THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 1921.
Recognition of
Government of
Mexico Is Near
Document Presented to Obrc
gon Merely Written Guar
antee for American rro
tcction and Property.
"J?lo" Leeds Says Stillman
Continues to Call on Her
Farmer "Century Roof Chicken," on Visit to Beauty
?rlor, Grows Talkative and Declares "Jay Is
Parked in An Apartment With a. Nurse
Maid." ......
Mexico City, May 31. Develop
ment in the negotiations between
President Obregon and George T.
Summerlin, American cliarge d'af
faires, relative to the memorandum
of the American State department,
have reached a stage where it is
freely predicted here, that recogni
tion of the present government by
the United States is possible within
a short time.
It is known the memorandum pre
sented by the charge to the president
yesterday was in such form that the
president could, by his personal sig
nature, make recognition by the
United States virtually assured.
It is also known that the docu
ments, which may be signed by
President Obregon, is merely a writ
ten guarantee that certain requests
of the United States will be com
plied with. Chief among these Is
a,nnli nrntection for American lives
and property in Mexico.
The State department is under
stood to champion no special Amei
ican interests, but in a broad and
general way to have suggested thai
safety guarantees for all must pre
cede recognition. Such guarantees
are said to be not only for physical
protection but for property rights.
President Obregon has emphasiz
ed that it is impossible for him to
sign anything reflecting on the na
tional honor or derogatory to na
tional pride, and from high officials
it is learned, that if the president
does sign a guarantee it will be in
such form as not to offend the sus
ccptibilites of the Mexican people.
Washington, May 30. Official
comment was withheld tonight on
the possibility of early recognition
oi the government of Mexico should
President Obregon sign the memo
randum,, presented to him by George
T. Summerlin, American charge
d'affaires, at Mexico City.
The memorandum was taken to
Mexico City by Mr. Summerlin last
week, after he had discussed the
question with Secretary Hughes ana
is understood to have asked for as
surances by Frcsidcnt Obregon that
Americans and their property will
be safeguarded in Mexico.
Haywood Breaks Into
Russian Newspaper
Riga, May 31. (By The Associat
ed Press.) To the hungry millions
of Moscow and Russia, generally,
William D. Haywood, secretary
treasurer of trie Industrial Workers
of the World, who recently fled
from the United States t Russia,
through a two-column interview
printed by the Pravda, pictures th
United States as a place where po
tato fields, apple orchards, rice plan
tation and other full crops are de
liberately allowed to rot because ot
"a capitalistic conspiracy to bold up
prices and starve the working man-
mio sumiusB'"".
he savf.iS passing
through its greatest economic crisis,
due to "the vast conspiracy of
group of capitalists against the
all sides in America." lis
,A "one can be easily convinced
I,,. tl,P ranitalists of the United
States, who arc the owners of the
land and industrial undertakings, ar
rnHv to destroy the workmen
for their own benefit as to destroy
natures bounties.
No Longer Will Bryan
Do Voting in Nebraska
Libertys Slump Again.
Mav 31. Liberty 3'A
per cent (tax exempt) bonds dropped
to $o.w, their lowest quotation uu
ih stork exchanee today. Other
issues of that group also were heavy,
Officers Must Walk Beats;
Charges Filed Against Two
Members of the police department
who are assigned to walk beats will
he exnected to walk their beats, ac
cording to Police Commissioner
Dunn.
"Wanderinar a mile or so away
from their beats is not going to be
allowed." said the commissioner.
Charges were filed yesterday
morninflr bv Chief of Police Demp
sey against Patrolmen Dudley
Wright and J. P. Phalen, the former
being charged with neglect to patrol
his beat, and the latter with being off
his beat without leave.
Bandits Interrupt Study of
' Astronomy by Man and Girl
William Gosch, 3451 South
, Fifteenth street, went motoring
"Monday night in Fontenelle park
with a lady friend.
1 . A study in astronomy was in
terrupted shortly by the appearance
of three masked bandits.
They took $50 from Gosch, re-
proved him severely for keeping the
young lady out so late and ordered
him to take her home immediately.
He did it iiv nothing flat he told
police.
Fire Discovered on Board
U. S. Ship at Buenos Aires
s Buenos Aires, May 31. (By The
' Associated Press.) Fire broke out
0 this morning on board the United
States shiDoine board steamer, Mar
f tha Washinnton. but the blaze was
quickly extinguished. The cause of
the fire is not known.
"t The strike of longshoremen con
tinues, but the employment of non-
: union labor is increasing in the port
area, which is being guarded by mili
tary forces.
Al Woods Says Chicago to
Be Theater Producing Center
Chicago, May 31. Chicago will
. become a theatrical producing center
7 according to plans announced last
. .. night by Al Woods, in connection
" with the opening of a new theater,
the Apollo. With three that are here
Wood plans to start producing in
Chicago next fall.
A'ew York, May frl. "Flo" Led,
fie central figur in the "affirma
tive defense" of Mrs. "Fifi" Potter
Stillman against the divorce suit of
her husband, is back on Broadway.
Hiding in the heart of the tender
loin, the former "chicken on the
Century roof," for whom James A.
Stillman expended thousands of dol
lars, has eluded until today all at
tempts of newspaper men to find
her. But today she revealed the
story of her life in hiding.
"The kid is parked out in the
country with a nurse and I have
been in and out of town 50 times
in the last couple of months," she
said. "But everybody's been asleep.
Nobody's been hep to me."
Has Two "Love Nests."
She went on to mention two now
"love nests," one in the heart of the
tenderloin and the other in a lonely
part of a fashionable suburb where
only a nurse looks after the wants
little Jay Ward Leeds, alleged
son ot James J. stniman.
In her trips in and out of the city
she disclosed she has resorted to a
simple disguise a blonde wig which
he slips easily over her bobbed
titian hair. She was forced to have
her hair bobbed because the fre
quent applications of henna, whicn
anstormed her irom a brunette,
had rendered her hair brittle.
This stuff about my being out of
the city is bunk, she went on.
Why, I come to New York when
ever I feel like it. But nobody has
got wise. Why, 1've.been staying in
an apartment in the ," and sh:
named an apartment in tne neart ot
he theater district.
Out Riding With Stillman.
Isn't . it a scream? Why, only
Monday night Jay (her name for
Mr. Stillman) and I were stopped
on tne road naming a w.m
known motor highway) for skidding
along too fast in the car. Heaven
help us if we had been pinched."
These disclosures regarding die
recent movements ot Mrs. .Leeds
came as the result of a recent visit
he made to the Gertrude Beauty
shop near the corner of Forty-eighth
street and Seventh avenue. Th;
hop is frequented by actresses,
chourus girls and the attractive
oung women hangers-on of Broac.;
wav s ment me.
When "Flo" Leeds dropped into
the little shop last Wednesday after
noon she was recognized by an old
friend. The pair began to talk and
The Bee's Short Story
ON THE TRAIL OF
CLARINE
jjl'" '"F's- I II
Florence
Mrs. Leeds inadvertently dropped
into the vernacular of the old days
of the "chicken chorus." She re
counted the story of her recent
movements.
Sees Him Regularly.
"Well. I liooc your friend isn't
like most men ready to leave you
flat, commented the friend.
"Not so you can notice it," Mrs.
Leeds countered. "Why, I see him
regularly. I've lunched with him at
golf clubs.
"I always meet him outside. That's
easy with 1,000,000 taxis in New
York and he doesn't mind coming
to the place where I've got the kid
parked. He hasn't been scared by
all these charges and newspaper ex
plosion's." "Flo" was wearing the blonde wig
that she uses for disguise. She ex
pressed envy of her friend's
luxuriant tresses.
"Gee, I wish mv hair would crow
like that, "she said. "It's falling out
in bunches. "But it s all m a life'
time and I guess I'm lucky I've got
to wear this wig.
And then "Ho" started away
from the shop.
By ELLA RANDALL PEARCE.
"I'm short of material," announced
Clarine, frowning in vexation. "And
I'll have to go to the store myself.
That's the worst of being poor. I've
scimped on the goods, and I must
be my own dressmaker and maid
and dear knows what!"
"But you'll look as fine as the
rest," said her mother with a fond
glance at her, daughter's radiant
blond beauty. 'It was so good of
Mrs. Twecd-Biggers o invite you."
"To sing for her guests, yes,"
said Clarine, with a little grimace.
"I wouldn't be of any account if I
weren't amusing, you know."
She tucked the sample of turquoise
silk in her handbag and, wrapped in
a long coat and veil, ran down the
stairs and out into the crisp winter
air. In her haste she found herself
in the track 'of an auto at the first
crossing; and, as she drew back,
her heel slipped on the frosted curb
and she sat down suddenly.
Struggling to rise, she was cons
cious that a tall masculine form
was bending over her, and she caught
involuntarily at an outfield hand.
"Are you hurt?" inquired an
agreeable voice.
Clarine leaned against a nearby
post. "I think I am. At least my
foot feels queer. I imagine I sat
on it."
"You were sitting down when, I
first saw you," replied the young
man saucily. But his next words
were politely dignified. "Can I as
sist you to your home?"
I don t want to go home, said
Clarine. "If I could get to the
car
"Try a few steps," encouraged the
man,, ottering his arm. incy waucen
alone slowlv. Clarine could see her
escort, but she felt secure lierseit
behind her shrouding coat and veil
The young man hailed a car ana
took a seat beside her. And when
the car stopped in front of her des
tination he alighted and assisted her
to the doors of the department
jstore, already crowded with shop-
Clarine thanked him, said cood-bye
and went in to attend to her errand.
When she limped to the store's front
entrance there was the young man
waiting for her. L-lanne s pulses
quickened as he drew near.
"I thouoht you said good-bye," she
said pettishly, trying to throw a
haughty accent into her tones and
failing because of a sudden desire
to laugh.
"It was you who said good-bye,"
he reminded hcr I wanted to sec
how your foot held out."
"It's all right," declared Clarine.
And at that moment some one
jostled her and threw her weight on
the 'hurt loot, bhe gave a low ex
clamation and grasped the nearest
support at hand, which proved to
be the voung man's arm.
"That's right. Hold on," he told
her. "I'm glad to be of service to
vou. Now do you want a car or
cab?"
"A cab, please," replied the girl
meekly. '
He helped Clarine into the wait
ing taxi' at the curb. "What ad
dress?" he asked casually.
' "I'll give the directions myself,"
answered Clarine. Then, as the
words seemed sharp, she added more
friendlily; "I thank you for your
kindness. My errand today was
quite important. And I couldn't
have gone on without your help."
"Don't I deserve a reward? asked
the young man, so earnestly that he
could not be considered impudent.
"You must remember you have the
advantage over me. You would
know me if we should meet again.
And I sincerely hope we will."
"What-er-why should we?" stam
mered Clarine. blushing behind her
concealing veil.
"Won't you give me a clew to
your identity?" persisted the young
man seriously.
Clarine hesitated while her
thoughts were busy. She did not
want this stranger, interesting as he
seemed to her, to know her name or
address. An impish spirit took pos
session of her. She dipped into bet
handbag.
"I'll give you a clew." she said
gaylv, and placed something in his
hand. "Here's a sample of the
gown I'm going to wear tomorrow
night. Find me and you may claim
a dance."
The taxi whiled away, and the
young man was left staring at a tiny
bit of turquoise silk with an odd de
sign in silver thread. "Find me and
you may claim a dance," echoed a
sweet, tantalizing voice.
"By George, we'll see if I'm to be
mocked like this!" The young man
smiled sardonically as he dropped
the silk sample in his pocket and
mingled with the busy crowd.
The next evening while Mrs.
Twecd-Biggars' orchestra was in full
play a radiant Clarine in gown of
turquoise silk, threaded in silver,
was receiving congratulations and
compliments as though both were
her daily portion. Her foot was a
trifle stiff, but she managed to take
part in the dancing: and it was nearly
midnight when she found herself
alone. Then the sound of a man's
voice made her start.
"I have come to claim my dance,"
Miss Forbes."
Clarine looked at the bit of blue
and silver silk a man's hand was
holding before her, then into the
steady eyees that searied her face.
And she gave up her first wild idea
of denying everything.
Her next dance was the most en
joyable of the evening. When it
was over she would question her
escort, thought the agitated young
woman.
Bht, at the end of the dance, the
mysterious stranger disappeared as
surprisingly as he had come. Mrs.
Tweed-Biggars broke in upon Clar
ir.e's bewildered reflections.
"My dear child," said her hostess
in a shocked whisper. Do you know
you were dancing with one of the
newspaper reporters?"
"Who? Oh, yes, why not?" Clar
ine's manner was haughty. "He is
an acquaintance of mine. A gentle
man." She left the home of Mrs. Tweed
Biggars deeply chagrined. Not only
because the stranger had been a re
porter instead of a guest, but be
cause he had vanished so suddenly
and she did not even know who he
was. Evidently he had appeared
merely to punish her for her chal
lenging jest of the day before. But
the pleasure of that, brief meeting
remained a haunting bitter-sweet
memory.
Next day by messenger a letter
came to Clarine, solving the seem
ing mystery.
"My Dear-Miss Forbes:
An apology is due you for my
seeming presumption of last evening.
But 1 took up your challenge because
I wanted to see you again.
With the trifling clews I had, the
search was begun. I presumed you
lived in the neighborhood where I
first saw you. A fashionable friend
of mine informed me what cere
monious affairs were on the carpet
for the time you mentioned.
With a borrowed reporter's badge
as passport, I finally reached the
home of Mrs. Tweed-Biggars. But
while dancing, I saw a familiar face
in the crowd and feared complica
tions for us both. So I ran away.
But may I not see you again?
Please!
Yours in Penitence,
ELBERT TENNEY."
Clarine meditated a moment, a
soft flush on her cheeks, a tender
light in her eyes. Then she took a
card "from her desk, where beneath
the engraved nanjes of Mrs. Sidney
Forbes and Miss Clarinda Forbes a
line read, "First Tuesdays." And
mischievously she added a message of
her own:
"At home especially to Mr. Elbert
Tenney."
Mother Pleads for Son Who
Is Held on Burglary Charge
"If it wasn't for your old mother
standing beside you I would like to
see you in the penitentiary," Judge
Wapnich told Richard White, Six
teenth and Grace streets, who was
arrested with John Lynch, Thirty
fifth and Jones street, for the alleged
theft of some clothing.
While the mother was pleading for
another chance for her son, W;appich
gave White 30 days in the county
jail instead of holding him to the
district court. Lynch was given a
similar sentence.
The men have been arrested twice
before for burglary.
Light Expert
Promises Aid
To Dan Cupid
Declares Day of Old Maid Is
Ended and Cobwebs Will
Soon Grow Over Di
vorce Court Door.
Chicago, May 31. The day of the
old maid has ended. Leap year is
going to be an every night event
after this. Cobwebs over the doors
of the divorce courts. All husbands
in love with their wives.
This was the romantic rainbow
promised by Dr. M. Luckiesh,
noted authority on scientific light
ing and coloring, director of applied
science at the Nclar research lab
oratories in Cleveland, who is in
Chicago to attend the forty-fourth
convention of the National Elec
ted Light association, which meets
tomorrow.
"It's all a mattrfr of psychologi
cal illumination," said Dr. Luckiesh.
A tongue-tied suitor, an impatient
maid and then click! she turns on
the caressing blue-white lights pre
viously arranged in the lamp on the
library table. It's all over but the
wedding march. The young man
succumbs to the mysticism of the
artificial moonlight; he says things
he could not unloosen under the or
dinary harsh lights and there you
are.
"The lights and colors used in the
ordinary American home are, well,
criminal. No wonder there are so
many nagging wives, whimpering
children, callous husbands. 1 ven
ture to predict that when house
wives have their homes illuminated
with satisfying light instead of the
usual irritating glare that divorces
will be reduced materially."
Dr. Luckiesh says that an ordi
nary electric globe given a delicate
yellow, tint will give a candle-light
effect that is restful and cozy.
0 Mom , for Yom Money
FORD SIZES $5.00 UP
All Previous Sales Records Broken Saturday and Sunday
Omaha Motorists Find the Heavy SPRAGUE EXTRA PLY TIRE the Best
Civil War Veteran
Is Stricken Blind
Pittsburgh, May 31. Just as he
spoke the words four score and
seven years ago," during the Me
morial day services at the Mincrs
ville cemetery here, H. S. Bengough,
80, past senior vice department com
mander of post is, (j. A. K., was i
stricken blind and groping for as
sistance, was taken from the speak
er's platform and to his home where
it was said that rave doubts arc
hold by physicians for the recovery
of his eyesight.
Unfolding the manuscript upon
which the address had been written;
he pulled down the peak of his cap,
as though to shield his eyes. As he
repeated the first six words of tne
address, Bengough reeled as though
struck by a bullet.
"I am blind! I can t see, he cried
League Secretariat Has
Kept Within Limits of Role
Geneva. May 31. (By The As
sociated Press.) The committee ap
pointed by the assembly of the league
of nations to enquire into the organ
ization of the secretariat ot the
leacue and the international labor bu
reau has completed its report which
is considered highly tavorable.
The report finds that the secre
tariat seems to have kept within the
limits of the role ot an inner organ
ization. The secretariat, it is de
clared, has conceived a rational plan
and had obtained results, justifying
the expenditure by the members of
the league.
To dminish the expense attendant
on meetings and conferences, how
ever, the committee considers that
all. meetings of, or arising from, the
league should be held in Geneva.
He's Glad His Car Makes 69
Not So Glad to Pay the Fine
"Too much speed," cost Robert
"Bob" O'Dell, auto salesman, $Zo in
Central police court yesterday.
Sergeant George tmery tola
Judge Wappich that O Dell was
traveling bV miles an nour irom
Fifty-second and Dodge streets to
Fairacres.
'How about it?" said Wappich to
O'Dell. "Guilty, Your Honor, I am
glad to know that my car can go 69.
A friend of mine doubted my word
and I just proved it."
O'Dell said he was not so glad to
pay the fine.
Exempted Alien Enemies
In Naturalization Court
"Presidential exceptions" from
alien enemy classification , will be
heard for the first time since the
war, at the coming naturalization
court to be held by Judge Scars the
week, beginning June 7. More than
500 cases w ill be heard.
The prospective citizens entitled
to "presidential exception," if they
secured such papers signed by the
president of the United States, are
Germans. Austrians or other aliens
who applied for their first citizen
ship papers within a year before wai
was declared, April 6, 1917,
Man Leaves Court Room
Arm in Arm With Wife
Max Blau, 811 North Twenty-sixth
street, brought about the arrest of
J. B. Kaplan, 1467 North Sixteenth
street. Sunday.
Yesterday in Central police court
Blau pleaded with Judge Wappich
and County Attorney Kubat to drop
the case. They did and Kaplan was
released.
Blau, arm in arm with hi wife, left
the court room "to start all over
agai" "
Attorney Unable to
Find House for $37.50
Caroline J. Leflang and her at
torney arrived in District Judge
Sears' court early yesterday morning,
ostensibly to learn if J. U Kinsier,
counsel for Mrs. Lcflang's husband,
had discovered a home that could
be rented for $37.50 a month.
After waitine almost an hour for
Mi. Kinsler's appearance they de
cided he had failed to find the house.
Judge Scars fixed 2 o'clock yester
day afternoon as the time for the
hearing. Mrs. Lcflang is striving to
have the $300 separate maintenance
trranted her raised. In arguing
against such an increase Mr. Kinsler
offered to find her a home that
could be rented for $37.50.
Frisco Police Chief Says
He Is Strong for Omaha
During the city council meeting
yesterday morninz Mayor James C.
Dahlman called upon Daniel J.
O'Brien, chief of police of San Fran
cisco, to sav a few words.
"I have been away from home
since April 23 on official business,'
said the Golden Gate chief, "and I
wish to state that the only place
where I tarried longer than at Oma
ha was at New York City, where we
had a meeting of chiefs for a week.
"I am impressed with the manner
in which vour new police administra
tion is starting off. In this day of
fast-working criminals there is need
to standardize police methods
among the cities and also a need for
close co-operation between the de
partments. It is only by unselfish
and untiring co-operation between
members of a police department and
between the departments of the vari
ous cities that we may obtain the
best results.
Five Omaha Boys Receive
Military School Diplomas
Boonvolle. Mo., May 31. Five
Omaha boys were in a graduating
class of 97 at Kemper Military
school, who received graduating
certificates today. They are Joseph
P. Cleland, son of Mr. Erne R.
Cleland, 4030 Nicholas street;
Roland W. Colwell, son of Mr. ana
Mrs. J. W. Colwell, 3229 Wool
worth avenue; George H. Lathrpp,
nephew of D. M. Davis, 5110 Under
wood avenue; Claubert M. Combs,
son of Mr. and Mrs. r. L-. Combs,
219 North Forty-eighth street; ancl
William Wallace, son of Mrs. Ken-
nard Wallace, Fairacres. The fol
lowing Nebraska boys were also m
the class; Ira Kenneth Evans, Co
lumbus: Robert E. Lund, Columbus,
and Andrew D. Mapcs, Norfolk.
Germany Completes First
Reparations Payment
Paris, May 31. (By The Associat
ed Press.) Germany Monday com
pleted payment of the 1,000,000 gold
marks due as the hrst payment on
reparations under the peace treaty
when 20 German treasury notes
equivalent to 850,000,000 gold marks
were handed to the reparations
commission by the special courier
of the German government who
brought the notes from Berlin.
Germany a few davs ago made a
first payment of 150,000,000 gold
marks.
Leaves Big Family
Tacoma, Wash., May . 31. Wil
liam Pollom, 84, civil war veteran,
died leaving 40 grandchildren and
10 great grandchildren. He had
five living sons and nine living
daughters. He 'served in the 51st
Indiana infantry..
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