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Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Pettis Clashes
With State Over
Bond Exchange
Omaha Man Meets Strong Op.
position to His Attempt to
Swap Massachusetts, for
Nebraska Issue.

Lincoln, Aug. 5.-(Special) e. F
Pettis of the Omaha Trust company
who is attempting to get the state O.
Nebraska to exchange 100000 ir
Massachusetts, state bonds for like
amount of Nebraska municipal bonds
met with an opinion by the attorney
general today that such an exchange
was illegal.
Final decision as to whether the
deal will go through will be made
Saturday by the board of education
al lands and funds.
The Nebraska municipal bonds
bear from E to per cent interest,
while the Massachusetts, bonds bear
only 31-2 per cent interest
Pettis declared that his firm was
willing to make the exchange be-
cause the Massachusetts, bonds were
better known on the market. Pettis,
however, wanted to turn the Nebras-
ka municipal bonds over with the
coupons of the first years interest
clipped and did not want a like
shearing of the Massachusetts
bonds.
The attorney generals opinion con-
tanned the following:
1T would be equivalent to selling
the Massachusetts, bonds for 81
cents on the dollar and reinvesting
in Nebraska bonds at 90, which is a
subterfuge to get around the law for
bidding the. sale of bonds by the
state at a less price than it paid for
them Tin this instance at par).
"The law requires that bonds be
purchased direct from municipalities
and other subdivisions issuing them,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Rotarians at Aurora to
Entertain With Picnic

Aurora, Neb., Aug. 5.-(Special.)-
Plans for the big Rotary picnic at
Streeter park in Aurora August TO-
are being formulated. The local
club has invited the Lincoln, York,
Hastings, Grand Island, Kearney,
Broken Bow and Columbus clubs
and is preparing for 500 visitors.
One of the features of the day will
be the base ball game with Lincoln
on one side and the other clubs as
their opponents. The battery OF the
allies will be Marve Hockenbury and
Glen Bigsby, both of Aurora. After
day at the park dance will be
given the visitors at Highlander hall.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Plan Funeral for Only
Dead Hero at Wakefield

Wakefield. Neb,, Aug. 5.-(Spe-
eial. 1.-The body of Anton Bokem-
rer, the only soldier boy from
Wakefield who lost his life in France,
is being brought home for burial.
The body, according to a telegram
received by relatives from the gov
ernment, will reach New York on
August 6 and will no doubt reach
Wakefield in about week. The fu-
neral services will be held in Wake
field and will be in charge Of the local
American Legion post, which is
named after him.
Anton Bokemper was 81 years old
at the time of his death. He was
called into service on September Is,
1917, and was enrolled in Company
l. Fourth infantry. He left for over
seas service on April II, 1918, and
went into action almost Immediately.
He was killed in action October IS,
1918, 26 days before the signing of
the armiStice.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Hobo Falls Under Train
And Has His Foot Crushed

Grand Island, Neb., Aug. s.-(Spe-
cial Telegram Joe Mageces, Bo-
hemian farm laborer, 80, slipped on
top of a moving freight train on the
Burlington, 10 miles west of this
city, fell underneath and was picked
up with one foot and ankle COM
pletel- crushed. He also has a bad
scalp wound. He was beating his
way to the Kansas fields. though he
had $45. He was brought to a hos
pital in this city.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Plan to Create
New State Seal
And Flag Design
Committee Appointed in July
By Governor Organizes
With Representative
Williams, Chairman.

Lincoln, Aug. 5.-(Special.) J.
Wanted-An appropriate banner fol
| Nebraska.
In the next two years banner
symbolic of Nebraska life must be
chosen for letterheads and decora-
tive purposes.
A committee for this purpose was
appointed July 9 by Governor Nc.
Kelvie and law authorizing their
action as legal and binding was passed
by the legislature.
The committee met today and or
ganized. Representative George Will
liams of Fairmount is chairman and
Mrs. f. B. Finney of Fullerton, sec
retary. Prof. G. A. Condra is the
third member of the committee.
Present Seal Appropriate.
Nebraska is one of the few states
that has never had a state banner,
but it has had seal since its incep-
ton into the union in 1867. The seal
was one of the first to appear in the
west and the committee will decide
whether it is to remain as en-
blematic of Nebraska, or whether it
will become merely a relic of early
days.
1t has been pointed out how the
seal serves its purpose now as faith
fully as it did more than 40 years
ago, for each portion of it is as
characteristic of the present Nebras-
ka as the pioneer state. The indus
tries of Nebraska depicted on it are
farming and commerce. Crop re-
ports for the present season have
placed Nebraska in the foremost
states in agriculture.
Two Years to Work Out Symbol.
No suggestions have been made
as yet for the banner, according to
DR.. G. A. Condra, one of the men,
bers. and the committee has until
1928 to work out the symbol. The
banner and seal which they recon-
mend will be placed before the leg
islature of that year. The other
members of the committee are Rep
resentative George A. Williams, au-
thor of the bill to forward this work,
and Mrs. E. B. Penney of Fullerton.
DR.. Condra is at the head of the di-
vision of conservation and survey of
the University of Nebraska.
Much speculation concerning the
design and colors of the new ban
ner is now going on about the state
house. Whether the color of the
state flower. goldenrod, will be in
cornorated in il is not known.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Today's Attractions,

Today's Attractions.
Strand-"The Woman God
Changed"
Sun-Alice Lake in "Uncharted
Seas"
Moon-May Allison in "The Last
Card"
Rialto-Elliott Dexter in "The
Witching Hour"
Empress-"The Last Door.
Marie Provost, erstwhile bathing
beauty, has become a wood nymph.
For her forthcoming photodrama
she is a Big Bear, where the con-
cluding scenes of the film are be-
ing filmed under the direction of
King Baggot. The story IS to be
called Touch Me Not" and is an
original theme by Percival Wilde.
Norman Kerry, who did such ex-
cellent work in Proxies" will go
to London to play the leading male
role in George Fitzmaurice's produc-
tion of "Three Live Ghosts" one
of the New York stage successes
last season, which will be started
soon.
This is So Sudden" is the title
of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle's pic
ture which was filmed under the
name of "Should a Man Marry%
The title of Arbuckle's latest pic
ture which is now in production
also has been changed from Via
Fast Freight. to Freight Prepaid"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Great Britain Is
Reducing Forces,
. Northcliffe Saws
English Publisher Sees Great
Possibilities Ahead for Dis.
armament Conference
Called by Harding.

Vancouver, Aug. S.-If delegate
to the forthcoming disarmament
conference in Washington truly ant
constantly represent" the desires o
their nations an agreement will b'
reached and an era of peace and pros
perity will be opened in the Pacific
that will extend ultimately to Europ,
and throughout the world, Lore
Northcliffe, the noted English pub
Usher, declared in an address at Z
luncheon given in his honor by the
Canadian club here today.
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes, Lord Northc life said, have
very clear undersi anding of the
momentous character of the gather
ing at Washington, which, in my
opinion, may well prove to be the
greatest and most pregnant gather
ing of the kind that has ever been
held"
In England, as you know" Lord
Northcliffe said. I'VE are disarming.
The British army is reduced to a
figure below its peace strength be-
fore the war, while the navy is weak
er, both as regards big ships and
personnel, than it was in January,
1914" ......
Only One Large Ship.
Statements made Wednesday in the
house OF commons as to the replacing
OF four obsolete battleships by new
vessels of the post-Jutland type did
not essentially alter this fact, he as
serted as Britain has at present
only one big ship partly embodying
the lessons of Jutland, and the new
ships cannot be completed in less
than FIVE years.
Continuing Lord Northcliffe said
in part: ....
THE world is sick and needs
time to recover from the tremendous
shock it has received. What are
known as social questions are also
pressing us, for while the economic
and industrial position is not nor-
NAL, millions of men and women who,
during the war, attained higher
standard of life, are anxious not to
be thrust back into prewar condi-
tions.
Reaction Under Way.
There is at the same time, a re-
action from the high idealism that
animated the allies and their associ-
ates during the war. People are
feeling little disheartened; they are
wondering whether human affairs
will ever be settled by anything ex-
cept force, whether good will, reason
and common sense will ever regulate
the intercourse OF nations. AT such
a moment comes President Harding's
call for a conference.
II cannot conceive of any greater
disaster than the failure of that con-
ference to achieve the ends for
which it will meet.
1T is essential that all should help
make it a success. We can all help.
We can help by promoting good will,
by not saying unkind things about
other nations and by disarming our
minds before we reduce Our fleets.
Failure of the conference would |
be catastrophe. The bad old days
OF competitive armaments would |
come again and with them the old
rancors and the old fears of war"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
More Truth Than Poetry
LOVELY WOMAN
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE

When lovely wonans trailing garments,
Which, some years back, she always wore
Picked up insanitary varmints
Called germs, from every dancing floor,
When she had trouble with her breathing
Because she over-tightly laced,
A curving mould of whalebone sheathing
Around her slim and shapely waist
The doctors lectured her severely,
They called her slave to every fad
And vowed that she was quite, or nearly
Mad
When lovely woman's skirts were lifted
By swiftly lengthening degrees,
Until the wanton breezes drifted
Unchecked around her dimpled knees
When she declared against tight-lacing
And, for the moment, laid aside
The stiff and sturdy whalebone casing
That all the doctors had decried,
The press observed her, far from mutely,
While preachers vowed in sermons sad
That she was going absolutely
Bad.
Poor woman! Looked upon with loathing
And made the prey of i'll report
Because in other years her clothing
Was not of the hygienic sort!
And then when she reformed the features
That we're not medically sound,
Behold the editors and preachers
Attack her on moral ground!
Howe'er she dresses seems to get her
Involved in Troubles awful clutch,
And yet, somehow it doesn't fret her
Much'
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Aurora Still Debating
Street Fair Question

Aurora, Neb, Aug. s,-(SpeciaD
AT the council meeting this week
its members listened to an animated
debate over the proposed ordinance
prohibiting carnivals and street fairs.
w. l. Farley and F. E. Edgerton
presented the views of the people
who attended the anti-carnival mass
meeting at the court house.
George Funk and DR.. Otis New
man spoke against the ordinance.
They appeared to favor carnivals on
the streets of the city sponsored by
the American Legion.
The council decided to put the
proposition on the ballot next spring
and take a referendum vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
AT<THE
|T.HEAT ERS

NNE Of the best comedy singing acts
l ] OF the current season is that offered
~ by the Four Harmony Boys, who head
line the Empress show Of which conclud-
Ing performances will be given tonight.
Their program consists Of many descrip-
tive songs Of grand opera, popular jazz
and some original novelty song numbers.
The show has an important feature in
the act of Orphea, who presents a high
class musical act Of unusual merit, being
a musician of much versatility. Very
acceptable Is the offering Of Twyman and
Vincent who are very much at home in
vaud evilIe, with q clever routine OF laugh
compelling talk and a repertoire OF songs,
that are UP to the minute
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Has Husband Arrested

Central City, Neb., Aug S.-(Spe-.
cial. Beech Kingston was arrested
at the instigation of his former wife,
Mrs. Clementine Dahlin of Omaha,
and after a preliminary hearing in
the county court was bound over to
the district court. Alleged failure on
the part of Mr.. Kingston to pay a
monthly allowance to his children as
fixed by the court is the cause Of this
action, .
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Central City Reduces
Augmentation by Half

Central City, Neb., Aug. 5.-(Spe-
cial.) = At a meeting of the city
council the appropriation for the
year was fixed at $25.l00 as against
an appropriation Of $46,7s0 one year
ago. The levy was placed at IS mills.
A program of strict economy is be-
ing praeticed by the city officials
this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Radio Controlled Auto
Startles DAYTON Coppers

Dayton, O., Aug. 5.-Dayton traf-
fc policemen rubbed their eyes today
when a miniature automobile sailed
past all semaphores. There wasn't a
soul in it.
1t was a driverless radio automo.
bile from McCook field, controlled
by a radio in a car 100 feet behind
it. The automobile contained no
wireless and is said to be the first
of its kind publicly exhibited by the
radio air service.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Increase Electric Light
Plant at North Platte

North Platte, Neb., Aug. 5.-(Spe-
1.-THE North Platte Light &
Power company has placed an order
for machinery that will result in
about doubling the present capacity
of the plant During the past year or
two the demand for light and power
has so increased as to overload the
present capacity.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
North Platte Plans Big
Delegation to Roundup

North Platte, Neb, Aug. s.
Especial August % has been
designated as North Platte day at
the roundup which will be held on
West Birdwood creek, and the
Chamber of Commerce hopes to in
terest 200 auto owners in making
the trip. The delegation will be
accompanied by the Chamber OF
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Race Horses Are Seized as ~
Booze Found in Their Cars

Buffalo, N. Y, Aug. 5.-Nine race
horses enroute from Windsor, Ont,
to Saratoga are being held by gov
ernment officials here following al
legged discovery of wine and whisky
in the car in which the horses were
being shipped. Customs men theat-
ened to confiscate and sell the horses.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

Commerce band or 80 pieces. This
roundup will be held on the former
John Bratt & Company ranch about
40 miles northwest of North Platte,
in what was once the heart of the
cattle range section
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

and not through bond houses or
their agents"
Land Commissioner Dan Swanson
fought the proposed deal bitterly and
he and Pettis were reported to have
exchanged hot words. Finally Pettis
left the room and the door was
slammed at his back as the board
resumed its discussion.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Assyrian Christians
Coming to America
To Escape Persians

Washington, Aug. 5.-More than
1000 Assyrian Christians fleeing
from persecution by Mohammedans.
are on their way to the United
States on small sailing vessels, Sec
retary Davis said today. According
to information reaching the Depart
ment of Labor, he added, they are
part of $4,000 refugees who started
to march from the interior of Persia
to ports, $4,000 of whom died on the
way.
The 1000 coming here. the Sec
retary said, will be far in excess
OF the quota for Persia, against
which country they should be charg-
ed under the percentage immigration
law, but. he added, that no decision
had been reached as to what would
be done with them.
Miss Abigail Harding, sister Of
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

The vital statistics are published
on the want ad page
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

The first women's patriotic society
in America, the Society of Colonial
Danes of America. was organized in
New York City in 1890.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

THIS MAY BE PREMATURE.
We will this Fred Beuvais He hasn't signed
movng pcture
A CHANGE OF HEART.
We glad hear that Mr. would fight than
anything He didn't feel that in 1918
ONE DRAWBACK
We'd have lot of wonderful American golfers if
English Scotch.
Coprsht1 by The ell Syndicate Inc
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

Wouldn't he take the cake at a
costume ball?
Wesley Barry, noted juvenile
film star, rather departs from his
usual manner of acting in Stranger
Than Fiction" which opens Sunday
at the Strand theater. The picture
features Katherine Macdonald.
In a makeup of baggy trousers,
spectacles, stiff hat and freckles,
young Barry enacts some thrilling
and comical stunts. He halls from
Los Angeles.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

Miss Abigail Harding, sister Of
President Harding, has been elected
principal of Marion's first junior
high school.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-14
Mrs. kaber Breaks
Under Strain of
Trial for Murder

Cleveland, July 13.-Whether the
trial of Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber on
charge Of numbering her husband,
Daniel f. Kaber, will be resumed at
once, following it's interruption We'd
nesday on account of Mrs. Kaber
breaking under the strain, will depend
upon the report Of two physicians who
made an examination of the accused
woman.
Should the report of the physicians
be that Mrs. Kaber is physically un-
able to be present in the courtroom
as required by law, Judge Maurice
Bonon has not indicated whether he
will adjourn court from day to day
until she is recovered or whether some
other action may be taken.
Only one witness was examined
Wednesday He was Charles Brickel,
brother of Mrs. Kaber. Her fainting
spells came while he was being SUBJ
jected to gruelling cross-examination
by Assistant County Prosecutor James
]. Cassidy. ..--... 5ss1
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-14
TALK NJ 'CRARY
FOR TAX JOB
n. F. Expert May Get
Position Vacated
By Haugen.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
Helena, July 13.-Rumor about the
capitol has it that r. A. McCrary, of
the Northern Pacific railways tax de-
partmenr. will be selected by the state
board of equalization to fill the posi-
tion left vacant by Nils P Haugen. as
chief of the board of equalization. The
rumor has not been confirmed by any
of the members of the board but it
is known that Mr.. McCrary is being
seriously considered and is being look
ed upon with favor.
His name had been brought up by
Secretary of State G. T. Stewart at a
meeting of the board held Monday, but
no action was taken at that time
through the desire of the board to de-
vote more time to looking over the
field of possibilities.
Mr.. McCrary is now in Helena and
was in conference with Governor Dixon
on Tuesday. What resulted from this
conference has not been made public
It is expected that some action NAV
be taken before the close of the pres
ent week
Mr.. McCrary has been with the tax
of the Northern Pacific
railway for number of years, devot-
ing most of his time to the work in
Montana. He is said to be extremely
well versed in tax matters.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-14
HOUSE SPEEDS
TARIFF DEBATE
FOR LAST LAP
Green of Iowa, Defend
ing, Says $4,000 Have
Left Land in Decade.
Declares Great Benefits
Will Accrue to Farm
ers From This Bill.

Washington. July 13-The house
ran under high pressure Wednesday
and at a session Wednesday night in
it's consideration of the Fordney tar
iff bill in anticipation of the conclud-
ing OF general debate on the measure.
Outstanding in the days discus
sion was a defense of the bill by Rep
resentative Green. of Iowa, ranking
Republican on the ways and means
committee, who contended that it would
not result in a reduction of American
trade.
Representative HawIey of Oregon.
another Republican member of the
committee, discussed the benefits
which, he said, would accrue to the
farmers through the agricultural sched-
ule. He read statistics to show that
$4,000 farmers had left the land in the
last decade and inquired whether it
was not time to let them know that
the government was interested in their
problems
The possible effect the rates would
have on the war built merchant marine
was touched on by several Democrats.
The Republicans were also taken to
task by Representative Huddleston. of
Alabama, for what he described as a
willingness on their part to ''open the
treasury to the railroads again.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-14
German U-Boat Crews
Opposed to Sinking
Hospital Ship, Claim

Leipsic, July 13.-(By the Associat-
ed Press. AT the continuation Wed
Dpesday of the trial in the supreme
court here of the, two German subma-
rine lieutenants, Ludwig Dittmah and
Johann Boldt, charged with murder in
the first degree. for firing on lifeboats
after the Canadian hospital ship, Liam
dovery Castle, had been torpedoed, in
the summer Of 1918, Petty Officer
Popitz Of the submarine which sank
the ship, said the Germans always re-
spected hospital ships, which they con-
sidered danger to submarines
Popitz declared he and Lieutenant
Dittman tried to persuade Commander
PatIg of the submarine not to attack
the hospital ship, but the submarine
dived, fired two torpedoes and then
came to the surface.
The witness testified he saw three
or four lifeboats out and several men
swimming, then the crew of the sub
marine was ordered below deck. The
general feeling prevailed that some
thing unfortunate had occurred, Pop
itz declared. Later, he heard firing
and assumed the slifeboats were being
fired upon. ".
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-14
E[KS MAIN CORRA[.
WILL Be CHICAGO;
To HAVE MAGAZINE
Grand Lodge Decides to Build
National Headquarters Build
ing at Cost of S2,500,000.

Los Angeles, July 13.-Grand lodge
officers of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks Wednesday night
completed a session here that provided
for Elkdom a national headquarters
and national publication. Chicago
was selected for the national headquar-
ters and plans approved for a monu-
mental structure to house the heart
of the lodge at a cost of $2,5OO,UOO.
Arrangements were set in motion to
bring forth, within nine months, a
monthly publication, entitled, The
Elks' Magazine to be issued from
Chicago
The herd, represented by $4,000
gates, disported itself, while its lead
ers worked in monster barbecues after
watching its most highly trained mem
bers execute spectacular drills IN a
contest that won for the Zouaves Of
Jackson, Mich, the national champi-
onship among Elks for drill work.
Thursday marks the close of the
grand lodge sessions, when officers
for the ensuing year will be installed
and final reports, including the budget
for the coming year, will be read and
acted upon. And the herd will step
out with antlers high, for this is the
one great exhibition day in Elkdom,
the herds great spectacle, the grand
lodge reunion parade. 1t will, in fact,
be a day of pageantry, for in the eve
ming a second spectacle will be pre-
sented in motion picture electrical
pageant, conceived by the cinema pro-
ducers of southern California for the
elkS
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-14
limit IS REACHED
ON IMMIGRATION.
PASSENGERS HELD
Aliens on Board Three Liners
From England and Den
mark Overset Mark.

New York, July 13-Immigration re-
strictions limiting the number of aliens
permitted to land in this country in
a given month, caused considerable de-
lay and Inconvenience Wednesday to
cabin passengers arriving on three
large liners arriving from Great Brit
ain and Denmark.
On the British liner Mauretania
% first and 130 second class out of a
total of GOT were held on board be-
cause the books of the immigration Of
ficials showed that the number per-
mitted to land in July had been
reached.
On the Olympic, nine first class
cabin passengers and 100 in the Sec
ond cabin were held.
On the steamer Hellig Olav. from
Copenhagen, it was found that the reg
ulations required the detention of As
of her second cabin passengers.