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17. 0. W. REPORT SHOWS SOCIETY IN GOOD SHAPE Total Assets of Nebraska Branch Exceeds Liabilities . By Nearly Two Mil lion Dollars. Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 9. (Specia!). The report of the examiners for the Woodman of the World and the supreme circle has been filed with the state insurance department and shows the work of examination in Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Mississsippi and Missouri. The re port for Nebraska shows as follows: Total assets, $,W 1,504,923.08; liabili ties. $387,691,961.63. The report pro nounces the organization in a satis factory and flourishing condition. The report for the circle shows 226,586 members, of which 90. per cerit are female. The assets are given at $77,541,642.28 and the liabilities at $72,504,395.90, MANY AMERICANS WAGING FIGHT ON TYPHUS IN POLAND 50,000 Cases of Disease Spread By War Prisoners and Emigrants. London, Aug. 9. There are 500 Americans working overtime in Po land today as, members of the American sanitary mission trying to stamp out the typhus epidemic. Some aid also is being given by Red Cross organizations of Aus tralia, .Belgium, Spain, France, Japan. Portugal, Roumania, Serbia and Sweden, while Great Britain has promised a $400,000 credit and J two cargoes pt. hospital material to help stamp out the scourge. Th typhus epidemic has raged in Poland for several years. In 1916 there were 34,538 cases. Today there are about 50,000. This does not include tens of thousands of cases of the dread disease in non Polish territories which today are being administered by the Warsaw government. The epidemic is spread by the prisoners of war and emi grants returning from Russia, where the disease has its perma nent center of infection. In the year ended last January. 1.279.692 persons passed through or settled down in Polish territory from the east. ' . The Polish government is spend ing 60.000.000 marks per month to fight the disease and I'A per cent jf the whole Polish budget is absorbed by the anti-typhus campaign. The International Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. were the first to come to Poland's aid, but their com bined efforts have been insufficient, according to reports received by the league of nations headquarters to , stamp out the malady. The leigue of nations has taken upon its shoulders the task of help ing Poland to rid itself of the epi demic. . Two Sisters Jump Through Windows When Fight Starts i v - P. H. Doylec, 1012 Dorcas street, and Rodney Maseko, 2205 South Sixth street, were' arrested early Monday morning after they caused two women to dive head first through the windows of a Benson street car, when a fight started over the offer of a drink to a woman at Twenty-fourth and M streets. Police answered a riot call and found the car vacant except for the two men, whom they arrested. Maseko pulled forth a flask of whisky on the street car and offered a drink to Florence Ryhn, 5122 South Thirty-eighth street, police say. The girl refused. Her Sister, Pearl, interfered and Maseko struck her in the eye. Florence went out the window, head first, followed by Pearl. Clara McMann ad her sister, Mary, 4209 Sputh Twenty-ninth street, sought safety through the front window of the motorman's cab over the fender. The men were sentenced On two counts, that of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace. Use Cockroaches and Rats in Experiment To Find Cancer Cause London, Aug. 9. It is possible to produce cancer of the tongue and stomach at will, in rats, at any rate. This is the claim made by Profes sor Fibiger in the "Reports of the Society of Biology." The importance of this discovery is that the study of the origin of cancer can now be carried oh from a new standpoint. When we know more ot the nature of the poisons which have produced the cancerous conditions- in rats, both of the cys ticercus sarcoma and epithelioma tous types, it is believed that we snan come nearer to the solution of the darkest of all medical probtems. "Something .like 217 rats were used in the experiments. They were ted on cockroaches known to be in fected with the worm thought to in duce cancer. Of 132 rats which sur vived for 49 days or more 64 were lound to have inflammation of the tongue and two a definite form of cancer. Of 85 rats which died in from 90 to 180 days after infec tion, only four had inflammation of the tongue and three had cancer. The numher of employer unions in New Zealand grew from 121 with a membership of 3,630 in 1907 to 1 149 with, a membership of 5,819 in ,1914; in 1917 there were 14S with 5,390 members. (Workers' unions showed a similar fluctuation, there being 310 with a membership of 45,614 in 1907 and 403 with a mem bership of 73 991 in 1914; in 1917 there were 382 anions with 72,873 members., Lighting Fixtures Burfets-Gran-den Co Adv. Battle Line The Bolshevik hordes1 are steadily advancing on Warsaw and are directing their main effort to cutting the line of communication between Warsaw and Danzig, from which point Poland receives its war materials. Red cavalry are reported within thirty miles of Mlawa, on the Warsaw Danzig railroad line. Red infantry has crossed the Bug river, shattering Poland's last line of defense east of Warsaw. The shaded portion of the map shows the territory taken by the Bolshevik troops since last March. The black section shows the scene of the present heavy operations. 21 SPEEDERS ARE FINED AND ONE JAIL SENTENCE Ukase ot Judge .Foster Makes Drunkenness While Driving Prison Offense. Police Judge Foster 'severely scored .'speeding drivers in' police court Monday morning, after he had sent one man to jail . for speeding and intoxication and imposed fhis on 20 others. "Booze and'tasoline flon't mix." declared the judge. "Every autoist caught speeding, found to be intoxi cated, will be sent to jail. Every one will be treated alike. : This ap pears to be the only remedy for this dangerous violation of the law, and it will be applied, no matter who. it hits." I. S. Ancona, 1435 North Seven; teenth street, was sentenced to 15 days in jail. Officers estimated that he was going 30 miles an hour when he passed the police station ' Sun day. Others fined were: Louis Klock, 216 , South Twenty-eighth street. $25: B. F.Rphrbough. 1330 South Thirtieth street, $25; John Gnddard, 1446 North Seventeenth street, $5; J. Hiinsinger, 2328 South Thirty- eighth avenue, $10; E. A. bggerson, Minneapolis. $5; W. F. Eggers. Elk horn, $15; Tohn Pittman, $15; Frank Henry, $10; John Goodall, 1440 North Seventeenth street. $10; Harry Smith. 1330 South Thirtieth street, $5; Charles Hutter 4429 South Eighteenth street, $25; James Corcoran. 4429 South Eighteenth street. $25;"Steve' MalOney, El Beu der apartments, $25; M. C. Bur bridge, 2554 Spencer street, $10. Several men and girls were haled into court for "spooning" in autos. The men were given normal fines "while the girls were lectured by ttye juage. . SOCIETY GIRLS IN CONTEST TO BREAK WINE ON BALLOON Omaha-Made Gas Bag Will Be Christened at Fort Saturday. Omaha's balloon, which will rep resent the United States army, in the international balloon races at Indi anapolis in September, will be chris tened at Fort Omaha next Saturday afternoon. ' ' The balloon 'was completed under the direction of A. Leo Stevens, civ ilian instructor at the fort, and is the first to be constructed by the army. .... Fourteen Omaha and Council Bluffs society girls have been sug gested to serve as sponsor for the balloon. They will draw lots at the fort Wednesday afternoon to de cide who will be the lucky one. They are Claire Daugherty, Ger trude Stout. Marjorie Cavers, Helen Walker, Alice McCormick, Peggy Reed, Ellen Kolb, Mary Anstead, Cprrine Elliott, Helen Walpole, Irene McNight, Geraldine Hess, Gretchen Hess and Margueritha Grimmell. Efforts will be made by the au thorities at the fort to secure a bot tle of honest-to-goodness cham pagne to crack on the basket of the balloon. Coming for Conference Superintendent Paul Keller of the northwestern prohibition and nar cotic division will confer with United States Attorney Frank A. Peterson some time next month re garding the work accomplished dur ing the last two months by the Omaha department, according to an announcement made yesterday by Attorney Peterson. "Mr. Keller is coming here to confer with . me," said Attorney Peterson, "at my request." $500 Fire at Superior. Superior, Neb., Aug. 9. (Special i eiegram.; a tire at the home of Glenn Short, section foreman .of the Burlington, was discovered late this afternoon. The fire is thoueht to have started from a spark from a de fective fine. The damage was set at ?5W. ....... In Poland Poles Quit Warsaw ' As Reds Push Onward (Continued from Pae On.) mission. German clerical forces were unable torissue the passports speedily enough so three French majors joined them. Volunteer Army Fails. Poland's one military hope Mailer's volunteer army is proving a disappointment, although it made heroic efforts to stem the onrush of the bolsheviki in the north, in which it sustained heavy losses. It is added that there is serious friction between the French General Weygand's staff and Polish military leaders, which has resulted in hope less confusion in the carrying out of orders. What remains of the shattered volunteer army is retuning without arms or equipment in squads of from 20 to 40. Government Collapses. Preparations have been made to blow up both of the principal Vis tula bridges. All river traffic has been prohibited under threat of death. Food shops of Warsaw have been stormed. The correspondent says a co ordinate Polish government har. ceased. The finance ministry was the first to leave. President Pil sudski is reported to have said he preferred death to seeing Poland's downfall. The prevailing internal confusion, the correspondent said, is indicative of the proclamation of a soviet republic 'soon. - Bolshevik propagandists have been busy, un molested. Incoming trains are reported to ie jammed with armed deserters. Three hundred deserting officers were placed on trial Wednesday and 23 executed. U. S. Commander at Coblenz Says Polish Situation Is Bad Coblenz, Aug. 9. (By The Asso ciated Press.) Poland's military situation is critical, in the view of Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, com mander of the American army of occupation, who is kept closely in tormed of developments. Resources ."id reinforcements within Poland, .'Jr much further resistance, do not appear to him to be available and he believes a continuation of the Polish struggle rests with the al lies. General Allen has expressed con viction that Germany is determined to stand on its neutrality and oppose the allies' transit through German territory. Estimates of the combatant forces on the Russo-Polish front indicate the bplshevikl number 160,000 and the Poles 100,000. . : Beds Take Chor Paris, Aug. 9. Russian cavalry Mriving westward from Przasnysz has occupied Lhor, within a day s riding distance of the Warsaw Danzig railway, which is expected to be reached either at Mlawa or Ciechanow late today or early Tues day, according to advices reaching the French foreign office. The soviet cavalry units are reported greatly depleted, owing tr the exhaustion of both men and horses. Sergt. Wheeler's Test Case Will Be Tried This Morning Test suit of Sergeant Lyman Wheeler against the city of Omaha for $65 payments made on pre miums for bonds as a police officer, on the outcome of which will depend whether the city is liable for $10,000 premiums paid surety; companies for officers' bonds, will be. heard by Muncipal Judges Patrick! .Holmes and Baldwin, jointly, Wednesday. Seek Naval Code Book Taken From Beached .Submarine San Pedro, Cal., Aug. 9. Navy intelligence officers, . it became known today, are conducting a search of a code book said to have been taken from the submarine H-l, when that vessel was stranded on the shoals of Santa Margarita Island, Lowtr California, last March. Capt Chaurtce Shackford, con.rnandant of the submarine base here, said the stranded submarine was left unguarded for a few hours during which the ship's safe wa3 looted, presumably by alien fisher men operating in the vicinity. Appropriates Chicken Mrs.' Joe Redd, 2606 Jefferson street, will tell the judge in South Side police court Thursday why she seized a Rhode Island Red chicken belonging to Annie Jagorac, 2602 Jefferson street and did away with it Sunday night fHE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1920. DIVORCE EVIL IS SERMON SUBJECT AT OUTDOOR MEET Chicago Minister Says City In 1950 Will Be More Deso late Than Any War Rav ished French City. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leased Wlr. Chicago, Aug. 9. "Home, sweet home," was the topic of the outdoor "gasoline services" held last night by the Third Presbyterian church. "If the present rate of increase of divorces continues in Chicago for the next generation the city will by 1950 be more desolate than any of the war ravished cities in France," said William F. McDermott, one of the speakers. "If the present rate continues there will not be a single marriage by 1950 that will turn out success fully. In other words, the increase in divorce is so rapid that by 1950 the number will be equal to that of the marriages. Divorces on Increase. "Take the figures of the last 10 years, for instance, as far as they are available. In 1911 there were 30,417 marriages and 3,442 divorces, or one out of each 8.83 marriages failed? in 1915 there were 31,509 marriages and 4,116 divorces, or one divorce to every 7.65 marriages. The increase of divorce over marriage in that period was 13.3 per cent. "The years following, being war years, cannot be taken as normal.. But last year, the first full year of peace, there were 37,583 marriages, while the local judges handling di vorce cases estimated there would be between 5,000 and 6,000 divorces. Taking the meaning of these two figures, or 5,500, it would show one divorce for every 6.83 marriages, or an increase of approximately 23 per cent over the divorce rate of 1911. Three decades more, at that rate, Will see divorces equalling the num ber of marripges. "More graphic illustration can be SJT,,the l that Chicago with .1.000,000 people now has more divorces annually than the whole United States in 1850, with 23, 000.000 people, yet with a population only one-seventh as great. Many Causes Found. "What is the cure? Stricter di vorce laws will help but little, as divorce is only a symptom of a disease in the social fabric of the nation. Applying strict divorce laws is like putting a court plaster on a cancer. , Treatment must go deeper. . "A study of the causes' and cir cumstances reveal the need. Take the figures for 1914. a normal peace year. Out of 3,577 families getting divorces, only 70 owned their homes; in 2,171 cases, or nearly two thirds, there were no children. "Increasing childlessness, esoecially among our native born American born people, the growth of the apartment habit, and the tendency toward ease, indulgence, and fast living, only presage more divorces, more broken homes, and "reater menace to the future of An:. a." The service was attend. by a number of motor parties, who re mained seated in their cars. Plan Novel Dance in Water at Municipal Beach Wednesday Dancing in the water, an Atlantic City divertisement, will be introduced to Omahans at the Municipal beach on Tuesday even ing, when an aquatic carnival will be held under the direction of the city park department. City Commissioner Falconer and Ira Jones, of the recreation depart ment, announced that at 8 o'clock all under 16 years will be required to leave the water and that from 8 to 9 only, masked bathers will be allowed in the beach. Dancing in the water will be in order from 9 to 9.45. An orchestra will enliven the oc casion and nearly 1,000 Japanese lanterns will brighten the scene. Prizes will be awarded for in dividuals in bathing suits and masks, and also for the couples who make the best apnearance. A grand march will be started in the water at 8:15. Commissioner Falconer does not expect that women will wear one piece suits on this occasion. ' Express Employes To Secure In ase From Railway Board Chicago. Aug. 9. The United States railway labor board will an nounce its vige award to the 75,000 employes of the American Railway Express company at 8:30 a. m. to morrow. The award will apply to all em ployes of -the express company not affected by the recent $600,000,000 award. Some 2,000 express em ployes, mainly mechanics, came within the provisions of the railway award, but the great majority, sucli as office employes, clerks, drivers and others, were not included. No indication of the terms of the express award was forthcoming to day, but it was expected that the decision will be retroactive to May 1. An inventor has brought out a stepladded with two- steps, upon which are straps into which a user thrusts his feet to elevate the steps to notches in the frame of the de vice. BrieJ City News Sirs. Gamble ' Improves Mrs. John W. Gamble of the Virginia apartments, who has been ill, was much improved yesterday. Leaves Hospital F. H. Davis, president of the First National bank of Omaha, has left Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and will spend three or four weeks in Atlantic City. Me is reported as much improved in health. T. H. Davis, vice president of the First National bank, returned to his desk today from three weeks in Atlantic City. HARDING CANNOT VISIT AK-SAR-BEN, NEW WIRES LYNCH G. O. P. Presidential Nominee Will Speak in Omaha Some Time in October. A telegram received yesterday by Thomas Lynch, secretary of the republican county central committee, from Senator Harry S. New, chair man of the republican national speakers' bureau, stated it is not probable Senator Warren G. Hard ing will be able to visit Omaha dur ing Ak-Sar-Ben festivities or any time during September. Mr. Lynch is confident Senator Harding will be in Omaha during October ou a trip which will include Denver and other western cities. The county secretary will leave Wednesday for an outing which will take him to Chicago, where he will confer with Senator New in connec tion with national republican speak ers for Omaha. Mrs. Draper Smith, vice county thairman, is busy at republican headquarters, 310 South Nineteenth street. The registration of women is her particular work just now. INNER BELT PLAN FOR TRAFFIC IN OMAHA LAID OVER Council to Probe Towl's Prop osition Before Presenting It to Voters. The city council committee of the whole decided at its meeting yester day that this is not a propitious time for the promotion of Commis sioner Towl's inner belt traffic way project which the city planning board has teen working on for more than a year. The proposed improvement, as in dicated on a series of maps which Mr. Towl offered to the council, contemplates opening of a traffic way from Sherman avenue at Sprague street, thence west to the Omaha Belt Line and paralleling that line to Grover street and then along ihe Union Pacific tracks to Nineteenth and Pierce streets. To Cost $500,000. Mr. Towl estimated that the traf Scwav would cost not less than $500,000 and would be nearly 10 miles long. "I don't doubt that the project is meritorious, but it is too stupen dous to expect ns to take snap judg ment." said Mayor Smith, who added he believed it unwise to sub mit this proposition to the voters at '.he November election because they would be engrossed with state and national elections. Held in Abeyance. Mr. Towl explained he expected to) ask council to submit this and several other large improvement projects at the November election, the wider iiig of Twenty-fourth street being the most. extensive of the propositions.. " - " Mr. Towl's trafficway ordinance, which declares the necessity of ap propriating approximately 600 pieces of property, will be held in abeyance until the commissioners have look ed over the ground. Shows Combined In Big Double-Circus Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey shows combined has been the means of bringing together more and better features than have evei before been presented in the history of the circus. More trains are required to trans port the great organization than have ever been used by any single amusement enterprise. More and better horses are made necessary to haul its equipment to and from the show grounds. The street parade is the longest ever exhibited in Ameri ca. The menageries cont-:is the finest animals of both the :amous circuses and the main-tent igrani, presenting the cream of ' arenic world, is unequalled. . Some idea of the size of the new institution may be had when it is stated that the menakerie includes no less than eight giraffes. Among the hundreds of performers appear such stars as Lily Leitzel, May Winh, Ernest Clark Bird Millman, Phillip St. Leon, Signor Bagonhi, the Davenports, the Bradnas, the Klarkonians, the Silbons, the Sieg rists, Johannes all as famous in the realm of the white tops as is Caruso to the lover of opera. The dumb actors are legion. Pic ture an elephant act numbering enough of the "big-eared giants" to line the entire length of one side of the great hippodrome track and you will have some idea of the gigantic scale upon .which the famous show men have mustered the wealth of animal actors at their disposal. The Ringling Brothers and Bar nam & Bailey shows comb;ned will exhibit Tuesday. August 31, at Twentieth and Paul streets. Vatican Choirs Will Tour America Again This Year New York, Aug. 9. Word has been received from James Slevin, the impresario, now in Rome, that by special permission of Pope Benedict XV, the famous Vatican choirs will be permitted again to tour the United States. . Last year the pope, for the first time in the history of the Vatican, peimitted the choirs to leave Rome. They had a limited but trumphant tour of the United States, and Can dinal Gibbons and other eminent churchmen and students of higher sacred music urged Mr. Slevin to re tain the choirs in the United States for additional concerts. This was im possible, as the choirs were required in Rome for important functions, in cluding the beatification of Saint Joan of Arc. The weekly wages of various classes of workers in the north ol Ireland, calculated on a basis of $4.86 to the pound sterling, is as fol lows: Girl. $7.36 to $8.15; men, $14.60 to $16.05; carpenters. $20.97 to $22.04; mechanics. $21.41 and up; laborers. $10.95 to $13.38; women in hosiery factories, $7.30 to $17.03. PROSPERITY WILL FOLLOW IN WAKE of Burn crop Nebraska Once More Proves Itself "Land of Plenty and Prosperity," Says C. Of C. President. With the harvest season on, Ne braska once more proves itself the land of plenty and prosperity. Vet eran business men here, familiar with agricultural conditions, say they have no recollection of better crops than are in sight this year. t All this affects the city man as well as the farmer, and business in Omaha will soon rise to flood tide. "The background of Omaha is ag riculture," said Robert S. Trimble, president of the Omaha Chamber of rVmm.ro. v.cterHav "Tho fnlmtrV JV.VV, J . . . ... J merchant buys at wholesale here, and prosperity on the farm percolates through every business in the state. Farmer Pays Cash. "The farmer pays cash to the rural mrfhant anrl the merchant navS th'l factory and wholesaler more prompt- i j i . ly. Mortgages are paia up, mieresi oavments are met and more goods are sold all around." The Chamber of Commerce main tains an agricultural bureau in charge of H. F. Mcintosh, who farmed for many years near urana Island. Mr. Mcintosh, who had just received news of a good rain in the west central part of the state, where it was most needed, was in a jubilant mood. No Idle Land. "There hasn't been any idle land in the state for several years," he declared. "The farmers are no slack ers. Though less wheat was planted, we have a larger acreage of corn than in many years. "What the world needs is a Lumper corn crop, and the middle nest is going to furnish it. In Kan sas and Missouri good rains have insured the crop. Nebraska's har vest will be made by the middle of September. August is the trying month. Must Feed Stock. "The corncribs will be filled and this in itself will restore normal con ditions. A big corn crop, with a reserve held over, will restore the profits of cattle feeding. The farm ers will have to feed stock this year. ah th crrain r.m't be marketed. There are not enough cars, for one thing, and also the market must not be glutted. "Plenty and prosperity never hurt anyone, but low prices would not do good to any business interest. We don't want to see corn as cheap as it was in the days when it hardly paid to ship it to market. Turning Corn Into Meat. "By turning our corn to beef and pork, the benefits of this wonderful harvest will be spread over two years. There is a distinct scarcity of hogs, and many cattle were lost on the northern ranges last winter. The situation never was more en couraging for feeding live stock. "All this means more money for the farrrfer, and whatever is good, for the farmer is good for the city folks, too. t;il there are cases demanding constant help from The Bee's baby- life-savmg tund. The Visiting Nurses investigate each case. No money goes where tiirrr i an ablebodied father to pro vide funds for the family. Principally the little oaDies neipcu are in fatherless families where a brave mother is struggling by hard work against a heavy fate. Will YOU help these babies dur ing the hot, hot weather? If you can, send or bring a con tribution to the fund to The Bee office today. . Previously acknowledged , IJ1' T? H. Serk v 1 Total $317.76 Deaths and FuneraU T ytlnAtranrA rAtlred flhlDDtnff clerk, reeldeiit ot Omaha for 30 years, died at hie home. 2803 Madleon atreet. Saturday, aged S3 yeare. Funnral aerv Icee will be held Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock from the Danish Lutheran church. Interment will be made In Forest LawD cemetery. ' Mrs. Mary Egyed. aged 70 years, died Sunday at her home. 1101 Dominion street. She had been a resident of Omaha ror 4v years. ine mnoni win w ., Tuesday at 9:30 p. in. at the home. In terment will be made In the Saint Mary Magdalene cemetery. Harry W. Flnlay. S616 North Thirtieth street, aged 37 years, a printer, died Sat urday In a local hospital. He leaves a wife and two children. The funeral was held from Hoffman's funeral parlors at 3 o'clock yesterday. Interment was In For est Lawn cemetery. James Messersniitli, a resident of Omaha for 40 years, di':d In Ues Moines Sunday, at the age of 74 years. The funeral will be held from the Fero chapel Tuesday afternoon at2 o'clock. Interment will be In Prospect Hill cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Eber hardt Kern. 61 years old. widow of Charles C Kern, who died Sunday night at her home, 1717 Sprague street, will Le held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the home. Burial will be In West Lawn cemetery. Funeral aervlces for Patrick McCabe, 4H&7 Cuming street, who died yestenUy, will be held from St. Ceclllas cathedral at a. m. today, and also from the family residence. He Is survived uy ins wife and children, Mrs. Frank Dee. Mrs. F. Glltett, Marguerite, James and Joseph, all of Omaha, and Mrs. William Katue of HemlnglorU. Neb. Mrs. Frances Redmond, yeara old, mother of T. P. Redmond. Burgess-Nash company, In New York City, died Satur day, according to word received In Omaha yesterday. Mr. Redmond was called to her bedside Thursday and arrived before her death. Mrs. Redmond will be burled In Kingston, Canada. Mrs. Cecilia Jnne Wills. 70 years old. who recently dld after a long Illness tn Omaha, was the wife of John G. Willis, 2325 North Twenty-second atreet, for whom Willis avinue was named. She lluarl In th linn hnml for most of thm 47 yeara of her residence In Omaha. Be Mriea her huahar.d two sons and five ! daughters survive her. They are Robert H. and William H. Willis of Bridgeport, , Neb., and Mrs. W. B T. Belt. Mrs. F. W. I Smith of Mlnatnre. Neb.; Edith. Bea trice, and Margaret Willis of Omaha. Rourkes and Boosters Open Four-Game Series Tuesday The Rourkes and the Des Moines Boosters open a four-game series at Rourke park today, after which Omaha onrs tn Sioux CitV for a quartet of games there, returning again on August Vf lor a la-game stay at home The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice , Ml TO DELAY ACTION ON EBERSTEIN UNTIL URE RETURN Council Also Desires Presence Of Eberstein Before Taking Vote on Resignation. Chief of Police Eberstein will not be asked by the city council to re sign at this time. Resolution offered by Commis sioner Zimman last Wednesday to request Eberstein to resign, when council dismissed Captain of De tectives John Dunn, was put over yesterday for action until a full meeting of the council. The resolution was referred to the committee of the whole last Wednesday. Commissioner Ure was the only absent member of the council this morning. He is awiy on his vacation. Mayor Offers Resolution. Mayor Smith offered the motion to postpone action on the resolution. Commissioner Falconer seconded it. There was no discussion. The resolution would cill for Eberstein's resignation because "he has not demonstrated his ability to be head of the police department" Wants Chief Present. Following the meeting yesterday, Mayor Smith stated he would op pose any effort to bring the matter up in council until Eberstein him self could be before that body. Eberstein is now fishing and va cationing in Michigan, and will not return until Septtinber 1. Commis sion Ure is not expected back until the same time. ' The mayor reiterated his deter mination to follow out his threat that if John Dunn was dismissed, he would call for Eberstein's resigna tion 4th Iowa Infantry Off for State Camp At Spirit Lake Range t Eighty members of Company A, Fourth infantry, Iowa National Guard, entrained at 10 a. ni. yester day in Council Bluffs for the state encampment at Spirit Lake. Capt. Sam A. Greene, company commander, was in charge. Floyd Hendricks and C. E. Fellingham are his lieutenants. Lt. Col. Floyd M. Ross of Red Oak, former officer in the 168th in fantry, Rainbow division, will be in command of the camp, which will be held from today to August 25. Three days of the camp will be spent on the state rifle range near Spirit Lake, and the remainder of the time in maneuvers. French War Veterans Have Little Use for Stiff Lids Paris. Aug. 9. Only newly :rich and older men wear straw hats. 'ac cording to one of the most fashion able hatters in Paris. "Men who were in the war hate stiff hats," he declares. , "The derby is very unpopular: in fact, almost everybody ren'arks that men who were in the trenches wear soft hats for every occasion. "Even the hot weather has brought out few 'straw hats of the old type." . THQMPSOK-BELDEN & COMPANY j Our Annual August Sale of Linens Interesting Specials Tuesday John S. Brown's Irish Linen Table Cloths (Napkins to match) $22.50 table cloths, 2x2 yards, Tuesday, $17.50. $25 table cloths, 2i4x2i4 yards, for $20. '$25 napkins, 22-inch, for1 $20 a dozen. Linen Weft , Huck Towels 65c towels, 45c each. ! All of Our Fine Fancy Linens Are Reduced During This Sale. ' Linens Main Floor As Choice of All Sorosis Pumps and Oxfords for $8.85 We are placing every pair of pumps and oxfords with Louis heels in this sale. . Patent leather, dull kid, brown kid, white kid, white Nile cloth and suede slippers that have sold ' Formerly from $11 to $16 a pair, on sale Tuesday for $8.85. DIME "FLOP" FOR FLOATERS NOW A THING OF PAST Wayfarers Want Private Rooms With All Appoint- ments Many Have Bank Accounts. Chicago, Aug. 9. Demand for private rooms, with sunshine and hot and cold running water, has up planted that for a dime "flop among wayfaring working met since the country went 'dry accord ing to the observations ot .lie Sal vation Army. Lieut. Col. Emi Marcussen, head of the industrta department of the army for thi states west of the Mississippi, sai todav: "The day of the dormitory or th. 'flop house," has passed. The ktn of men who usel to come to ui seeking free beds or glad to ?e them for a dime, now ask for pri vate rooms. Since prohibition be came effective I have closed sev eral of our wcrkingnien's hotels, in eluding one in Chicago and anothei in Kansas City. "There is a real need foi good modern hotels ""for men at reason able prices, and those which wi have are run along such lines Oui Working Men's Palace in Chicagi has 571 beds. Three years asro w would have found 10 or 12 men ii the Palace with bank accounts Last month there were 312 men it that hotel who carried bank books. "In the old days on cleaning out the dormitories Al.ere the transients slept we would find many empty1 bottles on the floor. Now it 's very seldom that a bottle shows up. The story is the same in every city, from Chicago to the Pacific coast. ."As for the industrial hemes, they used to contain many young men who ceased to be producers, and who had to be made over, some times by a long and painstaking process, into good -citizens and wage earners. Today there is hardly an able-bodied man in any industrial home in the United States. "The men who are there are nearly all permanently disabled to some degree, or they are convales cents from hospitals who are unable to do an ordinary day's work. These men are not only able to take care of themselves, but even to save a little from their earnings "There- is room in every industrial home. The Chicago home is not half full. That is why the Salva tion Army is able this year, through its home service program, to extend an offer of the facilities of these homes to every small community in the west." Police Raid Communists' Picnic and Arrest Two ' Chicago, Aug. 9. Three men were arrested Sunday when a picnic given in Mayw od by alleged mem bers of the communist labor party was broken u) by detectives. The men will be turned over ti the federal officials for alleged seditious utterances against the gov ernment, detectives said. Following the arrests the picnic kers dispersed. Police were told that the affair ws sponsored by mem ber s ofthconimn Heavy Bleached Turkish Towels 65c towels, Tuesday, 50c. 85c towels, Tuesday, 65c. -