THE. BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1921.
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Witness Denies
Chester Lived
With Mrs, Ryan
Feast of Corpus Christi Observed
..Gas Inspector Testifies Alleged
Murderer Was Rooming
At His Home in
October.
Kansas City May 30. Testimony
that Denzel Chester was not living
at the apartment of Mrs. Blanche
Ryan, the state's chief witness, at
the time Miss Florence Barton was
shot to death here last October, was
given by Joe Hartnett, a gas com
pany inspector and a defense wit
ness, when the trial of Chester,
charged with Miss Barton's murder,
was resumed.
Hartnett testified that Chester
lived at his house the last part of I
September and the first part of
October, last year. Miss Barton
was slain on the night of October
2, and, according to the pre
vious testimony 01 Mrs. Kyan, the
defendant lived at her apartment at
that time.
Mrs. Ryan had said . that after
reading of Miss Barton's death
Chester had told her he did not!
know he killed a girl when he fired
into a motor car on a country road
near here.
Hartnett testified he was arrested
in connection with the Barton case
but after an investigation was re
leased.
, The defense introduced a window, i
said to be a replica of a rullmanl
window, and passed it around to
the jury to look at. Aylward said
he might break it later for the jury.
James Mosbarcer. fullman conduc
tor on the train frim which Chester,
according to the state, escaped at
' Broken Bow, Neb., or was thrown,
according to the defense, was a wit
ness this morning. He said he had
occasion to be in the stateroom in I
which Chester and the detectives
were riding a number of times; that
he saw no harsh treatment of the
prisoner, and that his handcuffs
were lying "in a little flower sack."
He neither saw nor smclled any
whisky, he said.
Amreica First Is
Policy of President
(Continued. From Fane One.)
to preserve that which they made
possible for us to possess one flag,
one purpose, one pride and on
distinv.
"In such a view we must see that
our opportunity to be useful to man
kind at large depends first on being
loyal to ourselves. No. ideal of gen
erosity to all men can justify neglect
first to make ourselves strong, firm
and secure in behalf of our own peo
ple. We cannot hope to discharge
the wider responsibilities if we have
not first proved our capacity to meet
the narrower ones. It is our wish to
bemseful in the greater realms; but
if we are to do so we must have no
question of our devotion to the
great principles for which these gave
their lives in - the struggle which
saved the union and rededicated it
forever to liberty. I counsel no sel
fishness, no little Americanism, no
mere, parochialism when I urge that
our first duty is to our own, and that
in the measure of its performance
we will find the true gauge of our
capacity to be hopeful to others,
"It is. a good' thing to come to
this consecrated place and renew the
pledges of our loyalty to those whose
patriotism gave us our strength and
opportunity Their instinct Tightly
led them to the judgment that their
first duty was 'to preserve the' In
stitution of popular rule, of national
solidarity., They did not enter up
on the war among the states with
primary purpose to end the institu
tion of human slavery. Worthy as
might have been, their inspiration
was higher.? .- ,',
Maintained the Union. l",,,V'
"They sought first to maintain; the
union, to keep it a power for: the
advancement of America and hu
manity, confident that if they won
all other rightful things in due
I time would be achieved. They were
right then; in the end slavery re
ceived its decree of banishment from
this continent, and at last from the
world. ' . ' , ,
"It was the same in the more re
cent war of the free peoples against
v the autocracies of the world. In
its beginnings, men fought to-protect
that which' they already had.
Their countries lives were at stake;
their rights as free men were men
aced; and for these they went forth
to battle. There was no thought
of crusading for .the freedom of a
world, of emancipating distant peo
ples, of rendering a noble service, to
the enemy who. had attacked them.
They had no time and small dis
position to indulge in altruism.
"Yet as in the., ease- of our civil
war they won far more than they
had sought in the beginning. They
won for themselves their homes,'
their countries; and in doing so they
destroyed well-nikh the last intrench-
ments of the mistaken doctrine of
divine right to rule, They gained
the victory for their own grateful
countries, and with . it they won, for
those whom they defeated, the op
portunity of establishing free insti
tutions. .. , .
"True, they were able only to af
ford opportuntiy ior this' great ad
vance, freedom Ujaot to be. crowd;
ed .upon those 'Who will not have it
We do i not yet i knew certainly
whether the defeated and unwilling
beneficiaries will: be able td grasp
this boon. We cannot tell whether
they will pay the price required to
maintain the freedom to which the
door has been opened. We do know
and we take pride, that our sons and
brothers afforded them the oppor
i unity.
"Thus we jee that whether in our
chril struggle or in the world war,
the triumph of the right inevitably
implies gains that sweep far beyond
the immediate issue. Those heroes
of the civil war who sleep about us
here, wrote that lesson in symbols of
blood and fire, where all men might!
. read, wars nao largely Deen pro
fessional affairs, in the hands of
trained people, waged by conscripts
whose knowledge of concern for the
cause they served was of necessity
limited and doubtful. '
"Here was found a nation which
fof four years gave its very all of
human resource, of inaustrai power,
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Boys' Home Drive
For Building Fund
Will Start July 4
Francis P. Matthews Chosen
Director of Campaign to
Raise $300,000 Pledges
To Be Taken.
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In the purple robes of his dignity
Archbishop J. J. Harty, followed the
Bltfssed Eucharist in the Corpus
Chisti procession yesterday after-;
nooni ' Fathers E. J.. McCartjr of :
St Columban's Mission Home and
James Aherne of St. Agnes church,
assisted Archbishop Harty.
The lower cut shows flag-bearers
leading the procession with the Stars
and Stripes followed by the Papal
colors.
: Lower cut is of Archbishop Harty
in full splendor of his title.
The religious procession was the
most notable ever seen on the
streets of Omaha, About 7,000 per
sons were in line. Archbishop Har
ty headed the clergy.
At the' head) of the procession
walking. beneath a canopy and with
an, honor 'guard of prominent Oma
hans. was Rev. T. J, Fortune, pastor
of St. Cecilia's parish, bearing the
blessed eucharist in .the golden os-
tensorium. , . , y v
Thousands knelt along the line of
march which was fromthe cathedral
to a temporary altar at Thirty-sixth
and Burt Btreets, thence to another
temporary altar at Thirty-sixth and
Davenport streets and finally back
to the cathedral. - :
in order that it might, maintain an
ideal. It defied the edict that eco
nomic exhaustion and financial, dis
abilities must prevent a decisive vic
tory. It demonstrated that' the
wealth and resources of a nation lie
not in acres and bushels, in bank
balances and tonnages, in taxable
wealth,' and going business, but
rather in the sinews 'and souls of its
inspired people. Therein the ex
ample of our" " fraternal struggle
Uught the iesson which later moved
agonised civilization to reject an in
decisive peace. " " ;
' Must Pay Debts. ' ' ,
'So ! much: and vastly more, ; we
owe to tliese, who won the peace; of
unipn and liberty. ItT is: a debt on
which every , succeeding generation
cpn nope oniy ,io ,pay , us msiau-
ments We never will -yield aught
of what' they won for us. .Forbidden
by the law of life and institutions,
we cannot stand still. We must al
ways move forward, along the up
ward paths they marked for us.
We look about us on a world
troubled and torn, groping for a
way back to light and opportunity,
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. v e nave -nearo mucn apoui ine
danger of winning the war and losing
the -peace. But is there not,- in the
example, of those who made the
ultimate .sacrifice, a lofty inspiration
to the same singleness of purpose,
the same readiness to sink .individual
for the general good,1 that moved
them? Surely there is no reason why
peace may not achieve discipline, uni
fication, directness of purpose, as war
does. "It requires the same sub
mergence of selfish ends, the same re
linquishment of the merely personal
gratification, the same regard for the
common interest. I am not counsel
ing surrendered independence. Our
maintained fredom is the source of
our might. Only the American con
science may command this republic !
It is, indeed, a very different mat-;
ter to achieve rtie discipline that
peace demands. There is not uree
of instant danger, the rigor of author
ity to overcome that danger. It is
needful to bring into subjugation the
thoughtless mind, the indulgent dis
position, the easy quest of pleasure.
the : lust ,of. gains, the aspiration for
thoughtless spending, thrift for waste,
unceasing productive effort for the
simple habit of spending the short
est time and least energy on the job.
We need a patriotism resolute in
peace as well as a patriotism aflame
in war.
"Nowhere were . men. prepared, to
cope with the new problems of
peace; nowhere were they less pre
pared than in this country.- But if
we had failed lo set up.tht jnachin.
ery for the liquidation ot .war condi
tions we nevertheless came out with
our producing organization less
wrehched and shaken than was that
of the European countries,
"Though our sorrows ' seemed
measureless, we were more lightly
touched, and for griefs incurable
there was compensation.' sWe found
the soul of America, we hve the re
born spirit of the republic."
"I know the aching -hearts. It re
quires nearness to measure the bur
den of grief. Only a few days ago
I saw more than 5,000 jSag-draped
coffins, tenanted with .their , heroic
dead. Theirs was mute 'eloquence in
protesting war, theirs -was the 'su
preme appeal for war's avoidance.
The way to preserve honor with ma
terial waste and the costlier-, human
sacrifice would . be the; surpassing
memorial tribute. We may not be
stow it today, but we may fittingly
resolve that the influence and ex
ample of our America shall point the
way to such lofty achievements."
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Wheeler Fights Change
In "Dry' Enforcement
Washington, . May . 30. Any
change in the government- machin
ery for enforcing prohibition other
than increasing the powers of the
Department of ' Justice to ' control
criminal prosecution of liquof. law
violators is opposed by Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the
Anti-Saloon League, in a statement
tonight.
He voiced objection to enforce
ment changes now being discussed,
on grounds that it would hinder en
forcement, because of efficiency and
increased expense.
Measures proposed to transfer .the
prohibition enforcement bureau
from the Treasury department to
the Department or Justice, he de
clared, would be closely scanned by
the dry adherents.
Prospects for Crops in
Cuming County Improved
West Point, Neb., May 30. (Spe
cial.) Prospects for crops are much
better than at almost any time dur
ing the preceding two, months.
Heavy rains in the past week dashed
early-planted corn somewhat, but
did not do the damage feared. Very
little corn remains to be planted.
Much of it is1 up and some already
cultivated for the first time. " :
The acreage of both corn and
small grain in this section is about
the same as last year. Heavy ship
ments of oats, cattle and hogs are
being made.
Senior Class of Randolph
High School Gives Play
Randolph, Neb., May 30. (Spe
cial.) The senior class of the Ran
dolph high school presented its class
play, "A Trial of Hearts." There
are 21 members in the class. The
baccalaureate sermon was preached
by Rev. W. H. Shoaf. Commence-;
ment exercises will be held Thurs
day night, June 2. Chancellor
Schreckengast of Nebraska Wes
leyan will deliver the address.
Gives Memorial Sermon
Aurora. Neb., May 30. (Special.)
Rev. J. A. Currie delivered the an
nual Memorial sermon at the ires-
byterian church. The Woman's Re-
t is lief corps and members of the G. Abrade. In this division members o
fed&Vanjttgj!.tges Jfl g t9)dytbS G..A, R, rode in autpmobilcs. ,
Patriotism Keynote of
. Memorial Day Program
(Continued From Page One.)
most part engaged in exploitations
and were not liberty-loving patriots
in the sen.se which may be ascribed
to the American soldier.- ihese gay
and gallant warriors of old, he said,
knew' no greater allegiance than the
commands of their leaders in cam
paigns of conquest or pillage. He
reviewed the ' American wars for
liberty and the union, beginning with
1776. 4 : . -
"Our liberties did not come by our
forefathers sitting suppinely down
and waiting," he said. "They fought
for eight years and they endured
untold hardships.
He adjured Americans to 'respect
tne declaration ot Independence
and the Constitution of the United
States, which he referred to as two
ot the greatest documents ever given
to mankind. He sooke of the Grand
Army of the Republic veterans of
todav as "thl" mi'pfltv vanicliinop -rmtt
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or ,uu,uvu men who lought for
ireeaom s sake.
The stage was decorated with
flags and large pictures of eminent
Americans.
Roll of Honor.
Following is the list of comrades
who have died since May 30, 1920:
George, A. Custer post: F. B
Bokks. captain Company B. 46th Il
linois infantry.
U. S. Grant post: Oliver C Camp-
Dea, company i, Ninth Vermont in
fantry; Samuel S. Curtis, Third
Ohio cavalry: Sylvester A. Hun-
toon, Company C, 14th Illinois cav
alry; John Btern, company B, 28th
Pennsylvania infantry; Thomas J.
Mackay, Company F, 42d Massachu
setts; Andrew Traynor, Company D,
First Michigan cavalry; N. K. Van
Husen, Company B, 100th New
York infantry; Fred Swartzlander,
Company is, becond Pennsylvania
cavalry.
(jeortre Crook post: J. H. Hul-
bert, United States navy; Lee S.
Estelle, United States navy, Missis
sippi squadron; William Kay, Com
pany F, 49th regular Michigan in
fantry; John Belles, Company I,
lua Pennsylvania intantry; John b.
Sollomon, Company C, 27th Massa
chusetts regular infantry; O. E.
Stearns, Company B, 8th Wisconsin
cavalry; B. Is. Betebenner, com
pany E, Sixth Illinois cavalryj Al
fred Shelton;"- Lafayette Shipley,
Company H, Second Nebraska cav
alry..
American Legion: Guy E. Alder,
Leroy Moore, Ralph Stephens, John
McCullough, Louis Jonascheit, John
Ost, James Giller, Walter Weiler,
W. B. Peterson.
United Spanish War Veterans:
Edward I, Pope, U. S. S. Wiscon
sin; Koscoe c. amitn, company ti,
Fifth United States infantry; Ste
phen D. McGinnis, Company D, Slst
Iowa volunteer infantry; Sergt.
Claudius T. Harlburt, Troop B,.
Seventh United States cavalry;
Georee Jacob Dubler. Company M,
49th Iowa volunteer infantry. '
Many Witness Parade. .
Streets in the line of march of
the Memorial day parade were lined
with spectators, despite the lowering
clouds and the occasional drops ot
rain.
Mavor Dahlman and other city
officials reviewed the parade from a
special stand in front of the city
halL. The parade was led by the
American Legion band.
Next marched one company from
Fort Crook and one company from
Fort Omaha, followed by two com
panies ot the Nebraska National
guard.
J. he Creighton University band
led the second division of the pa-
t
The organization to handle a.$300,
000 building fund campaign for
Father Flanagan's Boys' home was
completed last night by the selection
and appointment of Francis P; Mat
thews as director of the campaign.
The directors of the,' home have
placed at Mr. Matthews disposal an
organization headed by' Mrs. E. W.
Nash, chairman; v Dan W. Gaines,
treasurer, and the Rev. E. J. Flana
gan, secretary. ,
Mr. Matthews will be assisted by
an advisory council composed of
George Brandeis, Louis Nash, Wal
ter Head, Ward Burgess, W. J.
Coad, Otto H. Barmettler and Frank
Judson. ' Plans for securing large
donations 'will be formulated, by an
executive , committee, consisting of
John D. Creighton, Gene Melady.
Robert Trimble, Arthur Smith,
Everet Buckingham, Frank J. Berk
ley, James H. Hanley, Leo A. Hoff
man, Arthur Mullen, Paul L. Martin,.
Henry Monsky, James ' C. Kinsler.
W. S. Stryker, Leo Rosenthal, Paul
Gallagher, Louis J. Piatti, Dr. T. J
Dwyer, John Hopkins, ' Ben Gal
lagher, Rabbi Frederick Cohn and
Mrs. Thomas Flynn.
Will Accept Pledges.
In determining to launch a cam
paign for a building fund of $300,000
the advisory council was compelled
to recognize the necessity for a per
manent location confronting the di
rectors of the home, as the boys must
vacate the present building, which is
under lease. The owners of the
building now occupied have already
although they require the building
granted two extensions to this lease
for other purposes.
This building fund is to be raised
in Omaha during the week of July
4, and as the directors fully realize
present abnormal business conditions
they will use the pledge system, so
that donations can be made in pay
ments which are .convienient to the
subscriber..
Campaign Expenses Provided.
Mr. Matthews stated that every
dollar realized on this drive will be
used exclusively for erecting dormi
tories and other necessary buildings
on Overlook farm, recently pur
chased for a site. Expenses of the
campaign have already been pro
vided for by the directors as well as
all ether disbursements Incidental
to the establishing' of -the new home
Architect J. M. Nachtigall has started
work on the plans and ground will
be broken on July 5. It is hoped to
complete outside building operations
by December 1, so that interior fin
ishing may be done during the win
ter, - .
Vocational Meeting
To Be Held at Lincoln
; Lincoln, May 30. (Special The
third annual conference on voca
tional education, to be held at the
university farm here Tune 6 to 10,
will be the first to give attention to
trade and industrial work. Manu
facturers and employers are espe
cially invited to attend the confer
ence which will be open to the public
Among those who are to take
prominent places on the program in
this section are: Mrs. W. L. Riner,
principal of Iten Biscuit company
and Swift Packing company public
schools, Omaha; Principal DwightE.
Porter, Omaha School of Commerce;
Mrs. Eva Morse, employment man
ager for women, Swift Packing com
pany, Omaha; E. T. Kolb, assistant
state supervisor of trade and indus
trial education, of Illinois: A, Jc.
Hall, general superintendent, Ameri
can Smelter and Ketining company,
Omaha; D. C. Cramer, instructor m
foreman training, T. F. Stroud &
Co., Omaha; C. R. Waddle, Kearney
public schools, Kearney.
U. S. Employes at El Paso
Arrested as Bootleggers
EI Paso. Tex.. May 30. Samuel
L. Poster, inspector in charge of the
United States Agricultural depart
ment fumigation station near the in
ternational line, and Ira L. Kinder,
an employe of the plant, were ar
rested here last night by prohibition
enforcement officers, who reported
they found a quantity of beer, whisky
and alcohol in a car the men were
driving. Foster told the officers he
seized the liquor from smugglers and
was taking it to the federal building
when arrested.
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Machine Guns Are Used in
Mexico City to Stop Fights
Mexico City. May 30. Machine
gun units were placed on guard at
the municipal palace, the cathedral
and the main plaza of the city of
ruebla yesterday, the authorities
having learned that radicals intended
to break up the national convention
of the Knights of Columbus, now in
session there. Soldiers patrolled the
streets, but the day passed without
incident. t :
, This man, fighting for
his life, looked so much like
the one who had pulled his
sinking daughter out of the
fog of; the lake that the
judge wanted to save him.
Read
The Judge's Fall
By Will Payne
Blue
Ribbon
liction.
A - BLUE
RIBBON
story in
The Sunday Bee
Latest Indian
"War" Flivver
Utah Redskins Told They
Must Be, Good and Stop
KUling Cattle.'
. Monticello, Utah, May 30. South
ern Utah's newest Indian war has
ended. The Indians simply quit and
the important peace parleys are yet
to be held, providing the renegade
band of Utes, which has been steal
ing and killing the white man's cat
tle in San Juan county, ever comes
within hailing distance of peace of
ficials of this county.
Tonight, after a 24-hour period of
extreme quiet, all members of posses
who, "armed to the teeth," went
from here to Bluff, are returning to
their homes. Joe Dutchups, 21, In
dian boy who was shot twice by
posse members after he had shot sev
eral times at them, is in a hospital
at Blanding where physicians say he
will recover unless , complications
set in.
Information received here from
Blanding and" Bluff was to the ef
fect that the Indians still were en
camped in Allen canyon and that
they were showing no warlike tendencies.-
They have been informed,
according to information, from Bluff,
that they must cease stealing and
killing the cattle of the white set
tlers in this, county. The notice that
they, must behave themselves was
sent by a friendly Indian runner
Saturday night and he . returned
without an answer.
Bee Want Ads--Small but mighty.
Leaky Boat Rented to Girl
Who Was Drowned, Is Charge
A $10,000 damage suit was filed
against Dr. James P. Connelly Sati
urday by Katherine Cusack,,admin-
istrator for' the estate of 13-year-old
Josephine Fritz, who was drowned
in Riverview park lake May 29, 1919.
Connelly owned a fleet of small
boats which children patronized in
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girl was leaky and otherwise defect
tive, the petition sets forth.
Josephine was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Louft Fritz.
Baccalaureate Sermon
Aurora, Neb., May 30. (Special.)
The baccalaureate sermon to the
graduates of Aurora High school
was delivered by Rev. C C. Dobbs
of the Christian church. The serv
ices were held at the Methodist
church.
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fTO THE PUBLIC:
Every time the fire department dashes
down the street, it has been the custom of
many people to ask the telephone operators
for the location of the fire. .
This situation results in the tying up of
telephone service to such an extent that
alarms of other fires are delayed.
For this reason the Telephone Company
on June 1 will discontinue giving out infor
mation as to the location of fires. -
It is very important that telephone
Number 37 shall never be called except to re
port fire alarms. . Calling this number for any
other purpose is absolutely forbidden.
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