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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. '. APRIL 2. 1919. THREAT BY DEBS OF TOP IP NOT GIVEN HEARING Socialist Head, Convicted Under Espionage Act, Makes -Statement After Supreme Court Refuses New Trial. Akron, O., April 1. Eugene V. Debs, socialist, has threatened to call t genera! strike of his party throughout the country unless he is granted a rehearing in the courts on charges upon which he was con victed under the espionage act. Debs was confined, with a bad attack of lumbago, at the home of Mrs. Margaret Prevey here when notified that the United States su preme court had refused him a re hearing. He refused to see news paper men, but through Mrs. Prevey later issued the following state ment to the press. "The matter is in the hands of my attorney, Seymour ' Stedman, Chicago. I do not know what legal action he will follow, as I have received no word from him as yet. "Unless something further can be done- the program of the party to tie up the country in a general strike will be fulfilled. A I am prepared to fight to the end.' Condition Not Serious Mrs. Prevey said Debs' condition is not serious and that he will be able to leave the bed within the next few days. When shown the report of the de cision of the supreme court Debs said: "That means by May 1, the day an which I begin my sentence, a gen eral strike will have culminated. It must not be forgotten that that day is the labor day of the world. On that day I had been assured that if the supreme court had not ruled by that time more than 5,000 labor meetings would have been held ask ing for my release. "The miners of my own state, In diana, will start the strike. These men came to me at my home in Terre Haute before I started on my last speaking tour, and told me that from the day I went to the penitentiary- there would be no more coal mined in Indiana until the day I was released. "The movement will undoubtedly aegin at once." Ordered Sympathy Strike. Debs first gained national promi nence through his connection with the American Railway union, organ ized by him on June 20, 1893. When the Pullman Car company employes went on a strike in 1894, Debs, as president of the American Railway union, which comprised railway worker! of all branches, ordered a sympathetic strike on the 32. rail ' ways converging in Chicago, on June 26, 1894. The strike spread with great rapidity and the traffic on all the western roads centering n Chicago was practically stopped. Owing to. .the stoppage of mail transportation the federal govern ment interfered and on June 30, 1894, the United States court issued an injunction against the . striking railway, men. .Federal troops were ordered to Chicago on Julye 3 and for several weeks there was con tinuous fighting between the troops ind the rioting strikers, who des troyed railroad property valued at several million dollars. Man, Who Ran Away With Girl, To Face Court Charge Arrival of Father of 16-Year-Old Roumanian Girl, Who Came Here With Lover to Be Married, Abrupts Ro mance Would-be-husband Lands in Jail, While Girl Taken By Juvenile Authorities. The dramatic arrival of father and a big policeman to arrest the bride groom ended the elopement of 16-year-old Sarah Carp and Ely Nicola of St. Joseph, Mo. The arrest was made Monday aft ernoon just , as the young couple was leaving a South Side rooming house to find a minister. Nicola was jailed and must face a federal white slave charge. A war rant is to be issued for him by the United States Department of Jus tice, says Captain Briggs. Defends Her Lover. Sarah is a black-haired Rouman ian girl. Yesterday morning she stamped her foot and declared she would not go home. "I'll wait till Ely is out of jail, and then we'll get married," she said. . The couple came to Omaha fro m St. Joseph, Mo., Sunday. Monday Sarah bought a marriage license at the South Side city hall by telling the clerk she was 18 years old. : Mr. Carp followed the couple to Omaha eight hours after their de parture; The girl has been given into the custody of the local juvenile authorities. ! CONTROL BOARD TURNED WOMAN EXPERT DOWN Continued From rink Page. had voted on appropriations affect- Sarah Carp CHICAGO PUTS THOMPSON BACK IN MAYOR'S JOB (Continued From Tmgt One.) to Marshal Joffre of France, and his promise of police protection to a gathering of members of the peo ples' council for democracy and terms of peace, all were urged against the mayo? by his opponents. The campaign was filled with spectacles arranged by managers of Thompson, Sweitzer and Hoyne, managing committees for down town streets and public buldings. The canvass for votes was one contin uous noise making campaign, cul minating tonight in the shouting throngs greeting the mayor's vic tory, as indicated by the police re turns. Late returns indicated that the democrats had elected Henry Stuck art city treasurer and James T. Igoe city clerk, and re-elected Judge John M. O'Connor to the superior court. Labor Candidate Fourth. A labor party was in the field for the first time with John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, as mayoral candidate, who finished in fourth place, trailing Hoyne, the independent. Hoyne polled more than 100,000 votes, which was less than half of that received by each of the two leading contenders. Fitzpatrick poll ed more than 50,000 out of a labor union membership of 240,000, and is sued a statement that "the labor party had established itself." The other mavorat candidates were John M. Collins, socialist, who polled nearly as many votes as the socialist candidate received four years ago. Last in the list was Adolph Carms, socialist labor, who received fewer than 2,000 votes. Keeps Eye on Ballots. Late tonight after no concession of victory from the Sweitzer head quarters had been issued, it was said Sweitzer adherents were in vestigating the action of the mayor in ordering policemen to take the police returns to his office in the city hall before the result should be made known. The action, it was said, was to prevent any manipula tion of the figures. The mayor in a statement at tributed his success to the confi dence of the voters in the repub lican party. Late police returns showed the democrats had elected Henry Stuck- art city treasurer by 20,000 or more, and James T. Igoe city clerk by 8,000. The republicans elected Har ry A. Lewis judge of the superior court by about 6,000, and George B. Holmes municipal judge by nearly 20,000. British Will Arrest American in Turkey on Charge of Treason Washington, April 1. Secretary Baker has approved a request of the British military authorities in Tur key that they be permitted to arrest on charges of treason James Spohr, a naturalized American citizen, and his wife, declared officially to have bv-en closely associated with the head of the German spy system in Pales tine and among British Indian sub jects. Whole Grain foods contain valuable Quali ties especially worth while for those who wish sturdy bodies. tope-Nuts -among cereal foods -is best known for its wonderful building Qualities. A real food, appealing in form & taste. The Wheat & Barley Food No raise in price during or since the war. ing the office, but that Mr. Fierson was the only applicant for the place, and they felt he had acted in good faith, and was paid no more than the law allowed. He said he did not know whether any of the money paid Pierson ultimately found its way into Craddock's pocket. Asked why the Board of Control had not required a bond from the Victor-American Coal company, as required by law, he replied that he did not consider the agreement en tered into by the board -to be in tUe nature of a contract, but considered it an order. The board depended upon Commissioner Holconib for le gal advice and the latter had not considered a bond necessiry in this case or in that with E. E. Howe!', purchasing agent. Didn't Follow Market. Asked why the board had received coal from the Victor-American Fuel company at $2.20 per ton, when the company was selling the same coal to individuals at $1.60 per ton, he answered: "I am not a coal man and did not follow the market. A letter was then produced, writ ten by members of the board to the fuel company calling attention to the fact that it was offering to sell to one of the stewards of a state institution coal at a lower price than it was selling the state. Mr. -Mayfield was asked by At torney Wilson why the Board of Control had returned no finding in the case of Miss Lydia McMahon. He said that he was ready in IS minutes to make a finding so far as he was personally concerned, but that Judge Holcomb had advised that no formal finding be made for the reason it would entail a cost of $500, and Miss McMahon had re signed after the hearing. Mr. Mayafield was questioned why he had not returned the let ter belonginsr to Miss Tannebaum. which had been taken bv Georee Weidenfeld, former accountant of the board, without the owners knowledge. Mayfield replied that he had placed the letter in a port folio and had forgotten it. - "Do you not think, Mr. Mayfield," asked Attorney Wilson, "that it was just as wrong to keep that letter as it was for Weidenfeld to take it?" Mr. Mayfield did not give a direct answer. Slam at Weidenfeld. George Weidenfeld, who was the first person on the stand at the morning hearing, was suddenly and curtly dismissed by Attorney Wil son, who informed him: "We have heard all we want from you. Your charges are so indefinite they have no value." During the afternoon session most of the time was devoted to the con ditions at the Geneva School for Girls, and Mayfield was on the stand during the entire time. Mayfield stated that a year ago he and Gerdes were called into the office of Governor Neville, where they found some friends of Miss Lydia McMahon, deposed superin tendent of the girls' school. They had called in her behalf and they were "Johnny Byrnes, a politician from Columbus; "Bat" Koehler, a coal man, and Bentley, a plumber, both from Geneva." Koehler Quotes Gerde. Mayfield said that at the confer ence Koehler tried to make it ap pear that Mayfield and Gerdes had had trouble and quoted Gerdes as saying: "Mayfield came on the board with a bible in one hand and a re colver in the other. He desired to j raise hell and he has done it." "What did the governor have to say to that?" he was asked by At torney Wilson. search me! was Mayfield s an swer. Asked in regard to the witness re quest of Miss McMahon for a for mal hearing, he said that the first the board had heard about the Faean case was from the newspapers, but that the board had taken no notice of these reports until the official documents had reached it. These papers charged that Miss McMahon, in effect- had tried to protect Fagan, who was bandmas ter at the girls' school, and who had been charged with criminal relations with one of the female employes, in that she had withheld from the board I any information on the matter. Settled With Miss McMahon. She justified herself with the ex planation that she wanted to protect j the girl's good name. Mayfield de j nied that any of the girls who had testified against Miss McMahon were rewarded with paroles. He said that Miss McMahon's resigna tion was demanded by Judge Hol comb, representing the board, after a careful inquiry into conditions at Geneva had been made. He said that at the hearing it was disclosed that Miss McMahon owed the state $250, but that the claim was settled be tween her attorney and Judge Hol comb, the board holding up her last monthly warrant on Judge Hol comb's advice. Mr. Mayfield testified that he had received a petition from 94 girl in mates of the Geneva school asking that Superintendent McAuley be re tained. "Do you think McAuley should be retained?" asked Attorney Wil son. "No, his usefulness ended with the notoriety he got for his methods of corporal punishment," answered Mayfield. "They were severely criticised." MrAlllv' Tlav Hum --j " - J j "Dfi vnn hliv in hie mptllnrls?" I was the next question. "No, I do not believe in corporal punishment. I first heard of the public whippings from a high-class Omaha woman whose name I shall not mention here. McAuley came in a few days afterward and I told him, 'If you must whip the girls there you must make them a special gown, as thick as this, showing him the cloth of my trousers, and of a dark color." "You knew he was using a strap and a rubber hose?" was the query next put to Mayfield. "I did, and I told him to cut out the rubber hose and told him why." "Except for that one thing of the indecent publish punishments. Mc Auley is a good man," was the ver dict given by the witnesi. MAN TELLS HOW LEARNED TO TALK THE SECOND TIME (Continued from Fae One) to him in the most kindly manner as his friend, the Fred Runvon ai the bar was an entire stranger toi nun. ne renieniDers lie was playing the piano while others were danc ing, when Runyon came in. Other witnesses are telling the story of the assault, which was made outside the' Runvon home at 3 o clock in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Wehrha han, members of the midnight rarty, told ot Kunyon returning from his work after midnight intoxicated, and of his attack upon Wade, v. ho also had been drinking. Their tes timony closed the day yesterday. Joe Palmer, who held a gun vcr a doctor who had been called While he worked over the injured man, will be on the stand this morning. Want European Market Opened for American Coal Washington, April 1. President Wilson will be asked to use his in fluence to bring about a greater consumption abroad of American coal. The project, it is understood, has the approval of the Department of Labor. OBITUARY Whisky Runner Is Captured With 816 Pints in Iowa Town Shenendoah, la., April 1. (Spe cial.) Headed toward Shenandoah with 816 pints of St. Joseph whisky, M. J. Myers was arrested by a gov ernment detective and taken to the Page county jail at Clarinda where he and his cargo are being held. A federal officer is waiting to take charge of Myers when he is tried in this county for transporting whisky into a dry state, bootlegging and having his whisky car improperly labeled. Myers' wife from Shenan doah went to him as soon as he was taken to Clarinda. The prisoner telephoned to "the boys" in Shenan doah to send $1,000 to pay his fines. A man, giving his name as Albert Johnson, was arrested Friday and hned $500 before his liquor account was settled. Wilson Urged to Extend Big Credit to Poland New York, April 1. Immediate opening of credit to Poland for the puiTlmse of American war materials m France to equip and send a Polish army of 500,000 men to Danzig to avert "disaster," was urged in a ca !! message sent to President Wil son in Paris and made public here today by the Polish national defense committee. Miners Deny Report of v Protest Strike for Debs Terre Haute, Ind., April 1. Wil liam Mitch, secretary-treasurer, Dis trict No. II, United Mine Workers, gave out a statement this mom ing denying any plans for protest strike by miners of this district against the imprisonment of Eugene -j V. Debs. The matter hai not been before the executive board of the organization, according to Mitch. Will Close Mills Manchester, England, April 1. The employers and operatives in this region, market reports say, have decided to close all mills using American cotton for a full fortnight from April 10. MRS. SOPHIE STINE, aged 56 years, 1608 Locust street, died at her home Tuesday afternoon. She had been a resident of the city for 18 years, and is survived by two sons, A. M. Stine and T. B. Stine. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. To Fortify Tht Syitant Apalnit Grip. Take LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE Tsblsts which destroy iferms. art as ft Tunlct and Laxative. und thus prevent folds. 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