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Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
TIASHEy Eom FIIMIA AND
PHOTO PLAY. OFFERIN0C. FOR. TO-DAY.

FARY Lord, an orphan living in
wi England, meets and is at
AVA tracted by Philip Varmichael,
rising young statesman, who a few
days later plays the role of bride
groom in mock marriage with
Sheelah Delayne of the Variety
theater during a wild party, in "A
House Divided" at the Rialto
theater. Mary becomes the wife OF
her guardian but again meets Phil
lip and they are mutually attracted.
Sir Arthur learns of the fact but
Mary is opposed to divorce. Fate
solves the problem when Sir Arthur
dies and Mary and Philip 60 to
France. On a pleasure trip to Lon
don Philip recognizes Sheelah, who
has learned that their marriage was
legal. Mary has her marriage an
nulled in order to acquit Philip, and
declares that she is not his wife,
but Just the woman who loves
him."
upstairs and Down." starring
Olive Thomas at the Strand theater
is taken from the stage play of
Frederick and Fanny Hatton. Alice
delights in a desperate filtration
with Terry O'Keefe, a gay son of
Ireland with a captivating brogue,
much to the chagrin of her fiance,
Tom Carey. The Irritation takes
place at house party at the Ives
fashionable country home at Ives
hurst, Long Island, and to Alice
man is life and filtration, food.
Terry is called to town and on his
arrival at the club receives tele-
phone call from Alice, who also
came to town, asking him to take
her out to dinner! Under her be-
guiding ways the dinner turns into
a regular celebration and on his ar
rival the next monring Terry tells
of the nights event. Alicear-
rives later and laungingly receives
the scoulding hurled at her. Terry
asks Betty, Alice's sister, to marry
him and she consents, but when she
tells Alice she learns that he has
wronged her and promises to make
him marry her.
ooh! Boy" being shown at the
Muse, is novelty in the way of
picture, termed "filmusical comedy"
1t is taken from the musical comedy
of the same name. The merriment
and light comedy is not lost, and
the music is specially orchestrated
for the film, but it brings in all the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
South Side BreUities

Light baggage and express; call office,
South 1881 or South 1859. P. j. Ford.
CALIFORNIA RAfSINS.
$3.50 box and California fresh grapes
N. johnson, Groceries and Meats, 1919 Q
st. Tel. s. 2208.
For Sale-12-room house. built for two
families: modern, except heat; desira bic
location: streets and alleys paved cement
sidewalk; good shade: a snap for some.
body. Phone South 80. G. E. Harding
Coal Co.
Eventually. why not now? Phone South
SO and let US fill that coal bin for the
winter while we have a good supply of
the best grades of coal. A delay is dan
gerous Better phone today, G. E. Hard
ing Coal Co., Twenty-eighth and ] SITS.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
At NeighborhOOd Houses

LOTHROP-2%th and Lothrop-HALE
HAMILTON In THAT'S COON
SCENIC THROUGH AFRICA. AR
BUCKLE in THE FOUR
FLUSHER."
GkAND-16th and Binney-W. s.
HART In THE POPPY GIRLS
HUSBAND"
DIAMOSD-24th and Lake--MAR-
gerry WILSON In WITHOUT
HONOR" ALSO COMEDY.
APOLLO-2sth and Leavenworth-
LACK PICkFORD in BUNKER
BEAN"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Strike Of Shopmen
Is Spreading Fast
Continued from Page one.)

"oHStHuoU HKo"h Hs0 Oao'
to by the National Federated trades.
Messages from Chicago urging them
to 60 OFT were not needed. Chi
cago & Northwestern shopmen at
Norfolk to the number of 100 have
struck. Union Pacific shopmen at
North Platte are still at work. and
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Anti Bolsheviks Win.

London, Aug. 3.-The town of
Omega, on the north Russian front,
has, been bombarded and captured
BY anti-bolshevik forces, according
to a bolshevik military wireless re-
port received mere this morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Young Roosevelt Left $1,100,

Mineola, L. l., Aug. 3.-Quentin
Roosevelt, killed in aerial combat
in France, left an estate of only
$l,100, it was learned, when his
mother, widow of Colonel Roose-
velt applied for letters of admins
tration.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Won Hindenburg Slated
for Bio Job in Germany

Berlin, Aug. 3.-Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg. it is announced,
after a brief rest, will rejoin the
German National Peoples party,
and assume a leading role in its de-
1iherations and activities.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04

Wine-tasters. employed in their
professional duties. seldom swallow
the wine they taste. They merely
hold sip of the beverage in their
mouth for few moments and
breathe through the nostrils.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04

it is said, will continue until Off
cially ordered out.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04

) Brackets for window shades. ad-
Unstable horizontally. have been pat
ented.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
tlemenceau Ends Tall
On the EIectoralIax
Tells Chamber He viii 4.
no"nce Date Of Poll After
treaty Is Ratified

PARIS Sept. - BY The Assoc.
Press Premier Clemcnceap,s .aS ,a.
vention in the debate on tha e,s....,
law, which Threatened 10 be prolo.ss.
indefinitely, settled .he dis,ns.,o~' 'N
few minutes today, the goverpm..' "a
taking the stand taa. he elec.:..
should be held according to the ~
Of July las. providing tor propor,;o..'
rerr resentaticn. The debate on =.
subject had been going on IT rnor,;., .-'
sessions for nearly taf weeks
The solution Is co sldered N -.
lamentary circles 70 be grea, "a "a.
toward the nromp- nroroeation q, i.
Chamber and subsequent elections
Premier C.emenceau refused n =.
swer request that be TX ? date ~ -,
the elections, SAYING: "Ratify Il.
peace treaty first. Immediately nsa' a.
ratification will inform The Cfnsnsa....
OF the dare OF the elections" ''
The electoral law debate had o...
pied most Of the day whef ArjS.;s.
BRAND, former Premier. aSk,a he cav
ernment TO define It's position.
The Socialists said BRAND had for,.:
his hand and inflicted check on !.
pollcv. VI. Clemanceau replied: The.
is a check for some one. As for ma
have suffered others. there is one how
ever. which could not survive-,h.,
IS check BY Parliament before ,ss
VIII country"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
W arms Strife for Money
Breeds World Upheaval
French Labor Leader Urges All
to Get 10 Work and End
''Immorality Wave

PARIS. Sept. 19.-A. Merriam, sec
retary of the Metal Workers. Union.
created sensation at the Labor Fed
Grafton convention in Lvonos yesterday
by denouncing the wave Of immortality
which threatens to submerge all classes
of soclety-the working class more
than any other"
M. Merriam. one of the Socialists
who conferred with the German Social
lists at Zimmerwald, Switzerland, dur
ing the war. and who formerly was one
OF the most aggressive labor leaders
in France, took the floor to defend the
against criticism by the extremists for
the tiasco which marked the proposed
general strike Of July 21 last.
lie ridiculed the pretensions Of OK
tremists in labor. organizations who
talked OF such plans as a four-hour
day, and said what organized labor
needed was to get to work.
'You talk of revolutionary situa-
tlon," he said, "but, left to itself. the
proletariat could accomplish nothing.
The war has sharpened all appctitcs .
and provoked all sorts of covetousnes SIS
IN all circles, even among the workers.
ldeallsm has foundcred under base ma
terial preoccupations
Money is everything No one wants
anything but money. We must save
the working class from that wave of
immorality."
NJ. Merrham's speech made deep
impression on the delegates, which was
evldenced in great ovation as he left
the platform.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Steam and Operatire
Engineers Will MOI
Strike in Steel Mills

CHICAGO. Sept. 19.-Steam and op-
erative engineers employed in the steel
works throughout the country will not
join in the general strike of steel work
ers set for Monday, it was announced
to-day by II. NJ. Comerford, general
secretary and treasurer OF the Inter
national Union of Steam and Operative
Engineers.
A letter has been sent out from the
union headquarters to every local in
the country declaring that "the officers
of the union feel that Pres dent Wilson
should be given an opportunity to hold
the arbitration meeting which he has
set for October 6, and all members are
instructed to refrain from atfliating
themselves in any way with the gro
posed strike
Some of the men want to strike and
some don't" said Mr.. Comcrford. "The
MAJ jority. however. are not in favor of
it. This union affects thousands of
men, all of whom will be told to keep
working.
"Thc officers Of this union do not
purpose to allow irresponsible men to
govern the policy of their organizn-
tions, and we feel that the men who
are ordering this strike are not re-
sponS ble.'
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20

Youngstown district announcing that
the principle Of the "open shop" would
be maintained, and calling upon their
employees to remain loyal and stay at
work on Monday, when the steel strike
is scheduled to take effect. The
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company,
employing $4,000 men; the Brier Hill
Steel Company. $500, and the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, $500. issued
statements which were published in
foreign language newspapers to-day.
Organizers here have estimated that
64.500 workers in the Youngstown dis
trict will be affected by the strike,
though they gave no figures on the
number of men whom they expect act
ually to strike. The district includes
Ohio, outside Of Cleveland. and the
Farrell Sharon Newcastle district in
Pennsylvania.
The statement issued by the Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube Company, the
largest independent corporation in this
district, said:
THE established policy of open shop
operation will be continued. Under
this policy an employe may or may not.
as he chooses, belong to labor or
ganization, but it is absolutely not nee
essary that an cmployc join any organ
ization in order to retain his job.
The employees representation plan
now in effect throughout the works pro
vides communication and means of con-
tact between the management and the
men on matters pertaining to indus
trial relations. The company will con-
tinue to deal with its employees under
the provisions of this plan.
ut is the intention to operate the
plant Monday, September. %. and there
after, the same as usual"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Building Fund Grows
II Clothing Manufacturers Givc
Total of $3.50. 900

Fifty-onc clothing manufacturers have
given 100000 to the United Jewish
Building Fund, it was announced yes
terday at a rally Of the United Building
Fund campaign held at the Hotel Bilt-
more -Four hundred and siAty dollars
was obtained from Office boys and clerks
employed by the Emil Frankel Com
pany, member of the insurance divi-
sion.
Other gifts reported were s2s,747
from The advertising trades. $3.50
from the meat industry, S9s.900 from
the .iewelry industry. s252, ,2281 from the
silk industry. $4,000 from the firm Of
Saks G. Co and $4,000 from Irwin and
Alvin untermyer
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
"Were your glasses
prescribed by
physician?" ?"

One OF the questions asked
by the Life Extension Institute
. in their physical examinations is,
Were your glasses prescribed
by a physician7"
The significance is broad. I'm
properly fitted lenses have bad
effect on the health-properly
fitted lenses help to correct all
ments due to poor eyesight.
Only an ocuiisf (medical doc
tor) should prescribe lenses.
At all Nj. II. Harris Offices
your eyes are examined by ply
sicjans, who are eye specialists.
When they have prescribed a
s..-. .1. Jour particular re-
Quirement it is the work Of our
opticians to see that every re-
quirement of the prescription is
carefully fulfilled.
Thus at all M. II. Harris
Offices you find eyeglass service
complete in every detail, and
without cost to you, except for
your glasses.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Army Bill Criticised
AS E'horoug g!,iy Unsound

WASHINGTON. Sept. 10. Tompkms
McIlyaine. utinc chairman Of the MI
tary Training Camps Association. be
fore lhe senate Military Committee
pronounced the War Departments Sill
for arm. reorgan zation thoroughly
unsound. He SAID 1t would Derpetuate
the worst mistakes Of the past.
McIlvaine urged favorable considers-
ton Of the so-cailed national service
act, introduced hy Senator Chamber
lain, Democrat. Of Oregon, at the IN
stance OF the Military Training Camps
Association. which, he argued, would
cost but little more tran half Of the
$500 900 900 estimated cost Of the Ad-
miNistration bin.
Universal military training as insur-
ance against future war was urged by
Mr.. Acllyainc, who said that if such a
system had been adopted ten years ago
there would nave been no war with
Germany.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Fifteen Agriculture Delegates
Urged at Labor Conference

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Senator
Capper, Republican, of Kansas, to-day
sent telegram to President Wilson
urging that agriculture be represented
IN the Industrial conference called for
next month by fifteen delegates instead
of three.
'In view of the Importance, said the
telegram, of farming to the general
welfare. should like respectfully to
suggest that this (three representa-
tlves) is inadequate representation at
conference which will consider mat
ters OF so vital concern to agriculture
and to the nation. Labor is to have
fifteen delegates, which | think is pro-
per and commendable. should like
most earnestly to urge that the farm
ing interests of the nation have not
less than that many delegates at the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Lake Se1men All VOfp
TO Join Steel Strike
Bailofing at Ciereiand and De-
froit Unanimous jor TYING
Tp the Ore Sfenu,sh;ns

CLEVELAND, Sept 10. Complete
tic-up of all ore carrying vessels in
the Cleveland district, which includes
SIX other lake ports between Erie and
Sandusky, Will so into effect at 6
O'Clock Monday morning unless the
proposed Walkout of steel workers is
deferred, YVES the announcement made
to-day by George Martin, business
agent of the Lake Seamen's Union, fol-
lowing a unanimous vote of 2,200 sail
ors TO support the impending strike Of
steel workers.
Ballotlng Of cooks and stewards is
now IN progress. Balloting of lake
flremen, oilers and water tenders will
close tomorrow noon.
In view oil the fact that the vote Of
the sailors was unanimous. Martin
said there was little doubt that the
other men composing crews of the
freight carriers would also support the
strike.
DETROIT, Sept Members of the
Sailors Union of this port voted unanj-
mously in favor of d strike in SYM
pathy with the strike OF the steel
workers called for September %. union
officials announced this morning. Two
hundred and thirty-nine ballots were
east.
The vote of the Marine Cooks and
Stewards Union and the Marine Fire
mems. Oilers, Water Tenders and Coal
Passers Union is being taken and tabu-
lation will be completed tomorrow, it
is stated.
A strike would tie up more than 100
ore carrying vessels of the Pittsburgh
Steamship Company. said to be a sub
sidiary of the United States Steel
Corporation, and boats of allied and as
sociated companies, union officials de-
clare.
Union leaders say the shutting off
of the supply Of ore by marine strike
will result in closing "open shop"
plants of the steel corporation
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Seattle Union Refuses 40
Load Munitions for Siber;:,

SEATTLE, Sept Business agents
Of the local longahorcmen's union.
backed it was said by approval of the
Central Labor Council, have refused to
allow longshoremcn to load shipment
of arms aad munitions destined for
Siberia on the Shipping Board s
steamer Delight, it became known to-
day.
The labor agents held the handling
labor section of the peace treaty
Operators Of the vessel said the ship
ment would be loaded
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Contract Bars
General Strike
In Shiipyards
Agent of Machinisis' Union
Says Truce for Year
Will Forbid Walkouts
or Lockouts in East

A general shipyard strike such as
was threatened last Saturday, when
several thousand men quit work in an
effort to obtain the rorty-four- hour
week. is impossible, according to J. P
Marshall, a labor leader, who said yes
terday that employees and shipbuilding
firms had entered into years contract
to become effective October /, which
would prevent either strikes or lock
outs while it was in force. The agree
ment was made a month ago.
The parties 70 the contract. SAID Mr.
Marshall. who - business representa-
tive Of District Is of the International
Association o. Mach.nists, were the
metal me, 1asas. trades oe9"stment % Of ehe AmerI
lantic Coast Shipyards Association, Of
which eleven shiphulding concerns on
the Atlantic Coast are members. A
similar contract between builders Of
steel ships and metal trades unions
will 60 into effect on the Pacific Coast
at the same time.
Mediation Board Created
On the Atlantic Coast the contract
creates the Atlantic Coast Shipbuild-
ing Industrial Board to decide all cues
tions OF wages, hours and working con-
ditions. All disputes between en-
nloyers and employees arc to De brought
before the board which is to render It's
decision in each case within thirty
days 4 he use OF tins adjustment ma
AL
dustries connected with the building
of ships.
MIR Marshall expressed confidence
that the forty-iour-hou week would
be granted by shipbuilding concerns,
but warned 5000 workmen who nre t
yesterday in Saengerburd Hall, Brook
lyn, to frame demands for a 25 per cent
wage Increase that they could not
hope fer a general strike in their be-
half. The 5000 were employees Of five
shipyards which locked out their man
Monday following the weekend strike
OF the preceding Saturday for the
not members of the Atlantic Coast
Shipyards Associations
100 Yards Work A. Hours
The Standard Shipbuilding Corpora
tion of Shooters Island, and the Down
ey Shipbuilding Corporation, of Staten
Island, which did not attempt to disc-
pline their men for Saturdays strike
arc members Of the association.
There are more than one hundred
shipyards ON the coast, which ere
working their men forty-1our hours. -
said Mr.. Marshall. "Yet these FIVE are
trying to beat the game by making
their men work f,.rty eight hours
Even during the period of the on force
ment Of the Macy award some Of the
concerns were trying TO work THEN
men more than the required forty -foul
/ hours. The award binds tho men in
/ the ship construction department OF
the United States Shipping Emergency
! Fleet, but it's no longer operative fol
the men doing the repair work for the
department Of operations Of the United
| States Shipping Board
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20

for more money, Charles O. Turner, a
local policeman. told the Senate Dis
trict of Columbia Committee to-day.
Mr.. Turner said his two children had
been deprived of their annual outing
this summer because his pay had failed
to keep pace with the cost of living.
Tears filled the eyes of the big po-
liceman as he told his story, and the
committee was embarrassed. Senator
Sherman confessed that he found the
$500 salary of United States Sena-
tor inadequate. He said his children
were twittcd by their playmatcs be
cause their father could not afford an
automobile.
Policeman Turner said he and his
fellows were constantly thrown IN
touch with other workmen in various
trades and had seen them improve
their condition by unionlzing. They
decided to do likewise.
weight with me than the whole Amer
lean Federation of Labor Senator
Sherman said "If that organization
should approve a strike such as 0c-
CURED in Boston would you favor such
Il course? ?"
"No," said Policeman Turner; 81
disapprovc of policemen striking"
"Then how would your attliation
benefit you?"
The witness said he supposed the
American Federation of Labor would
take up the fight of the policemen in
Congress.
"If Congress should pass law for
bidding your joining with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, would you
obey it?'
Policeman Turner said he would.
and he believed mos. Of his fellow
workers would dc likewise, partcu-
larry if they were convinced that Con-
gress had an interest in the District
of Columbia police force and was will
ing that it should receive just COM
pOn&AtlOn.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Lacknuanno Confident 1t
Can Keep Plant Running

LACKAWANNA, n Y, Sept. 49,
Officials of the Lackawanna Steel Com
pany to-day notified Mayor John A.
Toomey that the company would con-
tinuc operation Of its plant in spite Of
the coming strike.
Mayor Toomey tonight expressed
doubt Of the ability of the Lackawanna
police. even if aided by the state con-
stabulary, to maintain. order in the
event of an extensive strike. eve
have already seen evidences of a law
less spirit. which looks bad for the
coming period Of the trike.' said the
Mayor. He added that the majority
OF the strikers would be foreign speak
ing workmen and predicted that it
would be difficult to control them.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
six-Hour Day and Five-Dav
Week Also To Be Part
Of the Ultimatum 10 the
Bituminous Operators
Nov. | Date for Waik-Out
Former Conferrees Grill
cised in Convention for
Attitude Of Compromise

CLEVELAND. Sept 80 The wage
scale demands to be presented 10 the
soft coal operators in the central com
petitive field Of Ohio, Illinois and
Western Pennsylvania. which VIII
serve as the basis of relative wage
scales in all the bituminous fields Of
the country, Will be submitted to the
convention of the United Mine Work
crs Of: America Monday or Tuesday
morning at the latest
Attempts will be made to make the
instructions of the convention on the
principal demands regarding the
amount of the increase presumably Y
about so per cent and the shortening
Of working time to six hours daily five
days a week absolutely mandatory
upon the miners representatives in
the Joint scale conference at Buffalo
on September % and to direct them
either to obtain recognition Of these
principal demands without change or
to call out the bituminous miners Of
the country in q general strike NO
yember l.
CrlticIse Old Agreements
a large number of resolutions criti-
cising former scale conferrees for tax
ing demands formulated in convention
as & basis Of negotiation and accepting
agreements embodying something less
than the original demands, and direct
ing them this time TO insist upon the
adoption Of thN demands Of the con-
vention TO the letter, have been sub
mitted, and in the present temper OF
the delegates the adoption Of such
mandatory instructions seems possible
The men who are formulating the
Of general strike of coal miners this
fall Will depend are Frank harrington,
of Springfield, IL, and Philip Murray
Of Pittsburgh, presidents Of the Illi-
nois and Western Pennsylvania dis
trict organ izations, 10 whom this has
been referred by the scale committee
General agreement as TO the extent Of
the wage demands is said 10 exist IL
the committee. and the general nature
Of the demands has been determined,
although 10 formal statement will be
gwen OUT before the committee reports
70 the convention next week.
Constitution Is Amended
An amendment TO the constitution,
making the siX-hour day instead OF the
cight-hour day one Of The aims oi the
organization. Was adopted to-day. II
reads that mot more than SIN hours
from bank to bank in each twenty-fGur
hours shall be worked by members Of
our organization" and this is the form
n which lhe demand viii probably be
presented to the operators
New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Earllom FOR lsalfour:
May Be L. S. Ambassador
London Mirror" Saws Foreign
Secretary Possibly VIII
Succeed Grey

LONDON, Sept. According 10
The Daily Mirror" Arthur J. Palfonr
British Foreign Secretary. is soon 70
be created an earl In recognition Of
his services to the empire during the
war.
The newspaper adds hat the raising
of Mr.. Balfour to an earldom is likely
to come simultaneously with his re.
tirement from the Foreign Offce. which
= expected to take olace during the
autumn The Mirror" says also tina.
when Niscount Grey relnquishes Lis
pos. OF Ambassador to the United
States few months hence, Mr. Bal-
four may be invited - succeed rim