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WATCH AIGRETTES
MANY CONFISCATED
Unless Bought More Than
Five Years Ago You
May Lose Them.
BY MEMORY M'coRo


Ladies, if you have an aigrette feath-
er beware of wearing it up and down
Main street, that is unless you can
prove that you bought it many many
years ago.
No, it isn't a joke; and you won't
think so, either. il you are accosted by
a perfectly strange man, who gives
you a new version of Johnny where
did you get that hat?' by demanding
abruptly, when did you get that
Two years ago you stammer, or
last week. and you're a goner. Five
years it Island five years 1t must be,
or, well your best bonnet will be without
trimmings, +. NJ. Yerger has said so,
and he has the government behind him.
Representing the United States agricul-
tural department, he has confiscated
81 900 worth of feathers here within the
last week.
Many Of the losses were felt by local
millinery shops, one place losing as
much as $3.50 worth, others lesser
amounts, and several individuals the
price of a feather or two one socially
prominent woman suffered the loss of a
lovely feather at a local h~eadgear shop
where her bonnet was in a reconstruc-
ton period,
Complaints from both men and wonq-
en- were turned in at the United States
district attorneys office and at the
A@NNi"li6V pulihlllbs "Al'lD " pBNNltA
deputy is kept for investigation pur-
poses. Yerger was accused of being in
the shin-game business and husbands
loudly threatened suit if their wives
possessions were not returned at once.
Then, at last, the matter was explained.
Five years ago the United States gov
eminent passd a law forbidding
aigrettes being brought into the coun-
try, Persons handling such feathers
were notified to get rid Of them quickly
and notice was given millinery shops to
cease sales after q certain date. All
was well. only the American women
wanted aigrettes-believed in them. in
sisted upon wearing at least a dozen or
SO, and as a result smuggling began and
continued,
At first only the North and East were
affected by the new law, Feathers be-
came fewer and occasionally women
were stopped upon the street and their
plumage cut from their honnets. This
happened in instances where feathers
were new and proclaimed the fact
Then gradually, as the government Of
fiCers became concerned, smuggling
peddlers ventured farther and farther
south, where the field was clearer,
Small orders were placed here ant
there, some of which evidently reached
Memphis, and as a result-well, several
local women are bothered a bit about
their best head dress. Well, new
mind; others have suffered, too. Fifty
thousand dollars worth were Confis'
Gated once in New Orleans, and millions
of dollars worth in New York and Chi
cago.
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500 of the 10000

Mrs. E. C, Wluinsham,
Mrs, j. S. Hortle,
Mrs. Lewis r. Hardy,
Mrs. Harry Jay,
Mrs. r. p. Woodson,
Mrs. Francis j, 6yrne,
Mrs. S. c. Ford,
Mrs, T. F. Kelley,
Mrs. T, c. Collins,
Mrs. H.. H.. Barker,
Mrs, r. n. Vance,
Mrs. WasselI Randolph,
Mrs. V. 3. Frier,
Mrs. j. w. Reese,
Mrs, S. n. Nudge,
Mrs. Arthur Jacobs,
Mrs. w, n, Fineshrlber,
Mrs. r, L. Oswald.
Mrs. Geo. A.. Bone,
Mrs, John L. Hyatt,
Mrs. 6erney Harris,
MIso Lillian cunny.
Mrs, r. NJ. Scrugus,
Mrs. Walter Gray,
Mrs. r. e. Mitchell,
Mrs. q. L, Mallory,
Mrs, Daniel Grant,
Mrs, John T. Fisher,
Miss Marilla Freeman,
Mrs, Sam phillips,
Mrs, w, p. Brown,
Mrs. M. c. Adams,
Mrs. Robert Ellis,
Mrs. r. L. Jordan,
Mrs. C. N. 6urch,
Mrs. j. S. Patterson,
Mrs, W. p. Armstrong,
Mrs, E. o. Horton,
Miss Susie e. owens,
) Miss Elizabeth Horton.
Miss Matte Lou Owens,
Mrs. IrbY Bennett,
Mrs. F. o. Gamble,
Mrs. E. w, Wltzmann,
Mrs. Geo. c. WeIlons,
Mrs. VIM, Bell orr,
Mrs. Douglass Darnell,
Miss Leora PeIlette,
Mrs. G. l.. Mcclure,
Mrs. n. r. Boyd,
Miss Margaret Boyd.
Mrs, VIM. J. Abston,
Mrs. Milton Hunt,
Mrs. Robert Metcalf,
Mrs. Hugh Hayley.
Miss L. Reilly,
Mrs. Earl Harris,
Miss Edyth Reilly,
Mrs. Walter Lane Smith,
Mrs. Thos. Day,
Mrs. Grant Matthews,
Mrs. Geo. r. Wilkes,
Mrs. Randolph Chears,
Mrs. John W. Mcclure,
Mrs. S. NJ. Mickey,
Mrs. Levi Joy,
Mrs. j. l.. McGehee, Jr.,
Mrs. W. j.. GIlfllan,
Mrs. Ben Lang,
Mrs. Richard 3. Clinton,
Mrs. J. W.. King,
Mrs. George Ramsey.
Mrs. Elizabeth sharp,
Mrs. v. 3. Griffith,
Mrs. r. l.. Weatherby.
Mrs. j. A. Helterbran,
Mrs. Grace E. W. Reilly,
Mrs. j, l.. Burqle,
Mrs. Eugene 3. Douglass
Mrs. l.. H.. Galloway,
Mrs. w. II. Clements,
Mrs. w. X. Taylor,
Mrs. Louis Montedonico,
Miss Eleanor Kelley.
Mrs. Ida q. Groomes,
Mrs. Geo. Tayloe,
Mrs. Geo. Bachelor,
Mrs. j. W. Fisher,
Mrs. C. r. Berlin,
Mrs. J, j.. Farrls,
Mrs. n. L. Messy,
Mrs. j. v. Pipes,
Mrs. j. A. Pickey,
Mrs. sam Jacobs,
Mrs, j. W. Stultz,
Mrs. G. F. Painter,
Mrs. W. o. White,
Mrs. John S. Mitchell,
Mrs. John McCIeary, Jr.,
Mrs. Ernest Adams,
Mrs, j. w. Glsh,
Miss Rebecca Turner,
Mrs. &. X. BEETLE,
Mrs. Geo. c. kancher,
Or. Pearl J. Stephens.
Or. ROSE A. Meade,
Miss j. M. Lookhart,
Miss Ruth Gothard,
Miss Helene G, Baker,
Miss Margaret Bolsen,
Miss marie PItruso,
Mas Irene BrIanardilIo,
Mrs. W. e. Hyde,
Mrs. Sam Scott,
Mrs. Satterfield,
Mrs. Jim Quinn,
Mrs. E. Y. Kelly,
Mrs. A.. E. Kelly,
Mrs. j. NJ. oualls,
Mrs. j. n. S. Barbee,
Mrs. James Malone,
Mrs, Calvin Graves,
Mrs. Willard Markle,
Mrs. Edna Rast,
Mrs. n. o. Rasure,
MIRA e. o. Sklllman,
Miss Nell Ogden,
Miss Aleda LerEi,
Miss Nina Morrison,
Mrs. j. H., Dillon,
Mrs. z. W. Rust,
Miss Elsie Scott Reid,
Mrs. Emma Heth,
Mrs. Ven HlIn,
Miss Maggie Bradley,
Mrs. NJ. l.. covlneton,
Miss Pearl Cooper,
MIss Lotto Stewart.
Mrs. Edward Mette,
Mrs. M. p. Hosea,
Mrs. e. w. Perkins,
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Miss Mildred Taylor,
Miss Alice G. Stroud,
Miss Louise Gwynn,
Mrs. VIM. n. Dillon,
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Majestic.

In these days of superexpensive mo-
ton picture, it does II producers heart
and pocketbook-good to come across
a bright story like Avery Hopwood's
Sadie Love- and discover that it can
be reproduced on the screen by using
only one set" except for a bit at
the finale which requires a scene at
the gangway to a steamship. In the
screen version of the popular Broad
way farce, in which Billie Burke is now
playing at the Majestic theater, the bulk
of the action takes place in a suite
Of rooms, which are facsimiles of the
interior Of any large suburban home.
However, these quite ordinary surround :
ings are said to furnish the back
ground for a most amusing screen COM
edy, in which a vivacious American
girl, married to handsome Italian count,
imagines herself in love with a former
sweetheart and gets into a complicat ted
mess of wives, twin souls" and elope-
ments that is finally settled to every
body's satisfaction. James l.. Crane
is Miss Burke's leading man,
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Moving Pictures
Princess.

Virginia Hammond, who made such
a sensational success in THE Battler,'
will be the feature at the Princess the
Jater today and Saturday in her new pic
ture, Miss Crusoe."
Miss Crusoe" tells OF the adven-
lures of Dorothy Evans and her aunt,
Miss Meeker, who go to spend the
summer on a secluded island on the
Chesapeake bay. Miss Meeker, who
is proprietor of a school for young girls,
seeks seclusion where she can study.
However, the lease is made out for a
Mr." instead of Miss and Dorothy
persuades her aunt to dress up as a
On the island crooks have made a
lair from which they are driven by
the coming of Dorothy and her aunt.
They leave behind them in their rush
to get out, a bottle OF nitro-glycerine.
The crooks, the nitro~glycerine and a
detective disguised as a crook provide
plenty of excitement while Miss Ham
mond works in excellent comedy bits,
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Mutt and Jeff's Dream

After eight seasons OF veritable tri-
umph, Gus Hill will come back for a
ninth season with his perennial sue
cess Mutt and Jeff' in an extra new
dress entitled Mutt and Jeff's Dream"
which WY form a background for Bud
Fishers inimitable characters, which
easily assume the credit Of the great
est and most durable success of the
cartoon world. The new production is
an innovation e~mbodying about all OF
the real meat" OF standard amuse-
ment, the thrill Of the melodrama, the
side splitting situations OF farce COM
edy and the harmonious art of musical
comedy.
The story, music, costumes, lyrics
and scenic equipment. are absolutely
new n the company is one OF the
best ever offered. All in all, Mutt and
Jeff's Dream" will live UP to the title
Of the one big hit Of the show world
Mutt and Jeff will be the attraction
at the New Lyric theater on next
Tuesday and Wednesday and Wednes-
day matinee.
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let.
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Mrs. j.. q. Butord.
Mrs, H., p. Porter.
Mrs. NJ, V, Dalton,
Mrs. Julian Aymett,
Mrs, Nat Graves,
Yrs. Robert LaCroix,
Miss Ida Thomas,
Miss Florence Wright,
Miss Alice Wright,
Mrs. n. S. calktns,
Mrs. J, G. Metz,
Mrs, Ward Garter.
Yrs. W, A. WitseIt,
Mrs. c. n, White. Jr,
Or. Rose A. Meade,
Or. {, 8. 5ohannon,
Mrs. G. Russell
Mrs. c. W. Greenaway'
Mrs. Thomas n. Allen
Yrs. L. o, Reid.
Mrs. George Burke. 3
Mrs. Emma p. Jones,
Mrs. W. A., Crawford,
Mrs. Nat r, Jones,
Mas Emily E. Carr,
Mrs, Viola Duncan,
Mrs. Ida Payne,
Mrs. D, o, Burton,
Mrs. Harold Martin,
Mrs, Aston Boyd, Jr'
Mrs. Irene V. Barker
Mrs. Perry D, Martin
MRS, Alice 6yrd,
DR.. May l., Brooks
Or. Ruth p, Brooks,
Miss Katherine 5aIlou'
Mrs. S. T, Beasley,
Mrs. W. E, Jones.
Mrs. p. Ne Birmingham
Mrs. J. S. sanford,
Mrs. j.. W. oladdinu,
Mrs. Rgsc. Walker,
Mrs. Wynne Cannon,
Mrs. Pearl townsend,
Mrs. Dan F. Elllotte,
Mrs. e., n. Gardner,
Mrs. Horace Hull,
Mrs. ]. N. Fenner,
Mrs. Hayden Smith,
Mrs. Charles o. Luke
Mrs. Palmer Farnsworths
Mrs. W. r. 5arksdale'
Mrs. 3. r, Witsell,
Miss Florence Sample
Mrs. l.. D. Plnson,
Mrs. Frank Latham,
Mrs. Susie Duke,
Mrs. J. r. Morgan,
Mrs, William e. Hall,
Mrs. Il. NJ. Woodson,
Mrs. Allen E, Rudd,
Mrs. j. p. Nortleet,
Mrs. Jack Gates,
Mrs. Lula Goodman,
Miss Nettle BarnWel',
Miss sallie Rarnwell'
Mrs. S. II. earnweo'
Mrs. Leslie Stratton'
Mrs. Robert Galloway
Mrs. Dean Adams
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Mrs. Ben ~
Mrs. j. N. Falls,
Mr. Boston Maury.
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Mrs. Ray o unSd
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Mrs. sen Laug,t,,,e
Mrs. 5ryee
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Mrs. W. r., onouI
Mrs. Carlisle U.n,'
Mrs. June N9a.s'u,on.rv.
Mrs. leona m0n
Mrs. Kennedy 1o"0'
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Mrs. William PRIV
Mrs. 7. M. nulI,u
Mrs. Percy husseu CT
Mrs. c. w. Metcsnt
Mrs, Rebe N. mo.'e"'
Mrs. r. ! eoopnd.or.
Mrs. Peyton Woouso"'
Mrs. Howard browu'
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Mrs, Alex B'aok'
Mrs. &. /. avery
Mrs. Mark paws,
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Mrs. James o OaVa"''
Mrs. r. W, ealiey.u
Mrs. c. W, Heiske"
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Mrs. W. r. Herste'n'
Mrs. A. NJ. Wray,
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Miss Nettle Lee o""So
Mrs. W. B.. Koss,,
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Mrs. LEILA c: Eooer's'
Mrs, Mary Honnoh'
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Mrs. w. q. LannaW'
Miss Q. A, olldewell,
Miss Sarah buonannoo'
Mrs. A. r.. hstz
Mrs. NJ, n. HoSennna''
Miss Celia NJ WllIey'
Mrs. A. A. Lanoneau'
Mrs. }. q. Ciouon'
Miss JuUa per
Mrs. Dwight .Rrnns''o"s'
Mrs. e. NJ Holoer'
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Miss Mary ouIap,
Mrs. Isaac Wright,
Mrs. J, S. Robinson,
Mrs, C, l, aoze,
Mrs, V. II. Shepherd,
Miss Mary seay,
Miss Maggie MeNut,
Mrs, J.. {. Lane,
Miss EoIlne Howe,
Miss WlnNred Brown,
Mrs, George 5oushe,
Mrs. n, s. MeLaurine.
Mrs, Frank w. Ward,
Mrs. Robert Jones,
Miss Geraldine Jones.
Mrs. T, B, Anderson,
Mrs. w, E. Barnes,
Mrs. l., Nixon,
Mrs. Bolton Smith.
Mrs. Harry Webb,
Mrs. c. poherty,
Miss Agnes Doherty.
Mrs. j. p. Stewart,
Mrs. r. II, Pulliam,
Miss Corlnne GIaddlng,
Mrs, 3. r, WeakIey.
Mrs, +, Bullion,
Mrs. Julia Allen.
Miss Amy Randolph.
Mrs, George FrIedeI.
Mrs. Sidney Meeker,
Mrs. VoIllo Tate.
Mrs. Walter Mallory Brown
Mira. Tom Mcknight,
Mrs. Ben Goodman,
Mrs. Elias Gates.
Mrs. j. Marks.
Mrs. NJ. 0oltmar,
Mrs. Joseph Fader,
Mrs. George Phillips.
Il, Mrs. w. X. Love,
Mrs. W. A. Gage.
Mrs. Norman eyars,
Mrs. E. n. MeGehse,
Miss Annie BonInuer,
Mrs. Vincent Brooato,
Miss Grace Oswald,
Mrs. jennie n. Ryan,
Miss Dora Haaa,
Miss Betsy Freeman,
Miss salIle Harrison,
Mrs. l.. j. Hughes.
Miss BEETLE paItrott.
Mrs. e. W, Perkins.
Miss Little L. NRrshall,
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Nicely,
Mrs. e. p. Ware,
Mrs. Horace johnson,
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Strand.

If you haven't been to the Strand
theater this week to see Checkers"
tomorrow is your Hast chance to view
the big special production. Checkers
is a play Astounding in color and at
mosphere, and contains many beautiful
as well as thrilling scenes. In the YER
~nacular, it is a ''corker."
Richard Stanton. VINO directed the
picture, has followed closely the story
of the famous stage play from which
1t is made; but celebrating the racing
and fighting scenes. The play is finely
presented by an all-star cast headed
by Thomas J. Carrigan and Jean Acker,
and is a treat to both those who saw
the brilliant play on the speaking stage
and those who were not so fortunate.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-17
TIMBER THEFTS
ARE CHARGED IN SUIT

Louis Riegel late Thursday filed suit
in the chancery court against Henry
Howard, seeking to affect settlement for
$50, 900 feet of lumber at $40 a thousand,
Howard is charged with cutting and
selling timber from Riegel's place Oh
Island 40. 1t is charged that thefts OF
timber from his place have occurred at
various times during the past three
years.
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TT NOWING that
" the five men of
the Citizens
Ticket are select
ed because they are
such men,
WE, the undersigned
women, because of our
love and loyalty to
Memphis, u~nqualifiedly
indorse the Citizens
Ticket.
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n ELIEvING also
n that our only
hope for a better
Memphis lies in
the election of clean,
honest, efficient men,
uninfluenced by polit-
ical parties or trick
cry;
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N ELIEvING that a
x critical period in
ID the history of
M Memphis has
been reached, when the
shame put upon her
good name by law
breakers and thugs is
the grief and concern
of every good citizen,
man and woman;
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permanently disappear after drinking
the celebrated Shivar Mineral Water.
Positively guaranteed by money back
offer., Tastes fine; costs a ,rlf1a. De.
uvered anywhere py our Memphis
agents Oliver F.nnis Co. Phone them.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
Red Cross Names
Woman Secretary
In Place Of Man

Washington, Dec. 10-Wee Presi-
dent Marshall, addressing the annual
meeting of the American Red Cross,
advocated the coordination of all
charitable and social organizations
he United States under one big
!, Iteration to be operated by the
American Red Cross.
There should be a combination
Of charity, good will and helpfulness
among the American people," the
vice president said. 1T is now time
for America to bunch up its existing
agencies for charity and social relief
and have some big organization to
look after them. The American Red
Cross ought to be the great factor
in the distribution Of charities and
benefits in America"
The financial report for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1919, showed
that the cost of operation was 3 per
cent and that during the fiscal year
$3l0,000,000 was available for Red
Cross operations. Of this sum SILL
100000 was actually spent during the
fiscal year.
All of the officers were reelected,
with President Wilson as president,
except DR.. Stockton Arson, secre-
tary, who will be succeeded by Miss
Mabel I. Boardman of Washing
ton. D, c,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
R EFUTE REPORT
OF 1900 CARS OF
COAL IN YARDS
Investigation at Council
Bluffs Shows No Evil
dence to Support the
Charge.

The story that hundreds of cars
of coal were sidetracked in the Rock
Island railroad yards in Council
Bluffs was not verified yesterday by
. trip through the upper portion of
the yards. The yards virtually ex-
tend from Sixteenth street almost to
The city limits on South avenue near
the Iowa School for the Deaf, a dis
lance of about three miles.
1t was asserted that hundreds of
cars of coal, covered with snow and
half buried in the drifts had been
partially hidden there for days. In
vestigation by Bee reporter failed
to reveal the cars. Three cars of
commercial coal we're located, none
of which had been released to the
dealers to whom they were con-
signed. All of the railroad coal
found was punched in cars in the
vicinity of the roundhouse ready to
be unloaded at the chutes. The count
showed IS cars. According to the
reports of the yardmaster nearly III
of this coal had just come from the
east. This is little more than one
days. supply for the engines and
other yard purposes.
There were snow drifts in the ow-
er yards big enough to almost con-
ceal a coal car, but surveys of the
chasms as far as, the inquiry went
failed to disclose any hidden cars.
All of the coal in sight was concen-
trated where railroad guards can
watch it. IF the coal was left any
where else it would be carried away
in a night" said one yard office
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
Warmer Weather Appears
In Rocky Mountain REGION

Denver, Colo, Dec. 10.-Thc
Rocky mountain states were prom
Used relief from the cold wave in
the shape Of rising temperature and
fair weather today. Denver and its
environs, which SINCE Monday had
been held in the grip Of record
cold spell. obtained relief last night,
when the mercury slowly, crawled
from II degrees below zero to S
above in the l2-hour period begin
ming at 8 o'clock p. m. Rising tenn
perature was reported from Wyo-
ming, Colorado and Utah, with the
storm center moving slowly east
ward
Denver's minimum temperature, 20
degrees below, which was recorded
early yesterday, was the lowest that
the thermometer has dropped since
1918. according to weather bureau
statistics. Passenger train service
was badly demoralized last night and
today as result of the blizzard, one
train, a Burlington through passen-
ger from Chicago, being reported "a
hours late, due to trouble in Ne
braska. Trains on practically every
road entering the city were running
from 7 to Il hours late this morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
WILSON ASKED
TOPROTECT OIL
MEN IN MEXICO
Production in Tampico Field
Greatly Curtailed by Car
ranza's Action.

Washington, Dec. l0.-Curtail-
ment of oil production in the Tam
pico, Mexico, fields as the re-
suit of Mexican government de-
crees has become so serious that
Chairman Payne of the shipping
board has prepared a memorandum
on the subject for President Wilson,
Representative Gould, republican,
New York. announced after con-
ference with the board chairman.
Representative Gould also said Mr..
Payne had written Secretary Lans-
ing urgently pressing the import
ance of protecting the American sup
ply of Mexican fAel oil from "itfegal
interference by the Mexican govern
ment."
Chairman Payne was quoted by
Mr.. Gould as saying that fuel oil re-
serves on the Atlantic coast now
were so short that cessation of re-
ceipts of Mexican oil for a very few
weeks would embarrass the opera
ton of the government merchant
marine.
The senate, after months of inter-
mittent debate, adopted the petro-
lcum bill submitted by the president,
which acts as an amendment to Ar
ticle II of the constitution! The bill
now goes to the lower house for ap-
prevail.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
Former Schol Teacher
Died in Child Birth,
Pathologist Asserts

Lawton, Mich, Dec. 10.-Maud
Tabor, former school teacher, whose
body was found concealed in a
trunk 10 days ago, came to her
death as the result of hemorrhage
during child birth, in the opinion
of DR.. A. S. Warthin, University
of Michigan pathologist. DR..
Warthin submitted report of his
laboratory analysis of the woman's
vital organs at the resumption of
the inquest.
The experts testimony was ac-
cepted by officials as disposing of
the murder theory, but when asked
if other charges might be lodged
against the woman's mother, Mrs.
Sarah Tabor, and her brother, Wal
ter Tabor, whose extradition is be-
ing sought from California. or 9TH
ers connected with the case, they
refused to divulge any further plans
they might have.
DR.. Warthin stated that Miss
Tabor, who was 46 years old, had
been attended by a physician with
some skill, that the body had been
partially embalmed and that there
were no signs of disease that might
have caused death.
]. c. Virgo, a former undertaken
of South Bend, Ind, recalled to the
stand, changed his previous testi-
mony and admitted that he was mar
ried to Miss Tabor at La Grange,
Ind, in 1915. He also told of his
five other marriages and submitted
to several hours questioning as to
his relations with Miss Tabor.
Virgo maintained throughout that
he advised the dead woman against
resort to an illegal operation and
denied knowledge Of her death ex-
cept that he was told by the mother
that Maud Tabor died in the west.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
Suit on Validity Of
Dry Proclamation
Has Been Dismissed

Washington, Dec. 10.--A petition
fled in the district supreme court
last Wednesday by Robert A.
Widenman Of Port Jervis, N. ".
seeking to compel Secretary.
Lansing to show cause why the
proclamation announcing the rati-
fcation of the prohibition constis
tutional amendment should not be
held null and void has been dis
missed by Justice ,Hitz. The petit
ton was based on the assertion that
the department was in error in as
Stunning that So states had ratified
as time had not been allowed to SUBJ
NIT the question to the voters in the
states desiring to take that course.
Council for Widenman noted an
appeal to the district court of APP
peals.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
Domestic Outlines Program
For Use After Election

London, Dec. l0-Jessie Stephens,
the former domestic servant who
was recently elected to . seat ON
the borough council of Bermondsey,
London suburb. says that munich
pal work is the FIRST step i'll the dr.
rection Of the House of Commons.
In an interview she spoke with quiet
confidence of her future arrival in
Parliament and gave many instances
of how work could be saved for
women. She told of plans she was,
making for the benefit Of house
4 robbed myself OF sleep at
nights and rose in the morning to
study politics. she said. There, !
believe, lay the way to reform. My
first hand knowledge of house work
gave me ideas to base my political
plans upon."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11
Labor and Socialist Press
Forms News Association

Cleveland, Dec. ia news gath
ering association with about Is
members, mostly labor and socialist
newspapers, in as many cities
throughout the. country, is being in
corporated in Chicago, it was an
nounced here. 1t will be known as
the Federated Press.
The new service will handle gen
eral news, but will specialize in
labor, industrial and political corre-
spondence from a liberal point Of
view. Offices are to be opened in
Washington, New York, Chicago
and Seattle and correspondents will
be placed in the principal cities and
industrial centers.