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SOLIDERS LIVES SAVED
BY USING "CANNED BLOOD"
Washington, Feb. 15. Use of
"canned blood," one of the re
markable developments of war sur
gery, was described today by the
surgeon general' office lor the ben
efit of the families of hundreds of
soldiers, whose lives were saved by
blood transfusion.
During a heavy attack it was im
possible to arrange for transfusions
direct from persons, so the fluid
was drawn previously, stored on
ice in sterile flasks, then used in
emergency cases. Where the wound
ed man -could stand it, a blood sub
stitute was injected which sustained
life until he could be removed to a
hospital where more direct trans
fusion could be employed.
"By these methods many men
were returned to the families, who,
in previous wars, would have lived
but a few hours," the department's
statement asserted.
MANY ROBES DE NUIT IN
TROUSSEAU OF PRINCESS PAT
London, Feb. 15. (By Universal
Service.) Princess Patricia will
have more robes de nuit in her
trousseau when she becomes the
bride of Commander Ramsey of the
British navy than most brides have
dresses. No less than 48 filmy gar
ments for night wear, lace inserted
and beribboned, are in Princess
Pat's "chest." Her trousseau is very
large and varied and the "chest," to
till which is the ambition of most
brides, has grown into a whole fam
ily of trunks, for the contents of
which she may require a card in
dex. Every garment is hand made.
JOBS PAYING $10,000
A YEAR "GOING BEGGING"
New York, Feb. 15. Despite the
constantly increasing number of dis
charged soldiers seeking employ
ment, positions of the "better class,"
paying from $5,000 to $10,000 a
year, are "going begging," according
to J. O. Winslow, director of the
professional and special section of
the United States employment
service.
This condition, Mr. Winslow said,
is especially acute in the export field
which, although flooded with appli
cations from voting men who desire
to learn the business, is tptally un
able to fill positions calling for ex
ecutive ability and expert training.
Accountants, expert engineers and
banking executives are in,, similar
great demand, he added, while the
coffee and sugar import business and
the advertising field offer equally at
tractivevopportunities for the "right
men."
CONFERENCE OF
ROTARY CLUBS
OPEIISJOllilT
Five Hundred Delegates from
. Three States to Be in At
tendance; District Gov
. ernor to Preside.
The initial session of the three
days' conference of Rotarians of the
Sixteenth district will be held to
night at All Saints church, pres'ded
over by Rev. ThoYnas J. Mackay.
Addresses will be delivered by Rev.
Frank B. Smith, pastor of the First
Congregational church: Father Mc
Manus of Council Bluffs and Rabbi
Cohn.
Five hundred delegates, represent
ing clubs in Nebraska, Iowa and
South Dakota, are expected to at
tend the conferences, which will be
concluded with the session Tuesday
afternoon.- Delegates will begin ar
riving in the city today. George E.
Mickel is chairman of a committee
which will meet all incoming trains,
welcome the visitors and conduct
them to hotels.
Luncheon for Women.
Headquarters have been estab
,. lishel in the Fontenelle hotel, where
the visitors will register.
"A Common Platform" is the sub
ject of the address Rabbi Cohn will
"deliver at the meeting tonight. Dr.
Smith will speak on "A Rotary
Message.' ' Special music will be fur
nished by the church and Rotary
choirs.
While women visitors will be ad
mitted to the meetings, two separate
luncheons have been arranged for
them Monday and Tuesday. They
will be given the palm room at the
Fontenelle.
John Hoffman of Chicago, board
member of the International Rotary
clubs, and Luther A. Brewer of
Cedar Rapids, publisher of the
Cedar Rapids Republican were the
iirst .visitors to arrive.
Welcome by Moorhead.
Des Moines and Lincoln Rotar
ies have started a boom for Dan A.
Johnson of Omaha, present district
t-ecretary, for the district governor
ship. Fred L. Northey, district gover
nor, will call the meeting to order
tomorrow evening in the assembly
room of the Masonic temple. The
address of welcome will be delivered
by Harley G. Moorhead. L. H.
Minkel of Fort Dodge, will respond
following the secretary's report. Mr.
Northey will introduce .the distin
guished visitors.
The afternoon session will be de
voted to routine business, and a con
ference dinner will be given and pre
sided over by John W. Welch at 7
o'clock. Governor McKelvie will
.Jdress the delegates at the evening
session on "Rotary, the Morning
Star of the New Day."
Attorneys Not Permitted
to Visit Alien Deportees
Washington, Feb. 15 The Depart
ment of Labor in accordance with
instructions sent today to the com
missioner of immigration at New
York, will permit relatives and
close friends of all aliens held at
K'tlis Island for deportation to visit
them on personal business only.
Attorneys claiming to represent the
aliens will not be permitted to see
them, however
VOL. XLVIII NO. 36.
4TRAIMS
Tin: wroT,
1 II L WLOI
Rescuers Reach Them Near
Hoskins and Phillips; Red
Cross Gives Aid
in Kansas.
Four passenger trains, caught in
the midwest in the fierce blizzard
Thursday, were delayed from two
to four days in deep snowdrifts in
the storm zone.
Food for the passengers was rush
ed to the trains on special cars and
snowshoes from nearby towns.
After spending three days iri snow
covered coaches two and one-half
miles north of Hoskins, Neb., on the
Norfolk branch of the Minneapolis
and Omaha line, nearly 50 passen
gers emerged from a 16-foot drift at
5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The train proceeded to Sioux City,
and carried many Omaha people.
When the railroad officials heard
of the delay of the passenger train
in the blizzard since Thursday after
noon, they sent a special string of
coaches filled with food to the suf
fering passengers. .
Firemen on the train shoveled
snowinto the boilers to keep up
steam, and the engineer sent word
to Hoskins for fuel. A rescue train
left Norfolk at 2 a. m. Friday, fol
lowing a snow plow, but was stalled
in 12-foot drifts two miles west of
the delayed passenger train.
Another rescue train, sent out
from Sioux City, was stalled four
miles east of the snow-covered
coaches.
Rescue Train at Phillips.
Passengers on a local train on the
Aurora branch of the Burlington,
stalled for three days in a snow drift
near Phillips, Neb., were relieved at
6 o'clock last night, when rotary
snow plows cut an opening. The
train reached Grand Island last
nieht. Traffic on the main line of the
Burlington between Lincoln and Den
ver was still badly demoralized last
night. Trains are stalled along the
line, the worst condition 4eing be
tween Hastings and the town of
Juniata.
Conditions on the Billings, Mont.,
line were somewhat improved, but
all trains are hours late. No at
tempt is being made to move
freights.
Red Cross Aids Snowbound.
Denver, Colo., Feb. 15. Passen
gers on Union Pacific train No. 119,
which arrived in Denver this after
noon 48 hours late, after spending
two days behind a snow bank at
Russell, Kan., brought with them a
tribute to the Russell chapter of the
American Red Cross, which, for two
days, brought them food and com
forts. The Kansas women did every
thing possible, the passenger said,
for their comfort during the time
they were forced to wait for work
men to clear the tracks.
The Union Pacific Kansas City
train was the first to arrive in Den
ver from the 'east since Wednesday
night, when the storm began, which
tied up rail and wire transportation
throughout Kansas and Nebraska.
Conditions were rapidly nearing nor
mal today, Kansas and Nebraska
railroad lines being cleared and the
varices wire services restoring traf
fic conditions rapidly.
The Western Union Telegraph
company's wires were nearly normal
tonight and the Postal Telegraph
company had gotten through Ne
braska. Telephone wires were oper
ating today and it was believed that
by Monday morning both rail and
wire traffic conditions would be fully
restored.
Storm Bound in Kansas.
Salina, Kan., Feb. IS. Passengers
on a Union Pacific train, which was
caught in the storm Wednesday
west of Salina, had nothing tp eat
but eggs taken from an express car
and went without sleep for more
than 48 hours, according to stories
of passengers who arrived here to
day. L. F. Dennis of Salina told
how the men on the train, including
a wounded soldir, wrapped clothes
about their heads and after tying
themselves together plowed and
crawled through snowdrifts over
their heads, to the nearest town for
food. .
Mr. Dennis declared the coach was
rocked by the gale until those within
feared it would-be blown fiorn the
raits. He sa:d the snow finally
buried the coaches. Drifts 30 feet
deep, he said, are no longer a marvel
in the storm-swept area.
This nain was the fi-st on the
Union Pacific line which has
reached here since Wednesday. Two
snow plows yreceded it into Salina.
The location of a!l other Union Pa
cific trains, officials stated, were un
known, but constant efforts are be
ng made to locate them.
President Wilson Re-Elected
as President of Red Cross
Washington, Feb. 15. Organiza
tion of the Red Cross for peace
work was effected today at an ad
journed annual meeting here. Presi
dent Wilson and other officers were
re-elected. William Howard Taft
was chosen a rice president in rec
ognition of his work.
Entvre Mcana'-elMt nntttf May M. 1306.
0h P. O. u0 act at March 3.
73 V j L,
Confessed Slayer of Rival
Takes Steps to Make Battle
For Her Life and Freedom
Mrs. Hofland, O'Neill, Neb., Claims She Was Justified
in Choking Wife of Man She Had Lived With
in Commonlaw Marriage for
Thirteen Years.
Special to
West Plains, Mo., Feb. 15. Mrs. Carrie Hofland, a Ne
braska woman, who confessed to the killing of Mrs. Pearl
Welton, wife of Frank Welton, on the Welton farm near
Mountain View by choking her to death, is now taking a
keen interest in preparations for trial at the May term of the
Shannon county circuit court at Eminence.
When she confessed the murder, she expressed a desire
to plead guilty at once, but since her removal to the Howell
county jail at West Plains she, has gone over the circumstance
of the killing with her attorneys with a view of making a de
termined effort at justification when she is placed on trial.
No hint has been given as to the nature of the defense the
woman will make.
A friend of Mrs. Hofland residing
in Newland county, Nev., where the
prisoner formerly lived, sent her
this telegram a few days ago:
"How on earth did you come to
do it? You were always so soft
hearted. Why, you couldn't even
kill a chicken."
Met at Sioux City.
Mrs. Hofland is a Norwegian. In
1905 she lived at Sioux City, la.,
where she met Frank Welton. a rail
road man. She says they entered
into a. common law marriage and
lived together for 12 years as man
and wife. He had homesteaded a
ranch near O'Neill, Neb., where
they moved in 1906. From that time
until he left her in the spring of
1917, the couple lived as man and
wife.
Mrs. Hofland's daughter, now 7,
lived with the couple all this time
and thought Welton to be her step
father. Mrs. Hofland says an estate
of $5,000 inherited from her mother
STATE EMBARKS
Oil POLICY TO
CHUB
New Laws Proposed- Would
Produce Super-Race of
Men and Women in
Nebraska.
By JOHN H. KEARNES,
Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 15. Nebraska
today has the proud distinction of
having the smallest penal popula
tion of any state in the union, yet
it has embarked on a program of
legislation which will open up an
absolutely new realm of crime, not
crime de facto, but crime de jure,
and in anticipation of convictions
under the new laws will create two
new penal institutions which will
have to be filled.
According to the latest statistics
Nebraska has a population of 1,
200,000 and of this great number
only 593 are in penal institutions.
To be exact, there are 281 inmates
of the penitentiary, 208 in the Kear
ney Industrial School for Boys and
104 in the Girls' Industrial school
at Geneva.
These delinquents were gathered
into these institutions by the opera
tion of old-fashioned laws against
old-fashioned crimes.
There are bills ,in the Nebraska
legislature which relate to the new
realm of crime and which are the
couriers of a new penal science
with two well-defined branches to
which have been given the names of
mental hygiene and sex hygiene.
Violation of Health Laws.
Laws dealing with the two
branches are co-relative and are
grouped so, that they deal with the
physical and mental violation of
certain health laws and are to be
administered by health boards, wel
fare boards and the old-time ma
chinery of the courts under theJ
police power ot the state.
Most of the proposed laws trace
to one source, the health department
of the federal government, and
(Continued on Page Two, Column Five.)
What Is Love? First Responses in The
No. 3.
Love is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed;
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
Love is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear;
The upward glancing of an eye
' When none but God is near. .
Love is the simplest form op speech
That human lips can cry;
Love, the stblimest strains that
reach
The majesty on high.
Love is the lover's vital breath.
The lover's native air;
Love is the watchword tl the one
Who loves as one who knows all.
No. S.
Love is a feeling that is in itself
a delight It seems that everything
at
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The Bee.
was spent in improving the ranch.
When Welton left O'Neill in the
spring of 1917 he told Mrs. Welton
that he was going to South
Missouri and look at some land.
They had sold their live stock and
other personal property on the
ranch. Welton went to Kentucky
where he married and then took his
wife to the farm in Shannon county,
a few miles from Mountain View
where she was killed.
Welton Wrote Often.
During his absence, Mrs. Hof
land says, she often heard from
Welton, but he never mentioned his
marriage , to another woman. She
made up her mind to visit Welton
and reached Mountain View the day
before the murder. Walking out to
the Welton home, five miles from
Mountain View, she found both
Welton and his wifein the field.
Welton came to meet her when he
saw her coming and begged her to
(Continued on Pan: 81s, Column Two.)
TAFT APPROVES
BASIS LAID FOR
RLD LEAGUE
Former President Appeals to
People of Montana to In
sist Upon Ratifica
. tion of Treaty.
Helena, Mont., Feb. 15. "As lov
ers of your country and as lovers of
mankind, I ask you to use all your
influence with our senators and have
the treaties embodying the league of
nations idea ratified," declared Wil
liam Howard Taft, former president
of the United States, here today.
Mr. Taft spoke to the crowds at
the Union station on his arrival from
the east with the party touring the
country in the interest of the league
of nations.
Commenting on the text of the
articles agreed to at the peace con
ference for a society of nations,
former President Taft said;
"It is a real league of nations.
It is not all that I wished, but comes
near. It is a great deal better than
I hoped. It contains within its
terms provisions for its own growth.
Indeed, the exigencies of the Euro
pean situation in the sphere of the
league will probably require addi
tional and more stringent -provisions
in some respects than appear in the
present plan, but on the whole I am
quite gratified over the unanimous
agreement on the subject."
Assists Booze Hounds .
and Lands in City Jail
Charley Noble, teamster, Quincy,
111., offered last night to assist
State Agents Mathwig and Walker
to buy booze. They followed Noble
to Thirteenth and Dodge streets
and kept up the walk to the police
station, accompanied by James O
Conrad, soldier, Uniontown, Pa.
Conrad told the officers he need
ed money and offered to sell two
pints of "Kentucky's best" for $11.
He was charged with illegal
possession of liquor. Noble was
booked for aiding and abetting the
sale of liquor.
FINE PRIZES FOR BEST ANSWERS.
Best three, cash awards of $5, $3 and $2; next 20, each a good
(love story) book. - Not over 200 words; if not original quote author;
name will not be printed except in awards. Closes March 1. Address
Contest Editor, The Bee, Omaha.
is Fleavenly when you love a per
son. When that person is near it
seems as though you thrill in every
fiber. WThen that person is away
for a little time it seems as though
love calls him back. Love has a
magnetism that hardly anyone is
able to resist. Love is a holy thing
not to be trifled with. All things
must come to an end all things,
save one. and that is. love. Love the
immortal vine, that weathers every
storm, never withering, never grow
ing old, and climbs to paradise,
leaving to1 the partaker of its fruit
a hope as immortal as itself. Love
fills you with a feeling of peace and
FEBRUARY 16, 1919.
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Hatched 4 ' . ' i PflMPRfQQ
2 wMa ' , JUDGMENT
IV
Has $1,000; Girl He Loves
To Wed Another Wednesday
Lover No. 1 Settles for Cash With No. 2 Whom Girl He
Courted for 5 Years Was to Marry Thursday;
Wedding Bells to Chime This Week.
A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Adqlph Palinsky .and Miss
Alice Navicky, both of the South
Side and well known m Lithuanian
circles. The - nuptials will be ob
served Wednesday in St. Anthonys
Lithuanian Catholic church, Thirty
second and S streets.
Another marriage license issued a
few days ago to Edward Akrom and
Miss Alice Navicky will not be used.
All of which reveals an unusual
case of a suitor of long standing
being temporarily outwitted by an
interloper who pressed his case with
considerable gallantry.
Courted Her for Five Years,
Mr. Palinsky has been keeping
company with Miss Navicky for five
years, meanwhile working in one
of the packing houses and saving his
money .for the time when he would
settle down.' He took things for
granted, but did not reckon with the
factor of the psychology of a wo
man's mind. Miss Navicky wanted
him to declare his intentions, but. he
did not do 'so until something hap
pened. The event which caused the
awakening of Palinsky was. the an
nouncement last week '.that . Miss
Navicky was to be married "to Ed
ward Akrom, a widower, who had
known the young woman for years,
but who began to make love to her
only a few weeks ago. Akrom was
such a Lochinvar that he took Miss
Navicky completely off her feet.
License Obtained.
The license for- the Akrom-Na-vicky
marriage was obtained and the
time had been set for last Thiirs
ray, the 13th. According ttd the
Lithuanian custom. Akrom had ar
ranged for a wedding feast of fried
chicken and other desirable eatables.
Guests had been invited and other
details arranged, but
When Akrom called for his pros
pective bride ' he was informed by
her and relatives that ' she had
changed her mind about marrying
him. The reason for her Change of
mind was due to the fact that Palin
sky, the lover of long standing, had
heard of the affair and had dashed
wildly to Miss Navicky's home,
where,' on bended knees he offered
her his hand and heart. She prompt
ly accepted Palinsky and. annulled
her promise to Akrom. ' '
The two suitors then consulted an
happinesSi Love overcomes all
obstacles and wins in the end. Love
is, wonderful. It is a flame in the
breast of one and it sparkles until
it creates a fire and can only be
calmed when another flame answers
it. It is like music sung by angels
always hovering near. I think you
must love to live and I think you
live to love!!
No. 6. ' , '
Love is a tickling sensation of the
heart that can't be scratched. And
then again I heard it said love i3
a snake that comes and goes, dis
turbing man from head to toes.". .
B Hill (I Mar). Dally. M.M: uiMat.
Dally a Sua.. li.M: .utile). Nab. awtata
attorney, both telephoning to Joseph
B.Uvick, a Lithuanian counselor,
who timed appointments so that the
rivals should meet at his office,
where he served as legal advisor
and mediator. Akrom wanted to
bring suit for damages, and Palin
sky wanted to be kept out of a law
suit, The result was that Palinsky
satisfied Akrom's monetary de
mands with a sum, said to be $1,000
and Akrom wished his rival and
Miss Naviclcy much happiness and
joy.
Akrom claimed the girl by right
of conquest, stating that all is fair
in love and that he defeated Palin
sky on a fair field, but in view of the
circumstances he was willing to re
turn to his farm and forgive and
forget.
. Palinsky realizes that his dilatory
tactics almost resulted seriously for
him. Everybody in the case is now
satisfied and Mr. Uvick declared he
is glad that he helped the rivals to
adjust their affairs out of court.
Both suitors insisted that Mr. Uvick
should be their counsel.
Miss Navicky's address is 3409 U
street. '
Liquor Find Results
in Shooting of McCabe
in Duel on South Side
Homer McCabe, 4032 S street.
South Side, is in the hospital with a
bullet in his abdomen as a result; of
a' pistol duel with Policeman Aklomis
at Thirty-sixth ana Q streets, shortly
after midnight.
' Policeman Aklomis had just left
the Old Settlers' Home, Thirty-sixth
and U streets, to call the patrol, after
having found a quart of whisky in
the possession of Walter Furlong,
proprietor of the place.
When the officer neared Q street
McCabe and Furlong stepped from
an alleyway and pressed a gun
against the policeman's stomach.
Aklomis drew back and opened fire
on- McCabe when the two men fired
at him.
, Furlong escaped. McCabe was
rushed to the hospital where little
hope is felt for his recovery.
Bee's. Contest
No. 9
Love binds two hearts more
close together; a feeling that' you
can't stand the other, one away for
long. -
.No. 10.
Love is one of the biggest hum
bugs that ever buncoed two 'fools
into a flat with an oil stove in it.
Love is a man's fool idea to pay
a woman's board bill for life.
No. 12.
Love is a tender affection that
looks only to the happiness of another.-
When the .effect is happi
ness, that is true love, given by the
grace of God.
No. 14.
Love is like a well and a deep one,
A tact you have noticed, no doubt.
It s easy enouch to fall into.
. But hard as the deuce to get out
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FIVE CENTS.
fIS. IIEYII FIIIDS
LOST DIALlOflBS;
WERE HOT STOLEN
J. M. Beuel, Former State
Agent, Picks Them Up and
Being Called Out of Town,
Hands Back on Return.
Mrs. ' Lester Heyn has recovered
her diamonds.
If Diogenes were in Omaha he
would know' where to spot his hon
est man of historic fame.
Former State Agent J. M. Beuel,
5210 Pine street, found the gems
Friday mo-ning in front of the
Drake Court, apartments, Twenty
second and Jones streets. Last night
at 8 o'clock the stones were again in
the possession of their rightful
owner. '
Mrs. Lester Heyn, wife of one of
Omaha's best known photographers,
dropped the precious jewels, three
diamond rings and a diamond la
valiere, valued at $3,500. in front of
her mother's home, the Drake Court
apartments. Mr. Beuel refused to
take any reward for handing them
back. . -
Discovers the Loss.
Friday morning Mrs. Heyn 'left
her apartment in the Blackstone
hotel, called a taxi and drove to the
home ' of her mother, Mrs. R. N.
Neir, in the Drake Court apart
ments. Having been warned by her
husband freouentlv not -to leave her
valuaRle jewelry in the apartments
while shopping or visitingifrs.
Heyn placed the gems in her hand
bag. .
As, soon as- she reached her
mother's home, she discovered the
loss of the bag ahd immediately no
tified the taxicab company. A thor
ough search of the cab was made,
but the gems were not found.
rnday night the police were call
ed. Searching every pawnshop of
the city brought no results. The
driver of the. taxi was questidied.
He had a clean record and as far
as the police could ascertain had
never been mixed up in any dis
honest affairs.
Voice Over the Phone.
The whole affair seemed to be
shrouded in mystery as Mrs. Heyn
could not remember having spoken
(Continued on Page Eight, Column Two)
Miss Martha Folda,'
Prominent in Society,
Dies at Brother's Home
Miss Martha Folda. prominent in
Omaha social circles, died of anae
mia at noon Saturday at the home
of her brother, E. F. Folda. 402
North Thirty-eighth street. Miss
Folda had been ill at Birchmont
hospital for two months and Thurs
day was removed to her brother's
home, with whom she resided.
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon at 2 p. m. at the residence
ot Her brother, Key. 1. J. Mackay
rector of All Saints church, offi
ciating. The body will be placed in the re
ceiving vault at Forest Lawn cem
etery until spring, when burial will
take place at Schuyler, Neb., the
former home of the Foldas.
Miss Folda and her brother, who
is prominent in banking circles, had
a charming island summer place,
"Engle-mar," near Ephrain, Wis.,
where many of the Omaha 400 have
been entertained. Miss Folda has
widely traveled in Europe and Ja
pan, where she had been several
i times. v
President Will Explain Leas
Constitution to Leaders at
White House Dinner
on February 26.
Washington, Feb. IS. President
Wilson today cabled a request to
the foreign relations committees of
congress to defer debate on the con
stitution of the proposed league cf
nations until he had an opportunity
to go over it "article by article"
with the members.
"There is a good and lufficient
reason for the phraseology and sub
stance of each article," said the
president in his message, transmit
ted through Secretary Tumulty.
Members of the senate and house
committees will dine at the Whiti
House on February 26, the day after N
the president js expected to land
at Boston. This early meeting was
interpreted as evidence of the presi
dent's determination to get the de
tails of the new world federation
for peace before congress as quickly
as possible.
The cabled invitation did not
name a date for the conference, but
almost immediately ihe time was
announced, and this was taken to
mean that the president would pro-
ceed here direct from Boston aftei
an address in that city.
Message from President.
The president's message, dated
Paris, February 14, follows:
"Last night the committee of the
conference charged with the duty of
drafting a constitution for a league
ot nations concluded its work and
this afternoon before leaving for
the United States -it is 'to be my "
privilege and duty to read to a plen
ary session of the conference tiie
text of the 26 articles agreed upon
by the committee.
Ihe committee which dratted
these articles was fairly representa
tive of the world. Besides the rep
resentatives of the' United States.
Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan, representatives of Belgium,
Serbia, China, Oreece, Koumama,
Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Brazil,
Portugal actively participated in
the debate and assisted materially
in fhe drafting of this constitution.
Each article was passed only after
the most careful examination bv
lach member of the committee.
"There is a good and sufficient
reason for the phraseology and sub
stance of each article. 1 request
that I be permitted to go over with
you, article by article, the constitu
tion before tins part of the work
of the conference is made the sub
ject of debate of congress. With
this in view I request that you dine
with me at the White House as soon
after I arrive in the United States
as my engagements permit.
Kills His Family When(
Wife Tells Him Another
Man Was Child's Father
Tacoiria, Wash., Feb. 15. N. E
Burnett, .on trial in the Thurstoi'
county court, charged with the mur
der of his wife and two children
according to a statement of his at
torney in court today, shot and kill
ed his wife and children while they
stood with their backs to a tree
on Hawkes prairie, near Olympia.
Burnett, according to the state
ment in court, after-the shooting
buried the bolies in the woods
The attorney said Burnett fired the
shotgun at his family while in t
rage and suffering from mental de
rangement. The attorney declared that Bur
nett and his wife had quarreled anc
that Burnett had fired the fatal shot
after his wife had told him anotheV
man was the father of her youngest
child.
Prominent Men Taken
on Charge of Gambling
Fourteen Omaha business and pro
fessional men were arrested at 3
o'clock this morning when officers
of the morals squad, under Sergeant
Thestrup raided an apartment at
205 North Seventeenth street En
trance was gained to the room bt
means of pressing one of eight nail.v
lhat were in a horseshoe attached
to the door. Police broke open the
doer when they failed to discover
the combination to the mysterious
lock.
All were booked on a charge of
gambling.
Shipbuilding Tieup Looms
Again in San Francisco Yards
San Francisco, Feb. 15. Prospects
of a general tie-up of shipbuilding
in the San Francisco bay region
loomed again "today after a period
of attempted mediation, when the
boilermarkers' union of Oakland
announced an immediate strike of
all union members and a small gron;
of striking San Francisco boiler
makers failed to compromise wi-p
differences with thcirertiybf-v
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