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10 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1919. 1 'I NEGLECT Oil PART OF CITY CAUSE OF PAVING FAILURE Failure of Charles Fanning o Sign Contract for Leaven worth Street Is Criticized by Mayor. -Mayor Smith yielded his place as president of the city council yester day morning to Commissioner Butler, because he had a few words to say about paving contractors and the de partment of public improvements. The failure of Charles Fanning to sign a contract for paving Leaven worth street, Forty-eighth to Sixti eth streets, was the crux of the situ ation. " v "I think we should go after these fclftws with a sharp stick. We must have a show-down with Mr. Fan r.ing. You know that in private life we would not do business that way," said the mayor. "Either Fanning has shamefully reneged on his con tract, or the public improvements de partment has been grossly negligent of its duty, and I am inclined to . think the latter has been the case." Deposited Only $200. An examination of the records dis closed the fact that Mr. Fanning de posited with the city a guaranty of $200 on this $60,000 contract, while a city ordinance requires coturactors W deposit 5 per cent, which in thisf case would have called for $3,000, Contracts for paving Cuming street, Thirtieth to Thirty-second street, and Twenty-fourth street, Spaulding to Ames, aveniy, on which Charles Fanning was low bidder, were held up by the city council until Thursday, when the whole situation will be considered. "Until Fanning complies with the Leavenworth street contract which was awarded to him, this council should refuse to award him . any more contracts," added the mayor. Must Explain Delay A resolution adopted by the coun cil calls upon Mr. Fanning and rep resentatives of the street railway company to appear before the city council Thursday morning to exx plain, their dels(y on Leavn worth street. Mr. Fanning alleges hat failure of the traction company to move its tracks is holding up the i paving work. ' 'Fanning," continued the mayor, j- "has refused to sign this contract ! because the price of brick has ad j vanced. "We owe it to the people of I this city to set the pace and show them that when a man js awarded a contract he must go through with it or be placed on the list of dis honest contractors." The council also adopted a resolu tion, directing the public improve ments department to submit a state- J ment of all contracts awarded aur J -ing the last year, with details of t what work has not been started. State Agent Denies He Had j Quarrel With Omaha Lawyer j State Liquor Agent Bunker's hear ' ing on the charge of assaulting W. f N. Jamieson in police court May 5 t has been set for Wednesday before f Justice'of the Peace Collins. Bunker C was arrested yesterday afternoon in I District Judge Estelle s court, whrt j he was waiting to testify in a liquor i case. State Liquor Prosecutor Hol- land secured his release on bond, i Bunker says "it's all a mistake," and that he never had a quarrel with .r Jamieson. '- f"v- Jamieson says that Bunker and t Liquor Agents Smith and Voglc . crowded him in a threatening man " ner in police court on the day men--: tioned and that he has witnesses who heard Bunker tell Smith to "hit Jamieson on the nose." . Policeman Catches Cycle Thief After Long Chase -- Policeman Carney, who keeps yi daily vigilance over the Federal Re serve bank, Thirteenth and Farnam - streets, nearly met his Waterloo t Monday afternoon. He saw Earl Romeo, Mexican, steal a bicycle from in front of the building and i gave chase.. After a run of four f blocks Carney overtook the thief ! and recovered the bicycle. Romeo I was given a jail sentence of 20 days , r for vagrancy. ... 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Aspiria la Om trade nark f Bayer ICanutactora of Monoaccticacidetter of Salicylicacid Police Give Helpless Drug Degree While Mrs. Dixie Mack Tells How Appeals for Mercy at Hands of Police Went Unheeded. While four policemen were beat ing up James Craig, a little defense less drug addict, in the home of Mrs Dixie Mack, 1517 Burt street, last Friday night, in a vain attempt to get the boy to say Mft. Mack was selling dope, "higher-ups" were peddling the stuff within the sound of Craig's voice, whose piteous ap peals for mercy at the hands of his tormentors were heard a block away. ' Craig, who weighs only 120 pounds and is five feetNfour inches in height, admits he is a dope fiend. He , declares he never sold any drugs. Mr$. Mack is not a user of nar cotic drugs and asserts ?'e never sold any cocaine or morphine. Peddlers Attend "Dope Party." While Craig was being given the cruel third degree, a score of fiends and peddlers were attending a dope party at Seventeenth and Cass streets. Peddlers also were operat ing in the vicinty of Burt and Sev enteenth streets. While Craig was begging and Screaming with pain, while he pro tested his innocence to the police man and the blood streamed from his nose and mouth, dope was being sold a half block distant, Craiar was nicked uo on the street in the vicinity of Mrs. Mack's home by one of the officers of the morals squad. The other three policemen were waiting at the woman's home for the boy to be -brought in. Begin Third Degree Tactics. Officers Thestrup, Armstrong and Herdzina are said immediately to have begun the use of their third degree tactics when Craig was taken into the room. The orisoner was knocked down j ! r j ft. L, i a . I never uecn arrcsica oeiore. i am EL. Sj'JM JTht a bootlegger nor do I peddle from his nose and mouth, Mrs. Mack declared. Two ribs were fractured when one of the burley policemen kicked the boy in the side. Lraig declared he suffered all of the punishment at the hands -of Offi cers Thestrup, Armstrong and Hard- zwa. Officer Palmtag is declared to have stood apart and remained a si lent witness while' the other men re peatedly slapped the boy in the face, knocked him to the floor and stood over their victim, swore at him and threatened him unless he admitted he was selling dope for Mrs. Mack. I he boy s shrieks of pain and ap peals for mercy aroused the neigh borhood. Mrs. Mack begged the po lice to spare Craig, and her little 10-year-old daughter pleaded with them to spare the bojL For half an hour the policemen are said to have tortured their victim. The floor and bed were covered with blood stains when the officers quit beating and kicking their prisoner. Craig was taken to the police sta tion and released the following day. Mrs. Mack was threatened with ar rest, she declared, if she did not re main quiet while the policemen were beating Craig. She continued to beg Patch Dietz Is Dead; Was Only a Dog, But Is . Mourned by Newsboys Patch Diet, C. N. Diet' trained Boston terrier pet, is dead. Patch was only a dog, but -tt is mourned by many friends who recognized his unusual sagacity. Patch seemed to perfer the friendship of newsboys who recip rocated the animal's kindly atten tions. This dog carried newspapers in his mouth to his master with al most human intelligence. He watch ed for the boy who' brought the morning paper to the Deitz resi dence and would carry the paper to the breakfast table. He usually rode down in the morning with Mr. Dietz in an automobile. This pet also learned many little stunts with which he would amuse visitors in the Dietz home. "Yes, Patch was only a dog," re marked Mr. Dietz, "but he was a faithful and intelligent companion." Patch was taken ill last week and sent to a dog hospital on Farnam street where he died Monday night. A veterinarian said : he believed Patch suffered a brain affection. ? Colds Grippe Stiff Necky "Joint Pains Neuritis "Higher.-Ups" PaMMMHWMMMHMM James Craig. the policemen to spare Craig, and was arrested. 1 Later the woman was released on $100 bond, which she furnished her self. When she called for her money at the police station, she was told that she only deposited $95. She has refused to accept the money un til $e is added, which she claims was taken from her envelope at .the po lice station. Mrs. Mick was told to return to the station yesterday, and an effort would be made to straighten the matter out. y "I have been living here only two weeks," Mrs. Mack declared. "I have never Deen arrested before. 1 am dope. I do not use whisky or drugs. The police have been through my house two and three times a day since I moved here. Repeatedly I have asked to see a search warrant. The only satisfaction I have been able to get is a cursing, and on one occasion when they broke down my door I protested and insisted on seeing a search warrant, L- was thrown into a corner and cursed. Cussed by Policemen. Mrs. Mack declared she objected to the policemen bringing Craig in her house and giving him the third degree. "I was cursed fcnd told to shut my mouth," she said. "My lit tle daughter and I were in the room while they were beating and kick ing the boy. It was the most cruel thing I ever witnessed in my life. After they had beaten him for half an hour they decided to search him for dope. While my daughter and I stood in the room they took every stitch of clothes from Craig's body. I was protesting against this humiliating and embarrassing per formance when I was told that I uld set ready to no to ia.il. too." Mrs. Mack declared that she fomen Decide Not to Form Proposed New Civic Organization There will be no new civic organiz ation of women in Omaha along the lines discussed -at a mass meeting called two weeks ago for that pur pose. At a meeting ofwomen at the court house yesterday the ma jority report of a committee of 11 which has been investigating the whole subect was adopted. The majority report declared that the committee found a new organ ization could be helpful to existing agencies in helping to crystallize public opinion, increase annual bud gets, erect needed buildings and es tablish day nurseries. The report also stated that an organized body of women, the Victory loan -committee has been inexistence. No one officiallyTstated that this Victory loan committee would or ganize for social service work, but such was the inference. Inasmuch as this seemed a possibility, or for other reasons not stated, the ma jority in its report, asked for post ponement of a new organization at thidT'time, over the signatures of Mesdames J. Y. Hooper, C. L. Hem pel, Draper Smith, F. H. Coler H. H. Baldrige, W. J. Hines, N. P., Feil, Kathleen Sullivan and F. W. Jud son. J '' r- Mrs. A. C. Troup was temporary chairman of the mass meeting and Mrs. Dean Ringer, temporary secre tary. Soldier In City to Find Parents of Pal Who Died In France In an effort to fulfill the pledge made to his dying comrade, Sergt. John T. McCarthy, Company -E., Fifth engineers, who died ki France of wounds received in action, First Class Private James Smith of (the same organization, is in the city seeking the parents of his dead pal. A few hours prior to his death, Mc Carthy entrusted a message to Smith requesting him upon his honor to bring it to his parents. Although Private Smith is uncer tain as to the exact whereabouts of the dead fighter's parents, he -believes they reside in Omaha. He has spent several days in Omaha in an attempt to find them. Unsuccessful in his quest, he finally appealed to the Chamber of Commerce, and also enlisted the help of Hubert Rousey, formerly with the same organiza tion in France, and who is now em ployed at the Chamber of Com merce employment bureau. Cotton Pool Planned. . New Orleans, May 13. The pro posed plan of organization for the American cotton export financing corporation, a pool of cotton pro ducers and dealers for export trade, 'as made known here today at a con ference ofcotton interests, provides for a corporation cppital'zsd at $100, 000,000, to be paid largely in Liberty bonds, Victim Third Go Unmolested Four Officers Beat Up De f enseless Dope Addict In Effort To Obtain Evi dence in Case. told Detective Chief John T." Dunn how the policemen acted . in he,r home. "Chief Dunn was nice about it," she said. "He condemned their behavior and I believe his regret was genuine. He promised to look into the matter. Beatrice, Mrs. Mack's little daugh ter, suffered a nervous shock, from which she has not yet recovered, as a result of being compelled to wit ness the beating: riven Craig "Please -do not talk about it." she begged, and she tried to hide be hind her mother. I can t sleep at night. I seem to hear that boy's screams all the time. I can see him choking and spitting blood from his mouth. I can't get rid of it. Ohl how those big men kicked him in the side and rolled him over the floor, and then when he got up off of the floor the blood, ran down his face, down on his body to the bed and trickled to the floor. I got him some water and bathed his face. But they made me stop and took my mother and the boy away. ' "I was so scared I could not cry when my mother came home. , It seemed like she never would come back and it was so dark here. I can't bear to stay in this house and J. want my mother to move away." Craig admits he has been using morphine , for four years. Until re cently he was employed at manual labor, . but was forced to give up work because of his failing physical strength. ,. I would rather not talk about it. he said. "I have no money or influ ence. I am not strong enough to fight, and the police will get me if I say arrything. I cannot stand another beating like they gave me last Fri day. I was walkmsr a Ions' the street when one of the plain clothes men grabbed me and commanded me to go with him. I did not know what he wanted with me. They took me to Mrs. Mack's house, and tried to make me say I was selling dope for Mrs. Mack. I would have been ly ing if I had done as they asked me to. When I refused to tell the lie they wanted me to tell, they began beating and kicking me. I was dazed most of the time they punished me. I remember though of hearing them cursing and swearing, rremember of hearing the little girl crying and I remember hearing Mrs. Mack plead ing with them not to kill me. "I begged and pleaded, but they only cursed the louder and beat me the more. ,Blood streamed in my eyes. I was choked by blood. It seemed like it never would end. The room began to grow dark and I was getting awfully sleepy. Suddenly the roaring in my head ceased and the next I remember was the cool, wet hand of the little girl on my forehead. "Then they took Mrs. Mack and me to the police station. I was afraid to ask them for a doctor. I was afraid they would start in beat ing me again. 1 thought the best thing to do was to remain quiet." Council Refuses to Aid In Placing Gate Across End of Bridge If Gus A. Hyers, state nemesis of bootlegegrs, insists that a gate shall be placed at the west end of the Douglas street bridge, he will have to do the work without the aid of the Omaha city council. The city commisioners voted down a proposal to erect a gate at the request of Mr. Hyers, who stands on legislative authority. "If Mr. Hyers has authority from the (legislature, why come to this city council?" asked Mayor Smith. Ask Habeas Corpus Writ To Get Possession of Boy Apolonio Trugillo and Apolonia Trugillo applied to the district court today for a writ of habeas corpus to get possession of Marzelino Car dozo, 11 years old, who, they allege, is held by Gerardo de Sansedo. The boy's parents, Rosalio Cardozo and Maria Cardozo, died at Oreapolis, Neb., November 10, 1918. Several Yanks Are Killed In Dynamite Explosion Dijon, May 13. (Havas) Several American soldiers were killed and ten were seriously injured when a4 case of dynamite exploded today in a quarry near Is-Sur-Tile. i My Heart and ' ' Adele Garrison's Revelations The Way Madge's Partner Man aged to Place the Evening's Peace in Danger. ' I had no time to reflect upon the startling comment Alice Holcombe had made to me concerning Mrs. Stockbridge's .sanity, for the door bell pealed again, this time in real ity heralding the arrival of "the Prices," with their friends, "the Bishops." Both were typical su burban couples, the husbands evi dently prosperous business men, the wives slender, middle aged women with a- sort of preserved prettiness which they evidently apent much time in protecting. Mrs. Stpckbridge hastened for ward o greet them, her husband re appeared from his self-imposed ban ishment, and all six went upstairs to the rooms where the wraps were laid. Alice Holcombe turned to me, a mocking little smile on her lips. "There are only left to appear the cavaliers Milly has selected for Bess and me," she said. "They're worth a careful inspection. Bess draws the village medico, a bachelor, who somehow didn't get to the war, and who divides his time when with Bess between fearing and hoping that she will bedevil him. Mine, a widower of substance, is frankly afraid of my aging charms, and shies palpably whenever he sees me. But Milly has made up her .mind that he would be a nice prop for my declining years, so she religiously pairs us oft whenever she has a P"ty." . ' maage iooks Arouna. Her voice, despite its mockery, held a tinge of bitterness, which I understood when later I was intro duced to the pompous man whom Mrs. Stockbridge had impertinently assigned to Alice Holcombe, by far the cleverest woman in the room. His name, as I caught it, was Donkers, and , I could not help the thought that if the twenty-fifth letter of the alphabet had been sub stituted for the last two . of his name it would have suited him far better. A more self-satisfied, assertive man 1 have seldom met, ana could see that beneath the mock ing mask behind which Alice Hoi combe hides all feeling, she was an noyed and humiliated at the patent fear of beinsr inveigled into matri mony which the widower betrayed when he was with her. A dozen times during the evening I heard him refer to his dear departed wife, as if he were invoking a pro tecting angel, and I also heard him make the asertion at least twice that "second marriages were most unwise. Despite this sepulchral note the dinner really went off very- well. Alice Holcombe is an unusually wit ty woman, Dicky and Bess Dean are both to be depended on to make dinner conversation sprightly, while Kenneth Stockbridge whose spirits seemed to rise with his wife's ab sorption in Dicky's nonsense kept the management of the conversation unobtrusively but firmly in his own hands, throwing out little side re marks that managed to include the rest of us "listeners," and keep the affair a general discussion instead of a series of monologues and dia logues as so many dinner conversa tions are aot to Se lf the dinner could only have end ed the evening 1 But unfortunately a large number of guests had been invited to the reception following, and. of course. Dicky, the lion of the evening, could not be kept dancing attendance upon his hostess, palpa ble as was her attempt to keep him in just that position. Bess Dean. a flame of color in her gown of scar let chiffon, with a single spicy car nation of the same shade stuck care lessly but most ' effectively in her wonderful brown hair, made a sec ond determined ettort to secure Dicky's exclusive attention, but Alice Holcombe unobtrusively sum moned her to one side, and I saw by the younger girl's face that the older woman was- laying down the law in militant fashion. "What's the real answej?" , Miss Dean drawled a bit unpleasantly Her voice, though low, reached me distinctly, as I had a shrewd suspi cion she meant it to do. "Friend Husband-to-be tagged 'Hands off?' Why didn't you warn me before?" I found it hard to keep my facial muscles under control upon hearing the catty little speech, but I think the wary widower to whom I was talking had no suspicion of my emo tion; instead, thought I was giving most flattering attention to the sol emn philosophy of life which he was expounding to me. But, I strained my ears for Alice Holco-mbe's an swer. " "You know better, Bess Dean," :.;:W;;5 My. Husband New Phase of t: ' ' oj a Wife was the low, indignant reply. "Noy you come here and listen to me." The two moved to an alcove and the rest of their conversation was inaudible. But Bess Dean ' kept away from Dicky's vicinity the rest of the evening. Milly Stockbridge, however, wax ed sulky when the demands upon Dicky's attention left her without his stimulating nonsense. I suspect lalso that Dicky had tired of the r : l : . .. i . . . quasi-mriauous investment . wnicn she had managed to give to their conversation, and was not unwilling to avoid her as much as he could consistently with the courtesy due his hostess. At any rate, both Alice Holcombe and I watched with ris ing anxiety the somber light in Mrs. Stockbridge's black eyes, and the nervous, rapid manner of her speech And then, of all times in the world. my pompous friend chose this mo ment to summon Mr. Stockbridge. "Oh, Stockbridge 1" he called, "Please come here and convince Mrs. Graham she is wrong on this." (Continued Tomorrow.) Two Autos Among Unclaimed Property to Be Auctioned An auction of ell unclaimed prop erty, including two autos, taken in at central police station during the past year, will be held Thursday af ternoon, May 22, at the city jail. The Spring Rains Bring Grippe Thisflort of weather brings colds and grippe. If it's just a common cold people say, "there's no danger in that ! " But many a fatal sickness begins with a cold with vital ity weakened the system is ready for the Influenza germs. Begin early to ward off the attack. Purge the system of the toxins (Doisons) by taking castor oil, or a vegetable laxative made of. Mayapple, leaves of aloe, and jalap, rolled into sugar-coated pills and to be had at all drug stores as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. 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Albert Jackson, negro dog catcher who shot and killed Roy Teeter Sat urday night on the Locust street via duct, is a dope fiend, according to Michael F. Dempsev, former chief of police, who declares he knows the man's record. S Jackson was carrying a revolver and wearing a special policeman's badge on the authority of Commis sioner Dean Ringer and Chief Mar shal Eberstein. ' "I know positively that Jackson was a drug addict." asserted Mr. DempSey. "He was a dope fiend and totally irresponsible. He certainly was not the right kind of a man to be entrusted with a deadly weapon." Jackson is alleged to have as saulted a man about a year ago with a hatchet. He is regarded by those who know him as a dangerous character. Tobacco Stocks Bum. Cadiz, Spain, May 13. (Havas.) Warehouses with 2,000,000 kilograms of tobacco were destroyed by fire here yesterday. T : 24th and M South Side I i . sal Service Station for Stromsburg Carburetors will be don 21st and Leavenworth Streets. 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