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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 6, 1919.
VILLAGERS OF
FRANCE KILLED
TO CREATE FEAR
Many, Tales of German Out
rages Were Not Exagger
ated, Captain Lear Tells
Roentgen Ray Society.
"There are graveyards in France
containing as many as 200 bodies of
residents of a village, shot by Ger
mans to put fear into the people,"
declared Capt. C. N. O. Lear of Des
Moines speaking before the Roent
gen Kay society convention last
night at the Hotel Fontenelle.
"Tales of German atrocities may
liave been overdrawn, but there were
plenty that were not exagerated,"
continued the captain. "When we
arrived in France the allied troops
(vere at their lowest morale. They
told us that the war was as good as
lost, and that we could only pro
long i'."
Captain I.ear served with the 42d
division, 168 regiment, in the medi
cal corps in the front line trenches.
He saw service overseas from De
cember, 1917, till the end of the
war. Friends of the captain tell of
how lie went over the top with the
men, in spite of orders of a superior
officier to remain behind.
Lost Patient. '
Among the many personal anece-
dotes told by Captain Lear his tale
of two stretcher hearers and a lost
patient found special favor. The
captain saw two stretcher bearers
wandering about aimlessly. He in
quired what they were looking for
and was informed that a badly
wounded man that they were carry
ing, vyas missing.
"You see," volunteered one of the
bearers, "a shell exploded netr us,
and the man jumped off the stretch
er and ran to fast we lost him."
, Capt. N. C. Prince of Omaha told
of the work of the Mobile X-ray
unit on the west front.
The third speaker of the evening
was Col. E. A. Merritt of Council
Bluffs, inventor of the portable dark
room adopted by the American army
in France, and highest ranking of
ficer in the X-ray division of the
American army. Colonel Merritt
gave a cinema demonstration of the
United States Roentgen field appar
atus, and a comparison with the ap-
paratus of the enemy.
The meeting at the Hotel Fonte
nelle last night, which was proceed
ed by a banquet, was the last event
qf the annual meeting of the Oma
ha Roentgen Ray society. Over 200
X-ray specialists registered for the
convention, many being from other
towns and cities. 1
An exhibition of X-ray plates was
shown contributed by Omaha and
out-of-town physicians. The program
committee for the convention was
C.( H. Ballard, R. L. Smith and
v-N; C. Prince.
Sas He Bought Whisky
to Regain Love of His
Estranged Dad; Fined
Whisky as a peace offering for
an estranged father is the newest
"story of the "prodigal son" which
came to light in the federal court
yesterday when ' Alfred Levey
was brought before Judge Wood
rough, i charged with carrying nine
quarts of whisky from Berkley,
Cal., to Omaha.
Alfred and his father were es
tranged since the jboy joined the
marines a year ago. ,
Hf. pleaded before Judge Wood
rough that he brought the liquor
for religious purposes only, in or
der that his father might have liquor
for the passover season.
"I intended this as a reconcilia
tion between myself and father," he
said.
Judge Woodrough, hesitating to
completely dampen the ardor of a
newly united family leniently fined
him but $25.
Exploit Omaha Clay
Banks, Mayor Urges
Brick Manufacturers
Mayor Smith announces that he
intends to do all that he can to en
courage the manufacture of building
brick ,in Omaha. He believes that
competition would tend to reduce
the current price of $15.25 per thou
sand. He is scanning all the ordinances
on the subject and finds that pres
ent restriction are unneccessarily
severe.
"My idea is to let the bars down
.to the extent of authorizing the city
. council to approve or disapprove of
locations upon applications filed by
the manufacturers," said the mayor.
"We have a lot of clay banks in
Omaha and I see no reason why we
should not be converting them into
brick and thus help out the building
situation to that extent."
Scout Masters Spend Night
, in Wilds Near Albright
Fifty' scout masters spent last
night at Camp Gift'ord on their first
week-end camping party of the year.
Scout Executive G. M. Hoyt con
ducted the camp.
Thirty other scout masters will
leave the end of the Albright street
car line this morning and hike three
miles to the camp under the leader
ship of Mrs. Hoyt
Last night's session was intended
to demonstrate to new scout mas
ters just how the boy scout con
ducts himself in camp. Another
overnight visit to Camp GifFord is
planned for next Saturday and Sun
day, for both scouts and scout mas
ters. Mrs. Hoyt expects several groups
of boy scouts' and their friends to
accompany this morning's exodus of
scout masters to camp.
By BERT FORD.
- Staff Correspondent of the International
With the American Army of Oc
cupation, Loblenz, uermany,
March 15. (By Mail.) ao jair
minded oerson could blame Vesle
if he had wagged his tail off its
hinges. It was some honor to be the
first American mascot to cross the
Rhine and Vesle seemed to appre
ciate the distinction.
Vesle is no ordinary dog. He
trotted proundly at. the heels of his
master across the pontoon bridge
in front of the Coblenzerhof, with
the fortress at Ehrenbrietstein rising
majestically on the left.
Did I sav master? lhat was an
error. He has two, and they make
more fuss over him than two Old
maids over a cat. They are jealous
of his affection. '
If vou knew Vesle as we do you
wouldn't blame his masters about
fussing. He is the best natured purp
in the world and about the most
famous that the war has produced
in that he has hobnobbed with most
of the allied generals and dignitaries.
He has ridden on General rershing s
train. He has attended vital war
conferences where officers of high
rank spilled strategic secrets that
the boches would have given worlds
to know when Vesle and we war
correspondents heard them in confidence.
At these sessions Vesle would
elance inauisitively at the officers,
who, with riding crops, traced coni
ng battles on wall maps. At these
times Vesle seemed Dorea ana
snoozed between the hobnailed
boots of one of his masters.
There are doe mascots with Yan
kee outfits just as brave as Vesle,
but thev have had a drab existence
compared to the hero of the Press
section. His breaktast costs if.au
in Luxemburg, and his dinner came
hieher. taking a lot of Heinie cur
rency that looked like tobacco cou--.
ir j
pons. He nas eaten in maxims aim
the most fashionable hotels in Paris
and Bordeaux and Brest and else
where, and he has been just as
thankful for handouts in the trench-
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Vesle, Proud Property of Jealous War
Correspondents, Leaps from Homeless"
Waif to Celebrated Yankee Mascot
He is grateful for any kind of
"chow." That's what we like about
him, and his patience, too. He is as
fat as butter. No wonder. Every
body in the press gang feeds him.
Hp Wnnws those at table who slip
dainty morsels on the sly. You feel
his warm nose against your knee.
When we were fortunate enough to
rustle ducks or chickens we saved
the scraps and bones for Vesld.
He was at the front the day the
armistice was signed, lie nas naa
experiences and adventures galore,
but perhaps his proudest achieve
ment, at least the one that will be
longest recorded, was the day he
sat for his life size painting at Ver
sailles. Vesle is at the left of a war coun
cil grouping being painted by Dana
Pond, official artist for the United
States government. Pond thought
the press mascot would give tone
to the painting, which shows a
conference of General di Robilant,
of the Italian army; General Belin,
of the French army; Gen. Sackville
West, of the British army and Gen
eral Bliss of the United States army.
The studio is in the chamber of
Marie Antoinette in the old palace.
Some climb for a stray mongrel
a war refugee, for that's what Vesle
is, or was. He looks a mixture of
Newfoundland and Spaniel with
the black, curly coat of the former
and the size of the latter. He was
born about the outbreak of the war
in a farm community near Fismes,
close to the Vesle, for which he
was named by his American mas
ters. There was no way to find out his
French name, because his original
owners had evacuated or been killed.
Apparently he had been held captive
by the German troops, because he
was thin and hungry, and awfully
frightened when Julius B. Wood, of
the Chicago News, and Raymond
G. Carroll, of the Philadelphia Led
ger, found him.
The Yanks were fighting at the
Vesle. Artillery actioi. was heavy.
It was raining and muddy, as usual.
Shells were dropping close. The
correspondents had to take cover.
When Wood and Carroll returned
to their automobile in the road one
door was open. Wood tripped over
something in the bottom of the car.
He thought somebody had left a
fur coat.
"I'll be damned, Ray, if it isn't
a stray purp," drawled Junius.
News Service
"What is he doing out here? Well,
stranger, here's where you transfer,
because we're not going your way,
and it's a long spin to the censor."
Wood lifted Vesle out by the scuff
of the neck and the dog climbed
right in again and looked so cold,
and cowed and helpless that both
Wood and Carroll were touched
and adopted him on the spot and
had their first row over possession
and where to seat him and what to
wrap him up with.
That is how Vesle became re
christened and transformed from
a war waif to a Celebrated Ameri
can mascot whose picture will go
do,wn to posterity in an allied war
council picture to be hung in the
main conference room of the War
department in Washington.
But peace has complicated the
problem of dual ownership. It was
not so difficult to carry out a part
nership while fighting was in prog
ress, but there is a grave question
where Vesle will make his home in
America.
"Let's do what the probate and
divorce courts do," suggested Car
roll. "Split custodianship. Vesle
can live one month wiith you in
Chicago and the next with me in
Philadelphia, and keep it up."
"Where would I come in if you
take that trip to Japan? Besides,
Mrs. Carroll may not like him."
"Mrs. Wood may not either," re
torted Carroll, beaming.
"She's got to. Who could help
it? Airy way, Vesle thinks more of
me than he does of you since you
slapped his nose in front of all
those newspaper guys who came
over on the Noahs Ark to cover
the peace conference. I've got a
plan, Ray. Just before we sail for
home I'll have a French coiffeur
clip Vesle and make a pillow of his
fur and that will be your half of
him."
Alleged Car Robber Bound
Over to District Court
Frank Delbridge, 1522 North
Twenty-fourth street, arrested last
Tuesday 'on a charge of robbing
freight cars of more than $5,000
worth of merchandise, was bound
over to district court this morning
under $l,uuu Dona.
Cyirta nicrCTC ne0TfV 116 North
V,'ntli ctrpAt altpcrpn arrnmnlire of
Delbridge, was sentenced to 60 days
in jail on the charge of vagrancy.
Both men confessed to police to be-
See That Your Car Is In Line With the
Spirit of "Paint Up and Clean Up Week."
Have YOUR car repaired by men who know.
Our rates are reasonable.
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"Every man should drink TWO glasses of BUTTER
MILK every day."
"He should eat two dates with each glass."
"Butter-milk destroys the bacteria in
the colon and prevents auto-intoxication."
"There are TWO OUNCES of FLESH to each glass of
Butter-milk."
"Children should drink Butter-milk just as well as
older people."
"In fact, it is even more beneficial to children than
older people."
"Ordinary sweet milk should be EATEN not drinked."
"Sweet Milk Is a Heavy Food."
"I EAT a Great Deal of Milk but I do not drink it
down as most people do."
"I Simply Eat It."
"Good, Rich, Clean Milk Is a Splendid Food." ;
Th Home of Good, Rich, Clean Milk, Locust
Lane Butter-milk and Creamed Cottage Cheese. -
Phone Doug. 408 or C. B. 205
Keenest Economies Evident in Our Pre-Easter Sales
Low Cash Prices
Throughout all our stocks gives
you the opportunity to secure
better quality goods at any
given price.
11 11 THE CASH STORE -:
Broad Assortments
Make the selection of your
Spring apparel or the furnish
ings for the home easy Only
your personal taste need be
considered.
Plenty of Time Yet to Have Clothes Made Before Easter
And this Svcek's offerings in our big Daylight Silk and Wool Goods Department will give our custom
ers opportunity to supply their wants at saving prices really worth while. Every wanted weave and
coloring makes pleasing selection here very easy.
Wool Dress Goods Values
You'll Certainly Appreciate
$1.50 Black and White Checks, 98c 56 inches wide, half
wool, in the new over-plaid effects; would be a bargain at
$1.50. Our Cash Trice, yard 98
$2.50 Epingle, $1.8844 inches wide, all pure wool, a splen
did material for your Spring capes; plenty of navy; sell
ing elsewhere for $2.50 yard. Cash Price, yard $1.88
$3.50 French Serge, $2.4556 inches wide, all pure wool;
a splendid quality for suits; in all colors, plenty of navy;
the regular $3.50 quality. Cash Trice, yard $2.45
$4.00 Poplin, $2.9856" inches wide, all pure wool, fine chif
fon finish, in all the leading colors, plenty of navy and
black; worth regular, $4.00 yard. Cash Trice, yd $2.98
$5.00 Men's Wear Serge, $3.7556 inches wide, all pure
wool; Priestley's imported English serge in navy or black
only. You pay from $5.00 to $6.00 elsewhere. Our Cash
Trice, yard $3.75
Have Your Skirt Made to Measure Your choice of all the
new Spring styles ; man tailored, fit and workmanship guar
anteed. Inquire Dress Goods Dept. For the making, $2.50.
Cash Prices on Silks That
Mean Substantial Savings
$3.00 Satin Persian and French Foulards Beautiful new
colorings: all 40 in. wide. Special Cash Trice, yd. . .$2.49
Novelty Plaids and Stripes 36 inches wide; almost an end
less variety for your selection. Special Cash Prices
$3.00 Quality, yd . . . $2.49 I $2.25 Quality, yd ... $1 .9S
$2.50 Quality, yd... $2.10 $2.00 Quality, yd. . .$1.45
$2.50 Chiffon Taffetas All colors; also wash satins in
checked, flesh, peach, sunset and white; all 36 inches wide.
Our Cash Trice, yard k $1.98
$2.00 Messalines and Taffetas 36 inches. wide; all colors.
Our Special Cash Trice, yard $1.45
$2.25 Silk Ginghams 36 inches wide; big assortment for
selection. Our Cash Price, yard $1.98
$2.50 All-Silk Pongees 33 inches wide, in old rose, em
erald, green, tan, gray, taupe, navy, black and white. Our
Cash Price, yard. $2.10
$3.00 Fancy Brocages For vests and collars, 34 inches wide,
beautiful colorings. Our Cash Trice, yard $2.50
Lustrous Black Liberty Meteor $4.00 quality, 40 inches
wide. Our Cash Trice, yard $3.49
$3.50 Satin Imperial For capes or, coats, rich, deep black ;
40 inches wide. Our Cash Trice, yard $2.98
$2.50 Satin de Luxe 36 inches wide. Ter yard. .. .$2.25
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Authentic New Styles in Apparel for Easter
A Bevy of Beautiful Dresses
The style and finish characterized by an appealing distinctiveness that is most captivating, and Cash
Prices constituting them values truly matchless. Assortments for selection are more varied than ever.
Handsome New Spring Suits
A wonderfully attractive group of new models in fine
serge and poiret,. tricotines and gabardines; the season's
best colorings, in all sizes. Our Special d i r AA
Cash Trice 345.UU
Hundreds upon hundreds of other suits at less and
higher prices, but all unusual cash values.
We Show Several Special Lines
of Extra Size Suits for Large Women.
For afternoon and street wear, exquisite effects in georg
ette, plain and figured, and in combinations of georg
ette and taffeta or satin. Choice values
at our Cash Trice
Others for greater and less price, but we want you
certainly to see these splendid dress specials.
$49.00
Extra Size Dresses for Large
Women in Almost Endless Variety.
A Splendid Lot of the Popular
New Spring Dolmans
And Capes shown this week. All real bar- A (JA
gains. Our Cash Trice hditO U
Don't Fail to See These Specials.
Charming Styles in
Blouses
Good quality georgette, in a wide range of (hp AT
new style ideas and in all sizes and colors tyO, yO
The Best Blouse Values Shown in Omaha.
New Silk Petticoats for the New Dress or Suit Pleasing Cash Prices
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Liberty Bonds Taken at Full Market Value in Exchange for Merchandise!
Special Spring
Opening Sale of
Garden Tools
A-l Garden Hand Wheel
Mow $4.25
Hand Cultivator . ...75d
14-Tooth Straight Garden
Eate, Cash Price.. 65d
16-Tooth Straight Garden
Jtake Cash Price. 85d
A-l Garden Hoe 79d
Garden Wecder 50d
Hand Mow 98d
A-l Garden Spading Fork
Cash Price 81.00
6-ft. Braced Stepladder
Cash Price S2.00
6-ft. Unlrraced Stepladder
Cash Price ...SI. 65
Family Size Food Chopper
Cash Price $1.25
WHITE MOUNTAIN
REFRIGERATORS.
50-lb. Capacity.. $1 7.50
75-lb. Capacity.. $26.50
100-lb. Capacity, Solid
Stone Lined ..$55.50
Ice Chests S9.00
GARDEN' HOSE.
li-inch Moulded
Garden Hose. 50 feet In
length, at $10.00
U-inch Moulded
Garden Hose. 50 feet in
length, at $7.50
There Is No Luxury for a Woman Equal
to the Consciousness That Her
Health and Figure Are Perfect!
Nemo Wonderlift Corset
are the greatest aids toward this perfec
tion. The Wonderlift Bandlet, concealed
by the corstf-skirt, lifts up the abdomen
and holds vital organs in normal position,
thus preserving health and symmetry.
There are models for every type.
No. 554 (illustrated) Is de
signed for the stout woman
of average height and me
dium in all proportions.
Strong' white coutil; sizes
22 to 36.
$6.00
5NDERllFT
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7-ply,
5-ply,
Mail Orders
Promptly filled from our
daily Ads. We want our
out-of-town customers to
have the benefit cf cur
Special Sales.
Your Housekeeping Expenses Reduced One-Third :
by Trading at Hayden's for Groceries
Granulated
10 lbs. Best Fur Can
Hugar, at
10 Bars Laundry Soap, for 38c
6 lbs. Best White or Yellow Com
ileal, at 25c,
6 lbs. Best Bulk Rolled Oatmeal, ,25c
Fancy Japan Rice, per lb 11c
The Best Hand Picked Beans, lb. ..10c'
The Best Domestic Macaroni, 8paghet-j
tl or Egg Noodles, pkg I'M
Corn Flakes, per pkg ViC,
Grape Nuts, per pkg Tjc'
No. 2 cans Fancy Ripe Tomatoesl2yae
No. 2 cans Fancy Sweet Sugar Corn
per can f lSVic.
No. 2 cans Early June Peas lie
No. Hi cans Golden Pumpkin or Kraut
at per can 10c
No. 24 cans Lye Hominy 9c
No. 3 cans Sliced Hawaiian Pineapple !
at per can .uc,
No. 2 cans Sliced Hawaiian Pineapple.
at per can 2Sc,
IS-ounce cans Pet or Carnation Milk
at per can He
16-ounre cans Wilson Milk 13c
6 ounce cans Wilson Milk Q'Ae
Fancy Assorted Pickles, bottle 10c
Large Jar Pure Apple Butter 25c
1-S Pint Pompeian Olive Oil 33
Quart cans Pompeian Olive Oil ..$1.3:'.
Yeast Foam, per pkg c
iiiiiirn vim-its. nits r.Tr. I
Crown Muscatel Kalslns, lb 15c
California Seedless Muscatel Raisins.
per lb 15c
California Seeded Muscatel Raisins, at
Pr lb 15o :
California Evaporated Apples,, lb.. 20c
Fancy Mulr Peaches, per lb 25c '
Choice California Apricots, lb 20c
Fancy Bartlett Pears, per lb I5c i
Black Walnut or English Walnut
Meats, per lb $1.00 t
Fancy Shelled Filberts, per lb..... 80c,
Fancy Layer Figs, per lb 28c ,
Fresh Roasted Peanuts, per lb.... 15c1
Fancy Shelled Popcorn, per Jb.,.12V4c'
No. 1 English Walnuts, per lb 35c .
No. 1 Soft -Shell Almonds, lb 35c '
OMAHA'S f.RKATKST TEA AND
COFFKE MARKET.
Our Famous Golden Santos Coffee, at
per lb 32c '
Santos Blend, a fine drink, lb....33 '
II. B. C. Special Blend, lb 3'iYiC
Mocha and Java Blend, Nothing finer,
at per lb 40c
i lbs. for $1.15 '
PLANT ONION SETS NOW.
4 qts. red or yellow sets ...,25c'
.'lue gruss seed, per lb... 35c
All kinds of Flower and Vegetable
tceds. pkg ftc '
15 lbs. good cooking Potatoes 35c '
Fresh Beets, Carrots, Turnips, Shallots
or Radishes, hunch 7c
New Cabbage, per lb 7'4c '
iancy Head Lettuce, head ..l?VaC-15C'
Fancy Ripe Tomatoes, lb 20c
Fancy large Cucumbers, each 25c i
Fancy Cauliflower, per lb 12MtC
Old Beets. Carrots. Turnips, Parsnips '
or Rutabagas, per lb 3Hc '
Large Soup Bunches, each 4c
Wall Paper
Sale
Make yeur home
beautiful. It will only
take a little of your
time and money to do
so if you make your
selections now from our
large "Daylight Dept."
Specials for This Week.
Dnplex rialn and Figured
Oatmeal Papers Shown
with artistic cutout bor
ders, per roll 18t
SO-in. rialn Oatmeal Ta
pers A good line of col
Vors with beautiful bor
ders, per roll lid
A Now Line of Kedroom
Papers Pretty borders,
per roll 12?$C
Tapers Suitable for Any
Koora in the House in
two large lots, at per
roll 5M0
$.V0 Floor Varnish Cash
Price, per gallon 82.48
All Brands of Wall Taper
Cleaner Per can. .10?
H. If. IL The best raint
cleaner, per pkg...lO
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We want your Fresh
Butter, Eggs, Dressed
Poultry etc. Spot cash at
highest market price on
day of delivery.
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