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CHARGE COSTS ASSESSED
BY COURT EXCESSIVE.
' Los Angeles, Jan. 25. The su
perior court will be called upon to
V.cide whether Justice Forbes gave
a judgment tor too much costs when
he decided in favor of L. J. Allen, to
whotn he gave a judgment of $3.50
for the loss of 16 starched collars.
With costs of the suit the bill to the
laundry was $8. The Wardrobe
Laundry companies appealed to the
superior court on the ground that
$1 of the costs was illegal.
BIG BOND REQUIRED
FOR CHICAGO CRIMINAL.
Chicago, Jan. 25. A number of
hew charges will be lodged "against
George feeder, called by the police
"The Master Criminal," who was ar
rested here. It is said that his crim
inal operations extended all over the
country.
In nearly all his operations he is
said to havejised Helen Pfeifer, his
sweetheart as an accomplice.
.Arrested last December, charged
with stealing more than 18 automo
biles, Soedcr was released on $33,000
bonds. At the time of his last ar
rest he had $4,200 in his possession.
When arraigned in the Sheffield
avenne police court, Soeder was held
to the grand jury under $60,000
bonds, while Miss Pfeifer was held
under $3,000 bonds.
$42 ENGLISH OVERCOATS
SOLD IN U. S. FOR $105.
, London. Jan. 24. In the" city of
London Court it came out in evi
dence in one case that overcoats
which had been made to sell in Lon
don at $42 were selling in America
at $105. '. '
GIRL SUES MERCHANT 1
WHO WEDDED ANOTHER.
' New York, Jan. 25. Miss Agnes
K. Mack 'has filed suit for $25,000 in
- the supreme court here against
George P, Wittfield, alleging breach
6f promise. Her lawyers said the
promise, to marry was made eight
years ago. Mr. Whittfield is a mem
tar of the firm of J.'F. Douglas &
Co., dealers in woolens, 244 Fifth
Dveiiue.
At his home, 56, West Eighty
. fifth street, Mrs. Wittfield said her
husband did not care to discuss the
suit.' .
TOO MUCH DLU; EVEN
FLOG GO, SAYS SING KEE.
San Jose, Cal., Jan. 25 "Lain
come afta long time, blrmeby," said,
' Sing Kee, Chinese weather prophet,
as he climbed down from his ob
servatory on top of the laundry
, at Santa Clara. '
: "I got no flog no more, he add
ed, r.ef erring to the celebrated frog
which once lived with him and
helped him in foretelling weather
changes. . ' ,
"Flog go away now. Too dly for
him.'
BETS HIS AUTO CAN
.PASS TRAIN; MAY LIVE.
; , Los Angeles, Jan." 25. Accord
ing trt other occupants" 6f his auto
mobile, John de Bartle of Palms,
near here, bet hcm that he could
drive his automobile - across the
tracks before an, approaching train
reached the crossing. At the hos-
it-i it wa said thatUe uartie
mitrht nossiblv Ket well. ' The
er four occupants were jess mcvcic
t ly hurt.
AWED BY NEGRO BLOOD '
MAN SUES FOR DIVORCE.
- New' York, Jan. 25. Supreme
" Court Justice Pendleton will an
nounce Iris decision in the suit for
annulment of marriage by Arthur-E.
Awe against his wife, Emma Daly
Awe. Hci said he was married on
August 25 last, and three weeks lat-
r 'learned that his wife's grand
mother was of negro blood. Mrs.
Awe denied there was negro blood
in hen family. . ' '.'-
- GRAND OPERA STAR
TO START LEGION.
' ' Chicago, Jan. 25. Yvonne Gall,
the French grand opera prima don
4 na. who is singing for the Chicago
, Grand Opera Co., is going .to start
: an organization like the American
Legion in France when she returns
to her country. .
-In a letter received by Colonel
Milton J. Foreman, commanding of
ficer of the legion in Chicago, Mile.
Gall asks for full information re-
garding the American Legion
"The plans and actions of "the
- American Legion have impressed
imt deeply," she said. "On my re-
turn to my beloved France I in
tend to launch a movement for the
establishment of an organization
like the American Legion for
France needs snch a one ven more
than does America. . , '
-. "I would love to have it named
. 'L'Armes De Lafayette' xas that
".would signify -both the ideals of a
'great man and the undying friend-
"ship of our two countries."
'' "I think theidea a splendid one,
s-aTd Colonel Foreman "I shail be
glad to co-operate with Mile. Gall.
QUART OF WHISKY BUYS
PRICELESS TAPESTRY.
Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jan. 2S.-The
' tack room of Fritz Ueberle s north
side saloon may hold a fortune
which was purchased for a quart of
Tt. "fnrtiini-" is m the form of
n or nanel. believed to be by
Tean Honore Fragonard, for whose
panels both Frick and Morgan paid
tortunes, ana some
hang in Prick's Fifth av.enue man
ion" which has bee bequeathed to
'the city of New York. Prof. E. F.
Savage of Carnegie Institute of
- Technology has pronounced it the
work of ; Fragonard, but lest his
"judgment be wrong, he has asked
;some of his contemporaries tovisit
. the saldon with himand pass judg-
TThe" panel is in tapestry.. Fro
T. ganard's work was always. in tap-
J-itrv It is 14 feet long and 4 feet
.iKh It is called the "Campieque
,Barque.".In one corner the name of
; Fragonard is woven into the tapes-
- - 6 Tt,. tanestrr formerly hung
back of bar in Ho?el Antier'
which wtnt out of business five
Tears ago. . J&Dene purj.ii:u w.u
v "panel for a quart of whisky from
K.nien razinjr; the building. It had
--been offered at h auction block,
V but there, sere M bidpiv ;
WATCH
VOL. 49 NO. 190.
15 HILLED
IN CANADA
RAIL WRECK
Two Sections of Canadian Pa
cific Express for' Vancouver
in Rear-End Collision Near
North Bay.
LOCOMOTIVE CRASHES
INTO STALLED SLEEPER
Injured Taken to Hospitals,
But No More Deaths Are
Expected Few Names of
Vjctims Obtainable.
North Bay, Ont., Tan. 25. Fifteen
persons are dead and a large number
injured as tne result 01 a collision
today between the two sections of
Canadian Pacific express for Van
couver, which occurred aDOUt 11
miles east of here. The rear sleeper
of the first section, which was stalled,
was telescoped by the locomotive of
the second section and eight passen
gers were killed., outright, seven
dying later from their injuries.
An official statement issued tonight
bv the Canalian Pacific gave the
names of four of the persons killed in
the wreck near North Bay, Ont., as
Mrs. Susan Peden of West Van-
. 1 T f
couver, ner sons, Wallace ana nugn
Peden. and Mr. Tilley, Winnipeg,
Manitoba. Among those injured were I
two Americans, George Kasmussen
of Seattle, internal injuries, and Miss
Dorothy Skeene of Los Angeles,
Cal., interna! injuries.
According to a statement of Vice
President A. Di, Mactier of the
Canadian Pacific railway, the number
of the dead in the North-Fay wreck
is not greater than eight and the
number of injured 21. It is reported
here that the list of casualties re
ceived by the company is not com
plete as it is known that one sleeping
car was completely demolished in the
collision and a second one partly
wrecked. , , r. V
30 Below Zero.
At the time of the accident, the
temperature, was about 30 degrees
mm"
oth-fbelow zero. The scene of the .d's
aster is a lonely spot nearly two
miles from the nearest way station
and 10 miles from North Bay. ' A
relief train . with doctors and Red
Cross nurses left here very short
ly after the news of the wreck was
received.
An official statement issued late
to'night by the Canadian Pacific rail
way stated that seven persons had
been killed in the collision and that
there was a Vossibility that an
eighth person had also perished. In
addition to' the names already made
public a revision of the list included
Dr. Chambers, Calgary;
Beale, son of E. H. Beale, Van
couver, and C. Simmons, sleeping
car conductor, Montreal. y
BOY SOLDIER LOST
TO ARMY IN EFFORT
TO SAVE BROTHER
Three-Year-QId Youth Gives
Life in Flames Obey
ing Orders.
Chicago, Jan. 25. When Vincent
Lukosznf, 3 years old, grew up he
was to be a soldier. He was sure of
that. v j
And in a vague way he compre
hended when his mother told him
that the first duties of a soldier were
courage and obedience.
Mrs. Justine Lukoszuf, the mother,.
left, the home at seventy-second ave
nue and' Fifty-sixth place, to make
some purchases.
"You take care of brother Justin
until I get back," Mrs. Lukoszuf in
structed. , And importantly Vincent took post
at the side of his 2-year-old brother.
None of the officials who have in
vestigated the fire that destroyed the
Lukoszuf cottage has been able to
determine the cause. No one knows
who turned in the alarm. .
But while the mother waited in
the grocery store several blocks from
the home the fire statiott at Summit,
adjoining' the Seventy-second avenue
fire district, received the alarm. On
account of the heavy snow the fire
fighters could get no, nearer than
Seventy-second avenue and Fifty
third place. - v
Neighbors had gathered about the
blazing cottage. Some one thought
of the children. A man pulled a wet
llanket over his face and dashed into
the flames.
The children were found, uncon
scious from burns and smoke. Vin
cent followed orders. His arms were
around his baby brother, and appar
ently the elder boy had tried to make
a shield of his body to keep the
flames from the youneer. -
But foe army of a later generation
is to have cne good soldier-less. Both
boys died. .
) Doctor Uses Skates.
Seymour Ind., Jan. 25-rBecause
of icy streets, Dr. C. E. Chenoweth
was unable to use his automobile to
visit patients. He resorted to the
use o( ajutfiS.
"THE VELVET HAMMER'S" GENTLE HITS TO SEE WHO'S
The Omaha
Catwri h iacoaa-elau Mtl;r May M. I9M. at
Oaaka, P. 0. udf aet Mare 3. Ia7t '
P. E. Her, Pioneer of Omaha,
. Falls Victim to Paralysis;
Built Fine Business Blocks
One of Those Who Helped
Boost and Boom South
Omaha Stock Yards
Industry.
Announcement was made yester
day of the death from paralysis at
7:55 Sunday morning of Peter EJ,m which position he continued for
Her, almost 80 years old, for more
than haif a century a resident of
Omaha. He had lived retired for
seven years from active business, his
iy.'.'gw.wwM7.'n
P. E. 1LER.
attention being given merely to the
supervision of his investments. In
July 'of 1915 he suffered a stroke of
paralysis and since that time has
been confined to his home, 1248
South Tenth street.
Mr. Her was born in Wooster, O.,
February 10, 1840, a son of Conrad
and Julia Her, and spent his youthful
day in the Buckeyes state, where he
acquired a common school education.
In 1866 he sought the opportunities
of the growing west and disposing of
his wholesale liquor business at
Tiffin, Q.. removed to Omaha, where
he established a similar . enterprise,
continuing alontfthat line until 1902.
He builf the Willow Springs dis
tillery, 'which 'ie operated for a long
HUGE REWARD
OFFERED FOR
IRISH GUNMEN
Proclamation Posted in Dublin
By Lord Mayor $50,000
Is Incentive.
Dublin, Jan. 25. A proclamation
posted here contains n offer by the
lord ? lieutenant of a reward of
10,000 for information within three
months, leading to the conviction of
any' persons guilty of the murder of
14 police officers whose names are
given. The list, begins with the
name bf Detective Smith of Dublin,
assassinated last Jury, and ends with
those of Deputy Commissioner Red
mond, murdered in Dublin last week,
and Constable Finnegan, killed, at
Thurles.
A reward of 1,000 is also offered
for such secret information' as is
calculated to lead to he conviction
of any of the offenders in the cases
named. Any person concerned in,
or privy to the murders, but ;not
actually guilty of them, who gives
the required information, is prom
ised a free pardon and the special
protection of the crown. , -Police
Barracks Attacked.
Limerick, Jan. 25. The police bar
racks at Munroe, occupied By eight
constables, was attacked after mid
night by about 40 armed men. The
two parties exchanged shots for two
hours. 1 he raiders vainly tried to
bomb the building, but finally fled on
the appearance of the military. So
far as known nobody was injured.
wearing masks attacked the police
barracks at Baltinglass, county
Wicklow, and shot and wounded one
constable severely and another.
slightly. The assailants escaped.
Prohibition's Friends
Told to Get Busy and
Not Quit Under Fire
Washington, Jan. 25. Calling on
friends of prohibition to get busy
rather than quit, Wayne B. Wheeler,
general counsel of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, in a statement
charged that "wet organizations and
some wet officials are eneouraging
defiance to national prohibition in
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New
York, New Jersey, Wisconsin and
several other states."
"They," said Mr Wheeler, re
ferring to these organizations and
officials, ."have enacted or attempted
to enact, laws to permit certain
liquors which the federal govern
ment prohibits and in their campaign
with .wet propaganda are inflaming
the lawless to defy the federal pro
hibition act The court attacks on
national prohibition, the threat of
the liquor organizations to elect a
wet congress, to weaken the national
prohibition code and resubmit the
18th amendment and to elect wet
legislatures to carry out their pro
gram is a sufficient challengr to the
friends of prohibition to get busy
it - -
OMAHA,. MONDAY,
Sp9riod, or until he sold out to the
trust.
Stock Yards Promoter. , i
In other fields of business he also
extended his efforts, his co-operation
being sought for his sound judgment
p.nd enterprise were widely recog
nized. " He was one of the promoters of
the Omaha Stock Yards, serving as
the first secretary of the company,
a .number of years', and as such did
much to prompte the interests of
the business at this poiiit. He also
became one of the organizers of the
South Omaha Land Co., of which
he was elected the first secretary,
which position he held until the dis
solution of the company. It was
this company which built and de
veloped all of South Omaha now a
most populous district. He also
built the six-story building on How
ard street occupied by the Byrne
& Hammer Dry Goods Co., which
(Continued on Page Two, Column Six.)
5,000 ACRES OF .
NEBRASKA LAND
TO BE OPENED
State and Wyoming Irrigated
Farms Ready to Homestead
February 28. '
Washington, Jan. 25. Approxi
mately 10,000 acres of reclaimed
iand in Wyoming and Nebraska will
be opened to homestead entry early
in March, the reclamation service
announced today. Application for'
entry upon irrigated farms. compos
ing a tract of about 5,000 acres in
the North Platte valley project,
embracing a large section of the
border areas of each, state, will be
accepted from February 28 to
March 5, it was said. Shoshone,
Wyo., project will be accepted dur
ing the week following. Drawings
will be made to determine the riarht
kof .entry in, each case where two ,or
more applications are made for the
same farm.
The North Platte alley tract,
part of a project in which hundreds
of thousands of acres already have
been reclaimed, by storing up ,the
waters of the North Platte river
behind the great Pathfinder dam,
will be opened, it was stated, on a
water service rental basis for. the
first three years. When the irri
gating 6ystem has been entirely
completed at the end of that time
so the cost can be computed and
assessed to the acre, the homestead
er will assume entry upon an own
ership basis.
The 10,000 acres comprised in
these two, tracts constitute the larg
est area of reclaimed land opened to
the homesteader in more -than five
years, officials of the service said.
Adopt Resolutions
Against Removal of
Dead Heroes in France
New York, Jan. 25. Resolutions
against the removal of the bodies of
the American soldier . dead from
France were adopted bv the national
council of administration of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars at a meet
ing here. F. Warner JCarlind, Kan
sas City, commander-inchief of the
veterans, urged that a national cetne
terv be established ' in France in
which all the bodies 6f the Amer
ican dead be interred.
The council fixed September 13-18
as the date of the national encamps
ment to be held in Washington. It
was stated that 50,000 veterans ar
expected, to participate in the parade,
including from 800 to 1,000 dele
gates. The national council includes
Commander Karlind and Gus E.
Hartung of Denver, Colo.
Coolidge Not Candidate
for Presidential Honors
Boston,' Jan. 25. Governor Cool
idge declared here that he was not
and never had been a candidate for
president and that he would , not
enter a contest for the Massa
chusetts delegation to the republican
national convention. He did not
say that he would oppose the pres
entation of his name at the Chicago
convention, but was emphatic in his
assertion that he would not permit
the imputation that he had used the
office of governor to promote his
own interests through the selection
of delegates. '
Engineer Goes Insane
With Hand on Throttle
Sioux Falls. S. D., Jan. 25. Driv
ing a train into the teeth of a bliz
zard, Engineer Stephen Yorkshire,
who suddenly went insane while at
the throttle, nearly caused the wreck
of a Milwaukee freight near Avon,
S. D. A catastrophe was averted,
it was declared, by the train's con
ductor who pulled the air brakes.
Gasoline Car Beady for Race.
Detroit, Jan. 25. Henry Ford's
new jfasoiine interurban car is ready
for a race to Chicago with the Michi
igan Central's Wolverine Flyer. The
company -will erect a plant 10 miles
long for quantity production of a
car that can run from New York to
th Parifir rnsit with tint nn 11?nfr
oi gasoline,
Daily
JANUARY 26, ,.1920.
REPUBLICAN
SENATORS TO
STATE LIT
Changes in Language and Not
Principle of Two Peace Res
ervations. Probably Will Be
Demanded at Meeting.
LEADERS ARE UNABLE
TO PREDICT OUTCOME
Several Days' Negotiations
May Result If Democrats
Refuse Plan Before, an Open
Break Occurs.
Washington, Jan. 25. Limits to
which republican senate leaders are
willing to go in modifying the Lodge
reservations to the peace treaty will
be transmitted p democratic mem
bers of the bi-partisan compromise
committee Monday at a meeting
upon which may hinge the success
or failure of the present compro
mise negotiations.
Although there was no official
definition of the limits set by Sen
ator Lodge of Massachusetts, and
his associates available, it was un
derstood that the democrats would
be told that changes in the two
main reservations, those relating to
Article 10 and to voting power in
the league of nations, must be
changes in the language and not in
principle. Such an answer to dem
ocratic proposals t for composition
was said by several members of the
republican committee to reflect the
majority sentiment on the republi
can side of the senate and also to
be agreeable for the most part to
Senators Johnson of California, Bo
rah of Idaho and the others of that
Eroup who Friday called Senator
Lodge and Senator New of Indiana,
into conference -and demanded to
know whither the negotiations for
compromise were going and how
tar. .
Neither Senator Lodge nor Sena
tor Hitchcock, the administration
treaty Tt-ader, would predict the out
come of Monday's meeting, the for
mer confining" his comment to the
statement that he "was a poor
prophet in such matters" and the
latter asserting merely that he was
"hopeful but not confident." In other
quarters the belief was expressed
that even though an agreement on
the basis, of the republican answers
might be viewed by the democratic
conferees as hopeless, the negotia
tions might be continued for several
days before the final break came.
- Should there be a break between
the two informal committees it wa9
considered possible that the "mild
reservation" republicans might
again send out "feelers" among the
democrats and new negotiations be
started. - ,
New Diamond Fields
Will Be Opened Soon
. On Waterless Desert
Johannasburg, South Africa, Jan.
25. Tlaring, a waterless and tree
less and virtually gameless desert
near Taungs, in Bechuanaland,
promises to be the scene of the big
gest diamond claim staking flsh
in South African history. It is un
derstood that Tlaring will be pro
claimed open for diamond digging
about March 20. ,
Amazing stories are afloat con
cerning the wonderful richness of
the district, and prospective diggers
from the' Cape of the Zambesi and
ozambique and even the Congo, are
preparing to try their luck in the
new 'fields. Despite warnings of
possible fajlures, men are abandon
ing good jobs in various parts of
the country in order to be free to
stake out qlaims when the procla
mation, is issued. Hundreds of wom
en also are- arrangirig1 to go to the
new diggings.
The government is preparing, to
cope with the anticipated .rush' to
Tlaring and a township to receive
the new community is being laid
out.' .
Taunga is situated about 40 miles
south of Vryburg and about 100
miles north of Kimberley, the last
named place famous for it great di
amonds. Edwards Will Be Speaker
at Big Cummings Dinner
New York, Jan. 25. Gov. Edward
I. Edwards of New Jersey and Gov.
Alfred E. Smith of New York have
been invited to speak at a testimonial
dinner to be given Homer S. Cum
mings, chairman of the democratic
national committee , under the
auspices of the National Democratic
club on Thursday evening,' Febru
ary 5. An announcement stated that
the occasion would be "memorable
from the political significance of the
utterances of thosvwho will deliver
addresses'
The full list of speakers will be
announced later,
Tne committee in charge of the
dinner consists of more than 200 per
sons and includes prominent men and
women democrats from all parts of
the country, ' . , ,
NEXT ON EDITORIAL PAGE
By Mill (I ynr), Dally, SS.OO: Saatfay. IJ.M:
Dally aa Sua., I7.M; autiMa Nab. alt axtra.
Man Who Deposed Kaiser
Also Saved Germany From
xRecent Spartacan Outbreak
Gustavev Noske, New Minister
of Defense, Becomes
Virtual Dictator of
Country.
By S. D. WEYER, X
CaMp Kifltor of l iUreroal Service.
New York, Jan. 25. Now that the
world's attention - is once more
focussed upon Wilhelm Hohenzol
lern, some hitherto unpublished side
lights on how the revolution which
7
GUSTAVE NOSKE.
overthrew his"throne was organized
and carried out are of timely inter
r. tu u.. t,-.L it.. r..n ... : u
c&u jjil vy me urn aiuiy is uc-
ing brought to light in the German
press and. pieced together, the most
recent revelations show that the
same man who two ' weeks ago
crushed with an1ron hand a new
spartacist outbreak in Berlin saved
Germany from being plunged into
complete anarchy in the, fateful No
vember daj-s of 1918.
This man is Gustav Noske, now
minister of "defense and virtual dic
tator of the republic. It was by a
hair's breadth that he prevented the
naval -mutinies at. Kiel from spread
ing ino civil warfare, but the price
at which he averted this was the
forced abdication of the kaiser.
SOCIETY WOMEN
JUDGE BOXERS IN
ARMY CONTESTS
Fighting Tournament Entertains
Wounded Yanks; "Bully"
Says Mrs. Pell.
New York, Jan. 25. Society wom
en were judgesat the amateur box
ing bout held at Grassmere lodge,
Staten island, given by the National
League for Women's Service for
Wounded Soldiers of Fox Hills
Hospital.
v The women were Mrs. Edward
McVickar, Mrs. Theodore Rv Pell
and Miss Fannie Cottenet. v
The boxers were Joe Florio and
Joe Fands, evenly matched and
weighing 130 pounds, ringside. Ray
Smitn of the Twenty-eighth infan
try, First division, was referee.
Mrs. Pell watched every move
ment of tho fighters. !'Oh, the fight
was bully!" she exclaimed, at the
finish. "I did so wish they had a
few more bouts, so I could learn the
game better. I think it's great fun
to Watch them."
"Well, I counted the punches e,ach
man .delivered. I couldn't distin
guish them by name, so every time
the one in red tights 'put one over'
I gave .him credit for it. If he
missed a punch I marked that
against him. ' I figured the one who
showed the least discomfiture and
breathed rather easy- should be ad
judged winner. And so I decided
Mr. Florio won the bout."
Referee Smith was highly pleased,
with the women as judges.
King of Montenegro
Orders Decoration
Of Red Cross Workers
Paris, Jan. 25. In recognition, of
the seryices rendered to Montenegro
by the American Red Cross since
the signing of the armistice, Colonel
Mestcherrinoff decorated 19 Red
Cross workers . at the direction of
King Nicholas. Lieut.' Col. Robert
E. Olds, Red Cross commissioner
for Europe, received the Order of
Prince Daniels, second class. The
decoration of the same order, third
class, was awarded to Lieut. Col.
Henry Faisclough, Leland-Stanford
university George H. Maird, Dallas,
Tex., and nine other officers.
The gold medal of Montenegro,
with cross, was awarded to Miss
Elic Graves Bencot, Pleasanton,
Cal., and six other women.
Big Haul of Bootleggers
and Gamblers Made in Raid
, EI Centro, Cal., Jan. 25. Thirty
establishments here and several at
Calexico, also in this county, were
raided by Dstrfct Attorney E. R.
Simon, Sheriff Charles Applestill
and 34 deputy sheriffs, and 150 men
and women,valleged bootleggers and
gamblers, were arrested. i
District Attorney Simon issued a
statement in which he declared that
the police of the three cities were
either, "asleep o negligent."
"
i YV v m
TWO CENTS.
CfOn the evening of November 7
two days before Prince Max of
Baden proclaimed Wilhelm's renun
ciation Philipp Scheidemann, leader
of the moderate socialists, received
a long disbnee call from Kiel. The
conversation, was one-sided and
lasted but a minute! It'ran thus:
Kaiser Is Deposed.
"Hello, Berlin. Get me Herr
Scheidemann on the wire quicfc!"
"Hello yes, this is Scheidemann."
"This, is Noske, at Kiel. Philipp,
you've got to depose the kaiser. It
must be done, and drfne quickly, or
I won't be able to hold these fellows
here."
Before the dumbfoundea Schiede
mann had a chance to ask for de
tails Noske had rung off. For
Scheidemann, however, who knew
Noske's vision anck judgment to be
clear and far-sighted, his friend's
words were an irresistible com
mand, and he immediately set in mo
tion the ''steamroller" tactics which
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EASTERN ACCENT
GIVES CLUE TO
POLITE BANDITS
Return Man's Overcoat, But
Fails to Frighten Girl
With Him.
Miss Marjorie Hurt, 17 years old,
2S02 Binney street, and a companion,
C. E. Gates, Hotel Castle, were vic
tims Saturday night of the two polite
highwaymen whose activities duringlKj-asnoyaj-sk
the past week have demanded the
attention of a special squad of de
tectives. Both victims Tvere held up at the
ends of guns at Twenty-ninth and
Binney street, shortyefter they had
alighted from a street car on Thir
tieth street The bandits obtained
liothing. '
Jilen Neatly Dressed.
Both men were neatly dressed and
talked witli'the accent of native New
Yorkers, Gates told police. The
bandits demanded Gates' overcoat
and watch, but returned-both after
questioning their victim. .
"Where do you work?" one of the
gunmen asked.
"At a cigar store," Gates told
him.
Give Coat Back.
"I guess you can't afford to, lose
j'our coat,", the bandit remarked as
he gave the stuff back to Gates .
Gates said both men walked away
leisurely. Miss Hurt was not the
least bit frightened, she -said. ' .
"They appeared to be gentlemen,"
she told detectives. "I know they
wouldn't have harmed us." ,
The same pair of bandits are be
lieved to have held up D. R. Wood
ward, 2408 North Forty-ninth street,
and John McGuire, 18171-2 North
Eighteenth street, late Saturday
afternoon as they were locking up
the offices of the Coal Hill com
pany's yard, -Thirteenth and Nicho
las streets.
" Had Eastern Accent. ,
The bandits pressed guns against
their victims and commanded them
to "stick 'em up." Both obeyed.
Woodward lost $75 to the gunmen.
McGuire lost nothing.
Both highwaymen escaped in a
large black touring car that had been
left stpnding not far from the scene
of the holdup. Woodward said tfie
bandits taiked with an eastern ac
cent. Donald Fox, 923 South Thirty
third street, was a victim of the same
pair of highwaymen Thursday night,
police belieje. In that instance the
bandits refused to take a watch and
iocket that Fox told them his mother
had fciven to him. " .
Automobile Thief
i Lynched by Business
" Men of Tulsa, Okla.
, Tulsa', Okl., Jan. ,25. Fred Bag
gett, alleged automobile shief, was
lynched here by a posse said to be
composed of business men, accord
ing to a telephone message to the'
police from a man claiming to have
been one ot the Ivnchers
Police, believe Baggett has beenfp 10 -XT J V- ? j t ' " 1
... -j Evacuation will be accomplished by ;
-made awav with and are investigat
ing. Baggett was captured by the
posse within a block of the police
station, the caller said, and hurried
outside the city limits. - He was
strung up near the water works arid
let down and is said to have given
information of his confederates, and
taken later into the Osage hills,
where, the caller said, the body
wpuld be found swinging from a
tree.
Highjackers Miss Finding
Five Quarts' Good Liquor
Highjackers "inuffed out" on a
rich prize when they visited the
home of A. J. Rothschild, 307 South
Thirty-ninth street (Covert apart
ments), Sunday morning while the
owner was attending a meeting si
the Athletic club.
The burglars ransacked the ward
robe, disarranged furniture and
otherwise left imprints of their pres
ence, but mi? sed five quarts of liquor
that had been so well hidden as to
escape notice.
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OFFICERS AND
WOMEN HELD
Several Members of Red
Cross Unit and Whole Pol-'
ish Army Fall Into Hands of
the Boisheviki. ;
FORMER U. S. CONSUL '
SENDS THE MESSAGE
Dispatch is Badly Garbled and
Army Officers Are Unable to
Identify Soldiers and Nurses
Said to Be Captured.
Chita, East Siberia, Jan. 25. (By
the Associated Press.) Colonel
Blunt and seven other American en
gineers; Miss Ford, Captain Charette
and several other members of the
American Red Cross, and an entire
Polish army, composed of former
prisoners, have been captured by the
boisheviki at Kliuchinskaya, accord- .
ing to a garbled telegram received
from Joseph H. Ray, former Amer
ican consul at Irkutsk.
The dispatch from Mr,. Ray was
"sent from somewhere beyond Nizh
niulinsk, January 14. It was some
what garbled in transmission.
Kliuchinskaya is on the Trans-Siberian
railroad 100 miles west of
Nizhniulinsk. , 1
The Czechs are fighting a rear
guard action -with the reds near
Krasnoyarsk. Bolshevism is gain- ,
ing in Chita. Ernest L. Harris, for- s
mer American consul at Omsk, is
still in Chita. . '
The British, Japanese and French
missions and many members of the
American Red Cross have arrived in
Russia. '' , . ' -
A bolshevik wireless communica
tion received in London, January..
ENGINEERS
13, announced the capture by thef"Jj
bolshevik forces in the'KtasnoyA
arsk region of 17 columns of Po
lish legionaires, together with 16
guns and 20,000 rifles. .
A dispatch from the "London
Daily Mail's Harbin correspondent
received in London, JaniTary 20,
said there was an unconfirmed" ru
mor at Harbin that the boisheviki
had destroyed a Polish division
near Krasnoyarsk. . '
The Poles captured undoubtedly
are prisoners taken by the Russians
early in tne war and sent to Siberia.
There, after ' the revolution, and
when the Czechs gained the as
cendency, they were armed and
impressed into the anti-bolshevik
forces, as was done also with large
numbers of Serbians who had been
prisoners of the Russians.
Name Is Garbled.
Washington, Jan. 25. War de- -;'
partment officials tonight were un--able
to identify the "Colonel Blunt"
mentioned in a dispatch from Chita. -east
Siberia, as having been captured ,
with other American engineers and
Red Cross workers by the boishe
viki. There is no Colonel Blunt on
active duty at the present time, it -was
said, and the only other officer
by that name, Major Wilfred-M.
Blunt, is now in command of a bat- '
talion of the Eleventh cavalry at
Mexicali, Cal.
Army officers were of the opinion
that inasmuch as the dispatch was
received at Harbin in a garbled tbn
dition. the names of all those cap
tured might have been garbled.
Identify Colonel Blunt s
"Minneapolis, Jan. 25. Colonel
Blunt, captured by boisheviki, is.
1 . -.. i f i 1 T5i .
inspector of the Trans-Siberian rail -j
way, according to . Col. George
Emerson of this city, formerly in
charge of American engineers i
Siberia. .
Evacuation of Silesia, -
Is Started by Germans .
According to Treaty
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Berlin, Jan. 25. German troops
here began evacuation of upper Si- ;
lesia in accordance with the terms
of the peace treaty which requires
that the movement begin within 15 ..
days after its ratification.
The fir$t allied troops are expect-
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zones, eacn ot wnicn will remain
under a provisional military ad
ministration" under the inter-allied ;
commission. '
The treaty provides for the occii- .
pation of upper Silesia by a total
of 18,000 allied troops. English
French and Italian troops will be
ised.
'The Lokal Anzeiger accused the ,t
Poles of cutting telegraph and tele
phone wires . and interfering with 4
the conveyance of the mails in ter-.;
ritories where plebiscites are to be
taken. The newspaper declares that
the telephone connections with Al- s
lenstein, Graudens and Osterode
have been out for the past few days.
It also accuses the Poles of having i,;
severed at the frontier the wire con
necting Stettin and Posen. .:. , "
John Barrymore IH '
New York, Jan. 25. John. Barry
more, famous actor and a brother of
F.ilipl Rnrrvmnrr -ie ill ml t
I were expressed that influenza would
(develop. -
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