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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Rail HEAD TO
CONSIDER WHAT
PUBLIC WANTS
Director General Hines De-
CIareS He Does Not Believe
in Government Owner
ship of Railroads.

Washington, Feb. 81 Director
General Hines, testifying today be-
fore the senate interstate commerce
committee, declared he did not be-
lieve in government ownership, but
in supervision of few big railway
companies subject to close govern
ment supervision.
Il do not believe there is any
thing substantial in the argument
that a fve-year extension Of goyerii-
ment operation would necessarily
mean government ownership" Mr..
Hines said. II believe there can be
a form of radically reconstructed
private ownership with such close
government supervision, including
government representation on the
boards of directors, as will give the
public and labor all the benefits of
government ownership and at the
same time will preserve the benefits
ofp rivate and self-interested initiat-
ivc and will avoid the political diff
ficulties which perhaps are in3epara-
BILE from government ownership.
Moderate Guaranteed Returns.
II believe that all the objects
which think. must be achieved IN
order to obtain a permanent solution
can be accomplished through the
creation of comparatively few rail
road companies which will nave cap
italization equal only to the real
value of the property and which will
have a moderate guaranteed return
with the right to participate mod
erately in any additional profits"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
my men never
retire. SAYS
COL. HAYWARD
n Don't Understand YOU"
U. S. officer Tells French
General on Receiving
Command to Retreat.
From 4 SAT CORRESPONDENT.

Washington, Feb. 3.-A "hell man"
ls what the members of the Three
Hundred Sixty-ninth regiment in
which New York colored fighters of
the old Fifteenth regiment were or
eanized, call Col. William Hayward,
their commander, according to an
interview with Sergt. John Jamison,
a member of Company. K of the
regiment as detailed today by the
New York World.
In telling the story how Colonel
Hayward. a Nebraska boy born and
bred, who may yet turn out to be the
Roosevelt of the empire state, ex-
posed himself while leading his men
under a CALLING fire Of the Germans.
Sergeant Jamison says:
"At Belleau Wood we were hight
ing with the French, and the Ger
mems launched a counter-attack to
our advance" he said,
ut was getting hot for u.s.
Colonel Hayward took the insignia
Of rank off his shoulders, and grab
bing rifle from a soldier, darted
out ahead and led us through a
storm Of German artillery.
"a French general ordered us to
retire. Colonel Hayward, who was
under his command, replied to the
general. / don't understand you.
The general raised both his hands
over his head and shouted retire.
"Colonel Hayward came back with
NV men never retire-they go for
ward or they die and we went for
Sergeant Jamison and Is men Of
the Three Hundred Sixty-ninth ar
rived in New York Saturday from
France on the battleship Connect.
cut bringing all sorts of tales OF
how they "cut the Germans to
pieces,"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
SON OF FORMER GERMAN
EMPEROR ASKS DIVORCE.

Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. s.
Frederick William Hohenzollern,
eldest son of the former German
emperor, according to Berlin dis
patch TO the Munich Zeitung, has
Instituted proceedings for di-
vorce. .-- :,
Frederick William now is an exile
from Germany on the Dutch island
Of Weiringen. The family of the
former crown prince, according to
reports, has remained at Potsdam.
Frederick William was married in
1une, 1905, to the Grand Duchess
Ceeiie of Mecklenburg, a sister OF
the queen of Denmark. They have
Ave children, the youngest, Princess
Alexandra. having been born in
l9l5.
VA Zurich dispatch Sunday quoted
ahe Tageblatt Of Prague as authority
for the statement that former En-
peror Charles of Austria-Hungary
intended to apply for a divorce
from his wife, who was Princess
Zita of Bourbon and Parma.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
WOMEN OPPOSE
COOPER CIVIL
SERVICE BILL
Club Members Want Five of
Number Appointed to State
Food Commission by
Governor MCKeIvie.

The Omaha Woman's club is op-
posed to Senate File No. 9, a civil
service bill affecting city OF Omaha
employees introduced in the state
legislature by Senator Cooper.
This is a civil service bill in name
only" said Mrs. Lee Edwards.
Members of the civil service re-
form committee of the club, headed
by Mrs. Edwards. declined to appear
in favor of the bill at municipal
affairs committee hearing, on invita-
ton of the author, Senator Cooper.
Bill Offers No Protection.
The only purpose of this bill is to
blanket into Office for the rest of
their life, employees who have served
the city for FIVE years." said Mrs.
Edwards, former civil service en-
ploye in Chicago. "There is no pro-
vision for competitive examination
for appointments and no protection
to an employe against losing his job
with a new incoming political adj
administrator. 1t would be very bad
for such a haphazard bill to- go
through"
The club went on record as op-
posed to the bill, at a meeting held
Monday afternoon in the Young
Women's Christian association.
Want Women on Food Board.
Omaha club women will also pc
tition Governor McKelvie to appoint
at least FIVE women on the state food
commission. The home economics
department, led by Mrs. R. L.
Frantz, is behind the movement.
When the food inspection was or
ganized with six members, there was
one woman appointed at the sugges-
ton of the Omaha club. Now there
are 80 appointees but only one wo-
man, it was stated
The club endorsed the proposal Of
one of its members, Mrs. E. Allen to
the Chamber of Commerce, for the
erection Of memorial building to
Omaha's dead soldiers.
Rev. Titus Lowe spoke on "Side-
lights of the War"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
LONDON Hotel
WORKERS VOTE
TO co ON STRIKE
Labor Situation in Great Brit
ain Growing Worse; Large
Bodies of Troops Are
Held in Glasgow.

London, Feb. 3.-Late tonight no
extension of the strike movement
was reported except in South Wales,
where the electrical trades union
declared strike for 47-hour week.
This strike would have involved the
collieries and many other big under
takings and on the representation
that if the men were withdrawn the
mines would become flooded and
other serious damage would result,
the strikers agreed to allow power
for the mines. ~
There was no change in the Lon
don district tonight.
London, Feb. 3.-The seriousness
of the strike situation in London
was further increased late today
when the hotel workers at a meet
ing decided to go on strike. About
5000 men and women are involved
The presence of large bodies Of
troops in Glasgow is believed to in
sure a continuance of the present
state of order there, but at Belfast
the second week o fthe strike begins
with increased uneasiness, although
there are no signs of any disposition
on the part of the men to resort to
further violence.
For eight days Belfast has been
using candles for lighting and most
of the public services have been at
complete standstill The curtail-
ment O fthe fuel supply is causing
considerable suffering and an in
definite prolongation of these condi-
tions is considered impossible.
The British cabinet held session
today to discuss the labor situation.
1t is said, however, that the govern
ment is still against any interven-
ton
The parliamentary committee OF
the trades union congress decided
today to summon a special meeting
to consider the whole question Of
industrial unrest.
The corporation of the city of
Belfast today asked the lord mayor
to intervene in the strike.
Londoners Forced to Walk.
The central part Of London pre-
sented an unusual spectacle this
evening. City workers were walking
in crowds over the bridges and
along the thoroughfores which con-
meet central London with the sub
urbs. There was great congestion
at all terminals of tram car and
omnibus lines
The discomfort OF having to walk
was increased by the slippery condi-
ton of roads and sidewalks. which,
in the outlying districts of the city,
were covered with snow.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Women Of Nation Seek
to Punish Huns Who
Committed Sex Ofenses

Omaha women will sign world
wide petition calling upon the league
Of nations to enforce individual
criminal prosecution of Soldiers OF
the central powers who committed
sexual offenses during the war.
The petition, which was endorsed
and circulated for signatures at a
meeting of the Omaha Woman's
club Monday, further asks that the
status Of womenavictims be declared
by the several governments TO be
that Of soldiers honorably wounded
in the defense of their country.
There shall be no stigma OF dis
grace attached to these women, ac-
cording to the petition.
Mrs. A. P. Hanchett of Council
Bluffs and Mrs. Fred Loomis in
troduced the petition at the club
meeting.
One million French women call
upon us TO help put this movement
through. said Mrs A. L. Fernald,
president of the club,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Attorneys Spend Day
Reading ''Bul" into
Federal Court Record

New York, Feb. 3.-Two Of last
wears issues of Bull, a radical mag
azine, formerly edited by jeremiah
A. O'Leary, occupied the entire at,
tention of judge, jury, attorneys and
witnesses today at the trial in ted
eral court of O'Leary and three OF
his associates on charges of violat-
ing the espionage act.
O'Leary's counsel insisted that
the entire contents Of the magazines
be, read and the lawyers, working in
RELAYS. spent the day reading the
eonfents of the magazines into the
record.
One article written by O'Leary
declared the writer was zone OF
those unfortunate creatures who
never could see the remotest chance
for an allied victory and that l am
pro-German as the newspapers con-
tinuously allege. but that | know a
thing or two about conditions that
exist in Germany"
This article described the sending
of American soldiers overseas as
an act of madness, Of national
suicide"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Former Agreement Between
France and Great Britain
May Be Source Of TrOu-
BILE in Settlement
By NABoTH HEDIN
staff Correspondent of Universal
Service.
Especial Gable Dispatch.l

Paris, Feb. 3.-French opinion
now envisages with certain dread
the creation of an immense Moham-
medan empire covering parts of AT
RIGA and Asia under British super
vision and protection 1t is we'll
known here that the sultan of Egypt
and the king of Hedaz are merely
instruments for such a realization.
The agreements of 1915 and 1916 di-
vided Asiatic Turkey between Rus
sia, England and France, giving
Russia Constantinople, France Syria
and England Mesopotamia.
Now the French regard that con-
tract as still binding between France
and Britain, while England holds
otherwise and therefore favors the
Wilsonian plan which forecloses the
first mortgage on the Turks and
wipes out the second and third mort
cages held by the French on Syria,
in view of French experts on eastern
affairs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Police Arrest Spellman
Under Chargesin Auto Case
Just After Knocks Out Man
"Much Wanted" Man Accused of Larceny of Richard
son Motor Car and Hunted" for Three Weeks
Nabbed Just as He is Victor in Prize Fight at Fort
Omaha; Makes Run for Freedom But is Stopped

Ralph Spellman, IS, 2420 Ames
avenue, for whom detectives under
John Briggs, while chief OF de-
tectives, have been searching for
three weeks in connection with the
theft of ]. H. Richardson's automo-
bile, was arrested last night by De-
tectives Toland and Baughman
shortly after he had knocked out
Roscoe, the fighting medic. in a
four-round bout at the Fort Omaha
boxing carnival.
Edward McDermott. drug clerk,
1920 Park avenue. Spellman's sec
ond, was also arrested and booked
with aiding and abetting a fugitive
from justice.
Grand Larceny Charge.
Spellman is booked for grand lar
ceny in connection with the theft of
an automobile from ]. H. Richard
son, real estate man, staying at the
Her Grand hotel.
Spellman laughed when he entered
the police station last night We'll,
they got me at last" he said.
Il don't know why they're book
ing me for grand larceny, | was
never near the automobile | am ac-
cused of stealing. I knew the dicks
were after me, and I've been having
lots of fun passing some of them
on the street and watching them
laying for me out home"
Greenberg First Held.
The recovery of Richardson's car
in some weeds in East Omaha led
to the arrest of Meyer Greenberg
and Don Chrisman and the filing
of charges against Detective Bennie
Danbaum.
A warrant was sworn out for
young Spellman's arrest by Briggs
when Greenberg declared that
"Spellman stole the car"
Acting upon the warrant, three
weeks old, Acting Chief of Detectives
A. P. Haze detailed Detectives To-
land and Baughman on the case.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
REVENUE BILL is
RAPED BY MANY
NEBRASKA men
Fear Deadlock Between Buy
erS and Sellers Will Cause
National IdIeneSS and
Unemployment.
By a Staff CORRESPONDENT.

Washington, Feb. Cuisines
men of Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice,
Grand Island, Hastings, Superior
and other Nebraska cities kept the
wires busy today with telegrams
to the Nebraska delegation protest.
ing against the war revenue bill,
which will be reported this week.
The objection to the bill from the
business mans point of view is
found in the following, telegram
from I. c. Byrne, and is a fair
sample of the protests being re-
ceived:
IF commercial interests of
the country are compelled TO
pay taxes amounting to almost
what profits of last years bus
mess have appeared to be, the
shrinkage in the value of mer-
chandise commodities and 9TH
er assets will be disastrous 10
merchants and manufacturers.
Forms a Deadlock
"The fear of this legislation
is now causing the distributing
trade OF the country to refuse
to make contracts and commit
ments, with the result that this
is a deadlock between buyers
and sellers. Consequently we
are confronted with idle ma
chinery, unemployed labor and
business stagnation. 1t is inn
perative that the proposed bill,
which was designed when the
country was preparing 100000
men for war, should either be
defeated or greatly modified"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Secure Writ Of Habeas
Corpus in RumeIy Case

New York, Feb. "a writ Of
habeas corpus, obtained to prevent
the removal to Washington, D.. c.,
of DR.. Edward A. Rumely, former
ly publisher of the New York Even
ing Mail, to plead to an indictment
charging failure to report property
alleged to be owned by the German
government, was dismissed in fed
eral district court here today by
Judge Mayer. DR.. Rumely also is
under indictment in this city on a
similar charge and is at liberty on
$4,000 bail,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
D. ]. O'Brien Company
Starts Damage Suit
Against New York Firm

New York, Feb. 3.-Charging IL
legal combination in restraint of
trade, by means Of which a monop-
oily was effected in corn syrup and
other ingredients used in the manu-
facture of candy and preserves, the
D. ]. O'Brien company of Omaha
brought suit in federal court here to-
day against the Corn Products Re-
fining company and score of other
defendants for $172,7oo damages.
The complaint asserted that, in vi
olation Of the Sherman antitrust
act, the defendants fixed prices and
obtained rebates from railroads from
1905 to 1915.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Motor Test Is
COMPLETED at Houston

Houston, Tex, Feb. 3.-The Lib
erty motor test fight from Ellington
field to Detroit and return was COM
pleted this afternoon when the air
plane handled by Capt. L. ]. Robin
son and Lieut.. A. A. Adams landed
at the home field. Captain Robin
son estimated the distance covered
between 1000 and 5000 miles, giving
the flying time as 1850 minutes. The
average speed was ITO miles an hour
for the entire distance and the maxi
mum l25 miles. The entire trip was
devoid of engine trouble. The fliers
Lett Ellington field December 2l,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
ACC USED
TO APPEAR
IN COUNCIL.
Briggs and Wade to Appear
Today Before City Faith
erS as will Franks
and Graham.

John Briggs, suspended detective
chief, and Leroy l. Wade, city de-
tective, will appear before the city
council this morning to answer
charges of misconduct in office.
Briggs was suspended for signing
the name of Judge c. w. Britt on
a warrant.
Charges against Detectives Gra-
ham and Franks will also be aired
before the city council this NOR
ming.
The commission has set Friday
morning as the time when charges
against Detective Bennie Danbaun
for neglect of duty yill be heard.
+ The big shakeup in the police de-
partment was the main topic at the
city hall yesterday.
With Chief of Detectives Briggs
suspended on a charge of miscon-
duct in Office, Detective L. L. Wade
on the same charge and Detective
Ben Danbaum on the charge If
gross neglect OF duty and with
charges pending against Detectives
]. H. Graham and Fred Franks for
kicking and cutting a prisoner with
out apparent reason. the troubles of
the police department. assumed
proportions which presage such a
cleaning as it has never seen before.
What Detectives Say.
In defense of their action
against John Aytch, 17l7 Burt
street, Detectives Graham and
Franks, who are charged BY Com
missioner Ure with beating Aytch.
said: "We struck him when he
kicked at us and attempted to es-
cape when we arrested him."
Aytch was arrested Friday night
for breaking a plate glass in Hay
denis store. Commissioner Ure
complained to the city council of
beating given Aytch by the detec-
tives.
Detective Graham said: II will
not hold piece of sugar in my
hand, coaxing prisoners to come
to Jail, I've tried that kindness
stunt too many times. I've never
struck a man unless he came at me
first"
"Aytch Kicked Me-"
Graham has a prominent scar on
his chin which is a result of kick
given him year ago when he
sought TO arrest a man by asking
him to accompany him to the sta
ton.
Detective Franks said: II never
struck Aytch until he kicked me in
the stomach"
The detectives recovered an over
coat which Aytch is accused of
stealing a month ago from w. M.
Smell. Merchants hotel Thirty cleo
trio light globes, which Aytch con-
fessed to stealing, were also reeov-
cred by the detectives.
The hearing of the case of De-
tectives Franks and Graham comes
before the city council this morn
ing.
Failed to Make Arrest.
The specific charge against De
tective Dantaum is that on Novem-
Der II he failed to arrest Meyer
Continued on Page Nine, Column Three)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04

The city detectives learned that
Spellman was scheduled to enter the
fighting ring at Fort Omaha last
night, and planted there for him.
Boys Make Sneak.
McDermott spied Detective To-
land near the ringside and tipped"
young Spellman after the entree had
knocked out Roscoe, his opponent.
in the fourth round. Wild applause
and cheering met Spellman's vic
tory.
Pursuant to McDermott's tip
that detectives were waiting for
Spellrpan, both boys sneaked from
the army post by way of a west
road and started for Omaha along
the Missouri Pacific tracks.
Detectives Toland and Baughman
caught sight OF them passing Thir-
tieth and Boyd streets, and hid be-
hind a house when they saw the
boys turn back and cut across a
vacant lot near Thirtieth and Fort
streets.
When the detectives sought to
arrest Spellman and McDermott on
Thirtietl street, they did not at
tempt escape, ..
Say Will Clear Himself.
While city detectives under the
direction OF Briggs were scouting
Omaha to arrest SpcllInan, the
young pugilist kept up his daily
work with no apparent worry as to
his probable arrest.
A Bee reporter talked with him
at Seventeenth and Harney three
nights ago. The dicks want me-"
Spellman said, but they've got me
wrong. They know where l am if
they want me very badly"
It is the opinion at the detective
department that Spellman will clear
up matters pertaining to the theft
and recovery of Richardson's car,
which was the basis OF the recent
charges filed against Detective Dan
baum.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
WANTSU.S.
TO HANDLE
WHEAT AT
LOW PRICE
Grain Dealers Ask Govern
ment to Pay $2.26 and
Sell to Consumer at
World Market.
By Associated Press.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Grain deal
ers appearing today before the
house agriculture committee pro-
posed that the government pay the
guaranteed price of $226 a bushel
for the 1919 wheat crop and sell it
to the consumer at the world mar
ket price, which they estimated
would be about SIPS. The witness
es generally believed this plan
would cost the government proba-
bly, $1,25O000,000, but said this loss
was preferable to any attempt on
the part of the government to main
tain an artificial price.
Representative Lever of South
Carolina, suggested three other
plans: That the wheat movement
be entirely on the pre-war basis;
that the movement possibly be re-
stricted by the government being
authorized to sell or to buy so as
to prevent manipulation, and that
the domestic movement be entirely
on the pre-war basis with the eX-
port movement under federal con-
troll.
The committee was holding hear
ings on the bill prepared by A. w.
Glasgow, counsel for the food adj
ministration in cooperation with
the Department of Agriculture. The
dealers strongly opposed continue
ton of the food administrations
grain corporation as provided in the
bill. They, however, urged con-
tinuation Of the corporation for buy
ing and selling the crop.
Powers too Broad.
Chairman Lever, also announced
his disapproval of the measure as
drawn, declaring that it granted
broader powers than those Of the
food control act. L. F. Gates OF
the Chicago Board of Trade, declar-
ed the proposal was vicious" i" while
grain dealers testified that Mr.. Glas-
cow had disregarded their sugges-
tons and drafted bill unnecessari-
w broad and conferring too much
power on one official.
Chairman Lever announced that
none OF the committeeman Serious
lv considered the building of eleva-
tors or warehouses for storing
grain" and that this section OF the
Bin could be eliminated from dis
''6s'i 4. E. Reynolds of Charlottesville,
Ind. chairman of the legislative
committee Of the grain dealers Ma,
tioral association, said crop OF
/. 100000 bushels was in prospect
and he with other dealers thought
the world price would be about $l'25
n C. Van Dusen of Minneapolis
said the present is too early to make
specific plans under which the grain
Continued on Page Nine, Column TwO)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
WOULD GIVE ENLISTED MEN
PAY AND ALLOTMENT.

Washington, Feb. 3.-Secretary
Baker today submitted to the house
a bill providing that enlisted men
Of the regular army who were dis
charged to accept commissions in
the army during the war shall be
given the retired pay and allotments
Of master signal electricians when
mustered out of the service. Sec
retary Baker said all of the en-
listed men who were commissioned
had performed valuable service and
that the proposed reward was no
more than a just recognition OF
their services. y
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Would Pay Bonus
to Nebraska Fighters
for WQr Services

From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Feb. 3.-(Special.)-A
cash bonus of $500 will be paid to
every soldier and sailor who en-
tered military service, if the pro
visions Of a bill drawn by Senator
T. E. Bradstreet of Grand Is
land becomes a law. Senator
Bradstreet announced he would
introduce the bill before the time
limit expires Wednesday night.
"Every man who gave UP a
lucrative position in order to fight
for his country should have some
capital to start business with on
his return said Senator Brad
street.