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f s THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918. 'iy s i, . 4 , it .... BOCHES FASTEN HAND GRENADES TO DEAD BODIES Bombs Explode as Stretcher Bearers Pick Up Bodies; Beds Mined by Huns Before Leaving. With the British-American Ar mies, Nov. .10. (Correspondent of Associated Press.) German devil try seemed to know no bounds in the last days of fighting on the British front after the Hindenburg line had been shattered. They at tached grenades to the bodies " of dead Huns left behind in the Ger man retreat, so that when the bodies were lifted the grenades ex ploded, killing or wounding the bearers. Near the town of Le Cateau, a number of Australian stretcher bearers were killed by these grcn Bdes in attempting to remove some German dead from the field in front of an American machine gun posi tion. Thereafter no Australian -would put hand on a dead German. In some cases the bodies were dragged to their burial places by means of a long rope which al lowed the stretcher bearers to keep out of range of any exploding hand grenades. The Americans, on the other hand, hit upon the plan of making the German prisoners bury their own dead. In one instance a Boche prisoner was summarily shot be cause he refused to remove the body cf one of his dead companions. An examination of the man's body later led to the discovery that it was mined. The German was aware of this fact and refused to touch it. In one small town evacuated by the Germans, many of the beds were found to be mined. An American officer, tired and worn by long fight ing, sought rest on a lounge in a room previously occupied by a Ger man officer. The lounge blew up snd he was instantly killed. Another officer picked up a pair of field glasses left by the Germans and was adjusting the focus when the glasses exploded in his hands and blew away a part of his face. The Huns had become adept in the nefarious business of making infernal machines, mines and time iuses, and there was scarcely an area where the electrical and engi neering experts of the allies did not find some new form of their fiend ish ingenuity. Many Thrown Out of Employment When Four Breweries Close When the federal order prohibit ing the manufacture of malt and dis tilled liquors durir the period of the demobilization of the army and navy went into effect Saturday at midnight, near beer was also includ ed in the provision with the result Omaha's four large breweries have been closed andri'ovc.- 300 employes thrown out of work. All of the breweries were engaged in the profitable business of making near beers and the extent of produc tion was nearly equal to that of t". e enterprises when they were mak ing the real thing. The breweries this morning rep-r.-ent dead capital involving at least $3000,000. There is enough stock ahead to last six months, after which period a large number of soft drink par lors will have to go out of business because of the iack of supply of the most popular beverage. It is said as long the United States maintains a soldier in Russia o. on other foreign soil the country i will be technically in the condition of demobilization and this state of affairs may last for three or more years. The large breweries in Omaha. af ' fected by the order are the Storz. Metz, Willow Springs, and South Omaha Beverage company. Rock Island Must Pay Verdict in Moore Case N. H. Loomis, head of the law department of the Union Pacific railroad system is advised that an other chapter has been added to, the litigation growing out of an acci dent occurring threeyears ago in which John A. Moore, a passenger on one of the company's trains was injured. The last chapter, which most likely is the closing one, details the fact that the federal court of ap peals has rendered judgment in fa vor of the Union Tacific and against the Kock Island for more than $50,000. Moore was coming into Omaha and riding on a Union Pacific train, I., south Omaha the train on which h was riding was struck by a Rock Island engine. Moore was seriously injured and soon after the accident, sued the Union Pacific for $68,000 damages. Later the company set tled, paying $50,000. WEALTHY GIRL INDICTED FOR DEATH OF TWO. !- Brie) Gilij News ft Lighting llstures -Burgess-Granden Ha vi KMt Iflnl It Beacon Press. Dr. L. E. Moon, 429 Brandeis Bldg. WW Not Tell Who Shot Him Bryan Maroney. 402 Cass street, was found by a pedestrian Sunday night with a bullet wound in his right knee. The police were notified and 1'olice Surgeon Johnson responded and ordered the man taken to the Lord Lister hospital. Maronej re fused to tell who the man was who did the shooting. Modish (.'ultra died at his home, 708 South Thirty-sixth street, Friday at the age of 34 years. Funeral ser vices will be held In the residence Monday morning at 10 ti'clock. He Is survived by two brothers and a sister. Miss Kuth Cultra, a teacher in the public schools. Interment will be in West Lawn cemetery. To Kntertaln Belgians. The Busi ness Women's club of the T. W. C. A. invites the Belgian people of the city to be Its guests at an illustrated lecture on Belgium to be given at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium (second floor T. W. C. A. building, 17th and St, Mary's avenue) on Tuesday even ing, December 3, at 8 p. m., by Mr. E. P. Fitch of Martin Bros. Co. Mr. Fitch'a pictures are very beauti ful, and some of them will be shown for the first time in this country on Tuesday evening. No charge for ad mission. These lectures are usually " fir-club members only, but the club desires to extend this courtesy to any Belgians who may care to come. 11m ttreotaco goods at Sunderland.'. si: ST'-'"',v-";-.w-'''1w:-.-f:i-'-:y &. tn L A I si rti femi 1 ewEtk Mortimer. ( Miss Edith Mortfmer, wealthy so ciety girl of Roslyn, L. I., has been indicted for man-slaughter in the second degree by the Queen's coun ty grand jury. She is accused of driving recklessly when her auto ran down and (killed two men. In Miss Mortimer's racing car at the time was Capt. Mercer Poree, of the French army. SCHOOLS OF U. S. ARE SHORT ABOUT 50,000 TEACHERS Over Hundred Thousand Are Teaching This Year Who Never Had Taught Before. Fifty thousand teachers' places are vacant, and 120,000 persons are teaching this year who have never before taught a class. Several thou sand schools have actually closed or have remained unopened because it was impossible for the local trustees ot find teachers for them. The lowered standards in many places and the total lack of instruction in others ; -ean a loss to the children of the nation which cannot be re placed. The shortage of teachers affects nearly every state in the union. Many urgent requests have been made for the assistance of the Unit ed States bureau of education, for it is clearly impossible for some of the states to man their schools with the teachers available in their own borders. Bureau Tp Help. President Wilson has been moved by this condition. He has directed the establishment in the bureau of education of a new division to assist local officers in finding teachers to meet the emergency, and he has written an open letter of appeal to all who are qualified and able to teach, urging them to signify their willingness to do so by registering with the new school board service division of the bureau of education in Washington. Schools seeking teachers will be put in touch with registrants, with the expectation of employment in the regular way. No charge whatever will be made to either the registrants or to the schools for the service. It is well known that in every community there are women who formerly taught, whose husbands are now in the army or in other branches of the government service, or whose homes do noi demand all their time. Such women are spe cially needed in the schools now. Gone to Munition Plants. High schools all over the country have suffered from the demand for men of scientific training for ser vice in munition plants, the chemical warfare branch of the army, and the like. The shortage of teachers of chemistry and physics is partic ularly acute. It is pointed out that this shortage might be met in many cases if physicians, pharmacists, and other professional men would take classes in nearby schools for a part of each day. Manual training departments have suffered at least as much as the scientific branches, for they require men as teachers more than any other kind of high school work. Here, too, it is suggested by those in charge of the bureau of education's new division that the part time plan might well be applied. There are many skilled mechanics who have had high school education and would make excellent teachers if they would consent to assist even temporarily in the work of the schools. Chadron Normal Xotn. Miss Bessie Fisher nd Miss Florence Thomas of the class In cookery served breakfasts' to guests this week, a require ment In the table service of the course. In the making ot the menu they were UmitKl to 20 cent a plate. , The Zeta Alphas had a Thanksgiving program last Wednesday at a special meeting of the society. Raymond Fisher and Clarence Carley. alumni of Chadron, are attending Tale unlvnrstty training school for radio serv ice. Tholr friends are glad to learn of their being sent on to Tale, and take It as a merited recognition ot their ability and character as students and young men f promise. Olonn F.mmli.'k, who Is a lieutenant In the service of Uncle Sam at Fort Sill, writes that he will return to Chadron to continue hi studies ai soon as he Is mustered cut. Sixty students and faaulty partook of a bountiful turkey dinner lat the dormitory Thanksgiving day, which was served by young women of the normal under the direction of Mrs. Sweeney. The Toung Men's Christian association members are sending Christmas greetings in ths name of the school to all of our men who are In training or In the service of the country. A number of them are at the front Miss Brockman has had charge of the grammar school In the absence of Mrs. Rustin. who was called to Lander by the serious illness of her son-in-law, A. C. Watson, and his family. Lt Robert Renard of the Three Hun dred and Forty-first Infantry, France, ad dressed j a large assemblage at chapel Tuesday and a history class In the after noon. He was sent to ns by the Bureau sf fublio Information, VashintWa, ELKDOM MEETS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO ABSENT ONES Memorial Service of Omaha Lodge 39, Benevolent Pro tective Order of Elks, Held Sunday. Elks and their friends filled the Orpheum theater Sunday morning to pay tribute to the memory of their absent brothers. The me morial service showed the careful manner in which all Elkdom carries out the motto of the order. "The faults of our brothers we write upon the sands, their virtues upon the tabjfts of love and mem ory." L While the meeting was called in memorial for the absent brothers, a feeling of thanksgiving was pres ent. The Omaha lodge has been extremely fortunate during the last year of wtfr and recorded the loss of but one of the 1,600 members. The Omaha lodge had 162 members in service. A carefully arranged program was carried out in charge of Charles R. Docherty, exalted ruler. The musical numbers were provided by the Omaha Chamber Music society under the direction of Henry Cox. The Elks quartet, composed of J. R. Gerke, Alex Bengtson, C. S. Haverstock and J. F. McCargar, sang several selections. Miss Grace Lennon Conkling gave several readings arid Miss Mabel Allen, soprano, and Mrs. Hazel Smith Eldridge gave vocal selections. They were accom panied by Cecil Berryman. Chief Justice Speaks. A. M. Morrissey, chief justice of the Nebraska supreme court, de livered the memorial address. In his remarks he said: "Never before in the history of our organization has this day meant so much to us, or so much to hu manity. Strictly an American or ganization, we have during the last several months carried our doc trines of charity, justice and broth erly love to the people of distant lands. In no spirit of vain glory, but that our contributions to hu manity may serve as an inspiration to those who follow after us, per mit me to give a brief general re sume of the work done by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in the war now coming to a glorious end. "Subordinate lodges have pur chased with bdge funds $3,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds. They have donated nearly $1,500,000 to the Red Cross and kindred societies. They have expended for charity during the fiscal year just closed $925,000. More than $2,000,000 have been pledged to build reconstruction hos pitals. "On July 1, last, more than 30,000 Elks were wearing the uni form of the United States. This force of fighters included: Three major generals, members of the Omaha lodge; 6 brigadier generals, 80 colonels, 85 lieutenant colonels, 400 majors, 1,600 captains, 4,700 lieutenants, 2,000 sergeants, 500 corporals, and the commander of the American forces, our own Gen. John J; Pershing. "Omaha Lodge No. 39 has 162 stars on its service flag. It has fur nished 6 colonels, 8 majors, 18 cap tains, 10 first lieutenants, 13 second lieutenants and 1 lieutenant com mander in the navy. "Why went they out? Not Q add to the national domain, not to exact tribute from a crushed and bleeding foe, not to force our form of gov ernment upon him who prefers some other. They went to fight for free dom's sake, for righteousness, for all our country's flag does repre sent. "And now that the bright day of peace is dawning we await their re turn to the land they love, and have served so well. All America is proud of their valor and their achievements, but above all their brother Elks claim them as their own. "This is our day of days because it is the day set aside and dedicated to our absent brothers. There is that in the human heart that shrinks from utter annihilation: While we have, in a measure, become recon ciled to the immutable law of na ture and accept without complaint the ultimate decree of death, we would never be entirely forgotten." The Absent Brothers. The death rate in Omaha lodge 39, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, has been extremely small the past year. But 13 members of the order have died. The death rate for the past several yearsyhas aver aged more than 20. An especial tribute was paid to Kenneth E. Hatch, U. S. A., the only member of the lodge to die in military service. As the roll call of absent brothers was read and his name reached, the reader paused that all might issue a silent prayer for the absent brother. The members of the Omaha lodge who have died the past year are: Fred Huber, G. E. Haversttck, Ar thur E. Dunn, Mayo C. Wallace. Charles G. McDonald, A. H.k Bur nett, J. V. Sweeny, Kenneth E. Hatch, W. J. Creedon, J. A. Patrick, D. W. Shull, J. S. Walters and Wal ter E. Wood. ' U. S. Mail Man Over There , Sends Back Hun Helmet H. M. Blackwell, assistant super intendant of the railway mail ser vice, received a German helmet Saturday morning from C. T. Leigh formerly in' the local mail service, now with the U. S. mail service in France. f The helmet weighs nearly three pounds, and is penetrated by a bul let hole as large as a nickel. The position of the bullet hole shows that Heinie was traveling in the di rection of Berlin when toppled over ky one of our Sammies. In ad dition to the bullet; "hole the helmet is also dented in several places. Marines to Be Held. Washington, Dec. 1. There will be no general demobilization of the marine corps until after, the con clusion of peace, Secretary Daniels said today, although such discharges as can be effected gradually with out impairment of the service will be granted. :.: The Abandoned Room 'By Wadiworth Camp.' admiral praises great AMERICAN NAVY. CHAPTER XII. (Continued.) Strange Light in the Abandoned Room. ' They continued in silence through the deserted forest whose aggres sive loneliness made words seem trivial. Bobby was asking him self again where he had stood last night when he had glimpsed for a moment the straining trees and the figure in a mask which he called his conscience. If he could only prove that figure substantial! Then Gra ham would have some ground for suspicion of Paredes and the dancer Maria. He glanced at Paredes. Could there have been a conspiracy against him in the New York cafe? Did Paredes, in fact, have some de vious purpose in remaining in the Cedars? ' The automobile took a sharp curve in the road. Bobby started, gazing ahead with an interest near ly hypnotic. The headlights had caught in their glare the deserted farmhouse in which he had awaken ed just before Howells had told him of his grandfather's death and prac tically placed him under arrest. In the white light the frame of the house, from which the paint had flaked, appearing ghastly, unreal, like a structure seen in a night mare from which one recoils with morbid horror. The light left the building. As the car tore past, Bobby could barely make out the black mass in the midst of the thicket. Paredes had observed it. too. "I daresay," he remarked cas ually, "the Cedars will become as deserted as that. It is just that it should, for the entire neighborhood impresses one as unfriendly to life, as striving through death to drive life out." "Have you ever seen that house before?" Bobby asked quickly. "I have never seen it before. I do not care ever to see it aga-n." It was a relief when the forest thinned and fields stretched, flat and pleasant, like barriers against the stunted growth. Bobby stouped the car in front of one of a group of houses at a crossroads. He climbed the steps and rang. Doctor Groom opened the door himself. His gigantic, hairy figure was sil houetted against the light from within. "What's the matter now?" he demanded in his gruff voice. "For tunately I hadn't gone to bed. I was reading some books on psy chic manifestations. Who's sick? Or " Bobby's face must have told him a good deal, for he broke off. "Get your things on," Bobby said, "and I will tell you as we drive back, for you must come, Howells has been killed precisely as my grandfather was." For a moment Doctor Groom's bulky frame remained motionless in the doorway. Instead of the surprise and horror Bobby had forseen, the old man expressed only a mute wonder. He got his hat and coat and entered the runabout. Pare des made room for him, sitting on the floor, his feet on the running board. Bobby had told all he knew be fore they had reached the forest. The doctor grunted then: "The wound at the back of the head was the same as in your grandfather's cast?" "Exactly." "Then what good am I? Why am I routed out?" "A formality," Bobby answered. "Katherine thought if we got you quickly you might do something. Anyway, she wanted your advice." The woods closed about them. Again the lights seemed to push back a palpable barrier. "I can't work miracles," the doc tor was murmuring. "I can't bring men back to life. Such a wound leaves no ground for hope. You'd better have sent for the police at once. Hello 1" He strained forward, peering around the windshield. "Funnyl" Paredes called. t Bobby's eyes were on the road. "What do you see?" "The house, Bobby 1" Paredes cried. "No one, to my certain knowl edge," the doctor said, "has lived in that house fo ten years. You say it was empty and falling to pieces when you woke up there this morn ing." Bobby knew what they meant then, and he reduced the speed of the car and looked ahead to the right. A palid glow sifted through the trees from the direction of the deserted house. Bobby guided the car to the side of the road, stopped it, and shut off the engine. At first no one moved. The thr e men stared as if in the presence of an unaccount able phenomenon. Even when Bobby had extinguished the head lights the glow failed to brighten. Its pallid quality persisted. It seemed to radiate from a point close to the ground. "It comes from the front of the house," Bobby murmured. He, stepped from the automobile. "What are you going to do?" Paredes wanted to know. "Find out who is in that house." For Bobby had experienced a quick hope. If there was a man or woman secreted in the building the truth as to his own remark able presence there last night might not be so far to seek after all. There was, moreover, something lawless about this light escaping from the place at such an hour. A little while ago, when Paredes and he had driven past, the house had been black. They had remarked its lonely, abandoned appearance. It had led Paredes to speak of the neighborhood as the domain of death. Yet the strange, pallid qual ity of the light itself made nim pause by the broken fence. It did come from the lower part of the front of the house, yet, so faint was it, it failed to outline the aperture through which it escaped. The doctor and Paredes joined him. "When I was here," he said, "all the shutters were closed. This glow is too white, too diffused. We must see." As he started forward , Paredes grasped his arm. "There are too many of us. We would make a noise. Suppose I creep up and investigate." "There is one way in at the back," Bobby told the doctor. "Let us go there. We'll have whoeyer's inside trapped. Meantime, Carlos, if he wishes, will steal up to te .front; he'll find put where the light comes from. He'll look in if he can." "That's the best plan," Paredes agreed.. But they had scarcely turned the corner of the house, beyond reach of the glow, when Paredes rejoined them. His feet were no longer careful in the underbrush. He came up running? For the . first time in their acquantiance Bobby detected a lessening of a man's suave, unemotional habit. "The light!" the Panamanian gasped. "It's gone! Before I I could get close it faded out." Bobby called to the doctor and ran toward the door at the rear. It was unhinged and half open as it had been when he had awakened to his painful and inexplicable pre dicament. He went through, fumb ling in his pocket for matches. The damp chill of the hall nauseated him as to had done before, seemed to place about his throat an in tangible band that made breath ing difficult. Before he could get his match safe out the doctor had struck a wax vesta. Its strong flame played across the dingy, streaked walls. "There's a flashlight, Carlos." Bobby said, "in the door flap of the automobile. Paredes started across the yard with a haste, it seemed to Bobby, almost eager. Striking matches as they went, the doctor and Bobby hurried to the front of the hbuse. The rooms appeared undisturbed in their decay The shutters were closed. The front door was barred. The brok en walls from which the plaster hung in shreds leered at them. Suddenly Bobby turned, grasping the doctor's arm. "Did you hear anything." The. doctor shook his head. Or feel anything?" "No." j "I thought," Bobby said excited ly, "that there was some one in the hall. I I simply got that im pression, for I saw nothing myself. My back was turned." Paredes stroled silently in. "It may have been Mr. Paredes," the doctor said. But Bobby was convinced. "Did you see or hear anything coming through the hall, Carlos?" "No," Paredes said. He had brought the light. With its help they explored the tiny cellar and the upper floor. There was no sign of a recent occupancy. Everything was as Bobby had found it on awakening. A vagrant wind sighed about the place. They looked at each other with startled eyes. They filed out with an in congruous stealth. 1 "Then there are ghosts here, too!" Pareaes whispered. "Who knows?" Doctor Groom mused. "It is as puzzling as any thing that has happended at the Cedars unless the light we saw was some phosphorescent effect of de caying wood or vegetation." "Then why should it go out all at once?" Bobby asked. "Is there any connection between this light and what has happened at the Ce dars?" "The house at least," Paredes put in, "is connected with what has happened at the Cedars through your experience here." At Doctor Groom's suggestion they sat in the automobile for some time, watching the house for a rep etition of the pallid light. After sev eral minutes, when it failed to come, Bobby set his gears. "Graham and Katherine will be worried." They drove quickly away from the black, uncommunicative mass of the abandoned building. The woods were lonlier than before. They impressed Bobby as guarding something. He drove straight to the stable. As they walked into the court they saw the uncertain candle-light dif fused from the room of death. In the hall Bobby responded to a quick aiarm. The Cedars was too quiet. What had happened since he and Paredes had left? "Katherine! Hartley!" he called. He heard running steps upstairs. Katherine leaned over the banister. Her quiet voice reassured him. "Is the doctor with you?" He nodded. Paredes yawned and lighted a cigarette. He set tled himself in an easy chair. Bobby and Doctor Groom hurried up. Katherine led them down the old corridor. Two chairs had been placed in the 'broken doorway. Graham sat there. He arose and greeted the doctor. "Nothing has happened since I left?" Bobby asked. Graham shook his head. "Katherine and I have watched every minute." Doctor Groom walked to the bed and for a long time looked down at Howells. Once he put out his hand, quickly withdrawing it. "It's simply a repetition," he said at last, and his vojee was softer than its custom. "It may be a warning, for all we know, that no one may sleep in this room without attracting death. Yet why should that be? I miss this poor fellow's materialistic viewpoint. There's nothing I can do for him, nothing I can say, except that death must have been instantaneous. The police must seek again for a man to place in the electric chair." Graham touched his arm with an old reluctance. "Sitting here for so Jong I've been thinking. I have ahvays been materialistic, too. Tell me seriously doctor, do you believe there is any psychic force capable of killing two men in this incisive fashion? "No one," the doctor answered "can say what psychic force is cap able of doing. Some scientists have started to explore, but it is still sv 1h ft - i - I p . Ife ! I i I wW.J; Admiral Viscount Jellicoe, former commander-in-chief of th.e British Grand fleet, speaking as the guest of the American Circle Lyceum club in Loudon, said the situation last spring was critical, and .had it not been for the United States navy he was sure the dinner could not be held. It was that assistance, Admir al Jellicoe continued, that had made possible the convoy system, and it was that system that had saved the situation. uncharted country. From certain places I dearsay you've noticed it one gets an impression of peace and content; from others a depres sion, a sense of suffering. 1 think we have all experienced psychic force to that extent. Remember that this room has ahistory of in tense and rebellious suffering. Some of it I have seen with my own eyes. Your father's fight for life, Katherine, was horr-ujle for those of us who knew he had no chance. As 1 watched beside him I used to" wonder if such violent agony coiild ever drift wholiy into silence, and when we had to tell him finally that the fight was lost, it was beyond bearing." , "If these men had been found dead without marks of violence." Graham said, "I might consider such a possibility, irrational as it seems." "Irrational," Doctor Groom an swered, "must not be confused with impossible. The marks of a physi cal violence, far from proving that the attack was physical, strengthens the case of the supernatural. Cer tainly you have heard and read of pictures being dashed from walls bv visible hands, of objects moved about empty rooms, of cases where human beings have been attacked by inanimate things heavy things hurtling through the air. Some scientists recognize such irrational possibilities. Policemen don't." "Very well," Graham said stub bornly. "I'll follow you that far, but you must show me in this room the sharp object with which these men were attacked, no matter what the force behind it." The doctor spread his. hands. His infused eyes nearly closed. "That I can't do. At any rate. Robert, this isn't wholly tragic to you. I don't see how anyone could accuse you of aphasia tonight." "You've not forgotten," Bobby said slowly, "that you spoke of a recurrent aphasia." ' "That's the trouble," Graham put in under his breath. "He has no more alibi now than he had when his grandfather was murdered."- , Bobby told of his heavy sleep, of the delay in Katherine's arousing him. The doctor's gruff voice was dis approving. "You shouldn't have drunk that medicine. It had stood, too long. It would only have approximated its intended effect." "You mean," Bobby asked, "that I wasn't sleeping as soundly as I thought?" "Probably not, but you're by no means a satisfactory victim.7 Men do unaccountable things in a som nambulistic state, but asleep they haVen't wings any more than they have awake. You've got to show us how you entered this room with out disturbing the locks. Now, Mr. Graham, we must comply with the law. Call in the police." "There's nothing else to do," Bobby agreed. So they went along the dingy cor ridor and downstairs. From the depths of the easy chair in which Paredes lounged smoke curled with a lazy indifference. The Panaman ian didn't move. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Public Welfare News Division Discontinued Washington, Dec. 1. The news division of the committee on public welfare, which has served as a '-lear-ing house for information of gov ernment activities during the war, was closed tonight. Killed in His Store. Denver, Decl. James Keisen, a retired Baptist minister, was shot and killed here tonigh1 in a room in the rear of his grocery store. His assailants, two youths who wore gauze influenza masks and who de manded on entering his store to know the location of his cash drawer, escaped. IRISH IN OMAHA SEND MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT Send Best Wishes to Wilson for His Journey and Ask Him to Remember Irish Struggle. A large number of persons inter ested in the question of Irish self determination, met at the Labor temple Sunday afternoon and organ ized the Nebraska Irish Self Deter mination club. Committees reported progress in the work of holding a grand mass meeting, which will be presided over by Archbishop Harty and which will be held at some date in the near future. Speakers of national reputation wiil be invited to address the mass j meeting. Sunday afternoon s meeting was presided over by John Rush and there were a number of short ad dresses made by prominent men of Irish birth and antecedents on the question of self-determination and steps were taken for the purpose of bringing this great question up at the coming peace conference. A committee was named which sent the following telegram to Presi dent Wilson: "The Irish Self Determination club of Nebraska, in mass meeting assembled, extends to you hearty best wishes on the eve of your de parture for the greatest peace con ference of all time. We hope you will be successful in putting into effect the self-determination policy so ably set forth by you and we count upon you to champion the right of Ireland, one of the oldest nations of Europe, to this right of self-determination and trust tinder your leadership this centuries old struggle in Ireland will be brought to a just conclusion." All of the congressmen and sen ators from Nebraska were also pro vided with copies of this telegram. The meeting adjourned to assem ble again Sunday afternoon, De cember 8, at Jhe Woodmen hail, Twenty-sixth and M streets at 3 o'clock. ' Why Not Buy the Beit? Advo Gold Medal Coffee, 40c Quality Unchanged. Why Not! Peace Meeting Called Off When Marshall Cancels Lysle I. Abbott, secretary of the league to enforce peace, announces that the state convention, which wa to be held in Omaha, has been de dared off on account of Vice Presi dent Marshall cancelling his trip. A convention will be held later, probably in January, when it is hop ed former Ambassador Gerard will appear. I. T. Jones, national secre tary, will be in Omaha this week to confl r with Norris Brown about this matter. "0H, IF I COULD I BREAK THIS COLD!" 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Adv. v Emil Bonder Killed in Fighting Huns in the Verdun Sector Mrs. Anna Bonder, 1302 South Fourth street, has received word that her son, Private Emil Bonder, died Oqtober 26 from wounds re ceived in action. r Emil was one of the Omaha boys who were called to the colors in the April draft and went to Camp Funston, where he was assigned to Company E of the Three Hundred and Fifty-fifth infantry. He remained in training at Camp Funston until the latter part of June, when his company was ordered overseas. His people are not sure as to wliat sector of the battle line he was as signed, as all his letters were. head ed "Somewhere in France," but cir cumstantial evidence leads to the be lief that he was in the Verdi n sector and participated in the terrific battle which claimed so many of the Oma ha boys. , Besides his mother, who is at home, ill from a complication of troubles, Private Bonder leaves a sister, Anna, and four brothers, Charles, Joseph, Edward and Frank, the last of whom is a member of Company C of the Eighth division, which was just ready to sail for France when the peace armistice was signed. Gibbons to Quit Camp. St. Paul, Dec. 1. Mike Gibbons, St. Paul middleweight boxer, has sent in his resignation as chief box ing instructor at Camp Gordon, Ga., according to a telegram re ceived here tonight by friends. No action has Keen taken on his resig nation. Gibbons says. TEXAS PHYSICIAN DECLARES TANLAC ;: is without equal; S..S SI. ,. A. Says It's Best Reconstructive Tonic to Be Had for 1 Building Up Influ- enza Patients. J 7?Good Medicine lasc WEEKS' Aiioruflists uBREAK-UPAC0LD inou i hwh iOKia too unpp Young Men Use Cuticura -To Save Your Hair Nothing like shampoos with Cuticura Soap and hot water, preceded by touches of Cuti cura Ointment to spots of dandruff and itch- If! a n kwn tho aalr nr,A 1.-: 1 . 1... They are ideal for all toilet uses. In the morning shave with Cuticura Soap the Cuti cura way without mug. After shaving and before bathing touch spots of dandruff or irritation with Cuticura Ointment. Then bathe face, hands and scalp with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Comfort itchlni skin with Catieors. Bstht with Sosp, sooths with Ointment, dust with Tslcum Sc. each st all dealers. The following letter from Dr. J. W. Sandlin, one of the most promi nent physicians of southern Texas, has just been received at the Tanlac office and gives indisputable evi dence as to the value of Tanlac as a reconstructive tonic for persona who are recuperating from the after-effects of Spanish Influenza. His letter follows: "Humble, Texas, Nov. 5, 1918. "Dear Sir: Just a few lines- in reference to Tanlac. I have found your preparation to be a wonderful reconstructive tonic, and in my opinion it has no equal in its line. I have found it to be the best tonic to be had to build up my patients who have had Spanish Influenza. I have treated within the past month about 1,400 cases, and have never been able to get sufficient Tanlac to supply our people. "Yours very truly,, Signed, Dr. J. W. .Sandlin." Dr. Sandlin not only' enjoys a very large practice as a physician, but ne is aiso a man oi wme innu ence and ranks as a leading citizen of the enterprising little city of Humble, Texas. As a practicing physician of six teen years' experience Dr. Sandlin was quick to recognize the superior tonic properties of Tanlac over other remedies and unhesitatingly and voluntarily gave Tanlac his un qualified indorsement. Although' the Influenza epidemic has greatly subsided, it is still prev alent, and is breaking out anew in many sections of the country, and continues to claim its victims by the thousands. Persons who have had Influenza are oftentimes left in a very weak ened, run-down condition and unless; the greatest care is taken, both.ks to habits and diet, serious complica tions are apt to follow. Persons who have had it are more apt than ever to have it the second time. If you are in this condition, nothing on earth will build you up and strengthen you like Tanlac, which contains the most powerful tonic properties known to science. As a reconstructive tonic, and body-builder it is without an equal and contains the very elements needed by the system to restore you to your normal strength and weight. ' First of all, Tanlac begins its ac tion by creating a good healthy ap petite for wholesome, nourishing food, and assists the vital organs which have been weakened by the disease to perform their ''natural functions, thus helping to build up health and strength in the natural way. . This statement is easily proven by the fact that Tanlac is now hav ing the greatest sale of any system tonic in the history of medicine; in less than four years' time over ten million bottles have been sold and the demand is constantly increas ing . 'v. In connection with the Tanlac treatment it is necessary to keep the bowels open by taking Tanlac Lax ative Tablets, samples of which are included with every bottle of Tan lac. ' Tanlac is sold in Omaha by all Sherman &. McConnell Drug Com pany's stores. Harvard Pharmacy and West End Pharmacy under the personal direction of a special Tan lac representative. , Also Forrest and Meany Drug Company in South Omaha and the leading druggist in each city and town throughout th state of Nebraska. Adv. Carter's Little Liver Pills You Cannot be iv A Remedy That Makes Life Constipated and Happy Small Pill Small Oom Small Pric Worth Living iouIm bean signs tur Aift pARTER'S IRON PILLS j '"- um " ui (muj ucip most paic-taced peopi