THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JANUARY I, 1919,
7
SUFFERINGS OF
REFUGEES MADE
MARINES FIGHT
J. E. Applegate, Wounded Four
Times at Chateau Thierry,
Invalided Home to
Omaha.
"It was the sight of the French
refugees that made me eager to
light. I did not know what war
really meant until I had seen the
sufferings of the homeless old men,
women and children of France,"
said Julian . Applegate, Chateau
Thierry veteran, invalided hbme
from France because of four
wounds received in action, and at
present residing with W. F. Dick
son, 2222 South Thirty-first street.
Just after America's entrance into
the war' he joined the marines. Aft
er a short training period he was
sent to France with the Slst com
pany of the 'Second division, Fifth
marines. . .-
The company of which Applegate
was a member was assigned to help
fill the gap.in the French lines at
Chateau-Thierry when the Hun rush
on Paris wis stopped. They were
brought to the firing line on double
quick time, running about a mile
and a half. He was Wounded when
ordered- with 50 other members cf
hii company to capture an enemy
machine gun nest.
Wounded Four .Times.
"A machine gun got a line on
me' he said, "and I was hit twice
in -the right arm, once in the right
side and once in. the leg. Because
oi the intense machine gun fire my
comrades were unable to move me
'and I 'was left in, a shell hole until
ftirVir rinfnrrMnnt arrived and
we were enabled to destrdy the
machine gun nest.
"I crawled about a quarter of a
mile to a dressing station at the
edge of the woods, but the German
artillery soon located us and forced
us to mbve."
In company with several of his
comrades wounded in the same en
gagement, Mr. Applegate was fin
illy sent to . an American hospital
in Paris, where he remained for
nearly five months. A few days be
ffte the signing of the armistice he
was invalided home.
' -'..While in the -hospital in Paris he
was" visited by Sergt. M. L. Dickson
t 2222 South Thirtyfirst street.
Mr. Applegaje expects a medical
discharge as soon as the shell frag
ments lodged in his leg arc removed.
t .
Domestic Relations
Court May Be Created
Here in Near Future
." A domesticrelatiohs court may be
established in Omaha in'tbe near fu
ture without recourse to state legis
lature id pass such a bill.
Lawyers have determined that the
district judges are empowered to es
tablish such a court if they deem it
wise, according to ur. jennie cautas
of the Welfare board. . ,
Tudor T.t1t and TnHc ?rt A.
. - "
dared m favor of the court at the
list judges meeting. Definite action
will 'probably be taken when the
judges confer, again tiixt Monday.
Burl Thomas Accidentally
V Shot Celebrating New Year
The first accident this year oc
curred at Twenty-ithird and Grant
streets at 12:05 Wednesday morn
irtg. purl, Thomas, negro. 2866
Maple street,, who police saysis em
ployed at the 'Blackstone hotel was
aicUentaliy ' thot. by a comoanion
welcoming 4919. He was taken to
tHe.St:, Joseph's hospital, where he
,hs a,'n' even chance for recovery.
No attests had' been made at 11 a.
nlvtadiy. s The last man to be ar
rested last year was Harry. Abbott,
2108 Sbtlth Tenth, street. Police
say he was ciught at a depot with
23 pints of whisky in his possession.
.' .Only one fire has been reported
this year, in a house owned by G.
At . yradenbufg, 1533 Georgia ave
nue. ' Little damage was done.
Silver Platter is Given
r to Wattles; by Associates
A silver platter, "heaped high with
the love and best wishes of men and
women whd worked with Gurdon
W. Wattles during, the war," was
presented to the 'federal food ad
ministrator,, of Nebraska last week
by county federal food administra
tors, state committeemen and associates'.-'
- The gift if inscribed with the seal
of the' food administration and the
words, "A token of admiring ap
preciation of his patriotic and signal
services to his country and state."
In a printed testimonial just is
sued, is reproduced the letter of
presentation and Mr. Wattles' ac
ceptance. A long list of 'donors is
mentioned.
The Abandoned Room
By Wadsworth Camp
Missouri Remains Open
Longest in Many Years
The nipping cold of, last night
came pretty near closing the river.
This morning there is a narrow
channel free from ice along the Ne
braska shore and just above the
street railway company -bridge
Farther up the stream and below
the Illinois Central bridge ice has
formed in the channel.
It has been many years since the
Missouri has remained open until
January 1. Usually the channel is
closed oy ice along about the middle
of December. Old settlers . recall.
however, that during one winter,
something like 30 years ago, the ice
bridge did not form until late in
February.
Canteen Workers Extend
Greetings to Khaki Boys
Fed Cross canteen workers were
on duty ill day at the Union station
to extend New Year's greetings to
all -soldiers passing' through the
city.. Mrs.'. James C Dahlrrtan's
corps was On duty at the informa
tion desk and Mrs. Howard Bald
rige's company in the hostess house.
Women serve from 7 a. m., to 10 30
p.' m. ,
- A train of wounded men expected
' today-was delayed until Thursday.
CHAPTER XL1V.
Pa redes Establishes His Innocence.
Bobby's assurance of Parede's in
nocence clouded his own situation;
made it, in a sense, more dangerous
than it had ever been. His wander
ings about the Cedars remained un
explained, and they knew now it had
never been necessary for the murder
er to enter the room. Kathcrine, too,
evidently realized the menace.
"Do you think I " she began.
Paredes bowed.
"You dislike me. Miss Katherine,
but don't be afraid for yourself or
Bobby. I think I can tell you how
the evidence got in your room. I
cfiti answer nearly everything.
There's one point "
He broke off, glancing at his
watch.
"Extraordinary courage!" lie
mused enigmatically. "1 scarcely
understand it."
Rawlins looked at him suspiciously-All
this explaining may be a trick
Mr. Robinson. The man's slippery."
"I've had be slippery to work
under your noses," Paredes laughed.
"By the way, Bobby, did you hear
a woman crying about the time I
opened this door?"
"Yes." It sounded like the voice
we heard at the grave."
"I thought I heard it from the
library," Robinson put in. "Then
the rumpus up here started, and I
forgot about it.
"The woman in black is very
brave," Paredes mused. "We should
have had a visit from her long be
fore this."
"Do you know who she is?" Rob
inson asked. "And as Rawlins says,
no tricks. We haven't let you go
yet."
"I thought," Paredes mocked,
"that you had identified the woman
in black as Miss Katherine. She has
n't had anything to do with the mys
tery directly. Neither has Bobby.
Neither have I."
"Then what the devil have you
been doing her?" Robinson snapped.
"Seeing your job through," Pare
des answered, "for Bobby's sake.
With a warm gratitude Bobby
knew that Paredes had told the
tiuth. Then he had told it in the
library yesterday when they had
caught him prowling in the private
staircase. All along he had told it
while they had tried to convict him
of under-handed and unfriendly in
tentions. "I saw," Paredes was saying, that
Ilowells woudln't succeed, and it
was obvious you and Rawlins would
do worse, while Graham's blunder
ing from the start left no hope.
Somebody had to rescue Babby."
"Then why did you give us the im
pression," Graham asked, "that you
were not a friend?"
Paredes held up his hand.
"That's going rather far, Mr. Gra
ham. Never once have I given such
av. impression. I have time after
time stated the fact that I was here
in Bobby's service. That has been
the trouble with all of you. As most
detectives do, you have denied facts,
reaching always for something more
subtle. You have asked for impos
sibilities while you blustered that
they couldn't exist. Still every one
is prone to do that when he fancies
himself in the presence of the super
natural. The facts of this case have
been within your reach as well as
mint. The motive has been an easy
one to understand. Money 1 And
you have consistently turned your
back."
Robinson spread his hands.
"All right. Prove that I'm a fool
and I'll acknowledge it."
Doctor Groom interrupted sharp-
"What was that?"
They bent forward, listening. Even
with Paredes offering them a physi
cal explanation they shrank from the
keening that barely survived the
heavy atmosphere of the old house.
"You see the woman in black
isn't Miss Perrine," Paredes said.
He ran down the stairs. They fol
lowed, responding to an excited
sense of imminence. Even in the pri
vate staircase the pounding that had
followed the cry .reached them with
harsh reverberations. Its echoes
filled the house as they dashed
across the library and the dining
room. In the hall they realized that
it came from the front door. It had
attained a feverish, a desperate in
sistence. Paredes walked to the fireplace.
"Open the door," he directed Raw
lins. Rawlins stepped to the door, un
locked it, and flung it wide.
"The woman" Katherine breathed.
, A feminine figure, white with
snow, stumbled in, as if she had
stood braced against the door. Raw
lins caught lier and held her up
right. The fiakes whirled from the
ccurt in vicious pursuit. Bobby
flammed the door shut.
"Maria!" he cried. "You were
right. Hartley!"
Yet at first he could scarcely ac
cept this pitiful cfeature as the bril
liant and exotic dancer with whom
lie had dined the night of the first
murder. As he stared at her, her fea
tures twisted. She burst into retch
ir.g sobs. She staggered toward
Paredes. As she went the snow melt
ed from her hat and cloak. She be
came a black figure again. With an
appearance of having been immers
ed in water she sank on the hearth,
swaying back and forth, reaching
b'indly for Paredes' hand.
"Do what you please with me,
Carlos," she whimpered with her
slight accent from which all the
nuir.ic had fled. "I couldn't stand
it another minute. I couldn't get to
the i-taton. and I I wanted to know
which which "
Paredes watched her curiously.
"Get Jenkins," he said, softly to
Rawlins.
He faced Maria again.
"I could have told you, I think,
when you fought me away out there.
No one wants to arrest you. Jenkins
will verify my own knowledge."
"This is dangerous," the doctor
rumbled. "This woman shouldn't
wait here. She should have dry
clothing at once."
Maria shrank from him. For the
first time here wet skirt exposed her
feet, encased in torn stockings. The
cancer wore no shoes, and Bobby
guessed why she had been so elusive,
why she had left so few traces.
"I won't go," she cried, "until he
tells me."
(To Be Continued.)
Difficult to
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but once you use this
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analge'sique
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Bengue, in Paris, a quar
ter of a century ago.
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product (although exten
sively imitated) is abso
lutely alone in its remark
able efficiency in relieving
headaches, neuralgia, sci
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and catarrhal affections of
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9
A soldier with a "sweet-tooth"
writes from France to the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce this pitiful
story:
"I am in France and I cannot buy
anything sweet, so I wish you would
please send me some candy."
The message is signed William
Wakefield, 816 infantry, American
Expeditionary Force, First Army
France.
Henry Meyers of the third exemp
the board has asked the War De
partment to release the soldier
clerks who have been doing clerical
work for the third draft board.
Mrs. Mabel Walker, in charge of
the soldiers employment bureau at
the Chamber of Commerce, has had
a letter from her husband. Roy E.
Walker, who is in France with Com
pany C of the 14th engineers, in
which he stated that they are now
near Verdun in a section of the
country that has been torn by
thousands of shells and suffered all
of the destruction of the war. He
writes:
"Big forests have all been shot
up. Not a twig is left, only the
stumps of the trees are standing
now. Dead horses and all kinds of
graves are everywhere."
He writes that they are busy haul
ing ammunition following the troops
that are going through Germany,
and that the towns are all shot to
pieces and that he has not seen one
building that has not been hit by
shells. The building in which he
was staying has shell holes in it so
large you could stick your foot
through them, he writes.
P. P. Murray, young Omaha at
torney formerly connected with the
traffic bureau of the Chamber of
Commerce, returned yesterday from
Edgewood Arsenal, Md., where he
was in the ordnance department of
the army. He was discharged from
the service Friday and probably will
resume his former position here.
Chief Printer Watt of the battle
ship Pennsylvania is spending a ten
day furlough in Omaha and Council
Bluffs, where he formerly resided.
Mr. Watt is serving his fourth en
listment in the navy.
A big skating rink has been made
at Fort Omaha and plans have been
laid for some old-fashioned skating
parties. The rink is more than 200
feet long and 100 feet across. A
hedge of shrubbery has been made
along the edges of the pond and
electric lights have been strung
across it. Skates have been pro
vided for both soldiers and their
girl frieilds and the big pond will
furnish recreation to the hundreds
of soldiers stationed at the post.
Lt. Richard K. Thompson is in
charge of the skating pond.
Richard Kitchen, manager of the
Paxton hotel, celebrated New
Year's by discarding the uniform
of Uncle Sam and returning to civil
life.
He was one of the most promi
nent of the young business men of
Omaha to enlist in the army. Five
months ago he entered the quar
termaster's department and served
at Fort Omaha.
"Dick" came out of the servic
Tuesday, just as !he went in, a
"buck" private. He has returned to
his duties at the hotel.
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Wanted at j
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NO
Exchanges,
Approvals, Credits,
Refunds. Every
Sale Is Final.
Thursday, Jan. 2, We Open Oar Doors on the "Sale of All Sales "Our
Jauniarv
HalM 1
Price VU
Of Our Entire $75,000 Stock of Women 's and Misses '
Coats, Suits, Dresses, , Furs
An apparel selling occasion which gives your dollars exactly . double buying strength.
Two garments for what one formerly cost. No woman in need of a new Suit, Coat or Dress can
possitively afford to let the advantage of this startling sale event go by unheeded.
Not a single reservation,
not an exception in the entire
stock. Orders are to clean out
every Winter Garment, re
gardless of how recently it be
came a part of our select
stock.
Unrestricted
Choice of
the House
PRICE
January Clearance
Of Our Entire Stock of
COATS
1
We urge you to attend this .
sale as early on the first day
as possible, as with such ex
traordinary prices in effect,
we predict that lines will be
come broken before many
hours pass.
Unrestricted
Choice of
the House
14
$45.00 COATS $0050
y Clearance Price ftis4
ALL $25.00 COATS $ 1 O50
January Clearance Price Li
ALL $35.00 COATS $ 1 750
January Clearance Price 11
ALL
January
ALL $55.00 COATS $0750
January Clearance Price d I
ALL $65.00 COATS$0050
January Clearance Price Ofcl
ALL $75.00 COATS $0750
January Clearance Price O I
ALL $85.00 COATS $l Q50
January Clearance Price faTfcrf
ALti $95.00 COATS $ yj 750
January Clearance Price TT I
January Clearance
Of Our Entire Stock of
SUITS
$475
$1750
$221
$2750
$322
$3750
$4250
$4750
ALL $29.50 SUITS
January Clearance Price
ALL $35.00 SUITS
January Clearance Price
ALL $45.00 SUITS
January Clearance Price
ALL $55.00 SUITS
January. Clearance Price
ALL $65.00 SUITS
January Clearance Price
ALL $75.00 SUITS
January Clearance Price
ALL $85.00 SUITS
January Clearance Price
ALL $95.00 SUITS
January Clearance Price
PRICE
January Clearance
Of Our Entire Stock of
DRESSES
ALL $25.00 DRESSES $ -f 4J5Q
January Clearance Price JLm
ALL $29.50 DRESSES $ 1 75
January Clearance Price iTC
ALL $35.00 DRESSES $ 4 1759
January Clearance Price 1 I
$39.50 DRESSES $ -f Q75
ry Clearance Price 10
ALL $45.00 DRESSES $0050
January Clearance Price
ALL $55.00 DRESSES $0750
January Clearance Price a I
ALL $65.00 DRESSES $QO50
January Clearance Price Om
ALL $75.00 DRESSES $0750
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ALL
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BROS. LOCATION