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
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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
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Since the discovery that solution of
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peculiar effect upon wrinkled skins, it
has been learned triftt many prominent
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saxolite, one ounce, dissolved in witch
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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
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remedy herself, for there are no harmful
effects whatever. Adv.
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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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