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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1923)
Today A True Corn Story. Mellon Stays—Good News. It's a Kaleidoscope. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANC This encouraging item appears in Senator Capper’s Topeka Daily Capital: ‘‘The local telephone company has made complaint because the cornstalks have grown so tall the ears droop on the telephone wires and impair the service. In places the ears have broken the wires." That happened in Hiawatha, Kan. Corn in many places will yield 50 bushels to the. acre. And corn stalks are exhibited 16 feet high. The stories about wheat farmers cutting down their acreage for this fall are not true, at least in Kan sas. That Secretary Mellon will re main in the cabinet with President Coolidge is good news for the • United States. One of the best things Mr. Harding did was select ing Mr. Mellon for secretary of the treasury. Mr. Mellon understands finance. He proved it by collecting a few hundred millions on his own account. He has reduced the na tional debt steadily and safely. He is an able manager of the national pocketbook, and hired for less than half of 1 per cent of his value. Such bargains should be appreciat ed. You heard about those eight lit tle Japanese in California indicted, rushed to trial for trying to form "a celery trust.” Those wicked criminals, whose little brothers raise celery in quantities, planned to boost the price 2 or 3 cents a bunch. Uncle Sam could not stand that. Thlre isn't much doubt that the wicked celery trust Japs will go to jail. And there isn’t any doubt that the real trusts, big ones that fix prices of gasoline, oil, coal and other necessities of life (celery isn’t a necessity of life), will stay out of jail and laugh at the eight little Japs. To do anything in this country and “get away with it” you must do it on a big scale. The cheapest thing is not wheat, (lerman marks or rubles. It is human life. The International Mews tells about John Miller of West Virginia who sold his wife and seven children for $100 to Michael Davis. You can buy a human baby any day for less than you would have to pay for a sec ond-class pup. This world is a kaleidoscope. Its people, little grains in the machine. On the front page of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, headed (‘‘Twenty Years Ago,” are these two items: ‘‘An automobile crossed the United States in 33 days.” A flying machine can cross now in less than 24 hours. The Post office department begins a regular 30-hour service. ‘‘The French In Lorraine have peeved the kaiser." £ That was 20 years ago. Now Lfcrraine has gone back to France, the kaiser has gone to Holland, and Germany has pretty nearly gone to—another place that begins with a capital H. Ku Klux Is Interested in Georgia Investigation Macon, Ga., Aug. 22.—City and county authorities were In consulta tion late Tuesday with several special investigators of the Ku Klux Klan in co .nectlon with the Investigation of wholesale tlogg.ngs In Macon re cently, It was announced. No state ment was Issued at the close of the •onference. The police continued to work In »n effort to round up an alleged or ganized party of men who officials •aid were financing and giving orders to a band of men. The authorities, made this announcement yesterday following an examination of the Hud son brothers who were said to have been caught flogging two negroes Sunday. Ku Klux Klan leaders from the mperlal palace In Atlanta hastened here today on the heels of the sheriff's activity and a number of them were •aid to have been In the sheriff's of fice throughout the afternoon. $2,000,000 Given to Aid Europe l»y U. S. Lutherans FUsenach, Germany. Aug. 22.— American Lutherans have contributed more than $2,000,000 and 2.400 tons of clothing to Kuropean relief since 1918, Dr. J. A. Morehead Informed the delegates to 'the f.rst world conven tlon of Lutherans Tuesday. To assist Lutheran* in more than 20 countries, he added, the relief work Inane m ated before the armistice is still going on. The delegates held confessional serv oes In Wartburg. at which Rev. Dr. M. Jacobso of Philadelphia pre sided. County Schools. The rural ami town schools of Douglas county outside of Omaha will open September 3 gnd 4. The Douglas Co fluty Teachers' in stitute will be held on August 30 and .11. The first day will bo for princi pals and the second day for all other teachers. County Superintendent Eaton expects every teacher who In tends to teach In the county to be orosent. Edison Is III. laphemlng, Milch., Aug. 2? — Thomas A. Edison In camp with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, near here, was reported as not feel ing well Tuesday. The Illness was reported as slight. Mr. Edison has kept strictly to the caravan during the trip through th*- upper penln •ula. A drizzling rain kept the cn ’ tire party In camp yestei-; Tourist Killotl. Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 22.—-A ; sight sor ing automobile containing I six tourists, fell Into n ravine along 1 the St, Gothard mountain road yes terday, causing I he death of one and •erloua Injury of two persons, says j a message received here today. The j dead tourist was of Dutch nation I allty, j Denver Storm Drives Whole Families Out Sudden Cloudburst Wreaks Havoc With Cars and Autos in Streets of Moun tain City. Denver. Colo.. Aug. 22.—Denver and vicinity Buffered heavy property damage last night when a sudden cloudburst broke over this territory. In Olobevllle, a suburb, many storm sewers being unable to carry the volume of water, were burst, city ditches overflowed flooding hundreds of basements, carried debris Into the streets blocking all tram lines. In East' Denver three street cars were derailed, blocking the entire district. Tracks near Louisville and Oor ham on the Colorado Southern and the Denver and Interurban were washed out and transportation be tween Denver and Boulder was cut off. An Irrigation ditch of the Argo Ir rigation company with Its headgate In the Platte river broke at 8 and 15 blocks on East Forty second ave nue were flooded with water two to five feet deep, driving hundreds of families t|niporarily from their homes. Scores of automobiles became stalled In all parts of the city when the water reached their carburetors and ignition systems. Officials of the highway depart ment were kept busy placing danger lights at damaged places to warn vehicle drivers and prevent rosslblo accidents. Police of All Cities After Woman Crook Bj- Aunt-luted Prm Chicago, Aug. 22.—A nationwide search for "a successful business wo man” who is believed to have fleeced members of her sex out of more than $50,000 in recent months through n spurious agency cbntract game per petrated in virtually the entire east ern half of the United States was Inaugurated today by a local silk house whose name often has been con nected with the fraudulent operations. Notices of standing rewards offered In various states, carrying a descrip tion of the woman, went out today to more than 10,000 police chiefs, sher iffs, marshals and private detectives. The search is believed to be one of tho most extensive ever launched for a woman In America. The objective is described as "prosperous looking, usually wearing three diamond rings, sometimes appearing with bobbed hair of a reddish or yellow cast, with small ankles and very small feet. Her weight Is about ISO pounds and her age between 40 and 45. She Is vari ously known as Mrs, Rates, 'Wills, Dean, Wilson, Drew, Hill, Castle, Stewart, Priest and Culver.” A warrant for her arrest Is out standing In a score of states. The combing of the country for her arrest was launched by the Corticelli Silk company here following a series of complaints from victims in all sec tions. Her scheme Is to sell exclusive agency rights for certain goods in each locality. In many cases, re ports to the firm here indicate, she has collected cash In full for her offering. She now Is believed to be In North Dakota, probably In the vicinity of Fargo. She was last heard from August 10, at Bemldji, Minn. Following aro some cities in which the woman Is known to have worked, according to reports to the silk eon ern: Des Moines, Siotix City, Cedar Rapids and Ames, Ta Runaway Girls. On Information furnished by Des Moines police Council Bluffs police met a train last night and picked up two runaway girls—Margaret Kelly, 16, and Josephine Stalen, 16. The girls are being held for their parents. jTulsa (Okl.j Under Martial Law as Result of Beatings The picture shows one of the side streets of Tulsa after the Oklahoma National Guard, under Adjutant General Markham, hnd established their guard lines. ___ Volunteers Deliver Water to Needv •> on Calls Sent to The Omaha Bee Miss Dorothy Loyd Carries First Pail of Water to Three Babies. Volunteer autoists were kept busy Wednesday morning filling emer gency orders received by The Omaha Bee for water for elderly, sick nnd needy persons who had no means of getting the water to their homes. Many of the pleas were full of pathos. "We have three babies here and need water at once,” a woman whtr resides on West Ohio street tele phoned. Miss Dorothy Loyd, 312 South Thirty-seventh street. was called and rushed the water out to the house. Many tearful pleas were received. The calls overtaxed the delivery ca pacity and more voluntetr autoists were sought. Several trucks were furnished hy the Northwestern Bell Telephone com pany nnd the drivers were kept busy during the day making deliveries. At one homo was found a woman who lived alone. She was sick and was without a (Vop of drinking water. Neighbors who heard of her plight called The Omaha Bee. Delivery trucks of The Omaha Bee were also pressed Into service. A call was received from the Salva tion Army Rescue Home. A sprink ling wagon filled with water was rushed to the home at Sixteenth and Grace street#. Flora Hoffman. 32S0 South Thirty Amt street, made several deliveries. Others who volunteered were Letn Markwell. #00 Lincoln boulevard and the Outdoor Advertising company. The Nebraska Power company made several deliveries from Its power plant, where K0.0P0 gallons of water was distilled. This is a good Samaritan, Miss Dorothy laiyd, 31? South Thirty-sev enth street. She made the first de livery of water for The Omaha Dee to an Omaha family this morning. Three infants needed clean water. Klan Seeks Out Alleged Seducer Causes Arrest of Grinnell (la.) Man liy Authorities at Boone, la. Des Moines, la,, Aug. 22.—Alpha Bassett of Grinnell, la., faced a charge of seduction today as the result of the first direct action for law en forcement by the Iowa realm of the Ku Klux Klan. His arrest at Boone yesterday, in company with an 18 year-old Grinnell girl, and his return to Poweshiek county today followed a two weeks' search by Ku Klux Klan Investigators, it was said. Bassett nnd the young woman left Grinnell August 6. Parents of the girl received several letters from her, but she failed to satisfactorily ex plain her absence. The parents came to Des Moines and enlisted the aid of local officers and Investigators of the klan. Yesterday the Investigators found the girl and Bassett, who Is the father of three children at Boone. The In formation was turned over - to the Boons authorities and Bassett was al rested. • The couple was brought here' last night and the girl was turned over to her parents. Bahsett nlso may face a charge of wife desertion at Grinnell. It was said. Farm Men Will Tour Douglas County The annual all-day farm tour of Douglas county will he conducted Friday und r the leadership of Earl G. Moxwetl, agricultural extension agent of Douglas county. Members of the agricultural com mittee of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce will make tho tour with Mr. Maxwell, • There will be stops as follows: C, C. Allison farm, three miles west of Henson; Speck Bros, farm, one mil' cast of Millard: McArdle farm, neai Klkhom; John Wickland farm, north west of Valley, and a farm four mllen south of Elkhorn. Earthquake. B» AMoelsteil Press. Rome Aug. 22.—A sever* earth quake at Cervlnara, Avelllno province, In the Campania, lj reported In new fu;ency advices. The Inhabitants were greatly alarmed, but the damage was Insignificant. Wash Dresses, $5.00 FINAL DISPOSAL Gingham* to $12.00. . . KxUne* to $15 00 .*.. Linen* to $16.50.. Voile* to $20 00.. 1812 Farnam With the Schmoller & Mueller Console Phonograph You Choose This is your opportunity to make your dollars do double duty. Our own make of Console Phonograph is ready for your inspection. Made in all period de signs and all finishes. Sold Direct From Factory to Home Your saving is around $100.00. Tf you are in the market for a Phonograph don’t miss this special sale. Act this week, for the offer is apt to be withdrawn without notice. [Gentlemen—-Please send mp detailed in- | formation and picture of your Console | F’honograph. | Name. j I Address . I I City . | | State . .J Price $110 Make Your Own Terms If You Live Outiiilr of Omalm, Fill in Coupon Sdunolkr&JIliRlkr Piar»o G, wmm^mm—mmmmmm 1514 16 18 DQDGE g,p ■ ■■■■■■■ k % Vi omen Block Steam Shovel -Camp in Path of Machine in Rocking Chairs to Prevent Tearing Up of Road. Los Angeles. Aug. 22.—Women afoot, on soap boxes and in rocking chairs stopped excavation on High land boulevard, the chief thorough fare leading to Hollywood bowl. Symphony concerts are given In the bowl several nights a week through out the summer, and a particular event Is on the program for toinor row night. The women of the dis trict are especially Interested in the success of the season and became in dignant^ when they saw a steam shovel and a gang of workmen arrive and begin arrangements to tear up the avenue. Mrs. .1. J. Carter, secretary of the Hollywood Howl association, led the women, who borrowed the famous war phrase, 'They shall not pass!" as their slogan. Theiy seized all available seats and settled themselves on them in the street. Mrs. Carter approached the steam shovel and Its operator and announced: ‘•you'll have to quit working or you’ll have to scoop us up, too." "you’re taking your lives in your! hands, ladles." replied the operator. "Orders Is orders, and we’ve got ’em.",! But the women refused to move, ro the men had to stop work. And it was resumed only when the toremon of the gang pladgrd himself to have the avenue "in good shape" hv tomor row night. Cigars Passing. • Makers Assert Decline in Consumption of Hillion and a Half Between I 1920 and 1922 Reported. Chicago, Aug. 22.—TJie day is com ing when he will he a nearly alto gether truthful nation. The first anJ most overworked lies that Will disap pear are these: "Thanks, I’ll smoke it later." "You bet—it’s a peach of a cigar." "A friend of mine in Cuba sends them to me." "Three for a half, eh? I want to get me a box,” "Merry Christmas to you. too, dear, they’re my favorite brand. ' ".No, no, no. I don’t mind It a bit if you smoke in the parlor." The reason for the great reform Is that cigars are becoming fewer and fewer. They promise at their present rate to be extinct in time. Snappy statistics on the matter were given out today by the Cigar Makers’ Inter national Union of America in conven tion in Chicago. The union said that in 1920 there were 8,304.618.767 cigars produced and in 1922, 6,621.298,886. That means that in two years there was a decline of 1,683,319,876 cigars. Clgarets. on the other hand.'seem to be growing in popularity. In 1902 there were only 2,651,618,795 of them made, hast year the number was 60,068,203,132. HAen though the cigar makers are nil honest men, it is difficult to be i.eve them when they say there were 0,060,000.000 cigars smoked lust year. .Some folks smoked wet feathers. Others passed around all-wool imper fectos. Quite a few inhaled the fumes of burning raincoats. But they all said they were cigars. They pi/id 5, 10 and 15 cents each for them. Had the drug stores of fered the cigars us disinfectant or a sure cure for moths, they could have got 55 cents. IVJien tin office eoworker an nounces now that his new baby weighs nine pounds and offers you a cigar, be brave. There are only a few billion like It left rSafe Milk 'amd Malt Crain Ext. r in powder, mokes kTki Food-Drink 0 /or All A|N Avoid Iroitntio«n—Snkutitnto* Buffalo Herd Makes Attack on Party Sal* Bake City, Aug. 22.—Cornered l>y an infuriated herd of buffaloes In Death pass, located on Antelope island, in the Great 8ait Bake valley, a party, of hunters last Monday escaped possible death until the herd was dispersed after four of the ani mals had been slain, according to members of the party who reached here today. More than 100 buffaloes in the herd attacked the huntsmen, forcing them to take refuge In the pass, according tn C. O. Beardslee, one of the hunters. Backed against a wall, the hunters took positions snd emptied their rifles, four of the leaders of the herd falling in their tracks, he asserted. The buffaloes suddenly veered and ran through a ravine after coming within 50 feet of the party, Mr. Beardslee continued. The slain ani mals today had been removed to Lagoon. Utah, where a barbecue will be held tonight. Fixed Ratio in Fire Risks Urged lly Associated Press. Minneapolis, Minn, Aug. 22.— it order to better conditions In the f a Insurance business and to accomplish more effective state supervision and regulation of rates for the benefit of policy holders a fixed ratio policy for the entire United States should be determined, today declared Fran cis R, Stoddard, jr., superintendent of insurance in New York, beforo the national convention of Insurance commissioners. The practice of over insurance was ascribed as being one of Aho most potent causes of the Increased num ber of fires In the country by W. N. Van Camp, South Dakota commission er of Insurance. It pays to be persistent in the use of Want Ads. Full description *eis quicker and better results. Thompson-Belden Introduce The New Invincible t Silk Hose We take pleasure in bringing .out this new brand under our own name for the woman who likes a silk hose a little less sheer than our famous Thomp son-Belden Special. The Invincible is full fashioned of heavy weight, pure thread silk with double lisle soles and tops and certain to live up to its name in being invincible for wear. In black ^ and fashionable shoe shades. Regular and Outsize*, $2.50 a pair. Main Floor. Turkish Towels Lead , in the August Linen Sale 17x36-inch size, blue striped, each ....25c 20x40-inch size, extra heavy, each ...,39c 24x49-inch size, heavy and absorbent . .59c Main Floor €&(nnpn,€>dfen&Ca Phone AT Iantic 0600. Free Pure Water! The Nebraska Power company has centralized its efforts for the distillation of water in order to meet the present emergency. The output is 80,000 gallons a day of which 40,000 gallons will be piped to the street car company plant so that the street cars can be kept running. THIS WATER IS ABSOLUTELY PURE. YOU CAN HAVE AS MUCH OF IT AS YOU WANT. BRING YOUR BUCKETS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES TO THE POWER COMPANY PLANT AT THE FOOT OF .TONES STREET. The Company will deliver water to elderly or sick persons who have no means of conveying the water to their homes. Call Atlantic 3100 and ask for Station 12. Delivery will be free. 9 How to Get to Plant; Go east on any street, then go to Jones street. Travel east on Jones until you reach the power nlant. Guides will he on hand to direct you to the water supply. WE WANT TO BE OF SERVICE TO YOU, ALWAYS. FREE WATER ANY HOUR OF THE DAY OR'NIGHT. Nebraska ® Power <§