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,
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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'
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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.
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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.
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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.
Reed and Folding
Carriages
An Amazing
Rocker Value
Big Value at
$3.95
It's s fine attractive rocker,
extremely well-made of fibre
reed, nicely finished and sure to
give service.
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A most complete line of com
fortable and well constructed
models in Reed Carriages and
Folding Go-Carts at moderate
prices
$7.95 and up
Handsome Sidewalk Sulkies,
$4.95 and up.
Nationally Advertised
This new Perfection Oil Stove
has the long blue chimney which
turns every drop of kereosene
oil into clean, intense, cooking
heat, and drives it full force
directly against the utensils.
The Perfection flame is de
pendable gives full heat in
tensity stays where set, and
there is no smoke or odor.
There are many other good fea
tures which make it the ideal
year 'round stove. .
Various Styles
The 5-Minute Acme
Freezer
i Freezes De
'licious Ice
Cream.
Strictly
sanitary. 2
qt. size on
sale at
Headquarters for Nationally
Advertised Goods
Kroehler Duofolda
Karpen Furniture
Crex Rugs '
Simmons Beds
Gurney Refrigerators'
Duplex Fireless Cook
ers. Pefection Oil Stoves
Hoosier Kitchen Cabi
nets Congoleum Rugs
Pathe Phonographs
Direct Action Gas
Stoves
Florence Oil Stoves
Oriole Go-Baskets
Royal Easy Chairs
Torrington Electric
Vacuum Sweepers
Columbia Grafonolas
Maytag Washing Machines.
Big Values in Rugs
The Newest Spring Patterns
We have a large stock of standard makes in
high grade rugs on hand that we will offer this
week at liberal reductions for an Anniversary
event. ,
Handsome 9x12 Tapestry
Rugs $18.95
6x9 Seamless Velvet Rugs,
$19.85
9x12 Seamless Velvet Rugs,
$32.50
9x12 Seamless Tapestry
Rugs $29.75
Beautiful 9x12 Axminster
Rug8 $46.50
S-3xl0-6 Seamless Axmin-
, ster Rugs,
$56.50
Let Us Assist You in Selecting Your -
New Home Outfits
The Big Buying Power of this store, located
outside of the High Rent District, assures you
Dependable Merchandise at the Lowest Prices.
1 ROOM
Outits
$125
I ROOM
r Outits
$175
C ROOM
J Outits
$225
The Nationally Advertised Fireless Cooker
The Duplex Cooker
Saves Time
In these busy days
when every moment
counts, every woman
will appreciate the con
venience and time sav
ing features of this
Fireless Cooker.
You may prepare
your meals for an en
tire summer day in the .
morning and leave
home for the day and
forget them. When
meal-time comes, just
open the cooker and
there are your meals,
piping hot.
Fireless Cookers at
$14.95 to $26
Simmons Beds
Are Nationally Advertised to Give
You Long and Satsifactory Service
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It is the cleanliness, beauty and rigid construction of 1
Simmons Beds that mtke them so popular with discrim
inating homemakers. They come in a wide range of at
tractive styles that beautify a bedroom. Many of the
steel beds are in natural wood finishes of mahogany and
oak, or are beautifully decorated.
Simmons Brass Beds are moderately priced
$19.75 $24.50, $32.50, to $46.50
Simmons Steel Beds, excellent values, at
$5.95 $9.75, $14.50, to $49.50
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