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    the Omaha Sunday Bee =.
VOL. 52—NO. 49. ^ ” srlZ“ a".?1^ MmU9' _OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1923. ••• ”,» "Vn FIVE CENTS
I
Inflation of
Mark Ruins
G e r m a n y
Trickery hy Government and
“Industrialists” Causes Peo
ple to Lose Faith in
Settlement.
Example Is Set for U. S.
By MARK STRIA VAN.
Rondnn, May 10.—The purpose
of the present article is to tell just
xvhat happens to a nation and a peo
pie whose unit of currency goes
through the experience that is called
"inflation.” The purpose is to tell it
in terms of the experience of Ger
many and the mark. Not only, will it
be of interest as a narrative of what
has actually happened in Germany. It
will also have some value as an ex
ample in the light of occasional hints
—hints which the writer cannot help
feeling lire sinister—of what some
persons would be willing to bring
about at home in America. To get the
analogy it will merely be necessary
to imagine what has happened to
the mark in Germany as happening
to the doller in America.
Before the war the value of the
German mark was, roughly. 25 cents.
Today It is worth so little you can
call it anything you wish—for con
venience, say one one-hundredth of
a cent.
To a degree, an infinitesimal and
comparatively harmless degree, some
think like this has happened to our
dollar, for the dollar which was worth
100 cents in 1011 is worth today,
measuring in purchasing power,
about 60 cents. To the degree that
this has happened in America It has
pot been a matter of deliberate cur
rency inflation, but chiefly a matter
of credit inflation, a thing that ac
companied the Issuing of bonds to
pay for the war and was largely un
avoidable. If there should be any
body in America who would like this
depreciation of the dollar to go fur
ther A C thluk.v *„’■ ■ ,t t Of til*tig
is good for -i notion, the present nar
rative of what iTpr- . vntion has done
**•- of Germany will be cn
lightening.
l\ S. Menaced,
America Is not wholly immune from
the possibility of being inflated from
Kurope by the views of what seems
superficially to he alluring In defla
tion. We have among us at least a
few of the kind of people who think
inflation is a good thing. Without
attempting to make, or even to hint,
what would probably be as unpleas
ant a prediction ns it would be pos
aible to make about our future. it
may be said that among the dangers
of the campaign of next year is the
possibility that somebody may arise i
with a cheap money panacea. Indeed,
a phrase that one of our presidential
aspirants let drop some months ago
has already pointed in that direction.
Ret us take the German people,
cla-s by class.
For convenience, take first the class
that had money in the savings banks.
Those of the German people who |
saved their money and put It in the
savings banks, and in the other Ger-;
man equivalents of savings banks, are
precisely like those of our own people
who do the same sort of thing. This
cljhs of people is the alt of every
nation—the workers who make it a
practice to spend a little lc=s than !
they earn: who, every Saturday night, ,
take some part of their pay and put
it in the savings bank ns a protection |
against sickness or old age, or for
the education of their children.
This class of people in Germany has
been robbed of everything they had
Thrift <>f No \vail.
Before the war—and even during
the war. because deflation did not
begin until near the clone of the war—
a good, hard working Herman work
man could pile up his savings mark
by nvirk. and look forward to the
tnio when he should have in the
savings bank, let us say, 2,000 marks,
and the Interest from that sum would
kpep him adequately during his old
age. Today thnt 20,000 marks would
hardly buy him a single meal. He Is
on the world, he has no provision for
the future, he is bewildered/ He was
taught that thrift was a virtue, and
now he finds that some mysterious
power which he does not understand,
some malevolent agency of the gov
ernment or business, or both corn
hined, has made all his savings of no
avail.
Take next the class of people who
carry life insurance. This class In
Hermany is precisely like iho same
class at home—men with a care for
the future and for their families. Year
by year they paid their premiums In
the full confidence that when they
should come to die they would leave
behind them enough to save then
wives and children from Immediate
want. They were as confident of
the security of their life Insurance,
as suit the money would he there to
take care of their families, as th'-y
were of death Itself Hut now they
find that after paying 2 > cent pieces
to the insurance companies all their
lives, their families will get. hack
pieyes of paper worth less than »
hundredth of a eent. Y'oil call Imagine
the sense of outrage and dazed lie
wlldarmant with which these people
contemplate their present, position.
M nntlmird on I’lirc * V Column l.l
Noted Lawyer May Run
in Presidential Race
Dudley F. Malone.
Dudley F. Malone
Throws Mat Into
Political Arena
Husband of Omaha Girl May
Be ‘“Surprise” Candidate
for President—Sa\s
Women to Rule.
By International Newi Service.
London, May 19.—Dudley Field]
Malone, democrat, formerly collector
of the port of New York and now an
international lawyer, dividing his time j
between Paris and New York, shied t
his hat into the American political
ring today as "surprise presidential
candidate*’ in 1924. Malone said he j
believed women would rule the world 1
in the future instead of men. He is
married to Doris Stevens, formerly of
Omaha, a leader of the militant I
suffragists in the United States.
“I shall fight in the next presi-]
dential election,” he said, “possibly j
as a surprise candidate. I am opposed)
to American participation in the
league of nations or the international i
court of justice and arbitration."
Malone refused to disclose his presi
dential plans to any further extent ’
but bo believes that President Hard
ing and Henry Ford will be two of
the presidential candidates next year
In «ddft»on. he believe*, vy.'re will be
an '‘unknown. I
Outlining Ills views of the future *
Malone said:
"l believe in the future the world j
wiff be ruled by women. 1 do no* t& j
gard the future with apprehension, j
A man-made world has Just left mil-!
lions of dead upon the battlefields ]
No sex could make a poorer job of j
things than the men. They cannot
govern.
"Participation by the women Is not
going to bring about a milleniurn. but
it will help the men to treat questions
of peace and war with practical
realism.
“Labor leaders in the United States (
ire 25 years behind conservative'
English labor leaders In political in-i
telligenee.
' American foreign policy based upon i
the design of oil domination or even |
world exploitation would mean an1
American policy based wholly upon
commercial exploitation. I do not be- j
lieve that the American people ap
prove such a policy.
2 Burwell Children
Are Buried Alive
Bo> and Cirl Playing in Sand
Pit Are Killed in
Cave-in.
* i;il Dlupnlrh to The Onmlm B< f.
Onmrl island. Neb., May ID.—MU*
dren an I Fred Hahn, 11 and 13. ehll- j
dreu of Fred Hahn, mail carrier at ,
Burwell, were buried alive while play
ing in a huge aand pile in a sand pit
mar Bjurwell. When they failed to
return home, a March was instituted.
Their bodies were discovered, when
oim foot of the little pirl was found
protrudiri- Both had been dead fur
some time.
The wind a few days a*ro shifted
the sand and made several bte blow*
outs It is belfayed the children ven
tur'd intu a dangerous place and their
play caused the sand to shift
Shipments
From Ruhr
increase
Average of 300 Carloads Fuel
Exported From Occupied
Areas During First Two
Weeks of May.
Germans Plan New Offer
By Associated Pr«*.
Essen, May 19. — In authoritative
German quarters it was declared today
(hat the French and Belgians by no
means have reached the preoccupa
tion volume of coal and coke exports
from the Ruhr, ns claimed by Premier
Poincare, it was admitted, however,
that the first fortnight of May saw an
average daily export of 300 carloads.
Shipments reached as high as 757
carloads on May 9. but dropped to
135 the next day because of bridge
destructions. By May 13 traffic bad
been sufficiently restored to send out
428 carloads.
During April, 9 445 carlodas were ex
ported by wav of the Rhine bridge at
Duisburg, compared with 1,210 in'
March. One hundred bargeloads also
were exported In April.
The Germans attribute the great in
crease over the previous month main- ]
ly to the fact that 44 mines were
under occupation in the Ruhr in
April against 10 in March.
To Sfale Fixed Annuities.
Berlin. May 19.—Germany's forth
coming reparations proposals will stip
ulate definite annuities instead of of
f< i iitc a fixed total, according to in
formation from political quarters. It
is stated that the German league of
industrialists Is preparing a plan which!
will enable the government to make
an offer based upon positive con-'
Crete guarantees for which the Ger-i
man Industrial, financial and eotnmer j
clal Interests, political parties and la
bor unions will go security.
Although the details of the forth
coming offer have not been divu'ged
or discussel. It appear? that the pow
*Tfui Industrial league h:<a soc> ■ e-1
V‘*B B.^)WitiC;,.i ' '■ cm’ " ■
i>-t »'£-*tgn .Un'cr lt.e .
• he fsiiilty a. >,**cu!.itiric utx n -. i i
urnatlonal 'oar, a* a has - .or repna-i
lion.
Propose*, Substitute.
Fhe ie.igue Instead propose# to tub
stitute a system of gold annuities
to be guaranteed through the co-opera
tlon of labor unions in connection
with a platform calling for Increased
production all around. The gold is to
be rain d by a process which is describ
ed as a giant hypothecation of all the
nation's productive units—mines, fac
tories, farms, banks, fisheries, etc.
Chancellor Cuno and Ills cabinet are
devoting the Whitsuntide holidays to
an examination of the basic features
of the scheme, but are not expected
to reach a definite conclusion beforo
the end of next week
It appears, however, that the gov
ernment has permanentiy jettisoned its
hopes of obtaining a hearing among
the creditor powers, especially France,
for any reparation plan based upon an
Intangible loan and it is believed that
the proposals as outlined above sug
Rest a more promising solut on.
Mrs. Harding Attends First
Show Since Her Illness
Hr t'nlv*r«til Hen Iff.
Washington, May 1!*.—Fur th* first
time since her critical illness lant
September. Mrs. Hardin#, this after
noon attended a vaudeville show. She
was accompanied by her house guest,
Mrs. George Harvey, wife of th“ am- 1
bassador to the Oourt of St. Jnrnoa
and her secretary. Miss Laura
Harlan. The first lady was accorded
an ovation when she entered the
theater.
Banks Arc Creditors
of Lincoln Bankrupt
Lincoln. May 10—Alpheus C Ad
ams, former banker, at present in
the real est.ito business in Lincoln,
tiled a petition In bankruptcy. lie
placet! his liabilities at $107,140 and
his assets $,'00. Principal creditors
named In his petition are hanks of
Lincoln, Omaha and in towns near
Lincoln.
Barney (ioogle \ecepts Invitation:
"Sparky’' to Put Abadane in Shade
Barm y Google is coining to Omaha
A ml an ih hln fa moil h atecil, Spark
plug
That ih the ten non why the huge
countenance of Charlie Gardner,
rodeo king of Ak War Her., I» wreathed
with a cheerful grin.
Friday Gardner wired Barney urg.
Ing him to come to Omaha. And yes
terrtay he received this reply:
"Vnu can Ie|| the wide, wide world
I'll he in Omaha for the Ak Sar-Ben
races. Ami you might an well give
(hone jungle circuit owners a word of
warning now. Ah for Charlie Irwin's
offer to let Sparkplug hunk with
Abadniip. JuhI tell Irwin for me to
throw that plug of hia clear out of
tile stable and make mum for a real
galloper. I can't tell you the do e
I'll arrive because the 'sweet woman’
Ik hut on my trail, hut I'll the gang
I'll lie sure to he there."
So pleased w^lh the news was
Gardner that he straightway sent a
rush telegram to his comrade in ui ms,
Charlie Trimble, who went to Louis
ville for the Kentucky Derby. Here’s
tbo wits*:
“Glad tidings. Chni'lie. W hile you
shirk the responsibilities of your
position running around to hush
league race meetings yours truly lias
been on the Job and lias lauded
llarnev Google and Sparkplug for the
June meeting. If that doesn't make
me a 100 per cent better racing see
ret ary than you, then I can talk
Japanese. Laugh that off
Immediately after receiving the
tmssnge that Google and Sparky
would come to Omaha. Gardner
rushed out In the Ak-Sar Hen stable
on a minutes notice and ordered a
ton of special oats ready for Spark's
arrival breakfast.
Presbyterians Oppose
Sunday Moving Pictures
Committee Presents Resolution Demanding Films
‘‘Clean Up and Clear Out of Lord’s Day”—Bryan
Scheduled for Two Addresses on Sunday—
Would Bar Teaching of Evolution.
By Associated I'resa.
Indianapolis, May 19.—Presbyter
ians of the United States received a
report today from the committee on
Sabbath observance, demanding that
motion pictures "clean up and clear
out of the Lord's day.”
Will H. Hays, president of the Mo
tion Picture Producers and Dlstrlbu
TXr Hiirry
Jr’. £>wl by.
tors of America, who Is attending the
assembly as an cider of the church,
was absent from the hall attending
a committee meeting, when Hr. Harry
L. Uowlby. president of the Lord's
day alliance, attacked the Sunday
motion picture shows.
"I have nothing against the
movies,'' said Dr. Uowlby, "if they
will clean up and clear out of the
Lord's day, and I so told an Independ
ent representative of the motion pic
ture Industry who Is attending this
assembly as a commissioner.
“The commercial movie house ought
to give the church, the Bible school
nnd the home the right of way on the
Christian Sabbath. Without the
Christian Sabbath enere will be no
Christian morality and without j
Christian morality the free Institu
tions of this country cannot be pre
served.'*
Bryan Absent From City.
A resolution on motion picture cen
sorship snd Sunday shows is expected j
to be presented to the assembly for |
action. The controversy between the !
ultraconservative and progressive fac
tions was quiet today, due to the ab
sence from the city of William Jen
nings Bryan, leader of the funda
mentalists.
Mr. Bryan, who went to Kansas
City to address a Baptist meeting, is i
coming beck in time to make two
addresses on evolution and the
fundamental interpretation of the
Bible Sunday. The first will be at a
“popular meeting'* of the assembly j
in the afternoon under the auspices
of the committee on Sabbath observ
ance. and the other from the pulpit of
Westminster Presbyterian church
Sunday night.
Dr. Clarence K. Macartney of Phila- ,
dolphin, who brought to the assembly j
the Philadelphia presbytery's protest
against the liberal doctrines, of Harry
(Turn to I'uitre Nine. Column One.)
Goodman Denied
Rijdit to Speak
at Labor Temple
Delegates Decline to Hear Law
i>i»jHrnt ^l.cj "More.
fc - i«4r ^ ’ ■** -i
*
1,1 **( Meclie .
by, what that me. w.rnt* u> «»
: t .■ grove of t t ■ * ,n wh'eii o
ottce hm ontor; j.ild John it.
t.lbb, president of t Central I^tavr
union list evening, when questioned
u i to the report ttre. lv B. Goodmftr,
student of law at Creighton univer
sity, had delivered a reported Speech
to a general rn*- ing of union d( ve
oates Friday night on I»iw and ioi
bor t nluns."
Goodman offered a voluminous re
port of his speech to the press. Int
er it developed that he appeared at
the Igibor temple hut was denied the
floor by a motion of the delegates
which was adopted by unanimous
vote. The resolution indicated that
tlm order of business fur the evening
already was too full with lnniortant
matters.
"A good many of the delegates had
heard this man talk before," said
President Oibb, "rind they stated it
would he u waste of g • I time on the
part of the assemble.1 heads of the
local unions to permit him to deliver
his speech which we \v»re told would
consume at least an hour in its pres
entation.
"We were g!v»n to understand that
this ms.n had been using any audit npa
t.n whleh he could unit ad his oratory.
"N’o, I didn't even Sep hint at the
temple, although 1 unde: stand he wits
waiting outside for some time, stak
ing an opportunity to appear on the
platform."
One Injured in Kunaway:
Mechanic Struck by 1 ruck
Morris Co!Irk, 2610 Blottdo street,
was Injured on the head late last
ni^ht when the tram he whh driving
ran away after an unidentified motor
1st had crowded him into the curbing
at Twenty sixth and Ma.-mn streets.
The team ran Into a telephone polo,
throwing Hnllck to the pavement
The motorist sped away aftpr the ac*
cider te
Henry Oernntrin 4949 North Thlr
ty sixth street, suffer' d painful In
juries 1o his hack last night when
struck by an automobile truck at th»
Hooper Motor company, 2<»66 Kun ini
afreet.
Get nstein 4ms \v< t kimr a* a bench
when Kdward Wood*, 244*4 street,
drove Into the garage. He whs unable
to stop the ear in time to avoid strik
ing the mechanic. Cinan<vtrtn whs
taken to his home.
Oldest Kcfnrmed Jewish
Minister in \mericu Dies
New York. May lr» Rev hi Hugo
Wintrier, oldest Reformed Jewish
minister in America, died at his h<»nie
today at th* age of K*1 M» hud held
pastorate* In fjoutsvilh* end Pctiolt
and was ra^bl emeritus <*f the I'liim
Hill temple, Brooklyn, where h* I id
been fur 11 yours.
Hr. Wintrier Is survived by fiv
son*, on* of whom. Hugo Wlntnei,
assistant district attorney
Denies l,.n|iiii'cnieii(.
II v In I nl l'n * «
t'ardiff. Wales, May 19 l.r«dv Blvths
wood declared today that Iheie w is
no trttth wlwitmet In th< report Hull
her daughter was en^ag 1 to the
prince of Wales
Release Ordered
of Pair Held on
Gambling Charge
Judge Holmes Approves Bond
n. ' ir-j ■ Stott 0"i:er ' —
.... , 7 '■•
; jp
or?* ‘?y !>e held by th« polk*
on An ftp **• t t, itJoii < harge without
bond, according to ruling matte by
Municipal .Jl Heorge Holmes yes
terday. The Judge was ruling In the
* of A. f. And* son And FMward
Knckitt. who were arrested when pee
11* o d«»r\v-e*l t - y found evidence of
gambling In their place of business.
Hie I*. *V B Cigar store, 203 South !
Nineteenth street.
After the raid Anderson was booked ,
on a charge of gambling on a horse f
race. An hour Ja'er Backlit went I
to the store and was arrested by *»fTl- j
cent who had been detailed to watch !
the place. When friends appeared at
the police f*.jiti *n to give bail for An
demon. Dan Butler, commissioner of
police, ordered the charge against
Anderson be changed to “investiga- j
tion” and declared that the man
would he held without bond. Back j
Ut was Itooked for inves'lgation.
Friends f t the two men endeavored
yesterday afternoon to obtain the re ;
Ip;*.**#* ,.f t’ * proprteters hat were un* i
sue* eesful until late last night.
Uuthr said the men refused to open
the sate at the cigar store so that I
(Torn !•» !' •-*• twti, Column On** I
Committee Country
Club Site Approved
__ — —
Hv a two to on* vote the members
<«f the Country club last night voted
to move the club to the site selected
by the committee. This location i®
between Sixtieth and .Seventy second
street, about two and a half miles
north of the Military road. This sits
is now Olive Crest and was formerly
the old Jlrandeis property.
Windsor Meireath was elected to the j
board of dlre< tors Glenn Wharton
and John Kedlck were reelected .
'l‘he mei ting was one « f the largest !
ever held. Mors than 173 niMirlrers |
attended.
on tire moving of th«
chib lasted from Rliout * to 11 be*
fore a vote • mild be taken.
I’lntu>.m(l> of K Ian'tiicii
(iatlirr for Prinonstralion
Ily Inbrniitianiil News wdo*
V»Ipnrni«o, Ind., May lit -Twenty,
thousand Ku Klux Klansmen from |
every pai t of the Cnited States were
in V ilparalso tonight for a gigantic
dentonstro tlon Chicago alone sent
1 .00 ;n two special trains There
was a special train of 12 cars from
Indianapolis Automobiles hearing
klan I . unci * are thick in the street*.
The natun of the ceremonies was
not revealed.
I he Weather
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Prisoners
of Bandits
Face Death
Two Americans and Two
Britishers Have hut 43
Hours to Live if Brigands
Carry Out Threats.
Time Limit Out Tuesday
Rr Auodfttrd I’rwu.
Pekin, May 10 —Fifteen foreigners,
six of them Americans, some of them
ill. nil of them weary, bruised and
footsore, poorly f«d and worse clad,
tonight are looking death in the face
in the Paotzuka hills of Shantung
province, as they approach the end of
their second week as captives of the
bandits who raided tile Shanghai
Pekln express near riurhew. May 6.
If the foreign and Chinese govern
ments are unable to satisfy the brig
ands by Tuesday that their term* for
the release of the prisoners will be
met, and the robbers' chieftain niek-s
good his threat, two of the Americans
and two Britishers have little more
than 4S hours to lit e
They will lie shut as a warning
that the marauders mean to force com
pliance with their demands under
their chief's ultimatum sent out Sat
urday,
"We are pleading for our lives." and
unless Pekin, Washington and London
realize that the bandits are ready
to aacrifi.-e thejr own lives and those
of ail their captives In their fight
for reinstatement in the Chinese army.
Immune from punishment, “we are
surely doomed," is the statement made
by Loen Friedman, one of the Ameri
cans, speaking for all.
To Hold Mass Meetings.
Friedman's message, sent to his
brother In Shanghai, ha* stirred the
foreign commission of China. In
Shanghai Sunday a mass meeting will
bo held to pass resolutions demand
ir.g that the American and British
governments guarantee the promise'
ct tha Chins" governmmt to »ha «-i
I.v .» aod w l he tread-'ia tn dr
c»» fc.-nvd r*tt
i. y o d *i' lt *' - * ,: 3 -or.! d
seven . ■%<■* Vie wik on the 'oarte'.
P' t'sen cons'j i: t, Paotzi • u bids.
Two of ‘he Chines- -risonera were
thrown from the clilL -aus- toolr
promised runs-ms had r,o* on p.-:d.
I.ud file others were -hot down i
cold blood for failure lo f,b* v < r
ders.
One man. Marcel O Berube, s
Frenchman of Shanghai. Friday was
given his freedom with instructions
from Wang, the bespectacled, scholar
ly young bandit leader, to go to Pekin
and lay before the Chinse govern
ment and the foreign diplomatic rorp»
the desperate plight of tlie 15 other*.
Will Tell Story Today.
Berube Sunday will tell ihs story and
present the ultimatum of the out
laws to the diplomats, including Dr.
l»rob Gould S- hurman, American min
ister, who has returned to the capi
tal from a trip to Shanghai and the
bandit' zone
Two factors apparently have
-Turn to Pas-* Bleveti. Column Too l
WHERE TO FI\D
Tht> llic Fealnrt» nf
THE Si .XI)A Y REE
PART OM
Page t—Mark Nllhrai'* Wecklt Poll •
K<»lfw, in Mhklt he Tell- llotr
the Inflation of the Mark I- Kuln
iiiK tiermant
Page V-Mote Titan »<»4» Otnahnn- W ill
Vftrml the Annual >»—inn of lm
peciul C «nnrll «f the shrine
n! UutliinKhm in June.
Pare *—fi«hlh Iniiullmrnt of "The
lloti-e of Peril." a Thrilling Mory
of Into and Mystery. bt hunt
Traci.
Pate a—Fulitartal.
I* VRT TVV 0
Pagre I. ? and S—Brat Sport Page*
in Omaha.
Page* 31 and I—Auto Section
Tate ft—1 ate-f Market. Financial and
Industrial New*.
Page* a, *. * and V— -4 In — Ified \d».
Page lit—~ltuildrfV Page: Travel and
Retort*.
Pate IO—\l ork of Omaha ( nuncll of
\mrrieanliiNtlon Pr ti-ed h> l ommli
*ieiier of Nat timhviitlon at Wash
ington.
I* VRT THRKI
t‘ag«* 1 S. 4 and JWRnfMty
Pfcre ft—shopping With Polly.
INtge 7— Helen and Warren
Page 7—-Ainn*omenta.
Page* ft and I—Movie Sect Inn
Page ft—\r»» of the World of Mu*ir.
Page- 10—.| |oa d t.n.rge. Ilriti-h Kl*
Premier, Occiarra FYun«e Made n
Fatal Mistake in Krfu-lu* 4.or
num.v'n IjmI Ho|tara|ien« ttffor and
That It Mav Htentnnlli Mean War
PART l lil \i
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race I —An I tln-trated fttorr of >1 •*v%
a A own* Million* ire Perided lie
Could Find no l ot tier ttride Than
the Mt«terlon« Itrhe. Itewutiful
I a-h ion Model
Pate t—'Tlie C uneiform ln*i Option."
a Ijfr s(,»r» of t omprlliii* Infei
eat by Mfhittp t»at I — mii Po**t
Tage ft—"Head Walter- 1 llate Mil **
a < Inimlrri.lTilh llnnmrou* Tate
la 4* O 'Ii-1nf i rr.
Page t — llappt I mid for the Kiddie*
Page V-I.HIm From l.lttle I oik- of
Happy land.
Page ft- 1'iuhliin I'anm
Page 7—How Mr a. Pant lit*
i- Trjting to tOi'de Her Wealthy
Son William It ' aminMil Into a
Perfectly Proper love Match
Pare s—V tlumornu- l am, "Ms
Wife* la Stephen I rHoorh
Page ft %hc Martin. In a iptaint
tomhlnntion of Philosophy end
tlumor. Pi«raui-c« on "OltOll* Hr -
fote th’ People."
PART SIX
Motor rat ure
Pare l v»rm tonn|gV New Court
he 1 lae an loan I a* ml-cam- Faculty of
ItcileMic \ oenitonal training Sch«ail.
a l * roup of ftinaho t.idil Star
Mother-, mnl Other Picture
Pare ? \ Page of Intercut log pic
ture* Taketiii In Colon. Paiianta, by
I at ttla llo-lwok Omaha Photo*
raplier.
Page* ft and 4—Mt«celUnrou* Picture*.
First Omaha Elk Will
Help Lay Cornerstone
John Francis,
Notables to Be
Guests of Omaha
Elks Saturday
Burlington General Pa-senger
Agent at Ghieago. Kir-t Ex
alted Ruler, \\ ill Attend
C ornerstone Laving.
Omaha, Elks announce a rapidly
growing list of notables, who will at
tend the laving of the cornerstone of
! the new building next Saturday John
Franc e veneral passenger agent of
: 'he Burlington railroad at Chicago,
whose membership in the Omaha
lodge is No. 1. and who was the first
•*xidi< d ruler n the lodge, has prem
ie >1 tc .'tend. <;<n».-ru.T Bryan will
. :!* f\ ^ i ogr-rne
*-'rc«i t.r<vsect :t <5 - of id.-era if
ige a.' it «rii '.*• tus bigjreei
ay ever celebrated 1 Omaha Elk
r 1 >m. .Xefcmka lodges outside of Orel
. i are darning <>n s-’uding lug drie
st Ion* The Columbus contingent will
iiittke the trip in autotnobiles.
The Sp: ,ng Frolic rontinued at
the Auditor,um l ist night Officers re
poited themselves wall pleased with
th- r- turi s and stat-d that they had
been assured by ' h- audiences that
they were well pleased with the per
formances.
Plans are • a; i living completed
by the lodge for the special train
whb-h will take them to the national
convention at Atlanta. The train will
leave Omaha over the Burlington July
6. Fmni Chirac", they will travel over
th» Big Four to Cincinnati and over
the Southern t<» Atlanta. Stops will
be made In Chicago, Indianapolis, Cin
cinnati and Chattanooga. Over 40
reservations have Been made for the
trip.
Carriers (Quests
of The Omaha Bee
Climax of < onte-t 1* ‘'Feed
- More Ilian $1 ..>00 in
Prizes Distributed.
As a climax the contest among car
riers of The Omaha Bee, J75 carriers
were entertained with a “feed" at
Krug park last night
The grand prize of <124 was won
by Rudolph Tesar of River view sta
tion. Council Bluffs wan the grand
station prise. More than $1,590 was
given out in prizes for subscriptions
obtained by the carriers
William Hi'1st of Dundee station
turned in the highest percentage of
subscriptions.
Winner# of the sets of silverware in
the various stations were William
Moist, Dundee: James Finney. River
view, Arthur I.ipp -\nies; Tom Me
Coy. home station: James Alls South
Omaha: Sam Binder l*ake A1 T.ind 1
bald and Bernard Wilson. Park sta
t ion.
V. \ Bridge circulation manager
and It. \V Gregory, city circulation
manager of The Omaha Bee, gave
short talks to the hoys.
Ixrqui-iliou b Honored
to Koturu Man to Bluffs
Bim >'ln. May 1 $—Governor Bryan
today honored a requisition from the
governor of Towa far the return of
B K Pock. alias .1 W Kelly, to
Council Bluffs on the charge of sell
ing a secomVhand automobile without
complying with the Iowa law The
at cased is under arrest at O'Neill,
Nob, Me < alleged to have In bis
pos «sston a * ar which had been
stojen nt Cowley county Kansas, re
cently
Miners to Hold Parley.
Wdkeuhnnv. Bn May lit The an
convention at Reran ton on June
to formulate pew demands to submit
tit the operatot s f *r a v» , ge agree
incut to take the place of the present
one, which espuo Vugust IB
y
2 Trapped
When Blaze
Razes Store
Flames - Cause ? 12>.000 Loss
to Sixteenth Street Building
—Three Alarms Turned
in to Cheek Spread.
Theater Patrons Flee
Four perosns were Injured last
night in a fire that swept the Fash
ion store. 107111 South Sixteenth
street. Two of those Injured were
firemen and the others were resi
dents of the Dodge Mock. 101 South
Sixteenth street, who were trapped in
their rooms when the flames got be
yond control. The loss was set at
approximately $125,000.
J. W. Moore, 30! Dodge block, was
trapped in the bathroom at his apart
ment. Unable to open the door and
blinded by smoke, Moore crashed
down the door in an effort to escape.
He suffered a severe cut on his right
ankle by glass. He was attended by
a police surgeon EDven stitches
were taken to sew up the gash.
Herbert Keith, 310 Dodge block,
suffered lac< rations on the head when
he was caught under a fail.ng ceil
ing while he was trying to save hi*
sister's phonograph '
Hurt in Fall.
C L McDermott, fireman, engine
company 2, was severely cut on ibe
head wh»u a floor in the burning
building collapsed, dropping Mm 20
f'-et into a pile of burning debris.
He w is attended at the police sta
tion and taken home.
Karl Bates, fireman, hose company
8. suffered a crushed chest when he
was caught between a hose and a
window frame. He was removed to
his home after the police surgeon had
attended him.
The fire was discovered shortly
after 9 and the fire department bad
its first hose line in use at 9:1a. A
second alarm was turned in at 9:30
when the flamte got beyond control
and a Kurd alarm was sounded at
5 jU. 1 I'ei -j ' -if. .'tC* p.’s. (,
slant!y upor hoi Ming from 'gs *
time of the last ah i m until the fire
had burned itself down. So fierce
were the flames that little prcgr*#e
could be made for neaily half an
hour.
Theater Endangered.
Patrons of ibe Empress theater
were ordered from the place by As
sistant Fire Chief Coyle shortly after
9. The ronnhgement requested ail
[hts ns to leave who were nervous
about the fire 15 minutes before
Coyle's order was issued. Only a
few in the audience left at the f.rst
request, however There was no din
order when the patrons walked out.
The roof was blar.ng in a few places
from Sparks, but the fire was extin
guished by theater employes.
The management of the World
theater was directed by the chief to
be ready to clear the house at a
moment’s notice and men with fire
extinguishers were stationed on the
roof.
The first alarm was turned in by an
Unidentified person who reported that
»n automobile fire. Detectives Tom
teenth and Dodge streets. Firemen
went to the scene equipped to fight
the autmobile Ire Detectives Tom
Bryan and Motorcycle Officer Cleg
(Turn fn P«p Two, Column Two.l
Heavy Damage Caused
By New Orleans Storm
New Orleans. May IS —Thousands
f dollars d.unige to houses, street
ir tracks, telephone and electric
systems was caused her* today by a
severe rain ami wind storm which in
- me sections of the city reached th«
proportions of a cyclone.
N' Hvts sera lost but dozens of
minor injur.es from accidents to auto
mobiles attempting to navigat* flood
ed streets were recorded.
Mo- .«• int;. s along the M s- ssippi i
V1 r fr nt in the lower part of tha /
city were blown down. The veterans' •
bureau hospital In A'slers was dam
lifted hut none of the S00 veterans
from Alabama, lani sana and Missis
sippi being trrated there was injured.
A sips, v hahy was blown from Its
parents camp Into the Claiborne c*«
■ .il wh.ch was overflow.ng its banks.
It was rescued after having been
swept away for nearly three city
blocks by the strong current. At a
hospital it was said the baby may die
from the shock and exposure.
Mull Renfivs His Request
tor Cut in Siiiar Tarif*
W aahinirton, M\v ll-*CtoirrotQ
Hull of th? democratic nation a) coni*
snittc* today renowtd hi# request of
Harding for a >0 t^cr cent
reduction of sugar tariff rat»«* uniter
iho flexible pro\ .alofts of the rtsvr
la*
The recent action of Canada la
mliH'ir.K the tariff on raw sugar 4ft
i'cnt?* on 100 pound*, anil on refined
auimr 6ft ivttti on 100 pound*/* Mid
Mr. Hull m a ataton^n*. ’'immediate'
lv resulted •*« a reduction m hk*
amount of the prior of refined apg-ar
to Canadian conaunut'*. as reported
in the Here i* positive proof
that a it luciu n of sugar tariffs re
suit? immediately *|»tt directly in a
correspond injr regulation oft sug.tr
price* to consumers “
The Nebbs Are Coming! .... See The Omal]a Evening Bee Monday Evening
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