THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921.
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Fanners Saved
From Death When
Huge Dike Breaks
Damage to Properly Estimated
at $300,000 JKelaiuing Wall
Just Completed Cost
$100,000.
Woodland, Wai.li., May 31. Be
tween 400 and 500 persons, fanners
and their families, wire believed
tarly today to have escaped to safety
as the result ot warning nivcu Usi
night when a dike near here, pro
tecting a reclaimed farm a.'ea of i.J.
00U acres, broke under less-jri of
Hood waters from the Columbia
river. Damage to farm property
vas estimated by observers at $300.
000. Meager reports received here were
that .some ot the refugees uad es
capd from the district with compara
tive ease, but hastily. Tin pumping
Mation at Burcl Slough was swept
away within 30 minutes after the
dike broke.
The ara known as Woodland dik
ing District No. 5 is approximately
nine miles long and two to three
miles wide. Reports stated it was
feared half the district hid been in
undated. Preparations have been made for
the accommodation here of the refu
gees. The pressure of the rising
waters tore a hole 60 fee wide in the
tlike, which is 15 feet high, 70 feet
wide at the base and 20 i et wide at
the top. The dike burst at the
mouth of Burrows creeV, two miles
south of Martins Bluff, and the
waters poured through into the low
lands witli ternnc lorce. w nen nrsi
reports of the break reached here
last night persons residing within
the section were notified by tele
phone from here'and by persons in
automobiles sent from here. It was
believed that every family had been
notified and had fled to higher
ground.
For several days as a precaution
ary measure farmers have been
sending their cattle out of the low
lands. The dike was complet d tt.i-i '
at a cost of $100,000
Cameraman Injured When
Plane Crashes at Speedway
1'ortland, Ore., May 31 Joe
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fatally when his airplane crashed at
the Rose City speedway during a
motorcycle race meet.
Gile E. Sanderson, photographer,
and Joe Reeves were in the plane at
the time and were slightly hurt.
The party had been taking moving
pictures of the races.
First White Woman
To Explore Sahara
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$5,000,000 Suit
Is Filed Against
Vaudeville Firm
B. V. Keith Exchange Charged
With Holding Stars in Com
mercial Peonage and
With Being Monopoly.
:Mw,T2oit"a' Toshes', '-n.
Mrs. Rosita Forbes, recently re
ceived by King George, is the first
white woman to reach Kufra, the
Senussi fastness across the Libyan
desert, placing her in the front
ranks of explorers. She traveled
from Benghazi across the Libyan
desert to the oasis, of Kufra, the
headquarters of the Senussi never
before visited by a white woman,
and only once by a European
(Rohlfc) over 40 years ago. The
jorncy was one of great hardship
and danger, due chiefly to the
fanaticism of the Zawais, a native
tribe who hate strangers.
Frank Tinney, Comedian,
In Hospital for Operation
Chicago, May 31. Frank Tinney,
comedian, entered a hospital today
for an operation on his leg. He
fractured a bone as the result of a
fall at a local theater, where he was
appearing last. week. The opera
tion was decided upon to remove a
section of the bone. The production
in which he was appearing closed
Sunday night, as Tinney was unable
to continue his performance.
American Chile Company
Defers Quarterly Dividend
New York, May 31. The Ameri
can Chile company today deferred
action on its quarterly dividend of
V2 per cent on preferred stock.
New York, May 31. Practically
all the high class vaudeville stars ol
America are held in commercial
peonage enforced by the B. F Keith
Vaudeville exchange, according to
charges brought in a $5,000,000 suit
filed by Max llart in the United
States district court here.
Mr. Hart, who is one of the princi
pal vaudeville agents in the business,
charges that the Keith-Orpheum
combination and their subsidiaries
known as the United Booking of
fice and operating under the title of
the B. F. Keith Vaudeville exchange,
is an unlawful trust in violation of
the Sherman law.
Me brings suit not only to recover
$5,250,000 damages which he claims
to have sustained by being barred
from the exchange, but also to re
strain and dissolve the alleged trust.
Several suits have been brought in
the past against this organization,
alleging violation of the Sherman
law but they have always been sim
ply for the recovery of damages. This
suit, if it is won, according to Mr.
Hart's attorneys, will break up the
alleged monopoly.
It is charged that the Keith ex
change is in complete control and
domination of practically all high
class vaudeville nouses in the United
States and that to . mtaintain this
monopoly certain arbitrary rules are
enforced against the performers.
These rules, it is alleged, prevent
any artist who appears in Keith
houses from appearing in any other
theaters except by special permis
sion on pain of being disbarred from
the Keith circuits.
Mr. Hart, who has probably de
veloped more stars than any one
agent in America, including Frank
Tinney, Eddie Canter, Will Rogers,
Fannie Brice, Kitty Gordon, and
Blossom Seeley charges that until
he was barred from the Keith ex
change he was making an income
.of $75,000 a year.
So powerful is the monopoly, he
alleges, that his business was utterly
destroyed. He states in the court
action that he represented 10
artists before he was barred and
that now he represents only four.
- Princess Juliana, the only child of
Queen Wilhelmina and heir to the
throne of the Netherlands, is likely
to be the last feminine sovereign of
the kingdom.
Freedom for Capital
Necessary to Save
Soviet, Lennie Says
Riga, Let via, May 31. (By The
Associated Press.) According to a
direct Moscow dispatch received to
day from independent sources, Niko
lai I.eniue, soviet Russian premier,
declared yesterday that communism
was in complete bankruptcy and
;isked the presiding officers of the
all-Russion central executive com
mittee to approve the unlimited re
I urn of capitalism and the recall to
Russia of the constitutional demo
crats and other parties to aid in re
building the state.
The Moscow dispatch says I.e
nliic has .submitted the following
written proposition :
"Whereas, In the realization that
communism has come to complete
bankruptcy, and to save the idea of
communism and find without too big
a change of policy the way out of the
abyss into which communism has
thrust the country, it is recognized
that unlimited freedom must be al
lowed capitalism and that the con
stitutional democrats and represen
tatives of the 'real politik' shall be
summoned to resume the' work of
rebuilding the state."
1,000.000 Sign Petition
To Reorganize Lithuania
Washington, May 31. A peti
tion, said to have been signed by
more than 1,000,000 American citi
zens, urging the United States to
give formal recognition to Lithu
ania, will be presented to President
Harding tomorrow by a delegation
of Americans of Lithuanian descent.
The petition is said to be the largest
in number of signatures ever taken
to the White House except the one
filed by women in support of their
demand for sufiragc.
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SALE PRICE
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WAR TAX FREIGHT INCLUDED
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OF IT!
The model 39-B, 6
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NOTICE
We purchased from a "Bankrupt Stock" in Iowa fifteen of these brand
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