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Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
WOMEN BURNED
TODEATH TRYING.
TO THAW PIPES
Miss Elizabeth Easley, 81 Year,
Old. Dies Following Burns
Sustained in Bluffs Home.

Mrs. Elizabeth Easley, 81 years
old, died Sunday afternoon in Mercy
hospital as the result of burns sus-
tained whelt she attempted to tllaw
opt water pipes with kerosene
lamp at the home OF her sister, Mrs.
J. Z. Graham, 100 Avenue a, a
few hours earlier.
Miss Easley took the lamp TO the
basement OF the home when she
discovered the water pipes were
frozen. In some manner her cloth
ing caught fire from the lamp. She
screamed for help and members Of
the family rushed to her assistance
Her clothing was burned from her
body before they could aid her,
however
I An ambulance was called and she
was taken Immediately to the Mercy
hospital for medical attention. She
died at 2:45 p. NJ, only three hours
after the accident.
The body was removed to Kings
undertaking parlCrs, from where t
will be taken to her old home in
Apava, Ill. for burial. Miss Easley
lived in Bellevue, Neb. for IS years
before coming to Council Bluffs.
Besides her sister. Mrs. Graham,
she is survived by another sister,
Mrs. Phoebe Fitzenry of Peoria, ILL.,,
two nieces of Council Bluffs, Mrs.
]. P. Christensen and Mrs. Bert
Williams, and brother, John Eas-
lev OF Florida. g..
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
SUFFCRAGIST BODY
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
DR.. ANNA H. SHAW
Nebraska Delegates Attene
Meetings Of Committees
On Sunday.
By MYRTLE MASON,
staff Correspondent Omaha Bee.

Chitago, Feb. 15.-(Special Tele-
gram. Impressive service was held
Sunday afternoon at the Fourth
Presbyterian church for DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw as part of the pro-
gram of the victory suffrage conven-
ton in session here. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait and Miss Jane Ad-
dams were two of the speakers who
paid high tribute to the memory Of
this greatly beloved woman. Let
tiers read from various admirers and
co-workers with DR.. Shaw referred
to her as leader, orator, citizen, pa
triot and friend.
4 "She was greatest as a friend"
said Rev. Charoline Bartlett Crane.
1t was as a friend General Pershing
referred to her replying to an invita-
ton which asked him to speak at
the service. With characteristic di-
rectness and simplicity General Per-
shing said in telegram:
II much appreciate your cordial
invitation to speak at the Shaw me-
mortal service and regret extremely
that my present trip, will prevent me
from having the privilege OF being
with you on February IS to do
honor to the memory of my friend"
Except for the Shay memorial,
which practically all of the Nebras-
ka delegation attended, there was a
conspicuous lack Of Sunday church
observance. This probably was due
to the banquets OF Friday and Sat
urday evenings and strenuous hours
of convention session, as well as the
fact that some important committees
met on Sunday.
Mrs. Draper Smith attended a
meeting of the resolutions commit
tee, Mrs. Charles Dietrich. regional
division o: the League of Women
Voters. and DR.. Jennie Colfas, So
cial hygiene sectional meeting.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Worst Blizzard in Years Rag
ing in Parts of New York
State Trolley Service
Abandoned, Cars Stalled.
GOTHAM IS ICE-B0UND;
MERCURY SHOOTS DOWN
Army Of $1,000 Men, Headed
by Mayor, Spends Sunday in
Renewed Efforts to Open
important Thoroughfares.

Iloversviile. y. Y, Feb. l5.-To-
night the worst blizzard in years is
raging i'll Gloversville and Johns
town. For the first time in its his
tory the interurban division of the
Fonda, Jol,nstown and Gloversville
Railroad today was forced to aban-
don. trolley service to Amsterdam
and Schenectady, many cars being
stalled along the line,
In Schenectady people went to
church on skis and snowshoes.
Jamestown. N. Y, Feb. l5.--With
Three feet OF snow on the level and
deep drifts in the cuts, railway traf-
fiee is completely suspended be-
tween Buffalo and this city.
New York Ice Bound.
New York. Feb. l5.-The masses
Of snow which have choked the
streets oi New York for the past 10
days, defying the onslaughts OF fire
men, policemen, army flame throw
crs and brigades OF pick and shovel
men,, were frozen into ice fields to-
night when the city was wrapped in
4 cold wave A biting gale from
the northwest swept the metropolis
and the mercury tumbled until at
midnight it had dropped to nine de-
grees abovs zero. fall OF 50 degrees
since carly morning.
Food Stores Pie Up.
An ARMY OF $4,000 men, headed
by Mayor Hylan, spent the day III
renewed efforts to open the more
important thorougiifaresf But the &C.
suit of their efforts was almost neg
1igiblc. Throughout the greater
tart Of the city tonight vehicular
traii,c was impossible, while pedes-
TRANS risked their limbs on ice-cov-
ercd sidewalks. One of the most Sc
,ious feature of the blockade is the
inability to move the stores OF food
which are tpiling up in the railroad
terminals and on wharves. lhe
citys prospects were not rendered
the cheeriest by the news that one
oi the fiercest blizzards on record
was sweeping the northern portion
OF the state and threatening an at
tack on the metropolis. The wealth
er man offered no prospect OF relief
.or at least two days.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Allies to Plan Control OF
Straits of OardeneIleS

Paris, Feb. l5.-Agreemeht has
been reached by the supreme allied
council to permit the sultan to main
tain his court III Constantinople, but
Turkey must give guarantees, espe-
caily relative to the Dardanelles,
md must not have All army, accord
ng to London advices quoting q
tatement by Premier Millerand.
Further, advices from London,
,onfirmatory of the above. are to
lhe effect that the allies will main
tain vigorous military and naval
control over the Straits OF the Dar-
danelles. The experts tomorrow will
begin the discussion of the methods
OF control Marshal Foch will rep
resent France
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Decisive Stage Of
Peace Treaty Will
Be Reached Today

Washington, Feb. 15.-The peace
treaty fight will pass into another
and perhaps decisive stage tomor-
row with the best opinion in official
and political circles here divided as
to whether the outcome will be rati-
fication or rejection.
The best prediction that could be
made by Senator Lodge, the repub.
lican leader tonight was that the
treaty would be ratified "if we can
get "a senators to agree on it."
The democratic leader, Sen. Gill
bert NJ. Hitchcock, said he was
hopeful that there might be rati-
fication though he could not for
sec on what terms it would be Sc
cured.
On Tuesday Senator Thomas,
democrat, Colorado, will speak on
the tteaty's economic features. Sen
ator Thomas is a member, Of the
group irreeoncilably opposed to
ratification.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
TEXANS RALLY TO
MODEST manner
OF Cen. PERSH|NG
Dignity Of Battlefield Fades
Before Unassuming Friend
illness Exhibited by
"BIack Jack"

Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. 14.-(Spe-
cial,)-In all the cities John J. Per-
shing has visited during his recent
trip through the west and south.
the outstanding feature to the peo-
pie of these sections has been the
discovery that the general is the
same modest. friendly officer he
was when they knew him in the
davs before the war
Ex-service men have taken an im-
portant part in the receptions
given him and all of them have re-
marked on the difference. between
General Pershing of the battlehelds
and the friendly, unassuming Jack"
Pershing of the home country.
The Ell Paso Herald says of his
visit to this city: "At first the peo-
pie here, his friends, hesitated bit,
feeling uncertain how he was to be
received and how he would take this
reception.
Revert to Pet Nickname.
"But when lie remembered every
body, when he walked from the sta
ton instead of riding, and when he
showed the very depths of his emo
ton Sunday night at the Liberty
hall: when he met the old men OF
the civil war and the younger men
of the American Legion; when he
saw his very own regiment in re-
view at Fort Bliss, and when as
the town thawed out and warmed
up to him his eyes grew moist on
more than one occasior-the people
knew how to take him back. and
that was as their own Jack-'Black
Jack'-Pershing.'
Two things have received Special
mention during the generals trip.
They are his unaffectation and his
smile. Nowhere was the general
more humane, and kindly than when
he came in contact with children.
Wherever he saw a child thatlooked
as if it wanted to get closer to him.
he would stop everything else and
give Nthe child a chance.
General Pershing sounded again
in Houston his battle cry of educa-
ton, more education to the vast
throngs that greeted him in that
city. Education" he said, "is the
only safeguard OF true democ-
racy. All must have an equal op-
portunity to be educated, regardless
OF birth or nationality"
Education Foundation Stone.
Appealing to the country to for
thy itself against ignorance and its
dangerous consequences, he went on
to say: The people of America
must be aroused to the necessity OF
Continued on Page Two. Column TwoJ
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Detective-Mayor Of
Hastings, Neb., Traps
Alleged Blackmailel

Hastings, Neb.. Feb. l5.-Harley
CODA, young well-known man in
this community, is under arrest here
on the charge of attempting to
blackmail and to extort money from
L. L. Brandt, a retired banker OF
Hastings.
Mr.. Brandt on Friday last, re-
ceived a letter threatening the kid
naping of his little daughter un-
less the sum OF $1,000 was deposited
at place designated. He turned
the letter over to Mayor Stiner and
Postmaster Wahlquist and a plan
was made with the aid Of the. po-
llcc, to capture the writer.
A dummy package was deposited
at the place designated and when
Coba appeared policemen arrested
him without resistance. Mayor
Stiner, who gave pulicity to the af-
fair. said Coba had made a com
pllic confession.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Sim Feiners Employ
Explosives in Attack
On Police Barracks

Belfast, Feb. 15.-A large body OF
Sim Feiners attacked the police
barracks at Bellatrain, county
Monaghan Sunday employing eS-
plosives. The Sim Feiners over.
ea,re the small garrison, four OF
whom were wounded, and then re-
moved tie arms and ammunition.
This is the first attack on barracks
III Ulster.
+, Dublin. rep. l5.--A train convey-
ing military guard and arms was
held, up outside OF Dublin, Friday
night by large band of armed men,
w,o shot and seriously wounded a
sienalman and threw bombs into
the train, wounding corporal and
doing much damage. The guard
did not reply to the fire owing to
the darkness.
The wife, OF a farmer at Pallago,
Wexford, resisting masked armed
raiders. was shot dead.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Lansin g-Wilson Split
Brings Cabinet Crisis
Belief in Washington
Opponents of Peace Treaty Stand Behind Resigned
Secretary-May Take Action to Learn How Gov
ernments Executive Business is Conducted Dur
ing Presidents Illness

Washington, Feb. l5-Secretary
L Lansing's enforced resignation con-
tihues to hold the attention of Of
fetal Washington and all the talk
among politicians, members of con-
gress and government officials con-
tinues to center about it. Gossip as
to the probable successor to the for
mer secretary of state is even SUI
bordinated to discussion of the SEN
sational climax to the strained rela-
tions between President Wilson and
the former secretary, which are now
known to have been i'll existence for
more than a year.
Such terms as a crisis in the
cabinet are freely used and in a
sense find color in the frank ac-
acknowledgement OF Secretary Lane
that he was equally responsible for
the meetings to which the president
objected, but the best information
available indicates that there is no
crisis, i'll the sense that more secre-
taries are likely to resign; in fact,
it has been stated at the White
House that no more designations are
expected as result of the incident
Opinion Is Divided.
Opinion in congress continues dl-
vided, with opponents OF the peace
treaty supporting Mr.. Lansings po-
sition and talking OF some action to
determine how the executive busi-
ness of the government is being con-
Quoted during President Wilson's
illness. There is even cloak room
talk of some sort of legislation to
define specifically what constitutes
the disability OF a president more
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16

clearly than is provided in the con-
stitution. So far it is all in the
realm OF talk; no member of con-
grcss has brought forward any pro-
posals for legislation
The chief discussion seems to
range about whether President Will
son knew OF the cabinet meetings
which have been going on for three
months until he wrote his letter ask
ing for Mr.. Lansing's resignation.
Probably no one but the president
himself and three or four persons
most closely around him can answer
such a question specifically, but it
is being pointed out in discussion
of the incident that reports of the
cabinet meetings have been printed
regularly in the newspapers; the. :
has been stated at the White Hot.
that the president reads the paper.
every day, and that in some in-
stances, at least, official action
which the presidentstook on some
subjects was after those subjects
had been discussed at the cabinet
conferences.
Persons who are we'll informed OF
what has been going OH inside of
the administration, hold to their be-
liei that the cabinet meetings were
only an incident and that President
Wilson himself, in one of his let
ters to Mr.. Lansing, referred to
other and more important reasons
when he wrote that the cabinet
meetings were only an incident and
that President Wilson himself, i'll
one OF his letters to Mr.. Lansing,
Continued on Page Two. Column seyen.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
FOLLOWS :
BODY Of OMAHA
FLYER TO CRAVE
Employe Of Dead Manufacture
er Pays Final Tribute by
Braving Dangers Of Cold
Weather Flight.

High above the funeral cortege
accompanying the body of Henry
w. Ashmusen to West Lawn ceme-
terry Sunday afternoon flew an air
plane kept aloft by one of the two
motors Mr.. Ashmusen had spent the
last years of his life in developing.
The plane was piioted by Lieut..
r. L. Wagner, test pilot for the
1Ashmusen Manufacturing company,
who paid this final tribute to his de-
ceased employer in the face of cold
weather that made flying dangerous.
Lieut.. A. ]. Nielsen, of Council
Bluffs, who was to have accom-
panied him in the funeral fight, was
unable to, put his plane in condition
for flying.
Circles Over Grave.
AS the cortege reached the ceme-
terry Lieutenant Wagner circled
above the spot where the grave had
been prepared, swooping low as at
tendants began lowering the body
into its final resting place. He then
rose rapidly and headed for the
Ashmusen plant, the Whirr of the
propeller dying away in the distance
as the body, disappeared into the
grave.
Rev. Earl Moneymaker, OF the
Benson Presbyterian church, who
ofhciated at funeral services at the
Ashmusen home, Sixty-third and
Center streets, praised Henry w.
Ashmusen as one OF the pioneers OF
the airplane industry and paid trib-
ute to the enthusiasm which, he
said, was largely responsible for
making Omaha station on the
proposed transcontinental air mail
route. Mr.. Ashmusen's untiring ef-
forts to perfect an improved air
plane motor were characteristic OF
his other. life activities towards self
development, Rev, Mr.. Moneymaker
said.
Floral Model of Plane.
Neighbors had sent to the Ash
musen home a floral model of
small airplane and a plane propeller
model was another of the floral Of
ferings.
Oficials Of the Ashmusen Manu-
featuring company, of which Mr..
Ashrnusen was president, announce
work of developing the Ashmusen
motor and turning out airplanes
from the Omaha plant will be con-
rtinued by the compau
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Green Cotton Staple Is 2
Grown by Georgia Farmer

Dalton, Ga, Feb. l5.-Produotion
of cotton with staple of pro-
nounced green, an objective long
sought by agriculturalists and SCI
entists. is claimed by c. F. O'Briant,
"a farmer near here, who has been
conducting experiments with that
amin view for years.
Samples of the cotton are said to
be Of a beautiful green color and of
hne fiber.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Barriicades Home, Then
Awaits Wfe1s S Advent,
! But Police Foil Him

With the doors and windows of
his home barricaded, and the VIM
dows and doors of his wife's room
barred and double padlocked, Will
liam Anderson, 80 years old, was
awaiting the return of his wife last
night, when Officers Summit, krug-
er, Samardick and Peters finally
broke down the barricade and ar
rested him.
At the police station Anderson
was booked as dernented and, ac-
cording TO police, awaiting return
of his wife with large coil of rope
which was found in the room.
Mrs. Anderson was found stand
ing in the street almost frozen when
police were called to the home by
neighbors.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Want Omaha Brother
to Attend Funeral

Word of the death of Lewis T.
Hankins of New Brunswick, N. J.,
was telegraphed to police depart
ment last night, and G. H. Hankins.
brother, supposed TO be living in
Omaha, is requested to telegraph
authorities there ii he expects to at
tend the funeral
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16

up more vigorously with the close q
hostilities. ...-#.. g.
The first victory marked on the
books of suffrage by Miss Anthony
was in 1857, when, with Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone, she
succeeded in obtaining 5000 votes
fer suffrage in Kansas.
First Woman Arrested.
The first womdn to be arrested ior
the cause of suffrage was Susan B.
Anthony, and it was then and there
that she became militant and set
the example which has led Alice
Paul and a score of other women
behind barred doors in the interests
of their cause.
In 1872 Miss Anthony decided to
test the strength of the constitution
and cast ballots at the state and con-
gressional elections in Rochester.
She was indicted for illegal voting
and fine imposed, but defantly re-
fused to pay the fine and offered to
accept jail sentence, but was never
actually Imprisoned. Since that first
bit of American. militancy there have
been nearly 50G arrests of suffragists
and l64 women have served Jail SEN
tences of from three days to seven
months. ....r .
In 1875 Sasan E. Anthony drafted
the federal suffrage amendment and
worked for its adoption tireiessly,
but it was not passed by congress
until 1919, IS years after her death.
Turing the 100 years since Susan
E. Anthony's birth, which is being
celebrated today, there have been
rapid strides i'll suffrage. In 1920 no
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16

First Centenary Anniversary Of Fight for
Woman Suffrage Sees Goal Near at Hand
Ardent Supporters Cele-
brate Tooth Birthday of
Susan B. Anthony.
BY d. M. CHURCH,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.

Washington, Feb. Is. -- Today
marks the centenary OF militant suf-
frage.
One hundred years ago today
Susan B. Anthony, the first militant
suffragist, was born in South Adams,
Mass.
Today the disciples OF Susan B.
Anthony are making a final drive in
an effort to make good the prophecy
of that first militant who predicted d
that the year 1920 would see women
voting. If that prophecy is to be full
filled eight more states must ratify
the suffrage amendment, e having
done SO already
Upon the shoulders of Miss Alice
Paul, leader OF the National Wom-
ans party, has fallen the mantle OF
Miss Anthony as director of the mil
itants, and Miss Paul declared today
that the greatest tribute which CAN
be paid to the memory of the first
militant is success in obtaining rati-
fication of the suffrage amend
ment "To. that end we are all
working at top speed" said Miss
Paul.
Both Leaders Quakers.
Susan B. Anthony was the daugh-
ter OF liberal Quaker, a cotton
manufacturer, and it is peculiar CO.
incidence that the modern Joan of
Arc of suffrage-Miss Paul-is also
a Quaker.
1t was as a school teacher that
Susan B.\ Anthony first became
known to the public, and the same
is. true of Miss Paul.
But it was the temperance move
ment which first inspired Miss An
thony. and finally led her to suf-'
frage as the real cure for many of
the evils OF her day. Having or
ganized the New York State Tenn
perance society i'll 1852, she became
all abolitionist in 1857. and took up
the leadership for women's rights
after the first Women's Rights con-
vention at Seneca Falls, n. Y.
First Direct Attack.
The first direct attack Miss An
thony made on the male was in 1860,
when she started a petition in favor
OF leaving the word male" out of
the l4th amendment. 2
When the civil war broke out Miss
Anthony insisted that the fight for
the vote be carried on by the women,
but upon promise that justice would
be done at the close OF the war she
suspended her work, only to take it
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
New Mexico May Block
Suffrage Ratification

Santa Fe, n. M, Feb. l5.-On the
eve of convening of the special ses-
sion of the fourth state legislature
ratification of the federal woman's
suffrage amendment seems to have
encountered difficulties. One house
member stated that 2l members OF
that body were committed against
ratification and he predicted the nee
cssary Is votes to block ratification.
There are As house members.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Pershing Spends Busy
Sunday in Memphis, Tenn.

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. l5.-Gener-
al Persting was the guest Of Mem
phis Sunday and attended lun-
.cheop in his honor given by the
Chamber of Commerce, inspected
Park Aviation Field. addressed the
local negro post of the American
Legion and spoke at a dinner ar
ranged by the Memphis post of the
legion. He left for New Orleans.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Picked Department of Justice
Operators Arrest 29 l. Era
Nouva Members for Depor.
tation at Paterson, N. J.
THREE ESCAPE FEDERAL
net IN DRAMATIC RAID
Terrorist Group Broken Up
Were Disciples Of Caminetta
Fayoring Assassination by
individuals.

Paterson, n. J., Feb. 15.-Twenty.
inc radicals, said by secret service
.;ents to include the most danger.
Gus terrorists in the United States
members of the notorious L'Era
Nuova group, whose creed is as,
sassination and violence by individ-
uals without waiting for mass ac'
tion"-were captured early today by
100 picked agents OF the department
of justice in dramatic raid on
"red" headquarters here. Warrants
had been sworn out for 81, but three
escaped the federal net.
All official records of the |. W. w
for the entire district east of Chi
cago were seized i'll the home OF
Andre Graziano. anarchist. In this
house, federal agents said. +. F.
Doree. Philadelphia secretary of the
I. w. W.. was in hiding. He is un-
der Indictment i'll Chicago and is al
legged to have moved the records
from Chicago to Philadelphia,
thence to Paterson.
Capture Important Editor.
The most important capture. Jed
eral officials said, was that of Ludi-
vico NJ. Caminetta, editor of the
Italian anarchist magazine La Jac-
querie (The Massacre). The print
ing Office was raided, and as the fed
eral agents entered they found
printers running off all |. w. w.
pamphlet entitled "The Truth About
Centralia." The Gala, said to be
the, most complete collection of an
archistic literature in the United
States, also was raided.
Every anarchist captured was
Continued on Page Two, Column FOur.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16
Hold Alleged German
On Secret Visit to
Orient Through u. S,

New York, Feb. 1S.--Five gov.
ernment agents took charge OF
yaldemar Deitch. said to be Ger
man. who arrived here Sunday from
Copenhagen on the Scandinavian
American line steamship Oscar II.
All his correspondence and wireless
messages which he received and
dispatched during the voyage were
,xamined. 1t was reported that
Oietch is on his way to China
through this country and that gov
,rnment officials are making an ef-
'ort to learn what is his business IN
he Orient.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-16

state Ill the union and no foreign
country allowed the women to vote.
In 1920 there are 100000 Amer
ican women eligible to vote for
president and 100000 eligible to
vote for members of congress. In
20 states women have full or presi-
dental suffrage, and primary suf-
frage in two states.
in 2l foreign countries women
have full suffrage. Since Susan B.
Anthony started her agitation mil
lions of dollars have been raised and
spent for the suffrage cause in cam
paienirg ami petitioning -
Today the suffragists are making
the final dash. and they declare that
they can prove that Susan B. An
thony was "a prophecies when she
declared that 1920 would see the
women with the ballot