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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1923)
Petition Asks Investigation of Samardick rersons Arrested ^ in Raids Open War in Court on General Prohibition Agent. Declaring that General Prohibition Agent Bob Samardick swore falsely in an affidavit when he raided the Chicken Dinner home in Kasl Omaha August 14, three of the men arrested by Samardick at that time applied to the federal court Thursday for a grand jury investigation into the acts of "the terror of the bootleggers.” The three are Fred Smith, .Mike Dwyer and Howard Smith, owner, musician and proprietor of (he resort, respectively. They also ask that "a special, capa ble and unbiased attorney” he ap pointed by the court to conduct the investigation, alleging that United Statea Attorney Kinsler and his as sistant are "unfit and unqualified for the prosecution of any action against Samardick for the reason that they are defending Samardick and inti mately associated with him in official duties.” Affidavits Filed. Affidavits of’ the two Smiths; Dwyer; Vivian Hoye, piano player; A. Cohen, Marie Cohen and Bessie Kristie, guests; Charles Hunter, cook, and W. M. Baker, waiter, were filed They state that Samardick struck Howard Smith twice during the raid and that Samardick did not show or reaA any search warrant. “No search warrant is required In raiding a public resort like this one,” i said General Agent Samardick when told of the action. “If I go Into such ! a place and see liquor I can hardly expect them to wait till I go and get a search' warrant. “In this case one man. when he eaw us emqe In. ran and poured out half a gallon of liquor. In his ^ haste he spilled some on the floor and we know by the smell that it was In toxicating liquor. That is the only evidence W'e need in court.” This is another of several actions brought recently against the zealous prohibition agent by persons arrested for bootlegging. J. R. I-ones is at torney tn fhis one. Lafayette Day Marked by Ceremonies in U. S. New York, Sept. 6.—America to day celebrated the anniversary of l.afayette’s birth and the battle of the Marne. Ceremonies were held .n various cities throughout the coun try, but the chief function was on Governors Island in New York har bor. The celebration was halted in sages sent the committee in charge of the national exercises by Presi dents Coolidge and Millerand, Prime Minister Poincare and Secretary Hughes, Marshals Foch and .loffere and the governors and mayors of many* states and cities. Ak-Sar-Bon Float to Show Coolidge Being Sworn in One of the floats 1n the Ak-Sar Hen fall pageant will represent the oath of office being administered to President Calvin Coolidge by bis father, in tlie ^ sitting room of a Vermont farm ^T*ais float lias ben sponsored by the I Corte Aldou* Hunt company. Iri order to Insure accuracy of detail, a photog k rapher was sent to the house In which the oath was administered to take pictures. Forty floats will be in the lineup when the parade starts. Petrova Says Monarchist' Movement Spreads in Paris New York. Sept. 6.—Mine. Olga Petrova, actress, said yesterday on I arrival on the steamship Olympic- from Parte that the movement for a royalist revolution In France is being widely discussed in Paris. Many of her friends, she said, believed France would return to a monarchlal govern ment soon. Ford Shoals Parley on By I’rrui. Washington. Sept. Negotiations were resumed today between the gov ernment and Henry Ford on the lat ter’s offer to acquire the Muscle Hhoales, Ala., power plants and ni trate properties. Accompanied by his son, Kdsel, nnd oiip c.f ids engineers, Mr. Ford came to Washington to con fer with Secretary Weeks and Inter with President Cooiidge regarding th* project. | Has New Nose 1 Mins Zelda Nelson Ik still in Omaha I today convalescing from an operation f whlrh gave her a new none. ^ \ The operation, performed at the ie Memorial hospital some days , consisted In taking a pero of r» from Miss Nelson’s rib, ehnplng ike the bone of the none nnd In n't ting it to grow firm with the UtrtirUire Of the nose It r*p;ih.v »• ctefeet from whirh Miss Nelson has I aoffei rd from childhood, when tli« c irtUi "'1 of Ik i no,*-!• failed to d« vdop normally. j Not a House Left in Yokohama, Say Reports .V general view of (lie c'ty cf Yokohama. Japan, principal coupon and manufacturing city, swept by flames following violent earthquake which destro.ved part of the town. Eclipse of Sun to Be Visible in Omaha on September 10 Creighton University Astrono mer Tells of Preparations to Observe Phenomenon in Lower California. By WILLIAM F. BILGE. Next Monday, September 10, there will he a total eclipse of the sun. It will be visible as such only on a very narrow belt drawn across the North Pacific ocean, Just skirting the const of California, then passing directly across Lower California. Mexico and British Honduras, and ending in the Caribbean sea. As a partial eclipse it will he visible over the North Pa cific ocean, the whole of North America, and the northwestern por tion of South America. An eclipse of the sun is produced by the moon's passing before it. When the moon hides the whole sun. it acts like an opaque screen, cut ting off ail of its intensely brilliant light and enabling us to se the sun's surroundings, the corona with which it is enveloped, ns well as the stars in the background, and faint and small bodies that may he near it. All these would he forever invisible and un known to us. if the sun would not he at times totally eclipsed. Astronomers therefore seize every opportunity to observe these eclipses, and often travel to the other sidg of the earth for this purpose. Path of Totality. The path of totality in the present eclipse does little more than touch the shore “of the United Slates in California, and the central line does not run over land at all at this place. There in only one small Island near this line, and a few others are within the belt. But many of these posi tions will ho occupied, the best, how ever, being In Lower California and In Mexico. Kxpeditlons from the Jerkes. Wash burn and Goodselt observatories are on Catalina Island. The I,Irk, Stew ard and Sproul observatories are in Mexico. There is even an expedition from Germany in Mexico. Some of these hnvc set up very elaborate out fits. Mr. Bodes, director of the Kbro observatory In Spain, passed through Omaha, August 25, with the Intention of joining one of these eclipse parties. Besides obtaining large-scale photo M E i-W S graphs of the eclipsed sun in order to study its corono or to measure the displacement of stars near it and thereby again to confirm Klnstein's theory, spectroscopes will be used to analyze the light of the corona, and photo-electric cells to measure Its brightness. Only Partly Eclipsed. In Omaha the sun will be only 57 per cent eclipsed, and will look like the annexed figure. The eclipse will begin at 2 o'clock, 8 mlhutrs. 40 sec onds. The moon will then first touch the sun In the point IV. if wc wish to observe this first contact with great care, we ought to hold the dia gram so that the point T Is on top If we then estimate a distance of 62 degrees from the bottom or lower most point of the sun's disk towards the right, we will locate the point IV correctly. A better way than looking at the sun through a smoked glass, Is to tack up a piece of pasteboard at any convenient place, punch a hole through It with a nail or a lead pen ell, and catch the Image of the sun made on a white-card, held about 10 feet away. IVe can in this way oh serve the contacts within five sec onds nud follow the whole progress of the eclipse. The middle of the eclipse will oo cur at 3:18, when the obscuration will reach its maximum of f>7 per cent. Unless one knows that there Is an eclipse, this darkening will not be suffielent to attract notice. The eclipse will m l at 4 o'clock. 23 minutes, 48 seconds, when the moon wjll finally leave the sun at the point L. T must then be held on top. L will then be at right angles to T, or to the left. Wymore Boy Dragged to Death by Steer 8p#ri*| DiMpateh to The Omaha Ree. Wymore. Neb., Sept. 6. — Wendell Yarger, 16-year-old son of W. I,. Yarger, farmer living near Zion ehurch, five miles northeast of Wy more, was thrown and dragged to death last night by a steer in the pasture near his home It is supposed the lad was trying to ride the animal, as a rope was j found girdling it and a fragment < f the rope was wrapped around the hoy's wrist when the nude body was discovered by a younger slste.- ^0 minutes after the boy had left the home to get the cows. He was apparently entangl'd In the rope after being thrown. Uvery garment was torn from his body and shreds found on snags In the pasture The father, mother, and several brothers and sisters survive. IT. S. Rejection Hurt League, Lord Birkenhead Asserts Montreal, Sept, r, Had Europe known when the Versailles treaty was being drafted that the United States intended staying out of its affairs, "msny matters which have caused endless trouble in the world might have been spared.’ it was declared last night by the earl of Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor of England, in^an address before the Canadian Bot association. Lord Birkenhead declared he was ready to back Up the speech he made at Williamstown before the institute of politics in which be said America was not ready for the idealism of former President Wilson so far as bis idea of a league of nations was con cerned. ^ Mishing Lawyer Heard from. Cheyenne, Wvo., Sept, f, Charles L. Higdon, former United States at torney for the district of Wyoming, today telegraphed his family here that "everything is nil right,” stating that he whs departing for home by auto mobile from Wllnier, Minn. No ex pin nation of the report of bis dls appearance wan givo/i In the message After attending the meeting of the American Bar association In Mlnne a polls last week Mr. Higdon dropped out of sight and Minneapolis police had been searching for him since. Cuts Gasoline Price 2 Gents San Francisco, Sept. 6.—The Stand aid Oil company of California an nouncod Isaf night a reduction of 2 cents per gallon In the price of gaso line and engine distillate at all points where It operates, effective tomor row. The territory affected Include* all of t ill fni nla, Oregon, Washington. Nevuda. Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii.. Omaha Special Train to Arbor Lodge Rites A meeting of former Nebraska City citizens living in Omaha will be held next Monday night in the office of Robert Pruesedow, 80n Omaha Na tional Bank building, to make nr rangemenfs for attending ceremonies at Nebraska City on September 27, w hen Arbor Bodge will ho formally given to the state. ,J#y Morton of Chicago, son of the late J. Stirling Morton, will srriv? in a special ear with a party to make the presentation. Governor c. W. Bryan will receive the historic spot In the name of the. state. Arbor Bodge was the home »>f .1 Sterling Morton, pioneer of Nebraska and who served ns secretary of agri culture. The unveiling of a mono rnent of Morton at Arbor Bodge was attended by the late Grover Clevi land nearly 20 years ago. There are marly 600 former Nr hraska City people in Omaha, it is ilie intention of the cornrnittre to go to Nebraska City in a special tra|ji on the morning of September 27 and return during the evening. Bee Want Ads produce results. PULLING THREADS “Drawing threads In your fancy needlework la an excellent EYE TEST. If the thread seems double or you pick at ihe wrong one and do a lot of squinting YOU NEED GLASSES. I.et us show you our Special Large Hound Shell Speetarlea or Eye Glasses for close work, only $6.00 HIKCX'ALS, distance and nent work In one lens. Lensea only $7.00 Same Service In our South Ride Store, MA 07R4 Flitton Optical Co. 13lh Moor. I at Nut. Ilk. Illdg. .1 \ 11*7.3. , Man Looks for Father 16 Years Came from IIIitioiK in Search of Parent—Starts Suit Against Lawyer. Sixteen years ago Jakob Kristian Haagensen came to this country from Denmark to search for his father. His search of 1G years has been futile, according to a petition which lie filed in district court against George E. Turkington, Omaha law yer. He alleges Turkington has knowledge of his father's estate which he refuses to divulge. “My father's name was Gustav. He deserted my mother when I was only a year and a half old. Sixteen years ago I came to America to find my father, and I have visited 25 states in search of him. “Not long ago I saw a notice In the Omaha Danish Pioneer which said the royal Danish consul Is seeking information regarding the estate of Gustavus Haagensen, who died In No vember, 1919. at the age of 77 years. I wrote the consul at Chicago. He replied that he had no definite Infor mation, hut that George E. Turking ton of Omaha did have information. I went to Turkington. but although he be admitted that he knew about the estate and that It was large and valuable, he would not tell me where It was being probated unless I prom ised to give him two-thirds of It. Turkington based his claim on the estate on a trip to Denmark in which he said he spent $3,000. “I have asked every probate judge in Nebraska about the estate, and none of them has any knowledge of It.” Bandits Lock Cars and Escape With Loot A unique plan of evading pursuit by locking up their victims' cars and taking away the key was put into practice by two automobile bandits on west county roads Wednesday night. Walter W, White, mechanic, 2602 Dewey a venue, improvised an ignition connection and drove to the police sta tion at midnight to tell how the two j bandits held him up and robbed him of $7.60 nnd a $7", diamond ring, after which they lo< ked his car, took the key and fled. His companion. Miss Caroline Dart, 1f*2 South Fifty-first avenue, lost nothing. Another victim was .T F. McMillan, 184 4 North Twentieth street, former police officer. He said the two bandits appeared «o quickly be was unable to reach for a revolver in the front ‘•eat. They rnhtied him and a woman companion of jowelery and money to talling $27,0. nnd fled, taking the key of the car With them. ^ Mr. and M r„. John Brandei* Beach New York From Africa Mr. and Mrs. E. John Brsndeis landed in New York Wednesday morn ing from an extended bunting excur j “ion which P*ok them into the heart of Africa. They also toured Europe. Silk Trade Good Despite Disaster Omaha Dry Goods Firms Not Affected by Japanese Catastrophe. Although several New York eilk houses are reported to have called all their salesmen from the road, none of the salesmen traveling for Omaha dry goods houses will be affected by the Japanese disaster, it was au thoriatlvely alated Wednesday. The silk market, according to J W. Russel of M. 1£. Smith & Co., Is strong. There is enough raw silk in the United States to keep the silk mills running for about SO days. No report Is obtainable of the (renditions of the silk industry in Japan. A quantity of *dlk was undoubtedly stored In Yokohama and Toklo, hut whether this was of a sufficient quantity to affect the entire Japanese crop or not is not known. • Dry goods salesmen who travel from Omaha carry a general line, Mr. Russel said. If silk goods become scarce they will merely drop that line of samples but will continue to travel. rleorge Brandels .of the Rrandels stores yesterday received a cable gram advising him that the purchas ing office of the stores In Y'okohama had been entirely destroyed by the ea rthquake. The company’s Japanese head quarters. as a consequence, has been moved to Kobe, another seaport town. Mr. Van Brunt, the company's Yokohama representative, escaped without injury. Wickham Files Answer to Suit Bluffs Contractor Declares His Profits on War Con tracts Exasperated. Attorneys for K. A. Wickhnm, Council Hlurfs contractor, yesterday filed answers to Interropatories set forth in the^iult filed apainst him in January by L. W. Drennen, W. T>. Jamieson and James J. Doty for $217. 000, allcpcd to be due them as their share of the profits on certain war contracts which they say they help'.*! him obtain. In the answers filed today Wickham sets forth that on his contract at Memphis, Tcnn.. on which the plain tiffs allepe he received $110,000, his profit was $7,430 12. On the Omaha fl\ inp field contract, on which the plaintiffs allepe Wick ham received $2S6.10O, he says that his profit was $30.0*3 81. World Peace Is Aim of Premier Yamamoto Waahinjirton. Sept. * —The new eahinet of Premier Yamamoto of .Japan, It wan aaid yesterday at the Japaneae embassy, ran he expected to follow a policy of harmonious co op eration with foreign nation* and of constructive work amon* it* own people at horn*. "The Yamamoto cabinet,** the em bassy said. "wn* formed on the *er ond of September durine the confla eration In T »k:o. No official declara tion of policy ha* yet been announced. The Japanese embassy however if reived word today from Tokio via Iwaki that the premier ia expo, ted at the first opportunity to announce hi* program Indicating that the new cabinet 1* determined to follow a pol icy of peace.” Building Permits. pro Mill er H1« South Th1rt> »hl"1 • r^et. fr*m« dwel'ing $4. *r'r' Frank Salonday. *'17 North Thlrty flnit Avenue, brl^k veneer dwelling, $70oA Anne T.ankasf. 3*1* S- (if h Thirty-ninth street. fmmH dwelling f4 r*on Rada I.HhlrovI’ h ."517 Madison frame •1 welling $900 f A 4j*»rsp*rher frame dwellings *• follows 4**6 Popiieton avenue, I onu,' 4•; * l William at reet, f i,Q60 4t * t i n e nur. $r of-n, 412** South 1 \ '■>'h etreet. $ Manhattan ntipany TWrtj aixtti an*l t'enter streets filling station, I •»"o. Sunderland Bros company. Foft> J * \th un i Webster stteeta, storage build-j tng. $1,000 Burgess Bedtime Stories . By THORNTO?f W. Bl'ROESS. THp rare lean urn but teinptinic f«t«; For such disaster lies in wait. — Redtail the Hawk. Redtail the Hawk Becomes Interested. Redtail the Hawk makes It his business to know all that is going on In the Green Forest. At least he tries to know nil that is going on. Those wonderful eyes of his, looking down from up In the blue, blue sky, can see much that others would fail to see. But once in awhile he misses something. It happened that he missed the building of the new sum mer home of Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Mrs. Happy Jack. 11c missed it because he had been busy elsewhere during the days when the new home was being built. It was just as well for the builders that he did. It might have been hard work for them to dodge him had he tried to catch them at that time. It was a week after the new sum mer home was completed that Redtail discovered it. He was circling above the Green Forest, and finally swung down into a certain big beech tree. He knew that tree very well, so you can guess how surprised he was when he discovered in It a great mass of twigs and leaves, "Ha!" exclaimed Redtail to himself. "That Is new. That gray rascal llai' py Jack Squirrel has a new summer home. No one else could have built that. I shall have to keep an eye out. Yes, sir, I’ve tried a good many times to catch that rascal, but always he has managed to dodge into a hole in a tree. I ought to be able to catch cither Happy Jack or Mrs. Happy Jack here, for now I will know always where to look for them. Their old home was more or less of a secret, bqt this is no secret at all. I can watch this from so high up that they will never notice me. My, how good a Squirrel dinner would taste! It Is a long time since I have had one.” Then Redtail circled ofT and went hunting in quite another direction. You see he was clever, was Itedtail. I'll keep away from there for awhile,” said Redtail as he flew along. “I’ll let them think that I haven't found that new home of theirs. If they are not bothered or frightened for awhile they will grow careless. I never knew it to fall. Just leave folks alone and they seem to forget 'to watch out for danger. "Ha! exclaimed Kcdlail to himself’ ; “Thai is new Happy Jack and Mrs. Happy Jack are foolish folk. They didn't really need a summer home. By building it they are trimly inviting me to catch them. Ill accept the invitation.’’ Kedtail chuckled at his own Joke. Now Kedtail fully intended to do just a* ha hnd planned But he couldn't resist the temptaton i> now and then awing around high in the When You Eat a Vegetable Dinner i • ^oti ran make it app«“ ti/inp and aatipfving if \ou wn<on it proprrlv. )ti»t pour ovrr il a ilrrwini of two parte melted butter and one part LEA&PERRINS SAUCE Announcing The Opening of Our New Sewing Machine Department A I ^ ter'/i/ic? ' \ >S i/-r/ Thimfofes Saturday, September 8 An event which will prove that The Brandeis Store lends the way in value giving with tin* greatest offerings of desirable Sewing Ala chines Omaha has ever known, in fact, every known make sewing machine will he marked at a great reduction for this opening event Saturday. As a First Day Feature Sterling Silver Thimbles Will Be Given Away Free Evcrv woman visiting the Sewing Machine Department Saturday— one day only will receive free of any charge or obligation whatever, a beau tiful sterling silver thimble as a souvenir, marking the opening of this New Sewing Machine Dept.—Fifth Floor Full particulars of the Opening Sale in Friday evening’s papers. Watch for our Sewing Machine Advertisement. blue, blue sky where he could look down and see that summer homo of Happy Jack's. He always took cure to fly very high when he^dtd this so that if ,he should be seen by Happy Jack of Mrs. Happy Jack they would n't suspect that he was at all inter ested in them. So sure was he of this that he formed the habit of having a look at that new summer home every day. He was trying to learn the hab its of Happy Jack and Mrs. Happy Jack. And every day he grew hun grier for a squirrel dinner. The next story: "Happy Jack Isn't fooled.” (Copyright, 1922.) Imported Goods Arrive Twenty men are now being employ ed in the stock room of the Brandeis stores unpacking boxes of merclmW' dise purchased by Karl Louis durla® his visit to Europe. I The merchandise is being arranMsC and will lie put on sale within th* near future, according to Georg*' Prandeis. It was purchased In Francs, Ireland, England, Germany, Crecho Slovakia and Austria. H. H. Abbott Cominp. H. H. Abbott of Browning. 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