THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1921. .Omaha Is Swept By Cloudburst: Lives Imperiled Firemen Called to Rescue Citi zens From Flooded Homes In Many Parts of City Pump. Station Flooded. (Continued From tf One.) filled with mud, the boiler fires were extinguished . and the automatic stokers put out of commission. Work of repairing the damie was started immediately and the em ployes had hopes of getting the plant in operation early today. The fire department was called to pump the water from the basement. When the fire department respond ed to a call at a flat at 2821 Dewey avenue, the men found seven feet of water in the basement. The flood was knee-deep in the yard. Basements and cellars of practical ly every house on Twenty-eighth street, between St Marys avenue and Harney were flooded. Several Persons Rescued. At Twenty-fourth and Patrick ave nue overflow from a sewer backed up into the yard of a boarding house, filling the basement. Members of the Twenty-fourth and Cuming street fire department rushed to the scene and caried out several persons from houses and buildings where the flood was rising. A pool hall at Twenty-fourth and Patrick was par tially inundated. . A candy kitchen at Sixteenth and Cass streets was flooded by several feet of water. Short circuit in the electric wiring in a rooming house at 2218 Douglas street, caused a small fire during the rain. The blaze was extinguished before much damage had been done. Rain which leaked through the roof is thought to have caused the short circuit. Many downtown buildings were cut oir from -light and power at iu:io when an electric transformer at the rear of the Hotel Fontenelle became short-circuited. Wires leading to the transformer burned off and fell to the ground where they became crossed, causing a spectacular dis play. , The fire department made a run to the scene and with workmen from the power company, repaired the damage. Electric light service was restored within half an hour, but power lines were out of commis sion at a late hour. Trolley Wire Broken. The only damage caused by the storm to the Omaha and .Council Bluffs Street Railway company was the breaking of a trolley wire in Council Bluffs. Rain was heavy in the Bluffs, but did hot attain the cloudburst stage developed in Omaha. Aside from some damage to telephone lines, loss was stight there. " Th deluge in Omaha washed loose - stone. arid avifig bricks for several block-Tn various parts of the city. Virtually all of the roc'- ballast which! had been laid on the Dodge street .car line from Nineteenth to Seventeenth streets was washed down the hill. Residents of the east and north Omaha bottoms reported a rain of cloudburst proportions, but stated that conditions were not serious. Their .main anxiety was occasioned by fear that the river might rise again,' threatening the dike near Florence lake. Six hundred to 700 of the Ne braska Telephone Company's lines in the city were put out of order, ac cording to reports from headquar ters. Linemen began repair wok im mediately afte the storm, but it will be two or .three days before service is Completed restored, it is said. Acoording to the Postal Telegraph company, heavy rains extended as far east as Des Moines. Postal Tele graph service was impaired but lit tle by the storm, two of their west ern. .Uties- being the only one to be put out of commission. Aside from slight delay in transmission of mes sages Western bnion experienced no trouble. v The Nebraska Power company re ' ported early this morning that dam-; age to its power and light lines had been repaired and as far as was known service had been restored" in all parts of the city. Heavy Rains Cause Damage at Beatrice -"A ' 1 M 1 1 C't na ieDrasKa uiy fered with. ' j Damage to property in this section . . . ' . . . , , c..:,i was estimated at about $350,000, .in Reatrice. Neb.. Tulv 4. (special i . .. nnnnn ... t- .iT ,' ' tJ.Z -aTi,. P,,ti, wo. kTWH in bv a "million dollar" rain, which began last night. A heavy electrical storm prevailed, which damaged tele phone and telegraph wires. The gov ernment gauge here gives rainfall as two and ten-hundrdths inches. Nebraska City, July 4. (Special Tedegram.) Nearly five inches of rain fell here Sunday night and early Monday. Creeks were bank full. The Missouri Pacific trestle north of the city was weakened by water and Bur lington bridges west of the city were moved Out of line. All damage has been repaired and trains are running on schedule; No crop damage was reported in this community. David City, Neb., July 4. (Spe cial.) There was a heavy downpour of rain in this vicinity Sunday night This is the first rain after a six weeks' dry apell. Wheat is nearly alt harvested and oats about ready to cut Farmers are looking forward to 4 big crop of corn. Harvard Student in Jail, Invites Officers to Dinner Salem, Mass., July 4. Paul Jackson, , 22 years old, a Harvard student, insisted on being locked up in a -cell after being arrested here on a charge of operating an automobile without a license. He also sought to borrow a cam era so that he might have a picture of himself ' behind the bars as a "family heirloom.'' He told the officer- it was the most fan he had in many a day. After securing bait he invited all the officers, in-the station from the saptain down put to dinnes, Clara Hamon Of Own Life Portraying her own life in a enacts the tragedy for which ahe stood trial in Oklahoma, The part of Jake Hamon, the politician who was slain, is acted by Thomas Ince, shown in the photograph with Clara Hamon. The filming of the drama has been completed. . Flood Sufferers To Demand Paving Delegation From Twenty Third and Pacific Will , Wait on Council Today. A large and indignant delegation of residents of the neighborhood of Twenty-third and Pacific streets will wait on the city council today to know the reason why the streets in that part of the city have not been paved, said Samuel Mancuso yester day. The flood of Sunday night flooded a dozen residences there, he said. Mrs. Anna Capace was rescued by neighbors fgrom her home, 2217 Pa cific street, when the first floor of the house was already four feet un der water. She, her husband and two children were asleep when the cloudburst came, her husband awoke and found the flooding waters swirling through the rooms. He yelled for help from a window and Mrs. Capace, the two children and Mr. Capace were res cued and taken to a home on higher ground. "For years we havve been trying to get these streets paved," said Mr. Mancuso. ' "Now we will see that they are paved or know the reason why." He declared that the sewers in the neighborhood were stopped and that for this reason the flood entered the numerous homes and did thousands of dollars of damage. Cleaning Up Debris Of Aberdeen Tornado Proceeding Rapidly Aberdeen, S. D., July 4. Work of clearing up debris and restoring telegraph and telephone communica tion, which was interrupted by a tornado which swept this section of South Dakota late Saturday night, was well under way today. Early today the death list still stood at one, with the known in- jured placed at nine. The death oc- curred at Frederick, where Arne was home was carred away. Nine per sons are in a local hospital as a re sult of injuries. The tri-state fair grounds here were badly damaged by the storm, a number of buildings being unroofed. It was expected, however, that a ! four-day sports program, scheduled to begin today, would not be lnter- lclualn8 1W'UW 31 rreaencK.. Officials DonYt Know What To Do With Hootch Airplane Savannah, Ga., July 4. Because the statutes only say that vehicles of land or sea are subject to confis cation when liquor is found on them, officials here are . puzzled as to whether they may confiscate an air plane upon which was found 81 quarts of fine whisky. No one was near the plane when 'it was found and there has been no claimant The wings have been taken off the ma chine, which was towed to the police barracks yard. Member of State Board of Control Speaks at Aurora Aurora, Neb., July 4. (Special) L. C. Oberlies of Lincoln, member of the Board of Control of state institu tions, spoke at the Christian church and addressed the union meeting of the churches of Aurora' in the even ing. His evening address was on the subject, "Seeing Red." . - Mr. Oberlies wiM have charge of the Sunday morning services in the Christian church during the two months' vacation of the pastor, C. C Dobbs. - ; , Association of Pioneers . Holds Picnic at Scotia' Scotia, Neb. July 4. (Special Tel egram.) The North Loup Valley Pioneers' association held its annual picnic at the community club park at Sciotia, every part of the valley was represented and many of the first set tlers were present There was music, speeaking, a basket dinner and much visiting and renewing of friendships nearly half century old. Acts Tragedy in the Movies X ,MJ .'W.'i , Yftf III - -c I screen drama, Clara Smith Hanjon re- Annual Meeting of Educators Opens Americanization Pageant Is Given by School Children Of Des Moines. Des Moines, la., July 4. The first general session of the. National Edu cation association's fifty-ninth annual meeting was held at the city audi torium here today. The morning session heard reports from the editor-in-chief of the asso ciation's journal and the committee on reorganization of elementary edu cation. v A symposium of the Ameri can program in education as it is related to the work of the principal, in which High School' principals from St Louis, .Chicago and Sterling, Colo., were to speak, closed the morning program. Great interest in, the Americaniza tion pageant by theDes Moines pub lic schools this afternoon was mani fested by the visitors. The pageant cast is made up of foreign-born citizens. Addresses, by Henry J. Ryan of New Yorle City, Agnes S. Winn of Seattle, Mrs. Phoebe Math ews of Sommerville; Mass.; Marian Higgins of St. Louis. Marion George of Trenton, N.' J.,' and Effie MacGre- gor of Minneapolis, followed by re ports of the committees on sources of revenue and On visual education, were also on the afternoon program. Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture; N. E. Kendall, governor of Iowa; H. H. Barton, mayor of Des Moines, and several others will address tonight's session. ' Old Member of Troop Sees Reproduction Of Custer Massacre Belle Fourche, S. D., July 4. (Special.) Peter Thompson, a well ' known stockman of the Little l lr: : . . f'lss,"n ,n.vcr t"nlry' was one pi the plfnsmen who recently wit- Custer massacre on the famous Custer battlefield on the Little Big Horn river in southern Montana. Mr. Thompson was one of the sur vivors of the battle in the sense that he escaped death 'with the others of the command because his horse be came lame while they were entering the battle and he had to remain be- hind, thus escaping the fate of his comrades. He was a member of Capt. Tom Custer's troop of the Seventh cavalry, which was anni hilated with the remaindeer of the command. Thompson is the proud wearer of a congressional medal of honor for distinguished bravery in the fighting that followed the massacre of Gen eral Custer and his command. 4 Lonesome Texas Cowboys Seek Four Boston Wives Boston, , July 4. A letter has been received here by Superintendent of Police Michael Crowley from four cowboys who have "absolutely no faith in Kipling's contention that "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shah" meet" The missive follows: "This letter will no doubt surprise you. We afl lour lonesome cowboys in search of girls for wives! We are on a lonesome ranch and heard that you could find us a wife. We are J. W. Smith, Leonard Jones, Dave Mil ler and J. Murphy. Hoping for reply soon. The Lonesome Four, No. 401 West Broadway," Brown wood, Texas." Uni of Cal. Given 1,000 Books From Spain by San Francisco Berkeley, Cal., July 4. From the heart of Spain, Madrid; across the Atlantic ocean and the- American continent has Come to the Univer sity of California the unique gift of four centuries f rora Juan C Ce brian of San Francisco, at present sojourning in his native country, of more than 1,000 volumes of Spanish works, printed from 1540 to 1920, embracing nearly all branches of knowledge, and varying from a set of "Sermon Books" of the 17th cen tury to some recent works op so ciology. - , Marshal Foch Pays Tribute to American Army Commander of Allied Forces In World War Sends Inde pendence Day Message To United States. By Th Associated Press. Paris,' July 4.--Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, commander-in-chief of the allied army, sent today through The Associated Press, a message to the American nation on the occasion of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independnce. The message embodies a tribute to the American army, paid by the man who led to victory the allied forces with which that army fought, and to the peeople of the United States. The message reads: "In celebrating America's Inde pendence day, in union with the United States, France does not only commemorate the heroic days when Lafayette with the best of her sons, brought help to the noble cause of the liberty and independnce of the United States, but commemorates also the days more recent and not less heroic, when the American na tion stood up fully bent upon the de fense of another great and noble cause: The liberty of the world. "Today, before the world, on this) great anniversary, is tor him who had the terrible responsibility of leading to battle the 6,000,000 sold iers to him committed by the allied and associated governments one more opportunity which he eagerly embraces to pay homage to the American army, to its chiefs, to Its soldiers. Tribute to U. S. "What was the American share in the strife for victory? Two sets of figures will give its measure.' In April, 1917, when the United States declared war upon Germany, the American army had 9,500 officers and 350,000 men. Eighteen months later at the time of the armistice sfce had more than 180,000 officers and 3,500,000 men. "A prodigious effort of an entire nation before which the enemy re mained astounded and which foiled all his plans. "The 21st of March, 1918, when the Germans are hurling themselves on the British front, the American army had in France, only 300,000 men, their arrivals monthly being about 30,000 men. "In the presence of the important attacks of the enemy, it is virtually necessary to quicken and intensify these arrivals. "On the 25th of April. General Foch asks Generals Bliss and Pershing, who were present at his headquarters at Sarcus (northwest of Beauvais) in 'order to guard against the crisis of the effective forces which began to be grievously felt by the Franco-British armies, that infantry and machine gun units may be transported to France, to the exclusion of any others during the next three months. Britain Furnishes Ships. , "The 7th of May the matter is put before the - superior war council at Abbeville, and the lack of American tonnage being the only obstacle, it is decided that the British govern ment shall furnish the necessary ships to transport from the United States 130,000 jnen in May and 150, 000 men in June, these being infan try and machine guns only. ihe American tonnage is being reserved for the transport of the other troops. From that time on, landing is con stantly increasing. From 50,000 men in March and 92,000 in April, the landings increase to exceeding 1,000, 000 men from June to November. "It is in the same fashion that the large 'units are organized and .their staffs are formed. At the end of March, 1918, six divisions only are in France. In October there are 41 and 31 of them are in the battle front. ' . "This is already much; it is not enough. In order to make the en tente sure of. having, in 1919, a real numerical superiority, it is necessary to have the number of American division brought to 100, and your president declares that 100 American divisions shall be in Europe by the first of June, 1919, with others ready to follow. Training Camps Organized. "To instruct the staffs and the soldiers, schools and training camps are organized, in America and in France. "To arm and equip them, the fac tories are working to their full capacity. From 700 daily the pro duction of cartridges reaches 16.000, 000 daily. The fabrication of cloth ing, equipment, means of transpor tation, enlarges itself in wonderful proportions. "In France American workman ship improves the landing harbors and increases the railway traffic by doubling and quadrupling the lines and terminal facilities. "On the ocean the American fleet protects the transports. The ship building yards are organized in the United States for intensive produc tion and 341 ship-building yards, with 1,284 slips are soon in full activity. "On the 28tn of March, 1918, Gen eral Pershing offers to the commander-in-chief of the allied forces the direct co-ooeration of the American divisions already trained. First Americana on Front "The 24th of Aoril. the first Amer ican divisions came into line before Montdidier and one month later, dis tinguishes . itself by capturing in . a brilliant assault, the village ot uan- tigny 28th of May.) "At the end t: May, two divisions are in the battle of Picardy, and three others in the Vosges. "In June two new divisions take part in the battle of the Marne at Chateau-Thierry ' and at Belleau Woods. "Notwithstanding the stubborn re sistance of the enemy, despite the numerous obstacles opposed to its progress by the . difficulties of , the Argonne region,' it victoriously drives the enemy back. "Other American divisions parti cipate at the same time at. several points in . the operations of the Franco-Rritish armies. "On the first of June, 1919. there would have been 100 American divi sions in the battle line. . "In the long war that the free na: tions had to fight against the op pressors of right, the direct partici pation of America lasted ony a short period, but to the American nation is due the glory of having thrown her self wholly into the struggle at the decisive moment and, in order to in sure victory, to have made every branch of the national activity an un paralleled effort "America rushed with all her youthful ardor into the vast turmoil of the battle, and thus contributed mightily to the victory of right and liberty "She has generously given her blood to the common cause; 75,000 of her children, dead on the soil of France, testifies to this in an undy ing way; '"Glory to these dead Glory to the American armyl Glory to the American people I (Signed) "FERDINAND FOCH. Arab King 'Broke' As Pilgrims to Mecca Fall Off Troubles in China and Russia Prevent Thousands of Mo hammedans From Visit ing Shrine. Tokyo, July 4. To plead the cause of a deserted Mecca, Sheik Siddik Elkadiri, envoy from Hussain I, king of the Arabians, is in Japan. Sheik Elkadiri is . a Mohammedan, and it is the cause of religion, not politics he mentioned this fact first as if to relieve himself of any stigma that brings him to the cities of China and Japan. It is regarding the age-old custom of Mohammedans from all parts of the world to visit the' sacred city of Mohammed once every year that brought the sheik to Tokyo. Mo hammedans, of whom there are 60, 000,000 in China and 30,000,000 in. Russia, be they the poorest , or the richest, feel that they have not ful filled their obligations to the "Great Prophet" unless they journey at least once during their lifetime to Mecca. The wealthy Mohammedan, it is known, often makes the trip once every year, the time for the pilgrim age being arranged so that the city of Mecca is reached in August. Wars in China and revolutions in Russia have made it impossible for the Mohammedan to make his pil grimage to the city, the symbolical sign of which is the crescent. "It was no uncommon thing," sard Sheik Elkadiri in Tokyo recently, "before the great war, for 300,000 Mohammedans to fill the city of Mecca each August. In 1913 there were 250,000 and in 1914 there, were 300,000. During the years of the war there were never mbre than 15, 000, and last year during the month of August, 17,000 came. -. Arabia Needs the Money. What particularly concerns the king of the. Arabians, or rather the king of the Hejas, the only independ-: ent section of Arabia, is the matter of relieving Mohammendans who are unable to obtain passports annually from Japan and Russia The annual visits of the pilgrims to Mecca are the chief source of income to the town. : Each oilerim must brine a pound to the king, representing $5, and it can be seen that in the days when 300,000 of these pilgrims visited the City of Mecca, it was more prof itable to the king and to the country than today, when 15,000 areTable to get there. Wars in China arid revolutions in Russia, added to the natural fear of governments that dangerous -characters might be applying for passports, have made . it almost impossible for Mohammedans from China and from Russia to get started home for the annual visit to the city of Moham med. It is necessary for them to start in May if they are to reach Mct.ca in August, and so, while we hope to have arrangements made for pass ports this year, we doubt very much if we will be able to get the arrange ments made by this year." Asked regarding Mohammedans in Japan, Sheik Elkadira said that there were none, but that his object in com ing here was to arrange for his countrymen to leave by Japanese ports. To Learn Decision. "Consulates must be established in Harbin, in Shanghai and in To kyo," said the sheik. "I have made application in China and I will see Count Uchida while I am in Tokyo. Returning to Shanghai I will.. get word of the final decision, which I have reason to believe will be favor-; ableand will then send word to King Hussain. If I am successful in China and Japan, I hope by 1922 to have the first consulates ever opened in this part of the world by Arabia es tablished. I may be stationed1 in Shanghai or in Tokyo. The consul ates will be small establishments, with one or two men in each one," Silk Flag Given to Legion By Woman's Relief Corps Table Rock, Neb., July 4. (Spe cial.) At the free band concert held in the public park a fine silk flag was presented to the American Legian by the Woman's Relief corps. The presentation speech was given by Mrs. May Bedea, in" behalf of the corps. The response in behalf of the Legion was. by Dr. L. JJ. Harman. P.T. Stands forPerfect Tiafwhenitnieaiis Posrltoits (Best Coro Flakes) -ssrys $500,000 Mausoleum For Family of U. S. Senator 1 ' r in " "I in j tiiih i 1 1 i jpj i 4 The magnificent mausoleum Italian marble, which has just been Hollywood, Cal., for the family of Montana. Wool Sells for From 16 to 19 Cents a Pound i Belle Faurche, S. D., July 4. (Special.) Wool growers of this district have recently sold a few clips on the local market Some of the wool brought as high as 19 cents a pound, while other lots were sold at as low as 16J4 cents a poupd. Ad vices from adjacent territory in the sheep-raising district of Wyoming are to the effect that some of the wool sold there brought as much as 20 cents a pound. Local buyers say wool of the Belle Fourche district is very burry this season and not in desirable con dition for market. This is stated to be the reason why the price is less Why its better to via wfesi m " ,.,! 1 ni. i i IfeHowstone THE Union Pacific System is the most popular way to Yellowstone, by testimony of all statistics. There are good reasons for this marked preference here are rive of them. By going in and out by the West Yellowstone Gateway you "get the COMPLETE Yellowstone tour and see its wonders in most pleasing sequence. 2- You see more of the scenic West for the same money the Rockies of Wyoming, the Wasatch Range, beautiful Echo and Weber Canyons, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, the picturesque ranges of Idaho, and ALL of Yellowstone and Scenic Colorado. Through sleeping cars for Yellowstone Park (West Yellowstone ""gateway) leave Omaha every morning 9:40 A.M., going via Salt Lake City on a fast luxurious Limited train. 4 The Union Pacific is double tracked practically all the way to Salt Lake City and you are protected by Automatic Safety Signals all the 5-Six Great i nns ior Ticket to Yellowstone alone ar Tax his Extra From Omaha The fare Includes ticket to West Yellowstone (entrance to Yellowstone National Park) Ogden, Salt Lake Gty, the Royal Gorge, Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs, Denver and return. The cost is no more than for a ticket to Yellowstone and back direct. . An advantage enjoyed only by travelers using the West Yellowstone gateway. Four and a half days in Yellowstone National Park, auto transportation and hotels, $54.00 additional; if permanent camps are used instead of hotels, $45.00. Detour from Denver to Rocky Mountain National (Estes) Park and return, $10.50 additional. Go first to West Yellowstone In through sleeping car from Chicago and visit the other places returning. Let us send you free booklets and plan your trip. Mention by nam the booklets desired: "Yellowstone National Park,'' 'Colorado's Mountain Playgrounds.'' "Rocky Mountain National (Estes) Park, 'Utah-Idaho Outings.'' 48N of Grecian architecture and built of completed at the Hollywood cemetery, former Senator William A. Clark, of that that paid in Wyoming. At Miles City, Mont., 18 cents is reported to be the best price offered. Growers are refusing to sell at that figure. Woman Resident Here More Than 50 Years Dies Mrs. Anna Terkelson, 74, wife of Peter. Terkelson, died Sunday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, 1331 South Tenth street, after an illness of two weeks. She and her husband came to Omaha more than 50 years ago and were in business here for nearly half a century. She is survived also by a son, Nels Tcrke!,o'i cr ' Funeral services will ho hh Wednesday at 2 in the Braitey & Dorrance chape!. m ,.,. ... Prospect Hill cemetery. I o way from start to finish. Sight-Seeing $ me price 01 a For Information sik Union Depot, Coniolidt ed Ticket A. K. Curts, City Pass. Agent, U. 1416 Dodge St, Omaha ' ' ' ,'i msmmm. tm i Union Pacif ic System Aviator Shot Down In Battle in France Is Buried at Aurori Aurora, Neb., July 4. (Special.)- Surrounded by comrade-at-arms in the late war, who are now associated here in Lester Harter post of the American Legion, the body of Lester Harter was laid to rest in the Aurora cemetery. Harter was the ' one Hamilton county by who died in the air serv. ice. Shot down while in battle a mile above the earth, Lester wrote his name on a piece of paper as he fell and when the body was found his hand closely clasped the name that identified him. Two years ago his aged mother visited the battle field to see the rcstin gplace of her son, but on the way back she died of a broken heart and was buried at sea. The funeral Sunday was in charge ci thee Legion and full military honors -wei e paid to the soldier. Former Nebraska Editor Visits at Home of Brother Table Rock, Neb., July 4. (Spe cial.) W. S. Taylor, a newspaper man of Pioneer, O., is a guest at the home of his brother, Frank H. Tay lor o.f the Table Rock Arguus. Mr. Taylor was a resident of southeast Nebraska more than a score of years ago, having published papers at Du Bois, Elk Creek, Virginia and Dun bar. Jnsweetene VAP0RATp for ell hinds With Y nt cream coohind 1 M I in! 0 Office, or P. Sjrttcm I i