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2 A' THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 20, 1919. JEFFER1S WINS NEW RULING FOR NEAR SOLDIERS Adjutant General Says Men Called When Armistice Was , . Signed Are Entitled to Discharge. -.-I. ' V "V BY E. C. SNYDER. (Staff Correspondent of the Omaha Bee.) 'Washington Bureau, Omaha Bee, Washington. D. L., July iy.Kepre tentative Jefferis Friday won rul ing from the adjutant general that may affect hundreds, if not thou sands, of cases of boys who entered the service of the United States, but who, because of sickness, were un able to get to camps before the armistice was signed and who have I nothing to show that they were readv for service. Henry Czerwinski, an Omaha boy, was called three times to enter the service, but on each attempt to get t camp he was stopped, twice by the influenza, ana lastly Dy the promulgation of peace. Having nothing to show that he had re sponded to the call ot his country he wrote Mr. Jeffns as to his status. Th Omaha congressman, remem bering that there was a clause at the bottom of the induction papers reciting that "from and after the date and hour just named you will be a soldier in the military service of;the United States" and directing him to hold himself in readiness to report to a mobilization camp, took the matter up with the adjutant ,,A U all mfn called by local boards and who reached demobilization camps or stations November 11, the date of the signing of the armistice, were ordered discharged. Such men, the adjutant general decides, are en titled to discharge certificates which should have been prepared at the ' camps to which the men were as signed from data furnished by their local boards. If this information was not furnished by the local boards the discharge certificates could not be prepared. Celebrate Reace v . in Great Britain (Continued From Pate One.) Victoria memorial monument, added color to the striking scene. King George, from his seat on the scarlet dais, had a clear view ) through a colonnade of ornate white pylons reaching for more than a half mile to the admiralty arch. The troops marched past the reviewing stand to the music of dozens of military bands. s Americana Led Procession. The Americans led the proces sion. It was 12:30 when they came marching with springy step and smart precision. As the Americans approached the stand King George an4 all others, including Queen Mary, the aged queen mother Alex andra and Princess Mary, arose. v, The king, in the uniform of a field marshal, kept his hand to his visor in- rigid salute until General Per shing, sitting his horse like a cav- alryman, had passed. The Ameri can troops won compliments on their formation. The bayonets of many were decorated with flowers and union jacks. General Pershing dismounted 100 yards beyond the king's stand and returned to it. where he was greet ed by all. He stood with King George during the remainder of the review. - Marshal Foch. Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and other command er! joined the reviewing party as agon as their contingents had palled. Colon Win Admiration. The massed colors of the various regiments won the admiration of the crowd. One of the prettiest features of the' parade was the release of a covey of pigeons from in front, of ' the king's stand. Women war workers, swinging along, received one long ovation as they passed over the six miles of London streets. especially aia Queen Mary's auxiliary corpse win applause and at this the royal pat roness seemed greatly pleased. , Once the parade was over the crowds gathered in the center of the city eager to begin the street revels. Picadill? circus, Leicester Square and the Strand soon were filled with merry makers who braved showers to start the dancing. Groups of girls, costumed in the national colors, and young men In carnival attire led in the frolics. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was taken ill and had to be removed to hit home in Kingston, in a motor car alter the Victory parade. Many .had noticed that Field Marshal Haig .peeked ill while riding at the head of his men. No Hostility in Ireland. "Dublin, July 19 Viscount French, lord lieutenant and. governV gen eral of Ireland with his staff and ' officials, took the salute of the Vic tory march at the bank of Ireland Saturday. The whole space of col- ' Itge green was filled with cheering crowds and the streets were lined with sympathetic spectators. There ' was ' no hostility displayed at any point. X The garrison marched with fixed bayonets, leading a large represen tation of demobilized soldiers. AH the Irish regiment particularly the Dublin fusiliers, marched in the parade. 'Says Holland Will Not . Give Ex-Kaiser to Allies Geneva, July 19. It is reported from Berne that the Dutch prince consort, who is traveling in Switzer land, has declared in private con versation that Holland would for mally refus to surrender the former German emperor to the allies if . asked. Holland, however, he is quoted as saying, would not hindet him from voluntarily appearing be fore an allied or neutral tribunal or from returning to Germany, as, ac Cording to Dutch laws, the former monarch is considered limply a po litical exile. ' , Complete Plans for New Medical Arts Building Sixteen-Story Office Structure. for Doctors and Dentists Will Be of Collegiate Gothic Style of Architecture in Stone and Brick. - The Medical Arts building, on the southeast corner of Seventeenth and Dodge streets, will be of steel, stone, cement and brick, 16 stories high, with basement. The height from the street grade to the cornice will be 200 feet. On the roof will be an additional story for carpen ter shops, fan rooms and elevator machinery. Entrances to the building will be on both Dodge and Seventeenth streets. The corner store room, ground floor, will have entrances from the two streets and from the corridor. It will be occupied with a stock of drugs. On this floor there will be a surgical supply store, and the balance of the floor space, as well as space on the second and third floors, to be occupied by Hay- den Brothers. The fourth floor will be occupied by the Riggs Optical company. The floors between the fourth and 16th will be occupied by doctors and dentists. The rooms will be in suites and wide corridors are planned. There will be marble wainscoting and marble and tile floors. Five high-speed, electric eleva tors will operate between the base ment and the 16th floor. On the 16th floor there will be shower baths, offices for secretaries, counsel and reading rooms, besides an am phitheater with a seating capacity for 300 persons. This will be used for meetings, demonstrations and clinics. The kitchenette and dining rooms will be in the story above. There will be an exit to the roof, which will be floored with prome nade tile. The building will be 88x 132 feet, of collegiate Gothic style of architecture. Thomas R. Kim ball and John and Alan McDonald are the architects. ASSERT WILLIAMS AIDED RELATIVE IN REALTY DEAL Sensational Charges Made in Fight Against Comptroller of Currency. Washington, July 19. A new set of sensational charges was sprung Saturday out of the fight on the re appointment of John Skelton Wil liams as comptroller of the currency. Representative McFadden of Pennsylvania, appearing before the house rules committee, charged that Williams assisted his brother-in-law, Lewis C. Williams of Richmond, Va., in the sale of an office building site in the capital to the government and that the comptroller shared in the commission for the sale. Mc Fadden declared if the rules com mittee did not provide for an investi gation he would move the impeach ment of the comptroller from the floor of the house. Comptroller Williams immediately categorically denounced McFadden's charges, declaring his brother-in-law acted as an attorney for prop erty owners and that the comptrol ler not only had no concern in the transaction, but received no part of any commission. The comptroller also called on the chairman of the senate banking committee, holding hearings on his renomination, to summon McFadden for Monday to give testimony and be confronted by the comptroller. Radical Drys Keep Up Steam Roller Tactics t (Continued From Pc Oh.) provisions was approved, with add ed restrictions. By a vote of 73 to 70 an amend ment designed to protect from in vasion a home in the same building and the store in which liquor was sold- was defeated over the protest of a few ardent prohibitionists, who declared there was danger of con gress going too far. The house adopted, 71 to 51, an amendment which would permit search of a private dwelling used for the sale of intoxicants. Chairman Volstead, patron of the bill, declared the search and seiz ure had been the "bugaboo" of the whole enforcement discussion, and that the only things that could be taken away after search was liquor and implements for its manufacture. Without completing: the bill the house adjourned at 1:30 p. m. The measure will be taken . up again Monday. To Give Outing. A mid-summer festival, outing and dance will be given by the Union Outfitting company to its friends and customers at Lake View park next Wednesday evening. WILL ATTEMPT TO SHOW PACT . WITH CANNERS Work of Reavis Committee Already Producing Good Results. By E. C. SNYDER (Staff Correspondent of the Omaha Bee.) Washington Bureau, Omaha Bee,' Washington, D. C, July 19. The subcommittee of which Representa tive Reavis of Nebraska is chairman, charged with investigative conduct of the war will, on Tuesday, call to the witness stand Frank Gerber, president, and Edward Garrell, sec retary and treasurer of the National Canners' association in an effort to show that there was an understand ing between the representatives of the canners' association and the war department that the canned goods purchased by the government for war purposes were not to be sold in. Domestic markets after the armis tice was signed, but would be sold to foreign consumers or absorbed by the army even if beans, peas, to matoes and corn had to be included in the daily ration of the soldier, in order to stabilize prevailing prices. Already the investigation of the Reavis committee is bearing fruit, for after 10 days of exposure of the methods in vogue to keep goods off domestic markets the War depart ment has ordered that all surplus stocks in food commodities be dis posed of without regard to pur chasers and officials are falling all over themselves to get rid of food surplusages in order to stop criti cism. Congressman Reavis, who is showing rare ability as an investi gator, proposes to fix the responsi bility for at least some part of the high cost of living on those directly connected with the War department in keeping off the domestic market millions of dollars' worth of food stuffs which were desired by con sumers and which, if sold, would have had a tendency to reduce the high cost of living. "There is no one question that has played. so prominent a part in the life of nations as the food question," said Mr. Reavis. "Rome nearly went to pieces be cause its food supply was inade quate and the French revolution wa3 the inevitable result of food short ages. The committee of which I am chairman proposes to go to the bot tom of the charges of secret under standings between certain govern mental officials and representatives of canning companies and packers to keep up prices. "The investigation we have started upon is in the interest of the people and it will he conducted without fear or favor." , EMERSON CALM WHEN HE HEARS VERDICT GUILTY Creston Undertaker Convicted of Murder In Second De greeJury Deliberates Sixteen Hours. Mt. Ayr, la., July 19. (Special Telegram.) After deliberating 16 hours and 20 minutes, the jury in the case of Roy Emerson, Creston undertaker, on trial for the murder of his mother, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree at 10:10 a. m. today. The Jury's verdict signed by Bert Perkins, foreman, read: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder m the second degree. Emerson flinched slightly when the verdict was read but instantly regained his composure and sat with the calm indifference that has marked his actions since the trial started. Sentence was suspended pending the three to five days grace granted under the law for the at torneys for the defense to file a mo tion for a new trial. The Iowa laws provide that in cases of conviction for second de gree murder the sentence shall be from 20 years to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. It is in cumbent upon the presiding judge to give the maximum sentence which may be reduced by the state pardon board. Body Badly Mutilated. Mrs. Kate Emerson, mother of the defendent, was found dead in the bottom of an elevator shaft in the Emerson undertaking establishment in Creston, May 6. Her body was badly mangled and mutilated. Both legs were broken, her lips were cut, one eye discolored and her arm bore four marks on the front and one on the back as it she had been tightly gripped by someone. At first it was generally consider ed that Mrs. Emerson had commit ted suicide. Discovery of blood spots near the shaft, an iron brace with red stains on it and other evi dence, led, however, to the arrest of her son, Py Emerson, on a charere of muuler. The coroner's jury returned an open verdict of murder at the Hands ot someone unknown." but a special session of the grand jury was called and Roy Emerson indicted. .He was tnen held in jail at Creston without bail, the trial being set for June 30. A change of venue was granted, how ever, and Emerson went on trial at Mt. Ayr, Ringgold county, July 8. Great Legal Battle. The trial marked one of the great est lesral battles the state has ever witnessed. Armed only with cir cumstantial evidence, the state left nothing undone to convict Emerson. Emerson, maintaining his innocence at all times, obtained several of the leading lawyers of the state to de fend him and made arrangements to sell his estate, valued at $80,000 to pay for his defense. The state took eight days in pre senting its case, one day, however, being devoted to a trip to Creston so that the jury could inspect at first hand the place where Mrs. Em erson's body was found. In its ar gument the state contended that Emerson carefully prepared to mur der his mother, giving as the motive his desire to control the family es tate, and producing testimony to show that he had threatened her with violence and frequently quar reled with ner over money matters The state's evidence showed that an iron brace was found near the shaft with red stains on it; that Mr?. Emerson apparently had been beat en and then thrown into the elevator shaft. Blood spots were found on the walls of the shaft and on the floor of the room it is in. A bloody rag was found in the room, also, witnesses said. Other witnesses said Roy Emerson sent a suit to a cleaner the day after the finding of his mother's body, and that it was damp in spots, as if someone had tried to clean out the spots. The state also contended that Em erson had repeatedly said previous to his mother's death that she planned suicide, maintaining that this was done to remove suspicion from himself. The top of Mrs. Em erson's skull was introduced as evi dence and an attempt made to fit the iron brace into the dent .in it. This demonstration was barred from the testimony. The defense maintained that Mrs. Emerson committed suicide, produc ing some 25 witnesses, most of whom testified she had said she planned suicide and was frequently melancholy. The defense also scored a point when a chemist refused to say the stains on the iron brace with which the state contends Em erson killed his mother, were blood. An adequate test could not be made, it was said. The defense accounted for blood spots on the walls of the shaft and floor and on Emerson's clothes and the bloody rag by saying they were only natural in an undertaking es tablishment. It introduced testi mony that Emerson was deeply shocked at his mother's death and accounted for his actions up to 3 o'clock the afternoon of her death. The verdict was rendered by a jury which was composed of nine farmers, one tinner, one live stock dealer and one salesman. 6,220 Divorces Granted in Chicago Last Year Chicago, July 19. When the divorce courts adjourned for sum mer vacations today, it was found that a record of 6,220 decrees had been entered for the year. The war, liquor, and an increasing trend to ward free love were given by some of the judges as chief among reasons for the increased number of divorces. Pomerania Disturbed. Copenhagen. July 19. The state of siege in Pomerania has been raised, according to advices received here from Stettin. The counter strike of citizens in Stettin has ended and labor leaders have pro claimed an immediate cessation of the general strike and have repu diated the idea of a breach of con tract between employers And workers. Seek Mean Ground on League Covenant (Continued From Face One.) necessitate renegotiation, encourage other nations to make reservations. cause delay and confusion, and finally endanger the whole pan President Wilson is said, in talking with senators, to have described the present political status of Europe as a field in which it may be very difficult to carry on suth a reneKOtiation. To that end the administration forces are deemed to make a fight for unreserved ratification. Senator Pittman of Nevada, democrat, of the foreign relations committee, outlined this position to the senate recently and will speak on the legal aspects of reservations next week. He takes the position that the treaty must be considered in the light of a contract and that not word can be added or erased with out the consent of the other par ties. Opposing: that view, some of the republicans generally favorable to a league take the stand .that the treaty procedure is a less exact sci ence than contract law, and that reservations merely calculated to set forth the senate's interpretation of certain clauses could be attached without sending the covenant back and reopening negotiations. May Secure Assent. The possibility of securing the as sent to reservations by other powers before hand has been discussed among republicans and democratic senators, but if any steps have been taken in that direction it is without the knowledge of some of those most interested in the reservation problem. Some of the president's republican callers say they do not think it beyond the range of pos sibility that he may secure such an assent and then discontinue opposi tion to such reservations as do not in his opinion vitally weaken the league. In his conference with Sen ator Hitchcock, Mr. Wilson is known to have expressed strongly the feeling that it was only neces sary to clear up misunderstandings in order to reach a solution of the senate situation. Some senators in terpreted this position taken after seeing seven republicans as suggest ing that the president rrwght have in mind some definite plan to bring together the administration senators and those republicans who are for interpretative reservations. Such a plan would not appeal to the group of republicans led by Sen ator Borah, republican, Idaho, who advocate eliminating entirely some features which the president thinks vital. The exact extent of reser vations favored by such senators as Chairman Lodge of the foreign re lations committee and Senator Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, never has been revealed. The Shantung provision, which has aroused a storm of senate pro test, confidently is expected by some of the president's recent call ers to be the subject soon of a White House declaration in the form of a public statement or a message to the senate. Some of the republicans believe this declara tion will change the aspect of this provision, though none has an nounced he would support it. The senate was not in session to day and the foreign relations com mittee also took a rest in its pre liminary reading of the treaty text. Both will meet Monday. On Tues day President Wilson is expected to see more republican senators at the White House. TharcrosoiuBelden &Ch 77, T&xt, mart titefW .Affie$ of$fyli0iMot$Q$ Among the many gabardine, Georgette, voile, poplin and satin skirts are several worthy of special mention. A f 1 e sh -c o 1 ored Georgette with rows of fine tucks is $13.50. A silk poplin, royal purple, with embroi dered bands is $13.50. A white tub silk, prettily made, is $5.95. There are white gabar dines without number, very fine ones for only $5.50 and $6.95 and others up to $10.75. The blouses were never better nor more varied, imported voiles and Georgettes are in greatest favor. A white French voile with a round neck, hand em broidered and trimmed with real lace is $16.50. Another trimmed only with very fine lace k $10.50. A French voile with a full scalloped and pleated ruf fle at the neck and cuffs is $6.95. A very tailored striped dimity with a black tie is $6.50. On the Second Floor, Said to Have Displayed Hun Flag; Held to Federal Court Sidney, Neb., July 19. (Special) Peter Stevens, a wealthy farmer, liv ing 20 miles northeast of Sydney, was bound over to the federal court Saturday, charged with espionage. His bonds were fixed at $2,500. Wit nesses said he hung a German flag on his house, July 4. i Where should I bin, .-m m -a it i I yy s I II v x V I Our Sensational Rug ... . values uonunue All This Week The hand somest Piano ever made stands in the White House- placed there during the Roosevelt administration. It is a Steinway. Having no dupli cate, its value as a work of art would be difficult to compute. Its value as a musical instrument is incalculable vet in tone, touch and mechanical equipment it , is the exact counterpart of scores of Stein way Grands standing on the floors of our warerooms, ready for delivery to the read ers of this newspaper. In the broader sense every Steinway is an Art Piano the individual work of the great masters of piano building. 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