Today
Ford in Florida.
S Billion Cigarets.
Japan s Protest.
The Postoffice Pay.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
Henry Ford has bought a great
tract of land in Florida, including
a county-eeat, and a good many
buildings. He gets wood for his
cars from forests in the north. He
will now, it is said, establish rub
ber plantations in Florida to supply
material for his tires.
“From producer to consumer’’ is
his motto.
Watch Florida. That one state,
among 48 in this union will, before
many years, have passed the nation
in itself.
One task in the United States is
not neglected, and that's the job of
burning up cigarets. In April the
factories turned out more than
5,000,000,000 cigarets, and the out
put is constantly increasing. In
■four months this year the country
smoked 2,000,000,000 more cigar
ets than in the same period last
year.
If young gentlemen devoted to
other tasks the concentration and
careful attention and choosing that
they devote to cigarets, what a
world this would be for accomplish
ment.
Late dispatches yesterday said
that there is “the gravest concern
in Washington” because the little
Japanese prince regent has author
ized his minister to protest violently
against the United States ex
clusion of Asiatics. •
Violent protest is based on the
belief of the Japanese that there
are knock-kneed gentlemen in
Washington.
The action of public officials will
let the Japanese know whether they
are right or wrong about those
knock-knees.
But it’s fair to let Japan know
that politicians in office do not al
ways represent the United States
If the Japanese think their protest
will persuade this country that it
hasn’t a right to keep out Asiatics,
as Australia and Canada ko*p them
out, the Japanese are mistaken.
It is suggested that, President
Coolidge will veto the bill to raise
the pay of postoffice employes on
the ground that “the nation cannot
afford it.” The president would
hardly say that. The nation can
afford it, and it can’t afford to treat
faithful public servants meanly.
The nation supplies the president
with a fine private yacht to go sail
ing, one that burns many gallons
of oil and employs many men. If
the nation can afford that for the
president, who gets $76,000 a year
besides, it can afford to gay living
wages to the letter carrier, who
pays for his shoes three times what
he used to pay.
Secretary Wilbur Of the navy
says that congress “must never have
the power to override supreme court
decisions.”
Why not? Supreme court de
cisions are no better than the men
that render them. And judges are
no better than the men appointing
them, presumably.
Congress represents the people,
and if the people cannot be trusted
to manage their own affairs, includ
ing their own supreme court judges,
they ought to go back to the kinder
garten under King George of Eng
land and not pretend to rule them
selves.
Paderewski, back in Paris, says
music is spreading rapidly in the
United States. It is, thanks to talk
ing machines that have sent the
best music recorded with greatest
perfection, into every household.
Talking machines have done for
music what libraries have done for
literature. It would be a great
calamity if radio should really in
terfere with the distribution of the
singing and talking machine.
Apparently La Follette intends to
run independently for the presiden
cy. He now says he will do so “un
less both old parties are purged.”
It isn’t likely that either party will
consent to such purging as Dr. La
Follette would prescribe.
La Follette cannot be elecled and
knows it. But he can spoil all the
plans and calculations of politicians,
if that seems to him worth while.
Some that know him well do not be
lieve he will run the risk of being
responsible, toward the end of his
career, of making a democratic
president. That was Roosevelt’s
farewell accomplishment.
(Copyright, 1924.) *
BEAL TO COLLECT
FINES AND COSTS
Executions invonvlng $10,000 were
issued .Thursday by County Attorney
Henry Beal for the collection of fines
and court costs in the cases of 14
convicted bootleggers.
According to Beal, the ’leggers
serve their jail sentences then obtain
their release to collect the fine and
disappear.
Among the offenders against which
the executions have been Issued Is
Sam De George, brother of Alflo De
George, recently acquitted of the mur
der of Frank Gibliterra, $500 and
costs.
Fawtio City.—About 20 took exami
nations here on various subjects with
a view of obtaining teachers' rertlfl
cates or improving their grade.
Tax Payment in
Bad Checks Irks
County Official
Deputy Treasurer Threatens
Proseeufion Unless Worth
less Paper Is Redeemed
at Onee.
A large number of Omaha taxpay
ers are subject to arrest If they con
tinue to pay tlieir taxes with checks
for which they have not sufficient
funds in the bank, according to Fred
Armburst. deputy county treasurer,
who is holding several checks marked
"not sufficient funds” and one show
ing "no account.”
If this abuse continues Armburst
threatens to require all taxes to be
paid with cash as the law provides.
Whether It Is carelessness or In
tent Is not known, says Armburst.
These bad checks, says Armburst,
are given In "payment for auto 11
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McShane Estate Sued
for Back Income Tax
Suit to recover J23.6I3.32, alleg
ed to be back Income taxes, was
filed in federal rourt against Wil
liam n. Hosford and Kathryn Mc
Shane, executor and trustee, re
spectively, of the estate of the
late John A. McShane, by United
States District Attorney J. C.
Kinsler.
Kinsler in his petition chargee
that the defendants filed “an in
rorreot, a misleading and false tax
return for 1918 when the Ureigh
ton-McRIiane Oil company was dis
solved."
Kinsler further charges that no
tax was paid when the dissolution
look pMre and that the tax
amount asked for in the petition
was disclosed only after a review
and audit of the company's books,
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censes, city, county and even per
sonal taxes.
Last year there were about 300 of
these bad checks and they were re
deemed only after repeated threats
that complaints would be filed.
"We get our money back from the
Metropolitan Utilities district on gas
and water checks," said Armburst,
"but how they get it I don't know.
"We are going to stop this practice
if we have to put every offender In
jail.'*
On several checks for auto li
censes Armburst stated that he
threatened to take license plates
off cars If payrAent was not made.
He declared he had the support of
County Attorney Beal and Check In
vestigator Paul Steinwender. The
county attorney's office hag already
mailed Mters-to taxpayers warning
them that action would be taken If
the checks were not made good at
once.
Odell.—Mrs. John Hohman, S3, pio
neer of Odell, died after a prolonged
Illness. She was the mother of Matt
Hohman. proprietor of the greenhouse
at Odell.
Program for May 30.
(Courteay of Radto Digest)
(By Associated Pres*)
WSB, Atlanta Journal (429): 8-9, Shrine
band; 10:46, orcheatra.
WOR, Buffalo (819): 4:10-5:30. music.
5:30, news; 7-9. Decoration day. 9:30,
dance.
WGN, Chicago Tribune (370): 7-10,
musical.
WMAQ, Chicago News (447.8): 7, O A
R.; 8:16, Memorial day program.
KYW. Chicago (636): 6:30, concert;
7:20, talks, 9-1:30, revue.
WLS. Chicago (345): 6-7, musical; 7-8,
farm lectuVes, 8-10 Herald Examiner pro
gram.
WJAX, Cleveland (390): 8, concert.
WFAA. Dallas News (476). 12:30-1 V
dress; 8:30-9:30. concert.
WOC. Davenport (484): 6:30 bedtime;
7, taljt; 8, program.
WBAP, Fort Worth Star Telegram
(476): 7:30-8:30, concert; 9:30-10.45, con
cert.
WOS, Jefferson City (410.9): 8, Dec
oration day. Boy Scouts.
WDAF, Kansas City Star (111): 6-7.
Duo-Art. address, story, music; 8, musi
cal; 11 45, Night hawks. .
WHAS. Louisville Journal (1001X8-9,
Klwanls club concert, dramatic reader.
KFI, Los Angeles (469): 8:15, vocal;
10-1 a. m., concert. Instrumental, orchea
tra.
WGI. Medford (360): 5. talk; 6. Dec
oration day.
WMC. Memphis Commercial Appeal
(500): 8:30. Walter Moore; 11, Steamer
Idlewild orchestra
WLAO. Mlnncapolts-St. Paul '(417)
7:30, lectures; 9:15, business message;
9:30, bugle and drum corps.
WOR. Newark (405): 4:15, children;
4:30. stories. 6, Decoration day program
WEAF. New York City (192): 4-9.
music, talks, orehestrs.
WJZ. New York ( 455): 5. bedtime;
5:10. talk; 5 30. French; 6:15. talks,
piano, trumpets.
WJY. New York (405): 5:30-5. enter
tainment.
WAAW, Omaha (360): 8:05, bridge
WO AW, Omaha (526 ): 6, speakers;
6:30, dinner; 9-11, musical. •
WCAE, Pittsburgh (492): 4:30. concert;
6:30 Uncle Kaybee; 6:30, comedy.
KDK A, Pittsburgh (326): 4.30. chil
dren: 6, Serenade™.
WOO. Philadelphia (509): 6:80. orchea
tra; 6:30-8. concert; recital, dance.
KG W, Portland (492): 10, Memorial
day: 12 30. Hoot Owls
WKAQ, Ran Juan (390): 6-8. studio.
WGY. Schenectady (380): 6:60, talk:
7. songs; 7:15. melodrama.
WBZ, Springfield (337): 4. music; 6:30,
bedtime; 8. orchestra; 9. music, songs.
WO AW Program
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6:30 p m. speakers half hour.
6:30 p m. dinner program by Ken
Baker's Omahans
9.00 P m.. program by Central High
School orchestra. Walter Woerner. di
rector.
"Star Spangled Banner "
Overture. "Lurtplel" .Keler-Rela
Walts Symposia .Beudix
Baritone Solo—Selected.
Roy Larsen
"Hearts Longing" .Zamecnlk
"Clown Dance" .Zam^nik
String Trio. • Serenade".. .Victor Herbert
"Remembrance" .Happen
"Flirtation" . Cross
Vocal Solo—Selected.
"Arabian Romance" . • MUdenberg
"Mexican Habanera" .... Roberts
Clarinet trio. "Merriment Polka"
. Barnard
"Japanese Sunset"
"Desert Caravan" .. . Zamecnlk
Violin solo.
Helen Williams
String trio. "My Heart at Thv Sweet
Voice" . . Saint Salens
March. Sousa—Selected.
"America."
Yejjgs Crack and
Rifle Two Safes
in Heart of City
Lincoln Inn and Burbon &
Co. Robbed of $500;
Empty Money Rags
Found in All ey.
Yeggmen Wednesday night cracked
two Safes In neighboring buildings at
Sixteenth and Farnam streets, oh
tajning about $500 and leaving no
clue behind for police.
More than $100 was taken from the
safe in the office of the Lincoln Inn
in the United States National Bank
building. Bet,wen $300 and $400 was
obtained from the safe of Burbon &
Co., women's ready to wear apparel
house, over the McCrory Five and
Ten cent store.
• Padlock Broken.
Christy Jelenek, first employ of the
Lincoln Inn to reach the restaurant
this morning, found that the padlock
on the steel gate guarding the stair
way leading to the basement had
been broken and then put back in
place. A case knife had been used
to open the office door, and the safe
had been "punched.'’
The receptacle contained Wednes
day's receipts, according to Dr. John
Mack and W. O. Harrison, proprie
tors.
Entrance Unsolved.
The way in which the yeggsentered
the offices of Burbon & Co t(fa mys
tery to police. Evidently the robbers
had scaled the steel gate downstairs
and used a pass key on the doors on
the second floor.
Leslie Burkenroad and Joseph
Bonoff are proprietors of Burbon
& Co.
Two empty money bags taken from
the Burbon & Company safe were
found in the alley below Sixteenth
street by Jim Mason, Janitor for
Browning, King & Co.
No Arrest.
Both safe Jobs are the clean cut
work of professional cracksmen, ac
cording to detective.
This Crime follows closely on the
heels of the daylight downtown hold
up of Wednesday when two girls and
two men were bound and robbed In
the office of the Jewish Welfare fed
eration in the Lyric building at Nine
teenth and Farnam streets.
Steinaurr. — Miss Lily Shutz and
Herman Ulrich were married at the
Evangelical church here by Rev. H.
Krueger. They will make their home
on a farm in the Steinauer vicinity.
Adele Garrison
‘*My Husband's Love"
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The Amazing Question That Katie
Asked Madge.
Mother Graham Is a strategist. She
had been woefully confused and em
barrassed when Junior unconscious
ly betrayed the little plan she had
made to have him greet his father
first, instead of me. Rut at Dicky s
smiling quip to me, "You win that
bet on a foul,” she at once took a
flanking position and questioned im
periously:
"What bet? What do you mean?"
Dicky pretended not to hear her
—whether from chivalry toward me
or reluctance to engage In any con
troversy with his mother, of whom
he stands in much awe, I could not
determine, but I could not feign tem
porary deafness for she was looking
directly at me, and w-hen I hesitated
for an answer she spoke again:
"Do you intend to answer me,
Margaret, nr have I become of so
little consequence in this house that
you can ignore me?"
"Pardon me, mother,” I replied,
with placating mendacity. "I was Just
trying to remember what Dicky said,
lie’s always jqking, you know.”
She cast a withering glance at me.
"You don’t Imagine you can throw
any dust in my eyes, do you, Mar
garet?" she asked. ”1 insist that
you tell me at once.”
I did not glance toward Dicky, but
I think he received my mental S. O.
S. for he turned to his mother in
stantly.
"What Is It you want to know,
mother?” he asked, with suspicious
meekness. ”1 didn't hear you ask
me anything.”
Mother Graham Decides
"I wish to know at once what you
meant by Margaret's winning a bet."
There were icicles, well formed ones.
In his mother’s voice now.
"Oh. that!:’ Her eon patently
sparred for time, then decided that
the truth was the only way out
"Why. I bet Madge that Junior would
run to me first.”
"I 'see." She turned to me and
scanned me from head tp foot, while
1 waited fop the explosion. Put w hen
It came, It was far less violent than
I feared. Evidently the remembrance
of Junior s unconscious exposure of
her own petty, little scheme tempered
her speech.
'T do not know much of your
sporting terms, Richard." she threw
over her shoulder, with her eyes still
fixed upon me, "but I should imagine
that the remark I heard you address
to Margaret, fitted the case exactly.
She held me a second longer with
her angry eye*, consigning me to
outer darknes, then turned to Marion
as it neither Dicky nor I longer ex
lsted.
"Marlon, dear," she said, with the
softened voice she almost always
uses in addressing Lillian's winsome
young daughter, "will you please tell
Katie to come here to me Immed
iately?”
"Eef Some Friend—"
I choked back a little laugh st
this characteristic piece of feminine
retaliation. She meant to give Katie
Instructions concerning the house
hold routine in a manner wholly Ig
noring me. The temptation 'to
thwart her little scheme was irresist
ible and I addressed my mother in
law deferentially;
"If you don't mind, Mother, dear.
I shall go up to my room now. I
am anxious to get off the outer
layers of dust at least. The roads
certainly need rain.”
There was nothing, of course, that
she could say to this, but I felt her
angry eyes on my retreating back,
and knew that I had another bljck
mark against my name on my moth
er-ln-law’a memory tablets.
In the shelter of my own room,
I locked the door and flung myself
upon the bed, too weary and dis
pirited for the moment to care what
happened to me or to anybody else.
But after a few minutes' relaxa
tion, I arose, knowing that I must
not give the Impression that I was
sulking in my room, although the
phrase came nearer describing my
action and feeling than anything
else. I bathed and changed to a
house-dress and was just about to
go downstairs when a timid knock
sounded on my door and, opening It
quickly, I saw Katie standing In
front of It casting quick, furtive
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glances from aids to lids ss If she
feared observation.
"Oh, MSssch Graham"' she whls
pered, edging past me Into the room
“May I splk to you, plees, qveeck? '
I closed the door softly and patted
her shoulder reassuringly.
“Of course, Katie,’' I said. “What
Is It?"
She looked at me for a mlnu*.
with parted lips, and I knew she wsi
trying to frame her question In ade
quate words.
“Missis Graham," she eald at ls«r
"eef some friend of your vant yon
to hide somethings for dem, some
things you tlnk dere vould be troub
les about, vat vould you say?”
THREE INJURED
IN ACCIDENTS
Dunbar. Neb., May 23.—The oldts*
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Q&wtrt
narrow]y escaped being killed when a
team ran away while he was discing
corn. Mrs. Paul Naeve lost control
of her auto near here while enroute
to Nebraska City from Cook, running
Into an embankment, her daughter
receiving injuries that required Bur
gical attention. The oldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ross had hia left
knee badly lacerated by a cultivator
when the horses became frightened®
Swims River to Escape.
Beatrice, Neb., May £3.—A stranger
here In a crap game with loaded dice
Is said to have cleaned up a “nice
sum." Two young men who lost
complained to Deputy Sheriff Ashen
felter, and an effort waa made to
arreat the fellow, who escaped bj
swimming the Blue river after the
officer chased him nearly half an
hour through the railroad yards.
Tree SURGERY
can not be executed by everyone.
It fa dangerous to attempt this un
less you are an expert. We attend
to trees when and where they need
ft in order to improve their ap
pearance and prolong their life. In
\e«tigate this service.
20th ami Dodge. C. E. Baldwin, Mgr.
AT. 9174 or HA. 3299
North Side—frable Flower Shop
2ftIP* N. 21th
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Rome and Omaha
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In the days of pompous Rome when
buildings there were lined with gold;
when rich Romans were bedecked with
costly jewels, and a heavy blanket of
wealth covered the community — the r
richest of the rich did not have the con
veniences enjoyed by Omahans today.
No matter how rich the Roman was
even though his home was lined with
gold and studded with diamonds—he
couldn’t, with the prtss of a button or
the turn of a switch, bring forth the
many conveniences of electricity.
Omaha has no buildings lined with
gold. It has more than that ! It has
fine schools and churches. It haB good
streets, beautiful parks and boule
vards, thriving industries and happy
folk.
Omaha has, also, practically the lowest
electric light rate in America, which
makes it possible for electricity to be
the servant of all.
" “Omaha Is a Great Place in -Which to Live!’!
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EXTRAVAGANCE <»' DOUGLAS ST
END-OF-MONTH SALES-SATURDAY
600 Beautiful Mid-Summer
FROCKS
In a Wonderful Sale—Saturday
Frocks of airy lightness—admirably
suited to summer needs — an im
mense and greatly varied selection.
Frocks you’ll find difficult to
duplicate at twice this price.
Frocks adapted to every sum
mer need and for every woman
whatever her taste or desire.
The smartest summer modes
are represented in this unusual
seelction, offering undeniable
quality and color charm. 600
to choose from Saturday.
Printed Crepe de Chine
Flat Crepe Georgette
Headed Crepes and Georgette
Laces and Lace Combinations
Sport I rocks of Tub Silks
Sizes 14 to 46.
Ferry New and Favored Color.
The most successful purchase
we have consummated this sea
son is responsible for this ex
traordinary sale. You’ll wonder
how it is possible to sell such
beautiful Frocks for only $15.
Frocks—Sixth Floor
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Month-End Sale of
Pumps and Oxfords
$/J_65
Worth doublp and more
What a buying op
portunity this brings
to you—the wanted 1.
styles —- and at a OandalS
price you cannot re- Cutout
Oxfords
These are, broken sizes, Strap
<o cargy attendance Effects
is urged. //
ss&ss? HCRZBERQS
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EXTKA/AGANCE ST
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Saturday
Choice of the House Sale
H-A-T-S
Including Values to $20. ^
Silks Straus Purple Brown
arc,*' Grey .Vary
‘T. B/«* Orchid
MiUms Silins
Braids laille Snm! Pearl
Transftarenl ^ hi to
Leghorns Combinations
■tati you limply cannot mint at thu
aatromaly low pric* Th« Tallin will
aitoniih nary riiitor to thil ial*.
Thii la a choica of th* houi* Hati for nary occanoa.
•ala in arary iinu of th* Small Hats, largo Hati. Hati
w»rd for mothor and daughter.
Poiitivoly no raitrictiom. Your choic* at only $5 OO.
Millinery Sal013—Third I loor
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