THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1918.
PALL OF GLOOM
'DESCENDS UPON
GERMANCAPITAL
Beggars and Street Venders,
Many of Them Crippled
Soldiers, Numerous
; y on Berlin Streets.
Berlin, Dec. 23. (By Associated
IVess.) -The outlook for Berlin's
first revolutionary Christmas appears
to be-anything but merry. The dis
position of the Berliners se?ms to be
eloomy. The stigma of military de
feat has been eclipsed momentarily
by political uitcertainty, food
I stringency and disturbed economic
conditions.
Never before have beggars and
street venders been so numerous in
Berlin. Three years ago a soldier
would, not have been permitted to
walk the streets in uniforu and beg.
Professional beggars and 1 crippled
and invalid soldiers multiply in num
ber daily, augmented by other sol
diers who sell cigarettes, soap and
sweetmeats brought in from west of
the Rhine where such things have
been more plentiful than in Berlin.
An odd holiday spectacle is an able
bodied soldier in uniform grinding
out Christmas tnusicfrom a street
organ.
The Unter Der Linden, the Pots
dam Platz and Friedrichstrasse pre
sent'an incongrous appearance with
Street stalls tilled with flimsy wares
and substiutes for. Christmas pastry
and wax candles.
There will be little holiday travel
as through trains have been with
drawn and local trains have been
Stripped of ordinary comforts, such
as dining facilities, heating and il
lumination. Trips which ordinarily
took 12 hours now take 30. Trains
are taken off without notice and
printed schedules are worthless. The
newspapers also are lacking in
Christmas cheer.
. The mood of the holiday shopper
iodines to books, although the jewel
ers are garnering their last war
profits-,.....
Columbia Records for
the New Year Are Varied
Columbia records for January,
1919, chief among which are featured
the violin music of Toscha Seidel,
the Russian boy prodigy, go on sale
December 20. They are holiday
gifts which will be highly appre
ciated by music lovers. Among the
exclusive recordings of Seidel are
Kreisler's "Caprice Viennois," and
Wieniawski's "Romance from Con
certo No. 2, Opus 22," with Louis T.
Griinberg at the piano.
" Two new records by Oscar Seagle,
who has appeared in concert in
Omaha, "Massa's In the Cold, Cold
Ground," and "Old Folks At Home."
are sung with particular appeal
when one knows Seagle was' born
below the Mason and Dixon line.
"0 Sole Mio," by Riccardo Strac
ciari, and piano solos by Josef Hof
man "Bercfcuse," and "Rondo Cap
ricdoso," by Mendelssohn and Hula
Lashanska's soprano solo, "Songs
My;, Mother Taught Me," will also
I be released.
I Of the nonular hit At Tolsnn in
"Tell That to the Marines," and
"YOU Can't Beat Us If It Takes
Ten Million More," "Come Along to
ToyTown," "The Monkey Man;"
Bert Williams songs, "O, Death
Where Is Thy Sting?" and "When
I Return;" "Yip, Yip Yaphank"
songs, "I Can Always Find a Little
San$hine in the Y. M. C. A.," and
"Ding Dong," by Sergt. Irving Ber
lin; and Ziegfeld, "Follies of 1918,"
song hits are to be placed on sale.
In the dance records may be
found "Ostrich Walk," by the Dixe
land Jaz Band. "Jazz Band Ball."
''Dallas Blues," "What Yankee
Doodle Says He'll Do. He'll Do,"
"My Belgian Rose," and "others.
OMAHA CANTEEN WORKER
VICTIM OF FLU.
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Mss. Clara Hermartsen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. T. Hermatisen, 3017
Happy Hollow boulevard, died Sat
urday of influenza in Allentown.
Pa."- Miss Hsrmansen had been ac
cepted by the Red Cross for hospi
tal hut work overseas and was ready
to sail when she was stricken. She
was with here sister, Mrs. Rex
Fuller, and Lieutenant Fuller, a
member of the medical corps.
Miss Hermansen was a graduate
of Nebraska university, class of 1909
and a member of the Delta Delta
Delta sorority. She is survived by
her parents, a sister, Anne Herman
seit, and a brother, Victor, who has
recently received his disxarge from
the balloon school at Fort Omaha.
Railroad Company Sues to
: Collect $3.24 Interest
'Atlantic City. Suit was begun
by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the
district court against Joseph C
Smith,' a prosperous dairy propri
etor, for the recovery of $3.24 and
interest from March 14 to date. The
company alleges that on the date
mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Smith rode
front Jersey City to Atlantic City
via .Philadelphia upon a ticket that
was" good, for transportation only
upon the New Jersey side of the
river. Public Ledger.
SPAIN WILLING TO
EXCHANGE GEUTA
FOR GIBRALTAR
Premier May Raise at Peace
Conference Question of
Exchange of Strongholds
on Mediterranean.
Paris, Dec. 23. It developed to
day that Premier Romanones- plans
to return to Paris in the near future
to confer with the allied premiers
and the . American representatives
on questions vitally concerning
Spain. The Spanish premier is
credited in some quarters with the
project of raising the question of
the return of Gibraltar to Spain and
laying it before the peace conference.
According to the same sources,
Spain is willing to concede Ceuta,
on the Moroccan side of the strait,
to Great Britain in exchange for
Gibraltar, on the ground that if
military reasons were held to inter
fere with the transfer of Gibraltar to
Spain, the possession of Ceuta by
the British would afford equal stra
tegic advantage in modern warfare.
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GERMAN ENEMY
ALIENS FREED
OF REGULATIONS
(Con tinned From Pare One.)
and restricted zones wifl go out of
existence. All registration regula
tions will likewise cease, and it will
no longer be necessary for German
alien enemies to obtain permits
for change of residence. In short,
they will be freed of all restric
tion affecting places of residence
and of employment.
"The attorney general, however,
will continue to exercise as hereto
fore the power to intern all danger
ous German alien enemies. The
action of the president does not
affect in any way the status or men
already interned or the restrictions
and obligations heretofore imposed
on alien enemies now on parole.
Any violation of parole will be pun
ished as heretofore."
John Lord O'Brian, special as
sistant to the attorney general, ex
plaining why Austrians were not
mentioned in the order, said that the
only regulations ever applied to
them were those with reference to
entry and departure and internment.
The effect of today's action is to
place Germans and Austrians on the
same footing.
250,000 Germans Affected.
Approximately 250,000 Germans
would be relieved irom the neces
sity of carrying permits for entry
into restricted areas, while the pro
hibited areas, from which they were
excluded absolutely, would again be
open to them. These were the Dis
trict of Columbia, the Panama canal
zone and all water fronts.
Internment is continuing, Mr.
O'Brian said, ten Germans having
been interned on Saturday and six
more today. It was learned unoffi
cially at the Department of Justice
that between 4,000 and 5.000 Ger
mans have been interned since the
United States entered the war.
Altogether, there were 20 sets of re
strictions affecting German enemy
aliens which had been put into ef
fect through presidential proclama
tion and a half-mile rone from which J
such aliens were barred was estab
lished around all plants engaged in
direct or indirect war work, arsenals
and all military and naval establish
ments and water fronts.
The numbers of Germans regis
tered in the principal cities were
New York, including nearbv New
Jersey points, 80.000; Philadelphia,
12.000; Boston. Z.OOU; St. Louis,
6.000; Chicago, 27,000, and San Fran
cisco, 6,500.
Russian Industries
Ruined for Years by
Bolshevist Regime
Berne. Dec. 23. Reliable informa
tion from Russia brings confirma
tion of report that the socialization
of industry there is a complete
failure. Official statistics show
that in almost all the 153 mills and
factories controlled by the state, ex
penses have considerably exceeded
receipts.
Technical experts, assert that Rus
sian industry has been crippled for
many years to come by the bolshe-
vist regime.
Commission on Packing
Houses Turns in Report
Chicago, Dec. 23. The report of
the Federal Trade commission on
the meat packing industry has been
turned over to the Department of
Justice for its consideration a.id
such action as it may deem prorer.
it was announced by United States
District Attorney Clyne here today
Charles B. Morrison, a Chicago
lawyer, has been appointed a special
assistant to the attorney general to
co-operate with Oliver E. Pagin, at
torney for the Department of Jus
tice, and Mr. Clyne in the case.
The lawyers will determine
whether legal proceedings should be
instituted against the packers.
Location of low Troops
Learned from Washington
Des Moines. Ia.. Dec. 23. (Spe
cial Telegram.)-The .location of
Iowa troops was learned today
through an announcement from the
War department. The Thirty
fourth division (Sandstorm), trained
at Deming, N. M., is at Le Mans,
France; the Eighty-tighth, from
Camp Dodge, is at Lagnay, France;
the Forty-second (Rainbow), of
which the One Hundred and Sixty-
eighth Iowa is a part, is at M,arsch.
Luxembourg, and the Ninety-second
division, colored, organized at
Camp Dodge, is at Marbache. i
OFFICERS AGAIN
CLAIM CAPTURE
OFBIGWMAN
"Christmas" Keough, Wanted
in Many Cities, Said to
Have Been Caught
in East.
"Christmas Keough," premier
swindler and csjn man of th. United
States, has been captured again.
This time he has been taken into
custody by the Pinkerton agency
at Altoona, Pa., and the Pinkerton
people claim that he is the right man
and that developments will prove it.
several Omaha lewelers and hotel
men, who were victims of William
Keough, man, of many aliases, and
rich in invention and resource in the
art of separating other persons from
their money by devious and dishon
est methods, will be interested.
Has Many Aliases.
As "G. Dundas," "E. W. Howard"
and "Harry Newman" Keough has
defrauded several banks, real estate
men and farmers in various parts
of Nebraska, according to the rec
ords the last eight years.
His visit to Omaha was made
about six years ago and he num
bered several prominent business
institutions among his victims, .
Keough is a man of pleasing ap
pearance, dresses , immaculately,
wears very expensive diamonds and
has an engaging Canadian accent.
As Christmas seems to be a
fatal season in his horoscope, in
that he has been annually arrested
at this season of the year, his fa
vorite period of operation, he has
been given the cognomen of Christ-
V u
German Minister Expelled.
Luxemburg, Dec. 23. (Havas.)
K. Von Buch, German minister to
Luxemburg since March, 1914. has,
together with his advisers, been ex
pelled from the country by the grand
ducal government. Three Luxem
burg ministers of state have left the
capital for Paris.
LIBERTY BONDS taken at full
market value in exchange for mer
chandise. Harden Bros.
Von Hindenburg Takes
Army to German Poland
' Zurich,. ; Deo", 23.-(Havas.)
Field; Marshal von-Hindenburg, ac
cording to reports received here
from Germany, has Concentrated a
large force of soldiers in Posen.
Posen is in German Poland. Po
lish nationalists haa claimed it as
part. of the new Poland.
Head of German Dye
Industry Now Fugitive
Berlin, Dec. 23. (By Associated
Press.) Dr. Carl Duisberg of Lev
crkusen, head of the German ani
line dye industry, is reported to
have fled to Switzerland. Dr. Duis
berg was generally looked upon as
the connecting link between "busi
ness" and General LudendorfT.
British Notify Holland f
They Will Use Scheldt
Brussels, Dec, 23. It is reported
here that Holland has been informed
by Great Britain of her intention to
send supplies to the British army
of occupation in Germany by way
of the River Scheldt and Dutch
Limberg.
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... Distributors ,
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Omaha, Neb.
The Last Day Can Be Best of All
To finish gift lists satisfactorily, to know that your
choice .is good, to experience the pleasure of broad
aisles, plenty of daylight and courteous service. Plan to
shop at Thompson-Belden's.
Selections Are Surprisingly Good.
Children's Gloves
Leather gloves, lined and
unlined styles, $1.25 and
$2.
Warm Mocha mittens, in
gray and brown, with fur
tops, $1.
Silk Underwear
Beautiful silk Teddy
Bears, with trimmings of
attractive lace and hand
embroidery work. Also
plain styles. Any of which
make very practical gifts,
$3.50 to $8.50.
Center Aisle -Main Floor
Satin Marseilles
Bed Sets
A' large spread for a
double bed and a bolster
cover to match. The de
signs are new and very
good looking, $10 and
$12 a set.
Linen Section
Silk Specials
Exceptional values in de
sirable silk fabrics that
will make very acceptable
gifts in dress and blouse
lengths. There is to our
notion nothing more de
sirable or more appreci
ated than fine silks and
, especially so when they
are to be had at distinct
savings. Also one more
day of special prices on
Haskell's famous black
silks.
Boxed for gift purposes.
Come to Us
For Hosiery
Stocks were so splendidly
assorted that the busiest
Christmas season of all
has not broken the selec
tions. You'll search far to
find a better selection of
suitable gift hosiery. Ev
ery style and quality one
could wish. Many exclu
sive novelties : for those
who prefer something dis
tinctive. Appropriately boxed.
Baby Shoes of
Soft Fine Kid
White and white with
black patent leather
vamps and dark brown
with elk soles. These lit
tle soft sole shoes make
dainty gifts for the baby.
Price $1.
Third Floor
This Store Open
Every Evening
Until 9 O'Clock.
Art Dept. Notes
For Busy Shoppers
Mahogany trays 60c, 70c, 00c.
Attractive new waste baskets
20c, 30c and 40c.
Doll shades for dressing table
lights $3.50, reduced from $5
A lot of Christmas novelties
will go at lees than usual
prices Tuesday.
Third Floor
Linen Damask
Luncheon Sets
These are beautifully sim
pie in design, but wonder
fully effective. They are
shown in three sizes. '.
Clothes 36, 45 and 54
inches square with six ;
napkins to match.
36-inch sets are $6.75.
45-inch sets, $8 and $10. .
64-inch sets are $12.
Linen Section
For Thrifty ;
Shoppers the
Basement Offers ,
Flannelette Kimonas for
$3.69; '
Heatherbloom Petticoats,
$1.69 to $2.95.
Fine Sateen Petticoats,
98c to $2.95.
'Attractive' New Aprons, "
59c to $2.95.
Maid's Dresses for $3.69.
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Neckwear
Novelties
Discrimination in the choice of
neckwear has everything to do
with its success as a gift. In
our stocks, even on this last
day before Christmas, there are
to be found wonderfully fine
neck fixings which, from the
least expensive to the most
elaborate are examples of dis
tinctiveness. Collars of Geor
gette, pique, satin, broadcloth,
organdie and real filet and
Irish laces. Vests and vestees
of net, organdie and pique.
Velour and plush scarfs.
In Christmas wrappings.
From the Apparel Section
Choose Any of the Following
Negligees and Kimonos, $9.50 to $75.
Women's Blanket Robes, $5 and $6.50.
Silk Petticoats, $3.95, $5, $9.50.
Georgette Blouses, $5.20, $6.50, $8.75.
Luxurious Fur Fashions in matched sets
Separate pieces, Coats, Coatees.
Variety and Goodness
In These Handkerchiefs
Fine hemstitched pure Irish linen,
hand embroidered initials, em
broidered corner effects and fin
est of hand embroideries from
France, Spain and the Madeiras.
Boxed in a Mott Presentable Manner.
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For Milady Gloves
Or a Glove Certificate
Trefousse kid gloves from France offer the best
to be had in quality, style and fit. No single '
pair of gloves was ever more perfect in every
detail. A certificate is the choice of many, for
it entitles the holder to do her own choosing.
Certificates issued for any amount you desire.
f k Mm's Shop
Ready for the Final Day
Fine Neckwear From
$1 to $4
Realiting that many would
wait until the last moment
to make neckwear selec
tions, we purchased in larger
quantities than usual so
that an exceptionally good
assortment remains. We
have been told very often
of late that our 50c and 75c
neckwear is the best in tho
city.
An Unbroken Variety
of Handkerchiefs ;
Plain hemstitched linens,
embroidered initials, colored
borders; cross-barred linens,
hand hemstitched, the best
qualities, from 19e to $1.50.
The Gift of An
Attractive Shirt
Is one that finds favor with
every man. Fabrics and
patterns that are distinctive.
Manhattan, Esgle and Ar
row makes, 51.50 to $12.
Good Looking Hose for
Men
, F i n e accordion weaves,
plaids, stripes, hand em
broidered clocks and plain
shades, in silk, lisle and cot
ton; full fashioned and
seamless styles; Interwoven
Wayne Knit and Onyx, 40c
to $3.50.
Many Don't Think
of Mufflers
but they are so unusually
pood looking this season and
very serviceable for the
whole winter, $1.50 to $7.
Gloves or a Glove Bond.
Cuff Links or Soft Collar Pins.
Silk or Madras Pajamas.
Bath and Lounging Robes.
Every sort of good haberdashery i
that men buy for themselves. . !
The Men's Shop to, the left as you enter
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