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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1920)
r 1 0 THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1920 rntrro-r-uKYK lit Tarsia SHOWING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY fltat Henlejr Mss Sidney XtaiivS THE GAY OLD DOG ByEdna Fcber- Which occupies high place en the Honor Roll of Amer ican literature. Enacted hj a Company of True-to-Tjpe Players Headed by JOHN CUMBERLAND as "Jimmy DodcL" CENTRAL STAR IS INELIGIBLE' FOR BIG GAME TONIGHT Robertson Ruled Out Com merce and Central to Mix for City Basket Ball Title. Jvan Robertson, sensational guard on the Central High school basket ball fire, yesterday was declared ineligible to play btcanse bis average in several studies was sot satis factory. This announcement mas made by Coach Harold Mulligan on the eve of the game with Com mercial High for the high school championship of the city. The game will be played , tonight on Creighton gymnasjum. Centra! h title has held the city tor tivi- successive years. Preparations are being made for 2,000 students to witness the con test In addition to the student at tendance, more than 800 other patrons are expected. It is most probable that Coach Druramond will send in Mahooey, Camero, Scygg, Levinson and Slane, While Coach Mulligan will start Clement, Burnham, Logan. Swoboda and Konecky against the business lads. I k !r2 I PHOTO-PLATS. Chapter Nine "Adventure of Ruth" MAY ALLISCtl IN CTfceWiIk-OfhJ ALSO CHARLIE CHAPLIN Ji A. H. Blank, 1T Dorothy Dalton fcUrria Hr Owa Husband in BLACK is WHITE NOW SHOWING The Vagabond' a Qj JACK DEMPSEY IS INDICTED AS DRAFTJVADER Jack Kearny His Manager, Also Accused of Conspiracy " to Violate Selective Service Act INDOOR SPORTS Carrrisht. tilt lateral Jrr Serriea mmmm taireraal ferries Staff Carraspanaaut. San Francisco, Feb. 26.-True b!lls were voted today afraint ' Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, nd his manager, Jack Kearos by tl United States grand jury. Indictments will be returned against the accused men Friday, when the jury makes its final report to the United States district court. The jury voted after hundreds of lcters written by Prmpsey to his wife, Maxine Dempsey, and other documentary evidence were placed before the jury by United States Attorney .Adams. As a result of evidence secured the grand jury im mediately began an investigation of charges placed by the United States attorney that Frank Spellman, ' a Los Angeles moving picture pro moter, had perjured himself when he testified before that body when called as a witness for the govern ment Chargf Conspiracy Plot. The indictments which will be returned against Dempsey and vhis manager will be for conspiring' to violate the selective service lawand an indictment charging direct viola tion of this law. The federal grand jury investiga tion of Dempsey was the result of charges made by Mrs. Maxfrie Dempsey, his divorced wife, that at the time Dempsey secured deferred classification in the draft, she was supporting him and he was not sup porting her. She claimed to have letters written by Dempsey to prove that h and others conspired to evade military service. These charges' were denied,, and Mrs. Dempsey on being given an iritial payment of ?1.5O0. sipied an affida vit that her charges against Demp sey were not true. TU NOTHiM j liH ou3. MONTH - i mm i m w a l vcn - - m m r j 1 it i Drawn for The Bee by TadjpEflRS FINALLY LOSE, BUT STILL LEADING LEAGUE AW CCE t' SCTCr MEN rV' VJrtGV 1 TIP G 1 -i ill i ; . t . : j i ' j x y mmmm, vieSTl&OV AM PAS h-v A M 1 f 1 t55 1 i TN OaTH HT5- 1 TU-A.T 'RLIVO MAP 1 JNtfoS. A OUACtC Close Contests Feature Church League Play at Y. M. C A.; One Game Takes 20 Extra Minutes. AMrSEJTEVTS. LOTHROP 24th and Lothrop W A It It E N KERKICAN 1. 1IV1 SPARKS" ENID BENNETT In a Splendid Story ? True Heme Life. The Woman in the Suitcase NOW PLAYING' mum WWmr , In the triumph cf Ids satai vauSy OF TOMORROW" a T Aw Saturday mw.w. Moo. coicj, jmx t ' TWO SHOWS IN ONE PAPER DRESS REVUE. A narpltjr shovinf Utet modes in costume mad of Paper Miniature Musical Rerae. NORA ALLEN A CO. Society Solis t IB popular and operatic selection. BURKE BROS. A KENDALL. Siafiac, Dancing and Csmedjr Jug- CREED AN it WALSH SiarB( and Talkinc Pnotaplay Attraction: "RespactaU by Prmrr" Featuriaf Syh-ia Braamrr and Rsaert Cordon Billy Wast Casasdy TONIGHT AT ZS LAST TIME Sol Goldman presmts David Meyero vjtx m yaw 9dto Tickets 60c, 75c, $1.00 and $130. Tomorrow and Sat Feb. 28 and 29 The Tuneful Musical Melanf e Conte Along Mary Prices Sc SOc 75c fl.00 and SI 30 Tuas. and Wed Mar. 2d and Sd. TIGER ROSE" MAY POSTPONE STATE TOURNEY FOR OMAHA IIS Local Pin-Tumblers Ask Bowling Association To Hold Meet In April. The annual state bowling tourna ment scheduled to take place in Fre mont March 6 to 13, will be post poned until April, sereral Omaha bowlers thick. L H. Hammond, president of the State Tournamentssociation, in a 'letter to The Bee yesterday said ih; tournament was scheduled for March 6 to 13 for the special accommoda tion of Omaha bowlers Myron Stunz, Harry Eidson, Bill Learn and a dozen or more other Omaha pin tumblers say it was a false more to date the state meet for March instead of April, as hereto fore, because it would crowd them so they could not attend both the A. B. C and the state meet Stunz wrote to Hammond yester day and asked that the tournament be put off until April. "Entries for the state meet close Sunday and to date there are but two teams entered from Omaha, said Stunz in his letter to Hammond. -If the state tournament is post poned until April Ornate will oe represented by between 15 and 20 teams." .... . Omaha bowlers are inclined to be lieve that Hammond and other of ficials of the tournament association will redate the tournament for April in order to include the Omahans. Golfers Procuring licenses for Use of The Municipal Links More than two dozen golfers se cured license yesterday to use the municipal golf links this season. -The permits are issued free to applicants br Jake Uaacson, director of public recreation, in the city halL Park Commissioner Falconer said that every effort will be made by his department to keep Etawood park and Miller park courses, the only muny courses in Omaha, m good condition all year. "Workmen will be put to work soon on both links," said Falconer. "Present demand for licenses indi cates that municipal golfers will ex ceed in number those t last year when more than 2,000 permits were issued." r Yokel Recqrers Title. Boston, Feb. 27. Mike Yokel re covered here JThysday Ent .the world's middleweight wrestling inlt, which he lost last, spring, by Cg feating Waino Ketohen, two falls out of three. Ketonen won the first fall by a cradle hold in 45 minutes, 46 seconds. Yokel won the second by a toe hold in 34 minutes, 18 seconds and the third by a toe hold in 3 minutes. Cardinals Release Four. St. Louis. Feb. 26. The St Louis Nationals hae announced the re lease of tlie following players: Tom Ktllv, pitcher, to the Houston dub of the Texas league; William Brown and James Bottomly to the Joplin and Sioux Gty teams of the West ern league, respectively, and Fred Mollwhz to the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast league. The latter three are first basemen. Benson M. E. basket ball Kjuar - upset the dope in the V. M. C A Church league last night when the trounced the Pearl Mi E-. leaden oi the league. 11 to -4. The Bens quintet is third in the league, while the Pearls are still leading. ' v Neither aggregation came op U expectations in shooting baskets Calvert of the Benson quintet mads fire of his .team's points. The ab Isence of George Parish, captain oi, the Pearl aggregation, was noticed. It took the First M. E. 20 extra miifutes of playing before they could conquer the Hanscom Park quintet. The final score was IS to 14. The First M. E. was leading throughout the game until the last 20 seconds oi play when Crowley shot a foul goal and tied the- score. In the first five minutes of exlra playing both squads failed to make 1 a basket. la the second extra re minutes each aggregation made v basket The score stood 12 to 12. Each squad scored another basket in the third extra fire minutes. After 15 extra minutes a foul was f called on the Hanscom Parks, which resulted in their defeat In a close contest the M. E. Woo won from the Calvary Baptist by the score of 18 to 16. Reeves ot tnc Wops registered seven laflies, whik Weiser of the Baptists scored H points. Church League. Won. Lost. Psxl If. E. 1 First M T t Benson ii. E. ( 4 Ha.nsi.om Parks ...... S S TYUiity Bitu J ...... 4 . Wot CaJvsry S T CaniittfiLiis ..........-. 2 Prt .S0i' . .S With the Bowlers - "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" 25-SOc Tcl Last Tises Teday2:15-8:30 tAII Alt) I m ItA Maaical VS. IRL! WV. Barlasa Peter at dark's Tauiuiiaa (Saturaar) Matass asai Week HaThe AQTOStfiLS LAdlES DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS mAIX XXCHAXGE LEAblK. Hnn xaoraasr C. ! Tpdik Graia Ca. Bowers S Hallocs. 471 frris & Campbell 8f4 Fhamneck ; Archlbalfl , Itl How f! " ill Hansen S3(l. Htia-arfl Z nuu jHandlcsp ...... K'ti Tots.L ,...rt! Total ...I80S Alaar's rsa. Ca. lUKhkcUUd Urala B. EraiSer St4 Kuhl . BoraboZ H Plxir . cikh 41 BtroroBT jtopev Ponisror 4P in 4E.1 ! lender 4 etraw - Total ISSsI Total J!4S Oawba Klrv. Caw IJL C rr Mill Ca. Borghoti SjC. Peters 44 Bailry 417i Barton Rvim ti Hcrfer t TAMnmni E:rearth n Prunrsa SSI D- Pt j Hasdicip Total .ts! Total . Maary MUliat O. 1 HT-Bclunaiar-Tv ThoU 411 Vrai C-s. EUa-ser 4! Probst- 471 Jnbtber- 4o4 Anuill SJ Bchm.it 430 Cole JJS Hathaway 116 Mannine J ni,iru SS. Kerr 6" J Tetal Mill T TotaJ S4 wrras twi NEXT CNX OVER" DaBy Matiaec 2r 4V r ftH tuf jlW Eveaini at vacviu FOKD SISTERS: BEMEE A CURB: CtARA SIOBTOH: asav SahrM 4 Ca.: wn fMan r A Arthar: Tai Ktckarss: Tseiai af ths tar; Klaajnaa, ( ,J,lii,:K,li,iti!mi,i5;:!iai!ii;1li.Jit.;i; "And some day -we'll run away and get married" - SCENARIO fe-riters figure the average age of the moving picture au dience as eight years. Which Is An unripe old age compared to the composite age of scenario writers. 1 on half-fare from all rnrttlMl to trave The senate is in the first bloom Ot its second cnuanouu. We wonder if you, reader, ever said this to some little girl or had it said to you? Nellie and Jimmie are just like all first lovers even as you and 1. We will see each other in them. We'll laugh at them we'll sorrow with them we'll thrill with them because they're human they're us! Griffith, the master, has made them so in The Greatest Question." Griffith's Great Film at the Next Week 3 Figuring on that, we UJC fif. . . ..... t u and corporation lawvers, bank presidenU Sna eonnion .leaoers woam all get their hats in the boys' department The average citaenis asapp who eats in Childs wears a belt and is good to his mother. Child, is a healthy place to eat You always come out of one of those restaurants with an appetite. As for the belts, the A. E. F. proved that we could and can wallop any nation that wears suspenders. In no trait i the average sapp more juvenile than in his wardrobe. You can judge a man by his clothes. .Correct You can judge a man by his clothes. But yon can convict him by his hat Very correct ( There are all kinds cf sapps. There is the sapp whose stomach can't stand ocean trips, but can ride forever in a Ford. The sapp who buys a girl an installment diamond and then spends the rest of his life sparring with the bill collector. Buying installment jewelry is like paying alimony on a dead boss. Strike an average in the spp ward and you can caft the result Everysapp. - Tfce place where the sapp runs loosest is in a hat works. Everysapp is a kbb who wears his bat just th,e way the salesman fixes it on his knob. He walks out as if he were balancing it instead of wearing it You've got to be a juggler to wear the skull pans they mate nowadays, anyway. "' Woman's crowning glory is her hair. It hides the shapeof her head. aaa-aBsSBasaa-saaisaw But Everysapp goes into a. bonnet foundry baldheaded. He goes into the hat clinic to buy the latest disease in hats and comes out on f t u"r,;ri rinetn't mean Member of rarliaroent, Mounted Police, but Pocket Money for the three-card monte expert who wisbesJ the head dish on him. An M. P. is on old style that been laying Around thf Ktnrm tn lone that thf mice use it for a trarage. It an orphan hat that never had a father a.nd mother to pick ont for father. When Every sapp rattles into the works, M. P. is the countersign. By getting nd of the old style to a customer instead of the ashman, the salesman grabs a percentage on the daylight robbery.,, i A M.aaM ' U a tmv who buvs the first soon tureen that he tries on. That is, he thinks he's trying it on. The salesman stands about four feet awav and ricES Everysapp with it like A qnoit No mat ter what part of bis head it lights on, it's sure to fit some corner. 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