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Today' Another Little One. The Year 5684. The Lamp Went Out. Mons. Paul Drank. , By ARTHUR BRISBANE i \---✓ They kept white mice in the trenches to warn of poison gas. The mice noticed it in time to let men put on gas masks. At Georgetown, D. C., a little instrument more sensitive than any white mouse, the “seismo graph," tells when earthquakes shake the earth’s crust. Yesterday morning a slight tremble tdld of something wrong, somewhere on earth, and yester day afternon India told of an earthquake in Calcuta. It only killed 50, shaking down a few hundred of the poor class old houses, and will hardly be noticed. Everything is compara tive. You continue to hear of Japan's earthquake. Heavy waves coming all around the earth wash out sand on the Atlantic coast, making deep pools and dangerous bathing. Naval men believe it was a wave from the earthquake that sent seven United States destroyers on the rocky coast of California. We will hear further from the earthquake later on, when the bill has to be paid. The earth is small. This is Roshha-Shanah, the Jew ish New Year, number 5684. Christians call it the year 1928. Other religions and nationalities have other years and other dates, a majority believing that the world is about 6,000 years old, and ought to end soon. If old earth told its real age, we should learn that many things happened here a thousand millions years ago. When it started, we don’t know. More interesting than the num ber of their year is the Jews’ power, in comparison, to their numbers. There are only 15,500,000 Jews on the earth, less than 1 per cent of the earth’s total population. About 1,600,000 live in New York city. Three million live in the United States. Consider what has been done in the past, and what is being done today, by that Jew ish 1 per cent of the earth’s popu lation. Remove the Jewish establish ments from the streets of any great city, and what would the ■trects look like? In every line of effort, from Spinoza in philosophy to Einstein in astronomical mathematics, the Jews have shone and have ex •sllcd. They survived persecution -uch as no race ever endured. They win in philosophy, as they do in music, garment making and poetry. Some of their blood was in Columbus, and a great deal of their money was lent to help this country when it was establishing its independence. And nations that have most viciously persecuted the Jews have gone down. The little moon, traveling along do miles a minute, got between the earth and the sun yesterday and for 169 seconds the sun’s light went out, entirely at certain places, to a limited degree else where. The moon was something like a child walking between you and ■our reading lamp. The eclipse was photographed by scientists on ! he earth, and from flying ma chines, but only savages were agitated. We don’t believe, as hey once did, that a dragon is eating up the sun. And we don’t think that angry gods are warning ■is to behave purselves. In the old days they took eclipses so seriously that two armies, about ro fight, turned tail and went home in a hurry when the sun began to disappear. It was a poor ruler that didn’t have some kind of eclipse when he died. The Reverend Increase Mather, who wrote his interesting essay on 'Remarkable Providences,” in the early Puritan days, found it easy enough to explain an eclipse in Massachusetts. He said it ex pressed the grief of nature at the leath of President Chauncey of Harvard. Quite a compliment for Harvard. We know that an eclipse means nothing at all, except that the moon gets in front of our sun lamp and shuts out the light for a minute. We have progressed in 'hat way. But we don’t yet know ■nough to stop murdering each ■ther, as they did in the days of -uperstitiori and darkness. Monsieur Paul Mercier said he could drink a quart of rum and a quart of curacoa, and let money on it. He drank the two quarts, but won’t enjoy spending what he won. II# was dying when last heard from. Rum is bad enough. Curacoa, the strongest kind of alcohol, flavored with orange peel and sweetened, is not a thing to bo trifled with. The human body can stand much, but there are limits, and seme Americans now drinking , bootleg liquor will realize it. A iich harvest is being prepared for the undertakers. The estate of John W. Diaper is willed to the public by a daugh ter, Mrs. A. Draper Dixon. Draper, in his hook, "The Intellectual De velopment of Europe,” left to the public a gift, worth ten thousand estates of land and buildings, (let that hook at the public library and read it, if you want to know some thing about the earth, men and kwnan thought. ropyrlght. If Harvard Woman Dies. Harvard, Neb. Kept. 11.—Mrs. Hans Johnson, well known among Har vard's old Min# residents nn<l wife of on# of the city roun'llmen, tiled of heart failure at n hospital In Hast ings 4 Beal Points Out Weakness in Statute Inability to Hold Truck Driv er for Death of Domenico Morbitto Is At tacked. A motorist may go to sleep at the wheel of his moving car— Or watch an airplane soar high above while driving through crowded streets— And still be safe from criminal ac tion if he runs down and kill* any one. In the opinion of County Attorney Henry Beal the failure of the statutes to provide punishment for negligent driving was brought, to light most forcibly when a coroner's jury decided Monday night that Domenico Marblto, 45. employe of the street, railway company, came to his death through an “unavoidable accident." Defective Brakes Blamed. Marbltto was run down by James Albing. jr., 2412 Decatur street, who was driving a truck for the J. Robin eon Fruit company, at Sixteenth and Leavenworth streets. Albing declared the accident was due to the fact that his car had no‘brakes. The wind shield was also dirty, according to po lice. He was arrested and held on a $2,000 bond. Marbltto died at the Lord Lister hospital Sunday morning. "Had Albing been exceeding the speed limits he would have been sub ject to criminal prosecution,'• said Beal. "But the fact that the car had bad brakes and a dirty windshield makes no difference, according to the statutes.” Investigation Started. “I am Investigating the complaints that the police surgeon who attended Marbltto refused to permit the Far anos to employ another physician for the Injured man,” said George Meech am, attorney, this morning. "The Faranos had cared for Marbltto for many years and they even had diffi culty In seeing him after he was in jured. They believed he had a mother liv ing in Italy, but were unable to ascertain where because of the ob stacles placed In their way of seeing Marbltto. If things are as the Far anos say, I'll probably file a com plaint against the surgeon before the city council and possibly before the state medical board. A surgeon has no right to refuse additional medical aid.” Fine Exhibits Are Shown at Knox County Fair Bloomfield, Neb., Sept. 11.—The Knox county fair Is In progress here and Indications are that exhibits In all departments will be far ahead of previous years. Every pen In the five large hog bams has been taken and It will be necessary to build a number of temporary pens to house the over flow. Competent authorities claim that It will be the finest swine exhibit ever displayed In northeastern Ne braska. Every stall !n the cattle barn has been reserved and many of the ani mals have been brought In. The cat tle exhibit will eclipse any previous one In the annale of the fair. Many exhibitors and concessions are here and Indications point to a record breaking attendance. The school exhibit Is the largest and best ever shown here. A new building was erected to house the school exhibit. Bloomfield and Os mond will play ball and the Plain view band will furnish muslo. Ninety Case* Docketed for Trial at Hastings McCook, Neb., Sept. 11.—District court opened here with 90 cases on the docket. Judge Eldred presiding. Among the lawyers from out of the county In court on Important cases were: Former United States Senator E. J. Burkett, Ulneoln: Gus Norberg, Holdrege, referee In bankruptcy; B. F. Butler and Walter D. James, Cam bridge, and George C. Proud, Arapa hoe. Adams County Goes Over Top in Quake Fund Drive Special Dlupetrh to The Omaha Bee. Hasting*, Neb., Sept. 11.—Adams county has more than subscribed Its quota of $1,500 of the Red Cross fund for sufferers In Japan. A check for $1,550 was sent this morning to the central division headquarters In Chi cago. Two hundred and forty men aided In the canvas In Hastings while doi ens took up the work In the county. Farmers Near Fairbury Are Solving Fall Wheat Fairbury, Neb., Sept. 11.—Farmers In this section nre busy plowing for fall wheat and drilling In the crop. The prospects for corn, outside the smafl area damaged by hall, weir never belter. It I* estimate*! that the yield will run from 25 to 65 bushels an acre The third crop of alfalfa Is being cut. The quality 1* fine but the yield is rather light. Funeral of C. E. Gaddis Is Held at Hastingg Hastings, Neb., Sept. 11.—Funeral services for C. E. Gaddis, father of Ivan and Vaughn Gaddis, Omaha newspaper men, were held here today. Mr. Gaddis died suddenly «t Lincoln after having been taken 111 at the state fair grounds. Beatrice Man Buried. Beatrice, Neb., 8*pt- 11.—Funeral services for Igtule Smith, 33. of Beatrice, who died at St. Joseph, were held here at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Smith. He Is survived by his widow, his parents, and one sister, Mis* riffle Smith. Celebrate* 77tli Birthday. Beatrice, Neb., Sept." 11.—W. R. Jones, former sheriff and one of the enrllest pioneers of Gage county, cele brated his 77th birthday at Antelope park, Lincoln, where members of the family drove In their cars to partici pate In the event. Sunday School Meeting. McCook, Neb. Sept. 11.—Red Wll low county Sunday nchoo! convention will be h*bl at Marlon, Hopternt»er IS and 19. A number of Mat# officer* will b** pr*«*nt Mid a full program will be carried out. Girl Awakes from "‘Mythical Sleep"’ and Denies Chloroform Attack1 _ . Mrs. Daisy Paige Says Prowler Was Not So Cruel— Police Skeptical. Denial that she was chloroformed by a prowler who entered her room Monday night was made Tuesday by Mrs. Daisy Paige, living with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Elwell, 2022 Grace street. At her home yesterday she ex pressed the opinion that the prowler might have been her former husband, from whom she was divorced two months ago. She said lie was known as Harry Davis and employed at a local chop suey restaurant. Detectives Treglla and Anderson, who Investigated the ease, expressed doubt that the prowler ever entered her room. They said the earth out side h£r window was tramped down and that the person who stood there had smoked several clgarets, the stubs of which were found strewn about. They declared the man stand ing by the window in all probability carried on a conversation with some one In the room. The head of the bed Is beside the window. Detectives say that If the man had been a prowler, there would have been no necessity for his entering the room anyway, because several ar tides of jewelry were lying ori a table within easy reach of the win dow. These were not disturbed.. Daisy’s story to her father Monday night wag that she was awakened by someone pouring chloroform on a rag over her face and that after she screamed, the man struck her twice In the face and fled. Her face is unmarked. Hastings to Give Light to 3 Towns Contracts for Transmission Lines to Ayr, Holstein aud Roseland. Hastings. Neb.. Sept. 11.—Con tracts for building transmission lines from the Hastings light plant to Ayr, Holstein and Koseland have been let to the Hennlngsen Construc tion company of Omaha, and the work will be started at once. These towns were Included In the quartet of neighboring villages which sought electric current from the municipal plant In Hastings some time ago. They have held special elections since the city council here acted fa vorablty on their proposal and in all cases the bond Issue carried by a large majority. Kencsaw was the fourth town in the group, but owing to the fact that the town Is already carrying a large bond Issue and the municipal plant, which Is said to be operating at a loss, would have to be repaired ex tensively before It could be disposed of, the bond Issue was voted down. The transmission lines between Ayr, Holstein and Roseland will be owned jointly by the three and will be constructed from Ayr to the Hastings plant. The villages will receive current at the rate of 51-2 cents a kilowat and It will be mens i ured both at the Hasting* plant and at the distribution station. By this plan the electricity lost In transit can be determined and prorated, Hastings Is to maintain the lines and pay all costs of repairs. Jefferson County Sends Full Relief Fund Quota Fairbury, Neb., Sept 11.—In the Red Cross drive for funds for Japan sufferers the quota of Jefferson county was $825. The request came by wire to the Jefferson county head of the organization and a draft for the full amount was forwarded by first mall. The Red Cross Is in good working order In Jefferson county, with a cash balance of about $3,000 for emergency use. Table Rock Farmer Is Seriously Hurt in Fall Table Rock, > Neb., Sept. 11.—Roy Buckles, living on a farm three miles west of Table Rock, while engaged In unloading hay by machinery, was knocked from the wagon by the breaking of a rope and fell on a ce ment floor, striking his head. He was unconscious for more than 24 hours and Is still in a critical condi tion. Fairbury Store Burns. Fairbury, Neb., Sept. 11.—The fild Hinett frame store building was de stroyed by fire. The building was «sed for a soft drink emporium by R. C. Moles. This was one of the first building* constructed In Fair bury, more than 60 years ago. Buy Your Saxophone Now C Melody Saxophone $70.00 and get Ten FREE Lessons with a J. W. York & Sons SAXOPHONE Come to our BAND and OR CHESTRA department and look over the large stock of SAXO PHONES for your selection. Re member, the J. W. York & Sons Saxophones are the kind used by professionals on the stage. \ Each One Guaranteed Easy to Play Sold On Ttrms to Suit If You Live Outside of Omaha Write for Full Informa tion and Description. SdnpoB^&jngijlgr Rano Q know? that (or a delightful Bud-afternoon ♦raat you ahould eat FIG N EWTONS CaVa haled golden brown and filled »th fig jam. They • are made by the > bakers of * T -\ m Uneeda Biscuit The World't Br«t Soda Cracker NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY 2 Oniahans Die in Navy Wreck ■ Youths Who Enlisted Here Victims in Pacific Coast Disaster. James W. H. Conway, IS. and August Zakrzewski, 21, both of Oma ha, were among the victims ot Sun day’s naval disaster on the Pacific coast, in which 29 seamen were re ported killed. It became known Mon day night. Young Conway is the son of James J. Conway, technical sergeant at Fort Omaha, who has been In the'urfny 28 years. Zakrzewski Is the son of Joseph Zakrzewski, 4020 South Thirty-fourth street,. Conway, a second class seaman on the destroyer Delplfi, enlisted in the navy in Omaha lust December. His father took him to tho recruiting sta tion. He was sent directly to the San F’rancisco naval training station and had made one voyage on the New York, to Panama. He was trans ferred to the Delphi jut prior to the accident. Conway Is survived, besides his fa ther, by four brothers, Edward, Rlchr ard, Melvin and Lloyd, nil attending Miller Park school, and a sister, Alice, who is out of school. Ills father, while deeply affected by his son’s death, remained stoical. ’ August Zakrzewski re-enlisted in the navy at Omaha In January, 192", following his discharge in September. 1922, from a two-year "hitch.” He was serving on the destroyer Young at the time of the accident. His father had not heard from him for four months. He is survived, besides his father, by a sister, Rose, 17; a brother, Frank, 14, and a married sister, Mrs. Anna Gajewskl, of Chicago. Nebraskan Added. . Washington. Sept. 11.—The Navy department today issued an official list of the casualties Incurred In the loss of seven destroyers on the Pa cific coast, showing one dead and 22 missing and believed to be dead. The names of E. W. Grady of Gret na. Neb., and E. Jones of New Or leans were added to the unofficial list issued last night, while the names of Henry J. Sl'hrank of Milwaukee, WIs., and Josph Silva of Cambridge, Mass , were eliminated from the first casual ty list. Place tho cabbage or cauliflower In a bowl of salted cold water for a half hour before cooking and it will bo much more tender and delicate when done. Omaha Sailor Who Lost Life in Navy August ItakucwnM. Baliy Clinic to Be Held at Pawnee County Fair Table Ro<k, Neb , Sept. 11.—A baby clinic will be a feature of the Paw nee county fair In October, under the direction of Mr*. F. C. Thontann, former county Bed Cross nurse, as si*ted by the doctors of Pawnee county and club women of Pawnee City. All children not attending school «ill be oared for free ot the clinic. Keeping Pace with Photography If it'* worth while, if it really adds to the rase and pleasure of picture-making, you’ll find it here. Keep ing pace with photography is this store’s constant ;; concern. Kodak and Grafiex cam erasof every style and equip ment always in stock - not to forget the Brownie*. Dtnx/tpmg, fnnting and n iarging tf tht luptnor kind. Eastman Kodak Co. Tb« Robert Dempitw Co ) ISIS Funsm St soawhisSst J Welfare Body Trys to Improve Movies Organization Is Formed for This Purpose at Red Cloud Meeting. Red Cloud, Neb., Sept. 11.—A meet ing was held here for the purpose of perfecting a district organization to nominate and elect senators and rep resentatives who will work to create an executive body to standardize mov Ing picture films and establish coun ty and city welfare bureaus. Six representatives were present from "Webster county, nine from Franklin county and 11 from Nuck olls county. These three counties com pose the twenty-seventh senatorial district. .1. H. Agee of Superior Was elected president; P. J. Thiel of Franklin, vee presdent; Ed Port wood of Nelson, scretary, and E. G. Caldwell of Red Cloud, treasurer. C. O. Butler of Franklin was made finance manager; F. II. "’right of Superior, campaign manager; Harry Vaughan of Guide Rock, publicity manager. It is stated that it is not the object to fight moving pictures, but to stand ardise them and bring them up to a level that will meet the approval of the people. The welfare boards are to have power to regulate places of amusment, according to the plan a* outlined. It is planned to perfect organisation In each county. Hastings Family Hears Navy Commander Sale Hastings, Neb., Sept. 11.—Con mander Resile E. Bratton, who war in charge of one of the United State navy destroyers that crashed on the California coast Saturday night, wa reported safe, in a message receive* by his family here today. Seneca Man fs Paid $8.7'» a Hundred for Heavy Steer A load of choice heavy steers aver aging 1,307 pounds, brought to thc stockyards yesterday by L. C. B of Seneca, was cold as beef at $5.7j .< hundred. Mr. Beal also brought In two loads of heifer* for which he r ceived a good price. Vanta Underthings For Wee Babies T^ose Vanta vests that mothers have been asking for in the Baby Shop have just arrived. The double breasted ones in silk and wool that fasten without pins or buttons are $1.75 in size 2 and $1.85 in size 3. The knitted Gertrudes, also of silk and wool, make a warm, comfy little petticoat for winter babies. $2.25. Vanta stockings for infants in white lisle are 45c a pair and the beautiful ribbed ones in silk and wool are 85c. Second Floor Phone AT lentic 0600 EXPECT GREAT THINGS in the NEW CADILLAC Even the superbquality which you have long associated with the name Cadillac is no ade quate measure of the merits of the New V-63 The simple truth is that" Cadillac has ad vanced its own standards and achieved, in this car, heights of quality which are strictly new.' 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