THE BEE: OMAHA', SATURDAY, MAY 17, 191&.
PEACE CIRCLES
CONDEMN ACTION
TAKEN BY WOMEN
Resolutions Denouncing Peace
Treaty Passed by Interna
tional Congress Bitterly At
tacked by Delegates
Paris, May 16. The bitterest in
dignation was expressed in allied
and American peace circles here to
night over the victory of the Ger
man and Austrian delegates at the
first session of the International
Women's congress ih Zurich in put
ting the congress on record as vio
lently denouncing the peace treaty
and especially the blockade as in
human and as sowing the seeds of
future wars
A resolution to that effect was
moved by Philip Snowden, the Eng
lish radical labor leader, and second
id by Jeanette Rankin, former con
gresswoman, who is an American
delegate. It calls the peace terms
a "violation of the principles of jus
tice and a continuation of the rule
of force."
. Jane Addams and Ida Tarbell are
among the 23 American delegates.
Three Irish, 27 German, four Aus
trian and 23 British delegates are in
attendance. France sent only one
woman delegate.
fFrau Heymann, one of the Ger
man women speakers who swayed
the congress in an impassioned plea
for her country, declared German
women had protested against the
invasion of Belgium, the inhuman
deportation of civilians, the Brest
Litovsk treaty and against the idea
of soldiers drafting the peace treaty.
Yankee-Prisoners Well
Treated By Bolsheviki
U. S. Soldiers, Just Released From Red "Prison Camp,"
Say They Addressed Meetings In Petrograd and
Dug Graves In Moscow.
By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE.
(Universal Service Staff Correspondence.)
(Special Cable Dtepatcn.)
(Copyright, 1919, By Universal Service.)
London, May 16. Five soldiers of
the 339th infantry, fre first Ameri
can prisoners from Russia, just ar
rived here by way of Stockholm to
day, gave Universal Service a wonder-tale
of adventures in the black
heart of mad Russia. They are:
Walter Houston, Muskegon,
Mich.
George Albers, Muskegon, Mich.
Antone Vanis, Chicago, 111.
Haurilak Mike (naturalized Rus
sian), Detroit, Mich.
William Schulte, Manistee, Mich.
They were six weeks en route
from Moscow, where they had been
imprisoned, via Finland and Sweden.
Left Behind Nebraskan.
They left behind John Tripler, a
Kentucky mountaineer, who was
lost in the crowd just as they en
trained in Moscow, M. J. Arnold- of
Nebraska, a Y. M. C. A. worker,
who was released with them and
John Ryell off Ohio, another "Y"
worker. Three other Americans re
main prisoners in Moscow together
with 66 French and English" soldiers.
When interviewed at the Eagle
hut here the refugees were bol
shevist caps and nondescript clothes.
The latter were supplied by the
British consul at Helsingfors. Their
faces were gaunt and lined with
deep furrows from months of semi
starvation. But they unanimously
gave this cheerful pledge: '
"We are going back to get those
'bolshies' as soon as we get rested
and have a big feed."
Before giving their story here I
must convey a typical heart appeal
very earnestly put to me by young
Schulte:
"Tell everybody's mother back
home -not to worry. Our boys in
Russia are doing fine. There is
nothing the matter with them ex
cept homesickness."
Were Digging Graves.
Seated in a circle in an inner room
of Eagle hut, their outlandish boots
hanging on the rungs of chairs, the
boys spun breathless yarns about
their experfences, ranging from dig
ging graves at 25 rubles a day for
people that had starved to death, to
addressing a socialist congress in
Petrograd and visiting the winter
palace.
Their narratives were kaleido
scopic of weary marches in the bit
terest cold, their comic opera im
prisonment at Moscow, and wild
junkets through the Bolshevist cap
ital. By mutual consent, Albers, a
rawboned lad, who mixed Russian
words with his Yankee speech, was
appointed spokesman. -
Captured in November.
"I was captured on November 3;
the others here were captured later,"
he said. "Schulte didn't get caught
till last March If, but we all had
the same experiences. None of us,
I guess, is ashamed of the wav we
"got captured they , got us fighting.
In my case a guy wearing a white
nightgown crawled through the
snow in a moonlit night when I was
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Saturday
on sentry, gun-butted me senseless
and took me with him. When I came
to I was being carried on a
stretcher headed for "bolshyland,"
"The first thing they. did when I
got into the bolshevist camp was to
swipe my fur coat, shoes and uni
form. They gave me a bolshevist
uniform, and then, together with
some French and British prisoners,
r started on a terrible hike for 300
versts (more than ISO miles) to
Vologda. It was about 40 below
zero. Otherwise we were having a
hot time.
"It was hell, pure and simple. We
were tea irregularly with black
bread and fish soup that would gag
a hog. Of nights we slept in peas
ants' huts alive with vermin. We
couldn't talk to our captors because
they didn t know fcnglish. But
laughed and kidded 'em arid called
'em all the rough names I could
think of and they'd laugh and yelt
Amenkarnci.' ,
With British Officers.
"From Volodga I was taken by
tram to Moscow where I was locked
up in the barracks! not a regular
prison.. I was the first American to
get to Moscow, but French and
British fellows were with me, also
captain Wilson, of the royal en
gineers; Major Frazer, a British
supply officer, and a Canadian fly
ing lieutenant I don't remember
his name, but he was a regular
prince.
"For two months I was the only
American there, then the rest of
these boys and the 'V workers drift
ed in. I nearly died of lonesome
ness before they arrived.
Ail tnese boys sutterea worse
than hell in marching to the rail
road because, they were captured
later when it was colder. Houston
was captured on November 29. He
didn't get to the railroad until New
Years and was all in.
"How did they feed you?" queried
tne correspondent.
Then big Schultz bellowed:
"Kasha."
A 1 1 1 a
ah iaugnea ana sang a song in
queer Russo-nglish, about black
bread, kasha and fish soup which
"makes your belly stick." Then
Albers resumed his tale.
Nothing But Fish Soup.
"We were all in bed when the first
meal was served soup. God knows
what's in it occasionally somebody
woum make a mistake and leave a
bit of meat in it. but it was mostlv
dried peas and punk fish. I'll never
eat another fish as lonsr as I live.
t he last two months they began
putting horse in the soup I know,
oecause 1 tound a horseshoe nail in
mine. We got a pound of black
bread daily. You had to soak it in
soup to bite it.
"Imprisonment was a joke. Each
day we got a passport permitting
us to go anywhere we liked in
Moscow, but we had to return by
9 p. m.
"The 'bolshies' treated us fine. We
tlfver got a rough word because we
were Americans in fact, the reds
tried the best to make us comfort
able. We had as much as anybody
to eat and they paid us 25 rubles
when we worked.
Confiscated Furniture.
"Often we'd go to the houses of
wealthy people to carry out furniture
which the government had con
fiscated. "Once we dug graves for people
that had starved to death. We
blasted the ground four feet down.
It was a nasty job. Rows of starved
men, women and children were laid
out on the ground. They were froz
en on top of1eing starved, waiting
for graves.
"Sunday is a scream in 'bolshy
land.' Every Sunday all the prison
ers would be taken to 'church,'
really some official's house, where
they lectured us on bolshevism.
We'd sleep during these lectures,
but afterwards we'd get a bigTeed.
That feed we understood, all right,
all right.
"On Christmas there was a big
powwow in Petrograd. They said
they would take us along if we
promised to tell the convention how
we loved bolshevism. Great stuffl
There we were for a week, visiting
in the winter palace, eatincr horse '
Every-
meat, which is a delicacy.
Doay nad a big time.
Put "Bull"' in "Bullshevism."
"Sure, we addressed the conven
tion we all gave 'em a great line of
bunk, putting the 'bull' in 'bullshe
vism' as it were, so to say, old top
per. Yes, we fold 'em how we loved
the bolsheviki.
"Ike Soiesrelmann. a New York
Jew, translated our speeches as we
went along. Petrograd is not as
bad as people here believe, through
hundreds are starving. They don't
get as much food there as they do
in Moscow. In fact. Petroarrad is
almost without food.
4 "Ti,. . u.i c j
in Russia, especially in the big cit
ies, is a massacre of Jews. Many of
the latter hold important offices."
In answer to questions, the refu
gees were unanimous in declaring
there was no hostility against Amer
icans in Russia, but that the Rus
sians were determined to drive out
all allies and govern themselves in
their own way. The threatened
counter revolution, they say, if it
comes, will be mainly against Jews,
not against the bolshevist.
The bolshevists, according to the
returned prisoners, have moved
much heavy artillery to the northern
front during the winter and are con
fidentv of driving the allies into the
sea.
The release of the prisoners was
due ;to the efforts in Moscow of
Louis Penningroth, a "Y" secretary
who accompanied them as far as
Stockholm.
Boy Who Fell From Street Car
Taken to Home From Hospital
John Killiway, 7 years bid, in
jured Thursday afternoon when he
fell from a street car at Thirty
second and Farnam streets, was
taken to his, home yesterday morn
ing from Nicholas Senn hospital.
The boy, who makes his home
with his gradparets, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank West, 3519 South Thirty-second
streets, fell from the street car
in losing his balance when the con
ductor is said to have seized his
cap and hurled it into the street.
Serbians and Croatians
in Fierce Fight at Agram
London. May 16. Serious fighting
between Serbians and Croatians at
Agram, the Croation capital, is re
ported in a Vienna dispatch to -the
Exchange Telegraph company.
Many of the combatants are said
to have been killed.
WOMEN GRANTED
SEX PARITY BY
PRESBYTERIANS
Bryan Urges Financial 'Aid
Bureau for Needy Members
and Men's Clubs as Sa
loon Substitute.
St. Louis, May 16. Recommenda
tions to grant women sex equality in
church affairs, endorsement of the
inter-church world movement, and
comprehensive plans for a five-year
church expansion program were
laid before commissioners of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States here today at the second day's
session of the 131st Presbyterian
general assembly.
A large place in church leader-
snip for women was recommended
in the new era exoansron oroeram
presented to the commissioners,
which provided that women be given
the right to hold office in the church
council, the board of trustees and all
committees of the church.
New Financial Plan.
Full co-operation with the inter
church world movement and sup
port ot ail worthy federated move
ments to promote the co-onration
of all Protestant churches in .facing
social, religious and civic problems,
also was recommended to the as
sembly.
Recommendations that the church
launch upon a new hve-year expan
sion program for the'spread ot Chris
tianity and plans for re-oreanization
upon a budget system were outlined
in the new era program. Expendi
tures of $25,000,000 for individual
church budgets, covering equinment
and operations, including $1,000,000
tor increasing pastors salaries
and $13,000,000 for the new era
budget, were reported by the com
mittee, as a part of the 1919-1920 pro
gram, A total of 90 per cent of the
$13,000,000 expansion fund al
ready has been raised, the committee
report said, with the entire amount
practically assured.
urge Men's giub.
Special attention to the American
ization of immigrants and industrial
centers and "fearless application of
the principles of Christ" to the solu
tion of economic and social prob
lems were also recommended in res
olutions presented to the ccngress.
William J. Bryan attended the ses
sions of the assembly today. Mr.
Bryan is urging that the assembly
take some action to establish a fi
nancial aid bureau to be supported
by the church for lending money to
needy members, to keep thrm from
resorting to chattel mortgage money
lenders. Establishment in every
community of men's clubs as substi
tutes for the saloons minus their
demoralizing influence also was ad
vocated by Mr. Bryan.
After several hours debate, the
assembly postponed until later ses
sions tne question whether the
church should enter the Inter-
church World movement.
Paragraphs of the New Era report
pertaining to the movement finally
were deleted and the report adopted
tor hve years with the understati
ng that the question would be
brought before the assembly later.
Alliance of all Protestant churches
s the foundation of the Inter-church
World movement.
The sessions today were presided
over by Dr. J. Willis Baer of Pasa
dena, Cal., who was elected modera
tor yesterday.
Railway Trainmen Will
Award Medals to Members
Columbus, O., May . 16. Sixteen
thousand members of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen will be
awarded special war medals for the
part they took in the war by the
organization, it is announced by offi
cers of the Brotherhood in triennial
convention here today. The organ-
zation s service flag contains more
than 840 gold stars.
The organization, a report shows.
have gained 52,148 members in three
years, and in that time has conduct
ed 12 "successful" strikes. It went
on record as pleased with the
Adamson law as a wartime measure.
AT THE
,T H EATERS
THE last two performances will
be given matinee and -night
today of the popular Orpheum
show, headed by Valeska Suratt and
company in "The Purple Poppy,"
that has kept the "standing room
only" sign in evidence all the week.
The curtain will rise at 8 o'clock
tonight. For the bill opening with
tomorrow's matiness the headline
feature will be the miniature mu
sical comedy, "The Four Hus
bands." The two principals of the
elaborate production will be Jack
Boyle and Kitty Bryan. Originally
this-offering was written for vaude
ville, afterward it was, expanded
into a full evening's entertainment,
and now it has gone back to its
original form. Songs, dances and
fun are kept going throughout the
entire action of the very 'lively offer
ing.
See the photoplay, "The End of
the Koad, at the Brandeis all next
week except Friday evening, and
contrast the fate of the girl kept in
ignorance by her mother and the
girl whose parents thought it their
duty to warn of these perils. Ihis
screen drama is exhibited by Public
Health Films and is from the pen
of Dr. Katherine Bement Davis,
known throughout, the country for
her correctional knowledge and
a6hievement, and Edward H. Grif
fith. Claire Adams depicts the
role of the heroine, who has prop
erly safeguarded against disease
through the timely warning of her
parents.
"Arabian Moonlight," a dance
number performed by Mile. Fatima
at the Empress, is one of the most
artistic offering in vaudeville. Lola
Fatima, the premiere dancer, is fa
mous as an exponent of oriental
dancing. She is assisted by Clem-
ence La Roche, a French prima
donna. Mr. P. Hirschoff, producer
of the act, also acts as musical di
rector. "Blind Mans Eyes, star
ring Bert, Lytell, will be shown at
the Empress for the last time today.
PHOTOPLAYS.
Three Men Arrested
Near Friend, Plead
Guilty to Auto Thefts
Albert Gard, 3720 Ohio street;
John Hopkins, 1947 Vinton street,
and Joe Adcock, 2215 Howard
street, the three men arrested in
company with Anna M. Shaylor,
Twenty-fourth and 'M streets, and
Juanita Hopkins, 1947 Vinton street,
near hriend, Neb., Ihursday night
on a charge of automobile stealing,
pleaded guilty in district court in
Lincoln Friday morning. The wo
men pleaded not guilty, by advice of
the county attorney.
Officers believe that they are part
of the gang of auto thieves of which
Speed Seymour, now in the Douglas
county jail, is the head. The men
confessed that they had been doing
business since last February. Most
of the cars stolen, they said, had
been taken from garages. They
would' pick out the car wanted, and
then follow it to the home ot the
owner, and after midnight take the
car from the garage.
All Normal Women Are
Flirts Says Worker
In Juvenile Court
Evanston, 111., May 16. That
girls are all flirts is the assertion Oi
Miss Mary Bartelme of the juvenile
court, who told the Evanston Wom
an's club that eyes are given to flirt
with.
Yetta, a pretty little 17-year-old
miss, just couldn't make her eyes
behave, so iier father brought her
to court.
"She's a little flirt," said the fa
ther. "I can't make her stop it. I
don't know what to do."
"I told him," said Miss Bartlmc
"that every normal woman is a
flirt."
"Every woman who got a husband
flirted to get him. And that is not
all those who failed to get hus
bands are sorry now and wish they
had flirted a little.
"That's what those eyes of violet
depths of blue are for. Blue or an
other color. It's all the same."
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