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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08
Underwriters Offices
Swamped With Tornado
Insurance Seekers

Insurance Offices were swamped
yesterday morning by hundreds of
property owners In the city seeking
to renew their policies for protec-
ton against tornado losses. The
majority Of the contracts entered
into following the disaster of March
%. 1918, provided against loss for
three years.
Many property holders failed to
renew their policies at the expira-
ton of the first three years, while
many more. who did renew their
contracts, allowed them to lapse last
month, which marked the end Of the
second period following the twister
of six years ago.
Insurance policies covering prop
critics valued at thousands of dollars,
which were damaged and destroyed
last night, were allowed to lapse
just a few weeks ago. Many of
tn holders OF policies allowed their
contracts to become vcid through
neglect to keep up their premiums.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08
Commission to Study
FOREIGN Market Systems

Washington, April Gin The gov
ernment's program for the extension
of American foreign trade promotion
the farmers interests have been
placed entirely in the hands OF the
Department Of Agriculture's bureau
of markets, which announced to-
day that several agriculture trade
commissioners as permanent repre-
sentatives will be sent abroad to re-
port on conditions and study the
marketing and distributing Of Ameri-
can farm products.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08
SMALL Arm OF
STORM SWEEPS
over the BLUFFS
Telephone and Telegraph
Wires LeveIed and Some
Buildings Wrecked; Iowa
Farms Suffer Losses.

A survey of conditions in Coun-
ell Bluffs yesterday morning indi-
Gates that that city escaped any
serious storm damage.
At the time when the tornado was
passing over the western portion Of
Omaha, small arm Of it struck the
northwestern part of the Bluffs,
wrecking many outhouses, sheds and
small buildings.
So far as could be learned, no
damage was done to residences or
business houses, aside from the
breaking of glass in numerous win
dows. ~ ....
In the western part of Council
Bluffs. telegraph and telephone lines
were leveled, the posts having been
snapped off close to the ground.
Sign and bill boards were scattered
over the vacant lots.
Crosses MISSOURI River.
Reports reaching the city indicate
that the tornado crossed the Mis-
souri, river a short distance above
Crescent, or about eight miles north
of Council Bluffs and moved in a
northeasterly direction into Iowa.
On the Woods farm, five miles
northeast Of Crescent, reports re-
ceived yesterday morning are that
practically all the buildings were de-
stroyed, entailing a loss of $4,000 or
perhaps more. Members of the fam
lily went to the cellar and were un-
injured. A number of hogs and cat
tie on the place are reported to
have been killed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08

The Advertiser who uses The Bee
Want AID Column increases his
business thereby and the persons
who read them profit by the oppor-
tunities offered.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08
Boy Hurt While Driving Car
Damaged in the Tornado

While driving an auto truck,
damaged in Sunday nights tornado,
to a repair shop yesterday morning,
Thomas Mallett, 10 years old, son
of w. S. Mallett, 6l3 South Fifty
third street, received broken leg as
a result of the overturning of the
truck at Forty-hfth and Dodge
streets. 49,.
7 Mr.. Mallett and another son who
were also on the truck were I'm
injured. The injured boy was TAX
en- to his home where he was at
tended by physicians.
A damaged steering gear was the
cause of the accident,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08
Burlington Official Back.

S.B. Howard, Burlington immi-
grafton agent, is back from Mem
phis, Tenn, where he attended a
meeting of immigration agents and
of representatives of the govern
ment operated roads. More than
100 agents attended.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08
Family Hurriies to
Basement When Storm
Warning is Sounded

B. Ballard, 1906 Cunning street,
heard the terrific noise of the ap-
preaching storm and hurried to the
basement No one was injured. The
roof was blown from the structure
and the building damaged.
The foundation of the residence of
A. Norre, lila North Firty-sixth
street, was blown from under the
house and the superstructure caved
in. Occupants of this house have
not been located.
The worst of the storm visited the
city between Center and Leaven-
worth and Forty-ninth and Fifty
sixth streets.
Passengers were shaken up and
excited when a street car was lifted
from the tracks by the terrific wind
at Forty-ninth and Dodge streets.
No one was injured.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-08

phone and telegraph wires. Long
stretches of pole lines were COM
pletely demolished. Crews of repair
men sent out have been unable to
make progress because of the biz
yard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
ENVOY FROM SIAM
HERE ON THE VAUBAN
Hindu Lecturer Is Detained at
Ellis Island.

The Rev. B. C. Sicar, native Hindu OF
the Baptist faith. who arrived yesterday
by the Lamport and Holt liner vauban,
temporarily with the Cunard service,
found that he would have to spend a
few hours at Ellis Island because of the
immigration law that prohibits the en-
trance into the United States of East
Indians. A special board of inquiry re-
leased him after he had explained that
he was here to lecture on India from the
viewpoint OF a British subject. He is
with the headquarters staff of the Y. NJ
c. A. in Calcutta and is accompanied by
X. ]. Saunders, an Englishman, of the
Calcutta Y. NJ. C. A. on his way to
Japan.
Other arrivals by the Vauban were
Phya Prabha Karavongse, Siamese
Minister TO Washington, his English
secretary, David r. Mason. and Prof.
L. r. James. adviser on foreign affairs
to the King OF Siam: Mrs. Andrew
Thorne, wife of Lieut.. tool. Thorne, as
sisrant military attache to the British
Embassy at Washington; Miss Villa
Holt Wakefield. entertainer. who has
been giving recitals in South Africa, and
Mrs. E. Barnard KomroT. portrait
painter, who recently completed a pic
ture of Waldorf Astor. son OF the late
Viscount Astor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
ROCKEFELLER SUED
FOR INJURY TO GIRL
Her Mother Charges Gunner
of Automobile Was Negligent.

Justice Blur of the Supreme Court
signed an ordor yesterday appointing
Mrs. Mary Nesbitt of 141 West Tooth
street the guardian ad Item Of her
daughter, Rosemary Nesbitt. as a pre-
liminary to the filing OF suit to recover
compensation for personal injuries from
John d. Rockefeller. When the suit Is
filed 1t will be the first, SO far as
Supreme Court attaches can recall,
where the worlds richest man has been
named defendant in a personal damage
suit in New York county.
In her application Mrs. Nesbitt states
that on Monday last, while her daughter
Rosemary, who is under the age of IA
years. lawfully was on the public high
way at Ninety-eighth street and Column
bus avenue, she suddenly was struck by
an automobile owned by Mr. Rockefeller
and sustained serious injuries. She al
leges her daughter was wholly free of
blame for the accident, which, she says,
was due to the carlessness and negli-
gence on the part of the owner of thu
car and the person in charge of It.
The extent of the little girls injuries
is not stated in the petition which tells
of the mothers intention of instituting
An action for damages on the child's
behalf.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
TUBE TICKET GRAFT
CUT NEWARK FARES
Train Collector Sold 80 Cent
Rides for 8 Cents.

Some facts about the ticket specula-
ton INDUCED In by Harry Silon, a ticket
collector on Hudson & Manhattan Rail-
road trains running between this city
and Newark, were discussed yesterday
by railroad officials. Silon pleaded guilty
two weeks ago and is now in the Hud-
son county penitentiary for a year
The shortages were reported to Federal
authorities, and detectives were put
on the case. One of them became a
news stand dealer In Park place station.
Newark. and soon had a large ac-
quaintance with railroad employees.
The operative finally met Slon and
was invited to get in on the graft. Silon
gave him a boXful of uncancelied tickets
which he had taken up on the trains
and offered one lot of single trip tickets
for 100 rides from New York to Newark
for eight cents each. The detective
then made the arrest. The round trip
fare between Newark and New York
Is thirty-three cents.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
HOMELESS FAMILIES FIND
REAL HA VEN IN ARMORY
Food and Living Quarters Supplied by Twelfth Regi
ment to Hundred Evicted Needy-A. E. F.
Veterans Help Unexpected Visitors.

beds, good mattresses and linen in
abundance.
The families were brought to the ar
mory in automobiles It was drill night
for several of the companies of the
regiment, which has completed the re-
quirements for federation with the
State Guard. -Four or Ave hundred
guardsmen. most of them veterans of
the A. e. F., were in the armory and
their sympathies went at once to the
homeless ones. The soldiers took upon
themselves the burden assumed by Col.
Nelson B. Burr when he responded to
the request of the Mayors Committee
on Taxation, which has been meeting
the problems caused by increasing con-
gestion and rising rents. Informal COM
mittees Of soldiers were formed to
search for unoccupied fats.
The problem of caring for 100 people
In the big armory was not difficult, but
the question OF providing food went at
once to the question Of money. Col
Burr simplifled matters by producing
the money from his own funds Soldiers
combed the grocery and delicatessen
stores In the neighborhood and children
who had been all day In the open air
found plenty with which to satisfy their
appetities when they ran into the ar
mory in advance of the worried adult
heads of the families They also found
big and kindly man, whom the SOL
diers were very respectful to and called
Colonel" who asked them II they went
to school and gave some of them money
with which to buy new shoes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
CRASH ON Sd AVE. u
KILLS 5; INJURIES IA.
"Human Element" Blamed by
Officials for Collision of
Wooden Trains.
M0TORMAN FAILS TO SEE
Brakes Work All Right, but
Refuse to Hold on Rails Made
Slippery by Rain.

A collision on the Third Avenue Ele-
vated Railroad which caused the death
OF three persons and the injury of more
than fourteen others. was ascribcd last
night by transit heads to "the human
element" In railway operation.
On a straight track, $50 feet north OF
17bth street a motorman, according to
his own statement had failed to notice
a stalled train ahead of him until within
ten feet of II. In that short distance on
rails made slippery by the rain the brakes
would not suffice to check the onrushing
cars, and a crash followed that caused
the front car of the moving train and the
rear car Of the stationary one to tele-
scope.
That was at :35 o'clock in the morn
ing( and three hours later fremen, police
and rescue squads of the marlborough
were still at work extricating the bodies
of those killed The dead are:
FALLoN, JAMES p. % years old, Ago East
1s6th street, az 1nterborough guard, who
was on his way to work.
sIEGERMAN. NORRIS. about so years old
1SS st. Nicholas avenue.
G1TINGE. HARRY, 40 years old, 3s2 East
1s7th street.
The seriously injured, who were sent
to hospitals, were Ivan Boyd, sos West
17Sth street, the motorman, who is under
arrest, suffering from internal INJURIES
Patrick Flynn, $40 East 1920 street, and
John Dupree, 343 East 139th street. Ten
persons were reported by the police to
have received treatment for minor cuts
and bruises.
Crews Of both trains and other wit
nosses were questioned by District Attor-
ney Francis Martin of The Bronx, who
said he would submit the matter to the
Grand Jury.
In statement made to AL Cohn,
Assistant District Attorney in Ford
ham Hospital, the motorman, Boyd,
practically absolved the company of all
blame when he admitted that his brakes
had worked perfectly just prior to the
accident. He said:
at was dark when I struck the train.
was going about six or seven miles
an hour, eight at the most. I didn't
notice the tail lamps on the car ahead.
] did not notice whether the interior Of
the train was lighted or not. 1t was
ten feet ahead when u first saw 1t. When
! first applied the brakes they would not
hold. The rails were wet. / lost all
my air and then reversed"
Edward Glennon. Deputy Public Ser
vice Commissioner, made an investiga-
ton. Lewis Nixon, Public Service Com
missioner. later Issued a statement to
the effect that the use of wooden cars
of which both trains were composed,
must continue until it becomes possible
to rebuild and strengthen elevated
Of steel cars
Frank Hedley. president of the
PETERBOROUGH, after an investigation.
said: ut is the kind of a case that
the human element enters into. Acct
dents of this kind will always happen"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22

The Twelfth Regiment gathered sew
enteen homeless families into its armory
at Columbus avenue and Sixty-third
street last night and prepared 20 keep
them until a search Of congested New
York yields seventeen untenanted fats
the rent for which is not prohibitive to
the poor.
Yesterday the families-a hundred
men. women and children--had not a
roof over their heads and their house.
hold goods were distributed In innumer-
able temporary Ravens They had been
put out by means of the perfectly legal
process the laws provide from the tene-
ment at 20 East 105th street because
they were unable or unwilling to pay
an increase in the rent which, accord
ing to their figures, was one of more
than 100 per cent. Hurried searches for
other living quarters were fruitless. The
city is crowded as it has never been be-
fore For families who are able to pay
100000 a year there are accommoda-
lions to spare, but flats at $40 month
are hard to find.
Last night these families had the big
different purpose at their disposal. Sup
per was served as they arrived and
breakfast cereals and coffee were laid in.
Big company rooms meant to hold 100
men were given to single families, the
largest of which had not more than ten
persons. In the rooms were big iron
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
MOTHER MEETS SON
ON BRIDGE OF signs
She Killed His Fool Father;
He Is Guilty of Robbery.

While being led over the Bridge OF
Signs TO the Tombs yesterday Mrs. Lot
tie Scott, so, a negro, of IS West 1921
street, who had been sentenced In Gen.
eral Sessions by Judge Grain to from
five to ten years Imprisonment for man
slaughter, unexpectedly ran into her
eighteen-year-old son, Samuel where
upon she exclaimed. why, Sammie,
what are you doing here?'
oh, nothing" returned the youth, re-
garding his mother with surprise. II
just pleaded guilty to robbery before
In the Tombs until he gets ready to
sentence me. What brought you here,
mother?" queried the lad.
Nothing much, except that Judge
Grain just sent me up to do bit for
killing your fool father. after 1t was
explained to him how 1t all happened
too" answered the negro.
Mother and son then threw their arms
about each other and began to weep.
They were separated by guards a mo-
ment later and hurried to their cells in
different parts OF the prison.
The woman's husband, Samuel Scott,
was stabbed by her at Madison avenue
and 132d street August 20. He died
soon afterward On the recommendation
of Assistant District Attorney Joyce the
court accepted a plea of guilty to man
slaughter. when 1t was shown that the
man mad been a neer do well and that
the stabbing had followed an assault
upon the woman.
The boy Samuel ran away from home
a year ago. He pleaded guilty to first
degree robbery before Judge Malone.
On July 9 he held up and robbed an
Insurance collector In a hallway in West
143d street, taking SO in cash and a
gold watch and chain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
CITY FERRY HEAD
IS PLACED ON TRIAL
Laurence v. HanIon Charged
With DereIictions.

Lawrence v. Hanlon. superintendent
OF municipal ferries. was placed on trial
yesterday before Grover Whalen. Com
missioner Of Plant and Structures.
charged with twelve derelictions that in
clude inefficiency and the use OF profane
language. Hanlon, who is under suspen-
eion. has managed the ferries for thirty
five years. the first sixteen as an en-
ployee Of the Staten Island Railroad
Company.
EARLY in the present administration,
was called In by former Commissioner
Delaney and told had better resign"
said Hanlon. HE was very friendly.
but he said that charges would be made
against me. told him. 4 guess 1t is be-
cause I voted for Mitchell
81 told him that could not think of
resigning." eaid Hanlon. my reputa-
ton was involved. I had done no
wrong"
Commissioner Whalen showed a curl
osity that Hanlon could not satisfy in
regard to the conditions under which a
Greek operates fruit stand in the ferry
house at South Ferry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
STRIKE CUTS OFF
LIGHT FOR EDISON
Darkness Occurs on Birthday
of Incandescent.

Thomas A. Edison was working in his
laboratory at Orange, n. j., yesterday
the fortleth anniversary OF his perfection
of the incandescent electric light. Octo-
Der 81, 1S79-when the bulbs in the room
suddenly grew dim and then went out
Mr. Edison Immediately brought an
emergency set of storage batteries into
use and went on with his work, undis-
turbed.
A portion of the electricity for the
plant at Orange Is furnished by the Pub
lie Service Corporation from Newark
Yesterday the strike of the company's
employees resulted in temporary sue-
pension of service. About 25 per cent
Of the Edison establishment was In dark
ness and 1000 hands had to quit as a
result.
Forty years ago yesterday Mr.. Edison.
after having spent almost $4,000. dis
covered that bit of carbonized cotton
thread. when looped inside n glass globe
with a vacuum Of one mllionth OF an
atmosphere. would furnish the lllumina
tion he had long been seeking. The first
crude bulb he fashioned burned for forty
hours continuously. The discovery reyo-
lutionized artificial lighting.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
MAN KILLED WHEN
LIFT FLOOR FALLS
Another Hurt and One Res
cued in NeU Building.

One workman was killed and another
badly injured yesterday afternoon when
'he floor of a construction elevator in
the new building of the American Tele-
phone Company at 104 Broad street
gave way when seven stories above the
ground floor. John Freely of 1870 AM
sterdam avenue was killed. He leaves
wife and three children. The injured
man was John Moran of $40 East 150th
street. Both OF his legs were broken.
One other workman. Peter Muldoon. OF
$40 Amsterdam avenue, was in the ele-
vator at the time of the crash. but
saved himself by grasping and clinging
to the top cross bar when the floor
dropped from under him He hung
there, seven floors UP. for fifteen min
utes, before a fellow workman thrust a
plank out into the shaft and enabled
him to climb TO safety
The elevator was OF the rough board
ing construction type and was about
TO descend with a load OF lumber when
the flooring gave way and crashed to
the bottom OF the shaft.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
WIFE FINDS HUSBAND DEAD.
Letter Gives Loneliness az Reason
for Suicide.

Alarmed because she had not heard
from her husband for several days, Mrs.
Rose Cleary came from Hartsdale yes
terday, where she had been Ill. She
found the door to the apartment at 244
East Ninetieth street locked and smelled
escaping gas. She used her key to enter
and found Cleary's body with a gas tube
in his mouth. A policeman called DR..
Rogers OF Reception Hospital, who said
the man had been dead at least a week.
Beside the body was letter referring
to Mrs, Cleary as "the best little girl in
the world" There followed the state
ment that The was sorry to do it, but he
could not bear living alone In the world"
Mrs. Clearly said she had been recuperat-
ing at Hartsdale for several weeks with
her two children and had been making
n weekly visit TO her husband.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
Venetian
Glass
FIowers
Au Quatrieme

Fragile and delicately
beautiful flowers of Vene-
tian glass have been
brought from the Island of
Murano by Al Qudtr1eme
to make your table gay and
amusing. Photographed is
a bowl of these fiowers-of
clear glass with a solid
mass of colored or snowy
white flowers, made in one
piece with it. Imagine the
loneliness of a bowl of
white roses and daisies and
tulips, used with a table set
of pale ruby colored Vene-
tian glass.
Single flowers in the
form of white or gaily col
ored roses, asters, st.
Joseph's lilies, daisies and
morning glories are shown
in the photograph on either
side of the bowl. Bowl of
flowers, $35. Single flow
ers, $3.50.
Fourth floor, Old Building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
NO BODIES IN FIRE RUINS.
Police Carry Children to Safety in
Bronx Apartment Blaze.

A search of the ruins OF an apartment
at sal East 18TH street, The Bronx,
failed to substantiate the belief of two
automobilists who were early on the
scene of the fire and assisted In the work
of rescue yesterday morning that two
women had been trapped in the building.
The structure was destroyed with loss
OF $4,000
The fire started shortly after midnight
and was discovered by pedestrians
Henry McAlray and Alexander Gardener
of $50 Wales avenue, The Bronx, passing
in an automobile, ran into the building
and warned the tenants assisting some
to the street. Patrolman John Finland
of the Morrisania station carried sew
eral children down the fire escapes.
There were twenty-four families in the
building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
THREATENED BY REDS; GONE.
Ukrainian Feared BoIshevists, His
Wife Says

Jacob Kierych. 81, superlntendent of n
Ukrainlan settlement house at 217 East
Sixth street. has been missing since Oc-
tober 49, when he started to visit a
brother at Hartford Conn His wife
fears his mind has become affected by
threats made against him by Bolshevists
that have headquarters near the settle
ment.
Bolshevists have been interrupting
meetings in the Ukrainian house. causing
the calling OF the police, The day before
he disappeared Kierych told his wife
that ne was afraid the radicals were az
ter him and that he was going away for
a few days
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
GUILTY OF HoLDUP MURDER.
Flanagan Tells Jurors They Have
"COnvicted Innocent Man"

Frank Flanagan, "a. of 342 East Forty
eighth street, jointly indicted with Alex
ander Johnson for the murder last May
OF Patrick Mulhearn. bartender in sa-
loon at Park avenue and 1isth street,
was found guilty yesterday of first de-
gree murder by a jury in General Ses-
sions before Judge Grain. Flanagan.
facin gthe jury, said: Gentlemen, you
have convicted an innocent man. That
is all ! have to say"
It was alleged that Flanagan, Johnson
and three others entered on the night of
May 25 the saloon where Mulhean was
employed, holding up the patrons and
robhing the cash register, when the bar
tender, graphing with Flanagan. was
shot and killed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
JUROR DIES IN WRECK,
CAUSING A MISTRIAL
The Defendant Then Pleads
Guilty in Brooklyn.

Morris Slegerman of 1Ss st. Nicholas
avenue Brooklyn, killed IN the third
Avenue elevated wreck in The Bronx
yesterday. was Juror No. 2 in the trial
in Brooklyn before County Judge Nc
Dermott OF David Deutsch of 1S9 Ell
lery street, charged with crimlnally re-
ceiving stolen goods.
THE death of Juror No. shows how
uncertain life is" commented Judge Nc
Dermott after the roll call. land how
close all of us are to death at all times
I am compelled to call mistrial of this
case"
Deutsch then pleaded guilty and re-
ceived a suspended sentence. Siegerman
was apparently going to court when
killed