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with offenders of the first, or mil
itary and naval class.
Napoleon's Case Precedent.
Concerning the political offenders.
it is said that a tribunal is not neces-
sary and would be ineffe :tive, owing
to the legal immunity of political Of
tenders.
Therefore, it is maintained. that
the action against Napoleon | fur
nishes a precedent for the determin-
alton of the allied course as gen.
eral measure of policy.
In the case of Napoleon there was
no trial, but he was confined on the
Island of St. Helena as a general
measure of policy for the tranquility
of Europe.
Some such general policy is de-
signed to reach ex-Emperor William
and other political offenders, with
Belgium or another country, against
whom the political offenses charged
wer. chiefly directed, acting for the
purpose of securing the extradition
of the individual as preliminary to
putting the general policy into ef-
feet.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Col. Wuest's Balloon
Forced to Land Because
Of a Lack Of Ballast

Lieut. Col. w. F. Wuest and
Lieut.. R. A. Reynolds, who piloted
one of the two balloons which start
ed Wednesday from Fort Omaha to
test government weather maps and
instruments. and which landed
Thursday afternoon safely near Ca
bot. Ark. were forced to descend
because their supply of ballast was
exhausted, according to word re-
ceived last night from Little Rock
Colonel Wuest declared his craft
registered elevations from 5000 to
10000 and that the journey was sat-
isfactory in every particular. Colonel
Wuest and Lieutenant Reynolds left
Cabot at 6 o'clock Thursday night
for Omaha. The balloon was shipped
Oh the same train.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
National League Season
Will Open in Boston T0uay

Boston, April 18.-The National
league base ball season will open
here tomorrow, with morning and
afternoon games between the Boston
Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1t was announced tonight that
Pitchers Cadore and Pfeiffer woull
occupy the mound for the Brooklyn
aggregation with Rudolph and Nehf
furnishing the local opposition.
Fully 5000 veterans Of the Yankee
division are expected to be guests al
President G. w. Grant of the local
club. Sport gossip and weather
forecasts indicate record attendances
for the opening games.
These will be the only Champion
ship major league games played to-
morrow, the season being advanced
from Wednesday in order to allow
the local club to take advantagA os
the holiday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19

Aviator and Plane Missing.
Limerick, April 18.-Up to mid
night nothing had been heard here
or at any airdrome in Ireland of
Maj. ]. c. P. Wood, the British avi-
ator who plans an Atlantic fight,
and who left East Church early
this afternoon for the Irish base
from which he proposes to start
his flight for America.
No news has been received of
Aviator Wood since he passed
Sheerness yesterday evening. Sheer
ness is only a short distance from
where the aviator started.
Held Back by-Storms.
St. Johns, N. F., April 18.-Cy-
clonic areas between New Found
land and Ireland, which are pre-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
CONGRESS
LIKELY TO
CON
BY JUNE |
President May Bring Signed
Treaty as Germans Are. Re-
ported Anxious for Early
Settlement.

Paris, April 18.-(B- The Asso-
ciated Press. Ut was stated in we'll
informed quarters tonight that the
situation of the peace negotiations
was such that President Wilson
probably would be able to sail
homeward May 20, and possibly a
little earlier-May Is.
The belief was expressed that the
president would call an extra ses-
sion of congress to convene between
May IS and June l.
Present indications are that the
peace treaty will be signed before
the presidents departure. Informa-
tiop reaching the delegates tends to
show that the Germans are not
planning to take up time and delay
the signing of the treaty, as they
desire a settlement of the peace
terms at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
1t developed today that contrary
to the plan originally contemplated
there will be no German text of the
peace treaty.
Polish German Boundary Fixed.
With the return Of David Lloyd
George, the British premier, the
council of four, comprising the Brit
ish, French and Italian premiers and
President Wilson, resumed its de-
liberations today in the Par:s white
house." =
The Polish German boundary
question, was finally disposed of by
the council today. No announcement
was made of the decisions taken but
it is understood that Danzig will be
internationalized, while the Poles
will have a corridor running from
that city to their frontier to give
them access to the sea.
Only routine work in connection
with the coming of the German dele
gates was taken up this afternoon.
The most important, remaining
question to be settled is that of the
Jugo-Slav and Italian claims in the
Adriatic. This matter will come UP
tomorrow. Baron Sidney Sonnino.
Italian foreign minister, will set
forth the Italian case, it is expected.
1t was said tonight that the coun-
Gil of four intends to settle this ques.
tion at tomorrow's session.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19

The first class includes military
and naval offenders, like General
Ludendorff and Admiral Won Tir-
pitz, and those accused of various
excesses against the usual rules Of
warfare.
The second class includes former
Emperor William, ex-Chancellor
Won Bethmann-H -Hollweg and others
whose offense is chiefly of a polit-
ical nature.
Plan Joint Court-Martial.
Concerning the first class, that of
military offenders, it is agreed that
there is no international court
martial suitable to undertake such
military trials, but it is pointed out
that every country has its own sys-
tenn of court-martial for military
offenses committed within its
borders.l
This has developed the suggestion
that these countries combine their
courts martial and act under single
military procedure, codified from all
the separate military codes.
A joint court-martial would thus
be constituted, capable of dealing
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
TN r l E F
.x1R E E z Y
BITS OF NEWS
DIR. BUTLER TAKES
HUN SAVANTS TO TASK.

New York, April l8.-Acknowl-
edgement of Germanys wrong
doing and contrition by her scholars
and savants for "3l kinds of crime"
committed by the Germans during
the war must be indicated before
German scholarship and German
science can be rehabilitated in the
eyes of university men of France,
England and America, DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Column
bia university, says in reply to a
protest made by German professors
against the outrageous action" of
the French high command in order
ing German educators to leave the
university of Strasbourg within "a
hours.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
ALLIES TO
RECOGNIZE
AUTHORITY
IN SIBERIA
0msk Regime to Be Accepted
by Powers as De Facto
Government Of Non-BoI-
Sheyik Russia.

Washington, April l8.-Great in
terest has been raised in official and
diplomatic circles here, it was
learned today, by private advices
from London stating that Great
Britain, France and Italy and the
United States propose to recognize
the Omsk government as the de fac
to government of non-bolshevik
Russia, as soon as the peace treaty
is signed and the details incident to
it have been concluded.
This proposed solution of the
Russian problem is said in these
private advices to have been inti-
mated by Premier Lloyd George in
discussions of the situation with
British and Russian leaders in Lon
don. Some officials here, after read
ing the advices, suggested that por-
tions of the address of the British
premier in the house of commons
this week could be taken as indi-
eating that the associated powers
had agreed to recognize the Omsk
government.
Bolshevism Losing Ground.
President Wilson, it was learned
authoritatively today, has informa-
ton that an appearance of bolshevik
strength is now being made through
the concentration of the armed
forces at single points at the sac
rifice of the rest of RGssia. The
president also has been informed,
it was stated, that bolshevism rap
idly is losing ground among the
peasant class and with the receipt
of the food supplies which the as
sociated governments have decided
to furnish the movement, will
quickly collapse. I.- =
The Paris conferees have been
kept advised of the situation in Si-
IBERIA where the Onask government
generally has been successful de-
spite local troubles in the eastern
portion, officials said. The London
advices are said to point out that
the stability of all sections of non
European Russia under the control
of non-bolshevists had led to the
decision to recognize the Omsk gov
ernment as de facto.
Financial Situation Improves.
Improvement in the financial sit
uation in Siberia is indicated in
cablegram received by the Russian
embassy from the ministry of for
eign affairs at Omsk The cable
gram, made public today, asserts
that while the ready money in state
credit institutions last July l,
to only 2l3,000,000 rubles,
at present the ready money in these
amounts to 1,500000,000
rubles. Payments of taxes and GUS
toms are said to have been increased
more than II times since the Omsk
government came into existence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Adopt "All Texas" Route.

Mineral Wells, Tex, April ls.-
The "All Texas" route of the Bark
head national highway from Mem
phis to Ell Paso wis adopted to-
day by the directors of the Bank
head Highway association. Pc
posals that the highway run through
Oklahoma and make Scenic loop"
from Sweetwater, Texas, through
the mountains of New Mexico by
way OF Roswell, were voted dowa
after lively arguments
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
War Material Distribution
Awaits Action of Congress

Washington, April 1S.-All ma
terial captured from the enemy is
property of the United States gov
ernment and not of the individual
soldier or the organization making
the capture, the War department has
held in replying to hundreds of in
quiries from states, counties and
as to the disposition of
war trophies.
Until congress has authorized such
action, it was said officially today,
the department has no authority to
distribute any of this material.
either temporarily OF permanently
Steps have been taken, however, to
insure the proper collection and list
ing of captured war material in order
"to make intelligent distribution in
such Inanner as congress may here
after prescribe"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Scott Calls Wife on Phone
To Say He's Under Arrest
Man Who Decamped With Helpmate's Lifetime Sav-
ings Communicates With Spouse Over Telephone
From Kansas City, But Tells Story That Proves
Untrue; 81 Look for Him Back, Soon,' She Says

Walter Scott, 2420 Cass street,
who disappeared Thursday after
noon with $1,000, the savings of
his bride of two months, telephoncd
Mrs. Rose Scott Friday afternoon
that he had been arrested in Kan
sas City and that the police were
making preparations to take him
back to Omaha at once
When Mrs. Scott called back to
the Kansas City police they denied
they had arrested him, saying that
she would have to swear out COM
plant in Omaha before they could
do so. .....
Later it developed that the party
who talked to Mrs. Scott Thursday
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
ROLSHEVIKI PUBLISH
NEWSPAPER IN PARIS.

Paris, April l8.-The trst bol-
shevik newspaper in France ap-
peared today under the name lie
Titre Censure" (the Title Censored),
as the title originally proposed, lie
Bolshevik," had been prohibited.
The newspaper, weekly, is edited
by Georges Anquetil, who, in an
editorial, proclaims himself a boil
shevik doctrinaire. The editor says
he will undertake defense of boil
shevism. He denounces the present
condition of human society.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
PROTEST TRANSFER
OF BREWERIES TO CHINA

Washington, April ia protest
signed by American missionaries in
China and number of natives
against any transfer of American
brewing machinery to China was
presented to the State department
today by officials of the Interna-
tional Reform bureau, The depart
ment was asked to use its influence
ito prevent the imposing upon
China a business and an evil which
the American people and govern
ment had condemned as detrl-
mental"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19

afternoon gave the name Swager at
Main 548O, Kansas City, Mo.
when Walter talked to me over
the telephone he was very nervous
and he was crying" said Mrs. Scott
last night. 81 think he will come
back of his own accord soon. If
he does and can not give a salts
factory explanation of his conduct
| will file suit for divorce. , | in
tend to see the county attorney in
the morning and swear out COM
plant against him.
IF Walter had been unknown to
me, and had sneaked into nv room
or had held me up and taken My
(Continued on Page Six, Column Four)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
School Wagon Struck
by Train; Six Children
Killed, Six Injured

LaPorte, Ind, April 18.-Six chill.
dren were killed, another was fatally
injured and six were severely in
jured today when school wagon
was struck by Westbound Grand
Trunk mail train at grade crossing,
just east of the village of Kingsbury.
seven miles south of here.
The wagon was driven by Mrs.
Walter johnson, whose husband is
the regular driver, and she and her
two small children, who wre on the
drivers seat, escaped with slight in
iur;es.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19

venting Harry G. Hawker and Capt.
Frederick P. Raynham, rival ava
tors, from starting their transatlan-
tic aerial race for the $50,000 prize
offered by the Daily Mail of Lon
don, will not move out of the course
for at leasttwo days, according to
weather report.
Testing American Planes.
New York, April 1S.-The ma, i
seaplane NC-2, which refused to
take the air yesterday because of
experimental condition" received
today "a routine test in flight" ac-
cording to formal announcement
tonight by naval officers in charge
of the departments plans for a
transa tlantic flight next Month. Fail
ure of the plane to rise yesterday
was said to have proved nothing
against the machine"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Loses Prestige

London, April l8.-The prestige
of the Paderewski government in
Poland has been affected seriously
by the position of the allied and as
sociated powers regarding the trans
port of Polish troops from France
to Poland, according to advices re-
ceived here. Local fighting contin-
ues on the borders of the Posen
district and has spread to the bor-
ders OF East Prussia
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
BEER PUT 7
.0NMARkET
W IT H0U 7
s 7 A N P s
Two Concerns Distribute Brew
of 2 3-4 Per Cent Alcoholic
Content Labeled "Non-
intoxicating"

New York, April 18.-Brewers of
the New York district took action
today intended to speed court de-
terminal ton of their claim that beer
of 23-4 per cent alcoholic content
may be produced without violating
the food conservation regulations,
when two of their number began
distribution of a brew of the
strength specified in barrels bearing
labels describing it as non-in-
toxicating beverage.
The kegs, sent out without reye-
rue stamps, which the collector had
refused, carried tags announcing
that sums equivalent to the cost of
the stamps had been deposited i II
banks to await the claim of the gov
eminent. Attorneys for the brew
ers, who advised their action, de-
clared that other manufa acturers, in
New York and elsewhere through
out the country also would begin
distributing.
Manufactured in December.
The beer shipped here, from the
Hoffman, and Gambrinus brewer
les had been manufactured since
December I, when, by presidential
proclamation, use of grains for
brewing was prohibited, to be mod
flied early this year by permission
to make notwithstanding or near"
beer, which the revenue department
classified as containing less than
one-half of per cent alcoholic con-
tent
1t was expected that the brewers
action would precipitate a move by
federal authorities intended to stop
the sale of unstamped beer, thus
bringing into the criminal courts
the manufacturers contention, al
ready raised in civil suits, that the
2M per cent brew. being without
the scope of the food conservation
and prohibition statutes forbidding
production of intoxicants, it is be-
ing manufactured and sold, now
and in the future under either the
wartime or permanent prohibition
status, i'll compliance with the law.
Tax Tender Refused.
The Hoffman breweries notified
the internal revenue collector early
this week of their intention to re-
sumo distribution of the 2M per
cent product. This was the stand
ard during the greater part of Amer
1ca's participation in the war, under
the food regulations.
When applications for revenue
stamps was denied, the brewers
rendered payment of So for every
barrel of 81 gallons to the author
tiles. When this was refused, It
was decided by the Hoffman and
also the Gambrinus concerns to de-
liver goods without stamps, and
special labels prepared on order of
Elihu Root and William D. Guthrie,
counsel for the brewers of the coun-
try, were attached the barrels.
Violates Regulation.
Washington, April 1S-In absence
Of Internal Revenue Commissioner
Roper, officials of the revenue bu-
reau tonight would not predict what
action might be taken i'll the case of
the New York brewers who today
started distribution of beer con-
2A per cent alcohol, claim
ing it to be Notwithstanding under
laws and regulations The
only action of the bureau so far
has been to refuse to authorize the
sale of revenue stamps TO brewers
desiring to make beer with this
alcoholic content. since regulations
place at .one-half of / per cent the
alcoholic content or non-i
beverages of any kind
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Auto Runs Down and Kills
CHICAGO Worlds Fair Head

, Chicago, April 1S-Harlow N,
Higenbotham, who died in New
York today after being struck by
an automobile, was widely known
as president of the Worlds Co.
lumbian exposition held in Chicago
in 1892.
He was one of the city's few re-
naming leaders of the generation in
which Potter Palmer, Marshall Field
and Levi I. Letter were chiefs of in
dustry in Chicago and the middle
west.
Mr.. Higenbotham would have
been 81 years old next fall
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Firemen's Strike Ends.

Cincinnati April ia settle:
ment of the controversy between
city hremen and city officials was
effected late today when the fire.
men voted unanimously to accept
the terms of Mayor John Calvin,
under which the men will be re-
instated.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
French Railway Workers
Postpone General Strike

Paris April lS.-(Havas.)-Al,
though the railway workers have de-
cided to postpone the calling of a
general strike, it is announced that
there will be a cessation of work
for "a hours for central services and
three minutes for road sery;S.a
MAY
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
Fate Similar to Napoleon's
May Await Hun Ex-Kaiser
At Hands Of Allied Powers
Peace Conference Meets With Difficulty in Outlining
Procedure to Bring War Lords to Trial; Court
Martial is Planned for Purely Military Offenders
Accused of Excesses.

Paris, April 18-(By The Associated Press) 1.-THE plan
of the council of four to have Belgium the former
German emperor the charge of responsibility for the war
meeting with objections which have brought the whole
subject for revision.
Those who have the matter in hand divide the question
of RESPONSIBILITIES into two distinct classes
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19

East Church, England, April 18.-Maj J. G.. P. Wood
left East Church at 15 o'clock this afternoon for Limerick
Ireland the first leg of his attempt to the Atlantic
in Short airplane
Major Wood started his flight in ideal weather There
very little wind. He accompanied by Lancaster
Parker. a test pilot for the Short company.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
THE WEATHER:

Partly cloudy and somewhat un-
settled Saturday and Sunday;
cooler in west portion Saturday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-19
WILSON TO RE TURN I'm Md
British Aviator Missing
In First Leg Of Attempt
To Fly Across Atlantic

Major Wood Starts From East Church, England, for
Limerick and Disappears After Passing Sherness;
Eastbound Flights From Newfoundland Delayed
by Unfavorable Weather; Americans Preparing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-07
LEAK Of j. S. NOTES
OCCURRED IN PARIS

BALTIMORE, Aug. THE leak"
by which certain confidential dis
patches sent by the State Depart
ment to the American Peace Commits
sion in Paris reached New York radi-
cal leaders and were recently given
by them to the newspapers did not
occur OF this side of the Atlantic.
A definite announcement to this eff
feet was made yesterday by a State
Department official, in reply TO ques-
tions. The investigation initiated by
the department Immediately after the
publication of the confidential dis
patches has not been completed. 1t
has progressed to a point where Of
ficials feel warranted in announcing
that the leak" occurred in Paris, not
in Washington.
All efforts to ascertain just how
the dispatches escaped" in Paris
were sidetracked by the statement
that the confidential communications
were mot given out" or made public
by authority Of the American mission.
There were intimations here that
the identity of the parties primarily
responsible has been pretty well es-
tablished. Information on this point
is being carefully guarded for the
present.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-07
HAS ROMANTIC HISTORY.

Plumb was asked to handle the case
for the city. With characteristic
thoroughness the Chicago traction
Companies had retained every other
lawyer in the city who knew any
thing about its business
Wins His Case.
Plumb fought and won his case for
the people. That was in I9O4-O6, and
the Chicago railways, to get even"
with him. bought out the small trac-
ton line of which he was the counsel,
and forced him four years later to be-
gin his practice anew.
He is an expert on valuation and
for years has been preparing for the
fight which is now on. His knowledge
of the'roads has come from practical
experience, and the plan he has de-
vised is based not on mere economic
theory but on the results of his
work. He is one Of the few men in
the United States who is devoting his
life to the belief that this country
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-07

wages OF all men employed in the
transportation service, and II seems to
be clear that Il Is for him 20 say
whether the compensation OF the men
should or should not be increased. He
has all the available information
which can possibly be secured. and il
Is the view OF the committee that he
should act In accordance with public
interest and his own judgment. He
can be advised upon the subject by
any board or tribunal which you may
select for that purpose.
Rates Up to Hines.
The director general has also the
absolute right to initiate rates for
transportation, and he can advance or
lower them, as he may think necessary
o. wise, to meet the requirements OF
the transportation system in his
charge, and, moreover, he can put the
new rates into effect whenever, in his
Judgment. they should become effect
i've. At the present time. the Inter
state Commerce. Commission has not
the authority for examination or ap-
prevail OF the rates Initiated by The
director general; but. even II the act
which lately passed the Senate and
which has not yet passed the House,
shall become aE-law and authority OF
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
to suspend rates restored. it will still
be true that the director general must
initiate the rates. and II is entirely
impossible to believs the Interstate
Commerce Commission would suspend
rates that are necessary In order to
pay any increased wages of railway
operatives.
The committee Is now diligently
engaged in preparation OF a BIN for
the general reorganization OF our sys-
tenn OF regulation and control One
common phase OF the many. plans
which have been submitted for our
relates to the further
direction which ought to be given to