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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAYv28. 1919.
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BILLY' LEET HERE
TO CONFER WITH
HIS ATTORNEYS
Young Omahan, Who Recently
Made Suicide 'Attempt,
Hopes for Reconciliation
With His Wife.
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William A. (Billy) Leet, Omaha
sportsman, who attempted to kill
himself in San Francisco a few
weeks ago, returned yesterday to
confer with his attorneys in connec
tion with his domestic difficulties.
He has been advised that his w
has accented notice of his divorce
action fifed in the Douglas county
court, alleging cruelty. The answer
date in this case has been set for
June 9 before Judge George A. Day.
Mrs. Leet filed an action in San
Francisco for separate maintenance,
she also alleging cruelty. That case
is pending.
" Hopes for Reconciliation.
In a conversation with one of his
attorneys, A. L. Sutton, yesterday
Mr. Leet reiterated his hopes that a
reconciliation may yet be effected.
He declared that he still loves his
wife and also expressed the hope
that he may be able to make an
aeroplane trip from Omaha to San
Francisco and land on the lawn of
his estranged wife. He believes
his manner of visitation would offer
a pretty setting for a kiss-and-make-up
scene.
Mr. ,utton. who lushed to San
Francisco immediately after the
news of Leet's unsuccessful attempt
to end his life with a revolver
reached Omaha, also expressed the
belief that a reconciliation may be
realized.
The present Mrs. Leet is the sec
ond wife of the Omaha motorist
whose escapades have caused com
ment in Omaha and other cities.
She was Martha Ruddyof Aurora,
111., before her marriage a year ago
last January. s
Says "Billy" too Frivolous
Her chief complaint against
' '"Billy" is that he is too frivolous
' in his ideas of life and that he
travels too fast in his motor cars.
Considering his former senisation
al exploits,' Leet's friends aver that
they would not be surprised to learn
that he had attempted his proposed
aeroplane flight from the Gate City
to the Golden West. The date has
not been set for the long aerial jour
ney to his wife's home.
Son of Automobile Dealer
. Runs Down Colored Woman
Wesley P. Adkins. jr., son of W.
. .P. Adkins, South Side automobile
; dealer, ran dpwn Maggie Lackey,
colored last night at Thirteenth and
.-Pacific streets. Adkins took the in
' jured woman to Lord Lister hospital
' and reported the accident at Central
1 police station. He was not arrested,
i The injured ' woman lives at 807
J North Forty-fifth street.
I 'Farmerettes" Leave
1 New York to Work On
Ranch In Nebraska
New York, May 27. Three young
women, the first of the army of fe
male farm workers who expect to
aid in the production of a record
crop, have started for the west, ac
cording to announcement from
' headquarters of the National Wo-
i, man's land army; These three pio
neers are Miss Linda Schroeder,
"Miss Clara Sampson and Miss Anna
, II. Marshall.
' They have been employed by the
r, owner of a ranch in Dawson coun
ty, Nebraska.
Miss Marshall is a stenographer;
Miss Sampson, an English girl, was
'. clerking in a business house before
joining the land army, -nd Miss
, Schroeder also was a cleric.
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Yes, these are the first two prize winners of the Rialto theater
Brandeis stores baby contest, James Weaver Noble, the son of Mrs.
Emma Noble, 314 North Fifteenth street, and Dorothy Louise Hegelund,
the daughter of Mrs. A. M. Hegelund, 546 South Twenty-sixth avenue,
were awarded the first prizes. In today's contest babies from 1 to 2
years will compete.
More than 125 babies participated in the baby contest for infants
from 6 months to 1 year of age at the Rialto theater Tuesday. First
prizes were awarded by the audience to Thomas Charles Mustain, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Mustain of 4118 Grant street, and to Eunice Taylor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Taylor, 409 North Forty-ninth street
Both the audience and the babies seemed to enjoy the show im
mensely. Great bursts o? applause greeted the more popular babies as
they were held up for inspection and at each round of applause some
infant insisted on crowing with glee at the disturbance he or she caused.
Omaha Jews Protest Killing
of Their Kinsmen in' Europe
Thursday Set Aside for Day of Prayer and Fasting for
Persecuted Semites of Poland and Other East
European Countries Mass Meeting. Planned.
In protest against the slaughter
of their kinsmen by the anti-Semitic
forces in the countries of east
ern Europe and especially in Poland,
Jews of this city, will assemble
Thursday afternoon at the Ninteenth
and Burt streets synagogue to offer
a prayer for their persecuted breth
ren. As their forefathers in days of
old, they will again don the sack
cloth and ashes and bow their heads
before their Maker in prayer for aid
in cutting an end to the outrages.
All day the adults of the 12,000 or
more Jews of the city will fast. At
4 o'clock in the afternoon places
of business conducted by Jews will
close in compliance with a request
made by the arrangements commit
tee. Every member of every Jewish
club, lodge or organization is ex
pected to participate in the monster
protest.
A committee composed of 25 of
the mVst prominent members of the
Jewish race in the city is in charge
of the details of the monster prayer
and protest meeting. The committee
is headed by Rabbi E. Fleishman.
The committee met Monday even
ing to perfect plans for a mass meet
ing to which individuals of all creeds
will be invited. This meeting is
planned for the Auditorium either
Sunday afternoon or evening.
- Several nationally known speakers
have been invited to be present and
address the huge assembly which is
expected to congregate.
Resolutions calling upon President
Wilson to exercise his influence in
behalf of the Jews in the countries
where they are being persecuted
will be laid before the assembly for
Taft Will Speak at
Unitarian Church Next
Sunday Morning
William Howard Taft will speak
at the Unitarian church in Omaha
Sunday morning, June 1, following his
addresses at the after-noon and night
meetings of the League to Enforce
Peace, which will be held Saturday,
Mav 31. in the Auditorium.
The former president also has
been asked to speak before a Jewish
mass meeting . to be held Sunday
for the purpose of protesting against
the pogroms in Poland.
Preparations for the monster mass
meeting are going on fast. Scores
of reservations for groups of dele
gates are being received from out
in the state and everything is in
readiness to register the local dele
gates Thursday. Booths will be
placed in' all the department stores,
Chamber of Commerce, Athletic
club and University club.
Anyone may register and receive
a badge, thus securing admittance
to a special section in the Auditor
ium and making certain of having a
scat
Among the reservations asked for
today was one by Douglas Cones
of Pierce, Neb., for 15 seats.
Mail Schedules May
Be Shortened One Hour
Between Here and East
Omaha business men stand a fair
chance of receiving their mail from
New York and other eastern points
before luncheon in the near future,
according to R. S. Brauer, super
intendent of the local division of the
railway mail service.
Mr. Brauer will be transferred to
the Chicago division of the service
June 1. He has also been appointed
to a committee which will endeavor
to speed up mail service between
the eastern coast and Omaha.
It is hoped bv Mr. Brauer that
the mail schedule from New York
and Boston to Chicago may be
shortened on hour, thus enabling the
mail to reach Omaha from Chicago
at 8:30 in the morning, or an hour
earlier than it is now arriving This
will make the distribution of mail
in Omaha before noon possible, Mr.
Brauer believes.
- J. H. Musgrave of St. Louis will
take Mr. Brauer s place as superin
tendent of railway mail service in
the Omaha division, when the latter
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passage and forwarded to the chief
executive of the country.
Special memorial, services will be
conducted by Rabbi Fredrick Cohn
at the Temple Israel Friday evening.
These services wjll be held for the
Jews who were killed in the various
countries of eastern Europe during
anti-Jewish outbreaks.
Mass meetings protesting against
the outrages perpetrated against the
Jews in Poland, Roumania and Gal
icia are being planned in every city
in the country in which' a sufficient
number of Jews reside to justify
these meetings.
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Labor World
Following the refusal of the M.
F. Shafer and Co., to comply with
the demand of 14 of their union
printers for an increase in wages to
$33 a week, the union scale, the men
walked out yesterday morning.
The demand of the men had been
submitted to the officials of the com
pany more than two weeks ago,
declared Roy Hinman, secretary
treasurer of the Typographical
union. The officials had refused to
consider the demands and the strike
followed.
Employes tl the company had
been receiving up to $30 a week.
Willard F. Bailey, advertising
manager of the Shafer company,
stated that the wage scale was not
the matter at issue. He declared
that the company objected to pay
ing the union scale of wages to men
whose work did not warrant the in
creased scale.
The Shafer concern conducts an
open shop, according to Mr. Bailey.
Many of the striking boilermakers,
who walked out more than two
weeks ago after they had failed to
come to an agreement with their
employers, are leaving the city and
seeking work in other towns ending
the adjustment of the difficulties
raised by their demands and the em
ployers' refusal to comply.
The men ask for an eight-hour
day and an increase in wages equiva
lent to the scale received by union
boilermakers and helpers in, other
sections of the country.
The Drake-Williams-Mount Co.,
and the C. G. Johnson .Boiler Co.,
which have been principally affected,
refuse to meet the union representa?
tives or to entertain their proposal,
declares V. V. Angell, international
organizer for the boilermakers. The
plants operated by these two con
cerns are sh'ut down tight, according
to Mr. Angell.
Numerous striking committees
have waited on heads of the two
companies but have been unable to
gain even an audience with them,
say the men.
The 80 or more strikers have the
support of the local Building Trades
council and the International body
in their strike. The men who have
accepted no other work along other
lines are now receiving the strikers'
benefit from the international funds
of the local.
They are determined to carry their
demands into effect though it takes
a long while to do so, asserted Mr
Angell. No boilers can be installed in any
building upon which union laborers
are working by these two companies,
said Mr. Angell. The Building
Trades council would call off the
union laborers if these two com
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Nature makes the tobacco
"friendly" as no "short-cut"
panies were allowed to work in any
building being erected by union men.
The growth of Painters' local No.
10V, though not phenomenal, has
been steady and marked,-according
to its secretary, J. P. Hansen.
Though the unsettled condition
incident to the war affected this lo
cal, as it did all others, its present
membership is larger by 10 per cent
than at any previous time in its
history. The local is at present
composed of more than 400 men.
Men discharged from the service
are given special inducements to be
come members of this local. Al
though the regular initiation fee is
$35, men recently discharged from
the United States forces may gain
entrance by a payment of $5.
Many veterans, men who have
seen hard service with the American
troops, are taking advantage of this
opportunity to become . members.
In the past month over 10 such
members have been accepted.
As a shortage 'of painters exists
in the city the men find it com
paratively easy to locate jobs.
. Of the 142 union carpenters who
joined the colors at the outbreak of
the war, more than 60 have already
returned. Despite this a shortage
of carpenters still exists, R. A. Wil
son, business agent for the carpen
ters' local, declared. No reason can
be assigned for this shortage, he
stated.
Building operations on a large
scale will soon be begun, many firms
in this city having plans for the
erection of buildings i already per
fected.
In the past three weeks more than
1,000 packing house workers have
left their jobs and gone to work on
farms. The majority of these men
are experienced farm hands and can
command higher wages on the farm
than in the city.
During the winter and early
spring months when farm help is
but little needed these men seek
jobs at the packing houses. At
about this time hog runs become
iight and there is a great decrease
in the work at the packing plants. .
Believing that the scale of wages
being paid in the states farther west
was higher than in Omaha, about a
dozen carpenters set out for Lusk,
Wyo., recently. They intended to
locate in that city permanently if
they found that wages paid there
were radically different from those
paid here.
The men were not long in being
convinced that this city is just as
liberal, if not more so, in the mat
ter of wages, than any other city.
Wages are higher, according to
the men, in Lusk than in this city
but the difference in the cost of liv
ing more than counter balances the
increased wage.
Although the established scale for
carpenters in thjs city is 75 cents
an hour, the majority of them re
ceive from 80 to 85 cents an hour.
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My Heart and My Husband
ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of
'Revelations of a Wife"
What Madge Faced When She
Returned From Lillian's.
My relief at transferring the prob
lem of the woman in the cafe to
Lillian's capable hands was aug
mented by the knowledge, palpable
to more inexperienced eyes than
mine, that my friend's undertaking
of the work was a godsend to her.
She had brooded so long over the
tangled web in which her life and
those of Harry Underwood and
Robert Savarin were enmeshed that
she sorely needed the stimulus of
some outside and absorbing interest.
This my father's problem gave her,
because of her love and friendship
for me.
I had no scruples about allowing
her to expend her utmost effort in
the matter, for I feared from .the
few words she had spoken concern
ing Robert Sayarin, that she had
lost all her usual poise and mental
clearness in her judgment of him,
and that if she were left to herself
the consequences might be grave.
Since the artist's, faltering words,
"I tried to bring you definite news
of him, but when' I reached the
prison camp he had gone." I had
cherished no further doubt of his
innocence of any attempt upon Har
ry Underwood's life. Lillian, how
ever, I was sure, was stitl obsessed
with the fear that there had been a
tragic meeting between the two men.
It showed clearly in her emotion,
her lined face, her haunted eyes. . I
hopedv that this search for my
father's Nemesis would remove her
far enough from her own affairs to
allow a sweeping breeze of common
sense to blow away the mental cob
webs which . were ' unmistakably
woven across her mentality.
. The hope was distinctly strength
ened by Lillian's parting words to
me when I left her to return to
Marvin.
Parting Advice.
"Now you're to stop worrying,"
she said, and I noted with joy that
the old, capable ring in her voice,
the old light of interest in her fine
eyes. "I'll see to everything at this
end, and we'll save your poor father's
pocketbook and peace of mind in
spite of himself. Now remember
your part. Don't be too scrupulous.
Avail yourself of any piece of in
formation concerning your father's
dealings with the lady that comes in
your way."
"You don't mean to open his let
ters!" I replied to horrified protest.
"Look here, child!" she said im
patiently. "You know my opinion,
I trust, of the person who opens
another's letters ordinarily. But
we're dealing with a particularly un
pleasant variety of reptile. I would
have no more qualms at opening a
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ing a cobra if it strayed across my
path.
"If byMiook or crook you can get
hold of any trace of that woman's
whereabouts you put that Puritan
conscience of yours in the bottom
of your trunk, sit on the lid, turn
the key, and theji freeze on to the
information. Goodby. You'll miss
your train if you don't hurry."
She embraced and kissed me
warmly, then fairly pushed me out
of the door. I knew that she thus
hastened my departure so I should
be unable to protest further, and
though all my instincts and graining
rebelled against her dictumiyet my
common sense, always the quality
to which Lillian most forcibly ap
pealed, told me she was right.
I had gone into the city directly
from school, and had come home
on an early evening train. Lillian
had, of course, given me dinner, but
I found that Katie had left me a
generous portion of home dinner,
covered in the warming oven of
the kitchen stove, and Dicky was
lounging around the house, distinctly
sulky, but evidently relieved at see
ing me.
Why Dicky Knew.
'Funny thing you can't stay at
home," he began in a much injured
voice. "I should think you were
away enough all day and every day
without rushing off to town even
before you come home. I got home
early tonight, thought you'd per
haps like to take a run over to
Cresthaven I see they have a
mighty good program at that little
movie place over there and then
get a bite to eat at that new inn
that's just been opened on the' Mer
rick road. Humberston, who lives
out that way, says it's one tangerine
of a place but what do I find when
I get here? No wife, no chance of
a trip, no nothing? What's the
answer, anyway?"
Now I had risked no argument
with my mother-in-law over i the
telephone by telling her that I was
going to Lillian's I had simply in
formed her that I had been called
to the city and would not be home
for dinner. I knew that she was
listening from her armchair by the
fire, and partly for that reason,
partly because Dicky's manner was
so aggressive, I replied rather
shortly:
"The answer is that I had im
portant business in the city and at
tended to it."
"Well it couldn't have been school
business," Dicky returned hotly. "At
any rate it wasn't so important that
Miss Dean knew anything about it
or your going in."
' (Continued tomorrow.)
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