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ieS o: THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 10, 1919. 11 A : COL. HOUSE MAY, 8E SUMMONED BY COMMITTEE Solution of Long Standing Po v litical Mystery Seen by Republicans at y Hearing. By JUSTIN M'GRATH. Washington, jug. 9. Is the great political mystery of Colonel Edward M. House at last to be unveiled? At the hearing of the senate for eign relations committee Secretary Lansing excused his lack of knowl edge on many features of the nego tiations by saying he had not par ticipated in them. The only mem ber of the commission other than President Wilson to have knowledge of them, the secretary said, was Col onel House. Mr. Lansing suggested the committee summon Colonel House when he returns to this coun try. Republicans Are Pleased. No - development of the hearing brought more Satisfaction to the re publican members of the commiUee than this suggestion of Mr. Lansing. They were exceedingly grateful for it, for they at once appreciated the large political possibilities it pre sented. Ever since President Wilson had been in office, the republicans have been exceedingly anxious to learn the facts of his relations with Col onel House. No opportunity for as certaining them authoritatively has as yet presented itself But now the opportunity comes and, what is more, the republicans can avail themselves of it without putting themselves in any unseem ing light. They do not have to take the initiative. They merely act upon the suggestion of the most promi nent member of Mr. Wilson's cab inet. I am violating no confidence when I say they are eager to act on it, imd certainly will do so if Colonel House shall retnrn to the United States before the treaty of peace will have been ratified by the sen ate. House May Not Return. . But it will intrest some of the republican senators, who are eager to have Colonel House on the wit ness stand before them to learn there is a very strong probability of their fond expectations being disap pointed. Colonel House may not return to the United States until after the treaty is ratified. He probably would not have returned even though there had been no like lihood that he would have to meet the ordeal of facing the senate for eign relations committee and being catechised by its members. Now that it is certain that he will have to meet that ordeal in case he does return, his coming will be more cer tainly postponed. Even before President Wilson left Europe there was an under standing between him and Colonel House, I have been, credibly in formed, by which Colonel House was to remain in Europe to act as the president's personal representa tive on all matters relating to the peace treaty and the league of na tions, which might come up. Mexican Committee Will Start Its Work Early In Coming-Week Washington, Aug. 9. Determined not to spare time or resources in its efforts to uncover the whole story of the relations between the United States and Mexico, including facts of Mexican infringements on Ameri can rights during recent years, the three members of the sub-committee named late yesterday by Chairman Lodge of the senate foreign rela tions committee today were prepar ing for their work. The sub-committee, consisting of Senators Fall, New Mexico, and Brandegee, Con necticut, republicans, and Smith. 'Arizona, democrat, was appointed under authority of a resolution of which Senator King of Utah was author. It was expected that only preliminary features of the investi gation would be dealt with pending disposition of the treaty with Ger-manv. AMERICA TO SEE BELGIUM'S FIGHTING KING AND HIS FAMILY THIS FALL America is to be honored this fall by the visit of Belgium's fighting king and his entire family, according to a recent Washington dispatch. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth and their three children the duke of Brabant, crown prince of Belgium; Prince Charles Theodore, Count Flanders, and Princess Marie Jose are ex pected here in September. m imiuMi mm mmm i ! i I I n u m i 11 s ? FT IT1" E X V - 8 I & JfA A fell? Vv i' " v W0' Kwr Hi: gKWv- SKELETON FOUND IN LOCKED SHED; MAN ARRESTED Officers Take Man Found Living in Covered Wagon for Murder of Five YearsAgo. .."PRINCE. CHPv R.LE.S ...P'R-irVCE' LEOPOL-t?- Mitchell Gets Decision in Fight With Friedman Benton Harbor. Mich., Aug. 9. Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee was awarded the decision over Sailor Friedman of Chicago Saturday night at the end of the sixth cound of their scheduled 10-roimd boxing bout. Mitchell hit Friedman on the chin just as the bell sounded for the end of the sixth round. Fried man followers claimed the Milwau kee man struck the blow after the round had ended and committed a foul. A second jumped into the ring and threw Mitchell down. Mitch ell's brother took his part and sev eral partisans mixed it in the etn-" ter of the ring. John . Sterling, states attorney of Berrien county, ordered the fight stoppe'd. Wife of Banker Is Given Divorce and $4,000 Alimony Mrs. Virginia M. Yates was award ed a divorce decree by Judge Day in district court from Gwyer H. Yates, an assistant cashier of the United States National bank. Mrs. Yates filed suit for divorce July 1. charging her husband with extreme cruelty. She alleged he was subject to fits of violent temper. The court ordered Mr. Yates to pay $4,000 alimony. Ship Production Record. Philadelphia. Aug. 9. A world's record for ship- production was es tablished at Hog Island" the first "year it was in operation, 47 steel cargo carriers aggregating 367.775 deadweight tons having been sent down the ways up to August 5, its first launching anniversary. Mail Clerks Want Raise. St. Louis. Aug. 9. Resolutions asking for temporary wage increases of 75ier cent were adopted by the l-3l; !r?y!cji cf the Railway Xaii Clerk' asaocklioo. FIRST AIRPLANE MEET FOR "KIDS" IS BIG SUCCESS Burgess-Nash Stores Give Substantial Prizes for Min iature Flying Machines All Types Represented. TH WINNERS. First Prize Walter Key, IS years old, 922 South Thirty-sixth street, $40 aeroplane. Second Prize Ray Johnson, 15 years old, 313 Bancroft street, $10 cash. Third Prize Harry Abrams, 13 years old, 2412 Seward street, $5 cash. Free-For-All Mahlon Davis, 14 years old, 4802 Webster street, $15 cash. Half the school children of Omaha attended the first "aero meet" for kids, held under the auspices of the Burgess-Nash stores at Miller park yesterday afternoon. Four ."races" by a full three-score "battle planes" of all types, some factory made, other constructed by their owners were held. A commit tee of three newspapermen from Omaha dailies actfcd as "judges." It was a real "kid's day." To be sure the battle planes were small and their motors nothing but rub ber: there were no hangars or sheds scattered over the field. But the planes were there with their mech anicians, pilots and managers. The planes traveled the following distances: First winner, 70 feet; second winner, 55 feet; third win ner, 36 feet; fourth winner, 112 feet The latter, competing in the free For all, completed a distinct loop in the air. Mahlon Davis, Hs owner, a student at the Commerce high school, stated that he and Gerard Griffin, 14 years old, 1448 Webster street, had organized the Griffin Davis Airplane company. This company will buiM and place toy airplanes on the market. The plane that the "company" had in the contest yesterday was patterned after the Lawrence biplane. Flanes entered id the races were of military types, tractor flyer type, single propeller gliders, and mono planes. The Burgess-Nash company has an interesting sideline of minia rflre airplanes and loaned several of Ks leading types to entrants -who had no planes, i MSss Thurston,' chief of the Burgess-Nash sales department, was "pit chief"' for the afternoon. V. R. Lippold, salesman for the store, presented the - prizes. Several cameramen were on hand and a moving picture operator photo graphed the races. Wilson to Talk On Food During His Circle Trip "Washington, Aug. 9. Domestic problems now facing the country may be taken up directly with the people by President Wilson during his forthcoming trip in the interests of the peace treaty. This was indi cated today af the White House, where it also was said that plans for the president's tour were goiiiix for ward. Waive Hearing. San Antonio, Aug. 9. H. J. Brown and Arthur J. Clements, charged with embezzlement of $36,000 from the Alamo National bank Thursday, were held" today under $10,000 bond each. Brown and Clements waived ex amination, and upon failing to make bond were remanded to jail. They are charged also with receiving and concealing stolen property-. Divorce Courts REG Pearl M. Ridgway asks the dis trict court for a divorce from Roy G. Ridgway on the grouns of non support. They were married in Ok lahoma City, Okl., March 22, 1909. Judge Day, in district court, granted divorce decrees to Anna Crasnicker from Louis Crasnicker, on the grounds of non-support; to to Emma Gietzen from Charles Gietzen; to Mary Barrett from Ed ward Barrett, and to Hubert C. Robertson from Ruth E. Robertson, on grounds of cruelty. WELL KNOWN ACTORS SEVER UNION TIES Not in Sympathy With New York Strike That "Darks" 10 -Theaters. " Fairbury Strikers Return. Fairbury, Neb., Aug. 9. (Special Telegram.) The shopmen of the Nebraska division- of the Rock Island voted unanimously . Saturday night to return to work at once. The Fairbury force, about 200 men, quit work Thursday morning. Prac tically all freight trains have been annulled. Heat Ruins Streets. Mattoon, 111., Aug." 9. Excessive heat caused a 10-foot section of street pavement to burst here. It reduced the bricks to bats. Several similar explosions have been report ed recently in various parts of the 1 city, . ' New York, Aug. 9. Ten New York theaters were "dark" Satur day night at the end of the third day of the actors' strike. To the nine which were closed last night was added the Globe. Members'-of the Actors' Equity association expressed confidence that they -would win the written equity contracts embodying the de mands for which they went on strike. They professed not to be disheartened by the fact that fol lowing the resignation of E. H. Sothern, there were received at Equity headquarters the resigna tions of William Collier, Holbrook Blinn and Alan Rinehart. In ten dering his resignation Mr. Collier said he Vas "very much averse to the action of the Actors' Equity as sociation in closing up tliaters by ordering a so-called strike." From the. Producing Managers Protective association also came ex pressions of confidence and report th at casts depleted by strikers wei'e being satisfactorily recruited "de spite the extraordinary length to which the Actors Equity association has gone in the intimidation and coercion of its people." The managers' meeting adopted a resolution offering financial aid to all "lpyal" actors forced, out ofVwork by the strike. George M. who has been forced to take a part in his production, the Koyal Vaga bond," Saturday night was host at a dinner to stage hands, musicians, chorus and principals who had stood by him in the strike. Omahans Defeated in Tennis Doubles Tourney Sioux City, la., Aug. 9. William Wjnterble of Richland Center, Wis., and Sidney Kinyon of Owotanna. Minn., defeated Ralph Powell and Cleary Hannighen of Omaha in the doubles Saturday afternoon and won the interstate tennis champion ship. Dropping the opener 6-3, Powell and Hannighen endeavored to stage a comeback in the second, but failed, losing a deuce set by a score of 9-7. The last round was won quickly 6-4 total. Sunday afternoon Howard Pen fold of Kansas City will meet Wil liam Winterble of Richland Center, Wis., for the singles title. Negro Severely Cut. Henry Wilson, colored, 1614 North Twenty-first street, was se verely cut last night at Twenty-first and Cuming streets by Beebe Hoyle, Twentfourth and Hamilton streets, according to the police reports. The two men had an argument in a pool nail over a game oi milliards. a- j son was taken to his home by I tnends. Surveyor General Drowns. Juneau. Alaska, Au. 9. Charles E. Davidson, territorial surveyor general, w as drow ned near tiere yes terday while on a fishing trip. As territorial surveyor Davidson acted as secretary of the territory. Clan Cordon Picnic. Clan GoVdon No. 63.. O. L. C. will hold a basket picnic ;.t Elmwood jpark Saturday, August 16, ALL PETITION TO BE PRESENTED SOON SAYS LONESi Attorney for Recall, Committee. Declares it Will Con tain Six Thousand Qualified Voters. In a statement given out last night in answer to a report that the movement to recall Mayor Smith and Commissioners Ringer, Towl and Ure had fallen through, J. R. Lones. legal advisor of the recall committee, declared the report was absolutely without ' the slightest foundation. That statement is ridiculous," he said. "The truth of the matter is we nave nad mucn less trouble in getting signatures to the recall pe tition than we anticipated. A thorough check of the names at re call headquarters Saturday afternoon showed a total of 5,189 voters, more than enough to force the council to call an election. However, it is not our intention to take any chances on some of the signers be ing disqualified and we will have 6,000 or more qualified, voters when the petition is filed." Just when the petitions would be filed. Attorney Lones said he was not in a position to say, but that it would now be only a matter of a short time. Only $2,000,000' Damage Done by Yanks in France New York, Aug. 9. Damage maims paid to France for damages to property or injuries to civilians bv the American army will not ex ceed $2,000,000, or about 1 a man for al. the soldiers in the American ex peditionary force, accordir to an estimate made By Lieut. -Col. Robert E. Burkham of St. Louis, chief claims officer, who recently returned from abroad. This sum represents 50,001 separate claims, ranging from broken windows to a charge of 3, 000.000 francs for destruction of for ests ani forest lands through Amer ican artillery practice at Souge, near Bordeaux. Puebo, Colo.. Aug. 9. Rufe King, 50, was arrested by Pueblo county officials in the foothills 30 miles southwest of Pueblo Friday, two hours after receiving a telegram from authorities from Wabaunsee county, Kansas, who declared King was wanted for murder. He is be ing held in the county jail. King was found by the officers liv ipg in a covered wagon in the hills and was engaged in constructing a 1 i"g Poles. dam across an arroyo. He was ac companied by his wife, whom he left in the hills when taken by the sheriff to Pueblo. Skeleton is Found. Advises from Maple Hill, Kan., where the crime with which King is charged took place, says that a few days ago a skeleton, identified by relatives as that of Reuben Gutshali, who disappeared five years ago. was found in a shed on property form erly occupied by Rufe King, and. fol lowing an outdoor inquest heJd on the farm, a warrant for King's arrest in Colorado was issued. According to the evidence the shed in which the skeleton was dis covered has boen kept under pad lock since Gutshali disappeared, and it is stated that King has paid rem on the place through his attorney since he left there about a year ago. Bones .in Gunnysack. The bones were found in a gunny sack when the place was sold and the shed was being cleaned out, un der the supervision of King's agent. The workman showed a skull he bund to the citizens and it resulted in an inquest being held. Relatives of Gutshali declared they could pos itively identify the remains. Gutshali is the third man to have disappeared at MapleMlill in the last 10 years. John Woody and an iten erent jewelry peddler were the oth ers. It is stated that each of the three men sold their horses to King shortly before they disappeared. Twa Ukraihian Armies Continue to Battle; Jealousy Is Cause London, Aug. 9. To those who still have an appetite for war and gore, tlie rather betuduhng wars of Ukiamia. which is one day fight ing the bolsheviks and the next joining the bolsheviks aad the next the Poles, might better be followed after absorbing this preface. Ukramia, across which armies have been surging back and forth for some years now, sometimes fighting, sometimes running, some times pillaging, has produced two military chieftains. General Petlura and General Pavolenki, both of whonv claim to be real boss of the ranch. Each is jealous of the other's power. 'Neither is able to over throw the other. Both at times have fought the bolsheviks and likewise the Poles. The Poles j ma.e an armistice with one and the j other straightaway allies himself j with' the bolsheviks and launches ! an attack on the temporarily rest- The war starts mew. The Poles have advanced far into I'kramia, on the assumption they have a right to protect people of Polish extraction. The Ukrainians are radicals in political thought, but are determined to prevent deputies of Leniue and Trotzky usurping power; the Ukrainians feel able to do that for themselves, meanwhile there is lighting. Boy Who Didn't Remember Who He Was Is Identified Joseph Kortz, ll-year-old-boy, whose inability to remember any of his past life, has been puzzling ju venile authorities since he was turned over to them several days ao, has been identified as the son i-f Mrs Elizabeth Kortz, 3502 Ave i.ue D, Council I J luffs. la. The boy's uncle, l.oe Kortz, also of Council Bluffs came to Omaha yesterday and took the boy home. Woman Injured in Auto Accident Asks for $5,000 Beatrice McGinnis yesterday filed a $5,000 damage suit in district court against the Marsh & Marsh company, and Francis W. Briggs, a truck driver, for injuries which she says she received on December 12, 1918, when the Marsh truck which Briggs was driving, collided with !he car in which she was riding. Miss McGinnis says she suffered severe injuries and cuts on her face which resulted" in permanent scars. 3 'J I hri 'Jsr WW ml IT - - III .. V BMT tit 17 'r Tf cars ot turniture from the III I at a bi3 discount, and vou will find soma Isl - w ' -. w DID GH PRICES New Forest Fires. Boise, Idaho, Aug. 9. Ten neV f-ocf firAc hrnkp nut- 111 natinnal fr,r Cohan, jests Qf Southwestern Idaho follow- ign a thunder storm Friday after noon and evening, it was reported today. At least five of them were caused by lightning. The Weather. I.oonl Comparative Rword. 1S19 1918 1917 1918 Highest Saturday S5 88 70 92 Lowest' Saturday 66 66 F5 66 Mean temperature 76 77 62 79 Precipitation '.01 .0" .00 .00 Temperature and precipitation depart ures from the ncrmnl: Normal temperature 76 decrees Excess for the day 00 degrees Total excess since March 1, 1919 326 degrees Normal precipitation ,1 inch Deficiency for the day 12 inch Total precipitation elnce March 1, 1919 12.97 Inches Deficiency since March 1, 1919 614 Inches Deficiency for corresponding period in 1918 10.03 inches Deficiency for corresponding period In 1917 1. 19 inches L. A. WELSH. Meteorologist. War Department Orders. Washington, Aug. 9. (Special Tele gram.) MaJ. Edw. Ellsworth, Infantry, will proceed from Kansas City, Mo., to Omaha, Neb., thence to Camp Dodge. Capt. Lawrence O. Fprsythe, engineers, is relieved from his present duties at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., and will proceed to Denver, Colo. Capt. Ernest Schiffman. field artillery. Is relieved from his present duties and will pioceed to Camp Dodge. Capt. Daniel C. Hutton. medical corps, is relieved from duty at Camp Dlx, N. J., and will proceed to Fort Des Moine's. First Lieut. Thomas Francis McCormlek, medical corps, is relieved from duty at Call Field, Wichita Falls. Texas, and will proceed to Fort Omaha, Neb. Capt. Joseph H. Hickson, sanitary corps, is relieved from duty at Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas, and will proceed to Fort Des Moines, la. First Lieut. Horace Hoagland McCoy, medical corps, is relieved from duty at Camp I'pton. N. Y., and will proceed to Fort D. A. Russell. Wyo. Second Lieut. Leonard J. Anderson, quartermaster corps, is relieved from his present station at Camp Dodge and will proceed to Washington. D. C. Postal Appointments. Washington, Aug 9. (Special Tele gram.) Nebraska postmasters appointed: Blake. Garfield county. ( rtrude A. Beck ley vice Mrs K. A. Mavees. resigned. Browr.vHle. Nf-nipha county, Grace G. 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Some of these have been reduced to as low as $45.00. In addition to these sets there are a few rockers, easy chairs and davenports from broken sets that will be sold regardless of price. This is an exceptional opportunity to add a beautiful piece of furniture to your living room at practically your own price. I '4 W-4 1 There Is, among this lot, a large assortment of fibre furniture. It is pretty, durable, comfortable and easy to move around. All homes can now have several of these beautiful pieces of popular fibre. We have sliced prices to a minimum on this line. v There is also a full line of OUTFITS for the parlor, living room, bedroom, dining room and kitchen at prices that are 20 cheaper than any store in Omaha. Remember we accept LIBERTY BONDS par value for any amount or anything and that WE PAY THE FREIGHT as far as 100 milts. ARRANGEMENTS MADE TO SUIT YOUR CONVENIENCE. gTATE FURNITURE (JOMPAflY Cor. 14th and Dodge Streets Opposite U. P. 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