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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1923)
Question of Navy Strength Is Put Up to Congress Veterans of Foreign Wars De mand Equality Under Terms of Five-Power Treaty. By Universal Service. Washington, June 21.—With the highest ranking officers of the navy and marine corps personally partici pating. a nation-wide movement was started here today to put squarely up to the administration and congress the question of maintaining or sur rendering the ratio of naval equality provided under the five-power treaty. The campaign was launched with the adoption by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, District of Columbia encampment, of resolutions' urging the Navy department to submit to congress the recommendations neces sary to bring the United States up to the 6-5-3 plan and demanding that the administration and congress shall act favorably on the recdinmen datlons. The Importance with which this movement is regarded is emphasized hy the list of those who took an ac tive part in launching it. Heading the list is Admiral Coontz. chief of naval operation, and newly chosen commander in-chief of the United States fleet. Maj. Gen. John A. Le jeune. commandant of the marine corps, was another ranking officer who joined In the action. Others participating were Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville, second In command of the marine corps, and Maj. Gen. Anton Stephen, command ing the District of Columbia National guard. Panel Exhausted r* in Murder Case Selection of Jury to Try Dr. C. L. Egbert Is Dif ficult. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Hastings. Neb.. June 21 —Getting a jury to try Dr. C. L. Egbert, charged with first degree murder last Febru ary In the shooting and killing of his son-in-law. Charles R. Gordon, appar ently will be difficult. The regular panel, reduced to 18 men was exhausted in an hour with out the defense having begun its ex amination. The state challenged eight for cause and the defense challenged two on the answers to the state's questions, and these were all excused. The stats passed eight for cause. Judgs Uilworth ordered the sheriff to fill ttas regular panel with five men and by consent of counsel, ordered the ;al|ing of 50 talesmen. ; any of those challenged said they nad formed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the surgeon, while a number were excused for holding abjections to' capital punishment. County Attorney Crow is conduct ng the prosecution alone. Stlner and Boslaugh announced Charles F. Bruckman will be associated with them in the defense. On.aha Youth Graduates From U. S. Military Academy Ben Stern, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stern. 3114 Chicago street, return ed home Monday from West Point military academy. He took gradua tion from a four-year engineering course and was commissioned a sec ond lieutenant in the United States army. Stern Is a graduate of Central High school, where he held the rank of major In the cadet regiment. He was also a lieutenant colonel at Creiuliton university. He is waiting orders to report to an aviation camp in Texas. Woman’s Second Suicide Attempt Is Successful Mrs. Emma Wilson. 53. of Omaha, was found hanging from a rafter in a garage at the home of her daughter, Mrs. V. T. Becker, in Lincoln, at 10 yesterday morning. She was dead. She attempted suicide several weeks ago at the home of another daughter In Omaha. Mrs. J. P. Shoup, by a similar route but the rope broke. Nervous breakdown resulting from having ail her teeth removed by a dentist was given as the reason. Conference Postponed Special Dlspatrh to The Omaha Bee. Norfolk, Neb ., June 21.—C. E. Burn ham. representative in the Tenth dis trict of the American Bankers' as sociation. received word today from Burton M. Smith, chairman of the bankers’ farmer commission, thst the meeting called for a conference at Manhattan, Kan , June 28. has been postponed for some undetermined date, due to the vacation period. Trad# Tourist* tiive $2/>() Special riUpatch to The Omaha nee. Bcottsbluff^ Neb , .lune 21.—A gift of |2F>0 to the West Nebraska Metho. diet hospital was made hy the mem bers of the Denver Civic and Com mercial association on a trade tour through this territory. On the Screen Today Empress—"A Fool There Was.” Htrand—"The Famous Mrs. Fair.” It I alto—"Suranna '' World—"A Noise In Newboro.” Muse—"The Woman Came." Bun—"Nanonk" and "A Town Scandal.” Moon—"Quicksands/' Grand—"Ninety and Nine” Hamilton—"The Midnight Patrol." Victoria—"Bell Boy 13." AT THE I THEATERS IT In a faiit *nd r*Pfy vaudavllll ini photoplay bill «hl« n inak#* It* bow at t ha world th*a tar ataitlng tomor row Th* FIv# .Jan*l»ya *r« »h# b##t of ••niaHondl rlaley artIM# and Nor ton off or J*rk Lalt * rlotou* *Htir# "From Coat to Coat ** Finlay *nd Hill add to th# m*rrlm#nt with th*lr notad vaudn villa vehlelt. "Vodvll * I* Mod# R#no H*t*r« and Align *nt#rt*ln with dam * and mualo. Hop* V#rnon I* un lnt#rna tion*I aoni artl*' Hirbay Holt and Kan rlrlrk Introduce # fa*t and #vRing gam* of haakat b*1l whll* riding blciola* Tha photoplay f*a»ur** nr# "Th» Milky Way." # ith T>avld HUtl*r and all alar r«#» and ♦ b* Hath rl#11ghlful atory of tha Tlfht log Blood" §*rlfa. ----I Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield |l (Continued From Yesterday.) S\.\OFSl!H. Neale C rittenden. 10 year* old, | la a typical, red-blooded AmeHraJi boy. living with hi* parent* «n Union Hill, a village near New York city. He i* w?*®"* ®f outdoor eport* and tak«*e part In all of the boyish fun of the coimnunij. * aoa flon time arrive* and he aoe# withi hla mother to vhlt hi. SfiitTnC den In the country. While there destiny tape him on the *h<mlder in the j*”®»» of hi* great uncle. Burton < ^Itendeii. whn u «o plav an important part in tne K?. taterl?/.. The' .rene •htftll.to ■ French rural province, where Old Jeanne Amigorena vl*its the home of her niece Anna Etchergary. in who*e home an American couple and their Xlwim* ®j4 daughter. Marine, hav4 come to live, uia Jeanne ta^e a place!a* '•crvant for ’ thj American family and accompanies Marine to school each dny. ^ They weren’t all stories of Jeanne when she was a little girl. ° them were of what had happened hum dreds and hundreds of years ago around here. There were ever so many stories of witches and ghosts and sorcerers. There were plenty of those still in the Basque country. There was a sorcerer living In the little tumble down house near the river on the road to St. Barthelemy. Why, Jeanne s ow n mother, years ago, one day looked up from her spinning and saw a mon strous pig, big and black. She jump ed up and ran out to try to catch it. Her grandmother went out too. and there were a lot of the neighbors who were trying to drive the pig away. But it didn't pay a bit of attention, butted at them so fierce when they came near they were afraid, for he was as tall as a calf, and whoever saw a pig as big as that? And then the grandmother made the sign of the cross, Spanish fashion « ■ - and like snapping your fingers, didn't the pig change, right before their eyes, into a little wee woman they’d never seen, and she went up in the air as thin and light as a loose spider's thread, and drifted away and there was nothing there. The little American girl knew enough to know that this story couldn't be true, of course. And yet Jeanne's mother and all those people had seen It. They saw a pig and it turned Into a wee witch woman. Marlse stopped thinking about that, leaned forward and begin kneading the softened tallow at the upper end of the candle. Father could say all he liked about candles being a bother, they were lots of fun. This part up next the flame got just right so you could poke It and it stayed put. any way you wanted it. And it was fun to lean the candle over and drop the melted tallow on your hands In little drops that got hard and you could peel them off. Somebody was walking slowly down the brick-floored hall to her room. It was father's heavy step. That was nice! She hadn't thought she would see either father or maman, because there had been company to dinner again. She gathered the tallow drops together and dropped them In the base of the brass candlestick. Then she remembered that Jeanne would scold if she did that. These candlp sticks like everything else In the house had to be just so, or everybody caught it. She swept them out again with her fingers, and stood holding them in her hand, looking around her for some place to put them. The waste-paper basket w-as too open, they would fall right through on th» floor, and what a fuss there would he over that! Oh. there was the fireplace, if you put things away hack of the sticks. Jeanne didn't see them. She was just straightening up from reaching back of the wood, when father came In. He said, "Hello, kid," and she answered, "Hello, poppa. They did this for a kind of a joke, to be extra American when Maman couldn't hear them. "Having a good time?” asked father slowly, the way he did, that let you see how he knew perfectly well you weren't. “Not so very,” she answered. "Neither am I.” he returned, "though you needn't mention it to momma." There were always a great many things that were not to be mentioned to maman, and a lot of quite other tilings that were not to he mentioned to father, and Isabelle told her things she didn't want Jeanne to know', and everything that Jeanne said was not to lie mentioned either to father or maman. Marise, coming hack from school, used to feel when she opened the door of the apartment, as thougii she were walking into cob webs spread around in the dark, and you mustn't on any account brush into any one of them. Father now went on. "What are you doing with yourself?" Marise looked down at the cahier. Its pages as blank as when she had sat down. Her father looked with her. "That's lovely paper. I must say.” he commented, always with his way of showing that he meant just the opposite. "Are you supposed to write on it in ink?" "Oh. yes." rried Marise. flashing up to seize the chance of sympathy for one of her grievances, “they never let you use lead pencils because in lead pencil there's a chance to rub out your mistakes. Your're not sup posed to make any mistakes." "Doesn't your pen get *!uck in It— it must lie like writing on mosquito netting." said father. "Yes. It does," complained Marise. "and you spatter the ink all over and break off the tips of the pen. and everything. And the teachers just kill you if it's not perfectly neat." Father took up the cahier and look ed at the paper hard, scratching it a little with his finger-nail. "Well, there's culture in the air, nnyhow\" he said without smiling, although Marise knew he was quoting Maman. He looked around the room now with out saying anything more. Marise followed his eyes and saw with him the dingy, high-ceilinged room dimly lighted by the one wegk candle-flame, the heavy, figured tapestry curtains drawn over the window, the draught, although the w indow was closed, mak Ing them suck In and out: the ugly, ugly wall-paper, dark and scriggly; the stuffed red chair: the marble topped washstand with its little chip ped white earthen ware hasin and nitcher like the old things at Cousin Hetty's: the clock on the chimney piece that looked ss though It were carved out of greasy, dark green soap with a greasy dark-green man in a Roman tora on fop of it. the shabby, dingy, red and white checked curtains hanging over the hooks where Marise hung up her dresses, the tall dark armoire whose slightly greenish mirror reflected all these thincs as if you were looking at them through water: and Anally over the bed. the big shiny lithograph of Our Ladv of Lourdes In her bright red cloak, standing in front of hei- grotto. "Well, maybe it's In the air." said father. He spoke in his usual tired, slow voice, sagging down on the bed the way he always sat. But then he surprised Marise very much and said something she never forgot. It gave her such a Jump of astonishment to nave ratner say fito thing as though he really meant it. that she sat up straight at his first word, staring at him. lie said In a strong voice. But look hrre.' Molly, there Is something in the air here, by heck, and I wish you'd get it. 1 mean the way every one of them in this country keeps right after whal he's doing, till he s got it just right. That’s the \yay to do. and we’re all off the track with our ‘that'll do.’ (hr way we say back in America. It’s the only thing in their whole darned country I ran see. that don’t make you sick. Now. look here, kid, you go after it and get it. Start right In now. Bearn how to moke that infernal note book perfectly all right in spite of the had paper. I wish to the Bord I had been taught that.” And then, while Marise was still staring the words echoing loudly in her ears because of the strangeness of hearing them from father, he went on in his usual voice. "It might be something to hold on to, and T don't see much else. ’ Marise had never before known father in any way to try to “bring her up!” He made Maman so much provoked because he always said that he didn't know, any more than Marise, how she ought to he brought up. and he didn't see that it made so much difference what you did. every thing turned out about the same in the long run. Now her little yoom seemed full of the oddness of his thinking that something did matter, of his telling her so hard that he wished she’d do something. In the loud silence which followed, she could hear his voice and what it said, sink ing deeper and deeper into her mind. After a while father yawned very wide and rubbed his hair forward and back so that it was ail rumpled up the way Maman didn't like to see it. "What did you say you were do ing?” he asked again. “I'm writing down my lecon d'ortho graphe,” said Marise. "Your what!” said father. "My spelling lesson,” Marise cor rected herself with a jerk. She knew how father hated to have people mix up their languages. “Well. I don't know you’re any worse off at that than we are In the sitting-room." said father. He alwavs called the salon the sitting-room. He added, glancing at her blank note book, "You haven't got very far. I see " He paused, and smiled a little with one corner of his mouth, "But then neither have we in the sitting room." • It came into Marlse's mind that per haps father, seeing he was so specially serious tonight, might tell her some way to keep her thoughts from jiggling around so. from one way of feel ing to another, according to what other people thought of things. 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Merely slip ofT your shoes as you do in buying a new pair. The cause of your trouble will be revealed and recommendations will be made to provide instant and lasting relief. urgess-Nash Company •everybody** store' t)l KllUWlllg nuai sue uiuusm things. But she had no chance to ask him, for when she began. "Well, 1 sui t of forgot about my spelling. I got to thinking," father broke in. as ho got up heavily to gn, "I wouldn’t adv ise you to do that, either. It never gets anybody anywhere." Marise forgot till after he had got clear back to the salon that she had not brushed off the down from the edredon. Maman wouldn’t like that a bit, to have him look untidy when company was there! Oh. dear! But she forgot this ss ahe thought again about the queerness of father'* seeming to care so much about her doing one thing rather titan another It was still there, this wonder at him. when she turned to her book finally to study that spelling lesson. "Lit . . . sommier. . .traversin. . . She wrote the words down on the coarse paper, with infinite care, drawing on some deep, unfamiliar store of pa tience when the pen sputtered and caught Us point and stuck. She was going to try to do as father Mid. She would take a p much trouble with writing those words about a bed. as old Jeanne took In making the bed every morning, and that was more trouble than anybody In America ever took about anything. Her dark, shining hair fell forward about her cheeks as she leaned over the copy-book, writing slowly, chews ing her tongue, frowning tn Jjer con centration on the formation of those letters. She forgot all about h»r uncertain ties ns to how thing* really were, she forgot her loneliness. All her flicker lng thought* steadied themselves and grew quiet as she worked A still ness came over her. She felt happier than she had since they came to France to live. (Continued In The Wornlne Bee.t Burgess-Nash Company. Dainty Undergarments for Summer At Prices That Are Very Low Tub Silk Costume Slips $4.95 Shadow-proof slips with long waist line. Made of good quality tub silk with 20-inch hem, or with lace edged hem. White or flesh. Checked Voile Negligees $5.75 These dainty breakfast coats in rose, light blue, pink, white and orchid are charmingly made with hemline scalloped and edged with ruffles of lace. I.ovely iresh gar ments, new in our stock, and rare values at $5.75. Athletic Undergarments $1.00 and $1.25 These specially made sports garments come in regular and extra sizes. Regular $2.25 values in athletic union suits of fine batiste, striped dimity, voile and nainsook. For , genera! wear as well as for vacation and ouuing wear, you’ll find them very satisfactory garments. Serond Floor Friday--Baby Day Infants' . White Dresses ) 50c Plain coo] little dresses, made with lace trimmed neck and sleeves, or with embroidered yoke. Sizes 6 months to 2 years. Infants' Hand Made Dresses $1.95 Every stitch of these little dresses made by hand, with stitches as fine as mother her self would take. For their feather stitching, dainty laees and hand embroidery you will choose them. Sizes from in fant* and babies up to two years. All Our White Coats y<l Price Our entire stock of white baby coats, including those of All-Wool Cashmere Crepe de Chine Crepella are offered at exactly ore half their former price. At this reduction price, mother's will do well to purchase baby's next year's coat, allowing plenty of room for growing. Third Floor Hot Weather Needs Electric Fan Emerson 9-inch electric fan, with four blades. An unusual value at . 810.50 Lawn Mower 16-inch Dundee 4-blade self adjusting ball-bearing lawn mower. Priced at... 812.95 Water Cooler Three-quart, galvanized water cooler, which fit* beside the ice in any refrigerator. Specially priced at .49r Garden Hose 50-foot sections of five-ply guar anteed garden hose. 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I Hr *■» pint sue, dozen . , . inr Screen W ire Priced, a square foot - Sale ot Handkerchiefs at 25c Women's colored linen hand kerchiefs with ’-s-inch hem and embroidered corners. Many colors and styles from which to choose. at 19c Women's white linen hand kerchiefs with 1«-inch hem and self embroidered cor ners. A large variety of styles. Bags for Summer Vacation Sport Silk Bags $2.95 and $3.95 The season demands bright snappy colors. We have then? for all the smart sport cos tumes. Fitted Traveling Cases $10 to $25 Made of fine leather of mo rocco, seal, cowhide, pig skin and other durable leathers. Fittings are of ivory, ebony or shell. Unfitted Traveling Cases ' Hardy and just the thing for the vacation trip. Made with adjustable straps. Overnight Cases $8.98 An idea! vacation conveni ence fitted with brush, comb and mirror or no fittings, to suit vour convenience. Made of fine quality vachette leather. Sports Belts 50c to $1.25 A larjre assortment of excellent quality sports belts in a wonderful ranfre of colors, sizes and styles. Main Floor “La France” Shoes for W omen I $8501 Perfect fittinc footwear built primarily with the yet be smartly styled. White nile cloth oxford with low or Cuban heel, priced at 87.50. \ One-strap pump of \ patent or kid with w sjrav suede inlay, at 88.50. which proves that a shoe thought of comfort may Black and tar oxfords with Cuban heel, priced at SS.5G. Dainty white kid pump with one strap , and low covered heel, / su.oo. { main r loot Dress Lengths From 4 to 5 Yards $1.49 100 dress lengths of 32 inch gingham in small checks and plaid designs and very effective color combinations. S«rond Floor Neckwear Sale Priced at $3.45 A largo assortment of new neckw car. i n e I u d i n g guimpes. Peter Pan vest sets. Tuxedo \osteo sets, 91 so the new Jennie Bertha collar and cuff sets. These are made of fine quality lace and organdy. Values up to $8.91V Main ! I«vm Thin Silk Hose $1.25 V sheer fine quality of chiffon made with reinforced feet and lisle hem AH sre absolutely first quality and regular ly sell at $1.75 and $1.95. Black, gray. faun, gunmetal. nude. Main Floor Junior Apparel Jack 1 ar Middy $2.50 All white middies with Peter Tan collar in cadet, navy and red. Made with long sleeves and with convertible bot toms and finished at the neck with a silk string tie Sires ft to 14 years. Sport* Skirt* $3.95 One group of sport skirts in checks plaids and plain pleat ' rd wool material*, finished at waist with narrow belt*; or kiltie style with adjust able strap and buckle. Sires ft to 14 years. Jack Tar Play Suits $3.95 Made shirt and bloomer style, -hurt sleeve and V neck. Bloomer* are cut full and are finished at the knee with elastic. The shirt and bloomers are detachable, making it easy to launder. In khaki color onlv, site* 6 to 14 _______ ________ TMmI rim