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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
New Diamond Fields
Will Be Opened Soon
On Waterless Desert

Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan.
25.-Tlaring, a waterless and tree.
less and virtually gameless desert
near Taungs, in Bechuanaland,
promises to be the scene of the big
gest diamond claim stalking rash
in South African history. 1t is un-
derstood that Tlaring will be pro-
claimed open for diamond digging
about March 20.
Amazing stories are afloat con-
corning the wonderful richness OF
the district, and prospective diggers
from the Cape of the Zambesi and
ozambique and even the Congo, are
preparing to try their luck in the
new fields. Despite warnings of
possible failures. men are abandon
ing good jobs in various parts of
the country in order to be free to
stake out claims when the procla-
nation is issued. Hundreds of wonr-
en- also are. arranging to go to the
new diggings.
The government is preparing to
cope with the anticipated rush to
Tlaring and township to receive
the new community is being laid
out.
Taunga is situated about 40 miles
south of Vryburg and about 100
miles north of Kimberley, the last
named place famous for it great di-
amonds.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Evacuation Of SIlesia
Is Started by Germans
According to Treaty

Berlin, Jan. 25.-German troops
here began evacuation of upper ST.
lesia in accordance with the terms
of the peace treaty which requires
that the movement begin within Is.
days after its ratification.
The first allied troops are expect
Aed to reach Oppeln on January 80.
Evacuation will be accomplished BY
zones, each of which will remain
under provisional military ad-
ministration under the inter-aliied
commission.
The treaty provides for the occu-
patton of upper Silesia by total
of $4,000 allied troops. English
French and Italian troops will be
used.
'The Lokal Anzeiger accused the
Poles of cutting telegraph and tele-
phone wires and interfering with
the conveyance of the mails in ter.
ritories where plebiscites are to be
taken. The newspaper declares that
the telephone connections with Al
lenstein, Graudens and Osterode
have been out for the past few days
1t also accuses the Poles OF having
severed at the frontier the wire con
Meeting Stettin and Posen.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
SOCIETY WOMEN
JUDGE BOXERS IN
ARMY CONTESTS
Fighting Tournament Entertains
Wounded Yanks; Bully"
Says Mrs. Pell.

New York, Jan. 25.-Society wom-
en- were judges at the amateur box
ing bout held at Grassmere lodge,
Staten island, given by the National
League for Women's Service for
Wounded Soldiers of Fox Hills
Hospital.
The women were Mrs. Edward
McVickar. Mrs. Theodore R. Pell
and Miss Fannie Cottenet.
The boxers were Joe Florio and
Joe Fands, evenly matched and
weighing 13c pounds, ringside. Ray
Smith of the Twenty-eighth infan-
try, First division, was referee.
Mrs. Pell watched every move
ment of the fighters. "'Oh, the fight
was bullv!" she exclaimed at the
finish. 81 did so wish they had a
few more bouts, so l could learn the
game better. | think it's great fun
to watch them"
WELL l counted the punches each
man delivered. / couldn't distin-
guish them by name, so every time
the one in red tights put one over
l gave him credit for it. If he
missed punch | marked that
against him. I figured the one who
showed the least discontinue and
treathed rather easy should be ad-
judged winner. And so | decided
Mr.. Florio won the bout"
Referee Smith was highly pleased
with the women as judges.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Prohibition's Friends
Told to Get Busy and
Not Quit Under Fire

Washington, Jan. 25.-Calling on
friends of prohibition to get busy
rather than quit, Wayne B. Wheeler,
general counsel of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, in statement
charged that "wet organizations and
some wet officials are encouraging
defiance to national prohibition in
Rhode Island, Massachusetts,, New
York, New Jersey, Wisconsin and
several other states"
They said Mr. Wheeler, re-
ferring to these organizations and
officials, "have enacted or attempted
to enact, laws to permit certain
liquors which the federal govern
mcnt prohibits and in their campaign
with wet propaganda are infaming
the lawless to defy the federal pro-
ilibition act. The court attacks on
national prohibition, the threat of
the liquor organizations to elect a
wet congress to weaken the national
prohibition code and resubmit the
18th amendment and to elect wet
legislatures to carry out their pro-
gram is a sufficient challenge to the
friends of prohibition to get busy
fgstheE than to quit"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Changes in Language and Not
Principle of Two Peace Res
ervations Probably Will Be
Demanded at Meeting.
LEADERS ARE UNABLE
TO PREDICT OUTCOME
Several Days Negotiations
May Result If Democrats
Refuse Plan Before an Open
Break Occurs.

Washington, Jan. 25.-Limits tc
which republican senate leaders are
willing to go in modifying the Lodge
to the peace treaty will
be transmitted to democratic mem.
bers of the bipartisan compromise
committee Monday at a meeting
upon which may hinge the success
or failure of the present compro.
mise negotiations.
Although there was no official
definition of the limits set by SEN
ator Lodge of Massachusetts,, and
his associates available, it was TN
derstood that the democrats would
be told that changes in the two
main reservations, those relating to
Article 10 and to voting power in
the league of nations, must be
changes in the language and not in
principle. Such an answer to dem
ocratic proposals for composition
was said by several members of the
republican committee to reflect the
majority sentiment on the republi-
can side of the senate and also tc
be agreeable for the most part tc
Senators Johnson of California, Bo-
rah of Idaho and the others of that
group who Friday called Senator
Lodge and Senator New of Indiana
into conference and demanded to
know whittier the negotiations for
compromise were going and how
tar.
Neither Senator Lodge nor Sena
tor Hitchcock, the administration
treaty hader, would predict the out
come Of Mondays meeting, the for
mer conhning his comment to the
statement that he was a poo'
prophet in such matters" and tht
latter asserting merely that he wa:
hopeful hut not confident" In othel
quarters the belief was expressed
that even though an agreement or
the basis of the republican answers
might be viewed by the democratic
conferees as hopeless, the negotia
tions might be continued for severa
days before the final break came.
Should there be a break betweer
the two informal committees it wa:
considered possible that the "mile
reservation" republicans might
again send out "feelers' among the
democrats and new negotiations bt
started.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
QUART OF WHISKY BUYS
PRICELESS TAPESTRY.

Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 25.-lhe
hack room of Fritz Ueberle's north
side saloon may hold a fortune
which was purchased for a quart OF
whisky FIVE years ago..
The fortune" is in the form OF a
14-foot art panel, believed to be by
lean Honore Fragonard, for whose
oane1s both Frick and Morgan paid
fortunes, and some of which now
hang in Frick's Fifth avenue man
Son. which has been bequeathed to
the city Of New York. Prof. E. r;
savage of Carnegie Institute OF
Technology has pronounced 1t the
work Of Fragonard, but lest his
Judgment be wrong, he has asked
some Of his contemporaries to visit
. the saloon with him and pass duds,
ment.
{ oonard's work was always IN tap
y estrv.. Il is IA feet long and tee,
s;gh Il is called the "Campieque
\, Raruue." In one corner the name o.
2 Er.eonard is woven into the tapes
,rv The tapestry formerly hung
hack of the bar in the Hotel Antler
which went out OF business. five
Years ago. Eberle purchased the
narel for a quart of whisky from
p,sn razinc the building. 1t hac
i heen offered at the auction block
but there were No bidders
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Adopt Resolutions
Against Removal of
Dead Heroes in France

New York, Jan. 25.-Resolutions
against the removal of the bodies Of
the American soldier dead from
France were adopted by the national
council of administration of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars at meet
ing here. F. Warner Karlind, Kan
sas City, commander-in,chief of the
veterans, urged that national cefne-
terv be established in France in
which all the bodies Of the Amer
ican dead be inferred.
The council fixed September 1918
as the date of the national encamp-
ment to be held in Washington. 1t
was stated that $4,000 veterans are
expected. to participate in the parade.
including from 300 to 1000 dele
gates.
The national council includes
Commander Karlind and Gus E.
Hartung of Denver, Colo.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26

attention being given merely to the
supervision of mis- investments. In
July of 1915 he suffered stroke Of
paralysis and since that time has
been confined to his home, 1248
South Tenth street.
Mr.. Her was born in Wooster, o..
February 10, 1910, a son of Conrad
and Julia Tier, and spent his youthful
days i'll the Buckeye state, where he
acquired a common school education.
In 1866 he sought the opportunities
of the growing west and disposing Of
his wholesale liquor business at
Tiffin, O.. removed to Omaha, where
he established similar enterprise,
continuing along~that line until 1902.
He built the Willow Springs dis
tillery, which he operated for a long
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Edwards Will Be Speaker
at Biq Cummings Dinner

New York, Jan. 25.-Gov. Edward
]. Edwards of New Jersey and Gov.
Alfred E. Smith of New York have
been invited to speak at testimonial
dinner to be given Homer S. Cum
mings, chairman of the democratic
national committee under the
auspices of the National Democratic
club on Thursday evening Febru-
ary S. An announcement stated that
the occasion would be memorable
from the political significance Of the
utterances OF those>who will deliver
addresses"
The iul! list of speakers will be
announced later.
The committee in charge of the
dinner consists of more than 200 per-
sons and includes prominent men and
women democrats from all parts of
the country
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
GRAND OPERA STAR
TO START LEGION.

- Chicago, Jan. 25.-Yvonne Gall
the French grand opera prima don
ma, who is singing for the Chicago
Grand Opera Co., is going to start
an organization like the American
Legion in France when she returns
to her country. :,
In a letter received by Colonel
Milton ]. Foreman, commanding Of
ficer of the legion in Chicago, Mile.
Gall asks for full information re-
garding the American Legion
The plans and actions of the
American Legion have impressed
lme deeply" she said. "On my re-
turn to my beloved France | IN
tend to launch movement for the
establishment of an organization
like the American Legion tor
France needs such one even more
than does America.
"I would love to have it named
I'Armes De Lafayette as that
would signify both the ideals of a
great man and the undying friend
Shin of our two countries"
q II think the idea splendid one"
said Colonel Foreman. Il shan be
glad to cooperate with Mile. Gall.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
5000 ACRES OF
NEBRASKA LAND
TO BE OPENED
State and Wyoming Irrigated
Farms Ready to Homestead
February %.

Washington, Jan. 25.-Approxi-
nlately 10000 acres of reclaimed
land in Wyoming and Nebraska will
be opened to homestead entry early
in March, the reclamation service
announced today. Application for
entry upon irrigated farms. compos-
ing a tract of about 5000 acres in
the North Platte valley project,
embracing large section of the
border areas of each state, will be
accepted from February % to
March 5, it was said. Shoshone,
Wyo., project will be accepted dur
ing the week following. Drawings
will be made to determine the right
of entry in each case where two or
more applications are made for the
same farm.
The North Platte valley tract,
part of a project in which hundreds
of thousands of acres already have
been reclaimed, by storing up the
waters of the North Platte river
behind the great Pathfinder dam,
will be opened, it was stated, on a
water service rental basis for the
first three years. When the irri-
eating system has been entirely
completed at the end of that time
so the cost can be computed and
assessed to the acre, the homestead
er wall assume entry upon an own
ership basis.
The 10000 acres comprised in
these two, tracts constitute the larg-
est area Of reclaimed land opened to
the homesteader in more than five
years, officials of the service said.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Automobile Thief
Lynched by Business
Men Of Tulsa, Okla

Tulsa, Okl., Jan. y25.-Fred Bag
gett, alleged automobile N1ief, was
lynched here by a posse said to be
composed of business men, accord
ing to telephone message to the
police from man claiming to have
been one of the lynchers.
Police believe Baggett has been
made away with and are investigat-
ing. Baggett was captured by the
posse within a block of the police
station, the caller said, and hurried
outside the city limits. He was
strung up near the water works and
let down and is said to have given
information of his confederates, and
taken later into the Usage hills,
where, the caller said, the body
would be found swinging from a
tree.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
BOY SOLDIERLOST
TO ARMY IN EFFORT
TOSAVE BROTHER
Three-YearJOld Youth Gives
Life in Flames Obey
ing Orders.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-When Vincent
Lukoszuf, 5 years old, grew up he
was to be soldier. He was sure Of
that.
And in a vague way he compre-
hended when his mother told him
that the first duties of a soldier were
courage and obedience.
Mrs. Justine Lukoszuf, the mother,
left the home at Seventy-second ave-
nue. and Fifty-sixth place, to make
some purchases.
"You take care of brother Justin
until l get back" Mrs. Lukoszuf in
structed.
And Importantly Vincent took post
at the side of his 2-year-old brother.
None Of the officials who have in
vestigated the fire that DESTROYED the
Lukoszuf cottage has been able to
determine the cause. No one knows
who turned in the alarm.
But while the mother waited in
the grocery store several blocks from
the home the fire station at Summit,
adjoining the Seventy-second avenue
fire district, received the alarm. On
account of the heavy snow the FIRE
fighters could get no nearer than
Seventy-second avenue and Fifty
third place.
Neighbors had gathered about the
blazing cottage. Some one thought
of the children. A man pulled a wet
blanket over his face and dashed into
the flames.
The children were found, uncon-
scious from burns and smoke. Vim
cent followed orders. His arms were
faround his baby brother, and appar-
emily the elder boy had tried to make
shield Of his body to keep the
flames from the younger.
But the army of later generation
i is to have enc good soldier less. Both
\ hove IsAd
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Coolidge Not Candidate
for Presidential H0n0rS

Boston, Jan. Ex-Governor Cool
idge declared here that he was not
and never had been a candidate for
president and that he would not
enter contest for the Massa-
chusetts delegation to the republican
national convention. He did not
say that he would oppose the pres
entation of his name at the Chicago
convention, but was emphatic in his
assertion that he would not permit
the imputation that he had used the
Office of governor to promote his
own interests through the selection
of delegates.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Several Members of Red
Cross Unit and Whole Pol
ish Army Fall Into Hands Of
the BoISheviki.
FORMER U. S. CONSUL
SENDS THE MESSAGE
Dispatch is Badly GarbIed and
Army Officers Are Unable to
Identity Soldiers and Nurses
Said to Be Captured.
Hourly temperatures :

Chita, East Siberia, Jan. 25.--(By
the Associated Press.) - Colonel
Blunt and seven other American en-
gineers; Miss Ford, Captain Charette
and several other members Of the
American Red Cross, and an entire
Polish army, composed of former
prisoners, have been captured by the
bolsheviki at Kliuchinskaya, accord
ing to a garbled telegram received
from Joseph H. Ray, former Amer
ican consul at Irkutsk.
The dispatch from Mr.. Ray was
sent from somewhere beyond Nizh-
niulinsk, January Ia. 1t was some
what garbled in transmission.
Kliuchinskaya is on the Trans-Si
berian railroad 100 miles west of
Nizhniulinsk.
The Czechs are fighting a rear
guard action with the reds near
-Krasnoyarsk. Bolshevism is gain
ing in Chita. Ernest L. Harris, for
mer American consul at Omsk, is
still in Chita.
The British, Japanese and French
missions and many members of the
American Red Cross have arrived in
Russia.
A bolshevik wireless communica-
ton received in London, January.
13, announced the capture by thc3
bolshevik forces in the fKrasneyt
arsk region of II columns of Po-
lish legionaires, together with 10
guns and 10000 rifles.
A dispatch from the london
Daily Mails Harbin correspondent
received in London, january 20,
said there was an unconfirmed ru-
NOR at Harbin that the bolsheviki
had destroyed a Polish division
near Krasnoyarsk.
The Poles captured undoubtedly
are prisoners taken by the Russians
early in the war and sent to Siberia.
There. after the revolution, and
when the Czechs gained the as
tendency, they were armed and
impressed into the anti-bolshevik
forces, as was done also with large
numbers of Serbians who had been
prisoners of the Russians.
Name Is Garbled.
Washington, Jan. 25.-War de-
partment officials tonight were un-
able to identity the Colonel Blunt"
mentioned in dispatch from Chita.
east Siberia, as having been captured
with other American engineers and
Red Cross workers by the bolshe-
wiki. There is no Colonel Blunt on
active duty at the present time, it
was said, and the only other officer
by that name, Major Wilfred M.
Blunt, is now in command of bat
talon of the Eleventh cavalry at
Mexicali, Cal.
Army officers were of the opinion
that inasmuch as the dispatch was
received at Harbin in a garbled con-
dition, the names of all those cap
tured might have been garbled.
Identify Colonel Blunt.
Minneapolis, Jan. 25.-Co1onei
Blunt, captured by bolsheviki, is
Lieutenant Colonel Blunt, district
inspector of the Trans-Siberian railS
way, according to Col. George
Emerson of this city, formerly in
charge of American engineers j.
Siberia.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
HUGE REWARD
OFFERED FOR
IRISH GUNMEN
Proclamation Posted in Dublin
By Lord Mayor-$50,000
Is Incentive.

Dublin, Jan. 25.--A proclamation
posted here contains an offer by the
lord lieutenant of reward OF
10000 for information within three
months leading to the conviction oi
any persons guilty of the murder OF
ID police officers whose names are
given. The list. begins with the
name of Detective Smith of Dublin
assassinated last jury, and ends with
those of Deputy Commissioner Red
r,ond, murdered in Dublin last week
and Constable Finnegan, killed at
Thurles.
A reward of $1,000 is also offered
for such secret information as is
calculated 70 lead to the conviction
of any of tine offenders in the cases
named. Any person concerned in
or privy to the murders, but not
actually guilty of them, who gives
the required information, is prom.
ised a free pardon and the special
protection of the crown.
Police Barracks Attacked.
Limerick, Jan. 25.-The police bar
racks at Munroe, occupied BY eight
constables, was attacked after mid
night by about 40 armed men. The
two parties exchanged shots for two
hours. The raiders vainly tried to
bomb the building, but finally fed on
the appearance of the military. Sc
far as known nobody was injured.
London, Jan. 25.-Armed men
Wearing masks attacked the police
barracks at Baltinglass, county
Wicklow, and shot and wounded one
constable severely and another
slightly. The assailanfs escaned.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
REDS CAPTURE AMERICANS
Man Who Deposed Kaiser
Also Saved Germany From
RecentSpartacan Outbreak

)On the evening of November =
two days before Prince Max of
Baden proclaimed Wilhelm's renun-
ciation-Philipp Scheidemann, leader
of the moderate socialists, received
a long distance call from Kiel. The
conversation was one-sided and
lasted but minute. tran thus: "a
Kaiser Is Deposed.
"Hello, Berlin. Get ME Herr
Scheidemann on the wire-quickp
"Hello-yes, this is Scheidemann."
"This is Noske, at Kiel. Philip,
you've got to depose the kaiser. 1t
must be done, and done quickly, or
| won't be able to hold these fellows
here"
Before the dumbfounded Schiede-
mann had chance to ask for de-
tails Noske had rung off. For
Scheidemann, however. who knew
Noske's vision and, judgment to be
clear and far-sighted, his friends
words were an irresistible COM
mand, and he Immediately set in mo-
ton the "steamroller" tactics which
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Seven.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
King Of Montenegro
Orders Decoration
OF Red Cross Workers

Paris, Jan. 25.-In recognition of
the services rendered to Montenegro
by the American Red Cross since
the signing of the armistice. Colonel
Mestcherrinoff decorated 10 Red
Cross workers at the direction of
King Nicholas. Lieut.. Col. Robert
E. Olds, Red Cross commissioner
COR Europe, received the Order of
Prince Daniels, second class. The
decoration of the same order, third
class, was awarded to Lieut.. Col.
Henry Faisclough, Leland Stanford
university; George H. Maird, Dallas,
Tex, and nine other officers.
The gold medal of Montenegro,
with cross, was awarded to Miss
Elic Graves Bencot, Pleasanton,
Cal, and six other women.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
EASTERN ACCENT
GIVES CLUE TO
POLITE BANDITS
Return Mans Overcoat, But
Fails to Brighten Girl
With Him.

Miss Marjorie Hurt. II years old,
1902 Binney street, and companion,
c. E. Gates, Hotel Castle, were vic
tins Saturday night of the two polite
highwaymen whose activities during
the past week have demanded the
attention of a special squad of de-
tectives.
Both victims we're held up at the
ends of guns at Twenty-ninth and
Binney street, shortlyafter they had
a!ighted from a street car on Thir-
tieth street. The bandits obtained
nothing.
Men Neatly Dressed.
Both men were neatly dressed and
talked with the accent of native New
Workers, Gates told police. The
bandits demanded Gates overcoat
and watch, but returned both after
questioning their victim.
"Wherc do you work." one of the
gunmcn asked.
AT a cigar store" Gates told
MIN.
Give Coat Back.
II guess you can't afford to. lose
your coat" the bandit remarked as
he gave the stuff back to Gates
Gates SAID both men walked away
1eisurely. Miss Hurt was not the
least bit frightened, she said. ~,
"They appeared to be gentlemen
she told detectives. II know they
wouldn't have harmed u.s."
The same pair of bandits are be-
lieved to have held up D. R. Wood
ward, 240S North Forty-ninth street,
and John Mcclure, 1917 IL North
Eighteenth street, late Saturday
afternoon as they were locking up
the offices of the Coal Hill COM
pany's yard, Thirteenth and Nicho-
las streets.
Had Eastern Accent.
The bandits pressed guns against
their victims and commanded them
to Stick 'em up" Both obeyed.
Woodward lost SIS to the gunner.
Mcclure lost nothing.
Both highwaymen escaped in a
large black touring car that had been
left standing not far from the scene
of the holdup. Woodward said the
bandits talked with an eastern ac-
cent.
Donald Fox, o23 South Thirty
third street. was a victim of the same
pair of highwaymen Thursday night,
police belieye. In that instance the
bandits refused to take a watch and
iocket that Fox told them his mother
mad given to him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-26
Big Haul Of BootIeggers
and Gamblers Made in Raid

!. FL Cen.ro, Cal, Jan. 25.-Thirty
establishments here and several at
Calexico. also in this county, were
raided by District Attorney f. R.
Simon, Sheriff Charles Applesti!l
and "a deputy sheriffs, and $50 men
and women,\ alleged bootleggers and
gamblers, were arrested.
District Attorney Simon issued a
statement in which he declared that
the police of the three cities were
either ASLEEP or negligent"