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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1919)
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1919. LUSTERS AIID LAYKEN LEARN IIOWTO QETFUND Methodists Apportionment for Nebraska and Iowa Cen tenary Movement is Hundred Million. Instruction in means of raising Nebraska and Iowa's apportionment of the $100,000,000 of the world cen tenary movement fund was imparted to 2,500 delegates at the Methodist conference yesterday by Rev, ,C. S. Ward, of New York, who won na tional prominence for organizing the first Red Cross drive for fund3. "First-class organization was the first requisite," he said. "The church loses none of its spir ituality in campaigning for money," Dr. Ward asserted, in response to a question. "In fact the church would lose influence if it should neglect to raise money to carry on its work," he said. Laymen Must Work. "Don't be appalled by the great magnitude of the sum." The big ger the task, the greater the suc cess is the outcome. "Laymen must do the work," he said, "not shift the responsibility to the ministers." Laymen who will give money freely to the church but who oppose their children's dedication to church work were scored by Rev. G. F. Ream of the life service department. "You must create an atmosphere which will make it easy for young people to register the call to service they receive from God," he said. Three hundred "minute men" at tending the conference held a luncheon at the Rome hotel with Dr. C. F. Reisner as speaker. An equal number had luncheon at the Hotel Loyal, -with Dr. W. A. Brown, Dr. W. C. Hanson and Dr. John E. llancher as speakers. "Arousing and Inspiring the Church" was the- theme of the aft ernoon session, at which Rev. W. E. Doughty presided. Oppose Cigaret Law. Preachers ind laymen of the Ne braska Methodist church passed resolutions yesterday opposing the passage of House Roll 63 licensing the sale of cigarets. They suggested that the present law be amended "so that it can be enforced the same as the present prohibition law." Borden Refuses to Comment on Ambasadorship Report I'aris, Feb. 12. Sir Robert Bor den, the ,Canadian premier, when asked today regarding a report from London concerning nis name with the British ambassadorship to the United States, thought a moment and replied with a smile: "I do not believe I have any ob servations to make regarding the report." , While no official announcement has been made of the refusal of the British ambassadorship in Wash-ins-ton by Lord Robert Cecil, to whom it had been offered, it is known that Lord Robert is not in clined to acept the post for person al reasons. . : Brie) City News Rojul Swmpen, Burcu-Grndn Co. Ilave Root Trint It Beacon Trees. JofTws on Inspection Trip Gen eral Manager Jerfers of the Union Pacific ha fcone out on an Inspec tion of the Wines of the St. Joseph road. Dempsey Is III Assistant Chief of Police M. F. Dempsey is 111 at Ms home with the "flu." He haa been sick for three days and is now re ported to be improving. Sorvires at Mission Rev. W. F. Botts, of the Zion Baptist church, with his choir of 40 voices, will hold services at the Mid-west Gospel mis sion, 215 South Fourteenth street, to night at 7: 3D p. m. Barber to Lecture R. H. Barber, a representative of the Pittsburgh Bible House, will lecture In Labor Temple, Sixteenth and Capitol ave nue, this evening at 8 o'clock. Brings Back Contract E. A. Mc Glasson of the Harry A. Koch Co. returned Tuesday from Barns ton, Neb., where ha landed the con tractor's bond on a new school building to be erected there at a coot Of $65,000. Big notary Conference Tech nically the Rotary conference to be held in Omaha, February 16 to 18, will be confined to the 16th district, but since the Transmississippi Re adjustment congress meets in Oma ha, February 18 to 20, with repre sentation from the 22 states west of the Mississippi, the Rotary confer ence will actually take on a broader aspect. "Spellin' Bees" Throughout Country to Be Held Friday There are going to be "spellin' bees" next Friday in alt the Omaha public schools. This is part of a movement all over the country. The same list of words (will be used in each grade of each city and then a national comparison will be made on the spelling ability of pupils. Superintendent Beveridge says he knows Omaha children will give a good account of themselves. Wade to Speak at Omaha Club Washington Dinner Hon. Martin J. Wade, judge of the United States district court, southern division of Iowa, will be the distinguished guest and speak er at the annual Washington birth day dinner of the Omaha club Sat urday evening. Ladies will be per mitted to participate in the celebra tion cf the occasion. A dance after 10 p. m. will conclude the celebra tion, Gregory to Talk to the , -Members of State Bar Stephen S. Gregory of Chicago, former president of the American Bar association will address the Nebraska- State Bar association in the Creighton Institute of Law on February 20. His subject will be, "The Picturesque Chancellor." Judge A. C. Wakeley of the State Bar association, will speak on "Civil Liberty as An American Ideal." Greybull, Wyo., Prepares for Rush in Oil Fields Greybull, Wyo., Feb. 12. Twenty new stills doubling the capacity of the Standard refinery here, will be completed within 60 days, if weathet conditions do not interfere. Severe December weather delayed the con crete work and the delivery of ma terial. All material is now nere. $ M s. i 1 t i i. u y Buy Your Clothes Now Every Winter Suit and Overcoat Must Be Sold We Take the Loss You Take the Clothes 1 ft I Not a garment to be car ried over. The price re ductions are enormous, and for you to be well dressed costs little money here. The Palace shows you the way. I M M n i y M Strouse & Bros.' Hight Art Suits and Overcoats and Schlosi Bros. Balti more fine Suits, $35 and $40 values, 0 fft7C all in one Iot,9 priced at only 21 Better Clothing is not made and never before sold at sachr email priee. 1 The Palace Clothing and Prices Appeal to Thou sands. ' ( Are you one of the many tak ing advantage of this final clean-up sale? All 112.50 and $15 Q HK Suits and Overcoats Ve I v All 18 and ,$20 1 1 7K Suits and Overcoats V All $22.50 and $25 CIA 7K Suits and Overcoats V I J All $27.50 and $30 C1 7 AC Suits and Overcoats V 1 e4U All $37.50 and $40 &OA 7R Suits and Overcoats - All our $45 and up COQ 7C Suits and Overcoats VJ I y 1 . fi i? 'I 1 . i 1 f - y . N - j y i - 1 1 .y I I Boys' Suits and Over coats at Less Than Cost Boys' Overcoats All our regular $10 E QQ values; now.... VWiJO Boys' Overcoats All our regular $12.50 QO values; now. ... eJ 1 Lot Juvenile Suits Made up in the newest novelties Ages 3 to 8 years. Choice of entire lot, only Boys' Norfolk Style Suits Ages 3 to 8. Former price, $7.50. Sale price, only; . Boys' $10 Suits Ideal School Suits in a variety materials . .... $5.48 V $3.98 tyle Suits ormer price, $4.48 W' will take your Liberty Bonds and pay you the d i f f erence in cash. 1 r.MWMINti r.OMPAAT ii W. i ... r END CENTENARY LIEETINGS WITH , HUGEJ3AI2QUETS 3,000 Methodist Ministers and Laymen Attend Closing Sessions .of World Program. Omaha holds the honor of enter taining the largest of five sectional Methodist world program conven tions in the centenary meeting which closed its two-day session Wednes day night with victory banquets in the First Methodist church and the Masonic Temple. Three thousand Iowa and Nebraska delegates at tended. This statement was made by Jesse L. Murrell of Chicago anil other of the centenary speakers. Une thousand Jaymen and women oined hands about the tables in the Masonic Temple dining hall at the close of the meeting and lifted their voices in hymns of praise for a suc cessful convention. It was the largest banquet ever held in Omaha. rour hundred ministers held a sep arate dinner in the Methodist church. New Epoch in Methodism. A new epoch in Methodism and the coming of a new ministry were heralded in the ministerial gather ing. "The call of the hour is. for a new ministry with new standards, new programs of enterprise in the church and new passions to beget sons of the gospel," declared Rev. G. F. Ream. "The baptism of a new task has fallen upon the ministry." "There is too much canned spirit ualism and too much potentiality canned up in the laity, said Rev. Claudis B. Spencer. "These must be overcome in the new epoch." Upt. William M. Hardy of St. Louis, In the uniform of the United States army, was given the greatest ovation in. the laymen's meeting. Soldier Talks. "The men in uniform have learned to fight and they'll niake the Metho dist church the fighting church, not with bayonets or bullets, but with the spirit of the living Gpd. We downed the brute with bullet and shrapnel, but we'll need the spirit of God to transform the petty 'man to one with the, broad world vision," he said. "I'm not as pious as I used to be, but I feel the same inside," he of fered in testimony of the soldier's feeling in religious matters. H. C. Ring of Cedar Rapids, la., gave an excellent tribute to Abra ham Lincoln. J. C. Fennell of Co lumbus, Neb., also spoke. A, F. Smith of Council Bluffs presided. Speakers from the New York and Chicago offices of the world centen ary movement left on late trains for Minneapolis, where the sixth of the national meetings opens this morn ing. Total Casualties of U. S. Siberia Forces 10 Officers, 314 Men Washington, Feb. 12. A cable gram today from the headquarters of the American expeditionary forces in France gave the total cas ualties in American forces in Si beria up to February 9 as 10 offi cers and 314 men killed, died of wounds and disease, wounded and missing in action. Kenyon Proposes Inquiry Regarding Home Building Washington, Feb. 12. Senator Kenyon of Iowa introduced a bill to day to create a joint congressional executive commission of six to in quire into existing- methods of fi nancing the construction and acqui sition of homes within the reach of people of modest means. He said he had abandoned hope of getting his measure creating a department of public works to relieve unemploy ment passed at the present session. (IRE DECLARES CHARGES FILED COUNT LITTLE Commissioner Defends Chief Briggs and Says Practice of Signing Judge's Name is Common The stage is set in city cobncil for the hearing of Captain of De tectives John Briggs and Dete'ctive 1.. L. Wade this afternoon on the charge of "misconduct in office." The case was postponed from last Saturday because Briggs' attorney could not be present. Now Briggs wants an immediate hearing. ' There is a well-defined opinion that the object of those bringing the men to trial is more than to secure a conviction. "The charge seems to be a mere bagatelle," Commissioner Ure said. "Signing the name of Police Judge Britt to a warrant is technically a forgery and bad practice perhaps, but I don't consider it anything on which men should be brought to a hearing. It is well known that this is common practice. If they had to send out and find the police judge every time they want to ar rest someone it would be bungle some and defeat the ends of justice. Even when the police judge signs a warrant he does so merely as a matter of form. He doesn't know whether there is sufficient reason for the arrest. If you're going to call this forgery, then a man com mits forgery when he signs his wife's name to a receipt for a pack age that comes from the store. Others May Go. As an aftermath of the trial and discharge of Detective Danbaum there is a rumor at city hall that "five other detectives have been tipped off to resign." Commissioner Ringer said, "there is'ibsolutely nothing to it." , Feeling among the policemen and detectives is high over the trial by which Detective Danbaum was sum marily dismissed after a majority of the city council had declined to dis miss him on the charges upon which he was tried. Admit It Illegal. At least three of the commission ers admit that this proceeding was illegal and that Danbaum was "rail roaded" out. v The law, specifically states that an officer cannot be dis charged without the preferring of charges and without being found guilty after a hearing before the city council. In the Danbaum case coun cil declined to discharge him on the charges on which he was tried. Mr. Ringer then introduced a resolution that he be dismissed "for the good of the service" and four commission ers voted in favor of so doing. The only legal proceeding, com missioners say, would have been to ask him to resign. If he declined, then it would be necessary to file new charges and try him on them. Commissioner Zimnian declined to comment on conditions in the police department exce'pt to say that he "thinks the department should be re organized for the good of the service and the proper police protection of the city." "I am ready to proceed with a full investigation of the department. I am not in favor of removing Mr. Ringer from the charge of the de partment at this time." May Go to South Omaha. That the charges against Captain Briggs are to be quashed and that he will be transferred to South Omaha without loss of rank was the basis of a well-founded rumor cir culated yesterday. The county attorney, who was expected to bring charges against Briggs for the release of William McKenna, star automobile thief, without release papers of any sort after a bond had been fixed by I Judge Britt at $5,000, has not yet finished his investigation. , International Aviation Conference Soon to Meet Paris, Feb. 12. An international aviation conference will be held in Paris within a few weeks to outline recommendations to the society of nations in order to make possible the resumption of civilian aerial ser vice between the nations. The Unit ed States will be represented b.v Brig. Gen. Mason Patrick, Dr. Dur and, of the national advisory com mittee 011 aeronautics and a naval officer. boost your business venture. Try a Bee Want Ad to Bring ot Oh, it's There! Ouch, How it Pains! RIGHT ACROSS THE SMALL OF THE BACK OR OVER THE KIDNEYS I v.-,, II 0- ' s Kt' mm ib tmh . 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Wednesday, February 12, 1919- in 1 O) nil m 02 UMMil h 4Mr m21ij. x EVERYBODY STORE" -STORE NEWS FOR THURSDAY- -Phone Doug. 2100 Announcing for Thursday Our Annual February f-Sj r OF Embracing Odd and Discontinued Patterns and Numbers of the Best Makes Offered to You at F ally 20 Under Present Mill Cost A BROAD, bold statement, we will admit but investigation and comparison on your part will prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that the values are by far the biggest and best of fered by anyone for a long, long time and, for that matter, for many months to come. THE offering embraces the odd and dis- continued numbers taken from our regu lar stock; together with those secured through a very special purchase, from a big distributor. Mostly in dividual patterns, but in some cases two or three of a kind. Every pattern and coloring very desirable. A MOST unusual opportunity-affording " ' the home furnishers of Omaha an oc casion when they can buy rugs of the best standard makes, suitable for any room in the house, at prices that are extremely low much below present manu facturing cost. Here's an idea below. t . . I ! il 9x12 Wilton Rug$ Reduced to Herat! Wilton rugs, size 9x12 feet, sale price . . . . . . ,. $79.50 Herati Wilton rugs, size 8-3x10-6 feet, sale price .$76.50 Herati Wilton rugs, size 6x9 feet, sale price $41.50 9x12 Wilton Rugs Reduced to Shah Abbas Wilton rugs, size 9x12 feet, sale price $72.50 Shah Abbas Wilton rugs, size 8-3x10-6 feet, sale price $69.50 Shah Abbas Wilton rugs, size 6x9 feet, sale price $44.60 9x12 Wilton Rugs Reduced to $' Jim v(q)4? Karnak Wilton rugs, size 9x12 feet, sale price $64.00 Karnak Wilton rugs, size 8-3x10-6 feet, sale price ...... .v $60.00 Karnak Wilton rugs, size 9x9 feet, sale price $57.00 Karnak Wilton rugs, size 6x9 feet, sale price . . . '. $41.50 9x12 Wilton Rugs Reduced to Bangor Wilton rugs, size 9x12, sale price. $41.00 Bangor Wilton rugs, size 8-3x10-6, sale price. . . .$37.50 Burbury Wilton rugs, size 9x12, sale price $46.50 Burbury Wilton rugs, size 8-3x10-6, sale price. . .$41.50 Extra quality velvet rugs, size 8-3x10-6, sale price, $24.75 Empire tapestry rugs, size 9x9, sale price $15.00 Edgemere tapestry rugs, size 9x12, sale price. . . .$23.85 Berkshire tapestry rugs, size 9x12, sale price. . . . .$26.75 Saranac tapestry rugs, size 9x12, sale price $31.25 Wilverton velvet; rug, size 7-6x9, sale price $26.25 Brentmore Axminster, size 7-6x9, sale price. , . . .$27.60 Imported Chinese Oriental At 33V3 Off Regular IN connectioh with the domestic sale, ' we will place our entire stock of im ported Chinese Oriental rugs, consisting , of the various sizes from the door mat ' up to the room size rug, at 33 off the , regular prices. Large assortment, in' blue, ecru, orange, and rose colorings, Oriental designs. Burfess-Nash Cc Third Floor Rugs Price Oil Karadi Wilton rugs, size 9x12 feet, sale price , . .$54.00 Karadi Wilton rugs, size 8-3x10-6 feet, sale price .$46.50 Karadi Wilton rugs, size 9x9 feet, sale price .$44.50 Karadi Wilton rugs, size 6x9 feet, sale price ............... .$33.50 Brentmore Axminster, size 6-9x9, sale price .... $24.40 Brentmore Axminster, size 4-6x6-6, sale price. . . .$12.25 Khorassan Axminster rugs, size 7-6x9, sale price. $23.25 Khorassan Axminster rugs, size 6x9, sale price. . .$24.00 Biissorah Axminster rugs, size 7-6x9, sale price. . .$29.75 Bussorah Axminster rugs, size 6x9-9, sale price. .$26.40 Bussorah Axminster rugs, size 6x9, sale price $26.40 Bussorah Axminster rugs, size 4-6x6-6, sale price, $13.25 Electra Axminster rugs, size 9x9, sale price $35.25 Electra Axminster rugs, size 6-9x9, sale price $2S.40 Electra Axminster rugs, size 4-6x7-6, sale price. .$15.25 Windsor Wilton rugs, size 9x12 feet, sale price. .$59.50 i