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THE OMAHA SUNDAY ' fiEE; JULY 6. 1919,
KAVALLA AGAIN
LIFTS ITS HEAD
WITH FREEDOM
Historic Little Macedonian
, City, After Four Years of '
Bulgarian Persecution,
Is Now Free.
Gash and Carry Plan Big
Success In Ice Business
Little Wagons, Once Children's Playthings Now Used
by Grown-ups for Hauling of Ice From the Muni
cipal Stations to Their Homes. ' '
(International wi Service.)
Kavalla, Macedonia. (By Mail.)
--Few Americans, except perhaps
; those in the tobacco industry, have
ever heard of this little port on thfl
. Aegean sea. Yet it has many fea
- tures and activities to commend it
tothe interest of the people of the
United States, Here' the finest to
bacco in the world the bulk of
which is consumed in America is
grown. Here the great American
v, ' tobacco companies have export
headquarters. Here the biggest oil
company of the United States and
America's greatest relief organiza
tion, the American Red Crosshave
distributing centers. Indeed. Kaval
la has come to have some of the as
pects of a real American city.
There are so many American here
that one feels himself only a few
'hundred miles from home, instead
of in the heart of a remote region
whose beginnings antedate the birth
of Christ.
x For years Blugaria has looked
upon Kavalla with a covetous eye.
Although defeated and subdued, she
- looked hopefully to the peace, con
gress at . Paris to give her Kavalla
as a port. Yet Kavalla is not a har
bor. It is merely a roadstead af
fording good anchorage for coast
wise steamers. Millions of dollars
and endless development would be
required to convert thecity into a
first lass port. But Bulga'fia,
which now has only the .shallow
port of Dedeagatch at the mcxrth of
the Gulf of Enor, was and is anx-
, ious to get any " outlet through
Macedonia and the srfa for her large
output of tobacco, wheat, livestock,
silk and' attar of rosts, and would
be quite ready to spend any sum in
developing""and deepening the har
bor. Yanks Admire Scenery.
Kavalla is situated on a rocky
'peninsula and, is dominated by the
rums of an old Venetian fort. It is
protected from the south by the
Greek island of Thasps. Back from
the seacoast is a mountainous dis
trict known in Macedonia as the
Pangaion. The Pangaion range
rises , directlyVrom the low-lying
Macedonian prawn to a height of
nearly 10,000 feet and com
mands' an unsurpassed panorama of
Kavalla and the historic Aegean. By
Aniericans it is considered the most
beautiful range of mountains ,in
Greece. Coursing through the val
ley, on Pangaion's eastern slope, is
the placid Anghista river,- which
some historical writers believe to be
Ihe stream where Paul baptized Ly
dia. On all sides of the mountains
in this region is rich, arable land,
peculiarly adapted to the growth of
tobacco. The best leaf in the world
is grown here, and sa valuable are
the fields-for tobacco culture that
very little else is cultivated.
During the waf .the Bulgarians
adopted in Kavalla the same ruth
less practices they followed in all
occupied territory. They pillaged
and destroyed. They made every
, effort to make the land uninhabit
able. y They Cut down tr)tes and
carried off furniture and everything
made of wood. They sacked Nthe
homes and drove the, Greek inhabi-
tants-otft., As a. result of all' this,
wheii the Greek Commission of the
; American Red Cross established re-
lief posts here, a few days aftefHhe
armisticeji-T their ' ; -representatives
' found jiving conditions almost urr--aupportable.
There were no stoves
' or fuel of any kind, and they shiv
ered even in their heaviest clothing,
, Lter they burned lignite, which the"y
mined themselves in the Pangaion
- mountains. y
.Kavalla was the first city inj Mace
' donia to become a base for Red
Cross operations." It was here that,
: soon after the signing'- the armis
' tice, Lieut.-Col. Edward Capps, who
in peace times is professor of Greek
at Princeton University, came with
a 4rainload of supplies and a squad
of Red Cross workers, and began
immediately'the task of feeding and
clothing the destitute population and
the immense number of refugees
who had started back from their
places of internment to their native
country.- even before the cessation
of hostilities This work doubtless
resulted in saving thousands of perT
sons who might otherwise have suc-
. cumbed to starvation and exposure.
The natives speak with unbounded
gratitude of the help given them by
the Americans. They say the food;
t furnished by the American Red Cross
' was the first substantial nourish
ment they had in four years. The
Bulgarians had carried off every-'
thing and left them utterlydestitute.
Their own government was unable'
to help them, for the blockade had
; left Greece short of everything. v
. ;No section of the Balkans ever
presented a more depressing picture
of misery and squalor. When the
Americans came'' in they found the
; inhabitants dying by the dozen from
famine, exposure and typhus. They
. Immediately established soup kitch-
ens and thousands of American-
. made garments. They sent in doc--tors,
nurses and medical supplies.
... They distributed hundreds of thous
ands of loaves of bread made of
American flour. They established
shelters for the homeless women
and children.. They cared for the
, ' hordes of broken and dispirited
f. Greek and' -Serbian soldiers who had
been released from, vile prison camps
ia Bulgaria. In their devotiofi to
. the ' task of rescuing ;. the typhus
. stricken, population fVo of" their
" number lost their live and three
r nurses, contracted the dreads disease.
Shoes Will Cost More
if They Wear 'Em Higher
Cleveland, Ohio, July 5.-r-Of
course, if the girls insist on wearing
'em higher this winter the 'shoej
likewise, will have to be higher,
1 But,, according to shoe manufac
turers!, .fair warning is given that
- the prices will ,be -higher..: Euro
" pean "buyers ' have stripped the
.' American leather market, the shoe
' makers 'sayiiand.' leather" worth' 47
cents a foot a week ago is now sell
With the coming of the municipal
ice , selling stations, the cash and
carry plan has been applied in the
ice business and apparently with
great success.
The municipal stations where ice
is sold in small lots to consumers
opetf at 7 o'clock in the morning
and close at 6 at night. During the
11 hours when the stations are open
they do a rushing business', men,,
women and children buying the
cooling chunks and carrying them
away. During. trie hot weather ot
last week, some mornings there
were IS to 20 customers waiting to
be served at the Sherman avenue
and Corby street station 'when the
man in charge arrived"and opened
the place for business.
The Sherman avenue and Corby
street station is in a densely popu
lated section of the city and there
the cash and carry customers con-,
gregate -in large numbers. One day
last week the station sales of ice
aggregated $96. )
With the cash and carry plan of
selling ice, the little wagon ihat
heretofore has been used exclusively
by children-as a plaything has come
Yanks Ready to Wed;
Wedding Bells Tuned Up
Spnngtield, 111., July 5. uet the
trousseau ready and tell the sexton
to tune up the wedding bells. We've
been gone a long time, so be ready
when we get back."
This crptic message was received
by relative of three soldier bovs.
members of the 123d Field Artillery,
who nau jusx lanaea in America
from France as part of the 33d Divi
sion. No explanation was given. Re
cipients were mystified. But they
took it for'granted the boys are con
templating a matrimonial venture
when they return to Springfield.
Denies Derth of Love
Because of His Wounds
St. Louis Mo., July 5. "IfNGus
tave wants 'a divorce he can have it,
but there is no truth in the asser
tion that I ceased to love him be
cause he is permanently crippled by
wounds suffered in battle," Mrs.
Alma H. Hunicke, of this city, de
clares. Mrs. Hunicke, war bride of
Pvt. Gustav F. Hunicke, blamed
their matrimonial troubles on the
soldier, and said he came to see her
only three times while being treat
ed at the reconstruction hospital
here, -x.
Visits Home in Plane.
fitoninfton, 111., July 5. Li. Rob
ert Midkiff, son of a minister here,
surprised his parents by visiting
them in an aeroplane from .Decatur.
He landed in a field nearby. With
6ther aviators Lieutenant Midkiff
was engaged in a cross-country air
flight via Decatur. A brief stop at
Decatur permitted the trip here.
into its own. They are used by ice
consumers for hauling ice from the
municipal "stations to their homes.
Mornings at the Sherman avenue
and Corby street station, frequently
10 to a dozen of these little wagons
are drawn up along the curb, wait
ing to be loaded and hauled away to
the homes of the owners. The most
popular wagon has a box. sufficiently
large to hold a 100-pound chunk of
ice, or rather two 50-pound chunks.
Then N there are the smaller ones
that hold 50, and the still smaller
ones into which but 25 pounds can
be packed. s
Men, women and children are in
the cash and carry ice business and
they seem to enjoy it, particularly
so by reason of the) fact that the
tpnee ii so much lower man tnat
exacted by the regular dealers.
Municipal station prices are 5 cents
for IS pounds, 15 cents for 45 pounds
ajtd 30 cents for a big chunk weigh
ing 90 pounds.
SIGNS OF EARLY
EXPLORERS SEEN
ON PACIFIC ISLE
Names, and American Shields
Cut in S'tones of Guadlupe
Island, Found by Geo (
' logical Part.
- San Pedro," Caf., July j). Interest
in the early history of California
and Mexico" has been increased
through discqveries made on the
island of Guadelupe, a picturesque
and rugged peak rising out of the
Pacific, about 350 miles southwest
of this port, by a party of Americans
who sailed from here and returrled
recently.
Not only did they find what is
considered evidence of the presence
tljere " of Americans more than a
century aeo, but ' also discovered
what appeared to have'been the last
resting place of somfc- daring ex
plorer' of a far earlier date. Much
speculation has been aroused as to
whether a leader of the famed ex
pedition of Juan RodrigueE Cabrillo,
perhaps even that hardy Portuguese
himself, may have been given there
the lonliest of tombs. -
The discoveries were made by the
merest chance. ' Members of the ex
ploring party resting on the crown
of a great rock, a few rods from the
shore, noticed what appeared to be
rude lettering on the side nearest
the seal
The debris cast up about the rock
by the waves was removed with
picks atlti shovels and there was, ex
posed to view the record iof a land
ing' by-the crew of the ship "Tri
umph" in 1807 so reads 'the in
scription. ' '
American Shield Found.
There area segxe of names there;
also an American flag and an Amer
ican shield. The namesre thought
to be those of New England whal
ers, for they are such as were borne'
by the Puritans. There is one
name cut larger than the rest
Sam'l Chapmdn. Another deeply
engraved is David Cristy. The
Christian names are such as Thad
deus, Theophilus, Epenezer, Jona-
than, common in the last century.
The names are cut deep and are
legible in almost every case.
"Landed September 9 A. D. 1807"
is the record or their coming. Lett
the" and there the grinding of the
rocks and sand of many tides has
done its work and the rest i left
to the imagination.
The loneliness of the isle may be
judged from the fact that a parly
of Americans, including several
women, survivors .of a wrecked
ship, were marooned there for
seven months about three years ago.
They V .ere rescued, by an American
cruiser which nosed its way by
chance into the snug harbor on the! the hazardous
east coast.
Many Goats On Isle.
The coast line is almost all cliffs,
perpendicular walls of rock 1,000
feet or more in height .in many
places. There is hardly a spot, ex
cept the harbor where a landing is
easy! A canyon runs back from the
harbor and well up in this canyon is
a; spring, thought to be the only
fresh" water on the 'island. There
are thousands of goats on the
island. 1
It is on a little ledge jutting out
from a crTfT, probably 500 feet above
the waves that crash about the jag
ged shore rocks, members of the
party believe, some sea rover of at)
earlier age may have found a gran
ite couch. Whether there is a
small cave back of the ledge, the
party could not be cerWrfh of from
their boat which could not be
driven close to the dangerous shore.
But above may be plainly seen a
large cross cut in the cliff and what
looks, like a word in Latin.
Certainly the man or men who
cut the cross were bold and must
have had a strong impelling reason,
whether or not it was to make for
ever secure the body of the" a loved
commander. No man could have
scaled the'cliff from below. Those
who reached the ledge must have
been lowered. hundreds of feet from
the toyehng plateau. The descent
was not prompted by a mere love of
Eastern Macedonia Is
Scene of Starvation
Augmented by Plague
Constantinople (By Mail.)
American, British, French and
Greek doctors are striving with
might and main to prevent an out
break of the i plague in the region
extending along the north shore of
the Aegean sea from Salonica to
Constantinople.
"America and England, as well as
the far off corners of the earth,
cannot afford in these days to ignore
outbreaks of disease no matter
where they occur," declared a Brit
ish..sanitary olTicer in charge of the
work of cleaning up Constantinople.
"If the plague is allowed to breed
here in the near east sooner or later
it will reach England and America.
And its ravages if alloved to spread
will exceed those of the so-called
influenza."
Eastern Macedonia, which has
been a battlegrdund for centuries
and which since , 1912 has been
fought over agai nand again, is to
day a horrible mess. The summer
sun is breeding flies and mosquitoe s
by the ''millions, the unhealthy
Struma valley is steaming ..with
malarial vapors, the streets of Dra.
ma, Serres, Kavalla, Xanthi and
the hundreds of other small villages
are filthy beyond belief.
The. returned refugees live in
shell-shattered ruins under sanitary
conditions unspeakable. Their rags
are alive with vermin. From the
big Red Cross warehouses at Ka
valla, housing 300 families of refu
gees from five to a dozen dead from
typhus were removed daily only re
cently. The refugees were easy
victims after many months of semi
starvation in Bulgaria.
The children ofastern Macedonia
are pitiful sights, with stomachs
distented from enlarged spleens, due
to smi-sfarvation, with their little
ribs showjng plainly through their
taut drawn flesh, with hollow lack
luster cyesthey lie about on the
streets in the sup indifferent to their
fate.
Conducts 1,462 'Funerals.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 5. As chief
chaplain of the Paris district, Chan-
lain John Stuart Banks, now rector
of AH Saints' Church here, officiated
at 1,462 burial services for Amer
ican soldiers and nurses during his
stay of a year in France.
HOTEL ROME
Cafeteria
Coolest dining place
in the city kept so by
many fans and outside
entrances. Bring your
family and friends for
SUNDAY DINNER
Open day and night.
Rome Miller-
A P OLt Lt O Leavenworth
SESSUE HAYAKAWA
in "the- White maws
Y LAW"
7 CHARLIE CHAPLIN
in "POLICE" 1 -
GRAND
16th and
Blaney
ETHEL CLAYTON in
- "MAGGIE PEPPER."
Monday and Tuesday
MARGUERITE CLARK.
'and
lton
HftMllT0irl
EMMY WEHLEN in
"SYLVIA ON A SPREE." ,
Monday MYRTLE LIND and
MARIE WALCAMP.
24th and
Lothrop
LOTHROP
DOROTHY GISH in
"BATTLING JANE."
Mon. and Tu. May Allison.
SUBURBAN
. 24th and
Amn
PRISCILLA DEAN
In
"PRETTY SMOOTH."
n I A MA 11 n 24th and
V I H III V II II
Laka
; ALICE BRADY in
MTHE BETTER HALF."
Monday Mar joryWilson.
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The Mammoth New $300,000
BATHING BEACH
AT -XJ
j"THE HOMCOFPICNICSJ
IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Over 1.500000 Gallons of Pure. Crystal Sparkling Water, Covering a
Surface of Over an Acre Atlantic City Bathing, Sand Beach and
Ocean Waves in Miniature, Brought to Omaha for Your Pleesu're
Many
Other Clean Amusements
Inside the Park
Promoted and maintained in a strictly high class man
ner1 for your pleasure and amusement.
WITH the completion and opening to the pub lie of the new bathing beach at Krug Park, the peo pie of Omaha and vicinity seeking recreation and
enj6yment are afforded one of the largest, m ost modern and finest equipped swimming pools and bathing beaches to be found in America, and where
every precaution has been taken to provide cleanliness, healthfulness and convenience for it, patrons. '
Everyone May Enjoy This
" Great Summer Resort
provisions for thorough sanitation approved
and O. K.'d by the City Engineer,
facilities provided for 5,000 persons at one
time and ample accommodations to take care of
15,000 bathers daily. - ' v.
modern laundry machinery for sterlizing, ,
washing and drying of 1,500 bathing suits and
3,000 Turkish Jowels per hour.
hair drying electrical machines in ladies' rest
rooms.
special rooms provided' for both men and -women
wishing more privacy than can' be
secured in the more public parts of the building.
individual lockers wth private showers and
. dressing rooms with every convenience main
tained for exclusive Mise.
departments for men, women and boys sep
arate and distinct from one another form the
basis of the' bath house layout. '
pool reserved exclusively for ladies and chil
dren in the mornings from 8 to 12.
sand beach 40 feet wide surrounds the pool,
equipped with numerous beach and playground
devices. T
bathing suits are. of the best materials pro
curable for the purpose, fashionable in appear
ance and of various colorings and styles.
Pure. Clear and Sparkling
Water in Which to Bathe
-r-all water filtered, ozonated and sterilized be
fore entering tfie pool and is completely changed
every 8 hours absolutely as pure as it is pos
sible to make it.
purity and-cleanliness of the water and con
veniences approved and O. K.'d by the City
Board of Health.
all water aerated and kinrayed every two
hours. Better water and cleaner than that you
drink at home. : (
water warmed by high pressure boilers during
cool weather. - s
wave making machines give you the surf ef-'
tect without the danger of the sea. This has
never before been seen outside of the great
Atlantic resorts. . . x
the purified water enters the pool continuous
ly at various points around the circumference,
of the pool and is drawn off through splash
gutters. r
constant "circulation of the water guarantees
.fresh, pure and cjear water at all times and the
possibilities of dead pockets of water where it
may becomer stagnant and impure are elimi
nated. - ' ' -
EXTRA SPECIAL ATTRACTION
Beginning Sundav, Julv 6, for One Week
HIP RAYMOND
The Tumbling Clown direct from the- Hippo
drome, New York. Tht- originator of the
famous table tumble and other side
splitting stunts you'll enjoy them.
DANCING
On one of the finest dance floors, under the supervision -of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Connors. Music by Carl Lamp's
orchestra.
RIDES AND THRILLS j
i the Giant Coastervith its invigorating thrills.
-the Aeroplane which gives you all the" sensation of
planeing. ' "
Swanee River, a restful glide over tne peaceful wa
ters through the tropics. .
( the Carousal or Merry-Go-Round the joy of the
children.
PICNIC GROUNDS V . . N
an ideal spot for family as well as larger picnics
with playgrounds and other amusements for the chil
dren. ' Free automobile parking.
Admission to the Park
Adults 10c, war talc. Children free-at all times.
From a Sanitary and Healthful Standpoint
. , This pool is unique in being" the first outdoor pool constructed with the'predominating 'idea: of givingylts users the. -most perfect water that can be produced
by any process, both in appearance and absolute purification and provides TRULY A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
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