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ii i i i . . . TT . I --. i v ! .Women Fight j Beside Men in j Pistol Battle! More Than 100 Shots Fired In FigUt Between Police Suspected Bootleggers in Brooklyn. tkitftt Tribaaa-Omaha Ba Laaaad Wtra. New York, April 17. Women fought beside their men in a revolver battle between police and IS sus pected bootleggersNm a vacant lot in Brooklyn. One unidentified sus pect was probably mortally injured and Patrolman Schweid was se riously hurt More than 100 shots were fired. There were five of the women suspects, who stood their ground 'against a fusillade of bullets .tired by the policemen. t ine V auegeu oooueggers 01 oom sexes were traveling in three auto mobiles. They evidently represented two gangs. One automobile had been following the other two when the gangs alighted at the vacant lot and engaged in a battle with re volvers. their weapons, began a retreat to their automobiles. A dozen police men ran from cover.' The automobiles got under -way and the policemen pursued them in an automobile patrol wagon. udge Lindsay Given lhree Uays to rile suspension Motion Denver, April 17. Whether or not Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the juvenile court will pay a $500 fine for tontempt of court remained unde termined Saturday. The judge was granted three days to file a motion for suspension of execution when ho appeared m court. Judge Lindsey refused to say what action he would take in case his motion is denied an l District Attor t ey Van Cise would not say whether his office would oppose suspension of the fine. The judge was convicted five months ago, following his refusal to divulge to the court a confidential statement from a ward. Today's court action was brief. Deputy District Attorney Cline asked for an execution on the judgment as a civil process. His attorney ..asked for permission to file such a motion fnd this was granted. It was ex pected to come next Wednesday, when a hearing probably will be set. Total of 325 Men and Three Women Taken at 'Stag Party Minneapolis, April 17. Three hundred and twenty-five men and three women dancers were arrested rere m a ram on a nan in xne resi dence district, where according1 to the police, an objectionable "stag party" was in progress. Police said it was the largest raid in the history of the ci:r. The 328 persons were locked ? for the night without charges be i" placed against them. i wo 3ien Arrestea ior r $100,000 Mail Robbery Chicago, April 17. T. H. Grnn v.aUla, ' an attorney" and Enwald Stevenson, were arrested in con nection with the $400,000 mail rob bery at the Dearborn station 10 days ago. , - Postoffice officials said part of the stolen registered mail was found in possession of the prisoners. Seek Labor Information Princeton, N. J, April 17. To get inside- information concerning labor problems, 50 Princeton students will don old clothes and search for jobs this summer, it was announced to day. rOTJTICAL ADVERTISEMENT. For I ""X '-'- ' III 'HM COT CQIII Dan B. Butler is the only city commissioner seeking re-election whose continuous service dates back beyond a single term. Dan Butler was first elected to public office in 1906, when he became city, clerk as a democratic candidate on the ticket headed by James C. Dahlman, then elected mayor for the first time. Butler was re-elected city clerk in 1909. In 1912, under the commission form of government, Butler was nominated and elected a city commissioner and was put in charge of the department of ac-. counts and finances. - In 1915 Butler was re-elected and again assigned to the department of ac counts and finances. " V " ' For a third time, in 1918, Butler was elected city commissioner, this time leading the entire list of fourteen candidates. He was the only one of the com-. mission who won re-election. For three years he has been superintenclent of street cleaning and maintenance. Register Now So You Can Cast Your Vote May 3d for Dan Butler Balfour and Lord Northcliffe, Envoys Of Britain, Did Much in the Early Days of War to Arouse- Americans, Says Daniels I CwvrltM. IS2I. ay M f. Dili.. CrHiat I ItitwMtt. ttl4lf th ImlHulii. t'Mntlwrlaia By JOSEPHUS Ftrmr SjcrMuir B.Ifour and NortkeUffi: A Uuto la ctrwt - t Tl rblli)h u ib bib of ctioa Bntifta Blmua tad tit went ARTICLE 4. Two figures stand out with unforgettable distinction from the group of interesting trans-Atlantic personalities which visited us in the days immediately following our entrance into the war. Taken singly, each has an individuality which anywhere ,ould command attention. Together, they present as strong a contrast as one could Veil find in men of the same race. . . Arthur James Balfour came first, at the head of the British .ugh commissioners, who arrived in Washington on Sunday. April 2 : 917 16 days after our declaration. Two months later came Lord Nortnc irte. It is of these two men in particular that I want to write about in this article. They made a profound impression upon Washington and they did much to promots the co-operation which was essential to the successful doing of the common task. . Of course both men were well known to us by reputation. North cliff had been in the United States before the war and had many ac quaintances here. Balfour we knew as a statesman, a student, a philosopher. His fame was built upon his conspicuous serv ice in government office and his scholarly and illuminating contribu tions Jo the discussion of some of the most profound problems of hu man life. Balfour of Ancient Lineage. Reference to a British "Who's Who" discloses ihe less generally known facts that he was an enthu siastic goiter and tennis player, and at one time president of the English Cyclists' association. And Balfour was a Cecil. In Great Britain that meant much. Here it meant little, and one of the difficult things for us to understand was that Balfour, scion of an ancient and aristocratic British family. nephew of Lord Salisbury and uncle of Lords Hugh and Robert Cecil, came to us as plain Arthur James Balfour, esq., or Mr. A. J. Balfour, whereas Alfred Harms worth, who began life without in fluence or wealth, came to us as Lord Xorthcliffe.' I Avas prepared for the arrival of the British high commissioners by a visit from Admiral Frank F. Flctchcr.who had been chosen by me to go to Halifax as naval mem ber of the committee on welcome. He called at my home on Sunday morning, .after leaving the dis tinguished guests of America com fortably established in the capital, ami that afternoon the whole city turned out to make a gala day of its welcome. "Religion in War." Sundays in wartime were apt to be quite unlike the Sundays with which a pious training had made us , familiar in days of peace. I found during the war that, except for. the church hours, it was imperative to vary from the long established cus tom of not working on the seventh day. Indeed, in planning, as well as in fighting in the world war, as in most wars, history shows that the quiet of the Sabbath has seemed conducive to important conferences and bloody battles. Why is this? 1 pass the query on, having no an swer except that in a war for hu manity, bottomed upon Christian orincioles. I believe that the ox-in- the-ditch principle, rather than strict exclusion of all save churcti worsnip, is religion in war. Admiral Fletcher in that Sunday morning" conversation reported to rr.e his Impression of the members of the mission.. He said Mr. Bal four and Admiral de Chair the lat ter the naval member of the British mission talked f reelyr but ' seemed to be deeply serious, if not de nrxcrri. hv the oravitv of the situa tion. Thev exDressed confidence of I ultimate victory for the allies, but POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. .Vote For It UTiERKiy Re-Electiori as a iwa; luLll nariatlM lr rM mH. DANIELS. af tat . Tl.t tlTitl roamonff 4 tha J; 'Bloooj mirear regarded the German submarine warfare as most dangerc-us. and thought there would be a terrible, and probably, a long struggle be fore victory. Admiral Fletcher and Admiral de Chair were old acquaint ances and there tad been no reserve between them. Balfour in Double Character. And so, with the background fur nished by the admiral's report, I went presently to meet these men w ho had come to extend to us the hand of comradeship in the great light for civilization.- Of course. Mr. Balfour, as I have said, was the outstanding figure. In the second year of the war he was first lord of the "admiralty. He had been blamed for giving Jellico the high sea command. ' He had been praised for many successes of the British navy. Was he Balfour, the great philosopher, or was he, as" some of the Irish called him, -bloodv BalfouV?" , Was he a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? If you had met him as I did on the Monday after his arrival and been privileged to be his dinner partner at the White House, you could never suppose he was other than the rather aloof scholar and DhilosoDher. He looked the stu- Ulcr.t, not the administrator, ccrtain- jy nui a iimu niin villain rould be associated. He had a calm. rather majestic bearing, but you felt that he could not harm a ny. Balfour impressed me by his re serve power. He always seemed to be telling you only a little of what k knew. You felt his largeness of knowledge, his breadth of judg ment, his clarity and his chanty, lie i , J . . . 1. U AM.il.t vtnt fiau icamea su jiiui.ii uwuu be dogmatic. It was hard to tell whether you liked him best when he was talking or when he was listening. There was a certain charm in liis drawing you out that made vou feel at once that he was deeply interested in what you were savine : but when he was answering your inquiries his fund of informa tion was so ready ana accurate tnai von understood his Dlace of primacy when world leaders discussed big nrnhlrm with him. Conditions in Egypt or India or Mesopotamia were as familiar to htm as those in his own neighborhood. .' Balfour Not an Optimist Of course I talked to him mostly about the navv and naval operations and naval policies in the war. He had so recen'lv directed the British navy that his knowledge was full and interesting. Like most tngnsnroen with whom I talked during the war, Mr. Balfour was frankly grave. He irradiated none of the optimism which fairly dazzles one when Lloyd George talks. He did not look glad or joyous. I am writing of him now as he ap peared in those dark days after years of difficult and baffling warfare. His tall form was bent as if with the burdens of the world. Every part of his face and body told of the weight of responsibilities upon him. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. THE -KKK: OMAHA, MONDAY. APRIL 18. 1921. . 8 But there was a lilt in his eye when he smiled that made you wish you could have known him when war's alarms did not make gravity sit tike a master upon his spirits. A short time before he arrived I heard a story which 1 never doubted after talking with Mr. Balfour. The story was that an American journal ist visiting London desired for his paper above all things an interview with Mr. Balfour and framed some leading questions he wished to ask. At length an appointment was ob tained with this condition: "At the end of 15 minutes your audience must terminate." Worth Losing "Scoop." As he was presented to Mr. Bal four the editor thought to be agree able by speaking of the deep interest with which he had read Mr. Bal four's work on "Philosophy" or The Future Life, I've forgotten which. It was a fatal error, for. once launched upon his tavoritt topfc. Mr. Balfour did not pause for 15 minutes. At the' end of 4hat time the Americin journalist was shown out. Not one of the his questions had been even asked, he bad lost his 'scood interview and was bemoan ing his blunder of paying a compli ment before proceeding to business. But afterwards, telling .the incident to a friend, the American said: "It was worth losing the story to hear a real philosopher discuss great, im mortal questions in the most im mortal way. He seemed to rise from the plains to the heights and to carry you into a new world of spec- ulation ana tnougnt anu hiiiuiui you did not believe any man had fathomed." And that explains Mr. Balfour and- is the secret of the good impression he made in Washington. He dis cussed international diplomacy, war and books with President lson. and they both spoke the same lan guage. He discussed finance - ana loans with Mr. McAdoo and ob tained a loan of $200,000,000 for bis country the first- loan any asso ciated nation obtained from our gov ernment. He discussed shipping with the members of the shipping board, munitions with the secretary of war. and with the secretary of the navy he discussed, naval co-operation and inef!tion to detect subma rines. He was at home with the parliamentary leaders of the house and senate. Relies on Experts. I observed one' thing about him and the job he had come to do. which showed British thoroughness He was the head of the mission and debated big problems and talked abotft whatever was uppermost. But he relied on Gen. Tom Bridges (a fine soldier and fine man he is) to carry on the negotiations with the War department; upon Admiral de Chair with the Navy department; Lord Cunliffe, governor of the Bank of England, with the Treasury de partment; Lord Percy on blockade and export auestions; Mr. Anderson on wheat and food supplies; Major Puckle on transports, Mr. Layton on munitions, and so on an expert on every matter that might ans was at his elbotf. And those experts wre more than experts. They were masters in their line, competent to confer and con clude with the officials here who were charged with like duties by the American government. Mr. Balfour never lost sight of the one big thing he came for, he never forget the interest of his coun try, but he left to his able associates the carrying out of the many details and amazing big transactions which full co-operation required. . Northcliffe Blows In. And after Balfour came North cliffe. The great British journalist ar rived on June 11, or rather I should POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. -- , 1 vj, :k-M sav blew in. If you were to enter a room already occupied by Balfour and Northcliffe, if there was a quiet fire burning and some books on philosophy or statecraft were on the table, you would feci it was Bal four's home. But if it were North cliffe'a home you would expect to see a typewriter pounding a late "scoop" and books here and there showing that their contents were era ployed to give them as extracts to the world rather than for personal enjoyment. In other words. Balfour looks like a dreamer. Northcliffe looks like a man of action. The truth is they are both dreamers and they have both had large parts in translating their dreams into world progress. When Balfour arrived the quiet hours for discussion and entertain ment seemed fitting. When North cliffe came over he said with a business-like finality, "I am not here to talk. I am engaged in the task cf organization, which precludes my ac cepting this country's offers of hospi tality which have poured in on uic since my arrival. I hope to gather new ideas for transmission to Eng land and I shall be glad to answer any question bearing upon the les sons to be learned from any mis takes Great Britain and its allies have made since the time when they were so unexpectedly plunged into this horrible carnage." In other words, in journalistic language, it was time to go to press, ancTdiscus sion and its amenities must wait until the paper is printed. Then who was more delightful company than the re markable British editor! Balfour's Philosophic Utterance. Contrast the above up-to-date ut terance with what the philosophical Mr. Balfour said upon his arrival: Un behalt ot my countrymen, let me express our gratitude for all that the citizens of the United States of America have done to mitigate the lot of those who m the allied coun tries have suffered from the cruel ties of the most deliberately cruel of all wars." And again. "That this great people should have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into this mightly struggle, prepared for all the cfiorts and sacrifices that may be required to win success for this most righteous cause, m an event at once so happy and so mo a a mentous that only the historian of the future will be able, as I believe, to measure its true proportions." Great Britain sent other great men to hold other conferences, so that our team work would be perfect, but Balfour and Northcliffe came in the first days of our entrance into the war: they brought us the inside truths of a serious situation, and their counsel was then and will al ways be regarded as of great value to the closest unity which ripened into oneness of action by the two English speaking nations. Bundle of Energy. I found Lord Northcliffe a bundle of energy and a personage of great ability. He fairly oozed vjtality and information on any topic that might come up. Some people associate energy with quick action, behind which is lacking thoroughness of preparation and large knowledge. The career of Northcliffe refutes this popular misconception. . His large grasp of the great problems enabled"! htm to co-ordinate British cnorts here in a way greatly to facilitate the supplies to the armies and the civilian population. As a fellow journalist it was a happiness to come in such close touch as to ap praise at its full value the big service he rendered here, as well as in his own country, and in Europe, to a cause which called forth in the high est degree his remarkable resource and initiative. ' (Another artlrle bj former Reeralary Dantrls will appear ia The Bea tonior- Former Leader of Carranza Army Reported in Mexico Laredo, Tex., April 17. General Pablo Gonzales, former leader of the Mexican army under the Car ranza regime, probably is in Mex ico again, it was learned today at a Laredo bank where he carried a deposit. Notwithstanding denial at General Gonzales temporary home here last night, of reports that he had returned to Mexico to lead a revolt against President Obregon's government, it was stated at the bank that Gonzales left Laredo Thursday afternoon for an un known destination. His family stated here today they were un aware of his whereabouts. (4 Crimped The edges are creased by a patented machine. No paste to taste. And it also means a longer-lasting, easier-burning cigarette. Some smokel Light up " Woman Author All Tangled on Mates Lived With Man Already Married Is She His Daugh ter or Not? Salem. Mass., April 17. The mat rimonial predicament of Mrs. Bertha J. Knowlton, an attractive young author of Swampscott, who lost her plea for annulment of her marriage to Arthur Llewellyn Griffiths of Marblehead, explorer and friend of former President Taft, is stranger and more involved than any domes tic problem of fiction from hcrwn pen. . Mrs. Knowlton's latest book is said to be based ou her two tem pestuous experiences between the ages of 15 and 25. Mrs. Knowlton, who prefers the name, although her first husband divorced her six years ago, by the court's ruling is . still Griffith's wife under the Vermont ceremony which Judge Quinn al luded to as a "pretended marriage." Griffiths had a wife. Mrs. Stella Wood Griffiths of Winslow, Me., whom the cotirt found he had not divorced before marrying Mrs. Knowlton. And there developed the matri monial enigma. Either Mrs. Knowl ton is still Griffiths' wife, or the years they lived together following the Vermont marriage were not spent in legal wedlock. Or she never had any legal .claim on Griffiths. Or Griffiths had two wives. Judge Quinn's decision would indicate that under legal ethics the Vermont ceremony would have no standing in court Mrs. Knowlton. mother of one child and twice married, at the age of 25 is left in a matrimonial mud dle. She is socially prominent on the North Shore. Denby Swats H. C. of L. Washington, April 17. Secretary Denby took a whack at the high cost of living for blue jackets and leaf blend Top-leaves of Kentucky's best crops of Burley for that good old tobacco taste; a dash of Macedonian for spicy aroma; Sunny Vir ginia's choicest golden leaf, and cool-burning Maryland tobacco. j w marines, ordering clothing and small stores prices' down on an average of 35 per cent. His action ..-a m.J. Kr i,aw ntir- chases during recent price smashes. Smoot Will Address Farm Bureau on Tax Questions Washington, April 17. Considera tion of a committee report recom mending repeal of the excess profits tax asd imposing a tax on corpora tions was postponed by the Ameri can Farm Bureau federation confer ence to hear a speech Monday by Senator Smoot, republican, Utah. 3 eairnn . Oond for our free recibo booh .It tells you how best to cook with EAGLE BRAND Condensed Milk S2W(iyay BorJew BuiMinrf N'awtarit EXCEPTIONAL CHOCOLATES INNER-CIRCLE CANPIES iCamrilM 1921 1411 a Mjmr TaUiaa Ca. v -
