A I. f 12 D ROURKES TANGLE WITH ARMOUR SEMI-PROSTODAY Both Star Teams; Packers Ex pect to Trounce Leaguers; ' Short History of the Omaha Players. ; Weill Well! Mr. Ball Fan! 'Glad to see you again. Suppose you'll be -put to the Rourke park grounds this afternoon, eh? The Omaha West ern leaguers will play the Armours in a full , nine-inning game today, etarting at the regular schedule time of 3:15. The best of it is lhat the fellow that has always envied the tfuys that could sit in the grand- stand, can get Just as good seats as the other fellow t6day, for the same price, Choose your own seat for oO cents,, including the war tax. jThe Armours will give the 'Rourkes a stiff battle and the man agers of the packer team don't hesi- ftate to say that they think they have a good chance of trimming the leaguers. As semi-pros, they will have a stronger line-up than they ever had as leaders of the Greater Omaha league, the local Class A " amateurs. The teams will have the - following batting orders in the game: Th Omaha club: Armour: Banhang, rt Jackaon, lb Thompaon, If Donlca, Sb Table. 3b rjlalason, as Mack, If Hale, o Corderman, o ' Kopp. p Manake, p Fuhr. p Haien Kranda Hera 1 Dygert, cf Graves, rf . wynek. 2b ) Williams. 0 Payne, If Corcoran, 3b M. Collins, 8 Ryan, lb : -llaye, p Oyke. p'. Potaeh, p J. Collins Pendelton Who They Are Some of the followers of the fortunes of the Omaha club don't know the players very well, so in ordr to get them acquainted with , the team that will try and bring a pennant to the Gate City, we present , herewith a short storyf of each , player. Al Bashang, right fielder, born in Cincinnati, O.. August 22, 1891. Played with Lexington, Ky., in the Blue Grass league, Detroit American i league, Topeka Western league, Ft. Wayne Central league, Saginaw Southern-(Michigan league, Ottowa Canadian league, Peoria. Three Eye leagoe and then came to Omaha. Bill R. Jackson, manager and first base, refused to give date of his birth, said "guess," born at Pitts burgh, Pa., played from 1906 to 1911 in the Tecas league, was drafted by the Athletics, sold to San Francisco ' and then to Seattle, jumped to the Chicago Federals, went to Peoria as manager for two years, and is now in his second year as manager of the Omaha team. ' Harry Donica, third baseman, born in Bedford, Ind., July 31. 1892. Played with Frankfort, Ky., in the Blue Grass league, Columbus, Amer ican association, Decatur and Bloom ington, III., in the Three Eye league, Richmond Central league and then to Omaha. , Stags, Thompson. James Alfred Thompson. Center . fielder, born at Graham, N. C, April 29, 1894, played with Durham in the North Carolina State league, played with the Athletics in 1914, 1915 and 1916, sold to Omaha in. 1916, and played here in 1916 and 1917, worked . .t. t: i 'imo i i in me smpyarus m i?io aim is jicic for 1919. Hal F. Cable, second baseman, born in Toledo, O., November 10, 1893. played with Jackson in the Southern Michigan league, Brad ford, Pa., in the Interstate league, in the Coast league for three years and then to the dinner bucket league because of the work or fight law. Came to Omaha for this year; 1 Played at Medicine Hat. Gard Gislason. shortstop, born in Milton, N. D.. September 22. 1895, played with Medicine Hat in the Western Canadian league, Van- cefuver and Spokane in the North west league. Sa't Lake City in the Coaftt league and came to Omaha in a trade for Marty Krug. 1 William F. (Red) Mack, . out- fielder, born in Cincinnati. O., March 4, 1898, played in the Blue Grass and Texas leagues and with Fort Smith in the Western association , and Omaha. Herbert J. Hale, catcher, born in Kansas City, Mo., September 22, 1893, played with Richmond in an Inter-city league, semi-pro ball and joined the army ayiation corps at : the outbreak of the war, won a sec ond lieutenancy and was an ob server with the 99th observation squadron, 5th corporal First army. Was engaged in the battles of St. Mihiel, Argonne' forrest and the Meuse drive, fell 2,400 meters in his airplane, injuring his hip and breaking his pilot's ankle. Was nine ' months in overseas service. Been home six weeks and joined Omaha" team. Is officially credited with bringing down two Germaft Fochers. Ralph T. Corderman, catcher, - born in Sac City, la., October 27. 1898, played with Peoria in 1916 and joined Omha in 1917. . " . From Semi-Pros. t Manske, no record. Played semi- pro ball around Iowa and Nebraska, started with Omaha in 1918. Oscar L. Fuhr, born in . Defiance. COMMERCIAL GUIDE. School Furniture and Supplies. OMAHA SCHOOL SUPPLY CO., 110S-1! Nicholas St. Douglas 1J1J. 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He was out to make the works safe for de mocracy and Home Guards. Bill paddled his-dogs down Fifth avenue be tween two rows of cheering cuckoos who couldn't hear the eagle chirp unless it was on a dollar bill. From his corns to his army haircut Bill was dolled up in the regulation O. D. pedestrian trousseau. He wore a No. 7 boiler on his skull, and toted a trench piano and accesories on his spinepiece. , . f c Bill weighed about 792 pounds trenchside m his hobnailed feet, ot which 178 pounds were Bill. The rest was garnishings. Something like a steak en casserole. Bill didn't know exactly what it was all about, but he knocked so many Jerries loose from their life insurance that they pinned enough medals on his chest to balance the load on his back. This made Bill look like a sandwich man for a hardware factory. About this time Jerry figured that he had a blouseful and took it on the loop for the old home plate. Bill had one flipper shot away and had lost all the legs that a guy can conveniently spare. He had been laid up with ptomaine poisoning from biting a Jerry in the neck, which earned him another yard of medal pieces. Bill wasn't vicious, but anything was a change from the O. D. army beans. In order to, save Bill's thumb, the army surgeon had amputated his little linger at the elbow, but Bill figured that there was just enough of him left to hold his old job down when he again parked his hobspiked dogs on the star spangled real estate of Yonkers and vicinity. The eagle had screamed with a chorus by the entire company and Bill was coming home. Still Screaming. , (Coming up the bay, a herd of tugboats whistled in' eight colors and pink, and Bill got his first eastern eyeful of the Statue o! Liberty with her face toward New York and Europe which places New Jersey in rather a peculiar position. The same cuckoos who had cheered Bill east were there to cheer him west. They wined him and cheered him and '''.led him and cheered him. Bill was wondering about his old job, but nobody could stop cheer ing him long enough to put him hep. They stuck up a big triumphal arch made of some transient material like toothpaste or glucose and Bill again walked up Fifth avenue with so many medals on his vest that he looked like an xylophone. - Everybody cheered themselves dizzy, but Bill couldn't figure where things had changed much since he ankled down the avenue two years ago. They were still doing the cheering and he was still doing the walking- ' ' . 4 Jobbed Out of the Old Job . When the parade was cured they VJiuugu naib iv laivv. miii iiviuv., luviutu mainc liiuil 1 live 1I1U1 c llldll a nickel away. Bill walked up the old street and life was just one cheer after another with another cheer in between.. He asked. a traffic cop the way to his old building and the cop gave him three cheers but no direc tions. ' Bill figured you couldn't get fat on cheers until some bird invented a method of harnessing acoustics. He'finally dug up the old building and walked up 35 flights of stairs as the elevator bov was out cheerinir a n- rade. When he flatwheeled into the zanine floor of his desk and cheered Bill buzzed him about his old job, but the boss was too busy cheering him' to answer. Bill looked over at his old desk and piped some button eyed, hambacked cuckoo swivelling around in his old swivel chair. Bill didn't recognize this bird at first because the last time he spotted this needlenosed bird he had seven sets of spectacles on his beak in order to loqk thoroughly exempt. When the armistice was established he started shedding his specs but kept just enough on to see Bill's job. Bill tried to ask for his old job back, but all' the boss would give him was three cheers. , The eagle was still screaming, but Bill was wishing he would stop the Caruso stuff and lay a few eggs. I ' Cheers That Don't Cheer. After the office force had cheered him on his way. Bill popped into 216 other offices, but all he got was a complete set of cheers. Bill hoofed it down Fifth avenue puffing like a mule trying to do a locomotive's work Down at, Union Square he piped the same toothpaste Arch of Tri umph that he had waddled under a short time ago. On the top were a squad of screaming papier mache eagles. Bill had made the world safe for everybody but himself. He looked up at the screaming eagles and squawked: "How about canning this cheering jurrk and slipping me a job' You know that a bum is a bum. even if he is a hero." That was when the eagle giggled. Mo., August 22, 1893, played with Hannibal, Mb., in the Three-Eye league, Marshalltown in the Cen tral association and then to jOmaha. Was a second lieutenant in the U. S. army, went throueh the school of fire, a high honor for American army officers but did not get across. Edward T. Hazen, born in Omaha June 24, 1898, played with the Brandeis semi-pros and joined Oma ha club. Jesse J. Kranda, extra man, born in Omaha December 25, 1891, played semi-pro ball in Omaha before 1917, joined the U. S. army, sent to Hono lulu, where he played ball. Dis charged April 3 and came to Omaha for tryout. Otto' C. Merz, extra man, born in Red Bird, 111., October 9, 1890, played with Springfield, 111., in the Three Eye leigue, Indianapolis in the American association, and came to Omaha. New World Records Set at Central A. A. U. Meet Chicago, April 12. Tom Camp bell, University of Chicago fresh man, set a new world's indoor rec ord for 600 yards tonight at the Central A. A. U.x championships, running the distance in 1:13 1-5. The eld mark of 1:13 25 was held by Tom Halpin of the Irish-American Athletic club of New York. Joie Ray, Illinois Athletic dub, broke a third record tonight when he reduced his own time of 9:31 2-5 for two miles to 9:16 1:5. The first night he set a new indoor record for the miles and the second night broke the central A. A. record for the half mile. The meet closed to night. : Exhibition Base Ball Games. St. Louts, April 12. Score: K. H. E. St. Louis Nationals i 10 St. Louis Americans........ 6 7 0 Batteries: Shordel, Horstman and de mons; Soth'eron and Mayer. Philadelphia, April 12. Score: R. H. E. University of Pennsylvania.. 0 5.3 Philadelphia Americans.... 5 11 3 Batteries- Titzell and Warwick; Grevell and Berger, McAvoy. Baltimore, lid., April 12. Score: R. H. E. New York Nationals 15 1 Baltimore International.... 0 3 2 Batteries: Benton. Steel and McCarthy, O'Neill; Knelch, Frank. Herbert and Egan. Carroll. j Louisville. April 12. Score: (11 innings) R. H. E. Pittsburg Nationals 6 10 3 Louisville Am. Assn 6 i 2 Batteries: Hamilton, Adams and Schmidt; Miss. Frieday and Kocher. v Kansas City, April 12. Score: ( K. H. E. Cincinnati Nationals , 0 6 3 Kansas City Apn. Assn 2 5 1 Batteries: Mitchell and Rarlden; Graham and Brock. Bisbee, Art, April 12. Score: R. H. E. Chicago Nationals 0 Bisbee Miners' 8 12 t Jacksonville, Fla., April 12. Score: R. H. E. New Tork Americans..! 7 10 5 Brooklyn Nationals 3 13 4 Batteries: Mogrldge, Shawkey and Han nah; Mamaux, Marquard and Krueger, Miller. DIVORCE GRANTED. A divorce was granted to August Kopke from Hanna Kopke by Judge Day, sitting in divorce court. Kopke charged that she left him and with out securing a divorce married an other man with whom she lived in Kansas, 3?T mustered Bill out and slipped mm) office the boss eot uo on the mez- Bill dizzv. LEADERS REMAIN UNDISTURBED IN STATETOURNEY Liberty Motors Land in Sev enth. Place, Starboard and Spangler, Second and Schmitt, Third. In the five-man events in the state bowling tournament being con ducted at the Omaha alleys, the leaders position remained undis turbed, but the Liberty Six Motors rolled into seventh place and the Prettiest Mile No. 1 hooked onto tenth place. Fritscher and Kennedy still hold the lead in the doubles, but Starboard and Spangler threat ened them last night, getting 1,171, only 7 pins behind the leaders. Neal and Toman secured eighth place last night with the score of 1,098. There was only one man to com mand a place in the highest ten bowlers in last night's rolling. E. Schmitt of Lincoln with a score of 605 fanded in third place. The others were well below the good figures. The ten highest scores in ach division are as follows: yearns. - Score. Central Furniture company ........ 2,740 Sandow Trucks' 2.683 Beacon Press 2,681 Beselln's Kids 2,681 Murphy Did Its 2,666 Omaha National bank 2.657 Liberty Six Motors 2,604 Omaha Printing company 2,594 Sam's Indians 2,572 Prettiest Mile No. 1 2,569 Doubles. Fritscher and Kennedy 1,178 Starboard and Spangler' . . . . 1,171 Eldson and Sciple 1,149 Learn and W'artchow 1,109 Mayer and Olsen 1,103 Mills and Watt 1,099 Hefton and Blake 1,099 Neal and Loman 1,098 Boord and Martin i 1.0R9 K. Sciple and M. Stuns 1,086 , Singles. R. Sclplo 608 rt. I. Vore .... 592 I. Hensley 606B. Shaw . 5S3 E. Schmitt .... 605U Kleny 593 3. Winn 693 W.. Hancock ... 5S0 Boord 5931. . Wills 575 Baltimore Feds Win Suit Against the Big Leagues Washington, April 12. A verdict for the-plair.tiff with damages fixed at S80,(X) was returned late today by the jury in the suit of the Balti more Federal league club, against the1 Amen.can and National leagues and certain officers of the defunct Federal league. As the suit was brought under the (Sherman anti trust law the damages wlii bt tre bled, making the amount S240.000, if a final judgment is entered. Fourth in Wheat . i The bureau of publicity has com piled a table showing that iii aver age annual production of wheat by states for the 10-year period from 1909 to 1918. Nebraska ranks fourth with 51.308,600 bushels. . THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 13, 1919. JOHN PESEK AND CHAS. CUTLER HEREJAY 12 Jack Lewis Closes Match Be tween Shelton Boy, and Former American Title Holder. Farmer boy, John Pesek of Shelton, Neb., and Charley Cutler of Chicago will meet in a hnish wrestling match at the Omaha Au ditorium May 12, Jack Lewis, local promoter, announced yesterday afternoon. Negotiations for this match have been- under way for some time, accordng to Lewis. Cutler's consent to wrestle Pesek was received only yesterday. Mart Slattery, Pesek's manager, was in Omaha yesterday and agreed to the match in behalf of Pesek. The Chicagoan will be the fourth grappler to try to take the measure of Pesek in Omaha this winter. Three predecessors, Charley Peters, Steve Savage and John Freiburg, es sayed to turn' the trick, but all failed. Pesek threw each one in straight falls.. Cutler is the man who. played a big part in making Joe Stecher famous. He did it in Omaha by los ing to Stecher in a match which cost eastern mat followers thou sands of dollars. They wagered heavily on Cutler to win. It was Stecher's practically first big match and it made him famous from coast to coast. The Chicago . grappler is" one of the real veterans of the mat game. He first was a" boxer -but found wrestling more to his favor and switched his affections. He was de rlarpft trip Amprican chamoion after la victory over Henry Ordeman, fol lowing the retirement ot the late Frank Gotch, and he held that title until defeated by Stecher. He weights more than 230 pounds and will outweigh Pesek by about 35 pounds. Cutler is reported to be a much better man than when he met Stecher despite the added years to his age. He has acquired great skill through his years of experience and has become one of the most finished vrest)ers in the business. His latest achievement of note was to stand off Marin Plestina, who recently offered to bet $25,000 he could beat any man in the world, for two hours and a half without a fall. Pesek also is to meet Harold Christensen in Sioux City Monday night, Mart Slattery said yesterday, St. Louis Team Wins A. T. and T. Company Bowling Tournament Toledo, April 12. St. Louis, with a team score of 2,642, won the American Telephone and Telegraph company bowling tournament by wire, according to figures received here tonight from 16 cities where the competition was in progress. Butlalo was second with 2,526; New York third with 2,504 and Philadelphia fourth with 2,458. Chicago, Cleveland, Troy, N. Y., New Haven, Conn., Toledo, Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Va Cincinnati, Syracuse, N. Y., and Harrisburg, Pa., were other cities in the tournament. Men employed in the offices of the A. T. and T. made up the teams. Collins and Flynn of Buffalo won the doubles with a score of 1,116 and Hudson of Richmond, Va., was. high in the singles with 565. Hanlon, Pledged Full Support, Will Keep St. Joseph Team There , St. Joseph, Mo., April 12. Fol lowing a meeting held here last night at which full support was pledged him, Ej. J. Hanlon of Sioux City, owner of the St. Joseph West ern league baseball club, wired to day that the club would be contin ued in St Joseph. Hanlon had an nounced several weeks ago that he would either sell or move the club because of apparent lack of interest here. Lawler of Omaha Loses to Kilbane in Fast Fight Charleston. W. Va., April. '12. Johnny Kilbane, featherweight ' champion of the world, won the newspaper decision over Jack Law ler of Omaha, in a fast 10-round bout heretonight. Kilbane led the fighting, but some critics said that Lawler landed more blows than the champion. Amateur Base Ball. The Universal Motor company team claims a championship season in the American league. Their man ager writes they have the honor of playing for one of the best backers in the amateur circles. J. S. Shields. will pilot the Universals. The Muny league umpires held a meeting last Friday night in the city hall at which there were seven umpires appointed besides the um pire in chief. Johnny Gonding. An other meeting will be held next Fri day night, and anyone that wants a job umpiring for the amateurs may apply for it at that meeting. The umpires already appointed are: Nat keap, Joe Moran, Tom Mc Quade. Herbert Chase, Clyde Ross, William Holbrook and Chris Kem niy. - The North Side Pearls, formerly the Pearl Memorials, trimmed ' the South Side Trinity base ball team at Miller Park yesterday, 9 to 3. The pitching of George Daston and the batting of George Bernstein featured the game. For Saturday afternoon games with the Pearls, call Colfax 1942. Commended for Work. High commendation of County Attorney Shotwell for efficient work done of late in prosecuting automo bile thieves was expressed at the last executive meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce. Police Commis sioner, Ringer and Police Chief Eb ersteia also were commended- GLASS A LEAGUE WILL BE IN FIELD EARLY THIS WEEK New Greater Omaha Circuit to Be Organized; Classes B and C Are Already Waiting .for the Gong. With the coming organization of a class A league the earlv part of this week, the Municipal Base Ball associatioiirwill he ready to start the 1919 season, which is expected to be a banner ear for amateur base ball. The class B and C leagues are already organized and ready to play ball. Recreation Director Jake Isaac son will call a meeting of class A players and backers the early part of this week to organize a class A league. There are four teams now organized and making time for a class A circuit to be formed. Two of these clubs have no backers yet, but the association has promised to take care of that. The two clubs without backers are the nines re cently organized and headed by James Sutej and II. E. Miller. The other two teams are the Murphy-Did-Its and the Nebraska Power company. Prospects for a class A league looked very uncertain a week ago. The Murphys and the Nebraska Power company nines were the only ones who were organized and ready to join a class A loop, while at least five clubs were needed to make up. such a league. Then Jim Sutej or ganized a crack class A club and an nounced that he was ready to join a class A league. And just a few days ac;o H. E. Miller, a member of the Central Furniture team last year, got together a fast niive and announced his intention of entering it into a class A league if such a circuit was formed. . Strong Class A League. With jour d'ubs organized and ready to enter, officials of the Aiuny association are confident that a stronger class A circuit will be seen in operation . this year than ever before. Jake Isaacson states positively that a class A league will be organized at this next meeting days and that the organization will be ready to start the season within two or three weeks. Isaacson requests all the class A ball players to attend this session. The two class B leagues, the American and the City, held short meetings last week. Final plans for the opening games of the season were completed. The schedules for each league were drawn up and the teams are patiently waiting for the umpire to call "play ball." A new team was given a fran chise in the City league at Fri day night's session. The new club is headed by Charles Hall, who has not decided on a backer yet. Charlie has three well-known busi ness organizations kned up from which he will pick a backer for his team. ' With the addition of this new team each club will have a chance to play out of town on their off Sundays. The Intercity league held a meet ing Saturday evening in Park Com missioner Falconer's office and worked out most of the details for the coming season. The managers of this organization elected David Davidson president. The league is now composed of five teams, giv ing each club a chance to rest one Sunday. Three rounds will be play ed and the season will start April 20. The schedule was drawn up at last night's session and the league is all set for the campaign to get under way. . , Want Another' Club. The Intercity league wants to take in another team so as to have a sixclub organization. Any team wishing a franchise in this organi zation may communicate with Pres ident Davidson at the Omaha Bee or call Webster 4864. The following teams were award ed franchises in the Intercity league: Walnut Hill Merchants, Beddeos, Harley-Davidsons, Parsley Commis sion company. Willow Springs Bev erage company. The opening games were announced as follows: Pars ley Commission vs. Beddeos, Wal nut Hill Merchants vs. Willow Springs, the Harley-Davidsons will rest the first Sunday. A new league was formed at the meeting held last night. The new organization will be known as the Gate City league, and will be corn nosed of six teams. No officers have been elected yet, but the sched ule was -drawn up and the league will open the season April 20. Jake Isaacson presided at this session. The Originals, Greenough Phar macy, Omaha Printing Co. jrs.. Daily News, Vinton St. Mchts., and THE EL-BEUDOR APARTMENTS RESERVATIONS ARE NOW BEING TAKEN With the opening of this, Omaha's most beauti ful apartment building, only three weeks away, it be hooves all those interested in securing a home, free from all the worry and drudgery of ordinary apartments, to reserve at once. Located at 18th aitd Dodge streets, at thevvery edge of Omaha's business district handy to all street cars and Omaha's theater district. ' Constructed with an idea to elegance and worth, hq expense was spared. Today it looms as a monument to its architects, contractors and owners. Absolutely fire proof and soundproof in every detail; plumbing and san itation of the very latest models, and lighting effects de signed by experts. These new apartments leave nothing to be desired by prospective hdmeseekers. Maid and janitor service, electric light, gas, telephone, etc., are all included in the one rental charge. Each apartment consists of living room with new type wall-bed, large kitchenette, breakfast nook, dressing room and bath. Suites of two living rooms have been provided for those desiring more room. Furnishings for the apartments represent the combined efforts' of sev eral of Omaha's best interior decorators. Apartments in the El-Beudor may be had at from $15 to $17.50 per week for single apartment, and $32.50 to $35 per week for double apart ments, furnishings, equipment and service included. Reservations may now be made by communicating with office of the company, or at the apart ment itself. " ' , Architectural description isn't always interesting, but DO see the building it's worth while. NO CHILDREN. Apartments are open for inspection Sunday from 2 to 6 p. m. Week from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. el:beudor apartments 18th and Dodge Streets AMERICAN SECURITY CO Agents the Liberty Bells were given fran chises in this organization. With the season only one week away, the teams are working hard to get in shape for, the opening games of the campaign. Every club was out for practice during the past week. In practice games last Sun day the teams showed up very well and all looked as if they were ready to start the championship season. All the closs B and C teams will engage in practice contests this af ternoon and the fans are assured of some lively exhibitions. . The Ernie Holmes base ball team is organizing with a fast line-up and will play out-of-town games. An effort will be made to organize a Class A league, composed of Shenandoah, Griswold, Missouri Valley, Portsmouth and Platts mouth. The Murphys, Metcalfs and Longeways last year . in the Greater Omaha league will also be asked to join. Such a league, it is believed, would be a success. A meeting to the effect of an organiza tion will be held soon. Letters have been sent out to managers of these teams. Leslie Pickett will be manager of the Holmes team this season and is signing a fast team. City Council of Broken Bow Adopts Mountain Time Broken Bow, Neb., April 12. (Special Telegram.) Acting upon a petition signed by several hundred citizens and business men of the city, the council adopted a-resolution placing Broken Bow on moun tain time instead of central time. The change goes into effect Sunday morning. Man Held in Beatrice for Passing Forged Checks Beatrice, Neb., April 12. (Spe cial Telegram.) Floyd J. Walker was brought here Saturday, charged with passing a bogus check on a Wymore drug store. The check was drawn on the Farmers' and Mer chants' bank of Wymore. He was bound over to the district court on $500 bonds. Berg to Address Members of Advertising League E. J. Berg, president of the Ne braska Display Men's association, will speak to the Advertising and Selling league at 6 o'clock Monday evening at the Fontenelle hotel. His subject will be "The Value of Dis: plays. Measured in ColdCash." Articles Filed for New $3,000,000 Fire Insurance Company W. H, Ahmanson, assistant man ager of the Columbia Fire Under writers agency, has4 resigned hi po-:-e sition to organize a new company to be known as the American National Fire Insurance company. Articles of incorporation were filed Vester-" dav morning at the county clerk's of ice. The capital and surplus of the new company will be $3,000,000. A cer tificate of authority to transact business has been received- follow ing a deposit of $100,000 with the state treasurer. Temporary offices of the new company will be located on the seventh floor' of the First National bank building. Mr. Ahmanson, who was born in ( Omaha, has been in the insurance business for 25 years in this city. He entered in the capacity of an office boy at the age of 14. He served as secretary of the State Insurance company of Nebraska until that or ganization was purchased by the Na tional Fire Insurance company of Hartford, which also owns the Co-' lulnbia Fire Underwriters agency. Incorporators of the American, National Fire Insurance company are: - i W. IT. Ahmanson, formerly trxlptant manager of tho Columbia Vr Under writer agency; William I,. Wilcox, presi dent of the WllcoX'BurnH company; Jo seph n. Redfield, prcnldent of tho K. B. Printing company; Harley Conatit, presi dent of the Conant Hotel company; J. W. K!wood, president of the U. V. Si'hool of Taxidermy; Henry 8. Lower, attorney; Charles W. Martin, president of the Charles W. Martin rompany: Harry II. .lones of the V. K. Brinn-Johnson com pany, and Iatdor ZHegler, attorney. . Husband, Asking-Divorce, Declares He Was "Vamped" The troubles of Earl C. Brady and his wife, Emma, were again thrust into the limelight yesterday when he was granted a divorce by Judge Day after filing an amended substitute petition. He filed his first petition October 10, 1917. , , In that petition he stated that he first met his wife at a " dance and that subsequently she "vamped" him. They were married in' 1912 when he was 20 and she was 25 years old. ' In his amended petition Brady said his wife assaulted him several ' tirries. . , 1 3 C - ; j,