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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919. s FINANCIAL AID NECESSARY IN MEXICAN TRADE Country Awakens to Need of Foreign Capital and Will f Probably Pass Laws to - Insure Protection. Washington, April 4. Private and official advices from Mexico City within the last few days were in terpreted ai jlearly indicating a sud den change in sentiment in the re? public toward foreign investments in Mexico and that the coming ses sion of congress will clear the at mosphere of much of the hostility shown since the adoption of the 1917 constitution. The American oil interests in Mexico, it was learned, have not receded from the stand originally taken- that their -vested rights in Mexico must be recognized, and that the anti-foreign and ' confiscatory features of the new constitution must not operate, ex-post facto against them. Nor have they shown any inclination to waive the rights in property which were purchased under the existing laws of Mexico, but which were jeopafdized by the new constitution. The American, British and French governments have protested to the Mexican gov ernment against the operation of certain parts of the constitution which were termed "confiscatory.", , From recent advices it appears the attitude of the Mexican people v at last, and it is believed in official circles this attitude is inspired by 'be government, is to recognize the ,. tights of all people, including for eigners, to their vested rights under international law. One influence which is frankly stated as having caused a change in public sentiment is a book recently published in Mexico entitled "For eign Investments in Mexico," and written by Carlos Diaz Dufoo, edi tor of El Impartial, which has had an unprecedented popularity among the reading population of the republic. According to an exten sive quotation from this book, which has been-received here through diplomatic channels, the author says: "Mexico needs capital, in a degree perhaps not experienced by any ether young nation, F.very indus-' ' try demands it, agriculture no less than cattle-raising, mining and the od industry alike." Tite book then adds that foreign ers arethe only people who have the necessary capital, or who are willing to nsk it in hazardous in vestments. ' Practically all the newspapers f Mexico City and many of the provin cial papers are reported to be print ing interviews with members of con gress and editorially commenting on I he problem of forc'gn investments, especially the oil industry. Crowds Menace Newspaper i That Praised Bolshevists Brisbane, Australia, April 4, via Montreal. A labor newspaner here which praised the raisins of the redJ nag oy Russian demonstrators, lias , been menaced Jjy angry crowds, which sm?shed the windows of the building. 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Mr. Brandeis, besides being a lover of horses, is a firm believer in plenty of exercise, and in addition to his daily game of hand ball at the Omaha Athletic ciub, augments this by horseback riding.' , Millionaires Warned to Support League in , German Note to Wilson Berlin, April 4. (By Associated Press.) Leading ethical, philosoph ical' and religious societies of Ger many have addressed an appeal to President Wilson, giving warning against a disregard of principles to which Mr. Wilson has pledged him self, which, they claim, induced Ger many to lay down arms. The appeal declares that "if Germans are driven to desperation, thev would rather become bolsheviki than slaves," and charges the Czechs and Poles with anticipating the conclusions of the peace conference and violatinig the Wilsonian principles. It says the allies are "not only condoning the acts of the Czechs and Poles, but are supporting those nations." It 'is maintained the allies provok ed anarchistic conditions hi Ger many by refusing to relax on the blockade. In discussing the ossi!il'ty of a revival of militarism the appeal $i; "Only one thing could again v.c: ' the Germans of every state into a warlike power the continuation of fUf nnlirv of 'liatp and nunihi'nt o ' that has been pursued by the allies." i Mr. Wilson is warned that the , United States, "with its great for tune and billion dollar trusts" is a fertile field for communi:ni, and it is suggested that wealthy Americans "hal better support the league of nations " , Steamship Line Acquires, Interest in an Oil Field Xef "York. April 3. The Atlantic, ! Gulf and West Indies steamship ! line, holding organization, of the ! Mallory, Clyde, New York and Por to Rico, Ward and other steamship companies, has acquired controlling interest in a large Tampico oil field which is to be utilized for provi ling fuel for ships of these lines and bulk cargo for transport. . Breaks Record x Par,!s, April 4. Lieutenant Rous sotrot, a French aviator, yesterday excelled his feat of Tuesday, when he reached an altitude of more than 20 000 feet in a large French biplane. Yesterday he ascended to between 20,000 and 25,000 feet, with i3 pas sengers. The lowest temperature registered wag about 20 degrees be." low zero. ough tonic to rebuild the system so ;!iat you can have your old-time ' th end vigor restored. Nothing can equal S. S. S. for completely restoring your strength and vitality after you have had this distressing disease. This splendid remedy purifies the blood, removing all disease germs, and builds up the entire system . v S. S..is sold by druggists every where. If you wish medical advice, simply write to Chief Medical Ad viser, 255 Swift Laboratory, Atlan ta, Ga., who will give you such ad vice as your case may need, without cost. saddle horse which Ceorge Brandeis Yanks in France Demand Probe of Courts-Martial mericans in Paris Exercised Over Reported Blunders of Officials and Unjustifiable Sternness in Enforcing Trivial Infractions of Military Laws. By NABOTH HEDIN. (Ininvsil. Service Staff Correspondent.) (Special Cable Dispatch.) Paris, April 4. A case strikingly illustrating to what lengths military injustice can go has just come to my notice. For months the ears of Americans in Paris have been filled with reports of unjustifiable stern ness exercised at American courts martial. If a small fraction of these reports are true, then, according to the consensus of "Americans here, not only a general revision of all cy.irl-martial cases during the war, ut a congre:sicnal investigation 'To the long line of official blunders .v'il be necessary. .. In order to save my friends family rem worry I refrain from using his ".atnr, but 1 have known him since infancy. His record hitherto has ecn periecr. Arrested in Paris. Comnv .sionecl a lirst lieutenant '.viator and stati'med in, central 1 ranee, lie received lat Christmas a two weeks' permit to visit Paris and Nice. The permit did not specify the length tf stay at either place. He arrived in 1 aris Christ-ma- flay and registered with the ;,wo-t marshal. Owing to the unusual traffic he was unable to find accommoda tion on Riviera train on the first day, so he stayed over until the next. 'While he 'and some other Americans were buying cigarets in a commissary store they were sud denly surrounded by a squad of military police who examined every man's papers and, on the assertion that his Paris leave had expired, the previous day, arrested the aviator and hauled him up before the judge advocate who preferred charges. Money Exhausted. The aviator thereupon was con lined to a hotel room where he was Italian Transport -With 2,000 I roops on , Board Sunk by Mine Paris, April 4. (Havas.) The Italian transport Utnbria, with 2,000 officers and soldiers on board bound from Venice to Tripoli, has struck a mine and sunk, according to ad vices from Bari, Italy, quoting news papers of that city. Several on board were killed and 100 injured. '-The Umbria was a vessel of 5,020 tons gross, built at Livorno in 1902, and owned in Venice. She was at Naples in December last, but has not since been reported in shipping registers. Election Board Charged With Defacing Ballots Chicago. April 4. An indictment charging five judges and clerks of election in -3 First ward precinct with defacing ballots in the Febru ary primary and also naming a democratic precinct captain was re turned yesterday. The First ward is the Bailiwick of Michael ("Hinky Dink") Kenna and John J. ("Bath house John") Coughlin, veteran democratic aldermen. The indictment resulted from complaints of representatives of Thomas Carey, defeated for the democratic mayoralty nomination by Robert M. Sweitzer. who lost to Mayor William Hale Thompson, re publican, at the city election Tues day. The grand jury Vas continued for possible vote fraud investigation. Entertain Officers j New York, April 4. Officers of j the 91st division and other western j military units stationed in camps around this city will be guests of j the Rocky Mountain club at its "Vic tory dinner" here April 8, it was an nounced today. The annual dinner is usually held later in tHe year, but it was decided to advance the date in order to permit the military men to-attend. has added to his stable, has ar compelled t pay the prevailing high prices which soon exhausted his savings for the vacation and sou venirs for his family. Unable to draw pay, being under charges, and too. proud to notify his friends, he lived on one meal a day. Three weeks of enforced idleness were gone before the trial was called. Nothing is more demoralizing than enforced' idleness in Paris. At the trial the defense was not called, the whole case hinging on the technical meaning of the avia tor's pass. After the trial the de fendant was told he was released from roorp arrest, but must report to the provost marshal daily until the decision in his case was pub-1 nsneu. Report Other Cases. So he loafed about in Paris four weeks more. He was allowed, however, to draw his pay, which in dicated the trivial nature of the charges. Being a college graduate he attempted to enter a university course which the iFrench offer American soldiers, but the very day he was to start. this course he was ordered to leave Paris together with about 40 other young officers also awaiting court decision. Arriving at St. Aiguan camp he w as confined, in the barracks. There hty stayed seven additional weeks until March 29, when a telegram an nounced that the charges against him had been dismissed. After hav- ing wasted the whole winter he was at last allowed to resume flying. "Never until this experience," he said to. me after his release, "had I i magined Americans could treat each other like that." I am informed that - there are numerous other cases of this sort at the St. Aignan camp, some offi cers having to wait several months before they learn their fate. Some of the details of certain cases seem absolutely incredible. Better Class of Bavarians Organizing to Emigrate Munich, April 4. (By Associated Press.) A further manifestation of the movement which is spreading among many of the better classes in Bavaria was the formation here to day of the "council of emigration," under the auspices of the League of South American Emigrants. Many people are preparing to leave the cities and settle in the rural dis tricts or in other German states. The Drexel Kid Says : "Beat Steel Shod.? Why, yu can't even tie 'em. Dad saya they're the beat kid hoe made." Boys' sizes 1 to 5 $3.50 -Little Men's 9-1 3 y2 r $2.75 Mail Orders Solicited. DREXEL 1419 Farnam St. LET FOGH DRAW PEACE TREAJY, HARDING URGES Ohio Senator Says Peace Must Be Wound Up as Quick as Armistice to - Curb Bolshevism. (By Universal Service.) Washington, April 4. The sug gestion that General Foch should write the peace treaty and wind it up in a hurry as he did the armistice terms has been advanced- by "Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio in an interview. General Foch could be depended upon, the senator said, to phard the security of the United States as well as that of France and Great Britain. Senator Harding criticised the de-4 lay at the peice conference and ue clared that it has brought the allies Uh ni ht rter t th Cu hot j , nn'i .on tl.r tli o nrvf r t rofxynl v.S . ... . . ' . apparently to the point of recogniz ing bolshevism. He said the people of all countries are seriously con cerned over the delay in bringing about peace. . Bolshevism Dominant Factor. "Not only is bolshevist destruc tiveness to be countenanced in fall en Russia," he added, "but the world will awaken pretty soon to the fact that it is also dominant in Germany and has done infinitely more through revolution and delay than it was ex pected to accomplish by force of arms." Senator Harding declared that it is a "dangerous business to trade on our position as a world creditor and to force Europe and America into a hasty .compact to establish world internationalism," Gf the league of nations he said: "It is difficult to say anything about the proposed league of nations because no one knows what the pro posal is going to be. The original draft is doomed here, if not buried at Paris. It is regrettable that we know so little. In the face of the solemn pledge of 'open covenants cpenly arrived at' we are astonished to read of threatened exposures of hindering influences, and my own reluctant impression is that the peace conference is not getting any where with actual accomplishments. I doubt if we have any serious pro posal for a league with the treaty of peace, for which peace treaty all the world is calling. Preservation Big Issue. "The oft uttered demand for some thing constructive in place of oppo sition to the president's first propos al, seems to have been met, and have turned the course of events. If not literally constructive, it is at least corrective and preservative and it was preservation that Washington was thinking about when he uttered his anxieties and warnings to the American people. Clearly the orig inal purpose is forsaken now and the sanctity of one-man dictation is ended. One-man power by force of arms has been proven t impossible again and again, and it will not pre- vail in the rhetoric of peace." .Declaring that he will make no speeches on the league of nations until he knows definitely what the proposal is, Senator Harding said that the United States will accept nothing which puts an end to na tional aspirations; neither will any of the other powers represented in the peace conference, he said. The -. .. .. : .! : . i J u- r- I scimiui saiu it wuuiu uc easy lur me conterence to provide tor a clear and unmistakable enunciation of in ternational law and commit all the allied nations to its enforcement. "Under such an arrangement there would never be another world war unless some mad man of the future again undertakes the domina tion of the world," Senator Hard ing added. "In that event the world will do again as it has so recently done, it will resort to force to strip him of his power. All the leagues ever dreamed of will never eliminate world politics, such as is today halting the peace conference, or prevent the development of danger ous ambitions. Our problem is to commit the moral, and if need be, the physical force of America against the aggressions and trans gressions of both." French Army Powerless in Frankfort Uprising Coblenz, April 4. (By Associated Press.) The Spartacus uprising in Frankfort, to which city German government troops had been order ed, occurred virtually within sight of soldiers of the Tenth French army, who occupy western suburbs, but were powerless to act, owing to the fact that Frankfort proper is just over the Mainz bridgahead line. So far as is known here no French troops have entered Frankfort, al though requests were made that they should do sO. Drexel Quality Boy s Shoes Your Boy needs the best Shoes you can buy for him.. Don't be satisfied with the j"ust-as-good kind, but insist on having TEEL HOD HOES Our vreputation of thirty years' standing is backof every pair of them and when we say that one pair of these shoes will outwear two pairs of ordinarx boys' shoes, you can depend on it that they will. - Parcels Petit Paid. SHOE CO. lis London's Mystery Man Chicago Marine Mechanic? American Bluejacket, Apparently Suffering From ' Asphasia, Found in B. V. LVs Unconscious in London Street Does Not Remember His Name and Mum bles "I Won't Sign It!" By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE. (Universal Service Staff Correspondent) (Special Cable Dispatch.) London, April 4. Is London's "mystery man," Edmund Seeley of Chicago, mechanic attached to the marine flying corps at Dunkirk? Here is a worm's eye view of the mystery which has London agog to day, because it is still unsolved: In the American hospital at Park Lane is a husky lad about 23, blue eyed, of corn-colored hair and pink cheeked the type the-maiden ar workers call "sweet" who does not remember anything prior to 1:40 o'clock last Friday morning, when in tsolton street, Maytair, heard a taxicab top for a few seconds, then speed on. Subsequently he found the lad, wearing unlaced shoes and regular American "B. V. D's." nothing else. He was semi-con scious. When able to talk the lad mum bled, "I won't sign it by God, I won't sign it." , Later on Friday the caretaker of Lansdown Pfouse, Berkeley Square, nearby, found a par of socks, a garter, a pair of naval trousers and Irene Castle Denies Engagement to Marry Son of Gov. Treeman (By Universal Service.) New York, April 4. Mrs. Irene Castle, the famous dancer and widow of the late Capt. VernonxCas tle, apparently is giving less thought to possible future matrimony than the public is giving on her account. Several times since her husband was killed in an airplane accident she has been reported engaged. She telegraphed here from Miami, Fla., today in reply to an inquiry as to the truth of a report that she was to marry Capt. Robert E. Treeman of Ithaca, son of Gov. Robert H. Iree man of the Federal Reserve bank: "Deny my engagement to any one. "I feel flattered at having my name connected with Mrs. Castle," said Mr. Treeman, "but as for- being engaged to her, as yet she has not so honored me." mi ii ii ii ii ii ii ii n ii ii ii it-m ii ii ii ii n ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ::::: jf " i - - 2 : EEnntf ::::::::CE:W r t vrrAvw.avvwitij pan a cap the trousers bearing the name of Seeley. There was no wount on the boy's head and no indication of drug or liquor. The boy was first taken to St. George's hospital and thence to the American naval hospital. He was unable to talk until today, when he professed no knowledge of his name, whence he came or what had happened. He admitted a fairly comprehen sive knowledge of London. He also has an idea he enlisted somewhere around the. .Great Lakes. Tonight Ensign Triebel, United States navy, thought he recognized the "mystery man" as f Edmund Seeley of Chicago, an aviation me chanic from Dunkirk. Triebel sug gests the lad is a victim of asphasia. He says there is a man of that name on leave from the aviation unit of marine flyers. But the boy does noj recognize the name as his own. "It doesn't sound right," he keeps repeating. Tonight at a late hour an official of the American naval hospital re ported: "We think we have the right identity but we are unwilling to an nounce it until we have verification from France." American Dairy Cattle to Help Build Op France Washington, April 4. American dairy cattle are to be sent to de vastated districts of France, where they will do their "bit" toward re storing the health of the children of those regions. More than 100 head Of pure bred cattle, recently pur chased by the French high commis sion and selected from the best herds by experts of the United States Department of Agriculture, shortly will leave New York fof Havre on a specially equipped trans port. There is said to be an urgent demand for milk from the war stricken areas. 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