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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1923)
ONE OF OURS By WILLA t'ATHKK. Famous Nebraska Author. (Continued from featrrday.) SINOFSIS. Claud* Wheeler, eon ef a Nebraska rancher, find* no realisation of his dreams In life wedded to Enid Royre, re ligiously cold, daughter of Jason Royce, KrankfnH, Neb., miller. She, after a year and a half with him. goes to China, where her younger sister, Caroline, a missionary, is 111. During her absence, Claude joins ilie army officers* training camp. Clauds had three year* in a small denominational college. In Lincoln. While there he be came friend of Erlich family, motherly widow and flv* sons. Claude has friends In Ernest Havel and Leonard Dawson, young Nebraska farmera, living near Wheeler property, on which Claude built home for his bride. He has elder brother, Hayllss, in business In Frankfort; his father, Nat, and his younger brother. Ralph. His mother Is prideful of her sons. Claude, home on leave from camp in ths cast, finds he loves tiladys Farmer, high srliool friend of his wife. He Is on board i, transport bound for France. CHAPTER III. All the first morning Tod Fanning showed Claude over the boat — not that Fanning had ever been on any thing bigger than a Lake Michigan steamer, but he knew a good deal about machinery, and did not hesitate to ask the deck stewards to explain anything he didn't know. The stew ards, indeed all the crew, struck the boys as an unusually good natured and obliging get of men. The fourth occupant of No. !)K, Claude's cabin, had not turned up by noon, nor had any of his belongings, so the three who had settled their few effects there began to hope they would have the place to themselves. It would be crowded enough, at that. The third bunk was assigned to an officer from the Kansas regiment, Lieuteaant Bird, a Virginian, who had been working in his uncle's hank in Topeka when he enlisted. He and Claude sat together at mess. When they were at lunch, the Virginian said In his very gentle voice; “Lieutenant, I wish you'd explain Lieutenant Fanning to me. He seems very immature. He's been telling me about a submarine destroyer he's in vented, but it looks to me like fool ishness.” Clyde laughed. "Don’t try to under stand Fanning. Just let him sink in, and you'll come to like him. I used to wonder how he ever got a com mission. You never can tell what crazy thing he'll do." Fanning had. for instance, brought on board a pair of white flannel pants, his first and only tailor made trousers, because he had a premoni tion that the boat would make an English port and that he would be asked to a garden party! He had a way of using big words in the wrong place, not because he tried to show pff, hut because all words sounded alike to him. In the first days of their acquaintance tn camp, he told Claude that this was a failing he couldn’t help, and that it was called "anaes thesia.” Sometimes this failing was confusing; when Fanning sententlous iy declared that he would like to be on hand when the crown prince set tled his little account with Plato, Claude was perplexed until subse quent witticisms revealed that the boy meant Pluto. At 3 o clock them was a hand con cert on deck. Claude fell Into talk with the bandmaster, and waa delight ed to find that he came from Hillport. Kan., a town where Claude had once been with his father to buy cattle, and that all his 14 men came from Hillport. They were the town band, had enlisted la a body, had gone into training together, and had never been separated. One was a printer who helped to get out the Hillport Argus every week, another clerked In a gro cery, store, another was the son of a German watch repairer, one was still In high school, one worked in an au tomobile livery. After Bupper Claude found them all together, very much interested In their first evening at sea. and arguing as to whether the sunset on the water was as fine as those they saw every night in Hill port. They hung together In a quiet, (tavrmfned way. and ff you began to talk to one, you soon found that all the others were there. When Claude and Fanning and Lieutenant Bird were undressing in their narrow quarters that night, the fourth berth was still unclaimed. They were in their bunks and almost asleep when the missing man came In and unceremoniously turned on the light. They were astonished to see that he wore the uniform of the Royal Flying corps and carried a cane. He seemed I Vaudeville—Photoplay* Seven Day* Starting TOMORROW A Whirlwind 6 ACT BILL Headed by the Famoua American Vaudeville Star RUTH BIIDD “The Girl With the Smile" Other Great Act*, Including VALECITA’S LEOPARDS The La*t Word in Seniationaliam HERBERT RAWLINSON Is the star of tha photoplay feature, “THE PRISONER," from the novel “Caatle Crannyerow/' by George Barr McCutchoon. - TUES. and WED. MAY A-» _ MAT. WED. Henry Miller Blanche Bates, Ruth Chatterton, Laura Hope Crews IN A NEW COMEDY “ The Changelings ” Era., «t la $3| Mat. BOc la W-BO 3 Days, Starting Thuraday, May 10, Matinaa Saturday | TICKETS ON SALE NOW | I Ev«., SOc to $2.60; Mot. SOc to $2.00. very young, but the three who peeped out at him felt that he must be a person of consequence. He took off his coat with the spread wings on the collar, wound his watch and brushed his teeth with an air of spe cial personal Importance. Boon after he had turned out the light and climbed into the berth over Lieuten ant Bird, a heavy smell of rum spread in the close air. Fanning, who slept under Claude, kicked the sagging mattress above him and stuck his head out. "Hullo, Wheeler! What have you got up there?" "Nothing." “Nothing smells pretty good to me. I'll have some with anybody that asks me.” No response from any quarter. Bird, the Virginian, murmured, "Don't make a row,” and they went to sleep. In the morning, when the bath steward came, he edged his way into the narrow cabin and poked his head Into the berth over Bird's. "I'm sor ry, sir, I’ve made careful search for your luggage, and it's not to be found, sir." "I tell you It must he found,” fumed a petulant voice overhead. “I brought it over from the St. Regis myself in a taxi. I saw it standing on the pier with the officers' luggage—a black cabin trunk with V. M. lettered on both ends. Get after it." The steward smiled discretely. He probably knew that the aviator had come on board in a state which pre cluded any very accurate observa tion on his piirt. “Very well, sir. Is there anything I can get you for the present?" "You can take this shirt out and have it laundered and bring it back to me tonight. I've no linen in my bag." "Yes, sir,” Claude and Funning got on deck as quickly as possible and found scores of their comrades already there, pointing to dark smudges of smoke along the dear horizon. They know that these vessels had come from un known ports, some of them far away, steuming thither under orders known only to their commanders. They would arrive within a few hours of each other at a given spot on the surface of the ocean. There they would fall into place, flanked by their destroy ers, and would proceed in orderly for mation. without changing their rela tive positions. Their escort would not leave them until they were joined by gunboats and destroyers off whatever coast they were hound for — what that coast was, not even their own of- ! flrers knew as yet. latter in the morning this meeting was actually accomplished. There were 10 troop ships, some of them very large boats, and six destroyers. The men stood about the while morn ing, gazing spellbound at their sister transports, trying to find out their names, guessing at their capacity. Tanned as they already were, their lips and noses began to blister tinder I ■ k'l > v 'JW.,4 > ( NOW SHOWING “The Gay Coquette” Presented by ARTHUR HARRISON BIG LYRIC REVUE With a Large Chorus of Dancing Dolls A Romance of Riot and Revolt ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■I NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS GRAND .... 16th and Binary BETTY BLYTHE in "THF. QUEEN OF SHEBA" HAMILTON - - 40th and Hamilton SPECIAL PRODUCTION "YOUTH TO YOUTH" VICTORIA .... 24th and Fort NORMA TALMADCE In “THE WAY OF A WOMAN" the fiery sunlight. After long months of Intensive training, the sudden drop into an idle, soothing existence was grateful to them. Though their pasts were neither long nor varied, most of them, like Claude Wheeler, felt a sense of relief at being rid of all they had ever been before and facing something .absolutely new. Said Tod Fanning, as he lounged against the rail, “Whoever likes it can run for a train every morning, and grind his days out In a VVestinghouse works; but not for me any more;" The Virginian joined them. “That Englishman ain't got out of bed yet. I reckon he's been liquoring up pret ty steady. The place smells like a bar. The room steward was just com ing out, and he winked at me. He was slipping something in his pocket, looked like a banknote." Claude was curious, and went down to the cabin. As he entered, the air man, lying half dressed in his upper berth, raised himself on one elbow and looked down at him. His blue eyes were contracted and hard, his curly hair disordered, but his cheeks were as pink as a girl's, and the little yellow humming bird moustache on his upper lip was twisted sharp. “you’re missing fine weather,” said Claude affably. “Oh, there'll be a great deal of I weather before we get over, add | damned little of anything edge!** lie I drew a bottle from under his pillow. I “Have a nip?” (Continued In The Morning Bee.) Husband Gets 90 Days in Jail Sebastlano A’inclquerra. husband of Louis Vini-iquerra, was sentenced to jail for 90 days yesterday by Federal Judge AVoodrough. He was found guilty two weeks ago when he and his wife were tried on charges of keeping and selling liquor in their home, 810 Forest avenue. Louise, who Is alleged to have boasted she made $45,000 In two years of bootlegging, was acquitted on two charges. She is to be tried soon on another charge. Rpsidenre Worth $75,000 ('oust ruction work on a $75,000 residence for Edgar M. Morsman, at torney, has started at Thirty-eighth and Jackson streets. It will be of the English Tudor type of architec ture. Our Children By ANGKM* PATRI. So Early. Two little girls, scarcely 4 years old. were walking along the street, heads close together, absorbed In dis cussion. Hat h gripped a roll of candy done up In shiny brown paper lettered In gold. The stout rather plain one clutched a penny In her other hand. It was soon evident that she had treated the pretty, slender one. who was coaxing "Come on! Get’s spend It!1' "No-no,” said the other. "Mother said bring It ho-um.” "Hut, listen," said the tempter. "You could buy a lot of chocolate buttons and"—dramatically, as though rooted stock still with the shook of the bril liant idea—“we could eat them. Not a spark from the stodgy one! "Hut my mother said to bring it ho-um." “And we could sit on the park bench and eat them all up! I,et’s.” “Uh-hu,” waggling her sturdy head and marching on, "but mother said to bring it ho-um.” ~ ~ .- 1 -■■■ ■ •'S'pose you lost it. Then you'd never get any good of it! You'd wish you'd spent it right away." "Mother said I was to bring It ho um and put it in the ba unk.” "Have you got it yet? Let me see. Maybe you’ve lost It.’’ "No. I'm holding it in rny tight hand.” "if I had a penny I'd spend It and then ask my mother for another to put in the bank.” “My mother told me to take it home, and I’m goin’ to.” And she did. The lovely thing about it was that she was perfectly unconscious of her righteousness, her sturdy determina tion to follow orders. She was taking it ho-um because mother told her to and that was all there was about it. Her mind was (dosed. She w-as deaf to the tones of the tempter. Her calm decision was never slightly joggled. I wondei-pd about, the pretty temp ter. I wondered why she wanted to spend the penny for more candy when each of them held a roll of It un touched. Was she trying iter power over the other or was she just greedy? Or what? What instinct was at work in her alert mind? They both went Into the house across the street and I didn't find out. Copyrlsht. 182.'!. Kennel Club to Meet Members of the Nebraska Kennel club will meet at the chamber of Commerce tonight at 8:30. W. T. Matthews, Omaha, license superintendent of the National Ken nel club, will speak on exhibiting dogs and will recount some of Ins experi ences as an official of the national organization. M. A. Taoeock, man ager of publicity of the Chamber *f Commerce, will ttpeak. Ride a RANGER BICYCLE NEBRASKA MOTORCYCLE AND BICYCLE CO. Factory Distributor 1512 Howard St. Phone AT 2957 Opposite Gas Office IF YOU HAVE KIDNEY TROUBLE or trouble in that region of the body, it may be caused by over pressure from the spine, readily relieved by our chiropractic ad justments. 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I rank hreiiHii ms the Hirht inir Colour). ills unn son n profit km tr, lip scnu’lit mi heir ntnonic Hip hoys ol Ihe Ken lurk) hills. A Raging Forest Fire!—A Lynching Mob in Pursuit! A man and a girl trapped In lha raging Inferno dinging (o the edge nf ■ tinv pool of water bagel) deep enough to rover them a» the flamra swept onward! \nd otitaldn the blazing inenae. wna an angry mob waiting to lake Ida life If he lived What a l ing for a great drama' What a climax to a atorv of hreuthlea* suaponae! STARTS SUNDAY—Don’t Miss It STARTS TOMORROW SEVEN DAYS SAT. TO NLXT FRIDAY JACK. LONDONS Sensational Sftsy ~ ^ABYSMAL BRUTE —---, Starring REGINALD DENNY with an extraordinary cast, including MABEL JULIENNE SCOTT HAYDEN STEVENSON BUDDY MESSINGER B "1 may be a prizefighter, 1 but I'm just as square. I, just as clean in body and ^ mind as any of your so ciety lovers. I love you I and you are mine!" "You’re a brute! A prize fighter! I'll never marry you!" 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