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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1921. Bluffs Youth Loses Life at Lake Manawa George Crocker, 16, Dies From Heart Failure as Result of Sudden Plunge Into Chilly Water From Canoe. George Crocker, 16, son of Brandt Crocker, 726 Willow avenue. Coun cil Rlufts, lost his life at Lake Manawa at 6 a. m., yesterday when the canoe in which he was riding capsized. This is the first death of the season at Manawa. Six lives were saved by life guards at municipal swimming beaches and pools in Omaha Sunday, accord ing to reports at the city recreation bureau. George and his brother, Oliver, 18, went to Manawa at 5.30 a. m. In a borrowed canoe they paddled about the wharfs on the north side. Oliver left the canoe to take a camera picture of his brother in it. In Six Feet of Water. The canoe struck the wharf with some force and turned over in six feet of water. He called to his brother, but Oliver also was unable to swim. Oliver's cries for help attracted a man, who said he was unable to swim. The youth was in the water IS minutes before assistance arrived. Efforts to resuscitate him failed. Serum Injections. George was a high school sopho more and a night clerk at the West ern Union company. He was a member of Company L, Iowa Na tional Kuard. and had recently taken i two injections of anti-typhoid serum, I in preparation for the state encamp-1 mcnt. ! This weakened his system and caused his heart to stop with the shock of cold water, according to a theory advanced. Physicians who examined the body yesterday con firmed the belief that the body's death was due to heart failure and not drowning. There was no water in the lungs and he had not strangled. Saturday afternoon George and Eric Thornton, in the same canoe, were thrown into the lake when the cranky little craft capsized. Both easily clung to the boat and reached shore without difficulty. Yesterday morning George sank without mak ing any effort to clutch the boat, which was bobbing at his side. With the exception of one case at Municipal beach, there was little difficulty in rescuing floundering Omaha swimmers. Life Guard Herbert Schraeder, at Municipal beach, spied a male swim mer far out, floundering desperately and apparently in dire distress. A Close Call. He dived in and swam rapidly to the' rescue. Reaching the man, he secured his favorite hold and was starting back to shore when the man gulped another mouthful of water, Schraeder says. "He threw his arm around my neck and gripped me with terrible strength," continued Schraeder. "There were but two things to do knock him unconscious or take him down until he became weakened. I preferred the latter method, so I blew my whistle and went down. When the man's hold was weakened I came up anain and a boat with other , guards took us in. It was a close call." : Bathing Popular. Recreation officials say guards in eastern cities carry "saps" tc knock drowning men unconscious under similar circumstances. , Reports received yesterday show 3,000 bathers were at Municipal beach, 2,800 at Riverview park, 500 at Spring Lake park and 700 at Morton park pool Sunday. It was the first big swimming day at the parks this year. Dr. G. M. McArdle, who has been assigned to duty at Municipal beach by C'ty Commissioner J. B. Hum mel, removed several fish hooks from victims at Carter lake last Saturday. The-doctor, however, has been en gaged by the city to attend to drown ing Cases at Municipal beach. But he will respond to any emer gency eases at the lake. Dr. McArdle will be in his office at Municipal beach every day from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. A motorcycle with side car is at the . doctor's service. A pulmotor has been installed. Crisis in French Cabinet Over Reconstruction Finance Paris, June 13. Considerable com ment is being devoted by the press td rumors of a crisis within the cab inet resulting from a conflict be tween Paul Doumer, minister of finance, and Louis Loucheur, minis ter of liberated regions, over meth ods of financing reconstruction work. Several cities, including Verdun, Rheims and Arras, have been unable to float the loans which Parliament authorized them to issue for recon struction because the ministry of finance holds that the money market ought to be kept free for national loans. A change in the cabinet, with M. Loucheur succeeding M. Doumer as head of the ministry of finance, is being forecast in some quarters. f ; Fire in Boiler Room of Steamer Extinguished Baltimore, June 13. The shipping board steamship. Buckeye State, leased to the Matson Navigation company, which was reported afire in the Chesapeake bay off Annapo lis yesterday, is returning to this port. Fire in the boiler room has been extinguished.- The Buckeye State, scheduled to sail on her maiden voyage to San Francisco, May 1, had been held here by the marine strike. Forcible Entry Cases Flood Justice Docket Forcible entrj cases are flooding the court of Justice of the Peace L. N. Bunce. "Times must be hard," declared Judge Bunce. "Cases for the non payment of rent come to me at the rate of SO a week. Six months ago there weren't 10 cases a week. It seems the people involved just can't Bet the money to support tnem- Science, f 1 1 1 . tsT Pi-?'- 4tm If I- ' u if? v . 'Yes, doctor," agreed baby John William, after a careful adjustment of his gold- rimmed spectacles, "my opinion in the matter coincides per fectly with your own." And then, after a deliberate peek through the microscope: "The old days of haphazard bringing up of children should indeed be relegated to a 'dim and dismal past. Science that's the cry of our present day and age. And in the name of the Babies' Mutual Aid and Benevolent association of Chicago, I want to say I'm strong-for it," Little John is an inmate of St. Vincent's Orphan asylum, Chicago, and was one of the participants in the recent baby week campaign. Harding Urges Big Attendance At Army Camps President Points Out Advan tages of Course in Military Training Offered by Government. Washington, June 13. President Harding urged that as many young men as possible attend the forth coming series of military training camps, designed to inaugurate a comprehensive system of voluntary military training capable of prepar ing 100,000 men a year for the de fense of the country. In a state ment issued from the White House the president said: "I hope every young man who can arrange it, will attend one of the citizens military training camps to be conducted this summer by the War department in each of the nine army corps areas. ; ; "In this way he will increase his worth to the nation and obtain in dividual benefits . of priceless value to himself and to the community in which he lives. "I hope to see established during my administration, a comprehensive system of military training for at least 100,000 men each year. Every young man who is willing to prepare himself for the defense of his coun try should be given an opportunity to do so. "Our present national defense law establishes an economical and demo cratic military policy thoroughly consistent with our national tradi tions. It provides for a small regu lar army, to be augmented by great citizen forces in the event of na tional emergency. This is our tra ditional military policy. "But where, as in the past, these larger war forces have been extem porized after the occurrence of an emergency, the new law wisely pro vides that the framework of their organization shall be established and developed. in time of perce, insofar as this is practicable through the voluntary service of our patriotic young men. The army of the United States, as defined in the new law, comprises the regular army, the Na tional guard and the organized re serves. Every patriotic citizen should encourage the development of these forces, each within its proper sphere." In a letter to state governors, Sec retary Weeks asked co-operation in making the camps a success. Creation of 3 New Cardinals' Due at Meet of Sacred College Rome, June 13. Creation of three new cardinals was expected when the Sacred college convened here jtoday at a secret consistory. It was under stood that Monsignor Tacci Porcelli, the papal major domo; Monsignor Rarri, the muncio to Poland, and Monsignor Laurenti, secretary of the I congregation of the propaganda, : would be named to receive the red ; hat. ! Pope Benedict completed on j Thursday the allocution he was to j deliver today. It was said to con- j tain a passage regarding the re- i establishment of diplomatic relations with France. Mail Pilot Fom the East Makes First Flight Here C. B. Collier, crack air mail pilot on the New York-Washington route, has been transferred to the Omaha Salt Lake City division. Collier made his first flight over the new route yesterday, arriving in Omaha He's for It U mmim muiiih ' " ' ' ' .1 Rail Earnings Show Big Slump During April Decrease of $1,494,000 Front March, Report to Interstate Commerce Commis cion Shows. Washington, June 13. Railroads earned $29,201,000 in April, or $1, 494,000 less than in March, accord ing to reports transmitted to the In terstate Commerce commission and made public yesterday by the Asso ciation of Railway Executives. The earnings for April represent ed a return on the valuation tenta tively fixed by the commission of 2.18 per cent against 2.30 per cent for March and were $51,286,000 short of the amount contemplated by the transportation act, the statement raid. Operating expenses were 86.74 per cent of the amount of the revenues, against 87.19 for March, showing, the statement said, that while ex penses were reduced, revenues fell off. During the eight months since the federal guaranty period expired, the roads have earned $279,008,000, the statement said, which would be an annual return of 2.41 per cent on the tentative valuation, or $414,253, 000 less than the sum contemplated to be earned from the commission's rates. Earnings in the eastern district for April represented a return of 2 per cent, in the southern, 3.41 per cent, and in the western, 2.01 per cent. Operating revenues in the western district were $1641252,000, an increase of 1.6 per cent over April, 1920, and operating expenses were $142,548, 000, a decrease of 6.8 per cent from last April. The net operating in come was $10,513,000 as compared with a deficit of $2,809,000 in April a year ago. Spanish War Vets Meet Lincoln, June 13. (Special.) At noon Monday 157 men had regis tered as delegates to the annual en campment of the Spanish war vet erans, being held here this "week. 99 ONE-ELEVEN Qgtrttm Ouryearsof making good with millions of smokers suggests that weknowhow. Just buy a packageand viind out, OdgarettesJ TlcVl Epworth Herald Editor Speaks to Leaguers Here Urges Young Men and Women To Be Exemplars in Cam ,. V paign for Higher Morals. Dan B. Brummitt of Chicago, edi tor of the Epworth Kerald, addressed nearly 500 members of the Epworth leagues of the city at the Hanscom Park Methodist church last night. "New Wars for Old," was his theme. The speaker expressed the hope that young men and women .who heard his words would be exemplars in a campaign for righteousness, for higher standards of morality and for all that promotes the best inter ests of their city, state and nation. He adjured the young soldiers of the cross to press onward in the fight for all that is good and noble against the forces of evil and to de fend the right whenever and where ver they can. He explained that every young man and woman is a potent factor for good in the com munity and urged Epworth leaguers in particular to take a determined stand for clean living. The true Christian, he said, must buckle on his armor and go forth like a true soldier, not to slay, but to lead and assist others to the better way. Be not weary in the fight against the forces of evil. Dare to stand for the right. ' This old world needs just now the influence and ex ample of those who profess the Christian life." Rev. Arthur Atack. nastor of the ! Hanscom Park Methodist church, l also spoke. The Walnut Hill Method ! ist church orchestra furnished the in strumental music and all joined in community singing. Dinner was served at the church by the Hanscom Park Epworth league to other leagues of the city. Shipping Board And Engineers Agree on Wages Conferences With Other Crafts Called Pay Will Be Re duced 15 Per Cent No Overtime. Washington, June 13. Terms of an agreement on wages and working conditions for engineers on shipping board vessels, reached in conferences between Secretary Davis and Rear Admiral Benson, former chairman of the board, and representatives of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial associa tion, were approved today by Chair man Lasker and will be assigned to morrow, according to statements of officials of the Department of Labor, W. S. Brown, president of the engi neers' association and officials of the shipping board. Brown has already signed. After announcement had been made that the engineers had reached an agreement, Secretary Davis sent out requests to representatives of the sea men, firemen, cooks and stewards and radio operators to meet him for conferences on silimar terms of set tlement of their grievances resulting from the May 1 reduction of wages. The terms provide a 15 per cent reduction of wages and elimination of overtime and are to remain in ef fect until April 30, 1922. The mat ter of reinstatement of men who re fused to accept the cut, it is under stood, is left for as fair as possible adjustment separately. The private shipowners so' far have refused to enter injo a year's agreement with the men. It is under stood government officials are hope ful they will follow the action of the board. ' ' Constantine at Smyrna. Smyrna, June 13. (By The Asso ciated Press.) King Constantine ar rived yesterday and was greeted en thusiastically. The -''ied warships had left the harbor in order to avoid saluting the king. After the cere monies the king was taken to a villa outside the city where he will remain a few days before going to the front. Lafayette Speed in the LaFayette does not bear its accustomed relation to danger. .... The faster it goes, the closer it seems to hug the ground LA Farnara at 28th Ton have always known Addresses Omaha Epworth Leagues Name Committee To Formulate Warehouse Plan Farm and Grain Handling In terests Hold Conferece With Secretaries Hoover and Wallace. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leaeed Wire. Washington, June 13. Appoint ment of a committee to work out the details of a plan for improving methods of warehousing grain re sulted from a conference held by farm and grain handling interests to day with Secretary 'of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace. The committee, which is composed of representatives of the form organ izations, the millers, the elevator men, grain handlers and insurance companies, will report back to Sec retaries Hoover and Wallace at a later date. The proposal is to " provide a method by which the farmer can be given unlimitedtorage facilities for his grain and receive a warehouse certificate in such form that it would pass as an order for delivery for the grain. Representatives of the federal reserve board, who attended the con ference, declared that a warehouse certificate of this nature would great ly increase the borrowing power of farmers. Such action, it was stated, would place the farmer in the same position as to credit as is the grain dealer. Those in attendance at the confer ence included Julius H. Barnes, for mer United States wheat director; P M. Barusch, who is co-operating w...i the farm groups which are working out a grain marketing scheme; C. H. Gustafson of the United States Grain Growers, Inc.; Senators Capper and Kenyon, Rep resentatives TinCher, McLaughlin and Anderson, A. C. Miller, member of the federal reserve board; George Livingston, director of the bureau of markets of the Department of Agriculture; F. B. Wells, represent ing the executive committee of the Grain Dealers' association; A. L. Goetsman, B. J. Rothnell and L. E. Moses of the Millers' National fed eration; D. R. McClennan, repre senting live stock interests; Carl Vrooman, former assistant secretary of agriculture; R, D. Collins of the Community Millers' association; W. I. Drummond, chairman of the In ternational Farm congress, and rep resentatives of a number of farm organizations. It was stated that one of the chief problems to be solved relative to safeguarding the storage certificate by a method of insurance worked out by the liability companies. Ex-President of Cuba Die6. New, York, June 13. Gen. Gomez, former president of Cuba, died at the Hotel Placa at 10:45 today. FAYETTE-HAYWARD CO. Phone Har. 0345 there would he such a car 'RedLudendorff Writes the Story Of Eventful Life Leader of German Bandits Says 'Big Revolution' Will Come as Result of Economic Condition. By GEORGE SELDES. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Itee Foreign News Service. Berlin, June 13. With the arrest here of Max Hoelz, the "Red Lu dendorff" of Germany and leader of the recent communist uprisings, there has been revealed a strange, weird personality, whose career is check ered with manifold crimes. The "master mind" of a notorious gang of red bandits, Hoelz with ingenuity and daring cunning, mystified and baffled German police with the sen sational originality of his coups in virtually every section of Germany. Known as "the robber captain," "the German Robin Hood," and "the German Dr. Moriarity," the name of Hoelz soon became legendary every where and even mothers would hush children with the words "Hoelz is coming." T.he story of Max Hoelz has never been told. In order to clear him self of certain charges and place his case before the world, he has written his autobiography wherein he details the circumstances surrounding his activities as leader of the red gang Here is Maxs story: Poverty in Boyhood. "I was born October 14, 1889. My father was a workman in a mill of Morritz, a small village near Riesa When a child I wandered with my father and my four sisters and brothers from one Saxon village to the other. I had to work at the age at which other children go to school. Often hungry and cold, we suffered abject misery and dire prov- erty. Later I worked cn a farm and spent my spare time at reading tech nical books. When 17 years old I went to England. Returning to Germany a year later I went to a technical high school at Dresden and worked my way through by laboring nights as a movie oper ator. "I made the acquaintance of my wife at Vogtland, Saxony, and we lived there happily until war broke out. I joined the 'Hussars," and marched to war in October, 1914, fighting on all battle fronts until the winter of 1918, when I was buried in a trench through the exploding or a shell, laken to a hospital, it was stated I was unfit for further service, and was sent home. Becomes Revolutionist. "Impressions received during the war left their indelible stamp on my conscience, and led me to became what I am now. I often wondered how it was possible that men 'who never hurt each other are forced to murder one another in so barbaric a fashion. I often cried because of my lack of force to assist humanity. "When- the big spartacist revolu tionary wave broke in November, 1918, it tore the blindness from my vision, and since then I have openly and unswervingly stood by the side of revolution. My heart called me to the side of those who were unhap py and miserable. Books I read showed me. that scientifically great social changes were an absolute ne cessity. "Today I am firmly convinced that when the big revolution occurs it will be because of economic condi-1 Coupon ,d6ra&a The Mistake of Confusing Price With Desirability THERE is no more costly error than that of permitting price alone to be the deciding factor, thus swaying your better judgment. DECISIONS so influenced do not serve to increase one's happiness, and if pleasure in ownership does not exist, of what particular object is possession? THE character of the merchandise offered by Thompson-Belden's is uniformly desirable from every view point. It is priced fairly upon the basis of its present cost on today's markets. A Comparvson, if you will serve t) verify the tions slowly driving workmen to it and not because thousands and mil lions of workers are yearning for it." "The first time I entered political life was in April, 1919, at Vogtland There were thousands out of work. The government gave every married couple 30 marks, and with this amount they were obliged to pay for rent, clothes, taxes and heating. We demanded work or money to live on, but our requests went un heeded. Escapes From Prison. "At that time I was elected on the jobless council. To improve our sit uation we staged big manifestations. I was accused of disturbing the peace and the reichswehr offered 5,000 marks for my capture and later increased that amount to 30,000. They caught me several times but friends among the laborers released me secretly. "I was about to leave for Russia where I had been offered asylum A secret courier had arrived from Moscow and given me 2S0.000 marks But the monarchist revolution staged by Von Kapp broke out and I de cided to remain and help my com rades. The reichswehr arrived. There was no disorder because we had reached an. agreement with capital ists of the town, whereby our red executive committee guaranteed to preserve order and form a red army to protect them if they would pay us 45,000 marks each week. They agreed and everything remained quiet and peaceful. I was at the head of the red executive committee. Denounces Reichswehr. While we were in Falkenstein during the Kapp "putsch." a com mission of the entente called on us. Among them were representatives of the American and British press. When we expressed our antipathy for the reichswehr, they said, "the reichswehr is not only a danger for Germany but for the whole of Eu rope." "I vehemently deny all allegations made by German police and secret service agents that I operated at the head of a gang, of red bandits and that I stole, killed and murdered in discriminately. "We were perfectly justified in confiscating automobiles, bicycles and such arms and ammunition as were necessary for our needs. I am ready to stand for my creed, but be fore real judges. I do not want to fall into the hands of the reichswehr. They killed Karl Liebkenccht, Rosa Luxemburg and the others." Extradition of Omaha Quartet Is Imminent Extradition of the Omaha quartet involved in a big international boot legging swindle awaits only the ar rival of a presidential warrant, it was stated at the United States marshal's office. , The quartet includes Wiley Comp ton, Art Williams, known as "Red the Rough;" Jack Harvard, Loyal hotel taxi driver, and Axel Pierson. Canadian officers will come here to escort the men north. They are charged with forging checks for huge supplies of contra band whisky, which they smuggled into the United States from Sas katchewan. Gainsborough and Vi- boroy are the towns named in the complaints.. The four sought to avoid extradi tion by applying for a writ of habeas corpus. This Federal Judge Wood rough denied Saturday. They were arrested January 20 and have been in jail ever since. Representative Mason 111. Washington, June 13. Represent ative William E. Mason, republican, Illinois, is seriously ill, it was learned tonight. Modern Piracy Is Revealed in( Sailors' Trial Soviet Seamen Throw Ship r Officers in Irons, Intimi date Crew, Land in Penitentiary. KARL H. VON WIEGAND. By Universal Ren-lee Stuff CnrienponrientJ Berlin, June 13. A veritable rates tale, reading like a yellow backJ low pacm d in th Knuefkeirl r Schroe-i ed dime novel, is revealed trial of two sailors named Kr and Heyde in Hamburg. The fish steamer "Senator Schroe der" left Cuxhaven on April 21, 1920J iril 21, 1920J one beyond river, wlua The vessel had hardly gone the mouth of the Llbe nvt one of the sailors, Knucfken, entitcccf Captain Gewold from the bridge im to the forecastle, where Knuefkeij and a communist named Jung, wlnf together with two other comm uniMf had been smuggled abroad, confronts ed the skipper with drawn revolver vers; fieri and placed him and the first offi in irons. Crew Is Enticed. Knuefken together with Heydrf and the three communists then inV duced the crew, partly with threat of shooting, and partly with promJ ises of high reward from the soviet government, to take the steamri along the Norwegian shore to thr VV hite sea. 1 he crew was told th Jung was "an important courie 5 for the soviet Rovernmeiit with im portant dispatches to deliver in RusJ sia. the vessel arrived in Mur. fur. mansk on May 1. Kneufken and Jung declared ship as confiscated for the sovicfj government. - The captain and first) officer, together with a Captain Wol ter who was aboard as passenger; and guest of the skipper, were first placed in prison in Murmansk, and: then sent to Petersburg. Two months' later, the soviet government finally) released them in exchange for Rus sian prisoners in Germany. Looking for Junge. The crew of the steamer -wai closely watched by the communists, but finally succeeded in getting permission to put to sea to catcli fish. Hardly out of Murmansk harbor, they attacked and overpowered Heyde and Knuefken, and placed them in irons. The crew brought the steamer back to Cuxhaven, where they arrived on May 24. Knuefken was sentenced to fi years in the penitentiary and Heyde to 18 months, lhe police are look ing for Jung. ' " f Woman Seeking Divorce Asks for Cemetery Lot A cemetery lot in West Lawn is all that Ellen Agnes Green asks in a petition for a divorce from her husband, Frank Douglas Green, to whom she was married in 1910. Since a year ago he has refused to support her. she savs cpmotfru wti.r turn rfiilrlrn r nuririj. .Trie hsk irir i.uun it, kiv her title to one of the lots and restor ation of her maiden name, McMahjrn i Sea Wall 1,400 Feet Long' Erected by Carter Club A rock sea wall, 1,400 feet long, has been completed along the shore Of Carter Lake club. The wall is constructed of cobble stone. Directors of the club decided on this construe-, tion to prevent the water from cut ting away the shore land. choose. above T elves.'' joo schedule time,
