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Festival Is
Observed by
Catholics
Feast of Corpus Christi Solem
nized by Procession for
20 Blocks Over Flower
Strewn Course.
7,000 Persons Take Part
1 1 i
Catholics in Omaha paid public
homage to the blessed sucharist yes
terday afternoon in solemn celebra
tion of the feast of Corpus Christi,
the grand festival of the Catholic
thurch. 1
A procession of the laity, clergy
and acolytes for 20 blocks over a
course strewn with flowers and be
decked with flags featured the cere
mony. Archbishop J. J. Harty in purple
robes headed the clergy in the fourth
(division of the procession.
He was preceded by Rev. T. J. For
tune, pastor of St. Cecilias parish,
bearing the blessed sucharist in the
golden ostensorium.
A deacon and a subdeacon in
Iplendor of golden vestments assist
ed Father Fortune. The trio
hiarched beneath a canopy with an
potior guard of prominent Omahans.
7,000 Persons Participate.
Fully 7,000 persons from the 36
Catholic parishes in Omaha partici
pated n the procession. Thousands
with bare heads paid homage on
bended knee along the route of the
procession.
The entire services were impressive
and featured with splendor the feast
of Corpus Christi, having the signif
icat'ee of public .reparation to the
blessed eucharist.
The procession started from the
main altar of St. Cecilias cathedral
and marched to the first temporary
altar outdoors, located on the ter
race of Archbishop Harty's home,
Thirty-sixth and Burt tsreets.
While the attending thousands
kiielt on sidewalks, lawns and street,
benediction was given by Father
Fortune.
Practically all the Catholic clergy
of the city assisted in vestments.
Edifying Spectacle.
The nuns and little flower girls on
the terrace of Sacred Heart academy
portrayed nn editying spectacle.
Professor. Sibley's boys' choir of
St. Cecilias cathedral sang hymns
during the procession. An- octet of
tnixed voices sang benediction at the
various altars. ,
From the first altar, the procession
marched to Thirty-sixth and Daven
port streets where solemn benedic
tioin was given a second time.
The third altar was stationed at
Thirty-eighth and Webster streets.
Final benediction was given from a
temporary altar erected back of the
cathedral.
Yesterday's celebration of the
feast of Corpus Christi was declared
the grandest ever shown by Catholics
in Omaha.
Neligh Makes Bid for
State Reformatory
Neligh. Neb.. May 29. (Special.)
A spei'l meeting was held by the
executive committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce and influential citi
zens to consider the proposition of
securing the men's state reformatory
for this city. It was decided to of
fer the state board of control a tract
of land consisting -of 320 acres, a
mile v.est of Neligh, which isv con
sidered the best farm land in the
Elkhorn valley and is directly on the
main line of the Chicago & North
western railroad and on the federal
aid road. Secretary Fairfield of the
board of control was communicated
with by telephone and informed that
a delegation of the Neligh Chamber
of Commerce, accompanied by sev
eral men of influence in this section
of the state, would be in Lincoln
Tuesday to make an effort to have
this new $300,000 building located
in Neligh.
State Uni Professor Gives
Commencement Address
Wayne, Neb., May 29. (Special.)
Prof. M. M. Fogg of the Univer
sity of Nebraska gave the com
mencement address, "Straight
Thinking: and Democracy," at the
Wayne High school graduation ex
ercises. The first scholarship prize,
offered by the Association of Ne
braska Colleges, was awarded to
Leila Mitchell, leader of the district
championship debating team. Supt.
J. R. Armstrong, who resigned to
enter business at Columbus, will be
succeeded by Superintendent Shirey
of Genoa.
Omaha Boy Takes Part in
School Music Festival
Onarga, 111., May 29. (Special.)
Walter Wherry, son of Dr. and
Mrs. W. P. Wherry, 5201 California
street, Omaha, took a prominent
part in the spring music-festival held
at the Onarga Military school. He
plays the saxophone- in the school
band and orchestra, and was fea
tured in several of the numbers.
He also is treasurer of the Chres
tomathean Literary society and a
member of the track team.
Will Tour in Europe.
Alexandria, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) Miss Jessica Morgan, living
near Hebron, left for Europe, where
she will spend a year sight-seeing on
the battle grounds of France. She
md four other young women com
prise the group of tourists.
Song Writers Strike
Causes 'Rag Famine;.
Publishers in Market
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leaned Wire.
Chicago, May 29. Here's some
news for milk wagon drivers, hotel
clerks and soda fountain boys, not
to mention the entire feminine popu
lation of the middlewest.
Get out that song that you sadly
tucked away in the attic trunk. The
music publishers want it. They're
looking for uncut diamonds among
the song scribblings of the amateur
one-fingered piano players.
There's a ragtime shortage.
It's all due to the songwriters'
strike. Sure, didn't you know they
had a union? They went on strike
a month ago when the publishers
announced they would pay only 2
cents a copy on all sheet music, in
stead of the wartime luxury of o
cents.
Mort Harris, representative of a
New York publishing house, is here,
offering his service as the Colonel
House in the peace negotiations be
tween the song writers and the pub
lishers. Prices Going Up
In Near Future,
U.S.EmployesSay
Claim Congressmen's Salaries
Would Have to Be Tripled
To Keep Pace With
Costs.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha, Bee Ieaaed Wire.
Washington, May 29. Federal em
ployes who are seeking compensa
tions from the government commen
surate with the rising cost of living
point to the fact that the salaries of
congressman would have had to be
tripled and then some if they had
kept pace with the rising cost of
living.
"The cost of living is going up and
not down," they argued in a state
ment issue'd through their national
federation. "We are at present go
ing through a 'thank-you-ma'am' and
very shortly prices will rise so that a
year from now they will be consid
erably higher than at present. If the
salaries of congressmen, $7,500 a
year, had kept pace with the dimin
ishing purchasing power of the dol
lar it would have been nece3sary to
add to them in 1914, $1,351; in 1915,
$322: in 1916, $1,417; in 1918, $3,210;
in 919, $5,212; in 1919-20, $7,267, so
that if congressmen were to receive
at present, enough money to make
up for the loss they sustained
through the diminishing value of the
dollar while their salaries were sta
tionary during these six years, they
would now be receiving $17,567 a
year. A government employe on
$1,200 a year in 1913 should now be
receiving $2,809. In other words, to
keep pace with the decline in the
value of the dollar, men and women
on a stationary salary during that pe
riod should now receive a lump pay
ment of $2.34 for every dollar." .
Rain in Perkins and Keith
Counties Big Aid to Wheat
Ogallala, Neb., May 29. (Special.)
Rains here have aided the fall
wheat and put it in excellent condii
tion. Farmers of Keith and Perkins
counties report that the wheat is in
far better, condition than it was at
this time last year. From all ap
pearances the yield per acre will be
as large as it has been the last three
years. Estimates are that wheat will
average 21 to 28 bushels per acre
this year. Fully one-half the wheat
raised in this section last year is
still in the farmers' bins. At the
time of the high prices they could
not get cars to ship, but since the
gradual return of better prices the
last week, many farmers are shipping
a portion of their crop.
By-Laws of Railway
Engineers' Are Revised
Cleveland, May 29. Delegates to
the triennial convention of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers will
hold sessions Monday, Memorial day
to complete the business of the con
vention by Tuesday night, officials
announced today.
Delegates spent today revising the
laws of the pension association, a
subsidiary organization. Among
other thing the age limit when broth
erhood members may join was
changed' to 50 years from 40:
The association has $1,100,000 iiT
its treasury and has 23,337 members,
1,114 of whom are on the pension
roll.
23 Are Graduated From
High School at Denison
Denison, - la., May 29. (Special.)
The graduating exercises of the
Denison High school were held at
the opera house. The 23 graduates
were gowned in black. The address
to the graduates was made by Presi
dent Flint of Cornell college.
Farmers' Union Picnic
To Be Held in Lodgepole
Lodgepole, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The . annual ' Farmers union
picnic will be held in Lodgepole June
24. Farmers union locals over the
county will be represented. Prom
inent Farmers union speakers will be
on the program also a ball game and
band music.
High School Play.
Lodgeoole, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The consolidated high school
presented their play, "A College
Town," at the opera house to a large
audience. The school is located about
10 miles north of Lodgepole,- -
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May Defeat
Peace Plan
Differences Between House
And Senate Threaten to
Keep Country in State
Of War.
Scrap Knox Resolution
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leased Wire.
Washington, May 29. Discord,
characterized in some quarters as
"petty jealousy" between the house
and senate, has reached such pro
portions that it not only threatens
to keep the United States in a tech
nical state of war with Germany for
an indefinite period, but also jeopar
dizes the movement for naval Iis
armament which the senate unani
mously adopted Wednesday.
The Knox peace resolution was
passed by the senate after long and
careful consideration of form and
substance. In order to place the
United States on a footing of peace
with the other allied nations at the
earliest possible moment, the senate
sat far into the night to bring the
measure to a vote.
A month has elapsed since the
measure was sent to the house. The
house foreign affairs committee has
not yet held a meeting on the resolu
tion, although it is planned that a
meeting be held next week and pre
dictions have been made tha't the
resolution may get before the house
' . , t tt r i
me lonowing weeK.
Oppose Knox Resolution.
Republican members of the com
mittee, however, have already de
termined to scrap the Knox resolu
tion. They declare they do not like
the language of the measure. It
specifically repeals the declaration of
war against the central powers. They
regard this as a repudiation of the
war against Germany.
In the place of the Knox resolu
tion they have agreed to substitute
the resolution drafted by the chair
man of the cbmmittee, Representa
tive Porter of ( Pennsylvania which
simply declares the war at an end.
'Senators, when they heard of this
action, were indignant at what they
characterised as merely a "jealoss
trick" on the part of house and an
"attempt to make an issue of the
difference between tweedle-'dee and
tweedle-dum." They pointed out that
any peace resolution, if effective,
would automatically repeal the dec
laration of war whether it specifical
ly declared so or not.
They traced the beginning of the
friction to personal jealousy between
Representative Porter and Senator
Knox, both of whom come from
Pittsburgh.
Take Row to President.
Both sides have already gone to
the president with their troubles.
The president was .understood to
have given his approval to the Knox
resolution. More recently he told
Mr. Porter that he would accept
whatever solution the two houses
worked out. '
The whole controversy, it appears
now, will be thrown Into a long
drawn out dispute in conference and
made the subject of the indefinite
wrangling while the country remains
technically at war with Germany.
But an even sharper issue is be
ing drawn between the two houses
over the disarmament question.
Again and again the senate had de
clined to entangle the straightfor
ward proposition of curtailing naval
building with the idea of general
military disarmament. Now, it ap
pears, house leaders have decided to
"enlarge the scope" of the Borah
amendment requesting the presi
dent to enter into negotiations with
Great Britain and Japan for an
agreement; to cut down naval build
ing. Xhey propose to bring all oth
er important powers into the con
ference, in order that the whole ques
tion of disarmament on land and
sea, in the air and under the sea,
may be discussed. Representative
Mondell, republican leader of the
house, has had a conference with the
president on the subject and reports
that the president is not averse to
the "enlarging" idea. It is their pur
pose to doctor the Borah amendment
in conference so that the question of
military disarmament can be brought
in.
Senator Borah declared today that
the house plan would simply mean
the death of the naval holiday pro
gram. He said he would prefer to
have no disarmament amendment at
all rather than clutter it up with the
endless question of military disarm
ament. Graduates at Alhion Are
Addressed hy Governor
Albion, Neb., May 29. (Special.)
Governor McKelvie. addressed the
largest graduating class in the his
tory of the Albion High school.
There were 39 members of the class.
Twenty completed the normal
course, 15 the classic, 12 commer
cial, 5 stenographic, 4 combined
commercial and stenographic, 6 col
lege preparatory.
German Church Band Will
Give Concert at Festival
Harbine, Neb., May 29. (Special.)
The German church northeast of
Hareine has organized a band. The
pastor of the church, Rev. C. P.
Poebler, is the director of the new
organization, made up of IS mem
bers. It is the purpose of the or
ganization to make its first public
appearance at a big church JteL'val
vhis summer.
"Jealousy
Clothing "Dummies"
Show Life When DicV'
Threatens to Shoot
Chicago Trlbone-Omnha Bee Leaned Wire.
New York, May 29. Detective
Kirk entered a second-hand clothing
shop on the trail of two burglar
suspects.
"I haven't seen a soul come in,"
the proprietor explained, offering to
sell the detective one of the dis
played suits.
ihe detective glanced at halt a
dozen or more clothing "dummies,"
started out, wheeled around with re
volver in hand and exclaimed:
"Watch me make some holes in
the clothes on the dummies."
Two of the "dummies" suddenly
came to life and to jail.
StillmanMay
Face Libel Suit
In Name of Son
Millionaire May Be Called on
To Prove Charges of Il
legitimacy Against
Child.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Dee Leaaed Wire.
Washington, May 29. Declaring
palms which James A. Stillman de
clines to cross with gold, on the
ground that their owner, Guy Still
man, is the son of a half-breed Ca
nadian backwoodsman, may yet dou
ble into sturdy fists to deal the bank
er's millions a costly blow.
Slander is an expensive luxury
when indulged in by wealthy peo
ple and John . Mack, guardian for
the 31-months-old target of the mul
timillionaire's charges, is known to
be considering the advisability of
instituting a suit for character de
famation against Mr. Stillman.
Prominent attorneys who have
consulted precedents and studied
New York laws celebrated, for the
protection they offer helpless babie
involved in litigation, are of the
opinion that unless Mr. Stillman can
prove that the father of "Fifi's" in
fant really is the half-breed, his al
legations to this effect may be made
expensive ones. '
The mere assertion by a husband
that his wife's children are not his,
is not worth the muscular exertion
requisite to signing the charge. Even
a pronounced resemblance between
the child an dthe object of his jeal
ous suspicions, has little weight in
courts. Something more decisive and
certified is necessary to convince a
judge that the stigma of illegitimacy
must be borne through life by the
baby.
The denial yesterday bv Mr. Still-
man's attorneys that they had under
taken negotiations looking to a set
tlement out ot court, was flatly con
tradicted when Mrs. Stillman made
public a letter from her counsel, John
B. Staunchfield, in which was out
lined an offer that had been made
a month ago.
This contradicted the tentative
terms already announced: with the
further stipulation that Mrs. Still
man leave the country, if not for
five years, at least for one. To this
proposition, she returned a blunt re
fusal. . . i . ..
Hearing on Phone Co.
: Raise Request Held
Loup City, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) A hearing was had here on
the application of the Northwestern
Bell Telephone company to the state
railway commission for permission
to increase its rates for business
phones with county right from $3-58
to $4.40 a month. This increase has
been strongly resisted by the busi
ness men. Evidence was introduced
and the case submitted' to the com
mission. It was the contention of Loup
City people that since, other prices
are being reduced, in many cases to
one-fourth . of what they formerly
were, that no increase should be
made. The company based its case
on the fact that the local plant has
been rebuilt recently.
L. C. Christie to Be Thayer ,
County Farm Bureau Agent
Hebron, Neb., May 29. (Special.)
L. C Christie after June 1 will
be the new farm bureau agent of
Thayer county, having tendered his
resignation to a similar position in
Sewardc ounty. The farm bureau
idea has just been introduced here
and Mr. Christie is the first farm
bureau agent for this county.
University Professor
Speaks at Blair High;
Blair, Neb., May 29. (Special.)
Forty-one , members of the senior
class of the Blair High school were
graduated here. Professor Fling of
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on "America and the
World War." In the class were
twin sisters, Pauline and Irene
Schmidt, living near Florence.
Man Who Killed Wife
Is Given Death Penalty
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaaed Wire.
Chicago, May 29. Frank Ligrigni,
chemist, who shot and killed his wife
Genevieve, 23, last Christmas, when
she refused to give up teaching and
live with him, was convicted of mur
der today and ordered hanged.
Union Memorial Service.
Gering, Xeb., May 29. '(Special.)
Union memorial services were held
in the Methodist church here. Rev.
F. O. Winslow. pastor ot the church.
Unreached the seraion.'
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Allied Nations ('
Honor American
World War Dead
Representatives to Bow Heads
In Memory of Soldiers Who
Are Sleeping in For
eign Lands.
By HENRY WALES.
Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1941.
Paris, May 29. On Memorial day
this year representatives of . all the
allied nations in, Europe will bow
their heads before the graves of the
American soldiers to do honor to the
memories-of the valiant doughboys
who sacrificed therh'sstves1 in ' f.e
cause of right and justice and who
sleep their last sleep in the fields of
Europe.
For the occasion military, political
and literary leaders of the foreign
countries have availed themselves of
the Chicago Tribune to testify the
gratitude and admiration of the
whole world for the noble sacrifices
of the American soldiers and for the
influential help which America gave
Europe during the war.
Marshal Fayolle, former comman
der of the French armies for the
Somme, said: "The United States
is about to render solemn homage to
those of her children who fell on the
battle fields of the great war in de
fense of right and liberty. America
has never forgotten the intervention
of General Lafayette's soldiers in the
revolutionary war. France will keep
a grateful and lasting remembrance
of the heroes who came to help her
and who contributed, in a large
measure, to the victories of 1918.
France and the United States will be
forever bound by ties of mutual
friendship and esteem. This union
will not only be for their mutual
advantage but will be the safest
guarantee for world peace.
General Gouraud: "After having
struggled almost alone against the
barbarians from the beginning of the
war when, in spite of the -heroism
of the French soldiers, we began to
feel exhausted, the entry of America
gave us comrades in arms as reso
lute as ourselves to fight tlie war to
a finish, to make right, justice and
liberty triumph. The American as
sistance gave us the necessary fac
tors to win victory." '
Missionary District Ends -
Session at Broken Bow
Broken Bow, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The 31st annual convocation
of the missionary district of west
ern Nebraska closed a three-day ses
sion at St. Johns Episcopal church
here with the confirmation of a large
class. There were about 60 delegates
at the (Session.
Prominent church people who
took part in the program wece: Rev.
George Allen Beecher, D. D., bishop
of the missionary district of west
ern Nebraska; Rev. Joseph;A. Ten
Broeck, field secretary nation-wide
campaign, New York city; Mrs.
George A. Biller, special guest from
the department ;of missions, and Miss
Jane Gray Cleveland, both of New
ork city.
Broken Bow Now Smallest
Rotary City in the World
Broken Bow, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) Broken Bow is the smallest
Rotary city in the world, having re
ceived its charter this week. Rotar
ians were here from Alliance, Lin
coln and Aurora. District Governor
W. A. Coppock of Council Bluffs,
was in attendance. The officers of
the Broken Bow club are: E. R. Pur
cell, president; L. W. Wilson, vice
president; A. W. Melville; secretary,
and J. G. Leonard, treasurer.
Band is Reorganized.
'Broken Bow, Neb., May 29.
(Special.) The Broken Bow band
has been re-organized with Prof. F.
E. Taylor, director. Saturday eve
ning concerts Will be given in the
city park each week during the sum
mer. .
Taps
Lutherans Will
Meet at Blair
National Convention Comes to
NebraskaPlan Big Build
ing Program.
Blair, Neb., May 29) (Special. )
The annual convention of the Dan
.Jsh Lutheran church of America
will open here May 31. It is ex
pected thlt 1,500 delegates and visit
ing members will be here from all
parts of. the United States. Blair was
made the permanent headquarters of
the organization at the convention
last year.
The large building used for Dana
college will be remodeled and en
larged and other buildings will be
constructed, ;.o.land already purr
chased. The estimated cost of the
buildings agreed upon last year will
be $1,500,000. Construction will be
started this year.
Rooming capacity of the city will
be taxed in housing the 1,500 guests.
Many visitors from abroad Will be
taken to the homes of country mem
bers. A tahprnarli. liaa tippn erected on
the compus grounds with a seating
capacity of 1,500. Blair Community
club and band will have charge of
the welcoming exercises Wednesday
afternoon and in the evening the
Dana college choral union will pre
sent the cantata, "The Eternal
City." Mayor Aye has issued a
proclamation and all business houses
will be closed to welcome the guests
to the city.
Men Who Attempted
To Commandeer Train
Are Freed by Police
Denver, May 29. Twenty-seven
alleged members of the I. Wr. W.
captured here late last night " by a
squad of patrolmen after a Union
Pacific freight crew reported that the
men had tried to commandeer the
train, were given their freedom to
day on condition they go to work or
get out of town in five days.
"The men appear to be a harmless
lot of hoboes," the police said, "and
were probably merely bumming their
way from Cheyenne to Denver." The
first report received last night said
the men had tried to take over the
train an1 rm if n Tlpnvrr. There
'was no violence, it has' been re
ported.
The men denied being members of
any political organization.
Class of 24 Graduates
From Loup City School
Loup City, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) Loup City High school grad
uated a class of 24, consisting of sev
en boys and 17 girls. Commence
ment festivities began with the junior-senior
banquet, and closed with
commencement exercises. Governor
S. R. McKelvie made the address of
the evening before one of the larg
est audiences that has ever congre
gated in this city. He spoke on
"The Essentials of Citizenship."
The class play, "At the End of
the Rainbow, was given to a large
audience.
Plaintiff in Auto Damage
Suit Awarded $650 hy Jury
Beatrice, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The personal damage suit of
Miss Ruth Ayers of this city, who
asked for $10,261 from Leobard
Purdy for injuries received in an
auto accident here some time ago,
came to an end in district court
when the jury brought in a verdict
for $650.
Gage County Ma68 Meeting
Will Disucss High Taxes
Beatrice, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) A mass meeting of residents
of Gage county has een called for
June 1 to discuss- the question of
high taxes, and to see if there is
not some way in which they can be
lowered. The meeting will be held
h the aftcrnnoon at the court house,
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Romance Grows
From Events of
Chester Capture
Nebraskan Who Aided in Re
taking Prisoner Will Wed
Phone Operator He Met
In Kansas City.
Kansas City, May 29. (Special
Telegram.) Out of the events sur
rounding the Denzel Chester murder
case a romance has blossomed. It
became known last night that Dr.
Martin Hansen, stalwart veterinarian
of Broken Bow, Neb., who, with
Ernest Hammond, deputy sheriff of
Custer county, Neb., recaptured Ches
ter after his plunge from the train
last November, is to be married soon.
The bride is to be Miss Eleanor
Ballard, 815 East Ninth street, this
city. Miss Ballard admitted the en
gagement last night, but declined de
taials, referring inquirers to Dr. Han
sen. Miss Ballard and Dr. Hansen prob
ably never would have met had it
not been for Chester. Dr Hansen
formed one of the guard party that
brought Chester back to Kansas
City last November. The veteri
narian, in wide sombrero khaki suit
and leather puttees, the same pic
turesque clothing he wore when he
saw Chester walking along the
country road near Broken Bow sev
eral days after tha escape, stopped
at Hotel Westgate. While at the
hotel he met the young woman, a
telephone operator there.
Dr. Hansen was the object of much
curiosity as he walked along the
streets here, crowds following him.
The Law Enforcement association
gave him and Hammond a check for
$2,500 reward for the recapture of
Chester. '
Dr. Hansen, still wearing som
brero, khaki suit and leather puttees,
arrived here again' last, Monday with
several wtinesses from Broken Bow.
$47,000 in Iowa State
Warrants Reported Lo6t
Des Moines, la., May 29. (Spe
cial Telegram.) State warrants
amounting to over $47,000, for
warded by the state board of educa
tion to Cedar Falls on May 17, are
missing, it became known here. All
efforts by state officials to find them
have failed.
It is believed they were taken in
a mail robbery which occurred on
the train on which they were sup
posed to have been carried. The
warrants were the monthly pay of
the teachers of th state normal
school at Cedar Falls and for other
expenditures there. The normal col
lege is about to close for the year
and the members of the faculty are
waiting for their pay.
American Note to Mexico
Not of Serious Nature
Mexico ' City, May 29. The
memorandum from the American
government, delivered last night to
President Obregon, by George T,
Sumnrlin, American charge d'af
faires, was "not of a serious nature,"
President Obregon informed the
Associated Press.
Memorial Services Held
In Lodgepole Sunday
. LndffpnnV. Nch Maw ?o spe
cial.) Memorial services were held
in the M. E. church Sunday, civil war
veterans, Spanish-American and the
worm war Doys attending the serv-
ducted by Rev. Henry F. Martens.
The Weather
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Ambulance
Ship Falls
In Storm
Five Officers and Two Ci
vilians Lose Lives in Wot
Wreck in History of ,
U. S. Aviation.
Victim
ongressman
( lilcugo Tribune-Omaha lire Jrard Wire.
! Washington, May 29. Five army
officers and two civilians, including
a former congressman from Iowa,
were killed when an army airplane,
the Curtiss-Eagle ambulance plane
crashed to the ground near Indian
Head, Md., 40 miles southeast of
Washington, yesterday evening dur
ing a severe electrical storm.
The dead:
Lieut. Col. Archie Miller, U. S. A.,
Washington.
Maurice Connolly, Dubuque, la.,
former member of the house.
A. ' G. Batchelder, Washington,
chairman of the board of the Ameri
can Automobile association.
Lieut. S. M. Ames, Boston, pilot
of the wrecked plane.
Lieut. C. W. McDermott, Lang
ley Field, Va.
Lieut. J. M. Pcnncwill, Langley
Field, Va.
Sergt. Mech. Richard Blumsn
kranz, Washington.
Army officers of the air service
said that the accident was the worst
in the history of aviation in this
country, and one of the few in which
all passengers in a machine had been
killed almost instantly.
Strikes Electrical Storm.
The huge plane made a successful
flight from Boiling field, Washing
ton, to Langley field, Newport News,
Va., yesterday afternoon, leaving on
the return trip at 5:15. When near
Morgantown, Md., about 40 miles
from Washington and not far from
Indian Head, the plane ran into a
severe electrical storm.
While flying low and plainly vis
ible from Indian Head, the airship
crumpled and crashed to the ground.
The accident occurred about 6
o'clock, when the storm was at its
height.
The airship was one of the largest
in the army service. It was designed
as an airship ambulance, but the
stretchers had been removed and
chairs had been substituted for the
trip.
The Dolphin, the yacht of the sec
retary of the navy, was in the vi
cinity of Indian Head at the time
and when news of the accident was
received at the testing ground sta
tion, members of the crew were im
mediately ordered to the spot to take
charge of the bodies and ambulances
were sent from the station to bring
them to the Walter Reid hospital at
Washington.
News of the tragedy did not reach
Boiling field until nearly midnight
and, after several attempts to verifv
the report, Lieutenant Wilkins, with
several men, left for Morgantown
with army trucks.
Bodies Taken to Hospital.
Lieutenant Wilkins returned short
ly before noon today and reported to
the commanding officer at Boiling
field. The bodies of the aviators
were received shortly before 1 o'clock
this afternoon at Walter Reid hos
pital. The Curtiss-Eagle was only recent
ly designed by Curtiss engineers at
Mineola. It is a huge double-motored
biplane patterned after the big
passenger carrying ships in Europe.
Built for ambulance service, pa
tients were placed in the rear of the
fuselage from which stretchers hung
at intervals, easily accommodating
five people.
The plane is piloted from the front
cockpit. With the heavy motors
hung in front, landing on soft ground
is extremely hazardous, as the en
gines fall back on the occupants of
the cockpit with any sudden impact
or crash.
Army officers said they believe the
high wind with the storm yesterdav
blew down on the huge wings of the
plane and literally crashed it to earth.
Plane Total Wreck.
The cause of the tragedy will prob
ably never be known, as the plane
was so badly wrecked as to make
anything but theory impossible.
Forrher Representative Maurice
Connolly, democrat, was born in
(Tnrn to Pana Two, Column Oa.)
Electric Light Service
Is Assured for Liberty
Beatrice. Neb.. Ms 20 (d.
... ' - ' J v'-'f-
Clal.) A numhrr of tfi hMinc
. - - - vu.ivi.a9
men of Liberty have purchased
snares sumcient to insure electric
lights for that town. Current will
be furnished bv the hvdrn-rUrtrir
plant at Barneston, which, is being
constructed by the Beatrice Power
company: Pawnee1 Citv maw rnn.
nect up with the line and sell cur
rent to stemauer, Uu Bois and other
points.
Hebron Band Makes First
Appearance in City Park
Alexandria, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) Hebron has ntif of th to..-
est and best bands in this section of
the state. It consists of 37 pieces
and is directed by M. R. Peery of
Hebron. The initial
in the Roosevelt park.
Minister Will Speak,
Mitchell. Neb.. Miv 29. CSnmMat
Rev. F. O. Winslow, pastor of the
Metnodist church at Gerwg, will de
liver the Decoration dav HHr.t.
here.