The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, February 27, 1924, CITY EDITION, Page 2, Image 2

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    Toda
Legal Piracy Pays.
T oday.
The French Debt Problem.
Strawberries by Mail.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
Great Britain has more than 150
ships engaged in American rum
running. The number has doubled
in three months, and far exceeds
in number and profits the pirates
that swept the seas in ancient days.
The owner of these ships be
comes rich' in a few months and
works without danger. Their busi
ness is legal in Great Britain, and
they are safe from attack by Amer
ican boats while they keep 12 miles
away from our coast.
President. Coolidge asks $13,000,
000 for the coast guard to deal
with smugglers. The authorities in
tercept 5 per cent of the whisky
now. Spending $10,000,000 more
they might intercept 7 per cent of
it. They can’t stop it. Smuggling
cocaine and other drugs is a part
of rum running.
The questions are: What is this
government going to do about it?
And how long will the public be
content to let things drift?
Frank McDowell, who killed his
two sisters, and a little later mur
dered his father and mother, tells
reporters “that he has tidied to lead
a perfect life, but has found It im
possible.’’ That reminds you of
some European nations since the
armistice.
With a public debt amounting to
430,000,000,000 francs, just 40
times the amount of money that
Bismarck took from France after
1870, the French people, face to
face with ugly facts, are beginning
to worry in earnest.
With its debt piled so high, and
its annual expenses nearly 20,000,
000,000 above her income, France
has almost the possibility of run
ning the government by borrowing,
and has before it this choice—cut
ting down expenses and increasing
taxation heavily, or entering the
final stage of bankruptcy through
which Germany has just passed by
printing paper money until it be
comes worthless.
Many Frenchmen look to Briand
or to Clemence.au, 80, to help
France in this crisis. Militarism has
proved a failure.
During the strike in England,
hothouse strawberries were sent as
registered mail and sold wholesale
at 75 cents an ounce. Those that
needed them were not deprived of
an important necessity.
Around Plant City, near Tampa,
Fla., there are thousands of acres
of strawberries which you can buy
where they are grown at most rea
sonable prices today. But the prob
lem of distributing them without
any strike here, is almost as dif
ficult as in England, with a strike
on.
Expensive distribution, freight or
express, and the multiplied middle
men’s profits are the curse of pro
ducers and consumers in this coun
try.
Not far from the fields of straw
i berries, in the wonderful citrus
fruit region of the Florida west
coast, this writer saw on Sunday
last, tons of oranges and grapefruit
thrown in the fields to rot. They
were so-called “culls,” not quite
perfect but ripe and nutritious. This
pile of wasted fruit would have
benefited thousands of children that
lack vitamines in the north. But
“it doesn’t jfay”N transport them
and v/hat doesn’t pay we do not do,
in this enlightened, efficient repub
lic /
War and killing are not profit
able. The winner today is loser to
morrow. This applies to wars be
tween nations, inside of nations,
and fights between individuals.
In Bulgaria, the king, his court
and his ministers seized the leader
of the peasants, after hunting him
through the forest and put him to
death. Now, according to Reuters,
the Bulgarian king, Boris, is locked
up somewhere in the country, his
ministers have been murdered, and
a republic replaces the monarch.
(Copyright, 1924.)
South Omaha Firm Sued.
Sam R. Bell of Clarke county, Iowa,
filed suit in federal court here against
Truman A. Jackson and the Jackson
Signall company. South Omaha live
stock firm, asking $6,300 which he
alleges Is dpe him for a shipment of
sheep made in February, 1920.
Dock Workers Return.
Ix>ndon, Feb. 26—Striking dock
workers began returning to work to
day following the settlement.
Rohrer Names
Wrong Person
on Booze List
Dry Director Quoted as Say
ing Candidate for National
Committeeman Patron
of Bootleggers.
Statement appealing In tlie Kebru
nry issue of the Union Worker, offl*
clal organ in Nebraska of the \V. C.
T U. and attributed to U. S. Rohrer,
prohibition director, to the effect that
Charles McCloud, republican, York,
*,’eb„ candidate for national commit
teeman, was included on two boot
leggers' lists of patrons,_ lias resulted
in a clash between Rohrer nnd Mc
Cloud and Mrs. Draper Smith.
Mrs. Smith and McCloud culled at
Rohrer's office to demand why he
furnished information for the article
which appeared in the magaxlne, and
demanding proof.
Lists Missing.
Rohrer was unable to produce the
lists referred to.
"We have information from the of
fice of U. S. Rohrer that Charles Mc
Cloud of York, Neb., who is. a candi
date again for national committeeman
on the republican ticket, is on the list
of patrons of two booze running boot
leggers, Auld and Murphy, who were
arrested in the fall of 1921," the state
ment reads In port:
“Shall we vote for men like this
for sueh important offices? Let your
ballot talk and speak for law observ«
anre.”
Mrs. Smith advised Rohrer that she
has known McCloud for sometime, and
tl^at it was impossible that his name
should have appeared on the list.
"Awful Blunder.”
Rohrer sought in hiH desk, in his
own files -and in the files of J. C.
Klnsler, United States district at
torney, and even called his Lincoln
office by telephone before admitting,
according to McCloud and Mrs.
Smith, that the statement was an
“awful blunder."
The only McCloud to be found on
any list was a Charles McCloud of
Venango, Neb., who is no relation of
Charles McCloud of York.
He said he would communicate with
Delia Ryar, state president of the
W. C. T. U. and editor of the "Union
Worker,” and ask that she retract
the statement.
"I don’t want to talk about it,”
Rohrer said Tuesday at his office. “Ask
McCloud. He will tell you every
thing."
Retraction Asked.
Mrs. Smith, In a letter to Mrs.
Dyar, editor of the "Union Worker,"
also asks that retraction be made.
She says that when she read the
article she advised Mr. McCloud and
he at once cam* to Omaha. She ac
companied him to Rohrer's office,
where, the letter said, no evidence
was produced in the form of any list
bearing Mr. McCloud's name.
The letter states that Rohrer ad
vised them at that time that he was
satisfied that Charles A. McCloud of
York had not been a patron of boot
leggers.
McCloud is president of the board
of trustees of York college, a de
nominational institution of the United
Brethren church.
Coolidge Warns
Fund Bill Danger
Washington, Feb. 26.—The numer
ous bills pending in congress calling
for large appropriations are regarded
by President Coolidge as disturbing to
the prosperity Rnd welfare of the
country.
Make motion pictures
with a Cine-Kodak
With this latest Eastman
invention it is just as easy
to make motion pictures as
it is to make snap-shots
with a Brownie. You can
make and show on your
own screen “movies”of the
people and things that in
terest you, and professional
releases — comedies, dra
mas, educational features,
are available as well.
Price of complete witfit—CW
Kodak, Kodascope, Screen,
etc., $115.
Operating coat amazingly amalL
Let us show you.
Fsstman Kodak Co.
—^(The Robert Dempster Co.)
1/A 1813 Fsraem St.
rooui Branch Stara
308 South 18th St. J
Paxton Blk. “The Store of Individual Shops” 16th and Farnam
—a Peep
Into Fashion’s
HAT BOX
Reveals alluring models for every oc
casion that crowds a woman’s day.
New color*, new shape variations, new
trimming ideas-—all join force to
achieve distinction. Particularly attrac
tive are hats at these two popular prices.
f
Men Who Are Making Omaha
\ Could
The name of Gould Dietz ha* been
intimately identified with the civic
and commercial progress of Omaha
!for more than 3."> years.
He began his business career in
Omaha in conjunction with his
brother, C. N. Dietz, in the wholesale
and retail lumber trade, and in the
Sheridan Coal company, which devel
oped mines west of Sheridan, Wyo.,
where there sprung up a town which
still bears the name of Dietz.
During the war he devoted his time
exclusively to the American lied Cross
as director of the Omaha chapter.
He has been(one of the mainstays
of Ak Sar-Ben since its inception and
was crowned Its liilh king, lie is the
oldest member of the board of gov
ernors in point of service. In spltefbf
his manifold activities here, he has
traveled extensively abroad.
He is a radiajfan, and is interested
In the development of aviation in the
Cnited States. He helped to promote
the first aero exhibition held In
Omaha and is a governor of the Na
tional Aeronautical association.
Recently he was appointed civilian
aide to the secretary of war, in con
nection with the military training
camp for the Seventh army corpa
area.
Mr. Dietz Is a staunch republican
and has bt%n several times elected
to represent this district at ths re
publican national convention.
lie is widely acquainted, not only
In Omaha, but all over tlie country,
and many men and women prominent
politically, socially or in buainess
make his home (heir headquarters
when visiting in Nebraska.
W.O.W. Cafe Man
Drops From Sight
Disappearance of Randall Pollock,
former owner of the Woodmen of the
World cafeteria, basement of the W.
O. W. building, caused comment Tuee
day among his friends.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Relmer, formerly
with the Wellington Inn, took
over the cafeteria Monday.
Mr. Pollock left the keys here and
I haven't been able to find him," said
Mr. Keimer.
Mr. Pollock’* wife died about si
year ago. She w'Bs for years one of
the best known business women of
the city.
He is tfe second Omaha restaurant
man to drop from sight within the
year. Ralph Hobart of the Sandwich
shop disappeared six months ago.
He has Just been located In Seattle.
Schmoller & Mueller
x and I
Players
'‘Best in the West"
Sold from Factory to
Homo, olimiMtioi »k o
middlamaa'a profit.
Schmoller & Mueller
UPRIGHTS
$325.00 and Up
With Bench and Selec
tion of Sheet Music
Terms only $6 Month
Schmoller & Mueller
PLAYERS
$450.00 and Up
With Bench end $10.C0
Worth of Roll*
Terms $2.50 a Week
You are protected by our 25-year rua-antee. Trade In
your old instrument and take three years to pay the
balance, if you wish. Don’t let this opportunity pass
unheeded; consider the tone quality and finish or these
instruments and the remarkably low price. A visit
of inspection will convince you that we can save yeu
real money on the purchase of a piano.
* DM-IMS Dodfc
Powder With Cuticura
Talcum After Bathing
After a bath with Cuticura Soap and
warm water Cuticura Talcum duatad
over the akin la soothing, cooling
and refreshing. If the skin Is rough
or irritated, anoint with Cuticura
Ointment to soothe and heal.
laaalaa Traata llfcll. At lrraa "CatlaarataSav
ftUrtM. Papt loa. Mu'4a* 41, K«0t " •rrrt
Jfcr
09“ Try •wr w»w Shiriw Slirlt.
With mid* and Influenza all too
common Ju*t now. It paya fo
take tegular preventive m«a*
tire* ngaln*t them. Spray your
no*® and throat night and morn
ing with /.unit* (direction* on
the bottle). Prevention I* *1
way* raaler, better and le*» ea
penalve titan a cure.
Zonlte—th* remarkable, new
nntlaeptlc — hit* the unique
power of destroying germs
without harming the delicate
llaauea that germa thrive on.
It la aeveral time* a* powerful
na pm# carhollc acid—yet non
Irritating anil ahaolutely non
|iDl*niioii*. At your Oritgglat.
Paving Bids Go
Before Public <
Next Monday
j
Projects in Forty-Two Differ
ent Districts Referred to
Committee of Whole
Meeting.
I -°
Kitiii fur paving projects in 42 dif
ferent paving district* of Omaha, re
ceived last week by the city council,
Tuesday were referred to the meeting
of the committee of the whole next
Monday morning.
At that time the council will en
deavor to have all contractors In
volved In the bidding pre*er\t. to
gether with alt other contractors who
Jiave submitted bids on city paving
within the last two years.
In addition, delegations of property
owners from various districts, who
consider ths figures set forth In the
bids too >\lgh, will be present, and
will be represented by attorney.
J. H. Manley, representative of one
group, attended the meeting of the
eounell Tuesday morning, when Joseph
Koutsky, superintendent of the de
partment of public works, submitted
to the council a compilation of all
bid* submitted last week.
Before this compilation was re
ferred to the committee of the whole.
Commissioner Dan Butler, who pre
sided at the meeting In the absence
of Mayor Jamea C. Dfthlman, gave it.
at his opinion that even the lowest of
the bids quqts a price from 30 to
40 cents a square yard too high.
When the city advertises for bids,
it reserves tl»e-t\dght to reject any or
all bids.
Created by Petition.
Paving districts ars created by
petition 6f property owners. Most of
ths property owners Involved In the
present bids, signed such petitions
under the Impression that ths cost of
their paving would not be mors than
12.20 a square yard, whereas the
present bids run considerably above
that figure, according to attorney*
who will represent the property own
ers before the council committee of
the whole.
They Intimate that if bid* at ex
cessivS prices are accepted, the le
gality of the formation of the district
may be questioned.
Just before adjournment, the coun
cil passed a resolution directing the
city clerk to notify all contractors In
volved In the bidding by registered
letter of Monday’s meeting. Ind also
to notify ell contractors who have bid
on city paving in the last two year*.
Nine property owners interested in
the paving of Twenty-ninth street.
Nebraska Children’s Homg Society’s Neu) Home .
Fol-t street to Ellison avenue, peti
tioned city council to reject bids on
their district, which Is So. 1ST2.
These property owners set forth In
their petition thRt the lowest bid Is
too high.
M. L. Elinn Pawing company of
Sioux City offered » low bid of 11..j9
on asphaltic concrete for this district.
Horse Ownership
Is Still Puzzle
County Judge Brft Crawford i*
harking back to the decisions of King
Solomon in hie effort to decide the
ownership of ir poirel 4 year-old race
horp® named Mudoba, which ip being
claimed by three men In hla court.
"I might hale the hone Into court
and let her choose a master," mused
the Judge. "Rut she might choose
some outsider who hasn't any claim
to her whatever.
"Then again J might try Solomon's
most famous method by offering to
cut the horse In three parts. J!ut
I've learned from Barney Google that
horses are In demand at the glue
factories, and all three of the men
who claim her might permit this plan
to go through, as I understand
Mudoba hasn't been successful win
ning races."
M. K. Bacon, Thomas Kindle and
J. G. Hathaway are the men c laiming
Mudoba. They all htfve bills of sale
to prove their ownership.
Capacity of Institution T< .»()
—Quarantine for Measles
]0 of Present 29 in a
Separate House.
“A clearinghouse for orphans" la
the Nebraska Children's" Home so
clety’s new central home, now com
pleted and furnished and occupied by
*n advance guard of IS boys amt
girls. Ten others who will aoon he
housed Inside its comfortable walls
are detailed in another home by
quarantine for measles. The photo
graph shows, above, the exterior of
the building, with a glimpse of Fon
tenelle park behind it; and below, a
corner of the Interior, illustrating
how the parlors are furnished.
The capacity of the home is from
40 to SO children, none of whom will
he kept there more than a few
months, as the policy of the society
is to find adoptive parents for them
as early as possible. It is expected,
however, that the home will be full
to capacity a good part of the time.
Already the four boys' and six girls'
dormitories have awakened to lively
activity, and the youngster* are mak
ing the best of the play room, the
dining hall, the big front porch which
are among the features of the home.
Neither have they neglected Fon
tenelle park which front* on two sides
of the house and is an ideal place
for outdoor play. Mrs. A. K. rttley
Is the new matron In charge of the
home.
Women's organizations of the state
contributed largely to the carr.A^^.
for $43,000 which made possible
new building, where scrawny little”
orphans are to be made fat and rosy
for their new papas and mamma*. To
complete and furnish the building has
somewhat outrun the original esti
mate, which did not inrlude the cost
of finishing and furnishing the third
story, now the boys' dormitories. The
work of the society Increased so much
during the campaign, year, however,
that It «a* evident the top story
would be needed at once.
Three Omahans
File for Office
William Butt, 3133 Corby slree’.
filed for the democratic nomination
for member of the legislature. Harry
S. Iiyrne, 317 South Fifty-third street,
and Alva E. Royce, 4343 North Fort; ■
first street, filed respectively for the
republican and the democratic nomina
tions for member of the county con
vention.
Wyoming Vi oman Here.
Mrs Nate Bearer of Gllette, Wyo ,
is visiting at the homo' of her father,
A B. Parish. 3330 W street.
| Month I
! End
|SALES j
Thompson -Belden s
.
Month
End
SALES
Toilet Articles
Special
Talcum powder, Q _
can .
Haakln'i hard-water ei_
*oap; cake .
Powder Puff*; large OC.
dire; 4 for .
Manicure Scidsor*. AQ **
pair.
Double Vanitie*; CQ
apecial .US7C
STREET FLOOR
Union Suits
1/2 Price
Several styles in woman’s
wool suits, among them low
neck and sleeveless models
in knee and ankle lengths;
also high necked and long
sleeved models in ankle
length.
STREET FLOOR
House Dresses
$1.95
"Dix” and other excellent
makes of dresses in regular
and extra nixes, 36 to 52.
There only 40 dresses in
the group and scarcely any
two are alike.
SECOND FLOOR
Initialed
Handkerchiefs
All pur«Unen with >i-inch
hem ar^®ich-high embroi
dered i^mal. All white.
' STREET FLOOR
Dress Ginghams
Yard 35c
32-inch, fast-color ging
hams in new patterns of
checks and plaids; also
plain shades.
SECOND FLOOR
Spring Dresses
20% Discount
Satins Crepes Woolens
Our spring models in sizes 34 to 38. You may
choose from our entire stock.
THIRD FLOOR
Slippers and Oxfords
*o45
The sizes are broken, but every pair is an ex
traordinary value, being taken from regular
stock.
Slippers
III patent, turde, kid and
satin.
Oxford*
In patent, dull kid, brown and
fray luede.
STREET FLOOR
Corsets and Brassieres
Month-End Values
Back-laced, front-laced
and wrap-around styles.
Some of them are our
very best selling num
bers in which sizes are
broken; others are
slightly soiled. Priced
from
$1.79 to $9.62
I.ace, silk and lace, silk
brocades, cotton bro
cades and batiste in nil
styles. There are odd
and soiled numbers at
much less than 1o price.
In two groups at
69c and 98c
SECOND FLOOR
Philippine
Gowns -Teddies
$ j 59
These garments, at greater
prices, were feature values of
our January sales. There are
gowns and teddies in built-up
shoulder styles. The garments
which remain we offer at the re
duced price of $1.59.
SECOND FLOOR
Infants" Wear
at Reductions
Now that it is near the end
of the winter season we
have many interesting bar
gains in caps, leggins.
sweater sets. hats. There
are only a few garments of
a kind, but you’ll find that
they are well worth buying
for next season.
SECOND FLOOR
Overdrapes
y2 Price
“Sunfast" silk and madras
in 36 to 45-inch widths.
Roth plain and fancy pat
terns in the shades most
generally preferred.
SECOND FLOOR
Vanity Boxes
$2.95
Black morocco and patent
leather boxes with large
mirror, lined with celluloid
or silk, and containing gold
plated fittings.
STREET FLOOR
Men's Linen
Handkerchiefs
5 for $ 1.00
All linen with 'j-inch
hems. These ahe regular
sires and unusual values.
STREET FLOOR
Cotton Challis
Yard 19c
86-inch cotton challis in a
number of pretty patterns
for comfort covers.
SECOND FLOOR
Silks and Woolens — Month-End Values,
12-momle import- qq
oil pongee; yard. . 027 C
.16-Inch black chiffon
dr*M taffe- 1 /JQ
ta; yard. . 1 *027
Minch Kaahona for coat* and
cape*. A UtMirinu* hifh-pilt nin
trrinl that wear* unusually welt.
It link and d*»7 QC
brown . * •ZfiJ
54-inch all-wool novelty *hirtinir* of
fine quality in (rood weijrht. Stripe*,
plaid* and novelty Weave* in many
color combination*; OO
\ ard ... v*5 imw
Jlti-inch printed QC<»
kimona silk; yard wOC
•'t'-in. perralint; OQ*
b«*M quality; yard«5rC
STREET Tl OOR
;Tlic It (fit Place la Shop After All"
r*