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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Auto Trucks Being
Pushed in Omaha

That Omaha is Weakening 10 the
era of motor trucks is evidenced by
the effort being put forth by several
OF the dealers to educate business in
situations to the saving which follows
the use of truck.
Recently H. Pelton signed with the
Vim truck manufacturers and is push
ing the half-ton Vim light delivery
truck. This truck is built in but one
size, but several body styles are fur
nished The Vim people claim the
distinction Of being the largest ex-
elusive producers OF motor trucks
in the world, and quantity production
makes possible the very reasonable
price Of $7s5 in Omaha which they
are making.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Prepares to Push Sale
Of Automobile Trucks

In speaking Of trucks, J. W. Upper
of the Jones-Opper company says:
I'VE are going to push them.
I'VE are handling the three-quarter
ton and the two-ton REQ truck and
believe they will be money makers,
The Omaha merchants need a
little schooling and education regard
ing the economy Of using motor
trucks. This will soon be accom-
plished because several of the dealers
are pushing trucks now. As soon as
the business houses get the good,
hard facts so that intelligent consid-
Grafton can be made of the motor
trucks merits then the truck will
grow in popularity very fast.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Omaha Motorcycle Club
Will Hear "D0C" WiIdman

DR.. B. c. Wildman Of David City,
Neb., state commissioner for the Fed
Grafton of American Motorcyclists,
will speak before the Omaha Motor
cycle club Monday evening at $50
o'clock, at the new club rooms, 304
Crounse block DR.. Wildman bears
special message from the Fedora
ton of American Motorcyclists, which
is the governing body for the motor
cycling sport. The Omaha club has
just received new charter, readmit-
ting it to this organization.
1t is desired that all motorcyclists
hear DIR. Wildman and the club i'll
vites every rider in the city to be
present. There will be no admission
fee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Auto Men Look for High
Prices On the Materials

The material situation, according to
c. ]. Corkhill of the Nebraska Haynes
Auto Sales company, will be as seri-
GUS, if not worse, during the coming
season and he advises prospective
purchasers to buy now. regardless Of
the car they have in mind.
Dealers, it is said, will show good
judgment in taking as many cars
during the winter months as they
possibly can,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Submarine Sinks SCripps.
Booths on Way to India

The fact that the steamer Lord
Tredegar was sunk by a torpedo in
the Mediterranean a short time ago
while on its way from New York to
the far east will deprive number Of
people in India of Scripps- Booth cars,
Many people iii India have pur-
chased these luxurious light cars, A
number have been sold to East India
DOtentates
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Passenger Traffic Heavy

Gerritt Fort, passenger traffic man
ager for the Union Pacific, is IN the
city, enroute to Denver, having come
over from Chicago. Mr.. Fort sees an
era of good passenger business in
sight for the coming winter, predict
ing that the travel to California is 60
ing to be heavy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Gordon Buys Two Lots On
West HarneV as Investment

Michael Mascara has sold to Al
fred W. Gordon a lot 66xl32 feet,
with two houses, at 2S20-2S22 Harvey
street. Mr.. Gordon bought the prop
erty for himself and two friends as
an investment. The sale was made
through ]. H. Dumont G. Co. W. Fl.
Thomas & Son represented the seller.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Scripps-Booth Coupes Are
Placed On Exhibition

The Shipment Of Scripps-Booth
coupes, delayed in transit too long to
reach Omaha for the Closed Car
Salon, has reached here at last. The
classy little job is now on exhibit In
the show room of w, NJ. Clement.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29

struck her, and then he caught her BY
the shoulder and forced her to her
knees"
Sobs caught in her throat. She could
not go on for moment, and the tears
rolled UNDECIDED down her cheeks, as,
stammer1ng little and speaking al
most incoherently, she cried, "And
then, your Honor-Mary screamed!
Screamed the way she had before, and
1-l-saw her 60 mad before my very
Eyes! Mr.. Langdon, who had been
waiting in the garden-to be sure all
was right with us-heard the scream
too, and came running in. My hus-
band saw him-and he snatched the
poker out of the fire where in nv
haste had left it, and swung It at
Mr.. Langdon. But it was Mary he
hit I heard the sound of i'll smelt
the burnt flesh, and as Mr.. Langdon
flung my husband to the floor 1 ran to
her. But before I could reach her-or
stop her-she ran, still screaming, out
OF the house and disappeared!'
A passion of tears shook her as she
finished, tears that were mirrored in
all the eyes in the room. Even Lang
don's voice was unsteady as he said
gently:
THAT IS all, Mrs. Page"
Mary. was sobbing too, but they were
the tears Of sad memories rather than
present suffering. and she flung a
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29

"He doesn't know anything. I've
pumped him dry as powder"
A discreet knock sounded, and the
bailiff put his head in at the door.
His Honor is ready to go into Court,
sir" he said; and with a nod Of relief
the prosecutor gathered up his papers.
Defence begins today. don't it,
asked the detective as he left. What
do you guess it's going to Beg"
I'm not guessing anything" said the
District Attorney grimly, except that
his witnesses are going to have bad
time when they get into my hands,
'"Tell me something l don't know"
chuckled the detective with honest I'D.
miration. though after moments
pause he added behind his superior's
back, But Mary Page has got the
sympathy of the crowd at that, by
glory!
She HAD won the the sympathy Of
the spectators nowhere was no
doubt Of it, and the hostility that was
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29

And all the while that I was making
ready for her, he made my inability to
60 out with him an excuse for de-
bauch. And oh, your Honor" she
added, turning to the Judge with a
catch in her voice, might after night
l used to walk the floor, praying like a
wicked woman that my baby might
die before it came into the world-be-
cause I was afraid it would bear the
taint-would be born with that awful
devastating thirst"
did your husband ever strike you
when he was drunk?" Again Lang
don's voice held that warning note, but
now the prosecutor broke in sharply:
MAY it please the court, I protest
against this evidence, as irrelevant!
AS being a palpable effort to arouse
sympathy towards the prisoner and
her mother and therefore menace to
the progress Of justice"
"On the contrary, your Honor"
Langdon took an eager step forward,
and there was sharp thrill almost of
triumph in his voice as he spoke, 1T
is my intention to prove by this testi-
mony that Mary Page. through pre-
natal influence, was born with so great
a horror of drink, as to induce, in her,
moments Of temporary insanity even
when she was little child And If
Mary Page fred the shot that killed
James Pollock she did so while suffer
ing from an attack of 'repressed psy-
Ghosts to which she has been subject
all her life''
The words spread like q fame
through the finder of curiosity and
leapt from lip to lip not only through
the court itself, but spread by some
telepath1c means to those lowering in
the corridor without. The defence was
known at last. It was temporary in
sanity under a new and delightfully."-
erudite title!
1t caught the prosecutor unawares.
He appreciated it's cleverness. even
though he doubted it's honesty. It Of
fered an excuse for everything-the
shooting the fight, Mary's repeated
and hysterical assertions that she re-
membered nothing except Pollock's en-
deavor to make her drink-but it was
so unexpected that he had no quick
parry for Langdon's appeal, and he
was not surprised when the Judge babe
the latter continue his questioning. =,
Mrs. Page, will repeat my former
question to you. Did your husband
ever strike you when he was drunk?,'
eyes" The word was no more than
whisper.
did he ever strike you just before
your child was born?"
yes" The answer came more quick
~ now, fiercely, the mother dominant
above the wife.
will you tell us of the circumstance,
please?"
1T was one night when had been
sitting up sewing. My husband came
nome very drunk. He-he frightened
me and ran from him. That infuriat.
ed him-he ran after me-and seized
me by the shoulder! Then-he-he
struck me. But he held me SO tight
that my shoulder for days bore the i'm.
print Of his fingers in great bruise on
the flesh"
"Have you ever seen another bruise
like that?'
Eyes,"
"Where2" The question snapped out
brutally, and Mary, leaning forward,
stretched out one shaking hand toward
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29

writ so large on the faces for her at
the beginning now greeted the prose-
cutor instead and it was hostility
that somehow was the more acute be.
cause the faces were so oddly familiar
so familiar, in fact, that he had al
most spoken to one Of the men who sat
in the front row when he had passed
him in the corridor the day before.
The reporters seemed like old friends,
too, and he noticed with grim little
smile that one of the sob sisters had
on new and very becoming hat, and
he wondered ironically whether it was
in honor of the defence or because the
day before one of the star writer's on
big daily had changed his seat in
order to sit beside her.
There was an extra briskneSs about
the newspaper group today, for to-
day the defence of Mary Page would
begin. Today Langdon must strip of
the mask Of smiling confidence and
show what lay behind it,
The mask, or at any rate the smile,
was still there when he came into
court, not with Mary, this time, but
with her mother. His hand was tuck
ed protectingly under the arm of the
little gray-haired woman, and his lips
were close to her ear as if he We're
murmuring final acknowledgements
final Instruction.!
Mary. too. was smiling. and silently
repeating:
To-day we will begin my defence
Today Philip will start to set me free!"
And not even in her own heart would
she let herself contemplate the thorny
path that must be travelled before that
elusive freedom had struck the invisi,
bic gives from off her wrists and
heart. Suddenly she heard the first
witness of the day called.
Mrs. Annie Page!"
The frail little woman seemed to
have visibly shrunk when she took
her place in the witness-stand.
Mrs. Page. how long ago was it
that you met the man who later be
came your husband?"
''Thirty~one years ago at Christmas
But it was some years before you
were married. was it not?''
"Yes."
"Why?'
because of-Of Mr.. Pages habits
MY parents insisted upon my breaking
the engagement"
"But it was later reneWed?"
Eyes. He promised me that he
would stop drinking. and I believed.
God knows, a woman always believes
that-frOm man."
will you tell us, please" Langdon's
voice was warning in it's sharpness,
'as concisely as you can what hap
pened after your marriage?''
what happened" she said YEARLY.
lis what happens to thousands of wo.
men. We hadn't been married very
long before my husband began to
drink again. The-the-night that the
| certainty that Mary was coming to us
from God came to me-he was out till
dawn and had to be brought home too
drunk to even know where he was
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29

"Mr. Lansdon flung my husband to
the floor" -. Z
holds up her lips to be kissed. and then
snuggles her puir head in his shoulder,
and he knelt there holdin' her.
'You went up to them then, did you
not?' ..., .0..:.I
"Well, you know that. answered the
Scotchman with some scorn. 81 went
up and said. Can I help you carry
the puir lassie home?' And he said,
NO, shall not move her till she has
rested Bit Then he wraps her in
his coat and sits watchin' her, but aft.
er bit he says, She's been sleepin'
sound, 1 can carry her now,' and he
picks her up in his arms and starts
off,"
Did Miss Page speak when she was
movedY" ~ - IA
Yes; she said Am still safe with
you, Philip And he says, Yes And
she says, oh, ! wish / was dead-ex-
cept for you, dear And he said, I
wish those who torture you were dead.
my darling, but I'm going to guard
you myself in the future Then. still
holdin' her in his arms and carryin'I
her careful like, he went Off through
the trees"
(To be Continually
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29


eyes!"
grateful glance from beneath her wet
lashes towards the prosecutor when
his curt,
mo questions" released Mrs. Page
from the stand and set her at liberty
to drag herself back to her quiet cor
ner:
She had laid bare all the tragedy of
her married life for the sake of her
child; and what it had cost her to tell
so calmly the story Of shame and
want and suffering and of the efforts
OF the drunken father to sell his dauch-
ter to man she did not love-only
she herself knew. There was more
than one woman among the spectators
who could and did guess what it cost
her, and whose heart went out to her
in pity.
1t was, however, an unfinished story
that she had told, and the room was
vibrant with the unspoken query,
"Where did Mary go?" when Langdon
called his next witness:
Alexander MacPherson!'
The burly Scotchman, with his Deep
~ tanned face, his heavy beard and
rough clothes, was a striking contrast
to the delicate little witness who had
gone before him, and he surveyed the
Judge and jury with wary hostility
that under less tragic circumstances
would have won smile from the spec
tators.
MACPHERSON, you are woodsman,
are you notT'
II am, SIR
Where were you employed six years
agoY'
II was wurkin' to the Paisley estate
clearin' out the auld timber in the
woods" There was hint of a Scot
fish accent In his speech, though long
years In America had left it no more
than a burr, pleasantly suggestive of
the wide woodland spaces among
which his life was spent.
did you ever see Miss Pager"
Yes. sir. She came tae the woods
often. She had a luve of the wild
things In her heart, and I'd COON across
A>A- many eAACSs SAtCAu VIE DOCK, or
just dreamin' in the woods"
"MacP herson, can you remember the
last time that you saw Mary Page in
the woods Of the Paisley estateY'
I've a guide memory" he answered
rebukfngly, "and it was a time to set
In anyone's mind Twas on the night
OF the party Jim Hanley give, up to
the ridge"
"Wfll you tell us, please. what oc-
CURED on that night?"
.-o had been tae the party and was
comm home. We had sat sac lang it
were pretty late, and says to myself,
IN ma go way round by the road, but
straight through the woods | knew
them too well to lose my way. even in
the dark. 1 had COON almost to the
Hollow, which is like bowl in the
middle of the wood, when 1 heard
somebody singin'. 1t came strange like
In the night, and I am nae ashamed
to say /. was scared, so l stood-not
hidin', mind We, but waitin' tae see
what It was. Then seen figure on
the other side Of the hollow coomin'
through the trees-all in white-and
Wavin' its arms. daft-like. and singin'
md .laughtn' and cryin' all in one"
] Gould you see who It WASP"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29
SYNOPSIS.

Mary Page, actress, is accused Of the
murder Of James Pollock and is defended
by her lover, Philip Langdon. Pollock
was intoxicated. At Marys trial she
admits she had the revolver. Her maid
testifies that Mary threatened Pollock
with it previously, and Mary's leading
man duplicates Langdon. How Mary dis
appeared from the scene of the crime is a
mystery. Brandon tells Of a strange hand
print he saw on Marys shoulder.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29

her mother-in appeal or encourage
ment, it was hard to say which.
upon the shoulder of my baby!
When Mary was born the imprint of
i've fingers, like purple bruises, showed
on her shoulder"
did they remain there?"
mo. They faded as she grew older"
did they ever recur?
Yes. The first time was when Mary
was five years old. Mr.. Page had come
home-intoxic ated-and was sitting In
the library. Mary ran to him and he
took her on his knee. Suddenly shs
New Britain herald., 1916-07-28
REIGN OF TERROR
 ASSAILS PARIS NOW
Apaches of Underworld Murder Po- lice and Drunken Soldiers
 Are Common Sight.

Correspondence of the Asso. Press)
 Paris, July 10.-Increased drinking, resulting from the relaxation of the measures limiting hours for the sale of liquor to soldiers, and of other restrictions, has been simultaneous with revival of crime. All soldiers were until recently excluded from drinking places excepting from Il to 12 a. m. and from 5 to 8 D. m. Soldiers on leave in Paris are now al- lowed access to wineshops 1t all hours of the day. Since the proprietors spare themselves the trouble of de- termining whether a soldier is on leave or not, the new rule admits sol diers of the garrison of Paris as well as those on leave. Drunken soldiers are to be seen on the streets for the first time since the war began and an occasional brawl among the sol diers is reported.
 Thefts, burglaries, night hold-ups and murders are frequent. Three jewelry establishments were rif1ed in one week, one of them losing hun dred thousand dollars worth of precious stones and jewelry.
 A bar-room brawl between street loafers resulted in the death of one o1 tHelH ana well knOWn pOHceman was murdered in the street.
 The burglars seem to take 8 mali cious pride in attacking the homes of public men. They broke into the apartments of Monsieur Malvy, min- ister of the interior, who is the su- preme head of the French police. Then they burglarized the home of former Finance Minister Caillaux.
 This recrudescence of crime Is said to be largely the work of deserters, many of whom, home on leave, were turned from their duty by drink and are obliged to live in the under world" to escape punishment.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-28

It has been widely reported that the Duke of Brunswick, husband of the German emperor's only daughter, has become insane as a result of his war experiences The duke, it is said never recovered from the shock of seeing the entire organization which he commanded on the Russian front sink to death in a treacherous marsh which the men had entered thinking it afforded solid footing. Later he was in command of the Zieten hus- sars on the western front and was reported missing. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg a prince royal of Great Britain and Tre- land, was married to Princess Victoria Louise in Berlin on May "A, 1913. He Is a son of the Duke of Cum berland and grandson of King George V. of Hanover. He Is 29 years old and at the opening of the war held the rank of colonel of hussars in the Prussian army A son was born to the duke and duchess March IS, 1914, and an- other son born March 25, 1915.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-28

to, Plus, Michael, Benedict, Sebastian Ignatius, Marcus d'Aviano.
 His sponsor or godfather was King Frederick August of Saxony who made a special trip to Vienna from Dres- den. AS representative of the god mother there of1ciated Countess Luc- chesi-Palli, nee Princess of Parma. The solemn service in the Maria Ther- csc room of the palace at Schoenbrunn was conducted by Cardinal and Prince Bishop pr. Piff1
 Archduke Felix was brought in to the great room by the Countess Thun, with the king of Saxony following close behind. He lay wrapped in silks on a silken pillow quite contentedly as the formal questions and answers were spoken, and disturbed the ceremony not at all by crying.
 The witnesses included the emper- or, Francis Joseph, but the babys father Karl Francis Joseph, was ab- sent in the field. He has not as yet seen his son.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-28
CHINESE KILL OFF
 LEPER SUFFERERS
Missionaries Seek Aid in Preventing Further Massacres in
 Future

Correspondence of the Asso. Press
 Canton, China, June 15.-Julius A. Kempf a member of the American Reformed Presbyterian Church Mis- sion at Talk Hing, on the West river in Shantung Province, has advised the Am erican consulate here of the com- plete extermination of a leper colony near that mission by recent revolu- tionary soldiers, and sought the assist ance of the consul in preventing a re- currence of such barbarity.
 The leper colony consisted of thir- teen unfortunates who made their home on a houseboat on the West river near a temple in which the sold iers were quartered. Without warning the soldiers fired upon the houseboat, killing ten of the lepers. Two mem bers of the colony jumped into the river and started for the opposite shore, but it is not known whether they escaped death. One leper es- capped into the hills. The soldiers then burned the housebOat.
 MT. Kempf and his associates had been assisting the leper colony for some time, supplying the sufferers with food and endeavoring to better their condition.
 It is not uncommon for leper colon ies to be exterminated in China either by the military or civilians who resent having the unfortunates near them. In many cases the lepcrs provoke the at tacks by begging insistently and threatening to touch persons who re- fuse to give them aims.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-28
DISTRIBUTION BY
 NEW SYSTEM SOON
After Conferences Between Minis
 ters Of Interior and Agriculture

Correspondence of the Asso. Press.)
 Vienna, June 29.-After lengthy conferences between the ministers of the interior and of agriculture for both Austria and Hungary, a system for the equable distribution of grain of all sorts throughout the monarchy for the year 1916-17, beginning August l, has been settled upon. It will differ from last years method. and will ba accompanied by rise in prices
 Under the new plan the distribution will be direct, and under no circum- stances through associations, guilds or other bodies that in the past have been the equivalent of middlemen. The war grain association for the em- p1re will be the only organization en- titled to give mills orders on storage houses for the grain, and, when the grain has been milled, it must be turned over to the ipdividual munich palities for distribution equably among the people.
 The rise in prices that is in pros- pect promises to be due to the mills rather than to the crops which are far better than last year if not rec- ord breaking all around. The mills in Austria Hungary want, this year. six kronen instead of APO as last year for milling the same quantity of grain and will get it unless the protests of the cities are made effective.
 Reports from all over Austria Hun gary, especially along the lower Dan ube and from Bulgaria and Rumania indicate that there will be a bump CT crop. In sharp contrast to last year. the weather has been almost ideal with about the right proportion of sunshine and rain, and with little Or no late frost to nip early planting. The same conditions, according to re- ports, prevail in Germany, which this year not only will have big crop on her own territory but also will har- vest an untold amount from the land in occupied regions-territory either that she did not occupy a year ago, or that was taken too late for cultiva- tion and planting.
 Experts here believe that the cen- tral powers will be almost the only countries now at war to benefit from this years big crops this because of the loss of territory on the one hand, and the lack of wOrkmen and laborers on the other. The crops in certain parts of Russia it is claimed are about eighty per cent. behind nor nal, while France and England, ~-hich never did raise enough for themselves, will be at a disadvtntage in importing sufficient quantity by reason of the growing scarcity of tonnage and the high freight and insurance rates.