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."
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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.
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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. Instead
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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
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Dainty Undergarments for Summer
At Prices That Are Very Low
Tub Silk
Costume Slips
$4.95
Shadow-proof slips with long waist
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with 20-inch hem, or with lace
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Checked Voile
Negligees
$5.75
These dainty breakfast coats in rose, light
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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
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$1.95
Every stitch of these little
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All Our
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y<l Price
Our entire stock of white baby
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All-Wool Cashmere
Crepe de Chine
Crepella
are offered at exactly ore
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this reduction price, mother's
will do well to purchase baby's
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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
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Water Cooler
Three-quart, galvanized water
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in any refrigerator. Specially
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Garden Hose
50-foot sections of five-ply guar
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Lemonade Glasses
Colonial ice tea or lemonade
glasses, special, a dozen, 81.(K)
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Sippera in all colors, set of 6;
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Ice Tea Set
M-piece ice ten set, in white or
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Keep your porch shady, cool and
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Garbage Can
Galvanized can with drop han
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Sire.. 1 i inches in diameter and
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pint size, dozen , .. . I Hr
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Priced, a square foot
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Sale ot Handkerchiefs
at 25c
Women's colored linen hand
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Many colors and styles from
which to choose.
at 19c
Women's white linen hand
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Bags for Summer Vacation
Sport Silk Bags
$2.95 and $3.95
The season demands bright
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Fitted Traveling Cases
$10 to $25
Made of fine leather of mo
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Fittings are of ivory, ebony or
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'
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Overnight Cases
$8.98
An idea! vacation conveni
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Sports Belts 50c to $1.25
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“La France” Shoes for W omen
I $8501
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White nile cloth oxford
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\ One-strap pump of
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Dress Lengths
From 4 to 5 Yards
$1.49
100 dress lengths of 32
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S«rond Floor
Neckwear
Sale Priced at
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A largo assortment of new
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guimpes. Peter Pan vest
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91 so the new Jennie Bertha
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Thin Silk Hose
$1.25
V sheer fine quality of chiffon made
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Main Floor
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Jack 1 ar Middy
$2.50
All white middies with Peter
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Sport* Skirt* $3.95
One group of sport skirts in
checks plaids and plain pleat '
rd wool material*, finished
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$3.95
Made shirt and bloomer
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