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    THE EEE: O MATT A, WEDNESDAY, MATICII 12, 1910.
MAKE FIT MEN
BY GOOD START
AS BOYSCOUTS
Supt. Beveridge Praises Move
ment and Declares It
Will Have Vital Ef
fect on Nation.
Superintendent of Schools J. H.
llcveridge addressed a meeting of
about 250 scout leaders and masters
at the CreiRliton law building last
night. The meeting was held under
the auspices of CreiRliton university
and a cordial opening address was
made by Fa'her V. X. McMcnamy,
who expressed the desire of the uni
versity to co-operate in every way
with the local movement.
Beveridge Praises Movement.
"The boy scout movement is the
greatest ever inaugurated for char
acter building, said Superintendent
of Schools Beveridge, in his address
to the leaders c the movement in
Omaha.
"Balfour, and other famous Eu
ropean statesmen said before we
entered the war that America was
commercialized and materialized,
but did he realize that education was
behind that commercialism and that
education means idealism?1' Ameri
can literature and American history
showed ideals of our forefathers, but
the eyes of the world were on us
when we entered the great war
still belicveing that commercialized
America would he of little aid to
the allies. Rut the war progressed
and in 1918 our boys go down in
history as struggling beside Eng
land, France and Italy in the fight
fur ideals.
"It will fall to this generation
even more than those of the past to
keep these ideals in the souls of our
boys who arc now growing into
manhood.
Keeping Boys Fit.
"Instead of 450,000 members of
tlie organization in America I hope
that soon every boy may join the
great movement. The first draft
found 700,000 men rejected, unfit for
military service on account of physi
cal defects. One of the first things
in the boy scout's training is the
necessity of physical fitness and how
to take good care of himself."
J. J. Masters will address a mctt
.'ng of boy scout leaders Thursday
evening, and a course in army sign
nalling will be given by Austin Ware
of Creighton university.
Head Receives Appointment. 1
W. W. Mead, vice president of the
Omaha National bank, and active j
boy scout worker, has been appoint
ed a member of the executive board
of the Boy Scouts of America, fol
lowing a telegram received from
Chairman James E. West of New1
York City. This places Omaha on
the map as a center for boy scout
activities as Mr. Head is to be the
first member of the executive com
mittee from the middle west. The
committee consists of 20 well known
men on both coasts.
"We expect Mr. Head to be ap
pointed vice president of the entire
National Boy Scout movement said
Scout Executive Hoyt.
Mr. Head will leave soon to at
tend the national council meeting to
be held at the Commodore hotel,
New York City, March 24 and will
report the progress of the scout
movement throughout the middle
west. Plans for a larger enrollment
country-wide will be discussed.
Mrs. George Eastman
Struck by Automobile
Mrs. George Eastman, 123 North
Fortieth street, was knocked down
by an auto driven by Roy Brooks,
Sanford hotel, at Sixteenth and Far
nain street. The accident occured
at S o'clock last evening.
Mrs. x Eastman was taken to the
I.ister hospital and attended bv Dr.
Foltz and Dr. Dwyer. Dr. Foltz
stated last night that he believed in
juries sustained were not of a seri
ous nature, a sprained back being
tiie chief injury. Brooks was not
arrested.
Postoffice Department
Promises Improvements
Washington, March 11. Improve
ment in the postal service has been
promised by Assistant Postmaster
General Koons in a letter addressed
to nearly 15,000 business men who,
at therequcst of the Postoffice de
partment, recently submitted sug
gestions. Instructions already
'iave been issued to postmasters and
employes, Mr. Koons said, with a
vievv to removing many of the
-auses of complaint.
Fire Damages U. S. Stores.
Chicago, March 11. Fire of un
known origin today damaged two
units of the United States quarter
master's store house, here, to the
;xtent of $200,000. The building
ivas said to contain supplies valued
$5,000,000. Weak water pressure
md dense smoke hampered firemen,
iome of whom used gas masks and
.electric torches.
To Prevent
Be sure you get the Genuine
Look for this signature
on the box. 30c.
Heard at the Auto Show
The stripped model of the Ruick
Six is attracting unlimited atten
tion at the automobile show. An
added refinement to the car is a metal
covering for the motor to prevent
the gathering of dust and grit. The
Buick chasis is mounted on stands
with the vital parts of the motor and
and transmission in full view of the
spectator. Body designs of the
Huick possess an addition of refine
ments in the way of upholstery and
durable construction.
Both the open and the closed
Scripps-Booth models displayed at
the Automobile show are built with
an eye to beauty as well as utility.
The bodies of these models follow
the lines of much more expensive
cars, having a long, straight, stream
line effect.
The six-cylinder models are
mounted on a chassis equipped with
a light but powerful valvc-in-head
motor, developing more than 40
horse power.
A Cadillac touring car in govern
ment use in France, recently trim
med the fastest train in the French
republic in a run from Bordeaux to
Paris. Bordeaux is 400 miles south
east of Paris. The Bordeaux-to-l'aris
express leaves the first men
tioned city at 6 o'clock in the even
ing and arrives in Paris at 8 o'clock
next morning .
Colonel Thornwell Mullally of the
California Grizzlies left Bordeaux
in the Cadillac the same time as the
express departed, and arrived in the
capital city at 7 o'clock next morn
ing, one hour before the arrival ot
the express. George Ede, well
known San Francisco driver, drove
the car.
With the view of marketing a low-
priced car considering the efficient
motor and durable construction to
be placed in the car. the Chandler
Motor Car company has already de
signed an automobile in the $1,000
field. The Cleveland is the name
of the new car, and though not
DEATHS DAILY
I PETROORAD
NUMBER 4,000
Human Flesh . Is Sold
to
Starving Population in
Russia by Chinese
Soldiers.
Washington. March 11. Chaotic
conditions in Russia, particularly in
Petrograd and Moscow, were de
scribed in reports received today by
the State department. The depths
to which the country had been
plunged by bolshevik rule was said
by the advices to be indicated in a
report from Moscow saying that
human flesh had been sold to the
famine-stricken population by some
Chinese soldiers who later were ar
rested. Both Moscow and Petrograd
were reported without fuel of any
kind. The supplies of coal, kero
sene and gasoline have been ex
hausted and since wood was nation
alized in September, it has not been
available for private consumption.
Because of lack of fuel, the advices
said the sewage and water systems
of Petrograd might cease operation
at any time.
The streets of Petrograd were
described as deserted with the ex
ception of soldiers and civilians beg
ging for bread. The deaths in the
city, chiefly from typhoid and small
pox, were estimated at 4,000 daily.
The Swiss, Danish, Swedish, Dutch
and British embassies were said to
have been looted.
Conditions in Moscow were repre
sented as better than in Petrograd
although all industries in the former
city except a few military plants
have ceased to operate. The only
food available is brought to Moscow
by peasants, who sell it at great
prices, sugar bringing 20 rubles a
pound, which at the old value of the
ruble would be $10. dog meat sells
at seven and horse flesh at 21 rubles
a pound.
Many of the stores in Moscow
have been closed and those remain
ing open are permitted to sell mer
chandise and foodstuffs only on the
card system.
Celebration of mass in the church
es has for the most part ceased.
Traction and electric light services
are irregular, electricity being avail
able for lighting purposes only two
hours each dav.
Social Democrats Strongest
Party in Finnish Landtag
Washiugton, March 11. The so
cialists won the largest number of
seats in the 'Finnish landtag in the
recent election. Swedish press re
ports received today by the State
department give the results as fol
lows: Socialists, SO; Finnish republicans,
(evenly divided between young
Finns and agrarians) 70; Finnish
monarchists, 22; Swedes (including
three republicans), 22.
On this basis the social demo
cras are the strongest party in the
landtag, holding about 80 seats out
of a total of 200, followed by the
agrarians with a membership of 35.
Sixteen-Year-Old Mother
of Babe, 6 Months, Is Dead
Shenandoah, la., March 11.
(Special.) Mrs. Mabel Cloyd
Martin, 16-year-old mother of a
6 months' babe, died Monday of
influenza at the home of her
father, Alex Cloyd. The child
wife and mother was ill but a
.short while. Her mother, vic
tim of the same disease, was
buried Monday and her husband
is m a critical condition. Five
other members of the stricken
family are ill.
. Mrs. Cloyd was seized with an
attack of the "flu" last week.
Her condition promised recov
ery, but when the girt was told
of her mother's death, and one
by one other members of the
household were forced to retire
to their beds, the burden was
more than equal to her failing
strength.
shown at the Omaha automobile
show, it has undergone, vigorous
tests and is ready for manufacture.
It will be built by the Cleveland
Automobile company, affiliated with
the Chandler Motor Car company.
It is very probable that the new
Cleveland will be marketed largely
through the present Chandler dis
tributors. Although the Saxon Motor Car
corporation, in common with the
rest of the automobile manufactur
ers, has no new models on exhibi
tion at the show, visitors at the ex
hibit have been particularly attract
ed to the Saxon display this week
by the innovations to be seen on
the Saxon cars, which are new.
Several refinements have been added
to the Saxon which make for com
fort and riding convenience. These
have been put on without any os
tentation and without any particular
announcement. Gypsy side curtains
are added to the top and a plate
glass window is in the rear. The
gasoline tank is removed from the
cowl to the rear, with an attachment
of a Stewart vacuum feed system.
For the man who' wants a car
primarily for his own use, the Olds
mobile Six roadster is the logical
answer. As shown in the Oldsmo
bile exhibit in the Annex of the
Auditorium, it is light, sturdy,
powerful a car to be depended up
on under all circumstances. It is
handsome, compact, businesslike,
well-balanced and comfortable a car
that insures keen enjoyment. It is
economical in the extreme.
J. R. Van Cleve service manager
for the Dort Motor company of
Flint, Mich., is in Omaha for the
entire week of the Auto Show. Mr.
Van Cleve has attended all the big
shows throughout the country, in
cluding the New York and Chicago
shows, and his opinion is that the
decorations of the Omaha show are
surpassed by none.
Wilson Receiving
Unusual Courtesies
From Passing Ships
On Board the U. S. S. George
Washington, March 11. (By Wire
less to the Associated Press.)
President Wilson, with no trace
of his recent cold, arose early today.
He answered wireless messages
which he had received frpm Paris.
Three of the four destroyers
which accompanied the George
Washington from New York parted
company wifh the president's ship,
sailing for the Azores during the
night. The fourth went today. The
four destroyers from the Azores
are expected to join the George
Washington sometime during the
day.
The president received a wireless
from a delegation of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce proceeding to
England on the Aquitania, convey
ing greetings and best wishes. The
president is receiving unusual cour
tesies of the sea from passing ships.
The steamer Annam hove to until
the George Washington had passed.
This salute is customarily given only
to royalty. The Hollandia inquired
as to the George Washington's posi
tion, the crew wishing to approach
and cheer the president. But the
vessels were too far apart.
The George Washington with its
new high power wireless is still
communicating directly with Otter
Cliffs, Maine.
Committee to Visit Germany
With Secretary Baker
Washington, March 11. Several
members of the house military com
mittee will accompany Secretary
Baker to Europe at his invitation
to inspect the American,. army of
occupation and American camps.
They expect to sail from New York
on the George Washington soon
after April 1.
Representatives Dent of Ala
bama; Fields, Kentucky; Olney,
Massachusetts; Nicholls, South
Carolina; Harrison, Virginia; An
thony, Kansas, and Hull, Iowa, have
accepted the invitation. Represen
tatives Quin, Mississippi; Caldwell,
New York; Wise, Georgia; Greene,
Vermont, and Morin and Crago,
Pennsylvania, who are absent from
Washington, also will be asked to
make the trip. Representative
Kahn, California, who will be com
mittee chairman in the next con
gress, is already on his way abroad.
Continue Supreme Court
Hearing of Non-Partisans
St. Paul, Minn., March 11. The
supreme court today continued un
til April 28 the arguments on the
demurrers to indictments charging
disloyalty, which were returned
against A. C. Townley and Jo
seph Gilbert by the Jackson
county grand jury. Townley is
president of the National Nonpar
tisan league. Gilbert is a league or
ganizer. A stipulation was agreed
to that the case will be tried at the
May term of district court at Jack
son, if the supreme court refuses to
set aside the indictments.
The indictment against Gilbert is
based on a speech made at Jackson.
Townley is held responsible for a
pamphlet issued by the Nonpartisan
league, which discussed war issues.
CHIROPRACTOR
Ethel Thrall Maltby, D. C.
(Palmer Graduate)
Adjustment $1.00, 12 for $10
312 Bee Bid. Doug. 3072
USSESSSSaTm
Albert Cahn
219 S. 14th St.
For Shirts
New Silks
Are, In
WORLDLY WISE
YOUTH TAKEN
AGAIN BY POLICE
Eddie Toman, Arrested on
Charge of Incorrigibility,
Plays Old-Timer at
Station.
Worldly wise far beyond his years,
Eddie Toman, alias Harry Young,
16, was arrested for incorrigibility
last night after eluding police and
juvenile authorities for several days.
He was taken with six other youths
who were engaged in a "free-for-all"
at Sixteenth and Cass streets.
Eddie assumed a sang froid air
when he entered the police station
which would have done credit to a
foreign count.
"Yu got me at last, haven't yu?"
he growled, casting a disdainful
glance at a detective standing near
by. "It was an accident though,
wasn't it? S'pose your goin' tu send
me back to Kearney. I'd sooner go
to the pen this time. Looks like a
fellow ought tu have a little choice
where he goes after being at the re
form school twice."
Eddie was nearly arrested yester
day while attempting to steal bread
from a bakery wagon at Seventeenth
and Webster streets. Detectives
Rich and Anderson seized him, but
he spun such a realistic "sob" story,
and shed such realistic tears that
he was released.
According to the police, Eddie
was on parole from the reform
school. At request of his relatives
he is to be sent back.
He told police he was living with
his uncle until a few days ago.
"Yu see, he to'd me as long as 1
paid my board I could stay." ex
plained the youth. "When it wm
lime to pay I left without giving
him a chance to kick me out."
He gave a fictitious address as
well as name when arrested, but
according to police his relatives
live at 1408 Chicago street.
Independent Packing
Companies Organize
Export Association
Chicago, March 11. An export
association was formed here today
by more than 30 independent pack
ing companies who propose to make
a vigorous invasion of foreign mar
kets with their meats. Headquar
ters will be established in New York
at once and a representative will be
sent to Europe to begin work, it was
announced today.
I. Powers of Terre Haute, Ind..
was elected president and M. Mann
heim of Evansville, Ind., secre
tary. The membership of the export
group represents states from Utah
to the Atlantic, according to Secre
tary Mannheim.
The independent packers reported
in the iu ., organization include
none of the large packers, not even
the larger "independent" concerns,
the secretary said.
Terrific Downpour Causes
. Heavy Damage in Melbourne
Melbourne, March 11. Large sec
tions of the city have been flooded
by the heaviest rains in 50 years.
Hundreds of houses were damaged
and streets were torn up by the fury
of the downpour.
A fire, starting in a glass works,
was extinguished by firemen who,
wading waist deep, pumped the
rivers of water in the streets upon
the burning structure.
Heavy rains have been reported in
Tasmania, Victoria, New South
Wales, and other parts of the com
monwealth, . breaking the rec.ent
drouth.
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Easy to Make This
Pine Cough Remedy
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f Thotuand of famlllra ewear by It.
p rum nt malt.. Ineipenalve, .
and aave about 2.
You know that pine is used in
nearly all prescriptions and remedies
for coughs. The reason ia that pine
contains several peculiar elements that
have a remarkable effect iit soothing
and healing the membranes of tUo
throat and chest.
Pine cough syrups are combinations
of pine ana syrup. The "syrup" part
is usually plain sugar syrup.
To make the best pine couch remedy
that money can buy, put 2'j ounces
of Pines in a pint "bottle, and fill up
with home-made sugar syrup. Or you
can use clarified molasses, honey, or
corn eyrup, instead of sufrnr e'yruD.
Either way, you makea full pint .aore
than you can buy ready-made for three
times the money. It is pure, good
and very pleasant children like it.
You can feel this take hold of &
cough or cold in a way that means
business. The cough may be dry,
hoarse and tiaht, or may te persist
ently loose from the formation of
phlegm. The cause is the sanuin
named membranes and .this Pinex
and Syrup combination will stop it
usually in 24 hours or less. Splendid',
too, for bronchial asthma, .hoarseness,
ap a.tiv ftrdinnrv -throat ailment..
Pinex is a highly concentrated com-1
pound of genuine Norway pine extract,
and ia famous the world over for its
prompt effect upon coughs.
Beware of substitutes. Ask your
druggist for "2Vj ounces of Pihex"
with directions, and don't accept any
thing else. Guaranteed to (rive abso
lute satisfaction or. money refunded.
The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
AUTO
SHOW
CLOSES MARCH 15th.
NOW
OPEN
AUDITORIUM
Admission 40c.
9:30 A. M. to 10:30 P. M.
New Sales Manager for
Harroun Cars.
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J. R. Golden.
The Linigcr Implement company
which has just taken over the
agency for the Harroun car has
turned the sales department over to
J. R. Golden, who has been with
the company for 14 years. "The out
look for the coming year it very
bright," said Mr. Golden, "and we
have great confidence that 1919 will
be one of our biggest years.''
Sterling Truck Makes
Rapid Stride in Omaha
Endurance and dependability are
evinced in the Sterling trucks on
display at the show this week. H.
Becker, Davenport garage. Eight
eenth and Davenport streets, dis
tributor of the Sterling truck, has
for display four models of the heavy
type bodies built in Milwaukee.
More than 1.000 were sold to the
United States government last year.
The following Omaha firms have
Sterling commercial cars: Bauer &
Johnson, Omaha Ice and Cold Stor
age company, and Consumers Re
filling company.
Standard Sells First
Trucks at the Auto Show
The first motor trucks sold on
opening day of the automobile show
were out of the Standard Motor
company's exhiibt. A Defiance,
equipped with pneumatic attach
ments, was sold to L. J. Simon of
Minden, la. lhe other, a fanhard,
one-fon body, was bought by a gro
cery dealer of Ord, Neb. Carl
Changstrom, general manager ot ttie
company, is in the booth to meet
visitors personally.
Nash Sales Co.
General Distributors
10th & Howard Streets,
Tel. Tyler 2916
T. H. McDearmon, Manager
THREE PERSONS
KILLED, 3 BURNED
If BAYARD FIRE
Nearly Entire Family of Philip
Deering, Russian Beet
Tender, Wiped Out When
Kerosene Can Explodes.
Bayard, Neb., March 11. (Special
Telegram.) Three persons are dead
and two others are not expected to
live as the result of an explosion of
a can of kerosene this morning in
the home of Philip Deering, a Rus
sian beet-tender.
The dead:
Mr, l'hllip rterrliiK. mntlirr of family.
Prtrr lWrlnir, HRetl 1.
Katie Peering, aged 5.
Those probably fatally burned:
Philip Deering, father. .
Mary Deering, aged 9.
A child, aged 2 years, it is thought
will recover.
The explosion was caused by
pouring oil on live coal.
The father in his attempt to start
the fire used a can of kerosene
which exploded blowing the boftom
out of the can and scattering blaz
ing oil over the room. Three men
who chanced to be near were at
tracted by the blaze and after break
ing in the house rescued Deering
and his 2-year-old daughter, both
terribly burned.
Mrs. Deering together with hei
son- aged 7, and a daughter, 5, were
found dead in their bed from burns
and suffocation.
Austrian Neutralization
Discussed at Conference!
Paris, March 11. (By Associated!
Press.) While the possible neu- !
tralization of Austria has not as
yet come before the "big five" in a
formal manner, it is being discussed
here. Certain socialistic elements in
Austria are striving hard to prevent
neutralization, ' but there are other
influences wnicn are anxious to see
it effected, as it would give Austria
protection similar to that enjoyed
by Switzerland.
Yacht Now Fishing Boat.
Geneva, March 11. Former King
William of Wurttemburg had a nar
row escape from drowning today
during a scuffle that occurred when
a party of German sailors from Kiel
seized the ex-king's yacht on Lake
Constance. The sailors took the
yacht to use it as a fishing boat.
THE perfected valve-in-head
motor of the Nash
Six has demonstrated the fact
that it is powerful, economical
.and quiet to an unusual degree.
Its unusual power, economy
and quietness place it in the
front rank of America's lead
ing motor car values.
See the full line of Nash Passenger Cars witli
Perfected Valve-in-Head Motor at the Show.
Omaha, Neb.
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Creel Returns From
Europe and Retires
From Public Service!
New York, March 11. George
Creel, head of the committee on
public information in Washington,
announced today on his return from
Europe aboard the transport Aga
memnon his intention to "return to
private life."
"I am no longer with them," s;.id
Mr. Creel, when asked for a state
ment about the activities in Europe
for the committee. "I cabled a
statement from Brest. Was it not
released" he asked.
When his questioners informed
him they had not heard of the state
ment being released, Mr. Creel dic
tated the following:
"I am going to return to private
life. The domestic activities of the
committee on public information
ended in December and I have made
arrangements for the discontinuance
of all foreign work. My only rela
tion with the committee on public
information as from March 1 will be
a nominal one, in connection with
the formal features of settlement."
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A "Tailor-Made"
Designed for the woman who likes simplic
ity in her dress, yet with a touch of fem
inine grace. Shown in patent leather and
black glaze kid. Sizes 2 U to 9. Widths
AAA to D.
$7.00
You will find here a variety of good styles
in pumps and oxfords, with Louis or me
dium heels, in all the new and accepted
shapes and materials. May we not have the
pleasure of showing them to you?
Drexel Shoe Co,
1419 FARNAM ST.
Mail orders solicited. Parcel Post paid.
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Fiv9-Pssenfter
Touring Car $1490
FouT-Paaaen&er
Roadster $1490
Sedan $3350
Foar-Paaaenier
Coupe $3350
Sevan-Paaeenger
Car $1640
PrkmiKumka
Hayward-Cameron Motor Co.
Omaha Distributors
2043-45 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.
Tel. Douglas 2406
R. W. Hayward, President
U O LU M E PRICESi
France Abandons Hope
j of Having Its Great War
Debt Shared bv Allies
Paris. March 11. France has
abandoned for the present at lcat
anv hone of having her irreat war
tit ht shared by the allies. It if
.authoritatively asserted by one ul
j the Americans attending the confer
ence that what had been an em
barrassing possibility has now brer
' ilt'finilrlv etiniinntnl trntn flip ,liliU-
orations, although it is possible that
Krancc might at some future time
attempt to secure assistance.
The British and American dele
gations have been quite frank in their
disapproval and have openly said
that the people of their countries
would be slow to endorse such a
plan.
Woman Dies Wha Made
Mrs. Lincoln's Dresses
Aurora, III., March 11. Mrs
Harriet H. Squicr, at one time dress
maker for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
is dead at her home here, aged 87
years. She was born in Hadley
Mass.
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