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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1918. 1 DISEASE CHART SHOWS HEALTH CONDITION HERE Twenty-Six Cases of Smallpox Are Reported from One Section Far on South Side. Twenty-six cases of smallpox, all within a small area in the extreme southern section of the South Side, are reported by the city health com missioner. They are shown ' in a large chart which Dr. Manning has placed in his office. Ihe chart system has been in augurated by the health commis sioner to show disease of various kinds in Omaha. Th system con sists of 10 large maps of Omaha One map is used to indicate small pox, another for diphtheria, another for scarlet fever, another to show where wells are located in the city, another fori tenement houses, an other for nuisances. The smallpox cases are marked by yellow-headed pins, the scarlet fever by red-headed pins, wells by black-headed pins.. If a number of cases qf typhoid fever develop, a glance at the map will show whether it is in a district where people get their water from wells. Then appropriate measures can be taken to prevent the further spread of the disease. The utility of the chart is shown by the smallpox cases. There are about 40 cases in the whole city now and 26 of them are in the one small district mentioned. Dr. Manning has ordered vaccina tions to be made on the people liv ing in that district. . Spanish influenza cases are not charted, because it is known that these are spread pretty evenly over the whole city. There have been 11 deaths from "flu" in Omaha in the last three, days and no alarming number of new cases. Young Soldier Flu Victim Enroute to Battle Front Housewives Can Buy All . . Sugar They Need, is Opinion If you are keeping house, under the rules of the food administration you can buy and consume all the su gar you ought to have, in the opin ion of the officials. If you are living at hotels and public eating houses, according to Mr. Hoover's latest rul ing you are permitted to eat con siderable more sugar than hereto fore, Under the new sugar ruling, is applied to hotels and public eating houses providing the sugar is re quested, proprietors of the places may serve two-thirds of an ounce per person per meal. However, su gar is not to be served unless asked tor. - The old rule permitted the serving of one teaspoonfu per person at each meal. This was about one fourth of an ounce. . The Big Toy Land & The Union Outfitting Co. 16th and Jackson Sts. Opens Saturday, Nov. 30 SANTA CLAUS ON HIS WAY and fill be here TO GREET the Children. AND, REMEMBER, we positively guarantee TO SAVE YOU FROM 25 TO 50 on your purchases. Our greatly enlarged Toy de partment opens Saturday with mammoth stock of Toys, Dolls and Games; Electric and Mechanical Trains, Automo biles, Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Doll Go-Carts, etc., etc. . We invite every little girl to visit our big Toy department and bring her Doll with her and, whether it be large or small, we will fjt it FREE with a handsome pair of doll slippers. We will also give FREE to eery lady visiting our big Toyland, a handsome souvenir, providing she brings this notice with her. And, re member, you will have greater selections to choose from and .save from 25 to 50 on your purchase, and as always, you make your own terms. Separate Locked Fireproof Room- for H ousehold Goods in fact a modern plant built for moving, packing and storage. Heated piano rooms. Omaha Van & Storage. Co. Phone Douglas 4163. 806 So. 16th St I s '"""""IThw to That's the iVUfciT mm ellMSfcr Private Jesse Clifton, ward of Attorney R. W. Patrick, died in a hospital in Belfast, Ireland, while enroute to France on October 12. On June 9, his 17th birthday, Jesse and his brother, Charles, en listed in the army and went to Camp Funston, where they were as signed to Battery C of the 127th field artillery. They remained in training at Camp Funston until the first of September, when they were ordered east and thence overseas. While enroute Jesse became a victim of Spanish influenza, which developed into pneumonia. He lived until his ship reached Belfast, when he was taken off the ship and placed in a hospital, where he died. Besides his brother, Charles, who is now in Europe, he has an older brother, George, living in northern Iowa, and a younger brother, Wil liam, who makes his home with Ed-' win Davis in South Omaha. V ii WEIRICH WOULD JESSE CLIFTON. OMAHA WILL BE MADE A STATION QN AERIAL ROUTE 1 Landing Field to Be Selected Soon; New York Mail Will Reach Omaha Before Breakfast. It has been definitely settled by the officials of the Postoffice de partment that Omaha is to be the next leg of the airship mail service. W.hile in Washington, Commis sioner Manley, of the Chamber of Commerce, called on Otto Praeger, second assistant postmaster general, who looked at the three different proposed fields and declared that any one of them would be satisfac tory. "He informed me," said Mr. Man ley, "that the government would es tablish its own night and day mark ings on -the field selected. Hi thought it best that the ground se lected be leased through the Cham ber of Commerce. "Mr. Praeger also informed me that he would have a man here in two or three weeks who would look over the proposed sites, select the one he thought most advantageous kr the purpose, and then tell what would be needed in the way of han gars and equipment. ' To Start in Spring. "The Postoffice department ex pects to start in the air mail service here some time in March or April. The ' carrier will arrive after dark, making night landings necessary. A month or two later night flights will be made out of New York, bringing the mail from there to Omaha be fore breakfast. "Second Assistant Postmaster General Praeger said it would be perfectly satisfactory to the govern-, ment for the use of the field as a community field; the only thing the department would ask would be that the airway and runway be cleared an hour before the arrival and departure of the mails. "It is the intention of the Post office department also to make Omaha a division of the aerial mail service and to develop subroutes out of this city." Representative Auto Dealers Are in Favor of Exhibit Next Year Clarke W. Powell, secretary of the Omaha Automobile Dealers' as sociation, is in Cleveland attending a meeting of representatives of auto dealers' associations. He reports the sentiment unanimous in favor of automobile shows for the coming winter in a telegram received Tues day. In the telegram he said: "Representatives of automobile dealers' associations from 26 cities met here today and voted unani mously in favor of automobile shows during the coming year. Feel ing very strong that shows will not only stir up automobile business but will stimulate trade in general." Grain Corporation Announces Prices of Flour Substitutes Terms and prices under which the Grain corporation will buy stocks of substitutes were announced yes terday afternoon by Gurdon W. Wattles, federal food administrator for Nebraska. Purchase by the Grain corpora tion will be limited to "compulsory" substitutes, and the following prices Will be paid per barrel, the prices be ing maximum and include freight to seaboard points: Victory, flour, $10.50 per barrel; barley flour, $8 per barrel; straight or patent rye flour, $9 per barrel; dark rye flour, $7.50 per barrel; white corn flour, $8.50 per barrel; yellow corn flour, $8 per barrel; cream corn meal, $8 per barrel, and other cornmeal, $7.50 per barrel. Purchases will be made by the Grain corporation only in carlots. Freight to seaboard points will be deducted from the price paid, and dealers desiring to sell substitutes must give notification prior to De cember 20. i Omaha Council of Boy Scouts Is Planning Vocational Campaign The Omaha Council of Boy Scouts under the direction of the executive board and Scout Execu tive G. M. Hoyt has planned a vo cational guidance campaign and will work in conjunction with Miss ,Mary Foster and the vocational guidance bureau in the city hall. "The first work will consist of lec tures on professions and trades which will be printed in the Omaha Scout News, published twice a month by the Omaha council. Prominent Omaha men who will write articles for the Scout News are: Dr. C. E. Henry, "Medicine as a Life Work": J. E. Davidson, "How to Be Successful in Busi ness"; and W. W. Head, "How to Be a Successful Banker." Postoffice Wants Extra Help for Christmas Week The Omaha postoffice is going to require about 25 extra vehicles for a week or ten days just preceding Christmas for the delivery of parcel post packages. They prefer light horse-drawn wagons for this pur pose but as that many will probably not be available, light automobiles and motorcycles with side cars will also receive consideration. Appli cants should call at once on Assist ant Postmaster Woodward who is now making preparations for han dling the large mail expected this Christmas. U. P. War Service Club Will Aid Families of Soldiers The Union Pacific War Service club is making a survey to ascertain the financial condition of the famil ies of all employes who have eir tered the military service. Where it is found, that members of such families are in needy circumstances, relief will be furnished, the money for such purpose being taken out of the club treasury. Puts Wooden Leg in Window When Husband Goes to Bed Hudson E. Joiner, plaintiff in a i'Vorce action brought against Rose L. Joine. and defendant in a cross petition filed by the wife,, testified before Judge Troup Tuesday morn ing that Mrs. Joiner placed Lis arti ficial limb on display in a window of their home, 2624 Florence boule vard. "She said she placed the limbs in the window so that everybody might see them, stating that who ever took the old cripple would have to take the artificial limbs also," J.iner testified. Before his marriage Joiner suf fered the loss of both legs while working as a locomotive engineer. He received a settlement of $8,500. A rr' J to his testimony, his mar ried --. has been tem--"- al most from the first. He is 59 years old and his wife is 43. He asked for an absolute divorce, while the wife sought separate maintenance and alimony. ' Does Own Cooking. "We have occupied separate rooms at our home for the last year and a half," he testified, "and I have done some of my own cooking. We have never had what you might call a home. Things were not congenial. It has been one continual nag day and night. I havi'had piactically to take care of myself during the last four or five! years. I have v ashed my own socks and ..wed on my own buttons. On one occasion, white I was at the ice box getting a lunch, she came home screaming Buy Jewelry For Christmas. and struck me with an umbrella, saying that she had been to see a clairvoyant, who told her that I was untrue." The husband charged that several times since 'September 1, 1917. his wife drew a revolver and threatened him. In her cross-petition Mrs. Joiner charges that her husband likewise threatened her with a re volver and referred to her as an "elephant" and struck her. x "The Finished Mystery." Joiner, on the stand, further al leged that his wife started trouble when he burned a copy' of "The Finished Mystery," a book which was placed under federal ban. "That started a chewing match," the husband said, "when I told her the government was against the book, and she replied that there weie lots of people just as bad as the kaiser. She nagged me when I suggested buying a Belgian baby, and when I gave $2 to" a Red Cross girl in bur store she remarked, 'The moochers know where to come when they want money.'" W. C. Carroll, 1318 Lothro- street, testifying for the husband, stated that when he was in the Joiner store Mrs. Joiner showed a revolver and said: "There is going to be a job for the undertaker." "I told Mrs. Joiner that I was sorry to hear that," Carroll stated. The Joiners have no children. On cross-examination ly Mrs. Joiner's attorney the husband stated that he and wife hi d no "engagement period; that thy just went to Papillion and were married. Joiner dismissed his action when court reconvened Tuesday afternoon, and his wife also dismissed her counter suit. For the time being, at least, the Joiner; will continue their marital relations, attorneys , an nounced.' K , PUT CENSOR ON PRIVATE DANCE Affairs of the "Elite" Need It Just as Much as Those Which Are Public, He Says. Superintendent Weirich of the Welfare board is in favor of censor ing private as well as public dances. "If there is any way we can do it I am certainly in favor of doing it," he said. "We censor public dances, and it is possible the private ones might be just as much in need of it." At present there is a line drawn between dances given by the great common people and those con ducted by the socalled "bon-ton" element. Mr. Weirich believes this line should be blotted out. "We censor the commercial dances where anyone can go that has the price of admission," he said. "We do 'not censor the so-called private dances-given by clubs which invite just those they want to be present. But this line doesn't seem to be satisfactory. Anybody can get up a dance that will be a tech nical private dance, by the mere formality of sending out invitations. Such a dance then would be re moved from all restrictions imposed by the censorship." He hopes to find some way of regulating these dances this winter. High School Maidens Sit on the Floor While Business Men Lunch Seventy-five members of the Good Fellowship club of the Chamber of Commerce went to school again Monday, when they held their week ly luncheon with the pupils of the Central High in the school cafeteria. Five tables were reserved for the visitors in the cafeteria and seven high school girls acted as waitresses instead of making the visitors carry their own plates. Gladys Haggelin, Blanche Olson, Mildred Peterson. Lilly Hillquist, Ruth Jardine and Doreen Holden acted as waitresses. Outside of a fruit cocktail, the visitors had the same fare as is available to the pupils. It consisted of individual meat pies, brown po tatoes, creamed peas, tomato salaJ. ice cream with cherries and cake with white frosting. The presence of so many extra people in the dining room made a shortage of chairs. This did not bother, however, as a number of the girls sat on the flow in the rear of the dining room and ate their lunch Japanese (or Indian) fashion. Reserve Officers' Corps May Supplement Cadets A junior reserve officers' training corps will be organized at the Cen tral High school to supplant the cadet organization, if the regiment's application handed to the War de partment is favorably acted upon. The government is considering or ganizing a junior R. O. T. C, whose officers, after completing a month's extra training in camp in June, will be commissioned second lieutenants in the reserve corps. Members of the organization will also have their training recognized upon entering the senior organization in a college or military institute. Plans for the reserve were made before the armistice was signed, yet no information that the idea has been abandoned has been received here. Due to the well drilled regi ment of cadets which the school has had for a number of years, it is ex pected that Omaha Central High will be among the first to be recog nized by the government. Regimental parade was held Mon day, in which Companies C, D and H won honors. Announcement of promotions has been deferred. The regiment will march Wednesday afternoon in the parade to boost the foot ball game . Brother of Omaha Man Dies in Saskatchewan Will Seabold, 4323 Chicago street, has received word of the death of his brother, Harry Seabold, in Mitchell, Sask., Canada. Harry formerly lived in Omaha, and was running a ranch in Canada at the time of his d?ath. He is survived by his father, two brothers and one sister. PRETTY OMAHA GIRL TO GO OVERSEAS SOON. A : .... r I Miss Lenna Osborn, of 505 South Twenty-fifth avenue, for the past two years assistant buyer in the cor set department ot BranUeis stores goes overseas as a canteen worker very soon, as she has been notified to report to Red Cross headquarters in New York City on December 2. Miss Osborn is splendidly equipped for overseas duty, as she is endowed with an unusually winning person ality, great: tact, and is very sympa thetic. She will be greatly missed by a host of friends and business asso ciates. Bluffs Boy Complains French Girls Fail to uoserve mss uistom I. Feblowitz is strong for the good old United States since he has been with the American troops in France In a letter to his brother, Dave Feblowitz, who is employed in The Bee composing room, he says: "I wish you would come here for a visit. Youd stake for the states always. You know what I mean. Everything seems old fashioned, The people here wear wooden shoes, I suppose on account of the scarcity ot leather. - "Another thing I can't under stand is why the doorknob is in the center of the door and why there is a metal hand above it. No door bells either. You have to knock." Private Feblowitz doesn't believe everything he hears about the French people, especially in regard to their custom of kissing on each cheek. He writes: "They also say that trench people show their ap preciation to others by kissing them on the cheeks, but I've been waiting for some French girl to step up and darned if '-hey do. I don t believe everything I hear now." Omaha Lieutenant Plays Leading Role in Military Romance Lt. George Sugarman of Omaha was married in Chicago yesterday to Miss Lillian Bierfield of that. city. The wedding, which is the culmina tion of an army romance began when Lieutenant Sugarman was sta tioned at Fort Sheridan, comes as great surprise to the family and friends. Lieutenant Sugarman is now judge advocate at Fortress Monroe, Va. He won his commission at the officers' training camp at Fort Snelling. He attended the Univer sities of Michigan and Leland Stan ford and is a graduate of Creighton Law school. The bride is an ac complished musician. School Superintendent of Crofton Not Arrested On Saturday, November 23, a man giving the name of C. J. Doyle,, who said he was the superintendent of schools in Crofton, Neb., appeared in police court here and complained that a negress had enticed him into her house at 2009 Paul street and then robbed him of $20. R. J. Hale of Crofton writes that he (Hale) is the superintendent of schools in that town; that he has been there for the past three years and that Mr. Doyle is in no way connected with the schools of. Crofton. "Now Let's Talk Turkey" the American Kind LOTS of us U. S. folks will do with out that bird this Thanksgiving- but can afford to when we think of hav ing the American Eagle and Peae. i 4 That's plenty to make us very thankful. If you are the owner of a Charter Oak 'Stove or Range, you have additional rea son to be thankful. It y will cook your .Thanksgiving dinner to perfection, what ever you may have se lected for; that feast. ' V- Charter Oak Stove & Range Co., ST. LOUIS, MO. SBC mm w uttm County Clerk Dewey has heard from his son, "Bud" Dewey who has just landed at Hoboken, N. Y. The boy is in the United States navy and has made many trips ov erseas. He was in Brest, France, when the news of the signing of the armistice was received. Young Dewey was a victim of in fluenza but writes his parents that he is entirely recovered. Lt. Charles G. Anders, dental sur geon at Ebert's aviation field, Ld moke, Ark., is passing a 10-day leave of absence in Omaha visiting friends. Before entering the serv ice he was associated with Dr. Del mar L. Davis, who is now serving in the navy. The navy wants men for work on submarines as machinists -.mates, gunners mates, electricians and of ficers. Men who are interested are urged to communicate with the navy mob ilization substation, S00 Paxton block. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Keller have received a cablegram from their son, Lt.-Commander Harold Keller of the U. S. S. Chester, stating that he is leaving foreign waters for the United States. The voumr officer has a brother, Charles, who is inn France with the Fourtn balloon com pany and was recently cited for bravery in action. Arthur M. Herring, Thirty-eighth and Farnam streets, enlisted in the United States marines Monday. Demobilization of the Nineteenth division has begun at Camp Dodge, la., and 265 men were given their pay and released Monday. Several thpusand men will be released with in the next few weeks. v ' William G. Doane who is serving in France has been promoted to the rank of colonel. His brother, Guy Doane. Patersberg, Va., has been made a captain. R. W. Sawyer, surgeon in an army hospital at Camp Bowie, Texas, is passing a 16 days leave of absence with his sister, Mrs. C. F. Taylor. Private George H. Morearty of Camp Funston, Kansas, is passing a few days visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Morearity.r Staroski is Acquitted on Liquor Charge and Automobile Returned August Staroski, 4220 South Thir ty-ninth street, who was arrested in South Omaha June 28, charged with illegal possession of liquor, was found not gulty in district court at Papillion before Judge Begley Mon day and discharged. An automobile belonging to Staroski, which had been seized by the authorities, was returned. , ' Staroski was represented by At torney William Jamieson of South Omaha. A brother-in-law of Staroski. An- tone Malasey, who enlisted In June, was wounded at the front in France in September. F. C. Bosler, Well Known Here, Dies in Pennsylvania Frank C. Bosler of Carlisle, Pa- owner of much property in Ne braska, Wyoming and Colorado, and well known in Omaha and other cities in the west, died at his home in Carlisle Tuesday of apoplexy. His father died similarly some time ago. He was a millionaire. Woman Seriously Hurt When She Steps from Moving Street Car Mrs. Mary Gillispie, 403 Bancroft street, aged 36 years, stepped from a moving street car Tuesday night and was bruised about the head and sustained a sprained back. She was taken home by the police in the patrol wagon and was at tended by Police Surgeon Dr. Ed strom. She is the mother of five children, Irving, 13; William, 12; Forest, 10; Cleda, 6, and Helen, 4. Asks Damages from Benbow for Assault Alleged by Janitor Herman Nichols has filed a per sonal injury suit in district court against Frank Benbow, alleging that he was assaulted by rred Poindex ter. janitor of the Benbow apart ments, Fourty-fourth and Dodge streets. 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