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Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Federal Agents
Tighten g Up on
Liquor Permits
Prohibition Commissioner
Announces Plans for Stricter
Enforcement of Dry
Laws for Next Year.
By The Associated Press.

Washington. Dec. 29.-Plans ior
reducing the number of federal per-
nits for handling liquor in the next
II months were announced today by
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer,
who said the new issue Of licenses
would be held to a strict minimum
i'll an effort to check illegal liquor
sales.
The greatest reduction will be IN
wholesale permits, but other dealers
entitled to operate under the Vol
stead act also will be considerably
affected. The commissioner said it
was his intention to refuse to reis-
use between so and IS per cent OF
the wholesale licenses now in effect.
The enforcement staff has been
engaged for several months in study
ing the records of the H,00O odd
permit holders, to ascertain who
have committed overt acts under the
prohibition statutes with the view
tf eliminating them from the list OF
those who may handle intoxicants
next year. :,
7 Many to Be Refused.
The bureau has been, aided in this
task. Mr.. Kramer said, by the failure
of many to apply for new permits,
This is especially true OF the whole
salers, he added The number who
desire renewals of retail licenses,
however, has not decreased marked
". according to the commissioners,
although hundreds Of them will be
refused because of their records dur
ing the first year of operation OF the
Volstead law.
Atlantic seaboard areas apparently
have provided the prohibition en-
forcement agents with their greatest
problems and it is expected that
those districts will lose the largest
number of liquor dealers under the
plan. Mr.. Kramer said the illegal
traffic in liquor had been particularly
menacing in the cities from Boston
to the Potomac river, and he indi-
Gated that the housecleaning would
be thorough in communities of that
section.
Trouble at Border Points.
Great Lakes cities and border
points, both Canadian and Mexican,
also have given trouble for the en-
forcement corps, according to the
bureaus records, and Mr.. Kramer
said he planned to see that fewer per-
mits would be granted in those re-
gions hereafter.
The prohibition bureau was said to
be giving some attention, also, to
the sale of liquor by retail druggists.
Although enforcement agents have
examined records, of druggists in
some communities and for the most
part have found little reason to re-
woke or cancel permits. it was indi-
Gated that in the future the druggists
who stray from the regulations pre-
scribed for retail sale will find them
selves unable to handle distilled
spirits OF any sort. Scrutiny Of this
class of dealers is expected to be
conducted more closely the next
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Negroes Charge.
Discrimination
At Southern Polls
Exciting Scenes Enacted at
Hearing Before House Cen.
sus Committee-Witnesses
And Members Clash.

Washington, Dec. 29.-Charges by
representatives of the Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
that negroes are unlawful1y prevented
from voting in the south led to some
what exciting scenes at the hearing
by the house census committee on
the congressional rcapportionment
bill.
Southern members CT the commit
tee took issue with the witnesses
and one of them, Representative
Bee, democrat, of Texas, declared
he was tired" of states being IN
suited" on the strength, of hearsay
evidence. Chairman Siegel finally
told one spectator who insisted on
getting into the discussion, that if
he did not sit down he would have
to leave the room.
Declaring there was nothing in the
laws of the southern states discrim-
mating against negro voters, rep
resentatives from those states sug-
gested that the spokesnen of the as
sociation take their complaints of al
legged determinations against the
negroes to the courts rather than to
congress.
Walter F. White. assistant secre-
tary of the association, presented
what he said were affidavits from GAL
negroes in Jacksonville, Fla. who
alleged they were deprived of the
right to vote IN the November cleo
tions.
William Pickens, a negro. of New
York, field secretary Of the associa-
ton. also testified.
DO you know anything about
the negro women crowding around
the polls in Missouri or election day
and keeping the white women from
voting?" asked Representative Null
ligan, democrat, Missouri.
The witness replied that he did
not.
Representative Larsen, democrat,
Louisiana, said 1865 negroes were
registered in his home town. ...
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Airplane Honeymoon
Delayed Pending Word
From Brides S Parents

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 2o.-A big
airplane stood tuned up and in readi-
ness at Hampton field near Nashville,
to carry two young aviators on a
honeymoon trip to California.
One of the aviators, E. E. Under
hill of Brunswick, N. H., with his
bride of day, formerly Miss Marie
Therese Chambers, a trained nurse
of Palm Beach, Fla, was ready and
anxious to board the plane for the
trip three-quarters of the way across
the continent, but his flying partner,
J. A. MacMulkin, had met with last
minute difficulties. His hsncee, also
nurse, was refused permission to
leave the hospital to which she is at
tached until the consent of her par
ents in Des, Moines. Ia. could be
obtained.
Prospects of the two aviators
hopping off, today vanished as
night came on without the awaited
consent from Des Moines.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
All Together! Let's Go!
The old year is ending.
The New Year is almost here.


What are YOU doing to make the New Year happy
and prosperous for yourself and your fellow men?
There is talk of business depression, of "hard
times Prices of most of the things which people
need in order to live being lowered, day by day,
week by week But what of that? For eight years
the country has been aghas at the spectre of the high
cost of living Now the cost of living is coming down
The coming down process hurts some of Some busi
ness men have sacrificed possible profits, some have
suffered actual losses. Some workingmen and work
ngwomen have suffered acut in wages the loss
of their jobs.
But the fundamental evil of extravagant living and
exorbant cost of living is removing itself Basically
the country is sound. It's burdens nothing
pared with those of the old world. 1t is returning to
normal conditions more certainly and more quickly
than any of its allies enemies in the late 1t is
getting back to the old days of peace and prosperity
and the manufacturers but prosperity too for the
man who works with his hands.
Now is the time for you to do YOUR part.
If you an employer of labor don't trim your
payroll clear into the quick If you can keep man on
the job, keep him there. If you can employ another,
means market for your product. Men out of work
cannot be good customers of yours
If you are a buyer of merchandise, don't put off
forever buying the things which you need and which
you buy There real bargains in the stores
today for the HOUSEWIFE there real bargains in the
avail good to to await slightly greater drop
in prices-which may never co1ne-if in the meantime
the whole business structure is forced to crash Idle
factories and closed shops cannot provide work for
anyone. Nor stores be kept open factories oper
ated without patronage.
Nineteen-twenty-one is almost here. 1t CAN be
great year. year not merely of promise but of full
fllment. Making it so depends cooperation by all
of us-by YOU and YOU and YOU.
All together! Let's go
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Canadian Engineers
Lose Membership in
Trades Organization

Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 29.-The char
ter of the Canadian Brotherhood of
Railway Engineers has been re-
voked, Tom Moore, president of the
Canadian Trades Labor congress,
announced. The union comprises
more than 10000 railroad workers,
the majority of whom are employed
on the Canadian National railways.
Mr.. Moore said the charter had
been revoked because the brother
hoods activities had conflicted with
those of the International Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express
and Station Employees the only or
ganization which will, in the future,
be recognized by the Trades ani
Labor congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
.D'Anl1rlnziio
Surrenders
All Powers
Fiume Comme n neil
Is Dictatqy Coup
d'Etas Before
Y OrCes.
Hostll Suspended
by The Associated Press.

Fiume, Dec. 29.-Gabriele dan
nunzio early today surrendered all
his powers to the Fiume communal
council. .f
General Caviglia, commander of
the regular Italian forces, will ar
range the conditions of peace with
delegation of the council today
Seizure of the port of Fiume in
September, 1919, by Gabrielle
d'Annunzio, Italian poet-warrior, at
the head of 5000 volunteer
grenadiers and arditi. was the dra-
matte climax to controversy
reaching back to the treaty of Lon
don, concluded in the spring of 1915
between Italy and the allied powers.
under which Italy entered the war
against the central powers.
Opposed to Treaty Terms.
The treaty assigned the part of
1yrol south of the Brenner Pass, as
we'll as Trieste, Gorilla. Istria and a
section of the Dalmatian literal to
Italy. but gave Fiume, the seaport
of Hungary. to Croatia.
When the war ended, Italian ma
tionalists, including d'Annunzio, de-
nlanded that Fiume. with its pre-
ponderant Italian population, should
be given to Italy. an act that would
have required the revision of the
treaty of London. The Italians,
however, invoked the principle of
"self-determination" enunciated by
President Wilson and pointed to the
fact that the population of Fiume,
upon the dissolution of the Austro-
Hungarian empire, had proclaimed
through their national council, the
union of Fiune with Italy.
Backed by Italian public opinion,
the Italian delegation to the Paris
peace conference, headed by Premier
Orlando and Foreign Miniser Son.
nino, refused to yield Italy's claims.
In April, 1919, the crisis came to
head when President Wilson threat
ened to Withdraw from the confer
ence. He issued public statement
sustaining the pact of London
insofar as it related to Fiume.
Caused Ill Feeling.
Receipts of the document in Italy
precipitated numerous anti-Wilson
outbreaks in which dAnnunzio took
a leading part. Meanwhile, Orlando
and Sonnino quit the Paris confer
ence and returned to Rome, where
they were received with wild acclaim
by the people. The Italian Chamber
of Deputies adopted vote of conf
dence in the Orlando ministry. Later,
however, the two statesmen returned
to Paris at the invitation of their
colleagues and participated in the
negotiations and the signing of the
Austrian peace treaty.
Failure to reach satisfactory So
hilton of the Fiume embroglio, how
ever. was one of the principal causes
of the downfall OF the Orlando min
istry on June 19. 1919, and it was
succeeded by the moderate Nitti
cabinet. whose selection exasperated
the Italian nationalists and was the
forerunner of the d'Annunzio coup
d'etat the following September.
Held by Italian Army.
Fiume, at the time of the entry of
the d'Annunzio forces, was under
the military control of General
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Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
SeF-StyIed King of
HeaUen Arrested as
Confidence Worker

Denver, Dec. 29. - Joshua Sykes.
self-styled king of heaven and ear.h
and leader of the sect of the House
of David, was arrested here this aft
ernoon Oh a charge of operating a
confidence game,
The warrant on which Sykes was
arrested charges that he defraudcd
Ernest Lamport, former member
OF his flock. out of $50 by prophesy-
ing the end of the world. Lamport
was persuaded, the information al
leges, that he would have no further
use for his worldly goods and he
gave his last dollar to Sykes.
The information also mentions the
name of Anna S. Spijchiger. who, it
is alleged, was fleeced out of $1,000
in Californis. year ago by the sang
Saeana X
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Ohio Cavalry Is Chosen
As Escort for Harding

Washington, Dec. 29.-Troop A,
First Ohio cavalry, Capt. Ralph Per-
kins OF Cleveland commanding, has
been designated to act as President
elect Harding's personal escort in
the inaugural parade. Z. B. Mclean,
chairman OF the inaugural committee,
was informed of the selection by Sem
ator Harding.
Troop A is the same organization,
although with changed personnel,
that acted as personal escort to Pres
idsnt Mckinley at bis insyguration.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Outlook for
Is
Brighter.
Good Crops and Progress in
Rcconstructing Devastated
Districts Cause a Feel
ing of Optimism.
Big Problems to Meet

Paris, Dec. 2e.-WhIe the French
people have their worries, yet they
will begin the new year immensely
more confident than they began
1920 because OF extraordinarily good
crops, progress in restoring the ruin
ed departments of the north, a plenti-
tul supply of coal and the prospect.
year hence, of having the period
OF military service reduced from
three years to l8 months.
Two foreign questions are likely
to give constant concern to the gov
crnment throughout the coming year.
They are the payment OF reparations
by Germany, and the war with Turk
lsh nationalists over the Syrian
and Cilician mandates. Then also.
there are the large general questions
n the future OF the Versailles peace
'7Featy, the league of nations and the
many issues growing out of the
peace conference. i'll all OF which
France has a very deep concern in
what the coming year may bring
forth.
The German attitude at the .Brus-
sells conference, which will be re-
sumed January 10, gives rise to the
expectation that an agreement on
reparations is possible carly in the
spring. fixing the total sum and the
manner of payment
Discuss Turkish Mandates.
frances Turkish mandates will be
discussed by the French, British
and Italian prime ministers as
part of the whole Near East ques-
ton at meeting early in January.
France now has about 1000 troops
in Turkey.
The advance France has made in
reconstruction, the wheat crop
which reduces buying abroad by
2,000000,090 francs. and the contin-
ued confidence of French investors,
az shown by the unprecedented sue
cess OF the last loan, are considered
as justifying greater optimism con-
cerning the financial and economic
situation than, is held at present.
The struggle over the high cost OF
living receives a large share Of pub
lie attention. Resistance OF mer-
chants and manufacturers to con-
sumers' demands for lower prices
has resulted in something like
deadlock The buyers abstain from
making purchases because they feel
that war prices should no longer be
rt.ed. The merchants, habituated
10 large profits, refuse to reduce
them. Consequently, prices remain
high and buyers are scarce.
Unemployment Increasing.
The new year opens with unem-
piiuyment increasing daily. 1t has
been causing much concern since
October and now has reached
volume which officials agree calls for
immediate effective measures. Three
hundred thousand workers now are
idle in France, nearly 100000 of
whom are in Paris, according to
figure announced by the minister
of public works.
The metal industries. the leather
trade, manufacture OF textiles and
clothing and automobiles were the
first to suffer. Recently the silk in
dustry became affected and there are
5000 workers idle at Lyons alone,
While the perfumery Iistilleries
around Paris are working three days
a week
Some of the large department
stores in Paris have asked for ex-
tended credits.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Former Head Of Bond
Firm Held on Charge
OF False Statements

Y Portland, Ore. Dec. % Fred S.
Morris, 2 former head of Morris
Brothers, Inc. a bond house, was
arrested on a federal warrant techni-
cally charging he aided John L.
Etheridge, also former president OF
Morris Brothers, Inc, in obtaining
naturalization papers when Ether
,.dge was not entitled to them.
0Ehe warrant, according to the
Gnited States attorney. was based
II, the allegation that Morris, while
aiding in Etheridge's naturalization
proceedings, concealed knowledge
that Etheridge had served terms in
New Jersey state prison. Etheridge
came to this country from England
IN 1908. He is now under arrest at
Minneapolis on Charge OF larceny
Nv baifee.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Admiral Niblack Ordered
To Command in Europe

Washington, Dec. 2o.-Rear Ad-
miral A. P. Niblack has been order
ed to assume command of the Amer
ican naval forces in European wa
tiers, succeeding Vice Admiral H.
Mel Huse, it was announced at the
Navy department. Rear Admiral Nj
black will take the rank of vice ad-
niiral and will fly his flag on the
cruiser Pittsburgh. He has recent
ly been naval attache at London and
during the war commanded Ameri-
can forces based on Gibraltar. He
was later chief of naval intelligence
al the Navy department. i
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Belgian Cabinet Announces
Rights i'm German Property

Paris, Dec. 29.-The Belgian cab
met yesterday tentatively decided to
renounce Belgium's right under the
Versailles treaty, to confiscate Ger
man property in Belgium. Accord
ing to Temps dispatch from Brus-
sells. The report stated that this de-
cision was taken under paragraph
Is, annex 2, part s OF the treaty. II
pointed out that final decision will
be reached only at the next cabinet
meeting and that no public an
nouncement will he made until the
lSnmciation has been formally ap-
ptovcd,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30

Mr.. Woods election is in line witt,
the company's policy of drawing into
its organization men of wide expert
ence and knowledge of business at
fairs of western states.
For 20 years Mark Woods and his
brothers, George and Frank, have
been prominent factors in Nebraska
business affairs. They have built up
a group of investment companies
with millions of assets and IN con-
tact with thousands of people. Mark
Woods has been known as 4 man of
unusual energy, judgment and fore
sight.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Case of Judge Charged
With Murder Given to Jury

Cleveland. o., Dec. 29.-The fate
of William H. McGannon, chief JUS
tice of the municipal court, was
placed in the hands of the jury at
OIL o'clock tonight.
Judge McGannon went on trial De-
cember IA, charged with second de-
gree murder OF Harold c. kagy,
May 8.
Bitter charges of lying and per-
jured testimony against witnesses for
both sides marked the closing argu-
nlentS.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Cardinal Urges Fund
For Starving Irish

Boston, Dec. pa fund in aid OF
starving Irish men and women was
authorized by Cardinal O'Conncll
IN response to the appeal by
Bishop Mac RIr of Down and Con
nor, whq cabled that the coming
winter threatens thousands of his
people with starvation: that 10000
Belfast workers are out of employ
nent and that the governments Gus
toInary allowance has for some rea-
son SO worked up to the present tina:
these Catholic victimized workers
are excluded from benefits
The bishop added:
Fully $4,000 Catholics are now on
the verge of starvation in my do
cese."
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Marshall Field III Takes
Up Banking as Life Business

Chicago, Dec. % = Marshall
Field III. announced today that he
had decided to take I'D investment
banking as his life business and had
formed a partnership with . Chicago
investment banking firm, Mr., Field,
who was the principal heir TO the
estate OF his grandfather, Marshall
Field. which, made him one OF the
wealthiest men in the world, also
will continue his association with
the various New York and Chicago
interests left by his grandfather
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Senator Chamberlain Better.

Washington, Dec 29.-The condi-
ton of Senator Chamberlain OF Ore
gon, who underwent an operation
here last week. was reported to be
improved tonight, following an un-
expected rise in the senator's tenn
pcrature, which ncccssitated post
poneinent OF a second operation yes
terdayt
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Wage Cut Announced.

Willimantic, Conn, Dec. Z9,-No-
tices were posted n the local mills
of the American Thread company,
announcing reduction in wages OF
22Ia per cent, effective next Mon
day. The cut will affect 5000 per-
sons employed in the coinpany's
mills at Fall River and Holyoke,
Mass; Westerly. r. l.. and Will
mantle and Glasgo. Conn.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Mark W. Woods of.
Lincoln Is Honored'
Central Trust Co. of Chicago
Names Him On Board of
-- Directors. y'

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 29.-(opecial.)
w. Woods, president o:
Woods Bros companies of Lincoln,
Neb., has been elected a director OF
the Central Trust company of Chi
cago, one of the principal financial
institutions of this city.
Charles G. Dawes, formerly of Ne
braska, is president of the company
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Marriage of Constance
Talmadge Is Announced

New York, Dec. 29--The marriage
OF Constance Talmadge. motion pic
ture actress, to. John Pialogle,, New
York City tobacco merchants was
announced here tonight. The cere-
mony took place al Greenwich,
Conn, last Sunday. IN the presence
of the brides mother and two sis
fers. Norma and Natalie
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
New Orleans Authorities
Launch Anti.Hobo Drive

New Orleans, Dec. 29.-Police of
this city have launched an antihobo
campaign fearing that activities
against the crime wave by the au-
thoSties III the north might start
pilgrimage of undesirable winter
tourists this way. The Jail was
crowded with wayfarers accepting
this enforced hospitality.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Russians Ordered Out
OF Republic of Georgia

Constantinople. Dee. 29.-The gov
ernment OF Georgia has issued an
order that all Russians who arrived
in the republic since March, 1920,
must leave the country. according to
dispatch received here from Tiflis.
Developments recently have indicat-
ed strained relations between Russia
and Georgia
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Candidate for Academy.

Washington, Dec. %. = Especial
Telcgram.) - The War department
has announced that Charles F. Gull
ter, Iowa City, has been named as a
candidate for the military academy
entrance examination TO be held in
March.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Basinger Leaves Capital.

Washington. Dec %. = Especial
Tet gram - w. T. Basingef, pas
senger traffic manager of the Union
Pacific, who has been in Washing
ton for several days on visit to his
mother, lett today for New York;
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30

Shlppers' Bulletin.

Protect shipments during the next - 70
30 hours lrom temperatures as follows:
North, cast aud west, 70 degrees, south,
30 degrees
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
The Weather
Forecast.

Forecast.
Thursday partly cloudy, not much
change in temperature.
Deming graphic., 1920-08-03
Fraudulent Old Clocks.

The brass lantern clocks of the six.
teenth and seventeenth centuries have
made strong appeal to collectors,
and this fact has led to the manufnc-
ture Of replicas OF the old clocks.
When these are sold frankly as rep
llcas, there is nothing to be said
against such a practice; but, unfor-
tunately. the matter does not stop here
and too often the attempt is made to
palm of an imitation as genuine
old clock. Famous makers names are
added and various expedlents adopted
10 make the new clock pass muster as
an old one. Such frauds are deplora-
BILE from every point Of view, and the
ignorance OF many COLLECTORS makes
success possible. Every one, It is OBJ
vIous. cannot possess genuine old
clock. II would be well II this fact
were faced, and the clocks bought
simply as reproductions, by all those
who are not In position to make
reasonably sure that they are really
purchasing genuine old English
clock. Christian Science Monitor.
Deming graphic., 1920-08-03
First Clocks Simple Affairs.

The first clocks were simple affairs
which showed the hour alone; then
followed the addition Of the minute
hand, and later came clocks which re-
corded the day of the month, the
phases OF the moon, and many other
pieces Of Information, generally Of a
more or less astronomical character.
During the sixteenth century, the Ital.
tan and German clockmakers, notably
those OF Nuremberg and Augsburg,
made great progress in their art.
There are those who claim that one
Richard Harris, an Englishman, In
vented and set up the earliest pendn-
lum clock some time during the first
four decades Of the seventeenth cen
tufy; but this story does not appear
10 be well authenticated. and the
honor Of introducing the pendulum
seems to belong to the Dutchmen,
Huygens.