The i MAH A iRNING Bee **"* VOL. 52—NO. 306. ™;"t" •• ^“‘aTS **Z.l*'*mml' OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1923. *_gi.jr A1. \TicTA Z,u"i TWO CENTS '■ a"^'<£u SI1* Debt Issue Discussed by Cabinet Wadsworth Reports Nearly Every Debtor Nation Is Making “Gesture To ward Settlement.” Three Are Holding Out By IniTrroal Hervirf. Washington, June S.—Today's cab inet meeting whs devoted almost en tirely to a discussion of the foreign debt problem. A White House spokesman an nounced afterward that President Harding had been informed that nar ly everyone of the debtor nations was making a "gesture towards settle ment." The spokesman first said all the governments owing the United States had Indicated a willingness to 0 g talk payment, hut then changed it to "nearly everyone." The new advices which prompted the discussion of the situation by the cabinet are understood to have been brought back by Elliott Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the treasury, ' and secretary of the world war foreign debt commission, who return ed today from Paris. Discusses Rhine Expense. On his trip abroad, Mr. Wadsworth acted as special commissioner for the state department in the negotia o ft he allied powers regarding pay ment of the United States share of the cost of maintaining the army on the Rhine, but liis most important as signment, it was stated at the time of his departure, was to sound out the debtor governments on payment of their war debts. The countries which are still dis playing no inclination even to discuss a funding arrangement with the United States are said to be France, Belgium, and Roumania. France tool! the position last year, when M. Parmentier came over to confer with the debt commission, that she was not 1b • position even to enter into a negotiation, notwithstanding that the period over which the agreement to defer interest payments extended had expired. She has not swerved from that attitude todsj', according 'yvflt to available information. In fact, the understanding Is that she has found a new excuse for not settling in the reparations tangle. Bland on Wilson OfTer. Belgium is standing on her claim that former President Wilson agreed to cancel her debt to the United 8tates incurred up to the date of the armis tice In return for Oerma reparation bonds in a like amount. The Amer ican commission flatly refuses to con sider any such claim, pointing out that the former president had no right to make such an agreement ex cept with the approval of congress. (Turn to I’ege Two. I’olumn Two 1 Entire H. R. Bowen Stock Bought hy Brandeis Store The entire stock of the H. R Bowen company, 1513 Howard street, «hh purchased hy J. L. Rrandeis & Sons. The H. R. Bowen company has been in business for 15 years and has earned an excellent reputation fur good merchandise in this com munity. Mr. Bowen, having decided to go out of the retail business and con fine his activities to the wholesale husiness, and also on account of the lease on his building expiring in the near future. J. L*. Brandeis & Sons has bought his entire stock at what is quoted to be a very low figure. The deal Involves a good many thou sand dollars in furniture, rugs, drap ery, curtains, linoleums, lamps, phono graphs, records, washing machines, refrigerators, sewing machines, bed spreads. blankets, linens, china, etc. The management of the Brandeis store now ts preparing this merchan dise for a sale, which ought to lie a record event In the selling nf furni ture and house furnishings In Omaha. South Dakota Church Is Beneficiary in Will New Tork. June 8—The Protestant Episcopal hiahops nf Arizona and South Dakota were left $10,000 each ■'for tubercular work or any purpose in the diocese,” in the will of Ethel Ij. Mcl.esn. filed for probate today. She died here May 1«. Navajo Indians hiss Receding Tide After Prayers for Rains Santa Barbara, Cal., June Nil vi^o Indian, t'hlcfs Hosnanlnl Begay (Doer of Deeds) and Viable Escanis (Wolf Killer), kissed the receding tide on the beach here today, thanked the Mother of Waters for bringing rain to their lands In Arizona and prayed for further showers. In the legends of (he tribe, the sen is not only the mother of waters, hut also the mother of all the Nava Joes, and tt is fitting that, when a member of that tribe secs the ocean for the first time, he should offer his tribute arHl aacriflce. Begay and Eacanle have been here two days as delegates to the league of the southwest conference, hut they religiously kept away from the beach until today. This morning, In the presence of a crowd of palefaces, they offered sacrl flees of corn snd flower pollen sent tered on the gentle breeze that blew over the softly rippling surf, and then kissed the receding foam on the beach. Mrs. Anna Rapp, 102, Dies at Aurora, Neb. Special Ill-patch In The Omaha Bee. Aurora, Neb., June 8.—Mrs. Anna Rupp, who celebrated her 102d birth day on May 19. died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Pierson. Mrs. Rapp was horn in Sweden In 1821. She came to America in 1887 and spent many years at Frinceton, 111. After funeral services Saturday the body will be taken to Princeton for interment. While residing at Princeton Mrs. Rapp operated a boarding house after she was 90, performing the duties of a housekeeper even at that advanced age. Big Curb Firm Crashes; Cops Seek Records Rereiver Appointed for L. L. Winkelmen & Co.—Dis trict Attorney Charges Records Spirited Away. By Associated Press. New York. June 8.—District Attor ney Banton. who is investigating charges of bucketing against several bankrupt brokerage houses, today called on the police to aid him in tracing records of the curb market house of L I.. Winkelrnan & Co., which diaappc-ared a few minutes after an Involuntary bankruptcy peti tion had been filed. Mr. Banton rushed Assistant Dis trict Attorney Gibbs to the Wlnkcl man house as soon as he learned of the crash. Mr. Gibbs reported he had been informed that several large pack ages. presumably records of the firm, had been taken away in a taxicab. Failure of the Winkelrnan house, which was the largest firm holding membership in the New York curb market, intensified Mr. Banton's cam paign against brokers alleged to have operated in a questionable manner. I nlted States Attorney Hayward also has entered the investigation, seeking an alleged conspiracy to defraud in vestors. Declares Clients Solvent. George Gordon Hattie, attorney for the firm, whose liabilities were list ed at 11,750,000 and assets at tl.500, 000, issued a statement declaring his clients asserted they were solvent and intended to co-operate with the receiv er to the fullest extent for the pro tection of their custrfmera. Attorney Battle denied that any (Turn to Psge Two, Column Three.I Bal>y Is Born in Italy ; Ijrocer and Family Held By Cnlversal Service. New York, June 8.— When t'orroto Perrin, owner of a chain of Cleveland, O., groceries, and his family arrived today after a year's visit to Italy, lm migration authorities told him he would have to leave his baby daugh ter. 7 months old, outside. She was born in Italy, and the Italian quota Is filled. The Perrins refused to leave th-1 baby, and the entire family of five was sent to Kills Island. 2 Scorgl&g* i - •»'* A by .on Line Flash One Employe Injured al Omaha Power Plant May Die—Other Burned in Rescue. All Lights Extinguished One man was burned, probably fatally, ami another suffered serious burn* when a short circuit occurred in the 2,300*volt room at the Ne* braska Power company’s central plant at Fourth and Jones streets yesterday afternoon, L. C. Smith, 2011 Miami street, electrician, was terribly burned on the face and upper part of the body. All the hair was burned from his head and the skin blackened and peeled from parts of the flesh. He Wfc* suf fering excruciating pain. Tyson, while not so serfously in jured, received severe burns on the head and hands. • Pleads for Cigaret. As Smith was tiring rushed to Lord Lister hospital In the police ambul ance. he pleaded for a rigaret between gasps of pain. He expressed the fear that he would die, and worried over what would become of his little chil dren if loft fatherless, lie also ex pressed fear for his eyesight, saying that "everything was growing dark." Physicians at the hospital hold lit tle hops for Smith's recovery. Neither of the injured men was able to tell exactly what happened, ex cept that something caused a short cucult. Current for the entire city is con trolled from the 2.300-volt room of the plant and the short circuit and resulting flash caused the cutting off of power and lights in all downtown sections of the city for a short time and in some parts for a longer period. According to William Emery, an other power house employe, who was working in an adjoining room, he saw a bllmling flash, accompanied by a deafening report, and followed hy a hissing sound and screams of agony. Has Two Children. He rushed into the room where Tyson and Smith were working to find Smith writhing on the floor and Tyson, who was working some dis tance away, rushing to his rescue. Tyson received his burns while at tempting to extricate Smith from the flame and smoke. Smith has two children. Lois, 3. and Hiehard, 1, who live with his moth er-in-law. a Mrs. McAllister, at 2011 Miami street. 1,000,000-Mark Note Is Planned in Germany By rrfM. Berlin, June 8.—Preparations are reported under way at the federal money printing plant to issue note-4 in denominations of l.flflfl.ono marks. It is stated a limited number of these notes aio to b** printed for the use of large business concerns. Although other single notes in the world are doubtless more valuable than the 1.000.000 marks would be, it is believed this note, if issued. ill constitute a record for value expressed in such large numerals. Head of Harpoon Buried in Whale .”>() Years Found Ily AwtrlHlrfl I’rt*.., Bergen, June 8.—In the carcass of a whale caught In the Jaavls .Strait, Greenland, and recently brought Into a Norwegian poet, (he head of an old harpoon In.a been found, deeply embedded In the blubber. Kxperte declare that the whale must have carried the harpoon In lt» body for eome SO years, aince It Is of a T>at!ern uaed by American whal ers when they fished the Greenland coaata half a century ago. Alabama Man Is Handed on Same Gallows as Father By Intmmil«m»»I Nr«i Hmlre. Birmingham, Ala., June 8.—William Colson was hanged In the Jefferson inunty jail here on the same gallows that claimed his falhrr 25 years ngo Golson was convicted of criminal assault on a while woman. ' Playing Hookey Pays ^ Boy $1,200 Dividend, I but He Loses Freedom By ( nlvrrnal Service. New York, June 8.—Playing hookey paid dividends of $1,200 to John Spano, 16, but now he's under sen tence to a parental school. Staying away from classes enabled John to identify so many movie stars that ho won the $1,200 capital prize in a photographic contest conducted by a newspaper. Thousands he defeated in the con test paid homage to him as a "boy wonder," hut John's mother said he was "Just plain incorrigible" and had him haled Into court. - ----—_— , Verdict Clears Miller in Suit Overinsurance Award of $10,000 With Inter est Against Union Company Vindicates F. W. Melick of Hemingford. An outstanding feature of the ver dict and judgment for $11,774.08 ren dered by a jury In district court In favor of plaintiff, in the rase of Nel son B. Updike against Union Fire In surance company, was the vindication of F. W. Melick of Hemingford. Neb. Mr. Meliek’s mill and its contents at Hemingford were completely des troyed by fire July 14. 1920. In addi tion to insurance on the bu ' four companies carried total in • of $18,500 on wheat valued at i. ban $22,000. After an adjustment imme diately following the fire, three com panies paid their losses on the con tents. The Union Fire Insurance company of Lincoln carried a policy of $10,000 on the wheat, which policy had been assigned by Mr. Melick to Mr. Updike, requiring th« latter to bring the action when the L’nlon com pany refused to pay anything on its policy. The case attracted considerable at tention because of efforts of the Union company, through its various investi gators, to reflect upon the chsracter of Mr. Melick. After a sharply con tested trial lasting three and a half days, during which the insurance company called skilled Investigators and attorneys into the case, the jury promptly returned a verdict for the full amount of the policy with inter est. completely vindicating Mr. Melick. Heavy Rains Make •» Blue River Menace Stream Four Feet Above Nor mal—Purr Water Sup ply Threatened. -prrlal PUintrh to The Omaha Baa. Beatrice, Neb., Juna S—Heavy iHlns have fallen in this section to day, making the flood situation along the Blue river valley more serious. At DeWftt, north of Beatrice, and points south, forces of men are at work building teintvorary dikes In an attempt to prevent the river from overflowing Its banks. In some of the lowlands hetwpen I>e\Vltt and Beatrice and youth to Marysville, Kan., the flood waters have covered some of the fields, doing considerable damage to crops. Men with spears are making big hauls of fish. A cave-in at the city wells north west of Beatrice threatens the water supply, and the water now running through the mains is badly discolored The river Is reported about stationaiy here this evening, but should It eon tlnue raining during the night the river will he out of Its banks liy to morrow. It Is nearly four feet higher limn normal. Woman Jumps Into Lake Vt ith Hrioks in Porkots By Internationsl Srn Irr. •"hi ago, June V—The uncanny dc termination to die of a gray-haired woman whose body was taken today from I.akn Michigan was re\raled "lien at tho morgue the pockets of her coat were found to be weighted with bricks. Despite the bricks the corpse was found floating on the water's surface. The body was unidentified. An Unfortunate “Demonstration” - -----■——--- - I —--> THATS 01®. 1 THOUGHT "ONE OP YOUR CHIEF1 ADVERTISING POINTS ■WAS THAT YOU HAD A SELF-STARTER A In the Omaha Sunday Bee Unrest. Economic injustice Is at the bot tom of the existing world unrest, declares Smith W. Brookhart, new senator from Iowa, in an article specially written for The Omaha Bee and cabled from Europe where Senator Brookhart i* making an in vestigation of condition* particular ly as they affect this country. In The Sunday Bee. Hope. What are conditions In Europe? There is some improvement, de clares Mark Sullivan, famous edi tor. writer and student of world affairs, who is now in Europe for The Omaha Bee The European farmer la prospering, Sullivan ha* found, although as yet the work man and city dweller continues the victim of unsettled conditions. In The Sunday Bee. Gloom. A new specie* of the human race ha* been discovered by O. O, Mc Intyre. He's the after-dinner gloom hound. What I* an after-dinner gloom hound? He's the man who tries to listen to the afterdinner speeches. A humorous, fun poking story written In Mr. McIntyre's best style in the magazine section of The Sunday Bee. Grads. This Is graduation week in Oma ha. You'll be sure to find some one you know- among th* photograph* of graduates of the Benson. Sacred Heart and St. Johns High schools in the rotogravure section of The Sunday Bee. Fear. Superstition In the Jungles of South America. What happened to a Nebraska man who penetrated the Interior of Brasil and only laughed at the fear* of his native guides over his broken mirror. A person al narrative by Adnm Breede of I Hastings in th» magazine section I of The Sunday Bee. Mile*. Thirty-on# thousand six hundred and eighty miles up and down in a passenger ©levator. It doesn't seem possible. But that's what the speed ometer shows for one man right here in Omaha. In The Sunday Bee. Cupid. The prince of AY ales is IJ years old. And Cupid hasn't reached him yet. And it s causing no end of con cern to the inhabitants of the Brit ish Isles. An illustrated story in The Sunday Bee. Courage. You've hoard of gluttons for pun ishment. Perhaps that's what the earl of Northesk might be. He might well b« discouraged by the hard luck so many other men have had in finding durable wives among the stag© beauties, but he Isn't a hit and he insists that he expects to find permanent happiness with his dancer-bride. Jessica Brown, de spite the fact thst Jessica is a lady of the footlights and also has one divorce marked up on her list. An Illustrated story in the magazine section. Hate. He hated women. Well—you've heard that before. But William Dudley Pelle.v gives this old time plot a new twist and the result Is that he has fashioned a story that will delight every one who reads It. In the magazine section. Home. Be It ever so humble, there's no place like home But then maybe th© old home ain't yvhat It used to lie. Or what is it that's the mat ter? Ah© Martin makes a few- time ly comments on topics of the day. You have to laugh, but at the same time the homely philosophy he ex presses Is sound and you have to admit It. In th© magazine section. f_ Preparedness Will Save Lives Free Milk Fund Must Have Money When Sultry Sum mer Heat Arrives. I' "Preparedness!” When the sultry heat descends on the hovels where helpless babies and I .'•mall children live, there must be | money In the free milk and ice fund I to supply these necessities of baby I life. Will you do your noble bit now? Every cent you give goes to buy milk or ice for the struggling mites of humanity in wretched homes tn the critical hot weather period. You will receive a blessing no less ; j than the little children whom yourj I money will succor. ! Prevjo.dy acknowledged . f Jt.s* . Paul V Piute. Valley Neb . 1 aa I | George K Michel. Walnut, la ... M« John P Matthew* Fremont. Neb t Ad j A Friend of the Children . k An I "Uoyd" . S Ad I Frank J. Carey . I dd I Tola! . MO Ad Just put what you can in an en I \ elope and address it "Free Milk and Ice Kund. Care of The Omaha Bee. j I Omaha, Neb," Checks should be made out to "Kree Milk and Ice Kund.” __ $2,000,000 Life Insurance Policy Taken Out hv ^ oman Chicago, June f>.—\ f;’.000.000 life Insurance policy, said to be the larg est ever issued to a woman in the I'nited Slates, has hern taken out by Mr*. Kvelvn Marshall Field, wife of Marshall Field lit of Chicago, it be came known here today. Typhoon in P. I. tty .Iwnfialol Cress. Manila. June S.—One vessel Is prob ably wrecked and two others slanded In a typh>>on which has been raging around the Philippine islands for three days, according to advice* re ceived here today. BARNEY GOOGLE- And Sparky’8 the Apple of Barney’s Eve, Too. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy DeBeck v ' u*v Y S,pa»k j« UMNS . 8QVS ' j /’/T'SKiNG A^E. "ToN BET AGAINST \ MY OWN 3TAWKY ^OMt GOT* 1 fcONT USE ANY ( \ 3uoGme^t a-tau WV Wy K«| Fvaittw Itnfcwtt, I nr ^"* • *** ** 6PECN & APPIES /^SAY — VaJmAT wa's vo^r PROPoSlTtOM A i UTTlG UJMUG AGo. IM MAPD \ OP WfcAO'N . V y Breach Is Widening in Europe Semi-Official Temps in Un mistakable Language Issue* First Ultimatum to Brit ish Since Waterloo. English Resent Stand By A—or la ted Prase. Paris, June 8 —Premier Polncar* absolutely rejected the German repa rations proposals tonight in his first official expression since the receipt of the note from Berlin, when he ap peared before the senate commissions on foreign affairs and finance to an swer a long questionnaire on the operations in the Ruhr. The premier said the French anl Belgian governments had agreed not to consider any proposal from Chan cellor Cuno unless it was preceded by complete and final cessation of th* German passive restistance campaign. He assured the senators that the gov ernment's relations with the Belgians were satisfactory and that everything was going well in the Ruhr. By rnltmtl Service. Pans. June S.—What Is practically the first ultimatum that France has addressed to England since the bat tle of Waterloo was contained in the veiled but unmistakable language of the semiofficial Temps tonight. The Temps puts the issue up to Premier Baldwin thus: Either you throw down the Ger man note as worthless pf discussion, in which case you are on our side and endorsing our policy in the Ruhr, or you announce that the note is a basis for discussion, in which case you openly ally yourself with Germany! Believe Position Strong. Never, since the Napoleonic wars, has any French leader dared to speak thus openly to Albion. It shows how tremendously strong France believes her position to be. Holding the heart of industrial Eu rope, with Belgium on one side and Poland on the other, both well armed and ready to obey orders. France to day certainly will not take sugges tions, much less orders, from her ancient foe. England. Summed up roughly, the situation in this: France would like England to be friendly, but if she is not. Francs thinks herself now strong enough to defv not only England but the whole world in defense of what she believes to be her right*. England Exerts Influence. Eondon. June X.—The British gov ernment not only regards the latest German note as a long step towards settlement of the reparations problem, but, supported by the press and the great industrial and financial inter r U bear* *nj m T p m . .Tun* g, Higbaat. M Imn« *4 «#n J*J* T^;*! n rM »iao« January U _ UMalHa NumtitHv tffrr«i«tr • m *' N »a>n *1 ?rm 1 t*fwtpl«a«*na ln.hr. and Hnn.lrrattha t Total » «.♦ January 1. if «s drfieimf*, Haurtr T 4 » W , . . . . gft ; • w . *» ? • m . , . * , a . 44 * 4. TO .. , P«r , , . . bar«iit»ii . tVnx #r tV4t* City 1 an*l»r • Don’t Forget to Phone Your Sunday Want Ad to ATlantic 1000 Before Nine o’Clock Tonight