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Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
CONF FERENCE OF
ROTARY CLUBS
Opens TONIGHT
Five Hundred Delegates from
Three States to Be in At
tendance; District Gov
ernOr to Preside.

The initial session of the three
days conference of Rotarians of the
Sixteenth district will be held to-
night at All Saints church, presided
over by Rev. Thomas ]. Mackay.
Addresses will be delivered by Rev.
Frank B. Smith, pastor of the First
Congregational church: Father Nc
Manus of Council Bluffs and Rabbi
Cohn.
Five hundred delegates, represent
ing clubs in Nebraska. Iowa and
South Dakota, are expected to at
tend the conferences, which will be
concluded with the session Tuesday
afternoon. Delegates will begin ar
irving in the city today. George E.
Nickel is chairman of a committee
which will meet all incoming trains,
welcome the visitors and conduct
them TO hotels.
Luncheon for Women.
Headquarters have been estab-
lishel in the Fontenelle hotel, where
the visitors will register.
"a Common Platform" is the sub
jeet Of the address Rabbi Cohn will
deliver at the meeting tonight. DR..
Smith will speak on "a Rotary
Message Special music will be fur
nished by the church and Rotary
choirs.
While women visitors will be ad-
mitted to the meetings, two separate
luncheons have been arranged for
them Monday and Tuesday. They
will be given the palm room at the
Fontenelle.
John Hoffman of Chicago, board
member of the international Rotary
clubs. and Luther A. Brewer Of
Cedar Rapids, publisher OF the
Cedar Rapids Republican were the
first visitors 20 arrive.
Welcome by Moorhead.
Des Moines and Lincoln Rotar-
les have started a boom for Dan A..
Johnson of Omaha, present district
secretary, for the district governor
ship.
Fred L. Northey, district gover-
nor, will call the meeting to order
tomorrow evening in the assembly
room Of the Masonic temple. The
address Of welcome will be delivered
BY Harley G. Moorhead. L. H..
Minkel of Fort Dodge, will respond
following the seeretary's report. Mr..
Northey will introduce the distin-
guished visitors.
The afternoon session will be de-
voted to routine business, and a con-
ference dinner will be given and pre-
sided over by John w. Weleh at 2
o'clock. Governor McKelvie will
address the delegates at the evening
session on Rotary, the Morning
Star of the New Day"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Attorneys Not Permitted
to Visit Alien DepOrteeS

Washington, Feb. l5-The Depart
ment OF Labor in accordance with
instructions sent today to the COM
missioner Of immigration at New
York, will permit relatives and
close friends Of all aliens held at
Ellis Island for deportation to visit
them on personal business only.
Attorneys claiming to represent the
aliens will not be permitted to see
them. however
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Confessed Slayer Of Rival
Takes Steps to Make Battle
For Her Life and Freedom
Mrs Holland O,Neill, Neb. Claims She Was Justified
in Choking Wife Of Man She Had Lived With
in CommonlaW Marriage for
Thirteen Years.
Special to The Bee.

West Plains, Mo-. Feb 15-Mrs. Carrie Holland, a Ne
braska woman who confessed to the killing of Mrs Pearl
Welton wife of Frank Weton the Welton farm near
Mountain View by choking her to death, is taking
keen interest preparations for trial at the May of the
Shannon county circuit court at Emnence.
When she confessed the murder she expressed desire
to plead guilty once but since her removal to the Howell
county Jail at West Plains she has gone the circumstance
of the killing with her attorneys with view Of making de-
termined effort at justification when she is placed trial
No hint has been given to the nature Of the defense the
woman will make.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Prominent Men Taken
on Charge of Gambling

Fourteen Omaha business and pro-
fessional men were arrested at
o'clock this morning when officers
Of the morals squad, under Sergeant
Thestrup raided an apartment at
205H North Seventeenth street En-.
trance was gained to the room bp
means of pressing one Of eight nails
That were in a horseshoe attached
to the door. Police broke open the
door when they failed TO discover
the combination to the mysterious
lock.
All were booked on a charge Of
gambling.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
ShipbuiIding Tieup Looms
Again in San Francisco Yards

San Francisco, Feb. l5.-Prospects
of a general tie-up of shipbuilding
in the San Francisco bay regioa
loomed again today after a period
of attempted mediation, when the
boilermarkers' union Of Oakland
announced an immediate strike Of
all union members and a small group
OF striking San Francisco boiler.
makers failed to compromise wsva
differences with their employees
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
MRS. HEYN FINDS
LOST DIAMONDSG
were NOT STOLEN
J. M. BeueI, Former State
Agent, Picks Them Up and
Being Called Out Of Town,
Hands Back on Return.

Mrs. Lester Heyn has recovered
her diamonds.
If Diogenes were in Omaha he
would know where to spot his hon
est man of historic fame.
: Former State Agent ]. M. Beuel,
$40 Pine street, found the gems
Friday morning in front of the
Drake Court apartments, Twenty
second and Jones streets. Last night
at 8 o'clock the stones were again in
the possession of their rightful
owner.
Mrs. Lester Heyn, wife of one Of
Omaha's best known photographers,
dropped the precious jewels, three
diamond rings and diamond la
VALERIE, valued at $500. in front Of
her mothers home, the Drake Court
apartments. Mr.. Beuel refused to
take any reward for handing them
back.
Discovers the Loss.
Friday morning Mrs. Heyn left
her apartment in the Blackstone
hotel, called taxi and drove to the
home of her mother, Mrs. R. N.
Neir, in the Drake Court apart
ments. Having been warned by her
husband frequently not to leave her
valuable jewelry in the apartments
while shopping or visiting frs.
Heyn placed the gems in her hand
bag.
AS soon as she reached her
mothers home, she discovered the
loss of the bag ahd Immediately no
tilted the taxicab company. A thor
ough search of the cab was made
but the gems were not found.
Friday night the police were call
ed. Searching every pawnshop oi
the city brought no results. The
driver of the taxi was questioned
He had clean record and as fai
as the police could ascertain haC
never been mixed up in any dis.
honest affairs.
Voice Over the Phone.
The whole affair seemed to bt
shrouded in mystery as Mrs. Heyr
could not remember having spoker
Continued on Page Eight, Column Tive
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
President Wilson Reelected
as President of Red Cross

Washington, Feb. 15.-Organiza-
ton of the Red Cross for peace
work was effected today at an ad-
journed annual meeting here. Presi-
dent Wilson and other officers were
reelected. William Howard Taft
was chosen a vice president in rec
ognition of his work.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
No. g..

Love binds two hearts more
close together; a feeling that you
can't stand the other one away for
long.
No. 10.
Love is one of the biggest hum
bugs that ever buncoed two fools
into a flat with an oil stove in it.
Love is mans fool idea to pay
a woman's board bill for life.
No. IL.
Love is a tender affection that
looks only to the happiness of an.
other When the effect is happl-
ness, that is true love, given by the
grace of God.
No. IA.
Love is like we'll and a deep one,
A fact you have noticed, no doubt.
Its easy enough to fall into.
But hard as the deuce to get out.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
FINE PRIZES FOR BEST ANSWERS.

Best three, awards S SO 81 90 good
Qove story book Not words original quote author
will be printed except awards Closes March Address
Contest Editor The Bee Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16

happiness. Love overeomes ali
obstacles and wins in the end. Love
is wonderful. 1t is a flame in the
breast of one and it sparkles until
it creates a fire and can only be
Gained when another fame answers
it. 1t is like music sung by angels
always lowering near. / think you
must love to live and I think you
live to lowell
No. s.
Love is a tickling sensation Of the
heart that can't be scratched. And
then again l heard it said love is
a snake that comes and goes, dis
turbing man from head to toes.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16

TIE WEATHER.
Fair and sIightIy warmer
Sunday, becoming unsettled
Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-17
WEDNEsDAY-THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS DECEMBER H. 1919

new sun spot, or in other words,
volcanic eruption on the fiery
sphere.
The earth, being directly in the
path Of this possible disturbance,
stands a chance of experiencing an
upheaval In weather conditions
which will mean rain and electri-
cal storms, followed by. intense
cold.
Iniluence the Sun.
The overbalance caused by the
alignment of tho six planets. Met-
curry, Venus, Mars. Jupiter, Saturn
and Neptune. is calculated to exert
a powerful magnetic influence upon
the sun. Some scientists claim
that the resultant eruptions in the
suns surface will cause a sun spot
sufficiently large to be visible to
the naked eye. Others are not so
sure of this and are prone to dis
count the possibilities of the ex-
pected magnetism. There occurred
last May an array Of planets on
both sides Of the sun, and only in
significant spots resulted, with
slight atmospherical and terrestrial
disturbances.
= When the six planets were a.
rayed on one side Uranus was alone
on the opposite side of the sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-17
SET FOR :
END OF WORLD
PROVES WRONG
Sun Spots Faf to Appear Through
overcast Sky as Planets Come
10 attention

Well, Rock Island how do You
feel. now that the world is at an
end? While 1t is shame to spoil
a perfectly good prophecy, however
hlled with bunk, inhabitants of the
world must confess today that with
the coming and passing Of 1920
a. m. the common course of life on
this terrestrial globe changed not
a whit. Absent entirely were the
dire events predicted by the well
known astronomer The stellar
bodies fell into Inc, came to at
tention. dressed right and then
broke ranks. But nothing hap
pened.
, Perhaps the. sun spots did ap-
pear. as forecasted. Rock Island
is not in a position to state on this
matter. unless the absence of sun
light today was a result of total
eclipse caused by such a spot. The
combined pulp Of the four plal-
cts coming into alignment may
have yanked the sun to some cor
ner of the universe not visible from
this fair city. Who knows
All the agitation started by .he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-17

All the news all the time-The
Argus,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-17

scientist produced some good re-
suits and some bad. It gave would
be humorists and writer's Of funny
stuff the opportunity Of their lives
to display their talent. 1t threw
Professor Albert Porta into the
limelight. 1t on the other hand cast
a black cloud over the spirits OF
innumerable persons. and in fact
caused weakening of the mind and
suicide in a nunber of cases.
Disclaims He Announced End.
DR.. Porta now claims that the
END Of the world" prediction was
press dope and not his announce
ment. He says he, claimed q series
of weather disturbances. particular
l'ly on the Pacific coast, would We
the result Of the peculiar placing Of
the heavenly bodies on this date.
At any rate, the predictions Of
astrOnOmists as to the movement
Of the planets today. agreed, and
no doubt happened in the course
named. This movement was as fol-
lows, to quote an eastern astrons
omical publication:
For the, first time in the history
of astronomy, six Of the principe |
planets of the solar system were
aligned on one side of the sun
within 26 degrees of a straight line.
! The earth, which is not included in
lis group, was in a position of al
! most 80 degrees from this base linz.
One Opposite.
! Only one planet of the system
was situated Numerically opposite
the others.
I What the result OF the concen-
.trated electromagnetic of the six
planets will be- upon the sun is a
matter of great speculation among
focal astronomers. but the general
opinion is that there will result !
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21

wardness we beat up a few out-of- town bystanders, don't find fault if we begin on you.
 Pine Bluff is good town, old man, and you have our sympathy and we know that you will be glad to tell all your friends over the country what peaceful, homelike town Pine Bluff is, and what cor dial treatment we give business strangers who come in our midst.
 Point with pride to the scar you received in the Chamber of Com merce in daylight, and prove to the world that Pine Bluff is city with real "punch."
 You know it would not be po- lite to make fuss about it for you are an outsider and we must stick up for the home man no mat ter how rough he uses you, for it might hurt our business to take sides in the matter.
 Say, Mack, when you come back here to live, call me up and I will help you find house to buy and get you located, and if you know of any one who has house tc sell or anybody who wants to buy a house or farm, send them around to me and I will put the job over, for that is my special business. Of course, Mack, you know this is just an ad written by the country boy real estate man. (Adv.) TOM BLODGETT.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21

French roads while it's occupant was seeking to annihiliate the al lies, can be seen almost any day on Chicago's streets and boule- wards.
 Bullet scared and battered aft CT travelling more than 60,00o miles as the equipage of the Ger man comander, the limousine has returned to peaceful pursuits and civilian service.
 The summer of 1914 c. L. Wiley a Chicago lumber merhcant, with his wife was touring Germany if the motor car. The war flared up and the automobile was seized by German officials, despite it's own- CTS protests becoming the property of General Ludendorff.
 Some where in it's war activity the limousine was the target of we'll aimed machine gun fire from the allied airn1en and it's roof was perforated in many places.
 Through an American consul MT. Wiley brought about the return of the automobile. c. L. Wiley died in 1916 and the car is now used daily by his son c. B. Wiley.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
BLOOD SHED IN
 CHAMBER COMMERCE

I spent two years on the range in the camps of the western cow men and got used to waking up in the night with Colts forty lives barking and filling the bunk house with smoke and midnight confusion.
 My taste for the wild and woody life was soon satisfied, and I moved back farther east, where stray bullets were not the regu- lar bill of fare.
 have slept the sleep of the just knowing that the members of the worst hold up gangs on the plains were our guests for there is some degree of safety even in the midst of frontier outlaws.
 It seems that the methods of vengeance are enacted with more gentle weapons in Pine Bluff and that blood can be coaxed out of a mans carcass without forty-fives and the victim still live to tell the tale to his great grandchildren. 1 Never mind, McKenna, old sport, even if the hold-up came in day light and in the halls of our in- dustrial sanctorum, for the story never could have been told had not the surroundings of the combat been conductive to hasty and de- cisive victory on the part of the braves, with true movie" trage- dy.
 In spite of the blood. shed, old man, we are going to put Pine Bluff on the map and mourn not that the first tragedy of a Great CT Pine Bluff is written in letters of red and that the red corpuscles that were drained from your hide furnishes the ink to write the story.
 There must always be victims when big front page headlines of startling deeds are run to adver- tise the town and as your special business is to teach backward mo- dest towns how to get on the map. Don't get sore if the pupil hits a faster pace than the teacher and advertises the town by defac- ing facial map of the teacher him. self. You have given IS . thirst for
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
Subsidy for Home
 Builders Planned

London, Dec. 20.-The British government proposes to subsidize the erection of necessary homes for the people and to prevent the building of what are characterized as 'lufury houses" The plan has been proposed to the house of commons by Dr. Christopher Ad. dison minister of health. Dr. Ad. dison proposed that subsidy o1 130 should be offered for each house built within a specified time
 Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the treasury had agreed to lend to local authorities of small com munities money for building pur- poses, but that the authorities of larger communities would have to supply their own resources.
 Two difficulties, he said, con- fronted the government, that of obtaining money and labor and he advised that public ,opinion be aroused to obtain both.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21

remain unidentified. The identi- fication bureau IS making every effort to identify them, and few bodies are added each week to the list of known dead.
 The bodies of unknown dead are buried at Rouse Hill cemetery here. Accurate descriptions, part of clothing and other possessions and, in some cases, photographs are on file at the bureau to assist in Identification work. There also are twenty-nine names of per sons reported missing of whom the bureau has no trace.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
JOY WEEDS DAUGHTER | OF MAN WHO WAS
 SLAIN BY FATHER
farmer, Sentenced to Pen, Says Neighbor Shot
 Accidentally

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 20.-Sam
 She'll, a farmer residing near Woodstock, Tenn, is in jail here
 waiting the arrival of an agent rom the Nashville penitentiary
 while his 16-year-old son, John
 nell, is married to Ethel Easth-
 m, 13, daughter of Frank Easth-
 I'm, whom he killed with a shot,
 un.
 j She'll, indicted on charge of
 first degree murder as the result If Eastham's death, was tried in |Sriminal court here a few days 1go, found guilty of involuntarly Granddaughter and sentenced to inn {Drisonment of from one to five Fears in the state penitentiary. \ Eastman was killed May 15. It during the trial that Enell's son had married the dead hans daughter August II. The |kirl, who sat with the Shell fami- hy turnout the trial, looks too be about 12 years old. She is less yhan four feet in height, wears
 knee dresses, low-heeled shoes and Qa plain, sailor hat. The child @ays she and the She'll boy have been sweethearts- for three years. | She'll and Eastman were neigh boring farmers, and the latter twas killed while the two were kalone on the Woodstock road on horseback. Shell swore on the gwitness stand that they were look Iing for mad dog when his shot, gun was discharged accidentally killing Eastman instantly. East ham was shot in the back.
 The prosecution asked for a Zconviction on the first degre mur- 6er charge, punishable by death It showed that Shell went to the aEastham home after the killing talked with the widow of the man he had killed and spent the night there. She knew her husband was dead. Later, Shell ate Sun. day dinner with Mrs. Eastman.
 Shell denied that he killed East ham because of love for Mrs. East ham. The latter admitted that he had stayed all night at her house after the killing, altho Eastham's body was not removed from the road until the following day. It lay there turnout the night, while Shell was at Eastham's home.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
Blames British
 Government for
 High Meat Prices

London, Dec. 20.-The British Incorporated Society of Meat Im- porters blames the government for the present high cost of meat in England. The society states that the storage warehouses of the United Kingdom are full and that there is no storage space left for cargoes of frozen meat now arriving at the rate of co., 900 tons a month.
 "It is only the fact that the government is the holder and only seller of this meat that keeps it at it's present exhorbitant price," :" declared the society.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
, Members of Diaz
 Cabinet Captured

Mexico City, Dec. 20.-Felix Dlaz lost three members of his cabinet in the state of Vera Cruz recently when Fermin G. Panes Jeaquls Montero and Isidoro Pol anco were captured by federal troops. Among the documents taken from them was circular from Diaz to businessmen in Jal- pa promising that no taxes would be assessed upon them after the Diaz cause had triumphed if they would now show favor to the Diaz adherents.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
l22, Dead in Storm,
 are Unidentified

< Corpus Christi, Tex, Dec. 20.- One hundred and twenty-one bod Iies that were recovered from the
 waters of Nueces bay after the
 September hurricance here still
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21

Christmas time is the great season of rejoicing-for everyone but father; he has his little part to play-and then he's usually forgotten. At the most he gets eleventh hour consideration and a present bought with his own money.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21
LudendOrff'S Car
 is in Chicago Now

Chicago, Dec. 2O.-General Ludendorff's general headquarters motor car with the same black body and sloping duck nose that carried the military head of the German armies over Belgian and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21

It is curious fact that. all though the mistletoe is used soI freely in the decoration of homes at the Christmas season, it is, rarely, if ever, seen in the decora. tion of sacred edifices, probably, because of its early association
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-21

Towne: Perhaps in the hope of being squeezed!-Cartoons Maga- zine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
OLD HOWARD SPIRIT
STILL IN EVIDENCE:
Bulldogs Will Awaken City
to Big Game at Rick
wood Saturday

The old Howard spirit is back on the
campus with all of the old-time fire
and fight. It was certainly in evidence
at the mass meeting of the students
in the auditorium yesterday morning
All of the speakers predicted a close
hard game, and voiced their strong
faith in their team. The cheering was
great things.
Preparations were made to make
Saturday a gala day in the college
year, all of the students planning to
dogs on to victory. Birmingham is to
be officially notified by the Howard
students that the big game Of the sea.
son is on at Redwood park Saturday
afternoon. They plan to advertise the
fact Mostly, and in mass, as they pass
through the city on their way to the
big event
Howard won the choice Of bleachers
and chose the west side, so their sup
porters will be massed in the concrete
stands. while the mingham- South
ern fans will occupy the east stands
opposite. If the weather is clear, the
largest crowd that has ever witnessed
a Howard Birmingham-S Southern game
is confidently expected. 1t is estimator
that between 5000 and 5000 people will
be on hand for the most fiercely con-
tested game I'm the city this year.
The Bulldog team took a long drill
and scrimmage yesterday afternoon
Considerable time was given to deyel
oping a more aggressive line of de-
Tense. The backfleld was not given q
very hard workout, because of the in
turtles from whichv three Of them arc
suffering. These hurts will not pre-
vent the men from getting into the big
game, but they are serious enough to
convince Coach Dillon that they SHOULD
be given rest rather than stiff scrim.
images. No chances are being taken o.
1njuring any more of the men before
the game, but short scrimmages are
held