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THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1919.
SCHOOL BOARD
UNDECIDED ON
NEW BUILDINGS
Adjourns to Wednesday Night,
When Full Membership Will
Vote on $5,000,000
Bond Issue.
The Board of Education last night
failed to arrive at a decision on the
amount of school bonds that should
be submitted to the voters at the
November election. An adjourned
meeting will be held Wednesday
night, when it is expected that a
full membership of the board will
be present and a decision reached
on the bond question.
At the regular meeting of the
board, Tuesday evening, September
2, J. II. Beveridge, superintendent
of instruction, submitted a pro
posed building program which he
believed would serve Omaha for a
period of five to eight years. That
program carried an estimated to
tal of $5,1X10,000 and was outlined
in detail at that time.
City Board Undecided.
The school board members are
divided as to whether to submit
the entire program to the voters
this fall, or to go at the task piece
meal. A test vote of nine members
present last night resulted in five
voting for $2,500,000, one for $1,000.
000 and three for $5,000,000. Those
who favored submitting the entire
amount at one time were W. E.
Reed, president of the board; Ed
ward Hmvaldt and Dr. J. H. Wal
lace. "I think we should ask for what
we can use within a reasonable time.
As long as we will hot be able to do
all of the work in less than four or
five years, I will not vote for the
S5,000,()00 proposition," said C. O.
Talmage.
"I believe that we would be practic
ally certain of $1,000,000, which would
enable us to build the new High
School of Commerce, whereas if we
submitted the $5,000,000 we might
jeopardize the whole thing," was an
expression by F. A. Brogan.
"They will vote for $5,000,000 as
ftire as we ire sitting here." Dr. J.
H. Wallace.
Outline of Program.
The $5,000,000 program contem
plates building the proposed en
larged high school, for which there
is already nearly $1,000,000 in the
school building fund, and it also con
templates a North Side High school,
junior high schools at Twenty-second
and Chicago streets and Twenty-fourth
and Corby streets; addi
ons to Central and South High,
various new elementary schools and
several additions to elementary
chools; also improvements such as
fi e escapes on various ichool build
ings. ihe members estimated last night
that $2,500,000 would complete the
High School of Commerce fund
now available, build a north high
school, permit an addition to South
High and proyide money for minor
improvements, auch as the fire es
capes. '
Outlining to the board a few of
the details of the growing school
system, Mr. Beveridge stated that
there are now nearly 2,000 pupils in
Central High school, the largest en
rollment in the history of the school
and nearly 400 more than this time
last year. He also stated that next
week 541 hew attendants will enter
High School of Commerce, bringing
the enrollment of that institution to
nearly 1,300. There are 2,100 more
children in the public schools than
this time last year.
The following teachers were added
to the assigned list: Mary E. Keeler,
Ethel M. Whiteley, Yvette Wil-
- Hams, Elsa Zack, Nellie Orme, Ebba
Sorenson and Edward G. Perley.
Want Sidewalks.
School patrons of Gibson district
asked the board to intercede with
the city council with a view of ob
taining better sidewalk facilities to
Bancroft school.
Telephones were ordered placed in
all schools at the expense of the
school district. The numbers will be
silent and the telephones will be
used only for school business.
Edward Huwaldt was transferred
from the buildings and grounds and
purchasing committees to the finance
and claims and teachers' committees.
C O. Talmage was appointed chair
man of the finance and claims com
' mittea to succeed E. G. McGilton,
resigned.
The board declined to sign a peti
tion designating brick as material for
repaving near Central High school
en account of the city refusing to
allow the school district damages on
account of the grading. The board
maintains that if no damages are al-
- lowed the school district should not
be required to pay for the repaving.
Covenant Is Called
War Trust by Johnson
(ConUned From Pas Oh)
held in cruel subjection like the Ko
reans or Chinese will ever be striv
ing for their liberty and the self-determination
for which we talked so
much and did so little. It means
that the great democracy of the
world our country must not only
continue a party to the denial of
these peoples' rights whenever they
are asserted, but to our diplomatic
denial we will add denial economic
ally and by force of arms, too.
"I am not quarreling that our al
lies make Germany pay the full
price," continued Senator Johnson.
Fears Secret Bargains.
"I do quarrel with requiring our
treasure and our blood for all time
in the future to preserve the spoils
of war to England, France, Italy
and Japan under secret bargains,
which in bad faith were concealed
from us during the war. During
the war we, properly and rightly,
made every sacrifice. We are de
manding now at its close none of its
spoils, but in the name of America
let us at least refuse to be treated
as part of the spoils. Out of the
war Great Britain comes with a su
premacy of sea unquestioned. By
the treaty she has a fourth of the
earth's surface and an overwhelm
ing preponderance of the peoples of
the earth. Great Britain proudly
contemplates out of this peace a
British world. Shall we, who nei
ther ask nor get anything from this
peace, guarantee this British world
with our wealth and our manpower?
France and Italy and Japan emerge
with territories beyond the wildest
dreams of their statesmen, and it is
demanded that America shall un
derwrite all their immense acces
sions; "We have been told by the presi
dent that we must now by this
league of nations make the supreme
sacrifice and throw in our fortune
with the rest of the world. Why?
The very query evokes from league
enthusiasts immediately an angry
retort, and, while they will not en
lighten us, they hint darkly at our
motives and even our good faith.
Are Partly True.
"Occasionally we hear that we
have at least entered upon a world
career, that we have become a part
of world politics and that we can
not now either withdraw from the
course into which the war drew us,
or desert the world which so needs
us. In the language of a famous
editor of the westr-'All of this is
partly true,' but it by no means es
tablishes that we must surrender our
cherished position or our loved
ideals by becoming a party to the
sordid quarrels and the diplomatic
duplicity of Europe and Asia. The
United States will play its proud
part in the world in the future as
it has done in the past a part
prouder because based upon Amer
ican principles and American ideals.
It did not require secret treaties and
stealthy bartering of unwilling peo
ples to make our nation play its
part in the war: it floes not require
the guaranty of secret treaties and
bargaining and bartering of unwill
ing peoples to have the nation play
its part after the war. Throwing on
our fortune with the fortunes of the
rest of the world means with our al
truistic brethren throwing our for
tunes to the rest of the world that
the rest of the world may do with
our fortune as it sees fit. Gladly will
we do what duty commands and hu
manity and civilization may require,
but that duty can "be better done, our
obligations to humanity and civiliza
tion better fulfilled in the high posi
tion of the world's greatest democra
cy than in the subordinate position
of the least consequential of a quin
tuple alliance, or as one of many
bound irrevocably to the guaranty
of the many's power and territories.
League of Armed Nations.
"This is not a league of nations
to prevent war. It is a league of
armed nations in a gigantic war
trust. In its very creation it has
been stripped of every idealistic pur
pose it ever had. It contains within
itself the germs of many wars, and
worse than that, it rivets, as in the
Shantung decision, the chains of
tyranny upon millions of people and
cements for all time unjust and
wicked annexations. It is a great
world economic trust, wherein a few
men sitting in secret may control the
economic destinies of peoples. It is
not a league of peoples nor does it
anywhere concern itself with peo
ples whose past wrongs and future
rights were so eloquently portrayed
by the president. It is a trust of
existing present power. It will never
prevent war, it will sanctify power
in a new, a terrible and sinister
sense."
Senator Johnson left for Sioux
Falls, S. D., where he speaks to
morrow night.
To afford the interior connection
with the Aegean sea the new
Serbian government is planning to
build a 375-mile barge canal from
a point on the Danube to Saloniki.
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HURRICANE TOLL
IS 130 DEAD AND
PROPERTY LOSS
Bodies Found Floating in the
Gulf; Relief Trains
Are Rushing
Supplies.
(Continued From Psga One.)
floating in Neuces bay tonight,
where they were washed out by-the
waves. They were clinging to
spars and debris and what few boats
were left undamaged by the storm
were being used tonight to recover
them.
The known dead here are:
MRS. ROSA ROBNETT, tourist,
address unknown.
MRS. RAKER, wife of the oroori-
etor of the Pavilion hotel
JACOB DORAN.
W. L. MITCHELL.
UNIDENTIFIED WHITE
BABY.
THREE MEXICANS.
Another unidentified body is in
the court house, which is being used
as a morgue.
Two Reported Missing.
Missing.
Captain C. M. Eckland, Company
I. 37th infantry. U .S. A., command
er of the rest camp.
Harry bpiker, wite, married
daughter and daughter's two chil
dren. The city is without water. There
were no lights or gas tonight and
the food supply was insufficient.
The railroad to the causeway has
been washed away, but the town
can be reached from the west.
Word was received tonight that a
train is coming north from St.
Louis, Brownsville and Mexico. It
was believed supplies could be &tni
from Laredo.
The entire north beach residen
tial section of the city has been
swept clean, except the Spohn san
itarium, the United States public
health service hospital, which was
occupied by 37 soldiers sent here
for treatment, and one frame house.
Frame Buildings Destroyed.
Practically every frame building
on the beach front was destroyed,
together with most of the boats
moored there. The residence sec
tion on the hill -was slightly dam
aged, and a few houses were un
roofed. The damage was caused mostly
by the tidal wave driven in from
the north by a gale estimated at
from 65 to 70 miles an hour. The
official record of the ride places it
at 10 feet, 6 inches deep, but many
say the water was 15 feet in depth
on the beach.
Chapparal and Mesquite streets
in the business district were flood
ed, and while the water receded to
night, they are filled with debris.
Military rule was put into effect
this afternoon.
The storm started here Saturday
night with a light breeze from the
north, steadily increasing in in
tensity, while the tide rose rapidly.
There is no life-saving station here
and when it became evident the
north beach section was in serious
danger,, scores of volunteers
plunged through the surf, helping
the people of cottages to safety.
Many left their homes early on
Sunday morning and came into the
business district, but scores re
mained until there was great diffi
culty in getting women and chil
dren out.
Patients Rescued.
Thirty-five patents were in the
Spohn sanitarium and all were res
cued. The building was half destroyed.
The soldiers undergoing treatment
at the public health service hospi
tal on the north beach were not
removed, and the hospital tonight
is caring for 250 refugees, women
and children.
The damage in the business dis
trict was done by the high tide and
the driving rain which came
through north windows, blown in
by the gale. Nearly all the win
dows on the north side of the Neu
ces hotel were broken and the
water at one time was four feet
deep in the hotel lobby.
The Pavilion hotel was swept
away, but Mrs. Baker is the only
occupant known to have perished.
Port Lavaca Safe.
Port Lavaca, Tex., Sept. 15. Port
Lavaca and neighboring towns are
safe after the tropical hurricane
which caused damage estimated at
$150,000 here.
Messages received here from Port
O'Connor, Seadrift and Austwell
say they are safe.
Postal Union to Carry
Smead Case to A. F. L.
Omaha Postofnce Clerks' Union
No. 134, of the National Federation
of Postal Employes, adopted a res
olution Sunday afternoon condemn
ing the Postomce department on ac
count of the removal of A. C.
Smead from the Omaha postofnce.
It is alleged that Mr. Smead was
removed from the service on ac
count of his activities in local labor
controversies. The postal employes
intend to take Mr. Smead's case to
the executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
POLICE WALKOUT
MAY NOT ,CAUSE
GENERAL STRIKE
Sentiment Favors Recourse to
Courts to Reinstate Strik
ing Officers.
Boston, Sept. 15. There are
grounds for hope that a general
strike in sympathy with the police
who quit their posts last Tuesday
may be averted. These were found
largely in the sentiment which fa
vored rescourse to the courts in an
effort to have the strikers rein
stated. Strike sentiment is known to be
strong in certain union quarters,
and Frank H. McCarthy, New Eng
land organizer for the American
Federation of Labor, and President
M. J. O'Donnell of the Central La
bor union, in a formal statement
justified the action of the police in
striking, and attributed to Police
Commissioner Curtis complete re
sponsibility for the lawlessness that
ensued.
Commissioner Warned.
They also pointed out that the
commissioner's rule forbidding the
affiliation of the police with the
American Federation of Labor was
not promulgated until after the
charter had been sought, and that
the commissioner had been warned
three weeks before the strike of
what would happen if he attempted
to enforce his new rule.
Counsel for the labor leaders. con
ferred with their clients and it was
reported that the supreme court
might be asked to grant a writ of
mandamus compelling the police
commissioner to reinstate the strik
ers. The adjournment Sunday with
out provision for another meeting
before next Sunday of the Central
Labor union was accepted as indi
cating that a general strike was not
imminent. The general strike would
not be declared until the central
body had canvassed the votes now
being taken by affiliated unions.
Recruit New Force.
Meantime the recruiting of a new
police force is proceeding and the
first of the new men now in train
ing will appear on the streets next
Monday. With the state guard and
the volunteer police on duty until
the new department is thoroughly
organized, it is believed that the city
will not see a repetition of the dis
orders, at least unless a general
strike is declared.
The first attempt to disorganize
the normal life of the city will be
the signal for the bringing in of
whatever number of federal troops
may be necessary to protect life and
property. Provision also has been
made to replace any striking men
or women who are engaged in duties
vital to the welfare of the city.
Interrupt Reavis
While Pleading to
Have Bill Amended
Washington, Sept. 15. (Special
Telegram.) Representative Reavis
in an effort to amend a bill before
the house making it a felony to
transport stolen automobiles from
one state to another by insisting
that the bill should include stolen
property of every character and
not one kind specifically, started a
small riot among Missouri and
Kansas members by his description
of the locality in which he resides.
He said he lived right in the south
eastern corner of Nebraska within
four miles of the Kansas line and
10 miles of the Missouri line, "where
every opportunity is offered for
transporting stolen vehicles in in
terstate commerce." Representative
Phil Campbell of Kansas rose to
interrupt but he had hardly gotten
the "Mr. Speaker" into action when
Representative Ricker of Missouri
was on his feet for purposes of in
terrogation. "I refuse to yield to either gen
tlemen," said Mr. Reavis amidst
laughter, but Representative Rucker
launched his question, "Does the
gentleman refer to automobiles
taken from Missouri into Nebras
ka?" when Reavis reiterated, "1 re
fuse to yield," and the house roared,
and then he proceeded to show the
necessity for amending the bill.
Packer Hearing to Open
in Chicago Wednesday
Chicago, Sept. 15. Presentation
of evidence in the government's in
vestigations of the packing industry
will begin before the federal grand
jury here Wednesday, according to
an announcement by Isador J,
Kresel, special attorney for the gov
ernment. At least a month will be
required to complete the hearing, he
said. One hundred subpoenas for
witnesses have been served in New
York, St. Paul, Denver, Omaha,
Kansas City, Fort Worth and other
cities.
Bidding on Mink Skins
Jumps Fur Sales Total
St. Louis, Sept. 15. With collec-l
tions amounting to $675,000 as a re
sult of bidding on 84,000 mink skins,
buyers at the sale of the Interna
tional Fur Exchange registered to
tal sales of $8,650,000 since the open
ing last Wednesday.
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Washingeon, Sept. 15. Senator
Thomas, democrat, Colorado, dis
cussing the Boston police strike in
the senate today, declared "the little
finger" of Samuel Gompcrs had
proved as powerful as the law of
the commonwealth of Massachu
setts, for at a word from him strik
ing policemen agreed to return to
work.
"But the governor refused to re
instate them, and properly so," said
Senator Thomas. "The governor of
Massachusetts, an American citizen,
measures up in this instance to the
mayor of Seattle, a naturalized
American."
Confer Regarding Military
Occupation of Asiatic Shores
Paris, Sept. 15. (Havas.) Gen
eral Louis Franchet d'Esperey, com
mander of the allied forces in the
near east, has conferred with Field
Marshal Allenby concerning, it was
said, military occupation of the
Mediterranean litterol of Asia Minor.
Government of Mexico to
Probe Pueblo Outrage
Denver, Colo., Sept. 15. Follow
ing the receipt of instructions from
ignacio Bonilla, Mexican ambas
sador at Washington, A. J. Oritr,
Mexican consul here, with Jurisdic
tion over Mexican subjects in Colo
rado, Wyoming and Utah, an
nounced early this afternoon that
he would proceed to Fueblo within
24 hours, to investigate the lynching
of Salvadore Ortez and Jose Gon
zalez. Mexican subjects, at Fueblo
late Saturday.
The message from Senor Bonillas
came in answer to a preliminary re
port of the affair made by Consul
Ortiz, Similar instructions hav
been received by Mr. Oritz from
Ramon de Negri. Mexican consul
general at New York, and from J.
Garza Zertuche, Mexican consul
general at San Francisco.
Pittsburgh Steel Men
Prepared for Strike
Pittsburgh, Sept. 15. Union lead
ers here in the movement to or
ganize iron and steel workers said
today they had no information that
the proposed strike in the steel in
dustry would be deferred until after
the industrial conference in Wash
ington October 6.
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