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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918. "HE ISTRAITOR," JAPANESE SAYS OF ME SHOT Slayer, Eminent Alienist, Had ' Expressed Fear of His Victim; Embassy Goes to His Defense. Baltimore, Dec. 22. At the Jap anese embassy in Washington, to day it was announced that counsel would be retained to defend the case cf Dr. Nobura Ishida. the Japanese alienist, who yesterday shot and killed Dr. George B.' Wolff at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt hospital near this city. It was also stated at the embassy that Dr., Ishida rauks among the- foremost alien ists of Japan. A representative of the embassy came to Baltimore last night to see the prisoner and in quire into the circumstances of the shooting. 'When Dr. Edward Brush, superin tendent, of the hospital, heard the reports of the pistol and with other persons entered the office he saw the body of Dr. Wolff lying on the floor just beneath his desk, while above him stood the Japanese with the amoking revolver in his hand. Dr. Brush grabbed the Japanese and wresting the revolver from his hands, led him into his office, while the other Dhvsicians struggled in vain to save the life of their co worker. Calls His Victim Traitor. ' While holding the Japanese physi cian firmly lest he make an attempt to escape. Dr. Brush asked him why he had shot Dr. Wolff. Ishida re- flied: "He's a bad man. He say 'm a spy. He is a traitor to this country and to Japan. He is a spy." Dr. Brush said that some time ago Ishida told frim he feared Dr. Wolff. The latter had a habit of staring ab stractedly at times. Once he fixed his eyes upon Ishida and the Japa nese said he feared Wolff's penetrat ing eyes and asked Dr. Brush if he possessed power of hypnotism. yDr. Ishida was sent to this coun try by the Japanese government to study medical institutions. He had expected to return next summer. His acquaintance with Dr. Brush was through an article that he had contributed to the American Journal of Insanity, of which Dr. Brush is editor. He is 43 years old and has a wife and two children in Japan. Before coming to this country Ishida was professor of mental dis eases at Nagasaki medical college, Japan. He has published numerous articles on insanity and is the author of several books. At the present time an additional volume is on the press. He had been at the Phipps clinic of the Johns Hopkins hospital and had made an inspection of the large hospitals in the west and in New York City. . Dr. Wolff, who was 33 years old, was the son of Rev. D. W. Wolff ( Myerstown, Pa., and a graduate M Johns Hopkins university. Soir Gives Up Blood in Vain Attempt to Save Life of Lincoln Man Lincoln, Dec. 22 (Special.) Again a Lincoln business man, well known , all over the state, has an swered the last roll call. Harry Porter, who has been one of the prominent men in the upbuilding of Lincoln and one of the best known members of the Rotary club, passed away at his home in this city last night. Mr. Porter has not been in good health for about a year, anemia be ing the trouble. Last spring he went west for a short time and came back feeling better, but soon grew worse and his physicians decided that transfusion of blood was the only chance to save him. His son, Sergt. Earl Porter, volunteered to allow his blood to be given his father. For a time it seemed that the operation was successful and Mr Porter began to grow stronger, but he soon began to sink again and passed away last night. Northcliffe Gives Reception to American Correspondents Paris, Dec. 22. Lord Northcliffe, chairman of the London headquar ters of the British mission to the United States and England's great est publisher, last night gave a re ception in honor of American news . paper correspondents in Paris, at which they were invited to be guests of the British government during President Wilson's visit to Eng land. . President Wilson, Lord North cliffe said, will have the greatest welcome ever given a ruler when ' he goes to England. He added he was glad the presi dent was going to Manchester, and would see the real England, for London was no more England than New York was America. The speak er concluded by saying that he was certain that the president's visit would do immense good. Demobilization Places .i, Heavy Task on Railroads 'Washington, Dec. 22. Demobili sation of the army will place upon the railroads of the country the task itoi carrying approxibately 7,250,000 men, according to estimates today by Director General McAdoo. This in cludes the transportation of both the expeditionary and home forces to the camps where they are to be 1 yy it was said, on figures showing ' that in the creation of the army and transportation of part of it to the . seaboard for embarkation the rail roads handeled 8.700,000 men. . Mr. McAdoo figured that the troop movement in December would total ;400,000 men, due to double trans portation practicallyofall troops. Austrian Loss 4,000,000. Geneva Dec. 22. The casualties cl the Austro-Hungarian armies from the beginning of the, war up to the end of May, 1918, were slightly over 4,000,000, according to official statements received today from Vienna.,, Eighteen generals out of 310 were killed. Courtship Notes of Dead Girl ; Xw "ml M - y v It' I I ; V I rif i -" a"- xa2 i 5V ? - - if ! 1 1 1 1 ASSERT BAVARIA IS FACING DANGER FROM ANARCHY Three of Leading Parties Join in Appeal for Action to Save Country From Bolshevism. In committing suicide by hanging himself, using his collar for a noose, in the Muskegon, Mich., jail, Saturday, Milo H. Piper, practically admitted he was the murderer of his former affinity, Frieda Weichman, whose body was dug in the lonely woods where it had been buried. Frieda Weichman's note book, kept during the courtship by Milo H. Piper, .came out to reveal the dead girl's romantic thoughts. The note book, stowed away with her in timate tilings, shows that she was romantic, philosophic, and that she had a toOch of humor. One verse, possibly copied from somewhere, evidently reflected some close-up event in her relations with Piper. It reads: You ilng a little eon or two, Tou have a friendly chat, Tou maka a little candy fudge. And then you take your hat Tou hold her hand and saj "Go'od-nlght," As sweetly as you can. Ain't thata of an evening For a great big healthy man? Verse on Loneliness. Another verse in the notebook if the dead girl goes: Lonely when you're far away, Happy when you're near; Tou are home and rest to me, Calming every fear Think of you at eventide, When the shadows fall, Weary longing for you, dear Only you that's all. Maybe this next one shows that in her innermost heart lurked a sus picion that all was not well with the man she was planning to marry. Maybe she used these verses to bolster her faith and, give, her the trust in him that she wished to have. The verses: ..... ! We have no right to Judge a man Until he's fairly tried. Should we not like his company We know the world Is wide. Borne may have faults and who has not? The old as well as young; Perhapa e may, for all we know. Have fifty to their one. Then let us all, when we commence To slander friend or foe. Think of the harm one word would do To those we little know. , . Remember, curses sometimes, like Our chickens, "roost at home"; Don't speak of others' faults until We have none of our own. Digs at Own Sex. And then on another page the girl, dug from the lonely graVe in the Michigan woods, wrote in the days of her mating: Go where you will, In land or on sea, I'll share all yo r treubles and care. And at night when I kneel at my bedside to pray, I'll remember you, dear, In my prayer. In this sli2 takes a sly dig at her sex as she reveals a feminine frailty: She ventured In the briny deep A little while ago, And yelled "Jlurdeil Fire I Police I" A crab had pinched her toe. And though at that momentous time Her screams were plainly heard, Yet when a "lobster" squeezed her waist She didn't say a word. Wilson Thanks Riksdag for Vote of Confidence Stockholm, Dec. 22. The follow ing message from President Wilson was read in both chambers of the Swedish parliament: "I have received with the ereat- est satisfaction the message which the two chambers of the Swedish riksdag were generous enough to send me and I accept it as a most welcome impression of the confi dence of the chambers. "I hope and believe that by com mon counsel a peace worthy of the aspiration of the people of Europe can and will be secured, and I shall with pleasure and pride do all I can to promote it." Allies to Use Austrian Ships in Italian Ports Paris, Dec. 22. Italy will act as trustee of 300,000 tons of Austrian shipping now in Italian ports and distribute it for use exclusively for war supply and transportation, none to be used for commercial traffic. This agreement -ms reached today at a meeting of the allied maritime council. Four admirals, representing the United States, France Great Britian and Italy, whose ships are in Italian waters, will take immediate charge of the disposition of the shipping under the direction of the council. Assassination Story Denied. Basel, Des. 22. Denial has been received here of a report that Lieut. Col. Henry Villaine, chief of the French commission sent to collect evidence concerning the conflict be tween the Ukraine and Poland, had been shot and killed by Ukrainian soldiers. ' Hoist New Flag. Paris. Dec. 22. The allied mari time council decided today that its new flag would be hoisted for the first time on Austrian merchant men in the Adriatic beside tha Ital ian flag. Munich, Dec. 22. So chaotic have conditions "become during the last ! week or two that three of the lead , ing parties have combined for the i first time in years, to issue what ' amounts to an ultimatum to 'the Bavarian government. The Bavar ian people's party, the German peo- pie's party and the Munich branch i of the liberal party have signed the : appeal. The "socialist party did not sign the ultimatum, which reads: "Recent occurrences, especially those of the last few days, leave no doubt that we are facing danger j from anarchy. The press is threat ! ened, freedom of assembly exists no ! longer and the ballot is at stake, j Will the national assembly, if it is i ever chosen, be able to count on ! meeting? Has the government no will to rule, or no powers? Present Ultimatum. i"Your own party, a majority of the members of which are soldiers spared from death during the war, wants a rule of terror by unre strained rowdies as little as we, But the power and strength of order is crippled if the government's will to rule ceases. Does the govern ment want order or does it want anarchy? We direct these questions openly to the provisional govern ment, especially to the present Min- ister-President Eisner. We expect and demand a definite and unequivo cal answer; not only in words but in action, with comprehensive and ag gressive acts that will brook no delay. "Should this answer not be given, we will know and all Bavaria will know that neither from the present government nor from the assembly to be elected under its responsibil ity is there anything else to be ex pexted than steady degeneration into the bolshevist abyss." Will Nationalize Mines. Berlin, Dec. 22. The revolution ary parliament, which adjourned yesterday, gave the cabinet the ful lest authority to manage affairs. The prestige of Chancellor Fried rich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann has been greatly enhanced by the appointment of a national central legislative committee of 27 soldiers and working men, comprised wholly of majority socialists. The committee is largely a body with parliamentary functions on a small scale. It 'can eject obstreper ous cabinet members and has a re stricted veto power. The congress devoted its closing hours to socialization problems. It approved of state control for such industries "as are ripe" for the ex periment and a start will be made with the coal pits. Afterwards the steel and chemical industries and the alkali mines will be in line for seizure, although the bulk of senti ment was for leaving such complex problems to the national assembly. Bolsheviki Beaten at Polls. Paris, Dec. 22. The first elections to the new German national assem bly are symptomatic of what the final results will be, says a dispatch from Berne to Le Journal. In the Duchy of Brunswick, where t.he mi nority party had assumed power, the defeat of the bolsheviki was crushing. In Mecklenberg and An halt, where the majority was in con trol, the burgeoisie also came out victorious. Agree on Fundamentals. Amsterdam, Dec. 22. The Dus seldorf Nachrichten says that the conference held at Berlin to dis cuss the new constitution of Ger many, agreed on the following fun damentals: An elected president, to be head of the government, with powers midway between those of the presi dent of the United States and the king of England; parliamentary principles to govern the president in forming a cabinet which will be assisted by the delegates of the fed eral republics to the so-called stat enhaus, which corresponds to the American senate; the statenhaus, however, must not interfere with the independence of the individual federal republics, which will number 14 or 15. The participants in the confer ence included Hugo Preuss, state secretary of the interior, Prof. Peters, Prof. Max Weber of the University of Heidelberg and the Austrian minister Hartman, well known authorities on constitutional law. Austrian Archduke Makes Fortune on Army Contracts Berlin, Dec. 22. The newspaper Abend charges that the Austrian archduke, Leopold Salvator, former imperial master of ordnance cleared 20,000,000 crowns on army contracts The archduke, according to the newspaper, supplied the government with dried vegetables for which he was paid from 100 to 200 per cent more than the market prices. His contracts for three years, the Abend says, totalled 45,000,000 crowns. Deeds of Heroism by Yanks Commended by Commander in Chief Charles Walton of Woodbury, N. J., a private in Service Section Unit 635, rescued the surviving member of a small French patrol near Weel, France, October 6, 1918. He placed the wounded man in his car under a withering fire within 15 meters of the German lines. When his car became dis abled he removed his charge to a place of safety. On the same day in order to quickly evacuate two severely wounded men whose only chance of recovery lay in being promptly removed to a hospital, he went fearlessly through a barrage on the only road over which he could travel, bringing the wounded men to the hospital alive. -He was awarded the Distin guished Service Cross by Gen John J. Pershing. i McAdoo Turns Over Treasury Office to Glass I nnir ! 3 j I 3 1 ? 4r f rV:t) 12! I 1 " r fl i 6 I I " i I! IP 1 I ;-s mWaUAtfAMIUlua. ;ii - 'Sii mi mi timn mi .mi nl CASTER GSvWJ AMP W&.MAEOOi Representative Carter Glass, of Virginia, recently appointed secre tary of the treasury, and his pred ecessor, William G. McAdoo, pho tographed in the office of the treas ury. The photograph was made after former Secretary McAdoo had turned the workings of the office over to Mr. Glass. EARL OF DERBY GIVES DINNER TO 0, S, CHIEF British Ambassador in Paris Personally Escorts Mr. and Mrs. Wilson to Their Carriage. . Paris, Dec. 22. President and Mrs. Wilson were guests of honor at a dinner given last evening at the British embassy by the earl of Derby British ambassador. Among the guests were Count Romanones, Spanish premier; Vittorio Orlando, Italian premier; Baron Sonnino, Italian foreign minister; Gen. John J. Pershing, Maj. Gen. Sir David Henderson, former president of the British air council; Admiral W. S. Benson and Col. E. M. House. Many prominent figures in political life were present. Following the reception that suc ceeded the dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Wil son were escorted to their carriage by the earl of Derby and the sec retary of the embassy. Continental burope makes much of the Yuletide; so in the absence of President Wilson and others closely identified with the war settlement and because of many holi day social Junctions engaging the Americans, it is not likely that there will be political or peace develop ments of note. The week will be de voted principally to perfecting the machinery of the conference. I he presidtn will go to England, it is announced, probably by the Boulogne-Folkestone route. The de sire to have him cross on an Amer ican warship, so that the landing in England will be distinctly Amer ican. American naval vessels there fore would be given charge of the channel crossing. There are 18 de stroyers at Brest, and some of these have been ordered to proceed to Boulogne. Destroyers are bad sea boats, and if the seas are rough, the presi dent may take a British warship. Col. Arthur H. Carter Elected President of Camp Taylor Alumni Louisville, Ky., Dec. 22. Graduates of the Central Field Ar tillery Officers' Training school at Camp Zachary Taylor have formed an alumni association with a mem bership of 10,000 for the purpose of continuing associations formed at the camp. Only candidates and offi cers who have been on duty at the school will be eligible. Col. Arthur H. Carter, command ant o' the school, was chosen pres ident and these vice presidents were elected: Col. A. M. Goodyear, Buf falo; Mai. bilas B. Williams, Mem phis; Lieut. Col. J. Dibblee, San Francisco;1 Candidate Theodore Douelas Robinson, former member of the New York itate senate; Judge A. H. Morrill, Cincinnati, and A. G. Pigot, Sacramento, Cal. W. W. Hopping, New York, coun sel to Alien Property Custodian Palmer, is secretary and Stuyvesant Fish, New York, is treasurer. The eecutive committee is composed of Lyman Bass, Buffalo; Daniel Mc Douglad, Atlantic; William McKee, Memphis; William B. Davidson, New York; Joseph R. Swann, New York, and John Kirby, Boston. Labor Board Rebukes Boat Owners Who Provoked Strike New York, Dec. 22. Refusal of associations representing harbor boat owners here to submit to arbitra tion a dispute with their employes regarding pay and working hours was rebuked by the national war labor board, which overruled their claim that the New York harbor wage adjustment board, created un det an agreement with their men had gone out of existence with the signing of the armistice. Former President William H. Taft and Basil Manly, joint chairmen of the f war labor board, dismised the contention of the employers that President Wilson in saying to con gtess "thus the war comes to an end" had proclaimed peace. Consequently, they stated, both employers and employes were bound by their agreement of May last to submit throughout the war all dif ferences to the wage adjustment board EXPLORER WILL SURVEY ARCTIC Y AIRPLANE (Continued From Page One.) scientific bodies assured," it is plan ned to have the expedition leave the LTnited States next June, the announcement continued: "There are six weeks of fair wea ther in July and August when, even in the polar regions, it is seldom lower than 60 degress above zero. The plans are to have a ship go to Etah, about 600 miles from the North pole, in June when the ice is sufficiently broken to permit the ship to cross Melville bay. The ship would carry a large seaplane or land airplane for the final flight across the top of the earth and for exploration of the unexplored polar regions, as well as smaller planes for the scouting flights. "Immediately upon arrival at Etah, a base would be established and while waiting for the ice to break up further north to permit the ship to go as far as Cape Columbia, the small seaplanes would fly to Cape Columbia and establish a base there for the large planes, which is to be used for the flight across the top of the world from Cape Colum bia on the American side over the pole to Cape Chelyuskin on the Siberian side and for exploration over long distances. Six Weeks for Flights. "For the six weeks after the mid dle of July, when the weather condi tions are best for flying in the Polar regions, the large plane as well as the smaller planes ,will be put into service and the important work of the expedition wi?l be done." Asserting that only one-seventh of the earth's service has been ac curately mapped, and two thirds only mapped from rough sketches, officials of the club stated that by use of airplanes it would be possi ble to do in 20 years what would require 200 years by usual methods. The committee which, after two years of study, recommended that the club finance the expedition, com prises: Admiral Teary, Alan R. Hawley, Henry A. Wise Wood, Henry Woodhouse, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, John Hays Ham mond, jr., Rear Admiral William N. Little, U. S. N.; Prof. Charles L. Poor, Col. E. Lester Jones, U. S. A.; Charles Jerome Edwards, Major Cushman A. Rice, U. S. A., and August Post. Captain Bartlett, who will lead the new expedition, commanded the Roosevelt on the Peary expeditions While captain of the Karluk, which was crushed in the ice in January, 1914, he led the 17 members of the expedition to Warangel island, then crossed over to Siberia with one Eskimo and returned with a relief party. He also was commander of the MacMillan relief expedition and last winter was commended by Sec retary Daniels for his extraordinary achievement in taking the ship Fa vorite from ice at Halifax. Nobody Wants to Carry Mail by Airplane in Alaska Concerning the contemplated es tablishment of an air mail service in Alaska, the following letter from Thomas Riggs, jr., Governor of Alaska, was received by J. M. Mier ick, of the Standard Aircraft cor poration, Elizabeth, N. J. says the New York Hera.d. "In connection with the aeroplane mail service to Alaska," Governor RiKgs wrote, "I beg to advise that bids were called for by the Posti office department for delivery of mail by airplanes from ' Valdez, Alaska, to Fairbanks, but without any bids being accepted as satis factory. "The postmaster general has been interested in possibility of carrying mail to Alaska through the medium of airplanes, but up to this time tbcre seems to be little interest fchown on the part of the contrac tors. I think, however, that un doubtedly some tteps'will be taken to inaugurate an air service." The Bee Want Ads bring real results. Use them. NEARLY 5,000 TROOPS ARRIVE ON MONGOLIA Soldiers From Overseas Given Welcome at Hoboken and Go to Camp Mills for Demobilization. New York, Dec. 22.-The United States transport Mongolia, with 143 officers and 4,588 enlisted men on board, arrived here today from Brest. After reception by the mayor's welcoming committee, the soldiers were landed at Hoboken ; and transported to Camp Mills for ! demobilization. Among the units on the Mongolia were the One Hundred and Thirty eighth field artillery, 34 officers and 1,095 men; headquarters company. Fortieth coast artillery, one officer and 56 men; Seventy-third coast ar tillery, 40 officers and 1,419 men; Seventy-fourth coast artillery, 43 of ficers and 1,127 men. In addition, there were 735 wounded and sick, none requiring special attention, 30 casual officers and 156 casual enlisted men, 15 Y. M. C. A. workers, five Red Cross workers, five nurses and nine civil ians. The Mongolia, which is credited with having been the first American ship to sink a German submarine, was commanded by Capt. Emery Rice, U. S. N. R., who was its com mander when the submarine was sunk. The troops on board were under the command of Brig. Gen. Richard Coulter, jr., of Greensburg, Pa., who went overseas in command of the Eighty-first infantry brigade. Among the arrivals were Col. Nicholas W. Campanone of San Juan, N. M., and his bride, who formerly was Miss Elizabeth Wood of Winchendon, Mass. Colonel Campanone, who was attached to General Pershing's staff, met Miss Wood at the Y. M. C. A. hut in Chaumont, France, where she was appearing as a Y. M. C. A. enter tainer. They were married in Paris October 13. The Cedric, with more than 2,000 soldiers aboard, is expected to ar rive here tomorrow. CHINESE MINISTER IS AT BORDEAUX. 1 s few ; i -m$ Visa a&iiitm Lis -fl :. I&-:-!.. ..-. . .-. .-..v.-...-.:. -.v. . . .... :-w.-.-. FLYING WEDGE LANDS OMAHA MEN IN JAIL Peeved Because Dance Halls Are Closed, Protest by Raiding Cjsiness Houses. Dr rR.WEWNTSTciU 1600. Wellington Koo, Chinese minister to the United States and a representative of his country to the peace conference, has arrived in Bordeaux, according to a dispatch from Paris. WILSO WEST LAWN CEMETERY Beautiful, modern park plan ceme tery accessible to Omaha'a best resi dence section. Family lots on partial payment at time of burial. Telephone Walnut 820 and DouRlaa 829. Our free automobile is at your service. WEST LAWN CEMETERY. 58th and Center. Office 15th St Harney. Aleut Indians Live in Northern Alaska Like Tribes of Old Cordova, Alaska, Dec. 22. Wind f. ept Attu Island, a bit of Alaska at the tip of the Aleutin string, farther west than any other part of North America, is the home of a tribe of about 100 Aleut Indians, said to be the poorest people, financially, on earth. Nature, however, provides these far-away Indians a living. From Attu and the nearby islands and from the surrounding waters they get eggs, fish, geese, seals, occasion ally a walrus, berries and lately blue fox. Fr- . the far South Pacific, .e Japan current, it is said, brings fuel. Driftwood, thought to be from the Philippine Islands, Hawaii and other southern lands, is scattered along Attu beaches. No trees grow on the isb.nd. For clothes the natives used goods brought from the outside world by occasional traders. Those lacking in the cloth of the whites make their garments from the grass and skins. ; Like the Indian tribes of old, a native chief leads these Aleuts and acts as their head in all matters, trading, hunting, fishing as well as ir. the councils of the tribe and in the Russian church services to which the natives still adhere. Russians first settled on the is lands in 1747 when they sailed west of the Commodore islands off Kamchatka and established an im portant trading post on Attu. The Russians planted herds of cattle and gcats but in a few years both the Russians and their stock left for otlur parts. 1 Americans Gain Mastery Over Germans in the Air Washington, Dec. 22. American airmen in France brought down a total of 854 German airplanes and 45 balloons, according to a report cabled by Major General Harbord December 15 and made public today by the War department. The total casualties of the Ameri can air service in action were 442. including 109 killed, 103 wounded. 200 missing, 27 prisoners and three interned. When the armistice ended the fighting, the report said, there were 39 American air squadrons at the front. N VISITS WOUNDED MEN (Continued From Tage One.) didn't get an arm," he said cheer fully. Human Wrecks Rebuilt. More than 6,500 wounded Amer icans from the battles around Cha teau Thierry have passed through .Neuilly hospital, lhe 1,200 remain ing are the most serious cases, whom miracles of modern surgery are re building to assume their places r.i civil life, though some probably will never leave the hospital. The president abstained from at tendance at church in order to make the visit. lie was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Rear Admiral Grayson and was met at the en trance by the commandant and his staff. But he made it plain that he wished no ceremony. "I just want to go in and visit the boys and have a chat with them," he said. Beginning with the first ward, the president went down one side of the rcom and Mrs. Wilson the other, stopping to chat here and there with the wounded and grasp a hand for a moment, or say a word of cheer and encouragement. The president himself, where it was possible, took the hand of every man, saying: "We hope to have you back soon with us," or "I wish you the best of luck and a speedy recovery." Asks Each Man's Name. So the president went from ward to ward, always asking each man's name and saying something inti mately personal. As he left each room he turned for a moment and said: "I wish you boys as merry a Christmas as is possible under the circumstances." There was no cheering in reply, for some of the men were in no condition for cheering; there was no hand clapping for most of the men had at least one hand in surgical appliances. But there were genuine smiles of appreciation. Some of the wounded were intro duced to the. president by the names the doctors and nurses had given them. There were "Texas Red," "Tennessee Sly" and Sunny Sam." The last named was introduced as the sunniest boy in the hospital. The president saw one lad who came to the hospital 18 months ago with half his face shot away. His story was almost too terrible to re peat, but the president wanted to hear. So the doctors told it to him. The boy entered the hospital with so little of his face remaining that his eyes were all that are now shown in the plaster cast which be gins his record. For a year he took) r.ll his food through a tube. Alow by additions of one of his own ribs, a bit of shin bone and teeth from a soldier less fortunate and some scraps of odds and ends, he has a face again. Today he sat up in bed and was chewing gum. At a distance of 20 feet his face looked ouite normal. A "protest" against the action oi Police Captain Shafer and a squa 1 ot officers Saturday night closinc i all public dances in compliance with i nr. order of the Board of Health ! caused Jack Kendall. Lee Doty anc B. M. Boyes, Omaha, to dig up $1C ca?h bonds each for their appear ance in polic court this morning. The men went ovcrithe river Satur day night with about 300 othei Oinahans to dance at Eagle hall 1 he order from the Board of Health cud not reach the police depart ment until about 9 o'clock, and twe Ing dances were under way, one in lh Ivagles building and the other in Danish hall. The board order was immediately enforced and the Jialls cleared and darkened. Then he Omaha boys started "protest." Start Flying Wedge. Stores, open for Christmas shop pers, were thronped with customers, and the Omaha boys formed flying wedge squads and smashed into the stcres, each equipped with a tin whistle or some noise-making de vice. They invaded several places and made the "bull-in-the-china-shop" simile applicable before they smashed into a gang of officers. Kendall, Doty and Boyes were taken as the leaders and given a chance of remaining in jail until Monday mcrning, or furnishing cash bonds. They got the money and will prob ably not show up today. Theoard of Health order is to remain effective indefinitely or until the flu situation improves. The Eagles' hall has been leased for three public dances each week and others have been planned for the win ter at the Danish hall and other places. None of them will be permitted. Lays Off Raw Egg Diet And Can flow Eat Sauer Kraut Gains 44 Pounds and Enjoy? Better Health Than in Last 15 Years. Northwestern Men in War. Evanston, 111., .Northwestern university here sent into active ser vice 598 students, 1,270 alumni and 123 members of the faculty. Alto gether there were about 2,000 North westerns in the service. Of these 40 gave their lives for liberty. Be sides these, during the autumn there were 2,386 men enrolled in all schools of the university, of which 1,664 were in military training. HOW TO AVOID DIPHTHERIA. 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Corona Typewriter Agency Douglas 4121. 1905 Farnam St. "When a man has had to live foi two years on nothing much except raw eggs, on account of stomach trouble and then finds a medicine that fixes him up in less than twe months so he can eat sauerkraut meats of all kinds and anything elst he wants, I think it is time for him to talk for the benefit of others Well, Tanlac has done all this foi 't me and more, for I am now 44 pounds heavier than I was the day I began taking it and am now en- ( joying better health than I have ir at least 15 years," was the remark able statement made by John H Packer, patentee and proprietor ol the Packer Oil Filter, who lives at Liberty, Mo., recently. "For 20 years or more," he con tinued, "I have suffered with my stomach and, although I have spent thousands of dollars, nothing ever helped me until I got Tanlac. My appetite left me entirely and what little I did eat would almost double me up with pain and I would bloat up with gas until I could scarcely breathe. During the past five years, especially, I have suffered a great deal from constipation, felt tired out all the time, had no energy, and was so drowsy and listless that if I tried to talk business to a man it was an effort to express what I wanted to say. My health finally got so bad fhnf T urna fnrntiA fn omva un fl Rnlpn.. did position in Pocatello, Idaho, and nobody, except those in the same condition, can fully understand how I suffered. "I had almost lost faith in all medicines, as I had tried so many without results, but Tanlac certainly has been a revelation to me. I can now eat just anything I want and never experience a particle of trouble. I have never had a better appetite, and all signs of indiges tion, gas and distress after eating are gone. Tanlac has also relieved me of constipation and strengthened and built me up until I feel as full of energy as when I was a boy. When I first started on Tanlac 1 weighed 124 pounds, but now weigh 168 and this shows how well ouiicu tu my lane Aaiiiai; wan. Tanlac is sold in Omaha by al. 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 the state of Nebraska. Adv. FEEL MISERABLE FROMTHATCOLD? Colds and coughs are quickly relieved by Dr. King' New Discovery. Nobody should feel "perfectly miserable" from a cold, cough or bronchial attack for very long. For it takes only a little while to relieve it and get back on the road to re covery when Dr. King's New Dis covery is faithfully used. It soon loosens the phlegm, relieves irrita tion, soothes the parched, sore throat, brings comfort. Half a century old and more pop ular today than ever. At all drug gists. 60c and $1.20. Make Your Bowels Behave Make them function with gratify ing precision. If regulation of the diet does not relieve their torpidity Dr. King's New Life Pills will. They are perfect bowel trainers, cleans the system surely, comfortably, ffc,