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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1918)
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24. 1918. I 9C GANG OF ALLEGED BOX CAR THIEVES CAUGHT IN RAID Four Men and One Woman Ar t rested at Council Bluffs Hotel; Others Captured in Act. Four men and one woman, whom police allege are members of a png of daring automobile thieves; which has Been operating -in Omaha for several weeks, were, rounded un m a raid on the Neumayer hotel in Coun- cil Bluffs shortly before "noon !jaH'f- day. ; ' .- They are charged ' with the th of more than $1,000 worth of meV:an dise from Union Pacific freight cnrs. Th". .men arrested are A'bert SchwiVtz," alias Houck;- Haroli S$v age, Gerald Sexton and "Sergeant" Knobs,1 Frances Hflrbert is thu wo man. '-' : ; ' Arrested by Detectives. Two "other men, whom police al lege also re members of the gang, were arrested at 4 o'clock Sat 4 day morning by Union Pacific railroad de tectives, : They are Richard Ra-en, 2407 South Thirteenth street, ar.d Ed Baker.! Twenty-second and N streets. Raver and Baker, police say, were caught in the act of rifling a freight car on a west bound Union Pacific train on the Lane cut-off. They con fessed, police say, and disclosed in formation whih led to the capture of their alleged , confederates in the Council Bluffs hotel. Sexton Alleged Leader. Police say Gerald Sexton is the leader of the gang. He is an Omaha taxicab driver. The plan of opera tion, police say, is for members of the x gang to" board Union Pacific freight trains, rifle the cars and and throw off the plunder as the train passes over the cut-off. Then, police charge, Sex ton removes the merchandise in a taxicab. 0 The gang has been operating with marked success for several months-, - declare. They also are al io: I '0 i:avi rifled a number-of out lying C!iu.l..i grocery stores. When police raided the Council Bluffs hotel two of the men arrested attempted to escape by crawling down a fire escape. All of the men arrested were armed, police say. GERMANS HANG RUSS RED GUARDS ASWRP.IUNTITTS y' - London, Thursday, March 21. Ger man, officers operating in Finland and the Ukraine have ordered the soldiers to take no prisoners, but to hang all red guards, as they are only bandits, George Ledebour, an independent so cialist leader, declared in the Reich- stag, according to an cxcnange leie graph dispatch from . Amsterdam: "On the one hand we makepeace with the bolsheviki, and on the1' other we hang them. This'is the best way to stir up hatred that will last forever against everything German." The speaker was catled to order by President Kaempff. , K. 0, MEAT HEADS . MUST OPEN BOOKS BEFORE HENEY Kansas City, Mo., March 23. Un less officials of the Kansas City Stock Yards company produce within one week, minute books showing details of the reorganization of the company in 1916, when it passed from a Mis ' souri to a Maine corporation the Fed eral Trade commission will use grand jury action to obtam them, Francis J. Heney, special counsel for the com mission, declared at today's session of the investigation of the meat pac " ing industry of the southwest. Radio .Instruction for : Draft Men at Nebraska The radio telegraph school of the University of Nebraska offers a free course of instruction to prepare men of draft age .for service in the signal corps of the United States army. The school- is equipped with wire less apparatus and the course consists of practical instruction in code, theory and construction of wjreless. ap paratus. Registration in the univer sity and entrance, credits are. not re quired for admittance to this course. J. C. Wright, government telegraph inspector, visited 'the state radio school and said that it is superior to any other he has inspected. It is probable that the school will be used as a training station for drafted men, Anyone interested may obtain full particulars from R. B Hasselquist, chief, instructor in the radio school. Son Succeeds Redmond.. , London, March 23. Captain -William Redmond succeeds "his father, John Redmond, the nationalist leader, in Parliament. Returns from the elec tion for the seat from . Waterford show that Captain Redmond received 1,243 votes .as. aginst 764 for his op ponent, Dr. .White;.' a" Sirin Feine'r. " A Winder tn a Flirch. The critics are riding In on a flat tire as a result at an announcement by the express companies that horses are to be retained in service, for . ihua is punctured the false phophecjr that the equine mode of transportation in the business world Is soon to be superseded by super sixes. 1 The horse is not a historic relic. He was present at the roll call last winter when his mechanical compatriots were numbered among the missing. And he was the weapon by means of which the express companies were able to combat the elements aad do business. Automobiles were jacked, up er tinder th weather, but Old Dobbin 'kept jogging along. When steel and steam gave up the fight the faithful steed braved snow and ice and did his bit by day and night. Sometimes the trains Were stuck and schedules were no more, but when the blizzards raged and all men swore the silent equine hero 'plowed on In zero cold Just as before. . For this is the verdict of the express companies; 'An ounce of horseflesh Is worth a pound of cogs and wheel and works and gears. New York Herald. Going to Dig For One. In Alabama they tell of one Doc" Marsh, a queer old "yarb" doctor of decidedly limited education. One day some one said to him, "See hers, Doc, haven't you any diploma?" Well, no," said th doctor, "I ain't got. none on hand just now, but I'm goln' to dig some aa mob as the ground Is right in' the spring.'-' Harper's Magazine. ' 1 Leaders of State Music Teachers' Association Who Meet-in Omaha For the Convention This Week Nw - 2ttcgxzt JYfzert. " : ;.ooss sjwsew vrr&s V A - 4'" - "S4 - 4 v . - I I i all o- - , , J. H. SIMMS. GERMAN RAIDER ON WAY TOWEST PORT Schooner Agassis Captured by U. S. Warship, Being; Towed to Pacific Harbor. - A Pacific Port, March 23. rerd:ng the arrival here tomorrow nigbt or Monday morning of . the auxiliary schooner, Alexander Agassir, ap tured IS miles off Mazatlan, Mrxico, last Tuesday by an American watsh'p as a suspected German commerce raided, federal -officials continued heir efforts today to unravel the mystery o the- vessel's ownership. Originally owned by the University of California and operated n re search work at sea, the Agassi v.as, acquired January, 1917, by the I acitic Coast Trading and Shipping com pany of Los Angeles. For a time the litle craft was en gaged iivtrading on the west Mexican coast, nnd later in the same year its ownership passed into hands of per sons unknown to local government of ficials. - -. " Ezorts to locate members of the Pa-. cific. Coast Trading and Shipping com pany proved fruitless! . The bill pf sale entered into by the University of California and the trading company showed that three persons Francis C. AVhecler, Maud -M. Lochrane and William. Taylor apparently nego tiated trie sale, but federal officials do not believe they are implicated in any way in the outfitting of the Agas- siz to prey on Pacific coast commerce. Brief advices said the Agassiz was heavily armed. Government agents expressed the belief that the sofaoon er's crew planned to capture one of the Pacific mail boats of larger ton nage, transfer the armament of the ( Agassiz to the captured steamer and set forth on an expedition to destroy coastwise and trans-Pacific commerce. Sixteen New Plants to i .Turn Out U. S. Cannon Washington. March 23. Virtual completion of 16 plants for the manu facture of mobile artillery cannon for the American army was announced today by the gun division of the bu reau of ordnance. A- memorandum to Acting Sec retary of War Crowcll, said that by June of this year the division will ave a staff of 1,500 officers and 10,- 000 civilians. POLITICAL ADVERTISKMKXTS. POLITICAL ADVERTISEJIKNTH. POLITICAL AOVEKTISKSIttNTS, Alien Enemies Must Obtain Permission to Move Residence Alien enemies now must obtain per mission to move from one place of residence to another. Rules govern ing moving have been given out by federal officials as follows: "A German enem,, alien changing place . of -residence to another place within the same registration district shall report such change to the regis tration officer of the registration dis trict and present to such registration officer his registration card for the purpose of having endorsed thereon by suchTegistratipn officer the change of residence. "A German enemy alien who desires to change his place of residence to a place: of residence within another reg istration district'.must obtain a per mit. Such Gerfnin . enemy alien must present himself to the registration of ficer of the district in which he then resides and make application for the permit on a form supplied by the reg istration officer and present his regis tration card to the registration offi cer for the purposc of having the per mit of change of residence, if granted, endorsed on the registration card. "A change of residence in violation of the regulations subjects an enemy alien, among other penalties, to arrest and detention for the period of the war." . ' Assistant Navy Paymaster In Omaha on Official Business J. F. Brennan; assistant paymaster in the United States navy service at the Great Lakes naval station, is in Omaha on official business in regard to sailors' allotments and insurance. He is in charge of the 9th, 10th, and 11th districts. Mr. Brennan explained that because of the enormous number of insurance policies there will be some delay, but that the government will issue tempo rary insurance policies and that rela tives of soldiers may rest assured that all cases will be taken care of as quickly as possible. . j Howell Returns From East; Argued for Florence Pump General Manager Howell of the Metropolitan Water district has re turned ' from Washington, D. ' C, where he s'ueoeeded in impressing the shipbuilding board with the urgency of a.new pump for the Florence sta tion. Work on this pump was ordered' stopped on account of the shipbuild ing situation. The pump was ordered a year, ago and was 70 per cent to ward completion when work was stopped. An . old pump had been wrecked at Florence in anticipation of the early arrival of the machinery. Rotterdam Dutch Seek to Break Relations With U. S. London, March 23. A report that influential interests at Rotterdam have started agitation to have the Dutch government requested to break off re lations with the United States because of the-requisitioning 6f Dutch mer chajrrjran is contained in . an Ex change Telegraph company , dispatch received from Copenhagen,, which quotes the Politiken's Rotterdam cor respondent. No Details on Third Liberty Loan Until Congress Acts Nebraska Liberty loan committee is being besieged with inquiries from all over the state as to the quota of coun ties, rate of interest, and details of the third Liberty loan. " ' "We- can -give no details an nounces State Chairman Thomas C. Byrne, "because the Treasury depart ment in Washington -is-waiting for congress to pass the necessary legisla-,' tion." 4 ; . .-r: Found Guilty, Wrecking ' La Salle Street Bank Chicago, March 23. Charte's B. Munday, on trial at Morris, HI.,, for complicity in the wrecking of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank, was found guilty by a jury which reported -today, Former United States- Senator' Wil- liam Lorimer was president of the bank;- It vas Monday's second trial, the first also having found him guilty. The penalty is' imprisonment for one to three years and a fine of double the last- deposit received, which in this case 'would be $550. Lorimer, who was tried in connection toith the fail ure, was acquitted. Bee Want Ads Bring1 Results. i .. .. :.'r,j..flV" n 1 $ I, rr is ' ALFRED SORENSOH CANDIDATE FOR City Commissioner j If elected I will perform the .duties of my office to the best of niy Ability, always having in view an honAt, eco nomical, impartial and efficient ad minlBtratlpn. Born In Wisconsin; printer by trade ; publisher of . Omaha Examiner eighteen' years becams a. resident of Omaha in 1871; property owner; man of family : am In. . thia campaign IN ALL SERIOUSNESS. (Count that day lost wb.osa-.Iow de- scendiitf ' sun' views from thy hand no worthy action done.) roiJTICAL ADVERTISEMENTS. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS. '' 'ft 1 v s 9 ' Jt VOTE fOR W E I IV8 E R THE SHOE MAN! . 412 k wii ST.,"- for City Commissioner Kaiser Would Prevent "Terrible Blood Bath" ' London, March. 23. The German newspapers reflect a feeling of con fidence concerning the present op eration in the west, although the seriousness of the moment is recog nized, according to the Dutch News agencies, says an Exchange Tele-1 graph dispatch from Amsterdam. The German newspapers insist that the military and political lead ers of the central powers have left nothing undone to spare their peo ple "this terrible blood bath." . fm a Dahlmaii ! CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION r r 'ilhtH Jt 1 - ' J v ' ' 'I f ,t ' y w Primaries April 9, 1918 A Few of the Reasons Should Be Re-elected: 1. Because he attends strictly to the city's business. 2. Because the City of Omaha has made greater progress during his administration than any other city of similar size in the same period. 3. Because both labor and capital have tHe utmost confidence in his honesty and efficiency. 4. Because rich and poor alike have found in him THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE. PlllllgililiTii'liiiillllllllillllll illllliMlilillM i: I I I' I I rs l.il ii..T;i: l!H:i:!:'i;!iili'inl!ilil"l liilnl"! l:ii::'i:iHiill 'lnl:uii: SKia:i'iS)iB ifji isji ELMER E. GILLIAM I m Candidate for the - Z Nomination ' Z . CITY COMMISSIONER ! PRIMARY, APRIL 9TH I CAREFUL SAFE FAIR j Born and Raised in Omaha " l'llllnll:liitl!lllHII!lliHUlllllhllIIIIIIHll mm? - ! a . mi l Af-? . ...... .mil f.ini..! VOTE FOR Michael Mullen CANDIDATE FOR City Commissioner PRIMARIES APRIL 9, 1918 ', ELECTION MAY 7, 1918 ' . I have been a resident ' and tax payer of Omaha for thirty nine years. , - . ' I hare been in business thirty six years in Omaha. I hare had business experi ence and am one of the logical . ' men for the office. 1 ifraaat shWTl "Tm lftjlll'llll"sitMd VOTE FOR JOSEPH B HUMMEL Present Park Commissioner Candidate for Re'election AN OMAHA PIONEER His confidence in our city has been expressed by fifty-four years of continuous residence. With small funds, through economy and hard work, v he has brought about a, vast improvement in our Park and Boulevard Department. Also has established in this city one of the best recreation systems in the middle west, v Asking for your support on the strength of what, he:' has accomplished and not what he promises to do. " Primary Election April bth E.F. HOWELL . i . CANDIDATE CITY COMMISSIONER Primary' Election . TUESDAY. APRIL. 9jH " General Election ' ' MAY 7tH, ,1918 , ' ;' , To the Voters of Greater Omaha :- 1 I have dfeMed to submit my nam at ths primary ior the ndmdutlpn of ' commlsBloner. Feopls should knuw for whom thy srs votine and what hind, of record, both publio and rrivats, th proposed eandidats .has. . . ' I hava served four terms as stats senator In the legitlaturs tn Nebrsla. In the session of 1897 I secured leulslatlon taklnB power away from ths city eouncll to grant franchises, and placing- it in ths hands of , ths people of Omaha only. In the same session of the legislature I fathered a bill by which the people secured their own water plant-1 also secured ths passage of si bill pensioning school teachers, policemen and firemen. In the 1915 session I Intro duced ths bill which made Greater Omaha possible, and In the 1917 session of the leiriniatnre I secured the passags of a bill which gives cities the right to condemn public utilities and ssouie the -properties under the condemnation procee(ngs, thus avoiding legal entangloments. i Kvery piece of legislation enacted Is in the interest of the people and ths record of the votes taken will show that I have consistently fought-for, and been a friend to municipal ownership. I now promise, if nominated and elected to enforce the strictest economy in spending public funds, law enforcement without discrimination, better publio utility service from those utilities now owned and operated by private corporations. . I am for a square deal and fair play, and upon these propositions I submit my candidacy. if. i mm '1. I ! ! 7 " ' , 3i IV A Business Man With a Business Record as a City Commissioner Candidate for Re -Election For three years in charge of the public improvements department, during which term more paving, sewers and other public construction was done than in arty previous like period in Omaha's history AND- WAS WELL DONE. ' With other commissioners, secured agreement for 6-cent electric light, one of his original platform pledges, which, after thorough investigation by a committee of business men after four months' careful consideration, was found to be practical, thereby filling his promise to the people that he would work for a 6-cent rate. Prime mover in having the City Hall remodeled. He now asks for an endorsement of his administra tion by a re-election to a second term. Fifty Years in Omaha, for Omaha All th Time .
