
Suggests Churchmen Know
v Little of Church Hiitory
New York, Dec. 27. Establishment
of an endowment fund of $10,000 to
stimulate scholarship in church his
tory In this country was advocated by
Rev. O. H. Pannkoke at the annual
meeting, of the American Society of
Church History here today.
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Postoffice Boxes
sioux City. la.,' Dec; 27! Federal
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arrested J. E. Britton, a painter, on
the charge of stealing mail from post
office boxes. During the last week
hundreds of dollars in checks have,,
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company and Knapp
and Spencer wholesale firms. When
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Norse Politician Anxious
V To Have Peace Come
London, Dec. 27.--A dispatch to they
Exchange Telegraph company from'
Copenhagen today says Dr. Mowmck- '
el, president of the Norwegian (Stor
thing, during an interview on Ins
country's attitude concerning peace
discussions declared that Norway, in
common with the whole neutral world,
had greeted the idea of peace "a one
greets the dawn of day after a stormy
night." 'V
Battleship Delaware
Rammed by Navy Tug
" Norfolk, Va., Dec. 27. The battle
ship Delaware was rammed and a hots
three feet in diameter was stove in the
stern above the water line by the
naval tug Sonoma at the navy yard .
here late today. No one was injured,
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