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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1917)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917 7 Brief City News Platinum Wedding Rlnf Edholm. Lighting fixture Burgeu-Gracden Co. Ht Boot Print It New Beaccn Press, Metal tilts, Preaswork Jublle Ufg Co 35c Luncheon at Empress Garden. Meeting of Southwest Improvement Club The Southwest Improvement . lub will meet at 832 South Twenty fourth street Wednesday evening. Alleges Xonsupport Nellie Edger tcm, suing Charles Edgerton for di vorce in district court, alleges nonsup- port. They were married in Omaha August 11, 1904. Credit Men Meet at the Castle The Omaha Association of Credit Men will meet at the Hotel Castle Thursday night. The directors will hold a ses sion and a banquet will be enjoyed by the entire membership. Sues Burlington for Injuries Jo seph Droege, formerly an employe of the Burlington, is suing the railroad for $15,000 for alleged permanent in juries suffered at Plattsmouth, Neb., in December, 1914, when he was work ing in the shops there. Robbery Suspect Claims He Can Prove Innocence R. E. Decker, 611 North Eight eenth street, arrested Monday night by Officer Vance, at the Drexel ho tel, on complaint of Arthur Hurth, son of Mrs. Pearl Hurth, 718 North Seventeenth street, who exchanged shots with a burglar whom she found in her room on September 4, was granted a continuance of trial in po lice court Tuesday. Mrs. Hurth iden tified Decker, as the man who at tempted to rob her and whom she shot at several times. Decker, how ever, swears that he was in Lincoln on that day and asserts that he can produce witnesses to prove that he was. Judge Fitzgerald has granted him V i few days in which to round up the witnesses and to clear himself of any complicity in the shooting. Rosenthal Looks For Heavy Business This Fall Henry Rosenthal, general manager of the Union Outfitting company, has returned from an extended visit to the furniture markets at Grand Rapids, Chicago and in the east. His trip ex tended as far east as New York City. Large purchases of furniture, car pets, stoves and draperies were made. Mr. Rosenthal states that business in the east is very brisk. All the facto ries have completely sold their out put to January V. Mr. Rosenthal also states that many new styles of fur niture and rugs were shown at the different furniture expositions. Large purchases. were made, with urgent in structions to have the goods f6r warded at once in order to avoid the freight congestion that is expected. Mr. Rosenthal is very enthusiastic re garding fall prospects for business. Big crops and the high prices will start an increased era of prosperity, Harlan Fort Dies at Home of Son in Chicago Harlan Fort, aged 82 years, retired, died at the home of his son, Ger rit Fort, in Chicago Monday night He had been rushed from his home in Los Angeles and reached Chicago Sunday night. He died from a can cer with which he had been afflicted several months. Besides the widow he leaves three sons Gerrit Fort, Chicago, passen ger traffic manager of the Union Pa cific: Van Dvck tort. Memphis, lenn, freight traffic manager of the Illinois Central, and James i'ort. connected with the general passenger office of the Union Pacific. Omaha. The elder Fort is quite well known in Omaha, having visited here a num ber of times. ' . Funeral services will be held in his old home in New York. Bosse to See World's Series on His Vacation Claude Bosse, city milk inspector, is getting ready for his annual va cation. Bosse's idea of a vacation is to see the world's series. So Bosse leaves Omaha September 29 for New York and points east. He intends to take in the world's series games at New York, but 6ays he will have to pass up Chicago. "To much rail road tare, he declares. After seeing the world's series games Bosse will make use of the rest of his vacation by attending the annual convention of the International Milk Inspectors association at Co lumbus, (X Milder Found Not Guilty On Liquor Selling Charge Arsing Denchuck, arrested Septem ber 4 with a pint ot wnisKy in nis possession and charged with illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, was fined $15 and costs n police court Tuesdav. On his assertion that he obtained the whisky from Jacob Milder, who has a junk shop at Eleventh and Dav enport streets,' Milder's place was raided and a case of beer found. Milder was arrested and charged with illegal possession of intoxicating liquor and illegal selling of the same. The evidence against him was not sufficient to prove the charges, be cause the case of beer was sealed and Milder was acquitted on both charges. Grand Larceny Charge For Theft of an Auto Sheriff Clark, Deputy Sheriff Lind say and Detective Danbaum arrested Frank Long, 5412 South Twenty fourth street, an electrician, and Homer LaMere, a member of Com pany D, Sixth Nebraska, on a charge of grand larceny. It is alleged by officers that they stole an automobile and accompanied by Miss Hazel Broass, 2227 Jefferson street, a divorcee, and her sister, Mrs. Vern Straley, went out for a joy ride. Mrs. Straley's husband is Sergeant Straley of motor truck company, No. 57, stationed at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, la. No charges were filed against the women. Sam Joe Up for Third Time For Possession of Booze Sam Joe, alias Charley Lee, pro prietor of the Empire cafe, at 1510 Howard, which was raided Monday night by officers of the morals squad, pleaded not guilty to a charge of ille gal possession of intoxicating liquors in police court Tuesday morning. He waived preliminary examination and was bound over to the district court. He was released on $500 bonds. This is the third time that Lee has been haled into police court on the same charge. GIRLS WILL BE HIRED TO RUNELEYATORS Building Owners and Managers in Convention Here Like the Idea; Will Take It Up. Girls will probably be operating elevators in all the office buildings in the United States after the adjourn ment of the convention of the Na tional Building Owners' and Manag ers' association, now in session in Omaha. A resolution will be offered on the floor of the convention to the effect that the delegates go home and em ploye woman elevator operators and that they recommend the same thing to other building owners and manag ers throughout the country. At the breakfast conference on "live problems," over which E. H. Doyle of Detroit presided, it was dis covered when a canvass was made that eleven of the managers in the room were employing girls to oper ate the elevators at home. All of these testified enthusiastically to the effi ciency of the women in this work and said that their tenants and the gen eral public liked the idea. "The girls are neat and clean, efficient and care ful," said one of the managers, "and we like the idea very well." Talk Over Coal Problem. The coal problem was also taken up at this conference and it was agreed that they must only hope for relief from the government, as they are entirely powerless, both in the matter of price and in the matter of getting the coal through when they want it. Secretarial conferences and apart ment house conferences were also held at breakfast, when the secretaries and apartment house managers met in their respective rooms and discussed the problems they have to meet. The promotion and construction of office buildings, the problems of the property owners, the building up of local associations and the benefits de rived from them are among the prob lems discussed in the general conven tion today. The women accompanying their husbands at the convention are being entertained by a committee of local women, with Mrs. Howard G. Loomis as chairman. The other members of the women's arrangement committee are Mrs. C. Dean Glover, Mrs. Byron R. Hastings, Mrs. Edwin S. Jewell and Mrs. William R. Mc Farland. The visting women were given a tea at the Blackstone hotel roof gar den in the afternoon. Last evening both the men and women made a tour of the big office buildings of Omaha from 8 to 10. Various fea tures of Omaha's big buildings and office arrangement were shown in the different buildings. Aside from the women's arrange ments committee the local women have a reception committee, which has been on the job and alert, con sisting of the following: Megdamea Mesdames Ernest Sweet, Frank H. Meyers, chairman- George T. Porter, Boy O. Babcock, H. W. Potter, John N. Crawford, Arthur A. Remington, P. W. Fltipatrlck, John W. Robblna, , H. v. Frankfurt, Lou CT Sholea. A. M. Gebelt, Edward M. Slater, W. T. Graham, W. O. Spain, Alfred C. Kennedy, R. C. Strehlow, Paul W. Kuhns, W. H. Thomas, Frank T. B. Martin, Hugh E. Wallace, Charles W. Martin, E. F. Williams, A. B. Mason, T. K. Wilson, George T. Morton, H. A. Wolf. Miss Catherine Shields. Nebraska Corn Not ' Injured, Say Reports In spite of the fact that many an Omaha citizen shook the moth balls out of his overcoat Monday night and cast a shrewd eye at the reports of a prevailing lower temperature over the state last night, the reports now indicate that no frost occurred of an extent sufficient to damage Nebraska crops. In the central part of the state temperatures as low as 45 degrees were recorded, with mist and light rains in a small district in the north ern part. Calm and cloudy weather accompanied the general cooler con ditions over all but the western end of the state. Light Holding Company Has Been Incorporated The Union Power and Light com pany of Omaha was incorporated and the articles filed yesterday, the capi tal stock being $2,000,000. The in corporators are Walter B. Roberts, Willis Todd, F. H. Davis, C. T. Kountze and T. L. Davis. This is a holding company which owns and operates plants in eleven towns in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota. This company owns the 6tock of the local company and makes the pur chases at wholesale for all the plants, thus being able to operate much more cheaply. Leaders at Building Owners' Meeting I 3" 5 4 V Obituary Notice MRS. MARIE KRATKY, aged 73. died at Yutan Monday evening of con cussion of the brain following: an auto accident near that city Sunday. In company with her son-in-law, James Koutsky, and his wife and child and Mrs. Marie Eddy and daughter, Ruth, all residents of the South Side, she was going to Wahoo to visit relatives. One- half mile west of Yutan the machine turned turtle, pinning the occupants under the car. Mrs. Kouteky was ahle to crawl from the wreckage and as sisted the others. The baby alone es caped injury, Mrs. Eddy holding it away from the car. Mrs. Kratky never regain consciousness after the acci dent. Koutsky was unconscious for ten minutes. Nearby farmers took the injured people to a hospital in Yutan. C. P. HISTER, aged 36, died at 3 o'clock yesterday at Harvard, Neb., after a long Illness of cancer of the stomach. He leaves a wife and two children. He had been home three weeks from Chicago, where he took radium treatment without result". AHcalth Tip Dffl Unci Edwin S- Jewell, Omaha, vonven tion committeeman of the National Building Owners and Managers, said to be the busiest man in Omaha this week. Charles E. Horton of Seattle, ex president of the National Building Owners and Managers, will conduct the Live Problems conference Wed' OMAHA DELEGATES TO WAR INVENTION Volunteers Are Asked from Men Liable to Be in the East at That Par ticular Time. Nine Omaha men will represent the Commercial club at Atlantic City, Sep tember 18 to 21 in the War Conven tion of American Business which meets there at that time under the auspices of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States. Omaha delegates are volunteering to serve, as a number of Omaha men will be in the east at that time, and Commissioner Manley of the Com mercial club says more delegates will be appointed and furnished with cre dentials if he finds that others willing to serve will be conveniently in the east at that time. The local delegates already listed tre Randall K. Brown, Henry A. Thompson, John W. Towle, George Mickel, R. A. Leussler, Frank W.Jud son, Joseph Havden, David Cole, Walter T. Page. It is expected to be the most signi ficant convention of business men ever held in America. Secretary of War Newton Baker will tell the con vention what further the government expects of business men in connection with the war. Frank A. Scott, chair man of the war industries board, will tell those assembled what they must do to assist in securing supplies need ed for our army. He will explain the relation of the war board to the indus tries of the country. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Succens. Linger Resigns From Omaha Police Force City Detective John Unger, who figured prominently in the recent po lice probe by testifying against for mer Morals Squad Officer Paul Sut ton, has resigned from the police de partment. Sutton recently filed charges with the city council against Unger, but these charges were quashed last Sat urday. New charges were to be pre pared against Unger, but Unger beat them to it by resigning. Frost is Reported Throughout Middle West Chicago, Sept. 11. Frost was re ported in Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa last night. Early reports indicate that the damage to crops was comparatively small. WISCONSIN GUARDS BUY COLDTEA AT $3 Smooth Salesman Sells Amber Colored Drink in Old Whisky Bottles to Soldiers Enroute. It looked like whisky, but it was tea. It smelled like whisky, but it was his breath. It sold like whisky at $3 a pint until Officer Hans Hough appeared upon the scene, and William John son started rapidly to leave the Webster street station. Johnson a short time before had purchased tea at a local hotel and filled several whisky bottles on which the stamp had not been entirely de stroyed. The liquor was being sold on the dark side of the train to mem bers of the Wisconsin National Guard, who were far away from their beloved Milwaukee, and proved ready purchasers. When placed under arrest the salesman proved real friendly and in sisted on buying the officer his sup per. "You'll be my guest tonight," said Gang Leaders Go to War; Less Delinquency Juvenile crime has decreased as a result of the war, according to Probation Officer Miller. He de clares a lot of the older gang lead ers have enlisted in the army or navy, leaving the younger toughs without an "organization." "It's the same way with young crooks as with older ones," said the probation officer. "They must have the 'brains of the gang' -or their activities begin to cease. It's easy to break up gangs of young lawbreakers when their leaders are gone." Hans, "and tomorrow morning I will furnish your breakfast. Is Fined in Court. "What do you mean," cried the outraged tea salesman, "I think I will give you a licking. "You are not the only one that can think," replied Hans. "I think I will caress you with my night stick if you do not come along. In police court Johnson told the court that he was going to make $5 from an expenditure of 5 cents and that his friends did not believe he could do it. 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