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88TN DIVISION TROOPS ARRIVE FROM OVERSEAS Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota Soldiers Reach New York; More Men of 89th Return. New York, May -8. Twenty seven officers and 1.205 men of the .i49tli infantry, 88th division (Min nesota. Iowa, Xebraska, North and South Dakota), arrived here today on the transport Henry R. Mallory. They composed field and staff, first battalion headquarters, medical de tachment, headquarters, supply and machine gun companies, companies A, B and C. The transport also brought four officers and 209 men of the ISth company and medical de tachment of the 20th engineers, the 274th military police company, a number of ambulance service sec tions and casuals. Fifty officers and l,9t6 men of the Wth division arrived here today rom Brest on the cruiser Hunting ion. They comprised all of the ?56th infantry except companies K, L and M, and a detachment of offi cers, and will go to camps Taylor, Pike, Travis, Grant and Funston. The Sunflower division is made up largely of draft troops from Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and Arizona. Read Bee Want Ads for Results. TRADE TODAY $12.50 For Your Old Sewing Machine Now is the time to get rid of that old style machine. Trade it for a ball bearing, light - run ning WHITE The King of All Sewing Machines A dozen splendid models of this peerless machine from which to choose, including the famous WHITE ELEC TRIC, and the beautiful new cabinet machine ' Model 73. The WHITE makes sewing a distinct pleasure; easy running, simple, sturdy, and of pleas ing appearance. TODAY Act upon this suggestion Today! Get rid of that old machine, and ENJOY a beautiful new WHITE paying for it as you use it! Telephone or write if you can't arrange to visit us personally. MICKELS 15th and Harney Streets. Phone Deufla 1973. Style 85, Q U ,-pJ Nebraska Boys Will Arrive in This City on Friday Morning (CoDtinurd From Pace On.) the soldiers and later continue on into Lincoln. Details for the big reception were completed yesterday morning. May or Smith issued a proclamation an nouncing Friday, Memorial day, as a holiday and urging co-operation in the reception and entertainment of the soldiers. The principal points emphasized are: 1. No one is allowed af the rail way station or on the Tenth street viaduct. 2. Everyone turn out early. 3. Business houses along line of march and elsewhere to close dur ing parade. 4. Parade starts at 9 a. m., siren to announce exact moment. 5. Informal reception and dinner at 11 a. m., by Red Cross, relatives and friends, on Central High school lawn. Parade Starts at 9 A. M. ' The parade starts at 9 o'clock from Tenth and Mason streets, according to present plans. A siren will announce its start ing. The parade will proceed to Farnam street along Tenth and turning west will go as far as Twen tieth street where it will turn north marching into the Central High school campus, where the Red Cross will serve a meal from the Central High school cafeteria. Rel atives and friends will be permitted on the south compus to meet with the soldiers. Each company will be segregated and identified by large placards with the company's name printed thereon. At the Union station each unit will be met by a committee. Whistles will blow as the troop trains cross the river from Council Bluffs. A delegation of Red Cross canteen girls will go to Council Bluffs and board the trains to decor ate each soldier with a badge, "Omaha Welcomes the Fighting Eighty-ninth." Scouts Fire Salute. Twenty-four mortars, to be manned probably by Boy Scouts, will be placed on top of the smaller buildings along Farnam street, to fire SO or more charges each while the parade is in progress. A hydro gen gun from Fort Omaha will form a part of the parade and will be fired every 50 yards. Balloons will be sent up in large numbers by the Boy Scouts. Chairman H. H. Lovell of the music committee said that seven bands had offered their services. Three large choruses of more than 200 members each have volunteered to sing. They will be stationed along the parade route. The mayor has issued an invita tion to all ex-soldiers of the S9th division and particularly the Ne braska contingents in Omaha to present themselves at his office or to the committee heads. All civil war veterans, all members of the Woman's Relief corps, all Spanish American war veterans and all wounded war veterans of the recent war will be given seats in the grand stand. Yukon Goes Dry. Dawson, Alaska, May 28. The territorial legislature has passed a law forbidding the sale of liquors within Yukon Territory after Sep tember 1, next. A plebiscite on the future liquor policy to be held early next year has been provided for. A GENUINE THIRST QUENCHER Horsford'i Acid Phosphate makes all drinks tastier and more satisfy ing makes you feel better. Buy a bottle. Grocery Stores will close all day on Decor ation Day and join in celebrating the Home coming of our soldier boys. OMAHA RETAIL GROCERS ASS'N. J. J. Cameron, Sec'y. E. E. Wise, Pre. MONEY SAVING SUE GEORGETTE BLOUSES UNION OUTFITTING C 0 . Big New York Manufactur er Makes Sacrifice Dis posal of Hundreds of Beautiful Summer Blouses. Many Trimmed With Beading Effectively Hand-Embroidered Plainly Tailored Models. See Friday Evening' Paper for Complete Announcement. A fortunate purchase from one of the best manufacturers in New York City enables the Union Outfitting Company to announce this unusual sale of new summer blouses. The smartest styles of the season are represented in beautiful georgette and crepe de chine blouses. Many are elabor ately trimmed with beading, some effectively hand - embroidered, many others are plainly tailored models. The entire line is a won derful assortment and will go on sale at ridiculously low prices. This sale will take place in the large cloak and suit department, and no woman should fail to at tend this money-saving event. This phenomenal purchase is another evidence of the big buy ing power of the Union Outfit ting Company, located just out side of the high rent district. And remember, this company considers no transaction complete until the customer is thoroughly satisfied. COMMITTEE TO LOOK INTO WAR EXPENDITURES Jefferis of Omaha to Be One of Men to Investigate Camp Locations and Govern ment Purchases. Washington, May 28. (Special Telegram.) "A special committee of 15 -members of the house, 10 repub licans and five democrats, will, in all probability, be named to take charge of the investigation of the expenditures of the War department during the past two years, said Rep resentative Jefferis today. "This committee will be divided into a number of subcommittees, ac cording to present ftlans, each charged with a specific duty, as, for instance, investigating air craft pro duction, camps and cantonments, arms and munitions and foreign ac tivities of the department as they relate to the establishment of camps, etc., abroad. i he present committee on ex penditures in the War department will be made the basis for the larger committee, which will be empowered to send for persons and papers and to hold hearings in all sections of the country. "My understanding is that this committee will be made' up of men willing to work and as that is what I came to congress to do, they can not organize and get down to busi ness any too soon to suit me, for I am convinced there is a fertile field for investigation growing out of ex penditures of the War department in connection with the world war." Opposed to Free Seeds. Nebraska members of- the house are opposed to giving free seeds to every Tom, Dick and Harry who may want them, judging from the votes today when the annual ap propriation for free garden and veg etable seeds was reached in the agricultural bill. Re? vis, Jefferis, Evans, McLaughlin and Andrews voting against the appropriation. Representative McLaughlin, a member of the agricultural commit tee, in speaking of the seed ques tion, said he understood the seeds were bought on the market at a re duced price and when sent out pre sumably as first-class seeds, they failed to germinate. "People in my district don't want these seeds and for one, I am against voting an appropriation for a very doubtful benefit." he added. Representative Jefferis said he voted against the free seeds amend-, ment because he saw a good chance to save the government $358,000, ad ding: "If the people were really being benefited by this distribution, I wouldn't say a word, but when they get seeds that do not grow it's a woeful waste of money and I am against the proposition." Jeff Says Repeal. "Big Jeff's" old cronies of the Omaha Field club, with whom he has played golf in season and out, have wired him to vote against' the repeal of the daylight saving law, but he is committed to its repeal, having introduced a bill yesterday to that effect, believing that the re quest of the farmers for its repeal is more potent than the prayers of his golfing constituency for its contin uance on the statute books. German Cannon Coming. Tuesday Representative Jefferis introduced bills providing for the donation of captured German can non and field pieces to the follow ing cities and towns in his district: Omaha, Blair, Papillion, Elkhorn, Waterloo, Valley, Bennington, Suringfield, Gretna, Bellevue, Fort Calhoun, Washington, Kennard, Herman and Arlington. W. E. Morgan former editor of the York Republican, who has been living in Washington for several years with his son, Raymond, under went a major operation at a local hospital. While not entirely out of danger, the operation is looked upon as being successful. Frank Woods, Lincoln, was a guest of Representative Reavis Wed nesday enroute from New York to his home in Nebraska. Mr. Woods spent the day with his brother, who is president of the Maryland State Agricultural college. Sioux City Man Killed by Fertilizer Machine Sioux City, la.. May 28. The body of Mike Chaponis, a machine operator, was found decapitated and partly sliced into shreds in a 15-foot cylindrical churn used in the man ufacture of fertilizer at the Armour Packing company's plant today. A man discovered Chaponis' head on the floor. The tank had to be taken apart before the body could be removed. ARROW TRQY fAILORED softCOLLARS FIT WELL-LOOK WELL -WASH EASILY Clmtt, Ptabody $ Co., lac, Troy, N. Y. Buy your bread today. Federal bakeries and stores close tomorrow Memorial Day. HE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1913. Germans Willing to Reduce Armament; Reject Allies' Terms (Continued From !'( One.) that the terms of peace completely ignore the fact that Germany has replaced an "imperialistic and irre sponsible government" by a strictly democratic one and that Germany in its proposals for a league of nations has adhered to the principle of a limitation of armaments. "It would be difficult to see," one section reads, "what different condi tions could have been imposed upon an imperialistic government. The solemn assurances of France. Great Britain and President Wilson that the peace would be a peace of right and not of violence, have not been kept especially regarding territorial questions." Ask Impartial Settlement. The proposal of the German peace delegation to the entente and asso ciated representatives regarding Ger many's former colonies points out to the peace conference that an abso lutely impartial settlement of all co lonial claims was promised in No. 5 of the 14 points mentioned in President Wilson's message to con gress January 8, 1918, and claims that "an impartial settlement pre supposes a hearing of both sides be fore a decision is taken and such hearing has not taken place." "While appealing to the promise, and especially to the principle, that the regulation of colonial claims should take place with due regard equally to the interest of govern ments and the governed," says the German note, "the proposal is made to refer colonial questions to a spe cial committee. This committee, to be formed of mandatories and ex perts of both parties, shall take as the subject of its deliberation the aforementioned point five, and other points mentioned in President Wil son's note of November 5, 1918; the article of the draft of the peace con ditions relating to colonial questions and section nine of the George league of nations proposals, as well as the interests of the populations and the governments concerned." The proposal argues that the de mand that Germany renounce her overseas possessions cannot be rec onciled with the armistice terms and holds the view that Germany's claim to the restoration of her col onies is just. Germany, it says, "is ready, should a league of nations be formed in which she is immediately elected with equal rights, to carry on the administration of her colonies, in accordance with the principles of the league of nations, and in given circumstances as its mandatory." TWO DETECTIVES DENY CHARGE OF RECEIVING BRIBE (Continued From rage One.) of the man they declared they want ed was left, but not a single detail could be applied to Kennedy. "They deliberately framed the wrong description to throw the Hastings police off the track. At that I think the Hastings chief was suspicious. While he did not ac cuse the Omaha detectives, his man ner indicated to me that he thought there was something wrong. Reported Man Gone. "Murphy and Pszanowski returned to Omaha and reported to Chief Eberstein and Captain Briggs that their man had Rotten away. "While I was out in the state helping Murphy and Pszanowski look up stolen automobiles, Ken nedy wrote a letter asking me to deliver to him a super-six. He did not know I was in jail. My moth er got the letter during my ab sence. When I returned to Omaha I found that Chief Eberstein was in possession of the letter. Kennedy signed the name 'Keith' to the let ter instead of using his own name. The chief told me he wanted this man Keith. He dictated a letter, which I signed, and mailed to Keith, offering to deliver a super-six. It was Eberstein's plan to have the detectives go with me and arrest the man when I delivered the car. "I did not want to jam Kennedy, so I did not tell the chief that Keith was not his name. I believe this letter to Keith is still in the Hast ings postoffiice. Says Chief Dropped Case. "Later Chief Eberstein became so anxious to arrest Kennedy that I told him what had happened in Hastings when the detectives let the man go for $110. "Chief Eberrstein then dropped the matter like a hot biscuit. I never heard him refer to Kennedy again. Chief of Police E. A. St. Tohns of Hastings, declared over the ohone yesteraday morning that he remem bered Koy Kennedy was wanted last January for automobile thefts." 1 received word from the chief of police at Grand Island that Ken nedy was wanted in Omaha," he said. Later I located the man in North Platte. I notified the oolice at Grand Island and understand the department there in turn notified the Omaha police. I never heard whether or not Kennedy was arrested. I am unable to recall that the Omaha detectives called at my office later." Chief of Detective Dunn was asked if he desired to make a state ment, and replied that he thought Pszanowski and Murphy should be given an opportunity to explain. Chief Dunn communicated with the detectives and said they would call later and offer their explana tions. Detective Murphy has not yet made a statement. "I remember the occasion to which McKenna referred," said Pszanowski. "I did not see any money change hands. I do not be lieve Kennedy gave any one money. We had the man in custody, but released him in the belief that we had arrested the wrong man. De tective Murphy and I were in good faith when we let the man go." "Big Four" Hear Hymans. Paris, May 28. The council of four today heard the Luxemburg commission and Paul Hymans, Bel gian minister of foreign affairs. The conference, presumably, was with re gard to the relations of the grand duchy and Belgium. ALIENISTS GIVE OPPOSING VIEWS ON SANITY ISSUE (Continued From Pa( One.) Mrs. Van Ausdell at first denied that she had gone with Police Officer Plotts to her home, following her arrest, to deliver to him the .re volver with which the shooting was done. But, after a cross-examination by County Attorney Shotwell, she admitted that she gave the .re volver to the officer. Yesterday was the third day of the trial of Mrs. Van Audsell on the charge of shooting with intent to kill Mrs. Viva Ijams on the evening of February 16, 1912, near Twenty second and Leavenworth streets, be cause Mrs. Ijams and Mr. Van Aus dell had been intimate. Regarding events of the day of the shooting Mrs. Van Ausdell's memory was extremely poor. "I found myself on Twenty-sec-onl street lying on the ground, laughing," she said. She said she didn't know she had shot anyone until her husband called her up and told her she had "shot a woman and had better give, herself up." "And if you didn't know you had shot anyone, why did you go to the police station and submit to ar rest?" asked Mr. Shotwell. "Because my husband told me to," she replied. Causes Dramatic Scene. Once during her testimony, lasting nearly two hours, there was a dra matic scene. "Van Ausdell told me about this woman," said Mrs. Van Ausdell. "He said she was cultured and refined and he was going with her. He said he wouldn't give me any money be cause they needed it themselves, that they were going south to Mexico, he said, I think and he was going to run a gambling place and she was going to open a sporting house" Mrs. Ijams, who had been sitting stolidly in the court room, jumped to her feet, her face became suf fused with blood, but before he could say a word, her sister jerked her back into the chair and calmed her. Four letters which Mrs. Van Aus dell found in a closet at her home, 1039 Park avenue while she was cleaning house last fall, were intro duced by the defense. They were undated and were addressed to "Boy Dear" and "Van Dear" and signed "V." Couldn't Please Her. "Van, dear," said one, "I don't know what to do. My husband has gone into business here and he said we could keep house or live at tne hotel. 'I'll do anything to please you,' he said. I told him he couldn't please me. 'Anyway, I'll keep on trying,' he said, 'because I think more of you in one minute than of anyone else in a lifetime.' " The other three letters were in part as follows: "Boy dear: Dear, my very self, every bit of me lives for you shall we risk this answer at once. Your letters I got today at office and so glad to have it and to hear you are being a good boy. Sorry because matters are not more pleasant with you but you continue to behave if possible. Yours only V." Chose Life On Isle. "Van dear: I would like nothing better than to come to yon this very right. But I shall have to be a lit tle cautious. I don't want to lose my allowance if I can help it. Man o' mine, I would rather be with you on a desert isle than live without you in a palace. I am so lonely without you, it seems am age since we said goodbye because I want you so much. If I can't be yours I won't belong to anyone else. This is too much like hell I not only want to be loved, but to love in re turn. Yours only V." "Dear: Yours of the 14th receiv ed a few moments ago I really ex pected an earlier reply and was won dering what kept you from writing I am quite upset about the move I am about to make and waiting for your answer didn't tend to improve my condition much. "You write you thought I knew you would stick well, perhaps I felt you would, but I wanted the assur ance in so many words Just here 1 want to say to h with Pally and Nina You behave. They don't con cern us in least not in any way. Now. about the reference you re ferred to about me, I shall have more to say about that when 1 see you. In Omaha Monday. "I want to start from here Sat urday, but may possibly not get away before Sunday anyhow figure to be in Omaha some time Monday if I C3n see my way clear to get there from Chicago will do so otherwise, no. Think I shall reg ister Paxton; so keep your eye on the register and let no one surmise. Wouldn't want any of those people to know my name you know to whom I refer. Wish I could come on sooner, but it is impossible. "Love, V." Postoffice Affairs. Washington. May 28. (Special Tele gram.) South Dakota postmasters ap pointed: Okaton, Byron T. Laurie, vice Verna T. Peterson, declined; Turton, Fran cis J. Rouleau, vice Helen E. Becker, re signed; Watauga. Walter J. Hawkins, vice Clara M. Nehl. resigned; Wendte. Bertha F. Norton, vice Margaret B McKIm, re signed. Civil service examinations will be held July 18 for presidential postmasters, and salaries, as follows: Cairo. Neb., $1,000; Elkton, S. D., 11,600; Superior, Wyo., 11,100. Been eatin em says Wrr Never ro tire ' of Post Toasties Corn Flakes DEMOCRATS TO MAKE TREATY AN ELECTION ISSUE Party Leaders Glad to Take Up League of Nations in Next Campaign; Feel Confident. Chicago, May 28. Describing the republican party as an organization which "complains and moves back ward" and the peace treaty and the League of Nations covenant as "the greatest document of human liberty ever prepared," Chairman Homer S. Cummings, of the democratic na tional committee, today sounded the keynote for an aggressive presiden tial campaign in 1920. Party leaders declared they wel comed the opportunity to make the peace treaty and the League of Na tions covenant the issue in the forthcoming fight and expressed con fidence of victory. Until President Wilson definitely announces his attitude toward a third term, party chieftains say, there will be no serious discussion of candi dates. Congratulate Wilson. The committee adopted a resolu tion congratulating President Wil son on his work at Paris in drafting the treaty of peace and the League of Nations covenant and calling on the United States senate promptly to ratify the documents. J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, vice chairman of the committee, said the democrats would welcome the op portunity to make the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant the issue in the next presidential campaign. The democratic party had ful filled all its pre-election pledges. He welcomed the advent of women into party politics and said that the votes of women in the western suf frage states were largely responsible for democratic success in 1918. Points Out Blunder. Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker of Tex as, speaking for the women associate members of the committee, said the democratic congress made a blunder when it failed to adopt the woman's suffrage constitutional amendment, and that the committee should admit it. She said if the country was to remain democratic the help of the women was needed. The committee is considering holding its next meeting in January, 1920 ,at San Francisco. Bee Want Ads pay big profits to the people who read them. ThompsoiirBelcieit &Co. J Established 78 8 6 These New Silks Are Charming Both in Quality and in Originality of Pattern " wish you had gone with me to look at silks this morn ing. Thompson-Belden had the most tantalizing things I've seen. "You know I started to buy the material for only one street dress. The new Trico in a walnut shade, was what I finally decided upon. This Trico is a cross between Jersey and Tricolette, but wears much better than either. It took a strong mind, my dear, to decide on one shade, as there was the newest Jap blue, a taupe, a rose, and an exquisite pale sand color. I'm go ing to have this lovely stuff made into a suit dress. "Then, just beside this on the counter, was a fluffy Georgette in tiny checks of blue; there was also a piece of pink; one of pale I THIS STORE WILL BE CLOSED American Financial Interests Consider Russian Situation New York, May 28. American financial interests met today at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. to con sider the Russian financial situation, particularly the payment of Russian external 6'3 per cent bonds, matur ing June 18 next. Approximately $50,000,000 of these fhompsoit-Belciert &Co Th e Fashion Qenier or Tubmen A GLANCE And There Are More Just as Lovely in Myriads of Shades... One is of navy Georg ette, the front heavily braided in blue, with a touch of dull rose, and the opening fastened with tiny loops and but tons of braid. The neck is round and a small col lar just crosses the back. !' There is a black I Georgette blouse to be ij; worn outside the skirt, jj embroidered in black and j! cream. The collar and I: cuffs are edged with nar- :: row ruffles of cream Georgette, and the blouse green, and another of palest yellow. It will make up into the daintiest blouses imaginable, with collars and cuffs of frilly organdie. The most amaz ing quality is that it washes well, so many of the novelty Georgettes don't, you know. "I bought a figured Georg ette in silver gray for Mother; large rings were embroidered in the same shade. There were other pieces that I wanted so badly for myself, one of sand and navy blue, and another of navy blue and henna. Have you noticed how much they are com bining those two shades now ? "And since I am running to browns this spring, a lovely clinging crepe de meteor in panois, simply bewitched me into buying it. This panois is a new brown, very dark, be tween a nigger brown and a taupe. "I've needed a separate plaid wool skirt all tliis spring and just found what I wanted today. The design is in blue and brown, a nine-inch plaid; now, that really is not as startling as it sounds the bonds are outstanding in this coun try and semi-annual interest has al ways been met, the Sl'i per cents also fulfilling interest requirements. Both issues have been subject to violent fluctuations since the over throw of the Russian monarchy, but recently they have shown firmer tendencies. It is understood that iu definite policy or program was form ulated because of the complex con ditions still prevailing in that coun try and the inability of bankers tr negotiate with any constituted oi recognized authorities. at BLOUSES A sketch could not reproduce the 'soft gray of this georgette blouse or the spark ling glass buttons which trim it. The back is panelled and button trimmed just like the front, even though the twin ruf fles are omitted. is gathered in at the waistline by a narrow embroidered blue belt. The combination of cerise, emerald green, or tan with navy blue, is particularly good and some charming results have been obtained. You will find it quite worth while to view these new models, which we are offering at very rea sonable prices. Blouse Shop Second Floor colors blend and the width of the stripes differ great ly. One length makes the whole skirt, and you need not remark that I'm no sylph, the material is so exceptionally wide. "As a final deed of repar ation for my extravagance (really the prices are very reasonable, but, of course, Jim won't see it that way) I bought some silk shirt ings for him. The La Jerz with the stripes woven in has a texture that isn't often , found in rady-made shirts. 1 also chose one of Crepe de Chine and another of a soft Sans Gene that lovely in coloring. "The silk department is a fascinating place, and you must come with me some day." Firt Floor ON FRIDAY O