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1 RI EF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS OMAHA, THE GATE CITY OF THE WEST, OFFERS YOU GOLDE OPPORTUNITIES. The Omah a Daily JB EE GETS FIRST HAIRCUT IN HALF A CENTURY. Montreal, July 16. J. A. Cho fett's hair and beard of nearly half a century's growth fell to the floor of a barber's shop here when the veteran W the Franco-Prussian war -of 1870 lischarged his vow of 48 years ago never to have his hair cut until Alsace-Lorraine was re deemed from the Prussians. Mr. Cholett left the shop with close cropped head and an imperial after the style of Napoleon Illy PRINCE OF WALES WILL SAIL FOR U. S. AUGUST 5. London," July 16. (Via Montreal.) The prince of Wales will leave for Canada on the battleship Re nown August 5, it was officially an nounced here today. MORAL LAXNESS OF WIFE CHARGED BY OFFICER. Oakland, Cal., July 16. Traced across the continent from New York, where they are both alleged to have abandoned families with small children, Violet Deegan, wife of Maj. William F. Deegan of the United States army, and Albert W. Crouch, a naval architect, have been located in Oakland after many months of searching, and legal pro ceedings started against them. With the institution of a $25,000 alienation of affection damage suit in the Alameda county superior court against Albert W. Crouch by Major Deegan, a scandal extending across the United States and in volving charges of desertion, fraud and moral laxness has been exposed. The army officeralleges that his wife deserted him and their 2-year-old child and has been living with Crouch as wife ever since. The complaipt recites that Mrs. Deegan assumed the name of Violet Crouch upon her arrival in Oakland and as such has been living with Albert Crouch. SAUCE FOR GOOSE NOT SAUCE FOR THE GANDER. Dublin, July 16. The wave of scorn against Sir Edward Carson sweeping nor.-Ulsterite Ireland because- of his belligerent Orange day speech found defiant expression in court at Athlone when James O'Meara, sentenced to three months at hard labor for "unlawful drill ing," declared: "Carson is not punished for his advocacy of drilling in Ulster so why should I be punished for the same offense in the Irish republic?" This argument availed the pris oner naught, however. GENERAL PERSHING SLEEK AND AFFABLE. London, July 15. It was a sleek and affable John J. Pershing who Jovially greeted American corre spondents in his suite at the Carlton hotel on his second visit to London. The American commander-in-chief was exceedingly courteous to news ' paper men, throwing aside all for mality and chatting with them for nearly an hour. His attitude was much different from that shown to correspondents while in France. v General Pershing has gained greatly til weight, arriving from the army of occupation at least 30 pounds heavier than he was during the Mexican campaign,' when he was in the pink of condition. His present ruddy, fat chetfcs and hi almost rotund frame compare oddly with his appearance in those days of the hard chase. after Villa; they fIiow, incidentally, that Itfe in France agrees with the general. CROKER'S WIFE JEWESS; NOT INDIAN PRINCESS. New York, July 16. An inquiry into the genealogy of Mrs. Richard Croker. sr., in connection with suits brought against the former Tam many chief by his three children, is said to have shown that Mrs. Croker is not a Chefokee princess, as she claimed, and that sne was born in Oklahoma of Hebrew parentage. . The suits brought by Ethel, How ard and Richard Croker, jr., against their father seek to enforce a divi sion of the $320,000 estate of the first Mrs. Croker, who died about two months before his second marriage. DRINKS ARE ON US, GRATEFUL YANKS SAY. Washington, July 16. Two young soldiers, one minus an arm and the other crippled in his leg, because of wounds received in the battle of the Somm', John J. Ridgway and R. D. drowning, both of Philadelphia, saw President Wilson and thanked him for vetoing the sundry civil appro priation till because of inadequate provision for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. The soldiers were the official rep resentatives of the Disabled Sol diers. Sailors and Marine society, bearing the thanks of that organiza tion to the president Coming down on the train they told a map"sitting in the seat next to their, that they had telephoned Tumulty and arranged to see the president When they left the president's office their companion on the train greeted them. "I'm Mr. Tumulty, boys," he said. "Say," remarked one of the doughboys, "don't you think we owe someone a drink?" BIG THANK OFFERING GIVEN TO' GOVERNMENT. London, July 16. A wealthy man of London, who signs himself sim rly as "F. S. T." has written to one of the newspapers, declaring his in tention to subscribe to the Victory loan in the sum of $750,000 and then turn the bonds back to he govern ment for immediate cancellation. "Today, on the eve of peace," writes F. S. T., "we are faced with another crisis, less obvious but none the less searching. The whole coun try is exhausted. "The wealthy classes know the danger of the present debt. Let them impose upon themselves, each as he is able, a voluntary levy. I 1 give one-fifth of my estate as a thank offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country tha: form pf help which is so vital as the present moment." Publication of this novel form of subscription to the , loan instantly afoused the public, and ail sorts of 'opinions were expressed. But it does not seem popular with the prof iteers, since cone has taken the hint. VOL. 49 NO. 25. Eaton h MeMf-elM Batter May 2. I9M. at Oaaka P. 0. mfer tat at Mirth i J. 1879. OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919. Dally and Sun.. 13.50; autiltfa Nib. . aoilata axtra. TWO CENTS. THE V s"" Fair annTT-"Sr Thursday;1 Fri day fair with continued high tem peratures. Hourly triniirraturtat S a. m 8 a. m 1 . m K a. m M a. m a, m . . . 10 a. m .V, . 11 a. m . It noun ,11 .11 .70 . .M .1 .HO .88 1 p. m .M t p. in S3 a p. m hs 4 p. m. ....... .M 5 p. m ,,. 0 i. m .Ml 7 p. m SS 8 p. m , 81 JV FOREWARN ANTI-WET ADVOCATES Conservative Members of Prohibition Faction in House Set Out to Curb Radical At tempt at Drastic Measure. REVULSION OF FEELING , FEARED IN COUNTRY Certain to Invite Defeat in Senate and Possibly Presi dential Veto Unless Wise Counsel and Action Obtain. Washington, July 16. Conserva tive members of the prohibition fac tion in the house set out Wednes day to curb what they described as radical attempts to make the pend ing enforcement bill so drastic that it might create a revulsion of feel ing throughout the country on the whole questioivof liquor drinking. Warning was given by the con servatives that if the radical element went too far and added other severe restrictions they would be certain to invite defeat in the senate and pos sibly find all of their work thrown out by a presidential veto. Wise Counsel Needed. The need of wise counsel was pointed out by conservative pr6hibi tionists in view of the published an nouncement that Representatives Morgan, republican, of Oklahoma, and a member of the judiciary com mittee had given notice that he would endeavor to make it a viola tion of law for a man to keep a jug of liquor in his own home for his own use. Word was spread during the day that other prohibitionists were pre paring to write into the bill a pro vision, stricken out by the commit tee, which would prohibit a man's "using" any little liquor he might happen to have around the house. Under the bill now before the house it isextremely doubtful, a member of the judiciary committee said, whether a person could give a drink of whisky to a friend at his owu fireside without running the risk of arrest. Questioned About Moonshine. Members from some of the southern states were questioned by eastern and western representatives as to the volume of liquor turned out by mountain distilleries and known as "moonshine." This was a question on which they were, un able to give first-hand information. Mr. Pou told the bpuse the other day that in a dozer states that have already adopted prohibition there are in operation more illicit stills than there ever were saloons at any time in the history of those states. This was the view of other mem bers, who said also that it would re quire a small army to break up the traffic entirely. ' , 1 EM t BRITISH PRESS ROUNDLY RAPS "KING" CARSON Particular x Stress Laid Upon His Tactless Criticism of United States.. London, July 16.-KEy the Asso ciated Pressi-Sir Edward Carson's speech Saturday has brought the Ulster leader under the lash of the newspapers of all parties, primarily on account of his references to the United States, which ae criticised as tactless and calculated to breed bad blood between the two natiorls, and, secondly, because he reiterated his old threat to call out the Ulster volunteers to resist any attempt to place the home rule act in opera tion. The labor organ was not slow to point out how such incitement to "direct action" could be improved upon in the indsiitrial field for se curing political ends. The liberal pro-Irish papexs are equally quick to point out that on the point of tac tics, there is no 'difference between "King De Valera and King Carson." i The matter came up in the house of commons when the speaker gave John Robert Clynes, laborite, per mission to move adjournment of the house, for the purpose of chal lenging the government to set. the law in" motion against Sir Edward for a speech inciting, to .violence and endangering the safety of the realm. jMr. Clynes said there were many poor illiterate men now in prison for saying less harmful things' than Carson had said. It was the government's duty to see that the law'was equitably enforced. Maccabees Won't Raise Rates. Chicago, July 16. The supreme tent of the Maccabees, in 14th quad rennial convention, voted a declar ation that no change in insurance rates would be made. J. W. Sher wood. Portland, Ore., was elected supreme master-at-arms -y Ford Admits That He Is An "Ignorant Idealist" Then Judge Interposes Manufacturer Displays Gross Ignorance of Historical Data and Assumes Responsibility for Work Written by Reporter to Whom Detrojter HachMerelySkele torrized His .Beliefs on War; Will Continue on ' . Stand in Libel Suit Today. . '. FELICITATE PERSHING IN LONDON t . - Mount Clemens, Mich., July 16. Henry Ford, under examination as a witness for the defense during all of Wednesday's session of his suit for $1,000,000 libel against the Chi cago Tribune, was led through a maze of questions by the news paper's attorney, who said bje was trying to show that the alleged libelous editorial was correct in call ing the motor manufacturer "an Ignorant idealist." Answering the varied interroga tions of Attorney Elliott G. Stetten son, Mr. Ford described an idealist as one who "helped to make peo ple prosperous, an anarchist one who throws bombs or seeks to over turn government." The witness did not recall the incident of Major Andre and Benedict Arnold, de scribing the revolutionary traitor as a "writer." "An Ignorant Idealisf." At one time! Mr. Ford sa?d that he would admit he was an "ignor ant idealist" if that would stop the line of questioning, but later said the question would have to be de cided by the jury. Judge Tucket interposed objection to carrying the line of inqu'ry too far outside the case and Attorney Stevenson then asked about Mr. Ford's knowl edge of government relations, as serting that as the witness as a can didate for senator, hai" set himself up as an educator of the people he had a right to prove that Mr. Ford wa3 ignorant. Mr. Ford reiterated that his cir culars against war and prepared ness were written by Theodore De Lavigne, but that he was responsi ble for the statements, although he did not recall all of them. Some of the Statements. Following are some of the state ments publisied by De Lavigne and for which Mr. Ford assumed re sponsibility: y "It (wO is the same old scare crow talk by the same old lazy vultures, who make human lives, seldom tfceir own, the stake in their so-called battle of brains." "1 feel that this cry for the train ing of men to kill other men and for the placing of the army and navy as a burden on the backs of the people is a false conception of patriotism and treason to the life of the people. "The United States has spent more than $1,000,000,000 on a navy and army that would cope with an in vasion that never occurred and nev er will occur, and yet the very war experts who are responsible for that burden on the army and navy ad mit that our army and navy never would have been able to meet, with any hope of success, those of other so-called powers." Did Advocate Preparedness. When the question of prepared ness was under discussion, Mr. Stevenson was pursuing Mr. Ford's characterization of preparedness ad vocates as murderers. "I advocated preparedness after we got into the war," said Mr. Ford. "But you were speaking of 1915 and 1916," explained the, lawyer. The witness in an apparent abstrac-. tion ignored the, dates and, follow ing his own train of thought, add ed: "I wasa murderer just as well as anybody else." "You were a murderer?" gasped Mr. Steventon. "As I was a party to it, one of the helpers," said the witness calmly- "Do you mean that in 1917 you were the same kind of a murderer (Continued on Pfura Two, Column H British Government Gives Din ner in His Honor, Which Is Attended by Haig, Prince of Wales and Others. GENERAL AND STAFF PRESENTED TO KING CITYT0PAYMAN $45,000 A YEAR TO COLLECT GARBAGE Five Commissioners Agree to V Award Contract to Henry Pollock. City Commissioners Ure, Zimman, Ringer, Towl and Falconer yester day afternoon informally agreed to award to Henry Pollack a garbage contract for five years, the city to pay $45,000 a year for the collection and disposal of all garbage. The contract, if it is executed, will provide that Pollack shall fur nish all equipment and abide by rules and regulations as prescribed by the city for a sanitary system. Mr. Pollack will agree to use a 110-acre tract of land known as the Henry Schaeffer farm, located Vi miles north of DeBolt station, north of Benson and beyond the limits of Omaha. He will install a system of collection tanks to be hauled on trucks to railroad cars at convenient sidetrack points. The tanks, of garbage will be lifted from the trucks to railroad cars and empty tanks, replaced on the trucks. The garbage will be hauled in the same collection containers to "the hog feeding yard at DeBolt. Until Mr. Pollack can get his De Bolt plant in operation he will be permitted to use the Winspear tri angle, a tric$ owned by the city along the river.. His present hog yard at Sixth and. Grace streets is to bevabandoned at once and the premises deodorized. Mr. Pollack's present contract with the city will automatically be suspended if the new proposed con tract shall be formally ratified. The existing contract arrangement pro vides that the city shall haul the garbage to the Pollack yard and that he shall pay the city $2.55 per ton for the garbage. The city council has been besieged this summer with north side resi dents who have complained of the stench which arises from the hog yards on the east bottom lands. The commissioners and Dr. J. F. Edwards, health commissioner-elect, visited the site which Pollack pro poses to use at DeBolt, and they be lieved that the arrangement is the best that can be made outside of the city establishing a reduction or in cinerator system of garbage dis posal. British Cable Censorship Abandoned July 23 at 2 P.M. London, -July 16. The British cable censorship will be abolished at midnight. July 23, it was an nounced in the house of commons today. The relaxation also will ap ply to private codes. s- Hnngatian Soviet Crisis. Vienna. July 16. There is a crisis in the Hungarian soviet. General Boehm, commander of the armies, har been imprisoned. Strumfeld, second, in pmmand, is reported to have fled. - DECIDE TO LIFT 10 PER CENT TAX ON SODA WATER I. O. P. Leaders Consider Also Raising Impost on Soft Drinks and Ice Cream. Washington, July 16. Repeal of the soda water tax was decided on by republican leaders of the house. The decision will be referred to the ways and means committee, which will draft a repeal measure. Some leaders -predicted the tax which levies .an impost of 10 per cent on soft drinks and ice cream would 'tie repealed within a month. Investigation of the postoffice de partment was understood also to have been discussed by the repub lican steering committee, without a final decision. Immediate attention, the steering committee decided, would be given by the house to the two appropria tion bills, vetoed by the president, after which the prohibition enforce ment legislation would be disposed of. v Legislation prohibiting foreign ships Mrom .engaging in American coastwise trade also will be enacted, the committeemen said, as well as the tax repeal measures, before a summer recess. Deny Grammer Appeal From Death Sentence In Electric Chair Lincoln, Neb., v July 16. (Special Telegram) The supreme court to day denied the appeal from the dis trict court of Allen V. Grammes sentenced to electrocution for the1 alleged participation in the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lulu Vogel, in Howard county in July, 1917. Unless the governor inter feres Grammer will be electrocuted September 19, 1919, Grammer and Alqnzo B. Cole were" convicted of the murder and given a death sentence in Howard county. ,The cases have been ap pealed several times. It was charged that Grammer hired Cole to kill MVs. Vogel, who was found dead. Cole was granted a respite a month ago by Governor McKelvie, pending the supreme court's deci sion in the Grammes-case. He will j now be electrocuted at tne same time as (arammer. New York Christian Scientists to Erect $4,000,0000 Building New York, July 16. The Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, an nounces purchase, for $3,500,000, of property on Madison avenue, from Forty-third and Forty-fourth street, on which it is proposed to erect a $4,000,000 building 20 stories high, containing ani auditorium and rooms for the' various activities of the churcii. ' ' - As Guest of American Lunch eon Club He Pays High Honor to John Bull's Fighting Abil ity and to His Yanks. London, July 16. The government gave a dinner in honor of Gen. John J. Pershmg-ad his staff Wednesday night, "The guests included Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, who pre sided; Gen. Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, commander of the fifth British army; Gin. Henry S. Home, commander of the British army in France; Lieut. Gen. William Riddell Birdwood, commander of the Aus tralian and N&w Zealand troops iu France, and other prominent British officers. General Pershing, with his staff, were presented to the king and queen at a garden party at Bucking ham palace in the afternoon. The American ambassador, John W. Davis, and other members of the diplomatic orps also were present. General Pershing conversed for some ' time with the Prince of Wales. General Pershing was ,the guest of the American Luncheon club at the Hotel Savoy and was loudly cheered when he entered the dining room. He thanked the club for its, hospitality to him and the Ameri can soldiers and paid high tribute to the British for then- part in the war. s Gives U. S. Navy Thanks. "It must have fieen with a sense of great satisfaction," said General Pershing, "that you Americans liv ing in England learned of Ameri ca's entry into the war, and with what interest you watched the com ing of our expeditions, the first, the naval contingent under Vice Ad miral Sims, who quickly recognized that the difficulties demanded an increase, of craft for destroying sub marines and unity of command. I give him and the navy thanks for their attitude toward the army and feel safe in saying that never before was there such a complete unity of action between- these branches of the service. "I won't attempt to tell you wlut the army did. But I want you to know that its personnel was imbued with patriotism and devotion to the. cause of liberty and filled with an aggressive determination to carry out the will of our people' at home. When that first division entered the battle line and fought a brilliant bat tle at Cantigny, its success set an ex ample for the future of the campaign anK had an electrical effect on our allied armies, which had""been fight (Contlnued on Pafre Two, Column Four.) tBonar Law Denies Military Pact Between - Britain and America i London, July 16. Reports that Great Britain and the United States had entered into an agreement re garding their respective mijitary es tablishments was. denied in the house of commons today by An drew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequor. Fire of 'Unknown Origin Destroys Hoover Home Two thousand persons nocked to Thirteenth and Grace streets short ly before midnight last night when fire, consuming the home and gar age of Frank Hoover, 'lit up that whole section of the city. Three hundred automobiles lined the Nicholas stree 'bridge, -North Sixteenth street and' Thirteenth street. The .origin of the fire is unknown. Mrs. Alma Hoover, Norma, er 3-year-old daughter, and Lawrence, her 1 -year-old son, were rescued from the two-story frame home by the father, Frank Hoover. The garage and an automobile truck, the property of the Coal Hill Coal Co., were totally destroyed. The hous was badlv damaged. The loss is es timated by Hoover at $3,000. "Independent" Germans ' Spoiling for World Riot Berlin. Julv 16. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The managers of the independent party are calling on the German proletariat to protest August 1 against "the Versailles im perialistic peace." Their program calls for the pro letariat in the inauguration of a com mon fight for control of political powers and the advancement of a world revolution," Bandit Slain and Detective Seriously Wounded in Gun Battle Chums in Boyhood J. 5V. Tobias Shot After Opening Fire on Officers at! - Command to Halt Highwayman Murmurs Regret, as He Learns Officer Shot Was Frank Murphy, Friend of His School Days; Dead Man Identified by Several Victims of Holdup. REPUBLIC! SENATORS Detective Frank Murphy was seriously wounded at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning by Judd Tobias, alias Joe Trimble", a boy hood chum, when he attempted to arrest Tobias at Twentieth and, Dodge streets. .ToNias- was killed by Axel V. Lundeen, ,Murphy's partner. ' Last night Murphy's condition was improved. The bullet in his abdomen was removed yesterday tfernoon and the attending sur geons said his intestines had not been punctured nor had his kidneys. Searching for a youthful bandit who had staged two holdups earlier in the morning, Murphy, Lundeen and O. Farrand, all city detectives, stopped their automobile when the figure of a man was seen on Dodge street. Answers With Bullets. "Halt!" Murphy commanded. The answer was a rain of bullets from a gun which police say was snatched from a shoulder holster. Murphy,fell. "He's got me, 'Vic.'" he snips ' Lurfdeen returned the fire. The bandit, wounded, crumpled to the pavement. Conscious, he recognized Mur phy before he died. x He died in the street with a mur- SUMMED mured Tegret on his lips. Lundeen stood over him with a s.moking gun. "It-it-it's Frank," Tobias said. "I'm sorry." The words were his last. Murphy lapsed into unconscious- i ness before he reached the hospital. He does not yet know that the man who shot him and was shot and killed was his boyhood friend and schoolmate, J. W. Tobias. Bandit Is Identified. J. W. Tobias was positively iden tified as the highwayman who has terrorized pedestrians, at the in quest held yesterday afternoon at Hoffman's Funerat Home. H. J. Tanner, 538 Park avenue, testified that he was positive Tobias was the man who held him up in front of his home at 2 o'clock a. m. yesterday. Wm. Got urn, 2622 North Twenty fcurth street, who was held up at 2:20 a. m., also identified the dead man as the bandit who held him up, President Begins Aggressive . Effort to Diminish Senate Opposition to Peace Pact Signed With Germany. SEVERAL INVITED TO -WHITE HOUSE TODAY Invitations Expected to Be Daily Feature Until Execu tive Has Made His Appeal to G. 0. P. Membership. Washington, July 16. In an 5g gressive effort to diminish senate opposition to the treaty with Ger-; many, President Wilson will begin at the White House Thursday . a scries of personal talks with repub- F. H. Tuiney, 2S36 Capitol ave-lican senators nue, testified that Tobias held him up in front of his home last Sat urday. He was positive of his iden tification, saying that he had a good look at his face. - Detectives Lundeen and O. Far (Contlnued on Page Two, Column Three.) arrest Alleged sales manager of auto thieves RECOMMENDS SIX-CENT FARE FOROMAHANS Walter Barnhart Said to Be I Supreme Court Suggests 10 One of Ring Which Spe- Tickets for 55 Cents as . cialized in Buick Cars. Emergency Rate. Lincoln, July 16. The supreme court of Nebraska in an opinion handed down Wednesday reverses the State Railway commission in the application of the Omaha &; Coun cil Bluffs Street Railway company for and emergency rate to be charged for street car fares. While the court sets no spe cific amount to be charged, it sug gests that 6 cents for a single fare and 10 tickets for 55 cents should be an emergency rate pending an investigaation as to the earnings of the company. The court in its opin ion says: "The fundamental inquiry in fixing rates of a public service utility al ways is: What rate is necessary in order to yield a reasonable average return on a fair valuation of the property for rate-making purposes such a return as will not discourage bur will attract the investment of capital in the utility. Has Wide Discretion. "Under the constitution and laws of this state the State Railway com mission has a wide discretion in these matters. "A situation due to an unexpected rise in prices and wages, which makes it altogether probable that the past and present rate is insuf ficient to yield a revenue jyhich will pay that fair average return which the law requires, although not con stituting what might technically be denominated an 'emergency,' may, when shown, be sufficient for the al lowance by the commission of a temporary rate, limited to the time required for making an investigation and finding of the facts. If it should happen that the temporary rate so fixed is too high, the condition may be rectified in the order fixing the rate after investigation. "In fixing the rates at any partic ular time, former earnings and prob able prospective earnings should al (Contlnned on Page Two, Column Four.) Nonpartisan League AsEs Nominations Be Made by Conventions Lincoln, Neb., July 16. (Special Telegram.) C. A. Sorenson, attor ney for the Nonpartisan league, ap peared at the office of the-secretary of state late today and filed peti tions containing 24,049 names ask ing for -a referendum -vote on sec tion one of the Reynolds primary bill at the 1920 election. That particular section provides for the nomination of all candidates for state office below governor by state convention. The petitions were examined by the secretary of state and governor, and the form of petition considered regular. The count will be made later. In the arrest last night of Walter H. Barnhart, 506 North Twenty-first street, Detectives John Pszanowski and Jimmy Murphy say they have caught the sales manager of the ex tensive auto-thieving ring that dur ing the last three months or more has successfully stolen and sold more than 20 Omaha cars. Barnhart was apprehended in Norfolk, Neb., and brought back in one of the stolen automobiles re covered there by the two Omaha detectives. Pszanowski and Murphy ex plained the operations of the ring as follows: Bert Harris, 19 years old, and Ernest Emerson, 18 years old, both of Jersey City, N. J., acted as the thieves. They specialized in Bu icks. Under the direction of cer tain Om;tha men whose arresf is promised soon, the two boys "spot ted" a car on a downtown street, took the number on the lock, con sulted the cowity court house files to learn the owner of -the car and then had a key made to fit the lock, corresponding with the number they had taken. Then they had but to unlock the car and drive away. Soldvin Country. The stolen car wW-then taken to Herbert Crutcher, 620 South Seven teenth street, the detectives say. Crutcher filed the engine numbers off and replaced them by meansof a set of dies. The two boys called for their car when it was ready- and took it out into the sfate, where they met Barnhart, by appointment. Barnhart represented himself as a salesman for the Midwest Truck & Motor Co. of Omaha, and dis posed of cars in the capacity of a traveling salesman in different Ne braska towns. Dr. W. F. Milroy 5 J 18 Under wood avenue, lost his car April 20, by i the Barnhart-Crutcher-Harris-Emerson system. Cars Are Recovered. Milroy's car was recovered yester day by the Omaha detectives in Norfolk and brought back to Omaha. A car belonging to R. L. Davis, 2902 Hanover street, Omaha, which was stolen May19 from in front of the Boyd theater and dis posed of through this system, was brought. back last night also. An other Omaha1 car, as yet unidentified, lias been recovered at Stanton. Neb., and still another at Wayne, Neb. Pszanowski and Murphy say they will soon turn up more than 20 stolen Omaha cars which have been sold by this ring. Harris and Emerson, the ; alleged thieves, are now serving terms of from 1 to 7 years in the penitentiary on charges of grad larceny, to which they pleaded guilty last week. Crutcher and Iannart are charged with aiding and abetting grand larceny and with stealing automobiles. Enforcing Prohibition. "Washington, July 16. Prohibition is being enfoXred effectively throughout the United States, At torney General Palmer says. Sale of "hard" liquor, such as whisky, gin and brandy, virtually has cejsed, he Asserted, except for scat tering violations of the law. Irish Determine Not to March in Victory Parade Dublin, Jly 16. The Irish Na tional association, composed largely of followers of the late John Red mond, who fought during the war, decided that its members would not march in the Victory parade in Lon don on Saturday. It had been an nounced officially that they would participate in the celebration. With his reiterated offer to con-. suit with the foreign relations com- -mittee unacceptable and with his op- ponents on the republican side evi dencing no purpose to seek his coun cil, the president decided to adopt the more direct method of inviting republican members to the White HousV and laying before them one . after another his reasons for asking that the treaty be ratified. Some Invitations Out. A half dozen, senators, whose names, were withheld, were asked tc meet the president Thursday and it was indicated that the .invitations ' would be a daily feature until Mr. v Wilson had seen most of the repub- lican membership. During the day ne seiecieu uiiy wnora nc ursircs iu ncc mis nctR. t- There- was much speculation s to kthe choices he had made for Thursday's conference. In some quarters it was thought Mikely he had invited Chairman Lodge and -other members of the foreign rela- tions committee, but it also was sug gested that he may have chosen to -talk first with senators who . are inclined to be friendly to, the treaty and have taken no definite stands regarding it. ' Say Talks Will Fail. Republican leaders opposing the treaty in its present form did not hesitate tp predict the White House talks would faRto lessen the oppo- .sition to unreserved ratification.' Democratic senators supporting the president, however, declared v his course undoubtedly meant he had convincing arguments to offer. Those in the president's confi dence indicated the burden of "his appeal to the republican senators , wouldconcern the league of nations and the Shantung settlement, the " two provisions which have aroused greatest criticism in the senate. It was predicted that he would tell his -callers thtNcomplete details of tne negotiations on these points and on any others that might be brought -into question. .. MEASURES TAKEN' TO REDUCE COST OF FOOD IN FRANCE . Cheap Restaurants Under Con trol of Ministry of Supplies Will Be Established! . Paris, July 16. Four defiflTte measures intended to reduce the .cost of living were, decided upon at a meeting of the cabinet. A commis sioner was appointed to execute the ideas agreed upon. . ,The four plans were: - ? " "Clemenceau" or "Vilgra" food' selling booths in Paris will be'dou- r bled in number and others will be. established in other centers of.pop ulatiorrr - Cheap restaurants to supply meals at fixed prices will be started in ". Paris and in the provinces,' under control of the ministry of supplied All war stockks of foodstuffs will be Sold to the public, chiefly . through co-operative societies. ; A special service already effectke L in the ministry of supplies will seek to curb illicit speculate in food stuffs. " A bill pending in parliament con-;1 tains provisions supplementing ex isting laws against speculation and 1 increased penalties. A .. . . r ; in Attempt to rass Daylight Saving Bill in" Modified Form Washington, July 16. Republican leaders of the house, upported-by-party leaders in the senate, agreed to attempt repassage of the agricul-,. ture appropriation bill with its day light saving repeal in modified' form despite the president's veto, "::