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Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
TRIANGLE LOVE
AFFAIR ENDS IN
SUICIDE OF MAN
Swallows Poinson After Bid
ding Mother, Wife and
Sweetheart Goodbye.

Carl Pratt, 10 years old, Albany
MOTEL, bade goodbye to his mother,
his girl wife and his sweetheart
chorus girl at last night, purchased
IS cents worth of poison at
Schaefer drug store, Sixteenth and
Chicago streets, and stepping into
the street committed suicide. Pratt
lived 10 minutes after taking the
poison.
1t was the tragic end of triangle
love affair. The Exact reason for
his act is not known. He left no
farewell note. He told nobody he
intended to kill himself. His friends
limited last night night, on hearing
the story of his two loves, that he
had grown despondent over his po-
sition with his wife and the chorus
girl.
Wife Offers Freedom.
Pratt was a clerk in a North Six
teenth street store. On August Is,
1919, he married pretty l8-year-old
Beulah Johnson, 1928 Leavenworth
street. Thursday night in their
room at the Albany hotel, he told
his girl wife and that he loved Ruth
Mondeau, a chorus girl with the
Harry Hastings show. The Hastings
show closed a weeks engagement
last night at the Gayety. Pratt had
met Miss Mondeau year ago while
she was living in Omaha.
1T broke my heart to have him
tell me he loved Ruth" wept Mrs.
Pratt last night. 81 wanted him to
be happy, though, so I told him, as
] cried, to leave me and marry
Ruth. I thought l could shift for
myself somehow"
Friday young Pratt seemed in
good spirits all day.
At 7 in the evening he visited
his mother, Mrs. Anna ,Monder, in
her home at 301 North Sixteenth
street. While he was there his
wife came in.
"We talked casually for a few
minutes Mrs. Pratt told the police.
I had to hurry away again to do
some shopping up town. l kissed
nun .ggooq-Dye and lett hat was
the lasttime | saw him alive"
Chorus Girl Calls.
Just after Mrs. Pratt left the
house, Ruth Mondeau, the girl he
told his wife he loved, came in.
He seemed just a little sad," Miss
Mondeau told a Bee reporter last
night. He said he was sorry I was
leaving town with the show and
asked me to write to him when l
got to Kansas city. Write me
often he said.
1T was getting late and I had to
hurry back to the theater. We shook
hands and parted"
An hour later the lad was dead. at
his own hand. His body lay in the
rear of little shoe shop at 322
North Sixteenth street. His mother,
CONTINUED on Page Five, Column Two)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Slayer Of Woman for
Insurance Takes the
Firing Squad Penalty

Salt Lake City, Dec. lo.-John
,Borich, an Austrian, confessed
slayer of Mrs. Veln1a Adkins, alias
Green, of Twin Falls, Idaho, LIN
Tooele county, Utah, last Septem-
Der, was executed.in the state prison
here at 8:27 a. m. today.
Borich confessed Staying Mrs.
Green to collect on an insurance
policy he had taken out on her life.
The executed man chose to face
the firing squad rather than hang.
Utah laws give = person about to
forfeit life choice as to the manner
of execution.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
SHAH HAS TIFF WITH
PARIS HOTEL MANAGER.

Paris, Dec. 1o.-There was tiff
between theshah of Persia and the
manager of the Hotel Maurice as a
result of the latter's determination
not to permit his royal highness to
give dancing party on Christmas
eve.
The Persian ruler complained he
would be forced to leave the hotel
II he couldn't dance on that night
He asked the manager to make a
special concession. The manager
stood pat, however, He explained
to the shah that other royalties had
not complained about the hotels
dancing restrictions.
The queen of Spain, who is now
under the e<same roof with the shah,
IS satisfied, and the prince of Wales
during his last visit to Paris was
content to join the British delega-
ton at the Maurice and go to dance
elsewhere, the manager pointed out
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
CONFESSION BY
NEW TO POLICE
ISREAD TO JURY
Brought Body of Girl to
Station in His Auto,
Says Policeman.

Los Angeles, Dec. l9.-An alleged
confession of Harry New, charged
with the murder of his sweetheart
Freda Lesser, was admitted in evil
dence and read to the jury.
In admitting the confession Su-
perior Judge Gavin Craig decided
what both sides conceded was the
most important legal point involved
in the, case.
Miss E. L. Senner, trained nurse,
testified New had told her he did not
intend to marry for long time, and
had accused Miss Lesser of run
ming around" with other men.
Objection Made by Defense.
The defense had announced it ex-
pected to present long arguments
against admission of an alleged con-
fession by New, but Lecompte Da-
Wis, leading counsel for New, made
only brief, though vigorous, objec-
ton.
The alleged confession was laid
before the jury through the testi-
mony of E. J. Davidson, police de-
tective, who swore it had been made
in his presence and that of another
police officer and two newspaper
men July S last at central police
station here.
Davidson testified he was on duty
as desk sergeant when New entered
his Office and, laying a revolver on
the witness desk, told .him he had
killed a girl. According to David
son, New said he had killed her in
Topango canyon, few miles away,
and had taken the body to the po-
Ice station in the automobile in
which they had been riding and in
which he said the girl had met
death.
Dead Body in Car.
The witness said he and the three
other men he had mentioned accom-
panied New to a car, which was
standing outside the station, and
there found the body of Miss Lesser.
New then re-entered the station
and made formal confession, Da-
wilson said, which was reduced to
writing. In this alleged confession
New said he killed the girl because
she refused to marry him, and
though admitting she was in state
of expectant motherhood, would not
bear child by him and planned to
have an illegal operation performed.
The prosecution announced an
other and more lengthy confession
alleged to have been made by New
would be offered in evidence Mon
day when the trial is resumed.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Testify Jenkins Paid
Ransom Before Capture

Mexico City, Dec. 19.-Indian wit
resses in the court investigation at
Puebla into the case of William 0.
jenkins, the American consular
agent, testified that they saw him
deliver arms and ammunition to the
rebels before his capture, according
to press dispatches from Puebla.
The arms and ammunition, the In
dians declared, were intended as the
6Est ipstallment Of Jenkins ransom.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Congressman Ask Wilson
To Lift Prohibition Bar

Washington. Dec. 19-Represen-
tative Richard Olney of Massachu-
setts called at the White House to
urge President Wilson t, proclaim
rehabilitation Immediately with a
view to- lifting the wartime prohi-
bi.ion ban.
Former Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois, who was White
House caller today, said he intended
placing similar proposition before
the president in written memoran-
DUN.
Mr.. Lewis said that he thought
the question of what is an intoxicant
should be left to the individual
states to determine
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Maud Tabor Killed
By Operation; No
: One Held by Jury

Lawton, Mich, Dec. 19.-Specih-
cally blaming no one, the coroner's
jury investigating the death OF
Maude Tabor, brilliant student OF
language, whose body was found in
trunk in her home here month
ago, returned a verdict that death
resulted from an illegal operation.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
WORLD RECORD IN
LAUNCHING VESSELS.

Washington, Dec. 19.-By press
ing a button here Saturday Chair
man Payne of the shipping board
will send down the ways the first
of six vessels to be launched in one
day by the Moore Shipbuilding yard
at Oakland, Cal. The launching of
six vessels in one day by the same
ward sets a(world's record.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Says Influenza Has Been
Known Since 400 A. D.

Fayetteville, Ark, Dec. 6.-That
influenza is not new disease, that
it has, been known since 400 A. D.
and since the latter part of the
seventeenth Century physicians have
been writing about it., we're some of
the assertions of DR.. w. L. Bleeck-
er, head of the department Of bac-
teriology, University of Arkansas,
in the course of an address before
the Science club delivered here re-
csntlya
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Senate at !. aSt Minute
Passes Deficiency Bill

Washington. Dec. lo.-The ur-
gency deficiency bill providing $685.
100000 for miscellaneous subjects.
including $30,000,000 for increased
war risk insurance allowances, was
passed Friday night by the senate
during the last moments of the ses-
sion.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
'HONORS MAN WHO
DESTROYED FUNNIEST.

Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 19.-Secre-
tary Daniels has assigned the name
Pruitt to destroyer No. 347 in honor
of the memory of Corp. John H.
Pruitt, Sixth regiment marine corps
Of Alhambra, Ariz., who was killed
in France after wiping out a Ger
man machine gun nest, according to
a message received by Corporal
Pruitt's mother, Mrs. Belle Pruitt.
The secretary asked Mrs. Pruitt to
act as sponsor for the vessel. She
wired her acceptance. The date of
the ceremony was not stated.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Steamer Lost at Sea
With 494 Persons Aboard

London, Dec. I9.-The British
steamer Liam Shing, bound from
Hongkong to Saigon, Indo- China,
has been lost at sea, according to
advices to Lloyds. The dispatch said
4o3 natives and one European were
lost
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
CAMARILLA BLAMED
FOR POLITICAL CRIMES.

London, Dec. 1o.-The, Freeman's
Journal Of Dublin was suppressed
fer intimating that the government
is insincere in its charges of crimes
committed by Sim Feiners, accord
ing to Dublin dispatch to the Daily
Herald.
1T is firmly believed here" says
the dispatch, "that Detectives Down
ing and Barton we're murdered not
by rebels, but criminals, and that
thcU identity is known TO- the au-
thoiNies, but that they haven't been
touched because the Dublin castle
junta wants these murders attributed
to the Sim Fein.
This. charge against the author
tiles is not made entirely without
evidence. The camarilla is accused.
not by wild fanatics, but by men of
sober judgment, Of preparing foul
political crimes, similar to those pre-
pared by its predecessors in 1898"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
CONVICTED TRAITOR
GIVEN CITIZENSHIP.

San Francisco, Dec. 19.-Robert
Capella, former German steamship
agent here, who was convicted with
a group of Hindus. Americans and
Germans of plotting in this country
to overthrow British rule in India,
won the right to retain his citizen
ship here Friday.
The court held the conviction and
subsequent Incarceration of Capella
was not sufficient grounds to deny
him a citizenship of rs years stand
ing,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
AMERICAN GUARD
AND MEXICAN KILLED.

El Paso, Dec. 19.-An American
provost guard and a Mexican civil
ian were killed during a pitched bat
tie tonight between American SOL
diers and police and Mexican smug-
glers at the international boundary
line near here FRIDAY night.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Found Dead in Bed.

Pender, Neb., Dec. Especial
Telegram. Carl A. Nansen, well
to do business man of Pender, was
found dead in his bed Friday He
was formerly an Omaha cigar
dsalss +.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
WOULD SELL INSTITUTE
TO PAY WATER BILL.

New York, Dec. 19.-Union theo-
logical seminary, training institution
of the Protestant Episcopal church,
applied to the supreme court to re-
strain the city of New York from
selling part of its property, sale of
which is threatened for nonpayment
Of $3.50 water bill.
The seminary's officers refuse to
pay the bill, contending that as a
religious institution 1t is free from
taxation.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
u. S. MAY TAKE
OVER THE YOSEMITE.

Washington, Dec. 19.-Support
was given by Secretary Lane to the
bill to accept on behalf of the
United States the cessation by Cali
fornia of jurisdiction over the lands
in the Yosemite, Sequoia and Cen
cral Grant national parks.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
DRRiEEF', RiEF :,
= RIG H T
R E E ZY
COUNTESS MATUSCHKA
HEIRESS TO $1,000, 900.
BITS OF NEWS

New York, Dec. 19.-Countess
Ella Matuschka, formerly Miss Ella
Walker Of Detroit, whose property
IN this country was seized BY the
alien property custodian during the
war. arrived here Thursday from
Europe, believing herself penniless,
rington Walkter OF Detroit. had died
rington Walker of Detroit, had died
and that she was heiress to his
100000 estate.
The countess was met at the pier
by her mother, who informed her
that Mr.. Walker had died suddenly
in the Hotel Biltmore Wednesda
night.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
victor1L. Berger, Sentenced to
20 Years for Espionage,
And Out on Bond, Given Ma
jority Of 1906 for Congress.
-
CLAIMS ELECTION IS
IRIUMPH OF ."PEoPLE"
There Will Be No Third Elec-
tion if House Again Refuses
Seat. Says Governor Phillip
Of Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, Dec. 1o.-Victor l.
Berger, socialist, today was re-
elected to congress from the Fifth
Wisconsin district, having defeated
Henry H. Bodenstab, republican,
running as a fusion candidate, by
1896 votes.
Berger's total vote was 24,367 and
Bodenstab's 1861. The returns in
dicate that approximately 5000 vot-
ers did not 60 to the polls. The
total registration in the district was
about $1,000.
Will Be Vacant Seat.
Should the house of representa-
tives again refuse to sea: Berger,
there will be a vacant chair as far
as the Fifth Wisconsin district is
concerned until the regular election
in 1920. as Gov. E. L. Philip an
nounced tonight he would not call
another special election.
II do not believe in spending any
more of the peoples money in that
way" he declared.
Berger tonight made the follow
ing statement:
while my election may un-
doubtedly be- characterized as moth
ing short of revolutionary act, in
view of opposition by the entire
capitalist class not only of Mil
waukee and Wisconsin, but of the
country, yet it cannot exactly be
called victory for the socialist
party.
"The socialist party simply took
the lead and furnished THE advance
guard and foremost champions.
GAS matter of fact, my re-elec-
ton is simply the first sign of the
reawakening of genuine democracy
in this country since the days of the
struggle for emancipation of the
black race.
eyes of World
II don't know whether the house
will seat me, and / care little, if
only the continued fight for my seat
will furnish the occasion to awaken
the common people of the United
States, especially the working class,
to a realization of the great dan
gers before us and the immense du-
ties that we must fulfill if modern
civilization is to progress or even
to survive.
But as to the voters of the Fifth
district, | can only says: We'll done,
The eyes of the world are upon
you. You have vindicate one of
the basic principles of modern
democracy, representative govern
ment.'"
Henry H. Bodenstab, republican.
fusion candidate whom Berger de-
feated, said:
Il am indeed grateful to my many
supporters. We put up the best
fight we knew how for a worthy
cause and | feel that the majority of
the voters Of the Fifth district have
been mis1ed by false propaganda.
| am ready to continue in the fight
to rid the community of these for
elgn -agtators and bolshevik adher-
ents and / cali upon the good, loyal
people of Milwaukee to remain
steadfast in their faith in their coun-
try and its institutions"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Called a Triumph" /"

Chicago, Dec. 19.-Victor Ber-
gers reelection to congress was
termed a triumph in a statement
from national headquarters of the
socialist party, which declared that
as result of the election congress
is on trial"
Berger's reelection was not only
vindication of Berger, but also Of
Continued on Page Five, Column
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
THE WEATHER:
Fair Saturday and prob.
ably Sunday; slightly warm
er Saturday.

Hourly Temperatures
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
Ri6id Coal Distribution
Rules, Fuel Administrator
i'm States, Governors Ask


mende the fuel
equitable distribution in
G.
and
Attending Goodrich
W. L. D.
J. E. o
O
ta exeutn sthemsev
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
NEAR SOCIALIST
CABINET AGREED
To BY KOLCHAK
Head of Omsk Govern
ment Hopes to Win
Cossacks and Czechs.

Irkutsk. Monday, Nov. 24-(By the
Associated Press.)-Eictor Pepcliaeff
formerly minister of the interior Of the
kolchak government who has been en-
trusted with the formation of a new
cabinet, has been instructed 70 organize
one with the greatest possible socialistic
tendencies compatible with Admiral kol-
chak's stand against bolshevism.
1t is proposed to give larger powers
to the recently created Iemstvo con-
gress, and every effort will be made to
placate the Eossack Atamans and the
Czechs.
In reforming the cabinet. it is pro-
posed to eliminate entirely the Influence
of the military over civil matters, gem
orally conceded TO have been one of the
weaknesses of the Kolchak government.
When the Kolchak ministers arrived
at Irkutsk on Nov. 10, with their armies
fleeing before the Reds and the Gaida
revolt progressing at Vladivostok, they
found most serious opposition on the
part Of the social revolutionary ele.
ments here to continuance of the func-
tioning of the present government
Admiral Kolchak.. according TO John
Sonkine. the acting foreign minister, has
given his assent to the program. which
NJ Soukine hopes will result in the for
nation of coalition cabinet which will
gain the support Of all factions.
Admiral kolchak still is at Noyo Nix
olaevsk At the present time the boil
sheviki have advanced go miles east Of
Omsk, the farthest point of the advance
wing northeast of Tatarskaia-
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
Army Nucleus Plans
Ind0rsed by Baker

The recommendation for an increased
standing army, he declared. should moi
be taken to indicate disinclination to-
ward the prospect Of disarmament.
The plan recommended, Mr.. Baker
said, looks to the establishment of sys-
tens of schools teaching the formal
branches of education and adding to them
the skilled trades. 80 that at the end
of term Of enlistment, the young man
entering in his 10Th year will 20 back
TO civil life with the physical set-up
which the open. athletic life Of the army
gives. and with the education and train
ing which will make him more valuable
in civil pursuits than he could otherwise
have been" Social and recreational op-
portunities also must be supplied. he
said. so that the graduate from the
army will bring back with him the
social virtues which result from educa
ton of mind and hand acquired in an
environment made stimulating by the
presence of high purpose and sense of
service, and generous association with
his fellows
Mr.. Baker opposes creation of a de-
partment Of the air because Of the unde-
veloped state of the industry, necessitat-
ing federal regulation" as well as be-
cause of military considerations. It
would be just as fatal to separate forces
from the army, be maintained
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
BAN ON EXPORTS
IS GERMAN PLAN,
TAX FOREIGNERS
Berlin Thinks Visitors
Living Too Cheaply,
Come Too Fast.

Berlin, Saturday, Nov 29.-(By the
Associated Press. THE government 5
alarm over the manner in which the
process of selling out Germany con-
tinues has finally forced it to enact tenn
porary measures which are calculated to
put radical check On exports while
definite legislation Is in course of prepar-
alton.
Provisions already adopted provide
Imprisonment a. punishment for those
exporting commodities which affect the
vital needs of the nation and of other
things of which Germany is being grad
ually stripped as a result of the low
value of her money. There is also to be
more rigid frontier control on exports.
The hotel keepers are debating meas
ures for the levying of tax on for
eigners, who are not only oyerflowing
the hotels but are suspected of living
cheaper than natives in view of the
premium commanded on foreign money
Spent bv them.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
ANOTHER NOTE
TO MEXICO is
LAST, ACT NEXT

Washington, Nov. 30.-An-
other note to the Mexican
government relating to the
arrest and Imprisonment of
William o. Jenkins. consular
agent at Puebla, has been
sent by the state department
to the embassy at Mexico City
for presentation to Carranza.
The note, which was indi-
Gated might be the last on the
subject, was in reply to Mexi-
co.'s answer to a sharp demand
by this government for inn
mediate release of Jenkins.
No intimation of its charac-
ter was disclosed. but officials
believed it was more emphatic
than any sent heretofore.
There were no advices to
the department from the Mex
lean capital concerning the
Jenkins case or the latest muir
der of another oil man, Wal
lace, although the embassy
had been instructed to investi-
gate.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
Attitude of LabOrerS
Is Outlined by WOll

industrial unrest, Mr.. Woll declared
, arbitrary exercise of unwarranted and
unconstitutional authority by our courts u
could not allay it.
Congress, he said, should speedily ap.
prove the covenant of the league of mn,
tions including the labor provision con,
tanned in this remarkable document
hold the hope for future peace OF thG
world in its keeping. instead of fill
clustering and fiddhng away like Mere
while Rome was afiame
Measures to prohibit child labor. totai
exclusion of immigration for two years,
government employees minimum wage
and retirement act a federal employment
service. elimination of convict labor com-
petition. soldiers land legislation, state
loans to home builders and repeal of nj
taxes ON necessities, were advocated.
Mr.. Woll denounced the pending DILL
for railroad control offered by Senator
Cummins.
Women should receive equal treatmnt
and nav with men but should be given
tasks only proportionate to their physical
strength and potential motherhood the
letter stated. Suggestions as to sharina
nrofits and losses, borders on the abS
surti," said Woll.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-01
STORM SWEEPS
LAKE REGIONS,
HEAVY DAMAGE
Telegraph and Telefone
Service Demoralized
in Michigan.

Detroit. Nov. 30.-Twenty-fou hours
after the most severe windstorm expert
enced in Michigan since 1918. the de-
moralized condition of the telegraph and
telephone wires throughout the state was
such that no accurate or complete re
ports of damage caused could be ascer-
tanned.
Sunday one death was added TO the
six reported Saturday. f. ]. Herring
ton, carpenter, was killed when barn
on which he was working. near Jackson
collapsed. The other five deaths oc-
cured In Detroit Scores of persons
were injured here and elsewhere by fall
ing icicles and numerous flying glass.
Thousands of dollars in damage was
done buildings here and at Grand Rapids.
Jackson, Port Huron aud elsewhere. At
Richmond, Mich, a three STORY brick
business block was unroofed and col
lapsed the damange being estimated at
$4,000. No one was hurt seriously, as
far as can be learned. No boats were
lost during the storm.
The White Star line steamer Wauketa,
believed lost, with 23 passengers. sought
shelter from the storm and reached Port
Huron. The steamer w. Ii. White
reached here from Buffalo.