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CHURCHES TO OBSERVE
MOTHERS' DAY ON MAY 11.
New York, May 1. -Observance
of Mothers' day, Sunday, May 11,
commended to the members of
150,000 Protestant churches in the
-United States in an announcement
by the Rev. Charles S? MacFarland.
; secretary of the Federal Council of
' kthe Churches of Christ in America,
madepublic today.
The day, it was stated, would-be
more widely observed than eyer.
AMERICANS IN PARIS
s' RESORT TO CANDLE LIGHT.
Paris, April 1. Oil lamps and
candles were used to provide light
in the headquarters of the Ameri
can delegation at the Hotel De Oil
Ion during the early- hgurs today as
a result ol the May day strike, v
KINQ..THANKS AMERICA'
FOR AID GIVEN SERBIANS.
Athens, May l.-KBv Associated
) Press.) King Peter of Serbia, who
is living alone in a suburban retreat
' overlooking the Bay of Pireaus, six
miles from here, expressed through
the Associated Press the "gratitude
of the Serbian nation for the Chris
tian charity of the American people.
So marvelously organized by the
Red Cross."
The venerable monarch.' who will
' be 75 years old "m June, spoke with
great feeling of the assistance given
by Americans to the population of
Serbia and to tens of thousands of
refugees? repatriated prisoners ahd
wounded soldiers who, since the ar
mistice, have poured into the coun
try. ' '
WAR RISK BUREAU x '
MAILS 8(5,000 CHECKS. '
Washington, May 1. Eighty-six
thousand checks, representing pay
..Inent for practicallyall awards made
to date, were mailed today by the
bureau of war risk insurance to ben
' eficiaries of men who died in the
military or naval service, it was an
nounced. Since October, 1917, iqore
than 15,000,000 checks have been
tent to dependents, totaling more
than 40(S ono nno - 1
...... , .
RUSSIAN SABLE PELTS
; SELL FOR 51,025 EACH. '
. ' St. Louis.May 1. Record prkes
. for Russian -sable pelts were estab-
lished at the international fur ex-
change here today when a Lt of 10
sold for $1,025 each. A otal of
3,350 of these skjns was offered at
auction today.
Other sales today included 14,000
gray fox skins for a total of $40,000,
and 14,000 white for skins at $47,500.
MAY ABANDON STRIKE
IF BURLESON RESIGNS.
Springfield, 111., May, 1. -"If Post
master General Burleson resigns as
head of the telegraph and- telephone
j lines, there is a remote chance that
the threatened strike of the electric
al workers might not be called," said
Charles P. Ford, secretary of the
International Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers."-,.. ' !
! The electrical workers are ballot-
tn'g on the question of calling a nation-wide
strike July 1, because the
postmaster general refused, to recog
nize the electrical workers. ,
t LIONESS SKILLS KEEPER
AND ESCAPES FROM CAGE.
Woodbury, N. J., May 4. Panic
gripped Woodbury for an hour this
afternoon when a lioness xon exhi-
bition in a circus sideshow, killed
her keeper before a small crowd of
spectators., escaped from her cagje
,nd bounded into a small clump 'oi
woods which adjoin the town.
A posse of men and boys armed
with guns, spikes and stones, pur
'sued the animal into the woods and
finally killed her with a fusillade of
shots.. " ,
BOMBS SIMILAR TO HUN
MINES FOUND OFF COAST.
C New York, May 1. The police" to
day, received information from the
naval intelligence offices that the
construction of the bombs sent in
the ) mails to prominent persons
showed a startling resemblance in
operation and principle to the type
of German mines found by the navy
off the coast. .
RUSSIAN REDS
FORCED TO GIVE
UP PETROGRAD
'""'Si 1 -
Finns and Karelians Capture
Olonetz and Compel Bol
shevik "Withdrawal'
'Along Railway.
" . 4 ;
. Helsingfors. May 1. Petrograd is
being evacuated by the bolsheviki,
reports from reliable sources say.
Many of the inhabitants are being
sent away" and' the" bolshevik gov
ernment is taking rigorous Assures
to prevent the news of the happen
ings at Olonetz from reaching the
people. I
-Olonetz, 110 miles northeast vof
.' Petrograd, has been in the hands of
Finnish troops and Karelian non
bolshevik forces since Sunday. This
weakened the bolshev'ik position in
the region east and north.of Petro
grad aid probably compelled the
bolshevik withdrawal along Jthe
' Murmansk railway to west of Petro
zavodsk, o5 miles noitheast of
'Olonetz.
The .bolsheviki were last, reported
at Povientz, at the head of Lake
Onega and obout 75 mils nortrrof
Petrozavodsk. "
The province of Olonetz is pop
ulated mostly by Karelians who are
Opposed to the bolsheviki and who
apparently have joined hands with
the Finns gainstthc Russian.reds.
, Son of Joe Jefferson Dies.
New York, May L Joseph W.
Jefferson, son of the late Joseph
efferson, famoosactor and himself
widely known on the stge, died at
hitvhome here today" after an illness
ti several months.
The
VOL. 48 NO. 273.
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BY CROWD
Ambulance Company Received
With Paean of Joy From
2,000 Throats on Jts
Return This Morning.
Mothers Ttrid sweethearts shouted
a paean of welcome to 103 Omaha
boys atl2:55 o'clock -this morning
when the train bearing" that number
of the Omaha Ambulance company
pulled into the Union station.
The arrival of the ambulance com
pany marked the first return to
Omaha of an entire unit. Small
contingents have arrived now and
then, but 'this was the first unit to
arrive. '
A' reception committee, headed by
Gould Dietz, met the men at Atlan
tic, la. .
The welcome home tendered the
soldiers by the wives and mothers
and sweethearts that pressed against
the gates at Union station recalled
the eye-dimming scenes of the de
parture of the organization over a
year ago.
Mothers Weep for Joy. ,
Mothers cried on their sons'
shoulders just for the sheer joy of
feeling the relief of the strain that
has weighed them down since the
train that carried those sons away
had left their sight.
Old pledge's were whispered again
in the ears of patient sweethearts
who had watched the reports of the
company's activities ever since they
had started on their uncertain quest.
Capt. A. L. Linquist, -who was
commander of the Omana--amlu-lance
. company, returned with the
men. Two thousand persons greet
ed the company.
Five members of the organization
were left in New v York hospitals,
twa of whom have since died. '
!iVe arrived at Verdun to see
our first bit of action on the very
day the armistice was signed," saro
Captain Linquist. "It was an awful
disappointment, of course, there
fore the less said about it the bet
ter." "Some of our original members
who were transferred to other units
saw ' actual, fighting. We saw
noile, therefore, lost none in ac
tion, a.tid none of the companywas
cited."
Reception on Monday. y
A big reception for the whole
company is scheduled to start at 11
o'clock Monday morning. A parade
of the returned soldiers at 11 o'clock
will be followed by luncheon at the
Chamber of Commerce. In the
afternoon a general reception at the
Auditorium will be held and in the
evening the company's "jazz show,"
which entertained "over there," will
be seen n "action at the Audi
torium. -
No Active Service.
The crushing disappointment that
greeted the ambulance company
when -after-months and months of
training ther arrived at Verdun on
the very &ay the armistice was
signed Was best expressed by a
young private in the company.
' A reporter asked him, "Did you
see any action J"
"Well," he replied, hesitating,
"Well, er, er, NO, the truth of
it is, we didn't." His voice dropped
near the end of his sentence. That
he had just accounted for one of the
great catastrophes of the war was
evident in the heavy sigh that fol
lowed his answer.
Victory Loan Lagging; .
Reports Reveal -That -More
Action Is Needed
' Washington, May 1. Only $166,
302,000 additional subscriptions to
the Victory Liberty lqaa were re
ported today to the-treasury and
total subscriptions tonight stood at
$1,296,999,000, 2&82 per cent of the
entire loan.
-At the corresoondinc oeriod of
the fourth Taaa campaign subscrip
tions amounted to $l,791,46J.UUU, or
29.85 per cent 6i the $6,000,000
total. - . ... . ,
Italian Troops Being
Landed on Eastern
Coast t)f the Adriatic
' - "7
Copenhagen,' Ma 1. Italian
troops and war material are being
landed at Sebeirico and Zara, on the
eastern coast of the Adriatic, ac
cording to advices from Sapalato.
The troops are advancing eastward,
and the Italians' are bringing up re
inforcements to -'the debarkation
line.
Better Lend
1030MAHA
SOLDIERS
WELCOMED
tahnS M MMM-itaN attn Mtr a, ISSt. at
Ouk P- O. ot t Mara 8. tSTS.
"Peggy's" Kisses Come HigK;
According to Testimony
Received $100for Only Two
Chfisman Admits He Paid Money But Denies Thatrit
Was for Oscillatory Favors, But to Buy Newl)ress
Item Was Only One of a Great ManypWW is
Patrick Gilchrist?
Marguerit Gilchrist "Peggy" Sellers, in municipal court
yesterday, testified that on February 22 of this year, she be
stowed two other sweetest kisses upon George C. Chrisman
and that he paid her$100 for these Washington birthday
favors. -
Chrisman, who is a 62-year-old business man, ia his tes
timony declared that" he paid the $100 in question, on the
date mentioned, and that it occurred in Peggy's room at the
Castle hotel, but he denied that he paid the money for two
kisses. ' . " .
"It is absolutely false that I
kissed her," Crisman testified.
"Did you get two kisses on that
occasion?" he was asked.
"I donT remember for certain.' I
was kissed by her many times," the
witness replied. '
Peggy" Had Witness.
Peggy, who is a 19-year-old bride
of a few months, and formerly a
business associate of Chrisman, te's
tified that she delivered the kisses in
the presence of Marie Casey, her
chum, i She stated that Chrisman
went to her room with $200 and said
he had a present for her. ,
You related that Chrisman paid
you $100 for a kiss, did yoit?" she
was asked.
"That was for two kisses," was
the reply. "He said he would make
me his heir; that half of everything
he had was mine."
Chrisman. insisted that the $100
was' paid to enable her to buy a
dress and that the item was one of
Emotion Overcomes German
As Presents Credentials
' . -
Count, yon Brockdorff-Rantzau,' Foreign Secretary, Ex
' X periences One ot Bitterest Moments of His Life on"
Meeting Allied Plenipotentiaries and isxBaYetyJ;
; ADie.io uoniroi nimsen
. Versailles, May 1. (By The As
sociated Press.) In a session be
ginning at 3 o'clock this afternoon
and lasting barely five minutes, the
German ' plenipotentiaries of the
peace conference presented their
credentials. '
It was the first step in the peace
negotiations.' The German creden
tials were presented to represen
tatives of the allies and the United
States.
Neither President Wilson, M.
Clemenceau, French premier, nor
David Lloyd George, British prime
minister, attended the function.
Pale and almost fainting from
emotion, Count .von Brockdorff
Rantzau, the German foreign secre
tary and head of the delegation,
passed through what evidently was
one of the bitterest moments of his
"life. He was barely able to sustain
himself through the brief ceremony
and reach the waiting automobile,
which had brought him to the
gathering.
NEBRASKANS IN
EIGHTY-NINTH TO
GOME HOME SOON
War Department Assigns
Troops of This Division of
Army of Occupatfonjor
Early Convoy
- . '
Washington, May. 1 All organ
izations of the Eighty-ninth division
(Kansas, Missouri, South k Dakota,
Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico
and Arizona), most of the Twenty
third and Five Hundred Fourth
engineers and all of the Five Hund
red Second engineers have been as
signed to early convoy, it was an
nounced today. '
Naval Tug and Three
Mine Sweepers Lost ,
in Storm; 1 6 Drowned
: f
Washington, May 1. Two officers
and 14 men of the crew of the naval
tug Gypsum Queen were drowned
when that vessel struck a rock and
sank near Armen Light off the
coast of France,. April 28 while re
turning to Brest after assisting a
fleet of mine sweepers in distress.
Three of the sweepers, the Court
ney, Douglas and the James
foundered during a severe storm.
All members of their crews and 17
officers and men of tht Gypsum
were rescued by tugs and destroyers.
It to Uncle Sam Than Lose"
Omaha
OMAHA, FRIDAY,' MAV 2, 1919.
many on which he is basing his
claim of $814.66 against the woman
for alleged unpaid bills.
Peggy is contesting the action and
the suit also includes a counter claim
for $2,500 which she claims is due to
her for services rendered while in
the employ of Chrisman.
vThe case was on yesterday before
Judge Holmes and will be resumed
this morning. . , ., ; '
0..1i! i.J O -...1 A ..
Peggy was quizzed. cWely rela
tive to the validity, of ner claim
against Chrisman, for whom1 she al
leged she performed various services
in connection with oil land develop
ment business. She testified that
Chrisman introduced her at their
hotelto prospective investors as
"The Little Lady from Kentucky,"
"Peggy from Kentucky," and , a
"Kentucky heiress." She further al
leged that partof her services for
which she asks remuneration was
(Continued on Page Seven, Column One)
uunng uriei ceremony.
M. Carrfb on addressed ; Count von
Brockdorff-Iafa,;-J8)jaqting that he
was chairman-mthe cAmmfssion en
trusted by thepjtjfll -fqwers to re
ceive ana examin,Tn,e:scrcoeniiais oi
the German deU fhe first
step in a corrfereficf&rcli, it was
hoped, would lead tqi. .peace
"Here are ours," continued M.
Cambon, extending as he s;ioke the
formal credentials of the allied com
mission as plenipotentiaries to the
congress. v
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
surrendered the German credentials,
with even less of a formal address,
his emotion being too great to en
able him to5 deliver an extended dis
course. After these brief ceremonies the
Germans turned and left the hall,
walking a few steps to the cars in
waiting. They were followed im
mediately by the allied representa
tives. The whole ceremony was
over and the allied delegates were
proceeding back toward Paris by
3:20 o'clock.
MOST OF BOMBS
MAILED IN PLOT
PROBABLY FOUND
Senators Overman and King
anrj Attorney Nebeker
Among Men Picked
for Assassination.
Washington, May 1. Belief was
expressed by postoffice officials to
night that most if not all of the
bombs mailedj from New York as
part of an anarchist May day plot
against the lives of public most had
been found.
Checking of reports showed in
fernal machines addressed to Sen
ator Lee S. Overman of North Car
olina, Senator WilliAn H. King of
Utah, and Frank K. Nebeker, an at
torney at Salt Lake, Utah, got
through during the past 24 hours. ,
The alertness of a postal clerk at
Salisbury, N. C, Senator Overman's
home town, prevented the delivery
of the machine to the senator. The
motive was thought to be the fact
that as chairman of the senate committee-
investigating anti-Americali
activities and disloyal propaganda,
Senator Overman had won the en
mity of the radical element. 1
Building Laborers Strike
forin Increase ip Wages
Sioux City, Ir., May 1. Seven
hundred building laborers went on a
strike here today for an increase in
wages. Most of them are asking an
increase of 17 1-2 cehts an hour.
Daily
SENATORS
REFUSE TO
BE BOUND
BY CAUCUS
Norn's and Other: Republicans
Oppose Having League of
Nations Covenant Made
Parjty Question.
Washington, May 1. Several re
publican ' senators of the group
known as progressive let it be
known today that they opposed
having the league of nations cove
nant considered "at a. republican
conference with a View to determin
ing the attitude of the party toward
the document.
Senators Johnson of California,
Jones of Washington, McNary of
Oregon and Borah of Idaho made
statements' declaring the league
not be made a party question.
' They were commenting on the
action of Senator Lodge, leader, and
Senator Curtis,whip,, in telegraph
ing republican members of the
senate to withhold expressions
concerning" the league until a party
conference could be held.
Norris Refuses to Be Bound."
Senator Norris of Nebraska said
he did not oppose the conference,
but would refuse to be bound-by
any action it might take.
"I ,do not care what Mr. Lodge,
Mr. Root or any one else says, it
won't influence me,"' said Sen. tor
Johnson. 'This matter transcemls
atl - 'ier questions in importance
too rfluch to be. made a party ques
tion. If any man can't determine
hisxjivri attitude upon the league he
is not fit to hold his seat in the
senate." " - . i. ,t
Senator Jones said ha thought it
was a mistake to inject politics into
the consideration of the league of
nations.
Senator McNary. who recently an
nounced that he would support the
covenant as finally revised in Paris,
criticised the sending of the Lodge
Curtis telegram. ,y
"This is a matter no political
party can bind me on unless''-jt
agrees with my views," said Sena
tor Borah.
Curtis Explains Action. - ,
Senator Curtis made this state
ment: "
"There has been no conference of
reDublicanson binding the party
one way or'the other on tke league
ti . 1 r 1
of nations. There is a general feel
ing among republicans, here that
senators should refrain from pass
ing an opinion upon the covenant
until they know just what it con
tains, and they won'tiknow until it
has been presented to the senate for
action.
"The Lodge telegram was sent
after consideration with a number
of senators here in Washington be
cause it was believed to be a bet
ter plan for the senators not to ex
press themselves on the proposition
as it had not been studied and the
amendments suggested not verified."
Ten Years In Prison
Penalty Imposed for ,
$204,000 Defalcation
Sacramento. Cal May 1. Frank
A. Brush, cashier of the Santa Rosa
National bank, Santa Rosa, Cat.,
pleaded guilty today in the United
States district court to a charge of
embezzling $204,000 of,, the bank's
funds. x r ' ,
- He was sentenced to 10 years im-,
prisonment 1n McNeil's island.
Fernando Somoza, son-in-law of
the late former President Sierra of
Honduras, and- William C. Grant
and vHar"ofd E. Loughery, assistant
cashiers of the- bank, pleaded not
guilty to sinjilar charges in indict
ments returned against -them.
Benjamin Gies, special assistant
United States district attorney, old
the court that he had a statement
from ' a national bank Examiner
showing defalcations aggregating
$1,IM6,U0U since 1906.
Wreck and Fire Threaten
5 to Destroy Sabula Tunnel
Dubois, Pa., May 1. The Sabula
tunnel of the Pennsylvania railroad,
near here, was threatened with de
struction today by a fire caused by
a freight wreck, which has been
burning: since yesterday. Twenty
cars had been destroyed and 100 feet
of the tunnel collapsed, up to noon,
when "the damage was estimated at
Ul. 000,000. .
iwo cars nitea wren gasoune un
were in the tunnel. Should the tank
cars explode, railroad officials said,
the entire tunnel, as well as the Buf
falo and Susequehanna tunnel, oO
feet away, probably would be de
stroyed. ' !
It to His Enemies----J3uy
Bee
Oally u 8.. W.MI nM Ntk.
S Mill (I mil, Oally. S4.S0:
Bohemian Speaker Here
Urges Freedom for. Debs; :
Scores American Spirit
hundred Persons Wounded c
In Battle at Cleveland
t r-f . -
Policeman Kills Mob Leader; Tearing Red Flags
N From Soldiers,' Uniforms by Army Officer First
Act In Drama That Becomes Free-for-All Fvight
From That Moment; Tank Dispels Rioters. v
Cleveland, May l.--An vunidenti
fied man was killed by a detectiye's
bullet, 11 policemen were shot or
badly beaten and about 100 persons
wounded, many seriously, in general
rioting which brought a tragic finale
this afternoon to a socialist May
Day 'demonstration here.
About 30 persons, seriously in
jured, are in hospitals tonight, while
scores of others, including .women,
were trampled by rioters and
clubbed by police.
Socialist headquarters was totally
wrecked by angry civilians bent on
putting an end to the demonstration.
Socialists and sympathizers were
ridden down by mounted policemen
and by soldiers in army tanks and
trucks.
Shoots Mob Leader.
The one fatality occurred when a
mob, said to have been composed of
socialists or Sympathizers, rushed
on the police. Policeman Woodring
declaring he drew his revolver to
save his own life, fired into the al
leged leader of the mfib, the bullet
passing through the man's neck, kill
ing' him instantly. First reports
said the dead man was, an onlooker.
Sixty of the rioters were arrested.
A score were found to have weapons
on tnemr ppnce say, . .- . i
A mob of several hundred, oj , the
rioters threatened .police. Headquar
ters when C E. Ruthenberg, social
ist leader and former socialist can
didate for mayor", was, arrested and
for more than an hour the entire
downtown section of the cirjtw,as a
seething-mass of socialists, police,
civilians and soldiers, the las riding
80 POLICEMEN .
SUFFER WOUNDS
IN PARIS RIOTS
Barriers Erected by Mobs In
' Street and Troops Fired.
Upon; Cessation of -;'
Work Complete!
Paris, May 1 (Havas) During
the course of the day, 80 policemen
were wounded in the riots here, and
50 arrests were" made. Among those
slightly injured were Leon Jouhaux,
general secretary of the Federation
of Labor, and Deputy Poncet.
A young man was killed in the
opera district. Fifteen persons were
wounded, several of them seriously,
in the neighborhood pf"the Gare de
l'Est when crowds atoned the ' cav
alry and many shots were fired.
""There were numerous clashes in
the Boulevard de Magenta, where
barriers were erected and the troop'sAmerjcan flag be displayed and
C I J N'TL. C... C 1-J t . "
vvcic lucu u;uiu .
Several speakers "addressed assem
blages in the boulevards and advised
them that they were the weaker
party and suggested that they re
turn to the Place de la RepubliqtTe
and the Place de la Bastile, "your
own part of Paris."
L. Crowds Turned Back.
One of the speakers climbed a pole
and addressed the crowd, saying
that it was useless to attempt to
storm the Place de la .Concorde and
reach the objective, the chambervof
deputies and the war ministry,
where demonstrations had been
planned, and advised the people to
proceed to the' Place de la Repub
lique and the Place de la Bastile.
The crowd obeyed, turning east
on the boulevards, singing the "In
terna tjpjiale." The toar ' of voices
was audible for many blocks as the
surging crowds overran the boule
vards, which were lined with the re
publican guard in their shining-helmets.
The Place de la Concorde looked
(Continued tin Pairs Two, Column Four.)
Electricians and Steam -Fitters
Join in Labor Strike
Des Moines. Ia., May 1 (Spe
cial Telegram.) While brick layers
representing the building trades
council were nreparing to meet with
the Master Builders, business men
and Governor Harding Thursday
morning, building laborers outside
electricians, plumbers and ' steam
fitters walked off their jobs. The
men are asking 62V3 cents an hour
for mortar men and 60 cents for
laborers. The present scale is 45
cents. , " f
wlM Mint. TWO CENTS
kXu, IJ.0.' A W VUMIO,
down the rioters in army trucks and
vtanks.
Redf Flags Cause Trouble.
The trouble 4n the public square
started when Lieut. H. S. Bergen,
who served with the Eightieth divi
sion overseas, demanded that sev
eral soldiers among, the socialists
on tlje platform remove their uni
forms or the red flags they wore on
their breasts.
The soldiers" refused and C. E
Ruthernberg, scheduled' as the prin
cipal speaker, interceded for the so
cialists. -
Lieutenant Bergenfollowed by
Lieut. John Hardy of Detroit,
mounted the platform and tore" the
red insignia from the khaki-uniforms.
The act was the signal for
a grand rush by thousands of so
cialist sympathizers.
Mounted police, who had rushed
away to other riot calls, dashed back
to the public square and rode down
the fighting mob, using their clubs
right and left. Several shot3 were
fired by socialist sympathizers.' The
mounted police and several 'soldiers
manning an army tank and two big
trucks, charged pell mell, dispersing
the mob. . .
Rioting Renewed'at Night. :
Fresh rioting tyioke. put trereMd
night, during May day celebrations,
adding eight more to today'6 list of
wounded. Police Lieutenant Meek-
patrolman igiverly cut when they
charged a crowd or alleged radicals.
Other -of mers. then dispersed the
mob. ix persons were injured,-lne
seriously, when police, soldiers and
civilians charged another crowd. ,
N, Y. POLICE WIN
IN BATTLE WITH
1,000 SOLDIERS
i
Service Men Foiled In Effort
to Break. , Up Mboney
Mass MeetirigjFour
" Strikes Called, v v
New York, May 1. The climax of
the May day celebration in New
York came tonight vwith a mass
meeting at Madison Square Garden
which adopted resolutions advocat
ing four general strikes, three of
five days' duration and a fourth of
indefinite length, -unless Thomas J.
Mooney and Warren K. Billings are
released from prison or granXed new
trials before July 4.
The meeting tonight was the only
one of a dozen planned for today
which was not broken up by soldiers
and sailors, who demanded that the
I he Mar Spangled canrter sung
It was not the fault of the service
men that they did not "clean up" the
garden. They tried hard enough but
were' overwhelmed by the police. ,
Soldiers and Police Clash.
An army of 1,365 police, urrtler
command of Chief Inspector Daly
guarded all approaches to the gar
den and held at bay more than 1,000
men in uniform, recently returned
from France.
Led by a ScotchCanadian soldier
and a bugler, who repeatedly sound
ed the assembly, thesoldiers and
sailors charged the police line? again
and. again,' but Tnly to' bi beaten
back. Back of the officers on foot
with night sticks held turfy were
outposts of mounted men. They
were reinforced by a strong proyost
guard.
One mounted officer, chasing the
(Continued on race Two, Column Three.)
Massacre 56 Jews In
Demonstration In
Russian City, Report
London, May l.-
have been ' killed
-Fifty-six Jews
in a pogrom
at Pinsk, according to i'lformation
received from Copenhagen at the
central office of the Zionist associa
tion. x
Forty persons were imprisoned
and brutally treated, it is said, and
three women were flogged. -The
synagogues are reported to be
closed and the Jews have been Im
pressed at forced labor.
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Address by Anton Novotny at
Tel Jed Sokol Hall Only k
May Day Meet In Omaha
, So Far As known.
ALL WEArRED ROWERS.
Chief of f PoHceEbberstein In
Command During Night
Going From Hall
" to Hall.
While fifty patrolmen and detect '
ives were held in reserve at Central
station last night ready to break
up any socialist or I. W. W. meet
ing and others guarded the entrances ,
where the department suspected .
meetings might be helcf, 500 men . '"
and women at Telrjed Sokol hall, v
Thirteenth and Dorcas streets,
heard Anton Novotny of Chicago,
head of Bohemian Socialists in j
America, denounc any movement
to suppress bolshevism and demand
the freedom oj Eugene V. Debs,.'',,
Kate Richards O'Hara and "other
political and industrial prisoners."
Novotny spoke in Bohemian.
His audience, in accordance with
instructions left by Kate Richards
O'Hara on her last visit to Omaha,
wore red carnations in lieu of red
flags. i ' 1 ?
Report Meeting Orderly.
Three policemen, sent by Captain
Vanous, reported that the meeting -was
orderly and not fh violation of
Mayor Smith's order that no so
cialist or I. W. W. meeting be held
in Omaha last night ,.
Circulars protesting against the.
imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs, ...
now-nnder indictmemrfor violation
of the espionage act; Kate Rich
ards O'Hare and "all others who
expressed their sincere and candid
persons at the meeting and gen
erally sigmrd.
Pw,Tm TTnir! Cninfr
j ; " r "
A AT L
Chicago to Omaha to address the
r t- t . . . 1 1 t .
viuaiid autidu&is, iuiu a- ucc im
porter last night that in his speech,
he reviled the "American " people
who have instigated the move which
vism'and all progressive though." '
"I am not a bolshevist.' I am a ' -
"I reminded these Bohemian so-
cialists that on this thirtieth anni
versary of the adoption of Interna
tional Laborday, the socialist paVty
has grown inNeaps and bounds. The
greatest step forward the sopfalists
will ever make will be taken just
BHV1 HIV M-V- Wllltl 19 LUII-
eluded," said Novotny. , ' ,
Five hundred persons signed av
protest against the imprisonment of
Eugene V. Debs and Kate Richardsx
O'Hare during the meeting. - .
T- 1 1 t . t .
. rouowing is a copy oi.ine proiesr
signed by the 500 socialists. A pic
ture 'of Debs appeared at the head
of the protest. - x
I protest the imprisonment of
Eugene V." Debs, Kate Richards
O'Hare and all others who ex
pressed their sintere -and candid
opinion about the war. The war is
supposed to be over. The most au
tocratic Europeanjntions have re
leased their political prisoners. Only
here in the United States doe a
'.democratic' administration still
throw men and women into jail;for
having spoken their honest convic
tions. -
"I. demand freedom for all polit
(Contlnued on Pare Two, Column Five.)
Secretary Daniels
Explains in Ldndon
, U. S. Navy Program
j ,
London, May 1. In a confer-
ence with newspaper correspond-- .
ents today and in a speech, at ' a
joint luncheon of the Anglo-American
society and the Sulgrave Insti
tute, Josephus Dariiels, the Ameri
can secretary of the iavy, made "no
apologies for the big navy, program
of the United States. , .
He emphasised what he con
si4efed the absolute necessity for
a big American navy should t!f
league of nations fail to function.
To questions regarding the e'
tensive American building program,"
the secretary explained that the ac- -tion
of congress could be changed
bv the president should the cove
nant of the league provide ior,
smaller arjnaments.
Mayor Hanson Advocates
Closing All I. W. W. Halls
Kansas City, May 1. Mayor Ole;
Hanson, of Seattle, opponent oi the'
I. W. W. and bolshevist, tonight
addressed an appeal to mayors of all
cities in the United Stages, urging
the closing of all I. W. W. halls, v!
imprisonment of the leaders and the
suppression of the red flag. Tb
appeal was tontained in a states
given out tonight.
