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8 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 4, 1920. MANY CITIES DO MUCH GOOD BY CITYPLANNING Chicago First Middle West City to Adopt Idea; Parks, Boulevards Beautify Cities: By ERNEST SCHRIEBER. Thli article, showing to mmt silent whit hi been dona In nearby cities. Is leadlnr up to the main theme of the series. "What Omaha la Accomplishing In City P'arnln." Thla will be taken up In sev eral stories to aprear from time to time. City planning is a science and art which has existed since the first cjity waj built, but in late years has been given a new direction and a much more vital purpose. Cities in the past have grown without any definite plan relative to their future. Enor mous sums have been wasted in so called "improvements" to cities, con structed blindly and without regard to any plan for the future, so that they have had to be torn down and replaced later. Nothing in a city tends toward permanency "unless there is a city plan looking on toward future years, which calls for certain things for certain places and which will be as suitable for them 100 years afterward. In olden times the location of a spring of drinking water sometimes caused the location of a city, a cow path sometimes fathered a business street, or the location of a laborer's cottage sometimes caused the de fornjation of an entire section of a town. Nowadays the cities are be ginning to rectify the errors caused hy poor planning by their founders. The work is costing millions where it would have cost a few hundreds if done when the city was founded. People are beginning to realize how mistaken in planning a city becomes expensive to rectify later. City planning tends toward permanency of construction, as well as archi tectural and artistic beauty. Chicago was one of the first of tin middle western cities to adopt the city planning fdea. The Chi cago Commercial club voted $85,000 toward the citv planning idea in 1909 and later $10,000 a year for the same purpose. The program for the work was set forth as follows: 1. The widening, extension or opening of 200 miles of streets to create a centraHzed street system. 2. The formation of a system of tadial roads out of and encircling the city in three great circuits. 3. The reclamation of about 1,300 acres of park land from Lake Michi gan. 4. The creation of parks and play grounds in connection with a gen eral park and boulevard system. 5. The rehabilitation of rail and water transportation facilities, the creation of a lake front harbor, nine miles of docks, etc. 6. The creation of 50,000 acres of country playgrounds or forest pre serves outside the city limits, but ac cessible to the citizens. ' 7. Proper, effective and dignified location of public buildings. 8. The promotion of zoning and housing laws and the advancement of the social, industrial and commer cial advantages of Chicago through relief of congestion, facilitation of traffic and safeguarding of the public health by the provision of ample means of recreation for the people. When the plan was adopted it was called "talk plan or picture plan" tnd the people ridiculed it as impos sible to accomplish.- Next it was called "Burnham's plan" and consid ered feasible if somewhat difficult to accomplish. Later it was named the "commercial club plan" as the hope and work of a body of representa tive Chicagoans and today it is called the "Chicago plan" as a work for the people of the city. This was made possible through the work of a group of public-spirited men, the support of a powerful press, the ap proval of all city authorities and the endorsement of all civic, social and commercial organizations. It was a great propaganda of education along city planning lines for the people and is now taught as a course in the schools of Chicago. St. Louis was given her idea of a citv beautiful at the time of the world's fair in 1904, when the citizens actually saw a model city and the possibilities for its imitation in St. -ouis itself. A public building com mission was appointed soon after the fair ended, a report was made, large amounts voted for improvements and the citv olannincr work was a reality. The present commission's plan calls, for, the beautification of the river front, removal of sewage from the river, a belt line railway for present and future industries, arterial streets and boulevards to the heart of the citv and a zoning plan. In Minneapolis, a general treat ment of the water front has also been outlined, a business center, civic plaza and radial streets laid out and a magnificent park and boulevard system formed. Much has been done toward the housing of the citizens. In St. Paul a great mall has been laid out to Capitol hill, the streets have been widened and at present steps are being taken to replan the business section. In Des Moines most of the work done has been along the lines of er tension of the boulevard system, river-front improvement and capital extension. The widening of the streets in the business section will follow. . . In Denver, the immense civic cen ter, with its court of honor for civic benefactors and open air theater, have attracted nation-wide attention, and the parking system, boulevard system and mountain park system ere being planned with definite thought for the future. In Davenport, over $i,uw,uw nas been spent on river front reclama tion work and various public build ings are planned to further beautify that section of the city. Much land has been reclaimed along the river for parks, as well as industrial build- infcinsas City has a national reputa tion on account of its " park and boulevard system, one of the most complete and well organized in the country. The city has nearly 3,000 acres in parks and a wonderful sys tem of connecting drives. The civic center and railway terminals are also the work of the city in the line of civic improvement and something has also been done toward the hous ing problem,. Veterans of Two Wars Enjoy Swapping Yarns VILLI AM S ASkWITM civil WA VE.TC3AM TALKING; TO HARty Veterans of two great wars. William S. Askwith, who fought in the civil war and Harry J. Packard, veteran of the recent world war. Swapping stories of two great wars is the greatest pleasure of these two veterans. They are William S. Askwith, 702 South Thirty-sixth street, vet eran of the civil war, and Harry J. Pickard, 3611 Jones street, veter an of the world's great conflict. The subject is "How It Was Ac complished." Many afternoons and evenings, the "vets" get together and relate incidents of the two great wars. Askwith served four years with Company D, Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry. He was wounded in the right leg. Askwith served with the armies of Gen. McClellan in the peninsular campaign and in the bat- Scribes Discuss Slogans While Platform is Built Differ on Effect "Crown Prince" Will Have on Mc Adoo's Chances "Drafted for Service" Judged Greatest Nominating Speech Ever Made Praise for Band. . By DOROTHY DIX. San Francisco, Cal., July 3. (Special Telegram.) It takes as long to build a democratic platform aS it does to build a house, when the carpentersare union men work ing by the day, so while we are waiting, we of the press table talk of many things. Of the power of a slogan, for one thing. "Three words," rum, Romanism and rebellion," killed Blaine, but for them he would have been elected ' president of the United States," said on man, "and I believe this, "crown prince" epithet, 'would have the I same effect on McAdoo. In two words it visualizes to people a dynasty and a hereditary succession, the very things to which .ve as a nation are most opposed and at which the eagle squawks the loud est." "Wrong," replied another. 'Those vho have applied the "crown prince" stuff to (McAdoo have overshot their mark, and, it's more likely to help him than to hinder him, because, though politicians have never found it out, the people in the mass are good sports. They enjoy a good political fight, but they want fair plhy and the rules of the game to be observed. Remember War Work. "And calling McAdoo names isn't cricket. Crown prince to us at present, at least, means just one thing, and that's a fighting word. It means the spawn of everything we hated jnost in Germany and about the German autocracy. Nov McAdoo did a man's part in the war. Nobody will deny that. He spent himself, body and soul, and accomplished an amount of work that is really phenomenal. The 'people will remember that, and think they will bitterly resent the injustice of applying to him a title that coming from American lips is the ultimate insult that could be offered him. "Also I think that the idea that any president can pass the highest office in the gift in the people on to anybody else, whether he is a son, or son-in-law, or what not, will not be a popular one. The voters will resent implication that they are not free and sovereign, it's like? tell ing a henpecked man that he is afraid of his wife, and that will make a jack rabbit spit in a bull dog's face. No, if I were a repub lican campaign spell-binder, I should put the soft pedal on the, crawn prince" slogan. It's too liable to become a boomerang that will fly back and annihilate the one who threw it." Proud of Family. "If I were McAdoo," said a third man, "I'd say call me the 'crown pince' if you like. I'm proud to be worthy to wear the title. Yes, I was a member of Wilson's official family, as I am of his own family. I have been veryv close to him. I know what his aims were in the days in which the whole world saluted him as the greatest constructive statesman in it. This is my inher itance and if you elect me as presi dent of the United States I shall do my best to carry out, as 1 have the youth and health and strength to do, and President Wilson had not." "Well, anv way," said a fourth man, comfortably, "if McAdoo is damned by the phrase of 'crown prince,' he is aved by Jenkins' de scription of him as being 'drafted for service.' These three words con stitute the best-nominating speech that was ever made, and they also convey a concrete picture to the popular band. It puts before the peo ple a man who isn't seeking an of fice, but who is a good soldier, ready ties of Richmond, Pettersburg and Appomattox. "The fighting in Francs was no harder than in '61," said the old vet, "despite the new instruments in the world's war." Young Vets on the Argonne. Pickard served almost a1 year overseas with the 341st machine gun company. He was severely wounded in Jhe rgonne and St. Mihiel bat tles. . Aside from swapping stories of the wars, the only other enjoyment of Tickard's is shouting at a ball game and reading about Babe Ruth. Pickard, although handicapped by his physical condition, manages to go to a base ball game twice a week. to serve his country whenever he is called upon. So there we are, with two perfect good McAdoo slogans and may the best one win." Interesting, Says Woman. "Its been an interesting and dra matic convention, hasn't it," said a woman. "There has been noise, and tumult, and fights and cheers, and I have simply loved the spotlight ar tists who turn a flood of radiance upon all the points of the. orators. It dots the 'is' and crosses the 'ts,' so vou can't miss the place where you are supposed to applaud." "And I take off my hat to the band," said a man. "It certainly got staying powers beyond the mere hu man, but can you tell me why it al ways bursts into "Oh, You Beauti ful Doll' every time a gray-headed, dignified old lady gets up and makes a speech?" But nobody could explain the mystery. Start Reading Platform. It is 10 o'clock Friday morning. Mr. Carter Glass, looking somewhat the worse for wear after four days of strenuous scrapping over the planks in the platform, is beginning to read to us that voluminous document. It only required 10 brief command ments for God Almighty to set forth the whole duty of mankind to its neighbor, but it takes many, many pages of typewritten suggestions for a political party to tell its plan for running the universe and bringing about the millenium if it is given a chance. So Mr. Glass squares his shoulders and clears his throat and begins his task. He read to us the stand taken by the great democratic party on every subject under the sun, on the league of nations and foreign and domestic commerce, and profiteering and railroads, and highways and by ways and waterways, and agricul ture and soldiers pensions and so on. Reads Women's Planks. When he gets to the six planks suggested by the lady carpenters, and which have to go with child la bor, and minimum wages, and the increase in the pay for teachers, and the citizenship of American women who have married foreigners, and education in sex hygiene, he reads them all into the platform and then says wearily, "If we have omitted anything else that the women want we mean that, too." Then he reads that the democratic platform declares for woman suf-l'-age and calls upon the legislatures of Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida to ratify the Susan B. Anthony amendment so that the vomen of the entire country may vote for president in November. Whereat there is the strangest of all scenes ever ceneia in a democratic convention, hundreds of men on their feet cheering and shouting over A-oman's political emancipation. A little woman seizes the Tennessee standard and starts the march around the room. State after state falls in, until only Louisiana is left, sitting glum and stiff and alone in its shame at refusing its women the right that the balance of the union is so freely giving its daughters. A woman from New York tries to seize the Louis iana banner and an angry man arftues furiously with her. In the end he is apparently defeated, for the Louis iana standard is soon following in the wake of the others. Bryan Gets Cue. Mr. Glass still reads on. His voice is growing a thing of tattered vocal chords, but he says something about Ireland, and a voice in the gallery calls down something to him we can't hear. "I will read it in my own brogue," retorts Mr. Glass, "and that is pure American." At last the end of the platform is reached. It's a very good platform, very liberal, but it has skated over the Irish question PROMINENT ARMY OFFICER DIES IN ARMY JjOSPITAL Brig. Gen. Wm. L. Marshall, Builder of Ambrose Channel at New York Succumbs. Washington, July 3. Brig. Gen. William L. Marshall, retired, dis coverer of the Marshall pass across the Rocky mountains and construc tor of Ambrose channel in New York harbor, died at an army hos pital here last night after a short ill ness. Funeral services were held to day and interment was in Arlington National cemetery. Born at Washington, Ky., in 1846, General Marshall served as a private of cavalry in the civil war and later was appointed to West Point. He was made chief of army engineers in 1908, and served until his retire ment from the army two years later. He was in charge of construction of levees on the Mississippi and of the improvement of a number of rivers in the west and was the inventor of automatic movable dams, lock gates and valves. Mexican Industries Grown 300 Per Cent Since Diaz Regime Mexico City, July 3 During 1919 Mexico exported to the United St.-ites 57,370.307 pounds of copper, valued at $10,577.303 this out of a total of 126,455,000, the entire im portation into the United States, ac cording to a statement issued by the secretary of commerce and in dustry. During the same period Mexico produced 75,000,000 ounces of sil ver, 7.000 ounces more than in 1918, end 15,000,000 ounces more than pro duced in the United States during Ike- same period. Mexico's cotton crop this year will be in excess of 200,000 bales 60,000 bales over last year. Official records show that since the revolution against the g&vern mcnt of Porfirio Diaz in 1910, Mex ico's imports and exports have in creased more than 300 per cent. Consular invoices reveal the fact that for the first time in the history of Mexico manufactured cotton goods, calicos, cheap prints, etc., are being exported to the United States. The Mexican government has authorized the purchase of 27 loco-' motives, 100 passenger cars, 100 flat cars, 100 coal cars and 361 box cars for use on the lines of the national railways. The orders have been placed in the United States. Claim England Flooded With German-Made Goods London, July 3. German manu factured goods are arriving in Brit ain in ever-increasing quantities. The electrical trade in particular is using every means in its power to obtain clean electrical specialties from German manufacturing centers. The German output, no longer dis tinctly marked as in prewar days, is in some cases put on sale for one third of the retail prices in London six months ago. Judge Orders Dinner for Jury While Lawyer Talks Harrisburg, Pa., ' July 3. Judge C. V. Henry of the Dauphin county court, believes a full stomach is the first requisite for a good juryman. The judge recently furnished the money for sandwiches for two jury men and insisted that they eat them, while a long-winded lawyer was making his pleas. and said nothing about prohibition, whereupon Mr. Bryan comes to that. It's what he has been waiting for and the gallery has been waiting fbr him. He gets a big demonstration, prin cipally from the galleries, but as he starts to speak the auditorium where the delegates sit half empties itself. Lunch and ham sandwiches are more alluring than oratory, which isn't saying much when you consider the quality of the sandwiches. Dry Cheer Bryan. I was present when Bryan leapt into fame with his cross of gold speech at the Chicago convention. He was a picturesque and romantic figure then, handsome, thin with a pale ascetic face, and flowing dark locks, now he is fat and baldheaded, and unromantic, to the last de gree, but he has the same gift of oratory and the same mixed metaphors,- and the same faculty of ap pealing to the emotions of the peo ple, and every time he hit the De mon Rum a wallop the drys in the gallery where they seemed to be mainly located emitted loud shouts. Mr. Bryan had a rival in a small lady from Minnesota, Mrs. Peter Olsen by name, who looked like a schoolgirl, and spoke like a Meth odist exhorter. Mrs. Olsen was very dramatic, very impassioned, and she ended by seizing two small Ameri can flags and waving them above her head as she implored the dem ocratic party to save the children of the country from anything with any degree of alcoholic suspicion about it. Platform Real Thriller. Burke Cochran replied in a speech that was an eloquent and logical appeal to the party to modify the 1,8th amendment so as to allow each state to decide for itself if it would permit light wines and beers to be sold for home use, and then the Irish patriots went at it, hammer and tongs, and Mr. Bryan jumped in with some more planks in which he demanded a newspaper to be started by the government that would tell the truth, which he alleges no pa per does now, and he told'what aw ful things he would do to profit eers, and altogether it was glorious fight and a pleasant time was had by all present. I had always supposed a poticaI platform dull reading, but I find that as a thriller it has got a six best seller beaten a city block. But you will have all trimmer in which to read this one, with or without the minority report. Town Wonders How Wentz Spent the Missing $200,000; Aurora Has Faith in Him Tangle of Financial Manipulations of Banker Puzzle Neighbors But Still They Believe in Man Accused Of Embazzlement Hushed Rumors Fill Town But Facts Are Evanescent. By JOHN B. LONG, JR. Down in Aurora they still are' in clined to believe in him. And all in spite of indictments against him in the district court charging embezzlement and larceny as bailee of a sum which totals nearly $200,000. Charles W. Wentz, vice president of the defunct American State bank in Aurora and head of W. C. Wentz & Co., now in the hands of a re ceiver, is gone again. Citizens of the thriving town of Aurora are thoroughly . puzzled. They admit' it. And when asked where the $200,000 which is alleged to be missing could have gone, they shake their heads. Wine? His closest friends tell of a desire for the fluid which is touted by adherents to temporarily serve as the water of Lethe. But Not $200,000 Worth. But, they argue, he couldn't have consumed that amount of money in procuring liquor in so short a time. Women? There, was "another woman.' And she is blamed by some friends for the breaking up of Wentz's' home. It is a matter of court record that through her, Roberta B. Wentz secured her di vorce. Bright lights? At spasmodic in tervals, Wentz would leave Aurora for a week at a time. Ostensibly on business, but no one could ever tell just where he was. But the private life of Charles W. Wentz was never made common talk in his home town until the crash came. It Was St. Patricks Day. And it came on March 17, St. Patricks day, and James Schoon over, cashier of the American State bank, says the date is branded in his memory forever. On that day the doors of the bank were closed voluntarily. And Wentz disappeared. J. E. Hart, secretary of the State Banking board, was called by stock holders in the bank, to investigate a discovery of overdrafts amounting to $46,000. With E. W. Brown, state bank examiner, Hart went to Aurora from Lincoln, assumed charge of the affairs of the bank, and the work of checking its affairs began. Meanwhile, Wentz's whereabouts remained a mystery. He had last been heard from at the Elks' -etnb in Omaha. Regular examination of the bank's books on March 3 had shown the in stitution in apparently good condi tion. Two Concerns Scrambled. But the later probe disclosed the interwoven business of the Amer ican State bank and the W. C. Wentz & Co. The Wentz company formed a sort of investment brokerage, oper ating on farm loans and mortgages. Most of its financial dealings were through the American State bank. And as the examination of the affairs of the bank by state bank ing board officials progressed, indi cations appeared of uncertain finan cial transactions. On March 20, Frank Quinn, president of the bank, Mrs. Wentz and Gus Hyers, state agent, came to Omaha on a "tip" that Wentz was in the city. That Saturday they learned that Wentz had been registered at the Rome hotel as "L. W. Larkins, Denison, la." On arrival at te hotel they were confronted with the news that "Lar kins" had checked out but 10 min utes before. Located After Chase. After an all-night chase, however, Hyers located Wentz and reported to Aurora that he had with him a grip in which was $37,500l of the missing securities. With his, wife and President Quinn, Wentz went back to Lin coln and consented to take a rest in a sanitarium there. Poring over the books and rec ords of the bank and investment company, alleged peculiar transac tions appeared. These transactions are now spe cific charges in the indictment se cured by the state. Benjamin Springer, retired Aurora farmer, was a depositor and stockholder in the American State bank. Wentz, through the Wentz com pany, sold Springer's farm for the sum of $48,000, which, when certain small accounts against Springer were settled up. netted $42,000, and rSpringer asked Wentz to invest this for him when he went to California, according to the county attorney's office. This money was to be invested in mortgages, but in reality was ' ap propriated by W. C. Wentz & Co., it is charged. Which Was Wentz Himself. And the W. C. Wentz & Co. was practically Charles W. Wentz, for he ov. ned the majority of the stock, with James Schoonover, cashier of the bank, and Mrs. Wentz, holding but 1 per cent stock each. Another transaction of a similar nature, which is also charged in the complaint, according to the office of F. E. Edgerton, county attorney, was the sale of a farm for E. J. Kramer, Aurora farmer, now in Cal ifornia, involving $40,000. J. R. Farney of Kansas City was also a farm owner for whom Wentz as agent sold a farm for $36,000. This money was collected and de posited in the American State bank, on which Wentz wrote a check for the amount and gave it to Farney. Farney deposited the check in a Kansas City bank, and through reg ular financial channels, this check returned to Aurora for collection and disappeared. - Destroyed, Rumor Whispers. Common talk in Aurora relates that the check was destroyed, but there is no positive evidence of this fact, the office of the county attor ney reports. Another, transaction described in the complaint follows: Wentz sold a farm as agent for Julia A Strauss, widow, and heirs to the Strauss es tate, from which the proceeds were received, commission deducted, and $12,500 disappeared it is alleged. The mortgage on the farm was taken back and sold to Roscoe Thompson, Idwa farmer, for $12,500 which should have been taken in the name of the Strauss widow, but which was assigned later to the State Banking board as an'asset of the company, according to the county attorney's officf?. And the same county office enum erates other deals of a similar na ture for smaller amounts, all of which bring the total up to about $200,000. Wentz Free on Bond. Wentz is now out on $10,000 bonds, furnished by T. C. Klumb, an uncle living on a farm south of Aurora. When he was first taken back from Omaha his bond for prelim inary hearing in county court was set at $10,000 and furnished by Klumb, but Wentz waived the hear ing and the bond was reset and re newed by Klumb for Wentz's ap pearance in district court next Sep tember to face these charges of em bezzlement and larceny as bailee. F. E. Edgerton, county attorney of Hall county,, will prosecute. In case of conviction sentence may be pronounced from one to sei en years in the state penitentiary. In the middle of all the investiga tions Wentz again disappeared. His absence was kept under cover by his friends until Sheriff Howard cf Hall county appeared in Omaha, found Wentz at the Sanford hotel and returned him to Aurora. It was then the bond was fixed and furnished. Assumes He Will Pay. , Wentz, through all these finan cial difficulties, continued to assure his friends he had sufficient securi ties to meet the deficits, and they .believed in him. But when his wife turned against him in divorce court the deluge began. Enter the "other woman." "Charlie" Ventz everybody in Aurora and many people in Omaha and Lincoln know him only as "Charlie" was born and reared in that progressive town. His father, W. C. Wentz, now re tired and living in sunny California, was a pioneer of the county, and was respected for his thrifty real estate and investment business, As Charlie grew older and fin ished in the Auburn school, he en tered Doane college at Crete. Met Wife in Omaha. He learned the way to Omaha, and while on a visit to Nebraska's metropolis, after he had left school, he met Roberta Daley of Harlan, la., then teaching school in the city. They were married nine years ago and went to live in the state of Washington. When four years had passed, they came to make their home in Aurora, and W. C. Wentz sold his business and his interests in the W. C. Wentz & Co. was organized, with Charlie as chief stock stockholder. Nelda Mathes, an Aurora girl, se cured employment as Charlie's ste nographer. "Miss Mathes was so employed when I was made cashier of the bank," says James Schoonover, prob ably one of Wentz's closest and staunchest friends. ' " ABeautiful Girl." "She yas a beautiful girl and it was somewhat evident there was some attraction between her and Charlie. 1 went into the bank in November, 1918. "Miss Mathes left the bank in February last year for Kansas City, where she said she had secured a position. She remained in Kansas City until June, and then Jived in Omaha and Council Bluffs during the summer. "Early in the fall she moved to California. Soon afterward Charlie and Mrs. Wentz went west for a short vacation trip also." Sudden rush of affairs at the bank caused Mr. Schoonover to telegraph for Wentz to return, he said, and the vice president did this, leaving his wife in California. "Almost as scon as Charlie came east," continued Mr. Schoonover, "the girl, Miss Mathes, appeared be fore Mrs. Wentz and 'told her things.' " Then Wife Follows. Charlie's wife lost no time-in re turning home it seems, but took no action in the courts. About this time Charlie's finan cial trials and tribulations began to pile up. Roberta Wentz stuck to him, through thick and thin, and in formed their friends she and her husband would soon have every thing straightened out. But the suspicion of "the other woman" was there and could not be erased. When Charlie made his two flying trips to Omaha in March and April, they had an effect, and on the fifth day of May, Roberta Wentz got her lawyers to draw up a petition for divorce. I In this petition, she named Miss Mathes co-respondent, and charged illicit relations, refusing, her law yers say, to seek divorce on any other grounds. - The petition was not filed, how ever, until the first of June and the case was called in court for June 24. Charlie Scores Again. The Saturday previous, Charlie left Aurora, telling his friends he was going to Lincoln on business. Early in the next week, his wife received a letter from Him in' Oma ha, saying he was going to Detroit to go to work, her lawyers declare. He filed voluntary appearance papers in the suit, making no move to contest the divorce, and on June 24, Judge George F. Coicoran granted her absolute 'divorce, $50 a month alimony and restored her maiden name, Roberta Dalv. .Up until he left Aurora -the last' time, Charlie and his wife lived to gether, but just prior to the hearing of the divorce petition, Mrs. Wentz moved to the home of Dr. Wright Newman, in Aurora. Early last week, she departed for her former home in Harlan, la., and it is said she intends to return to her teaching profession. Had No Children. Mrs. Wentz is but '31 years old. Charlie is about 37, and Miss Mathes about 28. Mrs. Wentz has no children. When asked what has caused the trials and tribulations in the life of Charlie Wentz, his friends shake their heads. Wine? His closest friends con cede his inherent desire for it. Women? There was "another woman." Gambling? Ah, they say Charlie played the ponies. He is also cred ited with jockeying on the board of trade, in Lincoln, in Omaha, in Kan sas City. At cards he is said to have good pokor judgment. But there is nothing definite. $200,000 Still Mystery. Where the alleged misappropriated $200,000 can have gone remains a mystery and probably will forever be the unfinished chapter of the story. ' And Charlie himself? "He'd split his last dime with a friend," declares Mr. Schoonover, his cashier. "Charlie was a real friend," af firms Mr. Quinn, the bank presi dent an,d now mayor in Aurora. And Dr. Newman, with whose family Mrs. Wentz made her home after the divorce, describes him as a friend worth having, and tells of many happy fishing trips he made with him. "But why should he do it," asks the doctor. "His bank was doing well and the Wentz company was giving him enough income why. you or I would be satisfied with what the Wentz business was mr.king." Some Still Hopeful. Some claim the Wentz company will be saved yet. And tie assets and liabilities of the bank are not yet closed up. Figures on either concern, both of which were to in tricately interwoven, have not been made public by the state banking board. "Charlie was a 'spender,' " declares Mr Schoonover. Unverified stories of his trip to Omaha would seem to bear this statement out, when it i-s alleged that Wentz, on one trip to the city, sold his automobile for much less than it was worth to put on a party. And another rumor, down in Grand Island, has it that Wentz gave two of his attorneys a $1 200 dia mond ring as payment of 'ees which were supposed to have been but about $500. As it stands, Charlie Wentz re mains an enigma'. Maybe it will all be .leared up next September when he stands trial in district court on the embezzle ment and larceny indictment. Anyway, down in Aurora, thev still are inclined to believe m him. Bee Want Ads "Are Business Boosters. . the Best twmm rsm am mi 1AYDEN , & THE CASH STORE Will Be Closed ALL DAY MONDAY On Account Celebration INDEPENDENCE DAY Sweeping Price Reductions on all Spring and Summer Merchandise in all Departments Tuesday and all week. 'Lys Try HAYDEN'S First 'Ly, O. D. Blankets, Wool, brand new 8S.75 U. S. Army Commercial Blankets, Renovated...., 85.98 U. S. Marine Blankets, All Wool 86.50 Cotton Double Blankets, 72x84, 5V2 lbs., New 85.98 U. S. 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P.eerulation Squad Tents 835.00 Tents 0x9 Navy Wall Tents 830.00 Regulation Pun Tents 84.75 Barb Wire 4 Point E:.tr. H-mw, per spool 82.87 U. S. Guaranteed Hons per gallon 83.25 U. S. Guaranteed Outsid- White, per gallon 83.50- U. S. Guaranteed Barn Paint, per gallon SI. 95 Army Canteens with Web Carriers 79 Armv Trench Hatchets 98 Army Steel Hejmcts 81.25 Tarpaulins, 12x15, U. S. Army Tarps, 12-oz. Duck 823.50 TO OUT-OF-TOWN DUYF.RS We ihip goods exactly adverti.ed. Male orders out plainly. Inc'i-d- mrncv ovder or draft. If ordered by parcel pott include rtaSc. Yo:' rre as-Hired of prompt and satisfactory shipment. INFERENCE State Dank of Omaha. Millie Money Order or Drafts payable to ' Z THE I " ? SKA ARMY & NAVY SUPPLY CO. 16' " ' Street 1619 Howard Street DESCENDANTS OF PILGRIMS MEET, HERE TUESDfff Plans for Tercentenary Cele bration of Landing at Ply- mouth Rock to Be Made In Omaha. A meeting of the Nebraska ge eral committee for the observance the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Plymouth Rock will be held Tues; day afternoon in Hotel FontenelU from 2 to 4 o'clock. John L. Web ster, who issued the call, expects 100 men and women from various towns of the state to attend. Govt error McKelvie will attend. It is expected that definite plans for this state-wide celebration will be outlined at thi meeting. It has been proposed that the Omaha ob servance include a historical float parade in connection with the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities and that patriotic and civic organizations subscribe for the expense of one float. Following the business session of the committee on Tuesday afternoon, the out-of-town visitors will be given an automobile ride and Mr. Webster will he host at a dinner at the Omaha Country club. The chairman of the committee Is anxious to obtain a complete list' of Nebraska descendants from the Pil grims who came over in the May flower. The list to date follows: Homer White and Mrs. H. E. Oleson, Oma ha; Mrs. Frank B. Hollenbeck, Mrs. W. E. Bell, Miss Clarissa Delano, Crawford , Delano, Herman Delano and Mrs. John J. Snipes, Lincoln Mrs. Charles F. Spencer, North Platte; Mrs. F. S. Gamble, StantonJ Miss Kathcfme II. Dickerman, Kear; my; Mrs. Moore, Gothenbcrg;, Mr& Temple, Lexington; Miss Alpha Kelsey, Norfolk. , Estimate 7 Autos in U. S. : To Every One in England London, July 3. There is nes motor car to every 120 persons inf the population of Great Britain, in comparison with one car to every 16 persons in the United States. ' This is the estimate of Sir H. Pi Maybury, director of the Roads de partment of the ministry of trans port. According to the estimates fur- nished hy Sir H. P. Maybury there are 750,000 mechanically propelled vehicles in Great Britain, as against ' 6,146,117 in the United States, ac cording tn a census made last year, It is not stated if these figures in clude motorcycles, but if they do" it greatly decreases the number of motor cars in Great Britain, as th'ere are a lartre number of motorcycles in use I s re.