Bellini Marriage
to Omaha Girl Is
: Illegal in Italy
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4 C. Patterson, Father of
Eugenia, Insists Mussolini
* Regime Holds Captain
U as Political Prisoner.
4Bt.itements by Claude Arezzo, editor
o£ 11 Progresso. Omaha. Italian news
paper, that Capt. Umberto Bellini is
not- held prisoner in Italy because of
opposition to the Mussolini rule, were
declared false Saturday by T). C. Pat
terson, father of Mrs. Bellini, who was
Kugenle Patterson of Omaha.
ftrezzo in a letter cited a cable dis
patch to a New York Italian paper
under date of October 7, 1924. which
h£ said was as follows:
‘‘Clara Cavalieri, belonging to a
pairician family of Bologna, de
ruflmced to the kings attorney, for
mer Cavalry Officer Umberto Bcl
litifl of Siena, to whom she intrusted
",*00,000 lire worth of objects of art
to. be sold In America, where he said
l’Cwas returning to re-enter the con
sular service in Boston.
" Charge* Hewed Illegally.
“Bellini it was charged never gave
arv accounting of the proceeds of the
objects of art intrusted to hint and
while in Boston remarried, notwith
standing the fact that he had a legal
wife in Italy. Returning to Italy he
was arrested today in Rome.”
Patterson said the charge of the
woman has been disproved and that
suit has been filed against her for
$6,000 to reimburse tlaptain Bellini
for big expenditures in futile attempts
to sell the art works.
'.‘After some effort laid been made
. to r sell the art collection, my other
daughter, Mrs. Livingston Fairbank
of'Chicago engaged an expert to ap
praise it and he pronounced it worth
less.
Eugenia Not Married.
“Mrs. Bellini, now with- her sister
in, Chicago, is not dismayed at the
question of her marriage's legality.
It Is unquestioned, except under the
present regime in'Italy. The present
administration merely decreed that all
divorces granted in Fiume—where
Captain Bellini's was granted—were
invalid so far as Italian law was con
cerned.
^Captain Bellini was imprisoned
purely because he opposed the Musso
lini regime. The Cavalieri complaint
wafr made a month after this arrest.”
Fremont s Music
* Festival Success
“Messiah"’ Chorus of 250
rPraised by All: Annual
Affair.
ferial Ulspatrh to The Omaha Bee.
Jremont, Xeb.. April 4.—This little
city Is just beginning to get acquaint
ed! with itself. It took' a three-day
music festival with "The Messiah” by
a ehorus of 230 voices as the climax,
to Impress upon these folks that much
unappreciated musical talent was hhl
dea In their mMst.
4 cathedral-llke silence that con
tinued from start to finish of the
• ^fiessiah” demonstrated the impres
siveness of the event. Because of the
sawed music the audience of 1,700
tli^t jammed the Midland gymnasium
" as asked to refrain flora applaud
ing
Festival Kg Success.
Bremen it’s three-day music festival
win a big success in every way. The
profits accrued from t]ie undertaking
wiH be used to procure soloists for
the “Messiah” next year. There Is
iltfle doubt now that Fremont's music
festival -will become an annual affair.
The chorus was accompanied by a
sygiphonw orchestra of local amateur
atid^,professional talent, all volunteer
ing tlielr services. The work of the
orchestra was compared favorably
with the best In the middle-west by
critic* who have heard them all.
T^ie soloists. Genevieve Rice Cow
den, soprano of Kansas City; Margaret
•Spaulding Sturges, contralto of Oma
ha ^.awrence Dodds, tenor of Omaha,
and Walter Jenkins, baritone of Coun
cil Bluffs, atl came in for their share
of {he appreciation.
Brof. T. Amos Jones, director; Carl
W.’ Hawklnson, secretary-manager,
and Dean W. F? Ttlherg, vice presi
dent of the “Messiah” organization,
were also praised.
Dog Catcher Desired.
Bridgeport, Xeb., April .4.—At a
masting of the village board of Anti
och. held Friday, It was voted to em
ploy a city marshal to enforce the law
and get rid of stray dogs, provided one
could be found to accept the place at
the salary allowed.
The budget for the coming year was
flxed at 11,000.
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Omaha Camera Club “Shoots Up”
Hanscom Park and Nature's Wilds
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The Omaha Camera club “shot up” Hauscom park last Sunday. The
pictures were taken by John Tlte. Culver hotel, club member.
No. 1 shows (left to riuht) Isabelle Cotteuier. 4315 South Twenty-fifth
streei: Alverda Trieni. 1323 Canton street: John Merrill, 2501 South Thirty
second street: Mary Cotteuier, 4315 South Twenty-fifth street; Aline Cotteuier,
4315 South Twenty-fifth street, and Isabelle Itehni .
N’o. 2 is a photo of a pleasant little path which winds up over the hill
from the lake at ilansconi park.
When spring days come Omaha
camera fans, armed with their rtusty
"■weapons/* set out to "shoot" na
ture at her wildest, or at least at her
nicest. Moat any day in any park and
in the woodlands about Florence and
Child’s Point they may be seen gar
nering fresh trophies for their al
bums.
The Omaha Camera club Is com
i posed of members who make a habit,
of peeking out tjie beauty spots of
Omaha and preserving them on vellum
prints. This club meets each Monday
evening at the T. M. C. A. building.
The members make regular hiking
trips, "snapping" as they hike. The
more experienced members give in
structions in photography and photos
taken on these trips are shown as
lantern slides at the regular meetings.
Battle Creek Youth ins
District Oratorical Meet
Speetal BUpatoh to The Omalin Bee.
Norfolk, Neb., April 4.—Howard
Miller, jr., Battle Creek, Neb., won
first place in the oratorical class of
the district declamatory contest here.
Richard Galbois. Norfolk, 4on first in
the dramatic, and June Carrico, Nor
folk, won first 1n the humorous class.!
Nineteen students from schools all1
over the district contested.
7.0.j2 Meals for Needy.
The Salvation Army, in the six
months just ended, supplied 7,(h>2
meals and 2,723 lodgings to the needy.
Rummage stores, kept supplied from
old clothing, furniture and so on
donated by Omabftns, have provided
means for many of the poor to fill
their needs at small cost. During
the six months, f>26 mep were pro
vided with temporary employment
outside the Army home.
Huge Canvas of Shoshone Falls
Recalls Tragic Story of Artist
Crazed by Concentration on Work
Rv .1, T. ARMSTRONG
To travel eastward by horseback
and train for 1,(100 miles, then to
step Into one of Omaha’s modern
hotels and behold the same soenb:
view upon which you have gazed
every morning from your doorstep
back home—well, It 4s a novel, if npt
a startling sensation.
This is the experience of D. A. Tay
lor, Idaho sheepman, each time ho,
comes to Omaha from his ranch
home near Shoshone Falls. For in
the lobby of Hotel Castle, where Mr.
Taylor stops, Is a huge oil painting
of the famous falls. The hlg paint
ing is such a realistic reproduction
I of the falls and surrounding coun
try that Mr. Taylor says it never
i falls to thrill him.
"f can almost hear the rear of the
water ns I look at the picture." Mr.
Taylor declared. "The painting is so
large and so natural that it would lie
easy to fancy, as T look at It, that
I'm back at my ranch again, gazing
at the original."
Tragedy In Oils
Many other Idaho guests at the
Castle pronounce the picture start
lingly realistic, according to Fred L.
Dafnery, manager of the hotel. Yet
in, the beauty of the falls there Is a
wildness which had a sinister effect
on the creator of the painting. Only
a few “old timers" remember the
tragedy connected with the picture,
and their tales concerning it vary.
But a tragedy there was, and the
artist who devoted more than two
years of his life to the picture was
the victim.
Many years ago Count Creighton
and F. If. H. Clark, of Omaha, and
Senator Clark, of Montana, became
Interested In a project to establish an
elaborate summer resort at the falls,
near the Snake river. It occurred
to Count Creighton that a large, real
istic painting of the falls would he
thoroughly desirable, first aa a means
of promoting Interest id the rAre*,
and second as a work of art. And
so, attracted by the work of Charles
Lander leu. an English langseape
painter of some note. Count Creigh
ton arranged for the painter to come
to this country and make a picture of
the falls.
Artist, Suicide
Tianderieu spent an entire year at
the falls, working on hi* canva* In
the deafening roar, almost under the
spray of the cataract. He then re
turned to Omaha, where he estab
lished his studio in the old Omaha
National hank building on Thirteenth
street. There he worked on the
painting almost incessantly for an
other year, and as his task neared
co*4pletion, hts work became m»f
what feverish. He slept n the same
room with the picture, and frequently
failed to stop his work for food, the
story has It.
As his work drew to an end and
the picture became more and more
realistic there crept into Randerleu's
manner something of the tumultuous
wildness of his subject, it is said.
Finally the artist applied his brush
for the last time, and the picture was
finished.
The tragedy followed. One who
claims to remember says a disparag
ing remark about the merits of the
painting drove Randerieu into such
a frenzy , (hat he ended Ills life. An
. other says the artist, obsessed with
The wildness of tlio scene and jealous
of bis work, barricaded bis studio
to would-be invaders and died.
“I^ead” Was Ochre
Fred Castle, who in 1909 purchased
the picture from an art dealer named
Rose, says the artist lost hi* mind
as the result of his long concentra
tion oh the wild scene, and that in a
fit of jealousy he attempted to des
troy the isilntlng by applying large
quantities of lead to the canvas. But,
says Mr. Castle, Randerleu mistook
ochre for lend, and later the ochre
was removed and the painting saved.
The canvas, probably the largest In
Omaha, hung and was much admired
for several years In the Her Orand
hotel. Then Mr. Castle built the
hotel bearing his name. Since then
it has held a prominent pic. ' in the
first floor lobby of the Castle.
The True Myth.
“The only figures on Olympus which
I have always regarded as being pure
ly mythical,” Mr. Cardan went on.
"as having no foundation in the facts
of life. Is Athena. A goddess of wis
dom—a goddess!” he repeated with
emphasis. “Isn’t that a little too
thick?”—Aldous Huxley.
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Julius Orkin
Tomorrow—A Great Under-Price Sale of
SPRING COATS s
A Remarkable Low-Pricing of Elega nt Coats |ft
for the Smart Miss and Youthful Woman i{£j i |
ALL NEW SILK V ' ffl
| SPRING - LININGS hVi
i COLORS jjl /
CoatsThatAre Usually Priced MuchHigher jJl
| Striking models—in exquisite fabrics—trimmed with light furs.
’ , The smartest models the season affords—finely tailored and
' distinctive in every detail. An opportunity to secure at great »
] savings better coats of quality. .
The Smartest Models Specially Grouped --- Sensibly Priced! j
WOMEN'S AND MISSES' COAT DEPT. SECOND FLOOR
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SIXTEENTH AND HOWARD STREETS
We Cannot Urge Our Customers
'Too Strongly to Attend Early the
Special Purchase Sale of
M. E. Smith and Co.’s
RUGS, LINOLEUMS
and DRAPERIES
This sale cannot last more than two or three days more and we
are therefore urging our customers to attend Monday or 1 ues
day and buy their floor coverings and draperies for spring
and summer. A sale like this only occurs once in five or ten \ears.
Savings are greater than in the ordinary sale because this is a
WHOLESALE STOCK bought at a very low figure.
RUOS—Available for Monday’s Selling ,
Wool and Fiber Reversible Rug, 12x15 size,
at .14.75
Wool and Fiber Reversible Rug, 12x12 size,
at .12.75
Stenciled Fiber, Seamless Rug, 9x12 size,
at .'.14.75
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Printed Brussels Seamless Rug, 9x12 size4
at .13.75
Axminster Hall Runner, 2-3x12 size,... 8.50
Axminster Hall Runner, 2-3x15 size... .10.00
Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 8-3x10-6 size,
at . 15.75
Seamless Velvet, 6x9 size... .17.75
Best Body Brussels, 6x9 size.29.50
Seamless Woolfaced Brussels, 9x12 size,
at .19.75
Oriental Pattern Axminster, 9x12 size, 31.50
Seamless Heavy Axminster, 9x12 size, 35.00
Extra Quality Axminster, 9x12 size...45.00
Plain Blue Seamless Velvet, 9x12 size, 49.50
Figured Seamless Wilton Velvet, 9x12 size,
at .39.50
Seamless Heavy Axminster, 8-3x10-6 size,
each .37.50
Best Body Brussels, 9x12 size.47.50
Seamless Woolfaced Brussels, 8-3x10-6 size,
at .17.75
Hartford Saxony, dropped patterns, 9x12 size,
at .105.00
Wool Wiltons, plain effects, 9x12 size, 72.50
Wool Wiltons, Chinese patterns, 9x12 size,
at ...i...:...79.50
Worsted Wiltons, Oriental patterns, 4-6x7-6
size, at.39.50
Wool Wilton, Jaspe effect, 8-3x10-6 size,
at .67.50
I.inen Fringed Wiltons, 8-3x10-6 size. 73.50
Worsted Wiltons, Oriental effects, 8-3x10-6
size, at.89.50
Finest Made Wiltons, linen fringed, 8-3x10-6
size, at .... .#..105.00
Finest Made Wilton, linen fringed, 6-9x9
size, at.77.50
Wool Wilton, good patterns, 6x9 size, 45.00
Fringed Wiltons, Oriental patterns. 6x9 size.
at .54.50
Fine Wiltons, linen fringe. 6x9 size... .69.50
Brown Jaspe Saxony, 8-3x9 size:.95.00
Extra Large Sizes
Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 11-3x12 size,
at .•. 23.oO
Seamless Blue Velvet, 11-3x12 size.... 35.00
Best Tapestry Brussels, ll-3xl5_ size, 42.50
Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 9x15 size, 29.00
Floral and Oriental Axminster, 11-3x12 size,
at . 39.00
Heavy Seamless Axminster, 9x15 size, 59.OO
Oriental Design Axminster, 11-3x12 size, 52.50
Extra Heavy Axminster, 11-3x12 size, 57.50
Oriental Woolfaced Axminster, 11-3x15 size,
at . 59.00
Best Body Brussels, 10-6x13-6 size... 110.00
Xeatlv Fringed Wool Wiltons, 10-6x13-6 size.
at . 105.00
Fringed, Oriental Design Wilton, 11-3x12 size,
at. 117.50
Worsted Wiltons, linen fringed, 11-3x12 size,
at.167.50
Wool Wilton, Oriental patterns, 11-3x15 size,
at . 125.00
Worsted Wiltons, best designs, 11-3x15 size,
at . 172.50
Heavy Worsted Wilton, all fringed, 11-3x18
size, at . 215.00
Small Rugs
Extra Heavy, Oval, 18x30 Bath Mats... 2.25
Extra Heavy, Oval, 30x60 Bath Mats.. 4.75
Reversible Chenille, 36x72 Bath Mats, 5.50
Hit and Miss Rag Rugs. 25x48.95
Figured Grass Reversible Rugs. 27x54.. 1.25
Extra Heavy Grass Rugs, 27x54. 3.25
Printed Brussels Rugs, 27x52. 1.05
Good Axminster Rugs, 27x52. 3.25
Fringed Velvet Rugs, 27x54. 3.75
Plain and Figured Axminster Rugs, 27x60, __
at . 4.75
Wool Fringed Wilton Rugs, 27x54.10.50
Choice Pattern Wilton Velvet Rugs, 27x54, *
at . 7.50
Fine Worsted Wilton Rugs, 27x54.11.50
Dropped Patterns, Hartford Saxony, 27x54,
at .12.75
Figured Grass Rugs, 36x72. 1.75
Reversible Wool and Fiber Rugs. 36x72 , 6.25
Oriental Designed Axminster Rugs, 36x72.
at . 7.25
Linen Fringed Wilton Velvet Rugs, 36x63,
at . 6.90
Worsted Wilton Rugs, big assortment, 36x63,
at .15.75
Large assortment of Smith's trawling men's
mad samples of fine Wilton and Body Brussels.
Body Brussels samples, 27x54. each....1.50
Wool Wilton samples. 27x54, each.2.95
Worsted Wilton samples, 27x54, each....3.75
Finest Wilton samples, 27x54, each.4.50
Felt Base Rugsand Linoleums
Printed Linoleums
of excellent quality in n pood range of patterns.
6 ft. wide .85«^ sq. yd.
12 ft. wide . . . .f)5<* sq- yd.
Felt Base Rugs
Congolcum and Armstrong grades, perfect
goods. Savings 33's % from prevailing retail
price.
6x9 . 6.25 9x12 . 12.25
9x9 . 6.25 0-4x6 . 1.25
9x10-6 .... 10.50 0x6 . 1.75
Linoleum Rugs
in very pood patterns on genuine burlap backs.
Savings about 30Tv.
.6x9 . 7.25 12x12. 19.25
7-6x9 . 9.95 12x15 . 23.95
9x10-6_ 12.65 4ox54 . 2.25
9x12. 14.50
Useful Remnants
Plain Linoleum, Jaspe and inlaid tiles in short
lengths suitable for small rooms and offices arc
offered at about 33 Vs r\ off.
Draperies and Curtainings
Owing to the unusual nature of this sale, all sales will be con
sidered final; and as quantities are limited, “Smith goods” can
not be sent on approval.
Artificial Silk
Overdrapery Materials
Several shades of rose, blue, gold, mulberry and
brown in plain and figured effects. Some guar
anteed Sunfast.
1,50 values, 30 inches wide, per yard.... 75C
2.00 values, 50 inches wide, per yard.J)5f*
,1.85 and 4.75 values. 50 inches wide, yd., l.f>5
Other overdrapery fabrics at HALF PRICK—
28C 38C 50C
Madras, Silk Sunfast
and Damask «
A largo aSHot Jnvnt, all 50 inches wide. Reduced
to HALF PIH(?K.npd in many instances less .
1.85 2.25 2.05 3.25 3.05
Plain Burlaps
Sold by the holt (about 50 yards! _
In natural color, 30 inches wide, a 35c quality,
per yard . 15C
Wonderful Cretonnes
\ largo and attractive offering that include*
patterns suitable for every room. Prices are
HALF or even less—
15C 25 C 38c 50c
Silkolines (Plain Colors Only)
Sold by the bolt (about 40 yards!
We do not carry Silkolines in our Drapery de
partment and we are therefor* offering the
'■took at a ridiculous price. Color*: green, gold,
lose, lavender, blue, cream and white.
25c quality, per yard. 12'vC
Fringes and Trimmings
A very large assortment is offered at prices
that register big savings. Per yd.. 5C to 50C
Curtain Sets
Including Filets. Super Filets and Shadow or
Casement effects. Savings at least .*>0 per cent,
25C 38C 45c 85c 1.25
Marquisettes
In dotted, figured and plain weaves, some with
hemstitched edge, in white, ivory and conn
lttc 25c 3Sc
Voiles and (Irenadines
In white, ivory and ecru with bar dots and f,..
tiro*. 7oc values, per yard . 3Nc*
Colored Crenadines
White with colored dots and figures, ;',8 inches
wide, 68c and 8oo values.. 3Sc and 50O
Rose Poplin
This excellent portiere and overdrapery fabric.
bO inches wide and worth 1.50 per yard. is
offered at .. 75«*
Cur rex Flat Extension Rods
Single and double, ordinary and extra lengths
HALF PRICE - sc, IOC. 20C. 35C. »5C
Remnants
Of all classes of curtain and drapery materials
from a fraction of a yard to o yards lo- g *1
HALF PRICE AND LE$$
