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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1921)
10-A THE BEE: OMAHA, 5UNDAT, JUTJC 19, 13Z1. Whisky Fight In Congress Is Drawing Near "Drys"' lo Make Strong Effort to Pass Amendments Mak ing Volstead Law More Rigid. Washington, June A fight be tween the "wets" and "drys," begun through moves to amend and make more rigid the provisions of the Vol stead law, threatens now to involve both sides of the capitol in a whisky low. , , The rum battle has many angles. The biggest fight develops out of Congressman Volstead' drive to .:..!.. . !. in u ViUL-v as a UglllCU IIIC avit"? v.. j medical agent and to outlaw beer. Other phases of the whisky em- broglio, grew out 01 vigorous moves bv certain "wet" leaders to obtain "liberal amendments to the dry law. One of these, fathered by Congress man Kdnninds of Pennsylvania would allow 'American ships to carry liquors abroad. Mr. Edmunds' pro posal invites strong support from senators and congressmen. Shipping interests urge its passage on the ground that American ships are suf fering competition with foreign lin ers. Passengers are taking passage on foreign owned boats beeause liquors are sold and served on them. Verbal pyrotechnics will come soon in - debates over beer. . The j treasury is holding up regulations which would authorize manufacture and sale ot nieciicmai Deer. Protests Pile Up. Congressman Volstead claims con gress, by an overwhelming majority, will declare beer is not a medicine, and will specifically bar it. Vol stead's fight is the result of an opin ion by former Attorney General Palmer, holding beer sales by drug gists to be legal. . 1 - Breweries, drug manufacturers and leading anti-prohibition organ izations have entered strong protests against the Volstead measure. The protests against the Edmunds' ship measure are less numerous, although it is strongly opposed by the Anti Saloon league. Few will deny that in congress there now exists greater support for light wines and beer. The real mys tery is whether or not new acces sions to the beer and wine standard will vote as they drink' or think. In all wet and dry contests at the cap itol the votes on liquor questions have shown, invariably, a large per centage of "wets" lining up with "dry" advocates, upon measures to clamp down the lid tighter upon the rum traffic. '1 Three Gallons of Wine for Sick. The "wets" in the new skirmishes may be somewhat appeased by the fact that the new Volstead bill leaves wine as a medical drink, which may j be prescribed, along with whisky j and other "spiritous" liquors. It is ... . 1 . i. proDaDie, nowever, uiai wucu n. finishing touches are put on the bill, before it conies to the president tor his signature, it will contain many restrictions, limiting the freedom of doctors in prescribing wine for pa tients. ' Prohibition Commissioner Kramer has suggested that it should be per missible for physicians to prescribe wine would be three gallons a holic content to whisky allowed. Kramer figured that as patients are permitted to have three pints of whisky a month, a just proportion of wine ewould be three gallons a month, gauged by its smaller con tent of alcohol. The "drys" are aligned for a ter rific attempt to jam Jheir amend ments through, and they freely pre dict they have enough votes to win. But the winning will come probably only after some spicy talkfests in both chambers, with a, mixture of wrangling always to be expected in liquor debates. Family of Eleven Goes Insane Over Spiritualism Berlin. June 18. Crazed by the study of spiritualism, the entire fam ily of 11 members of a bricklayer named Blank, of Talkirchendorff, had to be placed in an insane asylum. In order to obtain "entrance to pure light,"' Blank and his family began to demolish all furniture and rtntliinc in his home. The up holstered furniture they heaped in a pile and set fire to it, because they were an "overthrown king's throne." ; Blank was just about to sacrifice the 3-year-old illegitimate child ot nis daughter to the "pure light" as a "burned offering," when the entire volunteer fire deoartmert of the town summoned by the neighbors, sur rounded the house, and subdued Blank and his family after a terrific struggle. Scientists Find New Way To Study Smallest Germs London, June 18. Britain's sci entific world has been thrilled by the discovery by J. .E. Barnard of how to apply the ultra-violet and other rays to microscopic examina tion of living germs in such a way as to enable them to be examined in detail on a hitherto unknown scale. , In the course of his researches Mr. Barnard, who is hailed as the world's greatest optical physicist, has been able to photograph the liv ing bacillus and reveal its finer structure. This is the greatest step in microscoov in 30 years. Where formerly microscopy gave a useful magnification of 1,000 diameters (or magnified an object i.uuu.uuu limes) beyond that point it started to break up light itself. It gave a bigger im age, but no more detail. Intoxicating Gas May Be New Terrible War Weapon London, June 18. Chemical war fare has come to stay, according to Sir William J. Pope, professor of chemistry at, Cambridge university, wlm rtrfonrls the use of Doison EaS as loss, fatal and far less cruel than any other weapon. "It would be simple,' he says "to produce a high explosive shell that would liberate large quantities of carbon monoxide, against which all known protective masks would be useless. , "No reason exists why chemical shells should not be made which do not kill but produce seme form of Dan Wanted to Throw Trunk Outside Two Newlyweds Coo in Nearby Apartment as Hour Nears Midnight and He Resolves to Form So ciety for Prevention of Unnecessary Noises. Dan B. Butler, city commissioner, is cogitating pver me icasiDinty ot founding a society for the preven tion of unnecessary noises , after 11 p. m. He believes he may succeed in en listing the aid and comfort of mem bers of th ciijr council, Humane so ciety, Knights of Ak-Sar-Beo, Ath letic club, Tuesday Morning Musical club, Junior league, Boiler Makers' union and tne new organization of veteran newspaper men. The commissioner abides in a large building, which is divided into many parts known as. apartments. The walls of .this building are not noise-procf. They have ears. So has Mr. Butler. Shortly after 11 o'clock Thursday night the commissioner entered into a state of peaceful slumber and about 12:15 a. m. he was awakened by the conversation of a man and his wife, who jointly occupy a nearby apart ment. , She said: ."Tomorrow is your birthday, honey love, and I don't know what, to get for a present." He said: "Get me a nightie or some pajamas." She said: "Is that all oo wants, honey love?" ' "I felt like throwing my trunk out of the window," said the commis sioner. Freak Sartorial Idiosyncrasies , Of U. S. Senators One Discards Toupee in Sum mer; Others Appear in "Galluses;" Jim Ham Lewis Is Missed. By DAVID M. CHURCH. Washington, June 18. The au gust and dignified United States sen ate is in a sartorial quandary. The senate had no official notifi cation that summer is here, and there is doubt as to just when the senate may adorn itself with sum mer garments. . This perplexing situation comes about through the failure of the voters of Colorado to return one Charles S. Thomas to the senate. For several vears the former Sen ator Thomas has been the official harbinger of summer for the sen ate or perhaps his toupee has been the harbinger. Off With the Toupee. Thomas was a 'fair judge of weather, and when he was finally convinced that summer had arrived for a stay he entered the senate chamber minus his beautiful iron gray toupee, and with his pink dome shining unblushingly. The dome continued to shine until cold weather came, and then the toupee came out of the moth balls and covered the dome again. - The occasion of the stowing away of the Thomas toupee , was always celebrated in the senate. Thomas frequently made , a speech on warm weather and toupees, and he was al ways the subject of congratulations from his colleagues. Alter the toupee had disappeared members of the sen ate felt safe to sally forth in flan nels, Palm Beach suits and minus their "galluses." f With the absence of the .Thomas toupee and the approach of warm weather the senate now faces the serious question of determining for itself when the summer clothes shall come out. Brandegee's Two Neckties. This summer finds a senate great ly changed from that of the last heat ed season, and new summer styles are predicted. Henry Cabot Lodge will, as usual, observe the arrival of summer by donning a starched white vest, and on real hot days he will even go so far as to wear light trou sers. Senator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut will celebrate the warm est days by trotting but his two fa mous scarfs one of the most violent green and the other of burnt orange that speaks for itself. Thomas Hefhn of Alabama will pay his tribute to "Old Sol" with a stiffly starched white duck suit and a boiled shirt that is equally stiffly starched. Sena tor Jim Watson of Indiana will wear his famous prison-striped flannel trousers and his colleague, Harry New, will discard his black felt som brero for one of Panamanian straw weave that is equally broad. -, Fashion Leader Missing. These sartorial effects are assured. But what about the new senators? How are they going to greet sum mer? They have no fashion leader in the senate now and they, haven't had since Jim Ham Lewis took his gray silk sash, his salmon pink silk shirt and his silk suits back, to Illinois. Even the champion of the gallus and no vest Asle Gronna of North Dakota has gone. Surely the- troubles of the senate are many. As for the house, Uncle Joe an swers the question there. In May Ik- beams dispensing with a buttoned "wescott," button by button. When the veteran legislator irom Jllinoi finally casts his vest into the discard I ana appears m a oouea snirr, gai luses," and an alpaca coat" ov.gr his arm, then the house knows it is time to put on summer clothes. Hello, Warren" Wins Hearty Handshake for Youngster Brooklyn, June 18. At the 23d regiment review recently. Donald Tomkins, 13, was sitting in the cen ter of the armory. President, Hard ing in reviewing the front rank passed about 10 feet from the center. r-1J ...II. ,1 "tT.ll W,rrn I" and the president immediately stopped and going over shook hands with the flustered boy. , Pons-Winnecke Comet to Be Seen At End of Month Itinerant of Skies Flitting Around Milky Way May Be Visible to Naked Eye Soon. Denver, June 18. The Pons-Win-necke comet, an itinerant of the sky that is supposed to be present in the heavens about once in every six years,' is flitting around the milky way and may be seen by the naked eye during the latter part of June, according to Dean Herbert A. Howe, orofessor 'of astronomv at Denver Dean Howe already has observed a "white light against the sky" that he believes in Pons-Winnecke. "The comet appears as a very faint hazy spot on the sky, and stars may be easily seen through it," Dean Howe said. "In the large telescope a condensed nucleus of the 11th mag nitude, almost stellar in appearance, is readily seen, and the nebulosity about it extends chiefly in one direc tion from the nucleus, as if it were trying to develop a tail. At present it is doubling its brightness every iortnight. Dean Howe described the position of Pon?Winnecke as near the star Iota- Hcrculis. He said the comet moving a degree a day eastward and drifting a little northward. It will, however, change its northerly course in a few days and will then go south as well as east, . he said. ; Astronomers at Denver university are nightly watching the progress of Pons-Winnecke across the heavens. There is considerable mystery university, With the aid of a 28-inch telescope I about the comet The dimensions ot its orbit are extremely vague, and astronomers at various laboratories throughout the United States have been asked to keep a close watch this year in an effort to secure more definite measurements on the "fly by night." When Pons-Winnecke reaches its perihelion, late in June, it is expected a great shower of meteors will fall. While it is not possible that the comet may "not be visible to the naked eye, Dean Howe says that small telescopes will bring it into view. More than 100,000 employers in Pennsylvania have been ignoring the workmen's compensation law, and to end this condition the legis lature passed a bill which provides a fine of $1 a day for every day an employe is not insured by his em ployer. Farm workers and house hold workers are not included. An official report just issued shows that 300 British women nurses died while serving in the world war. France Now Over-Supplied With Coal From Germany Parw, June 18. France has now more coal than she can use for her own needs, although the price still remains extremely high. A great surplus stock has been created by the coal being shipped from the German mines. In Rouen there is so much coal that several companies have begun to waste it by using it to. fill in empty spaces along the quais of the river, creat ing a great storm of protest. According to the Journec Indus tnele, exportation of coal to Italy, Holland and even England, which has been hit hard by the coal strike, is being planned by govern ment agencies. Britain' 8 Armored Plane Soon Ready to Be Ttested London, June 18. Designed to revolutionize aerial warfare Brit ain's first armored car of the skies is being constructed at an aerodrome near London. The new aeroplane is the product of one of the most fa mous aircraft cnjrinceis in hug laud who originally designed it for use on the commercial airways between England and the continent. It is a monoplane. In the con struction of the fuselage no canvas or bracing wires arc bring used. The framework is of spruce, and in stead of doped linen three-ply wood is being used. This will be covered with armor plating, extended to give maximum protection to the engine, the vulnerable spot of every aero plane used in the war. Invalid Imports His Milk By Airplane From Holland London, June 18. Milk from spe cial cows is now sent regularly by air from Holland to London. A can of milk is placed in a water tight box and the space between the can and the box packed with ice. The consumer is an invalid rSSS mmmmmmmmm -BHW asgSJi.aaaajaaxaBai XSHUlliaiW MijlllllHaMjlllllW HW ' -SW. - PstapB SQDrasnKiE oca mm mckow I If P ' K Attractive Tabourettes la golden or fumed oik or rich mahog any finish. 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