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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 9, 1919. NORMS GETS i ill i I i i i i i i i i I i I i i i i I I I i ii ' " 1 11 1,11 I I I I I I i i in I i i i 1 4 i in ii i hi I i i i II i i i i i i i i i n i ii ii ml. Man in Charge of Army and Navy Club is "Real Buddy" to Returned War Veterans PLACE Oil LANDS AND BUILDINGS v y 333E 1414-416-418 South 16th Street A X Fifth District Congressman to Obtain Better Assignment Than at First Indicated; Jefferis on Indian Affairs. Washington Bureau Omaha Bee. Washington. March 8. (Special Telegram.) Representative An drews of the Fifth Nebraska dis trict va today accorded a place on the public buildings and grounds committee by the committee on committees. lie also will in all probability he given a place on ex penditure in the Treasury depart ment. The friends of Congressman Jetteris not being able to secure a place for the Omaha man on mili tary affairs started in to land him well up on the Indian affairs com mittee and this, it is believed, they will bring about with an assign ment to the committee on expendi tures in the' War department. Congressman Evans expressed a desire today for a place on the Kood roads committee which Judge Kinkaid believes he will be able to land for the Dakota City man. The question of floor leadership and the personnel of the steering com mittee went over until Monday. Pick Three Committees. With the selection of new mem bers of the foreign affairs, the naval and postofiice committees, the re publican committee on committees, today completed the organization of the principal committees excepting rules and merchant marine of the next house of representatives. The republican personnel of the three committees selected today folllows: Postofficp N".v membflrH: Hamlnrs, N.Y., Dunbar, Indiana; Hardy, Colorado: Hoch, Kansas: M'ore, Ohio; Nowton, Mtasourl, and Kendall. PennayKiinia. Holdover linmibfra: Stfenerson. r Mlnnennta; Mad den, llllnoltt; Orist, Pennsylvania: Palse, Maflgac-hUAetta; Woodyard. West Virginia, and Ramseyer, Iowa . Naval New fnemhera: Kraus, Indiana; T.ufktn, Massachusetts; Darrow, Pennsyl vania; Stephens, Ohio, and MrPherson, Missouri. Holdover membera: Chairman Butler. Pennsylvania: Browning, New Jer sey; Brltton. Illinois; Kelley, Michigan; Mudrt, Maryland: 1'etern, Maine; Hicks, New York and McArthur. Foreign Affairs New membera: Kepre fentativfB At-kerman, New Jersey: Bk, Ohio; Brown, Wisconsin; Houghton. New Vork, Mn.on, Illinois; Newton, Minnesota: Smith, Illinois; Picklnson, Iowa. and Moores, Indiana. Holdover members: Chsrmsn Porter, Pennsylvania: Rogers. Mimsachuset Is; Temple. Pennsylvania, and Kennedy, Rhode Island. Visiting Nurses to Start Membership Drive for Funds Officers of the Visiting Nurses association ask for renewals of $1 memberships for the 1919 year. A campaign for 1,000 of these mem berships was succcssfuly made last vear under the direction of Mrs., W. E. Rhoades. Mrs. T. L. Davis and Mrs. Frank Norton nave it in charge, this year. ' "As the people become more ac quainted with the character and quality of our work the demands upon us become much greater and our investigations show that these demands are not up to the city's necessities. Therefore, we must have more nurses to taje care of all worthy demands, and the additional funds for support." the women say. Unlimited service given by the Visiting Nurses under the direction of Miss Florence McCabe during the "flu'' epidemic, has put the com munity into everlasting debt to the association, according to those who have benefited thereby. Checks should he made payable to the "Visiting Nurses Association, Room 505. City Hall." Aeroplane to Fly Over Omaha in Loan Campaign Omahans will witness special aerial feats during the Victory loan campaign, beginning Monday, April 21. According to arrangements made Saturday, Lieut A. J. Nielsen, 607 Willow avenue. Council Bluffs, will fly daily over the two cities in the high-powered aeroplane on exhibi tion in the salesroom of the H. Pel ion Motor company, Twenty-first and Farnam street. The agreement was made between ;!ie army lieutenant and H. W. Ash mussen, aeroplane expert. Lieut tenant Nielsen recently purchased a 6,000 aeroplane at Langley field, Hampton, Va., with which he hopes to start a flying school in Omaha. I lans have been made for a local held. Supreme Knight of K. of C. to Address the Omaha Council James A. Flaherty, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, will be in Omaha Tuesday to addrtss the meeting of Omaha council that night ia Metropolitan club house, Twenty third and Harney streets. Mr. Fla herty is making a tour of the coun try in connection with the war and -econstruction work of the K. of C i'lans for the supreme knieht's en tertainment will be discussed at a meeting bunday. Degree work and initiation begin at 2 o'clock. Refresh ments will be served in the evening. Col. Jussen, Father of Omaha Woman, Dies in New York Col. Carl Jussen, father of Mrs. K. R. J. Edholm, died suddenly Saturday morning in New York City. Colonel Jussen, who was a relative of Carl Schurz, was a vet eran of the civil war, having served with the 23d regiment of volunteers from Wisconsin. He was 75years old. Two sons living in New jfork, besides the Omaha daughter, sur vive him. Colonel Jussen visited Mrs. Ed holm and her daughter, Camilla, in Omaha last September. ' Commissioners Again to Take Up City Market The.proocsed city market will be might up again Monday morning fere tm tity council committee the wiiole Mayor Smith is nxious that the v commissioners dispose of this Litter in some conclusive manner. The basement of the Auditorium s been suggested as a desirable ration fo-: this new municipal in- tutiou In- be 7t Charles Levings, Once Noted Consulting Engi neer, Now Shares Money With Sol diers in Need of Aid. "Hello Buddy", "Where's Bud" that is the question that soldiers and sailors ask 'steen times every day. they ask it every time their buddy, known to civilians as Mr. Charles Levings, the new manager of the Army and Navy club, is absent from his particular little post, behind the miniature candy and cigar booth in the center of the club at Seventeenth and Howard streets. 2,200 Yanks in February. . This man, by one of those strange instances accredited to fate when exactly the right person appears at the right time, arrived three months ago, and in February alone Mr. Levings has been host, friend, jolly good fellow and best of all "Buddy" to exactly 2,200 soldiers and sailors. But outside the club and outside Omaha, this man. neither very tall nor very short, with white hair and smiles on his lips, but more in his brown eyes, is known in other ways. Chicago knew him in 1893 as the Mr. Levings, chief civil engineer w ho directed the laying out of the exposi tion grounds. Is Cornell Graduate. At Cornell he was known, too; he graduated there, though the year he does not tell, in Cornell's civil engi neering course. Through the West he is familiar as the man who superintended the first roads through Yellowstone Na tional Park and later still, the fam ous roads through the Estes Park and the Big Thompson Canyon. This was before he was known as "Buddy" to Uncle Sam's soldiers in Omaha. Spends Winter Here. And now up in Estes Park, just opposite Long's Peak is his summer home built from boulders natural to the country and as picturesque as the environment. In winter Mr. and Mrs. Levings call Boulder their home, but are with Mr. Mart Lev ings, their son, in Omaha during this winter. Europe and Japan. Several years ago, while civil en gineer for the state of Illinois, Mr. Levings was sent by the govern ment to Europe to study waterways and routes. Later both he and his wife went to Japan not on a stereo typed sightseeing trip but on an eight-month's trip up even into the interior, where people for the first time in his party saw "Americans." They spent several months in Chi na T-TmirJntii anrl flip Philinnines before returning home. Mories more interesting ny lar than in book he can tell unless by chance you hint of newspaper ends, . j:n: i. men, me stones are mure uimtuit w get stories of experiences not granted to many continental travel ers how he and his wife were the only Americans outside the teacher who took 18 little Japanese girls of convent life for their "first trip into i. A scene any day in Navy and Army club Man standing is "Buddy." the world," as it is called; of a trip into the sacred "holy of holies" of the Buddha temple, where the most priceless and rare of 'Japan's art world has been concealed for re ligious reasons for years and years; of insights into Japan's ceremonials, where both Mr. and Mrs. Levings were present, and of comical experi ences with "Japanese teas," while they were there with Dr. Hamilton Wright Moline. ( The Dancing Prize. And another thing that was whis pered and not denied was that on the huge steamer, with hundreds and hundreds of passengers, the prize for the best waltzers went not to a young debutante but to this same Mr. and Mrs. Charles Levings. But no ene knew here of these things not a soldier spoke to Mr. Levings, consulting engineer for several large railroads they spoke to their "Buddy" and they Will tell you of how more than half of his so-called salary goes to boys who are stranded, who need a loan to go home money which, if it comes back all right, and which, if it doesn't no one knows. Not al ways money; it's just that quality which "Buddy" stands for that is what makes the club look different. You see it in the red candlesticks on the mantle above the real coke fire with a glow in it; again in the walls that have so recently boasted of actual pictures and clever pos ters; in the long dance hall, where three billiard tables share popular ity with a victrola but most of all, in the library. A Real Library. A real library, with slanting ta bles and green-shaded lamps, mag azines in labeled racks and a book case that boasts of 300 books that is what the Army and Navy club has now. And it isn't barny not a bit with a high rose-shaded floor lamp at one end, a big jardinier of real roses that brighten things up. I don't know who did it, but the soldiers, sometimes 100 of them, who gather there in the evenings they know; they say, "Buddy." The Basement Shower. In February alone 2,200 soldiers signed here used the showers in the basement, the electric iron to press and give a "soldiery" look to their uniforms; danced in the even ing, slept in the rows of comfy white cots upstairs and played "I Want to Go Home I Do" on the pianola. Ask these 2,200 guests who "Bud dy" is they know. And why docs he do it? Ask him and listen. "Everyone wants to do his share, doesn't he?" That is all you will hear. And plans he has more than he tells, but he has many an idea for this club that is open to soldiers and sailors, both in service and dis charged, both Omahans and Oma ha's guests. Wants Case Dropped; Didn't Know He Was Suing Hotel Company Henry C. Leseberg filed a peti tion in district court requesting the suit brought in his name against -the North .American Hotel company, asking for a receiver, be dismissed. This suit was filed last Wednes day, naming Mr. Leseberg and Ells worth Bullock as the plaintiffs. Mr. Leseberg says the first knowledge he had that a suit had been filed by him, was when he read it in the pa pers. He claims that he has never signed any papers nor in any way given anyone authority to file a suit. He relates that, at the instance of his father-in-lawj Christ Riggart, of Lahhan, Neb., he sent his stock cer tificates to W. E. Barkley, president of the Lincoln Safe Deposit com pany in Lincoln, who was to sell them for him at par. He said he heard that Mr. Barkley turned them over to a lawyer in Lincoln, whose name he does not know. E. W. Exley, president of 'the North American Hotel company, in an interview regarding the action which that company brought this morning, states: This affidavit shows conclusively that Bults have been filed recently against this company, have been brought on the most flimsy of pretexts, and It also is evidence of a most conclusive character that a conspiracy actually exists to wreck this company. Mr. Elvad, president of the Bank ers Realty Investment company, who was one of those named in the suits recently filed in Lincoln and Omaha against the North American Hotel coi. pany, stated yesterday re garding the legal proceeding com menced here: Mr. Leseberg'g affidavit, filed In the North American Hotel company' dismis sal motion in the district court of Doug las county here In Omaha this morning, confirms my statement of last Sunday, to the effect that competitors are Inspir ing the suits in which wa have been named. That the suits have been filed against us more for the purpose of stirring up suspicion among our stockholders and frightening them Into a mad rush for a receivership, is now fully apparent to us; Just who ail of the outsiders are, who are involved in this very apparent effort to wreck these two companies, I am not prepared to discuss at present; this infor mation will come out in good time and when it does come It will be a most as tounding revelation of fraud, deceit and most dlspicable business practices. i. R. E. Frith Returns From Inspection of Recruiting Centers Maj. R. E. Frith of the Omaha army recruiting station has returned from a trip of inspection to sub-stations at Hastings, Neb., Sioux City, la., Fort Dodge, la., Mason City, la., Des Moines, la., Grand Island. Neb., and Sidney, Neb. Recruiting for the new neace time army at these stations has been so favorable that Major Frith will make a trip to Creston and Norfolk next week preparatory to establish ing recruiting stations there. Maj. Otto G. Pitts of Camp Dodge has arrived at the Omaha station as assistant officer to Major Frith. i i General Vaccination to Be Required at South High Health Commissioner Manning announces that he will require gen eral vaccination at South High sdhool on account of smallpo ex posure. One case has been re ported. " mm Madam,your tjp ft ", v '.. I vr r ' il -. 17 JPdicious" -.m, ism nMa wi 1 M SVf BRNU ' wi ni '..r r-' Here's a charming Berkey & Gay Dining Room Suite in the style of William and Mary A charming adaptation of this well beloved style and indicative of the thorough craftsmanship of Berkey & Gay cabinet work. Executed in genuine mahogany throughout and finished antique brown. 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