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4 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1919. ;;o Eimircusu ROUSED BY PLAFI FOR RUSSIANS English Press Is Lukewarm on - Proposition; Milukoff Says , Bolshevists Should , Be Excluded. London, Jan. 24. Newspaper! here comment lukewarmly on the 'plan for a conference between an al lied commission and representatives of the various government in Rus sia. The, Post sarcastically con demns the proposal, saying among other things ,that "it display more than Christian meekness." The Tele graph condemns the plan as being 'politically hazardous and ethically wrong. The Times, while not en thusiastically in favor of the pro posal, hopes it will work and says that even if it does not, the hands of the allies will have been strength ened by the failure. J. Dillon, the foreign political ex pert of theTelegraph, writing from Paris, says he is authorized to de clare that the government of Omsk, .Archangel, Crimea and Yakaterino dar will absolutely refuse to send representatives to the conference. Milukoff Opposes. 1 w- London, Jan. 24,-Paul N. Milu koff, former foreign minister of Russia, who is in London, was sur prised when told today that the al lies had invited the bolshevists of Russia to a conference. He said: "The bolshevists are in nowise rep resentative of the Russian people. They are robbers and cutthroats; mad dogs who wish to bite others so that all may be mad." i He said the only way. to settle the Russian problem was to overthrow the bolshevist rule, which, he de clared, is r simply terrorism and "fateful to' the majority of Rus sians." i . ' i Laws Needed to Curb Use s Taxis in Crime, Says Judge J New York, Jan. 24. Assertion that "the automobile is being used by criminals more and more in the commission of crime," was made by Louis B. Gibbs, county judge, in a statement designed to call public at tention to the ' association of the motor car with many of the more sensational crimes-in New York in recent years. Judge Gibbs, citing statistics to . show that men with long prison records and addicted to the use -of drugs are holding posi tions as .licensed chauffeurs, empha sized his opinion that more stringent laws were necessary to curb the menace. The Rosenthal murder and the recent Brooklyn bank "robbery and mui'der were mentioned as crimes committed with the aid of automobiles. ' "I have been informed the situa tion particularly'bbtains with referr ence totaxi cabs,"' Judge Gibbs said. -."If this is true it is nothing short o a public menace, because tne person entering a taxicab is largely within the power of the per son operating the machine." Pickpockets, burglars, forgers, dis orderly, housekeepers and other criminals holding chauffeurs li censes 'have been convicted here during the last year according to statistics. Villa and His "Army" Are Reported to Be Raiding Juarez, Mex., Jan. 24. Francisco Villa fed a band of ISO followers into Santa Eulalia, 165 miles- southeast of Chihuahua City '"early, yesterday, killed four soldiers of the small fed eral garrison.- hanged a civilian, de tained the American connected with the American-owned mines in the Sattta Eulalia district and looted the stores and houses. The Ameri cans, i released by Villa" before he rode out of the town, reached Chi huahua City safely. - General Jesus Agustin Castro, commander of the northeastern zone, received the details here to day of the occupation of the mining town where the American Smelting 6 Refining Co. has its mines. The fate of '31 other member of the garrison was not given in the military dispatches, : After leaving Santa Eulajia, Villa led his band in a detour toward Chi huahua City, burned a bridge at Mapula", six miles south of the capi tal and disappeared in the direction of Bachimba canyon. Thirty States Certify. Washington., Jan.; 24. Thirty states up to noon today had certified to the State department the ratifica tion of the federal prohibition amendment. 'Among the ceniScaT tions ,js one fronv California that came direct from the legislature. Court action" has been resorted, to in that state in an effort to prevent the vote of the legislature being certified and the governor' office has not acted. According to the state department officials, however, notice from the branch of the legis 'ature "acting last is sufficient. Thirty-Fifth Division Losses. Washington, Jan. 24. Losses of ;he 35th- division (Kansas and Mis souri national guards), in killed and died of wounds during its entire service, in France up to November 7 were 827 men, Secretary Baker told the house rules committee to iiay in connection with resolution y Representative Campbell of Kan sas, calling for congressional inves tigation of reported excessive losses n this .division. . , ; No Secret Prisons. London, Jan. 24. (via Montreal) Germany ha no 'Secret prison camps in existence and never has maintained any, her authorities have assured the Dutch minister at Ber lin, according to an announcement by the British committee on prison trs of war, given out through the nress bureau. i Use of Panama Canal Must Be Determined by U. S,, Says Ceci Paris. Tan. 24. (By the Associated Press). The question' of .whether the Panama canal should be interna tional under the league of nations would depend entirely upon the at titude of the United States govern ment, according to Lord Robert Ce cil, who ba submitted to the peace congress a draft of the -British view of the structure of the league. He spoke at a conference of journalists in answer to a query based upan speculation by the press on features of the new society of nations. Lord Robert said he had not heard any specific discussion of ihe Pana ma canal among the delegate, it be ing mentioned only incidentally in connection with other waterway. He held that the Panama canal is not on the same basis as some other waterways, since it i 'property of the United State and it must be for that country to (ay how it shall be controlled. Load of Booze Found, but No One Comes to Claim the 39 Quarts Thirty-nine quart of 8-year-old whisky the finest in the country- must go to Uus Hyers, newly ap pointed state booze hound. The whisky was found hidden in a topse of x brushwood near Lane cut-off Thursday night by city detectives, who were scouting on incoming "li quor birds." Because the booze was found outside the city limits, the police are holding for the govern ment. Government detectives say thev will not confiscate the contra band liquor as they nave no evidence of interstate transportation nor knowledge of ownership of the booze.- " Jews Are Persecuted in Cities of South America Bueno Aires. Tan. 24. A cam paign against Jewish residents is in progress in several south American cities. Bill boards in Buenos Aires have been covered with the inscrrp tion. "Down with the Jews." The Zionist fraternity yesterday placarded the city with posters, "in the name of 150,000 Israelites," These poster declared the Jews were persecuted "by white guard" in the recent outbreak, and appealed to the people of Argentina and for eign' resists for Jews "against these unjust persecutions." , Today every Sooster was covered by another, typographically identi cal, blaming Russian Jews for the recent outbreak as well j the an archistic outbreak" in 1910 and de manding. that the government "rid the nation of this Jewish pest." The Zionist fraternity ha re tained legal adviser, and is appeal ing to the police and government against the continuation of these persecutions. There is an anti-Jewish movement in Montevideo which has taken, the form of, opposition to certain Jew ish rite and news despatches from Chile report agitation Tagajnst the jew there.? '-, : ' Saturday Is t Boys' Day at DrexePs i On this day, when they are out of school, it b more convenient, tq bring them in for new shoes. If . your Boy; is not wearing . , PTEEL HOES bring 'him in Saturday and have,him fitted with" theHbest wearing pair.of shoes he eyer had j6n his , feet. . Twenty-five years of selling these shoes has proven to us that one pa'r of these 'shoes will out wear two pairs of ordi nary boys' shoes. We want to prove it to you. Boy' sizes, 1 to 5, $3.2S ' Little Men's, 10 to 13yit $2.73 DREXEL; Shoe Go. 1419 Faroam St ? ;. Mail Order Solicited Parcel Post Paid EATON DRUG CO Omaha, fleb, Spartacans Are Reported - Again Active in Hamburg Copenhagen, Jan. 24. Dispatches from Hamburg report that there was shooting Tuesday night in the neighborhood of the central rail way station, the town hall and on the harbor front Ty Spartacans, who are reported to have captured two police station. A more strict form of martial law has been proclaimed and U the the aters and restaurants have -been or dered closed. The soldiers' council has decreed that ill arms must be surrendered within 48 hours. , Per son found, in possession of wea pons at the expiration of that time will be liable to summary court martial. Bee Want Ads are the Fest Busi ness Boosters. Insane Man Running Amuck Shoots and Chokes 'Women .Washington, Jan. 24. An uni dentified man,' apparently insane, ran amuck with a revolver here early today, entered, three dwell ings, shot two . women, one of whom may die; choked another and escaped before persons attracted by the cries of the wounded could come up with him. : Beet Want Ad are the Best Busi nes Boosters. . - Dies on Way Cone.-; New York, Jan. 24. Joseph Rob ertson, t private. Battery B, 145th artillery, a - casual of Salt take City, died of pneumonia aboard the battleship Louisiana during the voyage home. 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