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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
"Coppers" Must Stay Off
Street Cars While on Beat

Patrolmen of the Omaha police
department were given a final warn
ing yesterday afternoon not to ride
on street cars or any other vehicles
while on their beat
This was announced in COM
munication to the captain OF police
from Police Inspector Patullo.
Further violation of this regulation
will be punished by suspension or
fine. it was announced.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Ship But Little
DanlagedbyB Bomb
Navy Tests Show
Explosive Dropped on Deck of
Old Battle Cruiser Fails
To Sink Vessel, Off.
GERS Testify.

Washington, Feb. l9.-ln another
argument before the senate naval
committee as to the relative worth
of capital ships and flying machines,
high naval officers disclosed that a
bomb weighing 1000 pounds and
loaded with T.. n. T. had been en-
poded recently on the old battle
ship Indiana, without destroying
any OF the vessel below its protec-
tive deck.
The explosion, they said, would
not have sunk the ship and did not
damage it below the water line, al
though the hull was not nearly SO
strong as those of modern super
dreadnaughts.
The officers were called after Rear
Admiral William +. Fullam, retired,
former superintendent of the naval
academy, had urged suspension of
part of the 1918 building program to
determine the future value of capt.
tai ships, in view Of the development
of aircraft and submarines.
The admiral said that the navy as
now constituted, was "a one-plane
affair" with surface ships only, was
disorganized and unprepared jor
war, He urged that the money
saved by suspending work on the
ships be given to the immediate de-
velopment of the air forces and sub
marines SO that the navy might
speedily be converted into what he
called "a three-plane fighting ma
chine" composed of battleships, air
craft and submarines.
Admiral Coontz, chief of naval
operations, called by Senator Pom
dexter, republican, Washington. who
the committees recent re-
port favoring capital ships, opposed
any suspension Of work on The SUI
erdreadnaughts and battle cruisers,
building or authorized.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Council toResu1ne
Hearing g on Light igght
Rates Wednesday
Both Sides Ready for Argu-
ment on Power Company's
Application for 33 l.3
Per Cent Boost.

Next Wednesday morning the city
council will resume its hearing on
the application of the Nebraska
Power company, asking for muni-
cipal authorization TO establish a
higher schedule of rates. which
amount to approximately IS IS per
cent increase.
The principal feature OF. the pro-
posed increase contemplates raising
the present general domestic rate of
6 cents per kilowatt hour to s cents,
with similar advances in nIother classi-
fications of current for light and
power uses.
Since the hearing was started last
December the city has engaged
Alton d. Adams of Boston, an ex-
pert, to 60 over the evidence already
offered and to prepare the case from
the city's side of the controversy.
During the last week Mayor Smith,
Corporation Counsel w. c. Lam
bert, Mr.. Adams and some of the
city commissioners have been in con-
ferences.
Adds Various Items.
During the former hearing the Ne
braska Power company presented
c. E. Bailey and w. ]. Henderson
of New York, representing firms
which make specility of giving
valuations and other information of
public utilities in rate cases.
Mr.. Bailey testified that on June
/. 1920 the local plant was valued
at $l3,840,000 at the then prevailing
prices Of materials and equipment.
To that amount. he added various
items which brought the totdT TO
$l7 ,58o,lo0, which he asserted rep
resented fair valuation of the plant
last June.
w. ]. Henderson testified that the
Summary OF actual original cost
10 November 80. 1920, was $l2,0S3,-
65o." This total did not include
various items considered by Mr..
Bailey. Mr.. Henderson explained
that he offered a cost study from
the books.
Independent Conclusions.
The company claimed in its state
ments which were submitted to the
city council last December, that dur.
ing January, 1920, its return was in
adequate to the extent that it would
support a valuation OF only $780,
Turn to Page Tive. Column Eight)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Officers Almost Run
Down by ''Hootch' Auto

When Officers Phee and Trigler
were scouting about IN the neigh
borhood of Seventh and Pierce
streets yesterday afternoon for signs
of home brewing they were almost
run down by a car that dashed by.
at terrific speed.
The officers 'gave chase. They
pursued the fleeing auto as far as
Eleventh and Pierce streets where
it was halted by passing train.
A search of the car netted two
gallons of "hootch." -...
Fred Gagimaii 2056 Poppleton. and
Carmillo Faltone. same address, oc-
cupants Of the car. were arrested
and charged with illegal possession
and transportation of Intoxicating
liquor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Jury Unable to Agree in
Gage County Estate Case

Beatrice, Ncb. Feb. l9,-(Spe-
cia1. 1.-The jury in the Schmuck es-
tate case, which went out Thurs
day evening, was unable to agree
and was discharged by District
Judge Colby. Relatives are at
tempting to break the will of Mrs.
Schmuck, who left small part of
her estate TO DIR. c. w. Walden.
the physician who attended her in
her last illness. The plaintiffs al
lege that she was OF unsound mind
when she made her will The es-
tate is valued at about $4,000.
VIII Carroll was found guilty. of
stealing an auto from Oscar Ehr-
lich.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Good Says
Profits Tax
less
Economy in Expenditures and
Levy on Luxuries Suggested
as Substitutes by Iowa
Representative.
Pay Debts by Loan
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.

By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Feb. lo.-How to re-
duce taxation, repeal the excess
profits tax without any substitute
therefor and yet finance the govern
ment adequately in the next few
years was outlined to me today by
Representative Good of Iowa,
chairman of the house committee on
appropriations.
Mr.. Good says it can be done by
economy i'll government cxpendi-
lures and by refunding the war OBJ
legations Of the government over
long period, thereby avoiding the
liquidation OF the $4,000. 100000 Vic
tory loan maturing in 1928.
Total receipts during the fiscal
year 1920 not including public debt.
we're $7,l4l .564 ,o4o96. "
Mr.. Good estimated that govern,
ment expenditures in the next hsca!
year will approximate S5,50O,0O0,00O
and, with excess profits tax abolished
and no substitute provided there will
be ~, SuUOU,UOO OF reNcnuc.
Expenditure Estimate.
Looking at the matter III a
broad way" said Mr.. Good. ut has
seemed to me that if we do not by
additional legislation take on new
obligations in the way OF financing
activities heretofore financed by in
dividuals or corporations and if we
do not take on additional govern
ment functions involving large ex-
pcnditures. we should be able to
keep the appropriations within ap-
p, oxiinately $3,500,000.000. An aualy-
sis of the receipts under the war
revenue act will. ! believe, show that
by the repeal of the excess profits
tax provision alone 81 l,500,000000 q
year will be saved. My own opinion
is that it will rather exceed than fall
below that sum. Unquestionably the
excess profits tax is in large meas
ure passed OIL to the consumer, and
is one of the elements that have
tended to keep living costs Excess
sively high. That tax can be re-
pcaled and" it ought to be repealed
1t must be repealed if living costs
are to I've reducedTn accordance with |
the demands OF the consuming pub
lie,
s7.oOo,oOo,oo0 Debt.
There will mature within the next |
three. wears certificates Of indebted.
uc>S. war savings stamps and Lib /
crtv bonds of approximately $1,000
100000. believe our taxes have be-
come such load upon industry that |
they are harmful when viewed frcin
the standpoint OF national produc
Turn to Page Two. Column Two).
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Omaha Man Has Long Wait
To Get Telephone Service

Eincoln. Feb. l9.--(Special The
Nebraska Telephone company not
only has failed 10 date to put in his
telephone for which he paid an in
stallation fee OF $3.50 on April >2S,
1920, but the company'has had the
nerve to send him. a telephone bill
every month since. A. S. Paddock,
55l7 North Thirty-ninth street, Oma.
lla, complains in letter to the Ne.
oraska railway commission.
He said he has gone repeatedly
to the company for relief and has
received neither the telephone or his
fee back. He saws he just learned
that his order had been cancelled
last August.
The conim.s.E n viii ask the COM
pauy tcr rcn1f' ON l'addacks
case
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Negligee-Clad Women Rush
To Streets at Fire Alarm

ERE. Ere! ~.
And following the alarm. out Of
the Silly night came streaks of
neghgee from exits of the Flatiron
hotel. Seventeenth andt Howard
streets.
The hour was d. NJ, Saturday.
Miss Pearl Pratt. Commerce High
teacher, smelled smoke and the
rumpus was on.
Everyone thought the fire was
i'll the hotel, but hasty investigation
proved it to be in the basement of
the H. H. Harper company, in the
point of the Flatiron building Small
damage was done.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Independent Conclusions.
50 Per Cent Of World
Petroleum Production
From United States


Washington, Feb. l9.-Sixty nine
per cent of the worlds petroleum
production i'll 1919 came from the
United States, compilation made
public by the geological survey
disclosed. The world total was
placed at 544.SS5,0O0 barrels. OF
which the American output was ST.
10000 on preliminary figure. Mexi-
CO with S7.073,000 barrles, or 10 per
cent, standing next, and only one
other country, Russia, reaching )
per cent.
OF the total, 90 per cent came from
the United States, Mexico, Russia,
Dutch Indies, India, Roumania, Per-
sia and Galicia. --
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Grand Island Police Aid
Man Held ON Murder Charge

Grand Island, Neb.. Feb. 19l7
Especial. Grand Island police have
sent the first ray of hope to Mexi-
can in prison ii his native country
while two companions secured the
United States for the woman he was
6 sharged with numbering. They To-
Gated the dead woman living
with man here and she left for
Iowa after which she promised to
return to Mexico and prove that her
husband had not murdered her.
The man and his wife came TO
this country several years ago. but
later separated.s The husband re-
turned to his native land and when
rs wife did not accompany him
her mother had him arrested on a
murder charge. The Mexicans re-
fused to divulgc their names.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Archbishop Dougherty
Starts Journey to Rome

/. New York, Feb. l9.-Waving fare
we'll amid a shower of carnations
and orchids thrown by hundreds OF
admirers, Archbishop D. ]. Dough
erty of Philadelphia sailed for Rome
today to receive from Pope Benedict
the red hat of a cardinal.
The flower -strewn ship was de-
layed more than an hour while pre-
lates and laymen offered the arch
bishop their fluctuations, and then a
heavy grain cargo had settled the
ship in its slip so that it was forced
to wait nearly two hours longer for
higher tide.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Grand Island City Council
Opposes Mcclellan Bill

Grand Island. Neb., Feb. l9.-
Especial l.)-Thc Grand Island city
council passed a resolution condem-
ming the proposed state legislation
placing the control of public utili-
ties in the hands of the state rail-
way commission. Representative
Mcclellan OF this city introduced the
bill which was opposed by his own
constituents.
In answer to protests here he said
that his aim was to protect small
cities which purchase their electric
Gu1rent from larger communities.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Fire Damages Parochial
School at Nebraska City

Nebraska City, Neb.. Feb. ~
Especial Telegram. Fire of unde-
tcrinincd origin caused damage csti-
mated at $500 to the St. Bernards
academy. Catholic parochial school
here. The fire was discovered about
noon by one OF the sisters, who
turned in the alarm. The fire de
partment extinguished the blaze be-
fore the flames had gained much
headway, smoke and water causing
the principal damage. This was
the fourth fire IN 4S hours here.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Caruso Apparently Has
Won His Fight for Life

New York. Feb. 19.-Enrico Ca
ruso's struggle for life, which began
last Tuesday night when he suffered
a heart attack. apparently has b@n
won. DR. Antonio Stella, his personal
physician, said today
DR.. Francis ]. Murray said This
morning that Caruso had spent a
comfortable night and had a good
sleep adding ''it was the best night
since his relaDse."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Duroc-Jersey Hogs Average
$50 at Upland Public Sale

Upland, Ncb,, Feb. lo,-(Special>
e Neustrof sold ~ large Jersey
hogs. The top bringing $225 and the
lowest $40 The acreage price was
about $50. There were several buy
crs from other places in the state,
They Bought about half of the ami
mails, the others were taken by pco-
pic living near this city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
Drastic Anti-Cigaret Bill
Is introduced. in Kansas

Topeka, Kan, Feb. IA drastic
anti-cigaret bill introduced in the
house today would prohibit cigaret
smoking. possession OF cigarets or
materials for making or their trans
portation into the state A fine OF
not less than $50 or more than 500
is nrovided
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-02-20
The Weather

Forecast. =.
Sunday iair; not much Changet III
temperature, -.
Uourly Tenuerat,lres,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30
MED 70 LEADERS
IN WELFARE drive
..n,,aien Committee Has Until
Tonight to Fill List OF
Team Captains
EIGHTY HAVE BEEN NAMED

rusrtr additional captains to lead
-. !, the approaching Welfare Fed
..,,on money drive must be named this
.,,ng. and the directors of the cam
lion are securing the city IN search
Of them.
The campaign will raise funds for
.,,btv federated organizations. includ-
-, bospitals. charitable agencies and
Lm,lar institutions. The captains, all OF
,a,m well known Philadelphians, both
IAN and women, will direct teams OF
.,,;ve workers whose job will be to see
.aue 75,OOO persons who usually con
.v;hnte TO charity and raise as large
sum as possible for the needs Of the
eOI lain II. Mnson, president Of the
commercinl Trust Company. is director
- the industrial prospects division OF
M Campaign Committee. Benjamin II.
imdlow is general chairman Of the COM
mittee.
Captain an Hour Was Plan
Last Monday representatives of the
,;ehty organizations met and Mr.. Lud-
law delegated each to obtain team
eaptain. One hundred captains were
nseded. and Mr.. Mason made himself
responsible for the remaining twenty.
Tbe chairman gave the organizations
100 hours in which to get the 100 cap
tsins. The time limit was up at !
o'clock this afternoon.
nv that hour only eighty names had
- onJ Nfr TudloN, odJoI
iour hours of grace. The additional
r.mes are to be reported ut a special
meetinp which will he held in the Com
merciaI Trust Building.
The captains already obtained follow :
Miss Blanche Alexander, Mrs. Bessie
pobson Altemus, w. Emory Bartlett.
Mrs 4, c. Boston, Mrs. George r..
Rover. r. r. Porter Bradford, Mrs.
Beniamin Bullock, e. Lewis Burnham,
William Edward Cadbury, Mrs. j..
Emott Caldwell. Mrs. Thomas II. Car
michael, Mrs. Charles Carver, Jr., Miss
Ellen Mary Cassatt. Mrs. James w.
Cookman, Walter !. Cooper, Mrs.
Thomas J. Dolan, Colonel Franklin
D'Olier, Mrs. Catherine Eckfcldt. Will
liam NJ. Elkins, Jr., Charles Evans,
DR.. Charles II. Frazier, George II. Fra
zier, Albert p. Gerhard, DR.. Arthur II.
Gerhard Mrs. Albert VI. Greenfield,
Mrs, John C. Groome, Mrs. Clarence
Z. Harper, Mrs. Frederick l.. Harding,
Harvey X. Heebncr.
: scattergood to Head Team
J. s. c. Harvey, Mrs. Bayard
Henry, Mrs. Henry s. Jeancs, Mrs. NJ q.
Y. Keins, Miss Elizabeth Kirkbride, C..
Hartman Kuhn. William A. Law. Mrs.
E. B. Leaf, Charles p. Lineaweaver,
Jacob D. Lit, the REV. John Il. Lo-
gan, David d. Lupton. John II. Nc
Fadden. Mrs. Francis McIlhenny. Mrs.
Louis G.. Madeira, Arthur v. Morton,
Arthur E. Newbold. Fitz Eugene New
bold, Theodore E. Nickles. Miss Helen
L. Parrish, the Rev. Gilbert Pember.
George Wharton Pepper, Mrs. f. w.
Perrott, Mrs. J. Howard Pew, Mrs.
William r. Philler. the Rev. Henry
L. Phillips, Mrs. Kelly Rees, T. Will
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30
PH|LA. FIRE loss
.S8,D0,0)O IN 1920
Mayor ProoIaims Monday, oc-
tober 10, as Preven- D.
tion Day



The fire losses IN this CITY last year
amounted to SS, ZOO, 900. Mayor Moore
statcd TODAY In calling sor Tho observ.
nncc of Monday. October 10. os Nm
tional Fire Prevention Day.
This statement was issued:
Mayor Moore today called ottcn-
ton to the Nstjono; Fire Prevention
Day which Is TO be celebrated October
10. He did this after receiving from
Director Ccrtelyou and Fire Marshal
loss In tho countr, and In phiIadcinbia
"Accordino IN thcse figures thc nm :.
nual irc loss in rho ITniteJ stotes In,
grown until in 1000 Il uas sho,I Ooo c,Ca,
and in thc fvc nrocc,,;ne ycnrs ovcr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30

liam Roberts, Mrs. Frederick W.
Rockwell.
J. Henry Scattcrgood, Miss Mary
Sclden. Mrs. Lillian Simmons. Charles
Sinklcr, Mrs. Henry II. Sinnamon,
Mrs. A. ID. Stephenson, Mrs. George
W. Snowden, Arthur Il. Spencer, Mrs.
J. A. Stevenson, DIR. J. s. Janncy
Stoddart, Mrs. Francis J. Stokes, DR..
Martha Tracy.
Mrs: Clarence a. Warden. Mrs. Bar
clay ): Warburton, Charles =. Wcs-
ley, Charles II. Watts, Mrs. A. ID.
whiting, Miss Laura Wilde, George W.
Wilkins, Mrs. William J. Wilcox, Mrs.
George, B. Wood and Mrs. Charlton
Yarnall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30
FALLS DEAD AT RACES
3. A, Merideth Dies OF Heart DIS.
ease at Havre de Grace

BENJAMIN A. Merideth, sixty eight
years old, Hotel McAlpin, this city,
fell dead Mt Havre de Grace while
watching the races yesterday.
Mertdeth, who was formerly an en-
ployc In n saloon near Eleventh and
Chestnut streets, was leaning against
the fence watching race when he sud-
denly slipped to the ground unconscious.
before he could be removed to physi-
cinn's Office he had died of heart dis
ease. The body was brought to this
city for burial today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30
TW0.YEAR. OLD CAMDEN
CHILD DIES OF BURNS
Fell Into Tub Of Boiling Water
While Watching Mother Wash

Two year old Joseph Schoromeat,
1910 Thurman street. Camden. died
this morning in the Homeopathic Hos
pital from scalds Tuesday. when he fell
into n tub of boiling water.
Joseph was toddling about the kitchen
with his mother diligently watching her
MS she washed. A large kettle Of boil
ing water had just been removed from
the fire and poured into n tub. Mrs.
Schoromeat warned the youngster not
to go near 1t.
In walking past the particular tub
toward tho other side Of the room he
stumbled and fell in. His mother pulled
him out and took him to the hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30

stoves and fiues, not only to prevent
fire of destructive character, but to
prepare for the winter by doing this on
October 10. The remainder will be suf-
ficient for other days.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-22
JUNO OF THE NORTH
LOSES LOVE CHASE
Coy Little Philadelphia Man
Glad immigration Officers
Are After Her.
BUT SHE'S COMING BACK
Statuesquc Canadian Maid
Says She'll Get Zinser
in Good Time.
BUT SHE'S COMING BACK

Special Despotch to THE Nav YORK HERALD.
PHILADELPHIA Jan. 81. - Equipped
with three large packages of cigarettes,
Miss Beatrice Hebert, the tall, slender
Canadian whose exuberant fondness for
William Zinser. assistant manager of
tourist agency. is causing that gentle
man all sort OF mental stress. awaited
immigration inspectors in Moyamensing
Prison to-day.
Miss Hebert is twenty-nine, dark
haired, 1.-THE and powerful. Zinser Is
thirty-five rather small and mild and In
offensive Of manner.
AS she awaited immigration Commits
sioner James L. Hughes to come from
tanned her defiant attitude. She has re-
solved to establish amicably nterna
tional relationships with my American"
as she fondly calls Zinser. and nothing,
she declared, can swerve her.
Let them deport me-" she said. II
will come back to him again. He cannot
resist my love forever. / will get him.
He must eventually Yield to me-"
against foreign domination.
THE woman Is talking utter non
sense" he said. 1T Is a hopelessly i'm
possible situation"
That Miss He5ert must be deported
under the law is certain. Commissioner
Hughes said. providing the facts as pre-
sented thus far are correct
1.-THE law" he said. prohibits q person
deported from the United States from re-
turning within a year. According to the
reports made. Miss Hebert was deported
to Canada In September last year. II
that is the case, the authorities have no
choice but to send her back to Montreal"
During the hearing before Magistrate
Mecleary in Central Police Court yes
terday afternoon Miss Hebert was re-
moved from the room while Zinser was
telling the magistrate how she had fol-
lowed him. written to him and telephoned
to him until his life had become bur-
den.
she has prosecuted me continually
since she returned to the United States
he said "She has written to me the
most outrageous letters, and even in
vaded my office during business hours
and made horrible scenes"
Miss Hebert was arrested Wednesday
night By detectives as she waited for
Zinser at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Zinser said she first approached him
two years ago when he was. conduct
ing a party OF tourists to China. She
followed him to Japan. and after a
short disappearance. boarded his steam
ship at Hongkong and resumed her
attentions to the point where he had TO
complain to the authorities at Honolulu
He eluded her at Honolulu, but she
found his Philadelphia address and
came here last September. After be-
ing deported she told the police she re-
turned to the United States two weeks
ago by paying 800 to be carried over
the border in an airplane.
1T is an afflction. nothing less" said
Zinser. II am well known, and to be
pursued in this shocking fashion causes
an irreparable damage"
Ie also developed to-day that yester-
day Miss Hebert had tried to commit
suicide by jumping from the sixth floor
window of City Hall. but the matron
caught her skirts and pulled her back.