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New-York tribune., 1919-03-05

strains of Home. Sweet Home"
Slowly the President and Mr.. Taft
escorted by Governor Smith, strolled
from the stage, shaking hands with
friends as they made their way into
the wings.
The last, as the first, impressive note
was struck by the soldiers and sailors.
As the President walked from the stage
his flag, which had been planted to the
right. and the Stare and Stripes on
the left, were surrounded by the re-
spective guards of honor. The silvery
notes of Taps" broke upon the air.
sharp word of command, and the
marines with their rifles at righ shoul~
der and soldiers in similar array, sur
rounded the two embems, and thus,
following in the wake of the President.
they marched into the wings.
Meeting Is Representative
The meeting, which was held under
the auspices of citizens committee
appointed by Governor Smith, brought
distinguished New Workers of all
shades of political beliefs and affilia-
tions.
Among those who attended were:
Jacob H. Schiff, Frank L. Polk, Abram
!: Elkus. Cleveland H. Dodge, Daniel G.
Reid, Martin Vogel, Lewis Nixon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, John D. Ricke-
feller, jr., James Speyer, Joseph w.
Gerard, w. Bourke Cochran, Charles
M. Schwab, Paul M. Warburg, Henry
Clews, Walker D. Hines, Charles D.
Norton.
George F. Peabody, Henry Morgan
thau, Will Mays, Henry W. Taft, AL
fred f. Marling, Henry c. Frick, R.
Fulton Cutting, William Fellows Nor
gan, Bird S. Coler. George Gordon Bat
tie, Archbishop Patrick j. Hayes, Col
lectotr William H. Edwards, Governor
Walter f. Edge.
Seated in the platform were Alfred
E. Marling, General David c. Shanks
and General Thomas Barry. with their
stats; Theodore l.. Rousseau, F. r.
Condert, Controller Charles Craig,
Norman Hapgood, Homer Cummings,
Benjamin Strong, c. S. Whitman, Mayor
Hylan, Mr.. Tumulty, Martin M. Vogel,
Alton B. Parker, DR.. Van Dyke, Jacob
II. Schiff, Justice Wagner, Mr.. Van
Nance, Judge Guy, Mr.. Garvan, Enrico
Caruso, William Church Osborn, Eu-
gene II. Outerbridge, Charles Hackett,
Admiral Nathaniel Usher, and Admiral
Gleaves andtheir STATS, O. Proskaner
and O. Whitmore
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which he has advanced in his trans
continental tour in favor Of the league
breaking into his address at intervals s
with a witty sally which enlivened the
moro or less technical discussion.
These salies called from his audit
ors bursts of laughter and good -nautred d
applause.
He good naturedly reminded the
President of his own efforts in behalf
of peace through the arbitration
treaties which were negotiated during
his administration-"N Now forgotten
were SO amended by the Senate that
"their own father didn't recognize
them.'
so he put the treaties on the shelf
Mr.. Taft said, with a side slap at pres
ent Senators with amendatory propen-
sites, "in the hope that the Senators
might change their minds, or possibly
that the people might change the Sen
ators' minds, though evidently condi-
tions changed me- he added with a
grin, and in the laugh which followed
the President heartily joined.
Whether unconsciously or in the
hope that something of the kind may
cvcntuatc Mr.. Taft was at times rather
COuClIldlcCN toward lnc league OBJECT
ors. He referred to the objections of
Senator Lodge as possible being help
ful to the members Of the peace con-
gress
He drew graphic picture of the
spectre of Bolshevism, which is fore
ing It's way into Germany, Austria and
Italy and is threatening France and
England"
MIR. Taft denied a fear that Boil
shevism could make headway in Amer
ica, but he asked his audience to pom
der what condition this nation would
be in if left to deal with a Europe
under Bolshevistic civilization.
President Wilson warmly congratu-
lated the cx-President on his address,
and the two chattcd while Carlos
Hackett sang "America.'
Smith Introduces President
Governor Smith introduced the Pres
idcnt as "the world leader of to-day"
and the band appropriately played
cover There"
The President was generously re-
ceivcd by the crowd, all standing, with
Mrs. Wilson beating time with her
fan.
The President began his appeal at
10:30 p. m. exactly.
Mr.. Taft stepped forward as the
President concluded and graspcd his
hand. The band burst into the
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05

titans; the other his successful on
ronent in that upheaval of the politi-
cal elements. AS they stood thus many
recalled the absent member of the trio.
history and history in the making thus
were linked. Nor was it to be forgot
ten that this figure of the cx-President.
standing now as the chief ally of Mr..
Wilson, was the same who with the
missing member of the trio only few
months ago framed a celebrated appeal
to the electorate of America. This ap-
peal played its part in aligning against
the President political majority which
stands now as the great, towering OBJ
staclc against him. II
For full minute the applause last
ed, and then died down as it had risen.
Whereat Cleveland H. Dodge, linancier
and old friend of the President. leaped
to the front of the stage. He waved
aloft his programme and demanded
three cheers, first for Presdcn Wilson
and then three more for Mr. Taft.
There now stepped forward Signor
Caruso, who in his Incompatible voice
rendered "The Star-Spanglcd Banner"
Demonstration for Caruso
He flooded the vast auditorium with
we inspiring notes of the anthem.
While the audience stood rigid and
cnthrallcd the soldiers ard sailors at
attention the opera house was quite
still save for the singers voice.
demonstration for Caruso fol-
lowed. Then there was quiet once
more as Governor Smith, advancing
t, introduce the former President,
thanked the Most High, who "has
given Us two champions tC guide MS
as He gave us Moses"
Mr.. Taft uttered characteristic
chucklo at the reference to himself as
a Moses. When the applause with
which he had been received had died
away. applause in which the President
himself was the vigorous leader, the
former President plunged Immediately
into his subject with an expression of
his satisfaction at being able to give
the meeting its non-partisan character.
The full text Of Mr.. Tafts address
win be found on page !.
Introduced at $40 O'Clock, it was
947 when he finished. During the
hour, less two minutes, in which he
talked he travcrscd the entire field Of
the constitution Of the league. He ad-
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Welcome for Mrs. Wilson

Welcome for Mrs. Wilson
few minutes later the first intima-
ton of the arrival of the Presidential
party was given with the entrance Of
Mrs. Wilson into the Morgan box, atop
of which had been flung the blue flag
with the single white star in its centre,
emblematic Of the League to Enforce
Peace.
Mrs. Wilson's entrance was made so
unostentatously that it was several
minutes before her presence was no.
tced, and then, under barragc of
searching glances which were lcvellcd
upon her from a thousand opera
glasses, the crowd handsomely vel
coined the first lady of the land.
Followed fanfare of bugles, and
Governor Smith strodc from the wings,
closely followed by the President and
Mr.. Taft, arm in arm. The crowd took
into the strains of the national anthem,
a volley of cheers and handclappings
burst from the audience, and the leader
and the only living ex-leader of lOO,-
100000 Of people stood before the kalcid-
oscopic throng. Even in that presence
Taft must have his little joke He was
on the Presidents left.
Mr.. Taft Has His Joke
Gam on your right side, Mr.. Presi-
dent?" he asked, with his characteristic
chuckle.
81 hadn't noticed which side you were
on was the Presidents reply, "but |
am certain you are on the right side y
With this exchange Of courtcsies the
two distinguished Americans "took the
encore" Taft smiling and bowing first
to the President and then to the audi
cnce, the President bowing to Taft and
then to his fellow-ctizens.
1t was remarked that no nashlight
photograph was taken of the scene. 1t
may never be repeated. While the
band blarcd and the crowds in tier
after tier applauded, the President lis
face carcworn and with a set express
sion only occasionally relieved by a
smile, stood facing the audience, his
eyes seemingly far away
Both he and Mr.. Taft wore evening
dress-the one rotund and hearty, the
other slender, even ascetic looking.
each typefying school Of statesman
ship wide apart as the poles upon every
other issue than this which had
brought them together.
The one who went down to political
defeat in the not far distant past in
IN three-cornered contest of political
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Mexican ENJOYS Prepare
10 Be at Paris Meetings

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Mexican7.
Eduardo Hay, Alberto J. PAM snd E.
Arredondo, Mexican ministers respec-
lively to Italy, France and Spain, &C
cording to advices received here to-
day, will meet in Paris this week to
determine upon the best means of pre-
sentng Mexicos arguments to the
peace conference in case an effort is
made to bring up the question Of
claims of foreigners against the Mexi-
can government.
1t is stated that these three repre-
sentatives do not plan to take the
initiative in getting the matter before
the conference.
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Wilson Refuses
To SceCOIlalan
I'm Irish Cause
Continued from pngc

down by the President himself. JUS
tice GotY talked for ten minutes. He
said.
Mr.. President. representing as we
do many millions of your fellow Amer
lean citizens, | ask you to present
to the peace conference in Paris the
right of Ireland to determine the form
Of government by which she shall
live. Will you do it?'
"The Pres ident stated that he did
not believe he should be called upon
to answer such a question: He ex-
planned that he was the head of ma
ton and its official representative at
the peace conference and he did not
think 1T was fair to ask him to state
what his course would be with respect
TO this matter at the peace confer
encc.
misunderstanding Is Discussed
HE said that his understanding was
that he was to receive the committee
accept the resolutions passed at the
Philadelphia convention and to hear
any argument that the committee had
TO make in favor thereof. AS soon as
the President related his understand
ing as to the alleged agreement, Justice
Gotf replied that if such an agreement
was made information had not been
conveyed to himself or to any member
of the committee, so far as he knew
and that such understanding, if made
was without the authority of his com
mittec.
"The President then called upon
MAYOR Eugene f. Kinkaid to verify
the statement that such an agreement
had been made in Washington. Major
klnkaid stated that the President evi-
IDENTIFY had been misinformed that
there had been no such agreement by
any one other than that the Presiden mt
was to meet the committee appointed
by the Philadelphia conventson
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hand. Mayor Hylan entered a little
later. He was scarcely noticed for a
moment, and then bclated rccogni-
tion brought a smiling bow
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Taft and Wilson
Arm i'm Arm as
Meeting Begins

Continued from page 1
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
Appalling Disaster
Threatening World,
Says Banker Vanderlir

Paris, March 12-"I doubt if
America has begun to comprehend
the seriousness of the appalling sit
uation which confronts Europe and
the wrick which the whole fabric of
civilization may be facing,7 said
Frank A. Vanderlip to the Asso-
ciated Press today.
He has been investigating condi-
tions in England and France and
will continue his inquiries in Swift
zerlad and Italy.
America was once told there
might be peace without victory" he
said. What we have is victory
without peace. Production has
ceased and unless production can be
speedily resumed ones Imagination
cannot comprehend the chaos which
may ensue.
The great productive machine Of
Europe must be started or the world
will be confronted with a disaster
such as no experience has recorded
Here in France everything waits on
the settlement of the question of
indemnity and the progress of
events in Germany, Each day makes
the prospect of indemnity less pos
sible."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
House, for Raise
Of Road Levy Over
State to Three Mills
From a SAT CORRESPONDENT.

Lincoln, March 12.-No opposi-
ton developed in the house today
to raising the state road levy from
| to 3 mills as provided for in House
Roll 800.
Representative Mclaughlin advis-
ed the increase in the levy in order
to meet the increased appropriation
made by the federal government.
The increase will enable the state to
raise $3.000,000 per year for road
purposes and the amount available
cut of the federal appropriation will
approximate the same sum.
In consideration of House Roll
298. another good road bill in COM
mittee of the whole, an acrimonious
debate developed between Represent
tatives Reynolds of Douglas and Os-
terman, democratic leader Of Mer-
rick.
House Roll 29S, was ordered en-
crossed for third reading. This dis
poses of all the state highway bills,
all of which have been acted on
favorably by the lower chamber and
their passage on third reading is a
certainty.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
ONE FLAG. ONE LANGUAGE
BURDEN OF PLEA BY WOOD.

Milwaukee, March 12.-Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood addressed the Lay
mems League of St. Marks church
this evening at banquet at the Mil
waukee Athletic club, attended by
military and naval officers and prom
inent citizens.
He said the American soldier had
made a reputation for himself be-
cause his was the courage Of reason
and not an emotional courage.
He appealed for a strong love OF
country, for a strong family life and
for strong education in the schools,
especially in the country's history
and asserted if peace was wanted in
the world it would not be obtained
by the apt and skillful application
Of verbal messages" "
There is room in this country
for only one flag. as / see it, and
there is only room in the grade
schools for one language, and that
the English language" he said,
General Wood closed with a plea
for an America Standing on its
own feet and governed by its own
consciousness, not by the compul-
sion Of other nations
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
RED neal FOUND
GUILTY IN AUTO
ROBBERY CASE
Jury Out But Short Time;
Neal to Make Mo-
tiOn for New
Trial.

"Red" Neal charged with aiding
and abetting grand larceny was found
guilty by a jury in district court
last night. The juryWas out only
half an hour.
Neal, who lives in Peru, Neb.,
was charged with being the "man
higher up" in some of the automo-
bile stealing activities of Omaha.
William Jennings McKenna and L.
c. Jones were the principal state
witnesses against Neal Both Nc
Kenna and Jones are confessed auto
mobile thieves and they told of al
legged automobile stealing operations
in which they charged that Neal
and Maurice Katleman of Omaha
aided and abetted them.
The state took two days to present
its testimony. Yesterday morning
when the defense was expected to
offer its witnesses, none were offer
ed. Nearly the whole day was then
spent in arguments TO the jury. The
jury retired at 4 o'clock in the after
noon.
Neal Immediately had his bond
renewed and his attorney will make
motion for new trial.
Neal will appeal the case to the
supreme court, he says, if a new
trial is not granted in this court.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
FLYING 800 MILES HOUR
IS EASY. SAYS AVIATOR.

NewYork, March l2-Only three
difficulties now stand in the way OF
flying at a rate of 800 miles an hour,
Mayor R. w. Schroeder, army aviator
and holder Of the worlds altitude
record, declared at a meeting of the
Aeronauticai Society of America
here tonight.
The problems to be solved include
a change in the pitch OF airplane
p-opellers, control Of increased air
pressure in carburetors and over
coming of the aviator's overwhelm-
ing sense of hunger at high attitudes.
"As soon as exact data on trade
winds at high attitudes is obtained"
he said, so that flyers can use them
in long flights" add ed the major,
distance flying will be one of the
least troubles flyer has to contend
with. Three hundred miles an hour
in an easterly direction-that is in
the direction the earth travels, will
be easv to make"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13

Bartley, N. Y, died a day before
the ship reached here.
To save another soldiers life a
major operation was performed yes
terday while the ship was at sea
on Serg. Walter E. Overton of Sey-
mour, Conn, victim of a gunshot
wound. 1t. w. A. Neill, a surgeon
of Portland, Oregon, said the patient
was convalescent.
Private John ]. Reynolds of New
York, wounded on October 19 on the
Verdun front, was picked up by the
Germans and taken to a hospital in
Germany, where he lay five weeks.
When the armistice was signed, he
said, the Teuton doctors tore the
buttons from their caps and the next
day appeared in civilian dress.
Il heard a noise outside" said
Reynolds, "and raised myself on one
arm to look out. Across the street
some one had thrown a large pic
ture of the kaiser out of the window
and the children were kicking it
about"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
Prisoner From Iowa FIOgged
> in Viruinia Penitentiary

Richmond, Va, March 12.-In re-
ply to a letter from E. E. budding,
president of the Prisoners Relief
society of Washington, to Governor
Davis, charging that prisoners in
the Virginia penitentiary had been
flogged with leather thongs and
chained up on a cross, Maj. James
B. Wood, superintendent of the
prison, stated today that DR.. Asa w.
Chamberlain Of Iowa had been
flogged twice for attempts to es-
cape. He denied that unnecessarily
cruel treatment had been inflicted.
DR.. Chamberlain is serving a life
sentence for the murder of his
brother.
Any action on the charge awaits
the return of Governor Davis to
the capital
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
Germany Will Be Required
To Abandon Conscription
armament Proposed by British Premier and
Adopted by Supreme War Council of Powers.

the time when the British prime
minister was taking the initiative
to bring this about at the confer
ence his government at home was
still being fiercely assailed for its
proposal to maintain a diminished
force on a conscription basis until
the results of peace should have been
secured. The opposition is now faced
with the fact that the prime minister
has taken the lead in a course of
policy which will have more effect
in doing away with conscription
than all their denunciation a million
times multiplied.
"The new army scheme propound-
ed by Mr.. Churchhill is necessarily
and avowedly an interim scheme.
The conscription element in it is a
diminishing quantity, which will
soon vanish altogether and which
does not impose compulsion upon
a single additional man beyond
those already with the colors."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13

Later he came across young sol
dier in the surgical ward, who was
badly crippled. The general with
fatherly solicitude for his welfare,
remarked: "Boy, you are real
manP
Then addressing the others in the
ward, the tears came to his eyes,
and the old fighter who had won
fame in the Indian uprisings, the
Spanish-American war, the Philip
pine insurrection and the great war,
extolled the valor of the new
veterans.
Nothing is too good for you"
he commented as he bade the boys
goodbye.
One Dies on Voyage.
General Pershing, it was said,
congratulated Cap. P. R. Webb,
commander of the Mercy, upon the
cleanliness of the ship and the care
and comfort given the wounded.
There was one death during the
voyage. Corp. Robert Cole of
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13

London, March 12.-The Daily
Telegraph says:
To-day is to see the elimination
of the most notable episode report
ed so far in the four months his
tory of the peace conference. The
supreme war council will formally
adopt the text of the terms of Ger
man disarmament and abandonment
of conscription is to be required of
Germany.
This is the destruction of Ger
man militarism. Yet it is an ad-
mitted truth that until few days
ago nothing so bold and decisive
was in contemplation in the inner
circles of the conference.
This clean cut to the root of in
ternational trouble is the owrk of one
man and we are justified in saying
that if that man had not been the
prime minister of Great Britain at
this moment the chance would haye
been missed.
1T happens ironically enough at
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
Sixteen Flying and Three
Balloon Fields Retained

Washington, March 12.-Decision
of the War department to maintain
10 flying fields and three balloon
fields as a part of the permanent
military establishment was an
nounced today by Acting Secretary
Crowell. The department also has
practically decided, Mr.. Crowell
said, to store for possible future use
the hundreds of elementary and ad-
vanced training planes used during
the war.
The fields to be retained have not
yet been selected. but it was ex-
planned that the actual training of
aviators for the army would be held
at only two fields. the other plants
being held intact as a reserve. Sites
now leased by the government will
be purchased and equipment on
hand retained.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
MILLIONS WILL BE LOST
IN ABANDONED PLANT.

Charleston, w. Va, March H.
Figures compiled by government
experts show that up to February
$57,900,000 had been spent on the
great smokeless powder plant at
Nitro, near here, which has been
abandoned.
Lieut.. Col. d. K. Shurtleff, chair
man Of the subcommittee on sale of
buildings and equipment of the sal
wage bureau, ordnance branch Of
the War department, stated that
when the armistice was signed the
project, one of the greatest in the
world, was about 90 per cent COM
pleted.
An effort is being made by the
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
to induce private capital to take
over the buildings and equipment
either in whole or by units.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13

The corporation in the early part
Of the war transported a large guam
tity of sugar to Russia upon the
czar's orders. Before collection
could be made Nicholas was depos-
ed and, according to accepted re-
ports, slain.
Mr.. Naumberg recently learned
that the car had $l,000,000 on
deposit in the National City bank
here. He obtained a court judg-
ment for $ll7450, but upon present
ing it to the bank was informed that
the bank could not pay out any Of
the fund unless Nicholas was served
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-13
CITY AND
FEDERA
OFFICERS
MAKE ERAID.
Evidence Of Plot Against
U. S. Government Seized
at Headquarters of
Russian Union.

New York, March 13.-Police, Sc
cret service men and immigration
officials raided q building in East
Fifteenth street early this morning
and arrested 1913 men and two wo-
men. Ten patrol wagons were re-
quired to take the prisoners to the
criminal courts building, where they
are being questioned. All of them
are supposed to be radicals.
The building raided was occupied,
according to the police, by the
Union of Russian Peasant Workers
of America. One of the prisoners
is Mollie Steiner, sentenced to IS
years. imprisonment for violation
of the espionage law, but at liberty
on a writ of error pending an appeal
to the supreme court of the United
States.
Seditious Pamphlets Found.
A quantity of literature was seized.
Among it the police say they found
several small red books, printed in
Russian, which advocated the over
throw of the United States govern
ment.
The raid was planned two weeks
ago by Richard E. Enright, commits
sioner of police, who consulted Dis
trict Attorney Swami and then CALI
ed in the immigration authorities.
The building was suspected of be-
ing a rendezvous for undesirable ele-
ments recently arrived from Russia.
The detectives who took part in
the raid were members of the bomb
squad and the reserves from the
Elizabeth street station were or
dered out TO guard the criminal
courts building when the prisoners
were being questioned.
Reds Break Up Meeting.
Bolshevik sympathizers broke up
up an anti-bolshevist meeting in
Webster hall here tonight at which
Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya,
grandmother of the Russian revo-
luton" and General Oberoutcheff,
former comnlander-in-chief of the
Russian military district Of Kieff,
were speakers.
Heckling from the floor developed
into a general and violent abuse of
the speakers. The police endeavor-
ed to keep order, but this action
brought renewed and more vigorous
outbursts. Finally, after a call for
police reinforcements, the hall was
emptied, and the crowd which
gathered in front of the building
dispersed.