THE BEE : OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1917.
COURT OFFICER
FINDS PITIFUL
; - NEGLECT CASE
Mother and Five Children
Abandonee! by Father Sub-
sist on Few Crumbs of
Black Bread.
Adult "Probation Officer Andrea
son, to whom Oscar C Riley was
paroled Saturday by Judge Sears
after a plea of guilty to the charge of
wife and child abandonment, found
the Riley family in a pitiful plight
when he visited the home at 4212
North Fortieth street Monday.
The mother and five children, rang
ing in ages from 1 to 8 years, were
found living in a two-room shack,
neatly kept, but destitute of furniture
and without a shovel full of fuel for
the broken down kitchen range,
' Feet on Ground.
The children were huddled together,
shivering with cold, and had to stay
home from school because there was
snow on the ground and they had no
shoes. ' The only food in the pantry
consisted of a part of a loaf of black
rye bread, from which they had been
eating sparingly Jor the last three
days.
Riley was arrested for abandoning
his family a year ago, but on failure
to provide fe-r them he was arrested
again and paroled to Andreason. He
sent him to work on a farm out in
the county Saturday, with the agree
ment that he would contribute $5 a
week to the support of his wife and
children. If he fails to meet the
condition he will be sent to the peni
tentiary. .
; Provider is Drafted.' ' ' "
The family has been kept together
by Mrs. Riley's brother, who sup?
ported them until he was drafted.
Mrs. Riley refused .an offer to provide
f homes for two of her children because
she could not bear to have the family
separated.'" - ,
The family is in need of a soft coal
heater, clothing and shoes. Their
rent is overdue and will have to be
. paid. Andreason sayr. that the County
will furnish coal for the winter: Miss
Magee has also promised to give aid
in the case. . . ,
"A county, workhouse," says An
dreason, "would -absolutely , do away
with these -wife and child abandon
ment cases that occur every day in
Omaha. There are an average of five
such cases filed in district court every
' day 'ot the year.' It is an 'outrage.
Men who abandon their families
should be put to hard labor in a
county workhouse and their earnings
turned over to their families."
Navy Wants 800 More
To Enlist From Omaha
A call from the navy department
has been received by Ensign Condict
of the local recruiting station for 800
navy students, who must be enlisted
before December 15 Sn this .district, '
Eight firemen responded to the call
for 200,such nwy recruita.Tuesday
morning;; making a total of about 25
now taken in.
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Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
New Officers From Snelling
To Arrive Early Wednesday
The Northwestern and Great West
ern Wednesday morning will each
bring in special trains from St.. Paul,
loaded with young men irom Omaha,
Nebraska and tributary territory, all
of whom have been graduated from
the officers' training school at' Fort
Snelling. The young men have been
commissioned as army ofh'ers. They
will reach Umaha at about 7 o clock,
Of the men from the Fort Snelling
officers' training school, some 250
will come to Omaha, and from here
will go to their homes p.-ior to being
ordered to their respective stations.
Omaha Knights War Fund
Totals Sum of $62,411
Omaha's total in the Knights of
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loiuniDus war iuna campaign nas
now reached a total of $62,411.10.
with contributions still coming in.
This total was given quite a boost
Sunday when the St. John's parish
subscribed $1,938 additional.
Omaha women are preparing to
make a canvass of the downtown dis
trict for thu fund Saturday. Booths
will be established in the leading
stores and in the office buildings.
Law students at Creighton univer
sity gave $178.
Connell Orders Vaccination of
Pupils in Two Public Schools
Health Commissioner Connell has
ordered general vaccination of chil
dren attending Edward Roscwater
public i school iid St Joseph
parochial school on account of ex
posure to smallpox .
Recently we ordered vaccination of
children at South Franklin and St.
Fancis schools and no bad results
followed." he said. "I feel that the
scare caused by sore arms at Madison
school will not be repeated, because
a strick examination of vaccine points
is being maintained."
George Bidwell Visiting '
Old Friends in the City
George E. Bidwell, for several years
general manager of the Northwestern
lines west of the Missouri river andi
who retired and went to California
to live, is back in Omaha after an
absence, of eight years. He will re
main here a week, or 10 days, visiting
friends. . .
Mr. Bidwell is delighted to get
back to Omaha and says that he
notes many changes in and about the
city. He refers, to its'? growth as
something marvelous.
Asks Dismissal of University .
Professor for Alleged Disloyalty
Charlottesville, Va.; Nov. 27. Pres
ident Edwin A. Alderman, in asking
the board of regents of the Univer
sity of Virginia to dismiss Prof.
Leonidas , R. Whipple from the
faculty for alleged disloyal utter
ances, declared today that it was
Whipple's deliberate purpose to con
duct a far-reaching propaganda for
promulgation of sentiments expressed
m this .speech at Sweet Briar college.
Italians Whip Austrian ;
In Albanian Mountains
Rome, Nov. 27. Austrian troops
made another attack on Italian lines
in Albania Sunday, in which they
scored au initial success, the war of
fice announced tdday. Regular came
to the assistance of the Albanian
bands that had been driven back in
the region southeast oftBerat and the
Austrian! were. forced to retreat with
heavy, casualties. .-.. w
DEPORTED BELGIANS
STARVED BY TEUTONS
Hunger and Imprisonment Fol
low When Workers Object
to Tasks in German
IfineS.
(Cp rreapondenes of The Associated Prei.)
Havre, France, Nov. 26. The Bel
gian government Tias received infor
mation to the effect , that deported
Belgians working ; in the Thyssen
works at Mulheim on Ruhr declared
that as the Germans had violated their
promise to send them back home at
the end of four months, they would
refer to die rather than to continue.
'he Germans imposed a fine of 30
marks each and imprisonment for ten
days upon the men.-
One hundred and eighty Belgians
in another German factory, refusing
to continue work after four months,
were deprived of food and thirteen of
them were imprisoned at Munster.
The Riebecksche works, employing
Belgian civilians in their mines, de
prived the men of all nourishment for
five days in ordei to force them to
work, the directors of this concern
justified their action, saying that the
privation was not absolute, but was
necessary in ordei to overcome the
passive resistance of the workmen.
Transport Grenades.
Belgian civilians working at the
munition factory at Grosse Wuster
urtz and at Westfalischewerke were
obliged to transport hand grenades
after having vainly protested against
being put to such work.
The Belgian government has other
proofs that a great many deported
Belgians, in spite of their unanimous
desire to return to Belgium, were not
allowed even to attend funerals of
relatives; sons were refused the con
solation of going home to bury their
mothers. The deported appear to
have entirely escaped the supervision
of the delegates of neutral countries,
the Germans putting forward the pre
text that they are not prisoners of
war, Whenever delegates have been
exceptionally authorized to visit these
civilians it has always been in the
presence of, German authorities. The
evidence gathered by the Belgian
government in these cases is categoric
and covers a period down to the end
of March of this year. ' '
Directors Denver Branch
Reserve Bank Chosen
Washington, Nov. 27. Directors
of the Denver branch of the Kansas
City Federal Reserve bank were an
nounced by the Federal Reserve
board as follows:
C. A. Burkhardt, manager; C. C.
Parks, A. C Foster, Alva Adams and
John Evans. The latter two repre
sent the reserve board. The branch
Jrohably will be opened early in
anuary.
Suffragettes Released
Before Terms Expired
-Washington, 'Nov. 27. Twenty-two
woman's; party militants, hunger-striking-In
the District of Columbia
jail here, were suddenly released to
day long before the expiration of their
terms. Among them were Alice Paul,
chairman of the party, and Lucy
BurnsV vice chairman.
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"The Phonograph with a Soul
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GUIDO
CICCOLINI
the famous tenor, in the Hotel.
Fontenelle Ball Room Monday
night, November 26th, stood
beside the New Edison and
sang in direct comparison with
the Re-Creation of his voice.
"The Phonograph with a
Soul" has created a new form
of musicale. It is known as the
Tone-Test Recital. In every,
city of this country music
shrines welcome this form of
entertainment as of the highest.
RUDOLPH POLK
the talented violinist, gave a similar con
. vincihg demonstration with his violin.
Hear this marvelous musical instrument-The New Edison-let us know what
: ' ' " you think of , y "'
"THE PHONOGRAPH WITH A SOUL"
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The Masterpiece of a Master Mind
ROUSE PHONOGRAPH PARLORS . , SHULTZ BROS.' EDISON SHOP
Cor. 20th and Farnam Sts. 313-315 South 15th Street
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Uniform
Gasoline
Keeps
Your
Motor. Healthy
A motor does its best work on a steady diet.
Uniformity in gasoline is just as important to your
engine as uniformity in drinking water is to an athlete.
If the gasoline you feed your engine
isn't uniform your carburetor needs
frequent adjusting. That's -deli-'cate
work and hard on the car-
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buretor.
Red Crpwn Gasoline .is always unij
jfemr-wherever you get it. A gal
lon of Red Crown here is identically
the same in quality as a gallon of
Red Crown a hundred miles from
here. That's because the process
. of refining Red Crown is standard
ized and the supply of crude oils
from which it is refined is constant
Fill up with Red Crown Gasoline,
adjust your carburetor properly, and
if nothing but foed Crown goes
into the tank you ' won't need to
touch your carburetor for the rest
of the winter. You'll get the quick
starts, the power and speed that are
in Red Crown.
There's hardly a time that you need
be satisfied with any gas other than
Red Crown. Our numerous Service
Stations and good garages that sell
it are everywhere. Be guided to
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Here Are Handy Service Stations
Where You Can Get Red Crown
1 OMAHA
Eighteenth and Cass Street
Eighteenth and Cuming Street .
Eighteenth and Howard Street
. Twelfth and Jackson Street
' ' Twenty-ninth and Harney Street
. Thirty-ninth and Farnam Street
Forty-fifth and Grant Street
4 Fifty-first and Dodge Street V
Twenty-fourth and I Street Sooth Side :
" Twenty-fourth and O Street South Side
LINCOLN
Eleventh and J Street
Twelfth and Q Street
Eighteen, and O Street
. ' Abo
Fremont Columbu Norfolk .
' -York Grand Island Hastings-
"and good garages everywhere that display
the Red Crown Sign.
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