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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: " JULY 13. 1919.
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FLYING CIRCUS
TO BE HELD TODAY
AT FORT OMAHA
Thousands Expected to At
f tend Greatest Balloon Car
nival;; Ever Staged in
1 United States.
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IfGertrude Stout,J17 South Thirty
''ninth street; Miss Regina Connell,
Ifailackstone hotel, and Miss Helen
ivMcCreary, cousin of Mrs. Wuest.
1 will "christen" balloons Nos. 1, 2, i
and 4, in the order named.
Ji ' Names of Balloons.
-r Identification of balloons:
f No. 1. "United States. Pilot,
Capt Ashley C. McKinley; assist
ant, Lt. J. E. Neeley. '
't No. 2. "All America." Pilot, Lt.
iR. E. Thompson; asssistant, Lt. J.
IB. Jordan.
p-No 3. "Victory." Pilot, Lt. W.
IvE. Huffman; assistant, Lt. W. E.
'Connolly.
:No.'l "Cannon Ball." (Judges'
galloon.) Commander, Col. J. W.
;S. Wuest; instructor, A. Leo.Ste--ytn$,
Maj. R. J. O'Brien.
'X Judging from weather bureau re
ports yesterday, the racers expect to
"take a northeasterly course. Mr.
tStevens is in hopes that the wind
;;will be due east, that the balloons
;ntay land somewhere in New York
instate. He says at least one will
"continue the trip 1,000 miles.
Test New Idea. .
.1 "Thii is the first time in history
'.that three balloons have raced for a
world's record," Mr. Stevens said
yesterday- "The entire country, or
trather, the technical world, is watch
ing this flight. We expect to break
r'$, record.
4 Meterological machines of great
Jfyalue are being employed in the ex
periment. They are the barometer
Mo tell at what elevation the balloon
teis riding; the vertimeter, indicating
yiow fast the balloon is rising or tall
ying, and the statoscope, which tells
Joth height and fluctuation of the
balloon's course.
p These instruments are required to
,wake statistical official reports for
the Aero club of America -under the
Situles which the .race is being held.
kW. D. Burton, aeronautical engineer
;? at the fort, spent most of Friday and
Saturda adjusting the instruments,
f A telegram was received Friday
from President Hawley of ,the Aero
tClub of America sanctioning the
Might
Opening of Peace Footing.
The day will make the opening on
IfSt peace looung or coin runs um
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Style and
Are the important features
in remodeling of Fur Garments.
All our work is done under the
personal supervision of our ex
pert designers. . "We employ
only skilled , cutters, sewers,
fitters and finishers thereby
guaranteeing you correctness
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will be glad to give you sug
gestions and estimate of cost.'
, It is advisable to place orders
early so that we can devote
more time to their execution
.and have the -garment finished'
when desired
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charges equal or exceed $30.00,
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THESE PRETTY OMAHA GIRLS will christen three balloons
which will participate in the race for new world's record at the Fort
Omaha air carnival this afternoon. Back row (left to right). Miss
Regina Connell, Blackstone hotel, and Miss Dorothy Callander of
Pasadena, Calif., who is visiting with Mrs. Maj. R. T. Crawford oi For
Omaha. Front row (left to right). Miss Esther Wilhelm, 3623 Jack
son street; Miss Gertrude Stout, 117 South Thirty-ninth street, snd
Miss Helen McCreary of Watertown, N. Y., cousin of the. wife of Lt.
Col. Jacob W. S. Wuest of Fort Omaha.
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ha and Crook. Enlisted men from
both garrisons are to be on hand to
participate in races. Two rajnia
ture athletic meets will be held in
the afternoon and evening. The
first, at 4 o'clock, will contain the
following listed events: 50-yard-dash,
pop-prinking contest, 100-yard-dash
and sheet race.
. The "second at 7:30 o'clock will
contain 220 yards dash, pie eating
contest, combination race, tug-of
wj.rf 9th and 12th balloon com
panies! Capt. Ashley McKipley, a veteran
of eight months' service in the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France, who saw action at St.
Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne
fronts, will vlead his company, the
12th, in exhibition drill. One of the
large balloons will be used. This
sani-i company, was cited three
times for extraordinary heroism in
action while overseas.
One of the features will be the
Workmanship
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1710 Douglas St.
(AtHletle Club BM.)
Fhoae Tyler 1793.
Office
exhibition and manipulation of the
American "propaganda" balloon by
officers of the fort in connection
with a display of Italian, British
French and German balloons. These
balloons are of a smaller type and
suspended under their tail, when re
leased, is a small machine operated
by an electric battery which auto
matically releases "propaganda" as
it is sent up into the air.
To Release 1,000 Balloons.
The release of 1,000 balloons will
be one of the crowning events of
the afternoon.
. Arrangements to take care of the
immense crowds were completed
early in the week. Committees to
take care of various events on the
program, including booths on the
field, were appointed early. The
complete roster, designating the
men whovwill wear arm bands and
from vhom the general public can
apply for information follows:
Major R. T. Crawford, in charge
of grounds. ,
Lieut. J. R. Hall, assistant.
Director of the Carnival A. Jj.
Stevens.
(a) Decoration Capt. C. R. Ja-
cobson, Lieut. W. E. Connolly.
(b) Construction Lieut. W. C.
MacNeill.
(c Reception and Entertainment
Capt. S. L. Dowd, Capt. A. C. Mc
Kinley. Balloons Lieut. R. E. Reynolds,
Lieut. W. E. Huffman and Lieut.
Rupert Robertson.
Athletics Lieut, J. L. Xooley.
Transportation and Traffic Capt.
C F. Adams, Lieut. R. P. Clapp.
Refreshments and Concessions
Lieut. C, C. Lundberg, Lieut. R. C.
Conklin and Lieut. J. B. Jorden.
Recruiting Lieut. R. R. Thomp
son, Lieut. J. M. Riggs.
Contests and Records Lieut. C.
L. Weisinger, Lieut. A.H. Foster.
Police and Protection Lapt. ti.
T. Lewis.
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A corps 01 policemen ltuiii inc
Omaha police department will be
on hand to assist the Fort Omaha
guard .in policing the grounds. A.
meterological station has been built
in the center of the main field, at
which bulletins telephoned hourly
will be posted for the benefit pi the
public. Lieut. Leroy Meisinger will
be in charge of the station. Lieut.
R. Robertson is chief "gas" officer.
A Specialist for Each
Branch of. Dentistry.
Dental Surgeons, who served in
our country's greatest need, are
now helping us to meet the ever
growing demand on the part of
the public for Dr. , Toad service.
In our new and larger., offices -we
can serve a greater number of
clients each day.
In this age of Specialization, it
is recognized that one man cannot
do many things well. To be a
topnotcher, he must devote him
self to a single line of work.
, Dentistry, without specialization
In its various branches is but a
poor makeshift. No one man can
perform efficiently all the ' many
duties of this now exact science.
v In our offices you have the serv
ice of a Specialist in each distinct
department One man does one
thing all the tlme-knows It thor
oughly and does It well. '
Dr. Todd says: "See (hat you get
the lest. It pays in anything, es
pecially where health is invoiced."
Dr. G. W. Todd
Fourth Floor .Barker Blk.
15th and Farnam Sts.
Elevator Entrance on 15th Street
Men, Who Pilot Balloons At
Fort, All Still In Twenties
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Two of Officers, Omaha Residents, All Licensed Free
Balloon -Pilots by Federation Aeronautique Inter
nationale and Aero Club of America. ,
Balloon No. 1. -Capt.
Ashley C. McKinley, weight
180 pounds; age 24 years; home, St.
Louis,, Mo. ,
Rated as reserve military aeronaut-Rated
as aerial observor.
. Licensed ree pilot by the, Federa
tion Aeronautique Internationale,
and Aero Club of America.
Overseas in bajloon service on
western front nine months, in com
mand of the Twelfth Balloon Co.
Saw action in Argonne-Meuse and
St. Mihiel drives, his company be
ing cited three times for bravery.
r Second Lieut. James T. Neeley,
weijtht. 145 pounds; age, 24 years;
home, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rated as aerial observor.
Licensed free balloon pilot by
Federation Aeronautique Interna
tionale, and Aero Club of America.
Served two years with critisn ana
American transport service before
joining the army.
Balloon No. i.
First Lieut. Richard E. Thompson,
weight, ISO pounds; age, 24 years;
home, Seattle, Wash.
Real Estate Sales
Showing Large Gain
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30,000 of them have come here and
takei up their abode since January
1, this year.
The real estate men and rental
agents who have kept in close touch
with the situation, assert that the
demand for houses was never so
great as now. Good properties when
offered for sale are quickly picked'
and as quickly occupied by the pur
chasers. Prices have advanced to
some extent, or rather they are hold
ing firm. In the way of residences,
though, more than 900 have been
erected during the last six months,
not one is for rent. It is said to be
doubtful if tliere is a modern, up-to-date,
well located residence in the
city today that can be leased for a
long period.
New Additions Platted.
New-additions to the city are be
ing platted and vacant lots in the
older ones are being sold and built
upon, with the result that notwith
standing the high price of material
and labor, there is much more activ
ity than usual in the building line.
Not only are homes being erected
in every part of the city, but there
is great activity in the business and
factory building line. Right now,
according to what builders consider
a conservative estimate . there is
something like $6,000,000 of new
work under way, under contract, or
about to be started.
Many Large Plants.
Among some of the larger of the
propositions are the following:
Skinner backing plant and cola
storage house, $1,750,000; medical
buidling, Seventeenth and Dodge
streets, 16 stories high, $1,000,000;
Cole apartment house, .Thirty-third
and Farnam streets, $1,000,000; Hill
hotel, Sixteenth and Howard streets,
12 stories, $750,000; addition to Bur-
gess-Nash store building, 6 stories,
$500,000; American State bank, 20
stories, Nineteenth and rarnam
streets, $1,000,000; apartment house,
Thirty-eighth street and Dewey ave
nue, $250,000; apartment house. For-tv-ninth
and Dodge streets, $250,000;
Nebraska Oldsmobile office and stor
age house, Eighteenth and Howard
streets, $100,000, besides close to 500
residences, costing on ar average of
$3,000 each, or a total of $1,500,000.
Big Demand for Warehouses.
There is a crying demand for
warehouses and it is said that the
lack of them is keeping numerous
business concerns from locating in
the city. ' To overcome this short
age, a company is being organized
with a capital stock of ,$2,000,000. If
the plan goes through, this company
will begin the erection of at least
four properties along railroad track
age and lease its holdings to small
manufacturers and others.
While no particular locality has
the call on any other, there is con
siderable activity iu the Routftze
reserve property around Howard,
Seventeenth and Twentith streets
and St. Mary avenue. This prop
erty was placed on the market re
cently and a number of sales have
bee r.made.
Another locality that is attracting
considerable ' attention is Dodge
street from Eighteenth to Twenty
sixth. The Dodge street hill has in
the oast had a tendency to hold
down values on this property, but
now. with assurances that the grade
is to be cut and the probabilities
that Dodre street will be one of
the leading thoroughfares in and
Out of thebusiness portion of the
city,, there has been a sharp ad
vance in the prices of lots.
Relative to the medical building
at Seventeenth and Dodge streets,
it is announced that Mayden Broth
ers ill take over the entire base
ment and first floor, occupying it as
an addition to their store. Eleven of
the floors will be occupied by doc
tors and dentists, an optical com
pany will have one entire' floor and
a Rental siipply house will take
6,000 square feet of floor space on
another floor.
Runaway Boy Sentenced to
State Industrial School
Mike Mercurio, 14 years old, 2210
Pierce street, was .sent to Kearney
industrial school by Judge Troup in
juvenile court yesterday. Mike has
been sent- to ' Rivervie.w detention
home 21 times tn his young life be
sides trips to other homes. He ran
away from Father Flanagan's home
two weeks ago. Mike is the fourth
of his family to go to Kearney in
dustrial school.
Bottle 6f Spring Water Blows
Up In City Hall; No One Hurt
.A five-gallon bottle" of Elmwood
park Spring water blew up in the
welfare board office yesterday. The
bottle was resting upsidedown in a
cooler, when the bottom was blown
to the ceiling with a loud report No
one wjuipjttred, :l
Rated aerial observor.
Licensed tree oalloon pilot by the
Federation Aeronautique Interna
tionale and Aero C,lub of.Americ
Has spent long time in Philip
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Secohd Lt. James B. Jordan,
weight 159 pounds, age 26 year,
home Omaha, Neb.
Rated as aerial observer.
Licensed free -balloon pilot :by
American Federation, Aeronautique
Internationale and Aero Club of
America. ;
Balloon No. 3.
Second Lt. William E. Huffman,
weight 151 pounds, age 25 years,
homo Omaha. Neb.
Rated as aerial observer.
Licensed free balloon pilot" by
Federation Aeronautique Interna
tionale and Aero Club of America.
Second Lt. Willia'mE. Connolly,
weight 161 pounds, age 29 years,
home Scranton, Pa.
Rated as aerial observer.
Licensed free balloon pilot by
Federation Aeronautique Interna
tionale and Aero Club of America.
Denies Congress Right '
to Define Intoxicant
(Con tinned From Fara One.)
ever, but such as might reasonably
be employed to cover evasion of
the laws against intoxicating bev
erages. The witness asserted that
such power did not etfist and any at
tempt by congress to define intoxi
cating beverage's would be an in
vasion of the rights of citizens en
gaged' in the manufacture of such
lawful nonintoxicating beverages as
might fall within the classification
tKus made.
"Then congress is powerless to
enforce its own laws or the con
stitution," said Senator Overman.
"It is powerless to forbid the
manufacture of anything that is not
in fact intoxicating," the witness
said.
Mr. Untermyer t:timated the
amount of 2.75 beer now held by
the 1.200 breweries over the countrv
at 1,000,000 barrels.
Debate on Prohibition.
General debate on the prohibition
enforcement bill 12 hours of it
was concluded Saturday in the
Fine Laces
An unusually large line of
laces is on hand for your
convenience novelty, filet
ana venise in collar rvidths.
Valenciennes in sets, tor
chon, hand-made cluny,
real Irish and filet laces.
You may feel sure of fill
ing your requirements here.
Redfern Corsets
Front Lace
All the odd styles,
which cannot be ob
tained for fall, can be
had Monday at a great
reduction. Take advan
tage ofj this opportunity
and economize.
Third Floor.
Specials in
Silk Lingerie
Crepe de chine gowns,
well made, in becoming
styles, are priced $8.49.
Crepe de chine bloom
ers in white or flesh.
Special $3.49.
Crepe de chine envel
ope chemise, lace trim
med. Special $3.79.
Third Floor.
Reductions
35c hemmed huck tow
els for 25c.
35c blekched Turkish
' towels, Monday 25c
, $2.75 bath mats $2.
120 wash cloths with
colored borders 10c
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Toilet Articles
Less for Monday
White ivory picture .
. frames, Monday 45c
Kolynos skin soap,
Monday 15c a cake.
Bocabella Castile soap,
' Monday $1.89 a bar., :
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1 heTThornpson TBelden Store
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THIS IS THE CREW and the pretty sponsor of balloon No. 1
(From left to right), Capt Ashley C. McKinley, Miss Esther Wilhelm,.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wilhelm, 3023 Jackson street, and Lt
James T. Neeley.
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house and advocates and opponents
of the measure made ready for the
real battle that will begin Monday
when it is taken up for amendment.
Prohibition leaders admitted that
it was doubtful whether a vote
would be reached before Saturday.
"There will be a fight in every
line of the printed fext," they said,
first of yrhich will be over an at
tempt to split the three-part bill so
as to take up separately a straight
measure for enforcement " of the
wartime law.
Representative Igoe, democrat,
Missouri, startled some of the pro
hibition advocates by suggesting
that they raise no point of order
against a proposal to let the house
vote on an amendment to repeal the
wartime law.
This action had been expected and
half a dozen were known to , be
ready with the contention that such
an amendment was not in order.
Igoe Goes to Headquarters.
Mr. Igoe, in charge of the minor
ity attack on the bill, reported out
Tomorrow SILK SUITS
Have New and Lower Prices
A Seasonable
Our present stock of
fine silk suits num
bers about fifty.
They have been placed
in four groups and re
priced for a quick clear
ance. Tailored and sport
styles in tricolette,
pebblette, fan-ta-s,
poplin and i moire.
Our entire stock is included.
All Sales Final A Charge for
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Paras6Is...fArz)y
Ladies' or children's para
sols Vfith short handles and
loops of silk or rings for the
arm.
Trpo-in-one Sunranes or col
ored umbrellas in navy,
royal fcue," emerald green,
bottle green, nigger brown,
taupe, purple, red and black
Suit case umbrellas ihe
convenient inJ for travel-
by the judiciary committee, seemed
to sense the desire of the prohibi
tionists to step forward and crush
any such move. He ( went, there
fore, to headquarters and asked
Chairman Volstead of the judiciary
committee, in charge of the bill, to
use his influence among prohibition
members so as to let the question
be placed before the house for a de
cision. "In view -oi the fact," said Mr.
Igoe, "that the prohibitionists con
tend the majority of the people are
in favor of enforcement of wartime
prohibition, willvyou not give the
house a chancevto.vote a straightout
repeal?"
"That is a question I cannot an
swer," Mr. Vo.lstead replied. "I
haven't had time to consider it or
to take the matter up with those
who would have to be consulted."
That is all that was said on the
subject. But it was enough, oppo
nents of the bill said,, to show, that
the repeal motion would have no
chance in the bouse
Sale of Hot Weather Clothes
$45 to $6950
9&0
$75
to
$95
$98i to $125
$12950 to $175
Batiste Voile Tissue Gingham
Dresses...
A Sale Tbmorrow,
These are cool dresses for hot
"weather wear dresses to be ap
preciated by every woman sum
mering in Omaha.
$6,50 would be the usual price for
styles of such charm and goodness,
but for this sale only, they will go
for
$3.95
Sizes 16 to M
Summer fashions in great variety
are being offered in every part
of the store at July reductions...
POLICE CHIEF
a 010 PUAMnr k
SURGEON PUri
Ebersteln Requests Ringer
to Keep Physician at Sta
tion to Answer Emer
gency Calls.
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Edstrpm is not at the station' to r:
spond to accident calls.
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ties of his office, it had been the cus
tom never to allow the police station
to remain without a surgeon, who
was ready at a moment's notice to
respond to emergency calls.
Students Were Faithful.
Creighton university students here-,
tofore were stationed at police head
quarters. Thej( remained there in
shifts day and night and were ready
at all times to go with the police
ambulance on drownings or acci
dents of any character. When Mr
Ringer discontinued this system, he
failed to make the proper provision
to take care of the deficiency. Under
the former system the police ambu
lance never left the station without
a physician or a medical senior stu
dent on it. Under the present ar
rangement it is the rarest occurrence
that the captain at headquarters is
pany me amouiance.
The result has been the creation
of much dissatisfaction and unlink
itcd and bitter criticism on the par
of those who have had to suffer the
consequences. .1
Says System Is Wrong. '$
"Our system is wrong in prjnciT
pie and does not work out as we ex
pected it to," Chief Eberstein told
Commissioner Ringer. "We invaria
bly lose valuable time in looking for
a doctor when we are called on ati
accident. These doctors we have
employed do not stay in their oflieeis
during the hours fixed for them."
Police surgeons and members of
the police department are receiving
special instructions in regafd to re
viving victims rescued from the wa
ter. While this is very necessary in
the opinion of Chief Eberstcin, the
chief also believes it is just as lieftr
essary for physicians and policemen
to be on the job to answer a distress
call promptly. Several water vie
:ims already this season havedied
because of lack of medical atteii
ion. Suits, $292
Suits. $5150
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Suits,
Suits, $981
Alterations
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