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CITY PIN TOURNEY
STARTSSATDEDAY
George Zimmerman Is Made
President of Association
to Stake Event.
ONAWA CBACES DEFEATED
The annual Omaha city bowling
tournament will be held next Saturday
and Sunday on the Omaha and Far
nam alleys-
A meeting of the pin tumblers was
held yesterday morning at the Omaha
alleys and the above dates decided
upon; George Zimmerman was chosen
president of the association which will
conduct the tourney and Harry Edi-
sen was made secretary. Entry fees
will be $16 per team and $1 an event
lor both the singles and doubles.
The plan is to stage . the team
events one day and the individual
events on the other. Play will be on
the Omaha alleys one day and on the
Farnam alleys the other day. Both
alleys want the Sundav engagement so
they will toss uo tor dates.
The Onawa, la., five, which was "due
to invade Omaha a week ago, but
could not owing to the snow blockade
on the Omaha railroad, could not cope
with the picked Omaha team in
match came at the Omaha alleys yes
terday afternoon. The Omaha team
rolled 2,808 to Onawa's 2,466. Olson,
with 596, was high man with AI Wart
chow right on his heels with 594.
Olson's 235 was high single game,
I he score:
OMAHA.
lit . M.
Olson ..' H6 226
Goff .-. 187 204 .
Jluntington 10 148
Toman IS 180
Wartchow 205 ,. 1891
Id. Total.
235 HI
170 561
' 170 SOt
202 , Ml
200 EM
178 " 2,101
Totals.
. SSI S47
,ONAWA.
1st. id.
Thorp 170 160 169 608
Palna 180 - 142 183 S06
Rowland ......... 1(1 1S 125 428
Miller 180 17 150 500
Anderson 146 175 115 511
Totals.... 144 800 872 2,460
Omaha Basket Five Has
Some Lively Games Ahead
The Central High basket ball five
which has undertaken the hardest
schedule m the history of the school
this year, will get no rest this week
after its strenuous three-day trip into
Iowa. Central will meet South High
on the latter's floor Friday night in
a return engagement. Central won
from South High in a close game on
the "Y" floor, by a score of 20 to 18,
but it is thought by Central High
followers that their team will put up
a much better exhibition this time
Saturday night Central High will
play Beatrice on he "Y" floor.
Beatrice lost practically the whole
team which won the state champion
ship last year.
The following week Omaha will
make a two-day trip, playing St.
Joseph and Atchison High schools.
The result of these two games will
decided what claim Omaha has on
the Missouri Valley championship.
Speed Association of West
' Point Elects Directors
West Point, Neb., Feb. 11. (Spe
cial.) The annual meeting of the
West Point Speed association was
held last week and steps taken look
ing toward holding another race
meeting at West Point the c6ming
summer." The following board of
directors was chosen: W. T. S. Ne
ligh, N. W. Baumann, F. D. Sharrar,
Fred I. Nitz, Mayor H.i H. Howarth.
G. J. Collins, Herman Koch, Chris
Schinstock, M. J. Schmitt. The
prospects for a successful race meet
this summer were never better, and
the association is confident that the
races this year will excel any pre
vious meets held here.
Jenkins la Checker Chajnploo.
" Holdrege, Net.. F-eb. 11. (Special.) J.
B. Jenklna of Holdrege won the state
checker championship Friday night, when
he defeated G. C. Qrosvenor of Hoardville
In the final same. L. T. Brookings of
Funk, four times state champion, did not
play In the finals because of being called
home. TA T. Brookings was eloctedpresl
dent and K. F. Oshorne of McCook secre
tary treasurer.
Holdrege Defeats Kearney.
Hnlrfrer,,. Net, Ftv II fHneclstl
Holdrege defeated the Kearney High echoon
basket ball team Friday nlgnt, 24 to 23.
The play was fast and free from excessive
roughness. Holdrege had a lead of fifteen
at the end of the first half and would have
had a margin of three points at the close
had not Mitchell of the local team pulled
a prise bone' and shot a goal for Kearney.
Sidney rise Wins.
Sidney. Neb., Feb. 11 (Hpeclal Tele
gram.) The Sidney High school quintet
continues to be the strongest bidden for the
pennant In the Western Nebraska Basket
Bsll league. At Kimball last night Kidney
defeated the Kimball county aggregation.
20 to 17, Clinton and Andrews for Hldney
did the star work, making six field goals
between them. Sidney lineup: Bentley,
center; Andrews and Wooldrldge. forwards;
Wright and Clinton, guards.
" Denlaon' Meet Defeat.
' Pentaen, Ta., Feb. 11. (Special Tele
gram.) High school basket bail at en.
so: West Side. 31: Denison, 22.
How to (Jure Coughs and Coles.
Keep cut of drafts, avoid exposure. Eat
and live right aad take Dr. King's New Dis
covery, In use over 40 rears. - Guaranteed.
All druggists. Advertisement,
Today's Sport Calendar
skating- Eastern outdoor speed Cham
plonshlpa at Aewburg, A. i.
Field Trials National free-for-all chant,
ptonahlp, at' Calhoun, Ala,
Base Ball Annual meeting National Ama
teur Base Bail neaoclatioa of America at
Indianapolis.
Bowling Opening of Trl-Atate ten pin
Dow ling lenrnament at nuabnrgn.
(If Opening of Ladles' Annual Febru
ary tournament at BrUealr, Fla; opening of
annual woman's cuamplonenlp toarvem
at Palm Beach, Fla.
Basket Ball Kaetern Intercollegiate, Dart-
monin a i ojumoia, rennsvivvanja at laie.
Western conference, Northwestern at Wis
consin, Minnesota at Ohio State
Automobile Opening of shown at In-
dianapolis, Toledo, Looisvtlle, Kansas City.
swimming College of City of New Verk
vs. Yale at New Haven) hyracuse vs.
Northwestern at Syracuse.
Boxing Fred Fulton vs. Charlie Welaert,
ten rounds, at New York : (Jeorge Chip. vs.
Al McCoy. 10 rounds, at Yotingstowni Matt
rteua vs. Jimmy vurry, lb rounds, at uur
feloi Kid Williams vs. Freddie Yelle. It
rounds, at Taunton. Maas.1 Walter Butler
vs. Eddie Kelly, It rounds, at Plttsfleld,
Mass. i Wulle Jackson vs. Artie Boot,
rounds, at Philadelphia.
"N" Men of Nebraska
Form Association;
Guy Reed Promoter
Lincoln, Feb. 11. (Special.) An
"N" men's association, composed of
atheletics who have won their college
letter in any main branch of sport at
the Husker institution, was formed
here yesterday at a meeting at the
Commercial club. -
Guy E. Reed was the prime mover
in the organization of the club and
with Coach Stewart and Assistant
Coach Rutherford attended. Twenty
letter men were present and commit
tees were named to arrange for a
meeting next week at which the final
steps of organization will be taken.
The purpose of the club, it was an
nounced, was to foster ,a better spirit
in university athletics, greater cour
tesy to visiting teams and tointerest
the high school boys of the state in
the Husker institution. ;.',.
Omaha Plays BeUerne.
The Omaha university five will meet the
Bellevue college team on the former's court
this evening at 8 o'clock.
Monument to Commemorate
Heroism of the Belgians
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Paris, Jan. 20. A monument, de
signed by Corporal George Hendrick
of Brussels and erected by the Bel
gian army on the battlefield of the
Yser. will commemorate the heroism
of the Belgian soldiers who fell there.
in defense of the last little corner ot
free Belgium.
A massive wall, symbolical of the
rampart that opposed the German ad
vance in Flanders, will rise from the
center of the semi-circle of parapets,
so arranged as to recall the trench
life on the Yser front. Thirty-four
small columns will be erected at the
base of the ramparts to bear the en
graved names of men who died on
the Yser.
A block of uncut stone bearing on
one face the verses that the late poet
Verhaeren consecrated to the young
Belgians who died for their country,
will be placed in the front of the
wall. The location of the monument
will orobably not be given out for
publication until all danger of bom-,
bardments has passed.
England Issues Fraudproof
One Pound Treasury Note
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.),
London, Jan. 20. The new 1
treasury notes which will be is
sued shortly are described as fraud
proof and have been designed with
the assistance of the greatest author
ity on illicit reproduction. The paper
is white and somewhat thicker than
the present notes; on the right is the
king's head in a curious pale greeny
brown shade, surrounded by an oval
bearing the imperial titles and sur
mounted by the crown. .
On the left is a designof it George
and the dragon. Green ink is used
for the lettering. The reverse of the
note bears in faint ink an outline of
the houses of Parliament, with a
watermark of "one pound" and the
royal cipher and crown on either side.
Mew 10 shilling notes will appear
later.
French Towns Oppose
Immoral Movie Films
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Paris, Jan. 27. One by one French
towns are taking measures against
demoralizing moving picture films.
The municipal council of the town of
Beaune, the rich region of Burgundy
wines, has decided to prohibit the
exposition of police films. Auxerre is
about to follow its example since a
band of young marauders of 14 to 16
years old drew inspiration from a de
tective film to rob several merchants
of the town.
Military Training for the
" Men of India is Expected
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Calcutta.' Jan. 20.-The announce
ment of a scheme of compulsory mil
itary training for India is expected
shortly. The scheme as at first put
into effect will apply only to Euro
peans and Anglo-Indians.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
to Success.
WHEN MAN MEETS
MAMND DEATH
Many a Tragedy Lurks Behind
Laconic Story of Clashes
in the Clouds.
MERE BOYS ABE BIRDMEN
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)1
With the British Armies in France,
Jan. 8. The announcement that "Im
proved weather conditions permitted
increased aerial activity along the
entire front" is the laconic and prosaic
way in which the official communique
dismisses some of the most spectacu
lar episodes of the war.
To those who have once witnessed
this "increased aerial activity" such
an announcement conjures up at once
a picture of countless aeroplanes in
the air scouting, hghting, diving,
spinning, hovering over enemy tar-
rets and calmlv sending .wireless
signals through the fountains of en
emy fire, photographing the enemy
lines, bombing his ammunition dumps
and sheds and supply columns, and
otherwise "carrying on" in the sky in
a manner wholly bewildering to the
onlooker, but typifying in supreme
degree the indispensable part aviation
is playing in this war. 1
With a candor often uncommon in
times of strife, the Britishs communi
que may end from day to day with
the simple statement that one or two
or three or tour ot our machines
have not returned." This means they
have either been hit and forced to
land in the enemy lines, or have been
shot down to a fate more certain. It
is no child's play to circle above a
German battery observing for half an
hour or more, tortured by exploding
shells and . black shrapnel puffballs
coming nearer and nearer like the ex
tending finger tips of some hand of
. n .1 i:1 - .1
qcxi :i. out tncy arc muc wuio man
children these mere bovs who are
brink .ig the luster of everlasting fame
to the British aviation service, some
are scarce eighteen. It is rare to find
a flying man over twenty-five.
Important Work, t
In the aggregate, however, the
losses in the flying corps are as noth
ing compared with the useful and vital
work the "wings" accomplish. With
out them the big guns would have no
far-seeing eyes to correct their shells.
Without them and the hundreds of
photographs they daily take the map
makers could not trace each detail of
the trench positions. Without them
the general staff could not accurately
know just what is going on Dy day
and night behind the enemy lines.
Without them modern war would lose
its most fascinating phase.
The "good flying of a single day on
the British front alone may represent
a day of a hundred fights, a day of
four score aeroplanes in wing-towing
Combat a day of a thousand personal
incidents and deeds of daring in the
once strange strata of high thin air.
It might tell, for instance, of how
Lieutenant A in a fast-flying scout
machine, encountered a squadron of
twelve German Rolands. The odds
were one-sided enough, but the young
Britisher decided to take a chance.
He climbed swiftly and surely until
he got far above and to the rear of the
hostile craft Evidently the Germans
were intent upon some errand which
they proposed to carry out in force,
for they paid no heed to the khaki
cald airman until he deliberately dived
into them, firing as he came. This
threw the twelve Germans into a
panic and their formation was entirely
broken up. Meantime Lieutenant A
got beneath the nearest machine and
fired an entire drum-of cartridges into
it at fifteen yards. The hostile ma
chine collapsed and "crashed." That
is a supreme word in the lexicon of
the flying corps. A machine may fall,
or dive, but until it is actually seen to
"crash" it is not counted as an enemy
"casualty."
f A Hero's Work.
After seeing his particular enemy
crash. Lieutenant A. drew off to
think things over. He was somewhat
amazed to see still more hostile ma-
Lchines coming up in formation. Out
he dashed at the leader ot the new
comers and sent him in a spiral nose
dive to a "crash." This led to still
more complications and the intrepid
little pilot soon found himself en
gaged with three machines. His fight
with these was indecisive.
"For" says the official record, "hav
ing expended all his ammunition,
Lieutenant A set off for home."
A few days later, it is related, he
took a running dive into a formation
of twenty hostile machines with all
the self-assurance an eagle might have
in the midst of a flock of sparrows.
Before he was through he had sent
three adversaries- crashing.
"This time," says the record, "he
returned to one of our aerodomes for
more ammunition and returned to the
scence of battle, where he engaged
and dispersed such enemy machines
as remained in the vicinity. One was
seen to crash upon a housetop."
A Diving: DueL
This same little Lieutenant A seems
to persist in the records of the serv
ice. Une day he was crossing the en
emy lines at 11,500 feet when he found
himself directly above a German kite
balloon, sent up for artillery obser
vation. Pretendinor to be in trouble.
and this avoiding fire from the anti
aircraft guns, he fell in side-stalls to
1,500 feet, suddenly righted himself
and dived at the balloon. He opened
and continued firing until he almost
touched the big gas bag. Just as he
passed over it, the thing burst into
flames and was destroyed in a few
seconds.
The Germans lately have adopted
the ruse of "stalling" and shamming
a tall out ot control. It is thrilling,
but not uncommon to see a German
machine, when closely pressed, turn
its tail straight up in the air and dive
toward the earth lor a distance ot i,
000 to 3,000 feet, and just as the
unitiated onlooker would expect a
crash it flattens out and starts pell
mell for its own lines. One does not
always get 'away with this bit of aerial
strategy, however, as is shown by the
record of Captain B. After attacking
three hostile machines, he saw one of
them going down in a spinning nose
dive. He suspected the honesty of
that dive and decided to do a little
diving "on his own." This dramatic
downward duel continued for full 5,-
000 feet, until the German was driven
into a spin "and seen to crash."
Women of Berlin Doing Work
Formerly Done by the Men
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Berlin. Jan. 20. One of the Berlin
newspapers has conducted an inquiry
as to how women-have succeeded in
doing men's work, and to what extent
they will be kept at such work after
the war.
The leading electrical company of
the country replied that it was now
employing four times as many women
as before the war, and its factories in
general had favorable results with
women as workers.
The street-cleaning department re
ports that women have done well as
teamsters on night work, but they
have not yet been employed in actual
street cleaning, there being enough
men to do it The onitiibus company
has been employing women only for a
short time, but it reports itself as sat
isfied with them, both as drivers and
as conductors. The leading local ex
press company, which also handles
much baggage and other heavy ob
jects, says that it has some women at
work, but it finds that they are not
suited for such heavy work; they are
also hindered by their clothing in
climbing upon and out of the wagons.
The Berlin Street Railway com
pany has substituted women for men
to the extent of one-half of the names
on its pay rolls; 3,900 of its 4,700 con
ductors are .women, 450 of the 2,750
motormen, 400 of the 1,600 employes
in its workshops, including those en
gaged in washing cars, and 200 of the
500 office employes. The ' company
says: "In all these positions women
are doing satisfactory work, which
varies little from that of the men."
Second Drunk on Part of
Wife Means Allowance Loss
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 25. Loss of separa
tion allowances is the new form of
punishment meted out to soldiers'
wives who are found guilty of drink
ing to excess a second time. This
action, taken by the military author
ities, was found necessary to curb the
appetites for drink of the wives of
soldiers at the front.
Under the newest order the police
have power when a soldier's wife is
taken to a police station for drunken
ness to detain her till she is sober and
dismiss her with "an appeal to her
better nature." If after a second
warning she persists in "such irregu
larity of conduct" loss of the separa
tion allowance ensues.
Give' your Want Ad a chance to
make good. Run it in The Bee.
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Arrive La Salle Station on the Loop any '
part of the city quickly reached by elevated
trains. Most convenient location in Chicago.
"Chicago Day Express" at 6:00 a. m.
"Chicago-Colorado Express" al 3:55 p. m.
."Chicago-Nebraska Limited" at 6:08 p. m.
"Rocky Mooatain Limited" at 2:00 a. m. '
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Connections at Ehglewood Union Station
(63rd Street) with limited trains for all Eastern
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Superior Dining
OMAHA TO OBSERVE
LINCOLOIRTHDAY
Program Will Be Given at
Auditorium, Following Pa.
rade of Guardsmen.
WILL BE LEGAL HOLIDAY
A Lincoln-Washington program in
the Auditorium Monday afternoon,
beginning at 2 o'clock, will be the
chief feature of Omaha's observance
of Lincoln's birthday anniversary. Un
der the auspices of fourteen patriotic
societies the following program will
be given, Mayor Dahtman presiding:
"Star Spangled Banner," Grand
Army quartet; invocation, Rev. G. A.
Hurlbert; address, "Washington," A.
W. Jefferis; "Battle Hymn of the Re
public," Scottish Rite quartet; ad
dress, "Lincoln," Captain C. E.
Adams; reading, Miss Lets Toney;
"America,", led by the Grand Army
quartet.
Moving from the court house at
1:30 a parade will be formed as fol
lows: Fifth regiment, Nebraska Na
tional Guards, Colonel Paul; First
battalion, Nebraska National Guards,
Colonel Elsasser; High School Cadets,
Boy Scouts, Spanish War Veterans
and Grand Army of the Republic.
The committeemen in charge of the
program are: Captain C. E. Adams,
Major H. S. Wilcox, F. S. Simpson,
R. E. Egan and Jonathan Edwards.
Representative citizens will occupy
seats pn the Auditorium 'stapc. An
invitation has been extci. . I to
Charles F. Manderson Camp No. 1.
Sons of Veterans, to attend the exer
cises. As Lincoln day is a state legal holi
day, the banks will be closed. City
hall and courthouse will observe the
entire day. It is understood that the
grand jury will grind away as usual.
The schools will not be closed, but
high school, pupils will be dismissed
in timt to fro to the Auditorium."!'"No
change i announced for the day s
work at the postoffice. "'
Mayor Dahlman's holiday procla
tion follows:
Fobruary 12th Is a legal holiday In the
state of Nebrasks, known as Lincoln's
birthday, established to honor Iho memory
of one of the great presidents uf our coun
try. The Grand Army of the Republic and
other patriotic orders and cltlsens have
mads arrangements to observe this nun
day by suitable exercises and patriotic ad
dresses upon ths lives of George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln at the City Audi
torium on February II, IstT, It Is especially
appropriate at this time in the stormy state
of our foreign relations that the lives of
thess great men should be reviewed and
their deeds recounted. Both stood for the
highest Ideals of Amerlasn citizenship, and
far the honor and glory of our country.
Now, therefore, 1, as msynr of tho city
or Omaha, request tnnt our nusmess men
snd cltlsens generally observq , Siondsy.
rebrusry IS, 1017, as a holiday, and that
all who can attend the patriotic gather
ing at the City Audlterium, i v
Allies Make Slow Progress
In Campaign Against Rats
(Correspondsnce of The Associated Press,)
Paris. Jan. 20. The ' allies have
made little progress against their
four-footed enemies, the rats, on the
French front fhey seem to be quite
as numerous as during the second
winter campaign, though great num
bers have been killed. They multiply
faster than the numbers of dogs sent
to the front to tight them and are
now, it is said, menacing the army
with an epidemic ot jaundice.
Ihe rats in the trenches have been
discovered to carry in their organism,
without apparent harm' to themselves,
a microbe called the spirochaete in
the form of a little serpent, which.
communicated to a human being, de
velops jaundice. A counteracting
serum is being sought.
Car Service
Tickets, reservatiora and information at
Rock Island Travel Bureau, 1323 Farnam
Street or at Union Station.
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Dutch Bulb Growers Report
Good Business in Spite of War
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Haarlem, Netherlands, Jan. 25.--Notwithstanding
the prohibition of
bulb importations to the British Isles,
the Association of Dutch Bulb Grow
ers reported at its annual meeting that
the year 1916 had been generally more
favorable than either 1915 or 1914.
The, total export of bulbs in Aug
ust, September and October showed
a decrease of 2,500,000 kilograms as
compared with the corresponding
period of the previous year, but when
if is remembered that Britain took
nearly 7,000,000 kilograms in 1915. it
will be seen that the loss of the Brit
ish market in the last year was large
ly compensated for by increased ex
port to other countries. Higher
prices were obtained than at any
time since the war began.
Of the 19,00,000 kilograms exported
in the. three months named, America
took 9,000,000, or 'nearly half; Ger
many. 5.000.000. and the Scandinavian
countries 4,000,000 kilograms. The ex
port to America and the Scandinavian
countries underwent a very consid
erable increase, as was the case the
previous year, whereas the export to
Germany, which closed its frontiers to
all other flower garden products, re
mained stationary.
Comiskey Invited to : ,v
Train in Canal Zone
Chicago, Feb. 10. Colonel ' J. J.
Morrow, acting governor of the Pana
ma canal sone has extended an
Snvitation to Charles A. Lomiskey,
president of the Chicago American
base ball club, to train his team there
next vear.. President Comiskey. said
tonight, he probably would accept the
invitation
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Belgians Run the German
Blockade and Make Escape
(Correspondence ot The Associated Press.)
Maastricht, Netherlands, Jan. 20.
A boatload of over 100 Belgians re
cently ran the German gauntlet on the
River Meusc, and after an exciting
night trip to the accompaniment of
machine gun fire, landed on Dutch
soil at Eysden which town the fugi
tives entered in a body singing "The
Marscilleisc."
Tug Atlas V lay moored at Liege,
and the embarkment of Its passengers
lasted from 5 30 to 11 o'clock in the
evening, the Belgians making their
way aboard singly so as to avoid
arousing suspicion. It was then full,
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children, 8 and 10 years of age respec
tively. At midnight the moorings
were cast Off, and, the boat having
first been allowed to drift quietly out
into the stream, full strain ahead was
soon ordered and it flew along the
river in the darkness.
Aged American Eggs in .
England Explode When Boiled
(Corrsspondencs of The Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 21, Despite the scar
city of eggs and the great dernand
for them, there are still in the ware
houses thousands of cases of Ameri
can eggs left over from last spring,
according to a wholesale egg mer
chant. He says this is due to the fact
that the American eggs fell into dis
favor with the public because it was
found that they burst when boiled.
Their explosive quality results, he
says, from the method adopted for
their preservation.
"In one form or another, he adds,
"I have no doubt the British public
will yet eat these .eeors."
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