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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1918)
THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. 1918. 11 HUGE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE WILL PURSUE BANDITS Commercial and Professional Men Form Organization to Break Up Gang of Omaha Automobile Thieves. A huge vigilance committee, made up of representatives of the various civic organizations of Omaha, with leaders in all of the different com mercial, industrial and professional activities of the city as members, is being formed for the purpose of put ting a stop to automobile stealing in Omaha. Work in perfecting the new vigi lance Committee has been in progress for weeks and it is believed a meet insr of the men proposed for member ship will be called within the next 2 hours for the purpose of outlining a program and mapping out a plan of campaign that will result In perma nently breaking up the gang of or ganized automobile thieves and "fences" which has had its headquar ters here, and which, during the three years it has been operating has con ' "fiscated automobile property belong ing to Omaha citizens and residents of Nebraska and Iowa towns to the value of hundreds of thousands - f dollars. Through the activity of the police department, resulting from pitilc.; publicity given to conditions here, automobile thefts in Omaha have de creased from an average of 8 per day to comparatively nothing. There has nt been a report of a stolen car made to the police department since August 14. In the meantime the department has recovered more stolen cars than the total loss reported since the first of the month. Police Are Capable, This proves to the persons inter ested in the organization of the new vigilance committee that the police can intelligently cope with the situa tion if they are permitted to do so ! without hindrance to their efficiency. and it is to secure this efficiency and nrocure permanent results that th new organization is being brought about. The new organization will co-oper ate with the police and with all othei agencies that are designed to cope with the problem of wholesale auto mobile stealing and the promoters feel confident of obtaining sucn per manent results as will make it hazard ous and dangerous for -riminals or their abettors to engage in the bust ness in the future. It is understood that one of the purposes of the new civic organiza tion is to vigorously aid in the prose- rntinn of this class of criminals, of every shade and degree of turpitude .and let none wiio are gunty escape The organization is being per fected through the civic branches of rhamher of Commerce and reiatea activities. Garbage Issue Still Daily Subject With Omaha City Council Like a certain ghost of dramatic renown, the garbage question will not down, wherefore the city com missioners are lugubrious. Two weeks ago the , council awarded James Whalen a contract for buying at $2.55 per ton all gar bage hauled by the city. Mr. Wha len has advised the city that he will not enter into a contract. f Commissioner Ringer, who has charge of the garbage department, submitted to the council a resolu tion in which he proposed that the city shall establish a hog-feeding yard and use the garbage haulea by the city.. He proposed that the yard should hold 5,000 hogs and that the city planning board draw the plans.. The resolution was voted down. , Commissioner Butler renewed his proposal that the city vote bonds for incinerators. Mayor Smith sug gested that new bids shall be adver tised for. The garbage question will not down. Wants Divorce Because His Wife Would Not Live Hre W. B. Lano says, in his petition for divorce, filed Friday in district court that his wife, Helen, refused to come from Chieaeo and live with him in Omaha when he secured a position here in Tune, 1917. In July, 1918, he alleges, she came here, took a room at a hotel, telephoned to mm ana wnen he appeared, beat him and heaped unsavorv epithets upon him. Jtie is willing to give her alimony but wants a divorce. Katherine Novak asks a divorce from her husband. Thomas, to whom she waa married at Boka, Austria- Hungary, in 1909. She alleges deser tion and nonsunoort. Katy Sobczyk wants a divorce from Mike, to whom she was married in 1902. She says he deserted her six years ago. She asks custody ot their 14-year-old boy and $60 a month ah monv. Henry C. Geest filed a petition for divorce from Mona on the ground of extreme cruelty. Lucy Hudgens asks a divorce from Louis on the ground of cruelty. Charge Food Violation to Election Tour of Manager Representatives of the Columbus Bottling works entered a plea of guil ty tj charges of violating they food administration's sugar rules Friday. The infraction was explained as either a clerical error or ignorance of the regulations on the part of the office force. The manager of the company, busily engaged in a campaign for state representative, knew nothing of the infraction until summoned before the food administration. The company was ordered to use no more sugar for the balance of the month and the allowance was de creased 20 per cent for the next month. They voluntarily contributed $250 to the Red Cross. Council Refuses Contract for Fifty Trash Receptacles City council voted against award ing to an Evansville, Ind., firm a three-year contract to permit placing 50 trash receptacles at down town corners. The proposed terms were that the company would place the receptacles without cost to the city and would collect revenue for adver tising space. Commissioner Zimman led the fight against this street corner advertising decoration. Mayor Smith and Com missioner Butler favored the proposi tion. Buurglars Attempt to Blow Douglas Shoe Company Safe The store of the Douglas Shoe company at 2413 N street was entered last night through a back window and an attempt was made to blow the safe. Nitroglycerin was used. The fuse burned to within an inch ot the charge and went out. Evidently the thief was scared out before a second attempt could be made. Three dol lars was taken from the cash drawer. From Barrel Wrestler to Oil Baron is Raise of Former Omaha Man From wrestling barrels to head of the Standard Oil company of Indiana is the remarkable advance in the business world made by Lauren J. Drake, formerly of Omaha. Forty-two years ago he started wrestling barrels for the same com pany ot which he is now head at Keokuk. Now he sits in an impressive collection of offices in Chicago as president of the Standard Oil com pany of Indiana. Following his ap prenticeship he came to Omaha as general western manager and lived here until 1896, when he was trans ferred to Chicago. In 1902 he attained desk in 26 Broadway, New York City, as chairman of 'the domestic trade committee for eight years and later was director of the Sandard Oil company of New Jersey, Upon the dissolution in 1912 he re turned to the Indinana corporation as vice president. Follwing the death of W. P. Cowan, he succeeded him as president of the company. His son, S. C. Drake, will take his place on the directorate. Market Gardeners Are r l . t r rorced to Leave rarms As Their Crops Dry Up ALLEGED "KING" OF AUTO THIEVES FOUNDJGUILTY Children Identify Izze Firsche as the Man Who Stole Brunning Auto from Street. I Izze Firsche, alleged "king" of auto bandits, was arraigned in police court Friday morning on a charge of rand larceny, in connection with the theft : of an automobile belonging to Julius J. Brunning, a farmer, living on rural iuuic .u. t, ooutn side, iins was the fourth time within two weeks that Firsche has been arraigned in connection with auto thefts in Omaha. Oowetch Brunning. 13-vear-old daughter of Brunning, testified that on August 2 she was sitting in her father's automobile, which was parked at Seventeenth and Dodge streets, when a man answering Firsche' de scription came to the car and told her to go and help her mother, who was shopping in Hayden's store, carry some bundles. She said she was afraid of the man and went into the store to find her mother. When she and her mother returned a few min utes later the car was missing. It has not been recovered. Her brother, Francis, 10 years old, also testified that he had seen the same man loiter ing about the machine shortly before it was stolen. Firsche was bound to the district court on a $2,000 bond. On August 13 Firsche was bound over to the district court on two charges of grand larceny for the al leged theft of automobiles. The bond was fixed at $1,000 on each count On August 13 he was arraigned on a charge of receiving stolen property, after testimony showed a stolen car had been recovered by detectives in a garage which Firsche had rented. Makes Application fur Passage Across the Pond Miss Dorothy R. Ringwalt. who is going to France to serve the Red Cross as a canteen worker, Thursday made application at federal headquar ters for a transport to England and France. Dry weather has practically put the truck gardeners around Omaha out ot business for this year and there is a marked scarcity of all sorts of home grown products to be found on the market tables. Gardeners in many cases are clean ing up their affairs on the small farms and are coming to the city for jobs, leaving the women folks at home to handle what little remains. "This has been the worst year in the history of Omaha for the truck gardeners," .asserted a commission man who is familiar with the situa tion. ''Few had any sweet corn at all and very few will have any potatoes because of the continued dry weather." Nebraska to Send Out More Men for Limited Service Army Work Nebraska has received two new calls for national army men. The state is to furnish 96 negro solJiers and Omaha will furnish 86 of them, as follows: Board No. 1, 5; No. 2, 10: No. 3, 45: No. 4, 11: No. 5. 10. They will entrain from Omaha Sep tember 1 for Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash. The second call is for 400 limited service men. Umahas quota of this call is 81 men; No. 1 will furnish 7; No. 2, 18: No. 3, 15: No. 4, 18: No. 5, 14; No. 6, 9. The limited service men will eo to Fort Riley, Kan., the first week in September. Librarian Plans Another Drive for Books for Soldiers Another drive for books for the men in military service will be pro moted by Miss Tobit, public li brarian. She believes that this is an opportune time for such a drive, as many are moving from their summer to their winter homes and do not wish to be burdened by extra books. Miss lobtt wishes to emphasize that only interesting books are de sired. War books such as Gerard's 'Four Years in Germany," and other recent publications are much in de mand among the soldiers. A better class of books are being offered for our soldiers," said Miss Tobit, "but at first we received some very funny volumes. There was one receipt book that was published in 1845, and the first receipt in the book called for 12 eggs. Now how could a soldier or any one else use a book like that?" Miss Tobit hopes to receive as many as a hundred books a day dur ing the drive. Will Enroll Students in High School Next Week Enrollment for the fall term will begin Monday at the Central High school. Startincr at 8:30 o'clock in the morning each day the students will enroll by classes. Seniors will register Monday, juniors Tuesday, sophomores Wednesday, freshmen who have had a semester's work Thursday, and new freshmen Friday. Students who have been tutorine during the summer will be given ex amination for high school credit Sat urday morning at 9. School will open at 8:40 in the mornings and will be dismissed at 2:43 in the afternoon. This is five minutes earlier and later than last year, and is being dene so that a "home room period" of 10 minutes may be held before the first regular period. Texan Arrested Here as a Deserter; Taken to Funston Joseph Tharps, 28-year-old regis trant of Dallas, Tex., was arrested in Omaha Friday by federal agents and sent to Camp Funston, Kan., to answer charges of deserting the army. Tharps was called to armv service Fort Omaha Balloon Men to Military Ball at Krug Park Balloon school men of the 20th company are to have an official out ing and dance at Krug park next Tuesday night for the benefit of the company fund. Among the features will be a military grand march, led by the men of the 20th balloon com pany, and some patriotic, songs by a quartet of soldiers from the same company. Wednesday night was patriotic night at Krug park, when the man agement staged a grand march with patriotic music, patriotic decorations and gifts of patriotic caps, flags, etc., for all. i No Need to Go to France to See Motor Service in War Women will not need to go to France as ambulance drivers to see motor service, according to Miss Margaret Riley of the Red Cross salvage headquarters. There is great need for women who will devote a part of their time to driving a truck for the salvage corps, says Miss Riley. These volunteers will act as censors on the goods do nated, as there has been much use less material hauled to the headquar ters. There will be no heavy work required, as boys will accompany the drivers to carry all packages. Captain Markel Leaves for Embarkment Port in East Capt. P. H. Markel, former man- agtr of the Millard hotel, was ordered to a port of embarkation yesterday, and from there will sail to "some place in France" for overseas duty in the quartermaster's department of the expeditionary forces. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mar kel, who will remain in the east until her husband's departure and will then return to this city to make her home with her parents Mr. ,and Mrs. Ralph Kitchen, until the return of Captain Markel from the war. Dick Kitchen Shot Three Times with Serum Gun Private Dick Kitchen, former man ager of the Paxton hotel, and now serving his country in the quarter master's department at Fort Omaha, was shot yesterday. In fact he was shot three times with a prophylactic gun and re ceived three charges of serum in his body as a typhus preventive. Dick is a very sick man today, but his patriotism is still unimpaired. Strike of Omaha Ice Men Averted by Compromise A threatened strike by 30 employes of the Omaha Ice and Cold Storage company was averted by intervention of the federal, state and city employ men bureau. The men were getting 42 cents an hour. They wanted 50 cents and a compromise was effected by giving them 4V2 cents. To Help Make Strong, Keen Red-Blooded Americans !7 Now Being used br over three million people annually. It will increase the strength of weak, nervous, run. down folks in two weeks' time in many instances. Ask your Doctoi or druggist about it. Special Today Hide Bags, $5.00 U 0 IT" Away Go Men's Furnishings at These Prices Shirts, Half Hose, Bathing Suits, Union Suits Better step lively and get some of these two big groups of Shirts and scores of other good offerings here for Saturday that will bring a crowd. Shirts, $1.00 All the broken lots and lines from our regular stock that sold up to $2.00. In Soisette, Percale, Crepe and Corded Madras. Band collar with soft turnover and laun dered cuffs; collar attached. Mili tary and flat laydown collar styles. About 2,000 Shirts in this group. Shirts, $2.95 Odd lots of Pure Silk and Silk Fiber Shirts ; taken from our regular selling lines that sold up to $5.50, some even more. Jap Tub Silks and Broadcloth Silks, some slightly soiled; also Corded Silk Fiber Shirts in very handsome designs; all sizes, but not in all lots. About 30 desert in all. Men's Hosiery, 19c About 200 dozen Men's Half Hose, run of the mill grade; Silk Fiber, Lisle and Egyptian Cotton; in black, white, tan and other de sirable colors that usually sell up to 35c pair. Men's Bathing Suits $1.00 to $3.95 Near the end of the season finds us with a limited quantity and so we offer these All-Wool and Wor sted Bathing Suits that are worth up to $5.20, at $1.00 to $3.95. Annual Sale Semi- Shirt! Will Continue Remarkable Values in Good Shirts Manhattan Percale Shirts, $2.00 values at $1.65 Manhattan Madras Shirts, $2.50 values, at $1.85 Manhattan Corded Madras Shirts, $3.00 values, at $2.15 Manhattan Silk Striped Madras Shirts, $4 and $4.50 values, $3.15 Manhattan Silk and Cotton Weave Shirts, $5 values. .. .$3.85 Manhattan Fiber Silk and Silk Shirts, $6.50 values, at.... $4.85 Main Floor, Men's Bldff. Men's Union Suits At 55c 50 dozen of the Manhat tan Athletic Union Suite, made of good quality nain sook; suits that are so good at this price that you should stock up for next season as well as this. In fact you would be glad to pay 89c for them ordinarily. Men's Summer Suits Choice Entire Stock Garments That Were $15 to $20 . A limited quantity of odd suits only one of a kind and the most extraordinary value you have seen this season at this price. Don't delay be one of the first to come here Saturday. Suits that you cannot duplicate under $15 to $20. Mohairs, Serges, Scotch Tweeds and Home spuns One Big Lot at One Little Price $10 Men's and Young Men's Trousers $2.00 to $6.50 Hundreds of pairs to choose from excellent materials and the best patterns and colorings. Advance Showing Hart Schaffner & Marx Top Coats ' Officers Uniforms at Reduced Prices. Home Guard Uniforms Now $10.75. Second Floor, Men' Bldg Men's New Fall Hats Featuring Many Novelties Unusual Values Conservative and extreme effects; everything that Fashion has approved in inexhaustible variety. The very style you require in just the exact size you need. It is easy to make a satisfactory choice from such a won drous stock. Stetson Hats, at $5.00, $6.00 and up to $20.00 F. Berg & Co., New York, Soft Hats, at $4.00 and $5.00 Venito Light Weight Italian Hats, at $5.00 The J. R. Gillendeau & Co., New York, Soft Hats, $2.50, $3 and $3.50 The Genuine Borsalino Hats, sold here at $5.00 Boys' School Headwear Boys' and Children's Hats and Caps for school wear; all new Fall styles. Boys' Golf Caps, plain and fancy colors, at. .35c to $1.75 Boys' Rah Rah Hats, at 75c, $1.25 and $1.50 Boys' Aviation Caps, at 75c to $2 Boys' Army Caps, at 65c to $1.50 Boy Scout Hats, at 65c to $2.50 Boy Sailor Tarns, all colors, $1.25 Main Floor, Arcade. TakeProper Exercise In the Great Outdoors Get a good outfit and play tennis, , golf or enjoy any other sport thaf you like these are the days when you will want to be physically fit so get in line. Men's and Boys' White Tennla Shoes, either high or low, your choice on Saturday, QIC a pair 2iJC We Can Supply your needs in Fishing Tackle. AH kinds of Bait, Poles, Lines, Minnows, Buckets, etc. Stock up right now. Do You Need a new Golf Club? Wo hav a big line of Spalding and McGregor Golf Goods Clubs, Bags, Balls and all accessories. 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