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B RIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS BEE WANT ADS WILL HELP YOU TO THE JOB YOU SEEK OR TO THE MAN FOR THE JOB. IE Omaha Daily Bee "POP'S" LETTERS RUIN NEWLYWED'S BUSS. San Franciso, Cat, Aug. 31. The old experience of Pandora in a mod em version destroyed the domestic happiness of Lieut Donald Fretwell and led to the granting of a divorce in Superior Judge Dunne's court. Lieutenant Fretwell was the com plainant. He was given a decree from Maude Fretwell, whom he mar ried in San Antonio, Tex., on All Fools' day. 1918. Despite the day on which the mar riage occurred, they lived happily, ac cording to Lieutenant Fretwell, until several weeks after the ceremonv. Then a large bundle of letfers came to light in his wife s trunk, the hus band declared. Curiosity impelled, and happiness fled, foj- several of the letters were affectionately signed Pop." Fretwell told the court that "Pop" in real life was a private in Troop F of the 14th cavalry. He also declared that his wife had written to thevcav alryman following her marriagi. JAP ASI$ TITLE BE BURNED WITH BODY. Tokio, Aug. 31. Count Talsukft Itagaki, popularly known as the "lather of Japanese democracy" who died here recently, left a -will winch, after disposing of his prop erty, requested that no one should ' inherit his title. During his life Itagaki urged the abolition of all hereditary titles except those of the imperial family. VOL. 49 NO. 64. twHni M m-1m Matter Miy It, IMS. 4 OHM f. 0. nw art of Mare a. 1ST. r OMAHA, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1919. y MfM (I yow). 0ll. VMS: tauten. tt.Hl aim art So. HW; MtaM Hak, aattaH aitra. TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER: X - 1 . ' . . ueneraiiy uir Monday, prooaD ly followed by local thunder showers Tuesday : warmer in tait Monday; Cooler Tuesday. Hourly tomporaiamt ' m. . , a. a. m f a. m a. m a. It a. It a. m It It noon ...,14 M 1 P. HI P. s p. p. p. p. t p. as m. ...... ..IS m.........t m. ........ IB m. .It M, .... 1S .k 5 ' I i 5) V mm LRJUUVi 1 1 RIOTIG IN V V V LIVING COST BLASTS 50-50 ROMANCE. San Francisco, Aug. 31. Operat ing a family on a 50-50 basts proved disastrous to Carl F. Rosseen, a building contractor, recently sued for divorce by his wite, Mrs. Clara Roseen, who was restrained by Su perior Judge John T. Nourse from disposing of any of the community property. Mrs. Roseeiv accuses her husband qf making her pay half of their ex- penses each time he would take her out to. a show or dinner. GHOST PLUS H. C. OF L. TOO MUCH FOR TENANTS. v New York, Aug. 31. An echo of the Wilkins murder case was heard in the office of the mayor's commit tee on rent profiteering when Mrs. Gladys Besson, a tenant in the house owned by Mrs. Julia K. Wilkins. complained that the house was haunted by the ghost of Dr. Wil kins, who committed suicide in the Mineola jail after conviction- for the mtrder of his wife. Mrs.' Besson was one of three ten ants who objected to what they termed excessive rent increases asked by Samuel H. Martin, execu tor of the estate. DIVORCED WAR BRIDES RETURN TO FRANCE. Paris, Aug. 31. Sixty-two French women who had married Americans, army officers and soldiers, and subsequently had been divorced. in the. United States, returned to France ort "the 'Same f steamer this week, according to the newspaper Avenjr. j Most of them, the newspaper added, returned not because of per sonal differences with their hus bands but because of the inability of the brides . to adapt themselves to the American mode of living. "RICK" DENIES HE'S TO WED ELSIE JAN IS. - Chicago, 'Aug. 31. A story from New York that Capt. "Eddie" V. Rickenbacher, American "ace of aces," was to wed Miss Elsie Janis, noted actress, was branded as falsp yesterday by the captain, who spent several hours in Chicago. ,The captain said he had merely met . . Miss Janis when she had visited the Toul sector and gave a performance for the members of the 94th aero squadron. Later, he said, he saw her perform the' leading role in "Hel lo, America' at the Palace theater in London. "When, the squadron came honw the boys, appreciative of Miss Janis' great war service in France, invited her to be guest of honor at a wel coming banquet," said Captain Rick enbacher. "She was unanimously voted commander in chief of the aero squadron until the next war." It is true that she and I appeared on the stage together at the Century roof garden, but so was the entire squad ron on the stage. v ; "The report of our engagement is en'Jrely false. I did not know her years ago in Columbus, O. I never heard of her until she became fa- mous." : PEACHES COST 50 CENTS; THEY SOLD FOR $3.60. Cedar Rapids, la., Aug.,31. Mrs. Earl Fry of West Luis township. Johnson county, bought a bushel of .peaches for $3.60. In the bottom of the basket she found a note from a woman in Texas saying that the bas ket had been sold for 50 cents and asking that she he notified of the cost price to the consumer. GILT HAIRPINS GET HUSBAND "IN BAD." Los Angeles, Aug., 31. Mrs. Le ' ona Van Lilburn is a brunette. ' When she returned to her home at Fresno from a visit to her parents she told Judge York in di , vorce proceedings against John Van " .Lilburn she discovered a number of gilt hairpins scattered about the house. ' ' "This looked suspicious. I asked about th emand my husband tb4d. me- he was tired of me and he , thought it would be beter if I re turned to my parents." she testi fied. - ' She was granted a decree. SCORES APPAREL OF . 20TH CENTURY "CHICKEN." '. North Brookfield, Mass, Aug. 31. The modern young women's gowns are the height of indecency and are worn only for the purpose of v- displaying shapely limbs, according " , to Miss Hazel Mason. "Morality never enters the heads , of these light-headed girls" said 'Miss Mason, who admits to being past 80,andideclares that' the older she grows the more shocking sights she sees. She also took issue with the statement that country people are morally more pure thaiv those of the citier - . KNOXVIILE CONTINUES WOMEN NAMED. ' IN "HtGH JINKS" - IN, AERO FORCES Lords to Investigate Drinking and Motor Rides for Girls at 4 a. na Casualty list Swells in Race War When Negroes Resist Attempts of Soldiers to Search Them for Arms. OFFICER-GUARDSMAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED Rifles Stored at University Arsenal Removed Following Rumor That y Blacks Con templated Their Seizure. Knoxvilie, Tcnn., Aug. 31. (By The Associated Press.) Minor dis orders occurred in Knoxvilie tonight following the race riots Saturday night and early Sunday which were the sequel to the stormingof the county jail by a mob intent upon lynching Maurice Mayes, a negro ac cused of the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lindsey, a white woman. The casualty list was increased today by four negroes who resisted attempts to search them for arms. AH were wounded, by national aruardsmen, two being shot and the other two stabbed with bayonets. Eleven hundred guardsmen of the Fourth Tennessee infantry, supple mented bv 200 special policemen and 75 special deputy sheriffs; patrolled the city, dispersing crowds and searching all negroes. The guardsmen, wlo were in camp near the city for annual target prac tice, also searched all negroes ar riving on trains and have estab lished a barred zone in the heart of the negro district, where the worst of the rioting early today occurred. Four machine guns are mounted at m. commanding point in. this district and other machine guns have Deen mounted on motor trucks ready for eventualities. r - Call' Off Labor Day Parade. Union leaders today called off the Labor day parade scheduled for Monday. There has been shpoting in vari ous sections of the city all day and this continued tonight, causing doz ens of not calls, Some sections in which the mosU the vfry depot,at which one serious clashes occurred have, not been searched thoroughly and re ports conflict as to the number of casualties which may be concealed there. Two men are known to have been killed, 14 others, eight whites and six negroes, are in hospitals. Of .. r . . . . .i i these, lour, two wnues ana iu neeroes. are not expected to recover. Sixteen wounded white men had their slight wounds dressed at one hos- Plal. .,'r' . The known dead are: FIRST LIEUT. JAMES W. PAYNE, Madisonville, Ky., regu lar army. TOE ETTER, negro, v The ' injured include Pvt. E. V. Henderson of the Tennessee Na tional guard, who may die. Accidentally Killed. Lieutenant Payne was killed ac cidentally early today by machine gun bullets. He was 200 yards from the machine gunners with sev eral other officers when the party was fired upon by negroes from a second-story window. Payne and his companions replied with their automatic rifles and sought cover. Just as Lieutenant Payne stepped behind a telephone pole for protec tion, the crew of a machine gun farther up the stret opened fire upon a crowd of advancing blacks. Lieu tenant Payne fell into the arms of Capt. A. C. Parker of Memphis, with a dozen wounds in 'his legs and body. He died in an ambulance. At least three negroes were more or less seriously injured by mem bers of Company D. Fourth Ten nessee, between daylight and noon, according to statements of sol diers. . Hotels and restaurants in thcity operated at a handicap today as fewrnegro employes made their ap pearance for work. Several hundred rifles stored at the University of Tennessee arsenal were removed tonight by military authorities! after rumors that a crowd of negroes was forming in the outskirts expecting to arm themselves with this supply.. Lieut. B. W. Maynard Aerial Derby Winner NeiYorkAug. 31. Lieut. B. W. Mxvdiard of the IlnitpH Slates armv air service won the international! aerial derby between Minubla. N. Y. and Toronto, covering the 1,000 mile round trip course in 465 4-5 minutes, it is announced by the fly ing club. Lieut H. H. George. whJse flying time was 5201$ minutes, finished second. Lieut. G. B. Gish was third, with a flying time of 52454 minutes. The winners in the reliability test will be announced next Thursday. The three aviators finishing first were army, pilots. i There were SS2 airmen entered in the aero race. Of these. 28 fin- I iihed the round trij ; , Loudon, Aug. 31. Women war workers and officers of the Royal Flying corps re impatiently waiting the hearing of the House of Lords' inquiry into the dismissal of Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant from the women's royal air force. Early requests for a hearing were refused. These refusals led Lord Stanhope to say hotly in the House of Lords: - . - "Opportunity for Miss Pennant to show her dismissal was because of not fault of her9 has been denied because the government fears the scandals which will come to light. "I will give your lordships one instance a case in which I have seen the evidence, and I am con vinced that the statements are true. Grave scandals began to appear in a large royal air force depot near London, and the lady in charge of the women's hotel wrote several letters to the air ministry complain ing of the situation, but not one of those letters was delivered to Miss Pennant. "Eventually, however, rumors reached Miss Pennants ears, and she sent for the officer, and an interview with him. - Girls' All-Night Leave. "She then found out that colonel-in-charge of that camp was giving all-nig!ht leave , to the girls who were training as motor drivers at that depot, and that they were constantly returning from London, very often drunk, at 4 o clock in the morning in government motor cars. She also found that there were grave scandals in regard to the colonel and two women offi cers in the camp. "Miss Pennant at once decided to remove these two women officers, about whom ot that time there was no more than a scandal, to two sep arate camps well away from where they then were. She also decided to replace the lady in charge of the hotel, whose health threatened to break down. She reported the mat ter to superior authority, f " "' . Colonel Gains Transfer. "Then Miss Pennant was dis missed; knd what happened? Miss Pennant's successor knew nothing of what! had gone on before. "The colonel was not court-martialed, but a system of general post in regard to the commanders of various depots took place for his benefit. "First he was sent to a depot some distance from London, then moved back to a depot near Lon had the of the women over whom there had been these previous scandals was quartered. This colonel and this woman occupied the same house and they were finally dis covered by their landlady in the same room at 3 o'clock in the morn ing. "That is the sort of thing that the government fears will come out if they have an inquiry." Germany Pays France Indemnity for Murder Paris, AugC 31. Germany has paid France an indemnity of 1,000,000 francs for the murder of Sergt. Paul Mannheim, who was killed in the streets of Berlin by a German in July. The French government will make a gift of this amount to the In ternational Red Cross. France originally claimed the pay ment by Germany of 100,000 francs for the family of Sergeant Mann heim and an indemnity of 1,000,000 francs. Germany readily agreed to pay the former sum, but declared she would not meet the demand for the indemnity. Twentieth Century Flyer ' Hits Freight Head-On Cleveland, Aug. 31. Two cars of an east-bound freight train buckled on an adjoining track to that on which the east-bound Twentieth Century1 was running just east of Painesville, 26 miles east of this city, at 9 p. m. Sunday. They landed directly in front of the on coming passenger train. The locomotive of the .Twentieth Century was derailed and its en gineer killed. The passenger cars remained on the track and no passengers, accord ing to reports to the railroad of ficials, were injured. "I've Married Rich' Pardoned Prisoner Writes Topeka, Kans., Aug. 31. "I've married a rich widow you'll not hear from me any more," was the closing of a letter which Judge C. W. Smith, pardon clerk in the office o: Governor Allen here, received from a former prisoner at the Kan sas state penitentiary at Lansing. The man was recently discharged. He said that he and .his wife had just purchased a $5,000home. Railroad Causes Citizens ' to Lose Too Much Sleep Evanston, III., Aug. 31. F.vanstcn citizens say they are losing too much sleep and they are blaming the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad.' So petitions are being circulated against the switching of cars between 11 p. m. and 3 a, m. KILL NEGRO OVER PINT OF WHISKY Morals Squad and Union Pa cific Detective Chase and Fatally Shoot Quarry in Alley. POLICE HAD BEEN RAIDING PLAZA HOTEL All Who Pursued Victim, a Bell Boy in Hostelry, Deny Hav ing Fired Bullet That Killed Negro. '' Pursued into an alley opposite the Plaza hotel on Fourteenth street, between Harney asd Howard streets, at 1 a. m. today by seven members of the morals squad and a Union Pacific detective, Eugene Scott, negro, 2024 Burt street, was shot and killed by one of those chasing him, although who fired the fatal bullet has not been deter mined. Scott was endeavoring to escape with a pint of whisky from a raid on the Plaza hotel. ' Officers George grigham. John Herdzina and George Armstrong, who chased Scott from the hotel after Sergt Olaf Thestrup had torn off the negro's shirt in a tussle in the hotel, assert that Special Officer Edgar Holman of the Union Pacific killed Scott. Holman at first admitted that he "came down on" Scott with his re volver, but later said he fired in the air. r Enter Plaza Early . , Seven morals squad officers en tered the Plaza hotel abput 1 a. m. They distributed themselves on the floor according to- the story they tell. . ' . ' Officers Ton Wawford- and--!!! Crandall went to the fourth floor, and PaTiI Sutton to the second. Sutton first saw Scott. "Scott was in the act of delivering a bottle of whisky to a girl in a room on the second floor," Sutton said. "When he saw me he brushed by me and ran for the stairs. 1 called to him and asked him where he was going. . He yelled back that he wis going to answer a call. "Then I heard him go down the stairso On the landing between the first and second floors he met Sergt. Olaf Thestrup. They tussled and Scott's shirt was ripped from his back, and the negro ran down to the first floor." Scott ran from the hotel door into Fourteenth street and darted down the alley toward Thrteenth istreet, between Harney and Howard streets. Officer Brigham Follows. Officer George Brigham followed. When they left the hotel, Herdzina was following Brigham, but when they entered the mouth of the alley, 200 feet distant, George Armstrong had passed Herdzina. One of the latter two officers yelled, "Kill that ," according to a witness, i although both deny this. When Scott entered the alley he was about 30 feet ahead of Brigham. Brigham raised his gun and fired just as he hmself turned tihe cor ner into the alley. Brigham says he fired into the air. Scott seemed to gain on his pur suers. Halfway down the alley Brigham shot again. When Scott emerged from the alley into Thir teenth and crossed the street he staggard toward the corner of the Baum Iron company building and fell, dying. Special Officer Edgar Holman was standing on the west side of Thir-' teenth street when Jkott came from the alley. ' . ' ' Doesn't Think He's to Blame. "I heard, the dfficer'chasing him yell, 'Get that guy,' and I 'came down on him'," Holman said. "I don't know whether I killed him or not, but I don't think I did.' Later Holman asid: "I know I didn't kill him. I shot in the air. He was staggering before I shot." f When Scotr fell he was evidently (Continued on Psg Two, Column One.) Reclamation Concessions of Carranza Generous - Mexico City. Aug. 31. Important concessions were made by President Carranza Sunday in issuing a de cree amending the reclamation law. Bj-iefly, , they are as follows: Claims for damages may be pre sented, not only for losses during the recent two revolutions ending with the installation of the pres ent government, May 1, 1917, but for those sustained since then in various regions where revolts, are still smouldering. , V Damages by rebels or outlaws to persons or property, subject to reclamation, when such damage is found to be the result of a negli gence on the part of constituted au thority. The most important amendment, it is considered, is that relative to the president's power t9 arrange conventions for mixed commissions with foreign powers. DEEDS, NOT TALK 1 v - ' S I f you Wlat my advice,- evdry body , lrtows afcoufc ' v trvfi nigh cast o? living 3ni l"111 sorctkey would rather V V v ybutf Stay i&WasWft$iv i STARTS M VOYAGE TO 0. S. TODAY Clemenceau Among High J French Officials Who Felici tate American Commander Prior to Starting for Home. . GENERAL EXPRESSES -AFFECTION FOR FRANCE Great Crowd Gathers at Sta tion Where, He Entrains for Brest, Whence He Sails for New York. Secret Death Society Uses M-Y&uMA JGM to Lure Men to Doom Three Bodies of Victims Found in Sacks Near Island Villa of Swedish Opera Prima Donna; 50 in Russ Refugee Colony Arrested and Others Under Sur veillance, Including Beautiful Daughter of Gen eral Gysser. Stockholm, Aug. 31. How a beau tiful 17-year-old girl was used as the liire for victims .of a "secret death society" has been brought to lightly the investigation into the strange death of Dr. Ardasheff at a villa on thf'Island of Bollstanas, in Lake Norwikken, near here. The bodies of three other victims of the band have been recovered. More are being sought. Sixteen members of the band have been arrested. The "death society" consisted principally of Russian refugees and numbered 11 men and fiv women. Colonel Hadji-Lashet, a Cossack, was their leader. General Gysser, his two sons, and the beautiful 17ryear old daughter, Dagrriar, were among his associates. It is about thfs girl, a siren of fas cinating character, that this story revolves. She alone of the suspects under arrest remains silent. While the others have denounced each other and many unsuspected per sons until, in all, 50 have been de tained under surveillance. Dagmar spends day after day without food, smoking cigaret after cigaret, sip ping coffee and dreaming. Yet it was she. the authorities now believe, who, by her magnetic charm and with the aid of a big black limousine, lured the victims of the death band to their fate at the lonely villa. The story goes back to the settle ment in Stockholm by upward of a thousand Russ refugees of more -or less political importance. All were irorri the upper class and most of them had money. With the growth of their colony plans for a coup d'etat against the Leninites were at tributed to them. V ' Hadji-Lashet, reputedly a bolshev ist agent, but actually an adventurer who, according to the police, has gold only for his motive, soon ap peared in the midst of the colony as a spy to destroy it.' " Dr. Ardasheff, whoybrought con siderable money from Petrograd in his flight, was selected as his first victim. But murder is not lightly - and .easily committed in Sweden. And ' A f 1, - t e I T t - rt . nraasneu, wno uvea in a iiat in North Stockholn was well on his guard. He had always distrusted Hadji-Lashet as an adventurer, and would have none of his advances. (Continued on Page Thiy, Column Two.) SOLDIERS SCORN HUSH MONEY OF RICH HUNGARIANS t One Yank is Offered 200,000 Crowns by Smuggler, But i, rverus.e5 to i ane u. Vienna, Aug. '31. Along the bor der between Austria and Hungary there are stationed about 20 Amer ican soldiers of whom America may well be proud, for they have stood the test. They are all enlisted men or noncommissioned officers, and their duty is to see that the blockade against Hungary is' enforced along the border that they patrol. There is immense profit to " be made in smuggling valuables or commodities in or out of the bolshevist country. Rich Hungarian noblemen or bourgeois will pay almost any sum to persons who will bring put jew elry or securities or other valuable things for them, and dealts will pay huge sums to get contraband across the line into Hungary. The most important incident of the kind was "when one of our men was offered 200,000 crowns to let some forbidden stuff pass. He not only refused the bribe, but immedi ately seized the stuff and took the briber into custody. BRITISH SENDING MORE TROOPS TO FIGHT B0LSHEVIKI Russians and Anzacs Recapture Town on Archangel Front Copenhagen, Aug. 31. A (large British squadron has passed Koenigsburgi East Pruussia, bound eastward, the Berlin dorrespondent of the local newspaper Berlinske Tidende reports. The warships wee believed to be carrying rein forcements for the approaching gen eral offensive against the bolshe viki in northern Russia. The course of th squadron as described in the foregoing would take it up to the Baltic in the di rection of Libau, Riga and the Gulf of Finland, the approach to Petrograd. Recaptuure Emptsa. NLondon, Auug. 31. Official re ports of the war office from Arch angel announces the recaptuure by the Russian and Aujjjalian " forces of the town of hmptsa. WILSON HOPES TO PUT WAGES ON NEW PLANE To Call Conference of Repre sentatives of Labor and - Capital to Better Work N ing Conditions. Washington, Aug. 31. (By The Associated Press.) President Wil son, in a Labor day message to American workers tonight, an nounced that he would call, in the near future, a conference of repre sentatives of labor and industry "to discuss fundamental means of bet tering the whole relationship of cap ital and labor and putting the whole question of wages upon another footing." The president said he was en couraged and pleased with the re sults thus far of the government's efforts to bring down the cost of living and expressed confidence that substantial results would be achieved in the solving of this prob lem. Patience and vigilance, how ever, he said, ' must be exercised and the government's efforts must have the co-operation of every citi zen. Presumably, referring to the exist ing labor unrest and threats of strikes, the president appealed to every citizen to refrain from doing anything that would tend to in crease the cost of living, but in stead to do all possible to promote production. The president expressedjarticular gratification at the attitude taken by the representatives of organized (Continued on Pago fwo. Column Five) Mrs. Michael Cudahy, x v ' Widow of Big Packer, Succumbs in Chicago Chicago, Aug. 31. Mrs. Michael Cudahy, widow of Michael Cudahy, one of the pioneers in the packing industry, who was the last of two American women made countesses by papal decree, died Sunday, aged 77 years. She was.born in Ireland. In recognition of the Cudahy fam ily's generosity to the Roman Catho lic church, Mrs. Cudahy was given the title of countess by Pope Bene dict XV in 1917. Mrs. .Cudahy is survived by four daughters, Mrs. William P. Nelson, the Misses Mary and Clara Cudahy, and Mrs. John P. Casserly, San Ma teo, Cal., and three sons, Joseph M., Edward I. and John P. Cudahy, the latter of Hollywood, Cal. Dutch Deny Relations With Belgium Broken The Hague, Aug. 31. Reports that the Dutch government has broken off negotiations with Belgium re garding the revision of the treaty of We ceptured 10 guns and 500 ! 1839. are denied.. The Dutch dele- prisoners," the report says. "Our gates will return to Paris in a few casualties were light." idays. Paris, Aug. 31. (By The Asso- ciated Press.) Premier Clemenceau, Foreign Minister Pinchon and Capt. Andre Tardituere among the high-' French officials who bade farewell to General Pershing on his departure for Brest todav. The American am-? bassador and his staff and the en- v tire American peace delegation, were present. There was a military es cort of two companies. In saying good-bye to the Ameri can commander, M. Clemenceau de-,v clared that'the French people could',. : never express all the gratitude felt ' 1 for the services he had rendered. The premier urged General Pershing to revisit France and afford the French an opportunity to show their appreciation of the work he had . done in the war. Great Crowd Gathers A great crowd had gathered at the Invalidcs station to bid General Pershing farewell as he started for v Brest, whence he sails Monday for r: New York aboard the Leviathiaii. , marking the close of more than two years', service in France. Foi'tn'' past week General PerhiflJ ha been feted by all the promineiin trench officials. " t In General Pershing's party is his son, Warren, and his brother; James i crsmng, a cnicago mercnant. who sailed .recently 'for' a business trip to France and England, and his aides. Lieutenant Colonel De Charabrun, counselor of the French embassy at Washington, will make the voyage on the Leviathian. v Appreciative Articles -' Sunday's Paris newspapers devot ed much space to cordial and appre ciative articles bidding farewelf to' General Pershing, who yesterday re ceived representatives of the French . press and bade them formal good-, bye. The general expressed his af fection for and admiration of France and said hrfelt sure that the Strug J ' gle France and America had waged;' together would serve to cement the ; friendship of the two nations. ' ; During the reception General Per shing was asked what to him had ' been the most poignant moment of ' the war. After an instant's reflec-. tion, he replied: - , , "It was when the armistice was signed. It was then we knew the victory was ours and that our dead had not died in vain." No Plans, for Future When asked about his plans for the future, General Pershing re-, sponded: "I haven't any. At all events, don't attribute any to me." " " -Warm tribute was paid to General Pershing today by Andre Tardieu. he;id of the general commission for Franco-American war matters. "France will always remember this commander who, with Foch, Petain and Haig, brought about the defeat of Germany and liberated onr soil," Captain Tardieu said. "I, who on so many occasions for two years col laborated with him, will never forget the high qualities of integrity, firm ness, intelligence and good hearted- -ness that he displayed. It is a great friend of ours who leaves us. He will remain constantly in " the i thoughts of alj of us, and personally :.T I shall always retain for him a deep-. ; affection." . - ' Fail Yet to Discover y Missing U. S. Airmen San Diego, Cal., Aug. 31. LTeuti, . Frederick Waterhouse and, CecilH."x Connelly, Rockwell field pursuit " pilots, who have been missing in -Lower California since August 21, . did not land or "crash" in the deserV according to, opinions expressed by Rockwell field aviators who have flown over the arid wastes of the peninsula. These aviators have ob- : tained information leading them to believe the missing airmen landed somewhere in the rough country of (hat section of Mexico - i Officers here estimate the terri tory where the aviators may have landed still to be explored covers about 700 square miles. : " - Maj. Theodore McCauley, who has flown over hundreds of jniles in Lower California in search of Waterhouse and Connelly, has re turned to North Island.-He Says it is almost a certainty, judging frpnt informatibn gained from Mexicans, the airmen and their machine will be found in the mountainous country lying between Trinidad and t .f-