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The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
First Session of Peace Congress
Is Held at Trianon Palace,
Versailles.
ITALIANS MAY RETURN
Understanding as to Fiume 10 Among
ProbabiIities-Subrn Of Treaty
to Germans Expected by
Next Monday.

Paris, May 2.-The first meet
ing Of Allied and German peace
delegates, to exchange credentials
took place at 3 p. m. at the Tria-
non palace in Versailles.
The peace terms will be commu-
nicated to the Germans late Mon.
day, it is expected.
The organization committee Of
the League Of Nations will meet
Monday.
The Council Of Three today dis
cussed the disposition Of captured
German cables.
Washington, May 2.-Reports
from Paris and Rome seem to in
dictate disposition on the part Of
both the council OF three and the
italian government to reach some
sort Of understanding as to the
Fiume question that will permit
the italian delegates to return to
the conference without loss Of
dignity. Conversations between
Premier Orlando and Thomas Mel.
son Page, American ambassador,
have taken place at Rome, Mr..
Page later reporting to President
Wilson.
Paris, May 2.-The German pleni.
of the Peace congress
have presented their credentials. 1t
was the first step in the pe1ee negotia-
tons. The German credentials were
presented to representatives of the
Allies and the United States.
Examination and confirmation OF
these documents is expected to take
at least "a hours. Foreign Minister
Rantzau heads the German
and Jules Cambon is chair
man of the Allied credentials commit
tee.
Meanwhile, assembling of the arti-
cles of the treaty was reported to be
satisfactorily. Confidence
was expressed that it would be ready
for the Germans by Saturday, GER
tainly not later than Monday. Forty
thousand words, or about half of the
treaty, already has been cabled to
in sections.
Where Congress 10 Held.
Versailles, May 1.-THE spacious
dining room of the Hotel Trianon has
received its peace congress installa-
t'on-three long tables in horseshoe
form, covered with the traditional
green cloth of diplomacy and games of
hazard. Each of the side tables ex.
tends 40 or 80 feet through the room.
At the head of the apartment is a
table about IS feet long at which the
of the great powers
will be seated with President Ray.
mond Poincare or Premier Georges
in the center.
Inside the horseshoe is another
table covered with red plush and in
the space between one side OF the
and the windows is q SINH
lar table. In the window openings
are a number Of smaller square tables
for secretaries.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08

Mccarthy Wins 25-Round Go.
Tonopah. New, May 2.-Johnny Nc
Carthy, San Francisco weiterweight.
won the decision over Jack Robinsop,
after Is rounds Of hard fighting.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
PROCEEDS At RAPID RATE
Breaking Up Of American Army
Passes Half Way Mark.

Passes Half Way Mark.
Washington, May 2.-The breaking
up Of the great American army passed
the half way mark, the war depart
ment announced, April "a, when the
total discharges reached 1868. The
present strength in the American Ex-
peditionary Force is So per cent of
the strength on Nov. II last. and in
the force in the United States it is
81 per cent Of the strength on that
date.
A new record for transport sailings
was set in the week ended April 20.
when 1aS,205 troops left Europe for
the United States.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08


covery in the New York postoffice of
16 Internal machines, in addition to
six more that have been delivered to
prominent men in various parts of
the country, federal detectives started
a search for the senders of the dan
gerous missives.
The 16 bombs found we're addressed
to prominent men, including judges
and cabinet members, while the six
thus far delivered to addresses
through the mail reached the offices
or homes of the following:
Former Senator Thomas Hardwick
of Georgia; Congressman John l..
Burnett of Alabama; Federal Judge
X. M. Lands of Chicago; Mayor Ole
Hanson of Seattle; District Attorney
Charles NJ. Fickert and his assistant,
Edward N. Cunha of San Francisco.
None of these men has been in
jured by tho bombs, but Senator Hard
wick's wife and a maid were severely
hurt. The parcels bore similar mech
anisms, arranged to explode on open
ing, and were sent as novelty sam
plies" from New York with fictitious
tag, indicating that they came from
the store of Gimbel Brothers.
Held for Lack Of Postage.
The packages found in the New
York postoffice were discovered by a
mail clerk, after reading of the bomb
wick. They had all been held for lack
of flrst-class postage.
The addresses we're all typewriter.
The style and a couple of minor er-
rors led officials to believe that the
addressing was done by a foreigner.
Clerk Makes Discovery.
A slip on the part of the senders of
the Internal machines coupled with
the sharp wits of postoffice clerk,
we're all that prevented the bombs
from being delivered. The 16 pack
ages were mailed Saturday night in q
box somewhere in the neighborhood
of TAirtieth street and Broadway.
They had the correct postage for the
parcel post, but were sealed with red
waters and therefore could be accept
ed oalv as flrst.class matter. Accord
ingiy they were sent to the general
postonce to be referred back to the
sender.
Each parcel had the name of Gimbel
Brothers printed on it.
Later a representative Of Gimbel
Brothers called on Inspector Cochran
and. after examining the parcels, de-
clare4 the wrappings had never orig
mated IN the department store.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08

Australia to Deport Germans.
Meibourne, May 1.-The common
wealth Of Australia plans to deport in
tern ID Germans, beginning late in
May, &c was announced. -.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
asrtfeld Trims Title Contender,

Bartfield Trims Title Contender.
Seattle. May 2. - Soldier Bartneld
of New York earned a clean-cut de-
cision over Frank Barrieau, contender
for the Pacific coast middleweight
championship In four rounds.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
Last Of Goulds Dead.

14St OF 00UJ0S Oedo.
Los Angeles, May Mrs. Anna
Gould Hough, sister Of the late Jay
Gould and last surviving member of
the original Gould family, is dead ut
her home here.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
Damp Hurts Winter Wheat.

Lincoln, Neb., May 2.-Reports OF
. rather serious condition of winter
wheat In some parts of Nebraska were
charged by the Nebraska College of
Agriculture to week Of cloudy. damp
weather. Rapid growth of the grain
has caused it to fall to the ground and
mat.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
Islands Unite with Greece.

ISt2V0y OUu4S VIM OTSSCOe
Athens, May IA proclamation has
been issued in the Dodecanesus
islands by which II il declared that
the islands have become united With
Greece
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08

The saloon in politics supplies the
Machine with ball bearings.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
Six Others Have Been Delivered
to Homes of Prominent
Public Men.
SEARCH IS UNDER way
Clerk Ia New York Postoffice Finds
Internal Machines After Read
ING Of Explosion Of One
in GEORGIA.

New York, May 2.-Thirty-seven
bombs are known to have been
mailed from New York to men,
bers Of the presidents cabinet,
government and state officials,
and prominent and rich men in
other walks Of life in various Sec
tions of the country. Seven OF
these deadly messengers reached
their destination. One exploded
whea opened. It wounded the
wife Of former Senator Hardwick
Of Georgia and her maid. Precau-
tions taken by the others whose
homes or Offices the bombs
reached prevented explosion.
The Tomahawk., 1919-05-08
NEGOnlATES ANOTHER LOAN

Italy SecNres $50,000,000 Credit From
United States.
Washington, May 2-Italy was given
a new loan of So, o0o, 900 by the Treas
ury to cover q number Of obligations
incurred BY the Italian government
on .coatracts for war materials and
foodstaffs from American producers.
The credit extension brought Italy's
total borrowings from the United
States to $1,571 500, 900.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13

Jinks-What'n blazes happened to
your hair? You're as bald as bill
lard ball.
Blinks-My wife tried out ..er new
vacuum cleaner, to take the ashes
out O. my hair after acted as
nurse to the furnace, It's a darn
good vacuum cleaner, #s..-
Mary-My mama's got new hat.
1t cost shiny cent
Johnny-How d'y' know it cost a
shi,.j cent?
Mary-yCause when poper looked
at the bill he said the hat cost a
pretty penny.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Omaha Officer Gives Vivid
Description Of French Life
Lieut. C. A. Abrahamson is CHARTERED in Little French
Village Consisting of Eight Structures of Some
Kind, Called Houses by the Natives, as He Terms it.

as we did before and seeing moth
ing but the rusty entangIements,
and jagged shell holes and risking
your neck if you went out BY night
by the possibility of falling into
six-foot deep trench CT had several
of those kinds OF fallsl, and last
but by no means least, seeing moth
ing but soldats Of the Ethiopian
variety for weeks at time"
On the day the armistice was
signed the Omaha man was on the
front with the artillery laying down
a barrage (Which stopped Of course
at IL o'clock.) Ambulance company
335, made up of Omaha men, was
at Musician, little village near
Bordeaux. II had been smelling
powder and hearing shells shrek,
and expecting gas any minute, and
going to sleep with the ground
reverberating from the conclusions
for six weeks previous to this. The
old company never saw destroyed
village, nor trench system, nor ell
tanglements, nor air attacks, bal
looms brought down, nor advancing
lines, nor sky with red glare and
signal rockets, nor any o. the sights
and experiences which go with war.
Naturally, | can never forget it and
neither would | ever care to see or
do it again." he wrote.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Fox Trot Has Come to Stay;
That and One-Step to Form
Basis for All Future Dances

with this view | would simply point
out that when the waltz was in
vogue the ball room did not attract
men and women of the intellectual
caliber that are to be found there
today.
The standard dances of the future
will be based upon the fox trot and
the one step.
Based on Walking.
1t is quite possible that those
dances might lose their name, but
their identity will never entirely
vanish, because they have natural
movement as their very foundation.
Based on the walking idea, they en-
able people to express their char
scters in their performance, SO ;hat,
apart from their naturalnesS, they
demonstrate personality in a man
'er in which the old-fashioned,
meaningless and monotonous waltz
was never able to achieve.
| am quite aware that some peo-
pie in their Interpretation of these
movements give very ugly perform
ances, but it is better to reveal truth
in ugliness than to hypocritically
conceal it in expressionless gyrat
ing.
If dancing is to be considered an
art, creative art, it must be the ex
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13

A billet in Frecourt, Haute Marine,
France, bad as it is, is paradise
compared to the five months he
passed living like rats in dugouts,"
1t. c. A. Abrahamson of Omaha,
with the Saith division, writes to his
friend, A. X. Solomon of the
kirkendall Shoe company. as
"A dugout is about as romantic
a place as there is in the world for
about week, after that it. becomes
something else. Frecourt has eight
houses, | think, and about ten of
those most cherished of French
possessions, manure heaps. The
building where | am CHARTERED may
be 100 years old. maybe LOCO; any
how it's old. There are two en-
frances, one to our quarters, the
other to the apartment occupied by
the cows and chickens. As the
doors are close together and almost
identical, I feel it in my bones | will
60 into the wrong apartment some
night on my return from painting
the town red.
But even at that we feel that we
are in something of a paradise COM
pared to what we came from. See
ing civilians, even if they do have
big red hands and wear wooden
shoes and. are not overly clean, is
certainly infinitely better than living
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Government Agent to
Address Farmers on
Production Of Honey

J. V, Ormand, specialist with the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, will speak and give demon
STATIONS on scientific honey produc-
ing at a series of meetings to be held
by the honey producers of the
county.
The meetings will begin Monday
and will last three days. On Mon
day morning meeting at the N. O..
Shredder farm, four miles west of
Millard, will be held. Monday aft
ernoon the convention will meet on
the farm of Roy Hickson of Valley;
Tuesday morning at the home Of
Otto Timm, near Bennington;
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Anthony Johnson of Benson;
Wednesday morning at the residence
of Emma J. Clark, 7742 North
Thirty-eighth street, Florence, and
Wednesday afternoon at the home
of H. c. Cook, 452l Parker street,
Omaha.
The meetings are expected to be
of great value to those who wish to
get into the honey business, as well
as those already engaged in the in
dustry. Similar meetings held last
summer were we'll attended, and a
larger attendance is expected this
year.
Bee Want-ads pay big profits to
the people who read them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Eat It, y Said Kaiser,
Dumping Lot Of Salt
On Generals Plate
By Universal Service.

London. April l2.-The Munich
Post reproduces some extracts from
remarkable book written by Count
Hoensbroech, the we'll known mill
tant pan-German, which has just
been published in Berlin, and gives
an account of WilheIm's abdication
and flight.
Count Hoensbroech declares him
self still convinced adherent to the
monarchist system in Germany; but
this does not prevent him from de-
picting Wilhelm as "the grave
digger of Germany and he de-
clares that he regards it as his duty
to assist in the extirpa ton Of this
branch of the Hohenzollerns. Here
is his portrait of the ex-kaiser
Superficial, frivolous, proud, des-
potic, fastidious, scornful, incapable
of making friends, solely preoccu-
pied with his own self, a poser, a
play-actor, and what is still more
serious, cowardly and completely
lacking in any form of moral
courage"
To illustrate his views, the count
relates an incident which he states
he witnessed one day at the imperial
dinner table, when the ex-kaiser he
declares, emptied a salt-cellar into
the plate of one of his generals
and not the least distinguished of
them-and ordered him to swallow
all the salt. The general, after
momentary and not unnatural hesti-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Irish Music to Be Feature at Benefit Play at
Brandeis Theater for Working Girls Home
Performance Includes Mu-
sical Comedy Written and
Staged by Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Corners.

An afternoon and evening OF
Irish music and comedy are prom
ised at the Brandeis theater Satur-
day, May 8, when there will be a
benefit performance for the new
working girls home, which the
Sisters of Mercy will erect at
Eighteenth and Cass streets.
The benefit is under the auspices
OF the Joan of Arc club. and the
program includes a musical first
part, in which Irish songs. old and
new, will be sung; vaudeville in
terlude, and a musical comedy,
written especially for the occasion
by Mrs. Jack Corners.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corners are direct
ing rehearsals. Forty young women
and men will take part in the pro-
gram. The comedy is called Come
Back to Erin" -
In the vaudeville section of the
bill Little Marion Smith a miss of
less than 5 years. is to dance MY
Wild Irish Rose" She is said to be
the youngest solo dancer in this
country. Jack Corners, the small
movie star, will come back to
Omaha for the occasion and will be
heard in musical speciality called,
Since I've Been in Love With
Mary"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13

preston of life, it must be the ex-
preston of the life of the dancer, and
great or insignificant, according to
the dancers impressions and ability
No doubt each season will see the
introduction of new movements,
but the dominating idea of the pres
ent style will retain its permanency.
The simple walking movement
has ensured that permanency, and,
shorn of all the dips and hops, which
will die natural death or give
place to movements which will per-
haps allow less license, it will in
sure for the ballroom lasting pop
ularity quite equal to the present
standard.
Doesn't Kill Sociability.
The chief arguments of critics of
the present craze" as they call it,
is that jazz, in which they mis-
takenly comprehend everything that
is modern, is destructive of the
sociability of the ballroom. There
is no greater fallacy.
The fox-trot and the one-step in
their view, can only be danced by
partners who know each others
steps, and SO the universally of
ballroom partnership has given
place to the same couples dancing
together all the evening.
The idea is erroneous. lust as
two walters who are strangers to
each others steps can waltz to-
gether, SO can fox-trotters and one
steppers.
Not Due to Dances.
1t has, | am quite aware, become
customary for couples to dance
more or less together through the
evening, but this has nothing
whatever to do with the change in
the style of dancing.
1t is due entirely to a change in
ballroom etiquet. In the old DAYS
it was not considered good form for
couple to dance more than two
dances together during the evening,
but now if couple should prefer
each others society they are break
ing no canon of etiquet if they
dance together the whole evening
Whether the revolution in Ell
quet and the removal of restraint
to such an extent that gloves are no
longer worn in bathrooms are i'm
provements upon pre-war DAYS,
VIII not venture an opinion, but the
tact remains that these changes
have become established.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
The Famous Dancer.

London, April l2.-Will the mod
ern form of ball room dancing sur
vive the test of timer
This question seems to have occa-
stoned no little controversy, but in
one important aspect the argument
mas been somewhat misleading. The
modern style seems in its description
TO be embraced by the single express
sive word "jazz," whereas that word
means only simple subsidiary
movement, which can be applied or
omitted from the movements of the
FOX trot or the one-step.
1t is wrong, therefore, in discuss
ing the ball room of the future, to
talk about the possibility of the per
inanent triumph of the jazz over the
waltz-wrong both from the point
of view of the jazz and the waltz.
Oblivion for Jazz.
In my opinion the jazz will join
the waltz in oblivion.
| differ entirely from the conten-
ton that the waltz will ever return
TO favor. | refrain from using. the
word popularity, for the reason that
! have never considered it popular
form of dancing. And to those
readers who are not in agreement
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
82,0O-Mi|e Cadillac
Wins Prize for Fitness

The Standardization of motor con-
struction has again proven its value
in spectacular way.
At the automobile show held at
the First. army headquarters in
France Cadillac which had already
been run $1,000 miles and three
things condemned for salvage, was
successfully repaired and awarded
first prize for being in excellent CON
ditlon, February Is, 1919. Complete
motor standardization and inter
changeability of parts made possible
this remarkable performance.
This information is taken from one
OF the hundreds of letters of praise
received from soldiers who saw the
Cadillac in France. Sergt. Samuel A,
Bennett, U. S. marine corps, writes as
follows:
Il am a sergeant in the U. S. ma
rlne corps and the original driver of
Cadillac car U. S. No. 1127. This
car was bought in Washington, D.
I. from your dealer April 20, 1917,
for use in the A. Z. F. It has been
in foreign service Is months, of
which time it has been at the front
one year and two months. 1t went
through the battles of Verdun,
Chateau Thierry, scissors, Nancy,
Toul, Salons, St. Mihiel, and the
Argonne with the U, S. marines.
While at Chateau Thierry it was
blown up and again at Salons.
Both times | was wounded. At
three different times this car was
recommended for salvage, but each
time | volunteered to repair it.
The last time put it in shape to
enter the endurance contest or auto
mobile show at the First Army
headquarters.
1T is recorded with $1,000 miles
aud was awarded first prize as being
in excellent condition at the time"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
MOTOR TRUCKS
Into WIDER USE
NOW Than EVER
Certain Classes Of Business
Houses Turn to Trucks
For More Distant
Deliveries.

Transportation developments of
the last few months indicate wider
use of the motor truck than even
during the strenuous days of 1917
and 1915" says w. X. Nichols, dis
tributor Of Old Hickory trucks.
The recent increase Of minimum
carloads made by the railroad adj
ministration is bound to consider
ably increase the number of less
than-carload users as we'll as cut
down the small single carload buy
ers. This, to my mind, will make
4 certain class of business houses,
such as wholesalers, jobbers, small
manufacturers, millers, small mill
owners, department store owners,
merchants and retailers, turn to mo-
tor trucks to make deliveries to dis
tant customers as well as to bring
in supplies from manufacturing and
shipping centers. .
Freight Rates Higher.
In addition, the increased freight
rates will prove another great in
centive to use motor trucks. not
only because they have proven
adaptable to practically all haulage
and delivery requirements, but be-
cause of their proven economy over
other methods OF transportation,
not excluding the railroads in many
sections of the country. ..
In my estimation, these increases
in the class Of motor truck users
will hasten the time when the OPP
Grafton Of motor trucks will be on a
scientific basis, systematized and
standardized as to loads, schedules,
rates, operation, maintenance, serv-
ice, etc. When this time arrives, it
won't be question of can we at
ford good roads?' but we can't at
ford to be without them the same
as the railroads cannot afford to OPP
crate over faulty road beds, loose
rails and switches and worn out
railroad ties"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13

tation. obeyed the imperial beast.
The Post, in commenting OH this
incident, asks which is the most re-
markable OF this trio-the imbecile
emperor, the docie general, or the
enraged monarchist who, fully con-
scious apparently of the idiocy OF
his former imperial master, still has
the courage to suggest that Ger
many should have another such
clown as its ruler.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13

Bee Want-ads pay big profits to
he people who read them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Omaha Men to Debate
on League Of Nations
at Unitarian Church

Resolved, That the covenant
creating the league of nations pro-
posed by the peace delegatesat Paris,
or one in substance and effect
OF similar import, should be included
IN the peace treaty under considera-
ton and should be ratified by the
United States" is the question upon
which Norris Brown and Duncan
M. Vinsonhaler will debate at the
Unitarian church Wednesday even
ing. Mr.. Brown will take the af-
iir1natlve and Mr.. Vinsonhaler will
argue the negative side of the ques-
ton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
No Kin to Enoch Arden

London, April l2--Here's biga
my tangle as complicated as jig
saw puzzle. Clara Jane M. Milward
or Parkins, or Garrett, married
three men. thinking her previous
husbands were dead. Now all three
have bobbed up, each wanting a
divorce so they can marry other
women, 1t was too much for the
judge, so he remanded her on bail
to think it over
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13

Myre won the first fall in one hom
and II minutes. He was injured
after six minutes OF the second
round had elapsed and was unable
to resume the match.
The first fall went to Myre on
crotch hold after he had caught
Eklund off his balance, tripped him
and hurled him to the mat.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Myre FOrfeits Match .
After Receiving Injury

Des MoineS, Ia, April l2.-(Spe-
cial Telegram clarence Eklund
OF Buffalo, Wyo., successfully de-
tended his claim to the worlds light
weight wrestling championship by
winning a forfeit match from Hell
mer Myre at Mason City last night.