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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.
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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.
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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”
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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.
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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
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"Uoyd" . S Ad
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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.”
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$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.
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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
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Daniel J. Connell Dies
at Home of Pneumonia
Daniel J. Connell. 2758 South Thir
teenth street, died yesterday at his
home from pneumonia.
Mr. Connell was born In Elkhorn.
Neb. and came to Omaha 42 years
nco. He had resided on the South
Side since that time. He was promi
nent in democratic circles and »as a
fourth degree member of the Knigh**
of Columbus and Woodmen of the
World.
Heis survived by his mother. Mrs.
Monora Corrigan: one sister. Kather
ine Connell, and one brother, Patrick
H. Connell.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Patrick Catholic church at $ Mon
day morning.
According to Edward C. Cogan seo
retarv of the thnaha council of the
Knights of Columbus, a guard of
honor, consisting of eight knights,
will attend the body of Mr. Connell
Monday.
Arguments Heard on Right
of Holdrege Bank to Collect
"peelal I'l-O.Uh Tlw Omaha He*.
Lincoln, June s -The state ,u
Pretne court listened today to argu
ments on the claim of the Citizen*
state bank of Holdrege that it had
a right to collect from the guaranty
fund the amount of loss involved in
that hank's action in taking over as
’*ts and liabilities of the defunct
Holdrege State bank Following re
Lisa: of the state department of trade
and commerce to make good the al
leged loss the Holdrege State bank
ilosfti its doors.
Kiwanis Hears of Utah.
t.eorge E Proa do* of salt Lake
Cun add reseed the Klwanis club
weekly luncheon at Hotel Rom* c e*.
. terday noon on "Ctah Scenery. " *
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