(lovie Inventor Never Made Cent on His Device •hn D. Isaacs Tells of Efforts 'to Perfect Camera to Set tle $25,000 Wager on Horse. \ - By International News Service. New York, June 8.—The "grand daddy of the movies” today put on his slippers and hunted out the easy chair In his Long Island home—John D. Isaacs, Inventor, has retired. *v,, Isaacs, 45 years ago, designed the coynterpart of what today is the mo tion picture camera. Hie retirement finds him in the po sition of never having made a dollar from the brain child which has grown to America’s fourth industry, bring its fame to thousands, and its millions to others. "In the days when New York was young—'way back in '78—Senator Stanford and James W. Keene entered into a $25,000 wager as to whether a trotting horse, at one period of its stride, had all four feet off the ground,” Isaacs, at his country home in Forest Hills, said today. Recall Historic Bet. Broadwayites of another j-ear recall the preparations made to decide the historic bet. Cameras were set up in a row to snap the trotter as it passed. The scheme failed. Then Senator ' Stanford, a friend of Isaacs, called In v the Inventor, i But it was not until 1888—10 years f^ter—that a simple electro magnet rylease was perfected and the horse photographed wit)i all four feet off he ground. Senator Stanford won his >et. Friends tell of Isaacs' deep Interest In the pictures. ‘ The movies are rest ful In their silence,” these friends quote the inventor. "Rests" at Movies. They tell how. while engaged in the eolving of great engineering prob lems—Isaacs having carried to com i pletion the majority of the undertak ■ ings of the Southern Pacific railroad during the last quarter century— ' Isaacs would take time off to "rest up” at the movies. Today S(tn of the nation's leading motion picture authors, actors and producers are discussing the future of the screen drama in conference here. Isaacs—the “grandfsther” of the Industry which has brought fame and fortune to this group—contended himself in his retirement with the hope of “more good pictures”—hie only return from^hls original Inven tion. Road Conditions (Furnished by ths Omaha Auto Club.) Lincoln Highway—East: Roads fslr to Dsntaon. fair to good to West Side. Gravel West Side to State Center. Detour be tween Scranton and Jefferson, also be tween Tama and Chelsea. No report east. Lincoln Highway—West: Roads paved to within eight miles of Fremont, the un paved stretch Is fair. Roads reported muddy at Schuyler and Columbus, rain ing at Columbus. Roads fair west to Grand Island. 0. L D—Road* fair to good to McCook. Detour between Dorchester and Friend, also some construction work Just east of Sterling. Meridian Highway—Roads fair. Cornhusker Highway—Roads fair to good. Black Hills Trail—Construction work in progress Just out of Benson Detour by way of Maple to Seventy-second street, thence north to B H T. Roads paved 15 miles out of Benson, fair to good to Nor folk. S T A—Roads fair to good. Custer Battlefield Highway—Roads fair. Washington Highway—Roads fair to good to Sioux City. N. P. V. Highway—Roads fair to good Omaha-Tulsa Highway—Roads fair to good. Omaha-Topeka Highway—Roads fair. King of Trails—‘-North: Roads fair. King of Trails—South. Roads fair te good. River-to-Rlver Road—Roads fair ti good. White-Way *T# Highway—Roads fah to good. 1. O. A. Shortline—Roads fair. Primary No. 8—Roads fair. Through the collaboration of the airplane companies with the con tinental railways. It is now possible to travel from London across Europe in less than 30 hours. j -- I 1508 DOUGLAS STREET World Theater Building oooo Beauty That Lives Your Attention When Drawn to the Beauty of Ye Diamond Shoppe Diamond Ring Mountings Immediately commands and merits your respect. For the thlngB so pleasing to an observer rest their appeal on three fundamentals. These are Good T«gte, Pur ity In Design, Refinement and a Quality that knows neither sparing nor com promise. Are not these things the rudiments of that enduring beauty from which the years cannot detractf BEAUTY THAT LIVES Ye Diamond ’ Shoppe for xx>Gifts That Lastxx Champion Bondsman Sustains Reputation John Overhay. John Overbay, bondsman bears a reputation among city and county of ficials of “never losing a man.” Overbay, perhaps, has furnished more bonds than any other four per sons. Wednesday he was notified by Deputy Sheriff Thestrup that the trial of Gus J. Bickler, 4121 Erskin street, would begin Friday. Bickler vas charged with illegal possession of liquor. Overbay could not locate Bickler and notified Deputy County Attorney Stalmaster to that effect. Then he started out In search of Bick ler. He heard that Bickler was in var ious places. He followed tips to Dineoln, Des Moines and Sioux City. It was at the latter town he met his man. They met by chance on the street and Bickler stuck out his hand in greeting. He grasped a pair of hand cuffs. Bickler was placed on trial here yesterday in scheduled time. Southwest Cattle Rangers Are Becoming Depleted Washington, June 8.—Cattle ranges in the southwest are becoming de pleted through overstocking, dry weather and the ravages of rodents, according to Charles Springer, one of the largest owners of land and cattle in New Mexico, who conferred yes terday with Secretary Wallace on the question. The rodents, principally prdirie dogs and kangaroo rats, have reached sttch numbers, he said, that they have become a considerable factor In putting the ranges out of com mission. The biological survey has been carrying on an active campaign on the rodent pests In the southwest, in co-operation with farmers and stock men, and more than lOO.nno.OOO acres have been treated In various states. G. A. R. Commander Dies. Cedar Rapids, la., Juhe 8.—pr. W. W. Gist, who was elected commander of Iowa department G. A. R. at the annual encampment at Fort Dodge, died at his home here today, after several hours’ illness. Kansas City Man Re-Elected Atlantic City, N. J., June 8.—Lou E, Holland of Kansas City, Mo., was re-elected president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World late today, and the convention confirmed the selection of London, England, for the 1924 meeting. . Booms were launched for Houston, Tex., and Tulsa, Okl., for the 1926 convention, Honolulu in 1926 and Seattle in 1927. Nebraskan Heads Chemists Chicago, June 8.—Dr. M. J. Blish, attached to the agricultural experi ment station at Lincoln, Neb., yester day was elected president of* the American Association of Cereal Chemists by the annual convention of the organization here. Condition of Motorman in Crash Grave Skull Fractured When Un manageable Street Car Jumps Track in Bluffs—Brake Failure Blamed. Condition of J. Geary Oyster, mo torman injured Thursday evening in Council Bluffs when the street car which he was piloting got beyond control on South First street near Knepper and ended in a crash at the foot of the hill, was regarded as crit ical by surgeons at the Jennie Ed mundson Memorial hospital yesterday mornirtg. He is In a semi-conscious condi tion, suffering from a severe frac ture of the skull and several deep cuts and gashes. His recovery still is doubtful. Mrs. Marie Colburn, wife of Frank Colburn, 810 Commercial street, who received a broken arm and cut face in the accident, still is in the Mercy hospital. Her physician says she also is suffering from nervous shock and that complications may result. Conductor Holds Passengers. "I have wondered to mwlf while riding downtown Just what I would do if the street car should run away on the hill as It did last evening,” said Frank Colburn yesterday morn ing. “I always convinced myself that the most logical thing to do would be to lie down in the bottom of the car to avoid injury. Now I realize that you never know how you will act un til something happens. My first im pulse was to jump from the car!” Richard Stevenson, 2408 South Sixth street, conductor of the street car, is regarded as the hero of the occasion by eye-witnesses and passen gers. Failing to reassure his passen gers with words, he held them In the car by main force. Brakes Don't Hold. "Most of the passengers would have Jumped from the car if the conductor had not barred the exit," said Miss Inah Weir, a school teacher who was on the tram. "We were going at such a terrific rate of speed that they would have been seriously Injured, as were the motorman and Mrs. Col burn. and one or more might have been killed.” The brakes refused to work upon the car when It reached Knepper street, according to stories told by the passengers and conductor. The motorman Instructed the conductor to phll the trolley and hegan at once to work the controls in an effort to halt. Woman Thrown Out. Although the passengers were nervous, apparently none of them realized the gravity of the situation until the car nearly had reached the foot of the hill. When It passed Plat ner street. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Col hum and their companions. Mr. and Mrs. If. Colhurn of Perry. 1*-, rushed to the hack platform. In some manner the doors were swung open and the lurch of the careening car. as It Jumped the track in front of the Rroadwav Methodist church, threw Mrs. Colhurn back wards through the opening to the pavement. Motorman Oyster had opened his doors a few seconds before and either leaped or was Jolted from his csh, slighting on his head and shoulder. He never has regained consciousness sufficiently to narrate his story of the experience. Iowa Ku KI ux Klan Speaker | Denounces N. Y. Governor Cedar Rapid*. Ia., June Gover nor A1 Smith of Xew York was de nounced for hi* signature of the hill repealing the prohibition law by the Rev. Tom Roberts, a speaker for the Ku Klux Klan and a former chaplain of the Iowa department of the Amer ican Legion, in an address last night at a public meeting sponsored by lo cal klansmen. Pilot and Conductor in Bluffs Tram Crash J. U. O INTER. R. STEVENSON. Override Texas Governor. Austin, Tex., June 8.—The general education application bill was passed by the Texas house today on suspen sion of rules hy vote of 90 to 24. The application totals $10,400,000. Policeman Beats News Reporters Chicago Police Board Probing Attack on Scribes, In cluding 2 Women. Chicago, June 8.—M. J. Maye, a pa trolman, was under suspension today pending an Investigation by the po lice board Into charges that he se verely beat several local newspaper reporters, Including two women writ ers, when they attempted to attend the examination by police of Mrs. Richard C. Tesmer, last Wednesday. In connection with the slaying of her husband. Besides heating them with his club, the two women told Chief of Police Collins, Maye tore their dresses "near ly off.” when they asked to go in side the Tesnier residence and at tacked several male reporters and photographers who went to their aid. Maye said he was doing his duty by keeping press representatives away. Balky Elephant Now on Way to Rejoin Carnival Show Burlington, la., June 8.—The balky elephant that has refused to move from Pulaska, la., for the last month and which last night broke Its chains and started on a voluntary pilgrim age back to the jungles of the dark continent, was recaptured at Bloom field, la., yesterday morning and is now under control of its old care taker. Mr. Cunningham. It was re ported tonight to be peacefully saun tering along toward Lancanshire, Mo., where It will rejoin the “Honest Bill” carnival Rhows. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. Omahan Leaves to Claim Riches R. F. Henderson to Demand e Share in Estate Situated in Heart of New York. F. F. Henderson, territory superin tendent for Kirschbraun & Sons, Ninth and Dodge streets, has already gone east to claim his share in an estate which he said is worth $675, 000.000 in property in the heart of New York City. Dispatches from New York quoted the Trinity Church corporation offi cials as saying that Henderson's claim is without foundation. Henderson took two months’ leave of absence and left for the east Wednesday, officials at the Kirsch braun plant said Friday. He said the estate consist* of lfi9 acres of land Including the sites, of the New Tork stock exchange and the Singer building, ail paying ground renta to Trinity Church corporation in trust for the heirs of Robert Maeomber for 99 years, which have Just expired, Henderson said, M» comber was his great, great grand father. Clay Knease Chourn Iowa Elks President Marshalltown, la., June S—Iowa Elks in convention here late yest day elected all officers reported hyth* nominating committee. Clay Kneaae of Muscatine was chosen president; J. E O'Brien of Des Moines. *e«'r. tary. and E. A Erb of Burlington, treasurer. Clinton was selected »* the convention city for 1921 after a spirited contest between Clinton. Fort Dodge and Mason City. 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