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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 51 NO. 32. Ent.ra it (M4-Cla Mttttr May If. IMS, at Oaahi P. 0. U Act at Hank J. Iir. OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1921. By mall (I yur). Dally and Sunday. 17.40: Dally Sunday, 12.30; to aolnli la Ualttd StitM, Canada and ny- Ms ulti, THREE CENTS Girl Dead Five Hurt On Joy Ride "Death Curve," East of Elk horn, Claims Another Vic tim in Pretty Marjorie McWilliams. , Rescuer's Car Wrecked Another victim was added to it long list of fatalities by "death curve on the west Dodge road about four miles east of Elkhorn early yesterday morning when automobile crashed into the ditch and turned turtle, killing pretty Marjorie McWilliams, 18, 504 Worth lwenty fifth street, and seriously injuring five others. Those injured are: Grace Raney, 17, 2020 St. Marys avenue, bruises on head and leg; Irene Rostermundt, 18, 826 South Twenty-first street cuts on face and body: Fred Keltz 28, night mechanical foreman at the Underwood garage, shoulder and leg fractured and back bruised; Robert Swan, 27, mechanic, 618 South Six teenth street, head and body bruised; Click Russell, 22, 901 North Fiftieth avenue, cuts on face and hand. Victims of the crash experienced their second accident when the car in which they were brought to an Omaha hospital was struck by an other machine and ditched a few miles from "death curve." "Ambulance" Struck. E. H. Eberhardt, Twenty-fourth and Cass streets, who was returning from Elkhorn to Omaha, had picked up the injured persons and started for Omaha. He had traveled only a few ' miles when his "ambulance flivver" was hit by another car. Hailing a passing machine, Eber hardt was given a Iitt to fortieth and Farnam streets, where he telo phoned for an ambulance. When he returned to his car he found that the victims already had been taken to the Methodist hospital. Slippery pavement at "death curve" was responsible for the acci dent, according to members of the fatal party. The car skidded from the road, hurtled to the ditch and turned turtle. Occupants were hurled in all directions and cut by flying glass. Car Had Been "Borrowed." The auto mobile, which was wrecked, was driven by Swan and was taken from the Underwood ga rage without the consent of the own er, police say. The car belonged to A. hpiesberger. When police learned that the ma chine was not the property of Swan . or Kelt they started ail investiga- tiotl and arrested the two men. Pa trolman Lund will guard the prison ers at the hospital until their condi tion permits their removal to jail, according to police. Kez is said to have told Patrol man Lund that he took the Spies terger sedan down town to get some sandwiches. He said he saw the three girls walking home shortly before . midnight and they accepted his in vitation to take a ride. Dro to Elkhorn. At the garage he was joined ' by Swan and Russell and the party started on their joyride, according to Keltz. They drove to Elkhorn and were returning to Omaha when the trag edy occurred. All occupants were badly cut by flying glass from the car windows. Keltz was an employe of the Underwood garage, where he also roomed. Russell worked for the Table Supply company. Miss McWilliams was employed hy the Gate City Hat and Cap com pany. The body will be taken to Palmyra, Neb., to be buried beside her father, who was killed when f truck by a railroad locomotive seven years ago. Wage Reduction Saves Railroads $5,000,000 New York, July 24. Financial circles estimated that the expenses of railroads throughout the United States would be reduced shortly $5, 000,000 a year by a 10 per cent re duction in salaries of executive and supervisory officers. Five large sys tems already have announced such a reduction and others are expected to follow suit. The salary total of railroads presi dents is estimated at $6,000,000, six executives - in New York receiving :50,000 or more a year. The amount paid to generat officers during 1920 was approximately $25,000,000 and that paid to other officers about the same. Adviser to De Valera Is. Refused Passport to England New York, July 24. Frank T. Walsh, American adviser to Eamonn is Valera, was here to sail for Trance on the steamship Rocham beau, having been unable to obtain a passport vise so that he might visit England. He said that although Secretary of State Hughes had inquired into the matter, the British representa tives here had refused to vise his passport, saying that they were awaiting instructions from the for eign office in London. They said that they had been ordered some time ago not to vise his passport, he declared. . Wireless Reports Are Received Daily in Geneva Geneva, Neb., July 24. (Special.) The wireless telephone and tele graph station installed by Dr. W. E. Propst in his residence is in opera tion and concerts at the Lincoln ra dio station have been engaged twice day the past week. Time is re ceived by radio from Annapolis at 10 and 4, San Diego at 2 each day, Boys Caught Swiping Melon 8 are Sentenced To Do 'Kitchen Police' rhiraco Tribune-Omaha Bee MMd Wtr. Chicago, July 24. Three youths iiu me great army ot the unem ployed and for the next three weeks they will he busily engaged as "kitchen police" under orders of Judge Kelly. Meanwhile they are hoping they may never again sec watermelon. Two policemen, detailed to inter cept boxcar thieves, captured the three boys, Salvator Guircy, 7: Car men Rosirio, 6, and John Butelegio, 7, as they were emerging from boxcar that had just arrived from the south loaded with watermelons, Judge Kelly sentenced Salvator to wash his mothers dishes for period of three weeks, with due re gard to the use of soap and water on his own person. Carmen must sweep the floors and halls and scrub the kitchen floor for the same period while John is to be a handy man running errands and assisting the others on days when their work is extra heavy. Japanese Navy Chief Asset in Framing Alliance Admiral Kato Says Reports of Plans Against United States Preposterous Desire Cordial Relations. By CHARLES DAILEY. Chlcaso Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1921 Tientsin, July 24. The chief value of Japan's navy, as admitted private ly by leaders of Japanese thought and politics, is in negotiating an al liance. I hat is why, with the present program, Japan is confident ureat Britain will renew the alliance, even at the risk of offending her colonies. Without a fast growing navy Japan would have little to offer in exchange for a renewal of the alliance. Admiral Kato, minister of the navy, admits tnat it is not tne inten tion to try to compete with the Unit ed States in naval construction. Cap tain Nomura, his secretary, was naval attache in Washington from January, 1915, to the latter part of 1918, and not only witnessed, but reported fully upon the mobilization and concentrating power of the Unit ed Stataes. The statement of Admiral Kato is said to have been revised and ap proved by Premier Hara and then handed to the correspondent in Japanese. A translation was made by Captain Nomura. It follows: That the Japanese navy considers the existence of two squadrons as necessary and as the irreducible minimum in the"' navy defense orig inated- after ' the China-Japan war (1894-95) and before the Russo- Japanese war of 1904-05. In the war with Russia Japan had two squad rons each ot six capital ships and later eight, six (on account of the newly purchased Kasuga and Nie- sen). Program Held Back. "After this war our navy made plans to have eight and eight squad rons (all "capital ships less than eight yesrs old) but our finances did not permit the carrying -out of this sriuadron. Therefore at first we strived for the eight and four squad rons, then tor the eight and six quadrons and at last for the eight and eight squadrons, which passed the diet last summer. Wmle there were several mari- ime powers which were trying to uild big navies consisting of 30. 40 or 50 capital ships in the first line. Japan's plan to build only eight and ight squadrons certainly is very moderate, considering her island position. And in counting only ships less than eight years old after their completion, the examples of foreign powers were our guidance. "The framers of the eight and eight program did not have in mind aiiv foreign country as a probable enemy. They considered simply that our financial ability permittedus to build the eight and eight squadrons and maintain them, "by which this island empire should be defended against any emergencies arising in the far east alone. Cost Now Doubled. ' "The advance in cost and the in creased size of the ships expanded our naval expenditures enormously, which amounts to 5250,000,000 for the year 1921. But in increasing the size of the ships we only followed the latest type prevailing in the v.orldbut not all of our own initia tive, and the cost of construction is now doubled, as compared with the prewar period. These circumstances combined to increase the burden to the national purse while we are simp ly pursuing the long contemplated eight and eight program. It was in evitable, but very deplorable. "In spite of these candid facts, I l egret very much to see some sinis ter propagandists or mischief makers who try to attribute to our navy the intention of competing with the United States navy. Nothing, is more preposterous and absurd than this contention. Needless to say, the Japanese navy desires the most cordial relations with the United States navy. "As to' the proposed conference for the restriction of armaments, the Japanese government joined the league of nations, supporting the principle of the reduction of arma ment. Whenever there is any inter national disarmament, Japan will be only too glad to co-operate honestly with other governments to give ef fect to this very principle." Bank Employe Is Found By Detroit Police in Stupor Detroit, July 24. A man giving the name of James Fleming, who said he was an employe of the Grand Rapids National City bank, was detained by police here when found . wandering aimlessly about downtown districts with a handbag, reported to contain $15,000, $50,000 In Contraband Rum Taken Fishing Sloop Seized by Fed eral "Dry" Agents Near New Haven 18 Men Arrested. Airplanes Patrol Coast New Haven, Conn., July 24. In the seizure of the auxialiary fishing sloop Jennie T of Northport, N. Y., the confiscation of liquor valued at more than $50,000 and the ar rests of 18 men in a spectacular raid, federal officials believe they have solved partially at least the mystery of the elusive "pirate ship," which has been sighted at various times off the New Jersey coast, near Montauk Point, and in Long Island sound. The authorities have not yet determined whether there was any direct connection between the Jennie T and the British schooner Poco moke, bound from Nassua, Bahama Islands, with a shipment of liquors consigned to Canadian ports, put into Atlantic City a tew days ago with her cargo missing. It was ex plained at the time that the liquor had been jettisoned at sea. The Jennie T docked at Light house point, an amusement resort at the eastern entrance of New Haven harbor, laden to capacity with a valuable cargo of liquor, the marks on the cases and bottles indicating that it came from Bermuda and the West Indies. Arrests Spectacular. In the opinion of federal prohibi tion enforcement officials, the Jen nie T received her cargo from a larger craft somewhere off the Long Island shore, probably just outside the three-mile limit. The arrests and seizure were spectacular. Prohibition Enforce ment Agent McAuhffe, acting on information that an attempt might be made during the night to land liquor on the Connecticut shore, had his forces posted at most of the strategic positicos, but had over looked Lighthouse point. About 2:30 o'clock New Haven police headquar ters were notified by some unknown telephone informant that a boatload of liquor was being put ashore at Lighthouse point. Several automo- mile loads of officers armed with riot guns were rushed to the spot. As they approached, they could see cases of contraband piled on the pier, while a crowd of men was removing the Jennie T's cargo. With guns drawn, the officers charged the party, which surrendered without a strug gle. ' -,. - Gets Cargo at Sea. Captain Joseph Miller of the Jennie T., in a statement to the Reg ister said that he had been ap proached by a stranger at Block Island and offered $50 a day if he would pick up a cargo at sea and successfully deliver it to this port. Captain Miller states he accepted the proposition and started off from Block Island just as it was getting darK. ihey went out to sea in a southerly direction for two hour Then, according to the captain, they came upon a schooner which was lying in wait for them. The schooner had two masts and there were a lot of men on board. Captain Miller and his helper were told to go down in the cabin and mind their own business. He stated that he could hear the men loading the ' boat, filling the hold and then putting on a deck load. When this was finished, Captain Miller headed the Jennie T. for shore. The stranger laid out the course and told Miller, according to his statement, just how to steer and how to get into New Haven harbor, which Cap tain Miller stated he had never en tered before. According to the captain, when they reached the docks everything was in readiness for unloading with trucks and men waiting. British Ship Seized. Atlantic City, N. J., July 24. Federal officers seized the British two-masted schooner Pocomoke, moored in Gardner's Basin, in the inlet district here. The seizure was made by John Holdzkom, chief keeper of the coast guards, acting under instructions from Collector Berry of Philadel phia, to hold the vessel pending an investigation of rumors that she had a cargo of liquor aboard, but no liq uor was found. Capt J. A. Roy, the French-Canadian skipper, in sisted that his vessel sprang a leak during a storm off the coast here and that as a consequence he threw overboard 1,000 cases of liquor which he had aboard. While the federal coast guards were seizing the schooner, federal prohibition officers combed the city for a trace of Captain Roy's cargo, i Ordinance Against Street Carnivals Urged at Aurora Aurora, Neb., Juyl 24. (Special.) Protest of Aurora citizens against street carnivals took definite form when the committee of five formu lated an ordinance prohibiting such exhibitions. The council will be asked to pass the ordinance at once. The committee of five, consisting of W. I. Farley, J. A. Doremus, Vic Swanson, H. H. Heberly and Frank Edgerton, was appointed at a mass meeting at the court house. King Constantine Given Great Ovation at Kutaga Smyrna, July 24. King Constan tine received a great ovation from the native Greeks and Armenians at Kutaga today, on his way to inspect the front line of his army, which is now resting after completion of the first phase of the offensive. Constantine and his general staff have planned a new movement which they claim will end the Ktnulist fegime. Denver Hates Crooks Denver hereby serves notice on all unlawfuls that they arc not wanted in the city. Just to prove to old-timers who think they can get away with it, here is evidence that Denver means business. The car is fully equipped with a machine gun, a bullet-prbof windshield for the driver, a protector for the radiator and a special rail in front, which can be used as a battering ram. Look at the outfit before you decide to run the dead-line into the city of Denver. Regulations on Sacramental Wine Almost Complete New Rules Designed to In sure Best Grade of Liquors For Use in Church Services. Washington, July 24. New pro hibition regulations covering the dis tribution of wines for religious pur poses have been almost completed, it vas said at the internal revenue bureau. The rules being prepared, officials said, are designed to insure churches obtaining the same standard ot sac ramental wines to which they were accustomed before the ban was put on wholesale liquor -deaJcrspunder an opinion by former Attorney oen; eral Palmer. Request was made at a recent hear ing before the bureau that Attorney General Daugherty review his prede cessor s ruling, so far as it. applied to dealers in sacramental wines, as the churchmen contended they could not obtain their standard of quality from wholesale druggists. The bu reau takes the view, however, it was explained, that a request for a new ruling would reopen the entire ques tion of wholesale liquor dealers, while regulations can be drafted, with especial attention to importers, which would accomplish the end sought without bringing the matter again before the attorney general. One, method suggested would be to ner'mit bonded manufacturers of sacramental wines to distribute their own stock and similarly importers of wines for religious purposes. Air Circus Will Be Feature of American Legion Convention Kansas City. Mo.. July 24. The airplane circus program of the an nual American Legion convention, to be held here October 31 to Novem ber 2, inclusive, was announced to- the committee on arrangements. ments. A delegation of American aces of the world war, including Eddie Rick cnbacher, William Furlow and Ed ward Tobin, will be here. About 50 army planes and 100 planes of pri vate individuals and firms are scheduled to participate in the 100- mile air derby. Attempts for the world altitude record and the looping the loop record will be made, it was an nounced. There will be night-bomb- mg, night-parachute dropping, dose formation flights flights and stunt flyinsr iralore. including changing planes in flight and wing-walking. ; Coal Production Drops For Week Ending July 16 Washington. July 24. Production of bituminous coal continued to de cline during the week ended July 16, ! according to the weekly report ot the geological survey. The average pro duction per working day, which de clined from 1.276,000 tons in the week ended July 2, dropped to 1.227, 000 tons, a decrease in two weeks ot 4 per cent. The total production for the week ended July 16 was 7,359,000 tons, as against 7,638,000 tons for the last preceding full-time week. The geological survey attributes the causes of the present decline chiefly to a falling off in the lake movement and in exports overseas. David City Man Delegate To K. of C. National Meet David City, Neb., July 24. (Spe cial) Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Tomek departed for San Francisco where Mr. Tomek will act as a delegate to the national convention of the Knights of Columbus August 2, 3 and 4. Mr. Tomek, who is county treasurer of Butler county, is one of six delegates from Nebraska. He and f his wife expect to be gone a month. Half Million In Forged Papers Found In Bank Loss in Defunct Chicago Trust Company May Be $1,500, 000110,000 Reward For President. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bje Leased Wire Chicago, July 24. As investigators' dig deeper into the affairs of the Michigan Avenue Trust company, it is found that the iailure is worse than at first believed. Saturday it was discovered that the vaults had held what is believed to be forged papers to the amount of $500,000. These are the alleged forged signiaures of Iowa and Illinois farmers pn securi ties purporting .lo belong to them. Singularly enough, all these spurious securities have disappeared. It is now estimated that the total loss will run to $1,000,000 and per haps $1,500,000. World-wide search was instituted today for President Walter Spurgin. The local representative of Lloyds of London, which has offered a re ward of $10,000 for the arrest of Spurgin, said: 'We are afraid that unless we move rapidly, something may make the loss irrevocable. We figure that Spurgin had at least six days start and the he carred with him not less than $300,000 in cash and negotiable securities. There are indications that he fled to Mexico." Information came to Lloyds that Spurgin had been seen in Chicago within the last 24 hours. Affairs of the bank will be brought to the attention of the grand jury. Bank officials will also offer a re ward for the apprehension of the fugitive president. Telegrams with detailed description of Spurgin have been sent to all parts of the world by Lloyds. Mrs. Spurgin, wife of the banker, also is missing and it is believed she is with him. One of the bank officials said that as matters now stand, the depositors will not get more than 50c on the dollar and further disclosures of crookedness may reduce this sum. It is believed Spurgin sunk the bank funds in wildcat oil speculation. Haynes Plans Probe Of Alcohol Plants Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leaned Wire. Washington. July 24. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes has completed arrangements for the carrying out of thorough technical investigations of the industrial alcohol and denaturing plants of the country. All of these plants, are operated under govern ment supervision from the time the corn or black strap molasses is re ceived until the finished alcohol is ready for the market He also plans for the inspection of colleges, hospitals and sanitariums which, under the law. procure alcohol free of tax for scientific, medical and mechanical purposes, in order to see that the supplies are kept under se cure storage and that the alcohol is used for the legitimate purposes for which it is expected. Paris Would Make Itself Greatest Port in Europe Paris, July 23. An elaborate scheme to make Paris one of the largest river ports in Europe is at present under discussion by the municipality of the city. It aims at the creation of huge harbors in the immediate vicinity of the city, to gether with docks and basins. These harbors would be situated at Gcn nevilliers, on the west side of the city, and will maintain direct traffic with the sea, another at Bounouil, on the Marne, and to the south of Paris, will control the upper Marne and upper Seine traffic, and another at Pontin, on the Ourcq, which by a new system of canais will be linked with the industrial district in the north of France. ' Branch lines of the main railroads will connect the latter with the ports. MiddleWest Opposed To Tariff Bill Onslaught on Fordney Meas ure Expected at Hearings Before Senate Finance Committee This Week. Fight the Valuation Plan By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Washington, July 24. The verdict of the country on the Fordney tariff bill as it was passed by the house, will be disclosed by the character of the opposition to its duties and other provisions that will be expressed by the representatives of producers and consumers at the heatings before the senate finance committee, beginning this week. Much interest attaches to reports that the middle west is up in arms against the measure, on the ground that while its products receive less protection that those of other sec tions it will be heavily taxed on its consumption of the more highly pro tected manufactured goods of the east and New England. An on slaught on the bill from the middle west therefore is expected. While commending the bill as an improvement over the present law, Representative Frear of Wisconsin, the only republican member of the house ways and means committee who did not sign the majority re port on the measure, asserted that the senate should remove duties on potash used for fertilizer, cemejit, lime, steel, aluminum and "other ma terials that have thrived under the Underwood act and are controlled by monopolies." Mr. Frear expressed satisfaction with the deeree of orotectioin given to agriculture and the free listing of finished lumber and asphalt. N Deny Preferences. As a general proposition, middle west members of congress have not advanced the contention that the Fordney bill was drafted in the in terest of the east, aii had been charged in connection with some for mer protective tariff measures. Rep resentatives Fordney of Michigan, Coply of Illinois and Green of Iowa, middle western republican members of the ways and means committee, active in framing the measure, con tend that no section of the country has been given preference over any other. Criticisms of the bill have emanated so far from all sections of the country. The textile manufac turers of New England are arguing ir the quarter of inadequate protec tion. ; Eastern manufacturing industries complain that the western members of the committee have held the com pensatory rates on manufactured products down too low with relation to duties on raw materials. Some of the eastern members of congress also are critical because they think agriculture is receiving too great a degree of protection and that the east pays the bill in the form of in creased cost of food. Agriculture Satisfied. In general, agriculture seems fair ly well satisfied with treatment, al though the wool growers' do not; like the rates on wool and the cattle interests of the west and southwest are displeased because the house left hides on the free list. In the south west there are protests because long staple cotton was left on the free list. The oil producers of Oklahoma and adjacent states are dissatisfied because the house failed to retain duties on crude petroleum and fuel oil. The feature of the bill, which pos sibly has aroused as much objection as any other is the American valua tion provision. The controversy over this is not a sectional one. Import interests in New York have led the fight against the provision and have been joined by large merchants in Chicago and other leading cities. Manufacturers of New England and other sections of the east were chief ly instrumental in obtaining the abandonment of the present system of foreign valuation, but they have had the support also of manufactur ers to the west. "The Fordney bill is not a perfect bill by any means, said Mr. Frear, "The action of the house in striking out that vicious dye embargo provi sion removes an objection that was fundamental because it repudiated the principle of protection and was a sop to recognized monopoly. It would have been a heavier load to carry, if retained, than schedule K in the Payne bill. "On the other hand, the Fordney bill gives needed protection to aeri' cultural interests that are practically unprotected under existing law." Coast Workers Will Vote On General Strike August 7 San Francisco, July 24.' Acall for all labor unions in the San Francisco bay districts to send five delegates each to a conference here August 7, to vote on a general strike as a means of halting the open-shop movement in' the building industries was issued today by the general con ference committee of the building trades unions of the bay region. The conference committee, which is composed of 400 delegates, an nounced that the San Francisco Glass Workers union and the Build ing Trades council of San Mateo had endorsed its general strike policy. Boy's Leg Broken When Run Down hy Automobile Truck The 10-year-old son of Fred Barnes, 1808 Grace street, sustained a broken leg Saturday afternoon when struck by'a motor truck while playing in front of his home with several boy companions. The truck, owned by the Omaha Towel Supply company, was driven by Adolph M. Johnson, 2204 North Twenty-first street. Wife Lays Down Costly Barrage of Perfume; Hubby Asks 'Divorce Chleaco Tribune-Omaha lite Leased Wire. Chicago, July 24. R. H. Waldo is reasonably fond of perfume, but he objects when he gets it in whole' sale quantities, spilled over him, mixed with broken glass, and he has to pay the bill. He has brought suit against his wife, Vinnie Mae Waldo, in the su perior court, alleging that she laid down a costly perfume barrage, mingled with skillets, stove-hooks, dishpans and other kitchen bric-a- brac. Mr. Waldo said he mildly remon strated with his wife .over the high cost of powder and perfumery she was using lavishly and their argu ment reached a point where she broke bottles of the costly perfume over his head. They were in a drug store at the time and she swept the counters in search of ammunition, for which he had subsequently to pay. The bickering was resumed after they returned home, only this time she employed the family skillet and other weapons to emphasize her remarks. Early Acceptance Of Peace Terms bv Ireland Predicted Reports From De Valera Lead To Optimistic View for Agreement in Near Future. By JOHN STEELE. Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright, . London, July 24. There growing feeling of optimism the Irish problem is well on 1931. is a that the. road to settlement in official circles here, as a result of reports received in London from Ireland. Sir John Anderson, who arrived from Dublin, reported that all in dications there pointed to accept ance of the government's offer as a basis for a conference at which the details of peace will be worked out. Both sides assert most positively that none of the forecasts of terms published in England or America are more than intelligent guesses. Prime Minister Lloyd George has promised Eamonn De Valera that there will be no publication here un til the Irish leader has had a chance to present the terms of his col leagues. -Xhis action was taken- to enable Mr. De Valera to forestall any hostile action by Irish extrem ists. All that can be said definitely is that the terms are so generous that they astonished the Irish, who ex pected long haggling to obtain any thing worth considering and that, on broad lines, they comprise dominion status for the north and south, with provisions for eventual union and certain reservations made necessary by the geographical prox imity of the two countries. The date for full meeting of Dail Eireann has not yet been fixed, but it probably will be held in a week or 10 days. 88th Division Meet Program Outlined Auto and Horse Races, Band Concerts, Airplane Stunts, Etc., Set for Aug. 26-28. Des Moines, July 24. (Special) Announcement of the general program for "the 88th division re union at which mid-west veterans will gather in Des Moines August 26-28, is made hy Secretary L. R. Fairall. Features on the program include: Friday, August 26. Tours of Camp Dodge, auto racing, airplane attractions, hippodrome, motion pic tures of the 88th overseas and at Camp Dodge, addresses by Generals Plummer, Weigle, Beach, Stewart Saturday, August 27. Regimental business meetings, divisional review, American Legion initiation, horse racing, band concerts, auto polo. Regimental banquets and receptions are also scheduled for Saturday evening. Sunday, August 28. Division me morial service for the men of the division who died during the war. Meeting Sunday afternoon for the formation of permanent divisional association. A large number of special stunts have been included on the programs worked out by the regimental or ganizations which will not be in cluded in the division program. Front Steps No Place for Futurst Art, Landlady Hold Boston, July 24. Futurst art may have a place, but it is not on the front steps. So contended a woman house owner here when she discT- ered that a tenant had painted the steps of one of her buildings alter nately pink and red. Adjudicator Herbert Ellis : upheld her, and the tenant has been notified he mav paint the steps any color he pleases, but he must use but one shade. Table Rock Chautauqua. Table Rock, Neb., July 24. (Spe cial.) The Table Rock Chautauqua will open a five-day session July 27. - The Weather - Forecast Nebraska: Probably fair Monday except in west portion; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures. .7 1 D. ...ft ...89 ... ...M 73 S p. 1 p. " 4 p. 70S p. .Hr....ss!a p. w...M 7 p. a.saam8SiS P. m, m. p.,..,ss m. .ka m. m. as iyr l tt Is Buried At Glidden First Yank to Die in France Laid to Rest in Home Town While Iowa Docs Reverence. 10,000 Attend Services By J. T. ARMSTRONG. Glidden, la., July 24. (Special Telegram.) With military lionors due the soldier dead and with flags flying at half staff throughout the state by proclamation of Governor; N. E. Kendall. Iowa yesterday after- noon laid to rest Private Merle David Hay, her first son to fall on the field of battle in the world war. Ten thousand people from alt parts of the state gathered on the grounds of Glidden's little briclc school house, where Merle had play ed as a boy, to pay their last re- spects to one of the first three Amer ican soldiers to shed blood on for eign soil. Under huge spreading maple trees was placed the casket, about it gathered stalwart ex-service men in uniform, old and tottering men and women and children. Parents Sit Near Casket Near the casket sat Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hay, the fallen soldier's par ents! The mother, a frail middle- aged woman, sat with bowed head during the services. She wore a black veil and dress, but though her face reflected suffering, she lifted her head and her eyes shone bright with , pride when glowing tributes to Vie,' bravery and goodness of her slit were paid. The father, whose graving moir tache and hair and knotted ham -spoke of the long years of toil h had spent in building the home ani. happiness so rudely shattered by tht cruel fate of war, showed little emo tion. His head remained bowed and his shoulders stooped throughout the services. ' The body was carried gently from ifs place of repose in the American Legion hail by uniformed and hel meted ex-service men. It was es corted to the school grounds bv more than 500 ex-service men in uni form of the Rainbow, the Sandstorm and other famous divisions. T.u ' solemn procession was led by th Argonne post band of Des Moines playing Chopin's funeral march. Scarcely Standing Room. There was scarcely standing room on the grounds when the procession arrived. A sextet, composed of Merla's former olavmates. ooenad the services. A tribute written bv Mrs. Willis Barber, who helos her husband run a ear a ere in Glidden and writes a little in her spare time. was read. Mrs. Barber had known Merle when he was learning to walk. She described the departure of Merle from Glidden, how he had gone with several other Glidden boys to Des Moines to enlist on May 3, 1917; how he and his companions' had been dined in the Methodist church and how the band had play ed as they marched down Main street on their final leave-taking, May 8, She told of his armv training, which took him first to Omaha, then to Fort Logan, Colo., then to Fort Bliss, Tex., and eventually to Hobo ken, where he sailed for France, landing on June 27. She told of the bright, optimistic letters he had written home, of his gay descriptions of Paris, and of how his batallion had marched in a Fourth of July parade in Paris. Merle Falls in France. It was his batallion which had a pet lion for a mascot. Then came news of the death of the three American soldiers, news that thrilled this country as much as the declara tion of war, but left it sorrowinsr.- Among these three was Merle. He died in hand-to-hand fighting in the first engagement of the war, on No vember 3, 1917, in the Luneville sec tor of Lorraine. He had died fighting as a private in company F, Thirteenth infantry, First division. She' told how Glid den, his home town, had thrilled with the nation, and how it had sorrowed even more acutely, how a brave little mother suffered and a father tried to comfort her and be brave himself. She told how the village thrilled again with pride when news that General Pershing had specially cited Merle and his two companions for bravery, and that a Frenchh general had gone out of his way to honor them when they were buried in Bethelemont cometery, France. Fighting Chaplain Speaks. ' ' Sheriff W. E. Robb of Des MoineSj fighting chaplain of the 168th in fantry, made the principal address, He advocated some means of stop . ping future wars. Mr. and Mrs. Hay stood at th, head of their son's grave at the ceme tery. The mother clung to the father's arm as taps were blown and they turned to a waiting car. C. C Cooper, H. - D. Johnson, Richard Henderson, Kenneth Satter field, William J. Leuer, Dean Fisher, Walter Looschen, Alva Rudkin and H. E. Hemming were in charge of decorations at the school grounds and at the cemetery. Glen Hunter, Herbert Branc, George Brand, George Gute, Charles " Coleman and Willian Dankle were pallbearers. They wen former playmates of Merle, and all ex-service men. Andrew Lindapf, H. E. Hemming, H. D. McPhersor, William J. Leuer, W. O. Fatrick, Warren Conner. Kenneth Sattertield and Walter Loeschen made up thd firing squad. C. C. Cooper was color bearer an t Victor Mohr and Alva Rudkiu jsci color guards, i.
