THE WEATHER: 1 air Sunday and Monday; temperature above normal for several days. R I E F n i n. h t TT TTV T"TT, Breezy lM A lui A Hourly TemprrHiiirrib lluur. IMt.Honr. 5 ft. m 8 i v. Hi. r a. m K p. m. 1 . m. , SSS p. m. n. m 314 ii. m. H i, m ,85 ii. m." .'. ... .) ....Ml ... .4" , r i ii v i j r i Ji.iL. BITS OF NEWS 10 a. m ...3S p. m. VOL. XLVIII NO. OMAHA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919. B Mill (I wr. Dally. I4.SO: SHv.-$? JO: Dall Sua., ll.JO: tidldt Nk. wttiM iitii FIVE -OENIS. 11 . .311 1 , .48! P. HI. OO. Omotii P. u. naitar tut ! ttvflt S. I7 "VIRTUOUS .WIVES" SPARKLING SOCIETY NOVEL READ IT IN THE BEE FROM DAY TO DAY. BEE AY rZ3T h f r o) 5 t 7 i u p 0 i n PROPOSES ROOSEVELT NATIONAL HOLIDAY. Washington, Jan. 25. A bill set ting aside October 27 as a national holiday to be known as "Roosevelt -Day" was introduced today by Rep resentative Bacharach of New Jer sey and referred to the house ju diciary committeee. 1 ' RED CROSS SACK F FLOUR BRINGS $134,512." San Francisco. Jan. 25. A sack of flour sold for $134,512, John D. Mc Gilvray, potentate of Islam temple, San Francisco, announced today All proceeds of the sale go to the American Red Cross. Started from San Francisco by Clarence F. Pratt, historian of the temple, the sack bas been sold in Honolulu and 15 states si'-re May, 1917. i It is now on its way to San Fran cico, where it will be sold again at a l.ircre "Victory Ceremonial" to be ( held by Islam Temple. PENSION IS VOTED , TO MRS. ROOSEVELT. - Washington," Jan. 25. A ( bill granting a pension of $5,000 a year to the widowof Theodore Roosevelt was sent to the White House for the president's approval after being passed today by the house without a record vote. The bill had been unanimously passed by the senate. , MASS MEETING OF UNEMPLOYED "FIZZLES." . New York, Jan. 25. An adver tised "mass meeting of unemployed," in Madison square this afternoon, failed to fan- enough enthusiasm to even frighten the pigeons from the tid-bits thrown to them by casual frequenters of the park. In fact, there were more policemen than civilians on hand at the hour an nounced on hand bills. The police relieved the monotony by kicking to pieces a soap box of mysterious origin and arresting a man who was distributing the hand bills. - AIRPLANE TO FURNISH SECRET SERVICE PROBLEM. New York, Jan. 25. (By Univer sal Service.) The airplane as a ve hicle for smuggling was discussed today at the Aero club of America. John Burroughs, the naturalist "had just remarked " in a little while air craft will be as thick in the air as taxicabs on Broadway, and Col. William A. Bishop, the British ace, replied: "Yes, and whan they are, there will be a new problem for the customs officials smuggling. The possibilities' for smuggling with air planes will be practically unlimited, and will entail establishment of a vast new government aerial border patrol service. . No .tariff wall is so high that an aviator cannot scale it, and the clouds would act as an ef fective cloak for the air 4 route smuggler." MEMBER ALLEOEOAUT y i L C. Jones Arrested by Chief Eberstein on Information Said to Have Been Fur nished by McKenna. With -the arrest Saturday after noon of L. C Jones by Chief of Police Eberstein, the second of a number of alleged ringleaders in a supposed automobile' syndicate. is in custody. Fletcher (Red) Neal, Peru, Neb., garageman, the first arrested, was brought to the Omaha jail Friday night He is now at liberty under a bond of $2,000. Jones' arrest was made by the police chief at the Havens hotel. Ik is charged with aiding and abetting grand larceny. , ... . Caused by McKenna. Both men are understood to have been arrested as a result of an affi davit signed by William McKenna, arch automobile thiet, whom ponce say has confessed to stealing more than 50 automobiles. McKenna is. said to have been promised immunity if he would turn state's evidence against the alleged higher-ups. The mystery of McKenna's release from the city jail last December where he was .supposed to have been held in default of a $5,000 bond has not been explained. He was at liberty until last Monday when he was arrested and arraigned in police, court on a charge of stealing a machine owned by Frank W. Jud son, president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company.- Came From Lodgepote Jones, the- man arrested .Satur day, has-had a checkered career in Omaha. He came here several years ago from Lodgepole, Neb., and for a short time blazed a glittering trail in the underworld. In a few weeks he spent $35,000. Later he became a police character. Police intimated yesterday, that the remaining members of the alleged syndicate would .be arrested in the next few days. The cases against Neal and Jor.es will be heard Friday. Bolshevik Minister Objects to Meeting Place Proposed Paris, Jan. 25. M. Tchitcherin, the bolshevik foreign minister, has ent a wireless message to the so viet representative in Sweden ask ing confirmation of the decision of the supreme council of the peace conference to send a mission to con fer with representatives of different nations in Russia in Priaces Is- I inds. M. Tchitcherin's message declares that Princes Islands are too remote for such, a meeting. Eank Reserves Decline Washington, Jan. 25.7-Reserves of the 12 federal reserve banks, fell $2,000,000 i the last wfek, and mem bers' deposits - with - th" -reserve U:iks also dropped S70,W,VW, RUSTLEOS HELD U Li Recognition of Bolshevism Im plied in Invitation to Peace Conference Based on Financial Motive." ' By GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM, Former U. S. Attorney General. Special Cable Dispatch. N (Copyright 1919. New York Trib une, Inc.) Paris, Jan. 25. The . decision of what may be called the executive committee of the peace conference concerning Russia is the most im portant event that has occurred since President Wilson's arrival in France. While Premier Clemenceau has united with the p'resident, and other premiers, in approving what has been called "the proposal of Presi dent Wilson," the almost undivided sentiment of the "French press, as well as certain English newspapers, condemns the recognition of- bol shevism implied in the invitation "to every organized group that is now exercising or attempting to exercise political ' authority or military con trol anywhere in Siberia or within the boundaries of European Russia as they stood before the war just concluded, 'except in Finland" to send representatives to. Princes Island o ' ftieet those of the asso ciated powers, with the view to as certaining the wishes of Russian people and bringing about some understanding whereby Russia may work out her own purposes and ''happy co-operative relations be -- tablished between her people atid the other peoples of the world." -.( Why Princes Island should have been selected for the rendezvous Is a subject of much speculation!, ' Credit to 146yd George." There are oh it a few deserted palaces and several shabby hotels. It is accessible only by boat from Constantinople,' by which all sup plies also must be transported. The plan, is characterized in the press as that' ofPresident Wilson. 'Ac tually the credit belongs to Premier Lloyd George, for it was he who first suggested the bringing of the Russian-groups and leaders into a conference with the associated pow ers. The only change made in the program consists in the substitution of Princes Island for Paris as the meeting place. The official com munique is understood to have been drafted by Mr. Wilson. Its lan guage supports that assumption. Not content with the statement of the actual grounds for extending the invitation the communique elabor ates protestations of friendship for the Russian people arid the recogni tion of their right to "direct their own affairs without dictation or di rection of anv kind from outside. It goes further; it contains this extraordinary pronouncement: "The associated ' powers recognize the revolution without reservation and will in no way and in any circum stance aid or give -countenance of any attempt a.t counter-revolution. It is not their; wish or purpose to favor or assist ajty erne of the organ ized groups, nov contending for the (Continued on Pace Fifteen, Column Fire) Owe Suffrage Victory in. State to Omaha Workers Local Women Made Personal Investigation of Signatures; Antis May Appeal to. the Supreme Court . Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25. The Ne braska state law giving women par tial voting rights,' operation of which has been suspended for nearly a year by efforts of anti-suffragists to have the suffrage act submitted to a vote of the .people for ratification or rejection, went back into, effect today. The law again became effective when Judge L. A. Flansburg; in district- court here, entered a decree making per manent a temporary injunction en joining submission of the suffrage act ,to a referendum vote. ;' Anti suffragists will appeal the case to the state supreme court, it was an nounced, but this will not prevent the law being in 'force. Nebraska women owe the suf frage victory to three Omaha women, Mrs. 1 C Sumney, Mrs. James Richardson and Mrs. Draper Smith, former state suffrage presi dent. Naturally it , is these three women whose ' delight at Judge Flansburg's-ruling- in -Lincoln yes- (Cuotlnutd an Fas four. Column Two.) Every Doughboy in France Ordered to Write Postal Home Washington, Jan. 25. Failure of relatives and friends at home to hear from many members of he expeditionary forces has lei General Pershing to order that every man in the American army n France mail to his nearest relative a postcard giving the .present location, state of health and military unit of the writer. General March announced the order today and said special post cards were being supplied for the purpose. liTGIIGOGK ILL HOT CUE Ell '.SUFFRAGE VOTE Nebraska Senator Replies to Request of Legislature That He Favor 1 It; Declines Flatly to Accede. Lincoln, Neb Jan. 25. (Special Teleram.) Senator Hitchcock, who was asked by the Nebraska legisla ture to support and vote in the United States senate for women's suffrage, has declined. , His answer was to Dwight Dal bey, speaker of the house. He setj forth his reasons, saying it was not right to change the United States, constitution to compel states' against their will to grant the elec tive franchise to women. Text of Letter. In his letter Senator Hitchcock says: "I acknowledge receipt of the reso lution adopted by the Nebraska legislature requesting me to vote for the resolution submitting to the states for their ratification the wo man suffrage constitutional amendment.- The request, coming from a legislature so recently elected, was entitled to careful and respectful consideration although it catled upon me to change my vote, if not my judgment' on this important ques tion. , "I need hardly say if I had been able to change my judgment I cer tainly should have changed TKyvote: Not being able to' change my judg ment it seems proper that I should state' to- the legislature my reasons for the conviction I hold. -Different Problem. - "Let me say in the first place- that I make no argument against woman suffrage. While in the past I have opposed woman suffrage, the course of political, social and economical developments of .recent' years has modified by judgment on that issue and when the question is again sub mitted to the voters in-Nebraska I shall certainy not' be found. iri oppo sition to the change and may be among its active advocates. An en tirely different issue is presented; however, when an amendment is (Continued on Page Two, Column Five.) President Wilson Views - Haven Wrought by Huns Paris, Jar.. . ;. President Wilson on Sunday v-.-.l have his .first view of the havoc wrought in northern France by the Germans. On that day he will make the first of a series of trips by going to Rheims, from which he will tour the, surrounding district in an' army motor' car. Later the ' president - expects to make another visit to the battle area, probably the region of. Verdun. Lost Some Subs. London, Jan. 25. Fifty-nine sub marines were lost by -the British navy during the -war. Of these 39 were destroyed by enemy action. The Germans lost 203 submarines. Si)" Listen to This, -Please! The Crusaders at Lincoln Are After "Naughty Theda" . . Really, Next to John Barleycorn, What Could Be Worse Than This Vampire Stuff, Argue Would-Be Film Censors, Who Are Strong for Featuring little ,V ' , Willie; Who Cannot Tell a Lie, as Bill Hart r... r. (From a Staff Correspondent. ) Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25. Now that the rum demon has been chased out of Nebraska soon to be in the way of being a "man without a country," the zealous and enthusiastic men and women of the various or ganizations who pride themselves on bringingUhis condition about, are seeking new devils to chase. At the psychological moment a new devil has appeared. She is seductive and alluring, a regular guy of a she-devil, the queen of "vamps," the apotheosis of sensuous sin" the per sonification of sinuous, serpentine suggestion; the kind of a she-devil who would make a who had the lack of passion And who is this interesting she-devil? Why, our old and greatly admired friend, Theda Bara, who se name has become a household word throughout the length and breadth of the land. As the high priestess of the cult of home-wrecking love corsairs, Theda has been picked to be the sacrificial goat--hat will next be immolated on he altar of reform the successor of the crucified John Barleycorn. After the "Vamps." Sincere women and "zealous men, with the light, of the crusaders in their eyes, have invaded the capitol Many Civilians Enjoy -vFareweIl Dance Given by Army Post Officers "Nearly 2,000 Omahans danced with the officers and soldiers of Fort Omaha at the Municipal audi torium last night. It was a. fare well dance and entertainment given by the officers of the army post in recognition of . the attentions of Omaha people to the boys at the fort and of the co-operation given the army officials in various im portant matters. To the lively tunes of a jazz orchestra, majors, captains, lieu tenants and privates-stepped lightly over a waxed floor. All were in smiles. The Auditorium was -decorated gayly and refreshments were served. Eleven young pupils of Professor Chambers entertained the crowd in dancings They were: Martha Doty, S -years old; Loretta Boroff. Jose phine and Norma Mach, Bernice McGimpsey, Martha McAuley, Charlotte Brant, Georgia and Eva Wilson, Ruth Rigdon, and Virginia Brillhart. Miss Agnes Britton was accompanist to the exhibition dances. The committee in charge con sisted of Major Crockett, hairman; Captains Townsend, Wiedemeier, Alexander, Pierce, Goodale and Wise, and Lieutenants Powell and Harrison. Gus Renze assisted the officers in the decoration of the Auditorium. ... . .. Buenos Aires to Ship Russian Reds Away Buenos Aires, Argentine, Jan. 25. Fourteen hundred prisoners, charged with Maximalist activities, are on board a cruiser here await ing deportation, according to secret service operatives. The majority of , them are Russian Jews.- Some Span iards are among the number. This Cavorting Weather (I'M DEAR LITTLeX o$ TN. - . ' and old John Barleycorn ia devilish Turk out of a deacon of an anchorite. ... and are working overtime on the susceptible legislators. . Meta phorically speaking, they are seek ing the blood of Theda Bara, at the hand - of Caesar. Not . only the blood of Theda, but also the life fluid of all the lesser priestessses of the vampire cult, from the "baby ,vamp," on. up the scale. ' And they are trying to blot Theda (Continued on Pas Four. Column Five.) Sioux City Business Man Indicted as Member ., of Alleged Auto Ring Sioux City, Jan. 25. A wholesale plot to swindle insurance companies out of thousands of dollars came to a climax late today with the in dictment of the alleged ring lead ers of the band by the grand jury here. Thousands of dollars are alleged to have been secured by tne mem bers of the band in their operations in Iowa, South Dakota and Nebras ka. . . The men indicted today were: C. J. Wooldridge, a Sioux City business man and insurance adjust er, and William- Cohen, a taxicab "kine." About two years ago Wooldridge organized the Automobile Protec tive and Information bureau, form ing, it is alleged, connections be tween automobile thieves ana go- betweens, procuring possession of stolen cars which were later return ed to their owners if reward was of fered for return. If no reward was offered or the car was insured so that by payment of insurance to the owner. there wou!d be no incentive for investigation of the thett the cars would be held by the ring, and later disposed of in other states. Many indictments are expected. Spartacans Again Clash With Troops m Berlin London, Jan. 25. There were numerous casualties in heavy fight ing between Spartacans and govern ment force in ' Berlin Thursday night, says an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph com pany. The 'fighting was mostly in the vicinity af the newspaper offices .and at the Anhalt 'Station - SENDS RIOT GALL, PUTS OUT FIRE, ..' GOESJO DANCE Miss Kane Answering Screams ' for Help, Sayes Life of Mrs, Mary Humphreyjn ; Basement of Home. Four emergency policemen re sponded to a riot call at the home of Mrs. Mary Humphrey, 2029 North Twentieth street, Saturday night -to find, pretty 'Miss Elizabeth Kane, 19 years old, 2020 North Twentieth street, putting out a threatening blaze in the basement of Mrs. Hum phrey's, apartment. - . Screams for help coming from the basement of the apartment caused Miss Kane to. send a riot call to. the poliCe station. She then went into the darkened home to determine the trouble.- She found Mrs. Humphrey at the bottom of a basement stair way surrounded by flames. When the police arrived, the fire was out. "1 thought there was a murder when, I -heard the screams," .Miss Kane said. Several , lines . of ; clothes in the basement caught fire from a lighted candle which Mrs. Humphrey had in her hand. She was not injured. x Less than one-half hour after the excitement, -Miss Kane was on her way to a dance. Prospect Good for Abundance of Wheat, -Opinion of Houston St. , Louis, Jan. 25. David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, today in explaining why the govern ment is not urging farmers to plant lareer crops of wheat next spring. pointed out that the crops planted in the spring will not be available for the market until next fall, when food conditions will be changed. ' "The farmers planted last fall 7,000.000 more acres of . wheat than they did at any previous time, and the indications are that the spring plant will be on a very large scale," lie said. ."The question is,- can the cropkbe disposed of at the guaran teed price of $2.26 a bushel on No. 1 winter wheat? -"The prospects are that the yield w 11 b.at least I.UUUOUU.IXM bushels, of which amount about 650.000,000 bushels will be needed at home. Will Europe take the surplus after a season of producing on her own ac count, and with Australia and Ar gentina in the market? Farm Owners, Attention! We are receiving hundreds of inquiries from returning sol diers, , many . of them skilled farmers, others desiring to rent a farm. Now is the time to Jist . your farms for March 1st pos session. Some of you have been working short handed. Get the service of these men by using The Bee Help wanted columns. The cost on these ads is nominal and results more than satisfactory. Don't wait. Send in your "Wants" now, and ' "Keep Your Eye on The Bee" " - - - Improving Every D2yv PEACE CONFERENCJ UN!TED ON PROJECT TO GUARD WORLD President Wilson and Colonel House American Mem bers of Committee to Work Out. Details; Com mittee to Fix Responsibility for War and Crimes Committed by "Huns Also Proposed. Paris, Jan. 25. The peace conference unanimously adopted the league of nations project. President Wilson nd Colonel House are the American members of the commission thereon. " A series of resolutions dealing with the creation of a league of nations, inquiries into responsibility for the war an J violations of international law and other topics were pre sented at the session today and were adopted by the con ference without change. The preliminary draft for the crea tion of a league was given out offi cially as follows: Open to All Civilized Nations. "The conference, having consider ed the proposals for the creation of a league of nations, resolved that: It is essential to the maintenance of the world settlement, which the associated nations now are met to establish that a league of nations be created to promote international obligations and to provide safeguards against war. TJiis league should be created as an integral part of the general treaty of peace and should be open to every civilized nation which can be relied on to promote its objects. The members of the leaeue should periodically meet in inter national conference and should have permanent organization and sec retaries to carry on the business of the league in the intervals between the conferences. "The conference, therefore, ap points a committee, representative of the associated governments to work out the details of the constitution and the functions of the league." Plan.JTo.Eijc. Responsibility, -The draft of the resolutions in re gard to breaches of the laws of war tor presentation to the peace con ference reads: 'That a committee composed of two representatives apiece from the five great' powers and five represen tatives to be elected by the other powers be appointed to inquire and report the following: first, the resoonsibi itv of the authors of the war: second, the facts as to breaches ot the laws and cus toms of war committed by the forces of the German empire and their allies on land, on sea "and in the air during' the present war; third, tne cegree ot responsibility for the offenses attaching to particular members of the enemies' forces, in cluding members of - the general staffs and other individuals, however highly placed; fourth, the constitu tion and procedure of a tribunal ap propriate to the trial of these of fenses; fifth, any other matters cog- President Yilson Opens Discussion Paris, Jan. 25. Following is Presi dent Wilson's address before the peace conference today: "Mr. Chairman: I consider- it a distinguished privilege to be per mitted to open the discussion in this conference on the league of nations. We have assembled for two pur posesto make the present settle ments which have been rendered necessary by this war, and also to secure the peace of the world, not only by the present settlements, but by the arrangements we shall make at this conference for its mainte nance. . . "The league of nations seems to me to be necessary for both these purposes. There are many compli cated questions connected with the present settlements which perhaps cannot be successfully worked out to an ultimate issue by the decisions we shall arrive at here. I can easily conceive that many of these settle ments will need subsequent consid eration ithat many of the decisions we make shall need subsequent alter ation in some degree for if I may judge by my own study of some of these questions they, are not suscep tible of confident ' judgments at present. ' - Machinery Necessary. "It is therefore necessary that we should set .up some machinery by which the work of this conference should be rendered complete. " "We have assembled here for the purpose of doing very much more than making the present settlements that are necessary. We are assem bled under very peculiar conditions of world opinion. I may say, with out (training -the point that we are not the representatives of govern ments but representatives of the peo ples. "It will not suffice to satisfy gov ernmental circles anywhere. It is necessary that we should satisfy the opinion of mankind. "The burdens of this war have fallen in an unusual degree upon the whole population of the coun tries involved. I do not need to draw for -you the picture of 'how u nate or ancillary to the above which may ar.se in the course of the in quiry and which the commission finds it useful and relevant to take into consideration." Concerning Reparation. The following draft of a resolu tion in regard to reparation for pre sentation to the peace conference was given out today: "That a commission be appointee which shall comprise not more than three representatives apiece from each of the five great powers and not more than two representatives apiece from Belgium, Greece, Po land, Roumania and. Serbia, to ex amine and report: "First, on the amount of repara tion which the enemy countries ought to pay; second, on what they are capable of paying; and, third, on the method, the form and time with in which payment should be made." To Study Labor Problems. The folowing draft of a resolu tion in regard to international leg islation on industrial and labor qucs tons for presentaton to the peace conference was made pubic today: "That a commission composed of two represeiifafivesSpiece from the rive great powers and five represent atives to be selected by the other powers represented at the peace con ference be appointed to inquire into the conditions of employment from the international aspect and to con sider the international means neces sary to secure common action on matters affecting conditions of em ployment and to recommend the form of a permanent agency to con tinue such inquiry and considera tion, in co-operat)bn with and tinder the direction of the league of na tions." The draft of another resolution to go before the conference regard ing international control of ports, .waterways and railways reads: "That a commission composed ol two representatives apiece from the five great powers and five represen tatives to be appointed to inquire and report upon the international re gime for ports, waterways and rail ways." on The League the burden has been thrown bark from the front upon the older n.en, upon the women, upon the children, upon the homes of .the civilized world, and how the real strain of the war has come where the eve of the government could not reach but where the heart of hurnanitv beats. "We are bidden by these people to make a peace which will make them secure. We are bidden ! these people to see to it that this strain does not come upon them again. And I venture to say that it has been possible, for them t i bear this strain because they hoped that those who represented them could get together after this war and make such another sacrifice un necessary. -, Central Object of Meeting. "It is the solemn obligation n our part, therefore, td make per manent arrangements that jusiice shall be rendered and peace main tained. "This is the central object of our mteting. Settlements may be tem porary, but the action of the na tions in . the interest of the peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up a permanent decision. "Therefore, it seems to me that we must take, so. far as we can. a picture of the-world into our "mimis. Is it not a startling circumstance for one thing that the great dis coveries of science, that -the quiet studies of men in laboratories, that the thoughtful-developments which have taken place in quiet lecti'rc rooms nave now been turned to the destruction of civilization? 1 he powers of destruction have not r. much multiplied as they have gaincl facilities., "The enemy, whom we have juat overcome, had at his scats of !c:i;ii ing some of the principal centers ol study and ' discovery and he ti-et! them in order to make destruction redden arid complete. And only the watchful and continuous co-operation (Continued no tmgt Two Cuius; a Chi ) f : , . . . ..