iJirl Is Outpost
for Shoplifters
( onfcsscs She Acted as Look
out for Ring of Thieves
in Omaha.
Ivina Bruce, alias Betty Moore,
alias May McDonald, is held by
Omaha police for Joplin, Mo., authori
ty 's on a charge of automobile theft.
She is alleged to have obtained a
or from a rental garage in Joplin
end to have driven to Omaha with
Carl Fox, who later returned to Jop
lin I y train. Miss Bruce stopped
,-u the Havens hotel. The arrest was
made by Detectives Munch, Ryan and
Dngk-wicz.
Tuesday the girl confessed to
inspector of Police Jack Pszanowski,
lie said, that she acted as lookout
for a ring of shoplifters In Omaha.
As a result of her disclosures Kath
erine Williams, Council Bluffs;
Charles Britton, 2315 Douglas street,
and Pete Wolfenberger, 21fl South
Thirteenth street, were arrested and
held for investigation.
Police also are seeking the man
J?ox. The couple came to Omaha
about a month ago.
Burgess Bedtime
Stories
- By THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Mor» la always gained by pleasing
Than ever yet wan gained by teasing.
—Old Mother Nature.
The Teasing of Old Mr. Bu/zard.
These were unhappy days for Old
Mr. Buzzard. Almost every day an
aeroplane, which the little people of
the Green Forest and the Green
Meadows called a man-bird, would
fly over the Green Forest and the
Green Meadows. As soon as It was
out of sight some one would be sure
to happen around where Old Mr.
Buzzard sat on his tall, dead tree.
Sometimes It would be Sammy Jay.
"Hello, Old Mr. Buzzard!” Sammy
would exclaim. "Did you see that
man-bird going over? My my, how
it can fly! I used to think you were
a great flyer, but I don’t any more."
“Ah can fly higher than one of
those man-birds. Yes, suh. Ah can
fly higher than one of those man
birds,” Old Mr. Buzzard would hiss
angrily.
"Do you really think so?" Sammy
would ask sweetly. Then he would
laugh and fly away. He would be
hardly out of sight when Blacky the
■*r //
“Hello, Old Mr, Buzzard!” Sammy
uiiuld exclaim. “Hid you see
that man-bird going over?”
Crow would come flying along and
appear to be surpr.sed to see Old
Mr. Buzzard sitting there. Blacky
would fly down and alight In the
next tree.
"I didn't see you out racing that
man-bird,” Blacky would say.
Old Mr. Buzzard would draw him
elf up and look as dignified as he
.-ould. “Ah am not In the racing
business, sab.” he would grunt.
“I guess it is a good thing you are
not.” Blacky would reply. “Those
man-birds certainly can fly. 1
wouldn't want to see you beaten in
a race, Mr. Buzzard, so 1 guess you
are wise not to try it.”
“Ah never claimed to be a fast
flyer," Old Mr. Buzzard would grunt.
Then he would add. "But Ah reckons
Ah can fly higher than one of those
man-birds. Yes, suh, Ah reckons Ah
can.”
“Caw, caw, caw! X reckon you
can’t!” Blacky would cry. And
away he would go.
So it went day after day. Old Mr.
Buzzard was teased and teased and
(eased until his neighbors made life
miserable for him. He knew he was
being laughed at and It hurt his
pride. Ho couldn't think of any
thing else but those hateful man
birds. Always they seemed in a hur
ry to go somewhere. They never
stopped to circle around and around
as he so delighted In doing. How he
did wish that one would, so that he
might go out and show his neighbors
that In that at least he was better
than the man-bird. Y’et all the time
down in his heart there was a little
doubt, ilo didn't want to admit it
to himself, but he was Just a wee
bit afraid of those man-birds.
But this didn't keep him from
boasting that If ever he had the
chance he would show that he could
Gy higher than one of those hateful
'man-birds. And soon all the people
t l of the Green Forest and the Green
Meadows knew of that boast. Then
they teased Old Mr. Buzzard more
than ever.
(Copyright, 1923)
The next story; "The Chance Old
Mr. Buzzard Didn't Want."
Have you the O. O. McIntyre habit?
His column appears each day In The
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Prefer Normal Daughter ^
Vidta- Kttdkfcli. . ' , --„ ..'J
Viola Mitchell Is Pittsburgh's 12-year-old child prodigy, whose parents
are forcing her to live a normal girl’s life when she might be rich and
famous. On a recent trip to New York with her teacher, Miss Margaret
Horne, site played her rare Guarnerlus violin before Prof. O. Sevich, teacher
of Kubelik and other prominent violinists. “She Is marvelous! At 20 she
will be another Maud Powell!” he exclaimed. Immediately Viola was be
sieged with vaudeville offers. Itut her father and mother, l)r. and Mrs. Atiee
Mitchell, refnsed them ail and took their daughter back to their Pittsburgii
home, where she is kept away from music for all but a short time each
day and told to “go out and play with other girls.” “Belter a normal,
happy daughter than a thousand pale-faced ‘child wonders',” is Dr. Mitchell s
motto. ___
Red Shirt Rouses Angus Bull
Fertile, la., Oct. 30.—The story of
an editor who, wags insist, got a
dose of his own medicine, is told
here at the expense of E. E. Brown,
editor of the local newspaper.
Editor Brown was placidly manip
ulating his shears, pastepot and pen
ell, attired, as was his custom, in a
flaming red shirt, when he was sud
denly confronted by a black-polled
Angus bull.
The bull, which entered the city
early in the day and amused himself
for a time by chasing pedestrians and
attacking automobiles, happened to
be passing Brown's office. He saw
the red shirt.
The bull charged the editorial
room. Failing to reach the editor,
he tried to climb In the window. He
pawed, roared and used his horns,
until driven off by the editor’s faith
ful hound dog.
The widow of a bandit chief of
China. Mrs. Lo Hon-Cho, Is now in
command of her husband's bandll
troops in Kwangsi province.
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Workhouse Bill
Being Prepared
Shotwell and Foster Working
on Three Proposed
Measures.
Ross L. Shotwell, Omalia attorney,
and Dr. Harry A. Foster, member of
the welfare board, who live in adjoin
ing state representative districts, are
preparing three bills to be presented
to the next session of the Nebraska
legislature.
One bill calls for the licensing of
every motor car driver in the state.
Another provides for the establish
ment of a Douglas county workhouse,
so operated that the families of men
confined In the workhouse shall derive
some benefit from their labor.
The third proposed bill provides a
term of from 20 years to life for any
person convicted of using a danger
ous weapon in committing a felony.
Charges Against Forbes
as Late as September, 1922
■Washington. Oct. 29.—Charges that
Charles R. Forbes, while director of
the veterans’ bureau, still was seek
ing as late as September, 1922, to
surreptitiously remove large stocks of
narcotic* and liquors from the gov.
ernment hospital at Perryville, Md.,
were made today at the continuation
of the senate investigation of the
veterans’ bureau. _
“Old Ed” Howe, Kansas Editor,
“Rediscovers” H. Y. After 15 Years
New York. Oct. 30.—Fresh from his
Potato Hill farm sanctum near Atchi
son, Old Ed Howe, famous “country
editor,'’ came yesterday to rediscover
New York after 15 years' absence and
to make a homely report on the sad
condition of rum drinking and poll
tics In Kansas.
Mr. Howe came ns a friend to the
metropolis, not ns a foe. Plainly he
was a bit chagrined, In his-suite at
the Waldrof, that so many of his
neighbors In the wheat belt regard
New York with aversion as a citadel
of sin.
“Almost everybody out our way,''
he said apologetically, “abuses ‘rotten
old New York,’ but 1 think New York
is the greatest institution in this hand
some country. Here's where the real
first class men are; there isn’t anv
doubt about that. When they get
too smart for Kansas City or Chicago
they come to New York.
“Talk about liquor drinking in the
cities," Mr. Howe observed, “you
ought to see It In the country. In the
old days when a town man was a
drunkard they sent him out into the
pure, open spaces to reform, but now
it's the farmers’ sons that are getting
to bo drunkards and they send them
to town to straighten up.
“You go out to the pountry sales
around Atchison and you see so
much bootleg liquor drinking it’s dis
graceful. I know fellows In Atchison
that have as much as two barrels of
bootleg In their cellars. They make it
in tlie country without any trouble
and it'B hard to find the stills.”
Although the editor still is a pro
hibitionist. he thinks the 18th amend
ment was a blunder so far as Kansas
is concerned.
Tlie sage of Potato Mill, whose na
tive wit has salted the pages of the
Atchison Daily Globe, his E. W.
Howe's Monthly, as well ns his novel.
"The Story of a Country Town," and
o'her books, is on Ills way to Miami.
Fla., where he edits his monthly in
the winters.
"I'm getting so old and ornery I
have to go south before the blizzards
start scoot iner across the Kansas
plains "
Rt* v^ui sugar Price.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 30.—The
Callfornla-Hawaiian Sugar Refining
corporation, the Western Sugar re
finery and the Spreckeis Sugar com
pany today announced a reduction of
£0 cents per hundred pounds in the
basic price of refined cane and beet
sugar, effective at once.
The new base price for refined cane
sugar is $9 and the price for refined
beet sugar is $8.80. This was the
second cut w.thin 10 days, the previ
ous one having been for 30 cents.
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