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Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
5000 Immigrants
Clamor at Gates Of
New York City

New York. Dec. 28.-Mole than
5000 immigrants were clamoring at
the gates of New York Sunday
right for admission into the United
States. Ellis Island is congcsted and
many hundreds of the incoming
passengers are being detained on
board steamships for examination.
. Immigration inspectors and spe-
cial boards of inquiry are working
day and night to relieve the unpre-
aedented conditions. In the mean
time hundreds of friends and rela-
tives of the detained passengers
from all over the country are as
sembled here impatiently awaiting
the release of the immigrants.
Police and coast guards are on
d,ty at the piers and the Ellis
Island ferry entrance to hold in
check the crowds which gather at
tine gates daily. Several attempts
have been made by friends and rela-
tives OF the detained passengers to
storm the piers in all effort to reach
the ships.
immigration etJ1efafs claim that
their work is delayed to large ex-
tent on Ellis Island because of the
congestion there due to the deten-
ton of large number of radicals
and undesirables being held for. de-
portation.
The greater number of the immi-
grants being detained are Italians, it
was stated. Several hundred Greek
passengers are also held.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
GIRLS INCOME TAKES
BIG lump OVERNIGHT.

Mckeesport, Pa, Dec. 2S.-With
an income of $500 monthly, in ad-
dition to her salary as stenographer
in the general Offices of the National
Tube company here. Miss Anna B.
Smith is not worried over the high
cost of living ..
When Miss Smith goes to bed at
night the prospects are excellent that
her income will be doubled when
she awakes in the morning. The big
we'll which came in on her property
with 100000 foot flow of gas
had only been drilled four feet into
the Specify sand Expert gas men
say that when the drill reaches the
required depth in the producing
strata the flow of gas would be
doubled and the stenographer's in-
come would jump to $4,000 month
lv
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
EIGHT. REPORTS
OF CUNMEN and
SNEAK THIEVES
Bold HoIdup Within Block Of
Central Station-Stores,
Hotels and Autos
Looted.

Two young men, both armed,
held up the Golden Star restaurant,
205 South Twelfth street, little more
than block from Central police
station. at | a. m. Sunday and made
off with $50 from the, cash register.
Both bandits ran east on Douglas
street toward the police station after
the robbery, but turned south on
Eleventh street, one finally disap-
pearing into the alley between Far
nam and Douglas east of Eleventh
street and the other turning east
on Farnam street.
According to WI Fong, waiter,
and Adolph Anderson, Belmont ho-
tel, who were in the restaurant at
the time of the holdup, both men
appeared to be Mexicans about %
years of a ge.
One covered" Fong and Ander-
son with his revolver while the
other emptied the cash register.
Seven Other Robberies.
Leo Goldman, 523 North Fifteenth
street, reported to the police the
theft of all overcoat and two suits
of clothes from his room Saturday.
Peggy Hall, Pullman hotel, told
the police someone entered her room
Saturday night and stole mani
cure set valued at SIS.
The Central Market, 1912 Harney
street, reported the theft of So
pounds of sirloin and 40 pounds of
tendorloin from a truck Saturday
while the truck stood behind the
Castle hotel. They valued the meat
at $2l95. ,,'
Ben Ravitz, 1921 St. Marys ave-
nue., said his overcoat was stolen
from the Winter Gardens. in the
basement of Sherman and McCon-
nell's drug store, Sixteenth and
Harvey streets, Saturday. Ravitz
valued the coat at SIS.
Get Two Rings.
William Stulk. i23 North Thirty
ninth street, reported that burglars
entered his home Saturday morning
and stole one diamond ring val
ued at $40 and a pearl ring valued
at SIS.
DR.. Charles F. Shook, GA City
National bank building, said some
one stole lap robe and some tools
from his car while it stood in front
of Lord Lister hospital. Dr. Shook
estimates the loss at SIS.
James Condor, King hotel, Thir-
teenth and Jackson streets, re-
ported that someone entered his
room by unlocking the door and
stole suit of clothes he valued at
S3S
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
WINNER OF DICE .
THROW FOR LOVE
OF MAN SPURNED
Tragedy Barred When Fisher
Lass Finds Death in Sea
After Losing to Rival.

Madrid, Dec. 28.-The love of two
Gijon fisher girls for Isidro L.afu-
ente, young blacksmith, has had
tragic ending.
The girls resolved to resort to a
throw of dice to determine who
should be the sweetheart of the
blacksmith, who, by the way, was
entirely ignorant of being the cause
of this strange ordeal.
Twenty-two-year-old Isabel Car
rena threw the lower number. and
Immediately renounced her claim to
the blacksmith in favor of her rival,
Louisa Garcia, who is Is.
A violent gale ragged next MORN
ing and at the height of it Isabel
Carrena was seen to put to sea in a
frail skiff. The craft was soon in
difficulties, but the girl managed to
navigate for some time. Then a
great. wave struck the skiff, which
sank before the eyes of large num-
Der of spectators on the beach, Any
attempt at rescue was impossible,
and the girl perished.
A letter she had left at her home
disclosed the reason for her mad
act. She stated in this letter that,
having lost her claim to the black
smiths love, there was only one
thing for her to do-to die.
The blacksmith now AYERS that he
was in love with the dead girl, and
that on no account will he have
anything 20 do with Louisa Garcia.
This has had the effect of derang-
ing Louisa Garcia's mind and she
IS now undergoing treatment for in
sanity. ...
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Girl, After Long Trip,
Finds Her Mail Order
Suitor Is a Negro

New York, Dec. 2S.-An adver-
,isement inserted by California
matrimonial agency brought little
spun-clad girl from the North
Carolina hills to New York, where
she found that the man who was to
marry her was a negro. This and
similar cases were made public to-
day by the New York Travellers Aid
society.
The girl was found wandering
about the Pennsylvania station with
out hat and with all her belong
ings bound up ih a blue handker-
chief.
The Travellers Aid representative
went with her to an address in the
Bronx, which was found to be a
basement. They left a note, giving
the girls address.
That evening the man telephoned
the Travellers Aid headquarters and
sought to speak with the girl. If
was noticed that his voice had a
peculiarly soft drawl.
The police were Informed, and it
was found white women had been
Iured to that address. The man ad-
mitted membership in two California
matrimonial agencies
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
POISON drink Band ARREST
POCKET KNIVES
DIG CONDUCTOR
OUT OF WRECK
Three Killed and More Than
100 Injured When Inter-
urban Leaves Rails.

Beaumont, Tex, Dec 2S.-Three
persons were killed and more than
100 were injured late Sunday when
an interurban car from the city to
Port Arthur turned over, according
to telephone message from Port
Arthur.
All available physicians and
nurses here have been summoned.
Ambulances are being sent from
Port Arthur
Although many of them had b}ep
injured, passengers on board de
rallied interurban car near this city,
went to the rescue of E. F. Roberts,
the conductor, and dug him out of
the wreckage with pocket knives.
His arms had beer pinioned beneath
the car and he was helpless. Rob-
erts was the most seriously hurt of
Is persons hurt, when the car struck
a COW and left the rails.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
NEGRO ADMITS
COMPLETELY IN
BOLD ROBBERY
duplicates George Alexander,
White, in Christensen A.
fair-Paid Own Taxi
Fare to Station. ,..

Levi Deering, colored. 2124 North
Twenty sixth street, confessed Sun
day to being the companion of
George Alexander, white, IN the as
sault and robbery of Sam Christian
sen, 93l North Twenty-seventh
street, and Mrs. Emma Lawson.
Christiansen's bookkeeper, Christ
mas morning, according to the po-
lice. 81
Deering, according to the police,
surrendered several pieces of jewelry
taken from the Christensen home.
Harry Halstead, whom the police
accused of being Alexander's COM
panion, was released from Jail yes
.terday and all charges against him
quashed. Belle Mckenzie, colored,
1906 North Twenty-fourth street,
was arrested and charged with re-
ceiving and concealing stolen prop
erty when some of the jewelry, said
to have been stolen from Christian
sen, was found in her possession.
Deering paid 81 to have himself
arrested. Detectives Dolan and
Hagerman have been trailing Deer
ing for three days, but had been
unable to locate him. They spotted
an acquaintance of Deerings yes
terday and asked the acquaintance
to put Deering into their hands. The
acquaintance did.
Deering pulled up in front of Cen
tral police station in a taxicab yes
terday afternoon. AS he left the
cab he instructed the driver to wait
as he'd be out soon. Some time
later Detective Doln came out to
the taxi driver. Better not wait
he'll be in there for seven years--he
Just confessed" The bill had al
ready run up to 81.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
ONE BED FOR HUSBAND,
WIFE AND HIS FRIEND.

Ventura, Cal, Dec. 28,-Mrs.
Dorothy Lewis and Guy Lewis were
denied divoSce DEGREES by Judge
Rogers i'll the superior court at Ven
tura in case that produced sensa-
tionai testimony. Mrs. Lewis
charged that once when she and ner
husband were staying at the Alexan-
dria hotel in San Francisco he refused
TO get separate room for a girl
friend of hers who was. with them
and that the three slept in one bed.
Mr.. Lewis asserted that before
his marriage Mrs. Lewis had Don
keelen a local newspaper man, look
up his financial standing, and that
She only decided to marry him when
she discovered he was worth $4,000,
900.
Judge Rogers, in denying the de-
cree, said that neither of them came
into court with clean hands, and
that therefore neither was entitled to
divorce.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
WIFE MAY SMOKE
HUBBY'S TOBACCO.

Los Angeles, Dec. 2S.-BenJamin
J. Morton was opposed to having
women smoke, he told Judge Grail:
"She smoked my tobacco" said
Morton.
DO you smokea?" asked the judge
"Oh, yes"
WELL hasn't she as much right to
smoke as your"
"Of course she hasn't. She is my
wife. Wives shouldn't smoke"
"Well, no man who himself
smokes gets a divorce from this
court just because his wife, too,
smokes" stated the court.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
officer Of the Guard and
Member Of Band Of In
truders Killed in Phoenix
Park Shooting ARRAY.
SEVERAL UNTOWARD
INCIDENTS REPORTED
Daring Attempt Made to
i Assassinate Donegal Con-
stabIe-Band Raids Far
mer's Home, Getting Rifles.

Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 2S.-(By The
Associated Press.)-An officer of the
guard and one member of band of
intruders we're killed early this
morning in shooting affray in
Phoenix park, short distance from
The vicerc9al lodge.~In some quar-
ters the belief was expressed that an
attack was in preparation against the
lodge About eight men are believed
to have made up the band of inter-
lopers. -Four arrests were made.
At 80 o'clock tbisJnornlng shots
were heard in the neighborhood of
the viceregal lodge. They continued
interrnittently at intervals for nearly
an hour in that portion of Phoenix
park between the lodge and the
magazine There apparently was no
direct attack on the lodge itself. The
inmates of the lodge at first thought
the shooting was connected with
some sors Of holiday revelry.
Military Guard Turns Out.
AS the firing persisted, however,
a military guard, consisting of an
officer md two men, turned out and
searched the grounds. Finding moth
ing unusual there, theywent through
the park near the main road. While
traversing the center of the park
they engaged in a sharp exchange of
firing with the intruders and Lieu-
tenant Boast, wao was leading his
men. fell shot through the heart.
One of the attacking party also
was killed. He was civilian about
DO years of age. According to some
reports he was wearing portions of
soldiers uniform. No weapon was
found on or near his body and up to
the present the mans identity has
not been ascertained. Pools OF, blood
were found on the scene, which is
about half mile from the lodge.
= Intruders Flee.
After the shooting the intruders
fed in the darkness. The four men
arrested were not taken into GUS
tody near the scene of the shooting,
but were apprehended as they were
leaving the park about two hours
later. They denied having had any
thing to do with the affair and it is
reported that no discriminating evil
dence was found on them.
After the shooting the military
brought machine gun to the scene.
This was fired in the direction in
which it was supposed the men had
taken flight. Nobody was hit by the
bullets.
The bodies of the two men were
taken to the George V hospital
where an inquest will be held. to-
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Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Wilson
Observes His 63d
Birthday Quietly

Washington, Dec. 23.-President
Wilson observed his SD birthday
quietly Sunday, much improved in
health, surrounded by the members
of his family with the exception of
Mrs. w. G. McAdoo, who was un-
able to be present. Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis B. Sayre arrived from Cam
bridge, Mass, and Miss Margaret
Wilson has been at the White House
since her fathers illness.
The president took his usual walk
about the sick room and later sat
out on the south portico for more
than an hour. Part of the day was
spent by Mr.. Wilson reading many
Of the hundreds of birthday greet
ings that came from prominent Off
cials and friends in the United States
and abroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Guarantee Against
Price Decline Plan
Will Be Sounded Out

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Business
interests, labor unions and the public
generally are to be sounded out as
to the sentiment in regard to the
guarantee-agin aginst-price-dccl sys
tenn said to be in use by many man
ufacturers and wholesalers in the
sale of goods. The federal trade
commission announced that it had
sent out several thousand letters m
quiring as to opinion of the plan.
The guarantee-against-prlce-de-
cline system amounts to guarantee
hy manufacturers and wholesalers in
selling goods that should a decline
in price occur before delivery of the
goods the buyers shall benefit by
the decline, but if the market should
rise before delivery, the manufac-
turer or wholesaler would assume
the loss.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
New Union Pacific
President Dined on
Leaving for Omaha

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 2S.-(Special
Telegram.)-Carl R. Gray, who is
leaving for Omaha to take UP his
new duties as president of the. Union
Pacific railroad, was rendered fare
we'll dinner here Saturday night, at
which notable railroad men from all
parts of the country were present.
Daniel Willard made the address of
the evening, giving his views on
the return of the railroads to their
owners, March l. Mr.. Gray retires
as president of the Western Mary
land
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Western Union Employees
to Get Salary Increases

New York, Dec. 28.-Thirty-two
thousand employees OF the Western
Union Telegraph and Telephone
company will receive salary in
creases amounting to $5,000,000 on
January /, it is announced. En-
ployes who have been in the service
more tl:an one. year will receive a
IS per cent increase and those who
have been in the service more than
six months. but less than year, will
receive 10 per cent increase. Only
employees earning less than $3.50 a
month are affected.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
D'Annunzio Promises
Armed Resistance to
"Last Drop Of Blood

Fiume, Dec. 28-Armed resistance
to the last morsel of brea'! ard last
drop of blood" IS Gabrielle DAN
latest decision in demanding
further guarantees from the Italian
government to insure the annex
alton of Fiume to Italy The situa-
ton is at stronger deadlock than
ever by reason Of the soldier poets
obstinacy to remain in
Flume until his, demands are met.
The national, council has reversed
its decision to accept the govern
ments proposal and has voted to
support O'Annunzio, who with a
large following of 1egionna;res, still
remains master Of the situation in
side the CITY.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
One Killed, Six Injured in
H. C.. of |, Demonstration

Havana, Dec. 28.-One man was
killed and one woman and FIVE men,
including two policemen. were in
jured during a clash between the po-
lice and crowd engaged in dem
onstration against the high cost of
living and excessive house rents.
The wounded policemen claim
that the crowd attacked them when
they demanded to see the permit for
the parade. Witnesses say, how
ever, that the police fired on the
people without warning.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Youth Shot Planned to
Kill Father and Others

Martinez, Cal, Dec. 2S.-Frank
Tut, jr., l6 years old, who was
killed by Constable Charles Chap
man Saturday night in pistol duel
after he was alleged to have dared
the officer to arrest him, had planned
to kill his. father. Constable Chap
man, A. B. Timing, district attor-
ney, and Gus Goethals, justice of
the peace, and then commit suicide,
it was stated tonight at the office
of the district attorney. following a
conference with members of the
Tutt family.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Ammunition Depot Near
Oqden, Utah, Is Approved

Ogden, Utah. Dec. 28.-That ap-
proval of a 1,2S0-acre site for an
army ordnance and ammunition de-
pot near Ogden has been given by
the War department and that con-
grcss will be asked in January to
appropriate 10000 to pay for the
site, was announced in Ogden fol-
lowing word that Utah's senators
and representative were united in
supporting the War department
plan,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
HIS $4,000 LOOT
PROVES HIS NEMESIS.

New York, Dec. Estimating the
dust arising from $4,000 worth of
opium and heroin which he was
dumping into a bag, from drying
pans at the plant of the New York
Quinine and Chemical company,
Brooklyn, after he had broken into
the place, John Sehunitdki collapsed
on the bag and died. His body was
found by the police.
Explaining the occurrence Bene-
,iict Oderfer. the plant chemist, said
that the dust rising from dried
opium is a deadly poison if inhaled
long enough, and that Schunitdki
probably knew nothing of the dan
ger he ran in trying to steal the
drugs.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Expects Russian Peasants
to Revolt AGAINST Reds

Ogden. Utah, Dec. 2S.-Inevitably
there will be conflict of the Rus
sian peasant with the Lenine-
Trotzky radicalism and a new gov
ernment will develop in Siberia and
European Russia, according to DR..
E-tP. Mills, American Red Cross
surgeon in charge OF the Irkutsk
military hospital, who spoke in Og-
den.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
HONEYMOONERS IN STOLEN
CAR LOSE LEGS AND TOES.
TURKS GIVE UP FEZ
FOR GOLF CAPS.

Elbasan, Albania, Dec. 2S-Mo-
hammedans of Elbasan are wearing
American golf caps instead OF the
red fez which, from the time Mo-
BANNED laid down the religious
tenets for, his worshippers, has been
the immemorial head covering of the
Turk.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Floods Along Rhine.

Paris. Dec. 2S.-Floods along the
Rhine and its tributaries are higher
than they; have been for Sc years
and great damage is being done by
the inundation, according to May
ence dispatch
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
FROTH ON MAD" CAT
ONLY MERINGUE PIE.

Gwynedd, Pa, Dec. 28, = With
what looked like froth on its mouth,
big black and white cat dashed
through a room in which Daniel
Davis, chief of police of North
Wales, and his wife were sitting.
Such was not the case. 1t seems
that tabby had found luscious
lemon meringue pie that Mrs. Davis
mad just baked for her hubby.
The cat stuck its head into the
irothy white of egg top of the pie,
and, finding it hot, beat hasty
retreat.
The arm of the law went dessert
less, also the cat For, in revenge,
Mrs. Davis gave a banquet to the
. birds of the neighborhood and the
pie was the feature of the menu.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
MANICURE SCORNS
25-CENT HOSE HUBBY.

New York, Dec. 2S-Mrs. Jessie
Shepard Hustled, who was a mani
cure in New Haven hotel when
she eioped with Mills HI. Hustled,
son of Mrs. Able L. Husted, a
wealthy widow, won divorce in the
superior court at Bridgeport. Judge
Webb granted her $4,000 alimony
At the time the couple were mar
ried in March, 1916, Hustled was a
student at Yale. He took his wife
to live at the home of the mother
in Greenwich. but they separated
after one week together
In September of that year Mrs.
Hustled caused her husbands arrest
on a charge of nonsupport. This
was followed by suit for divorce.
she alleging desertion and intoler-
able cruelty. She said that her hus-
band could give her only rs cent
stockings when she was accustomed
to silk,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Tentative Recommendations
for Establishment Of Ma
chinery to Prevent or Re-
tard Labor DiSn"teS Made.
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ,
TRIBUNAL ADVOCATED
Government Employees Should
Have Right to Associate for
Mutual Protection, Report
States.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Tentative
recommendations for the, establish
ment of machinery to prevent or re-
tard labor conflicts in private indus
try were announced today by The
presidents industrial conference,
with view to obtaining construc-
tive criticism before final plan is
adopted.
The plan as outlined now contem-
plates the creation of national
industrial tribunal and regional
boards OF inquiry and adjustment,
which would move to the settlement
of disputes before there was any
stoppage of production. Decisions
would have the full force and effect
of a trade agreement between the
parties to the dispute.
Remarking that. some public
utilities, such as railroads, are es-
sential to the very existence of the
people, the conferences tentative
statement expressed the opinion that
the interruption in such essential
public utilities is intolerable. But
the conference states that further
consideration is required of the
problem whether some method can
he arrived at that will avert all
danger of interruption to service.
Government employees, the third
class into which the wagr-earning
public are divided, should have the
right to associate for mutual protec-
ton, the statement declared, but mo
interference by any group with the
continuous operation of government
functions through concerted cessa-
ton of work or threats thereof, can
be permitted
To Hold Public Hearings.
When the conference reconvenes
January II, public hearings will be
held to obtain expert advice as to
the drafting of the final recommen-
dations in the light of such criticism
of the tentative report as may be re-
-ceived.
While stating that at this time it
was believed more essential to de-
wise machinery for averting con-
flicts than to undertake discus
sion of the causes of unrest, the
conference indicated clearly the
general principles on which it has
based its recommendations.
"Our modern industrial organiza-
ton" the tentative report. said, "if
it is not to become a failure, must
yield to the individual larger sat
isfaction with life. Not only
must the theory that labor is a
commodity be abandoned but the
concept of leadership must be sub
stituted for that of mastership
l.. Human fellowship in in
dustry must either be an empty
phrase or living fact.
Pending the growth of better
relationships between employer and
employees, the practical approach to
the problem is to devise method
of preventing or retarding con-
flicts by providing machinery for
the adjustment of differences. To
be successful such tribunals must
be so organized as to operate
promptly as we'll as impartially.
The plain fact is that the
public has long been uneasy about
the power of great employers; it is
becoming uneasy about the power
of great labor organizations. The
community must be assured against
domination by either. .
"The plan which follows does not
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