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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1919. HEAD RE-ELECTED HEAD OF COUNCIL OF BOY, SCOUTS .Plans Discussed Meeting for at Annual Inducing More Boys to Join Local Troops. About 40 member were present at the annual meeting of the Omaha local council of the Boy Scouti of Anferica last night in the Cham ber of Commerce. The meeting was called to order . Sy the president, Walter W. Head. The annual reports of the presi ' dent, treasurer and executives heard, showed the rapid development of the Boy Scout organization in Omaha jn the .past year and plans were discussed as to the best means of inducing more boys to join. Mr. Head suggested that the Suainted with the scoutmaster maha local council get better ac and said that better results would be achieved by greater co-operation. An interesting talk was made by Dr. E. C. Henry on the work of the Boy Scouts in the past year, ' and the development of a boy's brain when put in the right sur roundings and taught the right method of living. lie told of the method the government used 'to de ' termine the amount of development "f the brain of the man. He said that only half of the brain of the human race is developed, and ex plained that .the work of the Boy Scouts organization was to help de velop the other half. Otis E. Smith, camp director who lias recently been put in charge of the Clifford camp, spoke of his plans for the coming year. The executive board elected for llic coming year consists f Walter W. Head. A. B. Currie. T. W. Welch, W. E. Rhoades. W. E. Reed, J. E. Davidson, J. H. Beveridge, J. W. ; Towlc D. C. Robertson and Henry Monsky. The members of the executive board re-elected Walter W. Head president and A. B. Currie vice pres ident. Special Venire of 150 Forthe Newberry Case Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 19. Judge C. W. Sessions of the United , States district court announced the list of ISO special veniremen from which a jury will be picked to try the cases of United States Senator Truman H. Newberry and 134 others charged with conspiracy and fraud s in connection with the Newberry election a year ago. With the sub poenaes were sent out notices that those summoned must refrain from discussing the cases. 43 of Crew Drowned Halifax, Dec. 19,-r-Forty-three ! members of the crew of the British freight steamer Manxman have been drowned at sea and the ship is sup posed to have gone down, accord ing to a wireless message inter cepted at Camperdown station to day. Survivors of the ship are, on board the steamer British Isles, due in New York next Monday. iitiiniiiiiiiiiiiiuiiniiiiiiiiiniiuiiiiiiinminiiiim RUSH ANARCHISTS FROM ALL. POINTS TO ELLIS ISLAND Three Special Trains Will Ar rive Today With Reds to Be Deported. The Most ! Practical I Xmas Gift I of All New York, Dec. 19.Anarchists and undesirables from all sections of the United States were being rushed by special trains Friday to Ellis island, to join the large colony of 'radicals already assembled there waiting deportation to soviet Russia. ' ' . Immigration .officials said that the transport which will take the radi cals, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, on their home ward journey, probably will sail Sunday. The radicals were told to night to hold themselves inread iness to go aboard the ship. Three special trains, one from Pittsburgh, another from Buffalo and a third from Philadephia will arrive Saturday with contingents of radicals for deportation, it was learned at Ellis island. The Pitts burgh train will bring 40 anarchists, but the number that will come on the other trains could not be learned. Acting Commissioner of Immi gration Byron H. Uhl said that 25 persons, in? hiding 18 anarchists, ar rived at the island Friday for deportation. They, were all , ffom New Jersey. Wives of the Russian radicals being held at Ellis island sent a letter to Commissioner General of Immigration Caminetti containing an appeal that they and their chil dren be deported to soviet Russia with their husbands. Noted Sculptor Says Art as Important to Progress as Building New York, Dec. 8. Onorio Ruo tolo, the Italian American sculptor whose bust of Cardinal Mercier brought him world-wide attention, is one of the numerous foreign-born artists who have come to the United States within the last decade to practice their calling. Ruotolo has been in this country less than 10 years, but he believes whatever success the future may hold for him is to be found in Amer ica and he calls New York "home." A student of Vincenzo Camite, Ruotolo believes the artist has a task to accomplish in this world which is as important to progress as that of the bridge builder. "Art's purpose," he says, "is not to go back everlastingly to the sweet myths of the past." And so he has peopled his studio here with type of the present day and gener ation. In his 10 years here, Ruotolo has responded to American types and American ideas. One of his lat est contributions is a Red Cross memorial, commemorating the work of the order of mercy in France. He portrays the tragedy of mod ern life, too. His "Slave," which has been extensively photographed, shows the negro appealing to the world for aid and enlightenment; another, "The Doomed," is a strik ing study of man under sentence of death by electrocution. Some of the Ruotolo types which have attracted attention are "The Drunkard," "Cain" and "The Foun tain of Life." He is now at work on several American war memor ials. . . 3 The Famous i White I Legislature of Colorado Approves Raises in Salaries Electric So simple a child can operate it CAN BE BOUGHT f ON PAYMENTS ! I MICKEL'S I Cor. 15th & Harney 1 Streets. OMAHA 334 Broadway, Council 1 f Bluffs. 1 i.juDnui.ifcjamiiiimiiiiUHiinmiiiiHimiiMi er Denver, Colo., Dec. 19. The spe cial sessron of the Colorado legisla ture adjourned Friday night. Sitting for 12 days the legislature ratified the woman suffrage amend ment to the federal constitution, passed the anti-automobile thefH measure and an anti-sedition bill, and placed before the voters a con stitutional "amendment calling for in creases in the salaries of certain state officials. The people will be asked to con sider in the 1920 election increases of officials salaries as follows: Governor from $5,000 to $10,000 a year, governor's secretary 'from $1,500 to $3,000, justices of the su preme court from $5,000 to $7,500, district court judges from $4,000 to $5,500.' ' These increases, if ratified by the voters, will become effective Jan uary 1, 1921. Judge Refuses to Hear i Danzy Evidence Privately Newark, N. J., Dec. 19. Prose cutor Edmund C. Gaskell of At lantic City, N. J., was ordered to produce Charles S. White and Mrs. Edith L; Jones, arrested in connec tion with the alleged murder of 3-year-old ."Billy" Danrey be fore Supreme Court Justice Charles C. Black at Mays Landing next Monday and show cause why they should not be released from jail. The prosecutor claimed that to disclose his case in open court be fore it was given to the grand jury i might "defeat the ends of justice." He offered to disclose his evidence to Judge Swayze in private, but the offer was refused. Bomb Stored by Mexican . Reds Blows Up Their Room El Paso, Tex., Dec. 19. Two Mexicans, badly burned and injured about the head and hands from an explosion that tore out the front wall of a room in their home here Thursday night, today are under guard at the county hospital, while government city and county author ities are investigating the case, which officers said they believed was connected with radical activities. Yale Added and Princeton Dropped From Schedule Utica. N. Y.. Dec. 19.-Yale is added and Princeton dropped from the Colgate foot ball schedule of 1920. which was made public Fri day night. Princeton was unable to offer a satisfactory date, it was said. Dartmouth declined to come to Hamiton for a return game. The Yale game will be played at New Haven on October 20 ANOTHER TRIAL AT COMPROMISE ON THETREATY Formal Consideration to Be Opened in Prepara tion for After-Holiday Session. Washington, Dec. 19. Formal consideration of the peace treaty fight will be reopened Saturday by the senate foreign relations commit tee,, and an effort .made to work out a new compromise plan to be placed before the senate after the holidays. The resolution of Senator Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, to declare a state of peace is expected to be the basis of the committee's work. Various modifications are expected, however, so as to incorporate pro visions which republican , leaders hope wW draw democratic support. Policy Declaration. " Among the changes and additions understood to have been considered by the republicans is one designed to preserve to, the United States any material advantages embodied in the treaty as it stands. Another sugges tion is that the resolution include a general declaration of policy pledg ing the United States to entervene in any future European war which menaces civilization. Some members of the committee desire to see action also on Senator Knox's alternate resolution to rati fy the treaty with the league of na tions covenant excluded, but the ob jection was made today that a two thirds vote would be required for that measure, making the outcome much more doubtful. May Ratify by January IS. Democratic members of the com mittee were not hopeful tonight that the republican majority woulg get to gether tomorrow on any compromise measure acceptable to the admin istration forces in the senate. All proposals for a separate declara tion of peace have met with stub born democratic resistance hereto fore, and it was predicted in some quarters, that lengthy debate in the committee would prevent action to morrow. While the committee leaders were shaping plans for consideration of the peace resolution as a compro mise, a number of senators of both parties continued to urge a general conference in January, of democrats and republicans earnestly desiring ratification with reservations. So confident were some of these sen ators that they predicted such a ratification by January 15. Insurance Canceled On Whisky Starts a New Fight on Ban Chicago, Dec. 19. Action of in surance companies in cancelling policies on whisky and other intoxi cating liquor in or out of bond, as announced by the Louisville branch office of the Connecticut Mutual In surance company, will "prove a final responsibility of the government," and suit to recover from the govern ment the value of liquors prohibited from sale will be filed in the court of claims at Washington next week, Levy Mayer, counsel for the na tional distillers' committee, said Friday. In the court of claims the conten tion will be made that prohibition has destroyed the "value of real tangible property on which the gov ernment has levied a tax," and "that owners are entitled to rebates, set offs and refunds covering the dissi pated values." It will also be con tended that the government failed to allow one year before constitu tional prohibition becomes effective to dispose of stocks as, it is con tended, the amendment contem plated. Socialism Reverts Back To Slavery, Says Pastor Columbus, O., Dec. 19. "Socialism is but reverting back to the days of slavery," according to Rev. Dr. Burt D. Evans, a local clergyman. Discussing "The Program and the Promise of Socialism," Rev. Dr Evans said socialists have pictured a land where work is equally dis tributed. "No one would object to such a state of life, but who would perform the irksome, tedious and tiresome work of the world?" The socialistic plan as explained by Dr. Evans as follows: There must be an armed force to carry out the orders of the socialis tic government. Those who grumble at the work assigned them will for feit their share in the property of the state. To insure the progress of socialism and to prevent disorder, public meetings must be prohibited and the present freedom of the press placed under a check. As far as I can see, there is no difference between the socialistic plan and the old slave law in south ern states which permitted the whites to use armed force against the slaves, denied slaves certain privileges if they grumbled, or left the plantation and which prohibited slaves from holding public meet ings." Germany Planning to Get Alsace-Lorraine Back Philadelphia, Pa. It is a shame the Germans were not made to feel their defeat more strongly than they were. "The retort of the German troops to Alsa:e-Lorraine, 'Goodby; we'll be back here in about five years,' is in accordance with the spirit of Ger many, even now." Dr. Truman D. Schnabel,recently returned to Philadelphia from long service abroad, thus commented on the belligerent spirit still rife in Ger many. Dr. Schnabel was a major in the medical corps of the United states army. He was in charge of the repatriation of American wounded and prisoners in the southern part of Germany after the armistice. "Persecuted" Bugler Gives Personal Tale of "Affair" - Fort Omaha Soldier, in . Letter to The, Bee, Denies Some Things and Admits Others Wants to Keep Stigma From Army Character. Paul Fowler, bugler at Fort Omaha, sends the following letter to The Bee regarding an incident at the home of G. S.-Williamson, 4702 North Twentieth street, last Sun day night, which led to his being held by police for army officers. Miss Beatrice Boydson, living at the Williamson home, was the woman in the case. Bugler Fowler in his let ter refers to being misquoted in The Bee while he was held under guard and unable to speak with civilians. She only quotation from him was e statement, "Aain't it hell," and was made at the police station. The letter reads: : "There is an old saying that there are 'two sides to every question.' For the last several days ijsnis have appeared in your paper" and the World-Herald in regard the bu gler at Fort Omaha to attend to his duty. I am writing this letter to you, not entirely to vindicate mv sdf in connection with the affair, but to present to the public of Omaha' both sides of the storyv Exonerated by Police. -' "Last Sunday evening, owing to difficulties of which I was entirely uinocent'I was arrested by the civ ilian authorities. Later I was turned over to the military officials. The following morning I was honored by an article in your paper and in the World-Herald accrediting me with remarks and giving versions of the affair that I knew nothing about. May I mention at this point that I was cleared of any fault in the Wil liamson affair by the local police? I was put in the guard house for the infraction of military rules and not civil ordinances. ' ! "The following evening another article appeared, giving many more remarks and humorous twists in re gard to the affair. It must be un derstood that I was in the guard house all the time and can guaran tee that I was not interviewed by any of your reporters. "Tuesday morning a third item was printed, giving more state ments, not my own. ' In this article it was stated that I attempted to force my way into the Williamson home. I must state this is a very bad misstatement of the fact. All Honor to Soldiers. "Whether these items are the product of an over active imagina tion on the part of your reporters or is a deliberate attempt to give the occurence an ugly appearance to my detriment, I cannot say. If your publication stands for fair play it will see the soldiers at Fort Omaha are cleared of any shadow that might fall on their reputations by a misrepresentation of the facts in the case. "It is not only to my interest that a proper account of this affair be given but it is to clear the entire enlisted personnel at Fort Omaha of any stigma against their name. "The following is the actual statement of the facts of the case: Girl Was Locked Out. "Following a telephone conversS tion with the young lady in question I was requested to call at her home where she would meet me and re turn to the fort for the evening, as I was on duty and must be present to perform my proper duties as bugler of the guard. "Upon arriving at the house I found that the young lady was not in sight. Upon ringing the bell it was answered by Mr. Williamson, who refused to let me speak to Miss Boydson. At that time Miss Boyd son appeared, saying that she would talk to me at the kitchen door. When she came out Mr. Williamson locked the door behind her and re fused to let her in to get suitable clothing for the cold weather. Invited the Man Out "After pleading with Mr. Will iamson to let Miss Boydson in to get proper clothing, in anger against his cruelty to Miss Boyd son. I invite'd him outside, stating 'that I would lick him on less ground than it took to stand on.' Mr. Williamson then disappeared, and shortly after the police arrived in response to his telephone call. Referred to "Bums." "The statement that I attempted to force an entrance is untrue. The article alsov fails to state that Mr. Williamson made the statement that 'he didn't want any bums hanging around his place.' As this state ment was made before hostilities commenced it is rather unfair to the military forces now in Omaha. "PAUL FOWLER." The statement that Mr. Fowler attempted to force his way into the house was made by Mr. William son and was not the "imagination of a reporter." Employes Say Mice Played in Trough Where Catsup Made Chicago, Dec. 19. A jury in fed eral court sustained a government libel warrant for condemnation of 1,248 cases of tomato catsup of the Sterling Products company of Evansville, Ind. Eight employes and former employes testified de cayed tomatoes were used jn the catsup, and one former employe said it was not uncommon to see mice leap from the sorting belt. District Attorney Clyne said the verdict would have a salutary ef fect on some 25 manufacturers of food products who were holding their goods from interstate ship ment pending result of thye suit. Associate of J. W. Mackay And Senator Fair Dies San Franciscot Dec. 19. Homer S. King, associate of John W. Mackay and James G.- Fair in the development of California's mining resources and former president of the Wells-Fargo Nevada National bank and the Bank of California, died here today. "In 1873 he was cashier vof the Wells-Fargo Express company. Committee Cuts Indian Appropriations Measure Washington, Dec. 19. The Indian appropriation bill, reported to the house, was reduced by the house committee from $17,471,000 asked by government officials to $13,136,000, which is approximately $2,000,000 less than the amount for the current fiscal year. Esthonia to Join Allies If Government Recognized Helsingfors, Dec. 19. Esthonia has agreed to participate in an at tack on Pctrograd if the allies and Admiral Kolchak of the Omsk gov ernment recognize the independence of Esthonia, according to newspa per dispatches received here. It is said this agreement was incorpo rated in an answer to an allied note received by Esthonia recently. Discolored or Spotty Skin Easily Peeled Off TO FILE PACKERS' DEGREE IN COURT AFTER HOLIDAYS Palmer Says He Cannot Pre dict Effect Grocers Aban don "Discrimina tion" Fight. Washington, Dec. 19. Cabinet members and other 'high officials v.ho have been assisting Attorney General Palmer in the fight on the cost of living today held their first conference since thecoal strike side tracked all other activities. Reports were1 received by the con ference from H. E. Figg, special assistant to Mr. Palmer, which were said to show continued progress in keeping down prices. 1 he reports were especially grat ifying," Mr. Palmer said, ''taking into consideration the fact that when wc began our campaign last summer we were at the high point of supply and the low point of demand, while now we the at the low point of sup ply and the. peak of demand. A graphic representation of living costs would show a very satisfactory curve of price ranges." With the approval of the confer ence Mr. Palmer is preparing a statement summarizing the results obtained, which probably will be given out tomorrow. Mr. Palmer said he could fiot pre dict the immediate effect on prices of the settlement of the anti-trust action against the packers. ' "The big effect of the agreed de cree," he said, "is to open the chan nels of business freely to all men without fear of domination by these interests." The court in whjch the agreed de cree will be entered will not be an nounced until the decree is filed, which will be after the holidays. Announcement was viade today by the Southern Wholesale Grocers' association that its complaint against a large number of railroads for alleged preferences in the way of rates and privileges to the five large pa-kers would be dismissed from further consideration by the Interstate Commerce commission. LEADERSHIP 05 'DEMOCRATS GOES OVER TO JAN. 15 1 - i Postponement Said. to Increase! Underwood's Chances Over Hitchcock's. Washington, Dec. 19. The con ference of democratic senators called for Saturday to consider election of a minority leader was postponed until January 15. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, acting democratic leader since the death of Senator Martin of Virginia, canceled the call for the conference after an agreement with Senator Un derwood of Alabama, his opponent for the democratic leadership in the senate, who advocated postponement because of the absence of many sen ators, and also, iu order that Secre tary Glass might take his seat under appointment to fill out Senator Mar tin's term. v" lti the opinion of Senator Under wood's friends, postponement in crased his chances of election, be cause it is hoped that by January IS ijnal action may be reached on the German treaty. Senator Hitchcock's managers, however, declared that they are assured of enough votes to insure his election. . Kansas City and St. Louis Contend For "Dems" Powwow St. Louis, Dec. 19. The demo cratic state committee will send a telegram to the meeting of the na tional democratic committee, at Washington, January 8, in an effort ot" obtain the national convention for either St. Louis or Kansas City, it was decided at a meeting of the state committee today. Kansas City pledged $50,000 to defray the convention expenses and St. Louis $40,000, it is said., A resolution was presented ask ing that women be given the same rights as men at nattonat and state meetings of the party. It was re ferred to. the executive committee. Postpone Plebiscite On Retention of Fiume Fuime, Dec. 19 (By the Asso ciated Press.) The plebiscite by which it was intended to determine whether Gabriele D'Annunzio's forces should reave Fiume, was not held Friday. Persistent objections by various factions and insistence by the extremists that the present gar rison remain in the city, made a post ponement of the vote necessary until more 'quiet conditions prevail. The voting probably will take place. Sunday. Liberty Bonds Stolen in Illinois Are Recovered St. Louis. Dec. 19. A total of $16,950 of Liberty bonds, held by the police here, were identified as having been stolen November 26 last from the State Savings bank of Fillmore, 111. The bonds were seized on the ar rest of a man giving the name of John S. Burt of New York. Burt disclaimed ownership of the bonds or knowledge of how they came to be in his satchel. Farmers Elect Officers. Seward, Neb., Dec. 19. (Special.) At Jhi annual meeting of the Sew ard county agricultural board held here the following officers were elected: Shelby Ramsay, president; Robert Stall, vice president; W. C. Chapman, secretary, and T. C. Beck, treasurer. ' g-n ,jm g " saeew3sJi Say "Merry Xmas" With Flowers The Sweetest Gift of All." Whaf a world of peace and good will to all' it expressed in that age-old phrase, especially when you say it with flower, j V? A fine assortment of cut flower and potted plants await your early selec-J Motion at our (tor. 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