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THE BEE: OMAHA". MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920 LLOYD GEORGE AROUSES IRE OF GERMAN PRESS Charges of Laxness in Re construction of French and Belgian Devastated Dis . tricts Brings Protest. ' By PARKE BROWN. N.ir.York Tlntm-rhlragn Tribune Cable. Copyright, 1920. Berlin, May 9. Premier Lloyd George's charge that Germany has been derelict in its duty in refer - ence to the reconstruction of the devastated districts of France and Belgium has stirred the Berlin press to protest. They charge that the real situation either is being mis represented or misunderstood. Be cause of the declarations the repre sentative of the Chicago Tribune submitted to the ministry of repara tion a scries of questions covering the history of the negotiations be tween Germany and France. The answer was made in writing. The present portfolio is vacant through the appontment of Gess ler as the successor to Noske and will not be filled until after the elec tion in June, but the men who built up the extensive organization, which has been ready to work for several months, charge that if Germany has not sent an army of workmen into northern France, the fault is not Germany. but rests squarely on France. It is asserted that 'after substan tia! progress was made in the pre liminaries to the big task, France at least tacitly indicated that it did not want Germany's assistance. In reply to the question as "to whether Germany disregarded the responsibilities of the reconstruction problem, the statement said "Germany has done its full share to find a practical solution of the problem of co-operation by German contractors and workmen in rebuild ing the destroyed territories. T'It is admitted that Germany's peace delegation took the initiative in the matter. "After peace was signed, the nego tiations continued for several weeks between German and French repre sentatives. Finally several trips by German experts were arranged. "An agreement was reached by the German government witlt German workmen to take charge of a specific part of the work. The French prom ised to send notice of the territory to be allotted, but this notice never was given. Reiterated efforts by the German government have failed to bring any further statement from the French. "Therefore it is impossible to draw plans for the work, but all arrange ments have been made to send Ger man workmen to France as 'soon as definite agreement is reached." Father of Fourteen Convicted at Mullen For Killing Neighbor Mullen, Neb., May 9. (Specials Louis G. Holcomb, father of 14 chil dren, was convicted in district court here of second degree murder for shooting Perry Kirkpatrick, a neigh bor on November 20. His stepson was one of the chief witnesses for the prosecution. , Holcomb testified in his own de fense Saturday and pleaded self defense. Holcomb testified that Kirkpatrick upon a previous occasion had threat ened him and on the day of the mur der had repeated the threats. In describing the shooting he testified that, accompanied by his brother, he was on land worked jointly by himself and Kirkpatrick and that Kirkpatrick came where they were working and taunted him about what he was going to do in reply to state ments he had made about Holcomb and his wife. He alleged that Kirk patrick refused to retract the state ments. t He testified that Kirkpatrick start ed for his horse but returned during the argument and advanced with a piece of automobile tire casing in his hand. He said that he pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot the advancing man. Argument of the case started im mediately after Holcomb testified and the case went to the jury late Saturday. Ivan Dresser, Cornell's 2-mile champion in the 1919 intercollegi ates, has been in training for some time in order to get into condition to run for the New York 'A. C TOO WEAK TO DO ANYTHING A Serious Feminine Illness Reme died By Lydia L Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Caseo, Wis. "After the birth of each of my children I had displace- I mens and was so weak I couldn't do anything. I found a book about Lydia E. Pinkham s Vege table Compound, so thought I would try it, and after taking it I soon felt better. That was fifteen years ago and I have felt well ever since except that I had a slight ' attack of the trouble some time ago and took some more of vour Com- fund and was soon all right again, always recommend your medicine and you may publish my testimonial for the benefit of other women." tMra. Jules Beeo, Jr., B. 1, Box 99, Caseo, Wis. v Lydia E.- Pinkham's Vegetable Compound holds the record of being ' the most successful remjtfy for female ills in this country. , If you have the slightest doubt k that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable ' Compound wi)l help you, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (con fidential) Lynn, Mass for advice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman, and held in awt confiaencer i ui'""iau mi Hteh School Debating Teams to Meet In Lincoln to Decide State Championship Members of four of the debating teams to contest for the state championship in Lincoln next Saturday. Reading from left to right they are: Top row: Lincoln George L. Crump, Wil liam H. Carson and George W. Berge. Second row: Curtis School of Agriculture Harold Coder, Esther Granis and Sylvia Free man. ' Third row: Wayne Bonnie Rose Hess, Leslie Rundell and Clara Lynette Rennick. Bottom row: Beatrice Richard McCann, Ernest Beam and Joseph Downs. Lincoln, Neb., May 8. (Special.) Five scholastic debating teams wilr compete for the championship of the state next Saturday at the University of Nebraska on High school fete day. The teams will represent schools that have won district championship honors in the Ne braska High School Debating league, and one interdistrict debate with another district cham pionship school. The league question for the year will be de bated: "Resolved.' that , congress should pro hibit strikes on railroads doing interstate busi ness." Five Contesting Teams. The five schools that will battle for the championship of the state will be Lincoln for the Eastern and Central districts. Beatrice for the Southeastern and Southern districts, Curtis ScHool of Agriculture for the Southwestern and Western districts, Wayne for the North eastern and North Central districts, and either Mason City or Alliance. . Mason City holds the championship for the West Central district, and Alliance for the Northwestern district. Marks New Effort. This will mark the first year that team de bating for .the state championship has been tried. Heretofore, district championship schools have sent individual representatives. Pairing and sides to be debated will be chosen by lot a short time before the contest, according to -Prof. M. M. Fogg, organizer and president of the league. Two simultaneous debates in Memorial hall and Temple theater will mark the opening of the contest. One of the winners will meet the fifth con testant, and then will come the championship debate proper. s "Tl w - ji v s ' J f v. 's J" PLAN TO THROW SOLDIER BONUS BEFORE HOUSE Advocates in House May At tempt to Take Measure Away From Ways and Means Commiitee. . Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be J.raseil Wire. Washington, May 9. Soldier bonus advocates in the house may attempt Monday to take this legis lation from the jurisdiction of the ways and means committee and throw it directly into the house. This plan is contemplated in view of the fact that it is now apparent that the committee cannot agree on the form of the legislation and on the character of taxes to raise the necessary revenue. . It was proposed that the taxation plan suggested in the Fordney bill which was rejected at the republican caucus, should be changed by the elimination of the sales tax, a re duction in the suggestion increases on the income taxes, and the spread ing over three years instead of two years of all the taxes planned to raise the revenues for the bonus. Under this spread of taxes the pro posed taxes on stock exchange transactions, real " estate sales and increased taxes on tobacco, would be carried for three years without reduction. While these suggestions were pro posed as compromise schemes to win the support of those who have been objecting to the sales taxes and urging a war profits tax, it was apparent during the conference that an agreement would not be reached by the republican committee mem bers. After the conference some of those attending said that a compro mise' might be secured and .bonus legislation presented to congress be fore June but the, outlook was not promising. ' Farmerette' Refuses $50 Reward for Return of $808 Find in Groceries Joliet, 111., May 9. Only a farm er's wife, but honest as the day is longais Mrs. William "Metzger, of near Joliet. When she returned home from a grocery purchasing trip in Joliet the other day she found an extra package in hef provender bas ket. She opened it and found $808 inside, all in genuine bills. Amazed, she returned to the store. There the cashied and 'proprietor were in hysterics. But they became calm as soon as Mrs. Metzger asked "who put the monejt in my basket." It was disclosed the cashier had just prepared the store cash for banking when Mrs. Metzger came in the first time. Called behind the counter the cashier took the bundle of mon ey with him. Stopping a moment to wait on a customer the cashier laid the money bundle down on the counter. A clerk alongside him was wrapping tip Mrs. Metzger's order. Without inspection he took the mon ey package and dumped it into Mrs. Metzger's basket. 'Then the fun be gan. But, Mrs.. Metzger made them all happy again by returning the money. She was offered a $50 re ward, but refused. , Motion Pictures Used i In Suit Against Road Newark, N. J.. May Motion pictures were used as evidence in the trial in federat court of the $100, 000 damage suit of Mrs. Sarah A. Houston of 242 Centre street, Orange, against the Lackawanna railroad for the death of her hus band, Frank J. Houston, who fell from a train,at the Orange station in 1917. Mrs. Houston claims he fell because the bad condition of the roadbed caused the train to sway and jerk. The motion pictures showed the condition of the roadbed at the spot 11 days after the accident, and par ticularly one spot where a rail joint sagged every time a car truck Das6cd oyer it . .. CENTRAL HIGH TO PRESENT PLAY BY LATE CLYDE FITCH Miss Mabel Burns Engaged As Coach to Replace i Herbert Rogerson. "Barbara Fritchie," an American Civil war play, will be presented by the Central High school graduating class at the Brandeis theater June 4. Thus Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield," is to be Ire placed by the more modern work of Clyde Fitch, an American play right. Herbert Rogerson, who was to have produced Goldsmith's work, is to be replaced by Miss Mabel Burns. Miss Burns has had much experience in coaching and directing plays. She coached the students in "The Girl and the Undergradu ate," the headliner of the Central High school road show this year which was a great success. "I am sure that the play will be a success," said Miss Towne, dean, last night. "The senior class will not let the play fall through. I am overjoyed to have such a capable lady as Miss Burns as coach. I know her ability, and I am certain that it is going to turn out to be a grand success." The play is a good, old fashioned American play, according to Miss Towne. There will be about 50 in the cast,' and all of the old cast will be given parts in the new perform ance. Miss Burns has been a teacher of oral expression. She also taught public speaking and debating. First tryouts will be held Monday after noon in the Central High audi torium. ' Fast Train Ploughs Through Herd of Cattle Evanston, Wyo., May 9. Travel ing at a speed of 40 miles an hour, an east bound Union Pacific train ploughed into a herd of cattle near here, decimating 71 of the herd. The engineer apparently had not seen the obstruction, as the train was several hundred yard? beyond the wholesale slaughter bfcf ore it was brought to a standstill. British Soldier Unidentified. London, May 9. Out of the mil lions of Britishers who fought in the war, only one soldier remains unidentified. He is a private who lost his memory through shell shock and no trace can be found of his relatives. I TURKISH TREATY, GUARDS RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS Fourteen Articles Devoted to Protection of Minority Population Within Bor ders of Country. Washington, May 9. Provisions safeguarding the rights of- minority populations make up a large portion of the Turkish treaty of peace. A summary of the treaty, which will be handed to the Turkish delegation, in Paris Tuesday, was received here today. Fourteen articles of the treaty are devoted to protection of the Armeiv ians, Greeks and other minority pop ulations which under the pact will remain within the new boundaries of Turkey. In jterieral these article? follow the lines of the treaty of June 28, 1919, betwen the allied powers and Poland for protection of the Polish minority peoples. ., One of the things Turkish people's are to do under the treaty is to an nul all conversions to Islam which have occurred between November 1 1914, and the coming into effect of the treaty. The nation of the Sultan also undertakes to assist in the re covery of men, women and children of wholly or partly non-Moslem par entage who have adopted the Is lamic faith since November 1, 1914, and who are claimed by their families or communities. The fullest right of search for lost persons in private houses and in stitutions. is conceded, the search to be carried out by a representative of the community affected, an official of the Turkish government and a rep resentative of the league of nations. Such reciprocal and voluntary information-' of persons belonging to racial minorities as the allied powers may consider opportune ' is rec ognized by the Turkish government which agrees to adhere to the treaty between Greece and Bulgaria of last November relating to reciprocal emi gration. Prize Hog Cost $2,000. Osawatomie, Kan., May 9. Wil liam Hunt, owner of Fairholme farm near here, possesses what is believed to be one of the most valuable hogs in Kansas. The animal recently was pur chased by Hunt at a cost of $2,000. It will head his herd of spotted Poland Chinas. Patrol Hits Machine On a Hurry-Up Gill . ( iContlnntd From P One.) on West Leavenworth street, where she was to look at some monuments. Mrs. Valean visited the cemetery every Sunday that the weather would permit, it was said at her home. T' I tt.-Qa r:,11n in Ti.:,.. u:.,4 nnA fmniiier streets where Roy Gorey, lo years old, 1M19 North Seventeenth street, had fallen off his bicycle after he had been 1 J ..,..- 1 Klnrka hv a Ana who attempted to bite him. He became excited ana leu irom mc wucci. Detective Is Injured. n.i. ... A1.V T i,nr1p-ll 1 20.1! v.u T..tnu.fniirth street, who iuiui AVYv-mj - - - - ' was returning to the police station i immo tiw thu hnv fall and IIUIU ma iiuhii telephoned for the police emergency car. When Lundeen heard ot tne crasn -t .u mmtntpH the Gorev OI inc paiiui ,iv boy's bicycle and started for the -f .M,if His trousers SCCIIC oi me avi-iviv..." v caught in the large sprocket and he was thrown to inc pavemtm, u. ..rivf' left arm was brok- en in two pjaces by the fall. . Lundeen did not learn that his i i (riritireA until he had been examined at the Methodist hos pital after he had assistea in iaiuns some of the injured there. . Mrs. Valean is in a semi-delirious condition and continually called "Mag," "Mag," "Mag," yesterday afternoon. She ha. not been told of her son s death. Officer Anderson said ne was , t...t in milfc an hour orivims auum when he struck the Daugherty car. Anderson Tells ot crasn. ii a i 1 1 -in thio morninc" Of- rl auuuv i " " l' ... ficer Anderson sa.J, "we were call ed to Thirty-third and turning su on an accident. AVe were going about 30 miles an nour. wnen were approaching the boulevard a private car was coming south on the boulevard. They were going at a pretty good rate 01 spu looked as though they were going across Cuming street, but.they seem ed all at once to slack up. I tried to dodge then, but struck their car in the back end and both cars turned over. The gong on tne paxrui was rincine all the time." . . C H. Kramer, 704 North Thirty third street, who told police he fol lowed the patrol up.u'i8 j in his automobile, said the patrol was going 30 miles an hour and that the "gong" was ringing continu- 0US'y-. . ' ; t,- A. Lind, lov turning ;uc, wu" -1.- ...un.ce tVio nrrident. Said aisu wuiitosYu , the patrol was driving at a rate ot about Zd miles an nour. To Hold Inquest Today. County Atorney Shotwell an- j t.Uit- JnniipQt will he held at 2 Monday afternoon at Hoffman s funeral home. . . Besides his mother and injured brother, young vaiean is TT NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY ' n llllllll Hlfl Abounding in goodness which only a combina tion of delicious cake,',; marshmal lowand chocolate can have, and in the form of quaint cone puffs, CHOCOLATE PUFF CAKES are so dinerent from any other cakp you ever tasted that you are missing a rare treat until you serve them. Sold by the pound. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY 0!?UnaBfscuft by his father, Magnus Valean, sr., two brothers, Edward and Emil, and two sisters, Mrs. Ida Segur, 1614 Wirt street, and Mrs. B. Haskell, 2418 North Eighteenth street. Boatmen Revolt When Order Comes to Move Admiral Nelson's Ship Loudon, May' 9. The "Victory", the ship on which Nelson fought and died, is tp have'nother voya,ge and the watermen who make their liv ing by rowing visitors to and from the celebrated vessel are up in arms about it. The "Victory" is only going into a dock for needed repairs to the masts and rigging, but the watermen have shown to the powers that be how they will lose for that time-the reve nue which visitors daily gave them. So, instead of keeping the ship in dock for a long time, she will only be there for about three weeks and the other work necessary will be car ried out at her moorings in Ports mouth harbor without interruption to visitors. A large influx of Americans is ex pected in England this summer arid Portsmouth is one of the "show places for such transients. The Vicj tory is, ot course, one ot their Meccas and the watermen would not contemplate with much satisfaction the removal of the celebrated ship. Therefore, the admiralty has " hur riedly arranged for the return of the Victory as soon as possible to her proper moorings. of Rattlesnake Drinking Milk Makes Baby's Mother Faint Pleasanton, Cal., Maj 9. Mre. Manuel Parenti didn't ' think that Pleasanton lived up to its name when se went to the pantry for some milk for her 2-year-old baby and found a five-foot rattlesnake calmly drinking it. Mrs. Parenti screamed and fainted. - Neighbors who came to her assist ance were unable to learn what had happened, as by that time the snake had disappeared, and Mrs. Parenti was unable to speak for several hours. That the rattler had not left the house became apparent when her husband returned later in the after noon and found the snake coiled up in the crib beside the baby. He killed the snake and upon examina tion found that it was of the deadly variety and one of the largest ever seen in this section. Sight Stampede for Real Beer ' Broken by Decimal Point Kansas City, Mo., May 9. Ex citement was at a high pitch around Kansas City's s-a-l ! soft drink paWors the other day. Old feet beat new paths to the brass rails. The procession soon developed iitfo a stampede. . "Real beer I" murmured the thirsty throng. , . , . i The "news" traveled like a prairie fire, whipped on by a 60-mile gale. , Finally federal officers heard of the "find." An agent took a "chance" on a two-bit bottle. Upon examining the label he found that, it read: . "Alcoholic contents approximately ,2H per cent by volume." Somebody had overlooked the decimal point. English radio experts have per fected a bell to summon an opera tor wheii a message is to be received instead of requiring him to keep his receiving telephones at his ears at all times. Unable to Get Women Factory Puts Sewing v Machines in Homes Lebanon, Pa., May 9. Installa-. tion of power-driven sewing ma chines in private homes is the plan used by the local industries in com bating the shortage of female help. Without the new plan several local plant requiring many female sew ing machine operators would have been compelled to close down. Under the new system, which is proving quite a success, there has been no trouble in finding workers. The machines are installed in the homes by the company, which also gives them mechanical attention. Work is delivered to homes and again collected when finished. Many married women are now spending idle moments helping to increase the family income. 1 Bee Want Ads Produce Results. Marries Stepmother. Topcka, Kan., May 8. 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