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DELAY HEARING,
ASK MORE TIME TO
LOCATE KELLY
Police Still "Unable to Find"
" Man Who Admitted Frame-
4 Upland Claims Police
' 4 ' Protection.
, '.. (Cantiaae From Pie On.)
1 that Kelly was "in Omalia yesterday.'
The mayor stated he understod that
' Kelly was under a juvenile court
i parole, and he agreed to confer with
the juvenile authorities' as to whet'i-
er'the alleged bootlegger would be"
subject to arrest if he should appear
before the council.
"I don't think this Kelly matter is
part of this case," announced '
Commissioner Zinmian. "I am pre
pared to give an opinion on the six
. propositions referred to in the Mag
' ney charges. I have my ideas asuo
' the conduct of the officers at the
time of the arrest of Mrs. Brown. I
v I think that every reasonable effort
should be made to communicate
with Kelly and to obtain his sworn
deposition.
"I wquld agree to put this hear-
ing over." said Commissioner Bul
. ler,1 if tke head of the police dc-
oartment would assure us that Kel
ly would be found In three days
Let's clear up this stench."
Ringer Defends Department
"The police officers do not know
; Rov Kelly by sight' replied com
missioner Ringer. "Many of the
men are new on the force. The
police are making every effort to
. 't find' Kelly and they will continue
to do so. If these Kelly charges
can, be substantiated, these accused
men -should not be on the force one
minute."
After the meeting, Commissioner
Ure .asked Mr. Ringer: "Here's a
- chance for Eberstein to prove he is
a great and good man by getting
V Kelly." '
In-a statement made outside of
a the rouncil meeting Commissioner
Zimman said the hearing thus far
has ;convi,nced him that the police
' department is disorganized.
Asked what he thought of the sit
. uatior as revealed by the hearing.
Chief Eberstein replied: "The hear
ting speaks! for itself."
Eight Hundred Enjoy
Play Given by Grads
"of Commerce High
. .
., "The Cabinet Minister," a four
act play, was presented by graduates
of the High School of , Commerce
.. Wednesday evening in the Central
xHigh- school auditorium.
The cabinet minister, Sir Julian
Twombley. a disappointed diplomat,
, anything but wealthy, is harassed
for money. His wife, to keep up ap
pearances and to .launch. 'her, son
Brooks and daughter Im'ogene, in
prosperous marriages, becomes deeo-
, , ly involved in debt and is in the pow
eCjjjC the Hon. Mrs. Gayltretre, and
her self-assured, nnabashe'd, bill-dis-
- counting brother,, Mr. . Lebanon.
These two forge themselves into so-
ciety by means of Lady Twombley's
introduction and compel her to ob
tain, for them an invitation to one
of her great relative's homes in Scot
land where they commit all sorts
of offenses against good breeding.
Isadore Levinson was the leading
" man, taking the part of the cabinet
' minister. Bert Brown, in the part
N of Brooke, caused much laughter.
Lucille Ridgway was the Mrs. Gay
lustre and Sam Cohn was Mr. Leb
anon, v
Miss Alice Sallander was the lead
ing lady, taking the part of the cab
inet minister's wife, Airs. Twombley.
i ' Tht play was a success. About
800 people attended. The play will
Ibe presented again this evening at
the Central High school auditorium.
Is This the Real Story?
Can It Be Possible That the Inside Facts of the Brown
Case Bear Out Some of These Conclusions?
The brutal midnight invasion of
the home of Afrs. Brown, followed
by dragging her off. to jail and
folding her there without bond,
and the subsequent desperate ef
forts of the police to justify the
wanton act, have furnished a ten
day sensation.
Could this be the true story?
Two buarding houses are lo
cated just around the corner from
one another, one run as a Y. W.
C. A. homp for girls and the other
with a variety of occupants.
Young women living at both
places intermingled socially, but
gossip started that the girls in the
Brown house were worldly, that
some of them smoked cigarets,
that they had beaux, that folks
came there in taxicabs, that there
were signs that one man roomer,
who it afterward turned out, had
a police, record as a bootlegger,
was having more taxicab callers
jthan he should, and worst of all
the taxicabs sometimes stopped in
front of the Y. W. C. A. home in
stead of in front of the destina-x
tion of the passenger. Could it
be possible that somebody con
nected with the Y. W. C. A. home
said something about this to some
body who said it ought to be
stopped and that this somebody
said: "Our police commissioner
is a good Y. M. C. A. man and
he takes care of it for us."
Watched Six Nights.
Can it be possible that the de
partment in response o some
body's complaint sent a squad of
detectives to watch the Brown
house and that they watched
there six nights in succession
from dusk until long after mid
night but seeing nothing wrong,
so reported? And is it not pos
sible that somebody at the police
station said: "This is something
in which the boss must be very
much interested? We've got to
get something on that place.
We'll send another morals squad
up there who won't fall down."
Whereupon another detail of in
telligent sleuths was dispatched.
Can it be possible these sleuths
said: "What's the use of waiting
around six nights and getting
nothing. We'll have to fix this
up in advance," and they recall
that Mr. Bootlegger might come
to the .rescue? So Mr. Bootlegger
is promised that he can make a
getaway; and at the same time earn
the lasting gratitude of the police
by helping them out.
In due time the raid is pulled
off according to plans and specifi
cations and a few poor girls' are
humiliated by arrest while Mr.
Bootlegger vanishes. To do a
still better job and make it more,
pleasing to the boss, the intelli
gent detectives, without" waiting
to secure a warrant, break into
the home of Mrs. Brown who,
they were informed, owned the
place, ,and treating her like ,a
woman of the streets, dragged her,
too. off to jail. ,
When the whole vile perform
ance drew tire the next day, can(
it be possible somebody said:''
"Well, if we haven't something
on that place, we'll have to get
it now," and proceeded' to send
men drawing police pay to Shen
andoah and to other former homes
,of the girls to fish in the gutters
and rake up the rubbish for evi
dence that might serve their pur
poses? Can it be possible that
when somebody called on the boss
to disclaim the disgraceful acts
of his dastardly policemen he said:
"No, I will get behind them and
the Y. M. C. A. will get behind
me and we'll bull it through some
way or other?"
What Do People Say? (
If this is the real story, or some
where near it, what have the good
people of Omaha to say about
such police mismanagement and
such misconception of the func
tions of the- police?
. Of course if this were the firs;
time such a bone-head was pulled
under our present police dispensa
tion, people might be disposed to
leniency in passing judgment.
But what should they do when
it is only the culmination of a
long series of exposures, of police
corruption and incompetency?
What should they say when they
know the some "we-must-all-stand-together"
defense was put
up for the policemen who let
women escape from the Detention
home for a price, that the proved
police-connived-in dope peddling
was denied, that the officers who.
in 'full uniform, protected the
Patterson bunch of skin-gamr
gamblers and dirty-picture exhibi
tions were not even called to ac
count, that the average police of
ficer or detective has from these
examples come to believe he can
do anything he pleases and get
away with it?
Jf this is the real story, is it
any wonder the people of Omaha
insist on a change?
EMPLOYERS SAY
GENERAL STRIKE
NOT EFFECTIVE
Teamsters and. Truck Drivers
Claim 1,800 Men Are Out;
: '. Ice Men Excluded In
Order.
Circulator Arrested
for Slapping Newsie .
Unable to Sell Papers
Eleven-year-old Hymie Kotler,
718 North Sixteenth street, last
night accused Irvin Zeigman, assist
ant circulator of the Omaha Daily
News, of forcing him to take more
papers than he knew he could sell
and alter refusing to take them back
when they remained unsold, of slap
ping him in the face. Both were
arrested and charged with disturb
ing the peace.
Juvenile Officer Gus Miller gave
Zeigman a severe lecture. "This
thing of making these little boys
take more papers than they can
handle and then taking the pennies
right out of their pockets to pay
for them, as several newsies have
complained, even though the papers
are unsold, has got to stop," said
Miller. "I advised the Daily News
editor of my stand in this position
yesterday."
.Klotler said Zeigman took 17 cents
out of his pocket last Friday night.
Zeigman denied the accusation.
Both boys will appear in juvenile
Court Saturday morning, they said.
Kotler said he wilFBring other new
sies to substantiate his accusations.
Stolen Watch Starts
Trouble for Ole and
Pete; Look for Others
Pete Anderson pawned a watch
last night. An hour later Detective
Ed Morgan called at Anderson's
home, 627 South Twentieth street
and escorted him. to jail. The watch
had been identified by Morgan as a
stolen one. ,
Pete was booked for investiga
tion, and released on $15 bond. He
returned to Central station an hour
later, however, with his friend, Ole
Christensen, in tow.
"Ole sold me the watch," e
plained Pete.
Ole wa booked for investigation
and Pete bailed him out of jail with
$1S.
"I'll bring in the fellow who sold
it to me," averred Ole as he and
Pete left the station arm in arm.
"You keep sendin' 'em over and
we'll keep knockin' 'em down," sang
Sergeant Smith.
Ole returned in half an hour. "He's
gone to Chicago, but I think I know
who sold it to him." Ole's looking
for purchaser Number 4.
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Mora than 1,800 teamsters and
truck drivers are now out in accord
ance with the general strike order
issued at 3 o'clock Tuesday after
noon, according to strike leaders.
Heads of the Teamsters' union de
clared ,. yesterday that but few
wagons or trucks araj operating on
the streets of. the city.
Directly contradicting the claims
of the representatives of the union,
principal employers of teamsters
and truck drivers reported that
more of their wagons and trucks
were in operation yesterday than
on other days since the inception
of the strike.
"The general strike order has not
affected us in the least," various of
the large employers stated, "and has
but served to alienate those who
had made their peace with the union
prior to the general walkout."
The conference committee of the
teamsters' local has excluded union
drivers of ice wagons and trucks
and also garbage haulers from par
ticipation in the strike. More than
400 men are engaged in these two
occupations, Robert Vaughn, chair
man of the conference committee,
said.
Ice Men May Strike.
Ice deliveries may be entirely
stopped within two days, strikers
threaten. A demand for higher
wages will be submitted to the ice
companies in a short time. Unless
granted, a walkout of the union ice
drivers will follow, strike officials
declare.
With the exception of two or
three men in the street cleaning de
partment all truck drivers and team
sters employed by the city obeyed
the general strike order.
Twelve of the 13 striking team
sters and truck drivers arrested Tues
day and yesterday on a charge
of. disorderly conduct and Violation
of the injunction were released by
Police Judge Foster in police court
yesterday.
F. Struppith, 2214 Mason street,
was fined $50 and costs.
More Violence Reported.
Continued violence on the part of
the striking truck drivers and team
sters marked the first day of the
general strike.
Mayor Smith stated yesterday
that every driver in the city who
continued to operate his wagon or
truck despite the general strike
order would be afforded protection
if it was necessary to place an of
ficer on every vehicle.
"We will swear in just as many
deputies as are needed to maintain
the peace and protect the men," he
said.
Import Strike-breakers.
Striking teamsters say that efforts
are being made to bring into the
city colored strike-breakers from
the south to man the wagons. F,
Chapman, a negro from Shreveport,
La., who arrived in the city about
a week ago, says that reports were
spread in that city that men could
get from $12 to $13 a day in Omaha.
Chapman claims he came to Omaha,
got employmentwith the Merchants
Transfer company, and wdrked two
days before he knew there was a
strike.
T. F. Black, a delegate of the
Teamsters Union No. 211, says that
seven taxicab loads of men were
brought into the Burlington depot
last evening. Mr. Black and other
union men think the men were
strike-breakers.
Union officials think that men
Chapman said are being sent to
St. Louis from the south are to be
sent on to Omaha.
RADICAL LABOR
DELEGATES AGAIN
SUFFER DEFEAT
Clash; Over Resolution, Pro
posing Inauguration of Policy
of Initiative and Referendum
in Ranks of Unionism.
Captain Hall Arrives at
Head of Ambulance Corps
Capt. Lynn T. Hall, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. E. Hall, 3319 Har
ney street, arrived recently at New
port News on the transport Arca
dia in charge of a returning am
bulance company.
Dr. Hall, who was associated with
Dr. Robert Gilmore before his en
trance into the service, shortly af
ter the beginning of the war, was
commissioned a lieutenant in the
medical corps. He left Omaha with
the Omaha ambulance company,
No. 335, of which Dr. A. L. Lin
quist was in charge as senior captain.
Captain Hall was stationed at
Camp Taylor, Ky until he went
overseas with the Joith ambulance
company, which was located at the
hospital at Mussidau, France. He
later had charge of base hospital
No. 78, at Periguet, France. Upon
the return of that hospital unit he
became medical officer in charge of
base hospital No. 2, at Bordeaux,
France.
As soon as he obtains his dis
charge, Captain Hall expects to
again take up the practice of medi
cine in Omaha.
Bootlegger Goes Back to
First Principles of Game
State' Agent Samardick claims he
has discovered the latest method of
bootlegging. Sebastino Circo, a
shoe dealer at 314 South Tenth
stree(, is the alleged bootlegger.
Circo was arrested last night
charged with illegal possession of
liquor.
Samardick says Circo distributed
his contraband by putting one pint
in the left shoe of each pair, placing
the pair neatly back in the box and
then fitting only the right shoe when
a customer called. Shoes brought
an enormous price in Circo's estab
lishment. The store was locked and a search
of it will be "made today to find
which shoes contain whisky and
which do not. Eight barrels of wine
were found in Circo's home, 916
Dorcas street, later in the evening.
Guilty of Bribery.
Los Angeles, June 18. George
Henderson, a negro politician, was
found guilty in superior court of
having offered to gtve a bribe to
Mayor F. T. Woodman. The jury
was out 16 hours. Henderson will
be sentenced Friday.
Atlantic City, N. J., June-il8.
Radical and conservative delegates
attending the reconstruction conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor clashed again Wednesday.
The contest which arose over a res
olution proposing inauguration of a
policy of initiative and referendum
within the ranks of organized labor,
was marked by a display of bitter
feeling which, as was the case Tues
day, resulted in the radical element
being crushingly defeated.
A vote on whether there should be
a roll call on the resolution disclosed
there were only 35 delegates out of
about 5UU tavoring the measure. This
was interpreted as representing even
more than the maximum ratio of
radicals within organized labor.
The clash developed after all the
delegates radicals as well as con
servativeshad adopted unanimous
ly a resolution assailing Postmaster
General Burleson for "his labor pol
icy" and calling on President Wil
son to remove him. During the con
sideration of the resolution the post
master general was severely criti
cized by delegates and termed "an
administrative misfit." No delegate
defended Mr. Burleson.
For Benefit of Rank and File.
As soon as the initiative and ref
rendum resolution was reported,
James Duncan of Seattle, declared
the measure was for the benefit of
the "rank and file of workers." He
accused the resolutions committee
which recommended nonconcur
rence in the measure of being un
progressive and holding the belief
that the rank and file was not intel
ligent enough to consider important
questions.
"You preach about democracy and
yet you won t have it in organized
labor," hotly declared the delega'.e.
Lurley Grow of Los Angeles
announced he wanted to be consid
ered a radical, or rather a "construc
tive radical."
"I want to go forward," he cried.
"Delegates have asked us to get out
because they do not want to listen
to us. We won't get out. I am an
American and my forefathers were.
They fought for liberty in several
wars. They were revolutionists and
I am glad of it. I suggest to both
radicals and conservatives that
they do not perturb themselves too
much. We have just come through
a trying period. We all ought to
favor changes in the laws that
would meet the new concept. Men
become dangerous when they have
not the right to express themselves.
The so-called radicals now in 10
years will be considered conserva
tives. The initiative and referen
dum should be given the rank and
file."'
"Living Wages" Advocated.
Among the mass of resolutions
adopted were one favoring the ini
tiative and referendum on constitu- I
tional amendments; one supporting
all the legislation suggested by
President Wilson in his recent mes
sage to congress; one favoring
legislation permitting labor officers
in the government employ to have
leaves of absence to attend to labor
business without injury to their
standing; one favoring a "living
wage" for government employes;
one advocating an eight-hour day
and $5 a day minimum wage for im
migration and customs inspectors
on the Canadian border and one ad
vocating the discontinuance by the
government of civil employment
for'men and women in the military
service upon the signing of the
peace treaty.
A proposal to favor passage by
congress ot a law to govern prices
and profits on all commodities was
rejected. A federal budget system
as a means of cutting down need
less and "extravagant expenditures"
by the government was favored.
At the Empress.
"Hodge Podge Sextette," a whirli
gig of words and music, conceived
and staged by Will J. Harris, comes
to the Empress theater as the stellar
attraction for the last half of the
week. The act is in three scenes,
the first portraying an alley in the
famous East Side section of New
York. The second scene, called
Peacock Paradise, serves to intr.
duce Benny Barton, a youngster
still in his teens with remarkable
ability as an entertainer. The third
scene is a picturesque yetting oi a
cafe in Venice. A playlet that is
decidedly novel and amusing all the
way through is "Me and Mary," as
presented by McLain Gates and
company. Charles Smith and
his aggregation of educated
animals. including seven dogs,
three bears and two monkeys,
offer an act that will delight the
juniors and the grown-ups. Dale
and Burch complete the vaudeville
program with an original comedy
creation which they call "The Rid
ing Master."
FINE FOB lOIR STOMACH
DEATH OF DEER
EXEMPTION IS
MADE JERTAIN
Overwhelming Vote of 55 to
11 in Senate Against Pro
posal Assures Defeat by
Congress of Measure.
Washington, June 18. Certain, de
Mat for efforts to have congress ex
empt beer and wine from operation
of the wartime prohibition law was
seen in an overwhelming vote of 55
to 11 in the senate against an ex
emption proposal.
By that margin, the senate tabled
a motion by Senator Phelan, demo
crat, of California, to add a rider
to the agricultural appropriation bill
for application of the wartime pro
hibition law to distilled spirits alone.
The sentiment of the senate thus ex
pressed in the first test vote of this
congress was taken generally to
sound the death knell for measures
designed to permit the use of beer
and wines under the wartime legis
lation. A new tack was taken in the
house, however, by advocates if
suspension of the wartime prohibi
tion law's provisions insofar as they
affect beer and wines. The house
judiciary committee received and
agreed t- vote next Saturday on an
amendment by Representative Gaid,
democrat, (if Ohio, to prohibition
enforcement legislation which wou'd
authorLf the president to suspend
the wartime ban on beer and wines,
Electrical Workers'
Strike Is Spreading
on Pacific Coast
San Francisco. June 18. A coast
wide strike of electrical workers was
discussed in meetings of representa
tives of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers from
all of the principal coast cities, as
an aftermath of the general walkout
of these workers in California and
Nevada. The representatives are
here to meet with telephone com
pany officials following the granting
of their demands for collective bar
gaining by Postmaster General Bur
leson. Stockton and Sacramento ex
changes, which had held out since
the strike was called Monday have
joined the strike forces.
The biggest aparent development
was the general walkout throughout
the bigger Nevada towns. The
whole state service was said' to have
been crippled by strikes in the Reno,
Sparks and Winnemucca offices. The
telehone girls have no separate un
ion organization so have joined the
electrical workers' unions, it was announced.
WILSON ARRIVES
IN BELGIUM FOR
VISIT TO FRONT
President Greeted by King AN
, bert On His Arrival for
Tour of War-Torn
rnnntru
Adinkerke, Belgium, June 18.
President and Mrs. Wilson and their
party arrived here from Taris at
8:45 o'clock this morning. They
were met by King Albert and Queen
Elizabeth of Belgium and at 8:50
o'clock left by motor for a trip over
the Belgian front.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter
of the president, B. M. Baruch and
Gen. W. W. Harts were members
of the president's party. The party
will be conducted through the dev
astated regions by two Belgian
officers who have been detailed for
the purpose.
Stork Beats Officer.
Motorcycle Officer Cain was or
dered to Thirty-sixth and Boyd
streets last night to "quell a dis
turbance being nude by some
young kid."
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