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12 THE BEE : OMAHA, FRIDAY." AUGUST 1, 1919- DEATH OF OPERA SINGER DDE TO FALLRECENTLY Palmiro Aleotti, Thought to Have Been Heat Victim, Found to Have Frac tured Skull. Palrniro Aleotti, Italian opera singer, died yesterday morning in the county jail from a fractured skull received in a recent fall, ac cording to Dr. C. F. Shook, who per formed an autopsy at the Hoffman Funeral home. A brain hemorrhage reseulted from the fracture, according to Dr. Shook. Deputy County Attorney Steinwender has not decided wheth er an inquest will be held. Antonio Venuto, Italian vice consul in Oma ha, is attempting to communicate with friends or relatives of Aleotti. Aleotti, who lived in San Fran cisco, was on his way to Boston, where, it was said, he was to meet his company and make final ar rangements for the approaching season. When his train reached Co lumbus, Neb., Wednesday, the man became suddenly and violently in sane. He broke out one of the car windows and threatened every one on the coach. Word was sent to the Omaha police. The man was taken off the train here and lodged in the county jail. He was placed in the hospital ward, but when he attempted to hatter down a door with a chair. Jailer Clayton placed him in a cell. Up until a late hour Wednesday he wis resting quietly, and, according to attendants, gave every indication of being in excellent physical con dition. When Deputy Jailer Pospi chal passed the man's cell at 6 yes terday morning Aleotti was lying on the floor dead. The coroner ordered the body taken to the Hoffman Funeral home. Aleotti had been in this coun try only a short while. He came here from his home in northern Italy. He had no relatives in the United States. The man had be tween $25 and $30 in his pockets, and checks aggregating several hun dred dollars. Aleotti talked to Samuel Man cuso of Omaha, who will be asked to communicate with the dead man's relatives and close friends. ;.- "He said he had no relatives in this country," said Mr. Mancuso, "but he told me. he was born in Para, Italy, and socmcd to be of aristocratic parentage, so it should be easy to cable to them." Omaha Members of Purdue Alumni Form New Chapter Here The, Omaha alumni of Purdue university at a dinner held at the Happy Hollow club Wednesday night organized an Omaha chapter of the Purdue University Alumni association. George Ade. the author, and John McCutcheon, the cartoonist, who are both graduates of Purdue, are be hind an active campaign to organize the alumni of the university throughout the country. George Ade has assumed the responsibility of editing the Purdue Alumnus, which is the official journal of the Alumni association of the university. Those present at the dinner were: Alva Baynes, J. M. Berkheiser, D. C. Uucll, J. W. Ernst, R. E. George, E. R. Houghton, V. R. Hasty, S. B. Hughes, E. G. Maxwell, E. H. Or chard and H. S. Porterfield. . E. R. Houghton was elected pres ident of the Omaha chapter, and D. C. Buell, secretary. Luncheons will be held on the second Friday of each month at the University club. It is expected that a number of Purdue men in Nebraska and eastern Iowa will affiliate with the Omaha chapter. Woman, Accused by Mother of Being Insane, Still Held Mrs. Eva Sternberg, 27 years old, arrested last night on complaint of her mother, Mrs. S. W. Carter, 1806 Ohio street, alleging insantity, is 6till held at the police station pend ing an inquiry into her mental state. Mrs. Carter said last night that her daughter declared she would slay her father. Mrs. Sternberg, ac cording to relatives' statements, was confined for a time in the state asy lum for the insane. EGG -0-LATUM MS It eoeta only one cent per dozan esrars to use Etfff-o-latum. There 1 no other expense. Egg re kept In carton or box In cellar. 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Also it is fine fb freshen up a tired face in hot, depressing weather. Adv. TTDRUISES CUTS I CUansa thoroughly Jill reduce in Ham , nation by cold wet eompreasee apply '.- tightly, without friction JTt VicirsVAPftpi tYOW.R.BOOY4UAJgB"-jo?cfiQ2350 5 FisTTr THE WOMAN IN BLACK By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY Copyright. 1919, by the Century Company. CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Escape. "By the way, I may tell you this: in the extremely unlikely conting ency of Mrs. Manderson remaining awake and so putting, out of the question my escape by way of her window, I had planned simply to remain where I was a few hours, and then, not speaking to her, to leave the house quickly and quietly by the ordinary way. Martin would have been in bed by that time. I might have been heard to leave, but not seen. I slipuld have done just as I had planned with the body, and then made the best time I could in the car to Southampton. The difference would have been that I couldn't have furnished an unques tionable alibi by turning up at the hotel at 6:30. I should have made the best of it by driving straight to the docks and making my ostenta tious inquiries there. I could in any case have got there long before the boat left at noon. I couldn"t see that anybody could suspect me of the supposed murder in any case; but if any one had, and if I hadn't arrived until 10 o'clock, say, I shouldn't have been able to answer: 'It is impossible for me to have got to Southampton so soon after shoot ing him.' 1 should simply have had to say I was delayed by a break down after leaving Manderson at 10:30, and challenged any one to produce any fact connecting me with the crime. They couldn't have done it. The pistol, left openly in my room, might have been used by any body, even if it could be proved that particular pistol was used. No body could reasonably connect me with the shooting so long as it was believed that it was Manderson who had returned to the house. The suspicion could not, I was confident, enter any one's mind. All the same, I wanted to introduce the element of absolute physical impos sibility; I knew I should feel 10 times as safe with that. "So when I knew from the sound of her breathing that Mrs. Mander son was asleep again, I walked quickly across her room in my stocking feet and was on the grass with my bundle in 10 seconds. I don't think I made the least noise. The curtain before the window was of soft, thick stuff and didn't rustle, and when I pushed the glass doors further open there was not a sound." "Tell me," said Trent as the other stopped to light a new cigarette, "why you took the risk of going through Mrs. Manderson's room to escape from the house? I could see when I looked into the thing on the spot why it had to be on that side of the house; there was a-danger of being seen by Martin or by some servant at a bedroom window if yrtu got out by a window on one of the other sides. But there were three unoccupied rooms on that side: two spare bedrooms and Mrs. Man derson's sitting room. I should have thought it would have been safer, after you had done what was necessary to your plan in Mander son's room, to leave it quietly and escape through one of those three rooms. . . . The fact that you went through her window, you know," he added coldly, "might have suggested, if it became known, a certain suspicion in regard to the lady herself. I think you under stand me." Marlowe turned upon him with a glowing face. "And I think you will understand me, Mr. Trent," he said in a voice that shook a little, "when I say that if such a possibility had occurred to me then, I would have taken any risk rather than make my escape by that way. . . . Oh welll" he went on more cvolly, "I suppose that to any one who didn't know her tne idea of her being privy to her husband's murder might not seem so indescribably fatuous. Forgive the expression." He looked attentively at the burn ing end of his cigarette, studiously unconscious of the red flag that flew in Trent's eyes for an instant at his words and the tone of them. That emotion, however, was con quered at once. "Your remark is perfectly just," Trent said with an swering coolness. "I can quite be lieve, too, that at the time you didn't think of the possibility I mentioned. But surety, apart from that, it would have been safer to do as I said: go by the window of an unoccupied room." "Do you think so?" said Marlowe. "All I can say is I hadn't the nerve to do it. I tell you, when I entered Manderson's room I shut the door of it on more than half my terrors. I had the problem confined before me in a closed space, with only one danger in it, and that a known dan ger: the danger of Mrs. Manderson. The thing was almost done: I had only to wait until she was certainly asleep after her few moments of waking up, for which, as I told you, I was prepared as a possibility. Barring accidents, the way was clear. But now suppose that I, car rying . Manderson's clothes and shoes, had opened that door again and gone in my shirt sleeves and socks to enter one of the empty rooms. The moonlight was flooding the corridor through the end win dow. Even if my face were con cealed, nobody could mistake my standing figure for Manderson's. Martin might be going about the house in his silent way. Bunner might come out of his bedroom. One of the servants who were sup posed to be in bed might come round the corner from the other pas sage I had found Celestine prowl ing about quite as late as it was then, -v None of these things was very likely; but they were all too likely for me. They were uncer tainties. Shut off from the house hold in Manderson's room I knew exactly what I had to face. As I lay in my clothes in Manderson's bed and listened for the almost in audible breathing through the open door I felt far more ease of mind, tprrible as my anxiety was, than I had felt since I saw the dead body on the turf. I even congratulated myself that I had had the chance, through Mrs. Manderson's speaking to me, of tightening one of the screws in my scheme by repeating the statement about my having been sent to Southampton. nodded as who should say that his point was met. "As for Southampton," pursued Marlowe, 4'yox know what I did when I got there, I have no doubt. I had decided to take Manderson's story about the mysterious Harris and act it out on my own lines. It was a carefully prepared lie, bet ter than anything I could improvise. I even went so far as to get through a trunk call to the hotel at South ampton from the library before starting, and ask if Harris was there. As I expected, he wasn't." "Was that why you telephoned?" Trent inquired quickly. "The reason for telephoning was rt n...Fu :..n .. ' iu ISi lujacii iiiiu ait aiuiuuc 1114 which Martin couldn t see my face or anything but the jacket and hat, yet which was a natural and familiar attitude. But while I was about it, it was obviously better to make a genuine call. If I had simply pre tended to be telephoning, the peo ple at the exchange could have told you at once that there hadn't been a call from White Gables that night." One of the first things I did was to make that inquiry," said Trent. "That telephone call, and the wire you sent from Southampton to the dead man, to say Harris hadn't turned up and you were returning both those appealed to me." A constrained smile lighted Mar lowe's face for a moment. "I don't know that there's anything more to tell. I returned to Marlstone, and faced your friend the detective with such nerve as I had left. The worst was when I heard you had been put on the case no, that wasn't the worst. The worst was when I saw you walk out of the shrubbery the next day, coming away from the shed where I had laid the body. For one ghastly moment I thought you were going to give me in charge on the spot. Now I've told you everything, you don't look so ter rible." He closed his eyes, and there was a short silence. Then Trent got suddenly to his feet. "Cross-examination?" inquired Marlowe, looking at him gravely. "Not at all," said Trent, stretch ing his long limbs. "Only stiff ness of the legs. I don't want to ask any questions. I believe what you have told us. I don't believe it simply because I always liked your face, or because it saves awkward ness, which are the most usual rea sons for believing a person, but be cause my vanity will have it that no man could lie to me steadily for an hour without my perceiving it. Your story is an extraordinary one; but Manderson was an extraordin ary man, and so are you. You acted like a lunatic in doing what you did; but I quite agree with you that if you had acted like a sane man you wouldn't have had the hun dredth part of a dog's chance with a judge and jury. One thing is beyond dispute on any reading of the affair: you are a man of cour age. The color rushed into Marlowe's face, and he hesitated fJr words. Before he could speak Mr. Cupples arose with a dry cough. "For my part," he said, "I never supposed you guilty for a moment." Marlowe turned to him in grateful amazement, Trent with an incredul ous stare. "But," pursued Mr. Cup ples, holding up his hand, "there is one question which I should like to put." Marlowe bowed, saying nothing. "Suppose," said Mr. Cupples, "that someone else had been suspected of the crime and put upon trial. What would you have done?" "I think my duty was clear. I should have gone with my story to the lawyers, for the defense, and put myself in their hands." Trent laughed aloud. Now that the thing was over his spirits were rapidly becoming ungovernable. "I can see their faces!" he said. "As a matter of fact, though, nobody else was ever in danger. There wasn't a shred of evidence against any one. f looked up Murch at the Yard this morning, and he told me he had come round to Bunner's view, that it was a case of revenge on the part of some American blackhand gang So there's the end of the Mander son case. Holy, suffering Moses! What an ass a man can make of himself when he thinks he's being preter-naturally clever!" He seized the bulky envelop from the table and stuffed it into the heart of the fire. "There's for you, old friend! ror want of you the world's course will not fail. But look here! It's getting late nearly seven, and Cup ples and I have an appointment at half-past. We must go. Mr. Mar lowe, goodbye He looked into the other s eyes. "I am a man who has worked hard to put a rope round your neck. Considering the circum stances I don't know whether you will blame me. Will you shake hands?" (Continued Tomorrow.) Habeas Corpus Writ Asked to Get Man Out of Jail Habeas corpus proceedings were started in district court yesterday to secure the release of Georee Ric-hv fTwenty-ninth and Parker streets. from the city jail, where he has been held for the last two weeks. Rigby was fined $10 and costs on a vagrancy charge. He says he of fered to pay the fine, but police offi cials refused to accept the money. Captain of Detectives Dunn de clared that Rigby was being treated for a disease, and that it was lawful to hold him under a new city ordi nance. Rigby's attorney said that police could not hold a man in the city jail for treatment, although if he had been placed in the detention home it would have been lawful. Council Orders Streets Vacated for Ak-Sar-Ben A resolution was passed by the city council yesterday at the request of the board of governors of Ak-Sar-Ben, vacating Capitol avenue from Fifteenth to Twelfth streets and Fourteenth and Thirteenth streets, between Dodge and Dav enport streets, during the Ak-Sar- Ben carnival this fall, September 24 GRAIN PERMIT SYSTEM IS NOT NEEDED HER Officials Say Wheat Is Moving Out Nearly as Fast as It Is Coming in. Officers of the United States Grain corporation are surprised at the telegraph report from Washing ton to the effect that August 1, the railroad administration will inaug urate the permit system in the mat ter of handling grain. So far as officers of the grain cor poration have been able to ascertain no congestion exists at any of the grain terminals. They are advised that in Chicago elevators are only partially filled. Here in Omaha the storage capacity available is something in excess of 9,000,000 bushels. All told only about 1,500, 000 bushels of grain is in storage. In Kansas City conditions are about the same as in Omaha so far as storage capacity is concerned. In Omaha while receipts are fair ly heavy, running around 200 to 22S carloads a day, the wheat is mov ing out nearly as rapidly as it ar rives. Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin millers are taking fairly large quan tities, while Minnesota is drawing heavily? It is said that the Minnesota and North Dakota wheat crop is short and that consequently the mills of these two states will take a large portion of the Nebraska surplus. With the present conditions main taining and indications that the de mand for Nebraska wheat passing through the Omaha terminal ele vators will continue for a long time, corporation officials see no reason why the permit system on ship ments should be applied here in the near future. . Lights Work 0. K. In Beardsley Home and Robber Finds Rings "Sent to inspect your electric light meter," suavely declared a well-dressed man who appeared at the home of Mrs. E. A. Beardsley, 103 South Fiftieth street Wednes day afternoon. The maid admitted him. The man switched on the electric light button in the library. "Working all right here," he as sured the maid. He examined sev eral other rooms, gave the meter in the basement a casual glance and ascended to the second floor of the Beardsley home. The maid left him. He Jooked honest. When he finished inspecting the upstairs rooms and assured the Beardsley maid again that the elec tric meter was in admirable working condition he left. Mrs. Beardsley phoned police a few minutes later that a diamond ring set in platinum valued at $750 and another in solitaire setting worth $350 were missing. Ex-Convict Poses as Mute; Is Held for Investigation Harold Desmond, to whose given name the police have affixed the sobriquet of ""Desperate" was ar rested Wednesday night by detec tives while posing as a mute and so liciting alms from house-to-house. Desmond attained notority three years ago in Omaha when he was ar rested as a burglar suspect and con fessed to robbing 26 drug stores to satisfy his craving for "dope." He received a prison sentence of three years. Police are holding him for investigation. In his pocket was found a certificate from a sanitarium in Hamond, Ind., saying he had be come a mute through illness. AMUSEMENTS Many Clean Amusements BATHING DANCING RIDES THRILLS PICNIC GROUNDS FREE ATTRACTION THIS WEEK Aronty Brothers in Their Awe-Inspiring Novelty Act on the Hifh Double Perch t 9 o'clock. My Heart and My Husband ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of "Revelations of a Wife" What Madge Found When She Reached Home. I reached home feeling tired, dis pirited, almost exhausted with the extreme heat of the early summer day. With the nervous tension of the day still upon me, I dreaded in finitely the round of trivial, but necessary, duties which generally awaited me, little executive details of the housekeeping, patient listen ing to my mother-in-law's perfunc tory wails concerning Katie and the occasional discipline which my little maid required. Even the hour with my baby, usually a time looked forward to all day, appeared sud denly an arduous task for which I had neither strength nor inclination. But to my surprise and relief, there -was nothing for me to do when I entered the house. Katie, peacefully shelling Ipeas upon the screened side veranda, had a watch ful eye for "Richard Second," sprawled blissfully asleep upon the dainty-sheeted crib mattress which I had had placed upon the grass rug of the veranda in order that he might get as much coolness as possi ble. She smiled brightly at me as I came in, but spoke in a careful murmur, that she might not waken the sleeping child. "You look so warm," she said, "vy you not go to sleep, too?" "Mother Graham?" 1 queried, for I knew that my august mother-in-law would consider herself highly insulted did I not look for her as soon as I returned from school. "Oh, she sleep, too, joost go oop stairs half-hour ago." Katie dim pled, chuckled at some recollection. "I joost went troo hall 10 minutes 'go, she snore so, I tought maybe it not her after all, maybe vun t'under storm." Peace and Quiet. "Is my father home?" "No, he go to city on noon train. He get letter dis morning, coom by dot special delivery boy, und when he read it he say he must go qveeck by de city und he vent," finished Ka tie, succinctly. The news brought no especial disquiet, for I surmised that his summons was from Lillian and that she had devised some means of tell ing him without bringing me in that he was free from the woman who had been hounding him. With my mind and conscience suddenly freed from all responsibilities, I thought longingly of a cold tub, shower, a possible nap in my large, airy, shaded room and lost no time in making my wishes facts. I was aroused from a wonderful dreamless sleep by the continuous long-drawn-out honking of a power ful motor horn. It seemed to be al most under my windows. Annoyed by the sound, but too indolently comfortably to investigate, I lay still until. 1 heard the musical, high pitched voice of women in excited, admiring exclamation, recognized the voice of little Mrs. Durkee as she declared: "Does Madge know? Is she home? Come on, let's find out. She'll be daffy over this, too." The voices shrilled an assent, then drew nearer my window. I recog nized the widely differing voices of Rita Brown and the Fairfax girls mingled with the deeper tones of Dickey and Alfred Durkee. Some thing extremely pleasureable had happened I gathered that from the excited, pleased voices. I sprang from the bed, calculated swiftly the costume which would take th least time to put on and de cided upon a lilac tinted shimmery frock, with few complications of fastening. By the time Katie knock ed at my door I had donned white silk hose, white pumps, under frillies everything but the gown, and was twisting up my hair into the care less coiffure Dicky likes best. Katie's face was protesting as I opened the door. I knew that she objected to waking me, but that her protests had been of no avail. "I knew dot old horn vake you," she grumbled, with eyes wide open at my almost completed toilet. "And now dey all say for you to coom downstairs qveeck as you can." "Tell them I'll be there directly," I said, putting the last shell pins in place and picking up the gown pre paratory to slipping it over my head. "Quit eet," said Katie, preemptor ily. "You spoil dot hair fix. I do dis." She took the gown from my hands, eased it carefully over my coiffure, deftly, swiftly putting the fastenings in place. "Dere," she said, stepping back a pace or two and eyeing me critically. "I tell you sometings. You joost knock de spots off dot old maid cat vot tink all de mens joost tink she's de whole ting." (Continued Tomorrow.) Omaha Balloon Men to Start Recruiting Campaign Saturday To stimulate recruiting and arouse interest in the balloon service, seven trucks, carrying three officers and 50 men, will leave Fort Omaha Saturday and travel to St. Louis, where the men will participate in the international balloon races in that city from August 23 to 28. Several, bailoons will be carried by the trucks and ascensions will be made at points along the route. The first stop will be made at Malvern, Ia., on August 2. The con voy will remain here for a week and make flights at a fair to be held in that city. The convoy will touch at 12 points in Iowa and Missouri before reaching its destination. Kick of Mule Fatal To Prominent Omaha Horse Commission Man B. J. Smiley, Drake Court, one of the veteran horse commission men of the country, was fatally kicked by a mule at Watertown, S. D., Wed nesday. He died in a hospital there before his wife and son, Victor Smiley, could reach him. Mr. Smiley, aged 63, was known throughout the United States, hav ing controlled one of the biggest ,horse and mule commission com panies in the country at Indianapolis for years. During the war he bought and shipped thousands of horses and mules to the allies. For the past two years he had been located in Omaha. He is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters, Victor Smiley and Warren Smiley, of Oma ha: Wallace J. Smiley, of Denison, Tex.; Mrs. Emery Cox, Atlanta, Ga.p and Mrs. George Tovey. Bedford, Ind. He also is survived by the fol lowing brothers and sisters: Louis, Charles and William Smiley, and Mrs. L .E. Damron and Sadie Hoop inparner, all of Ohio. The funeral will be held from Dodder's chapel, Cuming and Twenty-fourth streets, Saturday, at 2:30 p. m. Army and Navy News Briefs - Lt. Randall F. Curtis, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. .S. Curtis, 4923 Cass street, landed in New York Monday after more than a year's service in France, according to word just re ceived by his parents. He is at tached to the 350th infantry, 88th division, and saw active service on the Alsace Lorraine front. For sev eral months Lieutenant Curtis at tended the School of Economics in London. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. Prior to his enlistment he was connected with the Dodds Lumber company. C. of C. Has Many Openings For Soldiers Back From War. The great number of calls coming to the soldiers' employment bureau of the Chamber of Commerce is' taken to mean that at this time there is no necessity for men in Omaha remaining idle. Kight now, Mrs. Mabel Walker, manager of the Chamber's employment bureau has 35 to 40 good paying positions to " give out. " There is a great demand for bookkeepers, office men, as well as for mechanics and laborers. Few diseases are more to be dreaded than pains in the stom ach and bowels resulting from indigestion. Such attacks are quickly cured by Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. When in need of a purga tive, do not resort to vio lent cathartics, but take the gentle, natural laxative Bcecbams Pills UtKrt Sale of Anr Medicine in th. World. Sold .Tarywhsr.. In Boxes, 10c, 25c Opportunity knocks at your door every time you read The Bee Want Ads. 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IT'S COMING TO THE Rex Comfort Orpheum Suburban Maryland Boulevard Park Alhambra Lyric 14th and Every Douglas Sunday 24th and Every Vinton Tuesday 24th and Every M Wednesday 24th and Every Ames Wednesday 13th and Every Pine Thursday 33d and Every Leavenworth Friday 16th and Every Cass Monday 24th and Every Parker Wednesday 16th and Every Vinton Sunday rivll-l jItvu "TWO SHOWS IN ONE" NELL EL8ING t COMPANY: DELMORE FISHER 4 DELMORE; STONE t MANNING: BILLY KELGARO. Photoplay Attraotls. BESSIE BARRISOALE la "Ths Woman Mlchatl Married" BASE BALL ROURKE PARK ST. JOE vs. OMAHA AUGUST 1st, 2d and 3d Friday is Ladies' Day. First came called at 2 p. m. Box seats on sale at Barkalow Bros. Cigar Store, 16th and Farnam. PHOTOPLAYS. to October 4. These are the streets Marlowe looked at Trent, who included in the carnival grounds.- DOROTHY GISH in "NUGGET NELL" Also the CHICAGO BALLOON x DISASTER in PATHE NEWS wl A. H. Blank. J Presents Elsie Ferguson -in- "The Avalanche" FLORENCE REED -in- "THE WOMAN UNDER OATH" w V Norma Talmadge in The Devil's Needle" LOTHROPf!',L"d -r j a c a,..-i ,., t" i t luody anu 3aiuiuny, vunDiain,e iBimaafe in in "The Veiled Adventure." Mack Sen- ! V nett comedy 'His .Wife's Friend." Ju TODAY THE TELEPHONE PROPERTIES ARE RETORNED After a year of Federal control the telephone prop erty, which makes up the Bell Telephone System, is to day returned to its owners by the United States Gov ernment. While the property has been properly maintained, it is not the same property which the Government took over on August 1, 1918. It is not as adequate for its job or as well manned as it was. That it is not is in no way the fault of Federal control which was eminently fair. It is due to causes for which neither the Government nor the Company are to be blamed. A year ago today we were at war. Labor and ma terials needed for both telephone operation and con struction were turned to military uses. Some materials were so vital to the carrying on of the war that even the work of providing telephone facilities for the Govern ment was retarded, and no part of them could be spared for commercial telephone purposes. No less vital was the Government need for those skilled to create, maintain and operate the vast inter-communication systems neces sary in modern warfare and in the conduct of the vastly increased Government services. Thousands of telephone men were already at the battle front. Thousands more were under arms, and still more and more telephone ex perts and skilled operators went into the service of the Government and contributory industries. The reserves of the plant and equipment were drawn upon until they were entirely used up and our experienced staff was grad ually depleted. To find others to take the places of those who had gone was difficult; to train them takes time. During the year came victory and the armistice, and instantly the business world sprang into intense activity. The demands for telephone service passed all former records. To replace the exhausted reserves which had been carried for just such purposes and to replace the skilled forces, and to meet this unprecedented emergency, there began a rush for construction, for readjustment, for high pressure repairs, for feverish extensions. All these must be continued with increased efforts. The return of the property comes in the very midst of this race between an overpowering demand for tele phone service and an upbuilding of a system where growth was held back and where, forces were scattered by the vital needs of war. Much progress has been made in the upbuilding of this system, but far more is still required to meet the swift growth in business and also to give first aid to every other business and every other service struggling against an unprecedented demand. Under such conditions, telephone service generally has not been and could not be up to the pre-war standard. It is beyond human power to immediately overcome the handicap which the situation imposes. There are no people in any public or private endeavor who are work ing more tirelessly or strenuously for the common good than those of the Telephone Company. Telephone service must be improved and it is being, improved rapidly, but in some localities it will take months to get back to normal. Everything is being done that can be done to restore pre-war service at the earliest possible moment. NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY