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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1918)
THE BEE: OMAHA, . eATUilLAi, JUiNEi o, ivit. 3D OF REFORM CITY LICENSE COaEAUJRESAYS tovie Shows, Ice Wagons, Poo! Halls and Peddlers Op- , crate Without Permits, . - . Probe Reveals. 5 jf aaonnaa"aan An investigation ito the affairs of tSe city license department has re veiled a deplorable condition, at cording to Commissjoner Ure of the accounts and' finance department. -..Samuel Freed, the new license in spector, has been told that he will be et Dec ted to Ret results. He has taken hold of the work and is now checking-op those who have failed to comply with the license require ments. Twehty motion picture theaters vera Derating withouNicenses when the new administration took charge. -A few were licensed during the last two weeks. - Many ice wagons, pool halls and f ddiers are operating without licenses. ' ' "Some of these peddlers were told before election that they would not be required to take out licenses this year, Commissioner Lire stated. Extreme Cruelty Charge Made Against E. A. Dworak Charges of extreme cruelty, and that he threatened to kidnap her child. ire made by Marie Dworak in suit for divorce against Egnanee Anton Dwo- ak of the Dworak-Ure Auditing com-, lany, filed in district court. , . She charges that Dworak called her rile names, threatened her, and also hreatened to kulnap their 3-year-old num. Artnur. Mie turiner recites tnat m June 7 Dworak, in company with i strange man,, attempted to carry jut his threat to kidnap the boy. She alleges he is capable of earning f.ilX) a month, and that he has prop erty worth $5,000. "She asks suitable alimony, She also requested an order restraining Dworak front molesting ter. It was granted by Judge Day. . Frsnk Martin Rearrested .;" Cn Daylight. Holdup Charge Frank Martin, alias "Big Wally," alleged member of a bandit gang which gave battle to Omaha detec tives on the night of Janaary 30, 1918, following the holdup of the Mala shock jewelry store, was rearrested x Friday morning on a warrant sworn out for alleged complicity in the day li'sht holdup. With his ; partners, Eyrie Kirke, Sam Stone, Thomas - McKay rand Harry Williams, "Big Wally was held for tsia,! for (the murder of Frank Rooney, city de tective, who was killed in the gun .fight,:-!.. '- ;;;' ; . - Martin pleaded not guilty before Volice Judge Madden and was bound . over to district court under $5,000 -. bond. . - : :...'; ' v 1:die$ From Great Lakes , Here on Recruiting Mission five jariries from the Great Lakes t: enlist tradesmen in the navv. T, men have permission to enlist men at special pay and to eive them high ratings and petty ofkershipa, A. R. Nickson, chief machinists mate, is "in charge of the recruiting party. The navy needs tradesmen "of all kinds, chi pcnterSjjpainters, plumbers and ma chinists. For the first time in the his tory of the navy men past 35 years of e will be accepted for special work, 'the men will be put in the public works, department and will be sta? tioned permanently, at theGreal Lakes station. , - . . "F iht or WorTt is Order of , City Commissioner Ure , "Fight or work,? is the brief order issued by City Commissioner Ure of the accounts and finance department. "This goes for the city clerk's office , and other branches of the depart ment," he explained. ' Mr. Ure added that he found a clerk, tinder the bid order of things, copying petitions three times with r en and ink, whereas one operation cn a typewriter with duplicate sheet v ould have done the work. He states . that ordinances passed during the city clerkship of Tom Ftynn are still being copied and that the work is years behind, v s Jmsica Ginger Promotes , 1 Wide Variety oN Emotions Jamaica ginger has the necessary ingredients to promote hate, fight, disturbance, insanity and. foolishness, ?:cordin to Bert . Mitchell East Oniaha, who appeared in police court nuay morning io answer a cnarge cf disturbing the peace. I wui just drinkin' a little ginger, i-Iztf Bert said. "And I'll tell ya, it doesn't 'aactly mej ya happy, but, r;aa alive! she sure do. burn ya and ni ya crazy. t Cert was relieved 'of $10 and costs ay order of the court. Clks, Neb., Editor Tells of nonpartisan League Affair J. I.' Long, editor of The Enter rrise," at Clarks, Neb'stopped over in Umaha Fnq y on his way to visit a brother in Iowa. Mr. Long, who is c .airman ot his local council of de f-:e, figured a -few days ago in con s -chon with the case of B. A. Felver, ' .o operated in Merrick county for C't Nonpartisan leaeue. "We gave Felver safe conduct three s out of Clarks and the citizens of r. town were notiidentified Vith a f attempt to lynch Felver. We are abiding people in Clarka and .i any insinuations lo tne con - Mr. Long stated. i ; y 3 bvcrce Decrees Are Crested in District Court iivorce decrees were granted rct court Friday as follows: ; 11. Beck from Marie Beck, on .1$ of cruelty; Frank. O. Engle :a from Margaret Englebretsen, -rounds of infidelity; Blanch-L. from William B. Maben, aban-"tt-.and nonsupport; s Dottie frcn Charles Blake, cruelty; 11. Frederick from Fred Ey k, cruelty, drunkenness , and 7 . f U r CHAPTER XVI. Busiest Spot on' Earthy These Canadians, who were now my hosts, had located their guns in a pit triangular "in . shape. The guns were mounted at the corners of the triangle and along Its sides. And constantly, while I was there they coughed tlwir short, sharp coughs and sent a spume of metal flying to ward the German lines. Never have I seen a busier spot. And reniember tintit I had almost fallen into that pit, with its sputtering, busy guns, I had not been able to make even a good guess as to where they werel The very presence of this work shop of death was hidden from all save those' who had a right to kno of it. It was a masterly piece of camou flage. I wish"! could explain to you how the effect was achieved. It was all made plain to me; every-step of the process was explained, and I cried out in wonder and in admiration at the clever simplicity of it- But that is one of the things I may not tell. I saw many things, during my time at the front, that the Germans would give a pretty penny to know. But none of the Secret that I learned would be more valuable, even today, than that hidden battery. And so I must leave you in ignorance as to that. . ; . The commandinir officer was most kindly and patient in explaining mat ters to me. "We can't see hide nor hair of our targets here, of course," he said, "any more than Frit can see us. We get all our ranges and the records of all our hits, from NarmabelL" I looked a question, I suppose. "You called on him. I think-up on the Pimple. Major Normabell,- D. h. mat was how i learned the n name of the imperturable major withNvhom I had smoked a pine on the crest of Vimy Ridee. I shall always remem ber his name and him. I saw no man in France who made a livelier im pression upon my mind and imagina tion. ' v ' Aye," I said. "I remember. So that's his name Normabell, D. S. O. - l it make a note ot mat. . My informant smiled. "Normabell's one of our characters," he. said. "Well.-you see he commands a iroodish bit of country there where he sits. And when he needs them he has aircraft observations to help him, too. He i our pair of eyes. We re ike moles down here, we gunners but he does all our feeing for us. And he's i'n constant communication he or one of his officers." l wonaerea wnere an jne snens tne battery was firing were headed (on And I learned that just then it was paying its respects particularly to a big factory building just west of Len. For some reason that had been marked for destruction. -but it had been reinforced and strengthened so that it was taking a Jot of smashi.. I? J fnLa!T V"? TJ.Ul ould which was reason enough, in The more particular ' Uj ji IUirc?n InVx V your palate, the more I MW& jsssnf"-'. in t mm- IfuOValiU l AU the goodness na- J , -j w I ture tucked away in the fl ' IAW'Vrii I Ingredients from which it is I l if 111 1 has been developed to I , U L-1J V7kA I the highest fornf of tasteful. I T 1 nesa,aidelicacy of flavor. I ' ' BY FOLKS 1 T be had wherever I P. 1 soft drinks are sold and I VIIO AI1P I that la wywAf ; Tif- I THB CUHO COMPAMY sSi FOND OF I l.Cro..t,WI yJ ' I : v KATSKEE - ' W , THINGS A' 1 ZrM ta nniMi r ( ! H117 $J i in- y &w. a 1 1 Hill I IT. M ' ill II J.n AV I.I i ,i V. -XO -s. iu II , vVI tTiJ sLaude aft? ii in tRe'Wat? erf .cTTixsrei in-France" '7ef?s tts 3rsoxal experiences on Ac-Zlfeaettt:'&tgAingvFfo&fr' t I CQfYWl&HT I9IB I r I factory was nothing more than a heap -Tbf dust and ruins. The way the guns kept pounding away at it' made me think of firemen in a small town drenching a local blare with their hose. The Knners were just aseager as that "And I could almost see that factory, crumb ling away-'. Major Normabell had pointed it out to me, up on the ridge, and now I knew why. IH venture to say that before night the eight-inch howitzers of that battery had utterly demolished it, and so ended what ever usefulness it had for the- Ger mans. ' . ' ' It was a cruel business to be knock ing the towns and factories of our ally, France, to hits in the fashion that we were doing, that day there and at many another point along the front. The IJuns are fond of saying that much of the destruction in north ern France has been the work of al lied artillery. True enbugh but who made that inevitable? And it was not our guns that laid waste a wnoie countryside before the German re treat in the spring of 1917, when the Huns ran wild, rooting up fruit trees, cutting down every other tree that could be found, and doing every other sort of wanton damage and mischief their hands could find to do. "Hard lines," said the battery com mander. He shrugged his shoulders. "No use trying to spare shells here, though, even on French towns. The harder we smash them the sooner it'll be over. Look here, sir." He pointed ottf the men who sat, their telephone receivers s strapped over their ears. Each served a gun. In all that hideous in it "was of the utmost importance that they should hear correctly every word and figures, that came to them over the wire a part of that marvelously complete telephone and telegraph system that has beeir built for, and by the Brit ish army in France. ' '"ijliey get corrections on every shotj" he told me. "The guns ar$ al terftf in elevation according to what they hear. The range" is changed, and the pointing, Too. We never see .old Fritz but we know he's getting the visiting cards we send him." - " They wee amazingly calm, those laddies at the telephones. In all that hideous, never-ending din, they never grew excited. Their voices were calm and steady as they repeated the orders that came to them. I have seen girls at hotel switchboards, ex pert operators, working with condi tions made to their order, who grew infinitely more excited at a busy time, when many calls were coming in and going out. Those men might have been at home, talking to a friend of their plans for an evening's diversion, for all the nervousness or fussiness they showed. Up there, on the Pimple, I had seen Normabell the eyes of the battery. Here 1 was watching its ears. ! And J to finish the metaphor, to work it out, I was listening to its voice. Its brazen tongues were giving yoke con tinually. The guns after all, every thing else led up to them. They were the reason for ally the rest of the ma Zone chinery of thebattery, and it was they who said the last short word. There was a good deal of rough joking and laughter at the battery. The Canadian gunners took their task lightly enough, though -th:r work was of the hardest and the most dan gerous, too. But jokes ran from group to group, from gun to gun. They were constantly kidding one an other, as an American would say, I think. If a correction came for one gun that showed there habeen a mistake in sighting after the last orf ders if, that is, the gunners, and not the distant observers, were plainly at fault there would be a good natured outburst of chaffing from all the others. ; But, though such a spirit of light ness prevailed, there was not a mo ment of loafing. These men were en gaged in a grim, deadly task, and every once in a while I would catch a black, purposeful look in a man's eyes that made me realize, that, un der all the light talk and laughter there "was a perfect realization of the truth. They might not show, on the ) This is We are 740 First National PHOTOPLAYS. 4. 1 1 iiii..tirrri.iftte Virginia' Pearson in- "FIREBRAND" . i A love that survived the fires of hate. : X , . AamiMloa 10 Cant. PRISCILLA DEAN In The Two-Souled Woman HAMILTON'S, and HamiltoB CHARLES RAY ia . "HIS MOTHER'S BOY." Keep Your Eye On l- THE BtE. v Improving E very Day. GREAT- EXC - msMBam Presents "I Muse surface, that they took life and their work seriously. Ah, no I They pre ferred, after the custom of their rac, to joke with death. . Continued Tomorrow.) Germany and Austria in - Break in Kitchen Quarrel Germany and Austria broke friend ly relations and sought to mix things in general, on a smalt. scale,- Friday morning, when ( George Sc"hory,of German descent,' Douglas hoteand Annie Hrazdira, Bohemian, became involved, in fistic combat in ihe kitchen of the Lincoln Inn. When Annie threw George's coat on the floor, every kind of kitchen tool, from a meat chopper to cleavers, started going. ... -if - - r. ' ' .... " In police court they renewed their strife verbally. George ' sought the friendship of the" police judge by rat tling -off a series of German phrases. Annie jabbered in the Bohemian tonaRe. , Babylon was depicted, in true sense, and the judge set the case over for a week to profound on the mysteries of languages. Soldiers Naturalized One Hour Before Departure ""Federal Judge Woodrough made an aqaitionai trip to rort crook rriday morning to naturalize- a group of sol diers less than an1 hour, before they entrained for Camp Funston. As soon as Naturalization .Agents Smelz er and Boyster of St. Louis finish pre liminary clerical work, 130 soldiers at Fort Omaha will be made citizens in the regular court room at the federal building. ' .' Our office is getting to be the busiest . People are constantly coming in asking for information regarding our plan of developing our wonderful. High Island property. Every one to whom we are explaining our $30 quarter-acre, propo sition admits there never was a safer or better opportunity of making tremendous profits from a small investment. We do not believe there is a man or woman in his vicinity who , would, be afraid to invest as little as $30 for quarter-acre tracts when the fortune-making possibilities are fully understood. You will never quit kicking yourself if you do not come in im , mediately and arrange to purchase tracts. Paymenis if desired not a stock jobbing scheme in merely selling quarter-acre tracts to raise drilling fund to develop the greatest prspective oil land in the Gusher Coastal Oil -District of Texas, where 28,000,000 barrels of oil were produced last year. ' , - ' '" ( . , . . You own your tracts, receiving one-tenth of oil from wells drilled thereon, and also share v in our prof its from all wells drilled, both at High Island and on our proven Humble Lease,' where we already know we have the oil. ; - Be fair enough to let us send you free illustrated bulletin with! U. S. Government geological reports, maps and full explanation. , (GoDDDpanDy Bank BIdg. Phone Tyler 398. PHOTOrLATS. HGKfORD "HIS MAJESTY BUNKER-BEAN." 1 AllMW M.tinto, 2:30; )L eilIIAV ivwhi : Evenlnc. 8:30. fWWUfli . 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Officers of the morals squad made tl)e raid v upon advice from state agents at Lincoln, who-had analyzed a, quantityof the cider. The analyzation of the cider at-Lin-coln showed that if contained 3 per cent of alcohol, according to a tele gram received by the police. - ' , Police say this , is the largest quantity ever confiscated in Nebraska. The alleged liquor i.was manufac tured in Memphis, Tenn., 'and sent here to be distributed to jobbers of the central states. - ITEMEMT spot in Omaha. any sense pf the word. Omaha, Neb. AMUSEMENTS. LAST TIMES TODAY. GARDEN BELLES In the Garden of Lor. - YllEXTCtE TOX Tk Xntrm-Bamorlat, In Bia flaaali. , H CLUBMAN" SEAL ABEL The Man With th Mobn Inen, t vnsMs YKr Entertainment. "Aa Ton I.Ike It" RUG PARK . - . , . Sen-Tboaa Wondarful High-DMng'Horiar .' BLUE BELLE i ; . ana , ' . - DE17 DROP plung Into TO-foot Unk of water from a height of-40 faet. A BIG FREE FEATURE C ATTRACTION FOR YOU. Grant intarast ia shown ia th : . Dancing Contests. , , . . 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