^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.
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White-Haired Womanr75, Lives in Reclaimed Barn Rented for $3 Month;
Keeps Body and Soul Together With Great Difficulty, But Never Gives Up
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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*.”
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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Joint Legion Meet
Here April 14 at
City Auditorium
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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.
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