THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919.
MOUNT LASSEN
SHOWS SIGNS OF
NEW ACTIVITY
Earthquake of Fifteen Sec
onds' Duration Fell Yester
day at Redding,
aClifornia.
V Redoing, Cat., May 2. An earth
quake cf 15 seconds' duration was
felt here early today, and, also at
Anderson, Cal. No damage was
reported.
1 No disturbance at Mount Lassen
was noticeable today, although art
eruptbn occurred early last night.
This was the 147th' eruption since
the volcano showed signs of 'si
newed activity. , N
$4,500,000 Alimony
Settlement' Given to
New York Wife
New York, May. 2. A record ali
mony settlement whereby Mrs. El
len Ballentine Kendall of New York
and Bar Harbor, Me., receives
$4,500,000. cash and real estate and
$100,000 a year for life has been
made by Lyman B. Kendall. New
York banker, it was announced to
night. The settlement was by agree
ment and no stipulation was made
to prevent Mrs. Kendall from re
marrying. ;
Two Acres Bring 20 Cents
Columbus,' Ga. The smallest;
amount ever paid by the government
for land has just been paid jin con
nection with the purchase 'of the
site or Fort Benning, which will be
the greatest military training school
in the world when completed. The
government's check for 20 cents
went to D. L. Skinner, of Columbus,
who held title to-two acres, valued
at $20, but taxes and other charges
consumed all the $20 except 20
cents. The entire tract for the train
ing school will cost $3,000,000.
SECRETARY TO
BLANQUET HELD
BY GOVERNMENT
Charged With Conspiracy to
Take Military Expedition
Into i Friendly Territory;
Evidence Found in Texas.
New York, May 2. Robert
Gayon, who was secretary to Gen.
Aureliano Blanquet until the latter
left here earl) this year for Mexico,
where he was killed while acting as
chief lieutenant of Felix Diaz's revo
lutionary movement, yas held in $5,
000 bail today on a charge of con
spiracy to undertake a military ex
pediti.n into a friendly country.
Department of Justice agents al
lege ha he had been connected
with a plot to overthrow the Car
ranza regime. Evidence, they said,
had been unearthed in Texas.
Wilson Treats Germans Too
Humanely, Says Joffre Aid
Washington, D. C, May 2. Amer
ican newspapers report to the effect
that the war time admiration held
by the French people for American
soldiers has waned since the armis
tice, has caused Capt. A. Malick,
aide to Marshal Joffre, to protest to
friends here. So far as the soldiers
of France are concerned, Captain
Malick writes in a letter to Lieuten
ant Colonel A. L. Pendleton, of the
general staff, "the only difference is
that we love you better (than in
1917) because we know vou more."
"The original cause of misunder
standing," he added, "is that Mr.
Wilson has too good a heart, and
thinks the Germans belong to the
human race, whereas they are only
a sort of mixture of tiger and snake."
Argentinian Backs Wilson.
Buenos .Aires, May 2. Dr. Man
uel Carles, president of the Argen
tine Patriotic League, expressed to
day his approval of President Wil
son's declaration relative to Italian
claims oh the eastern coast of the
Adriatic.
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"THE RED GLOVE" At Bay at close Quarters
XXXiJ XVXJ-L VUVy Y J-J Illustrated by HY: MAYER EPISODE No. 8
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Cast out by the Murdaugh family
through forged statements by Starr
Wiley that she is not Giles Mur
daugh's granddaughter, Billie re
turns to Limasito. Wiley has pro
duced likewise, a title to the Pool
of Lost Souls that mysterious lake,
subject of Indian traditions, which is
supposed to be the source of the
oil supply in that part of the costal
reg! ).i of Mexico.
Billie is convinced that Wiley's
title to the pool is as false as his
charges against her. She has hasten
ed back to Limasito that she might
seek out Tia Juana. the old Mexican
woman, 'who possesses the Red
Glove the Red Glove that contains
the map showing the exact location
of the half-mythical pool.
Kern Thode, too, takes the trail
Thode, Wiley's rival for Billie's
love, as he is also Wiley's rival for
the ownership of the Pool of Lost
Souls. Each represents an oil com
pany that is moving heaven and
earth to gain possession of the pool.
But while Thode has fought fairly,
and so has won Billie to his side,
Wiley has fought with foul weapons
as we.l as fair, and has not scrupled
to summon to his aid the Vultures,
that band of cruel and rapacious
outlavs that scourges the whole
region with fire and death.
Int the hidden valley of the Vul
tures, Thode rides now, only to be
captured and heldprisoner. Mean
while Billie hastens to Tia Jauna's
hut, i-ttended by Klondike Kate, a
dance hall character, who has cham
pioned her cause.
She finds the old woman ill, -unable
to tell the circumstances of the al
leged transfer of the title to the pool
from herself to Wiley. As Jose, the
iwoman's grandson, attends Tia
'Jauna's bedside, Billy hurriedly
searches the hut and finds the Red
Glove 1
As she reaches inside for the se
cret of the pool, a heavy knock
sounds at the door. Klondike Kate
leaps toward it. and calls to know
who is there. The answer is an in
sistent demand for admittance, and
whe.i Kate hesitates, a shower of
blows descends upon the door. Soon
the barrier gives way and the figure
of the Chief Vulture appears. -
With knife upraised he seeks to
fore; is way inside. Klondike Kate
seizes an Indian tomahawk from
the wa.'., determined to resist hffn to
the last. Billie, clutching tb Red
Glove, sees through the window
her faithful horse, waiting and sad
dled. Can she escape through the win
dow before the Chief Vulture over
comes Klondike Kate?
SUPREME COURT
RULES TOWNLEY
MUST BE TRIED
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National Nonpartisan League
Head to Answer In Minne
sota Courts to Disloyalty
Charges.
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St. Paul, Minn., May 2. A. C.
Townley, president of the National
Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gil
bert, league organization, must stand
trial on charges of disloyalty, the
state supreme court ruled today.
The decision of the Jackson county
district court, overruling demurrers
brought by Townley and Gilbert,
who sought to have the indictments
quashed, was sustained.
The court ruled that the crime of
conspiracy may be committed with
out completion of the act which was
the object of the conspiracy.
; Gilbert is charged with having
made public utterances designed to
discourage patriotic co-operation in
the war and the Jackson county in
dictments hold Townley responsible
for a Nonpartisan league pamphlet
which, the indictment-holds, wasa
violation of the espionage act.
Gilbert is charged with having
used seditious language in an ad
dress at a meeting at Lakefield,
Minn., January 23, 1917. Gilbert's
attorneys contended that Gilbert's
remarks were not intended to be
disloyal and. were merely a discus
sion of various phases of economic
conditions in the United States.
Sustaining the order overruling
Gilbert's demurrer, the supreme
court ruled that if Gilbert did utter
the statements charged against him,
the language would have tended to
develop an impression that the U.
S. did not have a just cause for en
tering the war and that such a ten
dency might have discouraged en
listment and interfered with the
raising of war funds.
Townley's attorneys argued that
the nonpartisan league principles
were aimed at profiteers and other
enemies of the farmers and that
there was no interftion to. inspire
antiwar or antigovernment1 feeling.
British Firm to Make Auto
Of Concrete; to Cost $250
London, May 1. -(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) An Eng
lish manufacturing company an
nounces it is preparing to market
an automobile that can be retailed
for between $250 and $300.
The material to be used in mak
ing the car is a new substance
which is described as "a kind of
concrete, light but strong and dur
able, produced from waste material
such as slag, clinkers and sawdust
and covered with a metal solution."
Victim of Omaha's Dope, Ring
Ordered to Leave the City
Because She "Told Too Much"
Fearing Exposure As Result of Pretty Ruth Clark's
Startling Revelations of Vice Horrors In Omaha,
Certain Policemen Attempt To Intimidate Her,
According To Her Story.
Ruth Clark, the pretty and talented 19-year old drug ad
dict and shining victim of Omaha's dope ring, has been or
dered by the police to leave the city.
"It's all because I told too much," she cried yesterday
when she begged the reporter not to again mention her
name in the paber.
I told you what I did because I thought my awful ex
perience might help other girls, she added, but you see
what it has got me." -
The statement she referred to was the story of her life
and an expose of the drug traffic published in The Bee Tues
day. '
In the recent Detention home scandal unearthed by The
Bee in which it was charged that women of the street were
arrested and then allowed to escape from the home provided
they paid a certain amount for the privilege, Special Officer
Jesse Black, guard at the Home, was arrested and held under
$5,000 bond for trial.
Congressional Party to
Sail From France May 10
Washington. Mav 2. Members of
the congressional party, represent
ing tue military committees ot con
gress now in Europe, will sail from
France May 10 on the Leviathan,
me war department was lniormea
today, . v
Main Witness Disappears.
But when that case came up for
trial the prosecution was dropped
because of the absence" of Mrs.
Gladys Thompson, the principal wit
ness aeainst Black.
She had suddenlyand mysterious
ly disappeared from Omaha. Miss
Clark admitted today that she re
membered this circumstance only
too well.
Tempted and seduced in Omaha
dope dives, this girl plunged, like
hundreds of other young girls here,
from the heights of virtue 'into the
whirlpool of sin.
Bares Secrets of Heart.
In a burst of spontaneous confi
dence she laid bare the inmost se
crets of her heart. Some felt sorry
for her. Others winced. '
She raised her voice in the hope
other girls would hear her words of
warning. She prayed they would
hearken to her example.
Omaha policemen read in The
Bee the harrowing details of the
story which fell from Ruth Clark's
own lips. They recounted the ex
periences related in her confession,
which made the blood of decent
citizens boil with righteous indig
nation. .
Police Fear Exposure.
Some .policemen read with fear
and trembling the charge that dope
peddlers of this City were being pro
tected. The words wrung from a heart
bleeding and despairing have only
invited police persecation and added
torture to the girl's shame.
Since the publication of Ruth
Clark's story last Tuesday she has
been ordered to leave town. ,
She has been approached by Oma
ha policemen and told they would
not allow her to remain here, ac
cording to the story she related yes
terday. Threatened With Exile.
"Please do not put my name in
the paper again," she begged. "The
police have been after me. I want
to remain in Omaha and I have
been threatened with exile bv sev-
leral policemen, I thought I was
doinf the right thing when I told
my story. I see now my mistake.
I am afraid to walk on the street. I
simply must do something to satis
fy the policemen who are in posi
tion to make my life more miser
able." Miss Clark declared a policeman
called on her and asked her what
sha had told that would reflect on
the department. She said the offi
cer threatened to put her in jail if
she did not stop talking.
"I was afraid and told him I had
told nothing," she said. She would
not give the names of ithe officers
who threatened her.
Accosted By Policeman.
Another policeman met her on the
street, she declared, and when he ad
dressed her used rough and vile
language. "You better stop your
talking and get out of town, or you
will find this a pretty hot place.
Take it from me shut up or get
out."
Still r another policeman ap
proached one of the girl's friends
and told him he should do all in
his power to get; her out of town,
she asserted.
"Another officer approached me
and attempted to intimidate me,"
she said. "He told me he had been
watching me and had a line on my
movements during the past week.
He said I spent Friday night in a
which were impossible anJ warned
me that Omaha was entirely too
small a town for me to live in. He
told me to stop talking about dope.
Watched By Officers.
"I said I would if the police would
let me alone. Then he went on to
tell me that I had been out in an
automobile drinking with two men
last Friday and Saturday. He said
he even watched me go to a
restaurant Friday night for supper
with a man whom I never had seen.
He said I spent Friway night in a
hotel with this man, and that I
went to another hotel Saturday
night with the same man. When I
denied these things, he threatened
me with arrest if I did not stop
talking. . I let him have his way
DEALERS NOT
TO OVERCHARGE
FOR LUXURIES
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Clerks Must Become Familiar
With Law; Violation Means -Penalty
of $1,000 and
Year's Imprisonment.
Washington, D. C, May 2. Com
plaints have reached the internal
revenue bureau of retailers charging
more than the actual tax on , so
called luxuries, such as expensive
clothing and other personal equip
ment. Reports indicate that most cases
of overcharging were caused by the
failure of store clerks to acquaint
themselves with provisions of the
law. Officials issued a reminder
that overcharging a tax may render
the dealer or clerk liable to a fine
of $1,000 and a year's imprisonment.
In the case of the luxury taxes,
it was emphasized that the tax of
10 per cent is imposed only on the
excess of cost above a certain sum
specified in the law, and not on the
entire sale price.
Beef tea, coffee, sandwiches, cake,
ice cream in buckets and medicinal
preparations often sold at soda
fountains are not taxable.
Jews Urge Peace Conference
To Act Against Atrocities
New York, May 2. A cablegram
protesting against horrible atro
cities committed against Jews in Po
land and Galicia" and urging action
by the peace conference to prevent
further' pogroms, has been sent to
President Wilson by a committee of
Jews representing 500,000 of their
coreligionists in America.
about it because 1 was afraid of be
ing arrested again.
"I am sick and tired of being ar
rested for nothing. I know the po
lice ran pick one up whenever they
feel like it. It makes no difference
whether or not you have done any
thing. They put you in jail and
when you ask them what the charge
is against you, they say you are held
for investigation, and no one is per
mitted to see you. They hold you
until you are "willing to do or say
anything they want you to in order
to get out of jail.
Never Been Convicted.
"As many times as I have been
arrested, notwithstanding the many,
many days I have been in jail, I was
nevli convicted of a crime in my
life, unless you will call the beating
I gave Miss Berger at the Deten
tion home x crime. I did this de
liberately with the sole purpose of
getting away from that place. I had
rather be in jail.'
"When I returned after serving
two tyears and eight months in the
Geneva school, I hoped and prayed
my prison days were over. I was
home just four days when Miss
Johnson, of the juvenile court, ar
rested me and sent me to the Deten
tion home. I was nevef told by any
one why this was done.
"Speaking of dope, I saw more of
ths stuff in the Detention home than
I ever expect to see as long as I
live. I never knew what it was until
i was sent up there.
KIMBALL AGAIN
ELECTED HEAD
OF ARCHITECTS
Is One of Most Prominent and
Oldest Men in the Profes
sion; Resident of Omaha
for Thirty eYars.
The American Institute of Archi
tect re-elected Thomas R. Kimball;
240 St. Mary's avenue, Omaha, to
the presidency, according to a dis
patch from Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Kimball is not only one of
the most prominent architects in the
city, but also the oldest. He is the
first architect west of Sj. Lcuis to
hold this important position.
He has been a resident of this
citv for the last '30 years, all of
which he. devoted to the pursuit of
his profession. Many of the largest
and most imposing structures in this
city, including the St. Cecilia's
cathedral, have been planned by Mr.
Kimball.
Improvement of Farm Life
Aim of Washington Meeting
Washington, D. G, May 2. Agri
cultural representatives from many
sections of the country are attending
a conference called for today and
tomorrow by Secretary Houston to
consider plans for the improvement
of farm life and to discuss the part
the Department of Agriculture must
take in aiding national, state and
community agencies in, carrying out
such plans.
In opening the conference, Sec
retary Houston spoke in favor of the
adoption of some system whereby
the facts bearing on rural life and
activities could be obtained at fre
quent intervals.
Roumanian King Will Enter
Budapest at Head of Troops
Vienna, May 2. King Ferdinand
of Roumania, accompanied by
French generals, is about to enter
Budapest, the capital of Hungary,
at the head vof his troops, a
Bucharest dispatch to the Ntue
Freie Presse says.
Aged Salvation Army
"Lassie" Returns
From Fighting Front
New York, May ' Z. "Ma" Bur
dick, 60-year-old Salvation Army
"lassie," mother to thousands oi
American doughboys with the
America, expeditionary iv.c., re
turns to New York today . on the
Nieuw Amsterdam from Brest.
At the front she worked under
shell fire, her silvered head protect- ,
ed by a ate.l helmet. She. cut off
the rain and mud-soaked tails ff the
d aghboys' long coats and fashioned
the remnants into fatigue caps. She
fried flapjacks over a stove fashion
ed fr-.n scrap metal and turned the
toothsome batter cakes with a scrap
of tin roofing. She finally worked
herself into a condition of extreme
physical weakness and was found
lyini ill in the loft of a shell-torn
stable. She was taken to a military
hospital in Paris. When she recuper
ated she returned to the front.
Every member of her family old
enough to serve responded to the
first call.
Her husband hustled fuel for his
wife's flapjack fires and between
times he mended watches for the
boys.
"Ma" Burdick held the pie-baking ,
record of the war, having baked 324
pies in 12 hours. 1
Ohioans to Beat Game " " '"
By Sleeping In Parks
Cleveland, O. Sleeping in the
parks will be fashionable here this
summer. -
Secretary A. H. Hood, of the fed
eral rent board here, has recom
mended to the city council that the
raising of tents for shelter through
the summer nights in city parks be
permitted.
"Tents In the parks, besides af
fording a cool retreat for citizens,
would relieve the house congestion,"
said Hood.
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Jess Willard Training
' for Fight With Dempsey
Loi Angeles, May 2. Jess Wil
lard, whe is matched to meet Jack
Dempsey July 4 for the heavyweight
boxing championship, started road
work today. He left his quarters
here with the announced intention
of running 10 miles. i
Willard came here to appear in a
motion picture and will remain
about a week, he said.
I
Going Over Big
IS THIS GIGANTIC
AT EVER have we had more
I V snnntanenu response than
in the early morning hours of
this sale. And no wonder, for
we are presenting some of the
most wonderful values ever of
fered in Omaha.
Mvriads of Box Suits. Russian Blouse
effects, Tailored Suits, Etc., in the
most wanted colors and fabrics, are
presented at this most alluring price.
Sale '
of Smite filT
And They're Buying
Dolmans Too
This value in splendid new Dolmans
will ba found amazing. Pretty new
patterns in the light weight fabrics,
excellently suited for late Spring and
Summer wear.
You Had Better
Hurry
if you want to get one of these
pretty suits bearing the label
Everyone knows their value, and
everyone knows that they are tre
mendously underpriced at