THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1918.
SOUTH SIDE
PANKOWSKI HELD
UP BY NEGROES
AND IS SLUGGED
Stuth Side " :.: on His Way
Home Is Attacked s..c! Beaten
by Two Men, Who Fail to
Get His Money.
Jacob Pankowski, 42il South
Twenty-eighth street was slugged by
two burly negroes as he was on his
way, home late Saturday night. He
was near Twenty-sixth and M streets,
when the men sneaked up behind him
and one' struck him twice on the
head with a piece of gas pipe. The
dazed man fell to his knees and the
negroes stared at their victim and
then, frightened, took to their heels
and disappeared down the street.
Pankowski was carrying quite a
sum of money but the negroes did not
search him. Dr. N. Smith was called
and found that Pankowski's skull is
fractured and a deep cut on his fore
head. His condition is serious.
Leo Cushing, 2708 G street, reported
to the police Sunday that lis was held
up by a lone robber at Twenty-sixth
and G streets,' Saturday night, and
robbed of. $1.35. The ho!c!-up man
wore a mask and carried a revolver.
Father and Son Banquet
To Be Held Tuesday Night
A "Father-and-Son" banquet will
be given for South Side men at the
Young Men's Christian association
Tuesday night. A number of promi
nent men will speak and a musical
program has been provided.
A number of boys have appealed
to E. E. Hennon, secretary of the
Young Men's Christian association,
asking him to find fathers for them
so that they may attend. They say
they will buy their own tickets, but
that they have i.o fathers and so would
"like to borrow one" for the occasion.
Mr. Hermon hopes he can find some
men who will volunteer to be fathers
to lonely sons next Tuesday night.
The slogan of father and son week
is. "The Logical Big Brother For Any
Boy Is That Boy's Own Father."
Carload c: Hogs Will Be
Auctioned for Red Cross
A carload of hogs will be auc
tioned for the benefit of the Red
Cross Thursday morning in the South
Side stock yards. Genoa (Neb.) chap
ter collected the hogs, 64 of them,
from farmers of the turrounding ter
ritory. The carload is worth $2,400,
but it is expected to bring a "Red
Cross price."
Everett Buckingham will conduct
the sale. He has donated space in
the yards for the hogs, which arrive
Wednesday in care of W. S. Fox.
They will be sold in lots of IS.
South Side stockmen expect the sale
to be erne which will go down in the
live stock market's history. -
South Side Man Held Up and
Robbed by Lcne Highwayman
Herald Hellberg. 4021 South Twen-ty-sfrcor''
street, reported to the South
Side police thit he was held up and
robbed of $2.95 I j 'one highway
man at Twenty-fourth aui F fleets
Sunday night. The man was nuskej
and thrust a revolver under Hellberg'j
nose and advised him to "dig up."
F. A. Broadwell, 2420 F street, re
ported that some one entered his gar
age Sunday night and stole several
automobile wheels and tires and ac
cessories. South Side Woman's Club
Meets Tuesday Afternoon
The South Side Woman's club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Bruce Mc
Culloch, 4225 South Twenty-second
street, at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday after
noon. The subject for discussion will
be, "The religious life and thought
of Scotland;" Mrs. C. W. Sears will
read a paper on "The Reformation;"
Mrs. Perry Wheeler will speak about
the life and work of John Knox, and
Mrs. J. B. Watkins wilt read a paper
on "The Crown and the Kirk."
South Omaha Brevities
The Madison community center will hold
a meeting Tuesday night. The fcigh school
orchestra will furnish music.
Socialists Oppose Move
To Disfranchise Aliens
The following resolutions were
adopted by the socialist party of
Omaha at its regular business meet
ing last week:
"Whereas, Petitions are being cir
culated for a referendum amending
the state constitution so as to dis
franchise voters of German and Aus
tria nativity who arc not fully
naturalized American citizens; be it
"Resolved, That the socialist party
of Omaha is absolutely opposed to the
proposal on the following grounds:
"First, the socialists stand by Presi
dent Wilson's declaration that we
have no quarrel with the peoples
with whose governments we are at
war.
"Second, we consider it a funda
mental principle of democracy that
every individual who is required to
obey the laws should have a voice
in making the laws.
"Resolved, That we pledge our
united opposition at the polls to this
or any other measure aiming to take
away the vote from any class of resi
dents." Two Young Soldiers
Nearly Asphyxiated
Frank Averdeng", 22, and Andrew J.
Backer, 19 years old, soldiers from
Fort Omaha, had a narrow escape
from asphyxiation in the Ogden
hotel, Council Bluffs, Sunday morn
ing. They are now in the Edmondson
hospital and are recovering. Both
were unconscious when found at 8
o'clock. A gas jet that turned easily
was found slightly open when the ho
tel clerk broke into the room.
Averdeng's home is at Little Falls,
Minn., and Backer came from St.
Louis. Both are training in the avia
tion corps.
EFFECTS OF WAR
PIMTHOLLAND
Thousands of Refugees, Ger
man Deserters and Wounded
Soldiers to Feed, a-" "up
. plies Are Shut Off.
"The people of Holland are greatly
disappointed over their treatment at
the hands of the United States," ac
cording to J. C. Baars of Amsterdam,
Holland, who stopped off in Omaha
en route to Deli, Sumatra,
"We do not feel that the people in
this country realize the task that con
fronts Holland" Baars said. "We
are now feeding 100,000 Belgium
refugees, 8,000 German deserters and
wounded prisoners of war and 8,000
English soldier who are wounded, or
have escaped from Germany prison
camps.
"The United States has stopped ex
porting wheat and corn to Holland
and it is working a great hardship on
our people. Bread is now selling at
36 cents a'loaf and we are allowed but
200 grams per day. This is 50 grams
less than the maximum in Germany.
"We "have had to butcher our live
stock on account of the shortage of
grain with which to feed them. This
has necessitated the closing of many
of our factories manufacturing butter
and cheese, our principal industry."
Questioned as to the supplying of
Germany with imports from the
United States Mr. Baars stated that it
was prohibited by the government and
that 10,000 men were in prison for
attempting to smuggle to Germany
before the practice was wiped out An
army of 750,000 men he says is guard
ing the border to prevent smuggling.
The taxes for the support of the army
is proving burdensome to the little
state.
"Fats and oils are becoming very
scarce in Holland," said Mr. Baars.
"But in Germany the condition is far
worse, according to Germans desert
ing the army and reaching Holland.
Large quantities of wheat are being
brought into Germany from Russia
and Roumania, relieving the shortage
jn cereals."
Mr. Baars is in charge of a party
of 50 Hollanders en route to Sumatra
where they have employment on rub
ber plantations. He was accompanied
to Omaha by F. J. Hartman and J.
Hins. They arrived on the New
Amsterdam and will reach their
destination via China. The trip will
take three months, due to the Suez
canal being closed, necessitating the
trip by way of America.
Lincoln Firm Plans Big
Spread in Auto Trucks
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 18. (Special.)
Havelock is to get a big auto man
ufacturing plant, according to an an
nouncement given out here. The Hebb
Motors company, incorported for
$1,000,000. plans to erect a building
400 feet by 240 feet for the manufac
ture of the Patriot truck, a commer
cial vehicle.
Mr. Hebb has been for some time
manufacturing commercial trucks in
Lincoln, but the increase in the de
mand and the belief that commercial
trucks will be in demand in the future
has induced him to branch out into
the larger field.-
Jchn Scott, Patrol Driver,
Is Taken to Pest House
John Scott, 'night patrol driver at
the South Side police station, was
taken to the pest house Saturday
night with smallpox. The station
was fumigated and all poluemen on
the night shift were ordered vaccinated.
How Col. Hay ward Communicates
With Omaha Friends From Front
Briej City News
Have Root Print It New Beacon Press.
Lighting Fixtures. Burgess-Granden.
Acreage In City, $450 Cp Get a
garden quick. Doug. 2947.
Robt. C. Drnescdow & Co., stocks
and bonds and local securities, 860
Omaha Nat Bank Bldg.
Lawyers Contribute The Nebraska
Bar association made a contribution
of $250 to the Nebraska Red Cross
base hospital.
Booth in Shoe Store The Douglas
shoe store has installed a private or
thopedic booth, where women may go
for foot comfort in privacy.
Thrift Helps Win the War Join
the Nebraska Savings & Loan Ass'n,
and be in the big push. $1 or more
starts the drive. 211 S. 18th St.
Houck 'Funeral Services Funeral
services for Miles B. Houck will be
held at the residence, 6113 California
street Tuesday afternon at 2 o'clock.
New Addition to Family An eight
pound daughter was born to Dr. and
Mrs. Lee Edwards, Potter apartments,
late Saturday night. Mr. Edwards
is at Birchmont hospital.
State Bank of Omaha, corner Six
teenth and Harney streets, pays 4 per
cent on time deposits; 3 per cent
on savings accounts. All deposits in
this bank are protected by the de
positors' guarantee fund of the state
of Nebraska. Adv.
Arrives in France Mr. and Mrs.
William Green, 4022 Lafayette ave
nue, have received a cablegram from
their son, William Hugh Green, an
nouncing his safe arrival in France.
He is attached to the 475th aerial
construction sqquadron.
Dillon is Fined M. F. Dillon, pro
prietor of the Dillon hotel, 622 South
Sixteenth street, was fined $25 and
costs in police court Monday morning
on the charge of keeping a disorderly
house. Complaints against Marie
Masters and Mrs. C. B. Mullen, ar
rested as inmates, were continued un
til Tuesday.
Omaha Time Changes fime
changes of passenger trains on the
Omaha road become effective today.
No. 1 arrives, from Sioux City at 12:45
in the afternoon instead of 12:30; No.
2 leaves for Sioux City at 1:55 instead
of at 1:45; No. 3 arrives at 7:60 in
the evening instead of at 7:40; No. 8,
the Emerson train, leaves at 5:40 in
stead of at 5:30 in the afternoon.
Fine fireplace goods at Sunderlands.
Forced To
Sell
On account of extensive
alteration our entire stock
must go.
Everything at Cut Price.
J. HELPHAND
. 314 N. 16th St.
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HOUSTON TELLS OF
ROADBUILDING
Secretary of Agriculture Prom
ises to Give Aid Where High,
ways Will Be of Military
Advantage.
Secretary Houston of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in a communica
tion to the American Association of
state highway officials, has set forth
the policy which he thinks should be
followed in highway construction dur
ing the war. Secretary Houston says:
"So far as it is practicable to do
so, this department will urge the
maintenance of the highways already
constructed; 'the construction and
completion of those highways which
are vitally important because of their
bearing upon the war situation or
for the movement of commodities; the
postponement of all highway con
struction relatively less essential or
not based upon important military or
economic needs. The department is
preparing to suggest to the state high
way departments the preparation of a
schedule of work for the federal aid
projects for 1918 in line with this
policy."
Call for Information.
In carrying out the policy thus an
nounced the office of public roads of
the Department of Agriculture has
sent out schedule forms on which the
states are requested to set forth their
proposed federal aid work for the 1918
working session. These schedules
call for a description of each road; the
character, quality and rail haul of the
materials to be used; the probable
cost; the amount of federal funds de
sired; the specific purpose of the im
provement; its bearing upon the war
situation, and what effect a delay of
the work until 1919 or later would
have. With the information thus as-
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Room. 24, Patterson Block
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Phone Tyler 3071.
sembled and classified, an efficient
road construction program is as
sured. While it is impossible to make
definite statement regarding the trans
portation of road materials, the ex
pectations are that the transportation
situation will be improved and that
the shipment of such materials for es
sential projects can be made.
Road construction and maintenance
in the United States involve an an
nual expenditure of $300,000,000, and
there is scarcely a section of the
country that is not seriously affected
by a marked disturbance in road
work.
May Not Hold "War Session"
Of South Dakota Legislature
Parker, S. D., Feb. 18. Denial of
the statement that Governor Peter
Norbeck had decided to call a spe
cial "war" session of the South Da
kota legislature early in March, was
made in a statement given out here
tonight.
"The matter of calling a special
session is still under consideration,"
the governor's statement said.
The governor denied truth of state
ments carried in news dispatches last
night that he had authorized J. G.
Harmon of Yankton, who tpoke yes
terday at the convention of the South
Dakota Press association, at Mitchell,
to announce that an extra session had
been decided upon.
HAVE DARK HAIR
AND LOOK YOUNG
Nobody can Tell when you
Darken Gray, Faded Hair
with Sage Tea.
No Ore
Why suffer the handicap of looking
old. Gray hair, however handsome,
denotes advancing age. W M Vv
the advantages of a youthful appear
ance. When the hair fades, turns gray
and looks dry, wispy and scraggly
just a few applications of Sage Tea
and Sulphur enhances its appearance
a hundred-fold.
Either prepare the tonic at home
or get from any drug store a large
bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound," ready to use; but listen,
avoid preparations put up by drug
gists as they usually use too much
sulphur, which makes the hair
sticky. Get "Wyeth's," which can al
ways be depended upon to dVpn
beautifully and is the best thing
known.
By using Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
no one can possibly tell that you
darkened your hair. It does it so
naturally and evenly you moisten a
sponge or soft brush, drawing this
through the hair, taking one small
strand at a time, which requires but
a few moments. Do this at night
and by morning the gray hair dis
appears; after another application or
two its natural color is restored and
it becomes glossy and lustrous and
you appear years younger. This
ready-to-use preparation is a delight
ful toilet requisite and not a medi
cine. It is not intended for the cure,
mitigation or prevention of disease.
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BELGIUM PRAISES
ITS LOYAL JUDGES
Protest Against von Hertling's
Effort to Establish Sep
arate State in
Flanders.
Havre, France, Feb. 18. The
Belgian government has issued
the following statement concerning
the course of Belgian parliamentarian
in protesting against the action of
Chancellor von Hertling of Germany
in attempting to establish a separate
state in Flanders.
"Talking cognizance of the moving
protests of Flemish and Walloon dep
uties and senators remaining in mu
nicipal administrations and judical
bodies in occupied Belgium against
the usurpatory pretention of the so
called council of Flanders which in
stigates and protests the invaders, the
king's government felicitates the reg
ularly elected representatives of the
Belgian people on having proudly up
held, against foreign intermixture, the
indisputable right of national sover
eignty. .gainst C Imlnal Aims.
"It greets the courageous attitude
of the magistrates who have not
hesitated to apply the laws against
evil citizens who through commerce
with the enemy, have followed the
criminal rim oi dismembering their
country.
"The government pays solemn hom
age to the civic heroism of the Bel
gian people who has demonstrated
through three and one-half years by
proofs, and by suffering, its inextin
guishable fidelity to its king, consti
tution and country. It affirms the un
conquerable determination of the na
tion to maintain its unity and con
tinue to the utter end the contest for
freedom of territory and the integral
resolution of an independent Bel
gium." All Judges Resign.
New York, Feb. 17. Official dis
patches from the Belgian government
received here and made public tonight
indicate that all the judges and court
officials in the occupied territory 'of
Belgian have resigned as a protest
against German interference with the
administration of justice. Flemings
and Walloons are aroused to new
heights of indignation by the intrigues
against the solidarity.
State Control Board May
Name Man for Geneva School
(From a Staft Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 17. (Special.) Fol
lowing the resignation of Miss Lydia
McMahon as superintendent of the
Girls' Industrial school at Geneva,
which was made at the request of the
board of control when it became
known that one of the girls at the
school was in trouble because of al
leged intimacy with Prof. Fagan, band
master at the school, comes the ru
mor that the board will not appoint a
woman at the head of the institution,
but has intmind a man who has had
experience' in reforming wayward
8r,s- . . '' . .
No choice has been made, it ts said,
but among others mentioned is Rev.
C W. Savidge of Omaha.
Looking for work? Turn to the
Help Wanted Columns now. You
will find hundreds of positions listed
there.
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EVERYBODY STORE"
Monday, February 18, 1918.
STORE NEWS FOR TUESDAY.
Phone Douglas 137.'
An Unusual Sale for Tuesday in the s
DOWN STAIRS STORE
MINA TAYLOR DRESSES
For Women and Misses--For
House and Porch Wear at
$1.23 and $1.85
HERE'S by long odds the most remarkable offering of
dresses for house and porch wear that we've had the
privilege to announce for a long time.
It's a special purchase of "Mina Taylor" dresses known
as "factory seconds," but the imperfections, which include
an imperfect seam, an oil spot or something of the sort, are
so slight that they'll have to be pointed out to you before you
would detect them.
The dresses are made in a fresh variety of styles of ging
hams and percales in plaids, stripes and figured patterns,
light and dark colors, finished with pockets, belts, organdie,
pique and self collars. The values are most extreme at
$1.23 and $1.85.
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BurfM-Nih Co. Down Stair Store
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The New and
Beautiful In
This Exposition of
SILKS FOR SPRING
Designed Especially for Fashioning the Dresses, Suits
and Skirts of the Moment.
AN exposition worth coming miles to see authoritatively correct in
weave, coloring and design for the spring and summer season of
1918.
Yards and yards of fascinating silks in every color of the rainbow
and some new shades that the rainbow never thought of.
And best of all '
The Prices Are Way Below the
Present Day Market Quotations
Some of the mod favored weave:
Esquiiite New Hindu Crepes at $3.50 yard. "
New Silk Faille Franeaiae at $2.50 yard.
Indettructible Silk Voile at $2.25 the yard.
Canton Crepe for dresty auiti at $2.50 yard.
New Putty Willow panel effect at $4.50 yard.
The New Foulard Silk, $1.69 to $2.50 a yard.
Luttrou New Silk Radium at $2.50 a yard.
Striped Taffeta and Satin at $1.69 to $2.95.
Plain Chiffon Taffeta Silk at $1.69 to $2.25.
Washable Silk Shirting at $1.95 to $2.95 yard.
Silk In fingham pattern at $2.25 to $2.50 yard.
Genuine Kaycer Silk Jertey at $2.50 the yard.
Wathable Chine. Pongee at $1.25 to $1.95 yard.
New Silk Poplin at $1.25 to $1.95 yard.
Plaid Silk Shirting at $2.25 to $3.95 yard.
Burgeis-Nath Co. Main Floor.
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