Nebraska Newspapers

    VOL. XLIX NO. 41.
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1920.
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FIVE CENTS.
HARD
REDS I'JOIlll
IN U. S.
FOR REVOLT
Wish to Establish Dictatorship
Of the Proletariat in Country,
According to Authoritative
Information Received.
FINANCIAL PANIC
EAGERLY AWAITED
Detroit Principal Center of
Radicalism Cleveland Is
Second Organizations As
sume Variety of Aliases.
I' hi car Tribune-Omaha Be Leaned Wire.
New York, March 27. Efforts of
the radicals, working in harmony,
but under different names, to pre
cipitate a revolution and establish
the dictatorship of the proletariat in
the United States are being re
doubled this spring, according to in
formation received at headquarters
of the National Committee of United
; Americans. While the reds were
disappointed by the steel strike
fiasco, advertised as the beginning
of the revolution, they nevertheless
are so encouraged by the trend of
events that they are confident they
can effect the revolution not later
than 1922.
Next time the start is to be made
in New York City instead of in the
central west, because the reds figure
that the metropolis can be starved
into submission by a general strike,
in four days.
. Meanwhile the reds count on a
financial panic within the next few
weeks to help their cause along. A
panic would cause distress among
the working men and thus render
them more susceptible to revolu
tionary doctrines.
Detroit Principal Center.
Detroit has become the principal
center of radicalism in the United
States, according to the information
received by the National Committee
of United Americans. There are no
fewer than 83 radical organizations
in the Michigan metropolis, and they
are all extremely active.
Cleveland ranks second as a radi
cal center, followed by New York
and Chicago, though all the larger
cities have large and active radical
populations.
One effect of the recent govern
ment raids has been to cause the
radical organizations to . assume a
variety f aliases. For example, the
communist party is no longer known
as such. It has assumed the innocu
ous title of the "International Pub
(C'ontlmied on Two, Column Three.)
Herman Mueller Forms
New German Cabinet;
Three Are Socialists
' Uerlin, March 27. Formation of
: new cabinet for Germany with
Herman Mueller as premier and for
eign secretary; was announced Sat
urday. The minister of labor is Herr
Schlicke, a socialist, as is the pre
mier. The minister 01 etuiiuunw
Herr Schmidt, also a socialist.
The other ministers are:
Minister of Transportation Gus
tav Bauer (socialist.)
Minister Without Portfolio Dr.
Edouard David (socialist.)
Vice Premier and Minister of the
Interior Herr Koch (democrat.)
Minister of Defense Herr Gessler
(democrat.) ,
Minister of Justice Herr Plunck
(democrat.) '
' Minister of Finance Captain
Fischer Cuno (ceriterist and man
ager of, the Hamburg-American
Steamship company.)
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
Johann Giesbergs (centrist.)
f Minister of Food Herr Hermes
. (centrist.)
The portfolio for reconstruction
has not yet been filled. It will be
allotted to a democrat.
In consequence of the refusal of
Captain Cuno to join the new min
istry, Gustav Bauer will become min
ister of the treasury and Dr. Bell
minister of transport. The others
remain unchanged.
Confess Failure of Plan
r To Put Liberty Bonds at Par
L ' Washington, March 27. Senators
Vtho have been giving close study
io the question of restoring the value
of Liberty bonds to par confess
that they are "stumped." Every solu
tion so far presented seems to have
serious defects, they say, and unless
some new and better plan can be
devised, it appears to them that
Liberty bonds will have to stay be
low par until the ordinary laws of
finance come to their rescue.
Shipment'of Fresh Meat
Only 'Economically Unsound'
Chicago, March 27. Demands of
the National Wholesale Grocers as
sociation that packers restrict ship
ments in refrigerator cars to fresh
meat are not only economically un
sound, but would work a hardship
on the general public, R. D. Ryder,
counsel for Swift & Co., declared
before Commissioner C. D. Aitchi-
son of the Interstate Commerce
commission.
Mexico Not Kicking at
Morgenthau as Ambassador
Washington. March 27. The De
partment of State has received no
advices indicating confirmation of a
report from Mexico City that Henry
Morgenthau would be persona non
grata as United States ambassador
to Mexico, nor has any information
to .that effect been communicated to
kfeft af T4-n awiruaiu.
General Pershing Fitted
To Take Civilian as Well as
Military View of Affairs
Education Before Attending West Point Largely in
Farm-Small Town University Outcome of Pri
maries in South Dakota and Minnesota Helps
His Chances for Nomination.
By E. C. SNYDER.
W tolling toa (torreipondent, Omaha Bee
Washington, March 27. (Special
Telegram.) Now that South Da
kota has indicated that the bugaboo
of a military man for president is
chimerical and does not exist in
fact, it becomes more and more ap
parent that the farmers of the west
and northwest have no fear of a
military man as a candidate for the
highest office in the gift of the peo
ple. South Dakota hving shown its
preference for General Wood, the
only military candidate on the pri
mary ticket, the one big outstanding
thought in connection with the pri
maries in Nebraska is what is that
state going to do for General Per
shing, its favorite son.
General Pershing is being more
seriously considered in the last week
than ever before, because of the re
sult in South Dakota and Minnesota.
They say, and without in any wise
disparaging General Wood's qualifi
cations, that if a military man is go
ing to be selected' at Chicago in
June, why not a military man who
has made an imperishable record
for himself and his country, not only
on the fields of France and Flanders,
but one who has met every duty
magnificently from Mindanao to the
Rio Grande? '
Man Is Main Thing.'
Those who have known Pershing
well as a splendid soldier have some
times wondered why he was so dif
ferent in his general characteristics,
in his view of things and in his gen
eral line of thought from the ordi
nary West Pointer, . the ordinary
military, man. The answer is easily
found. ,
A noted American said apropos
of a great American president, who
had not had much schooling, that
there were two kinds of universi
ties, one was the university of the
brick walls and the campus and the
stern-faced professor, and the other
was the university of the American
farmer small town. He remarked
that it made little difference which
of these two varieties of universities
a man graduated from it ' he was
the right kind of a man to begin
with.
Pershing graduated from the farm,
small town, country life university
before he went to West Point He
grew up on a farm near a small
town in Missouri, having the usual
experience of a farm and small-town
American bqy, until he was of age.
In other words, he developed his
character in the school of American
experience. He had come to years
of maturity he had his views of
life fixed and established before he
received his military education, and
upon that factor or set of facts,
hangs much that would otherwise
not be easily understood in the char
acter ot General Pershing.
Retains Civilian Viewpoint.
Furthermore, he has. as is most
natural, retained the viewpoint of
the civilian during all -of his army
life, by frequently coming in contact
with people in their usual walks and
avocations. When he was in Ne
braska as instructor of the cadets
at the university, he took a course
in law, thereby adding to his store
of knowledge and information from
the standpoint of a civilian and still
further broadening his civilian view
point. There is an incident in Pershing's
military life, which, perhaps, more
than any other, illustrates his civil
ian training and its effect on his
character. About the most difficult
thing for a soldier to learn as a
soldier, is patience patience under
conditions that are trying and con
stantly spur an energetic and spirited
man to action.
Some people have wondered why
the president sent Pershing to
(Continued on Page Two, Colnmn One.)
HIGHJACKERS IN
KIMBALL CLEAN
UP COURT HOUSE
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$15,000 Worth of Liquor Con
fiscated in Wyoming Stolen
From County Judge.
Kimball. Neb.. March 27. (Spe
cial.) A vault in the basement of
the court house here in which Coun
ty Judge F. J. Bellows had stored
an accumulated stock of fancy
liquors confiscated from bootleggers
entering the state from Wyoming
and valued at over $15,000 was stolen
by highjackers who carried off their
loot in an auto truck.
The stock consisted of over 400
gallons and was taken by the high
sheriff and state agents. Local of
ficials are of the opinion the work
was engineered . by Omaha or
Denver men assisted by local men
familiar with the location of the
stores.
The highjackers covered their trail
carefully to prevent pursuit. Cayenne
pepper was sprinkled , around the
scene of the robbery and behind the
truck until it struck a main traveled
road to prevent blood hounds being
used to trail the liquor car.
Efforts to Recover Body
Of Girl Who Ended
Life in River Fruitless
All efforts to recover the body of
the unidentified girl, who, Friday
night leaped into the Missouri river
from the Douglas street bridge, had
proved fruitless up to last night.
Belief that the girl might have
been Hanna Nicholson, 14 years old,
of Missouri Valley, la., who has
been missing from her home since
January 28, was abandoned yester
day when word was received from
her father saying that he had def
inite information as to her where
abouts. The girl came to Omaha
with a newly married couple and
disappeared soon after reaching the
city.
Engineers' Brotherhood
Present Wage Demand
Cleveland, March 27. The Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers
presented a wage demand to the
railway wage conference committee
in Washington last week, Warren S.
Stone, grand chief, announced on his
return from Washington.
The engineers brotherhood hither
to has refrained from any wage
movement and Mr. Stone's presenta
tion of the demand now completes
the list of railway organizations, in
cluding all four transportation
brotherhoods, asking for higher
wages.
The engineers did not ask any
specific wage increase, but requested
that the same advance be applied to
the organization of engineers as to
other transportation employes.
Doheny Denies He Gave
Coin to Wood Campaign
Washington, March 27. A tele
gram - from Edward L. Doheny,
California, denying reports that he
had contributed to the campaign
fund of Major General Leonard
Wood was put in to the senate rec
ord today by Senator Phelan, demo
crat, California. It characterized
statements on that subject published
in the New York World and quoted
in the senate yesterday by Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho, as "un
grounded, unwarranted and without
basis,"
EIGHT PERSONS
HURT IN STREET
CAR COLLISION
Rear-End Smash Occurs When
1,600 HEAR
BRYAN OPEN
CAMPAIGN
Vents Displeasure Impassion-
ately Upon Senator Hitch
cock, Arthur F. Mullen, Wal
Street and Liquor Interests
RUNNING MATES FAIL
TO ATTEND MEETING
The Passing Show of 1920
Brakes Fail to
Work. '
Eight persons were slightly in
jured late yesterday afternoon
when a northbound street car, was
struck by a car directly . behind it
at Sixteenth and Williams streets
The injured are: .
Andrew Grinneiss, 2440 South
Twentieth street, badly shaken up,
contusion of the hip.
Harry Dragon (student conduct
or) 1502 Missouri avenue, knocked
unconscious, contusions of the head
and body.
F. M. St. John, Thirteenth and
Douglas streets, left foot crushed.
Mrs. Marie Ponec, 5120 South
Twentieth street.
Mrs. M. C. McFarland, 402 North
Sixteenth street, badly cut.
Mrs. Louis Baker, 2416 South
Twentieth street, badly shaken and
knee wrenched.
Louis Baker, badly cut about knee
and head.
W. H. Hicks, 3108 Seward street,
both knees bruised.
All the injured were taken to their
homes.
The accident occurred as Mrs.
Marie Ponec, one of the injured, was
alighting from the car ahead.
Brakes on the rear car refused to
work, according to the motorman.
The entire rear platform of the
northbound car was wrecked, and
all the windows of both cars
broken.
Fire Breaks Out in
Underground Works
Of Arizona Mine
' Bisbee. Ariz., March 27. Fire
has broken out in the underground
workings of the Briggs mine, one
of the big copper producing prop
erties of the Warren district and
owned by the Calumet and Arizona
Mining company. The mine is two
miles southeast of Bisbee and em
ploys about 300 men on each shift.'
Company physicians have been
summoned to the mine.
Novorossisk Has Fallen
London, March 27. Novorossisk,
the. last base in southern Russia un
der control of General Denikine, has
been captured by the Russian bel
sheviki, according to a wireless dis
patch from Moscow.
Notice to Bee Readers
Beginning Bandar, The Bee will not
ffer the early mail edition of its morn
ing paper for etreet sale in Omaha, ex
cept on Saturday eyenlng.
Beginning Monday morning, the
Noon edition, which ! now told at 9
a. m., will be withheld until 10:30
a. ro." '
Both of these changes are made for
the benefit of readers of The Bee.
They will permit the Improvement of
the regular editions of the paper and
the publication of m greater variety of
news than would otherwise be possible.
Newspaper readers are invited to pay
particular attention to the new Noon
edition. The later hour of publication
means that news now received too
late for use will be available. The
Noon edition will not be "warmed
over" morning paper, bnt an np-to-the-mrante
compilation of the world's
Bfttilf
Plea Made for Funds to Wage
Dry Campaign in Nebraska
Boasts of His Ability. to
Sway the Political World.
W. J. Bryan, candidate for dele
gate-at-large to the democratic con
vention, spoke last night in the Au
ditortum to an audience which was
not comparable to gatherings which
have greeted him on former occa
sions in this building.
The meeting, which had been well
advertised in the press, in the
schools and also bv the distribution
of 25,000 circulars throughout the
city, was attended by less than 1.600
people. Several estimated the
crowd at 1,500.
Mr. Bryan vented his displeasure
impassionately upon Senator Hitch
cock, Arthur F. Mullen, democratic
national committeeman; Harvey
Newbranch, Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, Senator Borah, republican
party, profiteers, private monopolies
liquor interests. Wall street and the
middlemen.
Running Mates Absent.
He arrived at 5 p. m. from Fre
mont and was joined at dinner at
the Paxton by Harland L. Mossman
T. B. Murray, Lysle I. Abbott and
Mr. and Mrs. John Fitz Roberts and
daughter. . He- leaves this morning
for Lincoln and will proceed this
week to California, stopping on the
way to speak Monday at Mmden
Neb., and on Tuesday at Denver.
W. H. Thompson of Grand Island,
candidate for national committee
man on the Bryan ticket, and -G. W.
Berge of Lincoln, J. J. Thomas of
Seward and; Dan V. Stephens of
Fremont, running with. Mr. Bryan
as candidates for delegates-at-large,
did not attend the meeting.
Want $1,000 Fund.
E. E. Thomas made a olea to the
audience for a $1,000 fund for carry
ing on the work ot the dry dem
ocrats in Omaha. Mr. Mossman,
chairman of the meeting, announced
that the meeting had been arranged
under the auspices of the progress
ive democrats who wanted a plat
form at the San Francisco conven
tion according to democratic prin
ciples and of which democrats would
not be ashamed. Mrs. E. B. Towl
and Albert E. May, candidates for
district delegateships on the Bryan
ticket, made brief talks.
Among those on the stage were:
Mr. and Mrs. ti. B. Heharty. Samuel
Rothwell, I. J. Dunn, D. C. Pater-
son, J. G. Sherry, J. Laurie Wallace,
J. E. Brill. Mrs. ti. W. Lovell, Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Roberts, Jerry
Howard, Robert Holmes, Mrs. H.
J. Bailey. Mrs. Callfas, W. R. Pat
rick, L. O. Perley and Mr. and Mrs,
T. H. Weirich.
Fill Up Gaps.
After the collection had been
taken and the subscription cards
sent to Mr. Thomas, Chairman
Mossman introduced Mr. Bryan by
stating that the democratic party
looks to Nebraska and Nebraska
looks to Mr. Brvan.
Mr. Bryan asked the audience
seated on the main floor to come
forward and fill up the gap which
yawned between the front row and
stage.
Mr. Bryan started in by asster
ing that "Arthur Mullen represents
the lowest and worst of the demo
cratic party. He is a small edition
of Murphy of New York and he
has no conception of woman's part
in the politics of this country. Billy
Thompson is progressive."
Mrs. Mullen Present.
Mrs. Mullen sat in a main floor
seat.
. "Harvey Newbranch is the only
man in the United States who ever
threatened me with physical violence
if 'I opposed the liquor interests,"
Mr. Bryan continued. "Seated in
my library he asked me if I knew
(Continued on Fare Two. Colnmn Two.)
Believe Body Taken
From River Is That
Of Jeanne De Kay
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Peoria. 111.. March 28. The body
of a young woman taken from the
river three miles above this city
Saturday night is believed to be that
Jeanne De Kay, the heiress, who dis
appeared Christmas Eve. She walked
out of Hull house, Chicago, and no
trace of her was ever found. The
body found tonight answers in all
descriptions, that of the missing
girl.
Windstorm in Texas
, . Creates Great Havoc
Amarillo, Tex., March 27. At
taining a velocity of 60 miles an
hour, at times, a windstorm has
raged over the Panhandle and north
western part of the state for twelve
hours, doing heavy damage.
El Paso, March 27. Houses
were wrecked, roofs were blown off
others, many windows were shat
tered by a desert gale, which swept
ti faso Saturday. .
lhe wind reached a velocity ot
55 miles an hour. Telegraph and
telephone companies reported sen
pus Ufjuble to taejr service,
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OMAHA MAN
GRAVEST CRISIS
IN HISTORY OF
IRISH PRESAGED
Ireland Fast Drifting Into
Anarchy, Correspondent Says
Sinn Fein Leader Held.
London, March 27. "The eravest
crisis in the whole Irish history" is
the description applied to the pres
ent situation by the Dublin cor
respondent of the London Times, in
reiterating that Ireland is fast drift
ing into anarchy.
lhe Irish public views current
events "with profound dismay and
siakness of heart," he says, "and is
amazed and frightened at the gov
ernment's failure to recognize the
facts of the situation."
Public officials, it is said, live
under the shadow of murder: some
are unable to leave their homes day
or night.i Murder societies are com
pletely organized and are aware of
the movements of all officials, who
on their part, are equally cognizant
of their dangers. Knowing that the
sympathies of the telegraphers in
the state service are largtly with
the conspirators they dare not use
the wires to transmit official in
formation.
All Proved on Duty.
Cork, Ireland, March 27. A full
and complete investigation of the
whereabouts of the police on the
night of the murder of Lord Mayor
MacCurtain has proved that none
was off his beat or at his home at
the critical hour, the government
counsel, Mr. Wylhe. told the cor
oner's jury, which is conducting an
inquiry into the murder.
Mr. Wylhe said that a system of
books was kept at the barracks in
such a manner that the movements
of the men were checked and showed
it to be impossible that the crime
was committed by a police officer.
Member Arrested.
Dublin, March 27. Prisoners
fronvvarious parts of Ireland have
been arriving all day at Mountioy
jail. Heavy military guards ac
companied them.
Philip bchanahan, Sinn tern mem
ber of Parliament, and prominent in
Sinn Fein activities, has been ar
rested.
Call Issued in Iowa for
Convention to Name
G. 0. P. Delegates
Des Moines, March 27. (Special
Telegram.) Charles A. Rawson,
republican state chairman, tonight
ssued a call for the republican state
convention to choose Iowa s 26
delegates to the republican national
convention at Chicago. The con
vention will seat 1,042 delegates
and will Le held at Des Moines
April 22. Precinct caucuses will be
held April 14 and county conventions
April 17.
lhe nucleus ot a statewide VVood-
for-President organization was
formed today, headed by J. L. Par
rish, attorney, and Dale Griswold,
former service man. An office will
be opened in Des Moines, and an
active campaign to elect Wood dele
gates to the republican state meet
ing will be prosecuted in every dis
trict in the state.
The Weather
Forecast.
Nebraska: Rain Sunday, prob
ably turning to snow in west: colder
in east and central; high northwest
winds Sunday; Monday fair and
warmer.
Iowa: Showers and probably
thunderstorms Sunday; Monday
fair; colder in east; shifting gales
Sunday.
Hourly Temperatures.
5 a. m 49
6 a. m. 48
4
8 a. m ...r3
V a. m .....59
10 a. m..........6K
11 a. m..... AT
V mob 4VfrJK.7S
1 D. m
p. m..
3 p. m
4 p. m
5 p. m
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REDS UNABLE TO
GIVE EVIDENCE
OF ATROCITIES
Take Party of Troops to Front,
But Cannot Find Corpses
Strikers Forced Back
At Wesel.
By HENRY WALES.
New York Tlmes-rhlcago Tribune, Cable,
Copyright. 1920.
With the Germans Before Wesel,
March 26. (Via Cologne and Paris,
March 27.) The executive council
of workmen at Essen sent a party ot
reporters to the red front Friday
to show the atrocities committed
by the government troops in the
fighting at the Wesel front.
The reds promised to show muti
lated bodies of Red Cross nurses
and hacked bodies of red soldiers,
but were unable to find the corpses
and explained they must have been
buried. The stories of atrocities are
firmly believed among the reds and
the nurses refuse to work in the
advanced positions any longer.
Red Army Nondescript.
The red army of 10,000 is a non
descript and ragged army of half
armed and unequipped ex-soldiers,
all wearing portions of their old
war- uniforms. All have rifles and
a tew cups ot cartridges and a
couple of rusty hand grenades. The
front consists of a series of machine
gun nests guarding the roads, with
the government troops in fox holes
opposite.
The 'intermittent shelling goes on
all day long, with the reds woefully
inaccurate, but the government gun
layers placing the shrapnel right
over the red positions.
lwo 10-millimeter guns and four
three-inch field pieces are eniplaced
to bombard Wesel, but a govern
ment airplane dropped warnings
that the workmen hostages held by
the government troops would be
shot if the reds shell Wesel, so
there is no firing on the town.
No Prussian Officers.
The red officers are former non-
coms of the old German army and
no real Prussian officers are dis
cernible anywhere. The chief of
staff of the red army is an ex-mold
er in the shell works and the gen
eral commanding is a former labor
leader.
The reds are totally lacking, in
organization, wounded troops seiz
ing the motor trucks laden with
(Continued on Fate Two. Column Two.)
NAMES OF INDICTED
COAL MINE OWNERS
ARE MADE PUBLIC
John Lewis and William Green
Among Men Charged with
Violating Lever Act.
Path of Bolshevism
Centered in Heart
Of German Nation
New York Times-Clilcago Tribune, Cable,
Copyright, 1930.
Berlin, March 27. Germany's
cancerous path of bolshevism com
prises a solid area of 10,000 square
kilometers, 1,000,000 people, the in
dustrial heart of the nation, an army
of between 60,000 and 80,000 trained
soldiers, commanded by a number
of efficient Prussian and Russian of
ficers, and equipped with rifles,
bombs, field artillery and some
heavy artillery.
Drouth-Stricken Farmers
To Get Free Seed Grain
Helena. Mont.. March 27. Bond
issues for 21 counties in Montana,
totalling $4,775,000, have been voted
for provisions, seed, grain and feed
to be furnished drouth-stricken
farmers, according to data made
public at the state house. In ad
dition, two counties have decided
to act under the law which allows
county commissioners to - furnish
seed grain uo to $10,000 without a
vote of the people, Y
Indianapolis, , March 27. The
names of approximately 125 coal
operators and miners . in the states
f Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West
ern Pennsylvania, indicted recently
by a special federal grand jury here
for alleged violation of the Lever
act and conspiracy sections of the
federal criminal code, were made
public. Jiere. by federal officers. The
miners include International Presr
dent John Lewis, Secretary Treasur
er William Green and Chief Sta
tistician Percy Tetlow.
The operators named include
Thomas T. Brewster of St. Louis.
chairman of operators' scale com
mittee; Fhu H. Penna of lerre
Haute, Ind., spokesman for the op
erators last fall, and F. S. Peabody
of Chicago, one of the leaders among
the Illinois operators.
The indictments contain 18
counts, all of which charge con
spiracy of some kind. One count
sets out ten overt acts constitut
ing violation of the federal laws.
lhe Illinois miners indicted in
clude Frank Farrington, president
of the Illinois Mine Workers.
The Pennsylvania miners include
Philip Murray.
Discredit Reports of
Red Advances on
Polish Frontier
IS KILLED IN
STORE RAID
Harry Rosenthal Fatally
Wounded When Two Negro
Bandits Attempt to Rob
Grocery of His Son.
detectiveFnot SURE
WHO FIRED FATAL SHOT
Chicago Trlhune-Umnlia Bee Leaned Wire.
Washington, March 27. In the
absence of official advices rumors
of bolshevist successes on the Pol
ish front and removal of the gov
ernment from Warsaw were dis
credited here by Maj. Gen. Sigis
mund Brynk, Polish military at
tache. The dispatch from the Polish war
office states: '
"On the whole southern front and
on . the Polish sector the bol
sheviks launched attacks. All at
tacks were repulsed.
"In view of the activity of the
bolshevist propagandists in Ger
many and elsewhere, reports of
bolshevik successes are to be seri
ously doubted until proven," said
Geperal Brynk. "I do not think that
the rumors of the fall of Vilna and
the removal of the seat of the Pol
ish government to Bromberg can
be taken seriously," he added.
Army Balloon Travels
900 Miles on Flight
Stillwater, Minn., March 27. An
army balloon pijoted by Lieut C. F.
Bond and carrying three other of
ficers landed on the Wisconsin side
of the St. Croix river, fivemiles from
here, Saturday afternoon. The bal
loon left Fort Sill, Okl., at 3 a. m.
It is estimated the distance trav
eled was 900 miles. Accompanying
Lieutenant Bond were Capt. B. II.
Palmer, Lieut. C. P. Goodman and
Serg. T. M. Shaller.
From Hudson the party will go to
St. Paul and later the men will re
turn to Fort Sill by train.
Men Arrested and Confess to
Entering Place, But Deny
Shooting Crowds Threaten
To Lynch Prisoners.
Harry Rosenthal, 64 years old,
1424 North Twentieth street, was
shot and fatally injured at 8:45 last
night by two unmasked negro ban
dits in the grocery store of his son,
Jake Rosenthal, 324 North Eigh
teenth street. .'
When the two bandits entered the
store one man remained near the
door with a drawn revolver while
the other advanced telling Rosen
thal, his wife, father and Horace
Cole, 15 years old, a clerk in the
store to "stick up their hands."'
Rosenthal who had just enter
the store stood near the door fac
ing the rear and directly in front of
the negro guarding the door. ' :
Jake Rosenthal was in the rear
and was not aware of the holdup
until his wife, who was standing be
hind the counter, called to him to
watch out. : -.
- Son Fires at Bandits. -
He immediately seized a gun from
a drawer and started firing in the j
direction of the bandit near the
front door.
According to Cole, both men
started shooting at the same time.
The fatal shot fired from a small
caliber revolver struck Mr. Rosen
thal directly in the left ear, and
lodged just behind the left ' eye.'
He was rushed to the ford hospital
where he died shortly after mid
night. After thf chnntino' hnth nr.BrrAftS
rushed from the store without stop
ping to search the cash register ana
ran west on Chicago street, where
one of them was captured. He gave
his name as Willard Carroll, 1133
North" Eighteenth, street, and made
sav. bnt declared
that his companion had the gun an-
did the shooting. ; ' "1
After his arrest he led police t
2511 Lake street wf.ere4heVnw
Rozell Cottrell, porter at the A. B..
Sweet Shop, who confessed to being
the other of the two men. ;.
. Doubt About Shooting.
Detectives were unable to deter
mine who shot Rosenthal, one of
the negroes or his son, who fired in
the direct line of his father. It
could not be learned last night what
caliber bullet struck Mr. Rosen-,
thai. The gun taken from Cottrell
was a .38 caliber revolver and had
been fired twice. a
Richard Henderson, 815 North
Sixteenth street, on hearing the
shots rushed into the store and
found Rosenthal lying face down
ward, his head toward ,the rear of
the store. V
A large crowd congregated about
thp store, and surged toward the
front of the building as police
brought Carroll in for identification.
Shouts of "lynch him," were heard,
from all sides, and angry faces
looked in the front of the store.
Both men were rushed to central
police station, booked for investiga
tion and highway robbery, and then
taken to the county jail under strong
police guard, i
Hitchcock Assails ,
Norris for Criticism ''
Of World-Heralj
Augusta, Ga., March 27. Senator
Hitchcock. WehracVa riaa nlit i
, . . .... .f,nt.i
a statement issued here, to the at-
xacK on nis newspaper, the Omaha
Warlri-TTpmlrl marl in th
Thursday b$ his colleague, Senator;
iNrris. senator nitcdcock's state- ;
ment save ht ha A a ca . 4V1 AlS
patch Senator Norris assailed which
e 1. . .. ....
rcierrea 10 me latters attitude on
t1lr Trier! r.-CAnr9irt ,.
treaty, but expresses confidence in 1
. 1. - . r f . . .
uic accuracy 01 Qispatcnes Oy 1119 -,
paper's Washington correspondent
"My colleague, as well as Senator
Gronna," said Senator Hitchcock's
sfatpmrnr "tnfnt a rmnA ....
, 1' " - a Vvru fil V& ,.
their time complaining about the
newspapers and the press associa
tions. Senatnr Nnrria if!i!nm.:.k.j '
himself by voting against the dtfcla-
.., oKaiuai uic ueace
treaty and the league of nationA H
is against anything the administra
tion is for."
Johnson Running .Close
Second to Gen. Wood
Pierre, S. D March 27. Unof
ficial returns on presidential prefer
ence of thirty counties up to Satur
day evening show totals of Poin-
dexter, 559; Johnson, 17,003;
Lowden, 15,379; Wood, 17,552.
Release Nine Alien Enemies.
Salt Lake, City, March 27. Nine
alien enemies were rcMeased from
the Fort Douglas internment camp
here Saturday, one to go to Ger
many and the others to their homes
in various parts of, the United States.
Detective Killy Mexican
In Attempt to Make Arrest
Pueblo. Colo.. March 27rhr1.
Battv. a citv detective. Icil1r1
dore Parea, one of the Mexicans
said to have attempted to assassinate
the officer early today. Batty was
called to the door of his home and,
as he opened it, six shots were fired
at him. The detective returned the'
fire, and Parea dropped.
Historic Mission Burns.
San Luis Obispe, Cafc, March 27
The historic San Luis' Obispo De
Tolosa mission, founded September, !
1773, virtually was destroyed by
fire Saturday. Paintings, said by
mission attendants to be priceless,
and the mission organ, were saved.
Nothing but the wals remained of
the old mission, and these were said -to
be greatly weakened and ir
danger of falling. The fire was sa;
to have been due to defective M
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