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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 4. 1921. V,.,.r Wnmon Tc 1 Found Prisoner In Wire Cage Mother and Sister Hold Mem ber of Family in Room for 16 Ytars Taken to 'f . Hospital. ' Schenectady, N. Y.( May . 3.-A . ... i, Im A krn imnm- ' J . . : k. ,'irh nniari in a wur ( .. w r 1 11 1 11 1. liiuvi f iniillv HarVpnpd room for 16 ylars was rescued by the humane ; society from a lonely house near Kmind Lake. tier name is Jennie Hall, 30, and ; she had been held captive by a moth- AttgnJ nMr eislrr hnth of whom hfve been taken into custody. Jn a little cell made of heavy wire tincr ttrrtrhino' to the ceilinsr. was ' found a woman huddled on the floor w9 shrank from her rescurer anil screamed in fright. She was dressed in a child's bon net, flimsy clothes, and was amaci ated from long imprisonment. Ever since childhood she had been kept' there, and since her incarceration she had never seen or spoken to a liumaji being save her two female jailors. yThe released captive was immedi ately removed to a hospital. She was very weak and apparently half starved. She clung tenaciously to the pathetic little bonnet, and bab,Ued like a child when the au thorities tried to question her. When she did talk coherently, it was with the undeveloped mentality of a young child. An investigation of the family s history developed the fact that Jen nie Hall was adjudged insane about 20 years ago, and after being con fine for a time in the Utica state hospital, was sent home. Uauuuii man vtuuo 1 To Take State Bureau J X.J m T ?:alf,.n linns! i-wf tf-lA r-1irA XI till 3 J. iv, lav i, iivau nv issiwv bureau of Bertillon measurements of criminals, presented his resignation to Chief of Police EU-rstcin Mon day, to take effect June 1. 'He has accepted a position as head or the state bureau of identification, cheated by the recent legislature, with a salary of $1,800 a year. Niel sen is the foremost expert on finger print and Bertillon work in Ne raska, Nielsen will draw a pension from the Omaha police fund. He has been on the force just a few weeks more than the required 20 years. On April 1, 1901. he joined the police department. He was given the rank of a detective and assigned to the health department in 1908. He was ptaced in charge of the police Bertil i i ioi7 1UI1 UUKdU HI n f " TV lincher brain di Reported Favorably I Washington, May 3. The Tincher bill to regulate tutures grain ex changes was unanimously ordered favorably reported tonight by the house agriculture committee. It has been strengthened by amendments suggested by Secretary Wallace, un der whose direction it would be ad ministered. I he bill wouiu empower me secre tary of agriculture to regulate the amount of speculative trading by any individual or firm at one time, would require the keeping of records cover ing all transactions for inspection by the secretary or officials of the De partment of Justice, and wo Id per mit co-operative associations of pro ducers to be members of exchanges. Burned Commerce High Annex to Be Replaced ; Another temporary building for , the High School of Commerce 'to ' .nUja nf tli tiw frame WftC piat-v v ' - structure at Twentieth and Leaven - worth streets, destroyed by fire last fall, will be built by the Board of Education at a cost of $43,000, and having 13 rooms, the board decided Monday night. The board also ratified the sale of $2,500,000 school district improve ment bonds, this money to be used for construction of the new commer cial and technical high school and for other school construction. Contracts were" ordered executed for. the construction of the first eight room unit of the new Lake school to Peter Kiewifs Sons for general construction, $58,890. Police Believe Husband's ntorv in oomo uiasi rroue After he had surrendered himself nnlir fnllrtwinff Klisnicion hi knew something about the explosion which wrecked his wife's home, 3802 North Eighteenth street, Sunday night, Ed Davis, 2883 Capitol ave nue, was freed on' $500 bond Mon day afternoon. Davis denied -all knowledge of the explosion until he read of it . in the newspapers. He told of playing cards Sunday even ing, which statement was supported by his landlady. Mrs. Christina El ston, and anotner Toomer. Police believe his story is true. Steamships Sua Francisco, May . Araaioa Mara. Batavti: San Antonio, Corlnto; Creole Stat. Calcatta. aplM, May t. Ban OaTonnt. New York. Nt Tork. Mar 1. Bercene fjord. Chris tian!.. , Manila. April t0.--West Jam up. Seattle. - Or. ' . Plymouth. "May J. Zwland, Nsw Tork fr Antwerp.) Sallhtfft. Haw York. May I. Drottnlnvholm. Ootkankur. Southampton. April St. Mauritania, Kw Tnrk. Chrtstianta, April !. United Statea. . Keir Tork. Shanghai. April it. Anatina, San Fran, eiaeo; May 29: Golden State. San Fran elaco. Valparaiso, May 1. Alkmaar, San Fran cisco. Sourabaya, April IT. Oorontalo. Saa Francisco. Kobe, May . Delight. Seattle. Kobe, April l. Cross Keys. Taeoma; Sail. Saa Francisco; Durban Maru. San s Francisco. Antwerp. April IT. Bnenos Aires. San Francisco. V Honfkonc, April ' Weot Jens, San Francisco. Genoa, April IS. Ruins 4 lulls. Kew Tork. Omaha Slayers Wash and Mend Pen Clothes Burnell Lawson. Lincoln, May 3. (Special.) Pale, hollow eyed, his swagger gone and his soft hands red, Burnell Lawson, slayer -of his wife at the Hollywood apartments, Omaha, bends over a wash tub in the state prison laundry day after day. He is convict No. 8Q97. Half a block away in the prison yard is another building. There is a tailor shop, sitting cross-legged, his head bent over a cleverly wielded needle sits Nels Johnson, slayer of Arthur Cooper, Omaha city detec tive, at Eighteenth and Howard streets. lanuary 28. He is convict No. 8069. Both are serving life term. "A Ladies' Man." "We picked Lawson for the laun dry because he was neat and clean and from our records was strictly a ladies' man, who loved clean collar! and clean shirts and would see to it that the prisoners' clothes came out clean," Warden W. T. Fenton said today. "He is reported to be a quiet, or derly prisoner. As yet, no one has asked to gee him." Johnson told prison officials he knew something about the tailoring business. Tailors always are needed. He has proved himself a good work er and has given no trouble, officers asserted. Just Beyond. Both are working toward the Allies Will Invite U. S. Into Council (Continued from Page One.) distance telephone instructed Wrar Minister Barthow at Paris to order the class of 1919 called to the colors for military occupation of the Ruhr basin. Great Britain and Belgium will participate in the Ruhr occupation by providing contingents of troops, if Germany fails to promise to pay the full reparations total and also to give satisfactory guarantees by May 12. The American forces on the Rhine will be the only allied occupational army which will not participate in the occupation. The French will provide six infantry divisions, the Belgians one division and the Brit ish a battalion, making about 150,000 troops. In addition there will be 200 tanks, 5,000 armored cars and 20 batteries of fild artillery, all motorized. Will Feed Inhabitants. Twelve aviation squadrons will complete the military force. Besides the purely military forces the French will use several thousand motor trucks as auxiliary means of transportation to carry food sup plies to feed the Ruhr inhabitants in case Germany closes the frontiers and tries to starve the poplation"into uprisings. . The same motor trucks which shifted allied divisions for counter offensives during the last three months of the world war will be used to carry supplies to the German workers in the Ruhr. Labor Opposes Invasion. Amsterdam, May 3. The Interna tional Federation of Labor today published a statement demanding the immediate reopening of negotia tions between Germany and the al lies on the basis of the latest Ger man proposals concerning repara tions. The German oroposals, the state ment says, are supported by the German working classes. The fed eration insists that no further meas ures of occupation be taken and de mands that the German government respect any promises it may make. -Allies Reach Agreement London, May 3. (By The Asso ciated Press.) The supreme council today reached a substantial agree ment on the terms to be imposed on Germany. In principle, it is agreed Germany is under obligation to pay 6,600,000,000 pounds sterling. She will be required to pay 100,000, 000 pounds yearly, plus 2o per cent of her exp"orts. This obligation by Germany shall be acknowledged by the issue by Germany of bonds bearing 5 per cent interest. Of these, a certain amount shall be issued immediately. a second lot in November and there after as many more as she has abil ity to pay. How the bonds are io be paid off is still being discussed. These terms will be incorporated in the ultimatum, which expires May 12, and which will be sent to Ger many when the details of the terms are definitely decided upon, prob ably tomorrow. Plan of Collection. When the German payments amount to more than the sum re quired to pay the interest on the bonds issued, the reparations com mission will be entitled to requite the issue of further bonds. The in tention, according to a British of ficial, is to proportion the German obligations after a certain figure, to ner aomty to pay. Blockade Plans. Paris, May 3. The Echo de Paris declared this morning that olans for the blockade of Hamburg. Bremen, Lubeck and Stettin had already been lifer's Utopia the day when they be come "trusties" and can feel the shade and tramp on the blue grass in the prison yard which they view every day just outside their window but can never touch. This Utopia means years of hard work and constant obedience to pris on rules, which, may some day, sometime, convince skeptical officers that they can be trusted beyond the gray walls. Then, maybe, when their eyes are dim, their hair is gray and their gait is halting, the guardians of society will say they have suffered enough, a pardon will be granted and they will walk out again in the world, free men. Too Many Waiters. "Oli, if they behave themselves long enough, they may get out on the farm or on a work gang," War den Fenton said. "Usually, lifers prove to be more trustworthy 'trus ties' than any other class of pris oners. For they realize one bad step means goodby to their last glim mer of hope, a pardon. But it usual ly takes a long, long period of hard work and obedience to rules for us to forget their cold blooded deeds sufficiently to put them outside." Lawson gave his name to prison officers as William E.' Burton. He told the officers he was a waiter by profession, but they had enough waiters and put him in the laundry. prepared. The French warships chosen to participate in , the opera tion, the newspaper said, would be commanded by Vice Admiral Eagot Duvauroux. This morning's newspapers, ex pressed liveliest satisfaction over the conclusions reached by the supreme council in London yesterday, declar ing the result was a triumph for Pre mier Briand. The question of guar antees appeared to be the only doubt ful point in the situation. - Washington, May 3. In urging Germany to make at once "directly to the allied governments" adequate proposals on reparations the Ameri can government was believed by the allied diplomats here to have definite ly closed the reparations incident so far as the United States was con cerned. Administration officials declined today to comment on the communi cation saying that it spoke for itself. Peace Offer to Be Made To Irish Parliament Dublin, May 3. Announcement was made yesterday by John J. Far rell, former lord mayor of Dublin that a peace offer was to. be made to the Irish republican Parliament. Mr Farrell said his informant was Wal ter Forest, member of the parliament, who, on the; authority of the Irish office declared that the British gov ernment was prepared to grant dominion home rule in Ireland, sub ject to Great Britain retaining con trol over the army and navy", the moment Ireland indicates her will to accept. Mr. Farrell added that Mr. Forrest did not mention the exclusion of any portion of Ireland from the offer that the government was said to be willing to make and also that he not refer to financial provisions. Omaha Uni Students to Hold Ivy Day Exercises Thursday Ivy day will be instituted at the University of Omaha by the student body Thursday morning at 11:30 with an outdoor chapel service. Miss-Augusta Knight of the uni versity art department will be in charge of the exercises. Kinder garten students will present the school wito ivy plants. Each class and school organization will contribute shrubs which will be planted on the campus. Rev. F. G. Boell of the Trinity Methodist church will speak. Lord Edmund Talbot Sworn In at Dublin As New Irish Viceroy Dublin, May 3. Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot, who is now Vis count Fitzalan, was sworn . in to day as lord lieutenant and governor general of Ireland. The ceremony which took place in Dublin Castle, was attended only by high officials. The new viceroy arrived yesterday Two motion picture photograph ers and the venerable keeper of the newsstand, whose privilege it has been for nearly half a century to wel come visiting royalties and the suc cessive viceroys, were the only civil ians permitted on the station plat form to witness his arrival. News paper men also were excluded from the ceremony in Dublin Castle. ' Preparations for the approaching elections now will be hastened. The first election posters have been put up, exhorting the electors to vote for republican candidates. Three men posting election notices Satur day night were arrested in Black Kock, a suburb, where crown forces raided a house and 'seized election literature, "l, Crew of Flaming Ship Forced to Jump Into Sea Eight Taken From Japanese Steamer by U. S. Crew Die; Women and Children Rescued. San Francisco, May 3. Eight members of the crew of the Japa nese steamer Tokuyo Maru died aft er being taken aboard the United States array transport Buford, ac cording to a wireless received today from Capt. K. Suzuki of the Tokuyo by the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, owners of the burned vessel. The Standard Oil tanker Charlie Watson reported by wireless that at 5:30 a. m. today she had sighted the Tokuyo Maru, still in flames. The position of the vessel was given as latitude 44.38 north, longti tude 125.50 west. The Tokuyo Maru sailed from Portland Sunday for the far east. The fire broke out in the bunkers about 4:30 p. m., yesterday and made rapid progress. Capt. K. Suzuki gave or ders to abandon ship soon after he discovered efforts to extinguish the flames had failed and that the pas sengers and crew were in danger. A number of the crew were forced to jump overboard because the flames spread so rapidly they were unable to launch all of the ship's boats. The vessel was abandoned about 60 miles off the coast of Ore gon southwesterly from the mouth of the Columbia river. The women and children on board the Tokuyo Maru were families of Japanese returning to Japan from the west coast of South America, where nitrates had been loaded. The vessel docked at Portland and took on 1.800,000 feet of lumber. The vessel was used chiefly as a freight er and its accommodations for pas sengers were limited. Man With Four Aliasas Gets Four Months in County Jail John Ferrill, alias John Merritt, alias Joe Welden, alias Harry Ward, was sentenced to four months in the county jail by District Judge Redick Monday for breaking and entering the home of Harold E. Williams, 1102 South Tenth street No "Private" on Hays' Door. Washington, May 3. Postmaster General Hays has hung his official latch string out in fact. The word "private" has vanished from the door and you just walk in when yon want to see him. DETERMINE fiftt what satisfies you in clothes And if it's Style and Fabric Color, Quality, Service Alloftheser You'll approve of Cable's "Ready" clothes D. E. CABLE LOUIS F.SCHONLAU CARL a KAESSNER 1809 Farnam Street The Omaha Sunday Bee Including the Beautiful Rotogravure Section By Mail Within 600 Miles of Omaha ' One Year Six $2.50 $1.25 75c , This Offer Good Until June 25, 1921 Fill and clip out coupon below and mail at once with your remittance to The Omaha Bee THE OMAHA BEE, Omaha, Neb. Gentlemen: Enclosed find $ Omaha Sunday Bee (including the for months as per your Name Town Box Start Paper Give date to start Packer Control Bill Hearings Are Begun By House Committee Chira e TrlbiUM-Owuli Be Leased Wire. Washington, May 3. Hearings on the meat packer control bill were begun yesterday by the house com mittee on agriculture and will be continued the greater part of the week. The plan is reported similar to the measure under consideration at the last session. The chief witnesses before the com mittee was Representative Anderson of Minnesota. Mr. Anderson for merly was a member of the commit tee and was the author of one of the bills which was pending in the last session. Mr. Anderson declared that by rea son of congestion in the courts t is impossible to leave the regulation of the packing industry to such pro ceedings as might be instituted by the Department of Justice. The opposition to the measure will be heard beginning Wednesday. Nu merous petitions have been received from business organizations through the country against the measure. Oil Producers Urge Duty of $150 a Barrel Washington. May 3. Oil produc ers of southwestern states urged members of the house ways and means committee to impose a duty of $1.50 per barrel on imports of crude oil as protection against Mex ican exports. It was claimed by the delegation that a number of oil fields are shut down in this country and that there is a very heavy reduction in the number of persons employed in the oil producing industry. It was as serted that the cost of producing a barrel of crude oil in the United States is $1.75 as against a cost of only 25 cents in Mexico. The con tention was advanced that a duty of $1.50 per barrel would equalize the difference in cost. Mail Service Pilot Spends Honeymoon in Air Jaunt Salt Lake City, May 3. A honey moon of 10 days, much of which time was spent in traveling high over mountain peaks, the desert and even the Pacific ocean, came to a close here when Pilot E. E. (Monte) Motiton of the Salt Lake division of the ar mail service and his bride, formerly Miss Claire Yerington of Carson City, Neb., landed in Salt Lake City. Divorce Court. Decrees. Detyoos Johnson from Frances Juhnaou, cruelty. Lyla High from Anna Hlfrh, cruelty. Months Three Months 1921 for which send me The Beautiful Rotogravure Section) special offer State.. ;..R. F.D. Babe Ruth Arrested In His Bath Tub for Not Paying Taxes Boston, May 3. Base ball fans the country over have known for two years that Babe Ruth had trans ferred his batting headquarters from Boston to New York, but city hall learned of it officially only today. Served in his hotel bathtub w;ih a warrant for unpaid taxes of $27.25 on his automobile for years, Ruth protested that he had not been a resident of this city since the fall of 1919. His objection unavailing, he dressed in haste, took the constable into his automobile and whirled to city hall. The city tax collector ar ranged for him to certify that the assessment was in error. Irishman Executed 24 Hours After He Fired at Officer Dublin, May 3. (By The Asso ciated Press.) -Patrick Casey was executed by a firing squad at Mitch elltown, County Cork, yesterday, less than 24 hours after he had partici pated in an attack on crown forces Sunday night. During an ambuscade at Mitchell town Casey was seen to fire at an officer who was only 40 yards away, according to the testimony adduced at the military court. After firing Casey threw down his rifle ar;d put up his hands. When he was searched a revolver and ammunition were found. The miltary court found him guilty and condemned him to death. He was shot last night. 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Secretary Davis was to talk to these groups separately alter th regular meeting of the cabinet today and hopes were expressed that a way to settlement would be found as result. New York, May- 3. The passenger liner Sixaola of the United Fruit line left for the West Indies at noon to day, the first American ship to sail from New York since the widespread marine strike was called. The Six aola, officials of the line said, was able to recruit sufficient new men to take the place of those who re sponded to the strike call. Aged Thespian Gives Life Struggling to Carry Through Act Chicago, May 3. Age found out Samuel Edwards on the stage of the Blackstonc theater and offered him battle on the field where he lias spent most of his 73 years of life. True to the traditions of his profes sion, the veteran actor, after collaps ing during the second act, returned and fought his way to the curtain of "Bab" in which he lias been play ing a leading role. 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