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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Omaha About Isolated.

Omaha was practically Isolated
from the outside world for several
hours last night. Associated Press
dispatches carrying the bulk of the
worlds news were interrupted by
earth currents that seemed to center
in Iowa and Nebraska. Currents
subsided about II o'clock and COM
munication was restored.
Until II o'clock last night Asso-
ciated Press wires and the Chicago
Tribune Omaha Bee Leased wire
dispatches were being routed south
out of Chicago to St. Louis, thence
to Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles and
San Francisco and back to Omaha
via Denver. Earth currents between
Chicago and Denver put this service
completely out Of commission.
Western Union Shut Off.
The Western Union Telegraph
company was shut off from Chicago,
Kansas City, Minneapolis and Den
yer from o'clock until II. Parts
of messages that were caught were
practically useless.
High winds in the western part of
Nebraska broke up communication
between Omaha and Denver most of
last night. The Western Union was
able to talk" with Denver but little
and no points west of Denver could
be reached.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Food Supply Short and San
culinary Fighting Occurring
At Intervals in Suburbs De-
spite Presence of Ebert.
PRESIDENTS CABINET
IS LIKELY TO RESIGN
VeritabIe Civil Warfare in
Ruhr Industrial Region With
Opposing Forces Drawing Up
In Line for Battle.

Berlin, notwithstanding the return
of the Ebert government to con-
troll there. still presents pretty much
the aspect of an armed camp with
the food supply short and the
sanguinary fighting occurring at IN
tefvals in the suburbs. There is
little change i'll the strike situation
Serious trouble occurred in the
Moabit industrial quarter Sunday
night and in one conflict reported
Sunday 20 Spartacans were killed
in an engagements and "a Others
who were captured were summarlly
executed.
In the Ruhr industrial region, i'm
mediately adjoining the allied zone
of occuption, there is veritable civil
warfare with opposing armies OF
communict and government troops
drawing up their forces for battle
Government detachments have been
defeated in some preliminary sklr-
mishes.
Leipsic has quieted down after
the government victory there
Among the agricultural population
in some sections of northern Ger
many there is increasing unrest.
Southern and eastern Germany
are reported fairly quiet. There is
a threat, however, of a renewal oi
the general strike in Bavaria be-
cause of dissatisfaction over some
of the terms of settlement.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Racing Patrolman
Dismissed From Force
By Chief Eberstein

Patro!inan P. Downs OF the South
Side station was dismissed from the
police force yesterday by Chief of
Police Eberstein on charge of con-
duct unbccoming an officer and is
now under a charge of passing a
worthless check for $40 on Louis
Rubenstein, a merchant of the South
Side.
Last night an officer detailed to
arrest Downs had not found any
trace of him, according to police.
The charges against Downs re-
suited when he was reported by a
patrolman for racing madly up and
down L street on the South Side on
a motorcycle with a girl who gave
her name as Marie Davis. living in
Albright. and when arrested, police
say, had two quarts of liquor in the
car with him.
He was stripped" of his badge
and gun late Sunday afternoon by
Captain Allen of the South Side sta
ton and was sent home. With him
at the time of his arrest was Clar-
ence Dennis O'Brien, who, accord
ing to police, was a close associate
Of the two alleged gunner and high
hackers shot by South Side police
in a running gun battle last Decem-
ber
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23

FOR PRESIDENCY
ASK HEAVY POLL
Political Campaigners Busy on
Eve of South Dakota
Primary.

Sioux Falls, S. d., March H.
I IYo OF the four candidates for re-
publican presidential endorsement
at the South Dakota primary cleo
tion tomorrow were among an army
Of political campaigners in action
throughout the state tonight urging
men and women voters to GO to the
polls.
The spirited struggle of Gen.
Leonard Wood, Senator Hiram
Johnson, Gov. Frank O. Lowden and
Senator Miles Poindexter for repub-
iican endorsement eclipsed all other
primary issues. South Dakota's 10
delegates to the republican national
convention will be instructed to sup
port the candidate receiving the pri-
mary plurality.
Party candidates for United States
senator congressman, governor and
other state offices are to be nomi-
mated. The Nonpartisan league
ticket will not be on the primary
1allot, as there were no contestants.
The league has party status in
South Dakota.
General Wood spoke tonight a,
Rapid City and Senator Poindexter
addressed a mass meeting in Sioux
Falls.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
LIQUOR HELD IN
COURT HOUSE AS
EVIDENCE STOLEN
Highjackers Break Into Vault
And Get 800 Pints of
Whisky.

Three hundred pints of whisky
constituted the haul of high ackers
who broke into the vault in the base
ment of the court house where
liquor confiscated from prisoners by
the police and held for evidence is
kept.
The theft occurred between S
o'clock Saturday afternoon and 9
Monday morning. 1t was discovered
at yesterday afternoon when Po-
lice Officer Teele went there to add
some more evidence" to the store.
He found the brass lock, two
inches wide and nearly an inch
thick, neatly sawed off and a chain
which held the bar broken. The
door was closed and without trying
it no one could know the vault had
been broken into.
The liquor taken was only small
portion of the store. Late yester-
day afternoon the rest of it was re-
moved to the police station in pa
troll wagon by Police Lieutenant
Marshall and Morals Squad Off
Ger Samardick.
A. F. Agee, superintendent of the
court house, said he believed the rob-
berry is an inside job"
1t is believed the robbers intended
to return later and get more of the
store of liquor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
BY F. H. BARROW.

Washington, March e. - (Spe-
cial. .)-Neither an aspiring nor an
avowed candidate, John J. Pershing
stands ready to respond to the call
of duty. He is willing to be drafted
INTO the presidency. He needed only
to be convinced of the authenticity
OF the call and the sincerity of the
demand.
This fact, coming today from a
source of authority beyond all ques
ton, will serve not only to dissolve
any doubts his friends and admirers
may have entertained. but the above
definite statement will, it is CONF
IDENTIFY predicted, now rally to the
Pershing standard national and
state republican leaders who have
heretofore been noncommittal as to
presidential preference, or who,
favorable to the Pershing, candidacy
have been waiting for definite word
as to the generals attitude.
None Can Refuse.
That no American has the right
to refuse such a summons to duty,
once it is made clear and emphatic,
is the attitude General Pershing as
sumes toward increasing efforts to
draft him for the presidency. The
sincerity OF this demand was suffi-
ciently demonstrated when 5000
Nebraska republicans last week pc
titioned for Pershing's name on the
state primary ballot; it has been re-
iterated since by the voluntary and
spontaneous insistence of republican
leaders in Washington and else
where.
The above authoritative state
ments. coming from source un-
questionably reliable, leave no room
for further doubt as to the generals
state OF mind. 1t is the signal for
which many farsighted republican
leaders have been waiting. Its i'm
mediate effect is already being felt
here, and the ultimate result will be
to cement and arouse Pershing sem
timent heretofore apparent gen.
orally. but thus far subdued and
largely quiescent because of the un-
certainty existing up to this time,
Experienced leaders here see in this
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
OATH OF OFFICE
WILL BE TAKEN
BY COLBY TODAY
Nomination of New Secretary
Of State Confirmed
By Senate.

Washington, March %. - The
nomination OF Baiabsidge Colby as
secretary of state was confirmed
late Monday by the senate.
1t was understood that no objec-
ton was raised to confirmation of
the nomination which has been the
subject of extended secret hearings
by the foreign relations committee
There was no record vote on con-
hrmation.
Several republican senator's who
have been regarded as critics or op-
ponents of Mr.. Colby were not pres
ent at the session.
Word reached the State depart
ment from New York that Mr., Col
by would come to take the oath of
Office Tuesday.
The. first business to receive his
attention will be the issuance of
about 1000 passports that have ac-
cumulated since Under Secretary
of State Polk ceased to act as sec
retary.
Reorganization of the department
will be another task. There are
many vacancies to be filled and the
Office of the assistant secretary has
been vacant since William Phillips
was appointed minister to Holland.
Under Secretary Polk will resign as
soon as possible.
Third Assistant Secretary Long,
candidate for the senate from Mis-
souri,, also is planning to resign.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Government Takes
Issue With Ibanez
On Eternal Feminine

Washington, March 22.-And now
the United States government has
taken issue with Senor Vincente
,lasco Ibanez concerning the eternal
feminine. The distinguished Span
ish author, it will be recalled. urged
cave man" treatment of the Amer
icar woman and his maxims, trans
lated into the vernacular, are some
What freely as follows:
Marry EN- young.
Treat 'em rough.
Tell 'em nothing.
The weekly bulletin of the Depart
mcnt of Agriculture, which is a sort
of Koran of the American house
wife, appears with the advice that
American husbands should tell their
wives everything. And, if the hus-
band should be unable to answer
one OF the questions Of his better
half, the bulletin asks that the query
be forwarded to it.
What do women want to know?
asks this bulletin boldly.
We rlay not know" it confesses
the answers to all questions asked
Of, us, but we are in touch with
sources of information, both state
and federal, and can obtain the
knowledge from an authority on the
subject"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
General Strike Of City
Employees Forecast by
,Walkout Of Teamsters

Chicago, March 22.-The first
walkout in what may be a general
strike of city employees occurred
Monday when 500 teamsters and
chauffeurs quit work, tying up col
lection of garbage and interfering
with street cleaning.
The strikers demanded an in
crease of 81 day. The chauffeurs
receive Sc and the teamsters 50.
Officers of the Clerks and STEM
ographers union notified the city
council that strike would be
called Thursday unless demands for
a wage increase of SIS a month
were granted, and delegates from
other groups of city employees asked
for wage advances.
The council today considered the
1920 budget. which totals S3l, ,l90,-
600 in an effort to straighten out
wage difficulties, but took no ac-
ton
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
No Man Has Right to Refuse
Presidency, Is Pershing's
Attitude Toward Campaign
War Hero Neither Aspiring Nor Avowed Candidate
For Republican Nomination, But Ready to
Answer Call of Duty if 1t Comes

latest clarihcation OF the generals
attitude toward the presidency pos
sibilities of the greatest Importance
between now and Chicago.
Sentiment Not Fixed.
The oldest political sage cannot
recall a situation corresponding to
that which has existed here up to
this time. With the Chicago con-
vention but three months away and
several open and avowed candidates
in the field supported by machines
elaborately financed and directed,
the average state politician, Journey
ing to Washington as the fountain
head Of political information, gets
only negative or evasive answer
to his first question: who's going
to be nominated?' Outside of a
very few leaders whose personal
bias or geographical location has
necessarily placed an answer in
their mouths, seekers here after po-
litical tips on the presidency have
been answered with Cant tell yet;
sentiment hasn't crystallized. Re-
ports brought to Washington indi-
cate the same degree of uncertainty
over the nation.
Reason for this uncertainty is
found in the fact that republican
leaders are duly impressed with the
serious problem confronting them.
They have not as yet been able to
satisfy themselves as to the exact
fitness OF those actively seeking the
nomination. On every hand is ad-
mlttedly d sentiment demanding
that the candidate snamed at Chi
cago must be in close touch with
business and the everyday affairs of
the nation; he must also be familiar
with world affairs. and of such
standing as to warrant immediate re-
spectful recognition from the ma
tions of the world; he must be
neither dictator, theorist, nor hobby
ist-a man of demonstrated ability
and experience along broad lines;
above all, he must be known to be
of sufficient caliber to insure. in the
event of his election to the presi-
dency, his calling to his cabinet men
OF acknowledged experience, ability
and superiority in the various posi-
Continued on Page Two, Column Two.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
More Hearings Before
Perfecting Legislation
To Control Packers

Washington, March 22-Another
week or 10 days will be devoted to
hearings by the house agricultural
committee before undertaking to
perfect legislation for controlling
the meat packing industry.
L. D. H. Weld, economist for
Swift & Co., was heard Monday, re-
iterating objections previously ex-
pressed to passage of any restrictive
laws. Swift & Co. spent S1,5O0,000
in 1919 for educational advertis-
ing" he said.
Suggestions from committee
members brought from Weld the
statement that this advertising
might be responsible for many of
the protests which members said
they were receiving from constitu-
ents opposing federal regulation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Aurora Borea|is Kicks Up
Heels, Dances All Over the
Sky and Puts Telegraph
Wires Out of Commission.
OMAHA PRACTICALLY
ISOLATED FROM WORLD
Press Dispatches Merely Filter
Through at Erratic Intervals
Mo instruments Strong
Enough to Measure Voltage.

New York. March 22.-Aurora
Borealis tonight kicked up his heels,
danced all over the sky and put tele-
graph wires out OF commission.
The wire chief at Western Union
headquarters reported the company
had no instruments strong enough to
measure the voltage in the electrical
currents. Natures skylarking in the
northland at times during the night
made telegraphy an impossibility.
The American Telephone and
Telegraph company, which also re-
ported its telegraph service was
completely demoralized, said the
northern lights had not interrupted
its telephone service. Cable ter
minals were hard hit as was wire
less apparatus.
Crowds in the streets were given
an opportunity to see an electrical
display in the sky
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
High Wind and Dust
Storm Rages in State
And May Damage Wheat

Lincoln, Neb., March 22,-(Spe-
cial Telegram )-One of the worst
Gust and WIND storms that ever Wis
tied the southern part of the state
ragged all Ga: Monday, Clouds of
dust high in the air were so dense
that the sun was obscured all day.
At o'clock the wind blew in
large plate glass window of the Peo-
pies Furniture company, Sixteenth
and @ streets, entailing damage
OF over $40C
The high winds which interfered
with wire communication in Ne
braska will continue Tuesday the
weather bureau predicted. They
reached velocity of from SO to 30
miles an hour and will damage the
states wheat crop if they continue
for any appreciable length of time,
the University of Nebraska Agron-
omy department.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
BABY BOY RUN
OVER AND KILLED
BY STREET CAR
Victor Kennedy Meets Death
While Playing in Front
Of His Home

Victor Kennedy, l8-months old,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Ken
nedy, 5l09 South Thirteenth street,
was run over and instantly killed
late yesterday afternoon by a south
bound street car almost directly in
front of his home.
The little child was playing in
front of the house, having just left
his mother. The street car was in
charge OF Motorman Gus Bickler,
602 North Fourteenth street, and
William Koenig, conductor.
The child, according to w. H.
Wallweber, 420l South Twentieth
street. the only eye witness to the
death, ran directly into the ap-
preaching car aud was dragged 80
feet before the car could be brought
to a stop, after passing completely
over the body.
Motorman Griefstricken.
Motorman Bickler said he did no,
see the child until within sc
feet of him, and Immediately
dropped the tender on the front oi
the car. The child, however. was
knocked down and fell under the
tender, the front wheels passing ovei
his legs and twisting his body di.
rectly across the track in the path
Of the wheels of the rear trucks
which passed over the body.
Il have four children of my own.
said Bickler," scarcely able to talk
and shaking as if he had fever. "The
oldest IS about the same age of the
little boy run over, and I will never
get over the sight of the car passing
over his little body" he said
IF there was anything else |
could do I would quit the company
and never run another car again,
said Bicl;ler when being booked a
the police station on chcarge of in.
vestigaticn. He was released or
$4,000 bond.
Youngest of Six.
Little Victor was the youngest O
six children and had only recently
learned to walk. How he was able
to get out into the street could no
be learned, as it was some distance
from the house that the acciden
took place.
Tie child's mother, overcome with
grief, is being attended by a phys
ciar constantly and is out of he
mind because of the accident. Mr.
Kennedy was on his way home from
work when the accident happened
and arrived at the house a shor
time after.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Ford ReviveS Contest
For Seat in Senate

Washington, March p. - With
Senator Newberry of Michigan
convicted and sentenced to serve
two years in Leavenworth prison,
Henry Ford has revived his contest
for seat in the United States sem
ate.
Senator Dillingham;, chairman of
the senate committee on privileges
and elections, has made public a
letter received from Alfred Luck
ing, attorney for Ford, asking that
the recount of the Michigan bal
lots proceed and promising to pro-
duce additional evidence TO show
that Ford is entitled to Senator
Newberry's seat.
The subcommittee having charge
OF the Ford-Newbewy case will
meet Tuesday 10 arrange procedure
for the recount of the ballots
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23

Washington, March 22.-The Sc
lection 'of Henry Morgenthau. for
mer ambassador to Turkey. to be
ambassador to Mexico is expected
to be announced soon from the
White House. No official announce
ment is available. but it is known
that Mr.. Morgenthau's name is fore
most among those under considera-
ton.
The senate has confirmed the
nominations OF Charles R. Crane of
Chicago tc be minister TO China and
ut William H, Joyce of Berkeley.
Cal, to be a member of the farm
loan board
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
New York State Assembly
Out After AnderSon's Hide

Albany, N. Y, March 22-The
New York state assembly by reso-
luton adopted unanimously will
compel William H. Anderson. state
superintendent of the Anti i-Saloon
league. to appear before the assem-
bly, judiciary committee to explain
the foundation of statements, utter
ances and publications alleged to
have been made by him against leg
islators.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Two Shot Dead and
-Four Seriously Wounded
In Rioting in Dublin

Dublin, March 22.-There was a
riot here Monday night in which
two men were shot dead and four
seriously wounded. The riot was
precipitated by the disorderly con-
duct of soldiers, about 800 of whom
pareded the streets about 9 o'clock,
singing, jostling passersby, hammer
ing doors and smashing windows.
After parading through Harcourt
street, the soldiers returned toward
their barracks followed by a crowd
of civilians, At the Porto Bello
bridge, near the barracks, a clash
seemed Inevitable and a volley was
fred over the crowd.
The soldiers who started the dis
order eventually returned to their
barracks. Other soldiers not con-
cerned in the rioting were roughly
handled by the populace.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
EBERT CONTROL
OF GOVERNMENT
PLEASES ALLIES
Warned That German Disorder
Imperils Good Relations of
Country Abroad.
BY PARKE BROWN.
.,.w York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable,
Cnnyripht 1920.

Berlin, March 22.-Berlin repre-
sentatives of the United States,
Great Britain, France, Italy and
Belgium have expressed to the
Ebert government their satisfaction
with his recovery of control. They
warned him that German disorder
imperils the establishment of good
relations abroad and Improvement
in provisioning the country and in
the unfavorable economic condl-
tions through relief measures al
ready projected.
Numerous meeting of the major
ity socialists. independent socialists
and communists in Berlin formally
have declared that not only are they
for a representative government, but
also that the party heads have
proved so unsatisfactory that they
must be replaced Immediately. Spe-
cial elections will be called soon.
The independents plan election OF
their factory councils today. :
The north end of Berlin practi-
ally is cut off from the rest of the
city by trenches. barbed wire and
patrols. This is the laboring section
where the government. is straining
every nerve to keep order.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Wants Closer Communion
Between ArmV and Public

Washington. March 22.-"Efforts
to perfect closer communion" be-
tween the army and public were
ordered by Secretary of War Baker
in a letter to General March, chief
of staff. He decided that all Off
GERS be instructed to establish cor
dial and personal relations with CT
william officials, business men and
heads OF civic organizations, so that
they might be made agencies for an
active, working force for the up
h''''din9 of the new army
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-23
Noske Presents Resignation.

Berlin, March 22.-Gustave Nos
ke, minister of defense, presented
hi. resignation to President Ebert
this afternoon and the president &C
cepted it. Other cabinet changes
are imminent.
1t is announced that the independ-
ents today demanded a definite
labor cabinet and that the govern
ment is considering the demands.
Expect Cabinet to Resign.
Berne, Switzerland, March 2ai---
The whole Ebert-Bauer cabinet
probably will resign, according to
Berlin advices. The crisis has been
brought about by the opposition
aroused by the agreement with the
trade unions, especially in the rural
districts.
The situation in the western in
dustrial regions and in upper Silesia,
particularly Breslau, is still serious,
the advices add. The country pop
ulations, however, are calm.