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RIGHT
REEZY
BITS OF NEWS
MAKE COBB CHEVALIER
DF THE LEGION OF HONOR.
Detroit, Jan. 6. Irvin S. Cobb,
writer and humorist, was notified
here today by Deputy High Com
missioner De Billy of France, that
lie has been made a chevalier of flip
' Lefrinn nf Hnnnr. Mr. ("nhli said lip
presumed the honor was conferred
"h recognition of his writings in be
half of the French people.
' WHITE HOUSlTpiCKETS
REFUSE TO PAY FINE.
Washington, Jan. 6. Six members
of the national woman's party, in
police court today for kindling firis
opposite the White House', which
they intended to keep burning uiuil
the senate passed the suffrage reso
lution, were sent to jail today after
refusing to pay fines. Mrs. Phoebe
' Munneckc of Detroit, Mary Dubrow
of Passaic, N. J., and Julia Emoria
of Baltimore were fined $10 or 10
days, and Alice Paul, chairman of
the party: Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of
Philadelphia and Mrs. Annie Arneil
of Wilmington, Del., got fines of
$5 each or five days in jail.
The defendants, who refused to
s testify, said payment of the tines
. would be an admission of guilt.
V ST. LOUIS BREWING
' , COMPANY WILL PACK PORK.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 6. AugiiM
A. Husch, president of Anheuser
Inisch, announced today that he
. 0' would, complete the organization of
the Bevo Packing company, which
within two weeks will enter the
pork-packing business in St. Louis
on a large scale. The company is
x to be incorporated at $1,000,000, and
.a considerable i.ortion of the Au-heuser-Busch
brewery has been
.. i leased.
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FIGHT FOR
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Beatrice Man Leads on First
Ballot and Chosen; Bushee
for President of
Senate.
JAIL AIR PILOT WHO
BROKE ALTITUDE RECORD.
London, Jan. 6. Captain Lang,
the aviator who on Thursday last
established o new airplane altitude
record of 30,500 feet, has been placea
under arrest by the British authori
ties, according to the Evening News
oday. The captain was arrested, it
is stated, because of his disclosing
without authorization the details oi
his climb.
OIILY 113,152,756
GALLONS OF WHISKY LEFT.
Washington, Jan. 6. Just ,113,152,
796 gallons of whisky and other
spirits remained in bonded ware
houses in the United States January
1, a little more than half the quanti
ty in reserve when distillation was
stopped sixteen months ago, ac
cording to reports received today
from revenue collectors.
Despite the heavy withdrawals in
the past three months revenue of
ficers now believe that at least
75,000,000 gallons will remain in
warehouses when the nation goes
drv next Tulv 1. This will have to
be converted into alcohol or spirits!
largely for industrial uses or ship-'
ped to other countries. .
"GOBS WILL BE GIVEN
DISCHARGED CERTIFICATE.
: Washington, Jan. (. Certificates
of honorable service will be given
men leaving the naval service be
fore the expiration of their terms of
enlistment, Secretary Daniels said
today in a letter to Senator Hetch-
er of Florida. The certificates will
- be given to those who did not re-
main in the service long enough to
acquire a sufficient number of marks
of merit to entitle them to an
honorable discharge.
Baker Upholds Shanks for
Disciplining of Officers
Washington, Jan. 6. Secretary
Baker said today that the action
taken by Major General Shanks,
commandant of the port of debarka
tion at New York, to maintain dis-
cipline among officers returning
from France, with their umts. has
the full support of the War depart
ment. Many of these officers have
been absent without leave, and Gen
el Shanks has determined to bring
- he, men to trial, if necessary, to
-esrc respect for the military regulations.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Jan. 6. (Special Tele
gram) Dwight S. Dalbey of Be
atrice was selected speaker of the
house ty republicans in caucus to
night, receiving 40 votes on the first
ballot, election at once being made
unanimous. Seventy-seven ballots
were cast, E. E. Good of Nemaha
receiving 30 votes.
Good later was honored by being
made temporary speaker to serve
until the permanent organization of
the house.
Walter Hitchcock of Sterling was
chosen chief clerk of the house, re-
Nineteen Millions
Gain in One Year
Shows Omaha Growth
Nineteen million dollars gain in
Omaha bank deposits in
one year tells the story of the fi
nancial growth of Omaha. The
showing made Decemeber 31, on
the call of the comptroller of the
treasury is a remarkable tribute to
strength of the Gateway City in
the matter of money. Perhaps
the most striking feature of the
reports is the growth in deposits
in the past two months, amount
ing to $12,000,000. The total de
posits of the Omaha banks
amount to nearly $120,000,000,
with loans of more than $80,000,-000.
ceiving all but 17 votes. His chief
opponent, O. G. Smith of Kearney,
was proposed foe first assistant clerk
hut declined the office.
McKelvie Talks.
Governor-elect McKelvie address
ed the house caucus, declaring his
satisfaction at the big republican
majority in the legislature. He
asked the members to stand for a
business session and expressed the
hope aws woud be passed that
would result in better efficiency in
all state departments.
B. K. Bushee of Kimball was
chosen by the senate president pro
tern by unanimous vote and Clyde
Barnard of Table Rock was likewise
handed the secretaryship on a plat
ter. J. H. Sinclair of Douglas is
first assistant.
When the Thirty-seventh leKisla-
(Continurd on Page Two, Column One.)
1 '
Again in 1918
The Omaha Bee
Far Out Distanced
All Competition in
Department Store
Display Advertising
And Also Showed
By Far the
GREATEST GAIN
In This Classification '
Here Are the Figures
(Haynes Adv. Co. Measurements)
1917. 1918.
BEE. . . .84,399 Inches 108,188 Inches
World-Herald . .65,161 Inches 71,705 Inches
News 47,553 Inches 58,294 Inches
Bee Gains , . . 23,789 inches
World-Herald Gains 6,544 Inches ,
News Gains 10,741 Inches
but it is all easily explained. The Bee has stood the acid
test of time and the superior BUYING POWER of its readers
has proven to the department stores of Omaha that its circu
lation goes to people who are not merely bargain hunters, but
purchasers who want good, reliable merchandise and expect to
pay the merchant a fair margin of profit on same.
Its the Old Story 1
The Proof of the Pudding
Is in the Eating.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BEE
"I DIDN'T MEAN
TO DO IT," CRIES
SLAYEROF WHITE
Confessed Murderer Grows
Hysterical as Fellow Pris
oner Says Will Be Lynched;
White Funeral Today.
The confessed murderer of Max
White, 2529 Davenport street, who
was held up and shot Sunday night
near Nineteenth and Charles streets
is terror-stricken in his cell in the
city jail.
John Williams, colored, 18iy
Charles street, who confessed to
the hold-up and shooting, prayed
and yelled frantically during the
night when a group of arrested Ital
ians in an adjoining cell told him
"they were going to lynch him."
Williams shivered with fear and
pleaded with the turnkey for com
pany. "I didn't mean to do it. I didn't
mean to do it," he cried as he paced
to and fro in the cell.
An inquest into White's death will
be held this morning at 9
o'clock, as a formal procedure in
preparing for Williams trial. The
funeral of White will be held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the resi
dence, 2S29 Davenport street.- Burial
will be in Golden Hill cemetery.
Williams was captured yester
day at 1819 Clark street by Detec
tives Murphy, Pszanowsky, Dan
baum an Van Duesen, after a house-to-house
canvass of the neighbor
hood in which the shooting took
place.
Williams was identified by the offi
cers by the description given by Miss
Minkin. When police arrived at his
house he was wearing the coat and
hat which he had worn when the
tragedy was enacted.
White at the time he received his
death wound was with Miss Libby
Minkin, 2624 Decatur street. They
were returning from a Jewish syn
agogue and were enroute to tne
Minkin residence.
The attempted hold-up took place
at Nineteenth and Charles streets
at 9 o'clock Sunday night.
Williams at the time he signed
confession of the crime in the
chief of detectives' office said the
shooting was an accident. He told
police that this was his first hold-up.
"I stuck the gun in White's back
and said 'hands up,' then White
whirled and the revolver went olf.
(Continued on Page Two, Column Three.)
Greater Improvements in 1919
Will Maintain Red
Cross Canteen Until
All Soldiers Are Home
Chicago, Jan. 6. The Red Cross
canteen service, both at home and
abroad, will be maintained "Until
every soldier is home," according to
George F. Scott, general manager of
the American Red Cross, who was
in Chicago today conferring with di
rectors of the central division of
that organization.
"Our pledge to the American peo
ple," he declared, "is that we will
continue to serve every soldier and
sailor every step of the way wherev
er there is need, even to rendering
assistance to his family when oc
casion demands."
Mr. Scott declared the Red Cross
was doing everything possible to
aid wounded soldiers returned to
convalescent hospitals in the United
States, a Red Cross worker accom
panying every train that went to a
convalescent camp. ,
Dr. Moton Finds Negroes in
France in Good Condition
Paris, Jan. 6. (By Associated
Press). Dr. Robert R. Moton, head
of the Tuskegee Institute for ne
groes, who recently returned from a
1,000-mile motor trip on a visit to
the American negro troops in Alsace
Lorraine and elsewhere, has re
ported to the American peace dele
gation that the condition of these
soldiers is satisfactory.
Australians Did Good
Work, Reports Indicate
Melbourne, Jan. 6. The minister
of defense publishes a report on the
work of the Australians in France
from March 26 to October 5, last.
The roport says that the Austral
ians took 28,665 prisoners, 333 guns,
many thousands of machine guns,
mortars and vehicles and millions of
rounds of ammunition.
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REQUEST OF WIFE
OF EX-PRESIDENT
Little Frame Church in Oyster Bay, Where Roosevelt
Family Worshiped, Will Be Used for Funeral;
Burial Will Be in Plot Picked by Colonel and
Wife on Knoll Overlooking Sound.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Jan. 6. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
26th president of the United States, who died at his home on
Sagamore Hill, early today, will be laid to rest without pomp
or ceremony in Young's Memorial cemetery in this village
Wednesday afternoon. He will be buried on a knoll over
looking Long Island sound, a plot which he and Mrs. Roose
velt selected sooiuafter he left the White House., "
In the words of the clergyman who will conduct the
funeral service, "America's most typical American," known
in every corner of the earth, will go to his grave as a "quiet,
democratic, Christian country gentleman, beloved by hu
neighbors."
Simple Service at Church.
SHELL SHOCKED
SOLDIER LEAPS
M FAST TRAIN
Sgt. William Martin in De
lirium Jumps Through Win
dow at Kellogg, la.,
While on Way West.
119
vic-
A special train, filled with
wounded soldiers and sailors,
tims of the battles of Argonne For
est, Toul sector and Ypres, passed
through Omaha at 1 o'clock this
morning.
When five miles out of Kellogg,
la., Sergt. William Martin, Three
Hundred and Forty-seventh ma
chine gun battalion, Ninety-first di
vision, suffering from shell shock,
leaped from a window of the sec
ond coach without injury. The
steady hum of the car trucks caused
an impulsive nervous strain uoon the
sergeant, and before his caunpan
ions in the car could catch hold of
Martin lie was through the window.
The train was stopped and backed
three mjles to where Martin was.
Red Cross canteen workers passed
sandwiches, doughnuts and hot cof
fee through the coach windows, to
the boys. Four soldiers were still
suffering badly from wounds re
ceived in action and are kept in
berths whUe on the train.
Two medical attendants were at
tached to each car. When the train
pulled into Omaha most of the boys
were asleep. They are being taken
to Fort Douglas and San Francisco,
where they will recuperate from
their injuries.
Army Airplanes Complete
Transcontinental Flight
Washington, Jan. 6. The four
army airplanes which left San
Diego, Cal., December 4, on the
first transcontinental flight ever
undertaken, landed this afternoon
at Boiling field, near Washington.
Major Albert Smith commanded the
squadron.
The elapsed flying time for the
whole trip was 50 hours, the dis
tance covered being estimated at
between 3,600 and 4,000 miles
Pew Public Men Receive
And Few Have Deserved
Tribute Paid Roosevelt
Nebraskans in Congress Join in Paying Honor to Dead
Statesman and Soldier; Congressman Sloan Says
World Found in America What It Sought
in Vain in Other Nations.
President Poincare
Announces Visit to
America Next July
Paris, Jan. 6. President Poin
care will probably visit the United
States late in June or early in
July. This announcement was
made by the president himself to
the Associated Press this evening.
When it was suggested that the
greatest reception ever accorded a
foreign ruler was awaiting him,
the president said:
"I must return President Wil
son's visit. I am not looking for
the honors of a reception. I sim
ply wish to thank America and
Americans for what they have
done for the cause of liberty and
France."
(Washington Bureau Omaha Bee.)
Washington, Jan. 6. (Special
Telegram.) Washington officially
and unofficially was profoundly
shocked by the news of Colonel
Roosevelt's death. There were
actual tears in the eyes of many
men, for the late president had
probably, in the national capital
more real, intimate personal friends
than any American who has ever
occupied the White House.
Among the elder newspaper men
his death was the subject of many
interesting stories in the press gal
leries of the two houses of con
gress. Senator Norris said that Colonel
Roosevelt was one of his friends,
but any thought that he might have
to express as to the passing of a
great citizen, would be lost in the
acclaim that would go from
kings, and emperors and others high
in authority and so he would not
hazard a tribute.
Tribute By Sloan.
Congressman Sloan, in speaking
of the death of Roosevelt said:
"The Buffalo tragedy gave this
century's dawn an unparalleled set
ting. McKinley, the trained legis
lator, tactful administrator, man
loved of all men, was succeeded by
the most versatile courageous en
ergetic and scholar man who ever
presided over the republic. McKinley
disarmed criticism while Roosevelt
invited it only to crush it. Each
in his career presented a type of
sterling Americanism to which the
generations recurring will say 'there
were giants in those days.'
-"Colonel Roosevelt, without say
ing it, took the public into his con
fidence and no critic has pointed to
a violation. He mingled with the
people and knew them as they knew
him.
"He exemplified in his personality
and leaves evidence in the record of
a typical American. He had all
those qualities which the age invited
but which they found not in Greek,
Roman or Saxon, but discovered in
the American."
Wonderful Versatility."
Congressman Green of Iowa, said;
"The world will be deeply moved by
the death of Colonel Roosevelt. It
is doubtful if any of its great men
either past or present ever displayed
such extraordinary versatility. He
was a statesman, soldier, orator,
author, scholar, sportsman, and dis
tinguished in eacr capacity, but
greatest as a leader of men. Here
his dynamic energy, his rugged
manliness, his thorough honesty,
and his sympathy with the masses,
made him unsurpassed. Few men
ever had so great a following and
fewer still deserved it."
Congressman Shallenberger, said
of Colonel Roosevelt: "We have
lost one of the greatest. Americans
of this generation and to me it is
especially sorrowful that he should
be taken away at this crisis in the
affairs of gevernment and mankind."
Car Strikers Vote to
Return to Work in K. C.
But Company is Coy
Kansas City, Jan. 6. Employes of
the Kansas City Railways company,
who have been on strike since De
cember 11, voted yesterday after
noon to offer to return to work.
This action followed the report of
the employes' attorney that William
H. Taft and Basil Manly, joint
chairmen of the war labor board, ha!
issued an order for a rehearing at
Washington January 14 of a peti
tion for wage increases on condi
tions the strikers return to work at
once, pending settlement.
Last night P. J. Kealy, president
of the railway company, said it
would not agree to return to the
status -existing when the strike was
called, as the resolution adopted by
the strikers required.
Individuals who asked to return
to service, M. Kealy said, would
be taken back, except those against
whose records there are demerits for
strike activity.
Injunctions of State
Courts Not Binding on
R. R. Administration
Washington, Jan. 6. Orders of
state commissions prescribing intra
state rates instead of those initiated
by the director general and injunc
tions by state courts forbidding the
application of the initiated rates to
state shipments cannot 4e observed
by railroads under federal control.
This announcement was made to
day by Director General McAdoo in
a statement discussing legislation
begun by several states to question
the validity of rates initiated by him
under the federal railroad control
act.
The director general said he could
not conceive that any state would
be placed at a practical disadvantage
by the initiated rates since the state
itself was free to file a complaint be
fore the Interstate Commerce comr
mission against any rates considered
unjust and unfair and have the issue
determined in the light of the
facts.
ENTIRE NATION
PAYS TRIBUTE
TO DEAD LEW
Congress Adjourns and Men
Prominent in Public Life
Eulogize Former Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Washington, Jan. 6. Washington,
representing the nation at large,
gave solemn and earnest expres
sion today to the country's regret at
the death of Theodore Roosevelt
and its admiration for his character
and achievements.
Flage on every government build
ing throught the United States and
at every army post and on every
naval vessel were ordered placed at
half mast. The senate and house
adjourned after eulogies of the form
er president had been delivered by
both republicans and democrats, and
committees had been appointed to
attend his funeral and the supreme
court took unprecedented action in
adjourning without the transaction
of any business.
Many Express Grief.
Formal tributes were paid Colonel
Roosevelt by government officials,
members of congress and cabinet of
ficers. President Wilson was cabled
the news by the executive officers of
the White House. Many touching
statements of personal grief were
made by men and women who had
been associated closely with the
former president during his life in
Washington, particularly the seven
years of his residence in the White
House, and members of the diplo
matic cprps expressed the admira
tion which the peoples in foreign
lands held for him.
Discuss Political Effect.
The bust of Colonel Roosevelt in
the senate corridor was draped in
crepe. The National Press club,
where the former president fre
quently had been a guest and a
speaker, postponed its annual in
auguration of officers and the frolic
to follow, which was to have been
a version of the Versailles peace con
ference, with Colonel Roosevelt as
one of the characters. '.
Political effects of Colonel Roose
velt's death began to be discussed
even while the capital mourned the
passing of one of the leading figures
in American public life. Inasmuch
as Colonel Roosevelt had been men
tioned prominently as a possible
p esidential nominee in 1920, it was
inevitable that his passing should
cause speculation as to other candi
dates. ! Since the republican schism of
1912 and the return of the demo
crats to power, Colonel Roosevelt
admittedly had been out of harmony
w!;h some elements of his party.
Republican leaders asserted that the
death of the founder of the pro
gressive party would mean the com
plete reunion of the republicans.
France Mourns Loss.
Eduoard de Billy, deputy high
commissioner of France, made the
following statement upon hearing of
Colonel Roosevelt's death:
"All Frenchmen feel that in
Theodore Roosevelt they have lost
one of their staunchest friends, who.
through his noble, character and
generous spirit appealed to us as
strongly as any foreigner ever did.
The sacrifice he made of one of his
sons, fallen for the common cause
on our battlefield, endeared him
more especially to us. France feels
that America's bereavement is her
own."
Bainbridge Colby, member of the
shipping board, who nominated Col
Roosevelt for president in 1912 at
the republican national convention
at Chicago said:
"Col. Roosevelt was one of the
greatest men in the world and a
classic type of American. He
loved his country better than his
life and served his day and genera
tion with genius and brilliance and
courage and devotion."
"I admired him greatly," said
(Continued on Tago Two, Column Four.)
After prayers at the Roosevelt
home, at which only members of the
family will be present, the funeral '
service will be held at 12:45 o'clock
in Christ Episcopal church, the
little old frame structure where for
years the colonel and his family it
tended divine worship.
At the request of Mrs. Roosevelt,
no flowers will be sent. The altar '.
will be decorated only with laurel
placed on it for the Christmas sea
son. Also in conformance with Mrs.
Roosevelt's wishes, there will be no
music aid no eulogy, but only the
.simple service oL the Episcopal
church, conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. George E. Talmage.
The church, founded in 1705 and
rebuilt in 1878, will accommodate
less than 500 persons, so that ad
mittance will be by card only. These"
cards, it was announced will be "
issued from the colonel's office in
New York and will be given only -ts-cr
relatives and intimate friends. ' .
Many Extend Condolence. ' ;
Cable messages and telegrams of
condolence, not only from fellow
countrymen of high and low degree,
but from distinguished citizens of
many nations, were pouring into
Oyster Bay tonight by-the hundred.
All express heartfelt grief at the
passing of a great man and deepest
sympathy for Mrs. Roosevelt, al
ways devoted to her distinguished '
husband and one of his most trusted .
advisers. The widow is bearing up
bravely under the shock of his sud
den death, coming so soon after
that of their youngest son. Lieu
tenant Qucntin Roosevelt, who lost
his life in a battle with a German ;
airman last July. . ,
The death of Colonel Rooevelt is r
believed b the physicians who at
tended him to have been hastened
by grief over Quentin's death,'
coupled with anxiety over the seri
ous wounds suffered by Capt Archie
Roosevelt while fighting in France.
Proud of Soldier Sons.
He was proud of his soldier sons
and their heroism, but he was a
devoted father and he grieved for
the one who gave hi? life for his
country as well as for the other
who was wounded. He hid his suf
fering from the world, however, in
the hope that he might set an ex
ample for other fathers and mothers
who had given their sons to the'
nation. '
To the last Colonel Roosevelt had
been preaching "Americanism," and
few realized that his health had been
shattered. It was believed that the
nigged constitution which had stood
nim in. such good stead through so
many years of "strenuous" life
would ,mt fail him and that he
would regain his usual health. His
messages of late, however had been
delivered through the medium of
editorials or public statements in
stead of as addresses.
Even to his neighbors in Oyster
Bay it seeurtd impossible that life
had ended so suddenly for the rough
ruler hero of Spanish war days; the
statesman who. as governor of New
York and president, had wielded the ,
big stick" so fearlessly; the big
game hunter of tropical iunirles: the
Lcitizcn who preached preparedness
funs oeiore nis country entered the
world conflict.
No Foreboding of Death.
Apparently neither Colonel
Roosevelt nor his wife had any
foreboding that death would so soon
still his active mind and body. It
was only yesterday that Mrs. Roose
velt sent a letter to Charles Stewart
Davison, chairman of the general
citizens' committee appointed t
welcome rctturning soldiers in New
York, announcing that the colonel . :
would accept the honorary chair
manship of the committee.
"The rheumatism has invaded
Colonel Roosevelt's right hand."
wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "so he wants
me to write that he has telegraphed
his acceptance. This note is to as
sure you that he will be at your "
service by spring time."
.Death Painless.
It was at 4:15 o'clock this morning
that the former president died in his
sleep, painlessly. His death was due
to a blood clot lodged in out lung, -the
result of inflammatory rheuma
tism. "Put out the light, please," were
the former president's last word. '
(Continued on ! Two. Columa