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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1919)
v OMAHA'. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1013. 10 THE EEE: BDJUSTLiENT GOHGRESS FREE TO TIIE PUBLIC Members of Legislature to Be Urged to Adjourn and At-, tend Transmississippi Congress. M meeting of the organization committee of the Transmississippi Readjustment congress Thursday evening it was decided Mat no ad mission would be charged for all ses lions of the congress. The only re strictions to voting will be that per sons desiring to vote will register at the Fontenelle and secure a badge. Visitors with badges will be ad mitted to the main floor. Visitors without badges will be admitted to the balcony. C. C. George, chairman of the or ganization committee, announced that arrangements had been made to place festoons of electric lights at the principal street corners of the city in honor of the visitors. To Invite Legislature. A committee of three prominent "Omaha citizens will be appointed to visit the Nebraska legislature Mon day and ijivite it to adjourn next Thursday morning and attend the congress in a body to hear Hon. David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture and Hon. Julius Barnes, head of the federal food'administra tion grain corporation. Special Edition. Nation's Business, the official or gan of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, will issue special edition With full report of the Omaha congress. There will be 50,000 extra copies available for dis tribution west of the Mississippi river. The Advertising-Selling league of Omaha will be asked to organize to dispose of these extra copies by taking orders during the convention. -Order booths wiil probably be erected at the auditor ium and at the principal hotels. An invitation will be extended to all Red Cross chapters in Nebraska to send delegations to the congress Thursday morning to hear Gov. Henry J. Alien of Kansas speak on "The Red Cross in Europe." Charles M. W'ilhelm has been ap pointed chairman of the reception committee to meet the speakers, governors, mayors, and other prom inent delegates. Governor Burnquist of Minnesota will be invited to address a public affairs luncheon at the Charriber of Commerce Tuesday noon. French Hold Man Said to Have Played Role in Edith Cavell Faris, Feb. 14. French military authorities now hold, or a charge of dealing with the enemy; a man r.amed Krein, who U alleged to liave played a leading role in the tragedy in which Miss Edith Cavell lost her life. A report made 'on Krein states that he was in jail at Tt. Quentin at the beginning of the .war. He was released by the Germa' s tnd went to the mansion of Prince and Prin cess Croy, in Belgium, where he de i ounced the prince at. " princess as having aided French prisoners of war to .escape. "As - result the princess was condemned to 10 years' imprisonment at hard labor. Krein is said to have then gone to Brussels, where he went into Miss Cavell's hospftal service and helped to "work up" . the case against her. Creighton Student Body Get "Pep" at Mass Meeting Reports of the speed and accur acy in shooting baskets of the Great Lakes basket ball team has not dampened the ardor of the .student body at Creighton if the mass meeting last night is any in-irii-auon. The stuefcnts practiced new yells and other means of keep ing: tip the "pep" of their quintet when they meet the gobs Saturday night. Mock in the chances tor a Crcighton'victory Advanced sharply with the report of the defeat of the sailors by th Schmeltzerp in Kan sas City. The Kansas City profes sionals, however, have an extreme lv fast organization and juat nosed out a victory. ' i Army Orders. (From the Bra's Washington Hurra 11) Washington. D. C, Feb. 14. l.t. i.'ol. Aileynr. von Schradrr, Medical corns. Is relieved from fluty at the limited S la lex army a-enrral hospital. Fort Des N'oines. la., and will proceed to Hoboken, X. .'. l irst I.t. I.,esUr Kenneth Strata, Medical -0IT3. 1a relieved from duty at Camp inhsry TayicFr, Ky., and will proceed to I Moinrs. M.iJ Henry C. Smith, adjutant general's I ":ii tment, will proceed from Camp Kear hc '. fal.. to Fort D. A. Russell. Wyo. First I.t. Clarence R. Farmer, adjutant avnoral'a devartirwnt, will proceed jrom .'.imi' Kunston, Kan., to Fort D. A. Rus 5.11. Wyo. K;rat IA. Joseph Jolat Rohnr. Pental ;on. Is relieved from duty at Camp lim)it and will proceed to San Francisco. M.iJ Ueorga L. King. Ordnance, depart tv tit, la relieved from duty at Camp Dodge will proceed to Washington. " First I.t. Oacar Rudolph Engelmann, Mlu-al corps, la relieved from duty at Kort Crook. Neb., and will proceed to llcuston, Tex. taut. .Trssa tanll Wilson, Medical ? na. Is relieved from duty atCamp Dodga will proceed to san rrancisco, iai., ;M(t tats the first aMtlabl transportation l., tha I'hilirmtne Islands. The. following otticers. now at United V'.iiti-s army general hospital. Fort Des M ini's, are transferred, to the- hospitals .n-ified after their names, and for fur .ar .,Kw.-.rvation and treatment: second I.t. Louis Stanley Doollttle. In- f iirv, hass hosnltal. Camp Grant, iil s- ord I.t. Riihard T. Davis, Infantry, i, , ,.pttal, Camp Beauregard. La. ..i i.t Paul Metcalfe Stauffer, Sant- t i v rorps. la relieved from duty at Camp i - ii,!e and will proceed to Fort Sheridan, ' flirention of tha president. I.t. Col. l - .'irami K. Graham, cavalry, la relieved f ..in hi present dutlea at Camp Dodge ,i!c, it dctaHed as professor of military .,- ami tactics at Columbia Military .t. niv Columbia. Tetin. s-om! I.t. George W. Dodda. adjutant c n.-ial s dimarlmenr, will proceed from i'-,n, MeiftKB, Washington, D. C, to Fort I: K. Rusael, Wyo Cai-t. Charles Mooney Fitipatrick. Medl i 'i.ris, is removed from duty at Fort lm Momea and wiil proceed to Chicago. SILK HAT HARRY (. ffl W i " wL . Bm, f$. irV vjFSto&4H "" f ,W 6a ' ( iCAJOVM - BUT" v 4- WHAr V I LiAAOur?rT ( iqm oto it trtr , Jffy CENTRAL HIGH WiNS FAST GAU BY FIVlPOIIITS Commerce Puts Up Game Fight; Score 6 to 6 at .End of First Half; Konecky Is Star. Central High, 17 i Coommeree High, It. It was ngbody's game 'until the final whistle shrilled when C;ntral High's basket ball team played 'the Commerce High quintet last night on the Creighton floor finally nos ing out ahead, 17 to 12. The final half was a draw, 6 to 6. Eurnha'ir, playing forward, made all three of Central's field goals in this period. Camero tied the score a few minutes before the end of the half. . Intiating the second half With a free toss Konecky followed, it with a fie'd goal giving Central a three point lead with Snygge soon red-iced with a field goal shot from the basket. Shooting two more field goals Konecky sent the tally up to 13 while for several minutes com merce was unable to score. The last three minutes of play was the most intense of all. Clements made the onlv score in this period. "The SDirit of the main eame was reflected n the preliminary which the Central seconds won from the, Commerce reserves, 14 to 7. . Lineup and summaries: Central High. Commerce High. f.g. f t. p. r.g. r.i. p. B'rnh'ra. r.f. 4 0 . SMahonay, r.f. S m. r.I. 4 0 . "Jlanoney, r.r. a u Cle'nta,M.f:..-l 0 2Camero, l.r. 1 0 Logan, c. (C) 1 SSnvgge. I.t. . . 1 0 Vr,clrv r.r. z l DLievinson. r.g. v ' v Swoboda, l.g. 0 0 OBemst'n, i.g. 1 v z - Miane. 1.1 v v v Total .... fill ' Totali fit Foula (personals) Central High; Burn ham (3), 8oboda (!) and Logan. Com merce High: Mahoney, Bernstein and Slana. , Officials: Verne Moore, referee: Gene Russum, scorer; N. J. Weston, timekeeper. Time Of halves, 20 minutes. IN THE DIVORCE COURT. Walker D. Hlnes, director general ot railroads, has been made a codefendam In a divorce action filed In district court by Estella M. Curtis against Edwin L. The wife alleges nonsupport and asks the court to require ihe railroad corpora tion to be a party In requiring Curtis to .contribute S60 per month to the support of his wife and child. Mrs. Curtis 'also aska for a decree of divorce- and for cus tody of a minor child. Curtis ia a rail road employe. Ylola Jackson alleges In a divorce petl-tfon-'that on the second night after ner marriage to Charles. May 20, 191S, he took all of her clothes and tried to dis pose of them. She further alleges that Jackson complained of her cooking and that he chased her from their home sev eral times and tlreatened to stab her. She asks the court to grant her a decree ot divorce. Myrtle Schuman charges Frank W. with nonsupport. They were married jn July 11, 1918. A petition for a decree of divorce haa been filed. William P. Henfilng allege In a divorce petition that during 1914 Pearl Li., lea him to believe that h had completed tha formalities of obtaining a divorce. He states that he filed a voluntary appear ance before an attorney and sipce that time verily believed that he had been legally released from Pearl. He further states that three month ago he was Informed that his wife did not obtain de cree of divorce and now he lnteres it obtain one on his own account. Sarah Freed wishes to he freed from Charles to whom she was married In Council Bluffs. June. 1912. Extreme cruelty Is alleged. i Tlllle and James Piper were married In Omaha June 11, 1918. The wife now wants a decree ot divorce on the grounds of non- support. Anna Bishop has been granted a decree of divorce from Hiram on the grounds of nonsupport. ' Bernlce Duncan has applied for a decree of divorce from Earl, whom she charges with nonsupport. They were married In Omaha. September 11, 191T. Mrs. Duncan asks also for custody of two children by a former marriage, A petition for divorce filed by Emellne Oulnlan charges William with nonsupport They were married at Oakland, Cel., November 1J, 1907. Edgar Wiley alleges that Louise celved "an. endearing letter from one of her gentleman friends;" that she refused to care for him on the occasion of broken arm, and that she nagged him. They were married at Guthrie, Ok!., De eember 15. 1910. Mr. Wiley asks for a decree of divorce. Daley Connof haa petitioned for a de cree ' of divorce and restoration of her former name of Wolfe. She alleges that Joshua baa been guilty ot nonsupport. Mabel M. Horn has applied In district court for a decree of divorce from Charles, alleging that he struck her with a buggy whip and that on January 20. 1913, he deserted her in Omaha. She was married In Grand Island, September 14, 1915, when ah was 17 yeara old. Winnie V. Campbell has applied for Alvnrce from Sherman, whom she charges I with cruelty and neglect. They were mar ritd la Colorado during 1912. 4 ... I Copyrlitht. IMS, International ILLINOIS STAB GUARD WITH "GOBS" QUINTET GEORGE HALAS. Halas is one of the mainstays of the undefeated Great Lakes Train ing Station 1asket ball quintet. "Op posing teams have found this former Illinois university star very difficult to score upon. Besides be ing one of the greatest basket ball guards in the country he is one of the best foot ball halfbacks in the middle west. He was selected as an all western nait in iyio-i. tie is but one of the all star combina tion which stands in the way of a Creighton victory Saturday night. Weight Handicap Easily Overcome by Breedlove Vernon Breedlove of Council Bluffs, won a 12-pound handicap wrestling match from Billy Lult of Tulsa; Okla., at the Council Bluffs auditorium Thursday night. Breedlove is the world s cham pion featherweight. Breedlove won tne tirst lau in 19:20 minutes and the second in 3:20 minutes. The champ won thS first fall with a head scissors and the second with a toe-hold. Seven hundred fans attended the match. Today's Calendar of Sports. RACING Winter- meeting at New Or leans! winter meeting at Havana, Cuba. GOLF Allies' flag tournament at Coro- nado Country club, C orunado, CaJ. ATHLETICS National A. A. I'. Junior indoor track and field championship at Brooklyn. . MOTOR BOAT Midwinter motor boat regatta at Miami, Fla. - , AUTOMOBILE Openings' of shows In Louisville, Minneapolis. Newark, Cleveland and Albany. BILLIARDS Angle Kleckhefer agalnn Alfred de Oro at Chicago for world's three-cushion championship. BOX INC. Oscar Gardner against Joe Coons, 6 rounds, at Philadelphia. Obstrre the (let It, well laid wrapper on Vaa Dye It. It shewi ia part the mj choice (tulitf. J , r'" 4 if ' ' I .. . i Very t VAIv Drawn for Newsservice WHITE FLYER HAIIDIGAPVOtl BY IIICIIOLAI Trbeh Captures Interstate Target Cup With Score of 88; lowans Finish Sec ond v and Third. - i Kansas City, Feb 14. George Nicholai of Kansas City won the National White Flyer handicap here today at the fifteenth' annual mid winter trap shooting tournament af ter tieing for the first place with five others. Frank Troeh of Van couver, Wash., won the interstate amateur target cup with 88 of a pos sible '100. Nicholai wort the White Flyer handicap by a run of three straight in the shoot-off. The others in the sextuple tie were: B. F. Elbert, Des Monnes, la.; H. C. Herndon, Georgetown Ky.; Ed Reetz, Fremont, Neb.; D. K. Dickin son, Kansas City and H. G. Beard, Fremont, Neb. S. E. Wainwright of Lenox, la., was second in the cup race with 87 and George Cople, Lake Park, la., third with 86. Special Regulations on -Cold Storage Eggs Are Off Washington, Feb. 14. All special regulations applying to egg dealers and cold storage of eggs, includ ing fixed priceMnargins, were with drawn today by the food adminis tration. ' What This Man Saw in Bee's Wonderful 'Heart of Omaha A picture is a picture to each and every one who sees it, but to very few is it a puzzle-problent to work and think on. , Thousands saw the "Heart of Omaha as Seen by the Balloon Observers" an unusual picture recently printed in the rotrogravure section of The Bee ; many commented, a few looked again, but one man, Father Rigge, director of the observatory at Creighton university, saw in it a puz zle to work and think out. The following letter explains the result : Prof. Rigge's Letter. Omaha, February 11, 1919. Editor of The Bee: In, regard to that beautiful picture of the "Heart of Omaha as Seen by Balloon Observers in' the Skies," that you published in your gravure section oh Sunday, January 26 last, I have figured from no other data than this picture itself and the city map. 1 That the balloon was about 6,200 feet hiprh, directly over the boulevard, moving south from Hanscom park, half way between Martha and Castelar streets.; . 2 That the camera was tilted 32 1-3 degrees downward and was pointed towards Eighteenth street and Capitol avenue. Focu of Camara. 3 That the focal" length of the camera that would have taken this picture directly iwithout enlargement was 14 inches. 4 That the balloon could see at least 96 miles. The shadows on the picture are not large and distinct enough to determine the time, which was probably about 11 a. m., and much less so the day of the year. The clearness of the view and the ab sence of smoke show that the wind was west, probably from the northwest, and the day possibly a Sunday. To get the identical view that the observers in the balloon had at the time, we should hold the picture 14 inches away, and then tilt it and lower it until the upper edge of the paper is about one inch below the level of the eye. The distinctness of the buildings, will be wonderfully improved if we use our fist as a telescope with the narrowest possible aperture. WILLIAM F. RIGGE. cRoice C I GAR, FOUR SELECT SIZES We suggest Staples: 2 for 25c The Bee by Ta'd Many Discharged 'Men Are Obtaining Positions Through Bee Want Ads Many soldiers are being placed in positions through Bee want ads which are inserted for discharged men without charge. Ten soldiers on an average insert their ads daily in The Bee and most of these bring the desired results. Letters from out in the state have been received by the want ad department of this paper. These letters ask The Bee to furnish the men writing them with help under the erroneous impression that The Beeis conducting an em ployment office. A typical letter follows: "If you have a soldier boy that is a fit st class general blacksmith please send him to us. He must be able to do wagon and plow work and also know something about horse shoeing. A good steady job for the right man," ;t Jack Coffey Returned from Red Sox to Boosters Boston, Feb. 14. Three of the five players obtaintd late last season from minor leagues are to be turned back to their former owners, ac cording to an announcement today by Manager Edward Barrow of the Boston American, league base ball team. Outfielder Lawrence Miller will be returned to the Oakland, Cal., club; First Baseman George Cochran will be sent back to Kan sas City, and Jack Coffey, who played third base in the closing games last fall, will be instructed to report to the Des Moines team. Pitchers Jean Dubuc, who came to Boston from Salt Lake City, and William Pertita, formerly of Los Angeles, will be taken south on the Red Sox training trip. Y General Cigar Co., Inc. Beet & Russel Branch, Omaha, Neb. Distributor -9 Sergt. Robert J. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Thompson, Twenty-fifth and Dodge streets, has returned to his -home, having been honorably discharged after eight months' service. 1 W. A. Rathsack, president of the riirit,, SltatA Kant rriMVlrl A tele gram from his son, Private Herbert Rathsack, headquarters company Forty-sixth coast artillery, that he arrived safely in New York from France. Mrs. D. -B. "Dillon, 522 North WOMENSAY THEY 1ST HAVE PART If PEAJE PLANS Suffragists Say Working Peo ple Must Be Made to Feel Interest in League of Nations. Paris, Feb. 14. The inter-allied suffrage congress today adopted a resolution proposed by Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee of the United States, and seconded by Mrs. M. G. FaWcett of England, declaring that the com ing peace should be a people's peace, which it cannot be if women are not consulted, and that the league of na. tions should not be an alliance of governments' only, but a general al liance between the peoples of the world. The resolution declares that working people and women must be made to feel they are a part of the league of nations The commission will invite a com mittee from the suffrage congress to work with it in fixing details. I in conjunction with our i fFifiaS lean-Up of ail our Ointes Suit and Overcoats JED'S FIDE ALL-WOOL TBOEDLOE SECGESOITS Guaranteed Fast Colors Sizes 34 to 50. M Values $22.50 toP $25. Saturday only MEETS KERSEY O'COATS CHE3TEr.FI ELD HODELS Satin lined, $30 fyj ! 4C values, Saturday t a only Q U Saturday We Again Offer ' All our $35 and $40 Strouse & Bros. and Schlosa Bros. Suits and Over- i 4 coats at '.S mi x p i k mese two iamous manes are 1 known the world over for quality ?! and style, and if you want a good suit or overcoat, take advantage of Mf )mm uj u:r, and buy your clothes while prevail: All our $12.50 and $15 , SUITS AND OVERCOATS . . All our $18 and $20 SUITS AND OVERCOATS All our $27.50 and $30 "suits and overcoats PROFIT- BY All our $37.50 and $40 OOy! HC SUITS AND OVERCOATS... $Lct.id All our $45.00 and up SUITS AND OVERCOATS. We will honor your Lib erty Bonds and payiyou the difference in cash. Twenty-third street, has received a letter from her son, Paul Dillon, 19 years old, who is in the radio serv ice on board the United States ship Nakin, telling of his trAt Is in Japa nese and Chinese waters. He en listed in Omaha last June and after a short training period in the radio school at San Francisco left for Honolulu and the orient. Lieut. Glen Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wallace 5012 Cum ing street former lieutenant in the balloon service and also employed in the Texas Oil Co., will leave tomorrow for Houston, Tex. Allied Trench Songs Will Be Sung Sunday at Big Y. Concert Trench songs of the allies will be sung by the overseas quartet which appeared at the Roosevelt memorial last Sunday, in a 'concert arranged for Sunday afternoon by the Y. M. C A. A. A. Remington, business secretary, has charge of the concert. The program will be open to both men and women. No admission will be charged. Sergt. Frank Easterbrook, Edward Hornsby, Charles E. Thomas and Harry C. Bull, heroes of the Som me, Ypres. Vimy Ridge, Lens Fres noy and Hill 70, make up the quartet. They sing trench songs as only the boys who were there sing them. Each of the men received wounds in these engagements. Private Bull will also tell of the battle of St. Julien where the Huns first used gas; of shell shock from aeria1 torpedoes and moral and reli gious trench life. Scout Eevolt Eeports. Paris, Feb. 14. Discussing reports of a revolt in Roumania, the Petit Parisian says editorially they should be regarded cautiously. It says that official circles have io knowledge of an insurrection. A Bucharest dis patch, dated Tuesday, received by the Roumanian legation here, made no mention of any trouble. HEiE'S TWO BS6 V A Vi-Y-r, X- frA Ki 0 - I these prices $9.75 $11-75 ..$17.45 I If r"SMfirS For a few days longer we offer all our "$4, $5 and $6 Shoes at $2.93. These Shoes' are to be in tans and blacks and in either button or lace. Sizes run from 5 to 11, so you're sure of being fitted satisfactorily. 0l A C . . $LJAD I ClyOTiiINU COMfMY ILLITERACY IS CAUSE OF LABOR TROUBLES-LAIIE Appeals to House Education Committee for Action on Pending Bill to Pro vide Federal Aid. Washington, Feb. 14. Illiteracy was held up as the root of American industrial labor trpubles by Secre tary Lane today in appealing to the house education committee for im mediate action on a pending bill to provide $12,500,000 federal aid an nually to states spending like sums for the education and development of illiterates. Passage or tne meas ure at this session was urged by the secretary as one of the most im portant duties of congress. " He said destructive agitation could be coped with and American ideals understood only when foreign-born workers understood the American language. The Weather. Comparatlre I .oral Record. lll 11S 11T MH Highest yesterAar ..24 45 44 II Lowest yesterday ...30 IS II Mean temperature ..23 3ft SI tft Precipitation 07 01 09 00 Temperature and precipitation depar tures from the normal: Normal temperaturs 33 Deficiency for tha day 1 Total excess sines Marco 1, 1IU....H7J Normal precipitation ........ .03 Inch Excess for tha day 06 Inch Rainfall since March 1, 1U. .11.06 Inches Deficiency sine March 1, 1 1 1 S . 11 Inches Deficiency cor. parlod In 117. T. 86 Inches Deficiency cor. period In 1816.15.86 Inches Keporta From Stations at 1 P. M. Station and Stata Temp. High- Bain- -of Weather . 7 p. m. est. fall. Cheyenne, clear ...... 24 36 .00 L Davenport, mow 33 II .46 Des Moines, snow ....26 14 .01 Dodjcs City, clear ....94 14 .00 Lander, clear 24 16 .00 North Platte, clear ,.31 12 .00 Omaha, snow 20 .14 .07 Pueblo, clear II '41 .00 Salt Lake, cloudy ....II 16 .00 Sheridan, clear .30 . It T Sioux City, snow ....II 22 .10 "T" Indicates trace of precipitation. L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist A1 08 W I v "a T J 1 i f J i i 1 I
