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AMERICAN RED CROSS
PRAISED BY KING OF ITALY.
. Rome, Satur(k,iy, Feb. 15. King
Victor Emmanuel has issued the fol
lowing statement concerning the
American Reif Cross:
"The American Red Cross came,
with" generous impulse, wherever
Italians fought and suffered for their
great ideal, and mitigated innumer
able cases of sufferings of the war
with their assidious labor and loving
assistance, strengthening with pure
love and making more united the
brotherhood and sentiments of sin
cere friendship already existing be
tween the two countries."
CHICAGO UNION LABOR
TAKES ELECTION DAY OFF.
- Chicago, Feb. 16. A general strike
of union labor on April 1, the date
of the municipal election, for the
. purpose of aiding the new Labor
party's ticket, was approved by the
Chicago Federation of Labor today,
which phrased its expression to de
clare " a day off fn making' profits
for the bosses." Labor men even
talked of suspending all street car
service on election day. ,
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SHAKEN BUT UNHARMED.
Los Angeles, Feb. 16. An earth
quake shock lasting almost a min
ute was felt at 8:45 a. m, today at
virtually every point in Southern
California. No damage has been re
ported from any section however.
MAKE LIFE MASKS
OF PEACE DELEGATES.
Paris, Feb. 16. The United States
government has ordered that life
masks be made of every member of
the American commission to the
peace conference. The work will
be done by Lieut. Alan T. Schwartz,
K. T. Nugent and Miss Eleanor C.
Allen.
The masks, which will be made by
an entirely new process, will require
from 20 to .50 minutes to complete.
Some French statesmen already
have had masks made.
TURNS BUSINESS
OVER TO EMPLOYES.
Chicago, Feb. 16. Full manage
ment and control of an envelope
company was turned ever to the
employes last light by Clement L.
Clapp, president of the concern and
a pioneer in envelope manufacture
in the middle west, who announced
his retirement.
"The transfer of the business to
our empI6yes is in the spirit of
world democracy and a reward for
faithful service and fealty to duty,"
said Mr. Clapp. .
ALLIES TO KEEP ARMY
OF 200,000 IN GERMANY. -
Paris, Feb. 16. The suprcne war
council, it is understood, has decided
that the strengtlv of the army of oc
cupation in Germany shall be 200.000
allied troops. The reduction to that
number from the present forces will
lie made as soon as the work of dis
arming 1 Germany has -been carried
' out. ' " -.--
Boston Hopes to Gain
FresH Laurels by Its
Reception to Wilson
Boston, Feb.' 16. City and state
authorities are planning on the
greatest demonstration in the his
tory of this city in honor of Presi
dent Wilson when he arrives here
Mi February 25.
Governor Coolidge, in a statement
.onight, said: , .
"The commonwealth's welcome to
President Wilson will be on a scale
commensurate with the dignity of
his official position and the honor
lie confers on the state by his
visit. Its ramifications will depend
on the length of his stay. If his
sojourn is short, the state will make
every effort to crowd in a short
space of time a fitting tribute to the
chief executive of the rfalibn."
Mayor Fcters said: "Boston is to
be congratulated on the president
having accepted my invitation.' The
event of his debarkation here will
lie ore never to be forgotten and I
know every man, woman and child
will do his best and her best to make
the most remarkable demonstration
ever recorded In the annals of this
country."
Strikers Notified
Seattle 3hipyards Will .
Open Wednesday
Seattle, Feb. 16. Seattle's ship
yards will resume operations next
Wednesday after having been idle
jtinct 25,000 metal trades workers
" valkedout, January 21, on a' strike
for a higher wage scale. Announce
ment to this effect was formally is
sued tonight by the shipyard own
ers. The workers will be employed
at the yard gates at the same rate of
pay as existed January 21.
Spartacans Hurl Grenades
at Belgians in Duisburg
Difisburg, Rhenish Prussia, Feb.
16. In view of the disturbances
fiere Wednesday. Belgian troops ar
rived in thje city last night, reach
ing the town hall ' simultaneously
with three Spartacus leaders from
Hamborn, who desired to compel
the burgomaster to surrender SO
rifles that had been seized.
The Spartacans tried to escape in
a motor car and hurled hand gren
ailes at the Belgians. Three of the
Spartacans were severely woiinded.
The Belgians have occupied the
town hall in order to protect the
administration of the town.
Mcssinson Wants Jewish
University at Jerusalem
Chicago, Feb. 16. The Jews
possess an ideal as broad as human
ity. Dr. Benzion Mossinson, recent
Tiead of the Jewish academy at Jaf
fa, sid today before a middle west
conference, supporting the move
ment for a Jewish state in Palestine,
-with a representative at the peace
conference. He urged the establish
xnent of a Tewish university at Jerusalem.
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Royal Prisoners Killed by Vig
jlance Committee to Avenge
Liebknecht and -Rosa
Luxemberg.
- Py Associated Press.
Taris, Feb. 16. Paul Erio, cor
respondent of the Journal, who re
cently escaped from Petrogradaud
made his way to Helsingfors, says
that four Russian grand dukes were
shot some time ago without a hear
ing, and that it was understood their
summary execution was a result of
the killing in Berlin of Dr. Karl
Liebknecht and Kosa Luxemberg. ,
The correspondent .Says certain of
the bolsheviki advocated the re
lease of the grand dukes and that
their view was about to prevail
when the Gorokhovia, or vigilance
committee, opposed this, and to
show that it alone had the right to
decide the fate of the prisoners, had
them shot.
Fighting Pushed About Lemberg.
Vienna, Feb. 16. Wireless dis
patches received by the local Ukran
ian commission from Kiev indicat
that the righting is being pushed
about Lemberg with the Ukranians
claiming gains in an attempt to cut
off the railway lines of the Poles in
to the city.
The armistice commission sent to
Warsaw has returned to Kiev with
such assurances from the Poles that
a new mission headed by Stepnicky
will be sent to Warsaw in the hope
of concluding peace.
Stepnicky will be accompanied by
numerous representatives of the
Ukraine government. It is also
stated that Ukrainia has informed
Rumania that Ukraiffia is willing to
discontinue the border warfare in
Bessarabia and forget the past un
fortunate incidents if an amicable
arrangement can be made of the
boundaries.
A radio dispatch from Tiflis says
the Georgian republic in the Cau
casus has arranged to return to
their homes Turkish prisoners and
also refugees within its borders.
Delegation Sent to Lemberg.
Warsaw, Feb. 16. It has been de
cided that owing to the fact that
hostilities between . the Ukranians
and Poles, in East Galicia have not
ceased and the Ukranians are start
ing new attacks against Lemberg,
an inter-allied special delegation
from the inter-allied commission will
be sent to Lemberg to confer with,
the Ukranians ia an endeavor to
bring about an armistice with the
shortest possible delay.
Nebraska Farmers
Congress Will Open
Sessions Tonight
The Nebraska Farmers' congress
will open its three day session at
the Hotel Castle, this evening with
an address on agriculture and re
construction by Maj. Samuel Avery,
chancellor of the University of Ne
braska. Other subjects to be dis
cussed at the congress will be Jarm
problems, prices of farm products,
cood roads .and better rural schools.
l he progam is so arranged that visr
ltors may attend agriculture group
meetings of the congress without in
terfering with the progress of the
regular congress.
Over 1.000 delegateshave been ap
pointed to attend this session of the
congress. The congress officials are
very much interested in what Secre
tary of Agriculture Houston will
have to say, and hajre made arrange
ments to have him address the com
gress at some regular session.
Many delegates have already ar
rived, and all are intensely interest
ed in agriculture reconstruction.
Gen, fau Reaches Victoria
on Return From Antipodes
Victoria, B. C, Feb. 16. Gen.
Paul Pau, veteran of two Franco
Prussian wars, with members of the
commission he heads, which is in
quiring into trade relations between
British dominions, the United
States, antipodes and France, ar
rived here today from Australia.
He was accorded an enthusiastic re
ception, the welcoming party in
cluding Premier Oliver and military
and naval officers.
General Pau expressed satisfac
tion over the visit to Australia anJ
New Zealand, saying he was hope
ful of an expansion between France
and those countries. . General Pau
is the guest of the dominion govern
ment during his stay in Canada.
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Killed in Air Collision.
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 16. In making
his final flight after being discharged
Lieut Edward Cain of Baltimore,
was killed here in a collision of his
airplane with another plane. Corp.
John Zerec, an observer, who was
making his first flight, was fatally
injured. The occupants of the plane i
were not injured. j
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P. 0. under act el March 3, 1879
Tears of Thousand Years
Cannot Wipe Out Misery
Huns Caused, Says Hoover
Reviews French and, Belgian Conditions in Address at
Paris; Relief Commissions Driven From Northern
France When United States Entered War. . ' "-"
By Asiociated Pre.
Paris, Feb. 16. Reviewing the re
ief and food condition in northern
France and Belgium in an address
before the Circle Volnay last night.
Herbert C. Hoover, the United
States food administrator and direc
tor general of the inter-allied relief
organization, said:
"1 have been asked to say a few
words on the revicttiallins now car
ried on for nearly fytir yeafts, of the
occupied areas of Belgium and
northern France. It was the first
food administration in Europe, for
it was in Belgium and northern
France that Europe first felt the
Lmipact of the war on food supplies.
these were the first people to real
ize the shortage through hunger.
"It was about a year after the
foundation of the commission for
relief in Belgium before any-other
systematic attempt was made at
food administration in the world.
It alai represents the first inter
alliedr operation which embraced the
United States for its financial sup
port and administration of the joint
effort of America, France, Englanti
and Belgium. Its enterprise- is of
considerable volume as its transac
tions now exceed . 5,000,000,000
francs. It has been carried on with
out profit, with a large measure of
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Leaders Abandon Hope of
Passing Necessary Bills in
' Remaining Fortnight of
Present Term.
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Washington, Feb. 16. The Sixty
fifth congress enters tomorrow ufion
the final fortnight of its existence
with hope of passing all of the al
most unprecedented mass of' peud
ing legislation virtually abandoned
by most leaders, Night sessions of
the senate and house until March 4
have been ordered, but the belief is
growing that an earlyextra session
of the new congress will be neces
sary, '
Pressure this week will be con
centrated on money bills, but ad
mittedly progress will depend large
ly upon developments in connection
with the proposed constitution of
the league of nations. Should gen
eral discussion of this document fol
low the return of President Wilson
from France some leaders believe
passage of any legislation after that
time would be aimost out of the
question. !
Congestion of legislation now is
centered in the senate, which has
two thirds of the appropriation bills
passed by the house. House leaders
hope to have passed all urgent mea
sures within 10 days. Work on the
rivers and harbors bill will be re
sumed tomorrow by the .senate,
while committees are preparing the
naval, agricultural, Indian and other
money measures.
Hearings on the naval bill will be
started tomorrow by the senate na
val committee and later this week
the "senate military committee plans
to.4ake up the army measure. Pre
dictions are general, however, that
both of these bills will fail of enact
ment at this sessions
The Treasury department bill,
authorizing about $5,000,000,000 ad
ditional bonds is o be brought out
of the house this week, with co
operation in the senate assured.
Final action is expected during
the week on the measures validating
informal war contracts and for de
velopment of oil, coal and gas lands.
Queen of Italy-and Her
Daughters Visiting in Paris
Paris, Feb. 16. Queen Helena of
Italy and her daughters have ar
rived in Paris.
' Gas Expert Dies.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 16. David
Oliver Holbrook, aged 47, author
ity on natural gas problems in
America and head of the division of
natural gas in the United States fuel
administration, died early this morn
iug of acute indigestion.
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idealism and self-denial and with
the aifii of the allies, the ameliora
tion of injuries brought about by
Germany.
Endangered Governments.
"Subsequently the spread of the
food shortage in the world, endan
gered the supply of even the allied
governments themselves and again
there was allied action in its solu
tion. The whole situation of the al
lied world has now passed, but the
armistice finds us confronted with
the enormous food problems of 200,
000,000 people now dominated by
Germany and again the solid point
of action by the associated gov
ernments becomes necessary in the
work of mercy and stability of gov
ernment. I
"I have recently, revisited the
devastated regions 'of northern
France and Belgium. There is no
man, even without personal exper
ience of two and one-half years of
German rule, who could pay a mere
casual visir to northern France and
Belgium without experiencing re
newed fire of indigation at the men
and forces which broughtSibout this
appalling situation.
"Despite the depth of feeling I
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OVER DEMAND OF
E ENVOY
Alarm Caused by Efforts ito
Induce Government to
Restrain Delegates at
Peace Conference. ,
Peking, Feb. 16. Excitement "pre
vails throughout China over reports
concerning, Japanese efforts to in
duce the Chinese ' government to
modify, the action of its delegates
to Nthe peace conference. Despite
the statement of Yukichi Obata, Jap
anese minister to China, that he
acted cm his own initiative and not
instructions from Tokio, Chinese
alarm continues. It has not been
allayed by the declaration of the
foreign minister that Obata's visit
to him was aj friendly one. -
President Hsui-Shih-Chang, back
ed by the premier, has taken a
stroiig stand independently of the
cabinet and has telegraphed an ex
pression of confidence to the Chinese
peace delegates.
The news that Baron Ma-kino of
the Japanese peace delegation has
agreed to the publication of secret
documents has been received with
interest in Peking, but it is believed
here that not all the agreements will
be published, as there are declared
to be several which the Chinese .mili
tarists do not dare disclose.
It is further asserted that others
will not be disclosed on the ground
that they relate to commercial agree
ments, only. Unless the fullest in
vestigation is ordered there is a
possibility that some of the agree
ments will remajn secret because
Chinese militarists are deeply in
volved. '
It is explained in competent cir
cles in Peking that there is a strug
gle now proceeding between the
president, whose aims are demo
cratic, and the cabinet, which has
military inclinations.
Herrick Denies Report "
of His Serious Illness
Cleveland, Feb. 16. Parnielee W
Herrick, son of Myron T. Herrick,
former ambassador to France, today
received a telegram from his father
at Los Angeles denying' widely cir
culated reports that he was serious
ly ill or suffering from any heart
weakness.
Boiler Pirers Wanted.
Washington, Feb. 16. A Vail for
1,500. young men to take training
courses that will fit them to fire
boilers on government operated
merchaot ships was issued today by
the shipping board. They will be
given $3t) per month and board
while training and $75 a month af-
i ter they joTn ships crews..
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FEBRUARY .17, '1919.
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Opening Session Held at All
Saints Church; Rabbi Cohn
and Rev Frank Smith
. Address Members.
, Representatives of the principal
cities of three states last night at
tended the religious . services and
initial gathering of the three-days'
session of the 16th district Inter
national Association of Rotary clubs
in All bints church, 1 werjty-sixth
street and Defey' avenue.
In one acclaim Jew and Gentile,
Protestant and Catholic, joined in
the song and praise services and
followed with undivided attention
the eloquent addresses of Rabbi
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Smith. Every seat in the spaciouit
a,!w, oi,i, ,!.
and many of those in the congrega
tion were visitors who have come
to Omaha to attend the sessions"
the cpnference today and tomorrow.
Rabbi Cohn sounded the keynote
of the gathering when he declared
that "Jew and Gentile, Catholic and
Protestant can stand on the Rotary
platform." Rev..T. J. Mackay, rec
tor of the church, presided over the
meeting and introduced the speak
ers. "The Common Platform," was
the subject selected by Rabbi Cohn.
Belieres in Principles.
"I am not a Rotarian," he said, "but
I believe I know something of the
principles of the organization. The
fact hat you have come up into this
house of worship men and women
representing the various walks of
life,-different creeds,' of different
views and different methods, but all
in one accord as to object and pur
pose, .is indicative of- a. -potency
which means ultimate triumph for
the aim of the Rotary clubs. Indeed?
we can say that by their fruits we
know them. The principle upon
which you are founded is brother
hood and service.
"These two thoughts appeal and
thrill me as a Jew. These thoughts
are laid down in, the firit chapter of
Jewish literature. We are told in the
oldest and greatest of all books that
God made man in his own image.
All men and women are put on a
par.
The opportunity Was afforded
the Jewish author and Jewish people
in the promulgation of this wonder
ful work to magnify the Jewish peo
ple, but they did not do it like the
Romans a'nd Greeks in giving to the
world their works on religion. On
the contrary we find in the first
book of Genesis the first teaching
of the common brotherhood of man."
Of Common Origin.
Rabbi Cohn declared 'hat the peo
ples of the world were of a common
(Continued on Page Two, Column Four.)
Iron Gate on Bridge
to Stop Cars Until
t Searched for Booze
Lincoln, Feb. 16l (Special.)
Dave Berkolwitz, formerly of Oma
ha, had a comparatively brief career
as a booze hound on tne start ot
Chief Prohibition Officer Gus A.
Hyers. '
Berkolwitz was placed on the
staff as a state agent under the
theory that he could assist material
ly in ferreting out the organized
gangs of bootleggers reported to be
bringing large amounts of booze in
to Omaha over the bridge from
Council Bluffs. When he failed to
produce, it was said, his employ
ment on the state s staff of booze
hounds was terminated yesterday.
Hyers said that Berkolwitz, in
spite of what was believed to be a
large fund of information, failed to
unearth anything of value to the
state. '
The state will deal in another way
with bootleggers who have been
slipping over the bridge with liquor,
Hyers has decided to install ajarge
iron gate at the Omaha end of the
bridge and automobiles will be held
until the agents have satisfied theni
selves that cars are free from booze
where the circumstances are such as
justify a search.
THE FUNNIES!
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Bolshevist Agitator Had
Satchel Full of Disguises
When Arrested in Berlin
Man Who Tried to Step Into Liebknecht's Shoes Taken
After Eluding Nation-Wide Police Dragnet for
Months; Picked Soldiers Guard Prisoner.
By Universal Service..
Berlin, ircb. 16. Karl Radck, 'the
Russian bolshevist agitator, who
tried to step into Liebknecht's
shoes, has been arrested. For
months he has eluded a nation-wide
police dragnet by tricks of lisguise
and other ruses that might have puz
zled Sherlock Holmes.
With Jiim behind the bars is his
mysterious secretary, who aspired to
become the murdered Rasa Luxem
bourg's successor.
A whole regiment was called out
to make the arrest, which took place
at a mass meeting which Radck was
to address.
To a couple of detectives, who'
hnally caught him, goes tne prize ot
20,000 marks, which the government
had put on Radek's head. .
Police Learn Plot.' ,
Only when they saw,lie game was
really up did the two confess their
bolshevist mission and the Berlin
police are in possession of details
of a plot to plunge Germany into a
,blood '.J? of civil warfare and make
Lenities dream of a world revolu-
tion" a reality.
Radek displayed defiance, even to
the last.
But when they produced the pack
ages of literatye which he thought
he had safely hidden, his nerve gave
way to a cringing fear, the fe.r of
sharing Liebknecht's fate at the
hands of a lynching mob. Drama
and comedy were -uriously mingled
in the circuftistauces of his arrest.
Had it'not been for the fact that he
had been too much ot a man of
mystery, only a few "insiders" really
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LEAGUE LIKELY
TOiEGii
Leaders in Congress Disposed
to Await Wilson, But Borah
and Redd May , Voice
Views at Once.
Washington, Feb. 16. Opinion of
senators and representatives on the
nrooosed construction f the league
Lof nations was sharply crystallizing
today and there was apparant a
greater disposition to tdve expres
sion to views. '
There still was uncertainty as to
when opeji discussion nould begin
in congress. Although both demo
cratic and republican leaders were
disposed to observe President Wil
son's request for postponement of
debate until after he confers Febru
ary 26 with members of the senate
and house foreign committees, there
would be little surprise if senate dis
cussion should develop, possibly to
morrow. '
Senator Borah of Idaho, republi
can, and Reed of Missouri, democrat,
whose frequent addresses have indi
cated that they oppose any plan
which involves internationalization,
were said tonight to be considering
addresses in the near future. -With
the naval bill, which authorizes a
new three-year building program
soon to come before the senate,
some members said they did not see
how it would be nossjble for sena
tors, to refrain from discussion of the
league, if only in connection with
the proposal for international dis
armament. Although without definite informa
tion on the subject, many members
of congress expressed the belief that
President Wilson would appear per
sonally before congress in joint ses
sion to explain a'nd support the pro
posed constitution of the league.
It also was regarded'as possible that
the president might ask for some
formal expression of opinion from
the senate before returning to Paris
next month.
Senator Smoot Dedicates
Mormon Church in Brooklyn
Xew York, Feb. 16. United States
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, an
apostle of the Mormon church, was
the principal speaker at the dedica
tion today of the Brooklyn chapel of
the Church of Jesus Christ of the
Latter Day Saints.
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TWO CENTS
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anti-terrorist crowd that witnessed
the affair would have taken the law
in their own hands.
) Guarded By Troops.
Radek became frantic in requests
for a military guard. Promptly the
regiment of picked government soC
diers thathad thrown a cordon
around the meeting hall, whither he
had beep trailed by detectives from
a tenant in the Jewish quarter, be
came guardians of his safety for the
police, having h?arned a lesson from
the Licbknecjft-Luxembourg mur
ders, did not wish to provide further
martyrs to the cause of terrorism.
rhe chief charge against Radek is
that of having financed revolution-lniission,
ary movements both in Austria and
Germany with bolshevist money.
The amount he is said to have dis
tributed runs into millions, the po
lice assert. v
His pet trick of evading the police
was masquerading as a physician,
two , of his favorite aliases being
"Dr. Merker" and "Dr. Freund."
He had a satchel full of disguising
paraphernalia from false beards to
priests and monks garments.
One of the reasons the detectives,
after discovering Radek's where
abouts sent for the regiment and
preferred to make the arrest at the
mass meeting was that they hoped
to catch another important agitator,
Robert Emil Eichhorn, who turned
Spartacan while he was chief' of po
lice of Berlin. He, however, is still
at large.
v Radek's confession, however is
expected to result tit other arrests.
EIILQOTE
DOTS ML;
IVES SELF UP
iSfrs. L. Van Ausdell Expresses
Hope That "Other" Woman
Is Dead; Wounds May
Prove Fatal.
Crazed by jealousy and despairing
of recovering her husband's affec
tions, itfs. L. Van Ausdell, 1039
Park avenue, last night shot and
perhaps fatally wounded the '"other"
woman, Mrs. C. B. fjani, 811 South
Twenty-first street. ..-
Mrs. Van Ausdell gave herself up
to the" police immediately after the
shooting. She is held at the city
jail. '
Mrs. Ijam is in the Lord Lister
hospital suffering frojn a. bullet
wound which, physicians say, will
probably prove fatal. Both women
are about 35 years old.
The shooting took place near
Twenty-second and Leavenworth
streets. Lon W. Van Ausdell. a
salesman, husband of the woman
who did the shooting, witnessed the
tragedy. , ;
The Van Ausdells have been
estranged for nearly a year. Mr.
Van Ausdell has been living at 1810
Dodge street.
Walks Into Station.
The first knowledge the police
had of the shooting was when Mrs.
Van Ausdell walked into the sta
tion and announced to Scrgeaut
Roseythat she had "shot a woman
and yas ready to be locked up. '
"I don't know whether she's 1ead
or not, but I hope she is." was her
calm explanation of the affair to the
sergeant. "She can't wreck my home'
and get away with ill"
"if the gun hadn t'jammed," she
continued; "I'd have - killed 'em
both!"
"Quastions by police officers
brought out that Mrs. Van' Ausdell
had met her husband and the Ijam
woman at 8 o'clock near Twenty
second and Leavenworth streets.
She had lain in wait there for them.
Following high words between
Van Ausdell and his wife the trio
started walking east. It was then
that the jealousy-crazed woman
drew a miniature revolver of the
automatic type and placing it against
Mrs. Ijam's back, fired. ;
Immediately after the shooting
an unidentified autoist took the in
(Contlnurd on Page Two, Column Seven.)
Butte Strike Near,
r i - r
oia as engineers .
Refuse to Walk Out
Butte, Feb. 16. Butte newspapers
declared today that the action of the"
engineers last night in voting not
to strike,-will have the effect of
causing most of the rhiners to re
turn to their jobs tomorrow and
Tuesday.
The electricians' union, which was
one of the first union organizations
to suggest that its men remain away
from work in sympathy with the
strikj of miners, rescinded its action
today.
Members of the Butte arm and
navy association, which last Sun
day endorsed the strike or the min
ers, today repudiated their action
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Marshal Tells German Envoy
Truce Will Be No Longer
in Force After Limit '
Set for Renewal.
Copenhagen", Feb. 16. Replying
to a request by Mathias Erzberger,
head of the German armistice com-
for a delay in the signing
of the armistice terms until Monday,
noon, Marshal Foch declared that
the armistice expired jat 5 ojclock
Monday nQrning and that the last
hour for signing would be 6 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, in oler to be
able tr issue the necessary order
to the troops.
If not signed then Marshal Focii
said, he would be obliged to leave
Treves and( the armistice would no
longer be in force. ' '
Answering Erzbcrger's counter
demands, Marshal Foch said the
new armistice terms had been fixed
by the heads of the associated gov
ernments and that he was unable to
alter tlpm.
Ask 24 Hours Extension.
Copenhagen, Feb. 16. A Weimar
dispatch tinder date of Saturday,
February IS, says the German gov
ernment rejfiiestcd an extension of
24 hours tune in which to reply to
Marsha Foch's proposal for a pro
longation of the armistice. It was
pointed out that, owing to the delay
in receiving the armistice commis
sion's reply, a reply could not be
returned by 6 o'clock, as fixed by
Marshal Foch.
A I lavas dispatch from Basle Sat
urday night reported that the armis
tice'" Ead been extended indefinitely
and that the Germans are required
to cease their offensive against the
Poles and cary out the previous
terms of fhe armsitice until com
pleted. '
Would Propitiate Poles.
Basle, Feb. 16. Count voit Brock-dorf-Rantzau,
the German foreign
secretary, in a speech before the
national assembly at Weimar, dis
cussed the relations of 'Germany
with Poland and the Czecho-Slovaks.
He said Germany and the neigh
boring states had reciprocal vital
interests in each other's prosperity
and that the atmosphere of hate,
i i- : I..,:,-.,.- ,;th Pn.
WHICH icmuuiia ..in.
land must be dissipated "if we are
to have our right of sovereignity in
favor of our brother Germans
around us respected." " -
"We desire also to recognize the
same right where it is opposed to
us," the speaker continued. "It is
important to know what territories
fall under the scope of President
Wilson's points."
CoXint von Brockdorf - Rantzatr
said this same question also applied
to the Danish frontier. .
Calls For Enormous Credits.
Weimar, Feb. 15. In an address
before the German national assem
bly JJr. bchitter, minister ot nuance,
said he saw the necessity for credits
of 25,300 million mark?. ' Of this
amount, the minister said, '300,000,--OOtVmarks
would be used for build
iivg houses. He added thatthe toUl :
credits and loans aggregate more .
than 140,000.000,000 marks, not in
cluding 6,000,000,000 marks , in trea
sury notes. The bills in circula
tion, he said, amounted to 43,500,000'.
000 marks.
Western Military
Academy Instructor
Mysteriously Slain
St. Louis, Feb. 16. The body of
Capt. Charles K. Seeley. instructor
of physics at Western Military acad
emy, Alton." 111., was found near the
Wabash railroad tracks at Mitchell,
111., 12 miles north of here today.
The captain's skull was fractured
and both his legs were severed.
Coroner Joseph Krill said death
had been caused by the skull wound
which had been inflicted by a sharp
instrument. The body was placed
on the tracks to mislead them, au
thorities believe.
Captain Seeley was 30 years old
and formwly resided at La Junta.
Colo., where fy: had been connected
with the state militia.
General Education Board
Resources Are $44,675,273
Xew York, Feb. 16. Resources of
$44,675,273 are shown in, the annual
report of the general education
board, founded bv lohn D. Rocke
feller to promote education in the
United States, issued here today. -Appropriations
made by the board.
$1,333,000 went to the medical
Schools; $650,000 to general univer
sity endowments; $318,885 to school
for negroes and $56,000 for ednc
tionaL research and: state educaMSjf
al surveys.