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THE BEE: OMAHA,- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, '1919. BRIGH AM, MORALS SQUAD OFFICER, AGAIN ACCUSED Boy Says Policeman Abused Him Because of Com , plaint Filed With Com missioner Ringer. Charging threatening to kill, a warrant was . sworn out yesterday Jh Justice of the Peace George S. Collins' court for the arrest of George Brigham, the city police man, who with Officer George Arm strong is under indictment for man slaughter in connection with the murder of Eugene Scott, the Plaza hotel bell boy. . Policeman Brigham will be ar rested this afternoon for the second time in the past week, Mr. Collins declared. . Police Commissioner Ringer ab solutely has refused to suspend Brigham and Armstrong while these two officers are under a cloud. Now Walking Beat Encouraged by Mr. Ringer in the .use of his lawless tactics, which has ' marked the operations of the morals squad during the past six months, ; Officer Brigham, demoted to walk ing i beat following a brief experi ' encc on the now extinct Thomas '. Sutton "clean up" contingent of the ' force, again Thursday night struck ' terror into the hearts of guests at the Her Grand hotel. Infuriated because Harry Hersh- man, 21 years old, driver for the , Blue Taxicab company, filed a com : plaint against him several Lays ago after, he says, the policeman threat ened his life, Thursday night Brig ham called on the boy again to "kill him." After abusing Hershman for 30 minutes, begging him to fight and r offering him every possible insult, the policeman placed the taxi (driver under arrest on the charge of soliciting taxi fares on the street. , Hershman was released on a $15 "bond and fined $1 in police court !. Thursday night at Fourteenth and Ordered Out of Office. Hershman went to the office of Xhief Eberstein to file another complaint against the policeman, 1 and was ordered out. ' Brigham was in the chief's office at the time. ; "Get out of here, you' drunken " bum," Eberstein is said to have or .dered. "If you come back here with , any more complaints against Officer , Brigham, I will throw you ia jail." i. Hershman went directly to the V office of Justice of the Peace Collins f and iwore outa warrant for the po :. liceman's arrest. " Would Whitewash Him. ' Brigham just had finished read ; ing in The Bee the account of Hershman's having filed formal charges against him for threaten- ing to kill him several days ago, ' and of Ringer's unsuccessful at . tempt to withhold from the public , the information against the man the heads of the department are imaking desperate efforts to white- ' wash for his part in the killing of v the negro bell boy. "You dirty little rat," the officer .; i said to have hurled at Hersh- man as he approached him in front rof the hotel. "You think you can iret away with this," he continued. 1 1 will beat your face into a jelly." x U. According to the boy, Brigham offered to take off his badge and X ly aside nil club and revolver if "i Hershman would fight him. The i boy, who is half the size of the po liceman, refused and begged Brig , ham to leave the taxi stand. Many Witness Scene. "I am the man who was mixed up in the shooting of the nigger bell ? boy," the officer raved while a dozen persons stood by and looked on, ac- cording to .witnesses. You are not y going to knock me and get away ; with it. I am going to run you off Sixteenth street The people are ' back of me and will stay back of .me.' v s "I know you will tell Ringer and the chief about this in the morning. See how far you get with that stuff They won't listen to you at the city halL You will get kicked' out of ' the office." r , Just as Brigham predicted, Eber stein refused to hear the eomplaint and threatened to jail the boy if he -did not stop complaining against Brigham. Brigham now is at liberty on a - $2,000 bond on a charge of man " slaughter. Faces Federal Charges. V Brigham also is the policeman, who emptied his revolver a short while ago at a supposedly bootleg ger, who eluded the officer at Sev enteenth and Jackson streets. The Sme policeman was charged with assaulting the proprietor of a-1io-tet in South Thirteenth street sev eral weeks ago, when the hotel man , refused to let the officer arbitrate a difference which had arisen between himself and one of his guests. :" Despite numerous other careless threats with his revolver, Brigham was promoted by, Commissioner Ringer to work Under Paul Sut ;ton on the morals squad. The officer worked just one week in one of the most responsible positions on the department and his ! career ended as a member of the "clean up" contingent with the murder of Eugene Scott - Both Commissioner Ringer and Chief Eberstein have given their endorsement to every offense the policeman was charged . with, and they have gone to every possible ex treme to defend him. The heads of the department however,, were forced by public opinion to demote Brigham when the charge of man slaughter was placed against him by County Attorney Shot well. This action was reluctantly taken against the officer, and the police commis sioner' hase refused to yield to the demand for fjrigham's suspension pending the outcome of his cases in district court i , v - Woman Says She Was Robbed By Girl Pickpocket Here Mrs, Fred Clarke of Creston, la., reported to the police yesterday -that she fell victim to a girl pick pocket, with whom she conversed Thursday night while waiting for a train at the Burlington station. Mrs. Uarke suspects the girl of having taken $15 from her oocketbook. I U. S. Delegates Were Opposed to Treaty, Mission Expert Says (CenttntMMl From Psf One.) to make any statement and had gone fishing. Bullitt, formerly a newspaper cor respondent, went to Paris with President Wilson's party and was attached to the mission. He was summoned to testify before the treaty was reported out by the com mittee, but was in the Maine woods on a camping trip, and the notice did not reach him until a few days ago. This was explained by Chair man Lodge to show why the hearing apparently had been reopened. Confidential Information. A wealth of information regarded as more or less confidential was given by the witness during his three hours statement In February last, he was sent by Secretary Lansing to Petrograd to bring back from the soviet leaders a statement showing the exact terms on wich they would agree to peace. This report which told among Other things of good order established by the bolsheviki, Lenine's desire for peace, his readiness to compro mise at many points in order to obtain it, and his promise that all foreign debts of the soviet govern ment should be paid, never was made public, Bullitt said, because the president would jiot agree. Lloyd George, wanted it printed, he sajd, yet later the premier denied all knowledge of it when questioned in parliament. Bullitt described himself as a clearing house of information, for the delegation and worked general ly under Col. E. M. House. 1 Shows Original League. He showed the commute the president's original league proposal, written on the president's own type writer and bearing an inscription by Colonel House attesting the latter's high regard for the witness Bullitt quoted Colonel House freely and when asked' why he ljad resfgned produced from a great stack of pa pers a letter he had written the president expressing his lack of sat isfaction with the way the peace ne gotiations were proceeding and par ticularly voicing disapprbval of the' league of nations. ' About the only part of the president's league pro posal incorporated in the covenant, he said, was the widely debated ar ticle 10, which remained intact. Once in Paris, Bullitt had an engagement with the president, which he said the president called off because of a headache. He laid before the com mittee his letter telling the president why heyhad quit the mission, but the committee did not question him about it. " Along with his report of condi tions in Russia Bullitt gave the com mittee the soviet peace proposal, which never went to the peace con ference and which was dropped, he testified, because the people in Paris became lukewarm when they read that Admiral Kolchak was heading , for Moscow, after a 100, mile advance, and was due there in two weeks. Lansing Refuses Comment Watertown, N. Y., Sept. 12. Secretary of State Robert Lansing at his summer home in Henderson Harbor this afternoon would make absolutely no comment on the tes timony of William C. Bullitt before the senate foreign relations commit tee that the secretary of state had said that if the American people knew what the treaty meant they would defeat it. Nurses Gill Meeting To Discuss Adoption Of Uniform Prices A meeting of all the graduate and registered nurses On private duty in Omaha and vicinity will be held at the Kelpine hall, 2424 Farnam streeet, next Wednesday to discuss proposed uniform . prices to be charged by professional nurses. The meeting has been called by Mrs. Walter E. Child, a member of the state association of nurses. Short talks will be given by mem bers of the nursing profession and others identified with city welfare work. Profiteering by nurses is one of the important subjects to be dis cussed. According to Mrs. Child, nurses' demanded and were paid as high as $350 a week last winter dur ing the influenza epidemic. Nurses who demanded such salaries during this sickness were not graduate or professional nurses, however, Mrs. Child says, but nonprofessional, practical nurses. . One of the objeects of the meet ing is to inform the public that such prices were not charged by profes sional nursesj and to fix a standard salary to be paid nurses, thus en abling the public to know when it is being overcharged. Society Women Use New Wrinkle Remover Since the discovery that solution of ordinary saxolite and witch haiel has a peculiar effect upon wrinkled skins, it has been learned triftt many prominent society women all over the country have great success. The formula is: powdered saxolite, one ounce, dissolved in witch haiel, one-half pint. Use daily as a wash lotion. The beneficial action of this wash ia felt at once. There's an agreeable re freshing sensation and feeling of exhilara tion. Flabbinesi and all wrinklea are im mediately affected, and the skin soon be comes firmer and more youthful looking. No woman need hesitate to get the in gredients at the drug store and make the remedy herself, for there are no harmful effects whatever. Adv. FOR RENT TYPEWRITERS All Makes Special rates to students. CENTRAL lYPEURITEl EXCIIARCE 0. 4121 ' 1115 Fitmm SI. PERSHING GIVEN WARM WELCOME AT WASHINGTON Commander-in-Chief Reports His Work Successfully Ended Is Received by Vice President. Washington, Sept. 12. With the rtlaiidita rf Vui YnrW anrl Philadel phia still ringing in his ears Gen. John J. Pershing arrived in Wash- T . . , . . , ngton toaay ana received a loreiasic of the more formal greetirp; he will receive next week when he leads the First division up historic Pennsyl vania avenue in the nation's victory parade. A hp stennrd from his SDecial train at the station, the man who led the American army to victory in France heard a shrill cry of greeting rise from the hundreds of women and girls who lined his pathway. As he stood later with bared head be fore Vice President Marshall in the president's waiting room to receive the welcome of the president and of the nation, again it was women and girls, armed with flags and flowers who surrounded him. There was little of pomp of war about this conqueror's return. Greeted by Baker. Secretary Baker- and General March, chief of staff, greeted General Pershing at the train and escorted him to the room where the vice president awaited him. The arched roof of the big build ing roared with the shouting of the crowd jammed close along his path. A military band pounded cut its for mal greeting of "Hail to the Chief" almost unheard. The crash of salut ing arrMprv. nosted far-away bv the quiet Potomac, went unnoticed. In greeting Uenerai fershing Vice President Marshall said: Hail the Patriot. "You are not only welcome to the capital city of your own republic, but you are .welcome back to the land of your nativity. Your com mnilpr in rliiVf bids me in his be half, and in behalf of the American people, to greet you. 1 o you it nas been vouchsafed to lead the greatest expeditionary force of all time .through perils at sea. perils of land to the. ultimate ac complishment of your country's pur pose and your nearts aesire. "In Via nam nf niv countrymen and my president I salute you. Hail the panot, lareweli tne conqueror, and yet again, hail." Possibly it was the great pre- WILSON SPEAKS IN HOME STATE OF POIND EX TER Replying to Obejctions on Great Britain's Votes. President Says Decisions Must Be Unanimous. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 12. Reply ing to objections that Great Britain would have a preponderance of vot ing oowcr in the league of nations' assembly, President Wilson said any possible danger on that score was removed by the fact that decisions must be unanimous. vThe speech here was the second the president made during the day. He spoke this morning at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, making an invasion of the State represented by United States Senator Borah in the senate. AuCoeur d Alene the tent in which he spoke was not entirely filled. Here in the armory every seat was taken. The league of nations assembly, the president declared was "largely a debating body," and seldom would act on important questions and when it did the United States with its one vote would have an "absolute veto" under the rule requiring a unanimous vote. Hold Veto Power. k There was only one case In which the assembly could decide an im portant question he said, and that when such a question was unani mously referred to it by the coun cil. The assembly also must act unanimously, he added, so that in either council or assemby the one vote of the United States would con stitute a veto power. The unanimous rule, added the president, seemed to him the only weakness of the league, but it was a weakness in the direction of throw- ponderance of women in the crowd about him that led General Pershing to oav hish tribute to the women of America in his haltingly delivered reply to the vice preidenst. In tne ungrudging confidence the presi dent had reposed in him, he said, he had.found constant strength for the tasks that had fallen to him, but he, added that it was the high courage of the women of Amreica that had made possible victory complete and final. Tomorrow General Pershing will re-establish in the war department headquarters of the American expe ditionary force, of which he still is the commander. There he will close up the affairs of the A. E. F. ing a safeguard around national sovereignty. Mr. Wilson also discussed at length proposed reservations to the treaty and asked for its' unqualified acceptance. ' President Wilson departed for Ta coma where he will speak tomor row morning. Crowd Cheers Plan. Repeating tfiany of his previous declarations regarding the treaty's provisions, the president asked the crowd at the armory whether they did not think some insurance against war was better than nope, and there were cries of "Yes, yes," followed bv cheers. i Not one of the qualifications sug gested to the league ot nations cov enant was warranted, declared the president. Under the withdrawal clause, he asserted, the nation itself wculd judge whether it had per formed its international obligations. That was a matter, he added, which never could or would be left to the judgment of any other nation. In effect, Mr. Wilson declared, the language of the covenant made the right of withdrawal uncondi tional. He was cheered when he asserted that as an American he was sure the United States never would fail to fulfill its obligations. Requires United States Vote. Taking up the proposed reserva tions to Article X, the president said the vote of the United States would be required to insyre any de cision of the league council. "Yet I hear gentlemen say," he continued, "that this is a violation of our sovereignty. If it is any thing, it is an exaggeration of our sovereignty. This extends our sov ereignty to saying whether other nations shall go to war or not." Digressing to say. there was an element of bitterness in the league controversy, the president said. "Some people seemed to think that a 'man named Wilson' had origi nated the league. Adding that he had wished he had done so, the president asserted that, on the con trary, the idea had grown out of years of discussion, largely on the part of the republican statesmen. Constructive Legislation. Many1 men had said to him, con tinued the president, I am a repub lican, but I am in favor of the league of nations." Continuing that the republican party had always prided itself in being a party of con struction, Mr. Wilson said if he were a republican he would say, "I am a republican and therefore I am for the league of nations." It had been proposed at Paris, said the president, that the covenant provide that the members should automatically be at war with a cov enant breaker. But he added that he had opposed the suggestion be cause it would take away from con gress the power to declare war. "I fought that fight," said Mr. Wilson, while the crowd cheered. Wilson Denounced By Senator Reed in Speech at Buffalo Buffa!ovSept. 12. -Speaking at a nonpartisan mass meeting last night, James A. Reed, United States senator from Missouri, de nounced the league of nations, the present form of the peace treaty and President Wilson's attitude to ward the senate. "This is not a political issue," said Senator Reed, "but an American is sue. I venture to sty that if Theo dore Roosevelt brought back this identical treaty that President Wil son brought back and Roosevelt never would he would not get a vote from the democktic party. I am a democrat because of -the prin ciples for which the party used to stand,, but I would part company with any man on earth who told me that we must ratify this treaty as it stands." The senator accused President Wilson of making use of the demo cratic national committee to start a propaganda fof immediate ratifica tion of the league. Daniels Congratulates General John J'. Pershing Aboard Uf S. S. Arkansas, Sept. 12. (By the Associated Press.) Secretary of the Navy Daniels sent this radiogram to GeneralPershing at Washington: "Is regret that my absence from Washington denies me the pleasure of joining with your countrymen in welcoming you to the national capi tal. The whole country is v richer because of the achievement of your magnificent army under vour victor ious leadership. "and I won it. They don't have to ngni it over again. j doing on to the orooosed Monroe doctrine reservation, the president said yie peace conference tried to define the doctrine as clearly as possible. Most Extraordinary Sentence. "That is the most extraordinary sentence in tne aocument, he con tinued, "because up to that time there wasn't a great power in the world that was willing to admit the validity of the Monroe doctrine' It was "absolutely irrational," said Mr. Wilson, to ask- foT anything more. Domestic questions, too, the ores ident said, were fully reserved to national decision, if only to make it clearer, he said, to list those ques tions. He added: "The danger of making a list is that the mention of the things you mention constitutes the exclusion of the things you don't mention. 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