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RIEF RIGHT REE Z Y BITS OF NEWS B GIVE HIM A YEAR'S PAID SUBSCRIPTION TO THEWBEE HE'LL APPRECIATE IT. WOMAN BANDIT - A GIVEN PRISON SENTENCE Denver, Colo., - Dec. 21. Eva Lewis, member of the bandit gang which terrorized the Colorado Springs . and. . Denver .. districts . in September, today Vas sentenced to serve from five to seven years jn the state penitentiary.- The sent ence is the minimum for one con victed of robbery with a gun. Miss Lewis was convicted on a charge of robbing Miss Mildred Gates of Dal las, Tex., andW. D. Otter of Chi cago,, having aided two other mem bers of the gang in holding up Miss j THE Omaha unbay Bee VOL. XLVIII NO. 28. entered at tecoad-cliu mattar Mty 2. Oath .. P. 0. ua:w act at March IMS. at 3. 1879 OMAHA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1918: 1 s " By Mall (I yaar). Dally. $4.50: S.ado. tJM: Dally and Sua., ti.M: autilda Nat. aoitaaa axlra FIVE CENTS. THE WEATHER: Snow and colder Sundays Mon day probably unsettled and rather cold; strong northwest winds, llourlj Temperature. 1 p. m. t p. m. S p. m. 4 p. m. S a. m.. , a. m... 7 a. m... 8 a. m... a. m,. 10 a. iu.. 11 a. m.. IS m.. . . . 5 p. Bl.. .. p. m.... 1 P. n.,.. 8 p. m.... WW j r1 Gates and Otter near Country club. . ' the Denver BROTHERLY HELP ' NOW BELGIUM'S NEED. St. Louis. Dec. 21. E. de Cartier A r , i , : di: :. . vit iM.iLllitlllll,, UC1KIUIU UWIIISICI 10 : the United States, speaking tonight before the St. Louis Commercial club, declared that with Belgium de spoiled by the Germans and their factories ruined, Belgium faced the . future and . reconstruction with the same spirit that it faced the German .hordes and that Belgium did not m 'tend to become a public charge - f uponMhe charity of the world. He declared Belgium looked to Ameri , ca not tor acts ot cnarity, but a brotherly help in industry and trade WOMAN CONFESSES KILLING MAN FOR $100. Youngstown, O., Dec. 21-As M result of the alleged confession at . ' Elmira. N. Y.; of Mildred Gunder man, alias Dolores Smith, that she shot and killed Leo Martin here last . September, a warrant charging , murder was issued and she probably ' ,will be brought from Elmira early 1 next week. . . Nt ... Search being made here for a .1 taxicab driver who she said gave ? her $100 to kill Martin and furnish 5 ed the revolver, 'CAMP FUNSTON TO BE . WINTER UNIVERSITY. " s Camp' Funston, Kds., Dec. 21. ' Camp Funston is to be turned into a wjnter university in which soldiers ' who will be here for any length of time will be given instructions in industrial and 'mechanical lines, as well as military training, according to a notice issued today-by Major Gen. Leona'd Wood, commander. ' ASKS LAW PERMITTING PAY TO WOUNDED MEN. Washington, Dec. 21. rlmmediate leg;slatioii to permit the War', de pal tment to pay irt full soldiers re turning qversea's for hospital treat 1 men was as1ed 'of congress today bv Secretary Baker. ' . He said 97 per cet. of the soldier patients ar U rive in the " United 'States ;-without J service records, or otner papers ! showing the date to which they were, last paid. Mt suggested a !aw- authorising' theAYat depart ment to pay. the men upon their pei tonal affidavit as to the date of last payment and condition of their - accounts. S ' "" ' ' ' HIGH AUSTRIAN OFFICERS UNDER 'POPULAR FIRE Bitter. Hatred Toward Army r Commanders Develops as True History of War Is Told. v Vienna, Dec. 21. Popular indig nation "over the general conduct of the war, especially the "brutality, "arrogance and incompetence" dis played by the highest Austrian mili tary commanders, found expression in a resolution adopted by the Ger man Austrian national assembly, de manding .the appointment of a com mission to investigate the cause of Austria-Hungary's military collapse. In a vigorous debate on the grave I .. .lmil iminct lliffll offi- r.rc if w Hcrlarrd members of the imperial family, regardless of af?N or military, capacity, naa Decn kjvc" commands with mojst disastrous re " suits. A field marshal who com manded an expedition against Ser bia was denounced as responsible for the death of thousands whom he drove to slaughter, insufficiently munitioned, fed and clothed. Some of the deputies declared that he 11.- . ... a htrri aoraincr the entire .body of officers is developing-among civilians. These of ti- cers are accuscu iiuuhhj , " sale thefts during the war, of bv- : l....-:,n..clr and ricrmtttinar their -eanit IUAU1IVH.IJ r " . wivr s to wear costly jewelry, while the masses starved. . The Vienna newspapers urge the investigation committee to begin vork before the accused implicated are able to destroy the documentary proof of their guilt. Recommends Blood Serum ; for Influenza Pneumonia - Kelley, commissioner of the state department of health, today recom mended tnat nospuais wun ww tory facilities for blood examination undertake to use the blood serum of recovered influenza patients in treat ment ot those afflicted with influenza pnemnonia. Dr. Kelley made this recommendation after being inform ed of the success obtained with the treatment at the naval hospital at ChelseZ ' -c- Mav Make Omaha Important Military Center of . West Washington, v Dv.C, - Dec .21.- ' (Special Telegram.) Representa tive Lobeck said today that m talks ' with " War department officials he had formed' the conviction that Omaha would be made more impor tant as a. war supply center than ever before and ihat the army depot there woutd supply the Dakota. v.knaVa and . . oossibly half of Iowa. COUNTRY DEMANDS Minister Von Eckhardt Recalled from Mexico Candidates for Speakership Watch Events Closely; Re- forms Demanded in Sen ate; Caucusto Decide. Washington Bureau of Omaha Bee. Washington, Dec. 21. (Special Telegram.) While, there are two avowed candidates for the speaker ship of the house in the 66th con gress, Messrs. Mann, of Illinois, minority leader and Cillette, rank ing member of the appropriations committee, and other receptive can didates watching close! the trend of events, yet there is among all the republicans a deep roofed determina tion to iron out everything in the party caucus. Democrats Split. Republicans are wise to the fact that only through republican soli darity can the solving of the coun try's problems' concerning recon struction along constitutional and economic lines be satisfactorily worked out. On both, of these considerations democracy , has seemingly gone adrift, with the result that an alarm ed country is demanding republican harmony and not even the demo crats are predicting anything but republican unity. The spirit in congress is akin to that, which so quickly pervaded the country when the president made his appeal just before election fot a 'rnhhr stamn national legisla tive body. Repubiicin congressmen seea. united party amopg-nre-reo1 pie and from that they are taking the cue. Cummins Gets Support . In the senate certain committee reforms were demanded by certain senators directed against customs and rules rather than against indiv- ual senators. Senator Cummins proposition to thrtfw off the element of secret sur roundinc the executive business of the senate with special reference to opening the doors when treaties and nominations are under consideration is meeting with general support. This is significant, because during the late' campaign Mr. Cummins visited several western states and rather successfully pleaded for har mony among all republicans for or ganization purposes. , ; AH Men in Line. .There was talk tttat several sen ators, including Kenyon. La Fol lette, Norris and others, would re main out of caucus and possibly co-operate with the democrats to prevent republican organization of the upper branch. -This has come to naught. . It is given out on good author ity that Kenyon and LaFollette will Continued on Page Eleven', Column Six. by German Government Mexico City, Dec. 21. Heinrich von Eckhardt, the German min ister to Mexico since 1915, and the diplomat , who figured in the Zimmermann disclosures early in 1917, when the German govern ment made a futile attempt to line up Mexico and Japan against the United States, has been recalled by the present German govern ment. The diplomat expects to make his farewell calls within a few days and to leave for Germany by way of the United States. , Minister von Eckhardt has been credited with being the director of violent anti-American propaganda which has been carried out in Mexico by pro-German and German-owned papers, which, at vari ous timesy published false stories with the evident intent of em broiling Mexico and the United States in war. YULETIDE SPIRIT IN FULL SWAY M OMAHA RED GROSS ROLL CALL SECURES MBERS 112,000 ME Total Amount of Money Raised Not as Much as Last Year; Junior Memberships Make Difference. Washington, Dec. 21 The mem bership roll of the American Red Cross stood at 12,000,000 at noon and was the answer of the Ameri can people to the organization's Christmas roll call which will close Monday nhjht. The central division still led with approximately 4,000,000 members. The Atlantic division was second with 2,850,000. The Lake division reported ;1,410,000 and the South western division 1,050,000. Reports were not received from several divisions. ' Ten thousand nlore members but $20,000 less in cash is the summary of the second annual Red Cross Christmas roll call, as compared to last year's membership, drive. - Last vear, the total memberships were 71,000, totalihg $76,000. This year the memberships are in excess of 82.000 with between $50,000 and $60 000 in cash. The big difference is attributed to the Junior memberships, which this year were issued for 25 cents. These funds are not credited to the Omaha Red Cross chapter but are retained by the Junior Red Cross organiza tion. Campaign Successful. "We feci the campaign has been most successful, especially when we consider the inroads of the niflu enza and the difficulty in meeting pledges made in. the recent united war fund drive," said Henry Doorly and Samuel S. Caldwell, in charge of the local membership campaign. "Some of the large business houses did not draw the two days' pay pledge from employes' salaries un til last week, which was unfortun ately too close to the Christinas shopping period." Final , returns from captains and (Continued on Page Six, Column Three.) Mrs. Kaljc Christens Ship Named After Her Brave Son Omaha Woman at Ceremony dl uuiiiby, maao.i iiiicic Destroyer First En ters Waves. Quincy, Mass., Dec. 21 The United States destroyer Kalk, nam ed ' for Lieut. Stanton E. Kalk of Omaha, who lost his life when the destroyer Jacob Jones was sunk by a German submarine, was launched hre today. Mrs. Flora ' Stanton Kalk, mother of the lieutenant, christen ed the vessel. She had been engag ed in naval Y. W. C A. work at Brest and returned to this country to act as sponsor at the request of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Lieut. Stanton E. Kalk in whose honor the United Stated destroyer Kalk was named is a former Omaha boy, and was appointed to the naval academy at Annapolis by Senator Norris .Brown , in ,1912. He was graduated from the academy in 1916 and after service on board the Florida and San Francisco, was transferred to th.e destroyer Jacob Jones in the summer of 1917, losing his life when that vessel was sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea.', December 6, 1917, Lieutenant Kalk was a grandson of Gen. T. H. Stanton, pioneer Oma ha citizen, xhis mother being Mrs. Flora Stanton Kalk, daughter ofJ ueneral Stanton ana a sister ot airs. T. P. Kennedy, 127 North Forty- second" street. Mrs. Kennedy met Mrs. Kalk in Washington, and ac companied her to Quincy, Mass., where ' the . destroyer Kalk was launched yesterday. - . Relatives announce that Mrs. Kalk will accompany Mrs. Kennedy to Omaha and will spend the holidays here returning o her .work in the f naval'Y. M. C. A. at Brest, France, January 31.' ( t When the Jacob Jones was sunk the commanding officer was David Worth Begley, brother-in-law of Secretary of the " Navy Daniels. Lieutenant Kalk was officer of the day and was cited for,his bravery in saving the lives of many of his men. and by saving the ship's records a few moments before the vessel fi nally sunk. .He succeeded in gaining a raft, but found it too crowded and considering the life of the men in his charge, he volunteered to swim to another raft, and succeeded in do ing so, dying from exposure a few hours afterwards. First" Peace Observance of Holiday Since. 1913 Sees. Streets of City Jhronged With' Happy Folks. It is a real victory Christmas the first Christmas since 1913 the world lias not been at war. And never be fore has Omaha seen such happy holiday crowds and perhajMi never in the hist6ry of the world has there been such a universal spirit of joy. For the first time in nearly five ' years peace again reigns on earth and, the deep felt gratitude is reflected in the gladness of the Yuletide feeling. Soldiers who left a year ago amid tears and sorrow- are bping wel comed with, smiles and happiness. Already several hundred boys from Omaha, who were in the service have been released and are home from war to pass the holidays with home foks. They were everywhere in evidence among the Christmas shoppers last night. Managers of Omaha's large stores say that never before were there such crowds and such a true holiday spirit. Ihey are not tired Christ mas shoppers" his year. They are patient and courteous and the busy girls behind the counters find it a pleasure to wait on them. The spirit of real democracy and good fellowship is abroad in. the land, all agree, in stores, the shop and factory, as well as the homes. Sisters Thoy Are. For instance, in a large depart ment store last night, a pretty so ciety girl was buying sox for her brother. "I don't know what size to get," she studied. "He is only 19 but it seems like his feet are aw fully big." She smiled at the girl behind the counter as she added: "He has been" in the army but has been mustered out and we expect him home tomorrow." "I think size 10 would be all right," suggested the shop girl, "I had a kid brother just that age, he wore 10's. He was in the army, too, was killed in action at Verdun." She turned abruptly to wrap a package. Later when she got her package the shopper asked. "Any folks?" "No, there was just he and I." "What are you going to do Christmas?" "Oh, I don't know, nothing much, I guess." "Won't you come out and have Christmas dinner with us? I'd love to have you meet my brother and I'll come down and get you if you'll tell me where you live!" And so it was arranged. Soldier Boys Lucky. The soldier boys stationed in Omaha all will be remembered with Christmas presents. Many of them will be guests ii Omaha and everything-possible will be done to give them, . every one, a merry Christmas. At fort Omaha a big Christmas party will be held in the Knights of Columbus hall tomorrow night. All the soldiers stationed there have been invited and each one will receive a box of Christmas pre sents. Although the influenza epidemic prevents the usual Christmas trees and programs in the churches there will be religious services and beau tiful programs of songs and Christ mas carols. Choirs in all of the churches have panned special song services and the sweet old songs of "Peace on Earth Good Will to Men," will be sung withja new fer vor and listened to with a new joy ths Christmas. The influenza, too, has caused unusual suffering in Omaha this vear and tne can on chanty has been greater than St . ordinarily wou'il have been. But Omahans have ' made a generous response. More than twice as much money has been donated to the poor as on any previous Christmas. . ' Bee Shoe Fund. The Bee shoe fund provided warm shoes for hundreds of poorXJittle kiddies and the Associated Chari'des has helped scores of families who have been victims of the epidemic. The civHiSn relief department of the Red Cross has been busy in orks of mercy among the poor and needy of the city and the Volunteers of America will provide Christmas dinners for many poor families. the salvation Army, apostles ot Christianity among persons whom many of the other charities do not reach, will' also bring Christmas cheer and comfort to hundreds. T Braving the Flu(e)! mm - ! MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING GIRL TAKES HIS L H. Piper Twists His Col lar into Shape of Rope and Hangs Himself in Cell. Coal Price Restrictions . . to Continue Until Feb. 1 .Washington, Dec' 21. Fuel Ad ministrator Garfield announced to day that maximum prices on coal and zone regulations on fuel ship ments will not be removed before February 1. There had been re ports recently . that all restrictions would be removed about the first of the year, ,. v ... 77" a Muskegon, Mich., Dec. 21. Milo H. Piper, charged, with the murder of Frieda Wefchman of Chicago, committed suicide in his cell in the county jail early tonight by hang ing. The body was discovered by Attorney Charles B. Cross, who had called to consult with him. Piper was last seen alive about 7:30 o'cloVk. Officials of the jail for a time denied that Piper ended his life, but after an examination1, Dr. Samuel A. Jackson, county physician, announc ed the accused man was dead. Piper, it is said, removed his col lar, twisted it as nearlv into the shape of a rope as possible and se cured it around his neck. Then looping his belt through the collar he fastened it to the cross bars 'of the cell gate'and threw the weight of his body into the noose, ending his life. A double barreled shotgun more than 17 years old, and three tennis recquets were found, according to the police, in the home of Piper The girl identified as Miss Weich man, the police announced today was killed with a shotgun held close to her head so close, they stated that the felt-wad from its shell fol lowed the shot through her skull and lodged in the lower jaw. A number of shells, with similar wads, were found in the Piper home. ; Up to the last Piper maintained his innocence in connection with the death of Miss Wreichman, who he was charged with killing in order to hide from his wife and child here his alleged bigamous marriage in 1916 in Indiana. - - Mrs. Hilda Carlson Piper, dead man's wife, who had remained unshaken in her belief in .Piper's innocence was near collapse-tonight. England Preparing to Observe Christmas in Old-Fashioned Way London,. Dec. 21 The whole country is preparing for the first ( old-fashioned Christmas In five ' years, with more than old-fashioned enthusiasm. Nearly all the sol diers in Great, Britain are flocking to their homes on a 12 days' leave, thousands more are coming across .the channel, while colonials and Americans are pouring in for sight seeing. The theaters and restaurants are doing a record business. No hotel rooms are vacant. , YANKS occupy GIBRALTAR ON BANKOF RHINE Big Fortress on Promontory Dominating River Now Headquarters of First Pioneer Infantry. Coblenz, Dec. 21. The German tortress ot tnrenbreitstein, some times called the Gibraltar of the Rhine,, 011 the opposite bank of the river from Coblenz, was occupied by American troops Friday. The commander of the American forces is Col. Robert Boyers, a West Point graduate of 1903. The fortress, which is situated on a rocky promontory 400 feet above the river and occupies more . than 100 acres, will accommodate thous ands of men. It will be used for the present as the regimental headquart ers of the First Pioneer infantry ahd two battalions of pioneers. . Mullen Returns Home. Washington, D. C, :Dec. 21. (Special Telegram.) Democratic National Committeeman Mullen, of Omaha, who has be-;n in Waslung- the f ton attempting to iron out a num ber ot income tax cases before the Treasury department, left tonight for Nebraska. ' - . Influenza Epidemic Is Direct Result of World War, Declares Dr. Jenks He's Not-Surprised, He Says, Strange Disease Puzzles the Best Physicians Because They Study It From Material View Instead of 'From Religious and Social ''Psychology. That the doctors of Omaha, and the world, for that mat ter," do not know the causes and the nature of the scourge of influenza is no surprise to the Rev. E. H. Jenks, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, who is convinced that the epi demic is of the sam nature as the pestilences which terror ized the world in the days of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Assyrians, Hebrews, Romans and on down through the middle ages, even to modern times. World-wide tpidemics, he, points out, have followed every great war, every great social and political con vulsion. They are visitations men tion in the Bible for the purification of the world, he says. Doctors study epidemics from their material standpoint. They iso late germs, devise hygienic systems and means of prevention of the spread of plagues. Ministers . study epidemics from the sandpoint of religious and social psychology, especially . , disease waves thatare world , cataclysms. With the Bible, bearing its record of past ages,xits experiences and its prophecies, as their text book, they see in such, epidemics as the influ enza the working out of the inevit able law of God, explains Dr. Jenks. Victims of War. ' Every man7 woman or child , in Omaha who suffered from or died of influenza was a victim of war, just as much a victim as if he had died of bayonet stab or poison gas or shrieking shrapnel, Dr. Jenks be lieves. The souls of the countless thousands who .have died of the disease, he declares, will join in a tragic chorus of "je accuse" before - the throne of eternal justice. It is another crime of fr'ghtfulnejj add ed to the long list of indictments al ready preferred by civilization (Continued an T Thrt, Columm One.) SPIRIT OF TRUTH WILL DOMINATE, ASSERTSIVILSON Would Have League of Na tions Operate as Organized Moral Force of Men Throughout Word. Paris, Dee. 21. The president's first week in Prince -finds the pre . liminary situation surrounding the peace conference fairly well de veloped toward the point where, according to the president's ex pressed view, it will be worth while for the United States to par ticipate. The president's conferences with French and Italian statesmen have served to emphasize that he considers a treaty of peace not enough, but that the general agree ment to be made among the na tions must include a satisfactory ' settlement of the question of the freedom of the" seas and a league of nations, t , ' 1 ' The president now goes to Eng land to continue the discussions there along the same lines as those he had with the representatives of " France and Italy which the presi dent's advisers describe as having' been satisfactory. , j " Wilson Giitfn DegFee. Paris, Dec. 21 President Wil son, in acknowledging the honor bestowed upoji him today bythe University of Paris in the form of a doctor's degree, said: "I feel very keenly the distin guished honor which has been con ferred, upon me by the great Uni versity of Paris and it is very de lightful to me ' also to have the honor of being inducted into the great company of scholars whose life and fame" have made the history of the University of Paris a thing ad mirable among men of cultivation in all parts of the world. "By what you have said, sir, of the theory of education which has been followed in France and which I have tried to promote in the United States, I am tempted to ven ture upon a favorite theme. I have (Continued on Pag Six, Column One.) Children Dying of Hunger in East Side of New York New York, Dec. 21. Aroused by reports that with Christmas ap proaching,' east side children are "fainting in school rooms and dy ing at home from hunger" because their parents cannot pay the pre vailing high prices for milk and staple . foods, representative citizens today organized a committee to "feed them first and investigate afterwards." ' A plea that something be done for her pupils, who were "slowly starving to- death," was made re cently by a teacher to Joseph S. Markus, a banker who now heads the relief organization. Mr. Markus himself visited schools, hospitals and tenements, and todav issued a statemfnt dealing with conditions on the east isde. Red Cross Christmas Boxes tjiven to Wounded Soldiers Unable to demonstrate Omaha's hospitality to 40 wounded soldiers who passed through the city at 1:30 o'clock ' Sunday morning, members of Oma' 1 Red Cross canteen -corps who are also members of the Na tional League for Woman's Service, placed m the hands of the command ing officer, 40 Christmas boxes, du plicates of those packed for the sol diers at Fort Crook.4 Mrs. Lutner Kountze, command ant, met the train, but on account of the late hour, the wounded men were not disturbed, SENATORS CLASH IN DEBATE M REVENUE: Provisions in Dispute Adopted by Strict Party Vote; ; Measure Now Expected to Pass Monday. ; Washington, Dec. 21. By a strict party vote the senate late today adopted all provisions in . the war revenue bill, prescribing taxrateV for 1920, which democrats advocated and republicans opnosed, but failed to reach a final vote on the measure. Adjournment was taken until Mon- I day when its passage is expected. Disposition of the controvertel : 1920 tax provisions designed to .'( raise about $4,000,000,000 as com pared with the $6,000,000,000 estf) mate for 1919 precipitated long and ' ; spirited debate, with numerous pa? . tisan clashes: , i Action was taken .Virtually on a I test vote in disoOsinsr of the nrovi- i sion reducing the individual incom - normal tax rate to 8 per cent, in 1920. On a motion by Senator. M& I Cumber of North Dakota, republN J an, to strike out this section 37 denv ocrats voted to retain it and 31 re publicans were recorded for its elinf ination. ft Later all other 1920 provisions were adopted with perfunctory viva voce votes. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, senior republicaffi member of the finance committee, offered motions to strike out the sections, but these were bowled over by a chorus of democratic "nays"? Reduce Income Ta'k. ',:. Among the 1920 clauses. thus ap-. proved was the provision for re duction in that year of the corpora tion normal income tax rate from 12 " to 8 per cent. In similar manner the senate adopted the 1920 war ex? cess profits tax sectioB, prescribing excess profits ranging from 20 to 40 per cent in lieu of those from 20 tot' 60 per cent for 1919 and abolishing the 80 per cent war profits levy after 1919. An amendment by Senator Jones of New Mexico, democrat, toi continue war profits taxes in 1919 was voted down, 44 to 15. ' . f-, Disposition of the 1920 tax ques--tion caused such protracted debate; that Chairman Simmons abandoned! plans for a night session and agreed to.:adournment until Monday at 10 o'clock in an effort to expedite paSs- age that day. with a night session iff necessary. With this issue out of, "the way, senate leaders predicted that other provisions including th& inheritance, luxury and -other sec tions, would be disposed of speedily Impugn Democrats' Motive, j- In the partisan contest over fix : ing rates at this time for 1920, Senf' ators fenrose, lownsena ot Micu 3 igan, McCumber of North Dakoti' j and Smoot of Utah, led the repubf " J lican attack, while Chairman aim (Continued on Page Six, Colunia loar. Broatch to Aslc Law j Makers Tor Recount J Election Returns on W. J. Broatch has announced that I he will contest the seat of J. M. Tanner in the state senate as soon as the legislature convenes next , I month. . - 1 Mr. Broatch, republican state sen atorial candidate at the recent ele tion, was slightly ahead until,. . thjfc f soldier-vote was reported by th secretary of state. The final vote ; placed Tanner, democrat, six -ahead, and on that basis he was given certificate of election. T" Mr. Broatch states that he ' ha$' information whjch h: will present i to the legislature in connection with l the soldier vote, the details of which he does not feel warranted to dis close at this time. j He will ask for an investigation c4 I the Nebraska soldier vote as relate ' ing to himself and Tanner and it if f possible that a recount of the entiri Douglas county state senatorial vote may be ordered. Mrs. A. D. Brandeis in Gotham Resumes Her Former Nan : ' Word comes from New York that the widow of Arthur D. Brandeis formerly of Omaha, whose marriagi to Joseph Helfman, it will be're membered, was announced in June ofslast year, is back in that city for tlies, winter and ha? resumed the , name of Mrs. Brandeis. . Since her," remarriage she and her husband had Imade their home in San Francisco, , Friends of the " family here admit they have been advised that there' has been a separation. ; Butte Asks Irish Freedom, 1 Butte, Mont., pec. 21. fcesolu-. ( tions asking congress to declare iiW favor of independence for Ireland ij were adopted here last night at 4 ,1 mass meeting attended nrinciot!? J by residents of Irish descent
