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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1920. BARE SKELETONS AS RICE DIVORCE CASE IS HEARD Vyife of Baird Doctor Laughs . Scornfully at Husband's Plea for Return in V Judge Sears' Court. Mrs. Gladys Rice, who is suing her husband, Dr. Glover C. Rice of Baird, Neb., in Judge Willis Sears' court for divorce, laughed Scorn fully with one of her attorneys Sat urday night iwhcn her husband testi fied that he still loved her, desired her return to his home, and was will ing to support her for a reasonable length or time if she would drop her divorce suit and consider reconciliation. Dr. Rice on Stand. Dr. Rice was on the stand testi fyine in answer to allegations of nonsupport brought out by wit nesses for the plaintiff at previous hearings in the case. He recounted the circumstances of their engage ment and marriage at Kansas City, while he was on duty as a medical officer in the army. -Concerning his financial contribu tions to his wife's support, Dr. Rice testified that he bought her several items of clothing, including- the dress in which she was married, the day before the ceremony. After that, lie said, he opened a bank ad count in Omaha for their joint use, in which something over $600 was deposited, from which he drew about $73. Further, he allotted her 51,500 of his pay while serving in r ranee, and sent $50 to her just be lore embarking for overseas. He Got One Suit.' ' Out of this money she purchased a diamond for $575, he testified, and also bought a pearl and a large Amount of clothing. Since his re turn he has supported her, he said, for himself he has bought only, one uit of clothes since his discharge from the army, last June. Last tall, Db. Rice testified, he borrowed $500 to pay for an operation for his wife. The note has not yet .been paid, lie. said. - In cross examination Anson H. Eigelow, attorney for Mrs. Rfce, sought to have Dr. Rice explain his attitude which hopes for the return of his i wife, after he had introduced a leten, supposed to have been writ ten to her by a former admirer. Dr. Rice .testified during this examina tion that he had never told another man he could escort Mrs. Rice to dances. v Got Permission, She Says. Mrs. Rice, next witness, declared that permission was given, to a Scottsbluffs friend of hers to take her to dances, if she should be there when one was held. She further tes tified, in closing, that when She left Dr. Rice's home she came to Omaha with the intention of making .her home here. ' Closing arguments by the ' attor neys, Mr. Bigelow for the plaintiff, and Former Judge A. L. Sutton for Dr. Rice, will be heard by Judge Sears tomorrow morning, just be fore the Skinner-Howe case comes up. There was no resumpton of hos tilities between Mr. Sutton and Mr. Bigelow, following the altercation yesterday morning in which the for mer was struck by Mr. liigelow, fol lowing the alleged calling of a name. lailroads Appeal to Commission for Aid (Continued From First Pat.) rnodities, and all of these elements were greatly complicated and em phasized by the recent switchmen's strike. In the opinion of the rail road companies, the situation is such v as to warrant and require emer- , gency action similar to that taken When this country entered the; war. ' "Without the exercise of the In: . terstate Commerce commission of its emergency powers, the railroad companies are themselves not able t afford the relief necessary because they are subject to general laws, fed eral and state, govening transporta tion and cannot legally prefer traffic except under very limited conditions, Jrtior' discriminate between shippers, sections of the country or commod ities. The unauthorized switchmen's strike, iSdded to the general Scarcity 'of labor,' reduced available operating forces, so that all of the transporta tion needed, including the movement , of empty cars, cannot now "be sup plied. As a result the fuel and food .situation is assuming threatening proportions, increasing the cost of living and affecting the banking and . credit "conditions throughout the country in a manner requiring imme ' diate relief. , ' Use Emergency Powers. "The emergency powers referred to are granted to the Interstate Com merce commission by section 402 of the transportation act. These pow ersmust be exercised in order to es tablish necessary legal preference and priority in the movement of oil, fuel and other vital commodities es sential under .present conditions. 'They are also required to secure the movement between" designated rail roads 'of empty grain, refrigerator, ope"n top and other cars needed to .accommodate the movement of the particular commodities which they are designed to transport. "A petition was filed, signed by a number of important railroad com panies, including the Southern Pa cific and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Northern Pacific, the Pere Marquette, the St. Louis San Francisco, the Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul, the New York Central lines, the Boston and Maine rail toad, the Pennsylvania, the Norfolk and Western, the Illinois Cettfral the Atlantic Coast Line, the Phila i delphia and Readiag and the El ' Paso and Southwestern formally asking on .behalf of those companies and others the relief to present con ditions, which, can only be given by the exercise of the emergency pow- '" ers oi the Interstate Commerce com- mission. That athletics for women are tak ing's firm hold among the co-eds of westeVn colleges is evidenced by the , fact that nearly 500 girls have regis I teref for all forms of competitive athletic at the-University of Ore- Old Document Were First Stockholders in The Bee . In the recent transfer of records ment under which The Bee was established nearly 50 years ago. It was a score of Omahans then prominent by Edward Rosewater. One hundred and sixtv shares of 'ng a capital of $40,000. Among the L. Webster, W. J. Conncli, liather document follows: W CM Mental Telepathy ' Leads rather to Side Of His Son on Trial Chicago, May 16. One of the strangest cases of telepathy ever re corded here was brought to light in connection with the murder trial of 16-year-old Richard Putz. accused of slaying an old man during a quar rel. : . - ',--)" The father of the boy, John Putz, is an inmate of an insane asylum near Chicago. Although he had not seen his son for many, months, and knew nothing of the crime of which the bqy was accused,, the father had hallucinations on the night before the trial opened that his son was fight ing for his life before, a judge and jury. - ... tarty the next morning the latner escaped from the asylum. Several hours. later he appeared in the court uoom wjicre. hisioy was being tried, - m , i' , ' ' '&in4i&ypTsi4Jurn Shows Prominent Men - of The Bee Publishing- company in the affairs of the little city purchased stock in the enterprise launched stock are accountedfor by the document, each with a par value of $250, giv stockholders were Edward Rosewa,ter, urake, J. J. Brown ana Kf. W. i-ininger. ' . 'A "Uf SI . V i. . V I . .. I s Or- and there was a dramatic scene a the father shouted his son's name and clasped him in his arms. Bailiffs had 'difficulty, in overpowering him and taking hini back to the asylum. What strange sense led the old man directly to his son is a mystery that investigators of the case were unable to unravel, and probably will remain forever a secret in his disor dered brain. Small Child Is Uninjured ' By Fall From Moving. AutQ Joplin, Mo., May 16. While riding in his motor car the other nighi with his wife and two small sons, Charles Wells was startled to hear the older boy shout: i "Hey dad, stopl Dick fell out back there. V ' Bringing the car to a sudden halt, Wells gave "first aid" to the 4-year-cld, who fortunately suffered only i few scratches. , . - there came to light the riginal docu the agreement by which more than H. A. Haskell, Alfred Sorenson, John a pnotograpnic reproduction oi me 77 ftr 9rW9 (Mo WattL r m (bntJ Moajl- &tmt "-ft ii ' Girl Despondent as Lover Leaves Tries To End Life; Saved Despondent because her lover, G. E. Romas, was leaving the city, Miss Effie Gayy, 20 years old, Forty second and' Farnam streets Satur day attempted suicide the Union station by drinking laudanum com bined with chloroform and clove oil. The girl raised the bottle to her lips just after G. E. Romas, 115 South Thirtieth street, had gone through the gate to his train. The attempt Xvas thwarted by Police Officer filelask, who noticed the movements of the girl and brushed the bottle from her hand. Romas observed the confusion and rushed to the girl's side where he assisted the police surgeon ' in reviving her. She was taken to her home by Romas, . . WOMEN'S CLUBS TO DEMAND SAME STYLESJOR SEX Des ' Moines Meeting Expect ed to Bring Attacks On Lax And Extravagant Modes of Dress. Chicago, May 16. Economy and simplicity in dress will be recom mended by the Chicago delegation to the biennial convention 1 of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, which will !? held in Des Moines in June. ' Ihis was decided bv the home tJe- partment of the Chicago Woman's club, at a recent meeting, at which the "ethics of dress" were discussed. "Who is to blame for the false stand.-irds of dress which we now haver" asked Mrs. E. E. Smith. "Not the girls,v but the women of leisure, among whom we find ourselves. Victory for Low Wages. "It is seldom the low waires that drive girls to lead immoral lives, but a desire for fun and entertain ment. The wages of sin are stylish clothinsr. There was a time when rouge and extreme clothes set cer- uin girls apart, but it is so no longer. Now the same styles pre vail tor all the daughters ot fcver "Yes," agreed . Mrs. Bayard Holmes. "How can we blame the girls when the middle-aged and old women appear in the kind of even ing gowns which now seem to be popular? Why, the- other night I saw a lady of 60 connected with the University of Chicago, too! ap pear in an evening gown that was aS extreme as any I, ever saw. I give you my word, there wasn't more than two inches of waist under the arm." ' Men Agree With This: "And," spok up another woman, "the nnmben of dresses the women buy! Why, during the war, when we all were preaching economy, the delegates to the biennial in Hot Springs never appeared twice in the same gown. There hardly was space enough in their rooms for trunks." "Let us pledge ourselves to dress suitably at the next biennial in Des Moines," Mrs. Smith said. "I think we ought not to carry more than a snitcase." f MEMORIAL TO ALL PATRIOTS IS DEDICATED G. A. R. Veterans Stand Side By Side With World War Heroes During Services. Washington, May 16. Erected in memory of all patriots who died for the nation's preservation and de fense, the Arlington memorial am phitheater rising impressively about the hills of Arlington National cem etery where repose thousands of the nation's hero dead, received its for mal dedication today in the presence of a great throng, including veterans of three wars. Old men of the Grand Army of the Republic under whose auspices the exercises were conducted, stood side by side with younger veterans of the Spanish war and with the youths who fought in the great con flict recently ended, as the formal dedication was pronounced by the Grand Army's commander-in-chief, Dan M. Hall. Sprinkled among the blue and khaki of the war veterans were members of the cabinet, con gressmen, a number of the diplo matic corps and other representa tives of official Washington. Assembling on the ellipse south of the White House earlier in the day, the veterans headed by a troop of cavalry, and a battalion of ma rines and blue jackets, passed iif re view before the president standing or. the south portico of the execu tive mansion. Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. U. S; A., retired, was grand marshal of the parade, and his staff included man v ranking' bfficers of -foth the army and pavy. The G. A. R. was representeed by the lull membership of the' Department of the Potomac, and the United States war veterans and the American Le gion by their local chapters. , Advised by his physician not to risk exposure incident to attending the exercises, the president instead sent a message which was received by Charles Newton, of the United Spanish War Veterans, following an introductory address by Secretary Baker. Addresses by Secretary Dan iels and General March, and the for mal dedicatioit. Food Director Serves Meal to Prove Cafe Prices Are Too High Chicago, May 16. Russell J. Poole, Chicago food director, took the role of chef, waiter and restau rant man generally to provfe that restaurant prices of 15 cents for soup and 40 cents for roast beef are more than they ought to be. Members of the council H. C. of L. committee were guests at luncheon. "This meal costs 29-cents per man," he announced, taking up a platter full of potatoes. "How much for the roast beef?" asked an alder man, helping himself. "Thirteen cents per man," was the response.' In a restaurant it would cost you anywhere from 40 cents to $1.50.. This pea soup costs 6 cents bowl. Potatoes costs 4 cents a portion; tomatoees, 3 cents and bread and. butter, 3 cents." "Of bourse," he added, "the restaurant overhead costs must be figured, but even at that there is no reason why a piece of roast beef should cost from 40 cents to $1.50." Butte Citizens Due to Walk 1 For Some Time to Come Butte, Mont., May 16. Operation of street cars of this city suspended since last Monday by a strike of the working men's union, probably will not be resumed for some time, ac cording to a statement made by J. R. Wharton, manager tf the street railway company,. WOMEN ROUT MAN WHO ATTEMPTS ASSAULT ON CHILD Ten Angry Housewives Pursue Assailant of Little Gladys Schonfeld. '. i Seven-year-old Gladys Schonfeld, daughter of Herman Schonfeld, Bee staff photographer, 3625 Lincoln boulevard, escaped assault Saturday afternoon when more than 10 angry women pursuedthe assailant after they heard the Httle .girl's frantic screams in a barn in an alley near Eighteenth and Cass streets. The girl went to visit her aunt, Mrs. J. F. Johnson, at 423 North Eighteenth street. v?ith her mother yesterday afternoon. . Shortly after they, arrived there, Gladys went in front of the house to .play. A man came along, took her. by the hand and led her into a barn in the alley. The girl's screams Avere heard by Loraiue Synek, 506 North Seventeenth street; Lulu Meeting, 1719 Chicago street, and Dqrris Gilbert, 1715 Cass street, who ran to their homes and told their mothers. ' Other women in the vicinity who heard the child's cries for help ran into the street and pursued the man, who escaped down the alley before the police arrived. The girl s face was badlv bruised. ronce surgeon jonnson who attend ed her, said the child was unharmed. The girl s clothes also were torn. The man was described as about 22 years old and wore a light suit of clothes. I DOUGHBOY SINGS HIS WAY INTO A MODEST FORTUNE i Lgnds in New York "Broke" Now He Breaks Into Limelight on a Contract, With Lee Shubert. New-York, May 16. Lucius Metz, ex-soldier, arrived here a few weeks ago. His arrival caused no com ment. Lucius was unknown to New York a was New Vork to Lucius. But Lucius thought, or his friends had told him, that lie had a voice and so he came all the way from Spokane, Wash., to learn from some recognized authority and critic of singing voices if his was worth cul tivating. Lucius had a dollar note in his pocket which was all his vis ible capital, and he was gambling that he had several hundred dol lars worth of notes f his throat. Dollar Soon Ruined. Unfortunately post-war prices in even the "one-arm" lunchrooms will ruin a lonesome dollar in one meal, and restaurant proprietors do not sell jgood food for a song, so Lucius Iiatd to get a job and get it quick. He became a messenger is a telegraph office, and then went out 'and got a meal. When Lucius was discharged from the, army he had attended a performance at the Met ropolitan opera house, where he heard Marie Sundelius. She .was the only singer in , New York that he knew by voice as well as reputa tion so he wrote to 'her asking for the name of the best vocal teacher in town. Miss Sundelius promptly .replied, giving the name of a fa mous instructor who asks that his name be withheld but who said: "I fotind that Metz Jiad a voice of unusual, appealing quality and deep feeling which may best be de scribed as a rare natural gift. He is a tenor with a range and volume that caused some who heard his trial efforts to mistake his voice for that of a baritone." So far Licius has done well. He has been engaged by the Reformed church in New York at Lenox ave nue and One" Hundred and Twenty third street, to sing in their choir for $1,200 a year and js contracted with Lee Shubert for three years at a sal ary ranging from $150 to $400 weekly. High School.Students Wear Misfit Clothing Springfield 111., May 16. The overall craze hit Springfield's high schools with a bang. Students whft at first appeared in the denim next came to school in all the grotesque attire they could obtain from rele gated garments of the family ward robes. There were daddy's trousers, old and worn; misfit shoes of high and low cuts, one kind on one foot and another kind on the other; patched pants and high top boots. Even girls took uo the fad and donned crazy quilt dresses, border ing jn the masquerade. Principals and teachers look the movement kindly, believing it will wear off as soon as the novelty disappears. It began, however, a week ago, and to date is going as strong as ever. Trotzky and Lenine Seize Many Millions In Russia London, May 16. British authori ties have information that the Trotsky-Lenine government is pos sessed of more than $600,000,000 in gold and precious jewels, seized from individuals, corporations and largely from the Russian .church. Clover Raising Profitable Laugford, S. D., May 16. E. L. Boland of Independence township has found the raising of clover to be a' profitable business. s On a forty-acre clover field Boland expects to realize nearly $11,000. Last fall he sold $4,500 worth of seed and still has about 600 bushels with a value of nearly $6 000. Lightning Kills Three Horses; Farmer Unhurt Westphalia, Kan., May 16. That a "miss is as good as a mile" was, demonstrated the other day in the narrow escape from death of Al phonso Herman, a farmer living northeast of here. While . Herman was taking two teami from a field, driving one and leading the other, lightning?, struck and killed three of his horse's. Herman was not injured. ' THOUSANDS DIE IN EUROPE AS FAMINE STALKS Appeal in England to "Save The Babies" Describes Hun ger as Spreading Through out the Continent. London, May 16. Continenetal Eu rope is today paying tne lull price ot the world war. Children are dying by the hun dreds in Austria, Hungary, Poland Armenia and other stricken sections of starvation. There is no food They are naked. Their mothers for thousands of them are bereft of fathers are without hope. These statements are made on the authority of Earl Curzon, foreign minister! Lord Robert Cecil, ex-un- cler foreign minister; the arch bishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Bourne, Lord Weardale and other prominent Britons who are trying to raise $20,000,000 for immediate re lief. "Monument of Starvation." Thev sav a srisantic monument of starvation is Teing erected in thou sands of towns and villages of Eu rope "where millions of children are starvine and dvine. It is not a threatened calamity, but a frightful and active tragedy that is. being en acted now, minute by minute. Their joint statement says thou sands have died in the past few weeks and thousands more are on the point of death. . "Cruel cold and famine arc stalk ,ing among these helpless mites," reads the appeal to Britain, "without clothing, without fires, without shel ters and spreading their miserable agony far and wide. It is a terrible fact that in some districts there is not a child alive under the age of 7 years." Refugees Left Naked. "Many of the ooor refugees have been stripped of their clothes and left naked to die. Thousands of adults and children have not tasted any normal food for weeks, but have existed on roots and leaves and dandelions. The olive-green color of their skin and deep-sunken eyes tes tify to their ghastly sufferings. These yoor people mad with hun ger have in some cases eaten the flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. ' "In some towns in central Europe there is no milk, no fats, no meats. Babies who are not fed by their weak, half-starved mothers have no food but 'frost-bitten potatoes. In most cases they die. But far great er is the tragedy of those that live on in appalling misery." The appeal is for the same kind of work that Herbert Hoover has been carrying on to "Save the Children." War's Sacrifice Threatened. "Think of the millions of little ones who are in immediate peril," exhorts the appeal. "Think of the blood ties, of the terrible sacrifices we. have made in the war thaf Civ ilization might be spared, and think thatnow in spite of all -the awful aftermath of war is threatening the destiny . of mankind in this appalling fashion. ' "Plague and disease, stunted babes, shrivelled breasts, a sterile earth, hundreds ofj square miles of country without milk, bread, medi cines and without clothing of any kind and, above all, the gaunt and towering figure of starvation snatch ing babies from their mothers' arms and claiming victims every hour. "This is the tragedy, and today is our great opportunity to stay its course." Middle West States Giving Most Toward Decoration Day Fund New York Timea-fhirago Tribune Cable. CopyrirUt, 1930. ' Paries, May 16.- Boys from the east,. boys from the south, and boys from the west are buried in France.J tributions for decoration of the American graves in France come from the . middle western states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minne sota and Wisconsin: The- Paris Mcmortel day committee is receiving cabled reports of the progress of the campaign in the United States and is most- gratified with the re sults from the 'heart of the nation." but inclined to. wonder at the tard iness of the response from other sections.- FJor Every Baking Need You Will Find . Gooch's Best -Flour IS ECONOMICAL Sold in the FATHER OF TRAIN BANDIT STRICKEN . ON WAY FOR BODY Parent of Youth Dies of Hear' Disease on Journey to Chicago. Chicf Tribune Omli Bea I.eaiil Wire Chicago, May 16. When Horace Lcroy Walton, youthful train rob ber, slew a policeman and was him self slain by another officer, he also dealt his aged father a fatal blow. L. T. Walton, of St. Joseph, Mo.. hastening to Chicago to claim the body of his wayward son, was stricken with heart failure and taken from the train at Bucklin, Mo., where he died a few hours later. , Evidence is accumulating that Waltonj in addition to the spectac ular robbery of $102,000 from the Illinois Central which led to his death, also staged the' sensational robbery of a Santa Fc express and mail car at Lexington, Mo., the night of April 8, escaping with $60, 000. Federal officials took up Hie search for an automobile in which Walton made a four-day trip cover ing this date last April. The police vare seeking a blonde woman and a small, dark man who were frequent visitors at Walton's apartments. Both government and local officials believe .Walton was re sponsible for other' robberies and are trying to unravel his' past. There is no tra.ee of $5,000 missing from the grip he was carrying when in tercepted by the police and they be lieve it might have been handed to an accomplice. Search is also on for Richard Smyth, aged 19, of St. Joseph. Mo., who visited Ua Smyth attempted to get in the raTT way postal service, but was rejected Girl Wife Gets Home Near Prison Where Husband Serves Term Elmira. N. Y., May 16. Grief has come to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rogers, both of whom are 17 vcars old, and the parents of a babv sritl. They had lived happily together for nearly two years, when in a moment's quarrel, ,young Rogers left his home and was not heard from again until a letter was re ceived by Mrs. Rogers from officials of Lyons Falls, 18 miles from Utica. Mrs. Rogers immediately started for Lyons Falls, where she learned that her husband had been arrested for "holding up" a party of women from .whom he secured 37 cents. The J'job" was done, it was said, when Rogers found himself without funds and with a strong desire to return to his wife in this city. He was arrested and sentenced to a term in the Elmira state reforma tory. Grief-stricken, but undaunted, Mrs. Rogers, who takes upon her self considerable blame for the quarrel which started Rogers in the direction of the 37 cent "hold-up," has decided to remain in Elmira to be near her imprisoned husband and await his release. , i ii m i Eighty per cent of the shoes worn in Lnue come irom tnc unuea States. "DANDERINE". "S Stops Haiij Coming Out: . Doubles Its Beauty. A few cents buys "Danderine." After an application of "Danderine" you can not find a fallen hair or any oandruff, besides every hair shows ,new life, vigor, brightness, more color and thickness. Best Stores tern r- ( 7