THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
VIFIE NUMBER 2
HAS HUSBAND
PLACED IN JAIL
David A. Bess Arrested,
Charged With Forging Check;
Police Discover He Has
Two Mates.
Pretty Mrs. David A. Bes, former
ly Miss Gertrude Whiteman of Mason
City, la., and now wife No. 2 of
David A. Bess, recently auditor in the
accounting department of the Wood
men of the World, thought it all
right and feasible to join in the matri
monial state with Pivid thret months
ago, though aware her new husband
had once been married. When she
saw him on the street wU:t another
woman' unknown to her, wife Nq, 2,
crew suspicious that friend husband
David, may even have Uken a third
spouse.
Subsequently, in order to effect
1'css' arrest for investigation, ahe
suddenly remembered that he had
given her a bad check to cash three,
weeks ago, which she used as a means
to have hubby arrested. t
Police Nab Him.
Cess, young and neatly appearing
was arrested last night following com
plaint of wife No. 2, that he forged
a check for $15. which be had told
her to cash at the Brandeis bank.
He permitted wife No. 2 tq buy a
pair of shoes with part of the money
and she says, kept the rest.
Detectives Rich and Psvzanowski
arrested Bess and heard hit whole
atory.
Investigation showed that Bess
married the "girl of his dream nine
yean ago in Indianapolis, and) that
two children, now 4 and o yean old
were born to them, lie had slwayt
provided welt for his little family
and frequently went away from home
on business.
Six months ago he wai called to
Mason City on business, and while
there met Miss Gertrude Whiteman,
how wife N6. 2. ' .
Known by Another Name
While courting Mis Whiteman,
Bess was known at Ray Caldwell,
j , - i . j
unaer wnicn ncuon ne was married
to wife No. 2.
The couple removed to Omaha re
cently, where Bess, alias Caldwell,
tilled the position of auditor with
large organization.
Meantime, Bess kept aending
money to wife No. 1. and as expenses
increased toward two ends, lie signed
the check that caused his arrest.
Woman Stands Pat,
"I will appear against, him in court
because I want to know the truth
of the whole matter," said wife No. 2,
David Bess, alias Ray Caldwell,
seemed quite unconcerned about the
matter. '
"I told her I was married "onCe
I signed that check to buy her shoes,"
he said.
Wife No. 1 still is unaware of the
escapades of her hubby.
Politicians of
Ponder Over
The Ouster Case
General Resigns Rank
To Get Into Real War
Washington, Feb. 24. Because
of a desire for active service. Brig
adier General Samuel I. Johnson,
commanding the Hawaiian division
of the National Guard, haa aurren-
dered that rank and accepted a
commission as major in the nation
al army.
Army orders today show that he
has been assigned as adjutant of
the Fifteenth infantry brigade, reg
ular, at Camp Fremont, Palo Alto,
Cal. The case is the first on rec
ord during the present war at least,
where a general officer has volun.
tarily accepted much lower rank in
order to see service at the front.
The order also discloses that the
eighth division is being mobilized
at Camp Fremont.
City
(Continue Fram rf On.)
which political balances will be struck,
old scores settled and new accounts
opened. There are going to be some
operations by the electorate and those
who hold political power ,wi)l hold a
few clinics. There ia a general feel,
ing that an era of honor in public
office ia dawning In Omaha.
Commissioner Butler occupies a pe
culiar position in the campaign he will
' make for re-election. Friends of the
mayor and others of the present ad
ministration charge that Butler is a
oolitical double-crosser; that he owls
his political success to the mayor and
friends, and is now trying to ride into
the mayor's office over the bodies of
his former colleagues. It Is further
stated that tha uplift crowd, which
has been grooming Butler, having
been given a body blow in the down
fall of Lynch, is now considering
dates.
It is practically assured now that
W. G. Ore. E. P. Smith and H. B.
Zimman will make the race. C, ,
Black stated Saturday morning that
he ia seriously considering the matter.
There will be a labor ticket in the
field and the socialists will have a
ticket. Thomas Falconer's volunteer
organization is making hay, and even
Mayor Dahlman concedes that Fal
coner will be one of the 14 nominees
to be selected at the primaries on
April 9.
Henry W. Dunn, chief of police,
has expressed himself in a manner
which indicates the probability of his
candidacy.
Teutons State
Crushing Terms
To Slav People
(Continued From Fact Out.)
uiunt'be regarded as Russian ships.
"Merchant navigation of the Black
iJBiMl. sen 1111491 UO IVUEWEU
as stated in the armistice treaty. The
clearing away of mines is to begin
immediately. The blockade of the
Arctic ocean is to remain in force until
the conclusion of a general peace.
"The Kusso-German commercial
treaty of 1914 must be enforced again.
In addition there must be guarantee
for the free export, without tariff, and
the immediate commencement of
negotiations for the conclusion of a
new commercial treaty, with a guar
antee of the most favored nation treat,
ment, at least until 1925, even in the
case of the termination of the pro
visorium, and finally, the sanction of
all clauses corresponding to pragraph
11. of clauses 3, 4 and IS, of the
Ukraine peace treaty.
"Legal and political relations are
to be regulated in accordance with the
decision of the first version of the
Germano-Russian convention. So far
as action on that decision has not yet
been taken, especially with respect to
indemnities for civil damages, this
must be in accordance with the Ger
man proposal. And there must be in
demnification with expenses for war
prisoners, in accordance with the Rus
sian proposal.
-"Russia will sennit and suooort so
LABOR AIMS AT
PREVENTION OF
WAR IN FUTURE
Inter-Allied Conference at Lon
don Demands Restoration of
Serbia, Roumania, Bel
gium, Montenegro.
London, Feb. 24. The inter-allied
labor conference which ended its ses
sions here yesterday, has accepted the
war aims program as enunciated by
British labor December 28, and the
next step probably will be the calling
of an international conference at an
early date, including both labor and
socialism.
At a luncheon given today in honor
of the foreign delegates teV the confer,
ence Arthur Henderson, former mem
ber of the war cabinet and leader of
the labor party, described these aims
as meaning tne establishment ot I
league of nations, involving interna
tional co-operation for disarmament
and the prevention of wartare in the
fufure, the restoration of Belgium,
Serbia, Koumama and Montenegro
and territorial changes in the future
based on justice and right.
Mr. Henderson declared that the
peace aimed at was of the peoples and
that the peoples must stand behind
it, and he added that labor was pre
pared .to go on with the war until all
the conditions insisted upon, for a
permanent peace were met.
Before Germans and Austrians.
Jamea Ramsay McDonald, social
ist and labor member of Parliament,
said that the next step of labor ana
socialism was to bring the matter be
fore the German and Austrian peo
ples themselves.
The program as adopted corre
sponds in general to the declarations
of President Wilson and Premier
Lloyd George. It tias the support of
the socialist or labor parties of Eng
land, France, Italy, Belgium, Portu
gal, Roumania and South Africa.
The social revoluntinary or minimist
Russians telegraphed an endorsement
of their labor's war alms and added
that they had tried to send delegates
to London, but that Leon Trotzky,
the bolshcviki foreign minister, had
refused -passports. ,
The discussions of the conference's
war aims were enlived by the diverge
ent views expressed by various dele
gates, particularly the Italian, on the
subject of territorial adjustments, but
a fairly satisfactory compromise of
generalization
case where
threatened.
Tie general tone of the conference
was In no way pacifist or pro-German,
ana ine oiscussions reveaieu a sincere
resolve among widely separated fac
tions to reach unity.
The program which finally resulted
was passed unanimonsly. The French
delegate, Albert Thomas, the former
-l K! j-.l J. '
minister oi numinous, actmrcu:
"The war aims as outlined are the
absolute minimum which we will ac
cept and if anybody tries to foist on
us a peace not embodying these terms
it will mean a revolution which will
not halt until justice has been secured,
even if that takes 15 years.
Mr. Henderson also dechred that
the program could be regarded as th6
minimum demands of the laboring
classes oi an me amen countries.
Mr. Henderson described as "fool
ish talk" "the statements that British
labor and British socialism were only
concerned in holding out the olive
branch to the enemy, in fact, were
going to negotiate with an olive
Branch in their hands when the en-
emy had a sword in his hands,
Mantell Comes Sunday
Night Instead o' Monday
Announcement was made late last
night that Robert B. Mantell will open
(lis engagement at Boyd's theater Sun
day night, March 3, instead of Mon
day night, as previously arranged.
"Richelieu" will be used as the open
ing bill.
was reached tn
a disagreement
each
was
far as it can German commisisons for
war prisoners, civil prisoners and war
refugees.
Russia promises to put an end to
every propaganda and agitation cither
on tne part of the government or on
the part of person supported by the
government, against members of the
quadruple alliance and their political
and military institutions, even in to
calities occupied by the central powers.
lhe above conditions must be ac
cepted within 48 hours. The Russian
plenipotentiaries must start immedi
ately for Brest-Litovsk and sign at
that place within three days a peace
treaty, wnicn must be ratified within
two weeks."
The foregoing, adds the Russian
statement, is dated Berlin, February
21, and is signed by von Kuehlmann.
the German foreign secretary, and
lieutenant general (name omitted',
commander-in-chief of the army.
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Germans Provoke Britons
To Lively Skirmishes
London. Feb. 24. The Germans1
have been raiding the British lines at,
various points, according to the report I
from Field Marshal Haig's headquar-j
tefs in France tonight. The state-1
ment says:
"A hostile raid attempted early this
morning aiainst our positions on Hill
70 was reptiised with loss. Another
our posts last night north of Poel
capelle, was driven off by rifle fire be
fore reaching our position, A few
prisoners were brought in by our pa
trols on various parts of the front.
"The enemy's artillery was active
during the day between Grou2ecourt
and the Scarpe valley and a number
of points between Lens and Armen
tires and northeast and north of
Yprcs"
Go to Prison to Escape
Service in Nation's Army
New York, Feb. 24. Many young
men in New York City are deliber
ately committing petty crimes and
taking light prison sentences to escape
the draft, according to Sheriff David
H. Knott, who announced tonight that
he had asked the warden of Sing Sing
prison for a list of men of draft age
who have been committed to that in
stitution recently.
One of these men, the sheriff said,
was a perfect type of fighting man,
but for the "yellow streak" which
prompted him to say he would "rather
go up the river than go over the top
and get killed."
"I don't believe we want such slack
ers in the ranks," said Sheriff Knott,
"but I do believe we should have a
law to compel them to do their bit.
They could be made to do menial
work in the camps, clean out the
trenches,' or dig graves for the bodies
of brave men who have been willing
to make the supreme sacrifice.
Duncan Robertson, 30 years old,
who married his dead wife's mother
last July, was denied, exemption as a
married man by the district draft
board today and placed in classifica-
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