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" Am . -.-i- ii i i i -r ,i m,, r ft "" . , .1 CHINA REFUSES TO SIGN PACT AT LAST MOMENT Could Not Reconcile Objec tionable Shantung Clause in Treaty With Feelings of Nation. Paris, June 28. (By the Associ ated Press.) China's refusal to sign the peace treaty came after repeated efforts of the Chinese delegation to obtain permission to sign with reser vations on the Shantung settlement. President Wilson was appealed to by the Chinese delegation several times within the past week and at first seemed inclined to favor al lowing the Chinese to attache their ' signatures with reservations. Finally,- however, he concurred in the de cision of the conference that the Chinese might make a declaration on their position after signature, but - not before. This was regarded by the delega tion as not protecting China's rights. The Chinese refused to sign and now are awaiting further orders from Peking. The Chinese delegation issued an official statement tonight reviewing ! ts protest against the Shantung set tlement, made to the council of prime ministers on May 4 and its reservation on the same question made in the pleniary session of the ' peace conference May 6 against the transfer of German rights in Shan tung to Japan instead of to China. Nationwide Protest. The statement says the action of the conference on Shantung evoked a nationwide protest in China, which makes it impossible for the Chinese government to accept the objection able clause in the treaty. The Chinese delegation's pro posal was that it wrote in the treaty above its signature "subject to reservation made at the plenary session of May 6, relative to the question of Shantung, in articles 156, 157 and 188." The statement says the peace conference, through official chan nels denied action on the part of China which would make it possi ble to reopen the Shantung ques tion. "After failing in a.11 earnest at tempts at conciliation," says the statement, "and after seeing every .honorable compromise rejected, the Chinese delegation had no course open save to adhere to the path of duty to their country. Refrain from Signing. "Rather than accept by their sig natures the Shantung articles in the treaty against which their sense or right and justice militated, they re frained from signing the treaty al together. The Chinese plenipoten- " tiaries regret having to take a course which appears to mar the solidarity of the allied and associated powers. However, they are firmly of the , opinion that responsibility for this rests not with themselves, who had no other honorable course, but rather with those who it is felt un justly and unnecessarily deprived them of the right of making a dec laration to safeguard against any interpretation which might preclude China from asking for reconsidera tion of the' Shantung question at a suitable moment in the future, in the hope that the injustice to China might be rectified later in 'the in- ' terest of permanent peace in the far east. The peace conference having de nied China justice in the settlement of the Shantung question and hav ing today, in effect, prevented them from signing the treaty without sac rificing their sense of right, justice and patriotic duty, the Chinese dele gates submit their case to the im - perial judgment of the world." Omahan Named Vice President National Real Estate Boards Atlantic ' City N. J., June 28. Byron R. Hastings of Omaha was elected one of six vice presidents of the National Association of the Real Estate Boards which closed its annual convention here Saturday. John W. Robbins was eleected to the executive committee of the as sociation. C F. Harrison of Omaha, is retiring member of the committee. J. L. Weaver of Washington, D. C, was chosen president and Kansas City is the next convention city. Besides Hastings. Robbins and Harrison. Hary A. Wolf and L. B. Bozell. were delegates from Umaha. - Mrs. Hastings, Miss Catherine Hast ings. Mrs. Robbins and Miss Lois , Robbins were in Atlantic City dur ing the convention. The universal opinion of the 624 delegates from 92 cities was, that there was no hope of lower building prices in the near future, and that . unless realtors and builders begin construction of honses in the near future the government will under take to handle the housing situation, Members of the convention do not want the government to go into the business of building homes. Jury Returns $8,769 Verdict i in Favor of Mrs. Overholt ' A jury in District Judge Estelles court yesterday gave a verdict of $8,769 in favor of Helma Overholt against Frank O'Holloren. former city attorney of Umana. Mrs. Uv . erholt sued for th: amounts of three promissory notes dated in 1907 and 1908, with interest Mr. O'Hol loren pleaded the statute of limita - tions in resisting payment Sues on Life Policy. j Nick Muhlbach died four days after he took out a $5,000 policy in the Omaha Life Insurance com nanv and the company has declined to pay the policy, according to a suit filed yesterday in district court by Mart Muhlbach. Nick signed ' up for the policy at Mullen, Neb., - January 17? 1919, and paid the first -' premium of $162.40. On January 21 he died on a ranch five miles Elsasser Family Reunion Will Have Big Attendance Descendants of Three Brothers Who Located in Omaha 53 Years Ago Will Hold Annual Meeting at Elm wood Park. Fifty-three years ago three broth ers, G. Fred, Peter and Chris Elsas ser, located in Omaha, and soon thereafter commenced to multiply upon the face of the earth, with the result that now, in point of num bers, the Elsasser family is running a close race with the Smiths, the Jones and the Johnsons. In Omaha and scattered oyer Ne braska, Iowa, Kansas, Wyoming and South Dakota there are more than 350 Elsassers who can, trace their origin back to the three young men who located in this city in 1866. Those of the original generation of Elsassers settling in Omaha have gone to their final reward, but the family continues to grow. To the three Elsasser boys who first came to Omaha were born fairly good sized families. In the family of G. Fred Elsasser there were six, in the family of Peter six, and in the family of Chris five children, most of them boys. Since then the majority of the newly-born Elsassers have been bdys, and, marrying, they have rear ed large families. Two years ago the Omaha Elsas sers conceived the idea of an Elsas ser reunion and picnic. It was a success and was attended by some thing more than 200 who bore the Elsasser name. Last year there was a 'second Elsasser reunion and pic nic and it was more of a success Soldiers Are Little Aware How Profitable Federal Insurance Is Discharged soldiers and sailors, and those still in the service, are not taking as much interest in the insurance plans of Uncle Sam as army authorities would like to see. This neglect is likely to cost them their opportunity to obtain the best insurance at the lowest rate ever offered. From the local army re cruiting headquarters comes this earnest admonition: "W travel on Just Ilk a toad, Or like a horo. goe. down the road J W never know two dayi ahead How soon we'll be laid sick In bed and maybe CROAK 1" "Since the time of the great Naza rcne the world has been full of the manana type of people. Manana is the Spanish word for tomorrow; so many people are going to do a praiseworthy thing "manana" not today too busy today but tomor row surely we'll do this or that for which we have been planning and which we feel should be done and which is absolutely good anAjieces sary. "How about you? Are you de sirous of cancelling your govern ment insurance and having the priv ilege of 'blowing' in the extra two or three dollars? Do you know that there is absolutely no qaestion about it; it is positively impossible for you to spend that small sum your monthly premium for anything that is 10 per cent as good as your in surance? You say you will have the fun of spending that money now and later on you will take insurance. Boy, the chances are all against you. If you drop your insurance now, it s a safe bet that never again will you own insurance. 'Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind ua Policies paid up In time." Woman Forger Ready to Make Good Check and May Be Set Free "Mrs. C H. Wilson," who is vali antly biding her real iame from the disgrace of prison bars, will be freed from the charge of forgery on which she has been held to district court, if Mrs. Julia Thomas, 4910 Capitol avenue, will allow her to make good the $50 forged check. "Mrs. Wilson was broughtto Omaha Thursday night from St. Paul by Detective Jimmy Murphy and charged with forging Mrs. Julia Thomas' name to a $50 check. She refused to give her real name to the police or to disclose even the name of her alma mater, an eastern school for girls. She told the police her husband was killed in action in France'10 months ago. She was held to district court without counsel under $1,000 bonds. County Attorney Shotwell heard her story yesterday. ' "I believe the girl is not what one would really call a lawbreaker," said Shotwell. "I think she had no crim inal intent when she forged the check and I know she is willing to make it good, whether she is prose cuted or not If it is satisfactory to Mrs. Thomas, I will not push the prosecution of her case." Bee Want Ads Produce Results. Calls League "A Gigantic War Trust" New York, June 28. The league of natfons was denounced as . "a gigantic 'war trust" by United States Hiram Johnson, of Califor nia, in an address before a mass meeting called by the League for the Preservation of American In dependence. He demanded the re pudiation of the league covenant Similar demands were made by United States Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, and George Wharton of Philadelphia. The league contains within itself," as serted Senator Johnson, "the germs of many wars and, worse than that, it vets, as in the Shantung de cision, the chains of tyranny upon millions of people and cements for all time unjust and wicked an nexations. After declaring that under the proposed covenant" the representa tive rulers, not of peoples," would govern the world, the senator said, that by its entry into tht league the UfilUd Statu will aster lato than the first This year the third Elsasser gathering is to be held and 'letters received by Albert W. and George H. Elsasser, who have charge of working out the-details of the function, assert that the attend ance will run between 250 and ,300. Sunday, July 6, is the date that has been set for the annual gather ing of the Elsasser clans, and the place Elmwood park. During the forenoon Elsassers, great and small, will meet in the park. At 1:30 o'clock the afternoon there will be a family dinner spread in the shade of the trees. Tables will be set around these will gather Elsassers from far and near. Everything con nected with the reunion will be under the direction of the Elsassers, for there will be enough of them to handle all the details. With the dinner disposed of three, or four hours of the afternoon will be given over to feature events. There will be foot ball races, athletic evens, a base ball game, only Elsas sers participating, pitching quoits and games for girls. Late in the afternoon and jjuring the evening the elder Elsassers will dig into the past and recount in cidents and experieences of other days, this feature of the program to be followed by a reception. At the reception the Elsassers expect to meet hundreds of their old friends. Husband Remarries and Protests Suit of Wife for Alimony Harry Hodgdon, 965 South Thirty-fifth street, says in an ans wer to the suit of his former wife, Pearl, for $1,500 alimony that he has married again "through a mis understanding." and now has two small children and a wife to sup port on the $125 a month which he earns. He filed his answer yester day in district court He admits that he left his wife in Maine in 1904 and came to Nebraska where he married again, thinking his wife had secured a divorce until October 19, 1917, when a decree was granted her in Port land, and her husband was ordered to pay her $500. Harry says his wife earns $40 a week. She says she earns only $15 a week in a Portland factory. Humane Officer Looks for Vicious Dog, Finds Cat-O'-Nine-TailWhip W. H. Wright, Humane society officer, brought in an oldfashioned cat-o'-nine-tails whip which he took from a house at Thirty-fourth and U streets iriday afternoon. He was sent out to investigate a report that an unlicensed vicious dog was being harbored at that ad dress, and while making that in vestigation, heard a small girl cry ing and espied the whip. "Did your mother whip you with that?" he asked of the child, who nodded her head affirmatively be tween sobs. Wright picked up the whip. "What are you going to do with it?" asked the mother. "I am going to put it where you will never see it again," the officer replied. The whip consists of a short wooden handle with a bunch of leather laces attached to one end. Open Cutouts Annoy Sick Man; Officers Warn Drivers E. P. Boyer. 721 South Thirty sixth street, president of the Boyer Van Kuran Lumber company, who has been seriously ill at his home for several days, has been much an noyed by passing motorists, who drive with the cutouts open and who use electric horns. The Omaha Automobile club has a sign at Thir ty-sixth and Leavenworth streets, the corner on which Mr. Boyer lives, cautioning autoists to "blow your horn. Last night, two mo torcycle officers spent several hours in that vicinity, warning motorists about the use of cutouts, and re questing them to proceed past the house with as little noise as pos sioie. Jokn of Arc Outing A minstrel show and entertain ment will be given at Krug park Monday evening by the Joan of Arc club, proceeds of which are to be used in furthering the interests of this charitable organization. The club gives an entertainment and out mg each year. Several thousand tickets have been sold and a large crowd is expected. of Nations partnership with "certain national bankrupts, who, after our first six months of meddling and muddling with European and asiatic contro versies over there, have already come to secretly despise and de test us. Ireland was referred to by the speaker as "a litigant with a perfect case who can get no hearing," and he maintained that it was the our- pose of the league to use the great wealth, bone and blood of the great est democracy of the earth to re tain revolting peoples who regard the righteousness of their cause within the governments and powers of which they would be free." After asserting that the league means that "American boys shall police the world," Senator Johnson said: "This league means the halting and. betrayal of new world liberal ism, the triumph of cynical old world diplomacy, the humiliation and tha cad ai AaaeUaa UuIIm." THE OMAHA' SUNDAY Last Tributes Paid to Dr. Bellinger by His Former Patients Dr. Melvin F. Bellinger, whose death Tuesday morning caused wide spread sorrow in Council Bluffs, had been practicing continually in the city since 1886. He was 55 years old. His funeral Friday was one of the most largely attended in recent months. Sincerest tributes were paid by hundreds of his former pa tients, who realized that his devo tion to duty hastened his death. He was the third Council Bluffs physi cian to succumb to the heavy strain of overwork during the flu epidemic when there were few doctors to an swer the calls. To Bar Objectors. Ottawa Immigrants entering Canada who have claimed exemp tion from military service on con scientious grounds will be barred in a bill shortly to be submitted to parliament. i 7 W Let us play hard to win, but only by fair iMffWmVh ( means, and let us be content with nothing short of Z ' ' JAYBUm MKm C' ' BEE: JUNB 29, 1919. Cat Knocks Over Poison Gas Bottle; Guests Vacate Hotel Fumes, Invented to Overcome "Would-Be Safeblowers, Prove Success When They Clear Lobby in Few Seconds and Cause Near Panic. Guests in a downtown hotel were given a fair demonstration of a gas attack, an Omaha inventor had the pleasure of seeing the child of his brain really work, and the hotel management is now considering the advisability of installing emergency gas masks all because an inquisitive female cat knocked a bottle of poi son chemicals from a shelf in the hotel lobby. F. Whittemore, inventor of a com bination of chemicals to be placed in safes to overcome yeggmen, brought a quart bottle of his inven tion to the hotel to show to a pros pective customer stopping there. Af ter pointing out its merits, Whitte more handed the bottle to the desk Confusion of Names Is Embarrassing to Italian War Worker Sebastian Salerno, who has been in business at 412 South Tenth street and vicinity for 22 years, and who is president of the Giovanni d'Ameglio society, the largest Ital ian organization in Nebraska, states that he has experienced recent em barrassment on account of the con fusion of names due to the arrest on several occasions of an Omaha man who bears his name. Mr. Salerno was actively engaged in promoting the various war activi ties, has been on two governors' staffs and has never been in any trouble on account of violation of the laws. Notwithstanding that he is held in high esteem by a large circle of acquaintances, he states that the recent arrest of another "Sebastian Salerno" has caused an noying inquiries from persons who do not know him intimately. He wants to be known as a law- J World of Peace TVEACE! A great signal for a fresh start! Nations of the world not completely ex- hausted by war have been holding their com mercial and industrial powers in check, waiting for the gong to strike. They are off! From now on business will hum. A demolished world must be rebuilt; muscles and brain must enter a master struggle for achievement; civilization will take a prodigious leap. We, as one of the foremost nations, must not only enter the race, but we must put all our spirit, energy and skill into it. It is a new world, and we enter it with con fidence and enthusiasm. clerk for safe-keeping and went out for a stroll with his customer. The clerk placed the bottle on a shelf above the key rack. It would be perfectly safe there, he thougnt, but he had failed to reckon with Molly, the pet cat When Whittemore and his custo mer returned they were surprised to find the large hotel lobby com pletely vacated. Guests, clerks and bell boys were nowhere to be seen A heavy, smoke-like haze filled the lobby, and after one sniff the in ventor knew what had happened. "They've spilled my chemicals," he exclaimed. Just then the desk clerk returned, his eyes red and swollen. The cat. Molly, had knocked the bottle over. abiding citizen, with a home and family, and a business to which he has devoted himself for nearly a quarter of a century. Hydroplane to Make First Flight at Manawa Today The hydroplane which has been at Lake Manawa for several days will make its first flight this after noon, according to the manager of the park. Lieutenants Bahl and Harding, who will pilot the plane, had the machine on the water yes terday afternoon, tuning up the en gine and making ready for the first flight. Passengers will be taken up at the rate of $15 each, and it was announced that a number had al ready expressed their desire to make the trip. Special Musical Program "Benti Eritis," a holy phonic com position of the 17th century, by Gio vanni Crose, will be given this morning at St. Cecilia's cathedral as part of the special musical program. Georgian responses by Terry, as sung at Westminster cathedral, England' will also be presented. Noted Rabbi Speaks Here Next Tuesday on League of Nations On next Tuesday evening, July 1, Dr. Rudolph Coffee, rabbi of Temple Judea, Chicago, tl deliver an ad dress to the membership of the Omaha Athletic club on the subject of the league of nations. In send ing out notices to the membership, President Fraser of the Athletic club emphasizes the fact that each member may exercise his privilege of inviting a guest, under the rules, to attend the meeting. Dr. Coffee is a graduate of Columbia university and received his Ph. D. at Pitts burgh. He is one of the leading pul pit orators of the country and a deep student of international politics. Preceding the address, Dr. Coffee will be entertained at dinner at the Athletic club. Among those who will meet Dr. Coffee at dinner are: G. W. Wattles, C. N. Dietz, Gould Dietz, Mr. and Mrs. Lysle I. Ab bott, Rabbi Cohn. Henry Monsky, Harry Zimman, William L. Hottz man, George Brandeis, Mr. and Mrs. Ed P. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Feil, Mrs Frank W. Judson, Mrs James Richardson, Mrs. H. C. Sum ney and Mrs. Draper Smith. Major Raymond Returns to Omaha After Year in France Maj. Anan Raymond has re turned to Omaha after a year's service in France, and will re-enter the law business here. Maj. Ray mond was one of the first Omaha men to volunteer after war was declared. He entered the army as a captain, having formerly been commissioned in the reserve corps. "Dips" Get $25 and $10 Worth of Liberty Bonds P. J. White, 4015 North Twenty first avenue, reported to the police last night that his pocket had been picked of $25 in money and two $50 Liberty bonds, while rhling on a Sherman avenue car. White discov ered his loss shortly after a well dressed young womant who had been sitting beside him, left the car at Sixteenth and Locust streets. 5 X Divorce Courts Loretta Boyden was granted a divorce from Clinton Boyden by Judge Troup, silting in district court. She alleged nonsupport Judge Troup also granted a divorce to Stella Wilkinson from Zellet Wilkinson on the ground of deser tion. Emma Simcn allege in a peti tion for a divorce from Isaac Sim on, filed in d:strict court, that when she asked him for money to buy some groceries last Thursday, he responded by throwing a bottle at her and then chased her from their home, 1832 North Twenty-second street. Anna Cardwell asks the district court to give her a divorce from Roy, who married her in Texas in 1909 and deserted her, she says, in San Francisco, in 1913. She asks the restoration of her maiden name, Haggelsieb. Anna Ehrhardt alleges in a peti tion for a divorce from Clarence Ehrhardt filed in district court, that he "told her to pack her trunk and leave." They were married April 14, 1919. Elizabeth Smith charges in a pe tition for divorce filed yesterday in district court that her husband Rolla Smith, neglected her for other women. They were married in Omaha in 1898. She asks ali mony and the custody of their twal minor children. Live Stock Insurance Co. Organizing Large Staff The American Live Stock In surance company, which wrote its first policy on June 14, is organiz ing agencies throughout the entira state of Nebraska with the aid of a corps of district agents. Charles Schwager, president, and! R. B. Zachary, secretary, are de voting all their time to this enter prise which is recognized to be on of the largest livestock insuranca companies in the country. 1 is it-