12 -A" THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 20. 19l9. BASE HOSPITAL UNIT NO. 49 WILL . BE MAINTAINED . Major A.1 C. Stokes Will An nounce Plans When He Returns to Omaha; Plan , Permanent Organization. Base hospital unit No. 49 will be maintained as an organization, plans for which, will be announced when Major A. C. Stokes shall have re turned to Omaha. In a letter to Victor Rosewater, editor of, The Bee, the major' ex presses his regrets that he will be unable to be in Omaha at the time of the homecoming of the unit, and ne explains that he has been as signed by the government for serv ice at United States General Hos pital Ho. , New York City. . "On my return, which will be soon, I hope to begin the organiza tion.", lie wrote. The major has received the fol lowing letter from C. H. Connor, colonel, medical corps, assistant di rector -general of military relief: "It is hoped that you have thought out a plan to keep base hospital No. 49 'together, so that it will continue in existence. No doubt, everyone who has had active service with the hospital will desire to continue to be identified with it insofar as cir cumstances will permit. "To accomplish this, a social or ganization should be set up, to which can belong not only everyone who has ever been a member of the unit, but everyone who may be add ed to it in the future. "From this organization, the base hospital personnel can be selected for enrollment in accordance with the regulations which the American Red Cross will issue as soon as they are definitely formulated by the medical department of the army. , "The Red Cross base hospital will be reorganized as 1,000-bed hos pitals and the government will store unit of equipment for each hos pital in a government store house as near as possible to the city in which this hospital is located. "Detailed instructions and muster rolls for your personnel will be issued in the near future. Please write me of any 'plans you may have in mind which will help to keep the Red Cross base hospitals prepared to meet any future emer gency in the same magnificant way they did the one just passing into history." t"Lawd Was Good to Pvt. Whitfield; Now Awaits C. M." BRAVE AMERICANS Portraits of Medal Winners, Made in France and Germany, by JOSEPH CUMMINGS CHASE, Official Portrait Painter of the A. E. F. ft cl Taft at Stop-Over in Omaha Says Huns Will Sign Treaty Former President Optimistic on Outlook for Future Believes That Nebraska Will "Go Over Top" In Loan Before New York Inquires Into Unemployment Question. DAVID V. BINKLEY OF ALABAMA, COMPANY I, 168TH INFANTRY, 42D DIVISION Private David V, Binkley sought and obtained permis- mission to go out alone in iront or. our lines and recover his corporal, who was lying severely wounded in the open. Across an area that was swept by enemy machine guns for more than fifty yards went "Grin Binkley." While the enemy fire was directed at him he reached his cor poral, picked him up and carried him in his arms safely back into our lines. He was wounded but refused to go to the aid station and remain ed in action until his company had won its objective. His citation for the distinguished service cross reads, "For extraordinary heroism in ac tion at Hill 212 near Sergy, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, July 28." He's a sergeant now and a mighty good one. Copyright 1915. by The Evening Mall Syndicate. This is a story of life over there, told by the Stars and Stripes waving on the spot a story of wealth de scending like manna in a wilderness the grand and glorious feeling of .the buck private and the puzzle of the subsequent accounting: ' Col. Robert Whitfield, of the gen eral staff, was more and more an noyed when month after month passed and brought no sign of the $3,000 worth of liberty bonds he had ordered from a bank in Arkansas. But annoyance scarcely described the emotion he felt when the Dank replied coldly that they not only had sent the bonds, but held his receipt 'for them. ;- The colojiel wrote the bankers that they were a bunch of crooks, or words to that effect, and he also got a letter to the attorney general off his chest. The bank countered with ' a certified copy of the receipt, and tUr-a it ....... .nn.j "D ki niu:. field, private, Company I, 370th in fantry." Still somewhat ruffled, but more hopeful, Colonel Whitfield wrote a letter of inquiry to the colonel com manding that regiment of negro in fantry which boasted a Private Whitfield. The letter arrived just when rumor was already busy as to the source of Private Whitfield's mysterious wealth. The men of Company I had said nothing when he set them all up to the entire wine stock of the best cafe ju Delle, near Belfort. But the gossips got busy when he started picking up odds and ends of fine laces and a diamond ring or so which fripperies he posted to a lady in the south. The climax was reached when Private Whitfield bought a handsome, tastefully framed landscape painting for 300 francs and hung it over his bunk : j. iui jii a iuw aiauie. The official inquiry then started brought to light that Private Whit field had, as suspected, received the bonds. He had received them thrice, as a matter of fact. A bit puzzled, he had. tried his best to think up some rich uncle in the states who might have sent them to him, but none of his uncles was at all like that. Nor his aunts, either. So twice he mailed the bonds back. The third time, when they trailed him into the Argonne. he accepted them fatalistically. Why? "Well, suh, Ah jes natchully reckoned de Lawd mus' a meant to be good to me." , So Private Whitfield is now awaiting trial. The judge advocate is scratching his head. Whatever crime was committed, if any, it cer tainly was not forgery. Meanwhile, the art exhibit has vanished from the cow stable and the bank where the bonds were hypothecated has made a grab for Private Whitfield's salary, past, present and to come. Quite a way to come, too, accord ing to the present figuring, for it has been calculated that, wjth all due allowances for insurance and allotments, Private Whitfield will have to stay in the army about 20 years in order to pay for the bonds. Unless, of course, he is made a quartermaster sergeant, senior grade. Got One In Tour Home? Capt Anderson Dana, who has juat got married at Plattsburg. la a grandson ot the Journalist, Charles A. Dana, and In an Interview he sald "My grandfather believed In marriage. He thought It steadied a man. I remem ber a story he used to tell. ."Its a story about a chap who asked a man: " 'Have yon ever heard anything about a machine tor telling when a man Is ly ing?. , "Sura said the man. "'Have you ever seen one?' said the chap. ' 'Seen one?' said the man. "By gosh, I married one!' "Washington Star, ; Count von Bernstorf f Is Directing Preparation to Receive Peace Treaty Germans Await Terms of Allies and Member of Assem bly Says They Will Unloose Terrible Upheaval If Attempt Is Made to Enforce Harsh Terms With Military Blockade. (Note: "'Will Germany sign peace?" Is the all-nbsorbing question now that its delegates have been summoned to Versail les. If she does not sign Marshal Foch Is ready to take the "proper measures." What then? Here Is one answer, from a. German diplomat, who gives some of the "lfs'" and "buts'' the Gormans are pre pared to raise. Incidentally, he Intro duces our old "friend, the enemy," Count von Bernstorff, as the master of the Ger man peace show. Universal Service.) By BARON HARTMANN O. H. F. VON RJCHTHOFEN. Member of the National Assembly at Wei mar and one time Imperial Secre tary of Legation at Washington. (Special Cable Dispatch.) Berlin, April 19. Peace appears to approach more quickly than one has hitherto dared to believe. As a consequence our preparation for the peace negotiations are being in tensified. Ex-Ambassador Count Von Bern storff has been charged with the di rection of the internal preparations for the peace work. Nor can it be doubted that the ablest experts are being consulted. Of external prep arations little is heard. Our repre sentatives in neutral countries are mostly of the old regime of whom for that reason alone little useful work can be expected. Also, it is, of course, unknown to the public whether contact has been established! with the financial or other politically interested circles abroad. Await Terms. This is not the time to criticize the selection of our peace plenipo tentiaries. Besides, the main ques tion is not who they are but what awaits them at Paris. The government might do well to ascertain this beforehand. For we ought to know prior to the de parture of these gentlemen whether they will be invited to negotiations, or whether the entente will simply submit to them a firted and written peace treaty. If the latter is the case, it would be better not to ex pose our representatives to such a situation. One messenger would suffice to fetch the document, or better still, the treaty could be tele graphed to us. Want War Prisoners. There is another question which must be definitely cleared up prior to any new negotiations with the entente. It is the return of the Gr man prisoners of war. Without this peace is certainly impossible as far as we are concerned and of this fact the entente should be informed in good season. The entente will be unable o escape the weight of such a de mand. It may be open to question whether it was politically wise to allow the German supreme army command to continue officially. But in any case, even when all our pris oners have been repatriated, t!ie entente has nothing to fear from us in military respects. The hu mane feeling of the entire world will support our demand and even the most malicious and embittered foe would have to yield to that moral pressure. Insist on Fourteen Points. Official and semi-official news fil tering through from Paris and Lon don must make us reckon with the possibility that the allies may go beyond the Wilsonian principles, upon which alone we agreed to an armistice. On our side it has been repeatedly stated of late that such a procedure would be unacceptable as far as Germany is concerned. In saying this we are fullv aware of our weakness. But in the face of certain national and economic anni hilation the decision to reject the allied terms would seem to us the less desperate one. The entente rulers will not find it an easy matter to continue nostilities in case they go too far in their de mands. And a further cutting off of the absolutely necessary foodstuffs would bring about a palitical situa tion in our fatherland which would take the decision out of our hands as to whether, in the last hack-to-the-vvall battle against our destruc tors we would have to unloose t.'ic powers of the world's most terrible upheaval. Oppose Big Indemnity. However, if the entente nations are still today willing to make peace on the basis of the 14 points of President Wilson which we accepted even in that case we must realize that there can be no question of a soft interpretation of those points. We know full well the grave fi nancial and economic worries of both France and England. We know for this reason that the bill to be rendered to us will run high. But we could not consider the pay ment of our enemies' war costs, which would, ruin us economically. As regards Belgium, we shall be ready for far-reaching reparation for the men of the toppled German regime, we regret to admit have committed heavy sinsxagainst that country. We are ready for disarmament also. The bulk of our people is anxious to renounce militarism for ever. But the pre-condition for this must be, of course, an equal con version to permanent peace on the part of Our opponents. "How did you know I was here?" asked former President William Howard Taft, as he sat in the dicing room of the Burlington station early yesterday morning, contemplating coffee, eggs, bacon and toast, which were being served by a young wom an who evidently sensed the impor tance of the occasion. The former president of the United States was the only break fast attendant in the room. He had an hour between trains en route to Kansas City, where he is to' speak in the auditorium. The geniality of the distinguished visitor was manifested even before he had partaken of his morning cof fee. Asks Regarding Unemployment. "Have you many unemployed in Omaha?'' he asked in his usual eagerness for information. He was told of the efforts being made in Omaha to rehabilitate the returning soldiers, and he stated that on Fri day he was at Wayne, Kearney, Minden and Holdrece and was ready to believe that Nebraska knows how to handle after-the-war problems just as well as the state responded during the period of the war. "I believe," he continued, "that Nebraska will have its quota before New York in the Victory loan cam paign." Mr. Taft was asked for an expres- i sion about the peace conference and the league of nations. "I am getting too old," he re marked, "to be ture of anything, but I am hopeful, and I really, be lieve, that the terms of peace, with the amendments which have been made, will meet .all objections and will be ratified. Germany will agree to the terms. Germany will have to agree and will agree." Mr. Taft does not look upon the Japanese situation as serious. He expects that Japan will join the league of nations and he believes that Japan has enough internal trou bles at home to look after. "It is not a question of satisfying the emperer of Japan, but of satis fying the Japanese people," he said. Wants to Know Outcome. Mr. Taft was here early in Janu ary as a member of the National War Labor board to hear the dif ferences then existing between the street car company and the men. He was interested in knowing whether his efforts on that occasion have re sulted in favorable conditions. The ex-president was optimistic in his belief that Americans are anx ious and willing to tend themselves to the task of restoring economic af fairs, and he said he anticipated general prosperity in this country. He was particularly impressed with business activity he observed dur ing his trip this week through Ne braska. ... . . Victory Notes Will Bo Accepted at Par in Exchange for Merchandise? Equal Values at Less Price. JIILthe cash store lQ ') Superior Values at Equal " Price. v : 1 After-Easter Sale of Suits 125 Handsome New Suits, from our regular stock, that sold at $35 and $40 $23.75 . Value of Clothes Gathered By Red Cross Here $43,779 Omaha's Quota Was 35,000 Pounds; the Contributions Weighed 53,739 Pounds and Were Packed in 260 Cases for Shipment to Destitute Europe. The Belgian clothing drive which was held here by (the local chapter of American Red Cross yielded ar ticles which were appraised at $43, 778,90. Two hundred and sixty cases were packed at headquarters, 317 South Seventeenth street, ready for overseas shipment. The Omaha quota was 35,000 pounds; the contri butions weighed 53,739 pounds. A few items on the list will indi cate the variety and the extent of the shipment: Women's coats, 1,940; women':! skirts, 2,006; women's and children's shoes, 4,886 pairs; hats and cap, 2,367; women's waists, 4,620; women's dresses, 4,456; wo men's underwear, 2,347; women's hose, 6,739 pairs; men's coats and vests, 2,907; men's shirts, 3,630, men's socks, 8,795 pairs; men's shoes, 1,466 pairs; men's underwear, 4,212; also all kinds of children's clothing, blankets, quilts, pillows, overcoats for men and boys. W. S. Jardine, J. P, Jerpe and T. F. Stroud served on the committee which arranged and packed the goods for shipment to ship at New York City. Just a complete close-out of all the broken lots left, from the greatest before-Easter selling we have ever known, only one and two of a kind; but you have your choice of a wide range of the smartest of the season's new styles, in Poiret twills, Poplins, Serges, Silk Poplins; and Taffetas; in tans, beige, walnut, hpnrifl. npldns. nnw. Klnnlr. etc. Suits V W O - 7 I 7 ' J 1 , w . m made to sell to $40. After-Easter Cash Price 6 Auto Runs Down and Kills Chicago World's Fair Head Chicago, April 19. Harlow N. Higenbotham, who died in New York today after being struck by an automobile, was widely known as president of the World's Ca lumbian exposition held in Chicago in 1892. He was one of the city's few re maining leaders of the generation in which Potter Palmer, Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter were chiefs of in dustry in Chicago and the middle west. Mr. Higenbotham would have been 81 years old next fall. Madden Not Candidate for Head of War Veterans Ray J. Madden, former police judge, one of the nominees for the presidency of the Douglas county chapter of World War Veterans, has asked that his name be can celed from the list. Ballots have been made, up. and sent out to all returned soldiers, sailors and marines of Douglas county. Any who are not regis tered may do so Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the office of Harley Moorehead in the court house. iff M m N N m iiiiwias.Mii.;.r,iciMiiiMa:si Exquisite Designs in Dressy Street, Afternoon and Dinner Wear Also Dancing Frocks; all the newest style ideas, colorings and materials. '35 '45 J55 to '75 SPECIAL! 100 Silk Dresses In Taffetas, Messalines and dainty combinations, clever new styles for women and misses, Made to sell to $25. Special Cash Price. $1750 - in Hundreds of Classy New Capes and every express is bringing more of the Season's Smartest Styles, matchless values, at Our Cash Price 25 35 and $45 A Splendid Line of Baronet . Satin Skirts 4 The most jaunty new designs and the season s richest new color ings. Values you'll scarcely find equaled at $,1250 Extra Specials for Monday SECOND FLOOR Women's $2.50 Gingham and Percale House Dressei All sizes, Monday, at $1.50 Women's and Misses' $2.50 Heath erbloom Petticoats With Silk Flounces; 10 dozen Monday, at $1.50 Women's $1.50 Bungalow Aprons Large, roomy aprons; Monday, special at.... 95 Women's $1.25 Value Dressing Sacques Dark colors. Monday, at 69J Women's Long Challie Kimonos Worth $1.00. Monday, at ...,.69 Dix's Make Fine Gingham House Dresses Worth $5.00. Monday, at. $3.95 We Carry a Full Line of Dix's Make House Dresses, Porch Dresses, Nurses' and Maids' Uniforms. With the Boys Back On the Job s) We can give your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repairs prompt as well as skillful at tention and we are ready to take such care of your needs as we have done for over a quarter of a century. ot JEWELRY m as Keep Your Liberty Bonds Our Advice Buy Victory Notes. M til V Four Million Ballots On Mooney Strike Plan Sent to Union Members San Francisco, April 19. Four million ballots on the question of three successive nationwide strikes in beha'f of Thomas J. Mooney and his co-defendants will be sent union member throughout the country in the next few days, Edward D. Nol an, secretary of the Industrial Worker' Defense league, announc ed here today. The votes will be canvassed in Chicago beginning June 1, Nolan said. The ballot proposes a five-day strike beginning July 4, and, in the event it fails of its purpose, another five-day strike beginning September 1. Labor day. If this fails, a third five day strike beginning November 19 is proposed. Five American Officers Killed in Aerial Accident Washington, April 19. Five lieu tenants and a sergeant of the Ameri can expeditionary force arc recorded as dead from airplane accident in an army list issued today. Their names follow: Lieutenants: Charles R. Minn. Frederick S. Mass, Jerry T. Illich, San Francisco. William C. Morris. Concord, N. C. Charles F. Volk, New York. . Sergeant William T. Carson, Bur ton, V. Va, Gustafson, Duluth, Hartman, Brookline, CLOSING OUT SALE OF Sample Furniture, Rugs, Stoves Consisting of Hundreds of Pieces of Dining: Room, Living Room, Bedroom DINING ROOM TABLES $25.00 Values....... $12.50 $35.00 Values.. ..... $18.00 $50.00 Values . . . $33.50 BUFFETS $29.00 Values, at. . . .$14.75 $42.00 Values, at $22.50 $85.00 Values, at $47.50 DINING ROOM CHAIRS $2.50 Values $1.65 $4.50 Values $2.50 $9.00 Values $5.85 LIBRARY TABLES $19.00 Valuesat $9.75 $24.50 Values, at $13.50 $45.00 Values, at $24.50 Rugs A Large Stock Greatly Reduced in Price We Take Liberty Bond At ?r. Freight Paid on Purchase. STATE FURNITURE CO. 14TH AND DODGE STS. OPP. U. P. BUILDING Wall Paper Sale The Daylight Dept. A complete stock ol papers for living: rooms, dining: rooms, library, etc., at Before the War Prices. SPECIALS. Latest deslg-ns In Tapestries, 73c and 50c values, at, per roll 346 30-lnch Duplex Oatmeals, with beauti ful cut out borders, at, per ro)1....18d A large line of papers for your living rooms, dining: rooms and bed rooms. Pretty border with each; 25c value, at, per roll 12 V4 A fine line of papers In light and dark effects, suitable for living rooms and dining rooms, with borders, at, per roll 10 Latest designs In bed room papers with pretty borders, ut, per roll 56 Paint nnd Varnish Sale. Our celebrated Oak brand Guaranteed House Paints, at, per gallon. .. .82.98 Oak Brand Floor Varnish, qt....894 Durlne Floor Varnish, qt 89d No-Mar Floor Varnish, (it 89 All brands Wall Paper Cleaner, per can 106 H. R. H. paint cleaner, pkg 106 SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION Of ALL THIS WEEK J. M. Dumbauld Factory Expert. A great opportunity to have your new Spring corset fitted properly from complete assort ments of ono of the very best makers. See this line soon. arm JMti SPECIAL SALE OF GARDEN TOOLS A-l garden hand Wheel plow. Cash price $4.25 Hand Cultivator 75 A-l Garden Spading Fork. Cash price S1.00 6-feet braced Step Ladder. Cash price $2.00 A-l Garden Hoe. Cash price. .. .79 Garden Weeder, Hayden's price 50? Hard I '-iv. Hayden's cash price 98 -PIy '6-inch moulded Garden nunc, ou eet in F- Lnirtli - - u 7-ply ?i-inch molded Garden Hose, 50 feet In length. Cash price $10.00 Lawn Mowers. 14-inch ball-bearing lawn Mowers $5.75 16-inch ball-bearing Lawn Mowers $7.25 White Mountain Refrigerators 50-lb. capacity S17.50 75-lb. capacity 826.50 100-lb. capacity, solid stone lined 855.501 Ice chests $9,001 16-tooth straight Garden Rake. Cash price 65d 14-tooth Rtralght Garden Rake. Cash price 85d 6-feet unbraced Step Ladder. Cash price 81.65 A-l 4-tie parlor Broom. Spe cial 81.00 Carpet Beaters 25d Here's Some Grocery Prices That'll Interest You for Monday's Special Sale rl 48-lb sack Best Hlgh-Grade Flour, at S2.0S 25-lh. sack Pure I'.yo Flour .$1.S0 10 lls. best Pure Cane Granulated Sugar 08c 8 lbs. best White or Yellow Corn meal 2!fc The beat Bulk Rolled Oatmeal, lb. 6c (Why pay 10c lb. for Tacknge oata? Fancy Japan Klce, per lb lie The best Hand-ricked Be-na, lb... 10c The beat Tnmeatlc Macaroni, Spa- gettl nr Egg Noodles, pkg 7Vic Torn Flakes, pkg l"c. Orapenuts, pkg 12'e Gallon cans Golden Table Syrup... 73c No. i cans Fancy Sweet Sugar Corn ltlfc No. 2 cans Karly June Peas I'c No. 2 cuna Fancy Ripe Tomatop.12V4o No. 2 cans i-ancy Hawaiian Sliced . Pineapple S5e Fancy Assorted Pickles, bottle 10c I Larco bottlea l'ure Tomato Catsup at Me 16-02. cans Pet or Carnation Milk..l"c ln-cz. can Wilson Milk l:io 6-oz. can Wilson Milk G'jC Knmo Soups, per can Ic Jcll-O, for deaisert, pkir He Pure Cider Vinegar, bottle .Hie Red or White Vinegar, gallon : Tall cans Fancy Pink Salmon.... Hl'e Tall can Fancy Red Salmon 2Kc Yeast Foam, pkg v grKX IAL DRIED KRI IT THICKS. Fancy Evaporated Apples, lb 20c Fancy Thompson's Beedlcas Rais ins, lb nv.r No. I Muscatel Raisins, lh I. 1c Seeded Muscatel Raisins, lb l.V Choice California Prunes, lb Kle Medium larce California Prunes, lb 1.13 Choice California Apricots, lb 2.1c Fancv Kvaporatcd Pears, lh 25c No. 1 per California lb English Walnuts, 5c TEA AND COKFF.K HA IB MONDAY. Our Famous Golden Santoa Coffee. Santos Dlend, a fine drink, lb..3:tl-3r H. B, C. Special Blend, lb 3714c Mocha and Javu, the old reliable. Per lb 40e The Beat Tea Sittings, lh joc Choice Uaiket firlcd or Sun Dried Japan Tea, lb 4Hc English Breakfast Tea. II 4 He Hroakfaat Cocoa, per lb ..,.25c FRESH VEI.ETABI.K SA1.F, MONDAY Fresh Sbalots. Radishes, 'arrota, Turnips or Beets, per hunch Tc Fresh Spinach, per peck !W,c Fresh Rhubarb, W lb 12V& Frch Obhaire. per lb c I. argo cucumbers, each , ?,v Fancy Rlpo Tomatoes, lb toe Fancy Head Lettuce, head. . .12'e-IRc Fancy Cauliflower, per lb 16c Fancy Highland Naval Oranges, per doren 40c-Sr-afle Strawberries, Katlmr Apple. .rartc frult, c, st our usnnl luw prices. -It Pays Try Hayden's First.t Pay f