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Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
H. G. OF L. BLAMED
FOR ORNERY CHILDREN.

Washington, Aug. 3.-From 3,000,-
600 to 100000 American children
are not getting enough to eat be-
cause their parents are unable, on
their present incomes, to buy suf-
ficient food, said statement issued
today by the children's bureau OF
the department OF labor. These are
the children, the statement said, who
are often pronounced by parents and
'lazy" or just plain "ornery," al
though their true affliction is NAL
nutrition.
The number of school children in
the United States who are not get
ting sufficient food was placed at
from IS to Is per cent, while this was
said to be true of one-fifth Of the
children attending school in New
York City.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
7-YEAR-OLD GIRL
IS KILLED WHEN
AIRPLANE BUCKS
Throat Cut by Barbed Wire
and Her Cousin is Thought
Fatally Hurt,

Ames, Ia, Aug. 3.-A little girl
was killed and another may die
from injuries received when an air.
plane, piloted by Lieut.. Walter
Hartman of this city failed to rise
on the take-off and crashed into
crowd of spectators here at $50
this afternoon.
The throat Of the 7-year-old
daughter H. G. Amlund of Story
City was cut by barbed wire when
the plane plunged through the
fence and she died almost instant
ly. Her 6-year-old cousin, the
daughter of L. J. Mathre of Story
City, was so badly cut by the wire
she is not expected to live.
The fathers of both girls, who
were standing beside them, escaped
uninjured.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Omaha Labor Unions
Will Hold Series Of
Mooney Meetings

The labor unions of Omaha will
combine in a series of meetings to
be held in Jefferson Square, August
4 to 8, in the interests of new trial
for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren
K. Billings. The meetings will be
under the direction of the Interna-
tional Workers Defense league of
San Francisco, which has been pro-
noting meetings of this kind in
number of the larger cities of the
country. P. H. Tippett of Peoria,
ILL.,, representing the league, will be
the principal speaker.
Resolutions were passed at sim
liar meetings in Sioux City, Ia. re-
Gently. asking for new trial for
Mooney. and citing the case as
contributing to the general unrest
of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Unrest Among Railroad Work.
ers So General That Move
ment Has Overwhelmed Of
ficerS of Union.
CLEVELAND MEN TO
GO ON STRIKE TODAY
Executives. Say Road Sched-
u|es and industry Will Be
Seriously Crippled Within a
Very Short Time.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-(By the Assos
ciated Press.)-A complete tieup Of
the railroads of the country was
very probable. in the opinion of M.
L. Hawver, president of the Chicago
district council of the Federated
Railway Shopmen's union, which
called a strike of shop crafts Friday.
He returned from Washington to-
day and declared the; strike is
spreading rapidly. and that the un-
rest among railway workers is so
general that the movement has
overwf elmed the international Off
GERS OF the various unions involved.
Strike All Planned.
Advices today from Cleveland
were that the executive board of the
American Federation of Railway
Workers. with a membership OF
10000, had decided to strike tomor-
row, according to Mr.. Hawver.
With more than 250,000 shopnen
on strike and the number increas-
ing. both President Hawver and
Secretary John D. Saunders de-
clared railroad schedules and indus-
try would be seriously crippled
within day or two. Already steel
mills and other industries at Gary
and other northern Indiana points
and in Chicago have begun to feel
the effects of the strike, according
to the union leaders.
Additions Reported.
Additions to the strike of shop
men reported today by Secretary
Saunders were the Illinois Central
shops at Memphis and Kankakee,
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, B. & O. Chicago
terminal; East Chicago, md, B. &
o., South Chicago; Lake Erie and
Western, whole system; Wabash,
whole system; Indiana Harbor Belt
Line. all out.
Advices stated, according to the
secretary that all men on the Chi
cago and Western Indiana and the
Iron Range lines will go out at 10
a. m. tomorrow, and those of all
roads entering Indianapolis would
strike Tuesday.
B. & Q. Men Won't Strike.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 3.-Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy railroad shop
men at Havelock. near Lincoln, re-
iterated today their determination
not to strike until officially ordered
CONTINUED on Page Two. Column Two.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Police Barracks in
County Clare Town
Attacked by Irish

London, Aug. 3.-A party of from
20 to 80 men this morning attacked
the Broadford police barracks in
East Clare, Ireland, according to a
Central News dispatch from Ennis,
capital of County Clare. The dis
patch adds that a brisk fire was
maintained upon the barracks for
more than an hour, with the police
answering it. A constable was
slightly wounded.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Neqro Breaks Ankles in
Effort to Escape Police

Frank Cunningham, a negro res
taurant porter, broke both his
ankles Saturday night when he
leaped from a second story window
at 1916 Howard street, where po-
lice were raiding an alleged gamb-
ling house.
The raid was staged at midnight.
Cunningham was not found till .
o'clock Sunday morning when Po-
liceman Aughe Discovered him in
the alley near the building where
the raid took place. He was taken
to the University hospital.
Ten alleged inmates, all negroes.
were arrested in the raid and
charged with gambling.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
BUDAPEST BROKE:
LITTLE MONEY
AND LESS FOOD
Communists Leave Hungarian
Capital Stripped of Essen
tials That Maintain Life.

: Budapest Aug. 3.-(By The As.
sociated Press)-The city today
presents a pitiful appearance after
the fight of the communists. The
streets are half deserted, no stores
are open, there is little food in the
hotels or private houses and nc
soap, coffee, tobacco or linen is to
be had.
Many windows are broken. The
people move about aimlessly, but
smiles have replaced the looks oi
terror that previously were on their
faces.
The new cabinet is sitting day
and night, working on the formid-
able task of reconstruction and the
bringing about of order.
The communists, who robbed
both for political and private pur-
poses. left the banks empty. Fl
nancial institutions which contained
roundly s,OOO,0OO,O00 crowns now
have barely 5O,00O000 crowns in
good money in their vaults. Fl
nance Minister Miskios does not
know which way to turn as the
only money left him is communist
paper. The communists, in addi-
ton to printing foreign bank notes
falsihed Czech and Jugo-Slav
stamped money to great extent.
According to Peter Agoston, min
lister of foreign affairs, all eyes turn
to America for food, especially for
the children. 1t is understood
however, that the Hungarian harv-
est is reasonably good and that the
lack of food has been partly due to
the refusal of farmers to sell to the
communists.
Bella Kun's Downfall.
Vienna, Aug. 3.-The downfall OF
Bella Kun, virtual dictator af the
old Hungarian soviet government
is described in dispatches received
and by refugees from Budapest.
Final action in upsetting the COM
muni<t government took place Fri
day at the meeting of the central
council of revolutionary workiSen
and soldiers at Budapest.
Bella Kun appeared before the
council. With tear-stained face
and in a choking voice he admitted
the hopelessness of the situation.
Speakers told how the Rumanian
troops were within 10 kilometers Of
Budapest and that the allies threat
ened to tighten the blockade.
Jacob Weltner, president of the
soldiers and workmen's soviet de-
manded Bella Kun's resignation.
Then Bella Kun yielded. He pre-
dicted the coming of white ter
ror", robbing the workmen Of their
freedom and means of production
all of which he deplored. He add
ed that the people would return to
him.
Bella Kun is now in Vienna.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
SUFFERS ARREST IN
DEFENSE OF THE POOR.

New York, Aug. Sin order, he
said, to test the validity of city
rule which requires all persons using
the municipal ferries between New
York and Staten Island, to go
ashore on reaching a terminal, in
stead of remaining aboard IN pay
ment OF another fare, Frederick D.
Underwood. president of the Erie
railroad, Saturday refused to leave
a ferry at Staten Island and was ar
rested on a charge of "disorderly
conduct"
According to Mr.. Underwood he
deliberately subjected himself to ar
rest Sin the Interests of the poor
people who cannot protect them
selves from foolish rules" H. de-
clared the rule forced women and
children taking the trip for the air
to compete for seats with ship yard
workers returning to Manhattan.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Pixies Peak is Scaled by
Darinu Trio in AirpIane

Colorado Springs. Colo, Aug. g.
Lieut.. Alex Lendrum of Colorado
Springs, in a Curtiss Oriole biplane,
circled the summit of Pixies Peak
this morning, reaching an altitude
of 1920 feet. He was accompanied
by Ira J. Humphreys of Denver and
L. L. Law Sipple, motion picture
photographer. who filmed scenes of
the summit and of the Pixies Peak
region. The flight was the first
ever made to the crest of the noun
tain.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Charges Against Des Moines
Policemen Have Been Dropped

.Des Moines, Aug. 3,-The inves-
tigation of the Des Moines police
force by federal officers in which
four members of the force recently
were arrested charged with the il
licit sale of liquor, apparently came
to an end Saturday with the official
announcement that the charges
against Policemen Guy Kelso and
L. w. Newell would be dismissed
for lack OF evidence. Their cases
came up at Perry. Iowa. last week.
Wits dismissal of charges against
them, charges still will remain
against only one man.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Steps Toward Reducing the
High Cost of Living Expect
ed to Be Taken by Govern
ment This Week.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
WHETTING HIS AXE
There Is a Great Deal of "Good
Law" in the Statute Books,
He Says, in Talk About Pun
ishing Food BaronS.

Washington, Aug. 3.-Steps to-
ward reducing the high cost Of liv
ing are expected this week.
While all government depart
ments are working toward the enc
of alleviating unrest by restoring q
normal level OF prices, interest cen.
tiers in the meeting Tuesday of the
conference called by Attorney Gen
eral Palmer to consider the best
method of procedure, especially with
respect to profiteering. The com.
mittee appointed by the conference
has been engaged in an exchange oi
memoranda which will be put before
the conference for recommendation
to President Wilson.
Expert Counsel Promised.
The presence of Julius Barnes, di,
rector of the United States Grain
corporation, at the meeting Tuesday
will give expert counsel to the cabi-
net members and other officials on
the grain situation. Consideration
of plan to sell wheat in free mar
ket, the government absorbing the
difference between the market price
and the guaranteed price, is believed
certain. t.
There are indications that the at
torney general is paying especial at
tention to cases of profiteering. He
has at his disposal a great volume
of information collected by the fed
eral trade commission, showing pro-
duction costs in scores of industries
Good Law at Hand"
While there is no law by which
profiteering may be punished direct
ly, Mr.. Palmer has said that there
is great deal of good law" on the
statute books and it is believed he
will find a way to punish any cases
where there are evidence of extor-
ton. \.
The average citizen is the man in
whose behalf the profiteering investi-
CATION will be pushed, despite the
fact that it was the new demands
of the railroad labor union which
precipitated it. :.
The cost of living situation, it
was learned today, will be one OF
the chief topics to be discussed at
Tuesdays cabinet meeting.
When government officials re-
sumo their attempt to find a solu-
ton to the cost of living problems
tomorrow, another factor will have
entered into the situation-the or
dering of a strike vote, returnable
August "a, among the 100000 shop
employees of American railroads.
Information that the shopmen were
not disposed to accept President
Wilson's proposal to have congress
create a special body to pass on
their demands and to consider them
in connection with living problems,
took officials by surprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Many "DeviI Dogs" Back
With Their War Brides

New York, Aug. 3.-Approximate-
" 5000 marines, vanguards OF TO-
0O6 devil dogs, whose exploits in
Belleau wood, at Chateau-Thierry
Scissors and other famous battle
fields, make up a part of the record
of the Second (regular) division, to
which they were attached, arrived
today on the transport George
Washington.
Led by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejune,
the marine officer who commanded
the Second division, the troops
came into port to a tremendous
ovation.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Attempt Life of Former As
sistant Attorney General by
Totally Wrecking His Home
With Gas Bomb.
HUSBAND AND WIFE
BARELY ESCAPE DEATH
Former Carries Mate Through
Flame to Open Window and
Drops Her on Awning, From
Which She Falls to Safety.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 3.-(By
the Associated ress.)-Revenge
for the part he played in the prose
cution of group of dynamiters in
the middlewest several years ago
was assigned by the police here as
the probable motive for an attempt
on the life of Oscar Lawler, former
assistant attorney general of the
United States. Mr.. LAWYERS home
vas practically destroyed by bomb
the subsequent fire here early to-
day and he and Mrs. Lawler both
seriously burned and otherwise in
jured.
The Lawler home was a large
brick and frame structure in the
fashionable Wiltshire district, in the
west part of the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawler were sleep
ing on a porch in the south side OF
the house, opening from second
floor room and screened from the
street by an angle of the building
Miss Bessie Mills, nurse, and Os-
car Lawler, Jr., were sleeping on a
screened porch at the rear, or east
end of the house.
Outside Escape Cut Off.
When the explosion came a sheet
of flame at once rushed up the side
of the house, directly below the
porch occupied by the Lawlers and
cut off possible escape toward the
outside. Mr.. Lawler and his wife
went into the house and tried to
make their way to the rear porch
where their son was with the nurse
They were cut off by smoke and
flames and when Mrs. Lawler real
lied this she tainted. Mr.. Lawler
took her in his arms, carried her
through flames to the front of the
house and dropped her to an avn
ing over the front veranda, whence
she rolled to the ground. He then
leaped after her.
The young son and the nurse
were rescued from the porch by
neighbors. Another son and daugh-
ter were away from home at the
time.
Bomb Near Gasoline.
A thorough investigation by city,
county, state and federal authorities
led to the belief that the bomb was
placed between two five-gallon cans
filled with gasoline, or some other
highly inflammable liquid Ex-
perts working on the case found
fragments of the bomb sufficient to
reconstruct it. They said it had
been made of a piece of iron pipe
about 10 inches high and six inches
in diameter. Two discs of meal had
been placed as ends, apparently held
in place by two bolts passing
through both ends and the pipe it
self. They also found the two five
gallon cans that had contained
liquid.
Discs Found in Wall.
The bomb and the cans had been
placed on a concrete walk, almost
directly below where the Lawlers
lay sleeping. One of the discs,
Continued on Page Two, Column Two)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Two Killed, Four Injured
When Auto Skids Into Ditch

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. .3.-(Spe-
cial Telegram)-R Davidson, age
% years and Miss Bessie Eckles, age
II years. of Canistota, were instant
ly killed, and four others injured,
one perhaps fatally, when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
skidded into a ditch fve> miles west
of this city Sunday afternoon
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
REWARD OFFERED FOR
CATCHING BANK THIEFS.

Topeka, Kas., Aug. 3.-A reward
of $500 will be offered for the ar
rest and conviction of bank rob-
bers, it was announced by State
Bank Commissioner Walter E. Will
son. The amount will be contrib
uted by the state. the Kansas Bank
ers' association, the National Surety
company and the Ocean Accident
4 Guaranty company.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Man Robbed of $38 in Shadow
of Home: Dips Work on Cars

T. J. Doyle, 26lS Davenport
street, was held up in the shadow
of his home last night by two high
waymen. He was robbed of $3S
He gave police description of the
two men.
Paul C. Sherer, Harley hotel, re-
ported to the police Sunday that
his pocket was picked Saturday
night of $17 on a Lake Manawa
street car,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
LAD SHOT TO DEATH
BY RUSTY OLD GUN.

Hamilton, Aug. 3.--Chester Perry,
1l-year-old son of w. H. Perry, of
Winfield, was almost instantly killed
when he was shot by % caliber
rifle in the hands of a companion.
The gun, old and rusty, was obtained
from a trash pile. The companion
was so frightened he could give but
little detail of the tragedy.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
Plan Ceding Colony in
Payment of War Debt

London, Aug. 3.-The Nationals
News says suggestion that the
British West Indies be ceded to
the United States in part payment
of Great Britain's war debt is be-
ing considered seriously on both
sides of the Atlantic
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
HAS A. GOOD JOB
BUT NO SALARY.

Jefferson City, No., Aug. s.
When the legislature last winter,
made their annual appropriation
for the mine inspector of Missouri,
they thought they provided for
everything in the way of expenses.
They did-almost. Their appro-
priations covered the Deputies, six
in number, travelling expenses, con-
tingent expenses, secretary and a
stenographer.
But, no provision was made for
the salary of the chief Inspector.
Now, George Hill of Bevier, Mo,
may have to wait two years for
his salary.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
SUCCESSFUL PUPIL
GOOD STOCK RAISER.

Ozawakir, Kan, Aug. 3.-Sher-
man Funk, a 13-year old lad, is the
busiest youngstet in Kansas. He is
raj ing chickens, ducks and pigs,
apparently w.tll the same success
,tl,at he had in his school record. he
las attended schcol for eight years
without being absent or tardy. His
average grade was 95.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
LET'S GO VIA AIRSH1P;
ONLY S50,00O A TRIP.

London, Aug. 3.-The first pas
senger airship to fly to Rio de
Janeiro from England will leave
next. month from Barrow, the
Daily Express learns. The fare will
be $4,000 a round trip, which will
be made via west Africa.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
& RIGHT
- R REEZ,Y
PREACHER RAPS CRITICISM
OF SUNDAY BASEBALL.
BITS OF NEWS

\ Stony Brook, N. Y, Aug. 3.-De-
voting too much time to criticism
OF Sunday baseball instead of to
things more important is causing
thousands of persons in large cities
to lose interest in the church, the
Rev. Alexander Mccall of Philadel-
phia told the New Era conference
Of the Presbyterian church in the
United States. He urged that great
er effort toward extending social
service be made.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-04
FARMER DRINKS cARBOLIc
ACID WHILE DERANGED.

Emporia, Kan, Aug. 3.-William
Jacobs, a farmer near here, drank
carbolic acid willie temporarily de-
ranged, and died. He lived 81 years
in the same house.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-09

liability, trustworthiness and in
itiatiye and are willing to give a
word Of well-merited praise, we
will seldom have reason to be dis
appointed. The innate nobility
which exists in the average indi-
diyidual will rise to meet the
good opinion held by those whose
approval is valued. Exactly the
opposite is true, also. If a helper
gets the idea that his motives and
capabilities are thought lightly Of
or doubted, resentment springs up
and that individual fails to do his
best. 1t is case of sinking or
rising to meet the opinion Of
those about us. Let's help others
down.-Ada News.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-09
NO ROYAL ROAD TO UTOPIA

There is no royal road to Uto-
pia just as there is no royal road
to- learning But from the pres
ent turmoil all around us we are
constrained to believe that men
and women have discarded the
old familiar trails of success to
follow after the will-o' 1.-The wisp
byways.
What are the cause of the revo-
lutionary activities now going on
at home and abroad? +? True, few
OF them may be the natural result
of afterwar relaxation but under
lying a great many of them there
seems to be the belief that the ia
bled pot of gold lies just across
slight barrier.
Those men who are demanding
share in the business they did
not build. Are they not attempt
ing to capitalize upon insecure
foundations? !? That class of indi
viduals who would destroy pres
ent prosperity and stability of
government for something less
tangible but offering them pro
ceeds they did not produce. Is
not their agitation selfish "get
rich quick schemes.
Strange teachers and new
prophets have melted staid old
negroes into insurrection through
promise of some fabulous gain, a
reward they have done nothing to
merit.
All, all of it is doomed TO
failure because fundamental laws
preclude its success.-MeAlester
News Capital.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-09
Part III

"How queer!" he thought. "How
fast everything happens. Why. there
are my beans coming up already be-
fore my eyes straight up to the moon.
Sure enough. They were growing.
They had grown quite out of sight.
But they were growing very queerly,
side by side, and reaching across to
each other heavy tendrils and spirals
Of growth that made a strong, green
ladder. Jack could step right ont
from his bed in his pajamas into
the green, growing ladder
"B1ieve | will" said Jack. And he
did. He just stepped out onto that
ladder and began to climb. The climb
was queer one; for as he climbed
the ladder was growing all the time.
and Jack went up as if on sort Of
moving staircase.
The round, pale-golden moon with
the man in it grew palmer and larger.
There was the man, and there was
the cow. Yes--there came plain
tive moo very much like old Cuddy's
voice.
Jack rose more and more rapidly
now, and in twinkling stepped out
on a goldengreen landscape full of
queer hills and valleys. He didn't
seem to be able to stop going, even
here. For the speed he had gathered
on the bean ladder seemed to carry
him on. Soon he arrived at a greeny
gold valley, nesting on the slope of
which was a huge castle of all gold
from foundation to towers. In front
Of the castle was a lean, timid look |
ing woman hanging out clothes.
oh she said, you've come, have
you? But aren't you afraid of the
that peck off noses? And
aren't you afraid of my hisband2"
who is your husband?" said Jack.
He is very terrible Giant. His
lame is very hard to understand I'll |
spell it-HlC-O-L. He'll eat you up |
t he finds you here He never gets |