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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 50 NO. 312. latatwl Sanai-CtaM Nattar Mi M. 0t. It Oaaka r. 0. Uaar Act at Ink I. IS7S. OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921. U.ttl Ium 2i. ay Mall l Vr.). Dally 4 to.. 17.50: Doll. 0l. : . W M OchMt 4k Im (I year). Dally aaa Saaiay. Ill; Dally Oaly, 111; aaay Oaly. II THREE CENTS Deadlock Over Army Financing Secretary Weeks Pleads Un availingly With Conferees Who Report Back for Further Instructions. Disagree on Navy Bill i- By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING :hkag Tribane,Omah B IaH Wire. Washington, June IS. The whole program of national defense on land nd tea was. thrown into deadlock today by the irreconciable differ ences between the senate and house reariui that disastrous conse quences may result from the drastic reductions m the army and navy or dered by the house, the administra tion today for, the first time took hand in the controversy. secretary ot war Weeks went beiore the senate and house con ferees on the army bill and pleaded ior me senate measure nxing tiio minimum strength of the army at jou.uou men. Un behalf of the navy Admirals Coontz and Washington appeared before the conferees on the navy bill in an effort to ward off the big cut proposed by the house in the naval enlisted strength. Weeks Tells of Danger. Although the secretary of war has been known for some time to be op posed to the trmy reduction ordered ' by the house, he took occasion today to emphasize with new vigor tnc ruinous effects' that would follow such curtailment. He told the con ferees-that he would be unwilling to accept the responsibility for what might happen to the army if the pro visions of the house bill were re tained, compelling reduction of the army to lU.WU in the next year. The conferees thereupon broke up in a disagreement over the question of the size of the army and decided to report back to their respective houses for further instructions'. The question will come up first in the house anr if the house is inclined to yield the bill will be brought to a t showdown in the senate. The whole controversy revolves around the appropriation for pay of enlisted , men which automatically fixes the size of the army. The ap propriation for this purpose in the house bill is $72,000,000 while in the senate bill it is $81,000,000. Secre tary Weeks explained to the con ferees that the house bill would necessitate cutting the size of the army to 120,000 men. The appro priation in the senate bill it is es timated, will prevent the strength of the army from falling below 150,000; men. : ; ' - The house conferees proposed a compromise today under the terms of which they would agree to-an army or 150,000 men, provided the reduc tion would be made within the next three months. Secretary Weeks pointed out, however, that the pres ent strength of the army is about CJO.OOO so that the compromise pro posal would require the discharge of rot Jess than 75,000 men before October 1. Inasmuch as the normal rl.rhikage in the size of the army through expiration of terms of en listments and applications for dis c'urge would be only about 20.000 :rcn. the secretary explained that it yould be necessary, to go into the !i::ks , and arbitrarily throw, 50.000 VH-'i out of the army against their v ill in utter disregard of their en lLlir.cnt contracts. .' Aside from the appropriation for "Mhstcd pay the conferees were in T'Kiccord on-all items Including the i-.i-nate appropriation for enlisted pay t'.c total amount carried in the bill i v $330,000,000 or $16,000,000 less 1 :'j;ti it carried last March when Ps-Ci-ident , Wilson pocket vetoed it because it "was too smajl. : Differences Over Navy. The ' disagreement between the t-.vo houses over the navy are ven r?'6re acute. The conferees hae held numerous sessions and have failed to reach an agreement an any of the inportant differences. The differ ences between th two bills is approx imately $100,000,000. m The principal bone of contention is the strength of enlisted pe&sonnel. The house has provided for 100,000 men and tlw senate provided for 120.000 men. The navy contends that 120,000 men are necessary to properly man the vtssels at sea. - Admiral Coontz and Admiral Washington ire understood to have strongly supported this view of today's conference. ' Prospects are that the naval con ferees will follow the example of the army conferees and break up in a disagreement at an early date, re ferring the controversy back to the house for further instructions. Aurora, Neb., Juno 15. (Special.) Bridges between Aurora and Grand Island are nearly washed out. Signs saying. "Cross at your own risk," were on the Central City bridge today. At 3 this afternoon the water was within one foot of the flooring of the new concrete bridge between here and Grand Island. If the water gets much high er it will v.ash away the sand ap proaches causing much damage and expense. ." , British to Probe Prospects For Trading With Russia London, June 15. (By, the Asso rted Press.) An official British delegation will shortly be sent to Russia to ascertain the prospects for trade between Great -Britain and Russia. Maj. Sir Phillip Lloyd Graeme, director of overseas trade, made this announcement in the house of commons today. ' Sugar Hits Low Mark. New York,. June 15. Refined sugar went below the 6-cent level today -for the hrst tune in more than, five years when the Federal Refining company quoted fine gran ulated at 5.75c a fieafld, i "Biddies" Upset All Tradition; As Hens They Make Good Ducks Chicago, June 15. The oldest joke in the world next to the mother in-law wheeze, has been exploded with a loud report. From time im memorial the tradition has prevailed that hens had a particular aversion to water and cartoonists, since the year one, have pictured a distraught hen on the banks of a stream in which har family of ducklings were disporting themselves. Ed St. Clair, a game warden, up sets the old tradition. On one of the farms under state supervision, he uses hens to hatch the eggs of wild fowl and 300 hens under his charge have learned to follow their adopted children into the water. Each hen on the farm raises five families of ducks or pheasants each year. St. Clair says that these hens go into water, readily, leading their charges. His theory is that their aversion to water has been overcome by their constant association with water fowl. When anythinar threatens ' the ducklings, the whole family hasten to the nearest water and plunges in the hen leading the procession. Jap Questions May Be Settled By Direct Action Secretary Hughes and Baron Shidehara Working to End Differences Without Aid Of League. By The Aaaselated Praa. Washington, June 15. Direct ne gotiations have been begun between the United States and Japan for the settlement of the question pending between them. , These include the island of Van. the immigration question, the alien land question and the return of Shan tung to China by Japan. The negotiations are being con ducted by Baron Shidehara, the Jap anese , ambassador, and secretary Hughes. The settlement of the Yap question would make unnecessary the consideration of this question by the league ot nations. Would Avoid League. It had been expected that the Yap issue would be left to the adjust ment by the league council, which is to meet tomorrow in Geneva, France, in an answer to the Ameri can protest against the award of the mandate for this island to Ja pan, said it would bring the subject Detore the council. It is understood that the basis for settlement in the negotiation be tween M. Shidehara and Secretary Hughes' wilL be the internationaliza tion of the cable privileges on the siana. The nrooosal is to settle the' im migration question on the basis of the complete stoppage of all Japan ese coolie immigration with proper protection for Japanese property rights already acquired in the United States. Will Return Shantung. Japan's promise to return Shan tung to China is to be executed, it is said, as soon as possible without reference of the question to any Eu ropean tribunal. The initial steps have been taken for the evacuation of the portion of the province held by the Japanese, the military force having been reduced to between 3,000 and 3,500 soldiers. Advices from Tokio' have said this " force would be withdrawn when China provided guards for the railroad and property in the towns. Japan, it is stated, will retain only such privileges in the province as are common to the other nations, such as a portion of'the international compound which China is to be re quired to establish at the port of. Tsing Tau on the bay of Kiao-Chou. Japan, it is explained, never has tak en over all of the. railroad proper ties formerly operated by the Ger mans in Shantung, confining her claims to that portion of the railroad from Tsing Tau tS Tsinan-Fu, and leaving the important line crossing the province at the latter junction in the hands of the former oper atives, 4 under the nominal control of the Chinese government. It is proposed that Japan operate the Tsinan-Fu-Tsing Tau branch jointly with the Chinese.- Toledo Woman Thrown From Buggy and Killed : Toledo, la., June 15. (Specials Mrs. Elmer Norris, 30, was almost instantly killed when she was thrown from a buggy which her husband was driving. The horse ran away, tossing the wornan out., Her head was crushed between a wheel and a bridge post. Mr. Norris and their two children sustained only minor bruises. Men who didn't know Maisie Blaze invariably asked, "Who's that?" when 3he went by. . She was slim, dark, full of life, and she wanted the serious and ultra-respectable William Hurlbut to like her. Just Like Any Married Man By Lucian Cary whimsical BLUE RIBBON short story in The Sunday Bee Dlae 500Machine Guns Seized In Hoboken Weapons Found by Customs Officers on Ship Being Loaded for an Irish Port. Police Victors in Clash B.r The Aaaeclated Preaa. " New York, June 15. Custom offi cials have seized nearly 500 modern machine guns alleged to have been found concealed aboard the steamer East Side tied up in Hobcken, load ing for an Irish port. This became known late todav when the Hoboken police clash?'". with customs men over possession of the arms. The guns finally were taken to Hoboken police headquar ters; Seized by federal Agents. According - to Chief of Police Hayes of Hoboken, the arms were seized yesterday by the federal agents. Today, he said, , man giv ing the name of Frank WiUianis, ap peared in recorder's court and swore out a search warrant, c aiming the weapons. The Hoboken police said . that when they went to the pier where the East Side is tied up, they wee told that there 'were no machine guns there. Later, they said, they found them being loaded on a truck and took possession of them after some argument. Report Being Probed. Officials of the Department of Justice admitted they were investi gating a report that pjans were afoot tor shipping arms to Ireland. According to the Hoboken police. the guns were seized by federal agents on the charge that their shio- ment was illegal because no permit had been obtained from the State department to send them out of the country. The Department of Just'ce tonight ordered its agents in New York to nvestigate . the arms seized on the steamer East Side at Hoboken ':c determine whether they constitute.! a shipment for abroad. Federal Troops To Occupy Pueblo Rehabilitation Will Be Car ried Out Under U. S. Super- Pueblo, Colo., June 15. Rehabilita tion of Pueblo's water works, streets and general sanitary conditions was scheduled to be formally turned over today to the regular army by state troops and city officials, according to an announcement by Col. Pat J. Ham rock, adjutant general of Colorado.: Under the supervision of Lieut. Col. Caples of the' Eighth corps of the United States engineers, the fed eral allotment of $100,000, recently announced by Secretary of War Weeks, will be spenMSy regular army experts and distributed by regular army accountants. According to Lieutenant Colonel Caples, a com pany of engineers is expected to ar rive here tomorrow from Fort Bliss, Tex., to assist in the work. A group of accountants from Fort Sam Hous ton, Tex., is also expected here in a day or- two. In the meanwhile reclamation ex perts are studying the levee recon struction problems in Pueblo. A pre liminary survey of the situation has been made, but no official appraisal of the difficulties has been announced. Japan Agrees to U. S. ' Yap Cable Control London. June 15. Reuters learns that, while fully maintaining Us rights as mandatory over certain pa cific islands, Japan is ready to agree to the United States exercising com plete control over the American cables traversing the island of Yap to Menado and to Guam and hopes this plan will be acceptable to Wash ington. Japan, according to Reuters, con siders that as its mandate is one of the provisions of the Versailles treaty,' no special island or mandate can be selected as an exception with out altering the. treaty itself, ana therefore internationalization is out of the question. Omaha Social Workers to . Attend National Meeting Rev. R. B. Ralls, head of the Ne braska Child Home society; Miss Florence McCabe. superintendent of the Visiting Nurses' association of Omaha: Mrs. Marie Leff-Cald- well. head of the South Side social settlement: Mrs. G. W. Doane, head of the Associated Charities of Oma ha; Mrs. J. W. Mead, travelers' aid, and Miss Guenn Godard, in charge of children's aid for the Nebraska Humane society, will leave Omaha for Milwaukee Monday, where they will attend the national conference of social workers June 22-29. Cost Estimates on U. 3. Rail Control Vary Widely Washington. June 15. Cost of government operation of the railways for 26 months was placed variously at a $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 today at a senate commmitte inves tigation of the railway situation. Chairman Cummins advanced the lower figure and L. E. Wettling .of Chicago, manager ot' the bureau ol statistics of western railways, said "it would come nearer $2,000,000,000." Senator Cummins said it was time to clear up "misleading statements Berkeley Legion Post Favors Dempsey in Fight. Yes-s-s It Does i Berkeley, Cal., June 15. Berkely post No. 7, American Legion, last night sent the following telegram to Georges Carpentier: "We regard you as a comrade in arms and wish you every success in the big fight." A copy of the telegram was sent to Jack Dempsey, "with this addition: "This is what we think of you." Labor Demands Right to Vote in Declaring War Government Ownership of Railroads and Modification . Of Dry Laws Asked In Resolutions. Denver. June 15. Organized labor would demand that the power to de clare war be withdrawn from con gress and be placed in the hands of the people by constitutional amend ment, if a resolution presented today is adopted by the convention of the American Federation of Labor. The proposal provides that a dec laration of war must have the ap proval of a majority of the voters of the country and that "all those voting in favor of the declaration of war be compelled to take up the ac tive prosecution of the same before those who voted against the declara tion of war. The resolution, introduced by S. H. uardner, Central Labor union, Cleburne, Tex., declared that the pro vision for a referendum A'Ote on war was necessary to "better protect and safeguard the people and their in terests." . . Blames War on "Profits.'! "The natural result of our pres ent system of business and industry," said the preamble to the resolution, "especially the foreign and commer cial and financial, is such as 'to at frequent intervals cause wars to be declared between nations, at the be hest of those interested in said ac tivities, to secure or protect the so? called sacred rights of profits." Should the resolution be adopted the legislative committee of the fed eration would be instructed to take all necessary and legal steps to se cure a war referendum constitution al amendment. " Two important resolutions 'have been submitted. One, signed by rep resentatives of all railroad organiza tions,- directs the executive council to "assist the recoarnized railroad la bor organizations by every effort within their povza.- to have proper legislation enacted providing for gov ernment ownership and democratic 'operation of the transportation sys tems of the United states. ; Wants Railroads Unified. The other resolution presented by a group of 10 delegates . demands "prompt restoration of the railroad? to unified government, operation." Under this' scheme of unified opera; tion. it was stated, "freight rates should' be reduced to those jn force when the railroads were returned to their owners, in order to stimulate traffic and relieve agriculture and other legitimate business." Modification of the Volstead act (Tarn to Page Two, Colnma lire.). U.S. Employes Opposed To Reorganization Plan Will Be Dismissed Washington, June 15. Govern ment employes who actively oppose the administration's government re organization, plan will be dismissed, the "president and his . cabinet de cided today. The decision was said to have resulted from activities of some employes in spreading propa ganda against ; the reorganization policy. ' Specific orders are to be promul gated immediately by the depart ment heads. It is understood they will be aimed particularly at bureau chiefs who are said to have been bringing influence to bear on con gress to prevent a readjustment of their particular bureaus. . President Harding is understood to have been emphatic in his instruc tions that any one using his official position to tighten his hold on his salary envelope should be dismissed immediately. At the same time, the president is said to have declared he did not wish this policy to interfere with a free expression of individual opinion. , TO SUBSCRIBERS J ' -WHO HAVE GIVEN SUBSCRIPTIONS TO HELP YOURSELF CLUB MEMBERS The ambitious H. Y. C. member is working hard during these remaining few days to add to his or her total of votes. Where does the memher .to whom you gave your subscription stand, in the list of pub lished standings on page 5? If. that member is making a good showing, why not give them a little additional help? .. ; . You can do this by giving them an extension of your subscription. Such extensions are called sec ond payments and they mean a great many additional votes for members. You intend keeping up your; subscription to The Bee and this will simply mean paying your subscription a little further in advance. Help these Help Yourself Club members. The cost of subscriptions is shown on page 7. Send in your check to the Help Yourself Club manager and state to what member you wish it credited. Please also state that it is a second payment. ' . ' The Big amw mt m araiW. w A a A Tkm Corwswam H wnt maraat. Jf Witnesses Give Attorney Keegan Good Reputation Wife on Stand Denies Having Heard Any Talk at Slang- erup Home Regarding Rohhery Plans. - r . Public Defender John N Baldwin, City .Commissioner " John Hopkins and Henry Monsky, a law3rer, ap peared on the witness stand in Dis trict Judge Leslie's jCOurt yesterday afternoon and testified that thev knew Frank Keegan as a man of good reputation. Keegan is on trial for abetting the robbery' of Han? Jurgens December 10, 1920. Keegan's wife testified regarding their life a1 the home of -Walter Slangerup, 6812 Mayberry avenue, during last December and January. She denied that she ever heard any conversation between her husband and Slangerup , or- any . of the other men there regarding plans to commit robberies. She declared Slangerup was sell ing whisky in large quantities and that he manufactured, it there. Shi said her husband was intoxicated most of the time and, that .she stayed there only to take care of him. The testimony will be finished this morning and argument will be com-' pleted before tonight. Canadian Chosen Head Of World Rotary Clubs Edinburgh, Scotland, June 15. (By, The. Associated Press.)-Dr. Crawford C.- McCullough of Fort William, Ontario, -was today unani mously elected president ot the inter national Association of Rotary clubs, now in annual session here, for the ensuing year. Detroit Street Car Fares -Are Reduced to Five Cents Detroit, Mich., June 15. The city and the ; Detroit United Railway reached , an agreement today' m-the latest fare dispute, 'when .'the1 com pany's offer to reduce fares to 5 cents with 1 'cent fortransfers was, ac cepted. - . " 4, Fight and the OlTbl: 1MU: 1 Tfca CMeaco Trlbmw.T 'POft-OfCBAYS fiCM-nNft!: oow, mfy mow THAN I WT Ft YeNrt niar dhplmy mny lit hmrd thnf. dtUar eft ant wOl wrry mboat tha atmyi mt horn. H mnd " Out, ai, Belfast Rioting Being Continued Concerted Attempt Made to Keep Disorders Alive Is ; 'Report. Belfast. .. Ireland, June 15. (By Tht Associated Frees.) A feature 'of the Belfast disturbances -which is disquieting to the authorities is fur nished in what they termed today a concerted attempt to keep, ahvt the disorders. Several police barracks notified military headquarters at 1:40 a. m. that whistles hsi been blown, re volvers' fired and ' cries of murder raised in their districts, followed by genuine screams of panic from women and children, who associated the noises with reprisal raids. Shooting occurred during the breakfast hour today in' the streets affected yesterday evening. ; The worst fighting last evening was in the maze of streets radiating from Conway street in the Falls dis trict. Irish republican soldiers, armed with revolvers, took positions on roofs and at other vantage points. Sandbag barricades furnished shelter for others, behind which they were safe from the bullet's of the crown forces, while gunmen kept up a con tinuous fire on the police. "When the barricades were stormed it was found that the defenders had quick- Army Officers May Be Prosecuted for Part ( In Harness Contract Washington, , June -1 5. Criminal proceedings against a number of for mer army officers may' follow the action if President Harding in can celing War department , contracts with the United States Harness com pany of Ranson, W. Va., for the dis posal of surplus harness,-it was said tonight at the department of Jus tice. Attorney General DaugheVty, it was said, was considering the gov ernments course. Cancellation- of " the contracts by the.'president was announced by Sec retary Weeks; whey explained that (hey were entered into, by a former director of sales M the .War depart ment, with the approval of Secretary Baker, and provided -that the. large accumulation of . surplus military harness should be turned over to the Company for disposal. V i ... The,-: president,, in., concluding the contracts," he said,1 acted, upon; the" advice and Tecommendationof (Mr. Daugherty, who reported after in vestigation that the contracts . had been entered into in : violation ' of criminal statutes 'prohibiting officers er employes, of ... the' v. government from having an interest' in govern ment property or contracts. Cotton Consumption in' May ,' ' Decreases Over Year Ago . Washington, June 15. Cotton con sumed during May amounted to 439,884 bales of lint, and 47,395 bales of linters, the- census ' bureau an nounced today. .'' . Consumption in May ' last year amounted to 541,377 bales of lint and 32,072 of linters. Cotton on hand May 31 in consuming establish ments amounted to 1,279,314 bales of lint and 215,883 bales of linters, com pared with 1,698,833 of lint and 282, 881 .of linters a year ago and held in public storage and at compresses 4,739,810 bales of lint and 269.198 of linters, compared with 2,586,868 of lint and 393.372 of- linters a year ago Cotton spindles active during May numbered 32,631,051, compared with 34,069,744 in May last year. Big Money fWHO SAYS) tmpply wmaning out. mi," And km got mm, Harding Breaks With Senators Over Patronage '. . ', c Lodge and .Willis, Two of President's Strongest Sup- 0 ) porters, Object to His Chicago TribnM-Omavha Bee Leaaed Wir. ' Washington. June 15. President Harding has become involved in pa tronage rows with two of his strong est supports. Senator Lodare. senate republican leader, and Sen ator v lllis, Ohio, who nominated him for the presidency at Chicago last June. Senator Lodge is obieoting to the appointment of Julius Klein of Bos ton tq be director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Mr. Klein,-it is understood, was appointed by President Harding on Secretary Hoover's , recommenda tion. . .The apointment,. according to re ports, was a great surprise to Sen ator Lodge; who was not consulted, although Klein is a resident of the senator's home town. . ' At ' Mr.' Lodge's request, the sen ate commerce committee has held up action- pending investigation. The senator visited the-White House to dav but did not see-the president. The president had a peace parley with Senator-Willis over the ques tion of Ohio patronage. Mr. Willis is on the rampage because President Harding turned down his man for internal revenue collecter at Toledo. and -appointed in his stead Charles H. Nauts of Toledo, an associate of Walter F. Brown, -ancient political rival of Senator Willis. . . ; The' parley didn't appear to be very successful. W'hen he left the White House Senator Willis said: "I have not changed my mind and shall not change it." 1 .- The row over Nauts" appoinmenf reaches deeper than appears on' the surface. ' The whole question of who is to be boss in the distribution of Ohio . patronage hinges . upon . the outcome. ' . : . Six Firemen Killed ;' 10 Hurt, '.. ; ' " In I Railroad Acicdent "Perth Amboy, June- 15.-tSix fire men" were killed and 10 others in jured when .a tire truck crashed into the tender, of .the Barnegat, express at a crossing of the Central railroad of New Jersey this evening.- The firemen, 'members -of a volunteer' or ganization, were on their way to a small warehouse fire when the ac cident happened. Fire department . officials declared that the safety gates at the crossing were not down. New York Central Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend -New York, June 15. The' New York Central today declared its reg ular quarterly dividend of ' per cent The Weather Forecast. ' Nebraska Thunder showers by Thursday night or Friday; cooler Friday. Iowa Thunder showers orobable Thursday . and Friday; warmer in southeast portion Thursday. Hourly Temperatures. S a. m 73 a. m. ' 71 7 a. m. 74 1 p. m. 2 p. m. s p. m. 4 p. m. 5 p. m. 6 ' p. m. 7 p. m. S p. m. .ss .o .90 . 9 . . 87 .11 S m. ( "a. m.. ...it ...77 ...St . ..as lv a. m. l . m. 3 noon High Water In Platte Receding Fall of Flood in South Platte Expected to Offset Rise in Other Streams Crest Reaches Fremont. Two Bridges Washed Out Reports from North Platte last night indicated that though there had been a slight fall of water in the South Platte river during the pre ceding 24 hours at that point, there was a rise of three inches in th North Platte river and the flood below the junction of the two riven was somewhat higher than on Tues day. It is certain, however, that th water in the South Platte has passer! the crest and a falling of that stream will offset the constant rise in the North Platte. It is 'not believed that further damages to bridges across the South Platte will ensue. Contrary to reports, travel on the Lincoln Highway from Grand Island to North Platte and from North Platte to Sidney is uninterrupted. Two .Bridges Out. Two bridges were washed-out at North Platte and flood waters in the Platte river at Fremont rose 20 inches in the last 2,4 hours, accord ing? to information reaching Omaha yesterday afternoon. George Koster, head of the state fish department, received a telephone message at 3 yesterday afternoon from a deputy at North Platte that the two bridges over the Platte river there had been washed out by the high flood waters which have been rushing into Nebraska from Colorado all week. 20 Inches at Fremont. Word was received by the Burling ton offices that the water at Fremont, where the crest of the flood was ex pected to reach by nightfall, had risen 20 inches during Tuesday nighl and yesterday morning. The high water in the Platte is receding and has dropped five inches in two days, according to reports from Big Springs. Grand Island re ports state that county officials are not as yet alarmed over any under mining of the new state aid bridge between Hamilton and Hall counties, nor of any serious wash on the long fills at either side. The rise Tues day night was only six inches, instead ot , tne loot wnicn was predicted. Water at one time flowed over the. roads approaching the tills, but this has been checked. Rising at Cozad. At Cozad the water was still rising last evening and was up to the Uniar Pacific tracks. The bridge was stilt passable. Superintendent Carey and Trainmaster Baker were watching the situation carefully, but did not anticipate trouble. Reports from Lincoln stated that 1 aaa i r - . t oo.uuv cudic ieei were iiuwing pei second at Lexington yesterday after-; noon, indicating that the maximum rise between Fremont and Lexing ton would be between two and three feet above normal. K .- Secretary George Johnson of the department of public works was in his office in Lincoln all day yesterday trying to get in touch with his dep uties at flood points along the.piatte river. ' . , ( He met: with no success, being unable to get any of his deputies by either telephone or telegraph. ir; : m . wires may se jwwn . Because of this Secretary Johnson fears the wires have been . brought down by the flood or his deputies are sousy battling with the flood con ditions and doinor -nrevpntive wnrlr that they have been unable to notify him ot conditions at their respective stations. Following an inspection of the river Tuesday at Grand Island. Su pervisor Sass reported the river about six inches higher " than the highest previous mark. The foot rise predicted Tuesday night did not appear.- v . Receding of the water is reported , at Kearney and Central City. Water Falls Back. At Centraf City, the rise continued Until ft Ttlpcn'av tiirrhf ml,M -,. - o - - -' I'vit i ic to a .standstill and then began to fall hack. .- y , ,. .', Reports that the water At Grand T c ! 1 rl w ..mmIhw .f c v a ftoc i turning lira U1C O. 1..J1. road and Hamilton county bridge were dented Tuesday by Super visor Sass. The other two bridges over the Platte at Grand Island are impassable, he reported. The Omaha Hish school i catfet pcamp at Valley is not in danger. i he camp is situated about a mile and a half from the river but is not threatened by the highwaters. ' Ready for Retreat. ' Everything at the camp is in readiness for a hasty but orderly re treat, in event the water should start to overflow in quantity. Land between the camp and Valley-is higher than - the site of the camp,- eliminating any chance of the cadets being .marooned from thd town by the flood. ; Precautionary measures were . t r- I . r' . a i4Kcn mesuay ai uenirat v.uy to K1""." ia...uu uu unugc proper ties from the high waters, i Fight to Save Bridge. A corps of men battled all dar with the flood to save the fill of the new $100,000 state aid bridge now being erected there. ' They worked under the direction of E. Flynn, general superintendent of the Burlington railroad. , . Before leaving his offices in Lin coln Flynn wired orders to havt watchmen placed on all bridges crossing the Platte at ' Kearnev, Grand Island, Fremont, Schuyler. Central City and Columbus. Division Superintend F, R. (Tan to Tmg Tw, CvIubb Oaa.) V
