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Evening star., 1921-07-10

ready sympathy for the other fellow
who is being knocked about.
While the world war was in prog
ress and the American youths were
living overseas under conditions that
made the hard side conspicuous, while
the niceties of polite socety were
thrown aside and men herded as ami
mails and slept as rats in the trenches,
his fellows came to know and respect
Col. Forbes for the traits he proposes
to emphasize in his administration Of
the war risk bureau. For example:
Esteemed By subordinates.
Senator Wesley L. Jones Of Wash
ington recently received from a
young friend, John Van Etten. in
Reed College. Portland, Ore.-whom
Col. Forbes never knew existed-a
letter telling Of a particular Incl
dent in which Forbes had been of
service to enlisted men, and express
ing high appreciation Of his ability
an an Army officer and of his fellow
ships as a man. The letter read:
i
in learning with what a friendly feel
ing he was regarded by the enlisted
men in his command. This. as you
well know, was not always the case.
He was the squarest and most kindly
officer. and the finest soldier in whose
command was. During those days I
was coming into particularly close
contact with the men in my own COM
pany as well as the others in the bat
talon and to a man we felt that Col.
at that time Maj-Forbes was a
man and a friend.
II recall an incident in which GER
tain Frenchman who ran a hotel had
kicked out certain men of the bat
talon from his barn loft where they
were supposed to sleep. The major
Immediately over US was inclined to
be intimidated by the Frenchman-
who was entirely unjustified in his
action-and was making ready to
have the men pitch shelter tents in
the mud of the courtyard. Nobody
was very cheerful, because mud and
rain are not conducive to slumber, but
when your c. o. tells you to do some
thing you do it and don't argue.
Shortly Maj. Forbes arrived. What
he said to the Frenchman won't bear
repeating. but that y fellow about
passed out-and the company spent
the night in the barn loft.
HE certainly was human in his
contact with us. and not only human,
but helpful. He was at that time
handling the communications Of the
42d Division and had the record for
construction Of lines. Communication
operations and maintenance went
mighty smoothly, too, while he was
with the division. have the highest
regard for him as an administrator
He afterward went up to the front In
charge Of the gone of advance and
there lost track Of him, being or
dered to the front myself and there
after to the United States to bring
over q new outfit. was told later
by another officer who had been with
him and who I met at Fort Leaven-
worth that his record had been Of the
highest"
Besides being thus qualified and
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
3l2 Boys Graduates
OF " Swim School
Youngsters Know How to
Swim and Dive After 3
Weeks Course.

Three hundred and twelve Omaha
boys were graduated from the Y.
NJ. c. A. free swimming school last
night. . ... a.... ..
Seven hundred and thirty-fve boys
were enrolled in the classes which
were held during the last three
weeks.
At the graduating exercises, Mac
Gilman offered a, vaudeville feature
and Mary Miles Minter six-reel
feature film, "The Fairy and the
Wait" was shown.
In a guessing contest among the
boys. three free memberships in the
Y. NJ. c. A. were given as prizes.
Every boy who was given a
diploma from the swimming school
had learned to swim so feet and dive.
More than 200 other boys learned
tho elementary principles of swim
ming and with little practice, will
be able to swim the required 50 feet
and qualify as beginners.
Last year l25 boys were graduated
from the swimming school. 4
This years class is double that
and is the largest number of boys
ever taught in local swimming
campaign.
Boys who were unable to attend
the graduating exercises last night,
will receive their diplomas through
the mail early next week.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Hunters Seek inohyus in
Agate Springs Ranch Quarry
Armed With Pick and Shovel Biologists and Paleon-
tologists Start Annual Hunt for Recovery
Of Bones of Prehistoric Earth
Travellers.

dropped. Capt. Harold I. Cook, son
of the owner OF the ranch and con-
sulting engineer, says it seems more
probable that the bone bed is the re-
suit of a great eddy in cove along
the shore line Of an immense river.
The carcasses of various herds and
individuals are believed to have been
picked up by the moving water and
lodged in the cover. This, he be
lieves, would account for the partial
segregation of types as we'll as the
miscellaneous mixture of animals
found in the quarries.
The Titanotherium, or giant beast,
is the largest animals bones to be
found in this region. 1t is about the
size of an elephant. The most COM
mon fossil mammal in the bad lands
of Nebraska is the Oredonan herbiv-
orus animal, about the size of the
domestic sheep. AS many as eight or
10 skulls of the Oredon have been
found frequently in space no larger
than the floor of an ordinary room.
1t has been discovered here by
scientists that America is the home
of the rhinoccros, the camel, as well
as that of the horse and many other
animals now to be found only in for
eign countries or not at all. Mr..
Cook says that Nebraska is the home
of the rhinocerosis and their wander
ings led them into other parts of the
world. At Agate, their bones and
skulls occur in heaps. He says they
became extinct in Nebraska at the
close OF plicocene-half a million
years ago.
The fossils collected from the
bone-beds at Agate Springs ranch are
entirely mammalian. Only a few of
these, however, attract general atten-
ton, such as titanothercs, Oredon,
rhinocerosis, horses, hogs, bovine,
mastodons, mammoths, camels, deer
and carniyores.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
WHERE TO FIND
The Big Features Of
The Sunday Bee

Nebraska Authors Who Are Fa-
mous-Part 4, Page /.
"The Other Shoe," a Blue Ribbon
Story-Part 4, Page 3.
For Boys and Girls-Part a.
Page 2.
Nebraska's Livest Sport Section
Part 3, Pages / and 2.
For Women Readers-Part 2.
Montague in Prose - Part 4,
Page l.
Letter From Home Made Father
to His Son-Part l, Page II.
Married Life of Helen and Warren
Part l, Page IL.
Scientists Machine Registers vi
brations Disclosing Untruths-Part
/, Page 3.
Omahans Protest Amazing Ignor-
ance"-Part /, Page II.
"Kid" Days on the Farm-Roto-
gravure Section. Page l.
Editorial-Part 4, Page 4.
Heart Secrets of Fortune Teller
Part a, Page /.
Gibson Cartoon-Part 4, Page s.
Music-Part 4, Page 8.
For Home Builders Part 3.
Page ;.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Three Overcome
By Heat in Omaha;
Boy, l3, Drowned
Heat Wave Claims First Vic.
TINS of Year, One Woman
And Two Men
Frustrated.

Police in boats dragging Carter
lake recovered the body of Fred
Gibson, l3,sson of William Gibson,
colored, 2li North Twenty-scventfi
street, who was drowned about a
Saturday afternoon.
The lad was drowned when he fell
from log on which he and COM
panion were attempting to paddle
across canal at Larson's landing
with two companions.
The father told officers that his
son left home at 9 Saturday morn
ing, saying he was going to the lake
Mr.. Gibson did not see him after
wards.
The body was recovered by Paul
Johnson, 450l North Fourteenth, and
Clarence Weber, 1909 North Four
teenth.
Three Overcome by Heat.
The warm weather of Saturday
prostrated the first three heat victims
of the season in Omaha.
Harry Z. Lane, Thirtieth and Fort
streets, is still in a semi-conscious
condition after being overcome by
the heat at Fifteenth and Dodge
streets. He was taken to Central
police station, where he was still
under the care of physician at a
late hour Saturday night.
Mrs. Anna Jensen. l722 Capitol
avenue. was overcome in front of the
postofflce.
J. A. Yost, 1412 North Seventeenth
street, fell to the sidewalk in front
of the First National bank at Six
teenth and Farnam streets when
overcome by the heat. He was picked
up by Patrolman Urbanek. Yost
and Mrs. Jensen were taken to their
homes after being revived
Omaha had the highest tempera-
ture cf any city in the United States
Friday, according to weather re-
ports.
The mercury stood at % at 5 and
4 in the afternoon. 1t was only 90
at Phoenix, Ariz.
Omaha has had hotter weather lat
this time of year, however. On May
%, 1918, the temperature was go and
on May IA, 1915, the mercury stood
at 96.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Escaped Mail Robber
Identified by Clerk

!. Sacramento, Cal, May 2l-Roy
Gardner, escaped mail rohber, was
identified by Ralph Decker, mail
clerk on Southern Pacific train No.
20, which was robbed last night
near New Castle, as the man who
committed the robbery The identi-
flcation was made through a photo
graph. Decker returned today from
New Castle, where he reported the
robbery of the Pacific Limited
The robber cut open 81 pouches
of mail, but took only one from the
car. This was found with its con-
tents missing. No estimate has been
made of the value of the contents.
Gardner was seen yesterday in
Roseville, at which point the bandit
is believed to have boarded the
train.
Gardner escaped June 7, 1920, near
Portland, Ore, after having been
sentenced to a term in federal peni-
tertiary for mail robbery at San
Diego.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22

Agate, Neb., May 2l.--The annual
big game hunt of trained geologists
and paleontologists of the world is
urdcr way at the Agate Spring ranch
near here. Instead of using high
powered rifles to bag their game these
expert hunters of rhinocerosis. mas
todons, camel and deer use pick and
shovel. The animals sought are not
live ones but are the bones of pre-
historic Garth travellers OF million
or so years ago.
The Agate Springs ranch owned by
Capt. James H. Cook extends along
the Niobarara river for 10 miles in
Sioux county and is about Is miles
southeast of Harrison. On it is To-
Gated what is said to be the greatest
prehistoric bone quarry in the world.
Since its discovery 80 years. ago,
persons interested in the study OF
fossil remains have been making ex-
plorations. During the coming sea-
son, the quarries will be worked by
the United States National museum,
Smithsonian institution, under the di-
rection of J. w. Gidley and others.
The American museum OF New York
will have the usual party here taking
what they desire but continuing the
search for dinohyus-an ancestral
hog about the size of the OK i'll height
and weight. A fine skeleton OF the
dinohyus was secured in 1904 by the
Moril geological expedition 1t stood
nearly seven feet in height. ,
In prehistoric times tho place now
called Agate Springs ranch is be-
lieved by some to have been a water
hole, similar to the modern African
water holes, where at times great
herds of animals gathered to drink.
Other scientists believe the place to
have been lake and that carcases
dr;fted to this spot and their bones
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
sProhibs' to
Ask Rigid
Dry Laws
Volstead Act Is Too Tame, De.
clare Enemies of Demon
Rum Who Plan
Campaign.
Too Many Leaks, Claim
By DAVID M. CHURCH.

Washington, May 2l.-Sahara will
be glistening lake compared to the
United States, if the plans of the
prohibitionists meet with the appro-
val of congress.
The dry forces, unsatisfied with
the effects of the Volstead law, are
mapping out a vigorous campaign to
be conducted in the present congress
in an effort to stop up the leaks in
the dry law dixie
Prohibitionists are certain that the
present congress is just as dry as
was the last and they are hopeful that
their campaign will meet with sue
cess, although they realize that with
elections two years distant, pressure
can not be as easily applied to this
congress as to the last.
The first step in the campaign to
put the lid on intoxicants has been
taken by Representative Volstead in
introducing bill to prevent the use
of beer and wine as medicines. Only
the future can determine the fortunes
of this bill, but the ''drys" arc watch
ing its course with great eagerness,
to determine the sentiment of the
present congress.
Propose Drastic Measures.
Other planks in the dry plat
form, which will be presented to
congress, are set forth as follows:
1-Congress shall cut off importa-
ton of liquors for at least five
years.
2-The further manufacture OF
whisky shall be prohibited until the
present stock is down to very small
reserve basis.
5-The present stock of liquors
shall be concentrated by giving the
commissioner power to move liquors
when such action will conduce the
enforcement of the prohibition law.
4-The total, prohibitive tax shall
be assessed against offenders for
each offense.
5-Only alcohol. not liquors or
wines shall be allowed to be used
as base for medicines"
6-Alcohol to be used for legiti-
mate purposes, such as the manufac
ture of toilet commodities, shall be
denatured at the place OF original
manufacture.
Want Civil Service.
THE employees of the enforce
ment organization shall be placed
under civil service.
S-If the prohibition enforcement
department is transferred to the De-
partment OF Justice, careful distinc-
ton shall be made between those
parts of the law which involve Grim
inal investigations and prosecution
and such sections as provide for the
prohibitive standards, etc, which
features shall be left to the control
of the commission of internal reve-
nue..
Omitted States commissioners
shall be given power to try misde-
meanor offenses against the prohibi-
ton law.
If these laws fail to check the en-
terprise of thirsty and resourceful
then the "drys" have a
few more up their sleeves. They are
in earnest about this prohibition
business, even if the thirsty are not.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Reunion of Nebraskans in
34th Division Here Planned

A reunion of the five Nebraska
regiments which formed part Of the
Thirty-fourth division is being
planned for Omaha during Ak-Sar-
Ben week.
A committee was appointed at the
meeting of the Sixth Nebraska In
fantry association Friday night to
confer with Secretary Gardner of
Ak-Sar-Ben on plans for securing
the reunion.
A call was sent forth from this
meeting to all former members of
the Sixth Nebraska to get in touch
with H. III. Dudley. 5l33 North Thir-
ty-third street, who has membership
applications.
Former members of Company c,
Sixth Nebraska, will meet in the Pax<
ton hotel lobby at 1880 Sunday aft.
ernoon to attend in body the fu-
neral OF Bugler Clyde B. Kilgore,
member of Company c, who died in
France of wounds September l, 1918,
in Council Bluffs.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
American Would Buy
Hindenburg Statue
Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1921

Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1921.
Berlin, May 2l.-Among the bid
ders for the famous Hindenburg
colossal wooden statue, into which
the former kaiser drove gold nail
and the common Germans iron ones,
is an American who offers $4,000
marks for it.
Otto Buttzke, the owner OF the
statue who offered it for sale in
whole or in part, informed .he
Tribune's correspondent that he had
received hundreds of requests for
portions of it. Many wanted to use
bits of the statue for firewood, but
inasmuch as the press strongly at
tackled such action as "sacrilegious."
Herr Buttzke declared he would
only sell it complete.
The American who is seeking to
buy the statue says he wants it
to let Americans drive nails in it
again at Is cents a nail, half Of the
proceeds going to the American Le-
gion and the other half to the Red
Cross
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
400 Deputies
To Enforce Law
On Headlights g
Force of Road Patrolmen Or.
ganized to Enforce Law
Passed by Legislature
In April.

Adoptioa Of TIE Connecticut speci-
iicatioEs ior automobile headlight
lenses in Nebraska was decided on
at a meeting of road patrolrncn and
law enforcement officers, held in
Lincoln Friday and presided over
by State Engineer Johnson.
ANY manufacturer who can show
by a laboratory test certificate his
lenses comply with the Nebraska
law will be given a permit to sell
i'll this state, it was decided.
Every road patrolman-there arc
more than 400 Of them iii the state
will be made deputy sheriff to en-
force the bill passed by legislature
in April which makes it unlawful for
individuals, firms or corporations to
drive or have driven any motor
vehicle not equipped with lawful
lenses"
These men will combine their ef-
forts with those of police officials
throughout the state in rigid en-
forcement Of the law. 1t is provided
that violators shall be fined from $40
to $50. A penalty is placed on auto
mobile merchants who sell cars not
equipped with lawful lenses" or
those that sell lenses which do not
conform with the law, the bill pro-
vides.
1t is the duty Of the department of
public works to issue annually
printed list of approved motor
vehicle lenses designating the candle
power Of light bulbs to be used with
the different lenses.
The law does not apply to tourists
driving through the state for period
of 80 days, providing they have com
piled with their own state laws IN
the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Aged Man Hurt When
Struck By Street Car

S. H. Lewis, "a, S07 North Six
tecnth street, sustained possible frac-
ture of the skull when struck by a
northbound street car at Sixteenth
and Burt streets Saturday afternoon.
The aged man was caught under the
fender of the car. He was taken to
the Methodist hospital.
John Berger. S12 North Sixteenth
street, who witnessed the accident,
tainted when he saw Lewis knocked
down by the car.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Refugees Flock
Into Poland From
Soviet Russia
Starvation and Death Follow
In Wake of Hordes-Many
Ukrainain Jews on
Way to u. S. ...
Rv /. C. WALTER.

Chicago Tribune Gable, Copyright. 1921
Warsaw, May 2l,-oHundreds O
thousands of refugees are pouring
into Polish territory from soviet
land, on horse carts, in cattle trains,
on foot-a fresh invasion from the
east which promises to increase in
volume with the imminent exchange
OF the Riga treaty ratihcations by
Polish and soviet delegates at Minsk.
For the most part the civilian re-
fugees are Ukrainain Jews fiocking
to Poland on their way to America.
Starvation, disease and frequently
death follow on the heels of the mass
migration, but hundreds of tragedies
are averted by doctors and food and
clothing distributors.
Judge Hugo Pam of Chicago,
who came to Poland as a delegate
of the Hebrew immigration Aid So
ciety, after examining the conditions
under which the influx of Ukrainian
and Russian Jews is taking place, has
arranged with the Polish govern
ment for facilities in feeding and
housing the immigrants. Beyond
stipulating that the refugees should
be kept out of congested Warsaw
until everything is ready for the pass
port forna1ities, the Warsaw author
tiles have raised no obstacles, Judge
Pam told the Tribune correspondent
In contrast with the mass flight of
Russian and Ukrainian Jews through
Poland, Rumania and Austria is the
steady current of Russians returning
to Sovdepia through Riga. Many OF
these, according to Judge Pam, who
studied the situation III his tour of
the Baltic countries, are frankly at
tached to their country, although
the majority are traders bent on busi-
ness.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Echoof ElWen
Shooting Heard
In Murder Case
Female Directory" of Slain
Turfman to Be Investigated
to Shed Clew on New
Mystery.

New York, May 2l.-Evidence
gathered in the Elwell murder mys-
tery OF last summer, when the
wealthy turfman was found dead IN
his apartment, will be sifted care
fully in the hope of finding con-
meeting link with New 4orks latest
murder sensation.
Investigation of the shooting OF
John H. Reid, described as a
wealthy manufacturer of underwear,
at the home of Mrs. Hazel Davis
Warner in the Bronx, has led to a
scrutiny of the little black book"
in which Elwel1 was said to have
recorded the names of more than
so women friends.
District Attorney Glennon of the
Bronx requested District Attorney
Swann's Office, Manhattan, to turn
over to him the Elwell female di-
rectory.'' District Attorney Glen
non is hoping that he will find in the
Elwcll catalogue the names of the
women now figuring in the Reid
shooting.
Francis r. Boylan and two women
have disappeared completely. They
were the other, members of the
strange orgy which is supposed to
have lasted through last Saturday
night in the richly furnished home
of Mrs. Warner.
The party broke up early Sunday
morning when face at the window"
while the party were breakfasting
gave the PARTY fearful fright. The
@face at the window is supposed to
have been that of the other admirer
of Mrs. Warner and the one who
cmptied his revolver into the head
and body of Reid, who is still near
death at Fordham hospital.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Girls in the Water Office
Climb on Desk Tops as
Biz Rat ROan,S Round

When Henrietta Briley of the ac-
counting department OF the Metro
politan water Office, opened her desk
at 8 yesterday a large rat ap-
peared. She quickly closed the
drawer, thinking the rodent had been
imprisoned. She then opened a
lower drawer and the rat again ap-
peared. She closed the second drawer
and opened a third, to be greeted
the third time by a rat, or the rat,
which then emerged and caused con-
sternation throughout the office.
Clerks from adjoining Offices
rushed to the scene of commotion,
finding SIX young women standing
on top OF desks.
The rat got away and probably
will live another day.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Mother Gets Children
Father Put in Institute

Edna D. Bassett obtained posses
sion of her two young children yes
terday from the Child Saving insti-
tute by order Of District Judge
Wakeley..
Her husband, Arthur c. Bassett,
failed to support her and finally de-
serted her, taking the children with
him, she says. He placed them in
the Child Savings institute, which
refused to turn them over to her
without court order. The Bassetts
were married in Boone, Ia, FebrI-
ary II, 1917.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Negro Member of Ship Grew
Is Missing After Battle

Portland, Me-, May 2l.-James
Walker, a negro member of the crew
of the Schooner Mary Barrett, was
missing today after a raid on the
vessel by gang of men who at
tackled the FIVE negro sailors after
driving them from their hunks to the
deck at pistol point. The negroes
fought back but we're badly beaten.
When the encounter was over
Walker could not be found. 1t is
thought he went overheard in the
fight and police made arrangements
to search for his body.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Wesleyan Male Quartet
In Concert at Pawnee CITY

Pawnee City, Neb.. May 2l.-
(Special)-The Nebraska Wesleyan
male quartet, with Miss Marie Viii
son, reader, gave an entertainment
at the First Methodist church here,
under the auspices of the Hi Y"
club OF the high school. Kenneth
Wilson and Miss Marie Wilson are
both Pawnee City people and played
before schoolhood friends.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Ord High School Seniors
Will Present Glass Play

Ord, Neb.,, Nay 21.--(SpeciaI. =
The senior class of the Ord High
school will present a farce comedy.
Browns in Town" Tuesday All OF
the senior activities of the Ord school
are given over to the last week of
school and the commencement sea-
son will occupy the entire week.
Monday senior recognition day will
be observed. Wednesday night will
be given over to class night and
Thursday to the commencement
exercises and Friday the class picnic.
The Ord schools are closing very
successful year.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Memorial Services Over
Unknown Grave on Nav %

Memorial services over the un-
known grave in Forest Lawn ceme-
terry, held each year by the Garfield
circle No. II, Women of the G. A.
R., will be held Saturday afternoon,
May 28, this year, because OF the
press of other duties Decoration day.
The public is invited to attend these
ceremonies.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
Korfanty Perfecting Civil
Administration in Silesia

Berlin, May q. - Reports from
Silesia state that Korfanty is making
no move to put down the insurrec-
tiop, but on the other hand is sitting
tight and perfecting a civil admins
tration. The requisitioning of coal,
automobiles and other materials. the
Poles giving receipts signed by Kor-
fanty, the Germans consider mask
for plain robbery.
A reichwehr division stationed near
the upper Silesian border has issued
orders abolishing leaves because the
officers and men have been using
their vacation time fighting against
the Poles.