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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.
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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
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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
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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
