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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1925)
^100,000,000 Deal Thrown Into Courts Judge Refuses, However, to Halt Sale of Dodge Broth ers Plant on Petition of Heir. Detroit, Mich., April 4.—Judge Harry .1. Dingeman today refused to lia.lt the sale of Dodge Brothers auto mobile plant to the New York bank ing firm of Dillon, Keed Hz Co., as asked by John Duval Dodge, who al leges the heirs are not being pro tected. He did Issue an order, to show cause why a temporary Injunction against the sale should not be granted, setting Wednesday ns the date fur the hearing on this petition. II y Inter'intimia! New* Service. Detroit, Mich., April 4.—John Duval Dodge, youthful son of tho late John F. Dodge, was to begin tits fight to day to stop the sale of the Dodge Bros. Automobile company, a gigantic financial deal which lias almost reach ed the point of consummation. When It was announced that Wall street was buying Dodge Bros., the second largest auto factory in the world, for a figure of more than $100,000,000, to tlioSo familiar with the late Dodge brothers and their heirs there came the Instantaneous question: "Wonder if John Duval Dodge, who was cut off in his father's will and later agreed to settle his claims, in part at least, for $2,000,000, will seek any of the profits of this sale?" Seeks Restraining Order. Young Dodge will answer that ques tion in the ufftrmative when his at torney, William Lucking, appears in circuit court today and files a petl ^tibn that Matilda R. Dodge, widow of the deceased manufacturer, be re strained from disposing of the estate of Anna Margaret Dodge, it was said. Anna Margaret Dodge was the 4 year-old sister, deceased, of John Duval. She was not provided for In the will of John F. Dodge, as it was made before her birth. Around this child there centers a legal contention that is lost to the person not versed in legal technicalities. According to Lacking, there will be a keen battle to determine the rightful heirs to Anna's estate. .-It is young Dodge’s contention that he should get one-fifth of Anna's es tate, valued at a net sum of $12,500, 0^0. The remaining four-fifths, he be lieves, should be divided among his ftiur brothers and sisters. |j!; Petition in rrobata Court. In his bill of complaint Dodge states that he has filed in probate court in estate of Anna, his petition for the determination of her heirs-at-law and their distributive shares of her estate ami that said shares be turned over ttt him. ,lttn substance Dodge says that Mrs. Dodge lms proceeded with the ne gotiations of tho sale on tho assump tion that Anna's property is hers, anti ho is now challenging this as sumption. !I>odge asks three requests in his Pillion: "l. That th> defendant answer the lv(I of complaint. "2. That defendant, both Individual ly. and as the administratrix of the e,‘|t4.te of Anna Margaret Dodge, ,dr reused, be temporarily and permanent ly restrained by this court from sell ing, transferring or encumbering, cr attempting to sell, transfer or In cumber any of the assets of the estate, except that it be done In accordance with the order of1 the probate couit after due notice to thiB plaintiff and in accordance with the law ami the just rights of the plaintiff. Asks Proper Relief. “3. That tho plaintiff have such ether and further relief as may be proper in the premises." According to Lucking, Dodge is pot trying to cause trouble by tying up the sale negotiations. He is merely tryfpg to protect bis property, if it is decided his claims to property are j0st. Hot weather and no ice means j dirty milk and sick children. I • lj | 88 Refinement BB $ | In Styles | From the countless scores of styles which jl almost weekly enter the American Apparel fj* U Market, Haas Brothers’ representatives are jjj constantly making selections. jl | *| jt Eliminating all excepting such styles *(£ •Ij which radiate refinement, graceful- j*t J- ness, individuality, and from this first choice we again effect a (1! j second elimination process, so j*t ' i that when a Haas Brothers -tj ( garment is shown, you > j are certain as to its 5)| • style correctness. jtj i *-.♦ I J) Easter week is clothes-buying week and we in j!J vite you to view our vast stocks of exquisitely 'h j j , appealing ensembles, coats and dresses. j| Sixes 14 to 40—Second Floor | Sixes 42 to 56—Fourth Floor / j J Haas Brothers “The Shop for Women” | ■ 16th and Douglas H jj| Omaha Lincoln ' Minneapolis New York -jj — „W> White-Haired Womanr75, Lives in Reclaimed Barn Rented for $3 Month; Keeps Body and Soul Together With Great Difficulty, But Never Gives Up k —■ t «<& mmi 2 ^ is ' ^ > ' ** • 0’ Airs. Wicks, who, at 7:.. hones that some day shr will receive the back pension pay due a widow of a civil war veteran She is holding one of her four pet pigeons. Next you see the interior of the tumble-down shack where the aged lady and her son live. Then comes the exterior of the so-called home with Airs. Wicks in the doorway. At the bottom is "Grandma” and a group of neighborhood children, favorites of the white-haired woman. “Cant Afford to Think Too Much for It Sorta’ Breaks One Down 9 "I have worked so hard, only to remain just as poor as though I had not worked at all. I ri don’t know what to do." Sirs. Wieks is that type of woman who never gives lip. “if people who live like I have to live had a little time to sort of help themselves 1 think it would not be had. We’re poor. les. we're very poor, but that doesn't keep us from thinking. Of eonrse* people in my position, it seems, ean’t afford to think too tnueh. It sort of breaks you down.” Kyrs, dimmed with tears, she looked away to that far line where earth . nd sky meet to form the horizon. She was silent. Maybe she was musing over these lines of Bailey: Iht* poor Sttmi> time for utlf Iniproiniirnt; I,rf th*m not Bo forrnl to irrlml tin* Ikio#*n mil, of I Heir arm* For brnul, hut hav»* >om« plarr to llilnk anti frrl lalko moral nn<l immortal rrraturr*.” V. ___ if In a wasteland that stretches east of the railroad tracks In the 2800 block on North Thirteenth sireet to the gumshoe banks of the Missouri river one finds that polyglot center where conversations are in the past tense. It is there that dreams trail backward through memory's dim chambers. Sitting there is Mrs. Lizzie Wicks, white-haired and 73. White-haired not so much because of the three quarters of a century she has lived aa what those years have brought her. In the one-room loft of a reclaimed barn Mrs. Wicks exists. In 1873, eight years after the civil war, George W. Wicks, who had fought under the colors of the union, met Mary K. (Lizzie) Wicks. They were married in Council Bluffs. The years went by. One day he walked out of the door of their cozy home and out of the life of Mrs. Wicks. Again the years went by and love icame anew to Lizzie. Consummation of that love led to the altar. More years. And there still was another marriage for Lizzie. When ttie last of her husbands died IJzzie was old and jioor. Her home was gone. Kela tives she know nothing of. Only a son was left. He was just baek from the Spanish Amerlean war. lie was home and idle Tuesday and will be home and idle Wednesday. It , . mix that something happened to one of his lungs while he was in the army. She says he is wholly unable to work. That leaves It up to the white-haired mother to make ends meet. If they are to meet. In the upstairs of her tumbledown shark Mrs. Wicks told her story. She rat on the only bed In the barn home while in another corner, obscured from view four pet pigeons eooed. In Social l nrest Due to Vast l.ifr of Modern Young Volks, Says Woman “Parents are not rearing their ;hllitren as they should,'' says Mrs. Wicks. "There Is too murli rltib life anil lot enough home life." "There Is loo in lie It fighting and lot enough praying." "There are too many hip pocket flasks." "Too many girls are dancing to da nutation.” "If mothers who are dally play ing cards would'give more time to playing with their children there would lie less wickedness In the world.” Those are a few of the observa tions of Mrs. tieorge Wilks wlm sends them out to the world (rum her barn-like home down In squat ter town. The widely-discussed social un rest hi this country has nol been missed by this wonisn, three qunr tors of a century old. And she places the blame in Just one word —s i ii. "Tnlte sin out ol lifs siul you will have cured unrest, social and every other kind," she dr r la red. v._~J stilt another corner was a rickety table plied high with pots and pans and small odd lots of food which came from the county charity bu reau. "1 ain't got. much, but. I guess I don't need much," she said. Despite all the poverty and priva tion that have conspired to keep this woman of humanity's sunken gardens In the world’s gutter, Mrs. Wicks Mill can smile. .Sometime* p appears lo lie a smile that comes from the mind, rather than the heart, but nevertheless It Is a smile. Hhe wore It when sho told about her "Income." ller Sun, she said, received n pension of $11! s, month—the government's way of remembering the Hpanlsh war OSTEOPATHY^ The Voice of Authority Con cerning Adjustment of the ■Spinal Column veterans. To this Is added f 10 from the Spanish Soldiers' Relief Fund. The last Is not In money, but In vouchers on food and clothing stores. Out of this goes $" a month for rent to the landlord. That leaves $» in cash to buy clothing, fuel, food not supplied by the county, pay doctor hills, buy medicine and a thou sand and more whatnots. Too often the fail to stretcH across the d/ tance. When It fails Mrs. Wicks goes afield into those mysterious channels known only lo those of extreme poverty and forages the best she ran. There have been numerous times when that foraging was not what it might have been. There was nothing she could do about it. She just existed throueh It. Through many winters Mrs. Wicks' has kept body and soul together only by her own Ingenuity. I.ast winter sits kept her loft home warm w 1th fuel gathered front along the railroad tracks. Occasionally In rubbish plies she would find some trinket worth a few rents. She would convert the find Into petty rash and buy bio. erics. By this scheming she lives, if you want to call It that. She remembers a brother, Charles Henry Ia>wis. She believes him to ll -"~~= r » “/ Haven't Much Show in This It arid; ff ouhln't Trade Clianre in 'Sext Down in the wastelands where (lie froth of humanity is found, re ligion is not forgotten Mis. Wii-ks has this view of re ! lig ion: | "I riuA't get to ehurrh very ofteo. Ituf I rend (lie Jlible right in my I little home. "Too many people have their names in the ehurrh records, hut lots of them don't have their names in the records in heaven. I feel that mine is there. | "Without (lie comfort that romes to one witli an abiding faitli in Christ I would lie alone. I liHien't iiiueli show in this world, hut I wouldn’t trade my chances in the nest world with anyone." v_-y he somewhere in the north. Where she has no idee, if she knew lie would help her. The sun was lowering In the west. The pet pigeons sent up their rackety eon. i.lzzie was down the stairs and out on the railroad tracks picking up stray hits of wood to cook another evening's meal. I \ New Spring Frocks of Printed Crepe or Striped Tub Silk 1500 Smartly styled according to the latest fashion i dictates of bordered crepes, printed crepes, and striped silks. There are models which display the side jabot, others with front full ness. The sleeves are short, the colors high. Sizes 16 to 40. Jpa. w A Two Pieces claim to be smarter than one. In crepe de chine, plain or printed, we offer this new tpring mode for 25.00 1 \ Printed Chiffon la the fabric of which after noon troche and dance dret.ee are lovalieet and ntwait. In con ventional pattern, red or blua, and in large flowar pattern* of exquiaite pat tel ahadee in which pinky tan* predominate. 39.50 And 19.50 — 1HLUL JJ A'U bUbiiil UJL t.OK 1 HOM/J$Vi\-bLLDLN QfJAUJ ) ==J , Joint Legion Meet Here April 14 at City Auditorium J All Who Are Eligible to Membership in War Service Bodies Invited; Speak ing. Refreshments. A big joint meeting, open to all men anil women members or eligible (o membership in the American Le gion anil Its auxiliary, will be belli in the City auditorium on the night of April 14. Mrs. Myrtella Ronnyne, former so loist for the K1 Porno Italian band and now soprano soloist at St. Peter church, will help to entertain. A drill team composed of officers of Central High school cadet regiment will drill. Mrs. Oonalil Macrae, for mer national vice commander of the auxiliary, and Sam Reynolds, national committeeman, will deliver short ad dresses. This is the first "open house” meet ing of the legion in Omaha, and the movement is being sponsored for the purpose of bringing every former service man and his family In closer contact with the legion and to out line to them the plans for the na tional American Legion convention to be held in Omaha next November. Refreshments will be served at the close of the business meeting. Big Water Main Extension, Plan! 48-Inch Pipe, 25,000 Fed Long, to Cost $880,000. General Manager T. A. Leisen of the Metropolitan Utilities district is preparing plans for the extension of the new 48-inch water main from Twenty-eighth and Plant streets to Thirtieth and Hamilton streets, a dis tance of 25,000 feet. The estimated cost t« $8SO.OOO. Last year the utilities district completed tlie first link of the new reserve main, from the Florence pumping station to Twenty-eighth and Plant streets, a distance of 6,000 feet. Leisen believes the work on the second link will be started this spring. The utilities management wil buy the pipe through its own purchasing department and probably will let the work out on a contract. When the new main is finished, the water system will then have two large main services from the Flor ence 'station to a distance of about six miles. STREET WIDENING HEARING MONDAY Property owners interested in pro posed widening of Twenty-fourth street, St. Mary avenue to Farnam street, are advised that this matter will be called up for public hearing next Monday morning at 10 liefore the city council committee of the whole in city council chamber. The amount of the appraisement is nearly $350,000. It is proposed to add 24 feet to the west side of Twenty fourth street within the district men tioned. City Commissioner Joseph Koutsky of the public improvements deiKirtment has a tentative plan of assessment which property owners may Inspect. "To cure that tired feeiln — Said old Uncle Jake: "I've found nothing hetter'n My old garden rake." Speakers for Joint Legion, Auxiliary Meet Mail Sorter Says Forced to Rifle Cars Father of Two Admits Tak ing Watches, Fountain Pens From Parrel Post; Frank* lirss Startles Officers. "I hail to steal. I couldn't live on the salary they were paying me.” That is the plea made by Emerson .1. llolssager, 32, 1414 South Twenty sixth street, arrested by Post office In spectors Coble, Hlenn und Burson, as he stepped front Burlington fast mall train No. 15 on its arrival from Chi cago Saturday morning. He was taken before United States Commissioner Mante Mullen and charged with rifling the malls. Cold* said he signed a confession. He has a wife and two children and has been in the employ of the post olllco as a mail sorter for three years. Ho lias been on the Omaha-Chicago run since last June and said lie start ed rilling parcel post packages short ly before Christmas. He startled the inspectors by the frank and bold manner in which he admitted the thefts. "They pay us $112 a month an 1 then expect us to be honest. It gives me a laugh,” he said. ••yhe Council Bluffs mail robbers were in the same boat—poor devils hardly making a bare living. We have ex penses on the road, too, at both ends of the line.” In a suitcase which he carried the inspectors found wrist watches, foun- , tain pens and other merchandise al leged to have been pilfered from the mails. ‘There’ll tie others to go with me before this Is over," said Holzsager. FIRST CASES HERE OF NEW RUM LAW William C. Saunders, 1321 North Twenty-fourth street, and William H. Taylor, 1324 North Twenty-fourth street, have the distinction of being ihe first men arrested in Omaha and I round over for trial for violation of the pint-of-liquor law passed by the last legislature. They were arrester! by Eobert Samnrdick and were bound over to district court Saturday from Central 'police court under $500 bond each. - " - An Illusion of Slenderness That Becomes a Reality IS Redfern, the woman whose problem is too-many-pounds, can find not only an ’ illusion of slenderness but real figure training. 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