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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1919)
2 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 29, 1919. IK:: .: -'- - IT, i CHICAGO READYTO IBID GOOD-BYE TO KINO ALCOHOL f : Every Inch of Spac in Loop ' Cafes Reserved for Mourn- ers Ready to Bury .' JBarleycorn. r- (Continued From One.) with a view to closing out with all '-'gooas disposed of. This plan has worked successfully in many cases in the last few days. While clinpingr to the hope that the ban will be lifted at least for a v- few months after demobilization is Z :omp!eted, the big saToonists also have made special plans for the final '- celeliration. Some bars that have !r operated for a score or more years will serve free drinks to old patrons T-and even permit some of them to make speeches. "Also, every whisky "- tenor will find his .golden oppoK ',1 ttinily after years' disfavor," said Ik one dealer. On Tuesday morning soda foun-iT-tains will shoot up like spring flow ;t ers. for many of the bars are being tso converted;-in fact, supply houses 5 have found it impossible to fill de ' mands. And one hotel man said if i all the saloons that plan to'become eating houses really carry out their I U. & J. CARBURETOR FOR FORDS The only forward step in carburetion within ten years x t I Four Winning Points for the U. & J. Economy Performance Simplicity Endurance Guaranteed to Increase Mileage at least 50 Starts your motor easily in the coldest weather. More power and pep. Gives a quicker pick-up. Enables you to idle down to 2 or 3 miles an hour. Reduces carbon trouble. Only one moving part, the float, Only one adjustment. No change necessary for the altitude or weather. Will outlast any Ford. Hundreds in use in Nebraska. -s L. M. SWINGLEY & COMPANY Distributors 2427 Farnam St. County , plans, "the Loop alone could feed poor starving Russia." Many Become Restaurants. Nevertheless, many bars with ex travagant fixtures and iluaMe paintings will become restaurants. Even Righeimer's, with its costly mahogany, rare paintings and "$J,000 cuspidors" will be trans formed into a chop suey, according to reports. The Marine bar will be a soft-drink parlor, and the man ager announced he had sent letters "to Billy Sunday and William Jen nings Bryan, asking them to come tend bar at $2,000 a week." A small army of bartenders wij! be idle here Tuesday morning. "What will become of them?" sad a liquor dealer. "Why, that is eas ily answered. You know it is a curious thing about bartenders. It seems that most of them are mu sicians. There are any number of flute and trombone players among them who will connect with bands. Others are miners, who will return to their former occupation; still eth ers are barbers and waiters. And any number of them have a hanker ing to write songs and fiction. One bartender, Billy Reinhardt, who has served drinks and conversation in Chicago for 20 years, says he has a contract to go into the movies." It is estimated that nearly 800 of Chicago's 5,000 saloons have closed in the last few weeks. St. Louis Brewers Will .Continue Making of Beer St. Louis, June 28. Fifteen thou sand reservations have been made at hotels and cafes for the big cele Money Back Guarantee. Fifteen Days' Free Trial. U. & J. Carburetor Service Stations Lamesh & Woodruff, 2427 Farnam St. F. G. Knowles, William Peperkorn, Van Buren Bros., North Side Garage, W. T. Hamand Garage, Drive to any of our service stations and have one in stalled or if you livo out of town it can be easli? installed by anyone. No special tools necessary. Representatives Wanted ' Write for Circulars. ANNOUNCEMENT W e are pleased to announce our removal to our new location GROUND FLOOR THE MASONIC TEMPLE 19TH AND DOUGLAS STREETS where we have installed all baths and electrical equip ment useful in' the treatment of the sick, W e extend to you a most cordial invitation to visit us in our new quarters. It will be a pleasure to show you thnugh our new institution of which we are justly proud. You will be surprised at the completeness of our equip ment and pleased with the personnel of our staff of assistants. The Solar Sanitarium H. A. Wagcener, M. D., Medical 1. ibec-iob Masonic Temple, 19th and Douglas Streets Phoe Tyler 920 Omaha, Nebraska bration here Monday night. All liquor dispensaries have abundat.t supplies ready for the revelry. Sa loon men say it will be their great est, though saddest, day. The police announced sale of liq uor must stpp at midnight, but this will not prevent revelers from or dering substantial supplies shortly before midnight, and the festivities are expected to outdo any Ntw Year's celebration in the city's his tory. ' Although many private wae houses and cellars have been well stocked, liquor dealers declare ap proximately 600,000 gallons of whis ky will be left on their hands by refusal of railroads to transport al coholic beverages after July 1. It was said this probably would cause a sharp reduction in the price of whisky on Monday. Thirteen of the 15 breweries here announced they would continue nianufacturing beer containing 2 75 per cent alcohol until January 1, when the national prohibition amendment becomes effective. They have filed proceedings in federal court asking that the internal reve nue collector and the district attor ney bef enjoined from interfering with production of beer. Many saloons also nave an nounced they would remain after July 1 to sell the 2.75 per cent bev erage, and already 600 saloons have applied for licenses. The exse commissioner is awaiting legal ad vice as to whether he can issue the permits. His office will remain open until January 1, he said, as the state has set aside $10,000 r'or operating expenses. Through pro- 1608 California St. 8618 North 30th St. 16th & Deerpark Blvd. 4303 North 20th St. 4683 Leavenworth St. Omaha, N: 1 hibition St. Louis will lose $SOO,000 annually in excise taxes. Many saloons will reopen as light drink parlors and restaurants. In the last few days many local clubs have been holding "wakes" to dis pose of -stocks. Kentucky Distilleries May Hold Whisky in Storage Louisville. Ky., Tune 28. Keen- tucky distillers say there is but one solution for disposal of some 90,- 1)1)0,000 gallons ot whisky Hnl bonded warehouses of the Unitedj states alter juiy i, ana mar. is to hold it and pay storage charges "in the hope that the ban will be lifted." Export avenues are closed through scarcity of ocean bottoms, difficulty in obtaining export licenses and general poverty of countries to which the liquor might be sold, the distillers say. "While whisky may be exported until January, difficulties in transportation later may find the large portion still in storage, it is declared. Forty million gallons of whisky, according to reliable estimates, is in Kentucky warehouses, largely in or near Louisville, Owensboro, Frank fort and Paducah, with a wholesale value of approximately $8 a gallon, or about $320,000,000. If it is stored, thousands of dollars will be added by interest and storage charges, Hope is still held that either con gress or President Wilson will lift the wartime prohibition ban and afford additional time to dispose of stocks. The retailer has made compara tively no plans to dispose of surplus stovk, and the Kentucky consumer awaits for the last day in hopes of getting supplies at a bargain. One Louisville hotel, long famous for its bar, plans an innovation, should prohibition become effective, with what is termed a "hip bar." It would provide and sell the "trim mings," leaving it to the customer to furnish the "kick," presumably from a bottle carried in the hip pocket. Many Saloons in Minnesota Closed Bars Weeks Ago St. Paul, Minn., June 28. While "Victory Celebrations" are being held by prohibition advocates in a number of wet towns in Minnesota, gaiety will hold forth in the. big drinking places of St. Paul and Min neapolis Monday night. Several of the more popular places have ar ranged to handle big crowds. Some saloon men and hotel pro prietors closed their bars two weeks ago when stocks were exhausted. Most of the cities on the Minne sota borders have been dry for some time and the few wet ones have done a land-office business for the last three months. Hundreds of persons have been prosecuted for taking liquor into North and South Dakota. Several South Dakota cities employed detectives to check on automobile parties crossing into Minnesota and to wire reports when these parties started west with car goes. Hotels in the Twin Cities have arranged to increase room rates, several of them having already ad vanced prices, juinnesoia win lose one advan tage through prohibition. It will no longer be advertised as the only wet convention state in the north west. The advent of prohibition, it is expected, will give Iowa, the Da kotas, and other districts a chance to attract annual gatherings that for several years selected Alinne-sota. WILSON HAS NO POWER TO RAISE BAN ON LIQUOR (Continued From Face One.) might be in operation by the end of the ate, the summer. They could not oper- however, beyond January 16, 1920, for on that date the country will become dry by constitutional amendment. With all doubt removed as to what the president would or would not do, anti-prohibitionists in the house prepared to make the best fight possible on the general pro hibition enforcement bill which was reported out yesterday by the judi ciarl committee. It will not be taken up on the floor until after the short holiday recess which means the government will depend upon present laws for enforcement of the wartime act. Warning already has been given that these provide ample penalties and ample means of prosecution. To Report Bill Monday. Chairman Volstead, of the judi ciary committee announced that the majority report recommending pas sage of the enforcement measure would be presented to the house Monday and meanwhile Repre sentative Dyer, republican, Mis souri, made public the minority re port attacking the sections for en forcing the wartime act. In congress, the only movement was by Representative Hoh, re publican, Kansas, a prohibition ad vocate, who introduced a resolu tion calling on Secretary Glass for a report as to whether government tax receipts, permits or license had been issued, entitling manufacturers or vendors of liquor to continue business after June 30. The meas ure, introduced without comment, wasreferred to a committee. In attacking the general enforce ment bill, Mr. Dyer declared the wartime act "has no effect or force" because the "war is over" and that "any effort to enforce it will meet with failure in the courts. He also contended that congress was with out authority to define intoxicating liquor tor either enforcement of wartime or constitutional prohibi tion and that such definition was solely a judicial question. San Francisco's Golden Goblet Turned Bottom Up San Francisco, June 28. San Francisco's golden goblet, which was cast from the nuggets of the Argonauts, was turned "bottom up" Saturday night. The devitalized Barbary coast took on an amber glow as it did in the days of "Bottle" Meyer and "Bottle" Koenig, and along the Great Highway the white lights shone throughout the night. At the Bankaschss Exchange the Peruvian tang of the Pisco was re stored after having given way to milder fluids. The little shops of the Latin quarter, where many a budding and seasoned author got his "locals," called on the best that the vineyards of Asia and the great Napa valley could afford. The city drinking spirit has been capitulating for some time. First the Cliff House, where the goblet was held to the lips of presidents and potentates, gave up its fume haloed spirit then followed "The Billow" and other saloons of lower caste on the embarcadero, where the shanghai adept practiced in bygone days. 4 At the clubs the landlord was enjoined in more or less bibuluous, to "fill the flowing bawl," supposed ly for the last time. City Steps Out. Although the ban on liquor was not expected until midnight Mon day, ban rransicco 'sepped out Saturday unaware of the president's statement indicating that the ban might be lifted when demobilization is terminated. The police depart ment promised that there would be no saturnalia, but rather that it will be the biggest "play night" in the histary of the city. Restrictions cast about the dancing and drink ing privileges Sunday and Monday nights decided San Fran's determ ination to make Saturday night the big farewell to John Barleycorn. En joying a semi-isolatioon from the outside world, by reason of the tel ephone strike, the city played as it never had before. For two weeks throngs have been comfng from outside points to cotch hands with the city folks in the mad whirligig. With the sten ographers giving all in the great Civic Auditorium and Jazz bands strumming in every club, hotel and cafe, the spirit of the dance vied with the spirit of the drink. The hotels have been crowded to capaci ty for days. Good apartments are at a premium. As one cafe proper put it, a "boiled shirt boom" has hit the town. Another said it was"the day" in Paris today. It is "the night" in San Francisco. Seattle, Wash., June 28. "They're headin' south in droves," Seattle ticket agents said in com menting on the rush of northerners to California before what he, termed "the great drought" begins. Boats and trains for San Fran cisco this week were sold out weeks in advance. When told no reserva tions could be had, some individuals were even willing to curl up in a tarpaulin or sleep with the porter," transportation men said. - Lieut. E. C. Collier, head of the Seattle police dry squadron, said a police reception committee would be at the depots and docks next week to see that none of the ex cursionists bring any liquor back with them. Wyoming To Seize Liquor As Contraband Cheyenne, Wyo., June 28. All intoxicants in the hands of Chey enne liquor dealers at midnight Monday will be declared contra band and seized by the state, ac cording to a statement from Fred L. Crabbe, eenw commissioner of prohibition for Wyoming. Mr. Crabbe said he would instruct his deputies to enforce literally the state bone-drv law from the mo ment it becomes effective at mid night i BOOTLEGGERS OF OMAHA LOOKING FOR GOOD TIMES (Continued From Faga One.) in store in Missouri, Minnesota and Wyoming. "We never did have much fear, of the Omaha police," said one man who came into the city from Mis souri yesterday with his car loaded down with 35 cases of whisky. "I have always figured that I would get caught with about one load out of 25, and would charge it off to profit and loss. I have been haul ing booze now for over a year, mak ing from four to five trips a week. I have been caught just twice, and was fined once." Unless the federal government guards the highways over which the booze is transported more closely than the county and state officials have done in the past, boot leggers declare they will have lit tle to fear. It is said that some county sher iffs, deputy sheriffs and state agents who have been chasing booze run ners between Omaha and St. Joseph have grown rich during the past year. These officers of the law have been making it a point to keep in ( touch with the transporters, and the bootlegger these days scarcely makes a trip that he is not compelled to grease the palm of a county or Thompson-Belcien &Co. J ' stablished 78 8 6 j Hue JhsJiion Qeizier&ryvomeii FinalDisposal of Wool Suits Sacrificing Our Entire Stock Fewer than one hundred suits remain, but these are all of Thompson-Belden quality in every respect. Women planning summer travels to the shore or to the mountains, will appre ciate this timely oppor tunity. These are wool gabar dines, Poiret twills, serges and tricotines. The ma jority in nayy blue, al though other favored shades are well represented. Three Groups at Three - $195?,- $315.0, $445.? This sale occurs usually Jugust first, but because of the numer ous alterations now in progress, we are hoi ding' it a month earlier. Every Wool Suit is Included $19.50 for suits sold up to $52.50 $01 KC fr suite so Ol.OU from $55 to $85 C? A A PC A f or suite rom p4Jt4.0U $89.50 to $125.00 Sizes 16 to Uwith 36 Predominating Purchases Charged.., Monday are carried for ward to August first statements. Odd Corsets and Brassieres A clearing sale of many odd numbers which ac cumulate daily in our department. Some very fine bargains are ob tainable. Reasonable Prices Filosette" Gloves A washable fabric glove, very durable as well as attractive, which comes in white with self and contrast ing embroidery. 75c and $1 a pair. Summer Hours: 9 AM. to 5 P.M. state official. Indeed, it is said, that these officials between Omaha and St. Joseph have adopted a regular system for shaking down the boot leggers, and it is seldom that one bootlegger is made to pay his bit to more than one officer of the law on a single trip in consideration for his being allowed to go on his way un molested. With the great amount of whisky now stored in Omaha, which is be ing augmented hourly day and night, it is estimated the supply will meet the demand for the next six months. Rumors have been in circulation for the past three weeks that a number of the prosperous bootleg gers already have taken steps to install illicit stills close to Omaha, some of them in the city limits, for the purpose of manufacturing whisky when the supply now on hand is exhausted. One of the results that will be manifest after the government bond whisky supply is exhausted will be that more beer will be available than there is now, it is believed. Prepa ration is being made in hundreds of homes in this city, and by persons who purpose to sell their product, to manufacture beer. It is pointed out that this can be done cheaply, and under the process commonly used today 10 per cent beer easily may -be had in the course of from two to three weeks. This beer is made with very little labor, and in most cases upon receipts furnished by brewers who have been driven forfn their occupation by the prohi bition law. Omaha bootleggers say they will Prices Flaxons and Dimities Sheer white materials with checks or stripes, in different sizes. They are exceptionally desirable for cool summer garments for children, as they launder and wear equally well. Plain Flaxons, 32 inches Plain Flaxons, 40 inches wide, are 50c a vard. wide, are 75c and $1 a yard. Flaxons in checks and Dimities in checks and stripes, 34 inches wide, stripes, 32 inches wide, are 50c a yard. are 50c a yard. SHOWN IN THE LINEN SECTION. Crepe de Chine Underwear Sheer gowns, teddy bears, bloomers, short negligees and boudoir caps in pale and dainty shades. Teddy-bears, plain or very elaborately trimmed, with lace or ribbon shoulder straps, $3.50, $4.75, $5.50, $6.25 and up. continue in their occupation, expect ing to contend with the law. as they have done in the past: expecting to pay for protection when coupclled to do so by officers oi the law. as has been their practice heretofore, and expecting to pay a fine when they meet an honest enforcer of the statutes, which sometimes is the case. Omaha bootleggers do not belicva that national prohibition will pro hibit, and more than state-wide pro hibition prohibited in the past They figure Uncle Sam will have a hard time enforcing the law when the lawbreakers have the aid of the police and some of the state officers in helping them evade arrest. Calvary Boptist Buys Lot on West Cuming Street A deed has. just been recorded showing the sale of the southwest corner of Thirty-ninth and Cuminff streets, being 112 feet on Cuming street and 150 feet on Thirty-ninth street, from the C. B. Nash com pany to Calvary Baptist chrrch. This property will be improved by the church in the near future. The Calvary Baptist church, located at Twenty-fifth and Hamilton streets, was recently sold. The sale of the C. B. Nash lots was made through Dtunont & Co., and the considera tion was shown in the deed al $6,000. fn. Crawford Why aren't you going U have your mnrketlng nt homef Mr. Crabshaw I'm only buying twenty five or thirty dollars' worth, ao I carry It. Ufe. I 9 !:. 4 I All Sates final because of the very low prices we cannot make alterations. Tomorrow Morning at 9 O'Clock. if Bloomers in silk, satin or crepe de chine, $4.50, $5.50 and $6.25. Pajamas, one and two piece models of novel design in flesh, light blue and maize, are priced, $10.50., $12, $18 and up. - i
