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WOMAN TO MEDIATE
IN MESSENGERS' STRIKE. .
, ' New York, March 22. It was de-
cided today that Miss Francis Per
kins, in charge of the mediation and
arbitration branch of the New York
industrial commission, should act as
mediator at a hearing next Monday
, on differences between the Western
Union Telegraph company and 800
of their messengers, now on strike.
The decision was reported after
Miss Perkins sent a representative
of the commission to call on tele
graph officials with a delegation of
union representatives as the first
Step toward a settlement.
The messengers are demanding
higher pay and re-establishment of
the zone system of message delivery.
FAMOUS OPERA TENOR
RECEIVES GREAT OVATION.
r: New York,, March 22. Enrico
Caruso received a great ovatio.i to
night at the Metropolitan Orera
house at a celebration of his 25th
year on the operatic stage. Arrang
ed on the stage were costly gifts
-from the tenor's admirers. Promi
nent New Yorkers, including Otto H V
Kann, chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Metropolitan Opera
company, eulogized the singer a..d
his art.
BENEDICTION GIVEN
BY POPE TO KNIGHTS.
New York. March 22. Apostolic
' benediction from Pope Benedict XV
: was contained in a cablegram re
ceived today by the New York chap
ter of the Knights of Columbus in
response to a message of thanks for
appointment of Archbishop Hayes
"as head of the New York archdio
cese. , ,
The cablegram, signed by Cardinal
' Gasparri, papal secretary of s'ate.
added that the pope wished to ex
press "admiration for the relief work
which the knights are 'so ably con
ducting." 'DE LUXE" HOSPITAL
TRAIN TO CROSS COUNTRY.
New York, March 22. A j "De
Luxe" hospital train, scheduled to
make the first transcontinental trip
with wounded soldiers in the history
of the. country, will leave here Mon
day for Camp Kearney, Cal., with
13 men of the American expedition
arylforce and a stall of doctors and
orderlies. The American Red Cross,
which will assist the army medical
corps in its operation, announced to
night that the train would reach its
destination March 29.
FLOUR IN CASSEL
FORTY DOLLARS BARREL
Berlin, March 22. The first lot of
flour imported into Germany since
the armistice will be placed on sale
in Cassel this week. The price will
be 95 pfennigs for a German pound,
or approximately $40 a barrel at the
normal rate of exchange. The flour
will be distributed in pound lots for
use in gravies . and - other culinary
purposes, but not for making bread
tons nit rtiPTna
SENT HOME BY YANS r i i
Washington, March 22. Since
the American troops overseas have
stopped righting they have taken to
letter-writing and remembering
friends, at home with souvenirs
from the battlefields in France.
This was indicated today by a Post"
affice department announcement
that the amount of mail from the
American expeditionary forces had
increased more than 20 per cent
irice cessation of hostilities.
The volume of souvenirs sent
baclj to the United States by parcel
post may be measured by' the ton,
the department asserted, and they
consist of all manner of odds and
ends. Curios sent most by the sol
diers ar shell cases, parts of rifles
and revolvers, bayonets, uniform
buttons and small fragments of de
molished airplanes. Captufe.4, Ger
man helmets, however, arethe most
prized token. Nearly 500,000 of
these have come 'through the mails
since the war began.
5,000 RADICALS CHEER
ANARCHISTIC SPEECHES.
New' York, March 22. A sugges
tion that members of the National
Security league and United States
"Sneakret" service agents be ducked
in the "East river was cheered by
nearly 5,000 radicals who attended
r n nnpn air mass meetincr here to
day to protest against imprisonment J
-r T? - r ft.!,. .nxiolict lA4r 1
and other radicals convicted of vio
lating the espionage act.
The suggestion was made by Jo
seph M. Coldwell of Providence,
R. I., who explained that Russian
revolutionists had ducked all mili
tary police. Coldwell exhibited a
dictagraph with which he said gov
ernment agents had obtained evi
dence with vwhich to convict him of
violating thtf espionage law. He,
explained his presence at the meet-
. Inrr Kv S4vinff tie WH OUt On $25.-
"OUO bail pending an appeal.
Another salvo ot cneers grecica
' ColdwelFs announcement that Debs
had declared he wanted ''first, last
and all the time, to be known as
t bolshevist." ' ' ; .
, Scott Nearing. socialist and for
mer college professor, who was ac
quitted here recently on a charge of
violating the espionage act, was giv
en an ovation when he urged that
all American workers twite in or
- ganization "of an industrial rfom
uionwealth." ' ' "
Irwin St John Tucker proposed a
nationwide strike on July 4 in a
protest against imprisonment . of
Debs and other radicals.
MAJOR KNOX SUPPORTS.
CHARGE AGAINST BAKER.
Manchester, N. H., March 22.
"Major Frank Knox, recently re
turned to his position as editor of
the Manchester Union after his re
lease from army service, in a signed
- Statement tonight, said that he was
"prepared in general terms to, sup
port the accusation brought against
Secretary of War Baker by Major
Dick B. Foster, that orders were
; issued to commanding officers of
mobilization camps rn the United
States which particularly forbade ef
fective handling of fake conscien
tious objectors who were inducted
into the national army under . the
draft law," x
VOL. XLVIII NO. 41.
CHANGES
IN PLANS
OF LEAGUE
DISCUSSED
Commission Begins Study of
Safeguards for Monroe
Doctrine and Japanese
Racial Amendment. .
Taris, March 22. The peace con
ference commission on the league
of nations at its meeting at Amer
ican headquarters this afternoon un
der the chairmanship of President
Wilson completed consideration of
eight articles of the league cove
nant, the changes being formal.
The important amendments con
cerning the 'Monroe doctrine, the
Japanese amendment for just racial
treatment and the French amend
ment, relative to the creation of a
general staff were deferred for con
sideration at the next meeting, to be
held Monday at 8:30 p. m.
The Japanese . amendment has
been revised so as to be introduced
into the preamble and recites the
equality of nationals of the states
belonging to the league.
The neutrals have proposed 30
amendments, but they are largely
formal, except a bwiss amendment
concerning sovereignty.
Ihe various plans proposed for
safeguarding the Monroe doctrine,
however, are the chief subjects of
interest in American quarters. ,
Amendments Considered.
Tlu official statement on ; the
meeting of the committee on 'the
league of nations says:
"This was the first meeting of the
commission since the draft of the
covenant was presented to the plen
ary session of the conference on
February 14.
. '.'A- .discussion took place on a
ifu'mber of . amendments suggested
by the members of the commission
as a result of the recent exchange of
views with the representatives of
neutral states or of the constructive
criticism to which the covenant has
been generally submitted.
"The committee will resume its
examination . of the covenant on
Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock."
Economic Subjects Determined.
Economic subjects to be intro
duced into the preliminary peace
treaty were definitely determined
at a meeting of the economic com
mission today. These take a wide
range, the important subjects in
cluding the disposition of German
patents, trademarks and copyrights
and ilien property, such as that held
by the custodian of such property in
the United States.
Danube; Regulations Discussed.
"The commission of the inter
national regime of ports, waterways
and. railways met this afternoon at
the "ministry of public works," says
the official statement issued this
evening. ,r "The commission exam
ined clauses to be inserted in the
treaty of peace in regard to the re
gime to be apnlied in the Danube.
"The commission will continue
the examination of these clauses
at its next meeting on Monday,
March 24, at 3 p. m."
Two Separate Clues C
Link Deaths of Nurse
and Oakland Matron
Oakland, Cal., March 22. Two
separate clues, unearthed in the
past two days, have linked the
mysterious deaths of Miss Inez
Elizabeth Reed, San Francisco and
Fort Riley, Kans., army nurse, and
Mrs. George D. Greenwood, Oak
land society matron, according to a
police announcement here today.
Miss Reed's body was found in a ra
vine near San Mateo, Cal., Saturday,
March 8. following an illegal opera
tion. Mrs. Greenwood was killed
by a bomb at her home here last
Tuesday' night.
The clues are in the form of two
lists of names, one in a pocket
memorandum book, found in a box
car at "Tracy, 'Cal., yesterday, bear
ing the names of Miss Reed and
George D. Greenwood, the slain
matron's husband, and the other
found iri" the . shack of two--men,
taken into custody at midnight last
night and bearing the same names.
The box car list contained also the
names of a number of other prom
inent Oakland people. .
Six U. S. Navy Officers
Working Upon Plans
for Transatlantic Flight
Washington, March 22. Six of
ficers of the navy and one of the
marine corps have been assigned to
the trans-Atlantic section of the of
fice of the director of naval aviation
for. dutv in connection with the
preparation of plans for the flight
across the 'Atlantic ocean which is
to be undertaken soon, by. a big sea
plane of the. N-C type.
MAKE USE OF THE ;BEE'S
Eater
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City Detective Who Shot
- Unarmed Soldier Remains
On Duty, Despite Charges
Investigation of Shooting, Characterized by Witnesses
as "Cowardly and Unwarranted," Demanded of
County Attorney; Police Heads Say They Are
Still "Working On Case."
Soldier Who Was Shot
by Omaha Detective
and City's Police Chief
Private Charles Coleman.
Ulars-halL&cstein.
Twox Battle vTanks
From the Argonne
Here for Victory Loan
Two six-ton tanks from the Ar
gonne forest battle in France will be
shown in Omaha during the Victory
loan campaign drive April 21. The
tanks recently arrived in New York.
Eyre Powell, in charge, of the war
machinery, made arrangements for
their care with the Chamber of Com
merce Saturday.
Prize Winners
' ! Is Love'
First Three Prizes .Won
By Men, Two Going to
: Contestants Outside
of Omaha.
'First Prize Five Dollars.
Albert L. Anderton, Edgar, Neb.
Second Prize Three Dollars.
Louis C. Thpplecke, 618 North
Fortieth street. '
"Third Prize Two Dollars. '
H. C. Peterson, Oakland, Neb.
Next Twenty Best A Book Each.
Ansil Briggs, Henderson, la.
Myrtle Brown, Sutton, Neb.
Peter B. Clausen, East Omaha.
Miss Lulu Davis. Hastings, Neb.
Miss Elsie B. Dietrlck, Norfolk,
Neb. -
E. F. Fowler, Chicago.
J. E. Glover, 619 North Forty-fifth
avenue. ...
Glenn Haddock, Fairbury, Neb.
A. P. Hansen, 3015 South Six
teenth street. I
S. Hartley, University Place, Neb.
Miss J. Hopkins. Tilden, Neb. - '
R. Neely, 107 North Twenty-sixth
street.
Mrs. Grace Miller, 2963 Martha
street.
Margaret Pearl, 4711 U street,
South Omaha.
J. Sar.aker, jr., 1713 North Twenty
fifth stteet.
Thomas H. Swan. Alliance, Neb.
Mrs. William Vogel,, West Point,
Neb.
. Alice West. 1715 Burt street.
Mrs. Benjamin Wingore, Denni
son, la.
Mrs. H. Wiechclman, Hastings,
Neb. . ' .
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NEW QUESTION
Omaha
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, . 1919.
Formal charges of cowardly and
unwarranted shooting and serious
ly wounding Private Charles Cole
man, the Camp Dodge soldier who
was attacked Wednesday at Capi
tol avenue and Twentieth street by
Detective G. Knudson, were filed
against the detective with A. V.
Shotwell, county attorney, yester
day by Herman Aye, counsel repre
senting F. R. Flinn, uncle of the
boy who is hovering between life
and death at the Lord Lister hos
pital.
Eight affidavits of eye witnesses
to. the shooting were submitted to
the county attorney. All of them
state that the officer's attack was
unprovoked and unjustifiable.
More Witnesses Found.
Mr. Aye declared that a dozen
additional affidavits would be ob
tained condemning the detective for
his criminal attack on. young Cole
man. Whether or not Mr. Shotwell will
ask for an ' indictment against
Knudston depends on the result of
the decision of the county attorney
after reading the affidavits, declared
Mr. Aye.,
In the event the soldier dies, a
charge of murder will Je asked for."
If Coleman should recover from
his wound, a charge of shooting
and wounding with intent to kill
will be sought, it was said.
Asked if Detective Knudlson
would be suspended pending the in
vestigation of the case, Dean Ringer,
police commissioner, declared that
no action would be taken until Mon
day. "Chief Eberstein went out this af
ternoon to investigate," he said.
"The chief will make his report and
the commissiqn will act later."
Ringer Yet Undecided.1
Mr. Ringer asserted that he was
unable to state whether the commis
son would take any action looking to
discharging the detective prior to
the prosecution of criminal charges
in the district court. ""This de
pends on the report of the ch.ef of
police," he said. .
Attorney Aye declared that in the
event the commission did not take
some action of its accord, it was
likely that Mr. Flinn, his client,
would make such a demand of 'the
city officials. , .
"My one regret is that I didn't
suffer this bullet wound in France
as an offering of my services in
battle," the soldier Coleman last
night cried in his agony at the
hospital. "It's tough to get into
military service to fight in the
trenches, and then to think that I
was shot in action like this."
Glad to Be Soldier.
September 6, 1918 was as me
morable a day for the young, soldier
as his wedding day, Mr. Flinn, uncle
of the vicVm, said. "I'm going to
'soldier' now," Coleman told his
uncle at the station platform upon
leaving for Camp Dodge. "And as'
long as I'm going, I want to i?et into
action. I'll go to France and make
good; you'll be proud of me when I
return."
Special duties in the depot brigade
at the Iowa camp kept the young
(Continued on Fags Ten, Column One)
in Bee's 'What
Contest
Flrat Price.
QIv to love a definition
He la foolish who would try.
Could you tell your aoul'a position
Or the distance to the sky?
Love to eome brings Joy and laughter,
Love to others brings a tear;
LoVe will last through the hereafter.
Love has died and love is here.
Love's bubble, here one minute,
Gone the next for evermore.
But a heart, when love is in it.
Sings as ne'er It sang before,
Love's a servant or a master,
A condition of the mind;
Love can make our hearts beat faster,
But It cannot be defined.
Love's a fad or love's a fashion.
Or a feeling for a friend;
Love's the antidote of passion,
The beginning of the end.
Second Prize.
Love is like a Ford engine. It
has its clutches, reverses and breaks
(brakes.) It is accelerated by gas,
ignited by sparking which usually
results in an explosion and finishes
with an exhaust of the ptcketbook.
It dies down when the .'park is re
tarded. Sometimes the "cut-out" is
used.
Third Prize.
In Omaha was born the notion
"Love must fully be defined."
This to do has set tn motion
All Nebraska's bralna combined.
By the rich, the wise, the lowly .
Love can ne'er cornered be.
Love Is not thing for barter,
As chattels are or property.
Love's the spring of clean ambition;
It helps to reach thetilghest peak.
He who though on humble mission
To duty tencst nobly meek.
Love was known to Thor and Belder;
No new-born frills are seen In love.
Love was known In old Valhalla,
Will be known in heaven above.
Love la not a fleeting passion:
By swine shxmld not be undertrod. 1
Love is pnre. Is high. Is holy.
Its fountain la the soul of God.
AND ANSWER COLUMN SEE EDITORIAL PAGE.
Sunday Bee
IMJ
OLD KING
AK PLAYS
NEW ROLE
THIS FALL
Great Mid-West Festival to
Become as Famous in Its
, Way as Mardi
Gras.
Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha is to be
made a national instead of being
merely a mid-west event,
This is the announcement made
by "Dad" Weaver, Ak-Sar-en - sec
retary. The details of flie plans
mentioned a few days ago are being
worked out by a committee consisting
of L. C. Nash, W. W. Head, vV. D.
Hosford and J. W. Gamble. They
will report early this week.
"Ak-Sar-Ben is going to be as
widely famous as the Mardi Gras of
New Orleans," said "Dad" Weaver.
"The plans now under way do r.ot,
as has been stated, contemplate do
ing away with anything that we
have now, but they consist of adding
to what we have.
1 Downtown Parades.
"We will keep the Den and have
the weekly initiations there, begin
ning June 1. That is one of the most
popular features. We will have the
great parades down town. The car
nival is the only thing. that will be
done away with and that will merely
be moved out to the new grounds
which will be bought for the great
agricultural, live stock and horti
cultural exposition.
"We are not ready to state just
where this tract will be. The pur
chase has not been completed. I
will say that it consists of 139 acres
and the whole project involves an
outlay of $500,000 or more, in.-!ud-ing
cost of the ground and buildings,
race track, etc.
"A concrete and steel grandstand
to seat at least 20,000 people is part
of the " project. Permanent build
ings of many kinds will be erected.
As soon as the land is acquired a
landscape artist will be employed
to lay it out. We are looking for
ward 25 years and we wjll , build
with that in view. This is to be a
thing which will grow bigger as
the years go by.
Street Cars to Grounds.
"Transportation is another thing.
The Street Railway company would
have to build an extension to the
new grounds."
Horse and automobile races, lig
sham battles, Payne's fireworks and
similar spectacles are among the
things announced as likely to draw
the crowds to the big "show."
An extraordinary drive for mem
bership is to be made this year and
Weaver thinks the total may reach
3,000. Already 600 memberships
have been taken out which is twice
as many as had been issued last
year at this time. Weaver hopes
to have 2,500 memberships by June
1, when the initiation shows start
in the Den. (
A dinner will be given at the Fon
tenelle hotel Monday evening for
the hustling committee.
Claar Transfer
Bams in Council
Bluffs Burn
Fire that started shortly after mid
night this morning destroyed the
Claar Transfer company's barns and
office on Fourth street near
Eleventh avenue, Council Bluffs,
with all contents. Six or seven large
trucks, some of them loaded, were
burned.
Tony Dachtler's warehouse, bot
thing works and barn adjoining the
transfer company's property, were
also destroyed.
Losses by the fire are estimated to
total between $10,000 and $15,000.
New Chummy Club Formed
by Girls of the Y. W. H. A.
A new "Chummy Club" of the Y.
W. H. A. has organized under the
name of the "Felicia Chummy
Club." At a meeting-held Wednes
day evening, officers elected were:
Miss Esther Zalkovitch, president,
and Miss Rebecca Bercovici, secretary-treasurer,
j ' The work to be
taken up by this club is domestic
art and social-service work, as well
as a little social entertainments for
the benefit of the members. The
next meeting of the Felicia will
take place Wednesday evening, at
7:30 p. m., at the club rooms.
Sleet Storm in the West
Increasing in Severity
Denver, March 22. With no sign
of abating, the sleet and wind storm
that has gripped Wyoming since
Thursday continued to hamper all
transcontinental wire service to
night. Reports from Cheyenne late
today were that the storm was in
creasing in severity.
The most serious trouble occurred
Thursday night between Rawlins and
Cheyenne, Wyo., where all wire com
munication went down under the
sleet storm.
By Mall (I vur). Dally. 14.50: Sunday.
Dally Sua.. H.S0: autalda Nth. aoitata
Spring Has Come
see Me y. j , .
( is COfttint donrtt) sf M. ( tSj ,
High Prices for Building;
Material Hamper Erecting
Many Much-Needed Homes
Realtors and Leading Home Builders Unanimous That
ftfo Homes Can Be Built As Long As Prices for
Supplies Remain Prohibitive High; Firm Which
Anticipated Building of 150 Homes, Cuts Contracts
To But 50 Houses. ,
Hundreds of much-needed houses will not be built this
spring on account of high prices of building material and
labor. Proof that dwellings for which tenants are clamor
ing will remain unbuilt, is offered in statements given out by
leading realtors and home builders of the houses they plan
ned to build but can't, on account of prohibitive prices.
New families are moving into-
Omaha every day and many re
turned soldiers who gave up their
homes upon entering the army are
desirous of setting up housekeeping
again, but cannot find any housing
facilities. There are few residences
for sale and hardly any to rent in
the city," according to the current
issue of the Chamber of Commerce
bulletin.
Would Build ISO Houses.
"We would let contracts today
for 100 additional houses to the SO
we will build this spring, if prices
come down," said C. W. Martin, the
man who built up Minne Lusa ad
dition and has acquired Florence
Field for the same purpose. Martin
is perhaps the largest home-builder
in the city.
"The demand for houses is great
er than it has ever been in Omaha.
Nothing but high- prices restricts
an extensive building program for
Omaha this spring."
"I am not going to build one
house this spring and we generally
build 40 to 50," said J. H. Osborne
of the Osborne Realty company.
"Prices are absolutely prohibitive.
The lumber and building material
dealers want all the profits in
sight."
Hundreds Ready to Build.
"Besides the crimp put into con
struction plans of home builders,
the high prices are preventing in
dividual owners of lots from going
ahead on building plans for their
own homes," Mr. Osborne brought
out. "I know at least 200 people
would build their own homes this
spring if prices came down."
Benson and Carmichael, extensive
builders in the west part of the
city, are building only 30 nouses
this spring and the contracts for
these were let last year.
"We have let no contracts this
year. We are waiting to see what
(Continued on Pace Ten, Column Three)
Over Half Million
of Expeditionary
Force Brought Back
Washington, March 22. The
total number of the members of
the American expeditionary forces
returned to the United States has
passed the half million mark.
The war department announced
today that actual figures on March
20 totaled 500,034, including 27,
940 officers, 2,146 nurses, 3,683
civilians and 448,241 men of the
army, 13,550 navy personnel and
4,474 marines.
On February 28 the total
strength of the forces in France
and those enroute home was
placed at 1,074,000. Deaths re
ported this month numbered 2,339,
while the troops landing in this
country and embarking from
France from February 28 to March
20 numbered 204,009.
FIVE CENTS.
LUMBERMEN
HOLD OUT SMALL
HOPE OF SLASH
Conferences Opened With
View to Stabilizing Market
and 'Giving Impetus to
Construction Work.
Washington, March 22. Repre
sentatives jof the lumber industry
and the industrial board of the de
partment of commerce encountered
many difficulties peculiar to the
trade in beginning conference today
with a view to effecting price re
visions similar to those in steel prod
utts. At the close of more than six
hours of discussion, it was an
nounced that in the absence of any
organization competent to speak for
a majority of the lumber producers
in this country, no agreement had
been reached and in view of the
complexity of the situation, suffi
cient data was not available , on
which the board could base any
action.
Hope of an agreement " was held
out, however, in the decision to have
a committee of the lumber men re
main in Washington for consulta
tion with the board and to supply
available figures of the production
of costs of each section of the lum
ber industry. Further meetings will
be subject to the call of the board,
which will occupy much of next
week in conference with brick and
cement interests.
Difficulties Encountered.
The committee -consists of John,
H. Kirby of Houston, Tex., presi
dant of the National Lumber Manu
facturer's association; Dr. Wilson
Compton, Chicago, secretary-manager
of the same organization: R.
M. Rickey, New Orleans, economist
of the Southern Pine association;
G. L. Hume, Norfolk, Va., North
Carolina Pine association; George
W. Ward, Jacksonville, Fla.,
Georgia-Florida Sawmill association,
and M. W. Stark, Cincinnati, Ameri
can Hardwood association.
It was evident from comments
after the meeting that the lumber
men did not hold out any prospect
of material reductions in the prices
of their products. Mr. Kirby declared
production costs had gone up out
of proportion to the rise in price and
that the increase had continued even
since the armistice was signed.
In response to the request of the
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OFFICERS
ON LEAVE
City and Army Officials Try to.
Discover Frequent' Use Put
to U. S. Trucks; Cross
River Boo'ze Route.
The first chapter in the alleged
liquor traffic probe among army
lieutenants and a ring of civilian -bootleggers
growing out of the ar
rest of an army sergeant and eight
men in Council Bluffs together with
the seizure of 1,673 pints of whisky
from a government truck, has come
out.
i Government officials are investi- .
gating a report of water-way trans
portation of liquor across the Mis
souri river at a point where the army
sergeant and the three Italians were .
arrested by Council Bluffs police.
It is estimated that no less than
30 motorboat loads of liquor were
brought into Nebraska by way of
the river from the shack in which
the bootlegging gang was caught. ,
Sergeant A. E. Drew, Fort Omaha
chauffeur, and the three Italians who
were caught "red-handed" on the
army truck load of booze, leaving
their rendezvous on the river bank,
refuse to make any statement about -their
methods of blockade running.
Have Military Lockjaw.
Sergeant Drew declined to say
anything of his connection in the
affair, merely stating that he "was
following orders from Sergeant
Heinne. in charge of the Fort Omaha
garage."
Army officials have restrained
Sergeant Drew from talking to
anyone in regard o the scandal.
Friday's raid on the bootleggers'
shack in the willows on the river
bank promises to bring out some
startling facts of booze-running
among army officers in government
cars that were unmolested by state
agents and city police because of
the supposed assistance the officers
were giving in "running down boot
leggers." Charge Furloughs Useful. ,
The system in operation by -users
of the army cars, as told by
an army driver whose name is with
held, is linked with clever methods
of furloughs taken in turn by army
officers. Under the pretense that
they were chasing booze cars, army
officers transported and distributed
liquor during their furloughs, it is
charged, developments will prove.
Kelly Enters Denial.
Sergeant Drew gave Council
Bluffs police full details of the
alleged gang of whisky runners. He
said he did not know the names of
the four men who were also with
the gang that was arrested and who
escaped along the river bank. He
declined to state whether they were !
army men cr not. '
Tom Kelly, alleged owner of the
booze found on the army truck in
Council Bluffs, was arrested yester
day; He denies tht he told Ser
geant Drew to "go to Council
Bluffs to the shack to get a load of
boxes." Kelly was formerly a depu
ty sheriff.
. Car Not Checked Out.
Officials at Fort Omaha refuse to
make any statement about the af
fair, merely declaring that "a thor
ough investigation is under way."
It was learned that the army truck
was not checked out from the fort
nor missed. Sergeants Drew and
Heinne will face court martial on a
charge of running away with the
truck, officials say. Seven times,
when a Bee reporter requested an
interview with Colonel Wuest Sat
urday, he was answered with "Col
onel Wuest is out." i
Recalls Accident
Police heads have taken up the
whole affair with army officials, and
the accidents of army cars which
occurred in "running down boot-'
leggers" are again being investi
gated. The accident of January 31.
when an army lieutenant was killed
and three injured seven miles on
the West Dodge road, is brbught
into the limelight again. The state
ment issued at the time by army '
officials in regard to the accident
was that "the party was pursuing
some bootteggers who had been
selling their stuff to men at the
fort."
Another Speedy Run.
Several other accidents of army
cars operated by the military oolice
which occurred in the city while .
"running down bootleggers" are be
ing investigated again. A speedy'
run made by two army lieutenants
south on Twenty-fourth street two
months ago resulted in the injury
of one of the occupants when the
dimy car crasnea into a nouse near
Twenty-fourth and Vinton streets.
The car was making up lost time
from the Athletic club where the
occupants stopped before going to
Frtf Crook.
', No Government Arrests
As far as could be learned, no
bootlegger has been arrested by
army officers using government cars
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