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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1923)
Hew Bridge Over c Platte River Is Urged by C. of C. -ounty Board Also Requested to Construct Main North and South Highway. The Omaha Chamber of Commerce executive committee has prepared and dispatched three communications to the Douglas county board of com missioners. calling attention to the ne cessity of a bridge across the Platte river between Ashland and Valley; urging the construction of a main north and south road to connect main highways running east and west and urging that advantage be taken of the extensive experimental work now being carried on by Illinois. The communications read as fol lows: ' Thr*»© years ago the citizens of Doug las county voted favorably to a bond issue of $:t.000.000 for paving all of the main arteries leading out of Omaha to the county line. Fund Nearly Exhausted. "It !s understood that practically all of this bond fund money has now been expended or contracted for at the pres ent time and that during the present ! year all of the bond monev will be used up. All of the main highways, however. I will practically be completed with the final expenditure of the bond fund money. This includes the Washington highway. I.incoln highway, Mliitarv hlghwav and O. L D to the county line It Is now Important that consideration be given t.» a mHin north and south road, so con structed as to connect all of these main hichwavs.' Our committee on public hteh wavs has made a careful investigation of this situation and of the opinion that »h* logical north and south road from Q street north to the Briggs road Is wha* is known as Road 32. or Seventy.second at l-oet This recommendation is submitted for '°ur consideration, with a suggestion that if the board concur.™ steps he taken to imnrove this particular road. It is un derstood that up rp 75 per cent of the state auto tax funds accruing to Douglas county can. under the present lav. be used for permanently Improving high wavs a’d that there Is at the present a considerable amount standing to the "rrd.t of Douglas countv now available "Vour honorable board’s attention Is re po* tfullv ralbd to <h»- necAsslty for a bridg* across the Platte river at some point hetwc' n th? Ashland and Valiev bridges At various times during the las* few years this sublet has h<*»n given '•onsiderat Ion. not onlv bv the county commissioners of Douglas and Saunders counties, but also has been the subject of suggested legislation during the last two or thre© sessions. "There is no question but that the demand for this bridge is becoming great er each vear end that both Saunders and Douglas counties would he greatly bene fited through the opening up of a new traffic avenue. Experimental Rond. "It Is understood that recently condi tions have chiinged so that there is a possibility of the two county hoards get ting together on thia proposition. It is also understood that funds, 25 tier cent from Saunders county. 25 per cent from Doug!.is countv and 60 per cent from toe state, are available, or will be available, shortly. For this reason the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, through Its public blzhwaya committee, wishes to respect fully recommend to yOU! honorable bnaid that consideration he given to this subject at an early date with the idea of reaching some definite conclusion that will result in the construction of a new bridge con necting Saunders and Douglas counties, either at street or at Venter street, whichever location in the 1u4gmpnt of the two boards I? the logical location. "The attention of your honorable board Is respectfully called to the road improve ment experimental work now being car ried on by the'etate of Illinois ' Recently members of vour board and the Omaha Automobile club Rnd t’ham ber of Commerce public highways com. mittees wore invited to make a visit to Springfield. 111. where the Ba*es experi mental road has been built This road, according to our understanding, is 10.800 feet long, paved 18 feet wide and made up In 68 different section*, all laid under different specifications. The state of Illi nois. up tr. rfcp present time, has expended upward of $250,000 In making these tents. The Illinois department of public works has also prepared and Is issuing descrip tive data relative to these experiments, showing the various classes of mixture, road surface, etc . used on each section of road built and tested Also Informa tion and statistics as to the results of wearing and < rushing tests on different lections of road. "It is respectfully recommended to vour honorable board that full advantage of all of th© Information that |s con tained in the various reports of the Illi nois department of public works should be given consideration in future work car ried on In Douglas county, so that the results of the experience gained may he taken full advantage of in preparing > perifications for new roads in this county." Seventy Arrested in 24-Hour Rum War (Continued From Faff* On*.) cross to the belligerent jaw of a man who also gave his name os Peter Wszgls, but who all present declared was not the husband of the woman in charge. Samardick and his crew entered In time to save the remain der of a pint of "moonshine” slowly ebbing into the sink. At the Wszgls residence beer was found on Ice in the refrigerator and 98 bottles behind the kitchen range. Charged With “Robbery." Cries of "robbers” rent the air as the raiders entered the rear door of Kelix Saniuk's home at 4320 South Thirty-third street. Mrs. Saniuk. visiting next door, saw the officers' automobile stop in a cloud of dust at the front door. De fectives Killian and Davis saw Mrs. Sanluk project herself across the yard kitchenward and nabbed her before she could get to the Ice box in the basement. Tjheir groping fingers ex tracted 12 foaming quarts. All beer seized was destroyed, ex cept two quarts in each instance, saved for evidence. More thnn BOO quarts In all were destroyed during I he afternoon raids. And while but little Illicit whisky was seized, Kamar dick declared it was immaterial to the case, as his men had sales on each place raided. Ordered to Appear. Beside those arrested above, Mella Saniuk, wife of Mike Saniuk, 4417 Mouth Thirty-fourth street, was sum moned to appear In room .106 Federal building at 10 Thursday morning. Mella Saniuk with sly small chll dren lived but a block ftvim the Fell* Saniuk residence but denied relation ship. Tired and dusty the raider* de clared It a "day's work" at 4 and Samatdlck dismissed the squad until further notice. Beside* those already mentioned hey arrested Harry and Clara Nor man at 4719 South Twenty seventh street, on a charge of Illegal posses sion of liquor. O. K. Flower was arrested on a similar charge at a soft drink parlor at 2605 N street. He lives at 4944 Mouth Twenty-fifth street. Al Wilson also was arrested at 2605 N street. John Mwlatek was arrested at a s ft drink parlor at 4627 Mouth Thir ty third street, charged with Illegal P - . ■ don and sale of liquor. Hoy James, 512 1 2 South Thlr t(.nth street, was arrested on a slnil lor charge. "These cases,” said Saruardlck, ■will be tried as soon as we get a f. deral ludge on the Omaha bench. I'lilted States District Attorney Kins ler has telegraphed the piesiding judge of the district for a Judge to rit in tlc-se i ase* and he expect* an rns.'e;" »l\yrtly.” " < \ Resident of Nebraska for 50 Years Celebrates Mrs Margaret A. Cook Reach ed Omaha 50 Years Ago Today—Came Overland From Illinois. Mrs Margaret A. Cook, a membn of the Douglas county pioneers, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of her coming to Nebrask today, and will be at home to her old friends all after noon at 4227 Seward street. With her family, Mrs. Cook traveled overland from Beividere. 111., crossing the river on the ferry and camping at Thirty-eighth and Charles streets the first night. They bought their first provisions in Nebraska at the sLore of T. C. Bruner. Mrs. Cook's father, the late John McDonell, first lived at Twelfth and Chicago streets, moving from thei' to a farm on West Center street which ho purchased in the late seventies when land was selling at $16 an acre Mrs. Cook's husband. the late Marion F. Cook, came to Omaha in 1872. They were married on July 31, 1875, in Council Bluffs. Mrs. Cook has seen many changes Hold Your Wheat Move Growing in Middle West (Continued From Png* One.) wise to flood the markets with wheat under these conditions,'' another deal er declared. "It is not believed that everyone can arrange to hold his own wheat back, nor that a complete organiza tion of the farmers can be made ef feetive enough to do so, but there is no doubt but what if those farmers who can arrange to hold their wheat will do so, a better price can be ob tained later in the year." At present quotations No. 2 hard winter wheat, has s Chicago, would net a grower about S4 cents per bushel on track at Hastings, Neb. Based on the Omaha market. No. 2 hard winter wheat would net him about S5 12 cents, track, Hastings. Nothing to Is>se. “We hear considerable about large wheat production in the United States as well as foreign countries, hut I don’t believe that we are going to Have any great over production of wheat in the United States this year," said one expert. "Also, I can see nothing that Indicates that the for eign countries will raise enough wheat to glut the foreign markets. It does not seem probable that European conditions can grow much worse, and it seems to me that the farmer, by holding his wheat, has it all to gain and nothing to lose. "Anyone who has followed the marketing of wheat in the last sev eral years knows that excessive ship ments to the markets at any one period of the year depress prices. The only way to have orderly marketing Is to hold the wheat hack until there Is an apparent demand for it. Scientific Plan. "Canadian farmers have marketed two gigantic wheat crops rather scientifically. They have delivered the wheat to the country elevators from threshing machines, shipping it to the large terminal markets for storage, taking warehouse receipts which were available for collateral at their local banks, and it put the pro ducer in position to take advantage of the market any day he desired to sell his wheat. To do this he simply notified his local elevator dealers who handled the .shipment for him that he desired to sell his wheat. The mar ket dealers Immediately advis'd his broker at the terminal market where the wheat was held In storage, to make this disposition of so many I ushels of storage wheat that Is held. "It may not be generally known, hut It Is a fact that here in Omaha the processes of storage are equally as easy ss in Canada. Wheat can be shipped into this market and stored until the time the owner desires to sell it and obtain 75 per cent to 80 per cent advance^on same. "It Is easy to understand that with grain In storage, it can he marketed more orderly and distributed through out the year as the demand requires," Lumber Company Cashier Is Robber] of $11,000 Plant City, Fla., June 16.—Three nien with shotguns held up the cash ler at the Cummer I,umber company, located at I,acoochee, at noon today and secured 111,000 of the company * roll. $1 Down Sand* • Phonograph to Your Horn* With tha purchase of a few records i't your own choice, the phonograph of your velection will he tent at once to your home. PLAY AS YOU PAY. Term* to suit your requirement*. You don’t have to he a property or home owner to huy from u*. Every phono graph guaranteed COMPARE THESE BARGAINS ELSEWHERE New Harmony, mahogany....$22 Portaphone. almost new......... $23 Columbia, mahogany ..,.$28 Victoria, mahogany cabinet.$.14 Orola, mahogany cabinet.$48 S. A M, oak cabinet....$58 Many other bargain*. Come in at once if you want one. Store Close* at B, Saturdays 6 P. M. Schmoller & Mueller 1514-10-1A T.I.phon. Unde* st. nano v,o. at iu« When in Omaha Stop at Hotel Rome In Omaha during this 50 years, from horsecars to electrics and from one story houses standing where Omaha s business section now lies, to the beau tiful homes of Florence, Penson and Dundee. She tells many interesting stories of early life in Omaha and vicinity. Government Is Anxious to Halt Rum Ships'Trade Administration Seeks Arrange ment to Solve Fmbarass ing Problem Caused by Bootleggers. By (’IIIvernal Service. Washington. June 16.—The United .States stands ready to accept any reasonable temporary arrangement permitting dry enforcement agencies to deal effectively with liquor laden ships hovering off the American shores, obviously to violate American laws. This was made plain today by one of President Harding's closest advis ers, in t/he administration's effort to solve the embarrassing problem pre sented by rum runners lying Just outside the Internationally recognized three-mile limit. The American proposal of a 12-mile search and seizure privilege for the prohibition navy. It was explained. In no way Involves an extension of the traditional three-mile limit of terri torial jurisdiction. Request Is Reasonable. From the administration viewpoint, there is nothing In the American suggestions now before European governments which cannot be grant ed if foreign officials are disposed to treat with Washington on terms of equity and reason. On the other hand, it is felt, any nation wishing to avoid accepting the American pro posals i.in find any number of ex ruses for so doing and thus am bar tossing the United Staten. No legitimate rights of any foreign power, the administration believes, would he sacrificed by acceptance of the plan put forward by Secretary of State Hughes. Inteinational law would remain un affected by the Hughes project, ac cording to the administration view. In the past, it is asserted. European countries have claimed the right of visit and search to the 12 mile limit In orer to deal with temporary emer gencies, and a French law now claims that right for France. Suggestion Ridiculous. The Hughes proposals are describ ed a scontemplating no acceptance of the 12-mile limit except along the American coasts, where hover the rum smugglers. Suggestions from Europe that the granting of the Amer ican request for police Jurisdiction might seriously upset existing ar rangements covering the English channel, the Raltic sea, the Straits of Gibraltar and other regions are re garded as ridiculously beside the point in question. Fleets of vessels intent on violat Ing national law, it is explained, are not hovering in the English channel or elsewhere, but off the shores of the tinted States, and there Is no ne cessityof r European powers to agree among themselves to deal with prob lems which do not exist. No Replies Received. As yet the State departmennt has received no replies dealing directly with the Hughes 12 mile limit propos al. Previous diplomatic correspond ence. however, has included an ad mission from one world power that Its flag was being misused to smuggle contraband liquor into the United States. Regret was expressed over this nlisu e, hut. from the adtrnslstra tion viewpoint, proposals of putting an end to the practice were bluntly rejected Despite unfavorable reactions re ported from abroad, the ndministra tion si It 11 hopes to receive some fa vorable replies. Acceptance of the Hughes plan by any power will be regarded as Improving conditions Just that much, though It Is feared that there are likely to be changes in th» registry of ships in order that they may operate under the flags of na tions unwilling to approve the Ameri can proposal. Committee Named to Seek Government River Aid Special Dispatch In The Omaha Bee. Auburn. June IB.—A committee has been appointed to look after the matter of getting government aid in erecting two permanent boat landings at Brownville and on the east side of the river. Since the government has taken the step to do lot of river work between Sioux City and St. I.ouis to ward shipping improvement. the necessity of permanent landing* be comes apparent. Brownville. the old est city in the state, is the logical place of the west side of the river landing. A government quarter boat Is on the river east of here with 20 engineers making surveys and blue prints. Omaha Man Will Address Display Men at Cleveland K J. Berg of the Burgess Nash stores will leave Sunday for Cleve land. O.. where he will speak Tuea day evening before the International Association of Display Men. of which h« is a past president. More than 2,onn are expected to attend the con vention. among them Frank Fiala of Thompson Belden company. "Red Heads” Are Sought in Death of College Boy Salesman Describes Hazing at Spot Whpre Skplpton, Bp lipypfl to Bp Leighton Mount, \\ as Foynd. By International New* Service. Chicago, June X*—Search for a solution to the I,eighton Mount death mystery, that has gone on among 3,000,000 pei sons in Chicago, narrowed itself down tonight to Include only men with red hair. Determination to "get th" led head' arose in the states attorney's office following startling revelations made by B. H Rouw of Clifton, Ariz . who said he saw’ four youths, one with fiery hair, lowering a body in 1321. into the pier where Mount's skeleton was found recently. Rouw Tells Story. The story of Rouw. who travels in the southwest for a San l'rancisco firm, tended to bear out the state's theory that Mount was kdled in a student hazing and his body secreted beneath the pier. Rouw told the state's attorney over long distance telephone that he was a witness to the weird burial. "1 was In t'hlcago on business in the fall of 1921," Rouw said, "and was driving around Evanston for pleasure. By accident I saw the burial scene. I was not more than 100 feet away Th* students told me not to tell anything of what I had seen, but I reported jt to the Evans top pol.ie "Only Hazing," I’nlire Ray. " Oh Its only a hazing.' they told me. It was Just about sunset. Anoth er salesman and 1 saw a group of college students by the lake, ap parently very excited about some thing Four of them were man handling a boy while the rest looked on. The fifth appeared either un conscious- or dead. His clothing was all tom. r "One of the boys tor* a Pease plank from the floor and they low ered the rifih in One climbed m after hut came out after a while. "When they saw us they seemed undecided what to do. but finally came up and one warned me not to say anything about it. I didn't know the boy w-as dead, of course, and thought it perhaps only a prank. "I could identify all four One wag fat and another red haired." Following the cenversat.'-n. an as sistant sines attorney was sent to f'lifton to bring Rouw to t'hlcago if he thought Jt was warranted. Gould* Return from Fast and Gherk I p Burglary r Z Gould and daughter Elizabeth returned from New Vork Saturday and checked up the ransacking of their hou=e by burglars during their absence. The thieves obtained some heavy winter coats and suits, and seem to have procured some of the household linen*. None of the silver ware was missing. Mrs. C. Z. Gould 1* still in the east and will spend the summer at Montreal, Oanada. 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