2" THE BEE: OMAHA; WEDNESDAY, 'FEBRUARY 12, 1919, uECKGE 7. PERKINS ILL WITH INFLUENZA. . LOUR BRANCH HEARS DEBATE ON LANGUAGE Former Omahan to Go to Asia With Near JAPAN HAS BIG ARMY READY TO Ihompson-Beldeii &Ch J Bfablished7S36 y Th e ThsJiion Genier Jar Waztset East Relief Body STRIKE AT CHI KLYEIICIiUE HELD -: FOR MURDER OF NEBRASKA MAN Coroner's Jury Find Him Guilty of. Killing M. E. Brink of Homer; -Think Rob " bery Was Motive. Special to The Bee. !,os Angeles. Cal.. Feb. 11. fiarl Kiyenchue of. Denver, Colo., today was formally charged with the mur der of M. F.. Brink, rich resident c Homer, Neb., following an in quest by the coroner's jury. ' Brink was shot and instantly kill ed late Sunday night at a rooming house in East Fifth street under fiiysterious circumstances. Four ar; rests .were - made by detectives. Klyencluie-was detained at the city jail today. " . Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Rustad, pro priet6rs of the rooming house in which Brink was killed, and Mrs. Laura Taylor, a lodger at the place. EBERT ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GERMAN STATE Receives 277 Out of 379 Votes in National. Assem bly; Scheidemann Head of New Ministry.; Basel, Feb. 11. The German na tional assembly today elected Fried erich Ebert president of the' German state by a vote of 277 out. of 379 votes a plurality of 102. Herr Eb ert accepted the election, declaring his purpose would bt impartially to dispense justice. Count yon Psad-owsky-Wehner received 49 votes. The constitution was adopted with little change. Scheidemann Chosen Chancellor. Copenhagen, Feb. 11. According to a dispatch from Weimar, an agreement has been reached by the German national assembly on the composition of the new ministry, Georce W. Perkins, noted finan- ,!,c.j t.-,,, .fcier. who is in Fans suDervisimr wnicn win consist ot it memDers. thorough investigation by Lieuten-the finances - of the Y. M. C. A., is Phillip Scheidemann has been se- ant Chapman and Detective Ser peant Frank Williams exonerating them of any: complicity in the vkul- i"g. Detectives Form Theory. An inquest was held Over tli body of Brink at the mortuary of the Bremble Undertaking company m south r lower street. A theory regarding the slaying was discussed by the detectives. . Chapman and- Williams believe Brink met Klyen chue in a restaurant and exhibited a large sum of money and was at tacked by the former soldier at the rooming house. Brink, a former sheriff of Nebraska, fought to re tain his wealth when he was at tacked and because " of having been an officer refused to put un his hands when commanded by his slay- The record of Kiyenchue was in vestigated by the detectives. They say he has been in eustody several times and served four years in Deer Lodge prison, Mont., for highway robbery. A learch was made today for Klyenchue's room. The detec- tices believe they will find evidence against the man indicating he has participated in several recent crimes n ana aDOUl juos ngeies. Relatives of Brink at Homer, Neb., were notified of the man's death and information regarding dis position of the body was sought. Treasury Refuses to Extend Time for Making Tax Returns Washington, Feb. 11. Treasury officials today reiterated that there would be no extension of the time for filing income and profit tax re turns beyond March 15. . I his ap plies alike to individual incomes, corporation incomes and profit re turns, and to similar reports re quired by the law on that date. Additional time may be granted, however, for so-called information it the source reports. Only On "BROMO QUININE" rr it th rnwtn. pall for full nsme LAXAT1V1C ukomu ui iM.NK TWrt. lo for rimwture of Oily Hi. Cufss cm in One XW. JWo. 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"I tell you it is w;orth something to say that you live in Iowa, -continued the speak er, "and I know you of Nebraska feel the same way about your state. Mr. Havner declared that the op portunity to serve the Methodist church in its drive for the $100,000, 000 fund was greater than the orivi- lege ottered by the occasion of the great world war to serve one s coun try. "In enlisting your support in this movement you are taking ad vantage of an opportunity far great er than that which was offered you in the bloody conflict which has just terminated across the Atlantic," he declared. . , " World For Christ. Mr. Doughty said that the cam paign of the church was the pro gram of the hour. He explained the use to which the huge fund would be put when raised at the end of live years, and asserted that the movement by. the Methodists was the initial step in sweeping the en tire world for Christ We are moving along strategic lines, he declared, towards a com mon goal, like our army swept the battle fields of Europe, where Amer ica was still America, England still England, France still France, one people with a common cause, yet separate and, distinct in our individu ality, he .continued. . Uur program fits in exactly with the psychology ot the hour. Men have been think ing in big terms for the past four years. . We have become accustomed .1 ' 1- 1 A- lO xiiiiiK jii Dig amounts. v Help the Soldiers. "Our program in short is one of world rebuilding. We will use millions of dollars to rebuild the broken bodies of Methodist boys who made the sacrifice for humanity in the war. Millions of dollars will be used in educational reconstruc tion, and millions and millions will be used in social reconstruction. It will cost billions of dollars to hold the bovs who won the war. Dr. JJougnty declared tnat tne idea of the campaign was born in the brain of Earl Taylor, who was offered a business proposition which had it been accepted would have paid a salary of $50,000 a year. He said after days of battle with him self Taylor turned down the offer and decided to give his time and talents to the cause ot his church. To Change World History. Dr. Doughty also told his audi ence that Dr. Hancher recently had refused an offer of $20,000 a year m order to devote his life to the work of evangelization. "I have not had the slightest doubt as to the outcome of our cam paign," said the speaker. "Our effort will change the history of our pro testantism for the next 1,00 years. Dr. Hancher. who acted as pre siding officer, read a scripture les son, emphasizing the passage "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. It is greater to serve tnan to De served," he declared., "This is the spirit of the Master, and he taught by example and precept that those who accepted him would follow his commands. Our destiny will be measured in terms of service. Banquets Tonight. The convention will adjourn fol lowing three banquets to be giien tonight. The lay delegates and wo men will be entertained in separate dining rooms in the Masonic temple, and the ministers will gather at the First Methodist Episcopal church. Speaking programs will be arranged during the day for each occasion. The convention will open at 9 o'clock this morning 'in the First Methodist church. Dr. W. A. Brown' will preside and addresses will be given by Dr. Brown and R. Dittendorier. also ot Mew Xork. C. S. Ward, head of the " financial drive, a New York business man, will speak at the afternoon session, when it is expected it will be de cided how much of the $100,000,000 Nebraska and, Iowa will be called on to raise. Praises Tithing. It was explained at the session yesterday afternoon that the conven tion here was the fifth of a series of similar gatherings to be held throughout the United States under the auspices of the national organ isation. Eleven additional meet ings of the same character will be held. The work was begun last Jan uary. Dr. Brown was the principal speaker at the afternoon session. He declared that tithing was the proper method of raising church funds. The speaker scored the bazar system and similar methods of raising money for religious purposes lected chancellor. Dr. August Muel ler, minister of economies; Herr Bauer, minister of labor, and Herr Landsberg, minister of national de fense and justice. Another portfolio will go to Dr. Eduard David, who resigns the presidency of the national assembly at Weimar, which position will be taken over by Konstantin rehren bach The socialists have seven seats in this cabinet, the democrats three and the centrists three, including Ma- tbias Erzberger, who will hold the post of minister without portfolio, Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau anti-socialist, will be foreign minis ter. Spartacan Agitation Growing. Basel. Feb. 11. (Havas.) Sparta can agitation is growing in Berlin, especially in the barracks of the troops, according to dispatches re ceived here. Karl Radek, the bol shevik propagandist, is said to be directing the work. A dispatch from Breslau says the officers of the bixth corps have gone on strike as a protest against the demands of the soldiers. The German government forces who have been putting down a Spartacan rising in Bremen in re ports received here, completely oc cupied the harbor on the night ot February 8, without fighting. Eighty sailors and the head of the soldiers' council were arrested. Jugo-Slavs Want - Wilson as Arbitrator in Dispute With Italy Paris, Feb. 11.4-President Wilson received tonight a note signed by N. P., PaChitch. the former Serbian premier, Mr. Trumbitch, president of the Jugo-slav committee in Pans, and . Dr. M. R. Vesnitch, Serbian minister to France, the Jugo Slav delegates to the' peace ' conference, asking him to act as arbitrator in their 'differences with Italy regard ing the frontier along Istria and the Adriatic. This is in consequence of the president's last interview on this Question with Mr. Trumbitch and Premier Orlando ot Italy. M. lrum. bitchclaimed all of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, Premier Orland answered that Italy could not possibly renounce its claim to Fiume without the risk of verv grave trouble. No decision is expected from the Italians until after President Wilson returns from America, as Premier Orlando. Baron Salandra and Sig nor Barzjlai are leaving for Italy Thursday o attend the reopening of parliament. Italy to Send Military Forces into. Asia Minor Paris. Feb. 11. At the suggestion of England and in accord with France, Italy has decided to occupy with military forces Adalia and Konieh. in the Vulayet of Konieh, in Asia minor, south of the terri tory claimed , by Greece, having Smyrna as its center. The Grfeek premier, M. Venizelos, also looks with favor upon the presence of the Italians in Asia Minor on condition that the islands of Dodecanesus (Sporades) be trans ferred to Greece, excepting perhaps btampalia, the smallest ot the group, which Italy may keep as a naval station. Italian troops are to occupy Baku and Batoum, on the Black Sea, also. The occupation af these points was suggested in order that Italy should be interested in a mandate in Asia Minor. Nebraskans Pay Respect to Outgoing Congressmen Washington. Feb. 11. fSnecial Telegram.) Two ' 'Hundred mem bers of the. Nebraska association met tonight at the Wilson Normal school to pay their respects to the outgoing congressmen from the home state. Representative. Lo- beck, Stephens, Sloan and Shallen berger. all of whom were present and made interesting speeches. - The following othcers were elected;, t. H. Neilsen, Omaha, president; .W. M. Whelan, Lincoln, vice-president; Mrs. Dorothy Watson, secretary, and H. H. Harding, treasurer. Federation of Labor Unions Back Butte Strike Butte. Mont., Feb. 11. The Silver Bow trades and labor assembly to night endorsed the strike of the Metal Mine Workers union (inde pendent) and Metal Mine Workers' union No. 800, I. W. W. This action is held to indicate that American Federation of Labor unions are in symbathy with the miners' strike here. Strikers of Belfast to Settle Trouble by Vote Beleast. Feb. II. The strikers of Belfast have agreed to take a ballot on the question of a settlement of the strike. Pending the balloting, the city resumed its normal activi ties today. The street car service was resumed and the electric power current started again. i (Continued from Fat On.) Miss Frances O'Shea, of Peters burg, Neb., dramatically made com plaint of conditions in her com munity,' which she described as a German colony. About 80 per cent of the crowd, which was drawn from all parts of the state, and which has swelled the number of legislative visitors to Lincoln to a multitude, was made up of persons of German birth. the bill under discussion was Seenate File No. 24, introduced by senator biman. Rev. Erk Opens Discussion. Discussion was opened by Rev. II. Erk of Leigh, representing the Mis sotyi Synod of the German Evangel ical Lutheran church. He said he was in hearty sympathy with , the Americanization program for secular instruction in the schools but said he was against a law which would prohibit the teaching of religion in the language spoken by the mothers. He said children of foreign-bom parents speak, think, play and quar rel in English and it is the language in which they make love. Eventually the German and all other foreign languages will die a natural death in this country. But in certain fields where family prayer is said there must be bi-lingual instruc tion and the teaching of religion in foreign languages is essential to completing the spiritual unity of the familv, in binding the parent and the child. The same views were expressed by Rev. Mr. Fruehling, of South Au burn; Rev. C. F. Brommer, Hamp ton; P. H. Buehring, Hebron, presi dent of Hebron academy; Prof. G. Weller, Seward, and Rev. Mr. Matz ner of Lincoln, all the same de nominations, and all of whom earn estly represented themselves as Americans and patriots. Appear$ for Jews. Harry Monsky of Omaha ap-1 peared in behalf of the Jews and si(id that in the synagogical schools of his people Hebrew is not taught as a language, but as the sacred tongue in which the ritual of the synagogue and the lessons of the Bible are in terpreted, as well as the prayers re cited. Jews are enjoined to teach the Hebrew language to their children and if this law were passed they would be plaiced in the dilemma of having to violate the religious in junction or the injunction of the state. He counseled the committee to confine the prohibitions of the bill to the use of foreign language for secular instruction. O. C. Oleson, Omaha, represent ing the Danish Lutheran church, and Rev. Richard'P. Kuehne. speak ing for the Russian Lutheran church, both opposed interdicting foreign languages for religious instruction. Rev. Mr. Kuehne said; "Our fam ilies will run from 5 to 13 children to the family. We send them to the public schools, where they learn the English language exclusively, and it soon becomes the language of.. the home. We want our children, how ever to learn, to pray in the lan guage of their parents that the fam ily unity may be maintained while Americanization is jn progress. Joseph H. Reznicek. Dodge. Neb., appearing for the Bohemians, said: Dont try to eliminate foreign languages forcibly, harshly or dras tically. Germany tried that with Bohemia and after 400 years of language repression the ancient but forbidden Czeah tongue was the language of Bohemia. Had there not been prohibition of the use of Bohemian it is possible that Ger man would have been the language of the Czecho-Slovak states today. Albert M. Duster, made a plea for the Polish tongue, representing the Poles of Duncan.. ) Prof. P. S. Vig of Blair spoke for the Danes, saying that Germany's prohibition of the use of the Dan ish language in the conquered Dan ish states of Holstein and Schleswig had made these provinces more and more Danish. ; R. B.i Howell of Omaha counseled moderation in prohibiting' language instruction on certain lines. Only one Catholic priest appeared and he spoke for the German Catho lic congregations. He was the Rev. Mr. Lucker of 'Atkinson, Neb., who said that had not this question arisen at a time of patriotic fervor and enthusiasm the introduction of a bill like the Siman bill would be looked upon as bigoted intolerance and would not have the support of sound public opinion. Miss O'Shea Starts Flurry. The one flurry that was raised during the hearing was by Miss .prances O Ishea of Petersburg, who described herself as an Irish Catholic and engaged in the bank ing business. "Ours is a German community." said she, "But not over a dozen live there who do not understand Eng lish, let uo to the time of the stern ing of the armistice, and while this country was at war with Germany, German was the language used ex clusively by the priest in reading the gospel and preaching the sermon. He also conducts the teaching of the parochial school in German. After the armistice was sicrned and I returned to attend dhine ser vices I found tlict the priest was still readitfg the, uospel and preach ing, the sermon in the German lan- i What do you think of that. I V-.f : : i i . 5 1 r ' I Colin C. C?!rtetris i-i i.. i:i liuuuuy urvG com flakes . beirfcer "than me says (BoBSy. end I have the best Post Colin C. Clements, a former Oma ha boy, has been appointed a mem ber of the American committee for relief in the Near East. This com mission will leave America the first part of February and visit Turkey, Armenia, Greece, Syria and Persia. Although Mr. Clements has not yet been out of college a year, he is fast making a place for himself in American literature. He is a regular contributor to Poet Lore, Pagan, Stratford Journal, Drama Quarterly and had a play "Just Women" first produced at the San Francisco Lit tle Thater published by Samuel French and Company. refused to stand acording to the ritual of the church when he read the gospel in German but did do so when he alternated in English, and he called the public attention to me by saying I was giving scandal to the church and I was forced to leave, me an American citizen, and he a German alien enemy. Matter of Discipline. Father Lucker. the Catholic priest present, was asked by the committee in regard to the matter and said it was merely a matter of church dis cipline and any member of the con gregation who felt aggrieved could appeal to the bishop of the diocese, who would soon tell the offending priest "where to head in at," Rev. Mr. Carter of Lincoln, a Ger man . Methodist pastor, and C. H. Best spoke in favor of the bill. "We don't want apy little Germanies Polands, Italies or Bohemias here," they said. "Foreign born people would be better off and understand the spirit of the American people better if they learned to speak English and use it exclusively." A Nosey Pair. Two brothers who ltvo hi an Eist Lan cashire manufacturing .town wore noted for being exceptionally well served .with nasal organs. ' One of the ring spinners at the mill where they ,worked Invited them to a wedding and promised to send a cab for them. The cab duly arrived and the two broth era entered and planked themselves down one at each window. - In order to create an Impression during th drive to the wedding, tho two broth er were looking out of the cab. one at each aide, so that the people could see them. All want -Well until the cab came to a rather narrow railway arch,-which our travelera had to pass through. The cab man looked back, a.nd seeing the two brothers' noses sticking out of the win dows on either side, shouted. 'Put them elbows In, please." Reho both Sunday Herald. (Continued From rage One.) forts of Japan to acquire concessions in China and Siberia and of its de mands for the Caroline and Marshall islands and other islands in the Pacific. As regards the Pacific islands claims of Japan, the American posi tion at the peace conference has been unofficially represented as one of opposition to annexations and of insistence upon the internationaliza tion of all the Pacific islands taken from Germany. The Marshall and Caroline groups lie directly east o! the Philippines. ' Japan Puts Pressure " on Peking Government London, Feb. 11, The corre spondent of Reuter's, Lirnited, at Pe king sends the following under date of Monday, Februarv 3: . "The Japanese on Thursday, Jan uary 30, 'informed the' Chinese min ister at Tokio that a change in the attitude of the Chinese delegates in France was desirable. The Chinese should, he said, be guided by the Japanese in all questions of policy. "The Japanese minister at Peking on Saturday, February 1, informed the foreign minister that a change of front on the part of the Chinese delegation was necessary ajid that Japan desired China to undertake that it would not reveal at the peace conference the secret Chino-Japa-nese agreements. The Chinese del egates, he said, should work in the closest harmony with the Japanese delegates on all questions brought before the peace conference. The Japanese minister added that Great Britain was so disturbed with strikes and financial troubles that no definite political or financial help could be expected from that quar ter. Failing to receive such assur ances, Japan would immediately ex ercise effective financial pressure upon China. The Japanese minister demonstrated that China was now in a position to choose between re turning Japanese friendship or meeting Japanese opposition. "Simultaneously the Peking mili tarists brought great pressure to bear in presidential quarters with a view to securing the adoption of the Japanese viewpoint. rollowing numerous reports of Japanese pressure upon China in connection with the peace confer ence, this revelation of Japan's de termination permanently to secure the priviliges gained during the Eu ropean war created astonishment throughout China, especially as a section of the Japanese givernment is known to be opposed to the policy ot force against China. Ihe news papers however, emphasize Japan's latest and greatest diplomatic blunder as proving that the Japan ese government rs still tied to the wheels of the military chariot whose purpose is to destroy China regard less ot the tact that its action is 1 calculated to force Japan outside the Coroner's Jury Holds Wan Brothers on Murder Charge Washington, Feb. II. A coro ner's jury summoned to inquire in to the killing of Dr. Theodore T. Wong, C. H. Hsie and Ben Sen Wu, officials of the Chinese educational mission to the United States, return ed a verdict tonight holding that the men came to their deaths at . the hands of Z. S. Wfan and T. I. Wan, brothers of New York City, who were arrested last week. Police officials announced later the case of the brothers would be presented tomorrow to the grand jury now sitting in the District of Columbia court. In The Army. General Leonard Wood tells the story of a captain to whom was assigned a new orderly, a fresh recruit. 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