THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1021.
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Military Honors
1V1UUY UCl
For Dead Hero
Mr
Signal Corps Man, Killed in
France, Carried to Final
Resting Place by Uni
formed Pallbearers.
Tlinc years ago. flush with the
viiiury at Chateau-Thierry, the
American army was preparing its
St. Miltil offensive.
One of the heroes who died in that
Mvc was buried yesterday after
Uuon at Forest Lawn cemetery.
He was Ira Verne Holdridge, for
mer member Company C, telegraph
fjn'.ulion of the signal corps, who
4,i killed October 5, 1918. Ycung
Iloldridg. enlisted from fcllnt
Clair, Neb., in 1917.
Services were conducted at the
Kramer chapel under the direction
Of the American Legion.
The Rev. John Calvert, pastor of
the Benson Methodist church and
Jrmer chaplain of the Third di
vision, delivered the funeral oration.
He was followed by Adjutant Harry
Hough of the American Legion.
The. chapel was decorated with
floral offerings received from various
patriotic organizations of Omaha,
the Chamber of Commerce and
friend of the dead hero.
Pallbearers, firing squad and
bugler in uniform represented the
American Legion in the services at
tlit grave.
; pung Holdrtdge was the son of
, and Mrs. i. O. Holdridge, Mt.
air. Neb,, and a brother of C. B.
Holdridge, 3320 North Fifty-ninth
street.
Two Trainmen Killed
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Near Mason City, la.
. Mason City, la., July 30. Two
men are dead, one was badly scalded
and two others barely escaped with
their lives as the result of a head
en collision of two Rock Island
freight trains at the Mason City
Clear Lake junction east of this city.
l?ave Salter of Manley, a brakeman,
was killed when hurled under eight
feet of fine coal from the engine
tender. His body was recovered by
4 Milwaukee wrecker several hours
after the accident. The legs and left
arm had to be cut off to free the
body from the wreckage of the
tender, which stood end on end.
A. H. Mooney, engineer of the
southbound train, and his fireman,
Frank Curran, both ef Manley,
were badly scalded. Mooney died
later in a hospital. F. McLean, en
gineer, and W. Yancy, fireman cf
the northbound train, saved their
lives by jumping.
The engine and nearly a score of
cars were smashed and merchandise,
automobiles and vegetables were
tricrcu aiung me iigtu 01 way ior
a great distance.
, A carload of seven automobiles,
assigned to a Mason City firm, was
practically demolished. .
One Policeman Slot and Two
Wounded at Cedar Rapids
. Cedar Rapids, la., July 30. Police
Officer Frank Wilson was shot and
killed last night and Officers Wil
liam Milke. and James Bailey : iiot
and seriously wounded by John
Broeksmit, who they were seeking
to arrest.
After a running battle through
three squares, Broeksmit backed
himself against the wall of the pub
lic library and pumped 38 shots at
the police from an army auto
matic. Finally he was overpowered
and taken, unharmed, to the police
station.
Broeksmit, earlier in the evening,
had threatened to shoot one of a
number of boys who were playing
ball near his home. His anger was
aroused when the ball accidentally
struck him.
Bank Employes Identify
Notorious Yegg as Robber
T Des Moines, July 30. (Special
Telegram.) "Tommy" O'Connor,
notorious yeggman and alleged mur
derer, was identified as one of the
men who participated in the Drake
Park-bank robbery, by Harry L.
Gross, assistant cashier, and Mac
Vanscoy, clerk, this afternoon.
Identification was made Irom a
fA(rt(rr,nli fVf rnn nr ia ur3ntrt in
Chicago on three different murder
charges. He is alleged to have shot
and killed a detective sergeant there,
and two other men, while engaged
in his profession of robbery.
Aged Omahan Buried
At Old Illinois Home
Jl f -V
Last rites for Chandler Lustman
Blanchard, 92, who died at the home
or hh daughter, Mrs. William Stull,
123 South Thirty-ninth street, Oma
ha, were performed Friday afternoon
at the family burying ground, Ne
ponset, III.
For the past 30 years Mr. Blanch
ard had been a resident of Nebraska,
coming here in 1891 from Neponset.
He lived in Lincoln until 1900, when
he went to Kearney, making his hams
until 1915 with a son, Dr. J. S,
Blanchard, now deceased. Sinee that
time he has lived in Omaha with
Mrs. Stull.
Mr. Blanchard was born in
Pcacham, Vt., November 2. 1829.
One of the M9ers to California was
Mr. Blanchard, going by boat via the
Isthmus of Panama. He was a
farmer most of his life.
He was the last of his family, three
of whom died recently well over the
age of 90 years. A sister died one
month ago at 94. Seven children
survive Mr. Blanchard, who was the
father of 10. They are: Mrs. Wil
liam Stull and Miss Anna Blanchard
of Omaha; Mrs. E. C. McCoy, Bel
Alton, Md.; Frank E. and Herbert
Klnnchard. Lincoln: Charles H. of
Minneapolis, and William C. of Bur
lington, Colo.
Paving Samples
For Testing on
Way to Lincoln
Start Compression Machine in
State University Laboratory
To Determine if Specifica
tions Are Observed.
A truck loaded with test cubes of
concrete taken from the Lincoln
highway left Omaha yesterday for
Lincoln, where the cubes will be
tested by Prof. Clark Mickey of the
state university, to determine wheth
er tha $250,000 paving job has been
"skimped" on materials and built
below specifications.
The. investigation was started a
week ago, when State Engineer
Johnson made a hurried trip to the
scene of the job on the Lincoln
highway this side of Valley.
Thf big compression testing ma
chine has been set up in the labor
atory at the university and Prof.
Mickev said the test would continue
throughout last night and today.
Results will be shown in a report
to. State Engineer Johnson, who will
pass the report on to the Douglas
countv commissioners, who can de
cide whether or not to make it pub
lic.
Professor Mickey was indignant
yesterday oveh the manner in which
the Douglas county commissioners
tried to conduct the investigation.
"Guess what those fellows wanted
us to do," said Professor Mickey at
Lincoln this morning. "They wanted
to pick a man from their own gang
to take the testing cubes from the
paving job.
"We kicked and finally got their
consent to hire a man of our own.
It should be understood that our
authority is based merely on a reso
lution by the county commissioners
asking us to test the concrete. I
could straighten out the entire mat
ter in 10 minutes if I had the author
ity." "What would you do? Fir? some
body?" he was asked.
"I sure would," he replied.
Protest on Grain Rates
Filed by Farmers' Body
Lincoln, July 30. (Special.)
J. W. Shorthill, secretary of the Ne
braska Farmers' Co-cperative Grain
and Live Stock association, with
headquarters in Omaha, filed a pro
test with the State Railway com
mission against the grain rates
charged by the Burlington railroad
from Yutan to Omaha.
Shorthill charges that the Union
Pacific rates on the same haul are
much lower and demands a hearing
to inquire into the reason for this.
Killed in Runaway.
Huron, S. D., July 30. Albert
Gill, 22, of Hitchcock, was instantly
killed late yesterday afternoon when
the team he was driving became
tightened and bolted, throwing him
under the wagon and badly crushing
his body.
Nebraska Girl
Returns After 2
Years in Syria
Plans to Start Lecture Tour
Over State Monday in In
terests of Near East
Relief.
The near east looks to America
for salavation, said Miss Josephine
Huse, former Fullerton, Neh., girl,
who arrived yesterday from two
years' service" in orphanages of Si
don, 5yrja, run by American ben
eficence. "The need is far greater there to
day than it was before the armis
tice because peace has not yet come
to Turkey; fighting has never
ceased there," Miss Huse declared.
Near east service is still fraught
with danger for Americans in the
Caucasus and Armenia, she said.
"The British government called
back all relief workers, but Amer
icans went back on their own re
sponsibility, surrendering their pass
ports to the British consul before
they went back into the danger
zone."
The big need is to support the
orphanages in which all children un
der 9 are reared.
"We must teach them trades so
that they may he self-supporting."
Miss Huse begins a tour of the
state Monday in behalf o Mie Near
East relict
She was in Jerusalem on Easter
Sunday, attending services in the
chapel of the Holy Sepulcher. She
also witnessed the Arab demonstra
tion against the Jews when Lord
Winston Churchill came to Jeru
salem shortly afterward?,
Miss Huse is a daughter of tha late
H. E. Huse of Fullerton, who died
while she was overseas. While here
she will be the guest of Mrs. Guy
Kiddoo, a classmate at the Vniver.
sity of Nebraska. ""
Omaha Second in Race
For Church Trophy
Cleveland, July 30. Kiskiminetas
(Pa.) presbytery of the United Pres
byterian church, was awarded the
St. Louis trophy at the 29th national
convention of Young People's
union here today, having the high
est standing. This is the second
time the big silver cup has gone to
that presbytery since competition
started in 1912.
Omaha stood second and . Mon
mouth, 111., third. Four senior so
cieties reported every member
"tither" or one who. gives 10 per
cent of his or her income to the sup
port of religious work. They are
Zenith, Kan., -Pasadena, Cal., Rey
noldsburg, O., and Second Al
legheny church, North Side, Pitts
burgh. A vote favoring Winona Lake,
Ind., as the next place of meeting
was adopted.
Bank at Octavia
Is Short $25,000,
Books Indicate
Effort to Aid Bankrupt Rela
tive of Wife Believed to
Have Led Cashier Into
Difficulties.
Lincoln, July 30. (Special) Ef
forts on the part of E. A. Rusher,
50, cashier of the Octpvia state bank
who has been missing since Thurs
day, to help a bankrupt relative of
his wife were declared responsible
tor his disappearance, and a discrep
ancy of $25,000 in the bank's books
by J. E. Hart, secretary of the state
department of trade and commerce
on his return to Lincoln today.
Mr, Hart went to Octavia Friday
with R. C. King, state bank ex
aminer. Due to heavy rains they did
not arrive until 10 p. ni.
Following a brief examination Mr.
Hart reported that Rusher had kept
a duplicate individual ledger one
ledger for the benefit of the state
bank examiner, which showed a
clear balance, and' oi.e for his own
personal use- Hart reported a dis
crepancy of $25,000 between the two.
May Start Action.
Mr. Hart returned to Lincoln this
morning, leaving King to check over
the bank's books. He will meet Ki"g
Sunday in David City, tha county
seat of Butler county, whare both
men will confer with the county at
torney, with a view to institutinf
luminal proceeding aganst Rusher.
Secretary Hart declined to divulge
the namo of the man for whose bene
fit the niisiiu banker is alleged to
have got himself into difficulties.
"Mrs. Rusher is an invalid, and
was bedridden when arrived," said
Mr. Hart this morning.
Due to Relative.
"They would not permit me to
see her. Neither would they per
mit me to read the letter she re
ceived from her husband. I under
stand, however, that a relative pf
Mrs. Rusher, who went bankrupt
recently, is the cause of the dis
crepancy in the bank's books."
Mr. Hart said Rusher is a man
whom everyone kuew and trusted
in Octavia, and that he had lived
there about 25 years.
"I knew him myself for 1$ years,"
he added, "and always thought he
was a good banker and a gentle
man." Seek Rusher Here.
Detectives assigned to locate Cash
ier Rusher of Octavia, who disaec
peared Thursday, continued their
search in Omaha hotels yesterday.
No trace of Rusher has been ob
tained in Omaha other than that he
wrote his wife from this city statins
that he "could not stand the pres
sure." Start Fall Plowing
Franklin, Neb., July 30. (Spe.
cial.) Rain fell here which will
greatly benefit corn. Threshing is
about finished and many farmers
have commenced fall plowing.
Road Conditions
(Furnished by Omaha Automobile Clua.)
East Lincoln Highway Roads geo4
Denisnn.
Went I.lnceln Highway Detour
hnrn to Valley, rough at Fremont. Reada
west are good.
O. I.. D. Highway Rough at AihUnd,
road worlc. Detour Greenwood to Waver
ly. Roads west of Lincoln fine.
Highland Cutoff .Rough.
8. y. A. Road Good.
mark Hills Road Work Omaha to
Fremont. Good Fremont to Norfolk.
George Washington Highway Take
highroad to Blair. RoaUa good to Oak
land, fair to Sioux City.
King of Trails, Pouth Roada ftne.
King of Trails, North Roads fine.
River to River Road Fair to Pea
Moines.
White Pole Road Good to Dee Molnea.
Blue Grass Road Rough Gienwood la
Malvern. Roads east are fine.
Anvr.RTISFIVKXT
AH OF
S
ills
Women often think they have
heart trouble. indigestion. ner
vous prostration. etc, when its
omput iron starvation op thb
BLOOD.
Many women believe they nre
weak and nervous as a result of age,
worry and overwork; they think:
that their disturbed digestion, head
aches, heart palpitation, shortness of
breath, pains across the back, etc.,
are due to some serious disease instead of
the real cause iron starvation of the
blood. This is proven by the fact that
when many of these same women take
organic iron for awhile all their alarming
symptoms quickly disappear and they be
come strong, robust and healthy. Iron ia
absolutely necessary to enable your blood
to change food into living cells and tissue.
Without it nothing you eat does you the
proper amount of good you do not get the
strength out ef it.
If you are not strong and well do not
wait until you go all to pieces and eollapse
in a state of nervous prostration, but take
some organic iron Nuxated Iron at onee.
But be sure it's organic iron and not
metallic iron which people usually take and
which is made merely by the action of
strong acids on small pieces of iron. Or
ganic NUXATED IRON is like the iron in
your blood and like the iron in spinach,
lentils and apples and it often increases the
bodily and mental vigor of weak, wornout
women in two weeks' time.
Beware of substitutes. Look for the word
"Nuxated" on every package and the let
ters N. I. on every tablet. Your money will
be refunded by the manufacturers if you
do not obtain perfectly satisfactory re
sults. At all druggists.
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The. cost of raw materials and labor has
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is possible to reduce the prices of SONORA
PHONOGRAPHS without affecting
SONORA quality.
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Beginning Monday, August 1st, Our Greatest Annual
QfFms
Offering Distinctive 1921-22 Fur Fashions at
the Lowest Prices in Many Years
Savings of lz and More
Not in many years have we been able to buy Furs at such low prices. In no
other line have prices receded so noticeably. Last year Furs and Fur Coats oi
the fine qualities we are offering sold at DOUBLE the prices, in many instances,
at which you can buy them during this sale. Collection embraces every au
thentic model for the season 1921-1922 and when you remember that these
Furs will command a much higher price later on, the importance of purchasing
now will be readily seen.
A Reasonable Deposit
Holds Any Selection.
225.00 40-inch Fine
French Seal Wraps,
Ht. 150.00
A Reasonable Deposit IM 1$ 0
Holds Any Selection. iDf! J J Mf . 3
I Rlfflf 125.00 ijflSr BMarkedy
IM 3d W 166.67
1.1 83.34 11
3
of the new
lower prices
t
295.00 Popular 40-inch Model,
Natural Muskrat Coats, August
Price 196.67
v J
195.0042 in. French Seal Dolmans, lfO.OO
145.00 36 in. Fine Sealine Coats - 96.77
375.00 36 in. Raccoon Coats - - 250.00
325.00 36-inch Sealine Coats,
large collars and " q r s
cuffs of squirrel. 0.0
595.00 36-inch Hudson Seal
Coats, large collars
and cuffs . . .
:396.67
745.00 40-inch Hudson Seal
Coats, large collars Ard CI
and cuffs of skunk. ft 570.0
495.00 36-inch Moleskin Coats,
squirrel collars OOA AA
and cuffs OoU.UU
325.00 36-inch . Sealine Coats,
skunk collars and O 1 7
cuffs. Sale 10.0
695.00 36-inch Hudson Seal
Coats, skunk collars a r r r a
and cuffs 40$.04
695.00 36-inch Hudson Seal
Coats, squirrel col- A 0 OA
lars and cuffs TrOiJ.UTr
695.00 Mink Coatees with long
tail trimming, a f o o A
at 4bo.o4
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375.00
Sealine
Coats
Australian
OpoMum
Collar
and Cuffs
36-in.
250
165.00 60-Inch Skunk Throw, Long Tail Trimming, 110.00
ft -tifej
36-in. Hudson
Seal, Beaver
Collar and
Cuffa
450.00
August
Sale of Furs
675.00
72-in. Mink
Throw,
August Sale
175.00
Mole Skin
Scarfs, Fancy
Cape Shapes
97.50
Loup Fox
Scarfs,
August Sale
79.50
Black Fox
Scarfs,
August j5ale
75.00
Brown Fox
Scarfs,
August Sale
345.00
Jap Mink
Throw,
August Sale
Beautiful 975.00 Mink Cape,
double collar, long panels
with pockets, trimmed
all around in
Mink Tails
450.00 116.67 65.00 53.00 50.00 230.00
650.00