THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 5, 1917.
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ANOTHER ANGLE TO
FRATERNAL FIGHT
Dora Alexander Files Motion
in Supreme Court Asking
That Attorneys' Fees
Be Reduced.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Aug. 4. (Special Tele
gram.) Another step was taken in
the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
controversy this afternoon when
Dora Alexander, acting for the circle,
filed a motion in the state supreme
court asking that the fee of $25,000
awarded Arthur Mullen, Hallcck Rose
and J. J. Sullivan as attorneys for
Mrs. Emma Manchester, supreme
guardian, in her suit to retain her
rights as such official, be cut to $15.
000, the fees of $14,000 awarded Jef
feries and Tunison and McGilton,
Gaines and Smith, as attorneys for
Mrs. Alexander and Mary LaKocca, to
remain the same.
The action was taken after the su
preme council at its meeting in At
lanta had voted 39 to 29, authorizing
the motion on the grounds that the
fee was excessive. Mrs. Manchester,
who was authorized by the council to
sign the petition as supreme guardian,
refused to do so, according to the af
fidavit of Mrs. Alexander.
Mrs. Louise Smith Dies
At Home in Tecumseh
Tecumsch, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special
Telegram.) Mrs. Louise Smith,
widow of the late Theodore Smith of
this city, died at her home here to
day. She was 69 years old.
Mrs. Smith was a native of Brad
ford county, Pennsylvania, and the
early years of her life were spent in
Marshall county, Illinois. She is sur
vived by a brother and four sons.
The funeral will be at the home
Sunday afternoon.
Fremont Tax Levy Raised
Fourteen and Half Mills
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special
Telegram.) The levy for raising
taxes in Fremont for the current
year was raised from 33, last year's
levy, to AT2 mills by the city council.
The loss of the saloon licenses and
an increase in the sinking fund are
responsible for the increase. Provis
ion is made for the purchase of a
motor service truck for the fire de
partment Former Sterling Lumberman
Dies at Broken Bow Home
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special
Telegram.) J. II. Melville died at his
home at Broken Bow today. He was
65 years old. He is survived by his
widow and several children.
Mr. Melville was in the lumber
business at Sterling for years.
He was republican candidate for
representative to the Nebraska legis
lature from Johnson county in the
last campaign. Funeral at Sterling
Sunday under direction of the Ma
sonic order.
Stricken Blind By Sniper's Bullet British
Sergeant Major Holds His MenTogether
for Week Until "Tommies" Bring Relief
Secretary of Blind Relief Fund
for Soldiers Tells Story of
Heroic Action of "Non-Corn."
By MRS. R. V. WEBSTER.
Sciretary of the AmerlT.n-Brltlah-Frf-nch-UolUn
Permanent Itllnd Jtelief War
Fund fur 8. Idlers and Sailors,
.New York.
London, July 12. It was the noise
of the fowls that attracted my atten
tion to him. A clean cut, athletic,
good-looking chap, he stood in the
midst of them in a wire fenced en
closure with a rake under his arm,
whistling cheerily. Now and then he
interrupted his tune and "chuck-chuck-chueked"
at the birds as lie
plqnged his bare arm into a canvas
bag and scattered the feed about him.
Now and then also lie stopped to
laugh as one more venturesome and
more impatient than the rest flew up
to his hand and fluttered back among
the greedy flock that were cackling,
scratching and pecking at one anoth
er with strident cries as frantically
they darted about many scores of
them and quarreled over the manna
that fell so bountifully on every side.
"Na poo!" he announced finally,
and moved towards the gate on which
1 was leaning watching the scene
with languid interest. He flung the
empty bag over his arm and came to
ward me, filling his pipe and "shoo
ing" his feathered friends as they
scattered before him and followed
him, cackling for more, after the man
ner of their insatiable kind. Stopping
for a moment to apply a match to the
tobacco, he opened the gate, closed it
behind him carefully and walked
right into me where I had drawn
aside to let him pass.
A flush of red deepened the bronze
of his face and spread over his neck,
down to his half bared chest and he
brought up short, standing stiffly,
heels together, shoulders squared and
groping with both hands.
His action had been so sudden, so
unexpected, that I had uttered a little
cry, half of astonishment and half of
indignation, before 1 realized from his
confusion and outstretched hands
that he was blind.
He recovered from his embarrass
ment on the instant, as one accus
tomed to such encounters and smiled
pleasantly again as he said apologet
ically: "Excuse me, ma'am, my mistake.
I'm awfully sorry. It was very careless
of me."
His mistake!
He broke in upon the apology that
I, in turn, had begun to stammer.
"Don't mention it, ma'am," he said.
"I ought to have heard you coming.
I take it you are a stranger. Every
body round here knows me and side
steps." "Oh, you are Sergeant Major Tom
linson," I said. .
"Yes, ma'am. At your service," he
answered simply.
Everybody, even visitors, in the vi
cinity of the Buckinghamshire vil
lage, knew of Sergeant Major Tomlin-j
son, for he was the lion of the coun
tryside for miles around. The partic
ular exploit, one of many, which had
won for him the Victoria Cross, was
common history his wife, who was
prouder of him than anybody else,
had seen to that. Tomlinson himself
could never be induced to talk of it.
It is an unwritten code among the
British soldiers, rigidly observed,
never to discuss such things on pain
of the ridicule and contempt of their
comrades. But it was a matter of
record that his battalion in the great
push 011 the Sommc, having been re
duced to a scant company by a ma
chine gun nest in Devil's Wood had
finally cleared it out with a bayonet
charge only to find that in the ebb
and flow of the battle they had been
cut off. Not a commissioned officer
had been left, and Tomlinson, rally
ing the survivors, many of whom
were wounded, had held out for seven
days against terrible odds and ex
haustion from lack of food and water,
and taken fearful toll of the enemy,
until the tide had turned again and
a sea of khaki had swept in upon and
around them. Tomlinson. who three
days before had been wounded in the
head by a sniper's bullet, had then
collapsed and when the stretcher
bearers appeared upon the scene his
fellow heroes learned to their amaze
ment that he was blind. The bullet
had cut the optic nerve of the right
eye and the other eye had become
affected in sympathy. How with their
first aid bandages swathed around his
head could they have known? He
had never said a word about it, but
suffering himself the torments of the
inferno had continued to keep up the
spirits of his men and direct the de
fense. Looking at him now I could hardly
believe he was blind. His eyes were
the calm gray eyes of the English,
and they seemd to gaze full upon me.
At first glance no one would have sus
pected that they were sightless, espe
cially as the illusion was heightened
by his firmness of step and surcness
of movement.
I told him that I belonged to the A.
B. F. B. Fcrmanent Blind Relief War
fund and won his interest incon
tinently. Again the red flush suf
fused his face deeply bronzed by long
soldiering in India and in the trenches
of I' ranee, and it took on an expres
sion of animation that seemed to
transform it.
"Do you, though I by jove, that's
finel" he said warmly. "Your Amerl
can people are splendid and I have
often wished that I could thank some
body for what your society has done
for me for us. Won't you come over
to the house and meet my wife and
have a cup of tea with us? She's a
great little woman and will be de
lighted to see you."
I declined. "Tell me about your
self," I requested. "I mean how our
fund has helped you."
'Well. 1 happen to know that I
was one of those who benefited from
the 10,000 your Fund sent to help
the work of the British section. They
told us about it at the home. And u
your Americans who gave so gener
ously could only see what they have
done for our blinded Tommies they
would teel happy to the end of their
days, as I hope they will in any case.
Uod bless them whoever they are anu
wherever they may be.
lhere isn t much to tell. When it
dawned on me that my sight was
gone for good I figured that there
was only one thing left for me to do
finish what the Huns had begun.
The most cheerful of my visions of
the future was a picture of myself
standing limply at a street corner
with a little dog and a tin cup, and
my gorge rose at tnat. ine kiiiq
souls who look alter us chaps soon
proved to me, however, that I was
good for something better. 1 naa
been in the army ever since I was old
enough to enlist, and being a city
man my folks live in London
I had always dreamed ot a
little home in the country
when I retired from the service.
To cut it short, I married a girl of
this place whom I had been courting
before the war and here J. am, a poul
try farmer and doing fairly well.
They taught me how to do it at the
home and your American money
helped to set me up. I started with
eleven hens, which gave me about
fifty eggs a week. Now there are
nearly 300 and I look after them all
myself. I manage the incubators,
clean out the runs, mix the feed and
fatten the chickens for market. Ut
course there are some things I can't
do, but then my wife helps me and
sees for me. And aside from raising
the poultry, which naturally doesn't
occupy all my time, I make a little
money mending shoes, something else
they taught me at the nome.
"I'm not badly off, all things con
sidered. I can still do a man's work
and make my way, and I am happy
in my home. For the rest 'What's
the use of worrying, it never was
worth while,' as the song says."
A wistful smile betrayed that never
theless 'there were many things for
which his soul was hungry, for which
it would hunger in vain forever. But
it died out as a thought occurred to
him that concerned me very nearly.
"There are an awful number of men
blinded in this war," he said. "There
are the high explosives which shatter
everything about you into deadly
splinters and blow sand and dirt into
your face with the force of a bullet
in every grain, and there's the gas the
Huns send us which burns your eyes
out, and the flame throwers which
sear them out yards away. And the
snipers they get many victims, too;
they are perpetually on the lookout
for heads appearing above the trench
parapets. Now that America, thank
God, is taking her place in the firing
line, you will have many of your poor
fellows on your hands in the same
pickle I was in and your A. B. F. B.
will have all its work cut out."
He bade me a cheery good evening
and started off with the assured tread
of one who knew his way perfectly,
using his rake as a staff.
Missing Fremont Girl Is
Found at Morse Bluffs
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special
Telegram.) Mabel Garrison, the 15-year-old
girl, who disappeared Mon
day, after she had been sent to the
police station to report an attempt to
kidnap hw, was located at Morse
Bluffs, and brought to Fremont by
Chief of Police J. A. Welton.
The girl said she started out to
walk to Morse Bluffs, where she ap
plied for work at a hotel. She was 1
given a ride by a farmer and taken to
his home, where she had dinner. She
then went to the home of the farmer's
sister, Mrs. John Janovec, where she
remained for three days and nights
an dthen walked to Morse Bluffs.
She said that she was picked up
and placed in an automobile Sunday
evening by two men who prevented
her calling for help by holding their
hands over her mouth. Police of
ficers are looking for a man with
whom Mabel said she was walking
when forced into the automobile.
Fifty Men Examined for
Draft in Johnson County
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special
Telegram.) The Johnson county ex
emption board examined fifty men
here today and will report later. As
Tecumseh raised a volunteer com
pany, the draft calls for but sixteen
men from this county.
Comfort Bags For Soldiers.
Geneva, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special.)
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union members here have been mak
ing and filling comfort bags and are
just completing one each for the Ge
neva Guardsmen, now at Tecumseh.
Two Sons in Service;
Father Follows Suit
Wet Point, Aug. 4. (Special.)
Dr. H. L. '.Veils received a message
from Washington, Tuesday, ordering
him to proceed to Fort Riley, Kan.
He offered his services to the govern
ment in the medical reserve corps in
April, shortly after war was declared. !
Although he does not know where he
will be stationed for duty, it is prob
able that his work will take him to
some base hospital on the front. He
leaves West Point on Sunday for
Kansas. His going into this service
marks the entrance of the third from
his family his two sons and himself.
One of his sons has enlisted, the other
has been at the West Foint Military
academy for two years.
Pioneer Resident of
Custer County Dead
Broken Bow, Aug. 4. (Special.)
Charles Galpin, city assessor, is
dead at his home following
a long period of ill health.
Death was due to consumption. He
was one of the pioneers of this sec
tion, coming here from Bloomfield,
la., in 1886. He leaves a wife and.
several children residing in the
county. '
Aviation Student Killed
During First Flight
Wellsburg, W. Va., Aug. 4. C. B.
Lambert of Welch, W. Va., an avia
tion student, was killed, and E. L.
Frey of the British royal flying corps
sustained injuries which may cause
his death in the fall of an aeroplane
here' today. It was Lambert's first
flight.
Bee Want Ads produce results.
ASSASSINS OF KING
AND QUEENARE SHOT
Deed Committed Fifteen Years
Ago is Finally Squared in a
Dramatic Manner by the
New Regime.
(Correspondence ot The Associated Press.)
Corfu, Island of Corfu, July 10.
Fate has at last fallen on that band
of military regicides who some fif
teen years ago broke into the royal
palace at Belgrade at night and as
sassinated King Alexander and the
Serbian queen, Draga.
Three high officers have recently
been shot after military court-martial.
Three more are awaiting death sen
tence, seven officers, including a gen
eral, have received life sentences and
some thirty officers have received
lesser sentences of from one to five
years.
While the outside world was
shocked, the band of assassins en
joyed at home a certain immunity
and iven glory for having rid the
country of a dissolute ruler and his
plebeian gypsy queen, for the name
of Draga had been well known in
the concert halls of Emolu before
she had the luck to win a king and
crown.
The murder clique remained in con
trol of the army until after the pres
ent war, when Prince Alexander be
came regent, owing to the age of
King Peter. One of his first acts was
to restore to active service a great
number of officers retired by the mur
der clique. This resulted in the clique
plotting his death, but the conspiracy
was discovered.
More than forty high officers were
tried as a result of the conspiracy.
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