Oklahoma Has
More Than 400
Pellagra Cases
Diseas Becoming Prevalent
Among Indians Three
Stages of Disease
Described.
Oklahoma City, Ok!., Aug. 2.
More than 400 cases of pellagra in
Oklahoma were today reported to
Dr. A. R. Lewis, state health com
missioner. Tonight he said he would
not minimize the danger in Oklahoma
from the disease and said he was sure
there were from 500 to 600 cases in
the state. He planned to attend a
Washington conference on pellagra
condition in the south.
The disease is becoming prevalent
among the Indians, according to the
health commissioner, especially
among the women, who stay at
home much of the time and live
principally on corn bread and salt
pork. The men spend much tim;
in towns where they eat various
foods and thus escape pellagra, ac
cording to the commissioner.
Many of the afflicted persons have
not been treated by physicians, Dr.
Lewis said, because pellagra appears
much as sun burn and victims are in
the secondary stage before the cases
are diagnosed.
It is of prime importance that the
appearance of sun burned spots
should be protected immediately
from the sun, the commissioner said,
as only in this manner can they be
kept from becoming scores that lead
to the secondary stage. It also is of
the greatest importance that the diet
be changed to nutritious food and
that the patient be well nourished.
The three stages of the disease
were described tonight as follows:
Primary Appearance of sun burn
on hands and face and exposed parts
of body, followed by scores that be
come worse gradually. Interior of
mouth, gums and tongue become
tender.
Secondary Stomach disturbed,
food repulsive.
Final Mental trouble; melancholy,
insanity or death.
Ukelele Concert Helps
r Swell Bee HSk Fund
Late contributions to The Bee
milk and ice fund, which closed Au
gust 1, include a $410 contribution
from a group of Valley.. Neb., girls,
who gave a ukelele concert on the
principal street in Valley and took
lv up a collection.
L a "Wc wish you t,,e best success m
V1 your work." wrote Miss Marie
"I hope this wilL not come too
late to do some good," was the sen
timent accompanying another $2
g'ft
Additional donations are as fol
lows: 1'rAvlniwlr mrknonltdffed
I. C. Dnunhrrty J-JJ
, Friend J "2
A Friend of I.tttl Children 1.00
Valley (ilrls I'keMe club 2.10
Total l,19g.M
JTecumseh Girl Lost
fin Colorado Rockies
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) Judge S. P. Davidson and
family of Tecumseh are camped at
the J. O. Roach resort, near Box
ton, in the mountains of Colorado.
Miss Ruth Davidson, 20, was lost
in the mountains for 10 hours one
day last week and was unconscious
when found by a searching party.
Miss Davidsoff had gone for a walk
in a canyon in the Needle Butte
mountains and lost her way. She
roamed about in the mountains for
hours, seriously frightened and fi
nally felt from a small cliff and lost
consciousness.
Omaha Traveling Man
Dies in Hotel at Crete
John R. Maddox, 50, traveling
representative of the Carpenter
Paper company, died suddenly at his
hotel in Crete Monday. His body
was brought U Omaha this after
noon by E. H. Hocl, secretary of
the Carpenter Paper company.
Mr. Maddox is survived by his
wife, three daughters, Mrs. M. M.
Grass, Mrs. R. C. Clark and Mrs.
H. Oltnianns, of Scottsbluff, one
. son. John Robert, jr., and one broth
er, H. O. Maddox of Kansas City,
Mo. Funeral services probably will
be held at the home, 3307 Arbor
street. The time has not been set.
Burial will be' in Forest Lawn ceme
tery. Omaha Aero Club to Enter
Planes in Twin City Derby
Minneapolis,-. Minn., Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) T. H. Maenner of the Aero
club of Omaha, while in Minneapolis,
said the Omaha club will enter at
least six airplanes in the Twin City
national air derby, which will be the
chief spectacular feature of the 1921
Minnesota' state fair. More than 100
airplanes from states as far east as
New York and as far south as Flori
da are to compete.
Iowans and Nebraskans to
Attend St. Paul Meeting
St. Paul, Aug. 2. (Special.) Iowa
and Nebraska are among states which
will send delegates to the meeting
here October 11-12. of dairy, food,
seed and drug officials of central
western states. Other states to be
represented are Minnesota. Kansas,
North Dakota and South Dakota.
Mother Sues Union Pacific
For $20,000 for Son's Death
Twenty thousand dollars is asked
fiom th Union Pacific railroad for
the death of Frank Leonard in a pe
tition fild in district court yesterday
by his mother, Clara J. Price. Leon
ard was killed when his truck was
struck by a locomotive near Potter,
Neb., August 14, my.
Police Captain Still 111
Police Captain Tony Vanous, ill
since Saturday at his home, 1925
South Eleventh street, was reported
to be still in a serious condition by
his physician yesterday.
Captain Vanous recently complet-.
ed 34 years of service with the Oma
ha police department.
G. 0. P. House Leader
Run for Senate
b u vi
Washington Aug. 2. Representa
tive F. VV. Mondell, Wyoming, the
republican leader, announced today
lie would be a candidate for the sen
ate in 1922. He made known his
plans in letters to Patrick Sullivan,
republican national committeeman
for Wyoming, and T. Blake Ken
nedy, chairman of the Wyoming state
republican central committee.
Verse on Banner
To Greet Soldier
Dead at Station
"When the Blue Star Turns to
Cold," Emblazoned on Can
vas, to Be Draped When
Bodies Arrive.
" A verse of "When the Blue Star
Turns to Gold," emblazoned on a
large canvas and draped with the
American colors and crepe, will hang
over the cnttance to the baggage
room in the Union Station when the
next consignment of caskets of sol
dier dead reaches Omaha from
France. .
This probably will be Friday,
when 61 bodies are expected, ac
cording to H. C. Hough, American
Legion adjutant. Two Council
Bluffs bodies are included.
J. M. Buck's Idea.
The tribute of William Cressey's
verse is the latest means taken by
J. M. Buck, father of the "gold-star"
idea, to further honor the returned
dead.
Buck, a former government em1
ploye, was the first one to take upon
himself the patriotic task of meeting
the returning caskets. At his own
expense, he ordered cold stars with
an inscription from the same poem
printed thereon, which he personally
pinned onto the American flag which
drapes each casket. - p
War Mothers Aid.
His efforts were later supple
mented by the American War
Mothers, Ladies of the G. A. R.,
Women's Overseas Service league
and beginning last week, by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Buck, who lives at the Castle
hotel, is father of Miss Helen Buck,
an executive of the National Camp
fire Girls of America. '
Seek Governor's Aid
In Holding Prisoners
Cody, Neb., Aug. 2. At a meet
ing of the local stockmen's associa
tion here today a telegram was sent
to Governor McKelvie directing his
attention to the escape Saturday
night from the Cherry county jail at
Valentine of the two Doty brothers
and Earl Pearsall, and requesting
his assistance in investigating al
leged laxity in guarding prisoners.
The Doty brothers, charged with
cattle rustling, were captured sev
eral weeks ago after a long chase
by a cattlemen's posse. The stock
men discussed the advisability of
forming a vigilance committee.
Partner Neglects Business;
Dissolution of Firm Asked
Robert L. Seymour took in Robert
E. Elliott as partner in his automo
bile repairing establishment in Ben
nington a year ago. He says in a
suit filed in district court yesterday
that Elliott lias failed to keep the
books and look after the credit of
the business as he agreed. Indebt
edness has increased, while the stock
has diminished. . .
"He goes to a ball game when
questions are , asked regarding the
finances of the business," says Sey
mour. He asks to have the, partnership-dissolved
' and an accounting
rendered. '
McKelvie to Recommend
Ashland Woman Attorney
Lincoln, Aug. 2. (Special.) Gov
ernor McKelvie today announced he
would recommend Mrs. Irene Bucl,
city attorney of Ashland, Neb., for
appointment to succeed Mrs. Anna
Adams of San Francisco, who re
signed last week as assistant attor
ney general of the United States.
Mrs. Bucll won fame in the "fire
cracker" fight at Ashland, involving
the arrest of the mayor's brother and
six other youths for staging a little
premature celebration of the Fourth
of July on Sunday, July 3.
Many of the rubber manufactur
ing concerns in Rhode Island have
put their workers on the January,
1919, wage rate.
Deaths and Funerals
Oeorta Lodge, mi North Nineteenth
tret. veteran employe of the Union Pa
cific, who retired on a pension lat April,
died Sunday nl(ht In St. Joeeph hospital.
He In eurvlved by hie wife, an adopted
daughter. Mr a. R. B. Williams, Jr., and
three titter.
Thomas Barber, 78, former farmer of
Sarpy and Doualaa counties, died last
Wednesday In Los Angeles, following an
operation. His body has been returned
to York, whero he moed following his
residence In Sarpy county. Funeral serv
ices will bo conducted at the Barber
home Wednesday afternoon. Barber, a
pioneer Nebraska settler, amassed a for
tune of mora than $680,000 through farm
land (peculations.
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Harlan Pastor
Claims to Effect
Cures bv Prayer
Says Cripples Walk, Blind Sec
And Deaf Hear at Meetings
In Duluth; Will Visit
Nebraska.
Harlan, la., Aug. 2. (Special.) -Reports
have reached here of. the
miraculous cures through the power
of prayer credited to Rev. P. C. Nel
son, Harlan evangelist. He is con
cluding a succtssful series of meet
ings, attended by many remarkable
t tires, in Duluth. He goes next to
Toronto and from there to Oakland,
Neb. He will visit in Harlan on his
way to his Nebraska engagement.
The stories of the healings per
fcrmed by Evangelist Nelson read
like fiction. He describes many of
them in a letter to a friend here. He
tells of the lame throwing away their
crutches, the blind being made to sec
and the deaf and mute to hear and
talk. Similar cures through prayer
are not uncommon with other evan
gelists, declares the Rev. Mr. Nelson.
At Spearman, Tex., people suffer
ing with bodily ailments came as far
as 800 miles to receive his prayers.
Miraculous cures followed. At Enid,
Okl., he offered prayers for 275 in
a single day. Many left their crutches
and walked from the church, appar
ently cured. Thirteen deaf mutes
were cured at Kansas City as the
result of the Harlan man s prayers,
he declares. A man brought to the
church in an ambulance was able to
walk to an automobile.
At Duluth a woman win had been
blind for 20 years was given back
her sight. A lad of 12, blind since
a babe 10 days old, had his sight re
stored. Lincoln Tourists
Saved From Drowning
By Two Coloradoans
Bcrthoud, Colo., Aug. 2. (Special
Telegram.) Late last night, during
the worst electrical storm that has
visited this section in years, State
Ranger Connolly and J. Frank Man
nix, prominent Denver realtor, en
route to Denver, rescued a party of
tourists who were stalled in their
sedan that had slipped off the high
way and into Dry creek. The water
was rushing into the machine and had
it not been for the quick- work of
Ranger Connolly and Mr. Mannix
during the heavy rain the party
would have drowned.
The tourists, R. T. Radfield and
T. S. Wadslight and their wives from
Lincoln, Neb., were en route from
Estes park to Denver. Mrs. Rad
field suffered a broken arm and the
others were slightly bruised about
the face and body. They were taken
to Longmont for treatment.
Three Injured When
Big Truck Overturns
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 2. (Special.)
Slipping into a deep rut on the wet
roads between Fremont and Arling
ton, a heavy tourist s truck contain
ing a camping outfit, driven by G. R.
Unthank, Lincoln, turned completely
over.
Unthank, his wife and two sons
were pinned beneath the wreckage
inside the truck cab. The owner of
the truck suffered a deep gash in his
back, one son received severe bruises
on the head, while the other lad sus
tained a fractured arm. The mother
was unhurt. ,
The victims were brought to Fre
mont and given medical aid, resum
ing their trip to Arlington, where
they will camp.
"Judge" Cooley Held Up,
Rohbed, on Front Porch
Three thugs, lying in wait in .he
shadow of a tree, attacked "Judge"
Julius Smith Cooley, Central police
court habitue, on the front porxh of
his home, 2724 Ames avenue. Mon
day, and robbed him of $500, ac
cording to police report. Mrs. M.
B. Price, 2716 Ames avenue, heard
the judge's shouts and summoned
police who found Cooley standing
on his porch with blood streaming
over his face and shirt from scalp
wounds inflicted by the thugs. The
robbers escaped.
Brother of Omaha Man Kills
Self in Chicago Club House
Chicago, Aug. 2. George Fair
field, formerly a professor, at Beloit
college, was found dead yesterday
with a bullet hole in his head and a
revolver beside him in the Kenwood
club. In a note to a director of the
club he referred to his ill health and
said, "so I'm ending it all,"
Mr. Fairfield was a brother of E.
M. Fairfield of this city and was well
known here. '."-
Husband Has Two Wives;
Woman Sues for Divorce
On her wedding day, just after the
ceremony had been performed in
Papillion, July 21. 1921, Annette
Dickerson learned thai her husband,
Harold W. Dickerson, had another
wife living, she said yesterday when
she appeared before District Judge
Troup to have the second marriage
annulled.
Harold did not appear in court
aTid the judge cancelled the marriage.
Road Conditions
(Furnished by Omaha Auto Club.)
Lincoln Highway, east: Rough, at
Missouri Valley: muddy at Denlson.
Lincoln Highway, west: Detour Elk
horn to Valley; muddy at Fremont. Co
lumbus, Central City; some rain at Grand
Island.
O. I D. Highway: Ttoads In bad con
dition at Ashland. Detour Greenwood to
Waverly.
Highland cutoff: Muddy.
S. T. A. road: Fairly good.
Black Hills Trail: Road work Omaha
to Fremont; Fremont to Norfolk, fair.
George Washington Highway: Take
High road to Blair. Blair reported all
roads muddy; muddy at Oakland; fair to
Slouz City.
King of Trails, north: Rough at
Missouri Valley; some rain; roads fair.
King of Trails, south: Roads good; Just
light showers.
Rlver-to. River road: Muddy at Xeola
and Avoca.
Whits Pole road: Muddy at Oakland
and Atlantic.
Blue Oraes road: Light showers: rosds
rough Olenwood to Malvern; roads east
are aood. -
1'HrJ BLE: OMAHA, U EUaL&UAI, AIGIST ii, 1U21.
Lifer, 71, Released
From State Prison
Henry Burroughs.
. Photo by MucOonald. Lincoln.
Henry Burroughs, 71, as he
walked from the prison gates at the
state penitentiary Monday, a free
man, after serving nine years of a
life sentence for the murder of E. B.
Sales in Plattsmouth, Neb., Febru
ary 9, 1912.
Burroughs was given commuta
tion of sentence so lie could return
to die at the home of nephews and
nieces in England who did not know
Lancaster, Neb., the address they
put on letters to him, means the
state penitentiary. Burroughs was
prison gardener, and Sunday, the
day before he was released, he spent
communing with his flowers. He
boarded a through train for Chicago
at Lincoln.
Des Moines Tram Cars
Still Run in Spite of
Expected Suspension
Des Moins, Aug. 2. (Special
Telegram.) Suspension of street car
service scheduled to take place here
today failed to materialize. Receiv
ers for the car company, in explana
tion, stated that they were waiting
final instructions from the-court.
Judge Martin J. Wade, judge of
the federal court here, in whose
hands the company tits been operat
ing, was not in town today and no
instructions were received by his
clerk. Last week Judge Wade is
sued a memorandum warning city
officials, car riders, receivers and
bondholders to prepare for complete
suspension of service August 1.
Fremont Rounds Up
Headlight Violators
Fremont, Neb Aug. 2.-(SPecial.)
- I wpntv sntPia! troftir Mfirfrc rn-
operating with the police department,
raided the streets of Fremont Satur
day night in search of auto headlight
and tail light violators. Cops were
stationed at intervals along the bus
iest streets and all offenders were
either escorted to the police station
or given notice to appear for trail.
Over 100 drivers, -among whom
were many prominent citizens, were
victims of the law enforcers. No
fines were levied, however, and bond
money was refunded with lectures to
obey the law in the future.
Convicts Who Fled State
Prison Still at Liberty
Lincoln, Aug. 2. (.Special.) State
officers failed today to find any
clue to the whereabouts of Samuel
Ridge, alias Hugo Marsh, and Jesse
Webb, convicts, who escaped from
the state penitentiary last night.
The men walked away from the
prison farm between 5 and 6 p. m.
They have not been seen since.
Marsh was servincr one to five years
for stabbing to wound at a dance
in Cedar Bluffs.
Webb was doing one to 20 years
for forgery in Perkins countv. He
had served one term in the Missouri
penitentiary. He has a wife at In-
dianola, Neb.
Two Student Officers
Killed in Airplane Crash
Lawtoji, Okl., Aug. 2. Capt. John
M. McCrae, Los Angeles, and, Lieut.
Francis Nunemacher, Berkeley, Cal.,
student officers at the aerial observa
tion school at Post Field, were killed
this afternoon when their airplane
crashed three miles west of Elgin. The
cause of the accident is unknown.
Captain McCrae was married. A
board of investigation has been ap
pointed. Rooms Vacant Soon in Pen
For County Jail Prisoners
Within two or three weeks there
will be "rooms" vacant in the state
penitentiary for some of the 22 pris
oners waiting in the Douglas county
jail for admission, according to word
received by Sheriff Clark from the
warden of the penitentiary.
Some of the Douglas county pris
oners have been under sentence since
April.
Flavoris
Sfatedjn by toasting
S3k
Cold Snap Can!
Last, Assurance
Of Weatherman
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Warmer Weather Predicted
Tomorrow After Frigid
Temperatures of Last
Two Days.
"One swallow doesn't make a
.spring."
So quoth the blithe weatherman
yesterday in answer to a flood of
queries from anxious Omahans as to
whether this sudden drop in the tem
perature meant an approach of early
autumn and winter.
The "cold snap" will not last very
long, he warned, and predicted
warmer weather today.
Department store windows fell
for the' occasion by filling their win
down with gorgeous displays of fur
coats and the like, while one estab
lishment went so far as to reproduce
the frozen fields of the northland
with a polar bear lounging about
here and there.
It was chilly Monday night, the
thermometer going down as far as
58 between midnight and 1 a. m,
but it was down to 55 June 5. Valen
tine, Neb., reported 50 degrees.
Heavy rains were reported through
out Iowa, 2.48 inches falling at Des
Moines and four inches at Daven
port.
Although it was misty yesterday
in Omaha, the forecast contained no
rain.
Player Drops Dead
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in Baseball uame
Glenwoad, la., Aug. 2. (Special.)
Claud Epperson, -J4, son of David
Epperson, living . south of Pacific
Junction, playing shortstop with a
team from that city against a "pick
up" team from Glenwood, fielded a
ball in his position, caught the run
ner at first and fell dead.
It is said that Epperson had a
weak heart. Players administered
artificial respiration until the arrival
of physicians, but the man is thought
to have been dead at the time he fvl.
Norris Is Gaining
In Strength Slowly
Washington, Aug. 2. (Special Tel
egram.) Senator Norris' condition
is much the same as it was on Sun
day. He is gaining in strength, but
very slowly. He js not able to sit
up, but Mrs. Norris, who is con
stantly with the senator, is encour
aged over the steady, though very
slow, improvement.
Just as soon as the patient can
stand a railroad journey, Mr. and
Mrs. Norris will probably go north
for the month of August.
; Boxing Bouts Planned for
I &
State Legion Convention
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 2. (Special.)
Representatives of the Fremont
post of the American Legion applied
for boxing privileges at Lincoln be
fore Lum Diyle, the new state box
ing commissioner, and plans are now
being laid to hold a big athletic pro
gram on the second day of the state
convention of the American Legion
to be held here on September 29, 30
and October 1. The local post is
looking for first-class fighters and
has made arrangements to hold limit
round matches of 10, eight and six
rounds.
Business Better on South
Division of Burlington
Wymore, Neb., Aug. 2. There
has been a great revival in business
on the southern division of the Bur
lington in the last few weeks. Heavy
shipments of wheat, sugar and gen
eral merchandise have required
many extra trains. Many machin
ists, firemen and brakemen have
been hired and a force of machin
ists were at work Sunday for the
first time in many months.
Another Attempt Made to
Find Water for City Plant
Table Rock, Neb., Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) Since voting $22,500 water
bonds in Table Rock several months
ago there have been several ineffect
ual attmpts to locate water in a suf
ficient quantity to meet the demands
of the system required. One more
trial is now in progress. Quite a
quantity of water was struck at the
depth of 20 feet.
Chautauqua Sessions in
Fremont Open Wednesday
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 2. (Special.
Redpath-Horner chautauqua will
open for seven days in Fremont
Wednesday. One of the best pro
grams in years is advertised. The
sale of tickets is meeting with fair
success and it is believed all season
pasteboards will be disposed of be
fore the opening performance.
Secretary of Commerce
Body Returns From School
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 2. (Special.)
C. E. Jones, secretary of the
Beatrice Chamber of Commerce, re
turned home from Chicago, where he
has been attending the national
school for secretaries of commercial
clubs. He states that more than 300
were enrolled at the school for two
weeks.
Man Hurt, Horse Killed as
Team Backs Off Embankment
Franklin, Neb., Aug. 2. (Special.)
W. T. Haynes was badly bruised
when the team hitched to a mower
he was operating backed off a 30
foot embankment, taking man and
mower with them. One horse was
killed. A low-hanging telephone wire
which became entangled with a bridle
caused the team to become unman
ageable. Man Accidentally Shot as
He Steps Into Automobile
Franklin, Neb., Aug. 2. (Special.)
Bud Emmerson, living four miles
southeast of Franklin, was accident
ally shot while getting into an auto
mobile in which there was a loaded
shotgun. Shot from the(charge tore
the flesh from one side of the bone
in his leg and lodged in one arm.
He was brought to Emerson for
treatment.
Fire That Destroyed
Barn Believed to
Have Been Incendiary
Grand Island. Neb., Aug. 2.
(Special.) While no proof is so far
available, it is believed that the
origin of the fire which destroyed
a large barn and contents on the
ranch of Robert Taylor, near Elsie,
in the northwestern part of the state,
may have been incendiary.
There had been a dispute with
some of the transient help employed
from time to time about wages Five
B. F. MARSHALL
President of the Marshall Paper Co., Js a Corn
Exchange director. His knowledge of business
and all business conditions conies from his
close contact with the great paper industry.
Mr. Marshall is the founder of tbe Marshall
Paper Co. and is one of the best liked men of
Omaha.
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$3 a day and board could be of
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upper portion of the barn it was
an immense structure, covering two
acres had such a large area ablaze
in so short a time, regardless of the
fact that 150 tons of hay w ere stored
in it. The barn at the time also con
tained five automobiles, one large
truck, numerous sets of harness and
a team of fine horses, all of which
were burned. It was the main barn
for a ranch comprising 42 sections
of land.
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Entire City Block
Destroyed by Fire
Eldora, la., Aug. 2. Fire vhich
siarted in the basement of the Wis
uer theater last night destroyed a
l.usinrss block in the center of town
valiifH at about $150,000 and threat
ened the court house and jail until h
shift in the wind gave the tire fight
ers opportunity to control the flames.
The block burned housed, besides the
theater, a dry goods store, postoftice.
barber shop, bottling works and
American Legion club rooms. AU
postoflice records and mail were
saved.
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