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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919.
HIGHEST HONOR
PAID A.E.F. IN
CAPITAL OF U. S.
Washington Suspends Busi
ness to Review First Division
Men Led by Pershing; City
Given Over to Merriment.
Washington, Sept. 17. (By The
Associated Press.) Hoarse with
cheering, Washington rested tonight
satisfied that it had paid full honor
to Gen. J. J. Pershing and the fight
ing men of the First division.
,The nation's victory parade was
over. For nearly three hours a roll
ing flood of soldiers, of guns and
horses, of tanks and motor trucks,
had poured up Pennsylvania avenue
without check or halt to pass the re
viewing stand where alood Vice
President Marshall representing
President Wilson. The wide street,
ran bank full with its grim, living
tide of fighttTig power and organiza
tion: and as the great pageant was
unrolled before their eyes, the hun
dreds of thousands, of people who
formed those banks roared and
shrieked with pride and approval, the
sound of their cheering slowly dwin
dling at the end, but only from
physical exhaustion.
Pershing Heads Column.
Riding at the head of the mighty
column, General Pershing was car
ried forward along the whole line of
inarch as though on a wave of sound
as the nation and city gave him his
formal greeting. To no American
since Admiral George Dewey came
home in triumph from Manila has
uch an ovation been tendered. Nor
Jia the end yet come; for tomorrow
rongress will formally add its tribute
to that of the city and the nation and
with business put to one side, tender
the expeditionary commander a for
mal reception at the capitol.
Never has Washington witnssed
t such a military pageant as that
' ' which today flooded its great Vic
tory way. Men in greater numbers
have marched there in review, but
iiever has the full pomp and panoply
of war been thus given to the public.
In Full Equipment.
Fresh from the loyal tribute paid
them in New York the men of the
First division marched with full
fighting equipment From the pon
derous six-inch howitzers of the ar
tillery to the diminutive one-pounders
and grotesque trench mortars,
the full strength of the divisional
artillery was there. From the thick
clustered bayonets -of the infantry
masses to the grim lines of machine
guns mounted on motor trucks, the
small arms of this great fighting unit
were on display; and from the lum
bering mills of hooded supply and
ammunition trucks to a roaring, clat-
tering cavalcade of whippet tanks,
the tools of every phase of modern
warfare were represented.
In addition to the division's own
equipment, special service detach-
ments from the engineers, a pon-
, toon bridge section, a motorized
machine shop with its planes and
drills in motion, and even a mobile
laundry unit were in line.
FAIR FOOD PRICES
We notice- recently in the press a
list of the committee's prices. In it
they quote:
Best Creamery Butter, per
package 65c 63c
At the store on the corner of Six
teenth and Farnam the busiest in
tersection in Omaha hundreds of
people have, for more than a month,
been buying the finest creamery
butter sold in Omaha at 58c.
No finer eggs have been sold than
have been sold there during this
period, mainly at 45c and less.
Thousands patronize that store. As
high as 600 dozen eggs and 1,200
single pounds of butter have been
sold there in a day.
Will not the press be sufficiently
interested in the high cost of living
to investigate the source from which
this committee obtains the prices
they so proudly and mistakenly
publish? A CONSUMER.
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South Side
South Side Drivers Are
Confused by New Whistles
South Side traffic police are
greatly excited over their newly ac
quired whistles. The crowds of
pedestrians and automobile drivers
are confused by the shrill noise and
miss the former signaling. However,
ihe policeman on the corner of
Twenty-fourth and N streets soon
realized the situation and uses both
whistle and signal, saying, "Never
mind, they'll soon get on to the
trick. The whistles were used years
ago with good results and few acci
dents and we expect them to work
again."
Auto Thief Leaves Car
When Stalled in the Mud
An automobile thief yesterday nar
rowly escaped an accident and
abandoned the stolen car at the rail
road embankment on South Thirty
fourth street. Dr. E. F. Shanahan,
4839 South Twenty-fourth street,
notified the police that his sedan
was stolen from his garage during
the night. At the same time the
police station got another call that
an automobile was stalled half way
down the railroad embankment. Evi
dentlv the driver of the stolen car
skidded backward and was stuck in
the mud.. The police found the
automobile and returned it to the
owner, but they are still searching
tor the thief.
South Side Brevities
Special Purchase of
Fall Waists On Sale
Next Saturday,
Union Outfitting Co.
Annual September Fur Sale
Prices 20 Less Than
.'. You'll Pay Later On.
A Magnificent Stock of the
Most Fashionable Furs
to Select From.
Just when we are all sighing
for a becoming waist or two to go
with the new fall skirt or suit
comes this welcome news of a big
Special Purchase Sale at the
Union Outfitting Company next
Saturday with a saving of almost
HALF.
The waists are all clean, fresh
and new; direct from a maker
noted for the originality of his
styles, and the sale price is less
than you could buy materials and
make one up yourself.
The majority are made of Geor
gette or Crepe de Chine in pink,
white, flesh, blue and all the
lewer fall shades such as Apricot,
Peachbloom, Adriatic, Bermuda,
etc. -;
The September Fur Sale should
not be overlooked ; if you love
beautiful furs, for the savings
are 20 over the prices you will
have to pay later on..'-;.
There are Scarfs, Sets, Coats
and Coatees of almost every
wanted fur, in styles that will be
in good taste for years.
These unusual events further
amphasize the growing Buying
Power of the Union Outfitting
Company, located just out of the
High Rent District. As always,
you make your own terms.
Shormnn Cox. formerly a live utork
rommtsmon merchant of South Omaha
la In the city viniting old business friends.
Ho now lives In Los Angeles. t;al.
The marriage of .Mtfs Bessie Mertlik,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Meta
llic, 715 O street, to John Laolna, Jr.
Twenty-second and O streets, will take
place Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lacina
will make their home In Omaha.
Mrs. Alice Crumb, wife of A. Crumb
an instructor in the United States flying
corps, and son. Aubry, have returned to
their home in Norwich, N. T., after visiting
Jlr. ana Mrs. u. H. Brewer or this city.
Hurricane Death List
Nears Three Hundre
(Continned From Face One.)
keepsakes found on the bodies of
the victims are being preserved and
filed with the county recorder in the
hope they may later be of use to
relatives and friends as a means of
identification.
A military airplane circled over
Corpus Lhnsti and over Fort Aran
sas yesterday afternoon and re
ported that many bodies could be
discerned at Port Aransas, but that
a landing was impossible because
of the high water.
Twenty Soldiers Missing.
Military officials were exerting
every resource today to ascertain the
late or 20 or more soldiers who were
washed out into the bay while the
storm was at its height and of whom
there has been found no trace. The
men, members of Company I, 37th
infantry, and other regiments on
border duty, were at the government
rest camp here for a week-end fur
lough when the camp was washed
Ewav.
Capt B. M., Egeland of Webster,
S. JJ.. camo commander, wa-
drowned during the storm, and his
wife also is believed to have lost
her life.
Attempts were being made today
to rig out several sailboats to cross
Nueces bay to rescue 25 persons
who are reported in desperate
straits at White foint. '
A written message from Judge P.
A. Hunter of Rocita, Tex., was
brought into Corpus Christi today,
saying 25 bodies Were at White
Point and that 25 refugees there
were starving.
Wreckage Hides Bodies.
That there are several acres of
wreckage floating in back waters of
Nueces bay that will yield a large
number of storm victims when the
high waters recede sufficiently to
permit searching parties to approach
is an unofficial report made tonight
by one of the military aviators from
Kelly field, San Antonio, sent here
to aid in scouting. A number of
islands in the bay also are covered
with debris which probably hides
many additional bodies, the aviator
said.
Tomorrow the planes will start
scouting over the entire bay section
about Corpus Christi, Port Aransas,
Aransas pass, Rockport, Portland,
White Point, Rosita and Odem. Re
ports will be furnished rescuing par
ties which will be equipped with
boats.
Thirty pounds of yeast for local
use were dropped here today by an
airplane from Kelly field. On ac
count of muddy fields the ship did
not land.
Tremendous Damage.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 17. Rockport
and Port Aransas suffered tremen
dous damage and need outside as
sitance immediately, according to
delayed appeals from those cities
received today by Governor W. P.
Hobby. Three lives were known
to have been lost at Rockport, one
at Aransas Pass and four at Port
Aransas. The governor announced
that a relief train will be started
from Austin within the next few
hours.
The appeals came to the governor
in two telegrams, dated 8 p. m., Sep
tember 16, and said 75 per cent of
the dwellings at Rockport had been
completely wrecked, Port Aransas
practically destroyed, and Aransas
Pass badly wrecked, with half the
population homeless.
Schooner Wrecked.
Rockland. ' Me.. Sent. 17. The
three-masted schooner Hugh De
payens was wrecked between Flor
ida and Cuba by the recent hurri
cane, according to a radio message
received today by L. L. Snow com
pany, the owners, .from the Cuban
steamer Olinda.
Captain Atwood B. Norton of
Rockland and the crew of six men
were taken off by the Olinda. The
steamer was bound from Mobile for
Ponce, Porto Rico, with lumber.
Salvation Army Offers Its
Service to Stricken Cities
Enid. Okl.. Sent. Col.
George Wood, chief southwest! di
visional officer of the Salvation
Army, left last night for Dallas to
proffer the assistance of the organ
ization he represents to the flood
victims in Corpus Christi. He wiret'
uovernor nobby yesterday putting
the southwest division at the state's
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Covenant Pruned
By AD Other Nations
(Continued From Fag One.)
document which I present to you,
without investigation, analysis,
amendment or reservation.'
What is His Theory?
"Upon what theory does he thus
limit the action of what is supposed
to be the great democracy of the
world? When did the president of
the United States possess the power
to say to its people and its congress
'You must?' When this league of
nations was discussed at Paris,
Great Britain would not be a party
until Great Britain was given six
votes and in this fashion Great Brit
ain amended it. France declined to
subscribe to the league unless
France was given an offensive and
defensive alliance by the United
.States, and although the president
had denounced up to the Very mo
ment that he signed it, any special
alliance or any separate agreement
with any nation, he yielded to
Clemenceau and brought back to us
the special alliance against which he
had so often declaimed. Thus
France amended the league, Japan
declined to sign the league until
given Shantung, with its 38.000,000
Chinese. The president whispered
he would never consent and forth
with he yielded and consummated
the Shantung infamy. Thus Japan
amended the league."
"Just one country is denied the
privilege by Mr. Wilson of pro
tecting its life, its treasure, its sov
ereignty, its blood and its future,
and that . country is the United
States.
In the audience were Chief Jus
tice Andrew Morrisey of the Ne
braska supreme court, a democrat;
former Governor C. H. Aldich, jus
tice of the Nebraska supreme
court; Chancellor Samuel Avery of
the Nebraska state university and
Charles W. Bryan, brother of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan.
Senator Johnson will be tendered
a luncheon tomorrow by the Com
mercial club of Lincoln, after which
he will leave for Duluth, Minn.,
where he speaks Friday night.
Successful Strike of
Actors Boosts Prices
of Theater Tickets
Br UnlTenal Berries.
New York, Sept 17. Old high
cost is now getting busy with the
theaters. Orchestra seats tor Broad
way shows have already been ad
vanced from $i to and special
Deductions" are charsinfir - still
higher prices. Ticket brokers say
the charge for orchestra seats in
many houses will soon be $3 to $3.50
plus war tax. Balcony seats will ad
vance in proportion.
One ticket broker when asked to
day for the cause of this advance in
seat prices said:
"Well, the actors won their strike,
dtdn t they? "
Interrupt President
In San Francisco Talk
(Continued from Fage One.)
given the empire and that was not, in
the mam, a voting body. He declared
the assembly could vote to admit a
new member to the league or to rec
ommend to any member a recon
sideration of such treaties as appar
ently are in conflict with the cove
nant, but aside from those two func
tions, he said, no action could be tak
en without the concurrence of the
American delegate under the unani
mous vote rule.
The council, where the great na
tions are on an equality and where
unanimity is required, Mr. Wilson
declared, was the league's agency of
action. The assembly was largely a
forum, he said, where the conscience
of the world could be brought to
play upon the questions likely to
lead to war.
Shantung Provision.
Turning to the Shantung provi
sion of the treaty, Mr. Wilson said
that neither the United States gov
ernment nor the men now protest
ing against the Shantung award had
made any protest against the origi
nal cession of rights there to Ger
many. Later, he continued, France,
Great Britain and other great pow
ers took Chinese territory without
anv objection from this country.
Every great European power, the
president asserted, now enjoyed
special privileges .in China, in some
cases at the expense of China's
sovereignty. But he declared Japan
had promised to return everything
that savored of sovereignty to
China.
Then, he asserted, the only way
to get Shantung away from Japan
was to go to war. A woman near
the front of the hall asked "what
is the league of nations for then?
The president continuing his sen
tence said the league offered for
the first time a tribunal betore
which China could bring her com
plaint about the wrongs she had
suffered for years. The crowd
cheered the statement.
Forum for Agitation.
It was not in the province of
the peace conference said the presi
dent to consider the question of
self-determination as affecting peo'
pies other than those formally uir
der the sovereignty of the central
empires. But under the league, he
added, such questions would be
brought under the jurisdiction of
the great powers. It would oner,
he declared "a forum cm which to
conduct a successful agitation.
"If they're not satisfied with
that," he added, "their case is not
good."
More applause followed the state
ment, and there was another out
burst of cheering when he said
confidently that the United States
was going to be in the league.
Reading a quotation from a for
mer German statesman, the presi
dent said those opposing the treaty
were trying for a result which
would be welcome to Germany. It
was inconceivable, he continued,
that Germany now would be able
to separate the United States from
the other powers as she had been
unable to do by force of arms.
Mr. Wilson said it was impos
sible to work out industrial reforms
as long as the peace treaty uncer
tainty continued. Ratification of
the treaty, he said, would be the
first step toward preventing any
sort of minority from dictating in
the United States.
$5,000,000 Bond Issue
For Omaha Schools
(Continued from Fare One.)
against asking the people to vote for
such a large amount.
- The board generally favored the
Construction of the proposed High
School of Commerce as soon as pos
sible at Thirty-second and Cuming
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streets, i ne Duuaing program pre
pared by Superintendent Beveridce
will be carried out with such modifi
cations and changes as conditions
warrant, it was decided. Superin
tendent Beveridge estimated that
the $5,000,000 bond issue would be
sufficient for the Omaha public
school system for from five to eight
years.
' Program for Building.
The building program which will
be used if the bond issue carries, as
prepared by Superintendent Bever
idge, is as follows:
Four-room addition to Mason,
S43.U0U.
Fotir-room addition to Lake,
$45,000.
Sixteen-room and auditorium new
Saratoga school, $200,000.
Sixteen-room and auditorium
Walnut Hill school. $200,000.
Twelve-room building replacing
Benson Central. $135,00.
Eight-room Sherman school, $90.-
000.
Six-room Belvidere school, $66,-
000.
Six-rom Minne Lusa school, $66.-
000.
Auditorium for Park and Clifton
Hill, $53,000.
Junior high schools:
Thirty-four-room Twenty-second
and Chicago. $550,000.
Thirt v.twn.rnnm af Twerttv.fmiWk
and Corby, $500,000.
lwelve-room building west of
stock- yards, $200,000.
1 wenty-two-room addition to
South high, $350,000.
Senior high schools:
North high to accommodate 1.200.
$1,000,000.
Complete Commercial Technical
high, $700,000.
New sites and additional around.
$800,000. '
Total. $5,000,000.
Ransom Paid Mexicans
Ordered Returned to U. S.
Mexico City, Sept. 17. The sec
retary of the treasury has been or
dered to make immediate payment
to the United States government
of 10,000 pesos representing the sum
paid to obtain the ransom of Lieuts.
Harold G. Feterson and Paul H
Davis, American aviators, who were
captured by Mexican bandits in Au
gust. The money will be delivered
by a special messenger from the"
Ireasury department
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Known for more than thirty-three years as
the very best place for silks of quality. A
reputation that is more than upheld by pres
ent showings of new materials for Fall.
The wardrobe planned now will be more
successful than the one started later on in
the 'season, for present displays are more
than ordinarily complete with every fash
ionable weave, pattern and color.
for Evening Wear...
New arrivals in satins, Georgettes, crepe
meteors, and many exclusive novelties in
the loveliest of dainty light evening shades.
The Th ompson-Belden Store is an
authority) in matters pertaining to fabrics.
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To hear these famous artists on the Victrola
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Any Victor dealer will gladly demonstrate the Victrola and play any music
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Gold Mesh Bags
Made either in the
double miser bags or
in plain styles, $5 toy
$20 each.
The Parisian woman is
wearing huge combs
and pins to complete
her costume. We have
a number of very at
tractive tortoisa shell
and black combs set
with rhinestones of blue,
green or white, $2.50 to
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Fall Wear
More Manhattan
shirts, more Eagles,
too. In madras, fibre
and silks that are
beautifully patterned
in fast colors.
Neckwear that is of
the most distinctive
character. The sort
you will fancjf im
mediately. 1 Justin. A new shirt
for formal wear. It's
fashioned with pique ,
bosom and cuffs. Also
a very good looking
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' the carpet beater as it echoes and re-echoes
against the rugs hanging in the back yard is soon
doomed to eternal silence.
Now the housewife can clean her rugs thor
oughly where they lie on the floor no need to
move them no dust-laden air to breathe for we .
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