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De Valera a Con nr d!
Bernhardt's Love Letters.
Historical Couples.
A Flying Gibraltar.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
San Simeon, Cal., Aug. 16.— De
Valera, a prisoner at last, is ac
cused of cowardice by the men that
captured him. It is said he fell
in a faint when free state troops
surprised him, dropping to the
floor in the midst of a “rebel”
speech, even before the first shot
was fired.
Those that have talked to De
Valera and followed his career will
not easily believe that he is a cow
ard, whatever they may think of
his judgment, in continuing a
hopeless fight against the Irish
free state.
And all Irishmen will remem
ber, now he is down, that without
the fight that De Valera led in the
beginning, the free state might
not exist today.
The Pullman conductor who
keeps track of literature says:
“I see the papers publish Sarah
Bernhardt’s love letters to
Sardou.”
Everybody knew Sardou wrote
plays for Bernhardt, not that
Bernhardt wrote love letters to
Sardou. It doesn’t matter now,
Bernhardt is dead.
The letters tell how Bernhardt
felt and expressed her own feel
ings.
■ The world had only heard her
express emotions written to order
by others.
Will the names “Bernhardt and
Sardou” live, twined together,
typical of deep and undying af
fection? Probably not. Millions
of “undying affections” have come
and gone. Very few have fixed
their place in our language; you
can pick them off on your fingers.
Here are those that occur to this
writer—watching threshing ma
chines blow out great piles of
wheat straw, beside the railroad
track.
Most famous are Abelard and
Heloise. That poor schoolgirl was
taught only too well. Abelard,
the teacher, was subsequently, as
Villon tells you, “chatre et fait
moine.” That has impressed men
and curbed a few of them, perhaps.
Anthony and Cleopatra, beauti
ful in Shakespeare’s story, dull in
reality as Ferrero tells you. Cleo
patra was particularly ugly. An
thony wanted, not her, but Egypt’s
great-store of gold, to be used in
fighting Caesaj.
Daphnis and Chloe. That’s a
pretty story. Dante and Beatrice.
Dante fell in love with her when
she was 10 years old, saw her
rarely if ever after that. She mar
ried somebody else, so did he; both
had children. , .
Nevertheless, he places her sec
ond only to the high ruling per
sonages in his Paradise and never
mentions his wife, in hell, purga
tory, limbo or paradise. There are
Petrarch and Laura, not so inter
esting. And then Dido, that un
fortunate passionate queen. She
ought to be in the list, for she
certainly cut up didos. She origi
nated that expression, more earn
estly than any other lovelorn lady
before or since. Her gentleman’s
name is never associated with hers.
It is just “Dido.”
What other names twined in the
immortality of deep affection, can
you suggest? Romeo and Juliet?
They existed only in Shakespeare's
imagination.
Couples of men and women,
famous in history and literature
for their affection are rare. And
men made famous by undying
friendship are rarer.
Can you mention any friendship
between men, universally known,
except Damon and Pythias? You
might drag in Robin Hood and Lit
tle John, or Don Quixote and San
cho Panza. But they were master
and servant. What others are
there? "Taft and T. R.” But
that’s too bourgeois and it didn’t
last.
The Pacific coast is discussing a
“Gibraltar” of defense to be estab
lished in the Pacific. Congressman
Darrow of Pennsylvania, address
ing the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce, warns the coast states
against the danger from Asia. ....
What the Pacific coast and the
Atlantic coast both need, however,
is not an old-fashioned Gibraltar
of solid rock. The English, own
ing the original Gibraltar that
hitherto has given them control of
the Mediterranean, realize now
that their "impregnable fortress”
is at the mercy of a few flying ma
chines from above or heavy guns
located across the straits in Africa.
The Gibraltars of the future will
be divided into many flying units.
As you travel west on the Santa
Fe you pass an isolated group of
buildings in which the government
has stored 12,000,000 pounds of
TNT. The Pullman ear conductor
tells you that the government is
gradually changing that explosive
into fertilizer to be used by
farmers.
If the explosive ran be pre
served, with ail its efficiency, it
should stay as it is, ready to be
dropped from flying U. S. A.
"Gibraltars” when and where
needed.
A small amount of money, the
prices of two or three battleships
like the $40,000,000 one on which
Schwab holds the contract, would
give this country the flying de
fense that it needs.
Copyright, 1923.
First Hog Shipment From
Goliinihus Goes tn Gnasl
(pfrlul lil-imlidi to Tin' Omulm Bff.
Columbus, Neb.. Aug. 17.—Tin
first car load of hogs ever shlppei
from Columbus and, according
railroad figure-, the first evei
shipped from this district to the Cali
fornta markets, was billed out of hen
today by former Mayor J. C. Carrlg
The hogs were bought by the Cuilah;
Packing company for slaughter am
' onslgned to the company's pa-'kini
house Iri Cos Angeles.
Shumway Orders Probe of Smith Honest
Bread Law Violations
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Secretary Acts
on Advices From
State’s Attorney
Charge Made Bakers in Omaha
aad Elsewhere Fail to
Comply With Regu
lations.
Special Dispatch to The Omalia Bee.
Lincoln, Aug. 16.—Grant L. Shum
way, state secretary of agriculture,
today ordered all food inspectors to
Investigate and prosecute all viola
tions of the Smith honest loaf bread
law.
This action followed receipt of a
letter written to Shumway by At
torney General O. S. Spillman in
which he Informed Shumway that
numerous bakers in Omaha and else
where in Nebraska are not complying
with this law and directing Shumway
to seo that it is enforced.
“I presume it must be enforced and
I’ll take steps to see that it is,”
Shumway said in commenting upon
the Spillman letter.
"If the bakers in Omalia alone
would cut 1 ounce under the maxi
mum weight stamped on their loaves
as they may do unless the Smith
bread law is enforced it means ap
proximately $250,000 out of the pock
ets of Omaha bread users,” Spillman
said. “If they would cut 2 and 3
ounces, ts they could do, it would
mean $700,000 and $800,000 a year to
Omaha bread users.”
Spillman in his letter to Shumway
stated that the fact the constitutional
ity of the law had been attacked by
the bakers and was now before the
United States supreme court does not
mean that the law is invalid until a
decision Is rendered.
“The presumption is that the law
is constitutional until It Is found that
it is not,” Spillman informed Sham
way.
The Smith law forces bakers to sell
loaves weighing a pound, pound and
a half or an exact multiple of a
pound.
The constitutionality of the law
will be argued before the United
States supreme court at Washington
in October, Spillman announced.
Son Buys Out Father in
Columbus Furniture Store
Special Dispatch J> The Omaha Bee.
Columbus. Neb., Aug. 17.—A con
tract has been signed, under which
Sam Gass becomes the sole owner of
the Henry Gass A Co. furniture store.
Gass bought out the Interest pre
viously held by his father, Henrr
Gass, sr., and hie brother, Henry
Gass, Jr.
The elder Gass cams to Columbus
In 1870 when the town had a popu
lation of 200 people, and opened a
cabinet shop, which he later devel
oped into the only undertaking and
furniture business In the city. Co
lumb#i is probably the only city of
its size in the country where neither
of these lines has ever had any com
petition.
State Owes Eight Counties
$97,000 for Bridge Work
Special Dispatch to Tha Omaha Bee.
Lincoln, Aug. 17.—Governor Bryan
today presented a statement prepared
by Roy Cochran, state engineer, show
ing, the governor asserted, that the
state owes Knox, Buffalo, Scotts
Bluff, Dawson, Saunders, Boyd. Polk
and Merrick counties $97,000 for build
ing and repairing bridges.
According to the governor the for
mer state engineer made written
agreements with county officials in
a majority of these counties to the
effect that if the counties would pro
ceed with the necessary work, the
state’s part of it would be paid later,
the appropriations for bridge work
being exhausted at the time.
Stout Women
Attention!
In order to clear our
racks at once to make
room for new fall mer
chandise we offer one
group of 41 cotton dresses
—sizes 42 to 60—at a
price that represents a
genuine bargain in qual
ity merchandise.
* 41 Dresses
Sizes H2 Vo 50
These dresses consist of
figured Voiles and
Linens. They are all
smart models and nicely
tailored.
$Q95
Be the “first" lo select
from this group of dresses
at this remarkably low
price. See them tomorrow
at The Gray Shop. They
won’t last long at this
low price.
Take Elevator to
Haas Brothers
1 ' < he Shop for Women"
THE GRAY SHOP
4»h Floor
Brown Blk. 16th and Dougina
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Fremont Boys’ B and to Play Here
Fremont boasts of a boys’ band composed of 30 boys ranging In age
from 10 to 15. V. R. Yosholz, director, will show off his charges to
Oniaiians at Krug park Sunday, when the band will he in Omaha witli a
Fremont picnic crowd. It will play at the park at 1:30 and 6 p. m. The
band is supported by Fremont merchants.
Alien Veterans Have
Chance to Be Citizens
Lincoln, Aug. 17.—There are 1n
Nebraska a number of foreign-born
veterans of the world war who are
not yet naturalized and who have an
opportunity to become American
citizens without fulfilling require
ments as to residence over a definite
period of time, according to word re
ceived from the United States bureau
of naturalization by Frank B. O'Con
nell, state adjutant of the American
Legion. The residence requirements
will bo waived for the veterans until
March 3, 1924. Mr. O'Connell said.
This information has led the legion
officials to urge all Americanism of
ficers to lend their assistance to those
aliens who served honorably, but
who through ignorance, have not yet
applied for citizenship. About 50,000
such veterans in all sections of the
United States are eligible.
Under the law the applicant needs
only an honorable discharge from the
military, naval or marine forces of
the United States, and two witnesses
who are citizens to identify the ap
plicant. No charge is made for
naturalization. Specific cases may be
presented to the commissioner of
naturalization through post Ameri
canism officers of the legion.
Tourist Robbed by Three
Men Whom He Gave Lift
Grand Island. Neb.. Aug. 17.—After
having given three strangers a lift,
IV. E, Baldwin, tourist of Blooming
ton, 111., was robbed by them of his
gold watch, $136 In cash and of his
touring car and was left stranded
by the roadside. He walked four
miles to Gibbon.
Baldwin had picked up the men
near Lexington, invited them to sup
per with him at Kearney, after sup
per continuing the Journey east with
his new friends. The latter finally
held him up with his own revolver.
The ungrateful trio was seen at
f-'helton late last night, but the of
ficers have no clue today
Mayor of Allianre and
Head of Rank Dies at Home
R. M. Hampton, president of the
First National bank of Alliance, Neb.,
died yesterday at Alliance, according
to word received here by Frank Boyd,
vice president of the Omaha National
bank.
Mr. Hampton, who was mayor of
the city, was a well known figure in
western Nebraska where tie was a
leader in civic enterprise.
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1 O-Month-Old Baby Is
Scalded by Bath Water
Special Dispatch to The Omaha flee.
Columbus, Neb., Aug. 17.—Hattie,
10-months old adopted daughter of
Frank Whittaker, is in a critical con
dition at tlie home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Whittaker, as
the result of burns received when she
was scalded with boiling water.
Mr. Whittaker's mother, who has
been taking care of the child since
the death of Sirs. Frank Whittaker
several months ago, was preparing
the tot's morning bath.
She placed the tub on the floor and
was pouring the hot water into It
from a teakettle when Hattie got
In the wav of the stream.
Fireworks Close Program
of Old Settlers’ Pirnic
Special Diepatch to The Omaha Bee.
Alma, Neb.. Aug. 17.—Fifteenth an
nual old settlers’ picnic at Orleans
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
closed last night with a display of
fireworks. Judge Hastings delivered
an address and music was furnished
by the Orleans band. Free ice cream
and coffee were distributed. About
3,000 persons attended dally. Large
crowds were attracted by the display
of laces, embroidered silks and jewels
in the store window of James Mc
Oeachin, collected by him on his re
cent trip around the world.
Nebraska Paving Projects
Total Nearly $2,000,000
Lincoln. Aug. 17.—Paving projects
in various cities of Nebraska ag
gregate nearly $2,000,000. according
to surveys made by federal agen
cies. Tn Omaha, the total of paving
projects contemplated aggregates
approximately $1,000,000. Lincoln's
paving projects will amount to about
$500,000, according to city officials.
Other cities in which extensive pav
ing is contemplated include Grand
Island, Norfolk, Beatrice, Fremont,
North Platte, Columbus, Hastings and
Plattsmouth.
Omaha Leads in
Stock Purchase
Report Shows 2.965.134 Head
of Livestock Bought Here
Last Six Months.
Meat packers at the South Omaha
stockyards bought more livestock for
packing purposes in the last six
months than any other packing cen
ters, according to figures compiled
hy the bureau of publicity of the
Chamber of Commerce, based on fig
ures from the last federal reserve
monthly review.
Omaha packers bought 2,965.134 head
of livestock. The largest purchase
was 1,112,243 head of hogs. Sheep
were next with 914,410 head, and
cattle and calves 532,635 head.
The Kansas City packers were next
to Omaha with 2.74K.572 head; St. Jo
seph, 1,769,094 head; Wichita, 35R.747
head, and Denver and Oklahoma City,
386,762 and 346,072 respectively.
According to the report of the.
Tenth Federal Reserve district, the
livestock industry at this time is more
stabilized than at any previous season
since the world war. Gains in meat
animals have been reported through
the season at all livestock centers.
Pastures and ranges have shown Im
provements and there is an abund
ance of stock food In all sections.
Full Corps of Teachers
Engaged for Platte County
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Columbus, Xeb., Aug. 17.—Prac
tically all rural and village schools
in Platte county have engaged their
full corps of teachers for the school
year which opens the second week In
September, according to Fred Lecron,
county superintendent of schools. He
says there is a greater surplus of
teachers this year than In many
years because during and after war
times salaries went up and many
girls began to prepare themselves
for school work.
Drawing of State Capitol
to Be Shown at Legion Meet
Lincoln, Aug. 17.—Shortly after
his election as national iommander,
Alvin'Owsley, head of the Ameriiau
Legion, dedicated the new state capl
| tol of Nebraska in honor of the sol
dier dea(\. Because of this interest,
the Nebraska department of the legion
contemplates taking an original draw
It g of the building to the national
legion convention at .San Francisco,
where it will be displayed to visitors.
A booth for this purpose already has
been offered.
Boy Who Fell 011 Handle of
Pitchfork Dies of Injuries
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Columbus, Neb.. Aug. 17.—Injuries
he received when he fell off a load of
hay onto a pitchfork, the handle of
which penetrated his abdomen proved
fatal today to Andrew Keller, 17, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Keller, living
two miles east of Humphrey. Neb
He Is survived by two brother* and
seven sisters. Funeral services will
be held at the Humphrey Catholic
church at 10:30 Saturday morning
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their superior styling.
You will like them because of the un
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to you! And the new colorings are very
beautiful.
$13.50 to $22.50
Coats
For Women
New models, and very exclusive styles.
Not a whole lot of ordinary looking
garments, but an assortment that’s
extraordinary and not to be found else
where in Omaha. Hand-tailored gar
ments that have the same reputation as
our men's garments, “unequalled."
“You are invited to look them over."
$30 to $95
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30 Per Cent Columbus
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Slyly Enjoy Puffs of
Fags a la Cleopatra j
Special Illapatch to Tim Omaha Bee.
Columbus, Neb., Aug. 17.—"You'd
be surprised," said a local tobacco
dealer, "at tbe rapidly Increasing use
of cigarets in Columbus by women
and girls. To provide these fair pa
trons with fags and to serve our regu
lar women customers without any un
due publicity, we keep a supply of all
kinds of cigarets and matches done
up in paper bags beneath the counter.
"Many amusing tilings arise when
one comes In for a package. Invaria
bly single girls will say they want a
pack for Mr. So-ad-So, only men
don’t smoke Kgyptiun cigarets, and
fhen you bfnk on it that they ure get
ting the 'pills' for themselves. School
teachers have a harder time and will
wait until there Is no one else in the
store.
"Hut when a woman comes in and
asks boldly fqf cigarets you can bet
she doesn't want them for herself, but
is acting for hubby, brother or fath
er."
Local dealers say that at least 30
per cent of the younger women are
using cigarets secretly.
Adams County Annual
Fair Now Assured Event
Special Dispatch l«> The Omuha Iter.
Hustings, Neb., Aug. 17.—The sec
ond Adams county annual fair which
closed Friday night, was far more
successful than the first. The at
tendance on each of three days was
from 12,000 to 15,000.
The equipment 1 nthe way of build
ings was almost doubled since last
year and yet every department of the
fair was filled to overowing.
More than 150 horses were entered
in the races. More than 500 hogs,
125 beef cattle and 75 dairy animals
were exhibited. Many of these ani
mals will be entered at the state
fair. The success this year means
the fair is permanently established
and that additional improvements
will he made before next year.
Dr. L. A. Powell Appointed
Sildiers’ Home Physician
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Her.
Lincoln, Aug. 17.—Dr. L. A. Powell
of Superior has been appointed resi
dent physician at the state soldiers'
home at Grand island, the state board
of control announced today. Dr.
rowell practiced medicine in Nebras
ka for 30 years, excepting two years,
when he held a similar position in
the state soldiers* home at Fort
Dodge, Kan.
The sure way to get results is to
tell Omaha readers the full details of'
Who Is Looking for Jokj*
Pulling Lever That
ff ill Send 2 Omahan.s
to Death at State Pen?
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Lincoln, Aug. 17.—Who wants to
pull the lev< r that will send two Om
ha men to their death September 10?
Warden W. T. Fenton stated today
that a number had applied for the
Job providing there is suitable com
pensation attached.
For the three electrocutions in Ne
braska since Installation of the elec
tric chlar, the state executioner from
Massachusetts has pulled the lever, a
two seconds' Job, for which he re
ceived as many hundred dollars
Other officials have volunteered to
act at lower prices, the warden as
serted »
The two men to lie electrocuted sro
Sol Wesley and Leroy Muldoon. found
guilty of killing a man In an Omaha,
grocery. Neither has filed appeal to
the supreme court.
Both men, according to report, re
main calm. They aro permitted to
attend penitentiary ball gam's and
are given exercise daily. The peni
tentiary chaplain calls on them each
day.
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Saturday— A First Showing of
New Fall Suits
—whose lustrous pile fabrics and
duvetyns, gorgeous with em
broideries and rich furs are
forcible reminders of the many
occasions when a woman looks
her best in a suit. However, this
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year, as always, plain
tailored styles in
navy twill that are
both the aristocrats
and the backbone of
suit fashions, find
adequate representa
tion here.
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Tailored Suits
$49.50 to $79.50
Fur-Trimmed Suits
$98.50 to $150
Third Floor
White Silk Hose
Specially Priced $2.25
All pure silk from topmost thread to sandal foot
are these beautiful full fashioned hose and ex
actly the kind careful women hunt for when
they want good wear as well as glistening
ankles. Buy them Saturday at considerably
less than regular prices. M«.n Floor
Redfern Wrap-Around
In speaking of corsets, Redfern means a quality
that satisfies. Wrap-Around means comfort
and the “natural” figure contour, not only for
girls, but the woman of average full figure.
Several pretty models at $5.00. Second Floor
August Fur Sale
20 to 331/3% Less Than Fall Prices
No matter how skillful the shopper, when it
conies to furs she must rely to a great extent
on the integrity of the firm where she buys.
Many years have proved to many patrons that
Thompson-Belden’s is a safe place to buy.
Third Floor
A Clearance of
Boys' Pajamas
It is good economy to
pick up such well made
garments as these at re
duced prices. Sizes 2
to 16 years in striped
percales and cotton
crepes.
One-piece Pajamas, 98c.
Two-piece Pajamas,
$1.49.
Second Floor
Handkerchiefs
Women’s Linen Hand
kerchiefs, plain hem
stitched ones that are
nice for marking for
the school girl, 12Vic,
15c and 19c each.
Men’s Pure Linen Hand- "V
kerchiefs of a quality
you don’t often find at
50c each.
Main Floor
Home Frocks
Now $2.89
There is still a goodly
number of pretty styles
from which to choose in
this clearance of all of
our summer house
dresses. Particularly
good selection in the
larger sizes. Sizes 15
years to 52.
Second Floor
10y-> Off on
All Linens and
White Goods
—during the August
sale of linens in addi
tion to a number of at
tractive special you will -
find featured in the de- *
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Main Floor
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