THE K&e,: UMAHA, MONDAY. APRIL 19, i20.
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BY CANDIDATES
Wood, Hitchcock, .McKelvie
Guests at Banquet of
Agents of Metropolitan
Company.
Field representatives of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance company
of Iowa and Nebraska assembled at
the Hotel Fontenelle Saturday to
.attend the company banquet and
hear the president's report. Haley
Fiske, president", and his staff of
home officers, who are on tour of
the country, were present and spoke
to the insurance men.
Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock,
candidate for president on the
democratic ticket; General Leonard
Wood, candidate for president on
the'republican ticket, and Samuel R.
McKelvie, candidate for re-election
for governor, spoke to the insur
ance men. Governor McKelvie
amused the large group by stating
that his first insurance policy was
taken from the Metropolitan.
Following are some of the ex
cerpts taken from the many speeches
made by prominent men who at
tended the banquet:
Francis Brogan, president of the
Chamber of Commerce "Omaha is
the metropolis of both Nebraska and
Iowa."
John L. Kennedy "I take off my
hat to an ideqlist like President
Vske and to the spirit of idealism
lien there is the practical ability to
Irry it out."
, V. B. Young, state insurance
commissioner "The I. W. V., W.
W. V. and bolshevists should be
stamped out. They mean destruc
tion to all things."
Dr. J. T. Edwards, city health
commissioner "I am looking up to
the time when Omaha will have a
municipal, hospital. I am glad to
see the manner in which the Metro
politan aids the health of the na
tion."" (
Twenty-One German War
Brides Arrive in America
New York, April 18. Twenty-one
German war brides of American
soldiers and 1,149 Polish troops, the
first contingent of American citi
zens of Polish descent, who enlisted
and fought in the Polish army dur
ing the world war, arrived here on
the army transport Antigone from
ftanzig and Antwerp. The vessel
,.! brought back 1,047 United
fttaUs troops and officers and a
large cargo of army stores.
New Orleans Youth Watches Nebraska
Confident It Will Endorse Pershing
Interest of Army Chief
' Children Is Shown by
Letter.
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New Orleans, La.', April 18.
(Special.) Vernal W. Prewett,
freckled-faced, pug-nosed and all
boy, is watching the Nebraska pri
mary on April 20 with deep interest.
He thinks it will be the first step of
his idol, John J. Pershing, toward
the presidency and Vernal has a trip
to the White House all planned.
Two years ago Vernal discovered
that he and General Pershing have
something in common. His uncle
told him that. General Pershing was
pug-nosed and freckled-faced when
he was a boy.
So Vernal wrote a letter to Gen
eral Pershing telling him of his
freckles and retrousse nose, and how
the boys teased him because of them.
He explained that his uncle, Gran
ville Vernal Prewett, who was in
the navy, told him of the great gen
eral being similarly afflicted in his
early years. He added that he
hoped to be as great a man as the
general when he grew up.
Vernal told no one of his action
until two days after the letter had
been mailed, then he told his mother
who scolded him severely and lec
tured him about taking up the time
of busy men with childish nonsense.
She also told him it was useless to
expect a reply, but Mrs. Prewett
misjudged the A. E. F. chief.
The boy did not give up hope; he
waited patiently for two weeks, then
he began meeting the postman regu
larly. It was not more than two
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months before the postman brought
him a letter which bore the return
address on the envelope "General
Pershing, American Expeditionary
Forces."
Vernal read it aloud to his mother,
but would not part with h even for
a minute.
All this happened two years ago.
Mrs. Hattie Gamble, a friend of
the family, wanted to have the letter
published, but Vernal objected. He
did not want to be the cause of a
flood of letters to hits hero from
other children. So he framed the
epistle and has held it sacred since.
Committee of Senators
To Probe Housing Problem
Washington, April 18. Investiga
tion of housing conditions over the
country by a committee of five
senators is authorized in a resolu
tion passed by the senate. The
measure, offered by Senator Cadler
republican, New York, declares- that
an "unprecedented demand for con
sumables and luxuries" had diverted
capital into nonproductive and non
essential fields with a resulting
dangerous decrease in home and in
dustrial ' construction. The com-,
mittee was required to report on
remedial measures' by next Decem
ber 1.
Lord French Resigns.
London, April 18. The Sunday
Times says it is informed that Lord
French has resigned from his post
as lord lieutenant of Ireland. "This."
says the paper, "disposes of rumors
which have been current for the last
few days."
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"Red" Neal Starts for .
Prison Cell 'in His
High-Powered Auto
Auburn, Neb., April 18. (Special
Telegram.) Accompanied by the
sheriff and driving his own high
powered automobile, "Red" Neal of
Peru drove to Lincoln where he sui
rendered himself to the warden of
the state penitentiary and started in
to serve the sentence imposed upon
him by the Douglas county district
court of from one to seven years in
the penitentiary.
Neal was convicted at Omaha
some months ago for the alleged
purchase of an automobile that had
been stolen in that city and which,
it was alleged, had been delivered to
him at the court house in Nebraska
City. His conviction was obtained
on the testimony of Jones and Mc
Kenna, notorious automobile thieves
in Omaha.
Neal appealed from the decision of
the Douglas county district court, his
attorneys setting forth that he had
not had a fair trial and that new evi
dence had been found which would
indicate that he had been the vic
tim of a "frameup." Friday the
members of the state supreme court
refused the demand for a rehearing.
Neal is a member of one of the
oldest and most highly respected
fimilies of the county. He is quite
wealthy and has a young wife and
an adopted child 3 years old.
Allege That Man Stole
17 Barrels of Whisky
Alleged to have stolen 17 barrels
of whisky from the Hirsch Distilling
company at Kansas City on January
20, Charles Dailey, who has been at
the Goodrich hotel in Council Bluffs,
was arrested by Omaha detectives
Saturday afternoon. The arrest was
made at Sixteenth and Davenport
streets.
Dailey also uses the name of
Charles R. Murphy, and is an al
leged pickpocket, police say. He is
held as a fugitive from justice.
Arrest Man With Whisky.
Victor Steinberg, 2517 Hamilton
street, was arrested Saturday after
noon by Special Agents Brinker and
Jones of the Northwestern railway
and is being held for investigation.
Steinberg, who is a car checker
for the railway company, was at
tempting to deliver a gallon of
whiskey to other employes in the
railway yards, according to the ar
resting officers. When he discov
ered that he was watched he broke
the jug, the officers said.
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Deny Ex-Consul of Turkey
And His Wife Murdered
New York, April 18. Shah Mir
Effendi, who has charge of official
Turkish interests in New York, de
nied a report that Djelal Munif Bey,
former Turkish consul general in
New York, had been murdered in
Budapest with his wife, who was
Miss Mildred Desmond of Denver.
Shah Mir Effendi, who was for
merly assistant Turkish .consul gen
eral here, has received a letter from
Djelal Munif Bey dated March 22
last and sent from Budapest, where
he is now consul general. The con
sul general said he was well him
self, but that his wife had committed
suicide.
A Denver dispatch on December
22 last said that the Turkish govern
ment had officially notified Mrs.
Claude Sachs of "Denver that hes
sister, the wife of the consul general,
and her husband had been murdered.
SONORA TROOPS
TAKE CAPITAL OF
ADJOINING STATE
Revolutionists Capture Culi
acan and Advance Towards
Mazatlan Carranza Sol
diers Join Forces.
Illinois Woman Hopes Her
108th Birthday Will Be Last
Springfield, III., April 38. Regret
ting that she had to celebrate an
other birthday, Mrs. Mary An
toinette Smith is ready for the ob
servance of her 108th anniversary
Sunday. This will be her last birth
day, she hopes, and she declares:
"God has forgotten I'm here.".
Mrs. Smith was born on the island
of Maderia in 1812. She is the old
est member of what is probably the
oldest family in the United States.
Five living members of the Alves
family range from 80 to 108 years.
The youngest member, 80 years, is
John Alves of Salt Lake City. Oth
ers are Manuel Alves, 96, a farmer
living near Jacksonville; Mrs. T.
Figueria, 98, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and J. J. Alves, 83, of Farmingdalc,
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Strike of New York Dopk
Hands Practically Over
New York,, April 18. With one
coastwise steamship company turn
ing away workers because more had
applied than could be used and the
other three coastwise companies
having twice the number of workers
they had on Friday the first day
of the effort to break the coastwise
'longshoremen's strike it was pre
dicted by E. A. Kelly, assistant gen
eral manager of the Clyde and Mal
lory lines, that within a week traffic
would be normal on all the coast
wise lines. The Clyde line got the
steamer Apache away for Jackson
ville Saturday with the first freight
that loaded since the strike started
five weeks ago. The city of St.
Louis of the Ocean Steamship com
pany, will probably sail for Savan
nah Monday. Four other steamers
of the Savannah line are being unloaded.
Leaders Think Suffrage
Pass in Delaware Soon
Washington, April 18. After a
conference here with leaders of the
Delaware legislature, Representa
tive Fess of Ohio, chairman of the
republican congressional committee,
announced that ratification of the
suffrage amendment by Delaware
had been blocked only by a parlia
mentary obstacle,' which would be
removed next week, thus paving the
way for immediate ratification.
Mr. Fess said he was told by the
leaders of the Delaware assembly
that there were sufficient favorable
votes in each house to insure ratification.
Wealthy Eastern Ohio
Woman and Daughter Slain
Wheeling, W. Va., April 18. Mrs.
John Burkhardt and her daughter,
Lilly, wealthy Martins Ferry resi
dents, were found slain in their home
Saturday night. An official examina
tion disclosed that their throats had
been cut and the daughter's head
crushed. The two occupied a fash
ionable home in the center of the
town and are believed by officials to
have had a large amount of money
and Liberty bonds in their possession.
Mob Threatens Negro Who
Is Accused of Kidnaping
Danville, Ky., April 18 A mob
of 300 men which formed here Sat
urday afternoon after it became
known that Lucien Jenkins, negro,
had been arrested and was being
questioned regarding the kidnaping
of 7-year-old Willie Trimble early
Friday night, still surrounded the
Boyle county court house at 11
o'clock. All doors are guarded and
it is impossible to enter or leave the
building.
Nogales, Sonora, April 18.
Gen. Angel Flores, with 5,000
Sonora troops, captured Culiacan,
capitol of the adjoining state of
Sinaloa Saturday morning, accord
ing to official announcement from
Sonora military headquarters at
Hermosillo.
The Sonora revolutionists pro
ceeded immediately to march on
Mazatlan, an important port on the
Sinaloa coast After occupying
Mazatlan, it was announced the
Sonora troops will march on the
state of Nayarit, with Tepic, the
capital, as the objective. Large
numbers ot troops lor the revolu
tionary movement against the Car
ranza government were expected to
be obtained: in Nayarit. ,
Hundreds of former Carranza
soldiers have joined Gen. Flores
since he invaded Sinaloa Tuesday
last, it was said.
Reinforce Garrison.
Five hundred troops were sent
from here under Colonel Jesus
Aguirre to reinforce the garrison at
Agua Prieta and other troops con
centrating there against any invasion
of the state in that direction by Car
ranza forces. It was stated that 1,500
trooos were sent from Hermosillo
under General Manzo to reinforce
General Flores.
Private telegrams from Hermosil
lo, said information had been re
ceived there from Mexico City that
Gen, Pablo Gonzales, a candidate for
the presidency of Mexico had in-
agurated a movement to remove
President Carranza and put in his
place a provisional president who
would guarantee fair elections in
July. The movement, it was said, had
been endorsed by several northern
Mexico states.
General Obregon hopes to reach
Sonora within a fortnight, accord
ing to information made public here
which was said to come from Gen.
Francisco Gerrero, private secretary
of the presidential candidate. Ger
rero was said to be in Eagle Pass,
Tex., en route to Nogales.
Object to Proposal. i
Sonora leaders, -while objecting
stringently to the proposal for Car
lanza troops to cross United States
territory from El Paso, said . that
tinder international law the troops
would have to be sent through
American territory in bond and that
J they would be compelled to cross
the Sonora boundary unarmed, iney
said the United States could not al
low the Carranza troops to have their
weapons until again on Mexican soil
and that their arms must either pre
cede or follow them into the state.
The Sonora forces thus, they said,
would cither take charge of the
arms if they arrived first, or im
prison the troops if they arrived
hrst. The decision ot the United
States armv on the question is being
awaited with great interest in Sonora.
Hermosillo military headquarters
reports said the federal forces
planned to enter Sonora in three
columns, commanded, respectively,
by Generals Dieguez, Blanco and
Francisco Murguia.
Police Raid Alleged
Crap Game and Arrest
Seventeen Players
Seventeen men were arrested on
tlm ei-cmift flnnr nf the Lahor tem
ple at Sixteenth street and Capitol
aveneue late Saturday afternoon
when Police Sergeant Samuclson
and Police Officers Hagerman and
Morgcnsen interrupted a crap game
which was being staged there. Dice
and a large amount of money were
passing around when the police
broke up the game, they claim.
The following men were arrested
in the raid : Aura Henderson, 190.1
Capitol avenue; Roy Lang, 1782
Dodge street; J. L. Swartz, 2820
Castelar street; A. Christ. 5032
North Thirtieth street; E. N. Mil
bourn, 1615 North Thirty-sixth
street; W. Hurlev, 311 North Twenty-fifth
street; C. M. Grain, 2211
Webster street; D. E. Milbourn, 4727
Hamilton street; R. Rowley, 2501
Farnam street; A. W. Ingman, 2702
Farnam street; A. Dunn, 3103 Web
ster street; G. E. Neal. 1107 Pacific
street- G. Smith. 2634 Hamilton
street: E. Rowley. 2501 Farnam
street; M. F. McCabe. 2917 Dorcas
street, and Walter Konkler, 2501
Farnam street.
Mrs. Jessie Cooper Dies
Suddenly in Denver, Colo.
Tecumseh, Neb.. April 18. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Mrs. Jessie Cooper,
wife of Elwood Cooper, died in Den
ver Friday of appendicitis. The body
was brought to Tecumseh and the
funeral will be held at the Presby
terian church Sunday 'afternoon.
She was 45 years old. Mrs. Cooper
was formerly Miss Jessie Davidson,
daughter of Judge S. P. Davidson of
Tecumseh, and was well known in
Lincoln and Omaha.
Buy Western Land.
Auburn, Neb., April 18.-(Special
Telegram.) A company of Auburn
men consisting of Herman Ernst,
Soame Dustin, Harry Yost and S.
W. Eustice have purchased a tract
of irrigated land near Scottsbluff
for $72,000.
BONUS STAND OF
CANDIDATES IS
GIVEN SCRUTINY
Americanization Activities
Also Come Under Searching
Investigation of American
Legion Members.
Particular attention to AniericaJi
ization activities and bonus legisla
tion stands of candidates was given
bv the intelligence rnmmilli'f f flio
American Legion in a report made
pumic aaturaay.
Samuel R. McKelvie, Adam Mc
Mullctt, Ernest M. Pollard, George
D. Mathewson and H. J. McLaugh
lin, republican candidates, and G. L.
Shumway and Ralph A. Clark, dem
ocrats, are reported as favoring ad
justed compensation for former
service men. George Jackson and
John H. Morehead are noted as en
dorsing compensation with reserva
tions. It is noted that Mr. More
head opposed the draft bill when it
was before congress. Further men
tion of Mr. McMullen's service of
more than a year, Mr. McLaughlin's
efforts to enlist, in spite of his age,
and Governor McKelvie's and Mr.
Pollard's efforts for the Simon lan
guage bill, are included.
F. C. Reavis, representative from
the First district, is noted as favor
ing compensation with reservations.
His democratic opponent, Frank A.
Peterson, is said to favor it without
qualification. A. W.' Jefffris, repre
sentative from this district, is de
scribed as "sidestepping" adjusted
compensation. John H. Hopkins,
democratic candidate is 'credited
with 18 months of service and sup
port of compensation. James
O'Hara, also running on that ticket,
was found to favor it.
In the Third district Robert E.
Evans was found to favor compensa
tion, with qualifications, and Fred
L. Crowley to favor it without any.
Hp ic nrttpft a tt tinvinar tliA tin A rr c
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ment of the Nonpartisan league.
Both are republicans. Webb Kice,
S. Toledo Sherry and Charles H.
Groesbeck, democrats in that dis
trict, favor compensation. Both
candidates in the Fourth district, M.
O. McLaughlin, republican, and A.
P. Sprague, democrat, favor adjust
ed compensation, the report states.
William E. Andrews, republican,
and Harry S. Dungan, democrat, in
the Fifth district favor compensa
tion. Edwin W. Reed, listed as a re
publican, is charged with having the
endorsement of the Nonpartisan
league.
Moses P. Kinkaid, representative
from the Sixth district, is credited
with favoring compensation, and
alio with voting against ths declara
tion of war. the espionage act and
the draft bill. J. I). Ream, repub
lican contesting his renomination,
and T. O. Grimes, democrat, also
tavor compensation.
Ben Welch Nominated
By Gayety Patrons
As King of Funmakers
Ben Welch was unanimously nom
inated leader in the field of burlesque
at the opening performance of his re
vue at the Gayety theater. Imme
diately following the closing of this
circuit the company will sail for an
eight-weeks' engagement in Lon
don. On his return Mr. Welch
plans on deserting burlesque for the
vaudeville stage.
Gills were selected for the chorus
with the foreign trip in view and
the Tommies will be accorded a
real treat if the judgment of Omaha
theater patrons is any criterion.
The laugh-provoking sallies and
antics of Ben Welch in this year's
production are new and kept the
audience in constant outbreaks of
laughter. He avoids the rough, slap
stick tactics usually used by comic?
and wins his applause by real
humor.
Welch is by no means the whole
show. Misses Dolly Morrissey,
Nettie Hyde and Frankie Martin
present a rapid fire of songs and
dances that are above the average.
Their natural beauty is set out by
a magnificient wardrobe of rich
gowns. All have good voices.
Sidney Wins Honors in
North Platte Valley
Declamatory Contesl
Sidney, Neb., April 18. (Specia!
Telegram.) In the North Plattt
valley district declamatory contesl
held at the M. E. church here, Sid
ney students fared well taking ont
first and two second honors. Tht
local winners were Harry Marsh,
first in oratory; Evalina Gray, sec
ond in dramatics, and Nora Straight
second in numerous. The other
winners were Madeline Zediker oi
Alliance, first in dramatics; Ellen
Oshca of Scotts BJuff, first in
numerous, and Harold Dockett,
second in oratory.
The following high schools were
represented: Sidney, Alliance.Scotts
bluff, Bayard, Chappcl, Bridgeport,
Mullen, Hyannis, Merna and Thed
ford. A .good attendance enjoyed
the program rendered by the stu
dents. . '
Plan Modern Bank.
Auburn, Neb., April 18. (Special
Terrain.) Plans are being made
to remodel the First National Bank
building here at a cost of $150,000,
giving the institution one of the fin
est banking rooms in the state.
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