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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918.
GENERAL TRADE
17ITII RUSSIANS
I TO RE RESIIHCn
'tans to Take Up Business
With Parts of Disturbed
Country Are Under
1- ( Way.
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jWashingtonn, Dec 13. Plans for
summf general trade with parts
5 Russia and Finland were dis
osed today by an announcement
om the war trade board that ap
plications -will now be considered
r import- licenses for commodi
es. the chief of which are plati
vini, various hides and skins, and
felj, sulphur and various kinds of
teds. ?. .
England Must Treat
Allies With Fairness,
Asserts Bonar Law
Xondon. Dec. 13. (Via Montreal.)
Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of
e exchequer, speaking at Glasgow
Vsterday, said:
4"One thing at the peace
inference which perhaps will be
ort important than the terms im
"sed upon the enemy will be to see
at we deal fairly with the allies."
It wo.uld be one of the greatest
isfortunes that ever happened to
' e world, he declared, if the British
npire did , not find that it could
ork together with America and
cat the representatives of .America
the-Brtitish empire were bound
gether to support the peace.
I Boys Expert Farmers.
j Nashville, Tenn., One of
''c outstanding results of boys' ag
,'uttural club work in Tennessee
s been its effect upon the parents
1 the menabers. Three sons of a
adiscm ccunty farmer joined the
rtt club l;kst year. One son pro
ceed 144 bushels on his acre, an
her 139 bubihels, and the third 120
JsheJsy the '.profit from the three
"res being $464.64.
Pershing and House Among
First to Welcome Wilson
German Prisoners at Brest
Show Great Interest in
Arrival of President
Wilson.
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Brest, Dec. 13. A singular feature
of the welcome to the president here
today was the suppressed interest
of the German prisoners. It was
evident that their interest in the
visitor was as keen as that of the
huge crowd thronging the town, but
the authorities kept these Germans
a the background.
The first to greet the president,
besides the French ministerial rep
resentatives, were Andre Tardieu,
French high commissioner to the
United States; the mayor of Brest,
Ambassador Sharp, Col. E. M.
House. Gen. John J. Pershing and
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss.
President Wilson's progress from
the pier to his train was amidst a
vociferous welcome from throngs
in the streets.
The president delivered a brief ad
dress after landing at Brest, thank
ing Mayor Goude for the Breton
welcome given him. He then drove
through the cheering crowds, the
frantic ovation contining until he
reached the railway station.
Reign of Bolshevism
Meets Untimely End
With Leaders in Toils
New York, Dec. 13. Ellis O.
Jones, purported author of a doc
ument spread broadcast here yester
day "proclaiming" that a reign of
bolshevism would begin in this
country at noon today, was arrested
tis afternoon on the mall at Central
park when he attempted to deliver
an address.
Prior to Jones' arrival at Central
park 500 mounted policemen and
motorcycle officers and a detach
ment of the army provost guard had
been stationed, prepared for a de
monstration by radicals. In a police
station 12 Browning machine guns
were held in readiness.
At a police station Jones was for
mally charged with making seditious
utterances in favoring disbanding of
the nation's military and naval forc
es. Jones is widely known as a
writer of humor and satire.
Shorthorn Cattle Bring
Average Price of $360 Each
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 13. (Special
Telegram.) The auction sale of
shorthorn cattle of Peter Parkert, jr.
of Hooper, amounted to a total of
?17,0(X). The highert ; rice paid for
?ny animal was $1.000." The average
SATURDAY
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Sale I
The Bee's
Free Shoe Fund
To Buy Shoes
For Shoeless Children
, ' Wet weather again!
The rain is just a harbinger of
days of sleet and snow and slush
and cold that are to come soon.
In the Omaha schools there are
scores of children whose parents
have had the influenza or other
misfortunes, or who will be un
fortunate before the winter is
over.
These needy kiddies want shoes.
They must have them if they are
to keep happy and healthy.
They will get them through The
Bee shoe fund if YOU do YOUR
part and help swell the fund to a
total that will meet all demands
made upon it.
Previously acknowledged.. $889.65
Nellie Lee Carter Steele.. .50
Mrs. G. A. Steele 1.00
Mrs. H. B. Liggett 2.00
A. N. Barker, Survey, Neb. 3.00
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: Price
i;V V of
Vooltex Coats and Suits
THE HOUSE OF MENAGH
1613 Farsain Street
WILL-OFFER FOR '.
SELLING
289 Splendid COATS and SUITS
tailored besratif ally, designed and made to give two full
season's wear.
$35.00 Wooltex tailored Coats
and Suits. During 1 7 CA
ya Price Sale 1 1
$45.00 Wooltex tailored Coats
and Suits. During OO Cf
V2 Price Sale f .OU
$50.00 Wooltex tailored Coats
and Suits. During OC flfl
Price Sale AO.UU
$75.00 "Wooltex tailored Coats
and Suits. During O 7 CA
Price Sale ' ,ou
$100.00 Wooltex tailored Coats
"s..,8. 50.00
$150.00 Wooltex tailored Coats
and Suits. During 7C flf
Yt Price Sale O.UU
These stocks are offered on the
same basis as during January when
we only have odds and ends to
offer.
Serge, Jersey and
Velveteen Dresses
At Prices That Mean a Big Saving
S2R0E DRESSES
; handsomely trimmed with braid
and buttons. A most remarkable
opportunity , $14.95
BSATmrULLT TAILORED
Serge, . Jersey and Velveteen
Dresses that were unusual values
. P to $50.0a In this $25.00
EXQUISITE
f Velveteen Dresses in smart suit
effects. For - T-ll,
Saturday. Specialj3g 5Q
values at
HINT GIVEN
IN JULY, 1914
(Continued From Fag;e One.)
quarters, writers were sent to Ger
many to send back dispatches prais
ing the German cause, and a "golden
book" was circulated throughout the
United States to get signatures of
American citizens leaning toward
pro-German sympathies.
Takes Credit For "Leak."
J. J. Dickinson, a newspaper man
and former major in the army, was
hired at $40 a week to report on
confidential interview with officials
to German headquarters in New
York, said Captain Lester.
Dickinson claimed that he had
confidential relations with cabinet
members : "that he could get in the
back door of the White House" and
boasted he was responsible for the
notorious leak on the peace note,
Captain Lester declared.
The witness admitted records
showed Dickinson did haye consid
erable accurate official infornlation
of a confidential nature and gave it
; to the German representatives.
Captain Lester, continuing his
testimony tomorrow, expects to tell
how the German agents tried to stir
up revolt among American negroes
to serve German purposes
Petty Thieves Steal
Varied Assortment
in Spite of Jinx
The petty thieves of Omaha were
unafraid of the proverbial jinx
which is supposed to be at large
on Friday the 13th, and plied their
arts in the usual manner.
Following js a list of some things
reported to the police as stolen:
H. Abrahanson, 3618 North Thir
tieth street, one peck of apples.
Carl Castertine, 311 North Twenty-first
street, one tire and hand bag.
Taft Dental rooms. 318 Securities
building, bridges and crowns.
James Nesladek, 2013 Chicago
street mattress, rugs, bedstead and
sacks.
Donovan & Pease, 4526 South
Twenty-fourth street, $20 cash.
H. Goldberg, 216 South Eighteenth
street, $200 cigars and cigarettes.
Armstrong-Walsh company, 333
Securities building, $203.50, plumb
ing supplies.
Mrs. Lillian Stall, 1407 Chicago
street, watch.
W. H. Gordon, 605 North Seven
teenth street, plumbing and fixtures.
Louis Berger, 1711 Burt street, 10
Plymouth Rock hens. '
Klosfit Petticoats .
Silk Jersey Top, with satin
flounce. Every- om worth a great
deal more than ; ( do 7Q
ur sale price.. . M i . 5
Evening Dresses
Some slightly soiled from dis
play. Values to $50.00 to be
closed out t 't ""
i Saturday. , - $ 1 f T C
at
Lord Explains Delay
in Paying Wounded
and Sick oldiers
Washington, Dec. 13. A letter
from Brig. General Lord, director
of finance of the War department,
explaining the delay in paying
wounded and sick soldiers was re
ceived today by Chairman Sherley
ot the house appropriations com
mittee. "With but few exceptions," said
the letter, "the enlisted men who
have been returned from France
have arrived in this country without
service records and without any
other papers which contained a
statement of their accounts, thereby
making it impossible to determi. e
what pay, if any, was due to them.
"There has been no lack of effort
on the part of the War'department
to extend payment, at least in part,
to the patient- returning from over
seas, but it is apparent that full pay
ment can be made to the men only
by accepting their own statements
as to the date to which they were
last paid."
"Buckskin" Jones Guilty
. of Violating Harrison Act
Buckskin" Jones, convicted of
violating the Harrison act by selling
drugs in Nebraska, was sentenced
to a yetr and a day in federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan., by Judge
Woodrough Friday morning.
- Bee Want Ads are the Best Busi
ness Booster!. . 'v.
U, S, PRESIDENT
GIVEN OVATION
BY FRENCHMEN
(Continued From One.)
from a manuscript read a brief ad
dress in response.
Following the addresses the presi
dential party drove through, the
Cours Dajot, where vast crowds
were assembled. Every foot of the
wav was linpii with American sol
diers in their rusty service khaki
and along the road were great stores
of war material, recently being rush
ed to the American front. It gave
the president his first glimpse of the
American troops and material on the
filhtinff eround. Military honors
were accorded as he passed and
large numbers ot soldiers on duty
mingled with the throng in its en
thusiastic tribute.
The presidential fleet was first
sighted at 11:30 o'clock this morn
ing 15 miles off shore. The sea
was calm and the stately fleet moved
landward under skies which were
steadily brightening after a dark and
gloomy morning. It was more than
an hour later that the ships were
signalled at the entrance of the har
bor and a great cheer arose from
the waiting crowd as the cloud of
black smoke showed that the presi
dential fleet was near.
The day's first ray of sunlight
fell across the George Washing
ton as it anchored, while the huge
reproduction of the Statue of Lib
erty on shore was brilliantly illum
inated as the sun broke through the
clouds.
The French ministers and Amer
ican officials boarded the George
Washington at 1:30. They were
accompanied by Miss Margaret Wil
son. As soon as they had gone
aboard the George Washington pre
parations began for the president's
landing. About 50 American and
French warships were in the road
stead. Destroyer Shows Way.
Ahead came a single destroyer
showing the way to the fleet and
close behind loomed the huge bulk
of the battleships Pennsylvania and
Wyoming flying, respectively, the
flags of Admiral M.iyo, commander-in-chief
of the" .V.ntic fleet, and
Vice Admiral Sims, commander of
the American naval forces in Euro
pean waters. Just !ack of them
moved .the. George Washington,
bearing the president, flanked on
cither side by the battleships Ar
kansas, Florida. Utah, Nevada, Ok
lahoma, New York. Texas and Ari
zona; by French cruisers and by a
great flotilla of American and
French torpedo boat destroyers.
The entrance to the harbor is a
narrow strait a mile wide, with forts
crowning the towering cliffs on each
side. Through this avenue the im
posing pageant moved, each of the
10 forts contributing its cannonade
and the 10 American battleships an
swering, gun for gun.
Guns Thunder Salutes.
As the fleet neared the inner har
bor the land batteries and the as
sembled war craft took up the thun
derous salute, while the quays, the
hills and the terraces of the old Bre
ton city rung with cheers from the
enthusiastic multitude. At the same
time all the war craft, merchantmen
and transports dressed ship and
manned the yards and the strains of
the American anthem floated over
the water, mingling with the roar of
the guns and the shouts of the vast
crowds.
. The Gcorfse Washington came to
anchor a mile off shore, while the
battleships ranged themselves in
double column on either side.
President Wilson witnessed the
spectacle from the deck of his
steamer, waving greetings and ac
knowledgments as the cheering
throngs ashore vied with the artil
lery in the old world's first tribute
to the American president.
Fined for Toting Liquor.
Walter Rosicky, editor of a Bo
hemian newspaper in Omaha, was
fined $250 by Federal Judge Wood
rough Friday morning for illegal
transportation of liquor.
Rosicky's attorney insisted that
police officers had no right to con
fiscate the liquor as they entered
Rosicky's home without a search
warrant. Judse Woodrough held
that the officers had a right to enter
the home without a serach warrant
since they knew that the trunkful of
liquor was being transported there.
Hearst Writer is Paid :
by German Embassy,,
Investigator Asserts
Washington, Dec. 13. Testimony
that Edward Lyell Fox, a write,
was sent to Germany in 1915 by.tne
German embassy to write German
propaganda which was distributed
by the Hearst International 'News
service, Was presented today to the
renate committee investigating
brewers and enemy propaganda, by
Captain G. B. Lester of the army
intelligence service.
In response to questions Ciptain
Lester said there is nothing in the
army intelligence records showing
whether either Mr. Hearst or man
agers of the International News ser
ice knew that Fox was in the pay ol
the German government.
The witness read a telegram sent
from the German embassy to Wash
ington to the German foreign office
September 9, 1914, saying: J
"Chicago Tribune friendly paper."
, To Make Gifts
Look Christmassy
Decorate them with appropriate
seals, tags, labels and tinsel
cords of gold and silver. Wrap
.them in tissue and enclose a
suitable greeting card. You'll
find all of these necessary
adornments in great variety at
the Notion Section.
The December
Clearawayof Suits
Presents an opportunity,
For all of our suits
Are reduced in price.
A Waste Basket
Before You Know It That's Different
Christmas will be, here.
The calendar says only
njne days are left. Wait
ing a day or so, to do
your shopping isn't going
to help a bit. Do it now.
In the morning, when it's
convenient.
Too often a waste basket is
only a useful sort of thing, not
a bit good looking. But. these
we have for your approval will
prove a real addition to any
room, for the shapes are pleas
ing and you can have them in
tints of lavender, pink, blue,
brown, light yellow and com
binations of colors if you
choose. Not expensive, either.
Art Dept. Third Floor.
The Christmas Store
Filled with gift things of substance and
beauty that will linger long in the memory.
Something from Thompson-Belden's will
go into more homes this season than ever
before. There is genuine satisfaction in do
ing Christmas shopping here. Any day and
all day. Only a short time left.
Gift Hosiery iiere
In Unlimited Variety
With such splendid selections at
your command there is little likeli
hood of making a mistake in choosing
styles for gift purposes. It is well to
remember that hosiery in a Thomp-son-Belden
box carries the assurance
of quality that makes a gift doubly
appreciated.
These few suggestions will be help
ful. Scores of others await your
viewing. : .
Pure thread silk hose in black,
white and fashionable shades, $1.25,
$2 and more.
Heavy silk to the top hose in black
and white, $2.50.
White silk to the top hose, $2.
Many other styles and qualities of
silk, silk boot and English lisle.
Also exclusive novelties.
Belding's Silks
Here Exclusively
They have the virtue of
being guaranteed as to wear.
The patterns are distinctive,
the color effects diverse
enough to suit any fancy. A
blouse or dress length of
Belding's silks will make a
gift of more than ordinary
appropriateness. $1.75 to
$3.50 a yard.
Silk Shirting
Favor a man with a truly
thoughtful present lengths
for silk shirts. You can se
lect from a wide range of
choice weaves, splendid pat
terns and colors. $1.50 to
$3 a yard.
Sea the Apront
So many different and
delightfully dainty aprons
suitable for every occasion.
No sameness, no monotony
to this showing. They need
cost only what you wish.
Third Floor
Such Pleasure in Giving
Handkerchiefs
They are so certain to be welcome and prove
a lasting remembrance. So varied are the
kinds that everyone's taste can be gratified.
So wide a range of prices that no one need
spend more than they wish. Have your se
lections boxed appropriately for giving.
Irish linen, plain hemstitched, 25c, 35c, 50c
and 75c.
Hand-embroidered initials on pure linen, 20c
to 60c.
Lovely hand-embroidered designs from France,
Spain and the Madeiras, 50c to $3.50.
You Can Select to Be:'.
Advantage Now.
Geogette and, Satin Hats
New Mid-Season Models
The smartest of new originations in ade
quate variety to please individual prefer
ences. A series of unusual values have
been prepared for Saturday.' Street, tail
ored and dress hats of particular charm.
From $7.50 to $25
Gift Camisoles
Fashions of dainty distinctive
ness and unusually fine fit.
Designed and finished in a
manner that will meet with ap
proval "from the critical. Be
fore reaching a decision be sure
to see our extensive showing.
Reasonable in price.
Coriet Section Third Floor.
Huck Towels
of Pure Linen
A Thoughtful Gift
Fortunate is the housewife who
numbers a plentiful supply of
linen huck towels among her
possessions. Not every one
thinks of them, but those who
do may be certain of giving a
pleasant surprise.
Guest towels in plain and fancy
huck, with a space for the in
itial, are specially priced at 75c.
They are regularly $1.
Large hemstitched huck towels
of pure linen, from $1 to $2.
Linen Section.
Fine Furs Make Fine Gifts
Fur Fashions such as these now
awaiting your viewing will prove a
lasting pleasure. The Thompson
Belden label is your positive assur-.;
ance of known quality and value.
Coats, Coatees, Capes, Throws,
Neck Pieces and Muffs.
Mink, Hudson Seal, Sable,
Moleskin, Marten, Foxes.
Christmas Glove Certificates
The gift for one perplexed for no one need
heed the question of size, color or kind. A
certificate gives the holder an opportunity to
select gloves at any time, in any style or color ,
to its full face values. Certificates are issued
for any amount. . '
Glove Section South Aisle Main Floor
The Store for Blouses
Is Interesting at This Season
More interesting than usual, for its gift sugges
tions help to solve many a "problem" in a most
satisfactory manner.
The most distinctive blouses you ever saw are
here in a bewildering variety. Beautiful crea 7 -Hons
of exclusive design, fashioned of lovely
soft materials and laces and embroideries.
Styles to please the mt)st fastidious.
Negligees are truly wonderful. They present a
picture of daintiness quite impossible to fittingly
describe. For which reason we ask you to see
for yourself how altogether delightful they are.
Petticoats are extraordinarily attractive. The
color combinations are unbelievably varied and
smart appearing. You'll thoroughly enjoy
seeing them.
The Store for Blouse Second Floor.
Men Have Found This Shop
To their liking so it's a safe
place to select Men's Gifts.
WELCOME SHIRTS. One gift
that's never amiss. The man does
not exist who has too many.
Silks, silk mixtures and fine ma
dras, are in high favor. Manhat
tan, Eagle and Arrow makes.
pendable in quality, color and
wear. $1.50 up to $12.
BATH AND LOUNGING ROBES.
Every one new this season. Pat
terns are different. Styles are
distinctive. Our robes are ex
clusive the maker confining his
line to this store in Omaha. $6
to $25.
GOOD TASTE IN NECKWEAR.
Bright, cheerful patterns. Nu
merous modest styles "loud"
ones, if you wish. Slip easy bands
on all of our ties, to insure serv
ice. Fine knitted scarfs in splen
did variety, 50c to $4.50.
REALLY GOOD GLOVES, rpfa
Fowne s Pemn s Lucas and Ken- r
nedy, in mocha, cape stocks,
buckskin, light weight kid; fabric,
wool and silk; all sizes and a price
to please everyone.
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a step to the lefi
as you enter.