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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1920. LINE REPAIRMAN Lp KILLED ON POLE DURING STORM High Wind Does Considerable Damage Over City Mer cury Drops 12 Degrees In Hour. Grorge C. Barber. Reo hotel, line repair man for the Nebraska Power company, was killed at Thirtieth and Brown streets at 5 p. m. Monday while repairing damage caused by a high windstorm which swept Omaha late Monday afternoon. Barber was killed by contact with a live wire while clearing branches from the wires 24 feet in the air. Five fellow workers had to release his body from the high pole on " which he was working' when killed. He was taken to the home of G. Bailey, 5026 North Thirtieth street, where efforts to resuscitate him failed. Police sergeants said death was instantaneous. He was 38 years old. Many Trees Uprooted. Trees were uprooted, telephone and telegraph service impaired, and street car service held up by the storm, which broke suddenly about 4;1S p. m. Most of the damage was caused in the northern part of the city, in the district extending from Crown Point avenue and Lake street, and between Sixteenth " and Thirtieth streets. At Twenty-fourth and Sahler streets many Lij branches were torn loose, and at Eighteenth and Chi cago a high tree about 10 inches in diamfter was broken off near the base. Plate glass windows were shat tered in the Fadden & Bittner store. Sixteenth and Harney streets, and the Jacobsen Furniture Co., Six teenth and cbster streets. No other damage in the business section of the city was reported. Temperature Drops. The new grandstand at Ak-Sar-Ben field was torn down by the wind and a roller-coaster at Lake view park was damaged. Twelve telephone poles along the conti nental line near Chaico were blown down, and service to the west and southwest was demoralized. The storm lasted but a short time - and was followed by rain. Dtrring the hour of the storm', the mercury in Omaha dropped 12 de grees. At four, the temperature was 92 degrees. An hour later the temperature stood at 80 degrees. . A gradual descent was noticeable djiring the night. ' v New Honduran 'Agent 1 San Salvador. Republic of Salva dor, June 29. Dr. Jesus H. Alvara dft, minister of public instruction of Honduras, Ijas arrived here to take up his duties as confidential agent of the Honduran government in this citv. 1 Proofs Are WEST TE1L DETROIT, GUY L. SMITH, Performance OMAHA, NEB. ESSEX TRAVELS EIGHTY MILES IN EIGHTY EIGHT MINUTES FROM BUFFALO TO ROCH ESTER, AVERAGING FIFTY-FOUR AND ONE-HALF MILES PER HOUR. FASTEST TRAIN TIME BE TWEEN THESE CITIES IS EIGHTY-FOUR MIN UTES, BUT ROUTE TRAVELED BY ESSEX WAS ELEVEN MILES LONGER THAN BY RAILROAD. NOTIFY DEALERS. ESSEX MOTORS oisoned nis wire To Marry Another Byron Madison Pettibone, who is being held by the authorities of Ben nington, Vt. Jcttibone, in an al leged confession, to the authorities, admitted poisoning his wife. Accord ing to the police Pettibone's love for Miss Helen Irene Guillow of Ben nington, was, the motive for the al leged murder. Miss Guillow, accord ing to reports, has visitedv the pris oner several times- and is said to have declared she will stick to him regardless of what happens. ThievesGet $40(Tworth of Groceries In Truck Load Burglars gained entrance to the grocery and meat market of Joe Morgan, 2801 Sprague street, by re moving the glass from ' the front door and carried away more than $400 worth of meats,' soap and gro ceries. ' Detectives say the thieves used an auto truck to haul away the loot. The loss is covered by burglar insurance. j- 1 I 1 j y v Miss HELEH IRENE GUILLOW 1 J 3VR0N M.PETTt50NE.-Vri of ESSEX Endurance Coming in From All HERE ARE SOME OF THEM TWBSTEWI UNION TEL ' DETROIT, MICH., JUNE 29J920. GUY L. SMITH. OMAHA, NEB. ESSEX DRIVEN BY PAUL HUTCHINS, GRAND RAPIDS DEALER, SETS NEW ROAD RECORD FROM HERALD OFFICE, GRAND RAPIDS, TO , STATLER HOTEL, DETROIT, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR SIX-TENTHS MILES IN FOUR HOURS ELEVEN MINUTES OVER POOR ROADS, THROUGH CITY TRAFFIC, BEATING RECORD THAT HAS STOOD FOUR YEARS. ,K ESSEX MOTORS UNION AM JUNE 28, 1920. MICH. SPLIT HAIRS ON WORDS IN STATE BOARD HEARING Cross Examination of Street Car Company Manager Leads to Arguments Over Legal Complications. Hairsplitting over th definitions of words, the principles of Ameri canism, the theory of representative government and constitutional law marked yesterday's session of the sticet car hearing before the state railway 'commission in the federal building. v x Attorneys for the men wanted to argue the rights of union labor for all time. Commissioner Browne as sured them the right and wrong of the question was not on trial. Coun sel came back with examples of simi lar testimony before submitted and allowed to go into the .-ecords. Board Is -Uninterested. "It was unfortunate that the ques tion of the unions was ever brought into this," Mr. Browne said. "We can't settle disputes between the company and the union we have something else to do this summer." Confusion over definition of terms oame when R. A. Leussler, general manager of the company, insisted methods' used by union men to in duce nonunion men to enter the or ganization should be designated by "hounded." A. H. Bigelow, for the plaintiffs, believed the whole situa tion could be covered by the word' "persuasion." Union Contract Unfair. Under cross examination, Mr. Leussler declared he believed a contract to employ only union men was decidedly imAmerican, in that it denied to each, individual the right to decide such questions for him self. Mr. Bigelow attempted to prove that .Mr. Leussler's affiliation with the Business Men's association was a parallel situation, but was pre vented from finishing the line of de duction by the commissioners, who insisted they had no jurisdiction re gardless of the merits of the case. . Issue is Service, Only. "We have a suoreme court de cision staring us in the face whicK says the men can bargain if they want to, and the company can hire andffire when it pleases," declared Mr. Hall. "We're trying to decide whether the attitude of the company toward the union will have effect on the public service and that's all." Alvin Johnson, attorney for the company, became so annoyed in lis tening to Mr.' Bigelow cross-examine his star witness that he threat ened to "take care of him himself" imless the commission put a stop to it. Hearing was continued. and Points - in the United AM WEST TEL Economy DETROIT, MICH., JUNE 28, 1920. GUY L. SMITH, OMAHA, NEB. LOS ANGkELES WIRES ESSEX SETS NEW RIM O WORLD HILL CLIMB RECORD, CLIMBING NEARLY FIVE THOUSAND FEET ELEVATION OVER DIF FICULT MOUNTAINS ON ROAD EIGHT AND EIGHT-TENTHS MILES LONG IN REMARKABLE TIME OF SEVENTEEN MINUTES TWENTY-THREE SECONDS. WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT TO START OFF ESSEX WEEK, NOTIFY DEALERS. ESSEX MOTORS Oftiaha and St. Louis to Clash in Balloon Race Aerial Event Will be .Staged Here During Ak-Sar-Ben Festival Omaha Made Airplane to Fly Thursday. A balloon race between the Oma ha Aero club and the Missouri Aeronautical society of St. Louis will be staged at Fort Omaha during Ak-Sar-Ben week this fall, E. B. Campbell, secretary of the Omaha Aero club announced -yesterday. The event will be participated in by from five to 10 Omaha pilots and as many more from St. Louis, according to Secretary Campbell, and will rank in importance with the International Balloon races to be held in Akron, O., on October 23. .Have Ambitious Program! Further plans which Secretary Campbell says will put Omaha on 4he map as a center of aerial ac tivity were outlined at the meeting of the Omaha Aero club in the Ho tel Loyal Monday night. The club will begin immediately to prepare charts of air lanes be tween Omaha and Minneapolis, Chi cago, Kansas City and St. Louis. The charts will be compiled from geological survey maps and wilj show all possible landing spaces beN tween Omaha and these cities, as well as facilities for securing gaso line and mechanical assistance. Air Mosaic Map. charts, when prepared, will' The Advance In Freight Rates Depends On Trainmen's Wages Washington, June 29. Freight rates must be increased SS'i per cent if the roads' demands for increased freight tariffs and the men's demands for increased pay are granted, and the whole burden placed on the freight traffic, the I. C. C, was told today by Clifford Thorne of Chicago, representing shippers. Mr. Thorne recommended that the wage advances be added without fur ther hearings to the costs upon which the roads now base their re quest fo advanced freight rates, that a S per cent increase be made in passenger rates, with the balance of -freight tariffs to care for the present case and that any advance occa sioned by the wage decision be spread out over the entire earnings of the railroads. Application of the entire advance to freight rates, Mr. Thorne said, will mean an increasen the east of 60 per cent, in the west SO per cent, ahcl in the south, 60 per c.nt. An advance in freight rates, Mr. Thorne argued, will have no appre ciable effect on then-ates the carriers have to pay for money nor will it change the financial situation nation v.-ide and world-wide in extent States UNSON AM enable flyers to come to Omaha with little difficulty and should re sult in an influx of aircraft of all types, according to Mr. Campbell. The club also decided to construct an air mosaic map of Omaha, which in completeness of detail will be un equalled in this country. This map will . bev invaluable to aviators at tempting to land here, Mr. Camp bell said. v In preparation for the balloon competition this fall the club yester day wrote to Washington for per mission to use free balloons now at Fort Omaha. An invitation to the Missouri Aeronautical society to participate in the event was also dis patched yesterday. An acceptance is assured, Mr. Campbell says. Omaha Trade Plan. It was announced at the meeting Monday night that A. H. Fetters, mechanical engineer at the Union Pacific headquarters, would give his one-man plane a tryout ct Ak-Sar-Ben field Thursday afternoon. The plane, which was designed and built by Mr. Fetters, weighs only 28S pounds, and is equipped with a 22 horsepower engine. Its wing spread is 24 feet. Clarence Lange, an air mail flyer, will pilot the ship on its test flight. Washington Redskins Say White Men Speak With Forked Tongue Spokane, Wash., June 29. "The white man speaks with a forked tongue." riposted the Indian Chief tain Meninock, head of the great Yakima tribe of Washington, when the Benton county judge pas:ed sen tence upon 'the aged member of a once flourishing tribe of redmen. The stalwart head of the fast-dying Yakimas appeared in court on a charge of violating state fishing laws. The Yakima tribal leaders have ap pealed to Governor Hart, of Wash ington, following a grand pow-wow. They ask for perpetual fishing rights in the Yakima river, which they claim are due them bv virtue- of an old-time treaty conceded by another governor, Isaac Stevens, the first territorial executive of Washington. The Indians were ar rested for fishing in the river within 100 feet of the dam near Prosser. The court held that the treaty was not operative against the later fish ing laws. The Indians were found guilty and fined $10 each. The gov ernor has promised the Yakimas & hearing at an early date. Police Patrol In Another Collision; No One Injured Harry Palmer, 4105 North Twenty feventh street, was arrested fot 'eckless driving when a Simon BrOs. truck which he was driving collided with the police patrol at Sixteenth and Davenport streets Monday. The patrol, driven byChauffeur Bosen, was answering a call to 1905 Cuming street. No one was in jured. The patrol was slightly damaged. The patrol had been out of the re fair shop but a week, following damages received from another col lision a month ago. Mayor Refuses to Sign For Loan to Water Board Mayor Smith has declined to sign a warrant for $50,000 which was au thorized by the city council as a loan from the public comfort station fund to the Metropolitan Water board. The money i,s intended to be used in getting the gas plant started under municipal ownership. W. G. Ure, city commissioner, who voted ", for this loan, will be acting mayor when he returns to the city next Monday ;nd it is understood he will sign the warrant. Motorcycle Policeman Gets Sergeant's Stripes Motorcycle ' Policeman George Emery was appointed a sergeant of police yesterday in an order issued by Chief of Police Eberstein. The order is effective July 1. Emery will have charge of the motorcycle squad. Georgia kills Suffrage. Atlanta, Ga., June 29. The pro posed amendment to the state con stitution giving women the right to vote was killed today in the senate. The vote was 19 to 15. Make the CUPID AND FATHER TIME IN THRILLING RACE THIS MONTH Clerk Stubberdorf Will Attempt To Exceed Record in Mar riage License Bureau. The great race is on! Cupid against Time, with the odds now quoted 3 to 1 in favor of Cupid. Up to 9 a. m. yesterday 377 cou ples had taken licenses to wed this merry month of June at the mar riage license bureau in the court house. The high record for one month was reached last December when 394 licenses were issued. That is just 17 more than have been issued so far this month. And two days still to gol "I'll make it and go over the top by. at least 15, I believe," declared Mairiage License Clerk Stubben dorf yesterday morning, pen in hand and one eye on the door, looking for the procession to start. "The last two days of June ought to be big ones, with a lot of folks hurry- ing to get in under the wire before the month of brides' has passed." At 9:18 this morning the first ap plicant arrived. Sixteen still to go! At 9:18 yesterday morning the first applicant arrived. Sixteen still to gol Special bulletin At 12:30, noon, Mr. Stubbendorf announced that nine licenses had been issued dur ing the morning. "Only eight still to get," said the marriage license magnate, mopping his brow. "Do you think you will make it?" Charles Sundblad & Co. 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