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THE BEE: OMAHA, . SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919.
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CASIIFORAUTO
Owner of Stolen Car Testifies
Private Detective Pipkin
Demand Fifty Dollars Re
i ward for City Man.
(Continued From Pi Oar.)
oils of running the detective force
aid a general feeling of friction be
tween the chief and the men. He
stated that Danbaum came into his
office on November 17 and said they
had recovered the Richardson car.
"Did you ask him where they re
covered it?" asked Attorney Baker
tor Danbaum.
"Oh, he just said they got it up
here and sort of pointed," said
Bripgs. '
Didn t vou ask him to make a
written report ?"
"Well, I did some time later," was
the reply.
Briegj said that following the dis
covery of the real thieves of the car
he asked JJanbaum "whether he and
Pipkin had Greenberg up in Pipkin's
office and had "shaken him dovn."
He said Danbaum denied this.
Not on Good Terms.
The recovered car was not
brought to the police station and
the only evidence Chief of Dete
tive Briggs had that it had been re
turned to the owner was a receipt.
Attorney Baker asked Briggs
whether it was not true that he
didn't get along well with Detective
Danbaum. Briggs hesitated but on
Baker's demand for a definite
answer, shouted "No." He denied
that he "turned his back when Dan
baum came into his office,"
"I spoke to him almost every
day," he said.
Richardson, from whom the car
was stolen, testified that he was no
tified on November 17 that Pipkin
had recovered his car and he should
come to Pipkin's office and bring a
check along. He went there ac
companied by II. L. Branson, a
traveling man in the employ of the
Washburn-Crosby Flour company.
"As we were walking down Six
Tells Where Money Went,
teenth street we saw my car being
driven along by Danbaum," he tes
tified. "We saw him stop in front
of Pipkin's office and go upstairs.
We followed. When we arrived in
the office Pipkin said I should write
a check for the recovery of the car.
1 asked how much. He said $150.
I protested that it was a holdup, but
lie said he had to have fSO for Dan
baum, $50 for himself and $50 for a
party in Kansas City who had tip
ped tlrem off where the car was.
Compromised on $125.
"I still protested it was too much
and we finally compromised on $125,
and I wrote a check for that
amount. I had given him $10 be
fore, which he said he needed to
have some printing done, and I later
saw some cards printed with a num
ber of stolen cars on them and my
car was among them."
Greenberg, who lives at 2023
Charles street, and is a Central High
school student, told the story of the
theft. A peculiar feature of his
story is that the meetings between
the youthful thieves took place in
the neighborhood of Sixteenth and
Fifteenth and Dodge streets. Green
berg maintained that they just took
the car for a ride, but their move
ments while they had the car point
ed very strongly toward other motives.
Keys Lead to Arrest.
The arrest of the thieves was
brought about by one of those lit
tie things which often lead to the
detection of clever criminals. In this
case it was nothing but a bunch of
keys found in the tool box of the
recovered car by Mr. Richardson.
He turned them over to Chief of Po
lice Eberstein. They bore a name
disk with the name of Chrisman and
the address, 2509 South Twentieth
street. When Chrisman was ar
rested he implicated Greenberg and
the latter confessed.
'Don Chrisman and I were down
town the night of the peace celcba-
tion, said Greenberg, and we saw
the car standing there and we just
got in and took it. We had met
each other at Sixteenth and Dodge.
After we took the car we drove
down to Fifteenth and Dodge and
there we met Ralph Spellman. He
got in and then we drove out north
and out into the East Omaha bot
toms and drove the car into a big
patch of weeds there and left it.
Ihen we came back on the street
car. We stayed down town all night
and early in the morning Spellman
and I went out to East Omaha and
got the car and drove it back and
put it in a garage at a house Vicar
Twentieth and Dodge. Then I went
to school."
Why did you drive it out into
the weeds in East Omaha?" asked
Mr. Baker.
"We were afraid to drive it down
town again, said Greenberg.
Well, then, why did you go out
there tjic next morning and get it?
"We just wanted to see if it was
there."
Visited by Detectives.
Greenberg said that on the morn
ing of November 17 Danbaum and
Pipkin came to his home and asked
him where the car was. He main
tained that he didn't know and then
they took him to Pipkin's office, he
said. There he finally told them
where it was and took them to the
garage at Twentieth and Dodge
streets.
After his incrimination through
the finding of the Chrisman
bunch of keys Greenberg was taken
to Chief of Police Eberstein s ollice
and made a written and sworn state
ment. Attorney Baker called for
this statement, but Commissioner
Ringer refused to show it Mayor
smith upheld him.
"This is no star chamber session,'
shouted Mr. Baker, "and if the com
missioners, sitting here as a court
know the contents of that affidavit
we have a right to know it, too.
Mayor Objects.
"No, you can't have it." said the
mayor, "that's a fixed principle of
law. it a commissioner moves that
the affidavit be shown to you and
another commissioner seconds it, we
will take a vote. But vou want to
get hold or the affidavit for use in
a different case than this and, as
far as I am concerned, you'll not
get it."
At several other points there
were lively tilts between Mayor
Smith and Mr. Baker. "You're eas
ily rattled," the mayor told him
once. ,
The testimony of II. L. Branson
is considered extremely important,
as he was the only other man pres
ent with Kichardson. JJanbaum and
Pipkin when Pipkm is alleged to
have said that he had to pay Dan
baum J 5U.
Adjournment Taken.
The testimony of young Green
berg was considered by many who
heard it, a weak attempt of a boy
to cover up the theft of a car for
profit, txcept tor the mistake
made by the thieves in leaving the
bunch of keys in the tool box of the
stolen car, the police would prob
ably never have heard of them.
THE HOUSE OF
MEN A GH
Saturday Wonder Sale
r . ' of ;;
Separate Shirts
and Blouses
to wear with them
Spring fashions have sounded a
clear, Btrong note for the sep
arate skirt, for dress, business,
and sports wear. .For our
Saturday special bargain
sale, therefore, we have
put into clearance all
our stock of the past
season's skirts,
most of which are
cut along the prevail
ing lines for the coming
season. The materials, too,
are good style, both silk and
wool skirts being offered in the
plaids, stripes and plain materials.
For Saturday Only, Then, We
Will Sell 50 Skirts
In Silks, plaid, stripes, and plain blue and
tan, button trimmed and tailor-stitched.
And Wool, plaid, plain" and striped, in
blue and gray, and tan. . There are serges,
poplins, and wool mixtures included.
Choose your skirt give us a $5 bill, and
we will return you the price of an ice cream
sundae. Every skirt in the lot at
$4.85
Skirts Call for Waists '
And we have answered this call by choosing just 50 pretty
Blouses, half georgette, half crepe de chine, to go with them.
Georgettes
at $335
In pink, blue, gray, brown
and flesh, prettily embroid
ered in self or contrasting
t'olors.
Crepe de Chine
at $1.98
Tailored models, in white,
black, flesh and navy, with
high and low necks, values
that will make you glad you
came.
LOCKED IN BATH
ROOM, DE ORGLER
GIVEN FRIGHT
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shower his smiles and attentions
upon her. When he persisted, the
lady announced her intention of
complaining to the management.
"If you'll permit us, we'll take
care of him, volunteered a quartet
of gallant young men, one of them
a dashing lieutenant in the - army,
who had watched the proceeding.
Springs the Trap.
So th,ey framed a little scheme to
give the titled foreigner a good
oldfashioned ducking. And since it
was dark and too far to the stream,
they decided that in tie bathtub-it
should be, clothes and all.
The lady was to smile upon tjie.
baron, invite him to her room and
when he had accepted, signal to the
waiting quartet They would do
the rest.
It worked like a charm.
Dealing out his love and adora
tion with the pinochle cards, in
which game the two engaged, he
illy concealed his eagerness to go
up to her room.
they started, the girl signalling
to her fellow-conspirators to fol
low. Just as they got into her
room, she paused, listening to the
approaching footsteps along the
hall.1t
"My, GodI It's my husband!
He'll kill you 1" she all but shrieked.
"In there get into that bathroom
before he sees you I" and she shoved
him in locking the door upon him.
Locked in Bath Room.
Just in time for "husband."
chosen for his big, booming voice,
and his , companions entered the
room. '
"Where have you been, dearie,
I've been looking all over the hotel
for you. Let's go downtown for
a walk.
"Dearie consented and the party
left, leaving the fearful baron
locked up in the bath room.
It must have been a dire two
hours he passed there, for when the
party returned toward midnight to
release the baron from his enforced
prison they found him white and
spent with his long vigil and use
less efforts to escape.
Was he neeved? He certain! v was
and reported the affair to the man
ager, R. J. Mcradden.
Manager Mchadden told him to
cut it out" or he would eject him
from the hotel.
Keeping in the Clear.
"I beg your pardon," pleaded the
ever courtly baron. "I merely want
ed you to know about the affair so
that if the lady subsequently missed
anything from her room, she could
not accuse me of stealing it, he
said.
To guests at the hotel the baron
confided the fact that Grayce Heyn
eman spurned his love offers, but
that he had hopes of ultimate suc
cess.
He was ejected from the fashion
able Copley Plaza in Boston, he told
them, because he was lionized by
so :any women the management
was unable to handle the telephone
calls he received.
SEATTLE MAYOR
IS NOW READY
FOR ARMY RULE
At Cut
Prices
COAL
FOR CASH
In order to move at once our
large stock of coal, we are offer
ing you the following coals below
the Government price:
Genuine Pennsylvania Hard Coal
for immediate de- QIC 7 C
livery, per ton. . . V O
Radiant, Lump, Egg and Nut,
best grades of Illinois, from
Franklin Co. or
per ton &0OQ
Illinois Lump from JQ OP
Central District, ton pOe D
Cherokee Nut, qual- J0 Aff
ity kind, per ton. . . . vOO
Nevinger, Missouri Nut, Hand
screened, Jy aa
per ton V evil
Specialty Lump Q A E
Egg, Nut, per ton. . . POtiO
Spadra, Hard Coal from Arkan
sas, the best coal for furnace and
hot water plants; 5 1 C QC
holds fire 24 hours V 1 JI0
Semi Anthracite Lump un-
T: $11.60
Petroleum Carbon Coke, no ah,
per ton . .
$8.30
ROSENBLATT
In Business Since 1894
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motorman, but there was no inter
ference and frequently the car
stopped to take on passengers.
It was indicated today by the
Seattle authorities an effort would
be made tomorrow to inaugurate a
regular street car service under
guard if necessary of automobile
trucks, manned by soldiers and po
liceman. "Troops in Seattle," read the
seven column top head line of The
Star, issued this afternoon, the first
newspaper to publish since the strike
was called. Manned and guarded
by soldiers the first truck load of
newspapers was sent into the busi
ness district.
The soldiers gave the papers away
to crowds that gathered around the
trucks. Some of the crowd believed
to have been union newsboys seizel
many of the papers and tore them to
bits.
Mayor Hanson promised news
papers that he would supply all the
soldiers and police needed to con
tinue publication.
Strike leaders, it was said at. the
Seattle labor council today, con
sidered permitting several of the
large downtown cafeterias to open
"Soup kitchens' 'operated in mili
tary "mess" style by striking culi
nary workers have been so heavily
taxed by the crowds that not every
one could be served.
Schools, closed by the strike of
janitors and engineers, will reopen
Monday, the beattle board of edu
cation announced tonight. The
union employes are expected to re
turn, the announcement said.
rrom .Portland came word ot an
exodus from Seattle to Portland
hotels of persons, who, in many
cases,. said they had left Seattle to
escape the discomforts and dangers
of the general strike.
San Francisco . advices declared
that the Pacific Coast Steamship
company, operating a line ot coast
wise passenger and freight boats,
had abandoned Seattle as a port of
call until the strike is ended. Other
companies, shipping men said, were
expected to follow this lead.
State Troops Mobilize.
Mai.' E. H. Keen of the office of
the adjutant general of Washing
ton, stated today that 13 companies
of the Washington state infantry
and four companies of independent
state troops have been ordered, to
drill tonight. The order was is
sued, Major Keen said, so that the
men and officers could be kept in
close touch with each other and be
ready for any call.
The regular army has taken every
precaution to prevent interruption
of communication that might inter
fere with troop operations and wire
less stations have been erected on
the roof of the capitol building at
Olympia, and on grounds across
from the Tacoma armory. These
stations will be in communication
with the government, controlled
wireless station at Seattle.
Tacoma to Start Cars Today.
Tacoma, Wash;, Feb. 7. Declara
tion by officials of the street car
men's union that street car service
positively would be resumed in
Tacoma tomorrow morning was the !
predominant feature of the general
strike situation here tonight as the
tieup of car service has been the
only serious jnconveniece which
citizens have felt so far as the re
sult of the walkout of 'everal union
organizations.
Goethals Asks $60,000,000
for Purposes of Storage
Washington, Feb. 7. Major Gen
eral Goethals, chief of the purchase,
storage and traffic division of the
War department, asked the house
military affairs committee today for
an appropriation of $60,000,000 to be
used in storing the enormous quan
tities of surplus war supplies in pos
session of the department. He said
$30,000,000 would be needed for the
rental of storage houses and $30,
000,000 fqj maintenance.
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Have You Hefird
the New
Choral Pershing
and
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We have them.
Player Rolls for
All Pianos
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the scene shortly afterward and the
crowd dispersed.
San Francisco, Feb. 7. More than
5.000 boilermakers employed in
Oakland shipyards voted tonight to
go on a strike to enforce their de
mand for an increase m wages.
Union officials said the walkout
would effect other allied trades
workers within a few days. They
estimated more than 40,003 men
eventually would be made idle. '
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tor E. W. Giore'i ilgiutura on Uie ti. 80c Adv.
ACQUIT AUTO DEFENDANTS.
New York, Feb. 7. Sixteen cor
porations comprising the National
Association of Automobile Acces
sory Jobbbers and 20 individual de
fendants, who have been on trial
here for some weeks, charged with
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law, were declared not guilty by a
federal jury today.1
AIPSTICE IS
ATTACKED IN
EBERT SPEECH
(Continued From Fr One.)
of indigation as the chancellor re
ferred to the 800.000 prisoners of
war still held in captivity. All this,
he said, showed anything but a
spirit of reconciliation.
, Warns Opponents.
"We warn out opponents not to
drive us to the uttermost," he de
clared. "Hunger is preferable to
disgrace and deep privation is to be
prefcred to dishonor."
The Germans, he said, laid down
their arms with confidence in Presi
dent Wilson and the present free
government of Germany believes it
is only its right to cuter tlfe league
cf nations.
"We turn therefore to all the
peoples of the world for justice.
We ask that our economic life be
not destroyed. The German peo
ple has fought for inner self-lc-tcrmination;
it cannot be perfect
from the outside."
Herr Ebert was cheered when he
brought up the proposed union of
Germany and Austria. He said he
hoped that the bonds sundered in
1866 would again be sealed and
asked the house to approve the
move. Following a strong appeal
for German unity the chancellor de
clared that the provisional govern
ment had been the executor of a
bankrupt regime.
May Fix New Terms.
Paris, Feb. 7. The allied premiers
who meet this afternoon as the
supreme, interallied war council
probably will fix new terms to l"
imposed upon Germany, whose tac
tics of obstruction and recrimina
tion arc said to have received a cli
max in a threat made at Weimar by
Chancellor Ebcrt that Germany
would break off negotiations with
the allies.
Congress Urged to Improve
All Navigable Waterways
Washington, Feb. 7. Federal
supervision of water transportation
enlarged jurisdiction of the Inter
state Commerce commission over
water and rail rates, and the im
provement of all navigable streams
upon which commerce could be es
tablished were recommended to con
gress today in a declaration of prin
ciples adopted by the National Rivers
and Harbors congress at the closing
session of its fourteenth annual
mectincr.
New Veils
Some of the most attrac
tive styles and newest ones
in taupe, navy, black and
brown.
Hexagon and filet meshes
with chenille dots and
scroll patterns are very
much in favor now.
A veil is a small item, but
one that can add a lot to
the costume. Choose it
with care and be sure that
it is correct.
Trefousse
Gloves
The finest of French kid
pique sewn Trefousse
gloves in black, white,
taupe, navy and pastel
shades. The backs beau
tifully embroidered in self
and contrasting colors,
$2.75, $3 and $3.75.
Lamp Shades
Made to your order,' or, if you
prefer to make them yourself,
we have all of the necessary
frames and materials and two
competent instructors to assist
you in the work. See for your
self Saturday how many women
are busily engaged in this fas
cinating work.
Artn.cdl.work Third Floor
Sweaters
For the Children
Wool Sweaters, in white and
colors for ages 3, 4, 5 and 6
years are here) for $3.25, $3.75,
$4.75 and $5.
Boys' Wool Sweaters in dark
and medium gray, sizes 8, 10
and 12 years, $5.50 and $6.50.
Misses Sweaters of Shetland
wool, and of heavy all-wool
yarn, sizes 6 to 14 years. All
colors and prices.
Recent Arrivals
in the Ribbons
The most fashionable shades
in stripes, checked patterns and
flowered effects that are suit
able for camisoles, hair bows
and bags. Very reasonable at
50c and 75c a yard.
Thomson's
Corsets
(Cloy Fitting)
You will not tire of a Thom
son Glove Fitting Corset, neith
er will you wear it out quickly,
and until it is completely worn
out it will retain its shape, and
the longer you wear it the bet
ter you'll like it
Exceptional for $2.50.
Corsets Third Floor
Lace Scarfs, $1
These are lace trimmed, in
effective designs, and have
been selling for $1.50 and
$1.75. A Saturday special
for $1.
-Linen Section
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TAelhsJiiozt Genier for lvo2iien
Springtime Clothes
For Discriminating Women
There are no dull phases to the ap
parel fashions here, for the new is
found always in its most appealing
interpretation. Every decision that
Fashion has made is reflected in
these delightfully varied assortments.
First Time Showing Saturday
Suits from $45 to $150.
Dresses from $25 to $105.
Coats from $35 to $139.50.
Separate Skirts, $15 to $39.50.
The Store for Blouses
Exquisite new creations of voile, mull,
organdie, crepe de chine, satin, and'
Georgette crepe, for spring occasions.
Blouses' far removed from the ordinary
such styles as will bring distinction to
the most attractive costume.
Prices Varied to Suit.
Your Viewing is Requested.
The,New Silks
FIRST
You are invited to an
"early-in-the-season" view
ing of Spring Silks, suit
able for frocks, skirts, blouses,
in fact every purpose for which
silks are used.
It's a showing that,
sparkles with newness
you'll find it a real plea
sure to see the favored
weaves and colors of the new
season. May we have the priv
ilege of showing you soon?
$11.85 a pair
for the best
Shoes in Stock
This is truly an excep
tional offering, the pick
of our entire stock of
high Shoes in leathers
of dark brown, black,
field mouse brown,
gold, en oak brown,
white ancl gray kid.
For Saturday
$11.85 a pair
THE MEN'S SHOP
Spring Haberdashery
If The first shipment of
Manhattan shirts has ar
rived, and they open up
to our entire satisfaction.
We know you will like to
see them soon and request the
pleasure of displaying them
for your approval.
Splendid selections of
new Spring neckwear to
show you at your leisure Sat
urday, if you choose.
New styles in soft col
lars have arrived during
the past week Earl & Wilson, '
Arrow and Delparks alto
gether nearly a hundred dif
ferent styles and materials.
ft The best of hose for
appearance and wear. In
terwoven, Onyx and
Wayne Knit, in plain
shades and many novel
ties. ft $2 Mufflers for $1.65.
Your choice of any in
stock at this reduction.
Numerous styles and all
good colors.
ft Soft collar pins and
links for French cuffs.
Styles to harmonize with
your various shirts.
The Men's Shop
To the Left ai You Enter.
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