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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1924)
9,000 Join New Farm Alliance 100 Organizers Expected in Nebraska Soon to Increase Membership. Columbus, Neb., March 6.—More than 9,000 farmers and business men in Platte, Pierce. Knox, Cedar, Madi son, Antelope, Boone, Nance, Dixon, Wayne and Stanton counties have joined the National Producers’ alli ance, according to P. H. Mohler, Min neapolis. organizer for the association. At Newman Grove. Neb., &♦ busi ness firms signed up as members, along with practically all farmers. In the Shell Creek precinct of Madison county 1(8 farmers have joined the movement. Within the next three weeks, Mr. Mohler declared, the National Pro ducer*’ alliance expects to bring more than 100 organizers into Nebraska to com plate the work in the northeast ern quarter of the state and then sweep westward and south over the entire state. Schoolhouse meetings are being held this week west of Columbua along the various lines of tho Union Pacific in Platte, Nance and Merrick counties. The object of the alliance is to or ganize farmers into township, county and state units in an effort to regu late the prices they are to receive for farm products. Dance Ends in Fight; Three Men Stabbed Columbus, Neb., March 0. Three men were wounded, two of them seri ously, in a stabbing affray that broke up a Polish midnight dance at the farm home of Joe Shemek, 11 miles northwest of Silver Creek. Wesley Pickreil is in a critical con dition atjd was rushed to an Omaha hospital. His brother, Francis, is suffering from numerous knife wound*. George Graves, the third victim, suffered severe injuries. Two more men, John Cuba and John Dor yea, were arrested on a fel ony charge and released on bonds ot $1,500 each. Walter Forman, another alleged participant, was arrested by County Sheriff Dan Kavanaugh late this evening. It is believed the fight began over Wesley Pickrell'a supposed attempt to escort home a young woman an other man had taken to the dance. (By Courtesy of Radio Digest) V (Central Time) Note: All times given are p. m. un '«ss otherwise noted. KDKA. Pittsburgh (326). 6:34. chil drens period; 7. Boy Scout meeting; 7:10, ••oncert: 8:30, meeting KFKX. Hastings (341), rebroadcast program of KDKA KHJ. Bog Angeles (385), 8:48, children's program; 10, program and lecture, KPO. San Francisco (423), 7:30, «r KYW, Chicago (636). 6:60. betlme story: 7. dinner concert; 10, midnight re\ up. WliA. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (474), 7 . :t» concert;; 9:30. band concert. WCAL. Pittsburgh (426). 5:30, dinner on cert; 6:30, bedtime story; 7:80. musical liffram. &VDAP. Kansas City Star (411), 4, s<fl\oo| of the air; 8. novelty night; 11:4$. nmlithM wkc. \VDAY. Chicago (360). 7. dinner music; ■i. *p»-« i i'. i>ro<ni ni. musical Men Are Making Omaha [ John Leg Webster -uuMitRC rhoto Wnere will we start to tell what John Lee Webster has done for Omaha. In Omaha, and about Omaha? Ue came here right after the civil war. in which he served from Ohio, and he began ns soon as he landed on this side of the Missouri river. Not for a minute has he let up since then. Mr. Webster naturally has been chiefly engaged in the work of his profession, in the course of which he has made a lot of history. He was chairman of the convention which framed the constitution of 187R, which lasted the state until 1920, and was then still a pretty good document. He has been In politics ns active as a beaver In the building season, an4 still takes deep concern in what is going on, although he does not get as excited over the outcome ns he once did.. Mr. Webster's latest service was the organisation of the great Patriotic Historic Pageant that featured the Ak-Sar-Ben display In connection with the 1923 celebration. One of his side lines is history. As president and member of the Nebraska State His torical society ba has made eome notable contributions to Its annals, his scholarly studies in connection with the beginnings in Nebraska being of great value. WDAR. Philadelphia (395). 6:30, talk; I, recital; 9:10, danco mualc. WLAP. New York (429). 6:30. sport talk; 6.40. music, entertainment; 9. quar tet. WFAA, Dallas News (476), 8:30, faculty recital; mualc. WFI, Philadelphia (395). 6. talk; 6:30. music. WGR. Buffalo (319). 5:30. dinner music: 6:30. news reports: 8, concert. WGY. Schenectady (380). 6:45. Radario, orchestra; 9:30, special program. WHAS. Louisville (400). 7:30, orchestrg concert, piano ados,. WHK, Cleveland (213). 6. music; I. concert program. WIF, Philadelphia. (509). 6 05. mualc; 4. talk WJAG. Norfolk (28S). 12:15. weather, markets, road conditions; 3:10. same pro gram. WJAU Chicago. (480), 10. musical pro gram. WJY. New York (405). 6:30. inualc. WJL. New York (455). 6. orchestra; 8:30. entertainment; 7. talk; 7:15, talk; 9:30. dance program: 12. trio. WLAO. Minneapolis-St. Paul (417). 7:30. farm lectures: 9:15. business message; 1:30. musical program. WMAQ, Chicago News (447.5). 7. Week ly Wide Awake club program: 7:30. muslo memory; 8:40, orchestra. 9. musical py» grsrn WMC, Memphis (500). 8.30. program; II. pipe organ. WOAW. Omaha ($28), 6:30, dinner con cert ; 9, orchestra. WOC. I>avenport (484). 6:30. sandman's visit: 8, musical program. WQp. Philadelphia (609). 6 30. music; 7. talk. 7:30. inualc; 9.03. mualc dance. Wi'iR. Newark (405). 5:15. piano aoloa; NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS BOULEVARD - • 33d and Leavenworth "Braes" With Maria Prevoet. Vaudeville and Comedy. LOTHROP.24th and Lothrop "HONOR FIRST*' Comedy—“Fully Insured'* With Fablss GRAND.18th and Blnney Cullen Landis end Alice Calhoun in "PIONF.F.R TRAILS" WHEN IN NEED OF HELP TRY OMAHA HER*. WANT ADS | Omaha’» Fun Canlar ffMmU and Nits Today Burlaak “TALK ,5i TOWN” and IV!ME. FRIMINI WORLD’S GREATEST MENTALIST ASK HER R»«ardlnf LOVE. MARRI. M«n nun AGE pER50nal MATTLRS OPEN SEANCE FOR THE CURIOUS Ladlaa* 2Sc Bar(aln Mat., 2:15 Waak Raya Sat. Mat AWk Tlappy liiiya’ AKau-Wa Nu rrrri w ‘The Acquittal” Year'* Great«»t Myilury Play 0:30. roan In moon etgrlea; *. song revue. WOH. Jefferaon City (440 I), I. musical program WWJ. Detroit Newa (080). 6. orchestra. AT THE THEATERS | Walker Whiteside and his company, headed by Miss Sydney Shields, will appear at th« Brandeia theater to night in the Anglo-Chinese play, "Mr. Wu." Mr. Whiteside will be seen ns Wu LI Chang, Chinese gentleman, Oxford graduate aud personage of consequence In hia native city' of Hong Kong. "The Hindu" will be the bill at the Brandeia theater on Sat urday afternoon and evening. Mr. Whiteside will again be seen in the picturesque character of Prince Ta mar, maharajah of Somnouth, India. Colorful scenes of the orient will em bellish the stage during the action of both plays. Harold Vosburgh, Eunice Hunt, David Belhridge, Lucille Hurt ing and other well known players will be seen In both plays. Jack Hose, the nuttiest of nut comedians, at the Orpheum this week, has no more regard for a hat than the average man haa for a match. They last him shout as long. One after another, with only a few sec onds Intervening, he tears them apart and throws them away. H!s humor is of a type that defies a grouch. Tomorrow gees a new d-act bill at (he World theater. Its headline fea ture Is the Hanneford family, four j ears the featured performer* with the Sells-Floto circus. This famous sextet of equestrians have as then principal member George Hanneford, greatest of riding comedians. On the supporting bill are Evans, Mere and Evans in “Bits of Mark Twain;’ Walter* and Stern, "The Syncopated Salesmen;” Msry Drew and company, .loo Belt-hen's Entertainers, John Iturke and Arthur Hays. Today and tomorrow the Halton Powell Players offer “The Further Adventures of Henpecked Henry” at the New Empress. “Midnight Uo*e,'' an adaptation of Halton Powell's orl ginal play. “The Hlns of Hpllywood," Is the bill announced for the first half of next week, beginning Sunday. Eddie Hall, comedian with “Talk of the Town,” was the man who intro duced the “Siberian mousehound” to the language of stage comedians. ''You talk like a mountain,” says Hall to his first aid, Frank Andersen. “And who aver beard a. mountain talk?” la the prompt response. "Well, didn't Pike's Peak?” queries Hall as he goes Into hla dance. “Talk of the Next Next Sunday Sunday Rex Beach's Story of the Texas Oil Fields Better Than “The Spoiler*” for The gold rush of ’49 was nothing compared to the oil rush of 1919. Featuring Anna Q. Nilsson i and ? Milton Sills i ( Lloyd Hamilton in a atom of laugha, “Lonesome”_ Vaudeville—Photoplay* STARTING TOMORROW NOVEL 6-ACT BILL Headed by the Famoui Start of the Sawdutt Arana HANNEFORD FAMILY Featuring GEO. HANNEFORD World's Greatest Riding Comedian FIVE OTHER STANDARD ACTS AN EXCEPTIONAL PHOTOPLAY FEATURE | “DAYTIME WIVES” IT TEARS TO SHREDS THE DECEITS OF A JAZZ MAD AGE n _ i riT. i _ * o tVj"glRifiT o w w RICHARD DIX BETTY COMPSON TULLY MARSHALL “THE STRANGER” Board on tho story, “Tho First and tho Lost,** by John Galsworthy. Harold Lloyd in “\ DO” “Frogland” Something New msmzs™* WALKER WHITESIDE In Two of Hia Croat Snccaaaaa Tonight, tho itBl. |Afa|fl Tarrifie Play Wile fill Saturday Matinaa and Evening “THE HINDI” Aaalatad Hr Mt,, Sydney Shldd, and a Notabla Company Ev'nfa., BOe, f2.S0i Mat., SOc to gg.00 f NIGHTS Startlni gamy UAU an MAT. WEDNESDAY Ivlwll, Ivlwn. IU THRILLS. CHJL1.S, SUSPENSE. LAUGHS Canary Sum* Company of Favorlfa# Who Appaarad H#t« Laat Fall and Chicago All least Saaaon TICKETS NOW ON SALE DDI ACC • Eva .%0t $ I $1 JO $2 $1 50 rnllfCO vi.i no* fin* and fi.no Town" finish** it* run with today's two performance*. Fay Tunis gives a realistic rliarac teritation of a French girl In “Happy Fay*" *t the Oayatv theater, starting tomorrow^'* matinee. She was with Theda Bara in the pleturtfintion of “Carmen,” and last year was pt-lma donna in "Hello, Good Times." Inci dentally, Miss Tunis was married on the stage at the Gayety on January 7, 1915, by Judge Baldwin to Slg. Bosley, both being members of “The Winning Widows" company at the time. This is her first visit to Oma ha since. “The Cat and the Canary" will play a return engagement in Omaha, be ginning Monday, March 10. For those who do not know of its main appeal, it may he said to have been construct ed to thrill. There is art intermittent love story and there are frequent contie episodes, but the author is mainly concerned in keeping three acts consistently creepy. To do this he employs strange noises, tolling bulls and sliding panels to abet the sly movements of suspicious charac ters on a dimly lighted stage. New Film at Empress. A change In photoplays is made at the Kmpress today. T'.u .tew picture is 'The Woman in Chains," with Mrs. Rudolph Valentino featured. REEL REMARKS By tin- M. P. Editor._ Kamam Goes Bark to Work. William Farnam has been signed hy Famous I’layers-Igisky. His first picture under his new affiliation probably will bo "The Llttlest Hebei." in which William and Dustin Farnam played on the speaking stage with Mary Miles Minter before that young lady became so famous. Famous Players also lias captured Adolph Menjou, who gained fame in “A Woman of Paris.” Walter Iliers. whoss contract with Famous Players has expired, haa signed to appear as co-star with Dor othy Devere in a feature length com edy to be produced by Al Christie Xloclkinson has loaned Betty Comp son to Famous X’layers for one pic ture. and in return Famous Players is letting XJodkinson Itse X.oi§ Wilson. "Three Weeks,” the Goldwyn-Cos mopolitan production of Elinor Olyn's novel of the same name, has been barred in the state of Maryland. The censorship board thought It waJ naughty. Jackie Coogan’s next picture, the third in his Metro contract, is being adapted from a photoplay especially written for him by Willard Mack \ STARTING TOMORROW “The Big Show” Four Entertaining Pictures on One Program I STRAIGHT from the heart and soul of a plain housewife came the ideas for this mighty photo thriller! None of the glare of the studio lights, none of the false tinsel of the manufac tured picture, but a thread from the life ef a woman whose heart dictated what her pen wrote! Here is Number TWO So You May See Him Again WE Pr«MBl RUDOLPH VALENTINO in a revised edition.of a production that he played in a number of years ago, “A Society Sensation" Sec him as he was before he became famous. NUMBER THREE A Splendid Comedy ‘The Feather Pushers’ A burlesque on "The Leather Pushers." NUMBER FOUR Omikt'i Very Own Comedy Reel LOCAL .AFS! Your Chenre to Be Funny for Money. A NEW REEL EACH WEEK (Edited by Tbe Omaha Bee > The locale Is on the San Francisco water front and on a small Island In the South Seas. Jackie Is a ragged waif in the story. Sinclair Lewis Is assisting In the writing of the scenario for plcturlza tion of his ‘ Babbitt.’* This arrange ment was made by the producers after he had expressed disappoint ment over the film of "Main Street.” The latest engagement rumor In Hollywood Is between Agnes Ayers and Ricardo Cortez. Miss Ayers was a war bride and obtained a divorce in 1921 from Capt. Frank Shucker of Seattle. Cortez has not yet made much of an Impression In the films Norma. Shearer’s work In "Pleasure Mad" and "Flaming Passton” has started her on the road to stardom. I—-- — Ice Jams Disappear . as Platte Subsides Columbus, Neb., March •■—No fur ther trouble from lee In the Loup and Platte river* south of Columbus is anticipated. Both river* were at. lower stage to day than at any other time since last week and their channels are prac tically free from floating Ice. * There still is Ice lodged on the sand bar* —more In the Loup, proportionately, than In the Platte—but it Is destined to lie there till It melts away unless heavy rain* should come to cause a quick and material increase in the volume of water. The Burlington reports the Platte channel* free of Ice at Its bridge southeast of the city. Yellow Cab Offers a New Rule for Safe Driving Who has the right-of-way? The other fellow ALWAYS. This rule for safe driving, laid down for YELLOW CAB drivers, is submitted for the serious consideration of every motorist. Let’s look at this Safety proposition from the standpoint of common sense. We are all agreed that killings and maimings MUST stop. Rules and regulations don’t seem to be doing it, so what will? A recent survey of automo bile accidents disclosed that 99 out of every 100 took place within 25 feet of street intersections. In every case somebody had the right of way and it availed him not a whit. We Americans are inclined to scoff at “Alphonso and Gas ton” etiquette, but courtesy, after all, makes Life’s pathway pleasanter—and safer. Standing on one’s rights is a con stitutional prerogative, but mighty poor consolation for a broken head. When all drivers concede that every other has the right-of way there will be no more street cor ner crashes. There will be a little tima lost, but lives will be saved, which is of infinitely more importance. YELLOW CAB drivers are human and make mistakes like everybody else, but we are spending unlimited pains and lots of money to prop erly train the men who want to do right. The others must go and we need your help to get rid of them. Don't Take a Chance Take a Yellw Phone: A Tlantic 9000 LADIETKMD ‘Tony ' the header horse “WESTERN SPEED” Starts Tomorrow at tho I I fei jrtftd Vjf JVllitfAil.fAflft St SO-NOW PLAYING-• :!( Twie# Today. Mat. 15*50e: Nit# 15c-l MISS NORA BAYES Hi# Famous International Singer Carleton A Ball#* Esp# A Dutton v ‘ THE SHOW OFF” Allen. Taylor A Bai ber Lucas A Inet JACK ROSE Today T omorrow Mutual Comady at It* Boat Further Adventure* of HENPECKED HENRY’ In Addition to Photoplay* DARING BUT BEAUTIFUL Will Be the Gyra tions —OF— KEE-WA-NU Australasian Impression* istic Rhythmic Dancer Assists^ by tba 6 Dancing Loreleis 6 Lc#:ir;c ‘Happy Days’ 6>YEIYSi‘B