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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-12-03
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Villages Are
Bodies of Victims Tangled
Among Fallen Trees; Home
less Counted by Thou
sands.
Bergamo Valley Is Waste

Bergamo. Dec. Six hundred
dead. three villages destroyed and 50
square miles made desolate. This
lake. when the great dixie guarding
it collapsed. releasing the water.
which carried all before II. 1t swept
over the hills and down into the
valleys for distance of Is miles TO
Lake Iseo, which checked the NOM
entum Of the vast stream.
Bergamo valley today is nothing
but barren waste OF mud and wa.
ter-a veritable lake in which 1t is
dangerous to venture, for in soma
places IL is over a mans head. In
this soegy mass, the bodies OF the
victims lie tangled among fallen
trees, telegraph poles. buildings and
bridges. The homeless are counted
in the thousands, most Of whom are
mourning for lost relatives. or search
ing for their bodies.
Relief parties from Milan and
Brescia are on the scene while all
available troops have been mustered
to aid the shelterless. The bishop of
Bergamo received a telegraphic dona-
ton from the pope for the purpose of
undertaking immediate extensive re.
lief.
There is great fear among the sur
yivors Of other dams breaking. es-
ecially as today is the Feast of ST.
Bibbiana, on which according to popu-
lar superstition, II it rains II will
rain for 40 days and 10 nights.
The three villages almost com.
pletely destroyed were Dezzo. Corna
and Bueggio. OF the 500 inhabitants
OF Dezzo. only three survived.
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Roy V. Woolsey Succumbs.

Table Rock. Neb.. Dec. Roy L.
Woolsey died suddenly at his hcfns
in Tecumseh Thanksgiving morning.
He was son OF the late sheriff w
III. Wooisey OF Johnson county. Fu.
neral services viii be held Sunday af
terncon under the auspices Of the
Sons of Veterans. and burial win be
in the Tecumseh cemetery. Suryivins
him arc a wife and two children. aisc
two brothers and three sisters ~ fol.
lows: Wrigh; Woolsey and Curry
Woolsey 81 Wylnore; Mrs. Myrtle
Marble. Albuquerque. n. NJ. and Lena
and Hazel Woolsey of Tecumseh.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-12-03
Brick Factory Is
Destroyed by Fire

York, Neb., Dec. 2.--F'ire today
broke out In the boiler room of the
York Brick 4 Tile company of this
city and completely destroyed the
brick manufacturing plant. The fire
was first discovered near the boiler
room but when the fire department
reached the scene. the fire. aided by
a strong wind. had spread to the dry
ing sheds and was beyond control.
The buildings are total loss but are
covered by insurance.
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Flames Ravage
Town of Weyerts
Store, Dance Hall and Resi-.
dence Destroyed in Early
Hours.

Lodgepole, Neb.. Dec. 2.-The viii
lage OF Weyerts was almost wiped off
the map by fire early this morning.
The store building and its entire
stock. the residence and the commun-
ity dance hall. all owned by II. G..
Wiliingham. were destroyed. The
loss is partly covered by insurance.
A masquerade dance was held in the
hall Saturday evening and about
, o'clock sunday morning the dance
hall was In flames and the fire spread
to the store and dwelling house An
alarm was given and several Of the
farmers responded. but were unable to
check the flames.
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Claim Rates Cheaper
on Northern Roads

Minneapolis. Dec. s.--The ciosinS
sessions Of the Kansas grain rates
case before examiners OF the inter
state commerce commission here re
vived the argument to the effect
that rates on northern lines in the
United States are lower than those
farther south. because the Canadian
Pacific. through an agreement with
the Canadian government. carried
grain on low schedules in return for
ss.ooo.ooo acres OF land and $4,000
600 once granted the road.
The so-called kansas rate case" I.
a fight OF wheat growing states Of
the middle west to obtain a 10 per
cent reduction in grain schedules. The
hearings. which closed in Minneapolis
today, VIII be resumed in Spokane
December 5.
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Prague Man Dies Of
Mysterious Disease

Fremont, Neb., Dec. Frank Sed-
lacek, 20, son of Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
Sedlacek Of Prague. died at local
hospital following a mysterious at
tack Of paralysis. Physicians were
baffled in an attempt at a diagnosis.
Early in October Sedlacek was sud.
denly stricken after returning from
work In the fields. He lay down for
brief nap at noon and when he
woke the youth was paralyzed from
the waist down. Doctors believe the
fatal illness may have been an attack
Of pyelitis. form OF paralysis.
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Fire Breaks
During
Church Rite
Congregation Turns Out to
Fight Flames That Disturb
Morning Services. Threat.
ening Edifice.
Hose Lines Are Frozen

Beaver City, Neb.. Dec. 2.-While
the auditorium and Sunday school
room of the Christian church here
was crowded al IL this morning.
flames broke out. threatening TO CON
sumo the structure.
The entire congregation turned out
TO fight the blaze and the volunteer
fire department. hampered by frozen
hose lines. concentrated on saving
the minister's residence near by. Sew.
eral persons narrowly escaped injury
when a tall chimney fell. Services
were held in a theater building to-
night.
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Settles Board Bill

Beatrice, Neb., Dee. 2.-George
Wright. who was arrested at Omaha
and brought here on the charge of
Jumping a board bill of SIS held by
Mrs. Elizabeth Hoover. settled by pay
ing the bill and costs which amounted
to $51.53.
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School Children Deposit
Total of Sl30.0o3 in Banks

Deposits in the Council Bluffs public
schools savings bank last week totaied
Si.iba. according to Theodore Saam.
ceived from only Is OF the IL schools
In the district. but out OF an enroll.
ment of COOS. As2i students. or ~
Ter cent, werc depositors during tho
week
Since the inauguration OF the syS.
tom in January. ia2i. deposits total
Iso.osS.Q2, the report showa
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Miss Minnie Alwain Dies.

Table Rock. Neh.. Dec. Miss
M.nnle Alwaln. -, died AZ the homo
.of her brother. Henry Fairrow. eight
miles northeast ef Table Rock f'a-
neral services We're held at the hona.
of her brother by Rev. +. z. BooAer
.of Elk creek, Burial Mas in the Hum.
holdt cemetery.
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Runaway Brothers Nabhed

Wilbur ]. Bruhn, Is. and his
brother, otto. were arrested saturday
in Council Bluffs because the lights ot
their automobile were not burning.
At the station police found they were
runaways from Miles. Ia. Police said
they admitted that they LEI; homo IN
their fathers car after a quarrel With
him.
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that office until his successor has
been chosen.
The attitude Of the progressive bloc
in the senate still is underlined. Some
of the leaders say an organization
fight always is In the back ground.
but their chief interest is in obtain
ing an adequate recognition Of the
standing committees and particularly
on the interstate commerce commit
tee and finance committees.
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Niece Is Sole Heir

The win OF. w. III. Ware. pioneer
Council Bluffs lawyer. who died last
week. was filed for probate saturday,
II names his niece. 1rismae Malone.
as sole beneficiary and appoints her
cxecutrix OF the estate without bond,
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The Weather

For "a hours ending y m, December
:, 1898,
Temperature.
hiEhest. 81. lowest, ~. mean. IS. nor
NAL. 81
Total excess since January 1 SeT.
Relative Humidity. Percentage.
4, m. So noon. So n IA. 60.
frecipitatiep, Inches and uuntrrdth~.
f'~sal a. Total ~inse January /. se.S&
inches ENetss. 81 inch
Hourl, Icnnpraturss.
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Plan Conference Today.

Senate democrats will hold con-
ference tomorrow morning and their
.ssaders say they will nominate SEN
htor Pittman Of Nevada as the party
candidate for speaker pro tenn. There
can be no nomination In the senate,
however, until there is vote to pro
eeed to the election of a president.
rs Senator Cummins Of Iowa holds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-12-03
Heard in Smoking Room

m HE old-time newspaper man
was talking and smoking.
IL way back yonder in the years
1 was little 5-year-old kid in Port
Huron, Mich. Although far too young,
I was ambitious to go to school, and
I guess I raised such a howl about
it my parents finally consented. My
attendance at the seat of learning
was Of brief duration, but out Of it
grew what believe the only great
all-possessing hate of my life. The
second day I asked to be excused from
the room for a moment. My teacher
refused. She was unjust and a sad
predicament fell on me. Straightway
the teacher reported me to the prin-
cipal. He appeared at once and there.
with humiliation and injustice already
full upon me, he gave me, a mere
baby, a severe whipping with the old
time rattan rod. The shock to me was
empowering Immature as l was,
and inarticulate. I was not incapable
of Knowing that a gross wrong had
been done me, and in my heart was
born a bitter hatred for that ogre of
a principal was wisely taken out
of school, but, as I grew, my hatred
for tbs ogre grew with NE. Years
only enhanced it. One idea possessed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-12-03
Science

All scientists. astronomers IN par
ticular, are waiting for August. 1924,
when they expect to solve some Of the
mysteries connected with the planet
Mars.
AT that time Mars will be nearer the
earth than at any time in over a cen
fury and closer than 1t Will be again
for many years. Plans are being made
for the most careful study of the
planet and with modern scientific
equipment It will not be surprising II
many points, long discussed and ar
gued by scientists, will be settled.
The question Of whether there is
life on Mars is an old one and it has
always been based largely on the as
sumption that the canals" on that
planet were made by intelligent beings
in order to preserve life. through trri-
cation, IN a world that is close to
extinction. The theory is that these
lines are not the canals themselves,
but the vegetation growing alongside
this irrigation system. In many re-
spects these lines bear out the theory
of vegetation. One opposing conten-
ton Is that they are solids, but there
is no known solid in the mineral world
that changes as these spots do, for
they darken at certain times and fade
out in the sunlight,
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me always, and that was to grow up
and then find that principal and beat
him as mercilessly as he had beaten
me.
Twenty years later I was holding
down the city EDITORS desk of the
Cleveland Press. 1 still hated that
man, but mature reason told me, that
probably I never would see him again.
"One day my door opened and a
little, unl1empt, bespectacled, timid,
and obsequious man entered. He had
a communication for the paper. I
thought I recognized him and the
name at the bottom of the communl-
cation confirmed me. He was my
ogre-my only and pet aversion-of
the Port Huron schoolroom.
Eyes, he admitted his principalship
there. His life had been hard. His
eyes were bad and age and illness
burdened him. No kith or kin. The
past was a fading memory. Ahead,
nothing but the po-ters' field. He was
now an inmate Of the city infirma1y,
or poorhouse
But, did you beat him up?" asked
the man next the window, impatient
ly.
BEAT him up7 No, I gave him two
plunks for medicine, and invited him
to call again."
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As to Speed

To the Editor Of The Times
I noticed an hysterical outburst in
regard to speeding" signed ]. A.
Dondono, in The Times. I can usual.
ly pass over such stuff, but Mr..
Dondono is so badly misinformed
am compelled to reply.
FIRST he states the average speed
in the mile square is forty miles. The
truth is that during rush hours, it
is eight to fifteen miles, by accurate
speedometers. During the evening.
I have seen some cars making twenty
miles IN hour. A moments con-
sideration would show that no car
can average forty miles an hour while
stopping every 800 feet.
SECOND, Nj. Dondono's statement
that the rate Of speed inside the city
limits is forty to ninety miles is
utterly absurd. Nothing but a street
car ever makes more than thirty-five
at the most.
THIRD. q car could not cross New
York and Pennsylvania SITS. at forty
miles per hour without running down
the traffic officer. Ask him.
AS to right to use streets. don't
you think q motorist has better
right to half the street after he pays
about seven or eight kinds Of taxes
for use Of these streets? It's much
harder to dodge pedestrians with a
car than for pedestrians to dodge
autos. know, 1 do both.
WYETH FISHER,
1929 Ewing st.
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PEACE OR WAR? IT'S UP TO YOU!

TlIS week the United States Senate once more begins
grind For you for your young for this and
for the world this Congress be epochmakng World
world war may spring from its sessions
peace warfe DEATH may be- for of your
flesh boodrgey depends upon whether the Senate
decides cooperate with the other nations prevent
adopts codbooded donothng attitude Of its small band of
isoationists.
For the moment the key
Harding proposal oast February that join the World Court
resolution this effect the hands of the Senate For
egn Relations Committee headed by Senator Lodge foe of the
This committee will kill the resolution if possibly
Now joining the World Court does absolute guar
against No world plan But does
ange any European other foreign power whit
TITLE however, step in the right
direction only taking steps that may hope
get from the open powder barrel which the world
is now sitting waiting for spark
Opinion is overwhelming here abroad that another world
virtually certain within the next five years
The question is Shall STILL like helpless nnnes
and let enguf us? Or shall least do what se
The attitude of isolaonists throw rope
drowning man; the rope might break.
Shall adopt this ours to finger
help perhng worldof which we ourselves part
Or shall with other intelligent peoples universal
but unenangng plan ourselves from this horrors
blocked war; will be
because of a small coterie of selfish politicians
Yet, of cold, calm truth far the people of
this country concerned and far the plain people of the
world concerned politics has nothing whatever do with it.
Secretary Hughes big cooperation
the World Court SO Ehu Root another leading Repub
can Likewise ePresdent Taft And Herbert Hoover. And
others that this would not begin hold their
names.
Almost every church in this country has gone record
favorng effort innumerabe chambers of
commerce. World veterans associations womens clubs
labor unions, and Only this week dozen national
organizations representatives the White House
plead for the World Court
Isoatonists in the Senate repeat will kill the World
Court they Lodges foreign Relations Committee
viii kill it if Whether they do not is largely
YOU
Write Senator Samuel NJ Ralston Washington d. c.
Tell him you've had enough and that you expecting
him help head off another by pressing for favorable action
the World Court
Write President Coolidge Tell him the thing. Tell
him you looking him prevent Lodge and his kind from
blocking the pathway peace.
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Tongue Tips

DIR. r. H. Miller, Kansas City: BE
cause they can't explain and under
stand the miracles Jesus performed
while on earth, many men deny the
probability and even the possibility Of
the miracles. It seems to me the day
of miracles is even more evident at the
present time than ever before"
Mrs. Nina Van Wrinkle, Washing
ton police department: Americas
boys are becoming better all the time,
while the girls between the ages OF
IL and 20 are becoming more maynard
Gay cabaret life and cheap literature
are making the majority Of the Ameri-
can girls unfit to become wives and
mothers. The only career in every
girls life should be the devolping CT
a real home"
Gerard Swope, president General
Electric Company: THE problem in
industry is not a problem, as 1t seems
to me, between labor and capital, but
between management and labor, where
management is also as much of an
eTnployes as the laborer himself. It is
an engineering problem. and think
the engineers have done the least OF
all In It's development and solution"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-12-03
(OOM SIMS
~ = 4 Says

- WOMAN's face is her for
q tune only when it draws a
lot Of interest.
Having a sympathetic nature is
nice, but very expensive.
You have to keep stirring to settle
your debts.
Losing your temper is sure sign
Of bad luck.
No self-made man ever left out the
working parts.
Misery loves company. They often
come and go together.
Our idea Of fun Is listening to a
woman who doesn't use prefume talk
with man who does.
Some OF these reformers ought to
invent a sandpaper powder puff.
kissing is dangerous. Too much
of 1t will make a man crosseyed.
All circuses advertise as the big
gest in the world and most candi-
dates are a regular circus.
BootIeggers like winter better than
summer because an overcoat gives
them a few more pockets.
Women look better than men, but
a man doesn't have to stay at home
after he washes his head.
The difference between a success
and a failure is a success knew what
kind Of habits to pick out.
Everything is all right In its place
except when everything is out Of
place.
Only few more weeks until in
come tax is due.
Christmas is coming II is almost
time to quit eating so YOU viii be
hungry for Christmas day.
BY starting now and working all
day long you may get your shopping
done by Christmas Eve.
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Perfectly Clear
BY BERTON BRALEY

BY BERION BhAEBI
If you have seen a gibberdin
Cavorting on the green,
With seven feathers on each fin
And nothing In between;
Ii you have watched him dance a
waltz
With thumb-tacks IN each shoe,
You're bound to understand his
faults
When they're explained to you.
Why does he sit in thorny spots,
And every now and then
Proceed to tie himself in knots
He can't unite again?
Why is his form contained within
A tin can on a shelf?
Because the wild, wild gibberdin
Can not contain himself.
If you have watched the gibberdin,
You'll very clearly see
Why dark green whiskers on his
chin
Do not appeal to me.
For dark green whiskers will not
bleach,
Except in alcohol;
And thus the gibberdin can teach
A lesson to us ALL
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc. }
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Civilized
Alexandra Timas.Trihrnal

When Americans become discour-
aged because OF i'll health or bad luck
in business, the first thing they think
Of Is killing themselves. There are
more self murderers among native
Americans than among any other ma
ton on the globe
Still we Americans claim to be Chris
TANNED and civilized. If the former,
we seem to forget that suicide is
murder quite as much as If you killed
another as yourself. God gave you
your life. and only He has a right to
take it. Perhaps If more people
thought of suicide or self-murder in
this light they would ponder long be-
fore doing away with themselves
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I - Y
IL Schuenemann has kept faith
- with her skipper-husband.
After an absence of four years,
Chicagos christmas Ship" is back.
An odor of evergreen and balsam,
almost entirely foreign to the River
front, premeated the smoke-laden air
as the Christmas Ship" battered
and aged beyond its years by the
storms of many winters on Lake
Michigan, moored to the dock. Her
decks were piled high with 10000
Christmas trees.
At simple meal in the dingy
cabin sat Mrs. n. Schuenemanns
gray haired and tanned by tot. in all
kinds of weather, but radiantly
happy because it had been willed that
she should keep the faith.
All Chicago knew the Schuene-
Inanns. Year after year Herman
sailed in the sturdy Rouse Simmons
for the North Woods of Michigan
late in September. Early December
always found him back in port with
a shipload of Christmas trees to make
happy the yuletide Of thousands of
the city's children.
Discriminating people bought the
Schuenemann evergreens; they were
the best, each selected personally by
the veteran skipper.
Storm Founders Ship
Then, just eleven years ago, as the
Christmas Ship" vas bound for Chi
cago with a record cargo, a storm,
such as few could remember, swept
the lake. During the night the Rouse
Simmons went down Schuenemann
and the SMALL crew were lost, but
even as late as 1923, storms some
lake shore and the children are IN
formed that It was cast UP from the
wreck of the Christmas Ship"
His task Of supplying evergreens
for Chicago homes was the old skip
per's lIfework, in which he took great
pride
So the year after the tragedy Mrs.
Schuenemann chartered a new boat.
went into the forests of northern
Michigan and again Chicago bought
Schuenemann trees for the yuIetide
Each year she continued until poor
health, accompanying her declining
years and financial setbacks pre-
vented her from carrying on"
Was Great Effort
1t was q great effort this year, but
finally the little old woman secured
the battered old schooner Fearless
that again she might keep faith. Death
only. she hopes, will stop her work
"Oh, the difference" she says
when first went to the forests with
my husband years ago you couldn't
see for the trees. Now you have to
hunt for good ones; there Is just a few
Of the big ones left"
Forest fires, the yearly drain on the
woods for trees for Christmas and
the effects OF the sun on thinned
woods have combined to deplete the
supply Of trees In the north woods.
Bring down the children Mrs.
Schuenemann says. We've plenty
Of trees. Christmas is the children's
holiday and they like to have a word
to say about the trees they pick their
presents from"
And Mrs. Schuenemann allows that
this isn't going TO be much Of Christ
mas for her II the children let their
grown-ups do all the buying.
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Animal Facts

Over in Rome singing birds are to
be had on market whose eyes have
been burned out with red-hot irons, it
being the theory that blindness. makes
them sing better.
Beaver, says Edward r. Warren, the
naturalist, use four types Of construc-
tion-dams, lodges, burrows and
canals The canal is the highest en-
cheering achievement ITO DELHI
erately dam and dig a channel in
which to float logs to a pond" he
says, land not only that. but also to
build dams in this channel to hold
water to a desired level, is an inteli-
gent feat"
The constant warfare waged against
wolves and coyotes in Yellowstone
Park has so depleted their number
that now baby antelope and elk are
comparatively safe from harm. Their
number increases with every year
and other animal life shows improve
.ment because of the destruction Of
the predatory beasts.
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What Editors
Are Saying
SURPRISED
(Crawfordsvtlle JournalJ

VNEaWAOIu5NIIIe JUuInHJ
Possibly the owners of those Indian
apons industries were duly surprised
when the liason officer Of the Cham
Der of Commerce informed them they
were running to 100 per cent capacity.
1t is really remarkable what valuable
information some OF these associa-
tons pick up.