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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1924)
"Friends" Confess ! j Planning Holdup; $1,000 Recovered Man and Wife Took Victim. 64. for Ride—Accomplice Takes Money at Ap pointed Spot. Isaac Driggers. 32, and his wife, Marie, 20, 1021 • South Twentieth street, confessed Wednesday to plan ning the holdup of their friend, R. W, Duncan, fit, Dodge hotel, on a lonely road throe miles north of Flor ence Tuesday night. Charles B. Erway, a roomer at the Driggers home, is under arrest, charged with lieing the man who held up Duncan, his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Atkins, and tlie two Drig gers. Erwav, too, has confessed to participation in the crime. The $1,000 taken from Duncan was found hid den under a stone near an outhouse in the Driggers' yard. The first confession was made by Mrs. Driggers. She had told police Tuesday night that when they were held up she pulled her rings from her fingers and placed them in her mouth. When Detectives English and Ryan asked her to remove her tings Wednesday morning It was discovered that Bhe couldn't do it. This dis covery led to a breakdown und con fession of Mrs. Driggers and Erway, who had been arrested a short time ,, previous to the confession of Mrs * Driggers. Knew About Money. According to Mrs. Driggers she and her husband knew Duncan well and bad knowledge that he carried con siderable money on his person. Her husband and Erway insisted on the robbery and finally, she asserted, she consented to he an accomplice. On Tuesday evenig Driggers and his wife planted Erway at a lonely spot three miles north of Florence und then drove to the Dodge hotel where they invited Duncan and his daughter-in-law to take a ride. As they reached the spot where Erway was hiding, Mrs. Driggers requested that they stop and she climbed from the machine. A man darted from the darkness: "Hands up," he ordered. A scuffle ensued, in which Duncan was knocked down by Erway and relieved of tlie $1,000. To Police Station. The quartet went to police heal ■'quarters and reporteu the robbery. Detectives Palmtag, Nelson. Dun baurn and Davis ordered Driggers and his wife locked up, pending further investigation. Detectives English and Ryan learned from Deonard Flint, 203 Modern Women Drive Helpless Men Into Love Trapf Believes Pinto Is this the dangerous age for men? Health Commissioner A. S. Pinto is wondering. His recent observations in Omaha indicate that women are taking the initiative in automobile petting parties. "The men are driving the cars and the women are doing the hug ging," was the blunt manner of ex pression used by the doctor in com menting on the situation. Ho believes society is passing through a period of transition; that civilization is returning to the old order of things, when women did the work and the men hynted and fished and had a general good time. “Women are making more advances all the time, according to my obser vations,” the commissioner said. “The time may come when men will have to be more wary of feminine bandishments. Men will have to pro tect themselves.” The commissioner is of the opinion that this growing freedom of women will have a beneficial effect on the morals of the race. Looking Into the future, he sees mere man as a ding ing ivy, looking upon his strong fem inine helpmate with confidence and trust. “At this stage of the game, how ever,” he added, “it seems to be every man for himself.” South Twenty fifth street, that Erway arrived at his room in the early morning, told him he had "pulled a job,” and offered Flint $3 to, permit him to sleep there the le m<tinder of the night. S. E. Me. Fadden, 527 South Twenty-sixth street, told detectives that Erway told him of the holdup and said he threw the revolver in the river. Erway, in his confession, told where the money was secreted. Ruth Belcher, 14, stepdaughter of Driggers, told police her mother told her to spend the evening at Krug park with other children. Memorial Chapel Dedicated. Columbus, Neb., July The new chapel at -Camp Sheldon has been dedicated as the Raymond Price Memorial chapel. The building ia a memorial to Raymond Price of Clay Center, Neb., for reverul years one of the ranking honor attendants it the rump here. The chapel, con* strut ted like the other buildings at th<“ camp, ha?? a pulpit and a platform with adequate capacity for seating all who attend the camp. SHIPPING BOARD OFFICE HERE, PLAN Establishing of a branch office of the I’nited States shipping board in Omaha to furnish Information to Omaha business men regarding rates and service for exports and imports is proposed by F. E. .Iordan, assist ant manager of the shipping board emergency fleet corporation. Office space and telegraphic serv ice is asked by the shipping board. The chamber has not acted on the matter as yet. $25 Offered for Name. Columbus. Neb., July 9.—A prize of $25 has been offered by the Chamber ,»f Commerce committee having in charge the work of organizing the nine-county agricultural exposition here next September for the best tern > r name for the fair which will ex press the idea of c central No brack, agricultural-livestock show. The con test, open to all, ends at noon Fri day, July 11. _ Average Price of Cj vWheat Good; U.S. Report Optimistic Department of Commerce | Predicts "Bright Future” Nebraska Crop Shows Increase. Wheat averaged $1.11 a bushel during the first quarter of 1924, de spite the slump In the third quarter I of 1923, and Nebraska and other J wheat growing states are "fared with I bright prospects before them,” ac cording to the United States depart ment of Commerce report made pub lic here The wheat slump In 1923 took the product from a $1.27 average down to $1,04 for number two red winter wheat, bringing financial depression to agriculture, says the report, "and the first quarter of this year wit nessed a rise to a weekly average of $1.11 while in the second quartet just closed it was holding its own at $1.09 a bushel weekly average.” "Nebraska,” according to the re port, "is one of four states which shows an increase in wheat produc | tion this year over 1923 in the face, of a smaller crop for the country. Receipts of wheat at the primary markets are lower than in 1923. file receipts for the first quarter of this year averaged each week 3,993,000 bushels, and 3,604,000 bushels in the second quarter. I.ast year the aver age weekly receipts in the first quar ter were 6.186,000 bushels, and in the second quarter of 1923, they were 4,420,000 bushels. “Building contracts for the country are another indication of the recov ery of business. The weekly average in 1919 was $49,613,000 while for the first quarter of 1924 the average stood at $67,529,000 and In the second quarter $86,362,000. "Food costs are lowering. In the second quarter of thi^year the gov ernment food cost Index was $3.10 as compared to $3.30 the first quarter of 1924, and $3.29 for 1923._ Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION | I ! 25c and 75c Packages Ever/.vhera For 47 years—the H^Jjj popular choice of |E~rS| Mt,hod thrifty housewives ^he EA5Y WASHER | For 47 years the EZ Washer has been the popu- ! lar choice of the American home. 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'the Hriimti'ii Store third Moor North Nemolastic Reducing Girdle % _ A flesh-colored rubber girdle that laces in front. It is slightly boned and preserves a flatness across the back. It reduces the diaphragm and hips and is adjustable. lhe Hrandfii Store Third Moor North 4 ! Miracle Reducer 10.00 and 12.50 Made of pure para rubber, the Miracle Reducer will safe'v. con veniently. jrently and comfortably it accomplish a reduction of the fig- |, ure of front It to 6 inches within less (j than two months. IKe Hrandm Stor# Third floor North -|
