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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1919)
THE OMAHA" SUNDAY BEE? JUNE 8, 1919." 11 A U. S. WILL SELL WAR SUPPLIES m SEALED BIDS Any Competent Person May Purchase Food, Clothing and, Wagons at Various Cantonments. The impression has gone out over the country that all of the surplus meats, provisions and other supplies i;i the commissary department of the United States army are to be sold in Europe. , Capt. Adam J. Hofman, rone sur plus' officer for this department, which includes Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, and which is officially known as Military Zone No. 11, says that this impression is erroneous and that all of the ma terials in the custody of the surplus pfoperty division are subject to pur chase by any competent person, un der sealed bids, iin i . . ... wnere commodities are held in large, bulk these must be bid on in carload lots of 30,000 pounds mini mum. There is now held-in storage in this city and subject to sale 70,000 pounds of bacon in crates, 241,992 pounds of bacon In 12-pound cans, 10,500 one-pound cans of corned beef and 2,745 11-12 dozen six-pound cans of corned beef. The latter item was packed by Wilson & Co., in Argen tine. . , The government is also offering for sale- in - different parts of the country 3,145,793 pounds of navy beans. Bids for this commodity must be sent to the Surplus Prop erty Umcer, Coca-Cola building, Baltimore, Md. Later on the , government will offer for sale a vast quantity of woolen blankets, underwear, cloth ing and other supplies. farmers may be interested in knowing that 100 escort wagons, suitable fortheir use will be offered for sale at ' Camp Logan, Houston, Tex., and 110 wagons of the same character at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Tex. None of the government property offered for tale is going for a song. The market price is being realized on most of it and the government is realizing as high as 93 per cent of war prices paid on mo of the stuff sold. Strike of Tailors Off and Monday Men Go Back to Their Work More than 200 tailors, who were out on strike, have returned to work following concessions made by 18 . of " the principal shops. Work in nearly every tailoring establishment affected by the strike will be. re sumed Monday. Two or three are still holding out. The men demanded a $30 a week wage scale, 8 hour-day and the elim ination Of piece work as well as im proved working conditions. t Read The Bee Want Adis for the best opportunities in bargains. Her Country Redeemed, Belgian Girl To Sail Home Mile. Emma Amelia Demedts to Return to HerChildhood Home, Her Mother, Sisters and Brother in Pro vincial Village of Ingoyghem, in Western Flanders. The crimson poppies of the fields of Flanders, incarnate symbols pj the souls of Belgian hosts who im molated their bodies on the altar of sacrifice that liberty should not per ish from the earth, are beckoning a welcome of home coming to a pret ty Belgian girl who has spent the last 10 years of her life in Omaha. The breezes which blow over the sacred soil and nod the heads of the beckoning poppies are wafting invi tnticn to Mile. Emma Amelia Demedts to return to her childhood home, her mother and her sisters and brother in the provincial village of Ingoyghem, western Flanders. After more than four years of heartache, each day of which was a perfect nightmare of apprehension. anil n age of mental suffering which drove the happy light of youth from her gentle eyes, Emma Amelia Demedts is again able to smile and the face which reflected anguish at thoughts" of what might have hap pened to her loved ones is again il luminated with the joy of life and happy anticipation. Comes to Land of Free. Ten years ago she left her pro vincial home, where an Acadian at mosphere of peace and tranquility prevailed, to try to win fortune in America, the land of opportunity and adventure. Omaha was to her the capital of a veritable kingdom of Quivera and for five years the girl was happy in the pride of accom plishment and in the interest of ad venture ifi this bustling western metropolis. Then the shadow of the Hun, whose invading hosts, as bestial and as cruel as Attilla's hordes, spread its sinister cloud over the fair de mensuses of Belgium, martyring her people and laying into dust the proud monuments of her age-long civilization. Stories of unspeakable atrocity and monstrous vandalism shocked the civilized world after the fateful August 6, 1914, when in vasion began and it drove the smiles from the face of Mile. Emma Amelia and brought the tears of agony to her eyes. Thinks of Dear Ones. As the foe advanced from Ypres, spreading devastation, step by step, to the ancient cities of Liege, Brus sels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend. her heart almost stood still with the terrors of apprehension for, in the peaceful, land" Of her an cestors, where her mother and those of her blood kin dwelt, a hell upon earth was being fabricated by the invaders. Women and children were being violated and deported to work as slaves on a hated am alien sou, while men were being slaughtered with every fiendish device a ruth less foe in his obsession of Ber serker lust for blood could devise. In her minds' eye the lonely little girl in Omaha could,1 visualize the suffering of those who were dear to her, the mother she worshipped and the brother she idolized and the sis ters, she loved with all the tender ness of a loyal heart. Through all these days of dark June Announces Rummer I'm here! rosy days nights of dew, I sing the song of "Famous Brew' i fflflf U Wi m V, A; ' V ?. i-r.ii.il I k - I It v 3 The Song' 41 1 Call up your grocer right away, Send Advo Coffee no delay. The song of roses, wet with dew Is'Advo Coffee - -Famous Brew I Mile. Emma A. Demedts despair, when the heart of the world was appalled by the cataclysm of horror that was transpiring in the shamblers and charnel houses of beautiful Belgium the heart of the girl bled not only for the sufferings of those of her own kin, but for all the stricken ones of her motherland. She knew from the daily history of the great tragedy that not a stone would be left of the cottage in which she was born. She knew that the sacred hearth where, at her mother's knee, she sat in sanctuary in the twilight of a busy day and listened to the folklore of her pro vince, tales ot the golden age, ot days of chivalrous knights and ladies lair or hummed the melodies of al most medieval folk song, was as voiceless dust as a temple that is proianed and desecrated. Once Bells, Now Cannons. lhe carnllion from the ancient bell tower, which rang a sacred fong at the vesper hour, she knew was muted of its power to give to God, and hands of devil-inspired Huns had stolen the brass and cop per and btonze of the sweet-toned bells and had wrought them into cannon or shrapnel to spread death and chorus a verrible diaphason of hate to fill with dread all liberty loving people, even to the remotest corner of the earth. All this time she received no word, no message from her people in the vortex of war, destruction and suffering. The savor of life had gone for her and she could only live and suffer. Then came the glorious day of November 11, 1918! The Hun was 'crushed and the principle for which Belgium had fought, had triumphed. All the world rejoiced and she joined in with those whose hearts were filled with the gladsome song of victory, but her voice was faint with sorrow and her eyes filled with tears. She felt none of her family could have survived the awful hor ror of the war. Then came glorious news! A letter arrived stating that her mother, her brother and her sisters were alive. The brother had done a hero's work for their country in the war and was unblemished of shot, shell, bayonet, gas or flame. All were in the old town, sadly bereft of fortune, shelter, or com forts, but healthy, and thank God! happy over their own delivery and the delivery of Flanders from the furnace of hell. Will Leave for Home. They asked her to return to the family circle and she needed no urg ing. Mie procured her passport and Is now awaiting June 24, almost as a bride waits for the happiest day of a woman's life. It is then she will leave Omaha, where she arrived in 1909, and which she has grown to love, and go to New York to sail on the steamer Royal George for Liver pool, England, on the first lap of her journey to her homeland and kin. She would have gone before but for a romantic interruption- At Kansas City is a girl friend who came to America with her and who is to return to Belgium, there to marry a sweetheart who emerged from the war a hero. The girl is Mile. Aline Letam, who has received a letter from her soldier sweetheart, Gustave Vande putte, that he is well and is waiting for her. Aline lives at Kansas City and has not yet received her pass port, but will get it in time to leav for Belgium with her Omaha friend Then she will marry Gustave and they will start life anew and live to help Belgium return to her former greatness and happiness. Mile. Emma Amelia Demedts will leave Omaha an Americanized girl. Her costume will be as smart as that of any Yankee lass and the love that she will carry in her heart for the land of the Stars and Stripes will make this country always seem very near. "Will you return?" she was asked. "Perhaps, if I find a sweetheart who has borne the brunt of war, and whom I can make happy, and whom I can convince of Omaha's wonderful kindness, and opportuni ties, I may persuade him to let me come back with him. "But now I am going to Bel gium 1" And the sound of it in her voice was like a1 paen of joy. mmi sir.imm III VII WWII V Vb CADETS BACK FROM CAMPING Building Trades 4 Jte jAsk for Repeal of an Against bee Busy Week, Notwithstanding That Rain Interfered With Military Plans That Had Been Outlined. Nearly 400 Central High school cadets returned yesterday from Val ley, Neb., where, at Camp Bevendge, the annual encampment was held last week. ' - The chief excitement came during the evenings of the latter part of the week when cadets initiated the younger members of the battalion. Attempting to run the guards was a favorite, although dangerous sport. The strength of the camp defenders was tested Thursday and Friday nights, when invasions by Valley youths was repelled. These caused much inconvenience to the guards and to cadets on leave in town. The week had an' auspicious be ginning Monday when the cadets arrived at the sunny meadows which were to be their camp. No drills save guard mount and retreat were held Monday and rain pre vented extensive military work on the following two days. Crowd On Visitors' Day. Thursday, visitors' day, brought 600 relatives and friends with eats to the camp. A Central-South High ball game, won by Central, 5 to 4, was the attraction of the afternoon. A Goof parade, composed of cadets clothed in the climate of the country, started the fireworks Fri day night. Cadet Captain Robert Kutak, war veteran, received fur ther wounds in the artillery battle that followed. Eggs served as high explosives. The Daily Mule, a four-page daily newspaper edited by the ca dets, announced in its fifth issue Saturday that it would "present the battalion with colors to replace the blue regimental ... flag of former years. The paper was printed in Valley and had the largest local circulation of any in that part of the county. Ralph F. Cohn edited the paper and was assisted by Lieuten ants Pollard, White, Funkhouser and a news staff representing the various units. Lt. Robert Sackett and Harlan Haaker managed the business end. Tests for Next Year. J Drs. Ravit.T and Mulligan had! charge-of the hospital tent. F. S. Flower of the Omaha Young Men's Christian association provided read ing matter and stationery for the boys. Tests for offices for next year were given the juniors Thursday and Friday. The army intelligence tests composed part of the examina tion. Announcement of promotions will be made Wednesday at the an nual competitive trill in Elmwood Park. Company D, commanded bv Cao- tain Verne Vance, won first honors at the camp by placing in every in spection and parade. Commandant Ralph E. Himstead, assistant principal; E. E. McMillan and Lieut.-Col. Harold Moore were in charge of the camp. Store Invites Public to Its Birthday Picnic Two weeks from Wednesday on June 25. the annual outing of the Union Outfitting, company for its employes, friends and customers of the store will be held at Lake View park. This firm is celebrating its thirty second anniversary, and elaborate preparations are being made to make it a memorable occasion. There will be novel features which the firrri cannot divulge at this time, hut it is known that there will be a 'Midsummer Fashion show with liv ing models displaying the latest New York fashions, followed by a dance. Admission to the outing will be by invitation, but as the celebration is informal, anyone desiring tickets, can readily obtain them by calling in person or phoning the Union Out fitting company. Four Municipal Bathing Pools to Open This Week The four municipal bathing pools will be in operation before the end of the week and will be able to ac commodate .about 20,000 persons daily. The Spring Lake park pool, Twentieth and F streets, is now open. The Riverview and Morton pools will be ready for bathers Tuesday or Wednesday. The Muny beach will be the last to open. The shore line is being charged and other improvements made which will delay the opening until later in the week. Atlantic City, June 7. Immediate action by congress to make effective President Wilson's recommendation to repeal wartime prohibition to far as it relates to light wines and beer was urged in resolutions adopted by the building trades department of tne American Federation ot Labor. A resolution demanding the abro gation of the war labor agreement between Samuel Gcmpers of the fed eration and Secretary of War Baker was not adooted. ,The metal trades department of the federation voted against a reso lution recommending-to the federa tion which meets here next week the amalgamation of alt '"inter national . unions, thus eliminating trade divisions. The resolution was supported by Pacifie coast dele gates. A resolution appealing for clem ency of Eugene V. JJetts now m prison for opposing the selective law, also failed of adoption. Skipper Admits He Didn't Throw Toy Line to Sailor New York, June 7. Captain Adolph G. Pedersen, skipper of he barkentine Puako, on trial in fed eral court with his son charged with murder on the high seas of Axel Hansen, a seaman, admitted under cross-examination that, although once when he had fallen overboard, he owed his own life to a log line he did not order his crew to. pull in the line which Hansen is said to have clung to after leaping into the sea. After he admitted having had one quarrel with Hansen on the fatal voyage, Captain Pedersen! repeated his contention that it was impos sible to turn his ship around to pick up Hansen because of the gale that was raging. Makes Will Under Fire Two Days Before Death Pittsfield, Mass. While under artillery fire in France in April 1918, .frivt. Michael Miarzyowski, of Company F. 104 infantry, made his will on two sheets of Y. M. C. A. paper, which he mailed, to his mother two days before he was killed. Begining the will, Mierzyowski wrote: We are in such a place that my head is nearly split with bombardment." He closed an insurance card and cautioned his mother to keep it, writinir. "If I do not come back then you will get $5,000." lhe court disallowed .the will because of technicality. The mother , Mary Mierzyowski, will, however, receive the insurance by regular payments. With Each Payment of Legacy He Buys Bonds Chicago, The other morning Albert Stenberg fought $5,000 worth of V ictorv bonds, i hat -atternoon he received a draft Jor $5,000, the first payment of a legacy from Sweden. He bought another $5,000 lot of bonds. A week later he received another $5,000 draft from the estaf in Swe den. Same bond salesman got the second $5,000, Stenberg's bond holding jumped to $15,000. Recently another draft of $5000 arrived, the last of the legacy. Uncele Sam got this $5,000 also. "I'd like to have more of both bonds and drafts," commented Stenberg. John McCormack Becomes An Honorary Policeman San Francisco, Cal., June 7. John McCormack, the Irish tenor, was recently made an honorary member of the San Francisco police depart ment at a special meeting of the police commissioners. . Chief of Po lice D- A. White presented the new member of the department with a golden star, and his certificate of appcintment was handed him by President Theodore Roche of the police commission. This honor was conferred on the gifted Irish singer tor valuable aid rendered the de partment during the Victory loan drive. Soldiers' Farm Plan Is Attacked as "Bad Scheme" Washington, June 7. Represen tative Boies, republican, of Iowa testifying today before the house public lands committee, attacked Secretary Lane's plan for farms for soldiers and sailors, as a "scheme primarily backed by men who have land swamp, stump or arid to dis pose of." Mr. Boies urges that the government give the men cash with no strings attached." Three Women Arrested on Shoplifting Charges Pearl Smith, 2306 Douglas street; Marguerite Lorenzen, 631 Mynster avenue, and Kate Jones, 253 Vine street, Council Bluffs, were arrested yesterday by Detectives Finn and Tagal on a charge of petit larceny. According to Finn, tfie women have been shoplifting in the Brandeis and Burgess-Nash stores. Finn said feminine finery stolen from the stores had been found in Miss Lor enzen s home, 'The officers also arrested Ruth McKee, 353 Lincoln avenue, and Frances Elder,. 2410 Fourth street, both of Council Bluffs, and held ithem for. investigation. Boy Scout Exhibition Looks Like "Real Thing" To Public People Rush to Aid of Boy Apparently Lying in Pool of Blood, Which Upon Closer Examination Proves to Be "Jes Ketchup." V A happy lad was testing his newly purchased bicycle in the heart of the business district. He dodged between the speeding machines circled and cavorted as if the thing which he was riding was not a machine but a priceless full blooded Arabian steed. He approached Sixteenth and Douglas streets. - An automobile from the rear brushed by him. Sud denly the sureness and precision with which he controlled his wheel was seen to leave him. For a few seconds the bicycle wavered, then t plunged to the ground. Beside his broken and damaged wheel he lay, his face turned to the sun. Blood trickled slowly from his head along the side of his face and to his jaw. He breathed spasmodic ally. Five Boy Scouts came suddenly upon the scene. A rope was passed from one to the otlier and the crowd, which had already as sembled, was held in check. I ' Two of the scouts raised the in Ljured lad, a bandage and splint wai passed around his wrist. The head upon the scene, retained her posi was also bandaged. ' One little girl, one of the first tion stubbornly. The crowd surged backward and forward, but the little juvenile spectator would not re linquish Tier advantageous position. Finally she spoke. "That blood looks like ketchup," she declared. The suggestion seemed to take. Two women took up the remark. "I believe it's just a Boy Scout exhibition," said one. Her friend nodded her tacit assent. "The injured boy suddenly stood up. A grin overspread his features. He burst out laughing. Probably more than 1,000 individuals had been completely fooled and it re mained for the little girl to un cover the fraud. The crestfallen spectators de parted. Curiosity had been satis fied but many were heard to mumble as .they disengaged - themselves from the crowd, something about ll'young tease," "The People's Store" Omaha's Great Home Furniahera. Opposita Hotel Rome. OKnaaisnr- S. E. COR. 16th Su JACKSON STS: SPECIAL sill pfrch Swing Big Special at $2.45 Complete with non-rustable chains ready to hang. Substan tially made with joints bolted and braced. 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