THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. APRIL 26, 1920.
WAR INSURANCE
LAWS SIMPLIFIED
BY NEW MEASURE
Bill Eliminating Red Tape- in
Payment of Premiums
Approved by House
Committee.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Br leaned Wire
Washington, April 25. Wr vet
erans holding government insurance
will be able to pay their premiums
at their local postoffices if congress
passes a bill which has just been ap
proved by the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce.
The measure revises the war risk in
surance laws with a view to the
elimination of much of the red tape,
Representative Sweet of Iowa will
report the bill to the house early
next week. x
The plan as outlined in the bill
provides for the establishment of 14
regional offices in the United States
and outlying possessions. The bu
reau of public health service and
the federal board of vocational edu
cation have a like number of offices
and an effort is being made to co
ordinate the work, to be rendered
by these three government agencies
to soldiers, sailors and marines of
the recent war.
The bill also provides that the bu
reau of war risk insurance shall re
lieve from the payment of premiums
on renewal term insurance Jie fol
lowing persons: (a) .Those who are
receiving hospital care under the bu
reau, during the period they are re
ceiving such care; (b) those who
are receiving vocational training pur
suant to the vocational rehabilitation
act, during the period of such train
ing, and (c) those who are tem
porarily totally disabled by reason
of an injury or disease entitling them
to compensation, during the period
of such total disability. i
It is estimated that the amount of
premiums on renewable term insur
ance, the payment of which the vet
erans would be relieved of for the
fiscal year 1921, would be about
$5,000,000. The bureau is also di
rected to provide without charge
therefor, hospital, dental, medical
and surgical care and treatment for
all honorably discharged commis
sioned officers and enlisted men, dis
abled by reason of any wound or in
jury or disease contracted while in
the service of the United States.
"Made in Germany"
Trademark Causes Big
Stir at D. A. R. Meeting
Over 2,000 Attend Funeral
Rites for Howells Priest
Unusual Ceremony Observed in Services for Late
Rector of St. Johns Parish Many Clergy From
All Parts of the State Assist Former Soldiers
Take Part in Service at ,Grave.y
By AL GAYLORD
Howells, Neb., April 25. This
small Nebraska town was the scene
Wednesday of one of the most re
markable funeral services in its his
tory when nearly 2,000 friends and
admirers oi the Kieht Reverend C.
Zak, late rector of St. Johns parish,
turned out en masse to do him
homage at the grave.
A ceremony in which two sermons
delivered in two languages and in
which twenty priests took the places
of as many choir boys that they
might in such manner express their
love for their departed brother,
while 2,000 mourning parishioners
sat with heads bowed and hearts
overflowing with love and sorrow
such was the impressive last rite
at St. Johns parish for kind Father
Zak, its rector for sixteen years.
It was fitting that his oldest
friend in America the man who
started him on his ministerial career.
the Right Reverend Vranek, of
Omaha, should be the last to pay
high tribute to Father Zak. This
he did in the worshipful father's
native tongue the language of Bo
hemia. vThe sermon was delivered
n the English language by the Very
Reverend Ruesing. dean of West
Point, Neb., following requiem high
mass, which was celebrated oy
Father Petlach, of Verdigree.
Long Funeral Cortege.
Boys' from "Over There," mem
bers of the Albin Folda post, Amer
ican Legion, of which father Zak
had been honorary chaplain, headed
the long cortege which escorted the
body to St. Johns cemetery for
burial. Behind the ex-service boys
and next in line came the acolytes,
bearing crosses. These were fol
lowed by hundreds of children and
young people; Catholic Workmen
lodges; Catholic Western Unit
lodges; the band; the hearse, qoii
taining the body of the beloved
father; visiting priests; Catholic
Foresters; Knights of Columbus
and Ladies' Catholic lodges. The
last three units named carried a
magnificent floral offering. Then
followed many friends.
The rites at the grave were most
solemn' and impressive and the body
was placed in the tomb with mil
itary honors.
Among the rectors of Nebraska
parishes who attended the services
were the following:
Very Reverend Ruesine. dean.
West Point; Dean and Reverend
O'Sullivan. Fremont; Reverend Pet
lach, Verdigree; Reverend Drbal.
Dodge; Reverend Bat.i. Clarkson:
Reverend Pieper, Howells; Reverend
Vranek, Omaha; Reverend Moriar-;
ity, Norfolk; Reverend Sinne, Oma
ha; Reverend Buerger, Snyder: Rev
erend Zemp, Dodge; Reverend Braes,
Madison; Reverend Teeves. Peters
burg; Reverend Schncuttegen, Hart
ington; Reverend Broocker, Leigh;
Reverend Zalud, Bruno: Reverend
Vlaek, Schuyler; Reverend Tom
anek, Lynch; Reverend Folta. Haun;
Reverend Hilt. Hooper; Reverend
Korts. Olean; Reverend Ross, Wis
ner; Reverend Nomec, Prague; Rev
erend Polameski, Stanton.
Representatives also from the
various lodges in which Reverend
Zak held membership were present
from Fremont, Dodge, Clarkson,
Heun, Olean and Tabor.
METHODS OF HIGfl
FINANCE AIRED IN
U, S. SHIP PP.OBE
Iron Works Used Money Ad
vanced for Vessels to, Build
Plant, Is Charge Made Be
fore House Committee.
Washington, April 25. Discovedy
that souvenir 'postal cards sold at
the home of Washington at Mount
Vernon Bore the inscription "Made
in Germany" caused a furore at the
final session of the annual continen
tal congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Protests from , the floor were
checked by assurances of Mrs.
, George Thatcher Guernsey,. retiring
president, that such cards would not
be sold to tourists in the future.
The congress adopted a resolu
tion urging higher pay for teachers
and establishment of vocational and
educational schools at army posts.
After the newly-elected officers had
been installed the congress was ad
journed. Transport Workers
In Germany Defeated
The Hague, April 25. Both the
Rotterdam and Amsterdam trans
port laborers have decided to re
sume work Monday. The strike,
which lasted 10 weeks, has ended in
the defeat of the laborers, who re
turn to work under the old -conditions.
Negotiations have been opened to
end the boycott against Dutch ships
which was proclaimed by the Inter
national Transport Workers' federation.
Hobby Refuses Permit
To Mexican Generals
To Pass Through Texas
Austin, April 25. Request of the
Mexican government through the
State department at Washington for
permission for Generals Juan Jose
Rios and Manuel Gambo and their
staffs to cross Texas soil on their
way from Sonora to Mexico City
was refused by Governor Hobby of
Texas tonight. The party was to
travel unarmed as civilians. The
State department saw no objection
to granting permission and asked
the acquiescence of Texas to the
request.
Governor Hobby,, replying to a
telegram from Secretary of State
Colby, said he was "unalterably
opposed to the transportation of
Mexican troops or any military of
ficials thereof across Texas soil."
Such transportations, he said,
would likely provoke trouble" and
put American citizens on the border
at the mercy of the bandits.
Denies American's Appeal
From Homicide Conviction
Bombay, April 25. The chief
commissioner for Assam has dis
missed the appeal in the case of
Rev. L. W. D. Jackman. the Amer
ican medical missionary, . recently
sentenced to two years' imprison
ment for killing Maj. H. D. Cloete,
Mr. Jackman entered the appeal
March 28.
In giving judgment the commis
sions said that while admitting the
homicide had been committed in a
state of extreme mental affliction, it
could not be overlooked that Jack
man was a strong man armed with a
revolver, while Major Cloete. who
had fought in the war, was blind in
one eye.
"If," continued the commission,
"Jackman had said: 'Cloete, you
ruined my wife, I have bought a re
volver; get out yours, one of us
must die,' and if in the ensuing fair
fight Jackman had killed Cloete, I
would ha,ve reduced the sentence
from two years to two weeks."
Groom Wears Overalls
At New York Wedding;
Bride's Dress Cost $4
Chiraco Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire.
New York, April 25. In the snirit
ot the day was the wedding at th
Waldorf-Astoria hotel of Miss Gert
rude Reinhardt, daughter of Mr. an
Mrs. Joseph Reinhardt. Brooklyn, t
W. Ramsay Frederick of Pittsburgh
a tormer soldier in the air service
at Hempstead, L. I. The minister
the Rev. W. D. Tucker of the An
drews Methodist Episcopal church
Brooklyn, wore a well-fitting suit of
blue jeans. So did the bridegroom
and the best man, brother of the
bride, J. A. Renihardt,
Jl he bride s costurhe cost $4 to
cent and was a blue chambray with
a plain white collar. Her only at
tendant wore a blue checked ging
ham dress. Only members of the
family of the two were present.
some or the younger men wore
overalls.
The wdeding was followed by
reception, at which most of the
guests came either in denim, ging
ham or made-over garments.
Wants Wholesale Prices
Stamped on Shoe Soles
Washington, April 25. A bill re
quiring the manufacturers' priceS to
be stamped on shoes and other foot
wear as a means of reducing profits
and retail costs, was introduced to
day by Senator McNery, republican
Oregon, cflairman of the committee
investigating shoe prices.
The bill would be effective August
1 and would provide penalties 'of
$1,000 fine and two years' imprison
ment-
Barber Is Found Guilty
Of Killing Denver Woman
Denver, Colo., April 25. Lloyd E
White, a barber,, was found guilty of
the murder of Mrs. Hattie Wchman
in their rooming house here Febru
ary 19 last. Because the evidence
was circumstantial, life imprison
ment can be the only sentence. The
defense was insanity.
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Washington, April 25. Methods
of high finance employed by Charles
W. Morse of New York, who once
served a term in the federal speni
tentiary for the violation of bank
ing laws, were aired before the spe
cial committee of the house, which
is investigating expenditures for ship
construction.
Robert A. Dean, general counsel
for the shipping board, testified that
the board yesterday had taken steps
to restore the receivership over the
Groton Iron Works, Groton, Conn.,
one of the Morse companies, which
was lifted a month ago by the
board over the protest ofMr. Dean
and the. comptroller of the board.
Mr. Dean said that the company
Had mtornied the board that it was
unable to complete the three ships
now under construction for the gov
ernment and thats.it cannot meet its
pavrolls. '
The Groton lion works, according
to charges made before the com
mittee earlier in the week, built its
$3,000,000 shipyard by obtaining a
loan of $1,800,000 from the govern
ment and using for the greater part
of the balance funds advanced by the
government for the actual construc
tion of the ships. -
It developed at today's hearing
that former Secretary of the Treas
ury William G. McAdoo appeared
before the board in behalf of Mr.
Morse last September. Mr. Dean
testified that Mr. McAdoo made an
appeal for favorable treatment of
the former banker.
Tilden Adamson, deputy controllet
of the Emergency Fleet corporation,
tesitfied that one of the Morse com
panies which had contracted to pur
chase five ships built by the Virginia
Shipbuilding corporation, Alex
andria, Va., another of the Morse
concerns, had failed to make the re
quired initial payment of $500,000
on the Clement L. Morse, one of
the vessels.
PLANE AND AUTO
FAILED IN PINCH;
TRAIN DELIVERED
Gallant Students Balked in Plan
To Thrill Co-Eds With
Sky Ride to Omaha.
The University of Nebraska co-ed
are convinced that trains are su
perior at times to airplanes or even
automobiles, especially on rainv
days, when they have social engage
ments to keep.
miss meva uaistrom ana Mis
Rita Sullivan, both of Lincoln
planned to fly to Omaha Saturday
with E. L. Sloniger and Harry
Minor, university students, to at
tend the Kappa Sigma alumni dance
at the Hotel Blackstone last nicht
me two girls were on hand ear v
yesterday morning for the flight
lhe machine, a Canadian Curtiss,
was trundled out of the hanear. All
was in readiness.
Then the two rnen. who arc ex-
army flyers, beean lookmir at the
sky. The girls looked, too, and shiv
ered a little at the view. It was
dark, lowering sky. A drop of rain
ien.
Maybe we d better trv out the
atmosphere first," suggested Sloni
ger. -
Maybe you had." acreed the ciVIs
ui iainr. unison.
The men took off. ascendpH
teet and promptly returned.
Bad day tor flying, they report-
u. .ijujuc wc u ocucr iaKC an
automobile.
"Maybe we had." the eirls atrrejd
eagerly.
lhey had traveled but a short dis
tance in the automobile when thev
encountered muddy roads. The car
was stalled.
"Maybe we'd better take a train.'
one of the men suggested.
Maybe we d better, the eirls re
plied. ,
lhe journey on the prosaic tram
was made without delay.
Man Drops Boozs'Out
Of Window as Police
Pound at Front Dooi
Flood Causes 80-Mile Trip
To Cemetery Two Miles Away
O'Neill, Neb., April 25. (Spe
cial.) An 80-milc journey over two
railroads to reach the cemetery two
miles from the home at which she
died. will be necessary, for the fu
neral of Mrs. James Stanton, early
settler of Holt county, who died at
the Stanton home near Ewing
Thursday night.
The extended journey is neces
sary because of the swirling floods
of the Elkharn river and its tribu
taries which are too swift to permit
ferrying the funeral party across the
stream to the burying grounds al
most in sight of the Stanton home
stead. . . . ,.
The body was brought to Ewing
Sunday morning where services were
held. Sunday afternoon the funeral
party came to O Aeill over the
Northwestern railroad and Monday
morning will go out over the Bur-
ington to Orchard, Neb., trom
which place the cortege will pro
ceed by teams to the cemetery.
Two quart bottles of whiskv were
broken by being placed in a travel
ing' bag and dropped from a window
when the police raided a house at
2324 Howard street Saturday and
arrested Frank Kaul on charges of
keeping a disorderly house, illegal
possession of intoxicating liquor and
malicious destruction of property.
According to police, Kaul ran
upstairs and dropped the whisky out
of the window while 1hey were at
tempting to get in the front door.
Three other quarts of liquor were
found in the house, they claim.
A. Emerson, 835 South Tliirty
sixth street, and George Roth, 500
South Twenty-eighth street, were
arrested, charged with being inmates
of a disorderly house. ,
Form League of Nations
Association in Tokio
Honolulu, T. H., April 25. A
League of Nations association has
been organized in Tokio to educate
the people of Japan in the ideals of
the league, a Tokio cablegram re
ceived here by Nippu Jiji, a Jap
anese language newspaper, said. The
association is headed by Baron
Shibusawa.
MARTIANS ARE
NOT TRYING TO
SIGNAL EARTH
Experiments Were Not to
Prove Theory, But to
Settle Question.
ing our instruments, we searched
for the signals which we hoped to
hear.
Had Mars been endeavoring to
communicate with the earth, our
machines would have picked up the
waves which were cojing through
interstellar space, had those waves
been ot a similar nature to the wire
less waves generated on this earth.
As'a rewtlt of this experiment the
rfrflirfmn is irirlinf - ie liil 'Afoi-tf
tXperiWireieSStngineeraayS was not sending wireless signals
auring me time mat planet was
nearest the earth.
We are not disappointed at the
result. We did not undertake the
experiment to prove that wireless
signals were being sent from Mars
but simply to discover if such sig
nals were being sent. We would
(Dr. rrrtlrrirk H. Mllloncr. Omaha wir
lN9 engineer, who hnn been attempting to
vet in communication with th planet
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earth" ,r" ,ow"ra lt another planet. We realize that there
By DR. H. MILLENER,
, Wireless Engineer.
For three nights I have sought
through interstellar space for a sig
nal from Mars. I have found none
For three nights our wireless in
struments have been in condition to
receive messages ong-mating mil
lions and millions of miles without
the orbit of the earth.
No such messages have been
circulating through the ether. Or,
at least, no electric wireless waves
have been hurled at the earth by
the people of Mars. The Martians,
if there arc such beings, may have
been trying to signal the earth by
some other methods and means. But
they have not been trying to reach
lis with wireless waves in the last
three nights.
Had they been doing so, we now
would have had their message.
i lie question has. been raised as
to whether mysterious unrecognized
signals emanating from an unknown
source could possibly be the result
of .Martians endeavoring to com
municate with the earth. One of the
most interesting occupations of an
evening to the scientifically inclined
to listen in on the large un
damped wireless stations of the
world. This is doubly interesting if
t is coupled with listening for sig
nals trom another world.
To Settle Question.
Our experiments were conducted
with the purpose of settling the
question if Mars was endeavoring
to signal the earth by the aid of
wireless methods or by means of
radiant energy.
Our experiments were conducted
rom a station on a ranch sufficient
far from Omaha so that local
lectrical disturbances would be en
ireiy absent, lhe equipment was
constructed especially lor the pur
pose1 to which it was put by my co
worker, H. L. Gamer, and mvself,
t consisted oi a large coaxial cou
pier or tuner and a three-stage re
generated amplifying set. The an
tenna consisted of approximately 35
miles ot wires strung on telegraph
poles covering an area of over 10 to
20 acres. A sufficient amount was
sed for a counterpoise. This could
shortened or lengthened at will.
thus permitting us to pick up a mes
sage ot any wave length and ac
curately measure the same.
Starting with the wave length of
an average commercial station we
gradually lengthened our ' wave
length until that of Aew Brunswick
and Arlington were reached and
passed. Slowly increasing the wave
length until it, was loger than any
station, on earth, we added more at
tenna and counterpoise until all our
wire was in and then carefully
searching this backward and for
ward, carefullv tuning all the time,
continually adjusting and readjust-
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is no good reason why some time
in the future interplanetary com
munication should not be accom
plished provided there arc intelli
gent beings on other planets.
Anti-Wets Want Attorney
In "Rumbellion" Prosecuted
Chicago, April 25. Feeral prose
cution of Martin S. McDonough,
state's attorney of Iron county,
Michigan, in connection with the
Iron River "rum rebellion" was re
quested by the Illinois Anti-Saloon
league in a telegram sent to Attorney
General rainier and made public to
day. The action of the league fol
lowed conviction" of the Scalcucci
brothers, central figures in the Iron
River controversy.
Minors Show Great Growth
National Association of Minor
Base Ball leagues was organized 20
years ago. It began with nine leagues
and in 1912 reached its greatest ac
tivity, having 50 leagues enrolled,
embracing 336 towns and cities of
this country and Canada.
French Rail Workers Plan
Strike to Enforce Demands
Taris, April 25. The congress of
French railway workers voted to,
call an immediate general strike uuV
less the following demands re ac
ers removed on account of the Feb.;
ruary strike, abandonment of judi
cial prosecutions and recognition of
the national union.
The congress .lad appealed to
Premier Millerand to intervene in
the case of the dismissed men, but
he refused to do so. The congress
calls upon the people of France to
uphold its decision in the interests
of the republic.
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