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Auto Highwaymen
Threaten Man as
They Hold Him Up
Burglar Surprised Breaking
Into Door by Officer Es
capes Thieves Take Loot
Worth $750 From Home.
M. M. Shapiro, 2615 Cuming street,
reported to police that lie was held up
Friday night and robbed of $22 by
four men in an automobile at Twenty-seventh
and Burt streets. He was
on his way home at 2:30 a. m., he
said, when they drove their car across
the street, forcing him to stop. One
got out and pointed a gun at him,
while the others cautioned him not
to make any noise.
Burglar Escapes.
After a foot race of three blocks
through downtown streets, a burglar
whom Patrolman Miklas surprised
while he was cutting a hole in the
glass door of the Star Cleaneries, 103
South Fifteenth street, escaped.
When 1 Christopher. 2731 Sara
toga street, entered his house by the
front door Fridav afternoon, a
daylight burglar fled through the
rear door, he reported to police.
Nothing was taken.
Thieves Loot Home.
E. A. Thetro, employed at the
Blackstone hotel, reported to police
Saturday morning that some one
stole a suit of clothes, a set if mili
tary hair brushes and a pair of kid
gloves from the silver room at the
hotel kst night.
Burglars who cut the screen from
a rear window of the L. M. Stephens
home, 528 South Twenty-sixth ave
nue, Friday night, stole a diamond
ring, a bracelet set with five dia
monds, and a linen tablecloth, all
. valued at $750, it was heported to po
lice Saturday morning.
Has Narrow Escape
In Leap From Train
Herbert A. Zohni, 22, who, with
two companions, Floyd Bloomquist,
24, and Charles Van Cauwenbergh,
21, all of Rockford, 111., was riding
into Omaha from Fremont on the
blind baggage of a Union Pacific
passenger train, had a narrow es
cape from death rriday night when
he alighted from the swiftly moving
train as it entered the yards. Zohm's
head struck the ground and he rolled
several feet, nearly going under the
wheels. His companions saw him
fall and thought he was killed.
Zohm suffered several severe cuts
in his scalp, and bruises on his
hands and body. The three were
brought to the police station where
Zohm's injuries were attended.
The boys left Rockford last
Thursday night to seek work. They
got as far as Fremont, became dis
couraged and turned back. This was
their first trip at riding the rods.
$10,000,000 More Notes
Seized in Fraud Probe
Chicaso. 111.. Auk. 27. Another
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lOiai OI notes seizca uy icacrai
agents investigating the alleged
"swindle ring" headed by Charles
W. French. John V. Sawken, who
Wednesday found $9,050,000 in notes
in a Cleveland safety deposit vault,
brought the $10,000,000 additional to
Chicago.
The notes are on the Ideal Fire
and Rubber company of Cleveland,
which is now in the hands of a re
ceiver. French, Charles W. Hawkins,
Charies K. Strocbel and the other
defendants who have been brought
here, were arraigned before Federal
Commissioner Glass today.
13 Bottles of Beer in Home
Unlucky; Man Is Fined $75
Walter Waskeo. 5406 South
Thirty-third street, was fined $75 in
South Side police court Saturday
morning on a charge of running a dis
orderly house, following a raid last
night in which detectives discovered
13 bottles of beer on ice at his resi
dence. They also discovered and arrested
'Joseph Kehoe, who gave his address
as the Blackstone hotel: A. Jensen,
4202 Valley street; H. Hansen. 4225
South Twentieth street, and W. C.
Wasniack, 5410 South Thirty-third
street.
Hansen forfeited a $25 bond this
morning. The other inmates were
dismissed.
I Officers Want Seniority
To Govern Working Hours
Petition signed by 80 members of
the police department asking for a
return to the old method of seniority
in selection of working hours was
presented yesterday morning to Po
lice Commissioner Dunn.
Dunn said he would take the mat
,l ter up with Chief of Police Dempsey.
The old seniority system was dis
carded under a previous administra
tion, the commissioner said, with the
v result that some of the new men have
fallen into choice shifts, formerly re
served for the old timers.
Mayor of Ralston Hurt
When Motor, Turns Turtle
Dr. J. H. Copenhagen, mayor of
alston, was slightly injured, and his
companion, Dr. R. E. Robinson, also
of Ralston, received severe bruises
and an injury to his right leg, when
an automobile in which they were
driving turned turtle on the state
highway between South Omaha and
Ralston Friday night.
The front wheels struck a rut, and
the car turned completely over. Dr.
Copenhagen's injuries were confined
to a few scratches.
General Bundy Leaves to
Inspect Camp at Camp Pike
Col. Harry O. Willard reported at
Fort Crook Friday morning from
Fort Riley, Kan., for -duty in the or
ganized reserves.
Gn. Omar Bundy, Lieut. Co!.
Friese and Major Lemon left Fri
day for Camp Pike, Ark., to inspect
the citizens' military training camp
there. They are expected to return
Monday.
Colonel Upton returned Friday
from a trip to Fort Snelling, Minn.
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French Aviatrix Is "Tomboy of Air"
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MVLE. PEYREE 1M HHJ? AVWTWN
New York, Aug. 27. Mile. Andree
Peyree, chic, French and 24, claims
to be the only aviatrix who does
wing-walking, strut walking and
looping the loop. She looped the
loop so many times over Paris that
the authorities kindly asked her to
go elsewhere to perform her stunts.
And so she selected America. She
owns two biplanes, which are
housed at Fompton Lake, N. J.
Mile. Peyree is dressed in her
Freshmen's Parents Given
Tips on High School Life
Regular Schedule on Five
ters Mailed by Central High Parent-Teacher
Association Simplicity in Dress and Rea
sonable Amount of Recreation Advised.
Letters to parents of freshmen
about to enter high school, warning
them of problems which will con
front the children in their new en
vironment, and urging a closer co
operation between teachers and par
ents, have been mailed by a special
committee of the Cntral High School
Parent-Teacher association appointed
for the purpose last spring.
With the letter is included a small
folder containing printed suggestions
for parents.
Urge Regular Schedule.
These suggestions urge, among
ether things, a regular schedule for
children on the live school days, with
nine hours of sleep, two hours of
recreation and two or three hours of
study outside of school each day.
it urges that the child be encouraged
to recite his lessons orally at home.
A good dictionary, encyclopedia,
atlas, World's almanac, and complete
editions of the poets are given as de
sirable equipment for every freshman
high school student's home.
Parents are urged carefully to
supervise their children's social ac
tivities, providing the right kind and
a wise amount of entertainment, but
excluding too many and too exciting
amusements.
Simplicity of Dres3.
Simplicity of dress is another item
brought within the scope of the cir
How He Got in the Auto
Was a Mystery to Him
When Patrolman Akromis prodded
the sleeping form of G. A. Carney.
2502 Deer Park boulevard, with his
night stick Friday night, he let him
self in for a bit of mystery stuff.
Carney was lying in an automobile,
stripped of its tires, and parked by
the side of the road.
"C'mon, snap out of it. W'hacha
doin' there?" queried the patrolman
belligerently.
Carney yawned and sat up.
"I don't know," he said.
"Well, whose car is it?"
"I don't know."
"How did you get in it?"
"I don't know."
Carney forfeited $15 bond Satur
day morning.
Police are still looking for the own
tr of the car.
Man Who Ran Away From
Jail Is Captured Again
Leo Zawski, who.ran away from
South Side jail Thursday to get a
pipe of tobacco and forgot to come
back, was in South Side police court
again Saturday.
He was arrested Friday night 'at
3319 R street on a charge of being
drunk and fighting. He said he was
on his way back to the station.
"I'll say you are," the policeman
told him.
The judge fined him $10. He was
sent to county jail to serve the re
mainder of a previous five-day sen
tence. "Too Hard to Get to Sell,"
Says Woman With 5 Gallons
The flagon still brims in the home
of Mrs. Stella Daniels. 3019 Q street,
Municipal Judge Baldwin in South
Side police court Saturday morning
not only released Mrs. Daniels on a
charge of illegal possession of liquor,
but gave back her five-gallon jug of
"moonshine," which she says she
keeps for her personal use.
"No sir, judge, I don't .sell none
of it," she assured the court. "I
don't give it away, neither. It's too
bard to get."
By covering a life boat with bas
ket work a Dutch inventor believes
he has made it unsinkable as well
as increased its buoyancy.
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STUNT COSTUME.-- 35IPIK6 THE
aviation uniform. It looks cool, but,
dear reader, it is dog days, and as
may be inferred, hot. She keeps
cool, even when accidents occur. She
fell 600 feet the other day when
the engine "went dead" and the me
chanics ran out, fearing she had been
crushed to bits. But she got up and
powdered her nose. Not a scratch!
Only some, bruises. Lucky!
She has done work for the movies
and hopes to do more of it if she
School Days Urged in Let
cular. It is coupled with dignity of
manner. It is believed that parental
influence may improve the freshman
dignity.
The letter invites all parents to
attend the first meeting of the Parent-Teacher
association of the new
year, to be held at Central High
school Tuesday evening, September
27. At this meeting, suggestions
contained in the little folder will be
discussed, and plans will be made for
the second meeting, which will take
the form of a high school house
warming, with every teacher in his
or her room in the role of a recep
tion committee to parents and pupils
alike. "
Closer Co-Operation.
The committee which mailed the
letters, headed by Mrs. William F.
Baxter, is known as the Committee
on Advice to Parents of Freshmen.
Other members of the committee in
clude Mrs.' Harold Gifford, Mrs.
John A. Ringwalt. Mrs. Ava Atkin
son, Miss Zora Shields and Miss
Juliet Griffin.
"Closer co-operation between par
ents of these new pupils and the
high school faculty means better
understanding, and better work on
the part of the pupils themselves,"
explained Mrs. Baxter.. "That is
what we are working for."
Pool Hall Owner
Wounded By Wife
Charle's Essex, negro, proprietor
cf a pool hall at 4829 South Twenty
sixth street, was shot twice by his
wife, Mattie Essex, Friday night.
The shooting occurred at the pool
hall.
Essex was struck once in the ab
domen and once on the left side. He
was not seriously wounded.
He was taken to South Side hos
pital, where his wounds were dressed
by Dr. A. J. Young, police surgeon.
He was booked as complaining wit
ness and sent home.
ilis wife was arrested and held
for investigation. Family trouble is
said to have caused the fracas.
Oldest Free Mason Takes
Walk on His 102d Birthday
Marblehead, Mass., Aug. 27.
Greeted by his friends as the oldest
living Free Mason in the country,
Samuel Cox took his usual birthday
walk today at the age of 102 years.
He was made a member of Phil
anthropic lodge here 75 years ago.
Today the organization presented
him with 102 roses.
Look Out, You Vamps,
See What Will Happen
If You Aren't Careful
Us boys have got to have protec
tion. At least the men who make laws
in Nebraska think so. Towit, chap
ter 244, 1921 session laws, which
took effect July 28
Henceforth it is unlawful for a
friend to make a date for you if
you're under 21 years of age. Make
the date for yourself if you will, but
if a friend makes it for you he's li
able to from one to 10 years in jail.
That's the way Henry Beal, dep
uty county attorney, interprets the
new law, which he discovered yes
terday, t
The law reads tn part somewhat
thusly: ,
"Whoever arranges or assists in
arranging a meeting between any
boy and any female person, upon
conviction thereof, shall be impris
oned in the penitentiary for from
one to 10 years."
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WINS?
3000 FEET. WT,
can be starred.
Her friends call her the "aerial
tomboy" and the most daring aviator
trix, we mean in the world. She
obtained a pilot's license when she
was 17, and is the youngest French
girl ever to gain such a license. She
was taught to fly by Poulet, at the
Issv les Moulenoux field in France.
Mile. Peyree said she does not in
tend to be worried by the warm
weather.
Man Finds Long Lost
Son-in-Law in Insane
Hospital in Oregon
Salem, Ore., Aug. 27. "Hello,
Dad," spoke a voice to A. G. Cook
of Durango, Colo., as he was being
shown through the state hospital
for the insane here yesterday on a
sightseeing trip. Cook recognized
in the patient his son-in-law, Walter
Fatty, who disappeared from his
home in Colorado nearly 12 years
ago while in a melancholy mood
and whose whereabouts since had
been unknown, though his relatives
had advertised for information con
lerniug him for a number of years.
Believing him dead, his wife is
again married and is living in Colo
rado. Cook is visiting relatives
here.
J. E. Layton Is Elected
Epworth League Head
J. E. Layton of Omaha was
elected president of the Epworth
league at its district meeting at Wal
nut Hill church Friday night. The
Rev. H. F. Baumgardner, Carroll,
la., spoke at a banquet preceding
the election.
Other officers named were: Bab
bitt Byon, Plattsmouth, vice presi
dent; Louis Winsett, Arlington, sec
ond vice president; M. Datel, North
Bend, third vice president; Boo
Ardis. Omar, fourth vice president;
Josephine Steward. Fremont, secre
tary, and Elmer Russell, Tekamah,
treasurer.
Albion Real Estate Man Is
Named Deputy Marshal Here
O'Neill. Neb., Aug. 27. United
States Marshal Cronin, who will
take office September 1, today an
nounced the appointment of Fred
L. Mandeville, former chief of police
of Grand Island, to be deputy mar
shal stationed at that point, and of
Anthony J. Ruddy, a real estate
dealer of Albion to be one of the
deputies stationed at Omaha.
Neighbors Form Bucket
Brigade to Save Home
Fire caused by lightning which
struck the barn of James Calvert,
one mile south of Litchfield, Neb.,
destroyed a Studebaker car and 10
tons of hay last night. The loss is
estimated at $5,000.
Neighbors formed a bucket brigade
which saved the house.
Omahan Poses as Mute
1 5 Days, Collects $75
R. P. Fields.
Fremont, Aug. 27. (Special.) R.
P. Fields, alias R P. Flynn, 623
South Nineteenth ' street, Omaha,
who assumed the role of mute for
over 15 days in the Dodge county
jail where he was sentenced on a
charge of vagrancy. Fields collected
donations of nearly $75 in Omaha
and Fremont on the pretext that he
was a mute seeking financial aid
to place him in a school for the
deaf.
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Woman Confesses
She Is Murderess
From Knoxville
Wife of Tacoma Hotel Man
Admits She Is Maude Moore,
Following Identification
by Bondsmen.
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 27. Mrs.
Helen Stubbs, wife of a local hotel
man, who is held in jail here, con
fessed early today, according to the
police, that she is Maude Moore,
wanted in Knoxville, Tenn., where
she escaped after conviction of the
murder of Leroy Harth, automobile
dealer. September 9, 1919.
"1 admit I am Maude Moore," Cap
tain of Detectives John Strickland
said Mrs. Stubbs told him. "I will
go back."
Her confession followed her iden
tification last night by Robert E.
Boring and Edward McNew of
Knoxville, who said they were her
bondsmen. The two men arrived
"Have had wonderful
service from my Essex, pur
chased from you in January.
Haven't spent one cent for
repairs. Have own&d several
other cars, but none to equal
the Essex."
W. C. BEST,
John Finnigan Co.,
Shreveport, La.
"I have owned a number
of higher-priced cars, but
have gotten more satisfac
tory service out of my Essex
Sedan than any other car I
ever used. Have driven it
"I have previously owned
14 different makes of cars,
ranging up to $3500. Have
found the weak spot in all
of them but Essex. My total
mileage is 38,598 miles at a
total repair cost of $91.52."
A. C. ALEXANDER, M. D.
Penacook, N. H.
and
Where
The Essex has always been an outstand
ing value by every standard of price and
quality comparison.
Since its reduction of price this advantage
is even more evident. Especially interest
ing now is a price to price measurement
of the Essex against cars you have regard
ed as comparable to it in quality.
The Greatest Buy in Motordom
Touring
Roadster -Sedan
- -Cabriolet
here Friday night and confronted
Mrs. Stubbs in the city jail.
Extradition papers had already
been prepared in Tennessee and will
be used at once, McNew said. Mrs.
Stubbs denied that she ever saw
either of the two men before or that
she is in any way connected with the
case. McNew and Doriug said to
day they, as bondsmen, stood to for
feit $10,000 deposited as bail. They
had until September 1 to find Maude
Moore or lose their money, they said.
North Side Club Raises
$1,500 for Aero Congress
The North Side Activities' associa
tion, which pledged $5,000 for the in
ternational .aero congress to be held
in Omaha in November, has already
raised $1,500 of the amount, previous
to the launching of a regular cam
paign, it was announced yesterday
by C. E. Barry, president of the as
sociation. Officials of the Aero club assert
that the organization is virtually
over the top in the matter of funds
for the meet.
They sav the club has raised more
than $27,000, of which $5,C0O has
been spent in leasing a field and for
other preparations.
ESSEX
At the old price
owners sud
"The best car
22,900 miles, and haven't
been without the use of it an
entire day since I bought it."
W. P. HOG, President,
Eagle Saw Works,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
"Have previously owned
three other cars of very pop
ular make, but my Essex
showed me what a properly
and well-designed car is."
OTTO W. NELSON,
Nelson Tool & Machine
Co., Inc.,
Newark, N. J.
they valued it far above
its cost
" . . . .To sum up I
am so pleased with my car in
every particular that I do not
know of any make within
$1000 of its price class that
I would have in preference
to the Essex."
H. R. McCLANAHAN,
Jones & McClanahan,
Shreveport, La.
now you save $420
can you get such a value?
Now
F. O. B.
Price 1920
$1795 Touring
1795 Roadster
2650 Sedan -
2300 Cabriolet
GUY L.SMITH
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2S63-5.7 Rarnam St. OMAHA, U.S.A. PhonCQOUCLA$ 1t7QD
Erzberger Slayer
Avoids Capture
Reichstag President Feara
Consequences of Assassina
tion of Ex-Premier.
Berlin, Aug. 27. Detectives were
at work early today in the Black
Forest near Offenburg, Baden, at
t;mpting to pick up some trace of
the assassins, who shot and killed
Mathias Erzberger, one of the most
prominent leaders of the German
Centrist party. The officers had
with them half a dozen police dogs.
Herr Erzberger's body has been
taken to Bad-Griesbach.
London, Aug. 27. President
Locbe of the German Reichstag at
a meeting of the party leaders Fri
day denounced the murder of
Mathias Erzberger. He said, ac
cording to the Berlin correspondent
of the London Times, that the mo
tive undoubtedly was political.
"I fear gravely . for the peace of
the people," he added, "and see in
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I ever owned
"The Essex is the seventh
automobile I have owned,
and by far the best. It is
cleverly designed, splendidly
built, economical of oil, fuel
and tires. I am very largely
interested in teaching the
theory and construction of
motor car engines in my
work."
EDWARD H. GOODRICH,
Director of Science and
Automobile Dept.,
Technical High School,
Springfield, Mass.
then
" . . . . I do not be
lieve there is a car on the
market fJbday that will give
the service the Essex car will
give for $1000 more."
N. D. NAMAN,
Naman's, Inc.,
Waco, Tex.
Will you today find any car that even
approaches Essex in quality and ability,
within hundreds of dollars of its cost?
And doesn't its low cost with such quali
ty appeal to judicious buyers, whether
they are considering a car slightly less in
cost, or have been seeking Essex quality
in some much costlier car?
$137S
Detroit
Price Now
$1375
- 1375
- 2230
1880
Touring
Roadster
Sedan -Cabriolet
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the murderous act Incalculable con.
sequences for the fatherland."
Law-Breaking Business
Heavy, New Offices Needed
"Business" is so heavy In the de
partment of William Carroll, federal
narcotic agent, sharing office space
jointly with U. S. Rohrer, prohibition
agent, that a separate office had to
be found far Carroll. He is now on
the fourth floor. Rohrer's office is
on the third floor.
The "increase in business" applies
to Rohrer as well. He promises jrn
portant developments in his investi
gations into misuse of alcohol By
next week.
This Explains Why Senator
Does Not Enthuse Over Golf
Manchester, N. H.. Aug. 27. Sen
ator Harry Stuart New is a strong
anti-golf advocate. The famed In
diana gentleman sees nothing to en
thuse over in the game. In reply to
a question of a newspaper as to his
opinion of golf. Senator New said:
"I am not old enough, not fat
enough, and I am too damn sociable
to play any such damn game as golf.
I like to play a game where you can
smile at someone, and if I want to
fight I get the proper weapons."
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