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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28. 1919. BAPTISTS END CONVENTION AT MILE HIGH CITY 1 Adopt -. Resolutions Endorsing , Paris Cevenant'pf league of Nations ; at Clos- " V.. .tag-Session, s ! Denver, May 27.--Wit is sairf to i'e the most ;.r.t table, meeting, of 'the Northern "2 '?Wt conventi m came to n e: 4oii!g!;r with an Mspirational service at the Municipal auditorium. . Tomorrow the 1,768 delegates and 498 visitors will be guests of the Denver Motor club on a trip through he Denver mountain parks. Among the resolutions adopted by the convention before adjournment ."oday was one indorsing the Paris covenant of the league of nations. The resolution says: "Resolved, That we express our Sraiitude to God for the return of peace; that we recognize in the Paris covenant for the league- of nations ' great step in the advance 'of,. a Christian civilization, and that we urge our people to use their utmost influence to secure its ratification." 89TiFDiyisioN TO SING WHILE PARADING HERE (Continued from Face One.) jn active service. It will be a sing ing welcome." Choirs Asked to Assist. very singing organization in the city, -church choirs especially, is asked to assist in the plan by en listing its services with Harry Mur rison, 435 Securities building. The arrival of the 89th division in four separate parts is causing the mayor's committee an amount of worry. In border to prevent the crowd from breaking up after,, the first contingent' has passed in review ' up Farnam street,., bands will en tertain the throngs until the second contingent has been taken off the train. The siren whistle" will sound when a contingent is leaving the Union station on its way to Farnam street. vr' Committee Perfects Plans. . Mayor Smith's committee met last night in the Chamber of Commence and made definite plans for-the pa rade and reception. ', V As each contingent leaves the , Union station it will march north on Tenth street to Farnam and west on Farnam past the reviewing 'stand in front of the city hall. Gov ernor McKelvie and staff, the G. A. R. and several wounded soldiers wilt be present in the reviewing 'stand. At Twentieth and Farnam streets, the parade will turn north to Dodge street and then .west . to Twenty second street. The "Fighting . Farm ers" wH then file into the t lunch rooms at Central High school, where a luncheon will be served them by SO or more canteen work ers, , t ... , Roast beef sandwich, browned po tatoes, hot coffee and the dish sug gested by Mayor Smith, strawberry shortcake, smothered in ice cream will be served the soldiers. ' The "eats" wilt be "home cooked." Following the small banquet, a general reception will be held on the high school grounds. The troops will be separated into com panies and large placards designate 'the places. Central High school cadets will stand at attention along either side of Dodge street from Twentieth, to Twenty-second streets, while the famous division marches between their ranks. Behind the lines of cadets, high school girls, chosen by the sponsors of the regiments, w,ill toss flowers to the marching heroes. . The troops will remain here but three hours, going in the after noon from Omaha to Lincoln, where they will be welcomed by the capitol city. Nebraska's welcome will be extended them here, however. Five Alaskans Killed " by Ptomaine Poisoning Dawson, Y. T., May 27. Five of ' 13 miners attending a dinner at the Yukon - Gold Dredging company's camp on Hunker Creek are dead and (he others dangerously ill as the re sult, it is believed, of ptomaine poi soning.' Ten other men at the din ner were unaffected. Among the . dead-is John Grant, brother-in-law of the discoverer of the Klondike. Childhood craws sweets. The pleasant sweetness of rapeMnts comes from grain sugar, : pure and wholesome, de veloped by the long baking : of wheat anil malted baitey Never disturbs digestion Qiildrenlove GrapeNuts MRS. BLANCHE VAN AUSDELL was on verge of tears during her trial yesterday in criminal court, while Mrs. Viva Ijams, the "woman she shot on the night of February 16 for the alleged theft of Mr. Van Ausdell's love, sat stolid and unmoved a few feet from her. Mrs. Van Ausdell was comforted by her two daughters. The legal battle wavered between County Attorney Shotwell and Attorney J. R. Lones for the defense, with Dis trict Judge Redick of the criminal court as referee. A large number of women spent the day there listening to the tria?. TRIAL HALTED BY HYSTERICS OF DEFENDANT (Continued from Page One.) story of the shooting and the trouble leading up to it. . Springs Surprise. County Attorney Shotwell, on cross-examination, sprang a" sur prise when he produced the second of two letters written by Mrs. Van Ausdell to C. B. Ijams in which she told him that her husband had "always- chased 'women" and had brok en up several homes. Miss Monrieve Van Ausdell told of her father's alleged boasts of his affair with Mrs. Ijams. "He talked of his sweetheart that he was keeping company with," she testified. "One day when I went to Council Bluffs with him he told me that if it weren't for us children he would go with Mrs. Ijams. He said she was his dream and his soulmate that she had a nice, cozy parlof and that she was a lady of culture and refinement, so different from my mother. Talked About Home. "He talked about her at home. I heard him tell my mother that he had a lady who appreciated him and that mother had better go to work because he wouldn't give her any money. "Once I saw my father and Mrs Ijams at a theater and I to!4 him about it afterward and he said I ought to have let him introduce me to my. future stepmother." Monrieve said that during the day of . the shooting her mother: was moody, didn't speak a word all morning, sat on the piano bench and stared before her, and locked herself in the bath' room for two hours. She described a trip made by her self and her mother to the home of Mrs. Ijams, 811 South Twenty-second street ' They got no response to their knocks on , the front door. Going to the back door, Monrieve noticed some empty packing cases. From one of these she took a tag tii niiitu was me jiaiiic ju. xjaiiis, Detroit." - Letter of October 24. They wrote , to , this man who proved to", be the husband of! Mrs. Ijams. This ' letter, written Octo ber 24, 1918, Tvas;'as follows: i "Mr; C. B. Jjams, 1 Dear Sir: I am writing you in' regard to! your wife." She is in Omaha and, spend ing the greater? part of . her : time with my husband; She has, taken an apartment, at 811 South Twenty second street. Now if you are any kind of a man pr. have Sfly man hood about you you will come to Omaha and settle with. him. I can prove everything I say. Yours truly, Mrs. Blanche Van- Ausdell." , In answer to this, a letter was Excellent For Growing Children y .I'M. ' t ' received from Mr. Ijams, written in Detroit October 27. Mr. Ijams stated in this letter that his wife had separated herself from him but that he was still sup porting her. He said he was sur prised to hear of her alleged con duct with Van Audsell but advised that, if proofs were in Mrs. Van Audsell's hands, the case go through the regular process of law rather than through that of "settling" by violence. "Two wrongs will not make, a right," he wrote. "But I think nothing would cure my wife of any intent" to do wrbng or of doing wrong so quickly as some publicity." Sent Copies of Letters. In reply to this, Mrs. Van Aus dell and her daughter, Monrieve, wrote on October 29, sending cop ies of a number of alleged letters from Mrs. Ijams to Mr. Van Aus dell which Mrs. Van Ausdell had found in her home. These were not dated but were addressed to "Van dear" and "Boy dear." Mrs. Van Ausdell wrote, in part, as follows: "In regard to my husband, I have lived with him 21 years and he is no provider. My two daughters have earned enough lately which with two rooms I rent have paid our living expenses. "My husband has always chased women, and after breaking up your home will, soon-tire of your wife and leave her He has gone through several cases of that kind here in Omaha. I know he picked up with another woman some time ago. He has had many of these affairs, but not with decent women. But when it comes to breaking up a happy home and pulling- down a decent woman oh, I am so sick of it all." Man - .Us Court Room. Mr. Van Ausdell, the alleged "home smasher," has avoided the court room where his wife and daughters and alleged "other wo man" are fighting their legal battle. The state did not call him to. tes tify and Attorney Lanes for the defense said he does; not intend to call him. The revolver . with which- Mrs. Van Ausdell shot Mrs. Ijams was introduced into evidence. It is an automatic of .22 caliber.'. .The bullet was also introduced in evidence when Dr. H. A. Waggoner was tes tifying. He extracted it.' , Gov. Carey Charges Discrimination in , Discharging Troops Cheyenne, Wyo., May 27.-!-Charg-es of discrimination in favor of eastern over western soldiers and of unfairness in the dealings of the War department with western men are contained in a letter sent by Gov. Robert D. Carey of Wyoming to Secretary of Was Newton D. Baker and made public here today' by the governor. - The letter alleges that western men in the 77th division -ere com pelled to parade in New York City against their will upon the return o the division from France on May 6 and that New York men in the division were then singled out and immediately discharged from the service, while the western men were held in camp for two weeks. ' The governor also wrote to Con gressman Frank W. Mondell, re publican floor leader of the house, asking that congress investigate .his charges. ... Eleven Portland Babies 1 Die of a Strange Malady . Portlands Ore., May 27. An epi demic of .mysterious origin has broken out in 'the Waverly baby heme of this citv. it was reoorted ''today, and 11 babies are dead. Twenty-one are afflicted with the strange malady, and tonight, ac cording to the statement of Mrs. D. C. Burns, president of thelhome, 12 babies were in a most critical con dition. All those affected are under 3 yeafrs of age.' ' The home is under strict quarantine.- All Portland specialists in chil dren's diseases, were called in con sultation today. The malady first appeared about two -weeks ago.. Foch Holds Conference ' With1 Premier Clemenceau Paris, May 27. (Havas) Marshal Foch, the allied generalissimo, who has just completed a trip of inspec tion along the Rhine, had a confer ence yesterday with Premier Clem- t i r .. ttSCLClt && Jzec HARRY HAWKER PLANE FOUND BY AMERICAN SHIP (Continued from rage On.) Grieves passed through the densely packed streets on the way to the Aero club. In the procession were the mayor and a deputation of the Royal Aero club. Another delega tion in the parade was composed of workers from the Sbpwith works, where Hawker's machine was con srVucted. First Official Welcome. The first official welcome was ac corded the airmen on the station at St. Pancras by the mayor of that borough, but still another was giv en them inside the Aero club build ing. Like Mrs. Hawker, Mr. and Mrs. Grieves proceeded up the line and met their son and bade him welcome and congratulated him on his res cue before he reached London. In every town through which the train, carrying the airmen passed, crowds of people gathered to cheer them. Wherever the train stopped official receptions were extended the heroes. Asked whether - he would make another attempt to fly across the Atlantic, Hawker said tonight: "I don't know. It depends upon the Sopwith '.firm." Will Indict Milk Producers Under Anti-Trust Statute , San Francisco, May 27. Sixteen indictments against officers and di rectors of the" Associated Mitk Pro ducers of San Francisco, voted last night by, the county grand jury, will be returned Thursday before the su perior court here," it Was announced today by Fred L.' Berry, acting, dis trict attorney. The indictments charge violation of the Cartwright anti-trust act, an indictable mis demeanor incurring a maximum fine of $5,000 and one year imprisonment in the county jail. '. Berry announced this to be the completion of the first official step in a move by the county to lay hare aft alleged conspiracy frqm which resulted increased prices of milk. It is charged , that the, association fixed a prjee for. milk to producers at 32 centsai gallon,' and! the sale price to consumers at 14 cents per quart. ..CONSTIPATION, Have. you ever thought of it as a stoppage of C. sewerage system of the body? You can well imagine its evil consequences. If you would en joy good health have bowels move once each day. When a medicine is required yoti will find Chamberlain's Tablets are hard to beat. They only cost a quarter. FOOTWEAR for Decoration Day All the very newest ideas in footwear are represented footwear to meet the re quirements of the most ex acting. It will be interesting, indeed, to see how unusually fine and complete our assort ments are. AMERICAN NAVY AVIATOR FIRST TO CROSS OCEAN Seaplane NC-4 Completes Transatlantic' Flight in 26 .Hours, 41 Minutes, Ac tual Flying Tme. (fonttnmd from race One.) the route to guide the flyers and if necessary give them assistance. Blazes Way. Washington, May 27. Blazing the way of the first air trail from the western to the eastern hemi sphere, the- United States navy sea plane NC-4. under Lt. Com. Albert Gushing Reed, swept into the har bor at Lisbon, Portugal, today, the first airship of any kind to have crossed the Atlantic ocean under its own power and through its natural element. Taking the air at Ponta del Gada, Azores, at 6:18 a. m., Washington time, on the last leg of the trans atlantic portion of the voyage from Rockaway beach. Long Island, to Plymouth, England, the NC-4 cov ered the 800 miles in 9 hours and 43 minutes, maintaining an average speed of-better than 80 knots an hour. The total elapsed flying time from Newfoundland to Lisbon was 26 hours and 41 minutes. Great Object Accomplished. At the first 'opportunity the big plane 'will continue to Plymouth, 775 nautical miles to the north. Pos sibly Commander Read can start to morrow. To the Navy department, however, it makes little difference when he completes the journey. The great object of all the effort lav ished on the undertaking naviga tion of a seaplane across the Atlan tic through the air has been ac complished. Twentieth century transportation has reached a new pinnacle and the United States navy has led the way. Naval officials emphasized that the long delay at the Azores was due to the weather and to no weak ness of the machine or its daring crew, nor to any failure of the care fully laid plans of the department to guide the flyers to their destina tion. The 14 destroyers strung from Ponta del Gada to Lisbon re ported with machine-like precision today as the flight progressed. The. plane was never off its course and there was no moment when officials in Washington did not know to within a few miles where it was in the air. Destroyers Relay Reports. To maintain adequate communi cation for this stage of the journey, the destroyers stuck to their posts after the flying boat had passed, re laying back to Ponta del Gada re ports from ships farther eastward. The chain was not broken until af ter the plane was safely moored for the night near the cruiser Roches ter, at Lisbon. For the next few hundred miles of his epoch-marking journey, Com mander Read and his crew will be within sight of the Portuguese or Spanish coasts in the sweep north ward. Skirting the coast of Cape Finnisterre, they will head out across the Bay of Biscay to sight Brest, the " most westerly point of France, thence direct to Plymouth. The destroyers that will guide them across the bay were already in posi tion tonight, provided with the flares and bombs that have made the trip safe thus far, except for the fog that forced the other two ma chines of the seaplane division, the NC-1 and NC-3. out of the flight after they had safely negotiated vir tually the entire distance from New foundland to the Azores. Original Crew. Commander Read had with him on the flight to Lisbon the same crew as left Newfoundland on the NC-4 May 16. Lt' E. F. Stone, of the coast guard, and W. K. Hinton were the pilots, with Ensign R. C. Rodd as radio operator, and Chief Machinists E. S. Rhodes as reserve pilot engineer. The crew was met at Lisbon by members of the crews of the NC-1 and NC-3, who had preceded them on a destroyer. The chart of the flight shows how the winds helped her along. At times Commander Read's ship ap parently was whirling through the air at a 90-knot clip; again her speed fell off to less than 60, only to pick up again as she reached the J zone of influence of other breezes. Probably the machine overtook and passed winds that had stirred the waters about Ponta Del Gada the day before, preventing an earlier start. Word Through Brest Official word of the arrival of the plane at Lisbon reached the Navy department first through a dispatch from Brest, France, sent by Rear Admiral Halstead, commander ' of the American navy forces in French waters. The message was received at the Otter Cliffs, Me., station and relayed to Washington. Immediately Secretary Daniels cabled the congratulations of the de partment to Commander Read and sent a cable to President Wilson telling him that American naval aviatiars had been the first to cross the Atlantic. The message to Commander Read follows: "The entire navy congratulates you and your fellow aviators on your epochal flight. The ocean has been spanned through the air and to the American navy goes the honor of making the first transat lantic flight. We are all intensely proud of your achievement and thankful that it has been accom plished without mishap to any one of the daring aviators who left our shores on the first air journey to Europe. To ?11 of them and to you, all honor is due." Cablegram to Wilson. The cablegram to President Wil son said: "Know you will be delighted to learn naval aviators first to cross Atlantic." Secretary Daniels said today no definite plans for further trans oceanic flights had been made- He explained that the first trip was the beginning of a series of experiments in long-distance flying and that very probably, after defects in naval air craft hifrl been corrected, another squadron of seaplanes would be headed across the Atlantic. Mr. Daniels said he had not decided whether the NC-4 should attempt to fly back to the United States or be "knocked down" at Plymouth and shipped back to America. Log of Flight. Following is the brief log of the flipht as it was told by the guardian destroyers: "8:20 a. tn. NC-4 left Ponta Delgada for Lisbon at 10:18 O. M. T. today, 6:10 a. m. Washington time. Jackson." "8:58 a. m., NC-4 piissed station ship No. 1 at 11:13 O. M. T. Jackson." "9:01 a. m. 8 a. m. weather report: Flylnsr conditions from Ponta Delgada to Lisbon very good. Today, fair weather and moderate fresh southwesterly winds at flying altitude prevail over the entire course, with the barometer rising slowly. Weather clearing and wind nearly west. Favorahle flying conditions should con tinue over Wednesday. Jackson." "9:10 a. m. NC-4 passed station ship No. 2 at 11:38 G. M. T. Jackson." "10:10 a. m. NC-4 passed station ahlp No. 4 at 12:54 O. M. T. Jackson." "11:01 a. m. NC-4 passed station ship No. 5 at 13:35 O. M. T. 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