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Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Funeral Held for
Victims of Crash
Commerce High Clce Club
Sings at Last Rites for
Brother and Sister.

There were few dry eyes in the
crowd which assembled at the Swed-
ish Free Mission church yesterday
afternoon to pay last respects to
Theodore and Ruth Anderson,
brother and sister killed in a motor
cycle accident Sunday, when the
High School of Commerce Glee
club finished singing, with beau-
tiful expression, Nearer Ny God to
Thee" .,.. .-....
The Glee club, in which the
brother and sister sang during their
school days, was seated in specially
reserved section of the church. The
young VOICES OF the members, raised
in song. were tremulous with feeling,
Rev. A. A. Nelson. pastor, gave a
funeral sermon in Swedish. He told
how Theodore, always active in
church work, had requested that the
audience sing, in Swedish, the hymn.
That Beautiful Home Up Yonder,"
last Sunday morning, only short
time before the fatal accident.
Rev. Charles w. Savidge preached
the funeral serman in English. Girls
in which pallbearers- for Ruth, were
Alice, Janet, Hilma and Edith Peter
son, Elvera Johnson and Priscilla
Anderson. Pallbearers for Theodore
were Laurence Holmbcrg. Melvin
Larson, Arvid Johnson, Edwin Per-
son, Herbert Gustafson and Henry
Johnson. Burial was in Prospect
Hill cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Board Of Education
Opens Bid on New
Lake School Building

The buildings and grounds COM
mittee of the Board Of Education
opened bids yesterday afternoon for
the construction of the first unit of
the new Lake school and decided to
recommend to the board next Mon
day evening the following awards:
General construction, Peter kiewit
,& Son, S58,890; plumbing and
heating, Robert Parks Plumbing and
Heating company, $7,o47; electrical
wiring, Luhr & Luhr, $798.
The first unit will have six class
rooms, double kindergarten room,
toilet rooms and a storeroom. The
plans call for all ultimate building Of
20 class room, auditorium, manual
training and other. departments.
1t was estimated that the bids ac-
cepted yesterday were about IS per
cent lower than the prevailing cost OF
this class of construction one year
apo
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Seminary Profs
Get $500 Increase
Trustees Will Make Drive to
Secure More Recruits
For Ministry.

A raise OF $500 in the pay of pro
iessors of the Omaha Presbyterian
Theological seminary was voted a
the board OF trustees annual meet.
ing yesterday. Their pay viii now
be $2,40O year. III
Directors elected arc Rev. Leon D
Young of Dallas, Tex; Rev. John II
Haskell OF Wakefield, Neb., and DR.
J. M. Patton, Omaha. Fl. A. Doud
will replace Robert Dempster, re-
signed, as treasurer.
= DR.. Haskell and Rev. Alfred E.
Van Orden of Council Bluffs were
named on the examining committee.
The trustees approved a plan OF
newspaper publicity for the seminary
and authorized the appointment Of a
committee to consider lay workers
training school for the Presbyterian
general board of education. Dr.. A.
B. Marshall of Clarinda, Ia, will
make the appointments.
The trustees also decided yester-
day to make drive for recruits who
aspire to become ministers OF the
gospel:
Rev. James NJ. Wilson, president,
was authorized to make a trip as
far as the Pacific coast in a campaign
to interest prospective entrants for
the Omaha seminary.
'We must have ministers" is the
slogan which was adopted.
Omaha Seminary Day." will be
observed soon for the purpose Of
interesting young men in the min
istry as a life work.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Printers Get 44.Hour Week
Contracts in 23O Cities

Indianapolis, April 2S.-Contracts
prodviding for the 44hour week in
book and job printing offices have
been signed by employing printers
in 230 cities throughout the country,
Walter w. Barrett, vice president
of the International Typographical
union, said today. Instructions have
been sent to subordinate unions au-
thorizing them to declare strikes
May !, in all offices where the A.
hour week has not been put into ef-
feet. Exceptions are authorized
where contracts extend beyond the
first OF May.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
AT THE
THEAT ERS


THERE are five scenes and prologue
In Love Letters" the headline act in
= which Elizabeth Brice is appearing at
the orpheum. She Is singing comedienne
who made q name for herself in musical
comedy. Her present vehicle was espec-
tally designed for her by Edgar Allan
woolf. Carl Mccullough in his novel
diversion, Squirrel Haven" is one of the
conspicuous features of the show. He Is
entertaining as a monologist, but 1t is with
dears himself to vaudeville audiences.
Another pleasing phase Of the bill is Of
fered by Flo Lewis. She is fetching
eonsdisnne who dances well and md. sing; ,s ss.
garde Lachmann and Florence Ellsworth.
win clamorous appreciation with their
Juvenile act.
parting Of the way as concerns Omaha's
lovers of musical burlesque and the cur
rent season, for with the two final per-
formances Of Town Scandals" today. the
season Will become = pleasant memory.
as have the eleven preceding seasons dur
ing which the Gayety has been exclusively
devoted to this popular twenteth-century
type Of entertainment. II you have not
you'll feel better for II after having alb
sorbed all tho whimsicalities Of Ethel
(Snappy) Shutta and her able assistants.
Town Scandals Is worth while from cur
tain to curtain.
"Mutt and Jeff at the Races will
entertain the patrons of the Brandeis
theater for the week commencing next
Sunday night. As in former years Man
ager Gus Hill Is sponsor for the '1ong and
short" of it as Mutt and Jeff are familiar
ly known. As he has done well by his
proteges in years past it is quite evident
that he won't desert them now.
'The Sweetheart Shop direct from four
weeks at the Columbia theater, San Fran
cisco and fresh from triumphs In New
York. Chicago and Boston comes to the
Brandeis theater for four days beginning
Sunday night. May with a matinee We'd
ncsday, with Harry X. Morton and the en-
tire original company. Edgar ]. MacGregor.
who gave the coast original companies of
"Ths Velvet Lady" "a Pair OF SKIES" and
THE Iittlest Rebel" is the producer who
believes that the coast is entitled to num-
her one companies. The same big scenic
production as used in San Francisco will
be on view here. It is a Broadway COM
pany. including special musicians who
were sent from New York to California.
Mixtures" the stellar act Of the EN-
press show today, really is mixture Of
songs, dances. and clean humor presented
by four artists who have a rare combina-
ticn Of talent Artistic and daring is
the posing number presented by Wezton's
models Waiman and Berry. is one of the
best musical turrs seen on the local stage
! this season. Dan Ahesrn 4 an irrepressibIe
comedian who can do credit with fun pro-
yeking qualities far superior TO the aver
Ass,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Niece Files Action
For Portion Of Late
Senator Fair Estate

San Francisco, April 2S.-A con-
test for l-36th portion OF
the $22,5o0,000 estate of the late
United States Senator James G.
Fair was filed by Mrs. Mary J..
Lundy, administrators of the estate
OF Eliza Ann Fair, claimed in the
action to be niece of the senator.
Eliza Ann Fair died in state hos
pital in Cherokee. "a, July %, 1918.
The defendants are Mrs. Theresa
A. Oelrichs and Mrs. Virginia
Vanderbilt of New York. daughters
of Senator Fair, their children and
others. ..
A clause in the Fair will is in
voked in the action as guaranteeing
l-36th division of Eliza Ann Fair.
Fair.
a charge that Judge Frederick w.
Henshaw as associate justice of the
state supreme court accepted bribe
OF $4,000 to influence certain de-
cisions i'll the long drawn-out Fair
will contest against the present and
other litigants is contained in the
complaint.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Concord Club Gets
300 More Members
For Samson; Total 6l4

AS an incentive to competing clubs
that are striving for Ak-Sar- zen
memberships, the Concord club an
nounced yesterday an increase of 500
members for Samson, making total
OF Ola to its credit.
Harry lizard, captain of the Bull
frog group OF hustlers, was high man
in obtaining members for Ak-Sar-
Ben. James H. Corey, captain of
the Tadpole group. boasts OF second
place, with the following remark at
the Concord MONDAY luncheon yes
terday: "Never mind, fellows, the
tadpoles will be frogs bye and bye"
The Concord, Kiwanis, Rotary,
Lion and Ad-Sell clubs have sur
prises in store for Omaha business
men next week, according to Charles
Gardner, secretary of Ak-Sar-Ben.
To date, membership in Ak-Sar-
Ben totals 1850.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Small Boys Rearrested on
Horse-Stealing Charge

Kermit Gasaway. 8. and his
brother, Arnold 5. were taken in
charge by juvenile authorities again
yesterday on reports that they had
stolen horse and buggy belonging
to Earl Steiner. 4506 Frederick av-
enuc, last Saturday. The horse and
buggy were taken from Fifteenth
and Jackson streets, it was stated.
They will have a hearing next Sat-
urday.
They were discharged only week
ago after being arrested for tortur-
ing little boy in "cave" at Nine
teenth and Nipton streets several
weeks ago. Kermit, while he was at
Riverview home awaiting hearing
on this charge, stole horse and
rode it to his home. 250o South
Twentieth street.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Kansas Banker
Heads Loan Go.
And Bank Here
l.. M. Lord, Former Presi.
dent, Named Chairman of
Board Capital Stock to
Be Increased.

A. w. Pratt, Kansas banker. was
elected president of the Live Stock
National bank and the Live Stock
Cattle Loan company at meeting
of the directors OF the two compa-
nies yesterday. l.. Nj. Lord, former
president of the two companies, was
elected chairman of the board OF
directors.
Mr.. Pratt, the newly-elected pres
ident, has had 20 years experience in
the banking and live stock loaning
business throughout the country.
Part of this time he was associated
with the Morris & Company inter-
csts in an executive capacity.
Fl. J.. Jarboe, jr.. president OF the
Drovers National bank of the Union
Stock Yards, Kansas City. Mo-, was
added to the board of directors Of
both institutions. He has been in
Omaha for the past few days, gave
indications OF being strongly inn
pressed with the possibilities of Om-
aha, the stock yards and banks here,
and will spend considerable time in
aiding in the rapid development Of
the two financial institutions.
The directors also voted the cap
ital stock in the bank and loan COM
panv be increased: the bank from
$500,000 to $6s0,000 and the loan
company from $300,000 to $750.000
These increases were made ito bet
ter care for clients in the northwest,
consisting of bankers and cattlemen. !"
c. M. MacFarlane. a member Of
the board of the two institutions and
vice president and treasurer of Nor
ris & Company at Chicago. has been
here for the past few days, during
which time he has materially in
creased the former large stockhold-
ing of the Morris organization in
tt,.ea t,.,@ .,,et,t,,t,Nnx
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Teachers Will Get
Breakfast at School

Teachers of the afternoon shift at
the High School of Commerce will
be served breakfast at the school
building due to the fact that hereto
fore they have had to rush down
town every morning about 9 for their
morning meal.
The catering class will serve
breakfast every school-day morning
from $50 to 9:45. The pedagogs
will get their fodder at cost, with
the added advantage Of the excellent
service from their pupils.
Wise senior owls" at Commerce
are nodding their heads whenever a
teacher passes now, for it is rumered
that when the new Commerce Tech
building is completed the teachers
will have lodging a. we'll as food.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29

The world was at first incredulous.
but as the shells continued to fall
in the city and its suburbs incredul-
ity gave way 70 stunned belief. Ten
people were killed and Is wounded
the first day. A week later. Good
Friday, March %, the long range
bombardment resulted in a tragedy
which shocked civilization. 1t could
scarcely have been by design, and
yet the coincidence of the day and
the objective is extraordinarily sig
nificant for mere chance.
Kill IS in Church.
On this day OF sacred fast, the
holiest memorial Of the Christian
year, while a congregation of de-
vout NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and chill
dren and men too old to fight
prayed in the Church of St. Ger
vaise, a she'll crashed through the
roof Of the building, killing IS per-
sons, of whom 81 were women, and
five of these Americans. Ninety
other persons were injured.
In all Christian lands people were
aghast at this slaughter OF the de-
fenseless.
The thing that stirred mems in
dignation was that this phenomenal
gun was apparently of no practical
value for military purposes. Its use
lay wholly in terrorizing the ci-
william population Of Paris by Staying
the helpless. 1t was an attempt to
weaken the heart of France, to
break her spirit and resolution. 1t
was hoped, doubtless, that when
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Harding Expresses Hope
u. S. Soon Will Have Pcac

Boston, April 2S-A hope that t.
United States would soon be able ID
effect real progress toward suhs
stantial peace was expressed BY
President Harding in letter which
was read at the annual dinner OF tho
Middlcsex club last night. He re<
ferred to present conditions as cons
stituting nominal peace and lacN
ing many benefits of a real peace.
General Grants advice, let uS
have peace is a peculiarly propeA
theme" the president wrote IN taks
ing notice OF the fact that the oes
casion was Grant anniversary obs
servance.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29

news of what was happening to the
women and children at home
reached the men at the front it
would shake the wonderful morale
which had held at Verdun and on
many another desperate field OF en-
counter.
For five months Paris endured
the horror of this menace. No one
knew when the shells would fall, or
where, but the city went about its
business and kept its courage.
Nemesis From America.
Meantime, over here in America
the Nemesis of the great German
cannon was in preparation.
The United States navy was at
that very time building long range
guns, with this difference of purpose
and viewpoint from the enemy; that
our objective was a weapon which
would be effective from military
standpoint; which could accomplish
definite destruction within the COM
batant lines of the foe.
The German gun was freak. 1t
may be questioned whether it has
significant value for future warfare.
1t was interesting as demonstra-
ton of what can be done in hurting
projectiles through space; it was ter
rible as further evidence OF the
heartless cruelty of Teutonic mill
tarism; but whether it contributed
anything of greater usefulness to the
practical science OF artillery than
Jules Verne's story Of the gun which
dropped projectile on the moon
is opeil to debate.
The development OF guns and
shells for use in the event of pos
sible future wars-which, pray God,
the world will be spared-is more
likely to follow along the lines on
which American experiment and
achievement have moved.
Threw 1,4o0-Pound Shells.
The new United States navy
guns were being built on plans
which would make them the biggest
ever placed on railway or other mo-
bile mounts-and far more powerful
than any artillery then in use for
military purposes on the western
front. - s.%
Although their range was con-
sidcrably less than that of the Ger
man monster, they were made to
fire she'll very much bigger and
more destructive. The German gun
threw nine-inch shell, weighing
about 200 pounds. The American
guns were built to throw a l4-inch
shell, weighing l,400 pounds-and,
when they got into action, they did.
The first mount, complete with its
huge l4-inch naval gun, rolled out
OF the shops on April Is, 1918, less
than a month from the time of the
Good Friday slaughter in the French
church. Tested at Sandy Hook,
N. J., five days later, it proved
complete success. 1t hurled its inn
mense projectiles more than Is
miles. p.
If our guns had been built in
Paris we could have had them at,
the front in three days. They were
made to move by rail, and to be
ready for almost immediate action.
But they had to get to France first,
and the difficulties of fighting a
war 5000 miles away were I'M
pressed upon us by this necessity
for transporting them.
No Ship Big Enough.
No ship was big enough to carry
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29

one OF them set up. Each had to
be taken to pieces before loading.
The last OF the mounts was COM
pleted May 2S--a new record for
quick construction.
But getting ship to take them
over was no easy task. The first
ship assigned was so badly battered
up it had to 60 into dock for re-
pairs; the second ship-the Texel--
was sunk by U-boat near our
coast. 1t was June % before the
Newport News, heavily laden with
material, sailed for France.
The guns were received in
France with amazement. There was
some fear expressed lest the attempt
to transport them to the front by
rail might result in their cripplng
transportation, because of their
tremendous weight. But the fear
was needless.
News OF their coming, doubtless,
reached the Germans. '
The proof of that is found in the
extraordinary thing that happened
next.
Stop Smelling of Paris.
The German mastodon of guns
had been registering on Paris with
fair regularity. By series of nice
calculations and daring observations
its position had been located in the
forest of St. Gobain, on plateau
north of the Aisne.
South of the Aisne was the forest
of Compiegne, and to this place OF
concealment the American guns were
headed. With their 25-nlile range
they would be able to search out the
cover of the German masterpiece.
They were barely under way be-
fore the stlelling of Paris ceased, and
when battery No. 2 reached its posi-
ton in the forest of Compiegne about
August 2l it was greeted with the
news that the day before the Ger
mans had hastily Withdrawn their
pet. From that day until the armis-
tice no more shells fell in Paris.
The Germans knew that the giant
freak could not stand up under the
fire of the l4-incf, 1,400-pound shells
which the United States navy guns
were preparing to drop in its neigh
bcrhood, and displayed that discre.
ton which has been named the bet
ter part of valor.
Tribute to American Genius.
The story of the work accom-
plished by.th United States naval
batteries in the latter weeks of the
war, in the days which were crucial
and held victory or defeat in their
hours OF anxiety, is a story tha:
would bear detailed telling. Follow
ing operations with the French and
American armies from Soissons to
Verdun shelling bases, ammunition
depots and railway yards they
wrought destruction far behind the
German lines. cutting communica-
tons and disrupting their transpor-
tation system, playing conspicuous
part in the taking OF Laon and Terg-
nier in the Msuse-Argonne offensive,
in shelling Montnedy and Longuyon
and in cutting the German main ar
terry between Metz and Sedan. They
remained in action to the end, their
last shot falling into the German
lines at almost the very moment
when the armistice ended hostilities.
Their record was triumph of Amer
ican genius and naval efficiency.
(Another article by Former Secretary
Daniels will be printed t0morrow3
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Right of Free Speech
IInheld Ry Sunreme Court

Hartford, Conn. April 28.-The
right of free speech" was upheld by
the Connecticut supreme court in
the case of McAlister Coleman Of
New York, who spoke in a series Of
street meetings in this state last year.
Coleman was charged with using a
public square in Meriden for deliv-
cry of an oration without first get
ting a permit from the police. In
the court of common pleas in New
Haven, Conn, Coleman was fined
S25 and appealed. The supreme court
finds error in the lower courts judg-
men:.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Self.Government Started
By Commerce Students

Self-government in study hall is
being instituted in the High School
of Commerce among upper classnen
and students will inflict punishments
upon their mischievous classmates
beginning next week.
The pupils of each study hour
have elected two representatives
from each table of about so students.
These representatives compose 4
council which has drawn up con-
stitution approved by the student
body. A chairman also was elected
as executive head of the council.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
.'&7\)te te'7

Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle is play
ing around with an oil gusher this
week on location for scenes in his
new Paramount picture Gasoline
Gus" based on George Pattullo's
stories. THE only gushing in this
picture" remarks Mr.. Arbuckie, "is
done by he oil we'll"
Having dissected an automobile
until he knows it from stem to stern,
Wallace Reid is now learning the in
nards' of hell digger. Know what
that IS: It is a big gold dredger
whose NICKNAME is given to the pic
turc,' "fhe He'll Diggers."
Oyster Bay, New. York. furnished
the location for most OF the exteriors
III Elsie Fcrguson's latest picture,
'Footlights' which is nearing COM
pletion at the company's eastern
studio. The water scenes were taken
at this picturesque spot.
Agnes Ayres has left Los Angeles
for New York to play the feminine
lSdu Will uulidS MSlSHdH, WHO Is
TO star in "Cappy Ricks," an adapta-
lion OF the stories by Peter B. Kyne
Richard Bennett, one OF America 5
formemost actors, is studying motion
picture technique. If" says he, the
business is still in its infancy, I'm
goirg to grow up with the infant and
be at maturity when it is"
Downtown Programs.
Eialto - Douglas Fairbanks in
The Nut
Sun-Norma Talrnadge in Ghosts
OF Yesterday"
Moon-Tom Mix in Hands OIL"
Strand-Wallace Reid in The
Love Special"
Empress-"Sunset Jones.
Muse Burglar Proof"
Neighborhood Houses.
Grand-Pola Negri in Passion.
Ham:l.on-Mary Pickford in Re
hecea cf Sunnybrook Farm
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Quarrel Over Road Leads
To Murder and Suicide

Gregory, S. D., April 2S.-George
Willoughby, So, shot and killed Rob
ert Stockman and then killed himself
on his farm near Mullin late yes
terday. The tragedy was due to a
quarrel over the location of road.
Stockman was road supervisor.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Art Glasses Make Posters
For Commerce High PLAY

Art classes, instructed by Miss
McCague of the High School OF
Commerce are designing posters
which will be placed in the windows
of downtown stores to advertise the
graduating classes Shakespearean
play, "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" Each student of Art II is
required to make at least one poster
for the play.
illustrations for the posters are be-
ing taken from the illustrated
copies of Midsummer Nights
Dream" and IT he Merchant of
Venice" The pictures are censored
by Miss McCague and are then en-
1arged.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Kiwanians Will Celebrate
Ladies' Night With BANQUET

Members Of the kiwanis club will
celebrate Ladies Night" at the
Rome hotel tonight with a banquet
and special program of speaking,
music and dancing. The dinner will
be served at Gas. Adrian M. New
ems, Lincoln, will be the principal
speaker. His subject will be 1.-The
World Rolls On"
During the dinner prizes donated
by various members of the club will
be given away.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Big Price S|ashing|
Sale Of Floor Lamps
and Shades SATURDAY.
Union 0utfitting Co.
You Can Secure a Beauti-
full Shade or Complete
Lamp ut a Low Price.

Beyond question Of doubt the
sale Of Silk Lamp Shades and
Floor Bases at the Union Out
fitting Co. next Saturday is thts
greatest "value-giving" event OF
its kind that has been held in
Omaha in years.
The bargains in Shades are
sensational, as it is a clearance of
Floor samples. In addition a
special purchase of complete
Lamps (Floor Bases and Shades)
is also offered. AS always, you
make your own terms.
Advertisement
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29

declared the regular quarterly divt
dcnds on both classes OF pretcrre0
and common stocks. President Z.
G. Grace stated that the dividend
on the common stock had been mor<s
than earned during the quarter. .
Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-29
Reserve Board Head Will
Make Personal Credit Probe

Washington, April 2S.-Governor
Harding of the Federal Reserve
board announced today that he
would begin next week personal
survey OF the farm credit situation
in the middle west and southwest.