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6 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 6, 1919. OMAHANS HELD IN KANSAS UPON LIQUOR CHARGE Alleged Witnesses of Hiawa tha (Kan.) Shooting Charged With Transporting Whisky Through the State. St. Joseph, Mo., April S. (Special Tt'.vgram.) Homer Anderson and , J. C. Banker, both giving Omaha as their home, are being held in Hia watha, Kan., ak witnesses to the killing of Columbus. Beeler, 70 years old, and the wounding of his son, Fred Beeler, which occurred Thurs day night at the home of John Heikes, near Hiawatha. The father and son are alleged to have confe to the Heikes home to spend the night after the breaking down of an automobile in which they were carrying liquor. Heikes has been arrested charged with the killing of Beeler. Police Allege Confession. ' Police in Hiawatha say he con fessed to the murder, but insisted that the shooting was accidental. Anderson and Banker assert that the shooting followed a violent nnarrel between Heikes and Beeler The two men are neighbors. They i.lv th nlir nartv hail hpfn Hrinl. . J ,. ' nig liquor. Warrants have been issued for the aifest of Anderson and Banker charging them with violating the 'bone dry law.. Kansas police allege the Omaha men had a cargo of "hooze" which they were taking to Gnialia from St. Joseph. Omaha police declare they have no record of anyone giving the names of Homer Anderson or J. C. Bankers. Neither are the names listed in the Omaha city directory. Steamer Carrying Eckhardt Homeward Detained at Plymouth Portsmouth, Eng., April 5. The Dutdi steamer Nieuw Amsterdam, which left New York March 26, is being detained here by the British 'authorities. No reason is given. It is reported that the former German minister to Mexico, H. von Eck hardt, is on board. Herr von Eckhardt and his family left New York March 26 bound for Holland. It was reported at the time that the allied governments had granted safe conduct to the min ister, At "the time the vessel sailed it was said that on its arrival at Plym outh, it would be hoarded by Brit ish and French secret agents who would watch the German voyagers until thi liner left for Rotterdam. Herr von Eckhardt was in charge of anti-American propaganda in Mexico. He was recalled by his government last December 21, and came to New York overland from Mexico City. Prominent Citizens of Hungary Now Work in Minor Positions Vienna, April 5. (By Associated Press.) Baron Satvan, one of Hun gary's richest and most enterprising citizens, is now employed as a clerk. Many of the prominent families have been interned at Budapest, one of them being that of Manfred von Weis, a gun manufacturer, who-ba? been imprisoned in the attic of the family home. Four proletariat fam ilies occupy the rest of the mansion. Armed servants are guarding the house, with orders to kill the prison ers if they attempt to escape. Simon Strauss, former director general of the great Magyar bank and one of the best known financiers cf Hungary, has offered his services . to the new government and has been accepted as a bookkeeper American University Union to Be Maintained in Paris New York. April 5. The Amer ican University union, established in Paris to meet wartime needs of American college men, will be con tinued as a permanent institution, according to word received at Col umbia university. After peace has been signed and the American troops leave France, it is proposed to make the union a bond between the universities of France and Amer ica, and a clearing house of inter national educational information and a headquarters for American students of science, literature and art. . The individual bureaus which have been maintained by various Amer ican clubs in Paris during the war will close in a few months. Ex-Mayor Dahlman Leaves Washington for the West Washingtonn, April 5. (Special Telegram.) Former Mayor James C Dahlman of Omaha, who came to Washington for a conference with officials' of the intelligence depart ment of the federal railroad Admin istration, left today for the west Frank Brown, a former newspaper man of Lincoln and Kearney, who has been business manager of the Idaho Falls (Idaho) Register for several years, has been appoint ed private secretary t Governor D. W. Davis of that state. When in Nebraska Brown was a democrat, but has seen a new light since lo cating west of the Rockies. Exemptions Named from Ten Per Cent Club Tax Washington, April 8. Member ship dues or initiation fees of the Y. M. C. A, Young Men's Hebrew as sociation, fraternal societies, lodges, college fraternities and labor union "locals" are exempt from the 10 per cent tax on "social, athletic ar sport ing, clubs" under the revenue law, according to regulations issued to day by the internal revenue bureau. TOBACCO g taut HtWt CURIO 91 -mint remedr. Guaranteed. Sent on trial. If It euro, eost n $1. tr it fails. Wm nothing-. SUPERBA COM PANY, D-717, Baltimore. Me) High Court Upholds Decision of District Judge in Damage Case From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, April 5. -The Nebraska supreme court Saturday, in affirm ing a judgment obtained in the Douglas county district court, against the Otis Elevator company, says a verdict of $25,000 for Daniel M. Thomas of Omaha, crippled for life by a fall of five stories to a cement basement, is not excessive. Thomas is 2 years old and was an, employe of the Omaha Iron works when he was struck by an elevator while working on a 4ew hotel in Omaha. Thomas' legs were fractured, an arm broken, his jaw fractured .and teeth knocked loose as a result of rthe fall. The accident left him with one knee stiff and one leg and inch and a half shorter than the other. A ruling by the Douglas county district court denying a lump sum to Elsie Myers, whose husband, Joseph, was killed in a boiler explosion in the Armour packing plant Septem ber 4, 1918, is affirmed by the su preme court. The high court rules that commutation could not be made under the state workman's compen sation act unless both employer and beneficiary agreed to it. Mrs. Lindsey on Way East to Join Husband, Who Is III Lincoln, Neb., April 5. Mrs. Ben B. Lindsey, here for a brief time to day, enroute to New York to see her husband, Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Denver juvenile court, who is ill in that city, stated she had re ceived no additional word as to her husband's condition since leaving Denver vesterdav. Mrs. Lindsey added that her hus band probably was suffering from stomach trouble, together with a nervous breakdown, which might have been caused by his strenuous work on behalf of the government. He was at the Biltmore hotel, New York City, and probably would go from there to Battle Creek, Mich., she said. Judge Lindsey returned several months ago from France, where he spent about six months as a repre sentative of the committee on pub lic information. Mail Clerk Enters Plea of Guilty to Stealing $5,000 Sioux Falls. S. D.. April 5. (Spe cial) When arraigned in the United States court in this city, Frank E. Wallace, of Pierre, a railway mail clerk, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging that he robbed the mails of a package of $5,000 in cash. He will be sentenced later. ' Thomas Ryan, of Aberdeen, en tered a plea of not guilty charging him with having sold a bottled tea under a forged government bond. SOVIET FORMED IN BAVARIA IS MUNICH REPORT Republic of Communist Type Proclaimed After Visit of the Hungarian Radical , Leader, Bela Kun. Spa, Belgium, April 5. A soviet republic has been proclaimed in Munich, Bavaria according to a wireless message received here by Mathias Erzberger, head of the German armistice commission. Bavaria is the second largest state in Germany, having in 1910 a popu lation of nearly 7,000,000, and an area of 29,292 square miles. The former Bavarian royal house was the first outside of the Hohen zollern family to lose its throne, King Ludwig and the Wittelsbach dynasty being deposed by the Ba varian diet. Relations between Bavaria and the remainder of Germany have not Don't Suffer from Pilos Sample Package of the Famous) Pyramid Pile Treattneat Now Offered Free to Prove What It Will Po for You. 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The Ba varian government has been under control of socialists of a radical type. Will Not Compromise With Those Caught Making Liquor Lincoln, April 5. (Special.) Fed eral agents hereafter will not com promise with persons charged with operating illicit liquor stills, the commissioner of internal revenue at Washington has notified District At torney T. S. Allen. The practice of a settlement after persons have been found operating stills, without the government li cense, will be discontinued because it has weakened the effect upon lo cal prohibition administration, the letter says. The Advertiser who uses The Bee Want Ad Column increases his business thereby and the persons who read them profit by the oppor tunities offered. ' ' CITY A. C. PLANS SHORT CAMPAIGN FOR MEMBERS Drive -for 250 Additional Names on Membership Roll Wilt Be Launched Next Thursday Night. Having decided to add 250 to the membership roll of the Omaha Ath letic club, the membership commit tee will meet Thursday night at a dinner given by W. B. T. Befit, chairman of the committee, to launch .the campaign. Congressman A. W. Jefferis will be thhe principal speaker. Other speakers will be J. C. Wharton and W. A. Schall. Edgar Moore will assist Chairman Belt in the handling pf the campaign. Affairs of the club are in the best of condition, but the directors have found that .more members can be accommodated without crowding so they have decided to add 250 mem bers. Thev say that there are over 600 men in Omaha who ought to be long to the club and they think the ..mnnffti ..-.11 LA 1. n . Members of the club are enthusl lastic over tne prospect ot the pas sage of the boxing bill which is now up to the state senate as they figure it will give the club an opportunity to stage some classy events. There is ample room at the club to permit all the law allows to watch these affairs.-, With the addition of the roof gar. den, which will be opened soon, the club will have an added attraction for the summer season. Oil Products Co. Files Articles of Incorporation Articles ; of incorporation have been filed m the office of the county clerk, for the American Oil Prod ucts company, 115-117 'South Eleventh street. The capitaliza tion is $12,500 and the incorporators are: F. D. McMillan, O. S. Tettis, R. E. Johnson. J. D. West, John Kemp, C. F. Pollock and John A. Olson. The company will-engage in a manufacturing and selling busi ness of sweeping compounds, stains, disinfectants, oils and greases. B'NaiB'Rith Order ? To Initiate Body's Largest Class Today Omaha lodge No. 354, Independ ent Order of B'nai B'rith, the larg-est.-and most influential Jewish or ganization west of Chicago, will ini tiate 1 5(K candidates, the largest class ever1 admitted into any Jew ish organization in Omaha, at Crounsc hall, Sixteenth street and Capital avenue, at 2:30 Sunday aft ernoon. Omaha lodge has been doing splendid social service work in this community. Together with the lo cal Jewish Welfare "board, it has maintained recreation, reading and writing rooms for all men stationed at Fort Omaha and Fort Crook. Monthly entertainments for mem bers and men stationed at the forts have also been arranged. Many of the new candidates are returned sol diers anM sailors who availed them selves of the splendid service the B'nai B'rith is doing at all the can tonments in this country and abroad. Sunday will be a gala day in local 0 nai a ritnaom, as tne degree ream will put on the full initiation on this large class. 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