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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1920. Fire Chief Falls Smoke Victim in Fire at'Beatrice But h ants Later Revived Ten Escape us Flames Cause $23,0CJ Damage In Night Blaze. Beatrice, Nek, Dec. 1. (Special) --Fire Chief Harry YVhiic.-ide was overcome by smoke, and tenants of the third floor of the Millburn & Scott Printing company building, were routed from their apartments early last night by tire which ; damaged the structure to the extent i of $2S.(K)0. Chief Whiteside was revived and returned to his duties fighting the flames which .started in a box of cuttings in the bindery room. Some Stock Saved. Most ot the damage was caused by smoke and water. The flames reached the third floor of the build ing and water from the hose drenched the two lower floors. The loss is confined to the stock of print paper and is covered by insurance. ! hair turned white in the two years Some of the stock was Saved byiuc navigated the giant transportLe rcmoval to the Palmer warehouse 'viathan during the war, has joined across the street. Groceries of the 'the forces of the United States Mail Montgomery & Pauley Co. adjoin- i Steamship company and will soon ing the west side ot tne printing plant, were damaged to the extent of $1,000. Tenants Escape. Tenants of the third floor escaped iniurv and little damage was done their property. Equipment of the Northwestern Business college, on the same floor, was slightly damaged. Officials of the printing firm said the plant would be in full operation in a tew days. Bishop Beecher Honored On Tenth Anniversary North Platte, Neb., Dec, 1 (Spe cial Telegram.) Bishop George A. (icecher eiul hits. Beecher of Hast ings were the guests cf honor at a reception given by t lie western Ne braska diocese of the Episcopal church. The reception was to cele brate the 10th annivarsy of the hon or guest becoming .a bishop. v, He was presented with a beautiful sil ver tea service by J. Q. Wilcox on behalf of the congregation. Addresses were made by Bishop Kcechcr, Rev. Mr. Jones of McCook, !ev. Mr. Ives of Sidney, Rev. George Turner of Kearney, Dean Turner of Hastings, and Anna Kramph of this city. The bishop was formerly rector of the local Episcopal church and was in service overseas!. South Dakota Sheriff Arrests 70 for Gambling Burke, S. D., DeC. 1.-(Special Tel egram). Sheriff Huston brought about 70 men here from Gregory and arraigned them before the coun ty judge on charges of gambling and liquor violation. Ten of the ac cused were high , school boys. 'A few pleaded guilty and were fined $50 and costs each and the remainder will be given a hearing next Satur day. SHeriff Huston has also un covered several stills during the past week. Beatrice National Guard Elects Veteran Captain Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 1. (Special.) Major Stine orLincoln was in the city trying to find an armory for Company C, the new guard com oany here, but as yet no location has been decided ,upon. Robert Emery, overseas veteran, has re signed as captain of the company, and Emmett Powell, who also saw service in France, has been elected as his successor, f Debating Class Formed at North Platte High School North Platte, Neb., Dec. 1. (Spe cial Telegram). A debating class' with 26 charter members was organ ized at the local high school and is one of ' the eleven districts in the state. Attorney E. E. Carr. who represented Nebraska university for three years in debating, has been appointed instructor. Blue Springs War, Veteran Dies of Injuries in Fall "Beatrice. Neb., Dec. 1. (Special) v.Tohn Webb, 85, civil war veteran of " Blue Springs who fractured his hip in a fall at the home of his daughter two weeks ago, died. He is sur vived bv his widow and five chil dren. Owing to his advanced age n$ attempt was made to reduce the fractured bone. ? Nebraska Editor Dies. .Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 1. (Spe cial Telegram). A. R. Keim, editor of the Falls City (Neb.) Journal, died in Monrovia, Cal., after a brief . illness. The body will be buried in Falls City. " ADVERTISEMENT 'They WORK while you sleep" Don't stay bilious or constipated, with your head dull, your stomach sour, gassy, upset. Take one or two Cascarets tonight sure for your liver and bowels and wake up clear and fit. Children Jove Cascarets. too. No griping no inccrvenience. K 25, 50 cents , - New Command for Leviathan Skipper I ("apt. Harold Cunningham, whose take tne nnuge ot one ot its mag- niticent passenger ships. When the youthful skipper joined the Levia than his hair was black. When he stepped from the bridge when the vessel enled its career as a trans port his hair was snow white. i ' G. W. Wattles Will Call Meet to Aid Starving Children Nebraska Head of Literary Di- gest Fund to Feed Little Ones of Europe Plans Conference of Workers. All relief organizations now op erating in Europe will mass their efforts to save the starving children there, a telegram frorri Herbert Hoover to Gurdon W. Wattles, chairman for Nebraska of the Literary Digest yhild Feeding fund, announced yesterday. The combined organization will be known as the European relief council. To Call Meeting. As soon as details of the arrange ments are announced, Mr. Wattles will call a conference of an execu tive committee consisting of Frank W. Judson, representing the Red Cross; J. D. Ringer, Y. M. C. A.; Harry. D. Zimman, Jewish relief committee; Ora W. Carrell, Central City, American Friends service; the Rev. Frank G. Smith, Federal Coun cil of Churches; Mrs. C. A. Speil man, Missoula. Mont., Y. W. C. A., and J. M. O'Connor, Ogden, Utah, Knights of Columbus. It is believed that these latter two names sug gested by Mr. Hoover may be re placed by representatives of the same orders living within the state. Will Start Dec. 19. The campaign for $32,000,000 with which to feed and clothe the desti tute children abroad will begin ac tively December 19, although checks for amounts ranging from $10 up are coming in volume to Mr. Wat tles' office in the United States Na tional bank buiWing. The merger with all other relief organizations, Mr. Wattles believes, will prevent waste and duplication,, and add strength to the movement. Evaporation Causes Bi Loss in Liquor Shipments Lincoln, Dec. 1. (Special) On application of the Union Pacific rail way, the; State Railway commission has authorized that company to re fuse to accept intoxicating liquors in less than carload lots. The company claims that since prohibition went into effect the value of liquor has increased abnor mally so that the damage claims are far in excess of the receipts for transportation. Evaporation of con tents is far in excess of what it treed to he before prohibition went into effect. Omaha May Be Considered For G. A. R. Encampment Omaha is seriously being consid ered for the G. A. R. encampment idr 1921, F. P. Corrick of Lincoln announced Tuesday night at a meet ing of Sons of Veterans in the Pax ton hotel to take steps toward re viving Camp Manderson No. 1, which has not been active since 1916. Commandpr-in-Chief Adams, Mos es P. O'Brien and Past Division Commander Agnew of Kansas spoke. Prospects are bright for a live camp of more than 200 members in Omaha, it was revealed at the meeting. Find Missing Girl. Bloomfield. Neb., Dec. 1. (Spe cial). Miss Myrtle Darrow, 16, who disappeared from home, was located at Wayne and brought home by her father, J. D. Darrow. The girl is in the high school. Her parents live on a farm. Nurses' Board Meets. Lincoln, Dec. 1. (Special) The examining board of the state nurse's association held a conference at the state house. The members present were: Miss Marie Wieck and Miss 1 ouisf Brack-hahn of Omaha, and Miss Jennie Higgins of Lincoln. Alleged Gamblers Arrested. Broken Bow, Neb., Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) While in Oconto Sheriff V. C. Talbot walked into the McNulty garage and raided an alleged gam bling game, arresting C. L. Slack, Barney McNallcy, J. P. Shea, M. L. Williams and H. E. Storm. Held for Killing Hog. Broken Bow, Neb., Dec. 1. (Spe cialsSheriff Talbot arrested Joe Boyett in Oconto and says he con fessed to killing a hog belonging to George Thurman. Boyett waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the dtrict court. Bolivia has built a road for auto mobiles that cross the Andes moun tains 17,000 feet above sea level. ft Is Jji i S V 2 Mh i i$35,0W Asked - By Divorcee for Loss of Her Mate Charges Divorced Husband's Parents Schemed to Effect Separation Througn Al leged Persecutions. An amazing story of alleged per secution is told in a suit filed in dis trict court yesterday by Mrs. Jennie Churchill against her parents-in-law, William and Florida Churchill, wealthy ranchers oi McPherson county, Nc'ra-ka. Young Mrs. Churchill asks $35. 000 damages from her parents-in-law for alietifetjon of her husband's affections and other acts which led up to their divorce in District Judge Wakeley's court, May 26. 1920. On April 26, 1918, she married Leonard' Churchill. All went well until late that year when her husband's parents began scheming to separate them, she says. They finally induced the young couple to live apart with a view to ultimate divorce, she charges. " Lived With Parents. .Starting November 10, 1919, the young couple lived with his parents in their ranch house. 30 miies north )f Sutherland, Neb. lliey were under constant surveil lance of the elder Churchills, she says. The young couple "treated each other with the utmost consider ation and affection, but were not al lowed to occupy the same bed room," she clares. . v The young wife cried and begged the elder Churchills not to do this and her husband sympathized with her, but said he could not help it. Soon after this, she says, theyall came to Omaha to establish a resi dence here preparatory to getting the young pair divorted. She and her mother-in-law took a room onj North Twenty-third street, while her husband and his father stayed at the Paxton hotel. A lawyer drew up a divorce petition which, she says, she was ' compelled to sign. Then they returned to the ranch. Tells of Escape. There she and her husband one day escaped the close surveillance of the elder couple, were clasped in each other's arms and determined to slip away from their ranch prison, come to Omaha and start life anew, the petition recites. t But their plan was discovered. The elder Churchills, unable to keep them from going, accompanied them to Omaha. Here the young pair secured rooms in the North Twenty-third street house. There upon the elder Mrs. Churchill hired other roomers to move out and then took the vacated rooms herself, so she could watch the young couple, it is alleged. Signs Divorce Petition. In April of this year the elder Churchills induced their son to leave his wife and prevailed on hereto sign another divorce petition, she says. When the case was heard before Judge Wakeley May 26, 1920, the elder Churchill testified ' against his son and in behalf of the unwilling plaintiff, she alleges. Allegations of "extreme cruelty and nonsupport" placed in the divvorce petition were totally untrue, she says. She now has a baby girl.il month old. 1 . The elder Churchills are said to own great tracts of Nebraska, land. Boy Is Kidnaped in Battle of Parents -To Get Possession Los Angeles, Dec. 1. Eleven-year-old William M. Barrett was seized forcibly by three men, chloro formed and spirited away in a motor' car. . This is the testimony oV two young boys, one of them a "newsie," who volunteered the information to a detective agency today that they "could tell how the Barrett kid was kidnaped." The boys are August Strite and Robert Grannis. William Barrett's disappearance is the latest move in a desperate strug gle between a husband and wife in which are two family fortunes at stake. The father of William M. Barrett, the child who has disappeared, is Dr. Frederick James Barrett, wealthy physician of 129 East Sixty-ninth street. Newv, York. During the war Dr. Barrett was a major in the medical corps. His mother is Mrs. Louise M. Barrett, daughter of Mrs. Lydia Avery of Los Angeles. In February following the legal separation of Dr. and Mrs. Barrett, the boy disappeared from the home of his father, just as he disappeared today from his mother's custody. It was then stated in New York newspapers that Mrs. Barrett had hired two detectives to steal the boy from his father. ' It is reported the father hired the two detectives that his wife had employed to do the job and it is be lieved that William is in their pos session now. Italian Premier Refuses To Outline Plan on Fiume London, Dec. 1. Premier Giolitti, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome yesterday, refused to answer a question asking whether the government int.nded to take military measures against Captain Gabriele d'Annunzio in Fiume, says a Rome dispatch t to the London Times. . "The government," he declared, "is anxious to hasten final ratifica tion of the Rapallo treaty with Jugo-Slavia, which already has been approved by the chamber and will be submitted to the senate on De cember 2." Sunflower Seed Is Used to Rid Leviathan of Rodents Washington, Dec. 1. Use of sun flower seeds to rid the giant liner Leviathan of rats is being consid ered by shipping board officials. The rodents have overrun the govern ment's greatest merchant ship at its dock at New York, where it has been idle for nearly a year. Sunflower seed has the same effect on rats that catnip has on cats, offi cials say. Galveston's Sea Wall About Done East End" Extension of 10,330 Feet .Will Be Finished About Aug. 1. Galveston, Tex., Dec. 1. The cast end extension tj Galveston's great sea wall will be completed by Au gust 1, 1921, predicts Maj. L, M. Adams, U. S. A., engineer in charge of the work. To date 9,110 feet have ben constructed, while about 1,200 feet remain to be built. The project is being built at the expense of the government. Comparative figures for the origi nal wall and for the extension now under construction show that post war conditions have laid an almost prohibitive hand upon great engi neering projects. To complete the east end exten sion the rivers and harbors commit tee at Washington has- been asked to aPoroDriate $1,500,000. The origi nal sea wall approximately five miles in length built after The dis astrous 1900 storm, in which thou sands of persons lost their lives and millions of dollars in damage done, cost only $2,090,000. The government's extension, as alsovis the wall completed in 1904, is 17 feef above the mean low tide and roughly 1.5 feet above the high wattr mark of the 1900 storm. It is five feet at its crest, with a base of 16 feet, sloping toward the gulf. On the landward side the wall is banked with earth, over which has been built Galveston's famotfs "Seawall boule vard," while huge granite boulders protect the foundation of the wall from erosion of the waves. LTurks, Hostility Grows Against U. S. Workers Constantinople, Dec. 1. (By Thi Associated Press.) Increasing hos tility toward Americans and Ameri can relief interests is being shown by the Turkish nationalists, says a letter from Henry Riggs, director for the Near East Relief at Kharput. He asserts the nationalists still re fuse the Americans permission to proceed to varies places to carry on their work ana forbid the Ameri can flag to be flown from American buildings and automobiles. Mr. Riggs said adherents of Mus tapha Kemal confiscated a certain proportion of the food supplies in tended for Armenian orphanages. He charges also that Armenian chil dren have been expelled from orphanages and the buildings con verted into Turkish schools. Postpone Rate Hearing. .Lincoln, Dec. 1. (Special). A hearing on application of the Bloom field Telephone company for a raise in rates scheduled for Fridi" u offices of. the commission has been postponed until next Tuesday aim will be held in Wausa. ADVERTISEMENT CREAM FOR CATARRH OPENS UP NOSTRILS Tells How To Get Quick Relief front Head-Col. It's Splendid! in one minute your clogged nos trils will open, the air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, blowing, headache, dry ness. No struggling for breath at night; your cold or catarrh will be gone. Get a small bottle of Ely's. Cream Balm from your druggist now. Ap ply a little of this fragrant, antisep tic, healing cream in your nostrils. It penetrates through every air pas sage of the head, soothes the in flamed or swollen mucous mem brane and relici comes instantly. It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed up with a cold or nasty catarrh Re lief comes so quickly. 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When your cold or cough Is re lieved, take the remainder of the bottle home to your wife and babies, for Aspironal is by far the safest and most effective, the easiest to take and the most agreeable .cold and cough remedy for infants and chil dren. , Miners Will Not Stand for Wage Cut, Says Lewis International Pre&ident of Union Declares Every Ef fort Will Be Made to Pre vent Reduction. Indianapolis, hid., Dec. 1. The United Mine Workers of America wilt not stand for any reduction in wages, according to the December 1 issue ot the United Mine Workers Journal. This policy is stated in connection with a discussion of the movement among e nip lovers throughout the country lor a reduc tion of wages in the various indus tries. In the article, John L. Lewis, international president of the miners' union, is quoted as follows: "Under no circumstances will we permit any reduction in the wages of the mine workers of the country. There is not going to be any return to pre-war wages or conditions. Any reduction in wages is an economic mistake. It never produces any good result'. What the mine workers have today we are going to hold, and we propose to continue to make progress instead of going back ward." Will Stand Firm. The Journal says in part: ''It is absolutely essential that the uirion have a definite and substantial policy and that the membership shall stand behind that policy in solid phalanx. And the most essential element In that policy for the next two years must be that there shall be no back ward step. The coal miners must not lose any of the things that hey have won I through sacrifice and struggle. "It is well kntrvvn that there, is in the country today a well-defined, highly-financed and ably-conducted movement on the part of employers opposed to trade unionism to break down the unions and reduce the workers to the open-shop, low-wage system. This is one of the greatest dangers that now confront the labor movement. Must Work for Aim. "The policy of the United Mine Workers of America on that subject has been made plain and clear to the world by President John L. Lewis. He has said that there shall be no reduction in the wages of the coal miners of America. "There is the policy of the United Mine Workers. In making that statement, President Lewis told the world what the United Mine Workers of America stand for. It is the unqualified duty of ' every member of the union to stand firmly establish their value-giving supremacy Thursday in a wonderful third floor Ten Dollar Re a dy- to - Wea r-Even t Absolutely without precedent in the drastic reductions actual money ' 250 Sizes 16 to 46 Specially selected from our regular up-to-the-minute Winter stock and re gardless of former prices, $35 to i65 are Included in this spectacular value giving demonstration. Every coat is highly tail oredfrom splendid qual ity Bolivia Tlnseltone mixtures velours. Your Choice A Cftristmat Gift Useful selected now gains two behind the international officials. To stand back, to hesitate or to fail to give tne international officials lull support and co-operation would be an indication of division." Police Release Sinn Fein Agents Suspects Taken From Aqui tania, Are Granted Free dom ly Authorities. London, Dec. 1. Six men ar rested at Southampton yesterday upon the arrival of the liner Aqui tania, from New York, were re leased here today by police of ficials. When they were arrested, it was announced, they were sus peeiod of being agents of the Sinn Fein. Revolvers were found on their persons, but the men arrested say they were ignorant of the recently enacted fire' arms act, which forbids the importation of those weapons, their weftpons were confiscated -be-They were closely questioned and fore they11 were placed on a train coming to this city. When they reached, here, they were asked to go to Scotland Yard. They refused to talk to reporters and their identities have not heciv disclosed. Buildings housing Sinn Fein or ganizations in this city and its sub urbs were raided by Scotland Yard detectives yesterday, and it is de clared a large quantity of documents were seized. No arrests, so far as known, were made. Woman Sought for the Death of Jake Hamon Said to Be at El Paso Ardmore,. Okl.,' Dec. 1. Clara Smith, wanted here in connection with the death last Friday of Jake L. Hamon, republican national com mitteeman, is in the southwest and probably in the vicinity of El Paso, Tex., Russell R. Brown, county at torney, announced today. Mr. Brown made known today the facf that he had been following a "hot trail" when he left here sud denly Monday morning for an un announced destination. He declared the Smith woman upon leaving Ardmore, had gone through Durant, Okl., Denison, Dallas and Cisco, Tex., buying a ticket at the latter place for El Paso. Hog Cholera Spreading. Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 1. (Special Telegram.) State Inspector J. C. Meyers announces here that hog cholera is spreading in the south part of the county because farmers are neglecting to vaccinate thei" animals. savings super-values involved. Every store talks value now m their advertising not. every store gives it always. From the first day the doors of this store were opened to the public this organization has made every other consideration subordinate to that of giving to the public each business day. The utmost in value that can be forced into the purchase price. The values involved in this Ten Dollar Event ,. are so remarkable as to be spectacular. Women's Coats Tailored Fur Trimmed m 25- Women 's Suit Tailored Fur Trimmed Sizes 16 to 46 These handsome suits were previously priced $45 to $65 each model being high class In every detail ot style workmanship tailoring decoration Tailored from tine quality SllvertoM Trlcotlnes Velours in navy, blaxk, browns, tan every suit silk lined. Your Choice rn ! I 1 ailOrS to Open Co-Operative Shop Merchant Tailors Association of St. Louis Plans to Cut Prices, St. Louis. Dec. 1 Two co-operative tailor shops will be opened here within the next week under the di rection ot the Merchant Tailors' as sociation of St. Louis, on a plan that will result in a material redue t'on in clothing prices, according to Samuel L. Fox, president of the as sociation. The work to be done in these shops is at present performed by "contractors," who make up suits after they have been cut out by the rnerchant tailors, Foxx explained. J he elimination ot these contrac tors," coupled with the reduced wool prices, will effect reductions of from $10 to $15 on clothing now selling from $45 to $75, Fox said. The union scale of wages will pre vail, he said. Scotch interests are planning to obtain 42,000 electrical horseriwer by harnessing throe lakes and to utilize the waterpower running to waste in the watershed of the Tav. AUVKRTIKEMKNT OUCH! PAIN, PAIN, RUB RHEUMATIC, ACHING JOINTS Rub pain 'away with a small trial bottle of old "St. Jacob Oil." Rheumatism is "pain" onlv. Not one case in fifty requires Internal treatment. Stop drugging. Rub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" right into your sore, stiff, ach ing joints and muscles and relief comes instantly. "St. Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheumatism curewhich never disappoints and cannot burn the skin. Limber upl Quit complaining! 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