THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. APRIL 15. 1918.
O'NEILL TELLS OF
ENEMY ALIEN ACT
AND UJ. DUTIES
Former Omaha Attorney Here
on Business Urges Citizens to
Report Suspicious Cases
to Custodians.
Harry O'Neill, prominent Omaha
attorney, who was called to Washing
ton last October to take charge of the
enemy alien property bureau of the
department of 'investigation, is in
Omaha on his way west, where he
will look after business connected
with the department.
The executive head of the depart
ment with which Mr. O'Neill is con
nected is A. Mitchell Palmer, who has
the official title of custodian. Mr.
Falmer is a democrat, for several
years represented Pennsylvania as one
of its congressmen. He was chairman
of the executive committee of
the democratic party during the
last presidential campaign and after
the induction of President Wilson into
office was offered the portfolio of
war. He declined to accept on account
of his religious scruples being against
y war.
Around him and in his official fam
ily, Mr. Palmer has gathered a staff
of the able men of the country, in
cluding Mr. O'Neill; Ralph Stone,
president of the Detroit Trust com
pany; Frederick J. Home, vice presi
dent or the New York Irust com
pany. Lee Bradley, Birmingham, Ala.;
Mansfield Farry, a prominent New
York lawyer, and Francis P. Garvin,
who was first assistant to Jerome of
New York. 1
Salary No Object.
Francis P. Garvin, while working
for the government, is drawing a
salary of $1 a year, from the United
States treasury. He spends one-half
his time 'in Washington, working as
hard as if 'working for himself. The
other half of his time is spent in New
York, on large investigations. In
Washington he pays $500 a month for
a house and here every night of every
work day when he is in the city, he
has the eight department heads around
his table at dinner. Over the coffee,
usually after midnight, the time is de?
voted to discussing the important af
fairs of the department.
While the bureau of investigation,
according to Mr. O'Neill is one of the
newest ones in connection with the af
fairs of government, it is one of the
busiest. January 1, this year it had
350 employes, and many more have
since been taken on. The working
force is housed in a new apartment
house. There are 14 seven-room
apartments, not counting the butler
pantries and kitchenettes. The
kitchenettes are usually occupied by
division chiefs as private offices, while
the living and sleeping rooms contain
two to 20 desks, with busy workers
at each.
Plenty of Work.
H The layman, no doubt, wonders what
these heads of departments and their
hundreds of employes find to do in
order to occupy their time. There is
plenty of work. Up to two week
ago, the bureau heads and employes
had made a personl inspection of
17,562 reports that had been submit
ted. Speaking of alien property, its seiz
ure when found and the method of
disposition, Mr. O'Neill said:
"There are many ways of finding
alien- enemy property, but of course
it would not be the proper thing to
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(ell the public just how it is located.
It is seldom that similar methods
maintain, as conditions are different.
"However, let it be said that when
property is found that belongs to an
enemy alien the demand is prepared
and submitted to the law bureau for
its approval. If approved, the de
mand goes to J. Lionberger Davis,
Mr. Palmer's assistant, that he may
designate a depository. When the
depository qualifies by giving the re
quired bond, the property is taken
over and arministered or sold. The
proceeds are deposited with the
United States teasury, and subse
quently invested in Liberty bonds.
Attention Given Property.
"It is not the purpose Of the United
States government to permit the prop
erty of even an enemy alien to suffer
for want of attention. Rather, the
government goes upon the theories
that it is its duty to protect this prop
erty, and sees to it that the proceeds
from the disposition of enemy prop
erty do not get back to the enemy.
Consequently, all enemy alien prop
erty seized and sold, or seized and
held, will be kept in the govern
ment's custody until the close of the
war.
"The selling of the enemy ' alien
property and investing the proceeds,
or the holding of it in trust is in
strict accordance with law and its
disposition will be determined by
congressional action after the war
closes."
According to Mr. O'Neill there are
some peculiar incidents that come
along in conection with handling of
enemy alien property. Not long ago
it was reported that an enemy alien
in one of the eastern cities had left
his property with a friend, who re
ported to the custodian among other
things, " one canary bird interned in
a cage."
In another case, w here the property
of a German alien enemy was seized,
a contribution box was found which
contained two cents. On the side of
the box was the printed statement
that this box and its contents was the
property of German orphans.
A bureau representative working in
Texas reported that recently he had
found properties that belonged to
Von Bethman-Hollweg, the former
German chancellor. He being looked
upon as an enemy alien, his property
has been taken over.
Heiresses Pay Heavy.
Many of the American heiresses,
who married German titles have con
tributed toward supplying money to
make purchases of munitions to help
carry on the war against the Ger
mans. Notably among these are
Gladys Vanderbilt, and the daughter
of Marcus Daly.
In enemy alien property seized, bu
reau officials often find wills. The
will of one German who lived in one
of the eastern states provided that the
interest on his investments, each year,
upon the occasion of his birthday
should be distributed among the poor
of his native village in Germany.
There was a German who lived Jn
New York, and who was marked
down as an enemy alien, evidently
feared being buried alive. When his
estate was reported a copy of his
will accompanied the report. It pro
vided that after death his heart should
be cut out and afterward restored to
its place in his body.
The government bureau that has to
do with alien enemy property and its
disposition also looks after the en
forcement of the "trading with the
enemy" law, and the man who is
caught in the act of trading with an
enemy of the United States gets in
bad. He not only comes in for pun
ishment, but by law, regardless of
what his nationality may be, he is im
mediately placed in the enemy alien
class. This rule would be applied to
even an American if he should be
caught trading with, or selling goods,
or commodities of any kind to the
enemies of Uncle Sam.
In the past the people of the United
States have annually paid millions of
LIBERTY BONO
1,626 patriotic men and women, soliciting subscriptions for the
Third Liberty Loan, will continue their good work this week.
Every Man and
Have a Chance
We bespeak
n
dollars to Germans and Germany on
royalties. However, during the period
of the war, in this line there is nothing
doing. The United States is going
right on, manufacturing under the
patents held by the Germans and the
royalties will be things that will come
up for disposition after the war
closes.
"Our researches show," declared
Mr. O'Neill, "that as a rule the Ger
mans who in the past have put their
moneys into properties in the United
States have been, careful, prudent and
shrewd investors. Many of them have
been lone sighted, apparently, for we
find that through the south they have
invested in and own vast phosphate
beds that are immensely valuable. In
adidtion, they have been inveterate
stock gamblers and have made
fabulous sums in dealing in railroad
stocks and buying and selling cotton
futures."
Mr. O'Neill is in the city for a few
days, having stopped here while on his
way to the west to look after some
government affairs that require the at
tention of his department. He has
been connected with the bureau of
investigation practically since its
creation by congress last October,
when the "trading with the enemy"
law was passed.
The alien property custodian ap
peals to all patriotic citizens to make
known to his bureau of investigation
all knowledge or even suspicion of the
existence of property in the United
States belonging to residents of
enemy countries or of the territory
occupied by the enemy regardless of
the citizenship of the owners. It is
the present residence of the individual
that determines his enemy character
for the purpose of the trading with
the enemy act, not his citizenship or
hi3 loyalty.
Such reports result in careful in
vestigation, but the source of the in
formation that starts the investigation
is carefully guarded and never dis
closed. San Francisco Speake.' to
Address Advertising Men
A rattling good time is assured, the
members of the Advertising and Sell
ing league at the meeting Monday
night at the Hotel Fontenelle.
Celestine J. Sullivan, envoy from the
San Francisco Ad club, will deliver
an official invitation to the Omaha
club to attend the national convention
in San Francisco.
Mr. Sullivan i on hie wiv Vm-lr
to San Francisco after a trip of JO.OOO
mnes over tne country visiting the ad
clubs in all of the larger cities. He
will show two reels of motion pictures
and also brings a personal message
from President Wilson.
Music, refreshments and an espe
cially good program is promised by
the entertainment committee and all
members are urged to bring a friend,
who will become interested in the
work of the league.
Dan Carey Leaves for South
To Attend Real Estate Meet
Prior to the annual convention of
real estate boards, which will be held
this year at St. Louis during the
week commencing June 6, there will
be held a pre-convention meeting at
Nashville at which representatives of
every city in the United States having
real estate boards will be in attend
ance. Dan Carey of the firm of Shuler
& Carey will represent Omaha at this
meeting. Mr. Carey, accompanied
by his wife, left for Nashville Satur
day night.
Federal Law Protecting
The Hen Ends on April 19
The feder?l food law prohibiting
licensed dealers from selling live or
freshly killed hens between February
11 andADril 30 has been amended.
The law will die automatically on
April jy, according to the new order.
Is Omaha's Slogaur
for these hard-working 'solicitors
consideration of our people.
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BrieJ City News
Towl, engineer, for commissioner.
Bat Root Print It New Beacon Prw
Lighting Futures, Burgess-Graden.
Attorney Gerald M. Drew has re
moved to 608 Security Bid. D. SS37.
Five Per Cent Saved in the eco
nomical 3-11., can of Butter-Nut
Coffee. 1 each. Adv.
No Price Outlier The weely "fair
price" list issued by the Nebraska food
administration details no changes for
the week beRinuins Sunday, April 14.
Oflioes Remain Open K. J. Stoll,
commercial agent for the XU-kel Plate
road, says that so far as he knows the
company oflioes in Omaha will not be
closed.
Quit Railroad Walter Mann, for
10 years city ticket agent in the Oma
ha offices of the Milwaukee, has taken
a position with the Holmquist Grain
company.
Belter of High School Knllst
Louis N. Bexter, teacher In the Cen
tral High school, has answered the
call of his country and has signed as
a prospective recruiter.
Prudent savins In war times Is a
hostage for opportunities of peace.
Play safe by starting an account with
Nebraska Savings & Loan Ass'n, 'ill
S. ISth St 11 to $5,000 received.
Homo on Furlough Walter W.
Short, former clerk In the Northwest
ern city office, now sergeant of the
regimental supply department at
Camp Cody, Is home on a furlough.
Recruiting Station Moves The ma
rine corps recruiting station has moved
its offices from Fourteenth and Doug
las streets to 608 Taxton block, cor
ner of Sixteenth and Farnam streets.
Not With Firm It. J. Flynn of
Copeland & Flynn company an
nounces he was not connected with the
firm at the time of its bankruptcy,
having dissolved partnership July 1,
191T.
Card Party for Mondamin Lodge
A card party and dnnce will be given
by Mondamin lodge No. Ill, Fraternal
Aid Union, Tuesday night, April 80,
at Lyric building, Nineteenth and Far
nam streets.
Clan Gordon Social Clan Gordon
No. 63, Order of Scottish Clans, and
the Ladies' auxiliary, will hold a so
cial and dance tonight, at which the
Clan service flag, with eight stars, will
be dedicated.
Auditorium Not Available Because
the Auditorium is not available for
next Thursday night for the Liberty
loan speech by Rev. Titus Lowe the
committee Is busy trying to arrange
'for another date.
Philosophies to Meet The Omaha
Philosophical society will meet Sun
day at 3 p. m. at the Lyric building,
Nineteenth and Farnam streets. E. C.
Page will speak on "Thoughts on
Commercial Freedom."
Naval Men SubHcrtbe The men In
charge of the navy recruiting station
In the Paxton block subscribed for
$1,800 worth of Liberty bonds, They
have also devoted much of their time
to boosting Liberty bond sales.
Lodge Buys Bond A resolution to
take $50 from the treasury of Omaha
lodge No. 415 and spend It for the
purchase of a Liberty bond was unani
mously adopted by the Knights and
Ladles of Security at a recent meeting.
Back From New York L. A. Ur
ban, cloak and suit buyer of the Union
Outfitting company, has returned from
New York. Mr. Urban states that
many new styles, Just over from Paris,
are being shown In New York for the
first time.
Negro Is Held Jesse Nolan, negro,'
charged with selling drugs on the
streets, waived preliminary hearing
before United States Commissioner
Neely Saturday morning and was
bound over to the grand jury on
$1,500 bonds. 1
Feldman Moves Store John Feld
man. who conducted a men's and
women's clothing store for many years
at 204 North Sixteenth street, has
moved to 109 North Sixteenth street,
in the Hotel Neville building. Feld
man announces that he has purchased
Answers Divorce Suit Edward
Orthman, answering Ethel Orthman's
Suit for divorce, denied she is his com
mon law wife, and says she was
wedded in November, 1917, to one Nate
Robinson. She asks a portion of
Ortman's fortune, reputed to be
$25,000.
Open Lincoln Court Assistant1
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Woman in Omaha Will
to Subscribe for a Bond
L'nited States Attorney Saxton, United
Slates Marshal Flynn, Clerk of Court
Hoyt and Deputy Marshal Ntckerson
will attend federal court In Lincoln
Monday. JiuIko Munger will presld
and u number of criminal cases will
be heard. Judge Woodrough will open
federal court in Omaha Monday morn
ing and petit jury will report.
Fine fireplace goods at Sunderland
PIONIeTPRINTER,
FORMER PRESIDENT
OF UNION, DEAD
V. G. Graham, a pioneer of Ne
braska ond for years prominent in
local politics and the Omaha Typo
graphical union, died at his home in
Benson Saturday afternoon of pa
ralysis. Mr. Graham moved to Nebraska
with his parents from Fon Dulac, Wis.
49 years ago, being 12 years of aRe
at the time. They settled in Butler
county and later he moved to Omaha.
He was twice elected president of the
Omaha Typographical union and
served several terms as vice presi
dent. He also served as president cf
the Omalia Bryan club.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, G. H. Graham and E, M.
Graham, and five daughters, Mrs.
George Capineau, Mrs. Victor Wiles,
Eva, Myrtle and Laura Graham.
Funeral services will be held in the
Gentlemen undertaking parlors Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Boy Scouts Wig Wag Signals
When Big Tanks- Are Moved
Boy scouts are not confined to one
system of signalling. They are as
versatile in the art of sending mes
sages as they are in other lines.
When Scout Norman A. Whimple
was wig-wagging a message to the
Omaha "tank" to complete the
journey to Sixteenth and stop under
the $4,000,000 Liberty bond banner,
his nag was whipped from his hand
by the high wind on top of the Wood
men building. He promptly changed
his method of signalling and finished
tne message with the semaphore.
Directions as to how far to move
the "tank" were wig-wagged from the
top of the Woodmen of . the World
building to a scout station at Six-
teentn and farnam streets and the
message was relayed to the "tank" as
it progressed from Fourteenth.
Troon S. bov scouts, undr Scorit.
master Hascall, had charge of the
jvui iivj vi lilt; laiirv lu us c ll''fr lllg
place near the United States National
bank.
Loaned Husband $3,000;
Wife Asks Alimony and Son
Edna L. Kroneberger, suing Spen
cer L. Kroneberger for divorce,
alleges she loaned him, though her
father, $3,000 to assist him in his busi
ness, and that he has never repaid the
loan. She further asserts that he is
earning a salary of $4,500 a year as
traveling agent, possesses valuable oil
stocks, and owns a home at 4923
Chicago street, valued at $6,000. She
asks reasonable alimony and custody
of Robert Warren Kroneberger, 7
years old. The couple were married
in Philadelphia, November 7, 1907.
Sergeant Reeves Home
From Pike on Furlough
Sergeant Major Wade H. Reeves,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Reeves,
2201 Deerpark boulevard, is home on
a short leave of absence. He is sta
tioned at Camp Pike.
Sargeant Reeves enlisted in the 87th
Division a year ago. He delivered
eight prisoners to Fort Madison last
week, and was allowed to come on to
Omaha for a short visit with home
folks.
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CITY OFFICIALS
TO CO OPERATE IN
CLEANUP DRIVE
Annual Campaign Starts Wed
nesday; Boy Scouts and
Woman's Club to Help;
Conned Urges Measure.
Omaha will take time next week to
observe its annual clean-up campaign
in which city officials, Women's club.
Boy Scouts ajtd others will co-oper
ate.
Beginning on Wednesday morning
the street cleaning and maintenance
department will haul, without charge
to householders, all heaps of rubbish
which have been placed in convenient
places in alleys or in streets. It has
been requested that alleys be used for
this purpose as much as possible, as
the haulers will endeavor to traverse
every alley tt the city.
Ashes Are Excluded.
"Rubbish," in this instance, meani
tin cans and discarded articles ol
household or personal use, but in nc
case will ashes be hauled by the city
in this clean-up drive.
Citizens are .requested to have heaps
of refuse ready before Wednesday
morning.
Health Commissioner Connell urgei
and expects that the clean-up will be
extended to basements and cellars;
that householders will remember that
clean homes make for better munici
pal health by minimizing the danger
of germs.
"Rid out the valueless rubbish that
has been accumulating in altics and
basements. Get out your mop and
broom. It is just at important to
have the inside of a home clean and
sanitary as it is to have a pretty
yard," is the advice of the health com'
missioner.
Union Pacific Bowlers
Do Well in St. Louis Meet
St. Louis, April 14. (Special Tele
gram.) Omaha bowlers did well in
the National Railway bowling tourna
ment yesterday in both the singles
and five men teams divisions.
L. Kieny of the Union Pacifies, No.
1, went into the lead in the singles
when he totaled 634 pins.
In the five men teams Union Pa
cifies No. 1 collected 2,632 pins and
landed in fifth place.
In the doubles Omaha did not do so
well. E. Kanka and Kieny made the
best total, but this was not good
enough to land any of the money.
Kieny, with 634, in the singles, 536,
in the doubles and 500 in the five men
team division is well up among the
leaders in the all events department.
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Detroit Elks Journey to
Cleveland for First Game
Cleveland, April 14. Five hundred
Elks of Detroit plan to attend the
opening game of the American league
season here between Cleveland and
Detroit April 16. The Elks will make
the trip in a body in an attempt to
surpass the visit of the Cleveland
rooters to their city a year ago. Five
hundred seats have been reserved for
them.
Ames !s "Marked Man" in
Drives for War Subscriptions
E. O. Ames, grain exchange opera
tor, through the woman's committee,
has subscribed for a $5,000 Liberty
bond, in the third loan. Mr. Ames
also holds bonds of the first and sec
Jo
the patient
Committee
ond issue, having taken $5,000 worthi
of each. He is much sought after by
campaign workers, having donated
freely to the Young Men's Christian
association and Red Cross funds.
GAINS SIXTEEN
POUNDS ON ONLY
THREEJBOTTLES
Six Years' Suffering Ends and
He Feels 20 Years Younger, ,
He Says.
"I don't know what the people are
going to think when I tell them I
have gained sixteen pounds on three
bottles of Tanlac, but, it's the truth
and, besides, I feel all of twenty years
younger." said John McNamee of 419
Church 5 street. Salt Lake City, re
cently. Mr. McNamee has lived in
Salt Lake since 1889 and his state
ment is one of the most interesting of
the many yet published in connection
with Tanlac.
"I have already passed my sixty
ninth mile post," he continued, "and
have felt for the past six years that
I was going down hill. My liver was
in the worst kind of shape, my
appetite was very poor and the little
1 forced myself to eat seemed to do.
me no good. I was very nervous, had
pains in my back and many a night 1
could not sleep at alt. I would get
up in the mornings feeling like I
had been beaten with a club and was
tired and worn-out all the time. I
had dropped down in weight to one
hundred and twenty-two pounds and
about all my strength, energy and
ambition was gone. I just seemed to
be losing out right along, and as all
my efforts to find relief had failed, I
had about concluded my condition
was due, largely, to my age and that
nothing could help me.
"Along about the seventh of Feb
ruary, I decided to try Tanlac and
the results have been a very glad sur
prise to me. . In just three or four
days I found, I was being benefited.
I commenced to sleep good and get
up in the mornings feeling rested and
refreshed. Ever since I finished my
third bottle I have been able to eat
and digest just anything. I am brim
ful of vim and energy and with all my
aches and pains gone, I haven't felt
so well in years. I don t like to parade
my name before the world, but, no
doubt there are lots of other people
suffering like I did and if I can show
anybody else the road to healthi I
am more than willing1 to do so."
When people grow to old age their
digestive organs lack vitality, act
more slowly and less effectually than
in youth. The circulation becomes
poor, the blood thins, the appetite
fails and digestion weakens. Tanlac.
the powerful reconstructive tonic, is
the ideal strengthener for elderly peo
ple because it creates a good, halthy
appetite, aids digestion, enriches the
blood and in a natural way builds up,
strengthens and invigorates feeble,
run-down, nervous and aged people.
Tanlac is sold in Omaha by Sher
man ft McConnell Drag1 Company,
corner loth and Dodge streets; Owl
Drug Co.. 16th and Harney street":
Harvard Pharmacy, 24th and Farnnm
streets: Northeast corner 19th and
Farnam streets, and West End Phar
macy, 49th and Dodge streets, under
the personal direction of a special
laniac representative. Adv.
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