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V THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920. I 3i 5 1 SAYS HYSTERIA LED TO CHARGES OF RADICALISM Attorney for Suspended New York Assemblymen Speaks ' Five Hours in De fense of Clients. Albany, tf. Y., March 4. Morris Hillquit, summing up in a five-hour speech in defense of the suspended socialist 'assemblymen who have been under investigation for the past seven weeks, told the assembly judi ciary committee it had no right to impose upon these five men qualifica tions for .office not demanded by the constitution. Declaring that the whole proceed ing against his clients was' "a pan of the national hysteria against radi calism," Mr. Hillquit demanded that the judiciary committee frame a re port recommending the seating of the five socialists and completed his summing up with a warning that if the, assemblymen are unseated "that stain upon derhocracy will never be washed off, never be removed." . "That precedent once created," he asserted, "will work , towards the undoing of the entire constitutional, representative system so laboriously "built up and upheld in this coun- Mr. Hillquit, replying to charges made against socialists, said: That the socialist party was rev olutionary and Mat socialists are revolutionists in the sense that they favor' a program that will take the industrial system out of the hands of private individuals and turtl it over' to the people to organize it properly. That socialism has come to build and not to destroy and that the mass action the socialist party has in view is the legal organized action of large masses in the community. Protest Was Duty. I That the socialist party did its sacred duty to protest against the war, inasmuch the "socialist party did not believe that democracy would, be assured as the result of the war. v That the socialist party has a right to tell candidates elected on the socialist platform to get but of the party should thejr prove un true to platform pledges and promises. That the socialist party is not an anti-national party and that if so cialism is international, so is capi talism, art and modern life. That the socialist party does not approve of the soviet government of Russia and does not seek to intro duce a soviet form of government in the United States, although sym pathizing with the Russian social ists in the maintenance of their i soviet government Kentucky Republican Delegates Uninstructed X Louisville, March 4. The Ken tucky republican state convention endorsed A. T, Hert, Gov. E. P. Morrow, Mrs. John Clover Squth, 1 Frankfort and Dr. S. H. George, negro, Paducah, as the four dele gates from the state-at-large to the republican national convention ui Chicago. The convention voted that . they shall be uninstructed. ' Famous Cayuse Indian l Given Notable Burial Feiidleton. Ore.,1 March U. The largest funeral ever held on the reservation took place when the late Yum Umkin was buried t at the reservation. He was asphyxiated at Chicago while on his way to Wash ington, D. C, on business for his tribe. ' He was a famous Cayuse In dian and left an $80,000 estate. ADVERTISEMENT. An excess of acid in the stomach ours the food and starts fermenta tion. Distressing gases form. Your meals , don't digest but lay like lumps of lead. Then you have heartburn, flatulence, fullness, belch ing, headache, and real misery in the stomach and intestines. A few tablets of 'Tape's Diapep sin" bring relief almost as soon as they reach the stomach. 'Tape's Diapepsin" costs little at drug stores. wvTH ADVERTISEMENT Exhausted Bodies TIRED NERVES Relieved Absolutely by Cadomene Tablets The Real,' Satisfying Tonic Sold by All Druggists. . What causes I OMAHA PIONEER AND WAR VETERAN DIES IN FLORIDA Col. Curtis Ends Eventful Ca reer, as Plainsman, Miner, , Soldier and Politician. Col. Samuel S. Curti, 82 years old, died at Talm Beach, Fla., Wed nesday, according to information rc ceived by friends here. He had been ill for several days with heart, dis ease." During the summer months he has been making his home at the Blackstone and Fontenelle hotels ,for several years. ' Colonel Curtis was a retired Omaha real estate dealer and cap italist He moved to Omaha to make his permanent home in 1882. He was a member of the Omaha Real Estate Exchange, Loyal Le gion and G. A. R. He was born in McCormelsville, O., March 7, 1838, and received his education in the public schools of Woostcr, O.; Keokuk, la., and St. Louis. He left school at the age of IS years and first . visited Omaha, making the trip from St. Louis to Council Bluffs on a steamboat. Locates in Bluffs. Mr. Curtis again visited Omaha in 1855 and business brought him to this city nearly every year after that until he decided to locate here.- He crossed the plains to the Rocky mountains eight times before the first railroad line was built. In ,1857-8-9 he lived Jn Council Bluffs and was a member of the firm of Curtis Bros., survey and real es tate agents. In 1855 he moved to Denver as a member of the Denver Townsite company and in 1859 he conducted a store in that city. He disposed of his mercantile interests the following year and worked as a miner. Postmaster in Denver. Mr. Curtis was appointed post master of Denver in 1861 and served until 'the following year,, when he left to bear arms in the civil war. He was the firstpostmaster of Den ver appointed by a republican ad ministration. During his entire life time he affiliated with this political party.' He served as a major hi the Sec ond Colorado infantry, lieutenant colonel and A. D. C. in the Missouri state nvlitia, lieutenant colonel of the Third Colorado infantry and as a major of the Second Colorado cavalry. Following the war he made a trip to Europe in 1866 and on his return he was appointed assistant United States attorney at Keokuk, la., in 1868. , He moved to St Louis in 1871, returning to Keokuk in 1874, where he resided until he came to Omaha in 1882. Winter Tfrip on River. On 1896 he was appointed master-in-chancery of the United States circuit court, district of Nebraska, and served until 1912. He conduct ed a real estate office at Eighteenth and Harney streets, retiring a few years ago. He made a steamboat trip from Fort Sully, N. D., to St Louis on the Calypso in December, 1865. Mr. Curtis was married to Miss Kate Bird in New York in 1868. Two children survive him, Mrs. E. D. Bird of New York and Miss Kate Belinda Curtis', who was with him at the time of his death. . Funeral services will be held in New York city, wh:re his wife is buried. Miss Curtis left Palm Beach immediately with the body of her .... father. Discovery of Helium Gas Praised by Dutch Expert Waehinfftnn. March 4 Admira tion for "remarkable work" done in the United States in connection with its discovery of helium, the non-inflammable balloon gas developed by the Navy department during the war, was expressed by Prof. Kam merlingh Onnes of the University of T riAen Holland, in a letter received at the department. Specimens of the gas recently were sent to Prof. Onnes, an. international authority in this field of chemistry and the only nerson tn succeed in linufvincr the gas. He pronounced the specimens the use of his famous laboratories at Leiden for any further experi ments the department might wish to conduct Government to Pay Expenses Of Bringing Back Hero Dead Washington, March 4. Assuran ces that the government -will pay all expenses incident to the return of American soldier dead from Europe was given by Secretary Baker to a committee of Gold Star Fathers. The' War department bears all expenses of transportation from Europe to the home of next of kin, Mr. Baker explained, and the War Risk bureau is authorized to pay funeral expenses up to $100 in each case. Purchases of cemetery lots is included in the funeral expenses. DUBLIN POLICE ARREST MANY IM VARIOUS RAIDS ; . i , Sinn Fein Member of Com mons and Head of Trans- port Workers Fall to - Officers. Dublin, March 4. The military and police Wednesday raided Lib erty Hall, the headquarters of Lar kin's transport workers; Banba Hal!, headquarters of the Grocers' Assist ants' organization, now on strike; the Gaelic league offices, the rooms of the Lcinster College of Irish and numerous private houses. The prin cipal arrest today was that of Will iam O'Brien, leader of the transport workers, who was prominent in the coYporation and recently successful ly demanded the removal of the mace and sword. ) Thomas Hunter, Sinn Fein member of parliament for northeast Cork, was also arrested, together with his partner, Peter Clancy, in the tailor ing business under the style "repuD lican tailors." The theft of the letters of Vis count French, lord lieutenant, which were taken fror.i a mail fan ; by armed men today, has caused great excitement at military and police headquarters. All the houses in the district have been searched and nu merous arrests made, though the let ters and other mail have not yet been discovered. Virtually every house in Eccles streets is occupied by the military. Qucenstown, March 4. A large force of infantry, fully armed, with seven officers and police surrounded the Rushbrooke docks and held up and searched 300 workers, from manager to' messenger boy. Every department of the docks was searched with the object of finding recently stolen military rifles. Drawing Room Dances Swell Income of Many London Home Owners London. March 4. A new and popular as well as paying custom in London is the letting of drawing rooms for dances. 1 Advertisements .ippea"- daily offering dancing ac commodations by the night or a series of nights. Owners who let their rooms for these purposes ab sent themselves to "let the dance go on." "We go out for the evening and return quietly at midnight and creep up to bed, half scared tabe reen in our own homes," said one ower to Universal Service today. "The money helps in these econom ical times. Our house is in a good locality, we supply services and have a piano, so we charge from $50 tolOO an evening, according to the sue ot the party. Strike Puts End to Sioux City light and Street Car Service S'oux City, March 4. Two-score employes of the power plant of the Sioux City Service company quit work at 6 o'clock Wednesday night, tying up street car traffic and cut ting off the light service in business houses, hotels and cafes. The men submitted a demand for a wage increase of 10 to 15 per cent on February 21 last. The strike fol lowed a refusal of the demand by the local manager of the company. The strike throws many motor men and conductors out of work! New York School Teachers To Get Salary Increases Albany, N. Y., March 4. A bill designed to give salary increases to the school teachers of the state wafe introduced in the legislature, nrot viding an appropriation of $25,000, 000. Blame the High Cost of "Too Far Up on Hog, Chicago, March 4. Southern laborers who are "eating too high up on the hog" and American, housewives who "eat. too far back on the beef" are to blame for the continued high cost of living, the American Institute of Meat Pack ers announced today. With the ex port market for meat shattered by adverse foreign exchange and wholesale prices back to where they were a year and two years ago, the American consumer is chiefly responsible, the institute's bulletin on February conditions says. "At home there was a good vol ume of pork trade during the month " the bulletin says, "but consumers seemed to want the choice and higher priced, cuts. High wages in the south have led tc the purchrse of choicer cuts bf pork than in former years, and the result is a lack of sale for the h'ayier cuts of salt pork." "SN1CE to Tafe f; Briscoe Motor Chief Claims Lightweight Cars Win Popularity Frederick Cowin. president of. the Briscoe Motor corporation, who ar rived in umaha yesterday to attend the automobile show, holds that mo tor car builders are recognizing the advantages of light-weight cars, the principle of which has been em bodied in all Briscoes. 1 "If there is one basic idea that can be said to be responsible for the in ception of the Brisco.e more than any other, it was that every pound of surplus weight meant a definite shortening of. tire "life and an added load on the motor," Mr,. Cowin wrote, in announcing his coming. A new Briscoe is on display, in the annex at the show. Changes this year include motor refinements, semi-eliptical springs and stronger fiame with deeper channel. Leap Year Statistics Show Women Quick to MPop the Question" New York, March 4. Leap year statistics for the first two months received here from many parts of the country indicate by the large in creases in marriages over the corre sponding period of 1919 that women are' taking advantage of their priv ilege and that men are coyly re sponding "yes" at the popping of the question. New York's increase in marriage licenses issued in January and Feb ruary, as compared with the first two months in 1919, was almost 2ft per cent, while Dallas. Tex., showed an increase of nearly 100 per cent ' A great number of women are paying the $1 license fee, declared an ( official of the -marriage license bureau. Suffrage Ratified by' ; West Virginia House; Senate Fails to Move Charleston, W. Va., March 4. The house of delegates of the West Virginia's legislature ratified the fed eral suffrage amendment . Wednes day by a vote of 45 to 42. Later two members opposing it in the initial vote changed, making the final vote 47 for ratification to 40 against The senate this afternoon rejected the resolution to reconsider its ac tion of Monday t when the suffrage amendment was defeated. Jt was said then, too further attempt would be made by the senate to ratify the amendment at this special session. Vermont Overwhelmingly In Favor of "Wet" Cities Rutland. Vt.. farrh A rnmnl.t. returns from 12 out of the 14 coun ties in this state an the results of Tuesday's- town meetings showed mat lit towns had voted wet, the highest number in the history of the State. The missincr .cnuntie were Essex and GraixKIsle. Living to Eating Too Far Back on Beef" Hog prices during the early part of the month were at the highest level' of th; winter, with receipts 'at the yards J5 to 20 per ctnt be low normal, despite the fact that government reports show that there is ptobably a large surplus on the farms In the heef market, "a factor which has liad great influence on the beef trade, has been the rela tively strong demand for hind quarter beef and the poor demand for foreqnarter beef," the packers state. The mutton situation is similar. There is a shortage of lambs, due to the failure of many Colorado stock men to buy at prices pre-' vailing last fall, and as a result practically the entire market sup ply from- now until the first of June must come from the Scotts Bluff territory in Nebraska and Colorado. The CANDY Cathartic f BOLIVIA CAUSES DISTURBANCE IN LATIN-AMERICA Determined to Seek Window On Pacific at Expense of Peru or Chile Appeals To League of Nations. By HENRY WALES, j Paris, March 4. (New York Times - Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright. ' 1920.) Bolivia's deter mination to seek a window on the Pacific at the expense of either Peru or Chile by appealing to the league of nations has cause,d a disturbance in Latin-American circles- in Paris. According to dispatches received in Paris from Lima, the Bolivian gov ernment at La Paz has directed its minister to Taris to demand that the league of nations award the prov inces of Tacna and Arica, now held bjr Chile, to Bolivia. The Peruvian minister made an energetic protest against any such action, even deny ing the right of the league of na tions to interfere in the affair in any manner. Senor Abanez, Chilean minister to Paris, states, the Santiago govern ment would never accept any de cision or allocation of disputed provinces by the leagut of nations. Chile Seizes Provinces. Followinc the Peru-Chile war. Chile seized the provinces of Tacna 1 and Arica as a guarantee that Peru would pay indemnity for the war. According to the peace treaty, Chile . agreed to hand back these provinces I to feru when the peace conditions were carried out at the expiration of IS years. The limit long since has expired, but Chile has refused to re store the provinces to Peru, because meanwhile immensely valuable ni trate and potash deposits have been discovered there, making the con tested provinces the richest in Chile. In 1916 Peru felt in a strong enough position to attack Chile and to retake the provinces by force. But Peru lacked munitions and war material and could not buy them from the United States,' as all the American factories were under con tract to supply the . allies. Pern sought to place orders in Japan, and, lacking cash, offered to cede the Easter Islands in the Pacific to Jap an in exchange for five submarines, 20 batteries of artillery and a big consignment of shells, machine guns and other war materials. The United, States State depart ment got wind of the deal and in timated America would not coun tenance a transfer of the Easter is lands to Japan because this arch ipelago might form a powerful strategic base against the Panama canal. The United States declared war against Germany, and through exertinsr stronsr pressure at Lima and Santiago, staved off the pos sibility of a war between Peru and Chile lor the time being. Peru, however, regards the Tac nac and Arica provinces exactly as France reeards Alsace-Lorraine and complained continually and bitterly against Chile continuing to hold the provinces. Now Bolivia is hoping to" profit thrauh the dispute over the claims to ine coniesiea provinces uy get ting an outlet to the sea. Bolivia wishes to tell the league of nations that Tacnac and Arica are just as necessary to her as Danzig is to Poland or Fiume is to the Jugo slavs, giving her an outlet on the Pacific. 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