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RED OLOUD. NEBRASKA, CHIEF American Aviators to Bring R-38 Across the Atlantic fRfl$KA IN BRIEF The American crew of tho U .1S, tho glunt dirigible Hint Is being built In Wjj&0M" jENBn Kiicluiul for tlio American mivy, Is Hero seen studying tlic construction or tin- '$M$$ W$, $ 111 iitrshlp. At tlu: right Commander Maxftelil mill Lieut. It. G. Pcnhujor, wlio will SSbJjra S3ft jffifi have It In charge for the trli across tliu Atlantic ocean. ljf&WttJP&'lk PL .1 Timely News Culled From All Parts of the State, Reduced for tho Busy. SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED Woman Seeks Sunken I Riches Salvages Cargoes From Vessels That Have Gone Down in Great Lakes. DIVER GAVE HER THE IDEA Mrs. Margaret Campbell Goodman Has Recovered Fortunes From Wrecks on Floors of Inland 8ea8. Glovclnml. Mrs. Margaret Campbell Goodman, tho only woman salvager In tho world, has regained n fortune which went down with tho Htcnmcr Pownblc, In Luke Huron, 55 years ago. Succeeding whero ninny men hud foil ed, Mrs. Goodmnn has broadened her ecopo of work until sho now has con tracts to raise sunken fortunes In al most every sea. Mrs. Goodmnn Hpent her enrly life Id Mount Pleasant, Mich., nml after lior school dnys sho went to Toledo, O., her present home. There sho bo camo Interested In (living Bults, after witnessing an exhibition of deep-sen diving In which the diver went down 801 feet, remaining under wnter for '15 minutes. Treasure on Sea Bottom. This fent of deep-sen diving con vinced hor that scouring tho lloor of tho Ben for sunken treasures would lie profltnblo business. Homemberlng tho loss of tho l'ewnbic, Mrs. Good mnn, nfter much discouragement, form ed n stock compnny. Sho went to Al pena, Mich., and found Cnpt. John Per sons, who had stood with his father, keeper of tlio lighthouse in Thunder Hay, and watched tho whip founder. Later, Mrs. Goodman located George P. McKay, tho captain of tho Pownblc. Captain McKay was living in Clove- laud and showed Mrs. Goodman the manifest of the lost vessel. It showed that the Powublo carried in her hold tons of copper, worth $200,000 or more, and several hundred tons of pig Iron. In tho ship's express box wan $."0,000 of "shin plasters." Tho work of searching for the Po wnblc was begun In 101(1. In tho first season's work, tho divers took out 100 tons of copiH'r and 100 tons of pig Iron. Many Interesting relics were dis covered which, when possible, wcro forwarded to tho relntlves of the sail ors who had loRt their lives a half century ago. When the treasure chest of the ship was brought to the surface, tho "shin plasters" were found to bo watersoaked and valueless. Considerable work was done In 1017, until the needs of tho government, at war with the central powers, called a halt to nil salvaging operations. To Salvage Cargo of Logs. Mrs. Goodman's next contract is to salvage u schooner that sank in Luke Erie In 1801. She has u release from the owners ami will begin work about July 1. Tills schooner carried a cargo of black walnut and white oak logs, chained to the deck, and Mrs. Good nut ri expects no dilllctilty in salvaging the cargo. Kennei ly n newspaperwoman. Mrs. (Jooilniun lias made it success of n busi ness which is ns Interesting as it is diinireraus. She dlsllkoH being do Hcrllnd as a woman diver, because sho lias imver gone under water herself, und slie says she does not expect to do so unlets for the purpose of Increns- lug her own sclentlllc knowledge. 2,000 POLES WEEKLY TO U. S Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society Opens Branch Office in Warsaw. Wurruw, Poland. Arrangements have bton completed for the transpor tation if 12,000 persons weekly from Poland to the United States by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, which recently, opened olEces in Warsaw. The Polish authorities estimate that 2.10.000 per sons already have applied for pass ports, about 05 per cent of these be ing women and children, dependents of persons now In America. County banks of the stnte in which bridges were los't or wrecked by this spring's heavy floods will linvo to tlnance tlio big bridge companies re erecting the bridges and repairing tlio damages, as many contractors have an nounced that they can not get the necessary financial assistance from the big banks and Hint utiles the counties will see to It that the contractors' needs are token care of by the local bunks, no bridges can lie built or repaired. J Inability of the Missouri Pacific lr ISesldent.H of Homer, who wore tho i f,ll,1,s1' ",rs f,,r -'r' "blpnients to victims of the worst flood in the hlsto- ,mwiH "'""K l,H " '"' Nebraska Is re ry of the district, are moving back In I ""'""'l" for gialn being hauled to their hemes. Willi the exceptions of ' ''ittsinniith for shipment over t hi ll few store buildings, the business dl.s- "''rllnglnn where cars nre available trlct or the town wax ruined. It will lml ,,u,, ls "' elevator 1 the grab lie a mouth before tie- stores can lie "l,llt ll1' "cooped by hand into the cars cleaned, restocked and reopened for Warrants for the arrest of seven business. The devastated territory cov-1 men, charged with selling sioik with ers an area over fifteen square miles, j out a license, were sworn out at Crops are reported as being a total Omnhii at the Instance of Attorney loss I'nrns, chicken cops and other ! General PuvK It Is said that $10 000, small out buildings were in some cases 000 of worthless stock and stock for washed a distance of several miles. which there is no market lins been The State Hoard of Equalization re- so1' '" Nebraskr In the lust year, ports that Hie Cnlon Paellle, Willi cap- The Nebraska supremo court hns ll nt stock of $:t2l,St.1,100, and gross tilled that the four A. (). U. W. lodge earnings in Nebraska of $U,10!MK,i;..1li In Omaha, which withdrew from the during the past car, shows net earn- Jurisdiction of Nebraska ami wcnl lugs of $Hy.M,7-l l.lil, or mole than i Into the Iowa Jurisdiction u few years any other road in the state. The ('. It. ago, still have the right to retain tl.i & . was second with net earnings of! shares of stock they held in the A. O $.S,,17S, 1.18.70, from gross earnings, U. W. temple in Omaha, amounting to $:iS,12l,r.O. Its capital Nebraska ranked second anion" nl stock is listed at $U0.S:K,100. The slates of tho union In the recenl MIsMiurl Paellle is the only line to American Legion membership drive report n deficit, the loss for the jour and tills state now has over 270 po-t-S being ? H.'J.SvS.DS. tlilrty women's auxiliaries and over A new .'100-foot state aid bridge will 20,000 members, livery county In the be requited to span the new channel state with the exception of two huc or tin .Moorura river between () Nelii one or more posts, and Spencer, cut by recent heavy floods, i Tlle ,, nopartment of agrlcultiiro The river lias taken an old channel has sent letteis to 12,000 Nebraska which was the main bed -10 years ago, ' nalci In oleomargarine, liinnufnc and the 200-foot structure recently turers of Ice cream, ilnlrv nhmk i.n. .-f fiw Deserter Lives Long in Cave 4 v f Ohio Youth Fears Firing Squad " Because of Visit to Family. "FATHER OF VICTORY" tf Wcatrrn NtwipflMr Union".. I Bl ra IMi j2 KnnaTwnnntm Lfi?31i2tt,, This bunt of Cleineuceau has been named "Father of Victory" by tho sculptor, Fullez, u famous French urtist. GIVES UP AFTER TWO YEARS Hideo In Hills, Feeds on Herbs and Wild Berries and Such Scanty Food as His Wife Got to Him. Chllllcotho, O. Stories of how a neighbor deserter from the Union army during tlio Civil war had been brought to bay In a nearby village by a UulteilM States marshal and phot, brought visions of a similar fate o Carl Amer- lno and Impelled him to bide In tho hills nlmost two years rather than face u firing squad at Camp Sher man. Amvrlne, drafted Into the army, left a wife and two-year old babe at home, In tho quiet, picturesque hills. Ho could neither read nor write and the largest village visited in ills 24 years had numbered less than a thou sand Inhabitants. The bustling thou sands at tho camp, military restraint mid customs weighed heavily on him nnd nn impelling desire to see his wife and baby boy led him to quit camp to seo them without obtaining permission. Fears Firing Squad. At home, his father, a tottering vet eran of the Civil war, told him he was a deserter. Visions of the firing squad Hashed through his mind. Kissing his "SEE AMERICA FIRST" wife and baby good-by ho took to tho nigged bills. There Anierlne found n cave In which he slept most of the time, ven turing forth only nt night nnd ut times during the dny when there wits little chance of being seen. Ills only fare was such scanty food as his wife could get to him, herbs and wild berries gntheYed from the woods and fields, and such wild game as he could catch. The cave In which ho lived Is said to be large enough for only one per son, and could have been defended against many. So closely did he watch ajl approaches to ills hiding place that until a few days ago he bad been seen by no one except his wife and a brother-in-law. Military authorities had abandoned tho search for Anierlne. Three weeks go an attorney friend of the family became Interested and Implored the wife to have her busbnnd return and give himself up. She steadfastly held that her husband would lie shot if captured and refused to have him re turn, j Clarence Stnno of Adelpbl managed to get word to the youth hist week that ills was not a case of desertion, nnd there- wns no danger of a firing squad. Amerlno cautiously left his hiding place, and visited Stone's home, where they went over the situation. He agreed to give himself up. Anierlne again went to Stone's home. His wife brought his uniform, which sho bad preserved for him and had neatlv pressed for the occasion. With Stone nnd un attorney, Anierlne went to Camp Sherman and surrendered to tlio adjutant. He made no comment except to express himself as being well plensed Unit "it 1b nil over." ,. ; built Is left blub nml dry. Aid will be given by the stnte to cit izens of Homer, whose homes recent l were swept from their 'foundations h.v flood waters from a nearby creek, Sec retary II. II. Antics of the Nebraska welfare department announced at Lin coln. It Is planned to move the bouses to higher ground. The national prohibition convention, which will meet in Lincoln, July '2, promises to be a huge affair. Twenty six hundred delegates and alternates are listed ami a large number of vis itors are expected. It Is expected to he' the last prohibition national con vention. .Members of the state board of con trol have completed their scinl-nniiuul visit to the 1(1 state Institutions under their control and report that all of them are In good working condition. Those Institutions which have farm binds in connection have a line pros-' pect for a big crop of all kinds. Three archliects to act as a "Jury" in helping the Nebraska state cupitol commission select a plan for construc tion of the state's new $.1,000,000 cap ital building to be erected at Lincoln have been employed. A decision ls ex pected about July 1. C. T. Kliimb, fanner, living near Henderson, signed $10,000 bonds for Charles II. Wentz, vice-president of the American State buiVK at Aurora, who Is under Indictment for alleged embezzlement of more than $00,000. Reports from Washington are to the effect t tit it the reduction in the annual agricultural appropriation bill will cause the abandonment of federal co operating testing work In Nebraska and several other states. More than 200 box cars, suitable for the moving of grain were unloaded by orders from the terminals committee, in the Omaha yards Just the other day, and made available for the grain serv ice In Nebraska. Judge J. P. Hiiuna, 50, of the Elev enth Judicial district, owner of several farms in Greeley county and well teis, rooming nouses, cold storage plants and like places which operate under u state license that their licenses must be renewed. Nebraska Is not the only mid-west state menaced by wolves. From Jef ferson City, Mo., comes the report that wolves are becoming more numerous In that state and that farmers are los ing many pigs and lambs. Measure!: are being taken to combat the posts. The balance in the state treasury at the close of business May III was $,0.'l.'I,lt:i.l.ri, according to a report Is sued by State Treasurer Cropsy. The report of tlio month before shower $.'',i.10,S.1.1.0S, a gain for the last month of $82,77S.07. The body of Oscar Fisher, employe on the farm of Charles G. Keller, north of West Point, who was caught In the Hood waters of Plum Creek, was found in a deep hole In a pasture not for from where he was last seen. Word has reached Tecuinseh that Chief Quartermaster O. F. Altken of that place, lot his life In a battle with a shark February IS in Giiatananio bay, Cuba, after making a parachute dive from a balloon. Goring claims the largest perceutago of Increase In population during the past ten years of any Nebraska town yet announced by the census bureau, the gain being ,'iOO per cent. The of ficial population is 2,.'iOS. The federal census bureau, which announced the population of P.ealrlin ns n little more than .1,000. lias revised the figure to O.OOl, a gain of K0S, or :t.:i per cent, since 11)10. The Albion Commercial club voted to change the name to ('oiuiniiuity cluli. This action was taken to get the farmers Interoted In community development. The price of Nebraska land is still soaring. It is thought a record for eastern Nebraska land was made when .1. P. Tlcknor sold his farm, neat Firth, for $070 an acre. The Iteatrlce Itotary club has named la committee to. work out plans foi known In central Nebraska, died Sad-j Iirbes to Iteatrlce high school stu- Well, He or the Hen it- Conditions in Europe Not Attrac tive to Tourists. Poor Hotel Accommodations and Scarcity of Food Keep Ameri cans at Home. Washington. Sponsors of "Seo America First" Ideas will find consola tion in tlio stories reaching tho Unit ed Stutes of conditions In Europe which tend to 'discourngo "going nbrond" this year. Ono of tlio big ob stacles to tourists of foreign lauds Is tlio lock of transportation fncllltlus. Throughout tho continent rolling stock ls at a premium nnd passenger serv Ico Is bniHy crippled. While conditions In Franco nnd Eng-'' Jnnd nro not pleasant for tho tourist, eastern nnd southern Polund nnd parts of Germany nro eveu less attractive. ffyphold fovcr and spotted fover have come over tho borders of Soviet Itus sin into Poland, and the food situa tion inlds to the distress there. Tourists to Europe this summer will 11 nil that they did not Jcuvo high prices nt home, for the Europenns liavo boosted tho prices of nearly ev erything which is to lie sold to Ameri can tourists. This Is most notlcenblo In Germany, wheni tho practice of dis criminating against Americans is ram pant. Much of tho samu discrimination exists In England and France, al though tho governments are doing ev erything to check It. For ninny months Europe hns suf fered from the effects of the unfavor able rnto of foreign exclinngo in en den vorlng to buy commodities in tho United States, und the American tour ist Is now paying smno of that deficit. The tiso of springs ls done nwny with in a new cord operated dovlco for opening and closing transoms, win- d9WB or shutters. Deserves a Medal Los Angeles. Edward Sehnf- fer of Hroudwny, Venice, has ? ono hen In Ills flock of eight that lias distinguished herself. J Sho Is n Plymouth Hock, 2 years old. During the post two week's i sho has laid fourteen eggs, not J ono of which weighed less than i six ounces nor measured less i than eight and three-quartern $ Inches around. Schuffer says thero Is no doubt that It has j been the same hen in each In stance, for each egg bears a trademark which consists of two pronounced elevated rings around y,.n .villi llf till, I'L'IT. ,f,J .. ' w -CO- """ " . More Power to the Tractor. Danville, Ky. What tho tractor has dono for transportation was shown hero when -10,000 shingles were hauled away -In one load. It was probably tho lamest load of shingles ever shipped except by boot or train. denly of heart failure at his home at Grand Island. Governor McKeivie hns extended nn invitation to T. Walton, director of extension vVork for Texas, to Include Inthe trip of the farm boys special, which will visit other states, the state r of Nebraska. Hecord price for farm land around St. Edward was shattered the other day when Mrs. A. E. Amies sold her farm for $(!00 an acre. A revival of the game of horseshoes Is planned by the Fremont Y. M. C. A., which will hold a city tournament soon. Prospects for good fruit crops In southeastern Nebraska are exception ally favorable, growers report. Wahoo boasts of having the cham pion amateur wireless telegraph op erator of Nebraska, lie Is one Jolm'E. Vlach and just recently he Intercepted a message of distress from n ship on tho Atlantic ocean but was unable to get details or the ship's location, Post No. 11 of the American Legion nt Hustings has gone on record ns op posed to the drive which contemplates tho erection of a $1,000,000 memorial on the state university campus nt Lin coln, taking the position that tho croc-, tlon of n memorial In Adams county should come first. Hevlvnl meetings conducted Jointly bv tlio eight Kearney protestont churches have already netted over 2,000 convert . A cloudburst nt Valentine damaged tho state llsherles then? considerably, the high water overflowing the dam nnd washing u largo number of llsh Into the Elkhorn river. At the unnunl convention of tho State Association of Commercial Clubs at Hastings a proposal wns ndoptod to convert tho organization Into a Nebras ka Chamber of Commerce. Tho question wiib referred to a committee. GOOD ROADS ROADS IN NATIONAL FORESTS Thirty Thousand Miles Will De Needed in Next Ten Years for Proper Development. Thfiy thousand miles of rond. esti mated 000, v to cot not less than $1.10.000. III be needed for the proper pro- lectin! and development of the na tional! forests, nnd the nenr-by commu nities luring the next ten years, av cordlni,' to comprehensive road plans which linve been prepared. The sec retary of agriculture has already ap proved tho construction of .1,1.12 miles, estimated to cost $20,10:1,000. contin gent upon federal ami co-operative, funds becoming available. Govern- On the Floyti Hill Road, Near Denver, Colo. ment expenditures of $15,7-10,000 have been authorized for tills purpose. Tho roads comprised In tlio compre hensive road plans form tho basis of the ultimate national forest road sys tem. They are used us main high ways, either In connection with through routes or to serve Important local needs. Tho construction of feeder roads ls being largely post poned until the primnry road system of the national forests Is completed. It ls expected that tlio present esti mate cost will bo largely exceeded when surveys nre made of tho projects now on the list, since In ninny cases the only nvnllnblo estimates are based upon incomplete dntn. FARMER AND GOOD HIGHWAYS dents who won honors In debating and athletics Farmers of southeastern Nebraska are discussing the advisability of es tablishing a co-operative elevator1 on the liurllngton line at Plattsmouth. The-ISth annual camp meeting of the Nebraska Stale Holiness, association will lie held June 1S-27 at Epwcrtli Lake pail; at Lincoln. Several elaborate entertainment fea tures are being arranged for Merchant's Market Week nt Omaha, August 2!1 to 25). Preliminary work for the laying of forty-five blocks of paving at Albion ls well under way. Plans have been finished for the new $7.1,000 Mothodls't Episcopal church to bo orcctcifut Alliance. Property damage to Homer nnd surrounding towns by flood watera from Omaha creek Is estimated at more than $1,000,000. The Hood fol lowed a cloudburst. Governor McKeivie has granted tho twentieth reprieve In the Cole-Ornm-mer case, which has been pending since March, 1018, when the two were sentenced by tho district court of Howard county for the murder of Mrs. Lulu Voglit of Elba. The case Is now In the hands of the U,. S. circuit court at St. Puul nnd n decision Is expected soon. Itesolutlons to stand together for nn eight-hour day, better pay and n .10- day yearly vacation were adopted by tho Nebraska letter carriers and post office clerks In convention at Falrbury. Tlio state board of control has let contracts for coal for Nebraska's six teen state Institution's for the ensuing year, tlio average price bl'lng $.1.50 a ton or approximately $27.1,000. Michael Curtain, nged 80 yenrs, who was found dead with bis throat cut nt Grand Island, wns slain by bis son, Mlchnol Jr., following n quarrel, uc cnrdlng to police reports, . Has Become Hard Working and Vot ing Enthusiast for Improved Roads Because of Many Benefits. The biggest booster for good ronds In the country today is tlio farmer. A. 'few years ngo ho felt that the portion of ills taxes used In tlio construction of permniient highways represented a benefit only to the motoring tourist and the city automobile owner, writes II. W. Shiuson in Leslie's. The farm er argued that be was paying for their pleasures, nnd tlio result wns a superstition against the good roads movement. Now, however, when tho farmer finds that his land has trebled In val ue: when the merchandise for which ho hns telephoned in the morning can be delivered by noon of the same clay; when the market for his own product) is brought hours nearer; when tho winter and Its following spring thaw possess no terrors for him all this because of tho Improved highway which makes his farm only n suburb, ns It were, of the nearest city bo naturally becomes a hardworking nnd hard-voting enthusiast for good roads. GRAVEL GOOD FOR HIGHWAYS When Properly Handled It Can Bo Traveled Over All Year Dirt Road Is Different. While gravel, ns n rule, does not mnke the best typo of road, tlint ls not so much tlio fnult of tho gravel ns of the wny It Is put on. It is usu ally not evenly sprond or leveled down, nor nro the boles kept filled. If properly bundled n gravel rond enn nt lenst bo traveled on any time of the year, which cannot bo said of a dirt road. FARM ROADS MADE OF EARf H No Good Reason Why They Should Not Be Graded Up and Main tained in Good Condition. Tho vast mnjorlty of tho fnrm ronds must necessarily bo of enrtli. How ever, there ls no reason why they can not bo graded up somewhat after the fashion of a public highway nnd main tained In that condition. FARM ROADS ARE ESSENTIAL Just as Important as Public Thorough fares In Hauling Various Kinds of Crops. Many of us know the vnluo of good public roads, but how muny of us know tho vuluo of good ronds on the farm? Experience hns tnught thnt good ronds on tho private farm are Just ns cssentlnl and important as good public roads. i 3 M n , 'JuirW
