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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 3? 1919. 6 OMAHA WILL BE CENTER OF ARMY BALLOON WORK All Experimental Work to Be Conducted at Local Post; Activity to Be Greatly Increased. Over 1,200 men will be stationed . at Fort Omaha in the near future, . according to Maj. M. J. O'Brien, ad jutant. This increase in men is made neccessary by plans to make the fort a center for balloon experimental work for the entire army, announced Tuesday at Washington. . mere are tour companies at tort Omaha now, the 9th, 12th, 17th and mi 27th. Three additional companies, probably companies which will re turn shortly from overseas service, will be stationed at the fort, Major O'Brien says. This will make a - total of seven complete companies, which will be permanently stationed here. . Activity in lighter than air work will also be greatly increased, ac cording to Major O'Brien' To Increase Capacity, j "Fort Omaha was officially desig ' nated as the center for experimental ' work for the entire army three ; months ago," he said, "but it was not made public until now. As a , matter of fact, all equipment for i balloon work has been tested at Fort Omaha for some time. From ' now on the capacity of the fort will be increased, and it will become one "of the most important military cen , ters of the country. Every new type " of balloon will be tried out here before it is used by the United f States army." The plan, as announced by the chief of the air service, is to greatly i, increase the activities at Fort Oma i ha, but until the War department is advised of various items carried in ; the military appropriation bill, : which was agreed upon in confer ence late Tuesday, the enlarged ac ? tivities at the fort will be specula i live, it is said. Officers of the air v service stated, however, that Fort Omaha is to be made the one big balloon center of the country. Men Return to Fort. f Air material and balloon men who , have been stationed at Fort Crook, ; have all been moved back to Fort ;" Omaha to make room for the 20th infantry, a portion of which arrived yestern morning, Major O'Brien an i nounced Wednesday. ; Wife Unable to Give Reason for Ad Placed I by Huzband in France f An advertiecment appearing in a -, local pr.per yesterday brought ap- prehensksn to lire. George A. Ben- iamin. who is living with her inother, Mrs. E. V. Fitt, 5310 North r Twenty-fifth avenue, since her hus ; band left her and went to war with 1 the Sixth Nebraska regiment. The advertisement follows: t "To Whom It May Concern: The i undersigned will not be responsible f for any bills or debts contracted by Mrs. George A. (Muriel Grace) Ben ' iamin after TuJy 1, 1919. , (Signed) "G. A. BENJAMIN, i 1st Lt. Signal Corps, A. E. F." "What has happened to my hus v band, I don't know," Mrs. Benjamin said. "Something dreadful has oc- curred. His letters became strange and cold several months ago and ; now this notice in the paper is the ; finishing touch. I have not heard :. from him for five months. :i Mrs. Benjamin said her husband ' left her with debts to pay when he went into the army. Mrs. J. A. Benjamin, mother of the officer, says he has written to her that he will not return to this ' country. "He wrote me that he would never $ return to his home," she said. "I begged him to explain why, but he , said he simply could not." , E. W. Fitt, father of Mrs. Ben- - jamin, said that if his own son. G. E. Fitt, who is at Camp Monitor, . France, meets the lieutenant he will "settle with" him in the old-fash-ioned way. Youthful Never mind your age as measured by years. How do you feel? That's the thing that counts! 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"Do you remember anything of what he was saying?" Very little, sir; it was something about somebody being at some ho tel of no interest to me. I was only in the room just time enough to place the syphon on the table and withdraw. As I closed the door he was saying: 'You're sure he isn't in the hotel?' or words to that effect." And that was the last you saw and heard of him alive?" "No, sir. A little later, at half-past leven, when I had settled down in my pantry with the door ajar, and a book to pass the time, I heard, Mr. Manderson go upstairs to bed. I mmediately went to close the library window, and slipped the lock' of the front door. I did not hear anything more." Trent considered. "I suppose you didn't doze at all," he said tentative ly, "while you were sitting up wait ing for the telephone message." "Oh, nor, sirt I am always very wakeful about that time. I'm a bad fsleeper. especially in the neighbor hood of the sea, and I generally read in bed until somewhere about mid night." "And did any message come?" "No, sir." "No. And I suppose you sleep with your window open, these warm nights." "It is never closed at night, sir." Trent added a last note; then he looked thoughtfully through those he had taken. He rose and paced up and down the room for some mo ments with a downcast eye. At length he paused opposite Martin. "It all seems perfectly ordinary and simple," he said. "I just want to get a few details clear. You went to shut the windows in the library before going to bed. Which win dows?"' "The French windows, sir. It had been open all day. The windows opposite the door were seldom op ened." "And what about the curtains? I am wondering whether anyone out side the house could have seen into the room." "Easily, sir, I should say, if he had got into the grounds on that side. The curtains were never drown in the hot weather. Mr. Manderson would often sit right in the doorway at nights, smoking and looking out into the darkness. But nobody could have seen him who had any business to be there." in Body andMind LYKO li sol J In eridnal pack et! onlr. plclur above. Rtftue all lubstttiuaa. B-w-aea- eaM New Truck Arrives in Omaha 3CDOCDQCDQCDOCDOCDC Republic truck has just been added the Century company "I see. And now tell me this. Your hearing is very acute, vou say. and you heard Mr. Manderson enter the house when he came in after dinner from the garden. Did you hear him re-enter it after returning from the motor-drive?" Martin paused. "Now you men tion it. sir, I remember that I did not. His ringing the bell in this room was the first I knew of his being back. I should have heard him come in, if he had come in by the front. I should have heard the door go. But he must have come in by the window." The man re flected for a moment, then added: "As a general rule, Mr. Manderson would come in by the front, hang up his hat and coat in the hall and pass down the hall into the study. It seems likely to me that he was in a great hurry to use the telephone, and so went straight across the lawn to the window he was like that, sir, when there was anything important to be done. He had on his hat, now I remember, and had thrown his great-coat over the end of the table, lie gave his order very sharp, too, as he alwr.ys did when busy. A very precipitate man indeed, was Mr. Manderson; a hustler, as they say." "Ah! He appeared to be busy. But didn't you say Hist now that you noticed nothing unusual about him?" A melancholy smile flitted momen tarily over Martin's face. "That ob servation shows that you did not know Mr. Manderson, sir, if you will pardon my saying so. His being like that was nothing unusual; quite the contrary. It took me long enough to get used to it. Either he would be sitting quite still and smoking a cigar, thinking or reading, or else he would be writing, dictating, and sending off wires all at the same time, till it -almost made one dizzy to see it, sometimes for an hour or more at a stretch. As for being in a hurry over a telephone message, I may say it wasn't in him to be any thing else." Trent turned to the inspector, who met his eye with a look of answer ing intelligence. Not sorry to show his understanding of the line of in quiry opened by Trent, Mr. Murch for the first time put a question: "Then you left hirrj telephoning by the open window, with the lights on, and the drinks on the table: is that it?" "That is so, Mr. Murch." The delicacy of the change in Martin's manner when called upon to answer the detective momentarily distract ed Trent's appreciative mind. But the big man's next question brought it back to the problem at once. "About those drinks. You say Mr. Manderson often took no whis ky before going to bed. Did he have any that night?" "I could not say. The room was put to rights in the morning by one of the maids, and the glass washed, I presume, as usual. I know that I the decanter was nearly full that ev ening; i naa remiea u a iew aays 'hpfnrp QnH T crlanr at if wlin T brought the fresh syphon, just out of habit, to make sure there was a decent-looking amount." The inspector went to the tall corner-cupboard and opened it. He tookout a decanter of cut glass, and set it on the table before Martin. "Was it fuller than that?" he asked quietly. "That's how I found it this morning." The decanter was more than half empty. For the first time Martin's self possession wavered. He took up the decanter quickly, tilted it before his eyes, and then stared amazedly at the others. He said slowly: "There's not much short of half a bottle gone out of this since I last set eyes on it and that was Sunday night." "Nobody in the house, I sup: pose " suggested Trent discreetly. "Out of the question," replied Martin briefly. Then he added: "I beg pardon, sir, but this is a most extraordinary thing to me. Such a thing never happened in all my ex perience of Mr. Manderson. As for the women-servants, they never touch anything. I can answer for-it; and as for me, when I want a drink I can help myself without going to the decanters." He took up the de canter again, and aimlessly renewed his observation of the contents, while the inspector eyed him with a look of serene satisfaction, as a master contemplates his handiwork. Trent turned to a fresh page of his notebook, and tapped it thought fully with his pencil. Then he looked up and said: "I suppose Mr. Man derson had dressed for dinner that night." Cterainly, sir. He had on a suit with a dress-jacket, what he used to refer to as a Tuxedo, which he usual ly wore when dining at home or in formally." "And he was dressed like that when you saw him last?" , "All but the jacket, sir. When to the Republic truck fleet owned by My Heart and My Husband ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of "Revelations of a Wife" Why Madge Almost Quailed at Lillian's Good News. I felt as if though' my should be veiled before Alice combe's bared soul as she eyes inadvertently revealing it in her eyes and words. She was wholly unconscious, f,or instance, that she was always so careful to refer to the principal as "Mr. Stockbridge," had just called him "Kenneth," and that with an intonation which betrayed the passionate ardor of her devotion to him. She was clearly overwrought, and I was afraid that the sharp critical eyes of the high school pupils might read and speculate upon her emo tion. I must do something to save the situation, and that quickly. "Look here!" I said practically "You're too upset to teach any more today, and it's too hot to hear reci tations regular act of cruelty to the pupils as well as ourselves. Just let me take assembly duty all of the classes I'll let them read or occupy them in some way and you go to the rest room or office and get yourself together. You 11 have time to get Mr. Stockbridge's routine work out of the way so that you can get out of here when school closes." A look of relief flashed into her eyes. She was too quick of percep tion not to see the advantages of my plan, too sensible to waste my time and hers with futile objections. "You're right about the heat," she he spent the evening in the library, as usually happened, he would change it for an old shooting-jacket after dinner, a light-colored tweed, a little too loud in pattern for Eng lish tastes, perhaps. He had it on when I saw him last. It used to hang in this cupboard here" Martin opened the door of it as he spoke "along with Mr. Manderson's fishing-rods and such things, so that he could slip it on after dinner without going upstairs." "Leaving the dinner-jacket in the cupboard?" "Yes, sir. The housemaid used to take it upstairs in the morning." "In the morning," Trent repeated slowly. "And now that we are speaking of the morning, will you tell me exactly what you know about that. I understand that Mr. Man derson was not missed until the body was found about 10 o'clock," "That is so, sir. Mr. Manderson would never be called, or have any thing brought to him in the morn ing. He occupied a separate bed room. Usually he would get up about eight and go around to the bathroom, and he would come down some time before nine. But often he would sleep till 9 or 10 o'clock. Mrs. Monderson was always called at 7. The maid would take in tea to her. Yesterday morning Mrs. Mander son took breakfast about 8 in her sittingroom as usual, and everyone supposed that Mr. Maderson was still in bed and asleep when Evans came rushing up to the house with the shocking intelligence." "I see," said Trent. "And now another thing. You say you slipped the lock to the front door before going to bed. Was that all the locking-up you did?" "To the front-door, sir, yes; I slipped the lock. No more is consid ered necessary in these parts. But I had locked both the doors at the back, and seen to the fastenings of all windows on the ground floor. In the morning everything was as I had left it" (Continued Tomorrow.) PHOTOPI.AY8 Geraldine Farrar in "The Stronger Vow" Harold Lloyd Comedy Lot h r o p 24th and Loth r op Laat Time Today NORMA TALMACE in "GOING STRAIGHT BUI Parsone Comedy. Itching Rashes Soothed With Cuticura An dramtota: Boa. , OMataat a w. Sample cta free of Pot. 1. ' p the Norris Lumber & Coal Co. said. "And, of course we have authority to do anything like this in Mr. Stockbridge's absence. He dismissed school in the hottest weather." She was gaining control of her self. I saw this with a little jubi lant self congratulation. I turned briskly toward the stairway as I heard the clatter of the feet in the lower hall. "Get away from here at once," I commanded. "I'll take hall duty, also telephone for my taxi, will you, please? And let me tell you a secret. I've had many premonitions of impending tragedy, and they gen erally turned out to be barefaced deceiver?. Don't pay any attention to them." She was in just the semi-hysterical mood to be swayed by whatever mental pabulum was offered her. I saw her face brighten before she hurried away to the seclusion of the teacher's room and knowing that I had adverted an impending break down, I salved my conscience for the falsehood I had told her con cerning the premonitions which so often had come to me. and so often had been tragically fulfilled. If I had any lingering prick of the conscience it was dispelled when a few minutes before the close of school session she came into the assembly hall, poised, alert, with only a strained look in her eyes to show that the horror of suspense had not wholly left her. A Respite. "Your taxi will be here in a few minutes," she whispered. "I'll take charge here now. And I don't know how to thank y5u won't try. But I guess you know. Good by." Her grateful eyes, her relieved face remained my mental vision all the way to the city. I fervently hoped that no happening such as her hysterical fancy pictured would wipe that look from her face in the next few days. But my first sight of Lillian, Alice Holcombe, Kenneth and Millie Stockbridge the whole Bayview enviroment faded from my mental vision. My friend s eyes were alight with jubliance over the quest successfully consummated. She gripped my hand with strength that made me wince. She saw it, relaxed the grip and grinned understand ing. "You must excuse my vehemence," PHOTOPLAYS ANITA STEWART in "MARY REGAN" FANNIE WARD IN "THF CRY OF THE WEAK' trim comilifd mr rlhf rrtywr wj hflWtfVewvj mis rotuM ffesr Btrrtm rm e"f a ay ... a. she drawled, "but 1 believe I am almost excited. Here, let's get out of this and I'll tell you about it." She hurried me to the taxi line, the first one available, waited until we were well away from the crush of traffic around the station she kn ows that I am nervous in a crowd of autos before we spoke. - "Well, I've got the lady as safely as if I had her sewed up in a laundry bag," she said at last. A sudden thought made my heart beat suffocatingly. "Are we oh our way to her now?" I asked. Lillian turned shrewd, appraising eyes upon me. "W'hat's the matter?" she queried. "I don't know," I parried. "Here, none of that!" Lillian com manaded tersely. 'Just remember to pack away your nerves and shut the trunk lid on 'em, and at the same time trot out your nerve and give it a grooming. This is no time for nonsense. But not necessarily for publication, only as an evidence of good faith, I'll whisper to you that we are going home before we sally forth to meet and conquer the dragoness." (Continued Tomorrow. PHOTOPLAYS TO, TODAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY P. M. Continuous 11 P. M. Trapped! TRAPPED-by his fingerprints: She thought he wag her husband but he knew he was an ex-convict, standing in a dead man's shoes. What happened when the police came? A wonderful pic ture that will live in your mind for weeks! Rupert Julian Creator of "The KAISER, the Beast oj BerVn "The FIRE I IF.LIMGER8" From the widely-read story of the same name, which appeared in the Sat urday Evening Post. . Current Events Comedy. Albin Huater's Concert Orcheatra. Admiaaion 20c Children lOe. Plan a. i li A AMCSEMENTS Pack the Basket With Good Things and Come and Make a Day of lt Enjoy the Many Clean Amusements. Dancing Picnicing Thrills The Park Will be Open from 8 in the Morning Till Midnight. It Will Afford You a Splendid Opportunity to Witness the D-e-a-t-h D-e-f-y-i-n-g A-c-t o-f t-h-e FEARLESS GREGGS In Their Sensational Ride "Autos That Pass in the Air" Afternoon at 4:15 -:- Evening, 9:15 Admission: Uncle Stabs 16-Year-Old Girl Following Quarrel Over Daughter jMtiia Mangiamelli, 16 years old, stabbed yesterday afternoon by her uncle, Fred Palania, 1428 North Seventeenth street, is in the Fred erick hospital in a scriou's condition. Palania attacked his niece in the front yard of their home. He quar reled with her over the disappear ance of his daughter Eva, who left home a week ago, and accused her of being the cause of the disappear ance. In full view of neighbors, attracted by the violence of the quarrel, Pa lania stabbed the girl twice. She ran screaming toward the Frederick hospital, several doors from her home. Palania fled and has not yet been found. AMISEMENT8 UDo You Pare ? 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' i Manawa Park to Spend the Glorious IThe hgmeqf picnics j Adults 10c, War Children Free At Irish Self-Determination Club Cables Clemenceau The Irish Self-Determination club has sent a cablegram to Premier Clemeiiceau, urging recognition of the Irish republic by the peace con ference and asking also for an inves tigation of British atrocity in Ire land as exposed by the report of former Governor Dunne of Illinois and Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the Irish-American delegation. AMrSKMEWTK. j w n Tk n li u - if nmt-wm NEW SHOW TODAY DON FONG CUE; IRVING GEAR aV CO.; ANGEL A FULLER; WOLF ft WILTON. Photplay BILLIE RHODES in "The Lamb and the Lion. BILLIE WEST Comedy. Pathe Weekly. ' ' ' '... Tax lc All Times t 1