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Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07
National Banks at
Highest Point Since
System Inauguration

Washington, Dec. 6.-The re
sources of the national banks in
the United States nave had great
err growth during the past five and
one-half years than in the 40 years
Immediately prior to 1914 according
to a chart prepared by the Office OF
the comptroller of the currency
Treasury department. 1t is shown
that the capital, surplus and undivid-
ed profits of the national banks on
July |, 1919. were at the highest
point since the inauguration OF the
national banking system, and ex-
ceeded by $3l3,000,000 the amount OF
the total capital, surplus and un-
divided profits as of January, 1914
The increase in resources from Feb
ruary, 1874. to January, Is. 1914,
(40 years., was $9,4S7, $4,000, while
from January 10, 1914, to June 50,
1919. Give and one-half years. it
was $9,503, l94,862.
Another chart of the comptroller
demonstrates that in the matter OF
immunity from failure, the racord
for the past p months since Jan
uary |, 1918, has been so times, or
800 per cent, better than the record
for the 40-year period prior to 1914
and that for the current calander
year there has been no failure of
any national bank in the entire coun-
try involving loss to depositors.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07

the lot is building, u feet by 290
feet, four stories high which will
be devoted to general instruction
purposes. This will contain the
class and recitation rooms, a num-
Der OF study halls, some of the lab
oratories. Offices for the department
heads and the necessary accessory
rooms, such as toilets, janitor's Of
fees, etc.
Connected with this building by
corridor curtains, about the center,
are two buildings, each about IS
feet square. The building on the
Cunning street side will house do
mestic art and science department,
including a recital hall and recita-
ton rooms for music on one floor
and dressmaking and millinery on
the floor above, and the cooking and
laundry laboratories in the third
story.
The Burt street building is
planned to contain swimming pool
in the ground story, with a floor
above devoted to lockers and show
ers for the girls gymnasium, which
will occupy the second story,
Mechanical Departments.
The building at the west end Of
the lot is III" shaped, with two one
story arms 50 feet by 100 feet each,
and the principal portion of the con-
Meeting building Is feet by 3lS feet,
two stories high. This building will
be devoted to shops in the first
story and the second story will
have the mechanical drawing room,
telegraph rooms. the printing de-
partment, and electrical and other
laboratories allied to the shop work.
Above the entrance to this build
ing is a third story in which there
is large study hall.
The lunch room will be "t'
shaped and located in the top story
over the administration building
and a part of the instruction build
ing, and will have a kitchen equip
ment and tables for serving 800
people at single time.
The plumbing and ventilating
equipment will be modern and up
to date.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07
|eek Ends in N. Y. Plan
of British Air Syndicate

London, Dec. 6.-Little jaunts to
kin, trips to Cairo. evenings in
sbon week ends in New York, are
ing arranged by British airship
indicate. y
negotiations are proceeding with
view to acquiring the north shore
the famous English seacoast re-
II Southport, to erect a moorlng
liver and large aerodrome.
The syndicate intends to have IN
Ina by next spring large fleet OF
Sn-rigid airships, the smaller type
Irrying 80 passengers and crew. the
rwer 40.
Ihey hope to secure large num-
4 Of rigid airships now being built
|pable Of carrying $50 passengers.
The cars are to be fitted UP luxu-
6usiy with carpetei floors and arm
airs, and with a balcony running
ong the side.
The small airships will be used Tor
Trial cruises. while for the larger
|pes routes have been outlined in
nding Copenhagen. Stockholm, Pc
orrad. Pekin. San Francisco. New
ork, Paris, Cairo Columbo, Lisbon
IA Capetown.
IN Is expected that the passenger
IA per mile will be about Is cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07
New High School Is to Be
Group of Connected Buildings
administration Offices, Gymnasiums, Classrooms,
Mechanical Departments, Will Have Separate
Quarters, but All Be Joined Together Stadium
and Athletic Fields Included in Plans.

1.-The Technical and Commercial
Ugh school will occupy a site 3l8
Lei wide and 1883 feet long, ex-
Ending from Thirtieth to Thirty
Sird street and between Burt and
Inning. The east half of the prop
|ty is reserved for a stadium and
hletic field.
If the building is built in accord
ice with the tentative preliminary
tans submitted by the Clarke archi-
let's and approved by the Board OF
ducation at its meeting last Mon
by night, the school will consist OF
|group of connected buildings, eavn
hit of which will house a separate
fanch of the school. The princi-
IL facade will be toward the east,
Icing the athletic field. and the
kher main entrance will be at the
lest end, facing Thirty-third street.
It is thought that the connection
the buildings will be decidedly
.lvantageous for administration
Exposes and to avoid exposure of
Ie pupils in going from class to
ass i'll Indictment weather.
II is also believed that the group
arrangement provides a maximum
! light and air and natural ventila-
pn, and permits the location of the
brtions of the building devoted to
styuction upon the center part of
e lot remote from the noises and
3st of the streets.
No Interior Courts.
The separation into distinct units
30 makes it possible to isolate
hy one for use independent of the
kSt of the school, and permits its
Employment at times when the rest
! the school plant may be closed.
The arrangement entirely does
Ray with the use of interior courts,
ith the accompanying difficulties
lighting and providing fresh air
the rooms opening upon them,
IA provides each room in all the
aildings with windows opening to
10 outside air, and generally with
J attractive outlook. The spaces
itween the buildings are not vast
but have been utilized for recrea-
Dn and exercise purp' ses, by plac-
RI volley ball, basket ball and ten
. courts in them.
The eastern group consists of
Tree buildings. An administration
Hiding containing the Offices Of the
tincipal, registrar. and the med
II Inspection department on the
Ut floor; the library on the sec
la; and a. portion of the CONNER
hl department on the third floor.
Thanking the administration build
II, with its entrance portico and
|ception and exhibition hall, will
! the auditorium on the Burt street
DE and the gymnasium on Cunning
rect. The auditorium is 200 feet
! 10 feet in dimension and is to
I've seats for 100 people with a
|rRe stage with the usual theater
iuipment. The auditorium is to
! placed on Burt street to give it
| quieter location than would be
bssible to have on Cunning street,
here the gymnasium has been
laced.
Fully Equipped Gymnasium.
The gymnasium will be 90 feet by
% feet in size and will have a IA
. running track and necessary
lowers. lockers and small instruc-
bn and exercising rooms in addi-
bn to the main gymnasium floor.
Extending went from the admins
|htion building along the center of
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07
Nurse in Mans Suit
Arrested in Chicago

Chicago.-Leonora -. a nurse
employed by Frederick Bulley, a
contractor Of Wentworth, ventured
trip to the city Friday in wo-
mans comfort uniform, such as arc
worn by women in the mountains If
California.
AS she was walking out of the
Northwestern depot a policeman
took one glance and began walking
after Lenora. She thought he was
trying to firt with her. But when
he took her to the Desplaines street
station she was convinced he was
not flirting.
After she assured Captain Danner
she was not trying to impersonatc
man, he released her and she
promised to take the next train to
Kenilworth.
She told Captain Danner many
women in California wear similar
suits and that it is nothing more
than walking suit.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07
burt Sentences Boys to
/ Sound Spanking After Trial

stamford, Conn. Dec. 6.--Judge
Smuel Young here sentenced two
|venile offenders to be soundly
anked. He instructed Mrs. d. J..
k1xmaurice. probation officer, to see
~ the boys parents did the spank
y and d;da thorough job. The nun-
Srnent was melted out in the pres
"a of Mrs. Fitzmaurice after Judge
|nunp had retired from court. i.
Flovd Parkington and Michael
ridack, the spanked, were IN Gus
Nv for mischief.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-07
|ernan Who Got Free
| Trip to Berlin Stuck
| With First Papers
4 By FRANK E. MASON,
oelal Correspondent International News
GapviNA

UGl0h SOhEoBpOuUcuV hHtcEuuttUIuI NUWb
Service.
Berlin, Dec. 6.-When Joseph
layer learned that interned Ger
Ians with or without first Ameri-
N papers would be given a free
D back to Germany he couldn't
Sist temptation to pay a visit to
mother. Carefully tucking his
5erican first papers in his pocket
future use, he reported to the
5iss consul in Charleston, S. c., as
German and asked for free pas
xe. He got it.
After visiting his old friends
layer brought sout his first Ameri-
b papers and asked the American
nbassy for a passport to return to
b wife and two children, who
sait him IN New York. Mayer is
M explaining that he isn't Ger
an and doesn't want to be one.
e only insinuated he was a Ger
nn to get the ride.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
RHINE FOLK like YANKEES
s'esident of Occupied Territory
|" Hope Americans Will Remain
Special Cable TO Euening Public Ledger

Copyright. 1919, by Ecp York Times Co.
The Hague, Jan. According to n
neutral traveller just arrived from oc-
cupied territory on the Rhine, inhabi-
tants of COh,enz and other towns occu-
pied by Americans all hope the Ameri-
can troops Will remain in Germany
They admire Fershing's soldiers, think
them fine. well-huilt men and are anx-
iOus to please them
The RheiniSche Gazette commencing
the American troops in Coblenz, says:
The American commanding officers
wish that the people should live as
though the troops were not present has
been fulfilled. We feel no objection to
the Americans, and communication is
not impeded, civilians go where they
like and there are no restrictions be-
tween the two sides of the Rhine. The
Americans organized beautiful public
Christmas festivity for civilians"
The paper continues that an enormous
green moss cross was erected in front
OF Government buildings on the Rhine
and Illuminated with electric lights
There was also a Christmas tree twenty
seven feet high which was Illuminated
at night, when thousands of persons
collected and sang German Christmas
songs and the band played After
which, the paper continues, sweetmeats
ana tin trumpets were given the chill
dren.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
FRANCE TO PROTECT
ARMENIA AND SYRIA
Pichon Announces Intention
to Guide Destinies of Tur.
keys Subjugated Races

Paris. Jan. l. France intends To as.
sumo the guidance of the dcstinies OF
Armenia. Syria and Lebanon in the new
order of world affairs. in conformity
with treaties signed with Great Britain
and Russia in 1915. if the Peace con.
ference does not rule otherwise, accord
ing TO authoritative sources
Palestine. according to the arrangement
under consideration. with its com9lexity
of natlonalities and religions, will be
placed under international protection.
England would be responsible for the
Arabian peninsula, with the exception of
the Kingdom Of Hedjas. which would be
free.
These facts were given as an cN-
PLANTATION of a declaration Sunday by
Stephen Pichon, Foreign Minister. in the
Chamber of Deputies. Referring to the
manner in which France would deal with
Asia Minor and nationaltics once ruled
by Turkey. NJ. Pichon said:
"Our rights are incontcstible in Ar
menia. Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
They are based on historic conventions
and on more recent contracts. Although
admitting the entire liberty of the Peace
Conference TO deal with the subject, We
consider our rights are established fully
by our agreement with Great Britain.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
"MADE IN NGERMANY" "KULTUlR
WAS VISITED UPON ITALY
Horrible Outrages Praced by Austrans Helpless Population
Naddened Defenders o Achiepe Great Vcory,
Saws Colonel Franklin

Referring again TO the crimes of the
Austrian soldiers, he told how one enemy
officer had compelled an Italian girl to
leave the funeral cortege of her mother
to accompany him. Another time he
saw the civilian population OF recov-
cred district taking the meat OF horse
that had been dead severa, days, and
one small girl, about seven years old,
running away with her share of the
meat clasped In her arms, as she would
have held n doll in normal times.
IL have seen the landscape SO torn
by shellfre that not a blade OF grass
or tree was left" he wrote. There
was nothing but great holes and clods
of earth and tumbled ruins, not single
building standing in many OF the vii
lagos. The American and Italian Red
Cross are doing wonderful work, and
are concentrating on caring for the ref
ugees during the coming winter
Speaking Of coming home. he writes
that there are still forty years OF hard
work before the soldiers, "one year to
clean up the present conditions, and
thirty-nine in which TO wind up the al
most Uncomfortable masses of barbed
wire"
Lieutenant Colonel Franklin speaks
of the enthusiasm with which the Ital-
ians treat Americans, and says they are
particularly fond of the American jazA
band. He is attached to the United
States army ambulance service with the
Italian army.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
TARDEU DENIES U.S..
PAID TRENCH RENT
French Official Glasses Wild
Report as Purely German
Propaganda
By the Associated Press

Paris, Jan. Captain Andre Tar
dieu. head of the general commission
for Franco American matters, speaking
to the Associated Press relative to GER
tain extraordinary rumors which had
been In circulation in Paris. denied Of
fcially that the American army had
been required to pay rent for the
trenches it occupied at the front or for
territory occupied militarily behind the
front.
Numerous reports of French as we'll
as American and British origin " he
said, have revealed to us that German
propaganda is not dead and the work
of it's organization Is making itself felt
One indication among others is found
in the persistence of this absurd rumor
1t is almost inConceivable, and I would
not take the pains to deny It, II ! were
not informed that it is still In circula-
tion today. 1t has been said that when
American troops took up a new sector
on our front they had to pay rent for it
to the French Government and that
when American troops captured ground
from the enemy in battle they had to
pay rent for the reconquered territory.
| deny it officially in the most cate
gorical fashion"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
BOMB FOUND IN BOOTH
AT FEDERAL BUILDING

Continued from Page One
divided into at least three groups of ter
rorists.
Moore is being held on technical
charge of being suspicious person.
After he had been questioned several
hours he was placed in a cell, the police
denying him an attorney. Mills an
nounced that he would even ignore
habcas-corpus writs in order to hold
Moore. declaring he was determined to
use stern measures to ferret out the per-
petrators of the outrages
That the police are not facing m rely
a sporadic outburst of man with a
grievance against a Judge. "A business
leader or police chief but a well-or-
ganized terrorist movement. probably
financed by foreign plotters, IL also plain
to Mills. he says, from the fact that the
exploded bombs We're planted In such
separate sections as Overbrook, West
Philadelphia and the center Of Phila-
dephia's old residential district.
May Have Found Bomb workshop
A place known as Room No. !. in
Reed street, near Fifth, may have been
the workshop in which the three bombs
were manufactured. it is said at po-
lice headquarters.
This vicinity Is known by the police
and Federal authorities to be the head
quarters of /. w. w, Bolsheyist, and
other radical clans.
Until recently the group of foreigners,
called the Arbiter Ring, formed, il Is
alleged. to resist the draft. held it's
meetings near Fifth and Reed streets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
JUSTICE SENTENCED
REDS IN 1908 RIOT

Justice Robert Won Moschzlsller, whose
home was one of the three bombed by
terrorsts, imposed sentence on four men
who took parT in the riot during a
parade Of Reds in Broad street Fcb-
ruarv 20 1908.
Whether the men involved i'm this af-
fair long since discharged from jail. are
or have been in this city and are under
suspicion in the present outrage, the
police will not say.
The rioters and the sentences imposed
by Justice Won Moschzisker, then a Judge
Of the Quarter Sessions Court. are
Domenico d'Anelia. five years: Joseph
Troin. two years Michael Costello, eight :
cen months; Francisco Pizzisano, one
year.
Two policemen narrowly missed being
injured by bullets from the revoIvers OF
the anarchists during the parade.
D'Anelia was identified as the man who
did most of the shooting. One of his bull
let's tore away part Of Policeman Bunt-
ings coat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
BOLSHEVIKI HERE
UNDER SURVEILLANCE

More than n hundred Bolsheviki in
this city have been under constant sur
Neillance for n year or longer, according
TO Chief Cortelyou, who said the out
RACES of Monday night were intended
to be the forerunner of many similar
occurrences, not only in Philadelphia,
but throughout the country
We knew of these Bolshcviki at
least year ago" Mr. Corte.you add =
ed. but We could do nothing while the
United states was at war Our mission
was to protect the American Govern
in"nt not from the outside, but from
the inside
Every resource of the Federal depart
ments was placed at the disposal of Cap
taln Mills and the various investigators
jumped into the pursuit of the bombers
Mr., t'ort"lynu. captain Matt Griffin. OF
tho Secret Service here: l., J. GOrman
acting head of the Department of Justice
bureau OF investigation, and a corps
from tn" United States shipping hoard.
as well as trained men from the army
ana navy. intelligence bureaus. offered
their services to the local police head
Archives of all these departments
bearing upon the Illegal activitits Of
enemies Of the Federal Government.
particularly those men and women who
had violated provisions of the espiOnn &c
act during the War
Tn" police of the SiXty-nrst and
Thompson streets station are working on
clue furnished by "a negro whose name
was refused for publication, which may
shed some light on the bomb planters
who damaged tho residence Of Ernest
r. Trigg. president Of the Chamber Of
Commerce, 1t G400 OVarbrook avenue
According to tho negro, who Is omplovcd
AS a carrier by Prank. newspaper
dealer in Overhrook, he saw a man
emerging from the grounds on the Sixty
fourth street side Of the Trigg home
about quarter Of an hour before the
explosion occurred He saw the man
drive away In motor car which had
been left AZ the curb
The description given Of the msn, who
IL believed to he white. is that he was
OF normal height and wore a long dark
Cvercoat The negro says he gave no
second thought TO the incident of the
man coming down the roadway from
the Trlgg garage, near where the OK
nl"siGn occurred. until he was aroused
by the explosion, and had been told
vher" II had taken place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
SAYS GERMANS TRIED
TO KILL ALL DOCTORS
Wounded Signalman at Meat =
Says That Was Reason fo
Bombing Hospitals -

Special Dispatch to Evcntn0 Public LEDGER
Camp Meade. Md. Jan. 1.v--Germans
bombed American and Allied hospitals
for the sole purpose of killing doctors,
according to Private Gilbert Mayor, of
the 105th Field Signal Battalion, who is
here recuperating from wounds received
at st Quentin when the famous Hinden-
burg line was broken. The lad declared
that the captured German officers gave
this as the reason for their attacks on
hospitals behind the lines "over there"
He quoted one Hun captain who was
captured as saying. "Privates can be
made in few days, noncommissioned
officers in a few weeks and Commits
stoned officers In a few months, but it
takes at least seven years to make a
doctor"
Mayer is "A Washingtonian. He Is an
expert radio operator and enlisted at
the outbreak of the war. Assigned to the
105th Field Signal Battalion, he served
as an EYE" for the army before the
famous Hindenburg line and was in
much of the hottest fighting of 1918, He
was fixing telephone wires at st.
Quentin just after the far'ous l'-, ."as
broken when bit OF German shrapnel
got him in the leg. Taken pack .ae
hospital in the rear. he narrowly escaped
death several times when the hospital
was bombed He says he heard German
officers who were taken as prisoners de-
clare that IT was their purpose to kill
all the doctors they could.
Mayer arrived here n few days aRo
with big detachment of wounded men
who arrived in New York He walks
about with cane and is rapidly recuper-
atlng, but is anxious to get back to civil
1T IL
Another victim of German shrapnel
here is Private Robert Morse, of the
147th Infantry. former unit of the
Ohio National Guard. Morse is a Bit
more fortunate than the other soldiers
who were wounded. because he can
proudly display the piece of steel which
crippled him in No Mans Land in the
big drive In Belgium after the Hinden-
burg line was smashed.
Both OF these lads complained about
receiving no pay from the Government
Neither of them has received a penny
from Uncle Sam for their services "oyer
there" since July. and they were specu-
lating this morning as to whether or not
the paymaster will find them here when
he makes his rounds In a few days.
The convalescent detachments are
being flled rapidly and the wounded
men are recuperating still more rapidly.
Large numbers of them will be dis
charged in "A few days
Private Henry Albert. Company r.
Seventy-frst Infantry, was discharged
this morning on account of dependent
relatives.