THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1921
200 Kiwanians
Overrun Omaha
. In Convention
Nebraska ami Wr stern Iowa
Cluli Rally for District
Meeting Dancw, Din
nera and BiiHinett.
Omaha Nurse Lieutenant
Decries Heroes' Neglect
Graduate of Wise Memo
rial Hospital Home
on Four Months
Leave.
Two hundred members of Kiwanis
clubs of Nebraska and wesrrn Iowa
arrived In Omaha yesterday to at
tend the annual district convention
of Kiwanis dubs, which opened at
the Rome hotel this morning.
District officer in attendance are
A. R. Edmiiton, Lincoln, r'Utrict
(rover nor; J. I.. Long, Dei Moines;
V. F. Holt, Sioux City, C. W. Wat
ton, Lincoln, district lieutenant
nnuipiinpi Hirtnii Green. Lincoln.
district secretary and Kion Dow, tin gone,'
Fort Dodge, la.; district treasurer. "Right i
The Nebraska clubs represented
are: Beatrice, Fremont, Grand Island,
Hastings, Kearney, Lincoln, North
Tlatte and Omaha. The Iowa clubs
are: Cedar Rapid, Council Bluffs,
Dei. Moines, Fort Dodge, Grinnell,
Iowa City, Mason City. Oskaloosa,
Ottumwa, Sioux City, Storm Lake
and Waterloo.
Guests at Lunch.
Registration started at tho Rome
hotel at 9 a. m.
The morning was spent in business
and official conferences. This noon
the Omaha Kiwanis club was host
to the delegates at a luncheon at the
Rome. II. W. Bubb, president of
the Omaha club, presided. There
was a special program of music and
entertainments.
, Yesterday afternoon the delegate
went into a businest session, with A.
R. Edmiston, district governor, pre
siding. l'residcnt Bubb and Mayor James
Dahlnian delivered addresses of wel
come to the visitors and response
on 'behalf of the visiting clubs were
made by John F. Smith, Council
Bluffs; Joe L. Long, Dcs Moines; C.
A. Snyder, Sioux City, and C. J.
Miles, Orand island.
Fred C. W. Parker, international
secretary of Kiwanis clubs, delivered
an address on the international or
canization. its plans and activities.
Last night at the Lakoma club the
delegates will be the guests ot the
Omaha club at a dinner and dance.
The disabled hero of the world
war is forgotten.
No more is he the idol of the pub
lic These statements are attributed to
Miss, er er, pardon us Lieut.
Catherine Leary of the United
States Army Nurse service.
She is in O-naha visiting; her lis
ter, Mrs. j. M. McOaOin, 3724 North
Nineteenth street, on a four months'
leave of absence the first vacation
she has had in four years.
Glamour Is Gone.
"Yes, the glamour of the war hero
she declared yesterday.
now. when the disaDiea vet
eran needs help the worst way, he is
forgotten. During the war the public
idolized him took him riding after
noons in automobiles sheltered him
and tried every way to honor him.
But today? It's terrible!
'.'Employers won't hire a soldier
who has lost a leg or an arm; they
want men with two arms and two
legs. True, the government is help
ing the disabled soldier, but it's
really the encouragement from the
public that he needs. That's one rea
son why I'm strong for the Ameri
can Legion. The organization is ac
tually helping the ex-soldier. There's
nothing too good for the boys who
followed the Stars and Stripes."
Lieutenant Leary is a graduate of
the Wise Memorial hospital training
school in Omaha. She has been a
nurse in ihc army for six years. Four
years ago she was commissioned a
hrst lieutenant.
She enlisted in San Francisco and
saw service in cantonment hospitals
along the Mexican border and in
practically every army hospital in
this country. Lieutenant Leary dii
not get overseas.
During the Mexican trouble in
,avJ.i-:4p '
Catherine Leary.
1917 she was in charge of an army
hosDital at Eagle Pass, and admin
istcred to several soldiers who were
wounded in skirmishes with Mexican
bandits.
Four Year' Leave.'
During the war Lieutenant Leary
was stationed at Camp Sherman, in
Ohio: Syracuse. N. Y.J Camp lay
lor and at Debarkation Hospital No.
2. in New York.
It was at the latter place she saw
the real suffering the boys in France
underwent, for wounded men com
ing from overseas were hrst taken
to that hospital. . ..
Lieutenant Leary is taking a four
months' vacation to make up for the
leaves of absence she lost during the
past four years.
State Section of Electric , .
: ' Light Association Meets
The annual convention of the Ne
braska Section of the National Elec
tric . Light association opened yes
terday at , the Fontenclle hotel with
more. than 75 delegates in attend
ance. ' v ,
Following Mayor Jame Dahl
man's address of welcome and the
opening address by President James
B. Harvey, the delegates went into
business session and repoits of
various officials and committees were
heard.- '. .- ' -' ' . ..'
Luncheon was served at the Fon
tenelle. This afternoon the delegates
were the guests of the Omaha mem
bers at a held day at Lakoma club.
' The "annual banquet will be held
at the Fontenelle tonight at 7 o'clock.
M. H. Aylesworth, executive man
ager, and M. ; R. Bump, . national
president,,' will-deliver the principal
addresses.
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Fremont Unemployed to
dk Work on Improvements
Fremont, Neb., Sept. IS. (Spe
cial.) Fremoiit's unemployed were
given consideration by the city coun
cil when it let two contracts for .con
struction work, one to the C. W.
Hough Co., of Council 31uffs and the
other to the Roberts Construction
Co. of Lincoln, with the understand
ing that Fremont labor was to be
used exclusively. The Council Bluffs
company" has agreed to lay several
streets of sewers at 86 cents per lineal
foot of cement pipe. , The .Lincoln
firm will build Fremont's, water ex
tension system .allowed by a vote of
the people at a special election' some
timef ago,; They submittetd the low
est bid on this work at $1.26 per foot
for 'six-inch pipe and 75, cents for
four-inch- pjpe, . , ' 1
U. S. Upper Air Expert
Asked for Air Meet Here
An expert on upper air forecast
ing may come to Omaha from the
Washington weather bureau the first
week in November to make the
necessary observations for flyers
, here for the International Air con
gress. A request for such an expert was
forwarded to the weather chief yes
terday by M. V. Robins, local meteo
rologist. "There is a possibility they will
send Col. E. H. Boyle, who forecast
wind velocity for bombing planes on
the western front during the war,
or W, R. Gregg, also a noted upper
air conditions expert," said Robins.
Omaha. Sleuths Go to Minot
To Get Alleged Auto Thieves
Detectives Buglewicz and Cich
will leave for Minot, N. D., to re
turn Jack Roberts and Carl Klein,
arrested there when a $5,000 car was
found in their possession.
The cat belosged to Elmer E
Cope, Omaha club, and was stolen
in Omaha September 3.
Road Conditions
runlihad by Omaha Aito Club. .
Lincoln Highway.- East Roads fair to
DontsoBr-Oanison reported muddy, weather
cloudy except at Missouri Valley.
Lincojn Highway. Wet Detour Water
loo to Valley. Roads rood to Fremont.
Reported- maddy , at Schuyler. Fair to
Orand ls!knV
O lv I IX-' Highway Detour Ashland.
Fair to Lincoln. Read "work. Harvard to
Hattfnga. .
S. T. A: Roada Fair. - '
Highland Cutoff Roada fair. '
Black Hille-'Trall Fair to Norfolk.
' ' Oeorge Washington Highway. Borne
construction work. Follow the High
Road to Blair. This road to preferable
to Sioux City at the present time.
Osrnhiuker Hlahway Road good.
King of Trails, North Roada fair ta
Slljseurl Valley. Road work aorta, ef
On aw a.
King of Trails, South Couth Twenty
fourth street under construction, follow
Thirteenth street te Harrison, weat on
Harrison to Twenty-fourth street, then
south. Roads rood to Atcttson, rough
from Atchison to Leavenworth. Leaven
worth ta Kansaa City under construction.
Caster Battlefield Highway Tourists
report this highway in good condition with
hat few exceptions.
River te River Road-ftoads Te ported
la fair rendition. A
White Pole Road Roads tepul ted fair.
Wh 0-es Verr rW caaditML
L O. A. Short Una Good,
Folklore Gets
Rude Jolt Here
Agriculture Department Phil
osophy Attacked by Omaha
Weather Man.
"September IS is said to be a fine
day six years out of seven," reads a
statement in "Weather Folklore," is
sued . by the Department of Agriculture.
With Ak-Sar-Ben races in mind,
when the day started out cloudy yes
terday, M. V. Robins, meteorologist,
consulted back -records to establish
itsitruth.,.
He almost proved the opposite.
'The record back to 1914 showed
only two clear days in the seven-year
period.
Going back to 1907, there was only
one more clear, day." Rain also was
reported for three September ISs
and cloudy or partly cloudy for all
the others,
The superstition of the equinoctial
rainstorm lasting three days, within
two or three days ot September tv,
was decried by Robins,
"The reason for the belief is prob
ably the change to the first storms
of the winter type," he said.
The autumnal equinox occurs iep
tember 23 at 8:20 a. m. this year. It
is also known as St. Matthews day,
"which makes days and nights
equal," according to weather folk
lore. .
Pilger Farmer Says Corn
In Nebraska Best m West
John Tinney of Pilger, hog buyer
hand shipper, wno nas oeen on a va
cation trip with friends and relatives
in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa,
stopped off at the stock yards Wed
nesday on his way home. . Mr. Tin
ney said Nebraska would make a bet
ter showing on corn crops than Illi
nois and Iowa this year. He said the
corn in Illinois and eastern Iowa
does not show as being near as good
as the Nebraska product He said
he found hogs plentiful everywhere
he visited and that he expected the
price to be down to $5 a hundred
before the run pf young hogs com
mences to come to market.
School Children to
Sell Aero Stamps
3,000,000 Stamps to Adver-
tise Air Congress Here to
Be Sold at 1 Cent Each.
All school children in Omaha have
been invited to participate in the
g Aero stamp selling
contest to dcs m
next Monday.
J. H. Beveridge,
superintendent of
the public schools,
extended the in
vitation to the 32,
000 children, at
tending the, city
schools to . enter
the con t e s t ;
' The Aero Club Stamp
Through Monsignor Qolaneri of the
Omaha Catholic diocese, an invita
tion to the parochial school children
was made. The aero-congress will
be held in Omaha;- November 3-4-5.
Mayor Dahlman will speak on
aviation at a mass meeting of chil
dren to be" held in the .council cham
ber of the city hall Saturday' night.
Three ' million stamps have been
printed for the young hustlers to
sell at 1 cent each. -
An airplane ride to Chicago will
be given to the boy who sells the
most stamps. Nine other prizes will
be model airplanes.
Eddie Rickenbacker, American
"ace" will take the first two prize
winners in a flight over the city
during the ' International - Aero con
gress, according to Earl W. Porter,
president of the Omaha Aero club.
Bishop Thomas O 'Gorman
Not In Immediate Danger
Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 15. (Spe
cial Telegram.) It is announced that
there is no immediate danger in the
condition of Rt. Rev. .Thomas
O'Gorman, Catholic bishop of the
eastern diocese of South Dakota,
who was stricken with paralysis
Tuesday at his residence in this city.
His physicians hold out hopes of the
bishop's recovery from - the attack.
He is conscious and attendants feel
much encouraged over his condition.
Ak Night Show
Draws Thousands
Of Spectators
Many of Them Park OutsMc
Field to "Bear Admiwlon
Price Record Attend
ance Expected Today.
The good ship, Ak-Sar-Ben is sail
irg along over a sea of ideal weather
In spite of dire predictions of rain
made by the weather man ever since
the great festival started. The
weather man took another shot at
it with a prediction of "probable
showers" for yesterday, but the sun
was on the job as utual.
Wednesday night was a big one at
al fresco entertainment and spectacle
at Ak-Sar-Ilen field where there were
4,000 paid admissions, an increase of
shout 2U0 per cent over the opening
night.
And along Center street and other
streets near the field were parked
thousands of motorists and others to
see the volcanic eruption, explosions
and fireworks which mark, the dc
struction of the ancient Aztec city of
Tenochtetlan, and to see all this
without money and without price.
The vaudeville show, "Smiles of
1921, was cut down in length and
increased in quality last night so
that this and the destruction of the
Aztecs was all over by 10:30.
The King's Highway at Fifteenth
street and Capitol avenue was filled
with a crowd of confetti-throwing
merrymakers Wednesday night.
Cus Renze, the great artificer, was
busier than the famous one-armed
paperhanger. He has been ill. but
at the Den yesterday he declared he
was looking for somebody to lick.
Fremont Commercial Club
Resumes Monday Luncheons
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 16. (Spe
cial.) Fremont Commercial club
will resume its winter program of
Monday noonday luncheons, Septem
ber 19. Six banquets will be given
by the association throughout the
winter months in addition to the rest
ular program. Various members of
the club have been appointed to take
charge of the different luncheons and
they will provide speakers and enter
tainment for the occasion. Rome
Miller of Omaha, prominent hotel
man, who received his start in busi
ness while operating an eatinpr house
in Fremont, will deliver the first ad
dress. He will tell how he climbed
the ladder of success and arose from
the lowly "hashslinger" to a wealthy
hotel owner.
Kearney Deposits Funds
For Irrigation Project
Kearney, Neb., Sept. 15. (Spe
cial.) The Kearney Chamber of
Commerce today deposited to credit
of the Platte Yalley Irrigation asso
ciation a check' for $2,500, represent
ing first payment for this district on
its quota of funds which will pro
vide for making a preliminary sur
vey of a proposed North Platte to
Kearney irrigation project. Gothen
burg and Lexington are both under,
stood to have raised their quota. This
money, according to contract entered
into with the government, will be re
funded in event the engineer's plans
are accepted by the reclamation
bureau and appropriation for con
struction of the ditch is made.
Extra Teachers Employed
In North Platte Schools
North Platte, Neb., Sept. 15.
(Special.) At the end of the first
week of school the enrollment shows
an increase of 172 Over a like period
in 1920, this year's , figures showing
1,774. The junior and senior high,
schools now have a combined regis
tration of 710. This is an increase
of 70 per cent in the senior over 1919,
and an increase of 40 per cent in the
junior. I his increase in the tqtai
enrollment has made it necessary to
employ a half dozen additional teach
ers. .... . ' '
Morrill Named to Launch
Packer Law Administration
Washington, Sept. 15. Designa-
nation of Chester Morrill, assistant
chief of the bureau of markets and
crop estimates, a assistant to the
secretary of agriculture, for the pur
pose of constructing an organization
to administer the packers and stock
yards act, is announced.
Omahan Appointed
low Commissioner
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Four Robberies Are
Charged to North Bend
Man Caught in Omaha
Fremont. Neb., Sept. lS.-(Spe-eil.)
Accuscdot four robberies in
this vicinity, Clair Millard,. 30, was
brought to the Dodge county jail
from Omaha, where h was arretted
after a quantity of stolen merchandise-'
was located In Omaha
pawnshops, alleged to have been de
posited there hy him. Officials al
lege that .Millard pulled the rob
bery, at Rogers a short tin e ago
when the Cherney Hardware store
was looted and also the Uaverfield
general merchandise store at North
Bend. On or two other job are
also placed to Millard's credit It U
claimed that Millard is an ea-convict
with record of like crimes.
He formerly resided at North
Prnd and was 'acquainted In ttvtt
vicinity. Suspicion pointed toward
Millard when the police decided that
the robberies had been committed
by some one who knew existing
conditions. With Millard's pt
pedigree as a tip, the officers located
him in Omaha. A canvass of nearly
a doien Omaha pawnshops with
owners of the stolen property soon
uncovered the loot. Police state that
the goods had been left in Millard's
name with a fake street address.
They say Millard has confessed to
the charges held against him.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
Big Entertainment Program
For Movie Week in Wymor
Wymore, Neb., Sept. ll-lSl
cial.) This it mi week In Wjf
more and strong programs are being
offered at both theaters. Th mer
chants are giving away $550 worth
of merchandise. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday there will be auto polo
by teams from Sioux City and Ma
son City, la., Alto auto ric and
other sports. Saturday afternoon
Dr. Haworth't Pkaves will play ball
with the Fawnee City Indians, there
will be a tug of war between Blue
Springs and Wymore, the day's
program to conclude with a dance in
the evening for the benefit of tht
base ball team.
Taste is a matter of
tobacco quality
We state it as our honest beEef ,
that the tobaccos used in Chester
field are of finer quality (and
hence of better taste) than in any
other cigarette at the price. .4 , ,
.'. Liggett k Myers Tobacco CoT :
eld
CIGARETTES
, . . . -
. of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos blended '
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Hitchcock to Succeed
Underwood as Leader
Washington, Sept. 15. Senator
James t. Watson of Indiana is slated
for selection as republican leader in
the senate to succeed Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts who has been ap
pointed one of the American repre
sentatives in the international con
ference on limitation of armament.
On the democratic side Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, by virtue of
his position as vice chairman of the
democratic conference will assume
the duties of leadership, but only for
the period ot Senator Underwoods
absence.
Iowa Farmer Loud in Praise
Of Omaha as Stock Market
N. Benton of Adair, la., brought
in three loads of cattle to the stock
yards Wednesday 53 head of which
were yearlings, averaging 855
pounds that sold at the top price
of the day of $9.70 a hundred. Mr.
Benton said that considering every
thing Omaha was not only the clos
est live stock market for breeders
and stock raisers in his part of the
country, out that it was the best.
He told of a neighbor who shimjed
cattle to Chicago and later another
bunch to Omaha and received 10
cents more a hundred than for the
ones he shipped to Chicago, besides
losing on me nigner treight cost, :
Back to the
Old Days
When a Man Could
Buy a Good
$2.50 Hat
New Shapes New Shades
Made by Standard Manufacturers
All from Our Regular Lines k
Friday and Saturday
at
The Store of Spedalfy Shops.
Mil
jinstt it eace Jim
Something like jubilation is reported from both London and Dublin at the turn the Irish
negotiations aretaking toward a peaceful settlement. They have "turned the corner," affirms
the New York Herald's London, correspondent, and the. Dublin Freeman's Journal, the chief
organ of Sinn Fein, hails the latest British note as falsifying ' the forecasts of the pessimists,
"World opinion," as the Brooklyn Eagle sizes tip the. situation, now "preyente the Irish leaders
from closing the door." In fact, however contrary may seem the claims of Lloyd George and
De Valera, many observers see promise of an ultimate agreement in the fact that as the San
Francisco Chronicle puts it, "both have taken the utmost pains to leave the door open." Thus
when De Yalera, on September 4, reiterated his "irrevocable"rejection of Great Britain's term's
for an Irish settlement, he concluded with an offer to reopen negotiations on the basis of "the
principle of government by consent of the governed," and the British Premier promptly named
next Tuesday as the date for another conference. Lloyd George is quoted as saying that he
hopes to sign fhe Irish agreement with the same pen with which "he signed the Peace Treaty.
An instructive account of recent negotiations leading up to the present encouraging status
of the ages-old Irish question is given in the leading article in this week's LITERARY DIGEST.
It presents views from all angles,
, Other important Jiews-articles in this week's DIGEST (September 17th) arc: v
King Cotton to the Rescue
Oil on the Mexican Waters
New York's Soldier Bonus Killed .
"Subsidizing0 the Farmer
Kaiserism is Seen Back of the
Erzberger Murder
Franco-German Friendship
German Manufactures Not So Good
Roumanian Perplexities
Accidental Inventions
Those Queer Bird-Students
A Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear
Moving a Mining Town to Get the Ore
Origin of the Cream Separator
How Flying-Fish Fly
To See Old Paintings As If They
Were New
On Relaxing Methodist Rigors
The "Gloomy Dean" Hits "Teetotal
Fanaticism"
Why the Knights Go Into Italy
Our "Horrible" Church Buildings
Tobacco and Work
Against "BUlboarding the Bible"
Sports and Athletics
Investments and Finance
Personal Glimpses of Men and Events
Topics of the Day
Best of the Current Poetry
" -..j Many Half-Tone Illustrations and Humorous Cartoons
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