Passage of Only
2 Farm Bills Is
Likely Tliis Term
Congress Is Shoving Agricul
tural and Railway Legisla
tion Aside to Avert
Extra Session.
By GEORGE F. AfTHIF
Washington Correspondent The On e.
Washington, Feb. I.—Fanru g
{station which was scheduled to pass
this session Is being scrapped In order
to expedite business and make ad
Journment without an extra session
possible. In this manner, radical legis
lation of all kinds Is being sburtte 1
and only essentials will l>e considered.
The administration expects to confine
its efforts to rehabilitate agricultuie
to just two measures, the Capper bill
liberalizing the provisions of the fed
eral reserve law in the matter of
credits and making it possible to ex
tend loans t<\ livestock corporations,
and the Lenroot-Anderson rurkl
credit* bill. This latter measure. It
Is reported, la likely to be scrapped
In the house.
To Scrap MUk Biils.
Tha "truth In fabric* ' bill and the
Filled milk bill, both of which have
been loudly demanded, were marked
"scrapped’ by the senate steering
committee. The filled milk bill aimed
to prevent the use of coconut oils and
other artificial fata In milk and sell
the result as actual milk. The dairy-.
men of the country have been espe
cially anxious for this measure.
No Chance for R. R. Bills.
While efforts will b» made In the
house find senate to secure action on
railroad legislation, there Is not the
slightest chance of anything being1
done on this Issue during the present
session, and little likllhend of any Sc
cnnipllshment during the next session. .
The speech w hich Senator Couxena of |
Michigan made In Philadelphia, call- \
ins for government owenrahlp, Is re
ganled as tha opening gun on this
question and the whole railroad qtic*
lion is going Into tho next election.
Nebraska Is Active.
Representative McLaughlin of Ne
braska has attempted to stir the
house up on this subject by introdue '
lug a bill repealing the up; creating
tho Interstate Commerce commis
sion and also repealing the Each
Cummins act. This would leave the,
railroads, he believes, just where thev
were before the I. C. C. was created,
placing all power of regulation in tho
hands of ttato commissions. lie
thinks It would restore competition
among the railroads.
Mrs. Conn Funeral Held.
Funeral services of Mrs. Josephine
Conn. 60. vletlm of an automobile
accident January 10, were held Satur
day at St. Johns church. Requiem
high mass wan sung by Rev. Father
Anderson T. Kell. Walter Britton,
Charles Britton and Joseph Lobeck
acted as pallbearers. Burial was in
Iloly Sepulcher cemetery.
So Omaha Men This Year
Will Be Very Provincial
U'a too bad. but Omaha men are
hopelessly provincial. Who aaya ao’
Hark to thla tad tale.
The well dreeaed man of 1*23. ac
cording to dlctatea handed down by
the clothing designers of the United
.States at their convention in Cin
cinnati, will be attired like this:
Derby hat, •bow tie, straight-cut
vast, pleated trouaer tops, clothing
material of ornate patterns and fan
ciful colors—and oh, yes. spats.
Which means, local tailors sadly
•n him and ha'll • cream aloud at the
very thought of pleata at the tope of
hi* trousers, not to mention the spats.
And as a matter of fact,” the speaker
at this point became slightly confi
dential. ”J don’t know ar 1 blame him
I don't think I'll tackle those pleats or
the spats myself.”
Among the youngsters the new of
ferings may gain some popularity, It
is admitted. They are always on the
look-out for the bizarre and the unu
sual. 80 when you see a derby hat
in the throngs on the street don't
:nrTH /*l/£ . |
I FAPHAM ST.
confess, that the Omaha man prob
ably will not dlstlnf uish himself as
a model of correct fashion during:
the current year.
“He don't like the bow tie. it's
hard to knot, whfrees the four-in
hand sllptjj easily into place," com
mented the owner of one of Omaha's
largest establishments. “The derby
doesn't rest as comfortably on his'
head as the soft hat. The straight
cut vest will look strange, so he'll
Insist on (lie old-time points. Checks
and plaids and ornate stripes In the
material for his clothing will fright
jump to the conclusion that its wear
er is a man of years and standing. It
will ttrobably be a youth on his way
to school. Whereas the comfortable
cap or soft hat you see bobbing
along a few feet away probably Is
the headpiere of a man of affairs.
That's the way of Omaha men and
lit doesn't matter what Beau Brurtl
mell or Vanity Fair or Vogue or any
1 one else Buys about It. local merchants
l admit.
Style is all right in its way. but
Omaha men don't let it interfere with
I their comfort or their self-respect.
Sled Means More to
“Jackie” Than Money
Money doesn't mean a thing to
Jackie Coogan, 8-ycar-old movie star,
who passed through Omaha en route
to New York Friday night
"What are you going to do with all
your money. Jackie?" was one of the
first questions asked him.
Jackie looked vague, and, it being a
cold, snowy night, he began talking
shout a bobsled ride he once had in
Syracuse. He was downright enthusi
astic about that bobsled ride, and in
dicated that if someone would hold
Ids train he would be glad to accept
an invitation for another one.
Jackie's mother is pretty. Jackie
and she look alike, although Jack
Coogan, sr., the father, claims to have
some resemblance to his famous lit
tle son, also. Mrs. Coogan remained
in the background, smiling happily
at the homage paid Jackie by his ad
mirers. She was presented with a
large bouquet of flowers by the Wil
cox florists.
Jackie didn't have time for flowers.
"Yes. I guess I'll be in the movies
a hen T grow up," he replied to a
1 question. "Pay. tills is just the night
for a. bobsled ride, isn’t it?"
•'He's just a regular boy," grinned
Jackie's father proudly. "He'd rather ;
get out and get his clothes dirty than
anything else. But he's a good boy."
Mrs. Coogan echoed these senti
ments.
Alabama Man Sues Public
School Heads for $26,000
Montgomery, Ala.. Feb. 3.—Alleg
ing that his daughter, Belejta, was
expelled from the Northport (Ala.J
public school last September because
she did not pay an advance tuition
fee of $4.50, J. A. Maggs has entered
suit for $26,000 against the county
superintendent of education of Tusca
loosa county, the principal of the
Northport public school and members
of the county board of education.
Banker Granted Divorce
From Edna Cudahy Browne
Los Angeles. Feb. 3. — Percy
Browne, Pasadena bank teller, was
granted an interlocutory decree of di
vorce from Edna Cudahy Browne,
daughter of the late Jake Cudahy, a
member of the well known Kansas
City firm of that name. Browne
charged desertion.
Youth Admits He j
Tied Own Hand I
to Get Excitement
Tells Detectives He Rolled to
Grocery Store After Ban
dfts Pounced on Him
in Room in Home.
After he had told police that ban
dits pounced upon hlra in an upper
room in his home, tied him hand and
foot, placed a gag in his mouth and
tied a cloth over his eyes, following
which he rolled his way to the cor
ner grocery for help, Edymond Rohde,
16, 5211 Leavenworth street, admit
ted to detectives that his story was
a myth.
"I wanted some excitement,” he ex
plained.
In a written statement to Chief of
Detectives Van Peusen, young Rohde
said he had been reading a book, *'The
Treasure Hunters," the hero of which,
a hoy about his own age, was tied up
by bandits, with lots of attendant
excitement and glory. He said ha was
emulating the boy in the book.
Shortly after 11 Saturday morning
young Ilohde, son of A. L. RohdH, was
found lying on the snow covered side
walk in front of the Ben Newman
frocery, 5203 Leavenworth, bound
hand and foot.
All Tied I p.
“There's a man out here who must
be erazy,’’ a woman customer told
one of the grocery clerks. "He's ly
ing right on the sidewalk, and he's
got himself all tied up.”
A delivery boy wan sent to Investi
gate, but in the meantime, the boy
had been freed of Ills bonds by Jesse
Abboud, 1453 South Fourteenth street,
the driver of a passing mail truck.
Entering the store the hoy asked
that his father be called at the Sam
pleHart company. Inquiry developed
that his father was in the country ®nd
police were called.
Jasper Ivlrd, patrolman, found
nailed to tho mantelpiece of the room
in which the boy had been bound, a.
note addressed to the lad's father.
Signed With Initials.
“We get yu rex time.” the note ,
said. It was signed with the Initials, 1
“H. K. O.”
Later, detectives were dispatched |
to the house to investigate. They i
found silverware and other valuables !
piled In the middle of the floor In one I
of the lower rooms, but apparently;
nothing had been taken.
He said that his mother was down I
town and he was upstair# making!
the beds. He was leaning over a,
bed, smoothing out a sheet, when at
hard was placed over hi# mouth. Hi# I
hands were jerked behind him and'
tied. Then a stocking was thrust Into
his mouth as a gag and he wa# blind
folded, he said.
Around Ills Feet.
The rope from hi# hands then was,
20 of These Are Coming
One piece bathing suits will net be
barred -n Omaha during the Nebraska
Retail Clothiers’ convention at Hotel
Fontenelle, February 13 to 15.
Moreover there will be youthful
models, besides the one shown here,
to add to the attractiveness of the
bathing tuit display.
There will be instructive talks by
foremost authorities on style, store
management, store service and ad
jvtnising, during the convention, not
to nuntion « catfish dinner to he
|given the visiting clothiers by the
1 Omaha wholesale merchants, and a
vaudeville show, too.
L. A. Leppke of the Nebraska Cloth
ling company, broadcast a message to
the Nebraska clothiers Friday night
by wireless, telling them of all these
attractions. Ho is convinced the
crowd will be a big one.
also wrapped around his feet so that
he could not walk and He was drop
ped on the floor, according to his
story. He did not see his assailants*
Almost immediately, he said, they left.
It was then, he said, he rolled down
stairs, and to the corner grocery for
assistance.
While detectives were questioning j
Llie boy at his home, Mrs. Rohde
returned. She told detectives several
ittempts had been made to rob the
house.
The house in which the Rohdes live
is the same in which Frankie Me
Sowan, Kansas City pugilist, waa
staying when he was attacked by \
holdup men following his fight with
Morrle Sohlaifer about a month ago. 1
Retired Rail Man Dies.
Thomas Carter Comstiek, 72. re- J
tired railroad man of Fargo, S. D., 1
dropped dead from heart disease at!
10:30 Friday night at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Sanford Hudson, 2118
South Thirty-third street. Mr. San
ford, who was visiting at hi* daugh
ter’s home, is also survived by two
sons, one a banker at Fargo, the
other a naval officer now stationed in
Cuba.
Divorce Courts.
Petition.
Handy Peat again**. Florenc* Peat.
creulty.
Decree*.
Earl T*. Stone* from Mamie Stone.
Son of Famous
Surgeon Found
Shot to Death
Botl> Recovered in Fraterni
ty House Room After
Father Performs Re
markable Operation.
Chicago, Feb. 13.—A letter in a wo
man’s handwriting was the only clue
to the mystery surrounding the death
of John Minahan, 21, University of
Chicago freshman, who was found
ilead yesterday seated in a chair and
leaning over a. shotgun in fciis room
In the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
house.
Fraternity brothers, 25 of whom
were sleeping in tne house, insisted
that the shooting was accidental.
Minahan. they said, had risen early
to clean his shotgun in preparation
for a hunting trip to New Mexico.
Muzzle In Mouth.
Hyde Park police, however, ex
pressed the belief that Minahan had
shot himself because of despondency
over his health. N'o one In the house
heard the shots, due, the police said,
to the fact that the muzzle of the
gun was placed !n his mouth before
the trigger was pulled.
Pending an inquest to be held to
day. the police held tlie letter, ad
dressed to MUtahan from a Chicago ho
tel which arrived after the tragedy,
in the hopes that it might reveal a
motive.
Spectacular Operation.
Mlnahan'a death came just after
the announcement that his father,
Dr. John Minahan, a noted Wisconsin
physician, had saved a girl from
threatened tuberculosis and probable
death by a spectacular operation of
removing a tack from her left lung,
In the course of which lie was forced
to stop the girl's heart, move 't to
one side, and then start it again.
The student's death was the third
tragedy In his family. Five years
ago his mother was killed under tho
wheels of a train while walking alone
ou the right of way. Ilis aunt was
drowned when tho Titanic sank in
mid-Atlantio after colliding with an
iceberg, about 11 years ago.
Police Raise Fund to Fight
Anti-Third Degree Measure
Omaha police, under the leadership
of Capt. John Pzanoryski are raising
a fund to send delegates to appear
before committees of both houses of
the legislature to protest against the
passage of tho so-called "third de
gree" bill.
The bill would prohibit questioning
of prisoners except in the presence of
a judge.
"Police realize what h. severe blow
this would be to law enforcement.”
Captain Pzanowski declared, "and wiU
do everything in thdr power to op
pose it."
It is probable that A. C. Ander
son. head of the Bertillion depart
ment, accompanied by three or four
men, will make the trip.
APVKBT1SKMXNT
FAT PEOPLE CAN
REDUCE QUICKLY
- 4
New Discovery Makes It Possible to
Reduce a Pound s Day Without
Dieting or Exerciee.
Any fat man or woman ran quickly
and easily reduce to normal weight with
out dieting or exercise through the re
markable discovery of Rid-O-Fnt by H. C.
Haist, a Kansas City chemist.
You can eat what you please and as
much as you wish, yet quickly reduce
to the weight you desire. AH you need
do is to take one Rld-O-Fat tablet aft
er each meal for a short t*me, anti tho
fat will vanish as though by magic. Rid
O-Fat is a scientific product, has prac
tically no odor or taste and can be taken
by anyone with perfect safety, as it. is
recommended ami indrosed by the highest
medical authority.
^ So confident is Mr. Haist that Rid-O
Fat will delight everyone that he gen
erously offers to send a free trial treat
ment t<» any reader who will write for
it. This trial treatment is sufficient to
reduce jou from three to five pounds
and will prove that you can he as slender
as you wish without dieting or exercise.
Simply send your name and uddress to
if. C. Haist. 1579 Cm a Cola Bldtr , Kan
sas City, Mo. and the free trial trea*.
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ai.vtotiskmknt.
Take a Little Salts if Your
Back Hurts, or Bladder
Is Troubling You.
No man or woman can make a mis
lake by flushing the kidneys ocaalon
ally, says a well known authority.
Eating too much rich food create*
acids, which excite the kidneys. They
become overworked from the strain,
get sluggish and fall to filter the waste
and poisons from the Mood. Then vs
get sick. Rheumatism, headache*,
liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness,
sleeplessness and urinary disorder*
often como from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts, or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding be
gin drinking a quart of water each
day. also get about four ounces of Jo 1
Salts front any pharmacy: take a
tablespoonful in glass of water b -
fora break fast and In a few days your
kidneys may act fine.
This famous salts is niado from th*
acid of grapes and lemon juice, cone
bined with lithia. and ha* been used
for years to flush and stimulate the
kidneys: also to help neutralize the
acids in the system, so they no longer
cause irritation, thus often relieving
bladder weakness.
.Tad salts is inexpensive: makes a
delightful effervescent lithia water
drink which everyone should take now
and then to help keep the kidney*
clean and active and the Mood pure,
thereby often avoiding serious kidney
complications. By all means have
your physician examine your kidneys
at least twice a year.
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Shipments for 1922...r
I
We Own and Operate
28 Specialty Factories
i Making the Following
: Well Known Brands:
Topsy Hosiery
Geisha Girl Hosiery
Vassar Girl Hosiery
Sunbeam'Dainty Day Dresses
Sunbeam Apron Frocks
Sterling Muslin Underwear
Sterling Flannelette Night
Robes
Protex Sweaters
Protex Bathing Suits
E. &. W. Dress Shirts
Protex Flannel Shirts
Knight Plaid Nightwear
Buster Boy Blouses i
i -
Big Buck Work Shirts
Noxall Work Shirts
Standard Work Shirts
Big Buck Overalls
Noxall Overalls
Big Buck Work Clothes
Stan Knox Trunks, Bags and
Suitcases
E. & W. Neckwear
E. & W. Belts
E. & W. Suspenders
Surety Garters
Stand-By Work Gloves
E. & W. Handkerchiefs
E. & W. Embroidery
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Come to St. Louis
for Your Spring
Merchandise
*
The market season is now on. Remember that the vast sales
of 1922 are proof of our outstanding values—our ability and
willingness to cut operating costs and profits to the
narrowest margin.
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$44,989,089.63
.
Largest shipments of any wholesale dry goods house
west of the Mississippi. Largest open stock of dry
j! 'goods in the United States. Fastest growing dry
goods house in America.
Gains in shipments up to date this year over last
year $1,700,000.
Ely & Walker
Dry Goods Company
16th and Washington Sts. St. Louis, Mo.
k Established 1878