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THE i BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1920. ' ATTEMPTS MADE TO BLOW SAFES ; 111 BOWEN STORE Employe of Store Held On Charge of Trying to Draw Locks by Magnet. :An attempt to break into two safes of the Bowen Furniture conj , pany was made Saturday night, po lice declared yesterday. No attempt was made to use ex- pfjsives in the operation, police al lege, but a magnetic steel plate with " which it was intended to draw the locks of the combination, was em - ployed by the cracksman. The attempt was unsuccessful. ""The safes contained $11,000 in cash ' ind $20,000 in Liberty bonds. J. A. Bastian, 4003 North Twenty fifth street, former employe in the carpet department of the store, is being held by police for the at tempted robbery. He is said to have made a full confession. He was ar rested Monday afternoon by De tectives Danbaum and A. C. Ander son. t The detectives were at first puz; zled at the complication of steel plates and electric wires used by the yeggman in attempting to open the safes. Occasional jobs of safe-blowing in the eastern cities showt evidence of the use of magnetic plates to open safes, detvtUves say, but this is the first example of it in Omaha. Bastian has confessed that it was his "first and last safe job," Chief of Detectives Dunn says. Tke combinations on both doors had been broken 'otf and four holes drilled about the knob. A square steel plate was fitted tightly over the lock hole to which-was attached an electric Wire. Electric current was switched on which was supposed to operate the locks of the safe. The operation failed because of the smallness of the steel plate, de tectives say. i Dastian is married and has twt children. He told detectives he had studied a peculiar meihod. of safe blowing "just for personal interest and not to tak-: part in the crime," police . say- "V BABY TORN FROM MOTHER BY NEW vORDER OF COURT Divorcee Loses Child After Gaining Custody by Affi- davit Now Void. Mrs. Margaret Neely, 2223 Via ton street, has run the gamut of human emotions in 24 hours. Mon 'ay District Judge Sears made an order giving her the custody of her baby, Lucile May, 3i years old and prohibiting? her divorced lius band, Koy A. Neely, from removin the child from the state of Ne braska or interfering with the child or Mrs. Neelv. Yesterday he revoked the order and sent tnc child back to the tern porary cus'.rdy of Mrs. .A.lta John son, 2211 Dodge street, where th young mother has been paying fo Luetic Ways board. Judge Sears revoked the first or der on the ground that it was re ceived on a misprescntation.. In affidavit signed by Mrs. Neely stated that, in the decree of divorce se cured by her in November, 1918, sh was granted "sole" custody of th child. The decree, in fact, gave "legal" custody to Mrs. Neely and "personal" custody to Mrs., H. J. Cook, Mrs. Neefy's sister. This was pointed out to the judge by Mr, Neely who is fighting for the child, "Oh, if that word 'sole' only hadnt been in there! exclaimed Mrs. Neely as she sat in the cor ridor of the court house yesterday, "Are you still going to fight for the baby? she was asked. "You can certainly say I am," she declared. "I live for my baby girl alone. I support her. It was only a mistake that word .was in there. My lawyer and I had no intention to deceive the court. I was so happy last night with my baby with me. Tonight will be lonely, for she won't be there. But 1 m sure when the case is tried in court that I will get her. Slide Closes Canal Panama. March 23. The Panama canal has been elbsed for two days, all ships being affected by the or der because of a landslide in the Cucaracha section of the waterway, according to an official announc mcnt. Dredges are expected to e'ear away the debris and make the canal safe for ships by lhursday. Keep The System Clean And You'll Be Healthy Elimination helps to avoid colds, headachei and epidemics ANYONE who has watched himself knows there is noth ing so important to health and comfort as regular daily elim ination. Half of the minor illness es of life are due to neglect of this. The five million men who were in our army know the importance the doctor attached to this function. By all means try to regulate yourself by intelligent diet and exercise, but when these fail you will need a laxative, one as near to nature in its action as skill can make it. In the opinion of many thousands of good Americans such a one is Dr.. 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CALDWE LL'S SYRUP PEPgflM THE PERFECT LAXATIVE (CONSTRUCTION explains Commerce Performance you will find on investigation that Commerce users are invar iably pleased with the perform ance of their trucks. Every part of the Commerce truck has been chosen because it could be depended upon to give the utmost in service and it has for ten years. Commerce trucks are proven trucks through and through. Service In-Built Fully Equipped Pneumatic Cord Tires i Truck and Tractor Corporation W. J. Foye, Pres. Thos. S. McShane, Sale Mgr. W. A. Pixley, Vice Pret. and Gen. Mgr. DISTRIBUTORS 1310 Jackson Street Over The Political Fence The republican observer of men and affairs these days is enjoying himself on the sidelines, watching the democratic contlicCwhich is rag ing in Nebraska. And, by the way, the democratic situation is engaging the attention of the political pro letariat in many states. All of which arouses an inquiry as to what ,W. J, Bryan will have to say when he ap pears here next Saturday night in the City auditorium. It is known that Mr. Bryan has been taking mny notes sirfce he left Miami, Fla., about a week ago, to- travel westward via New York City and Washington. The democratic party here in Nebraska has been rent in twain over the "wet and dry" ques tion, with Mr. Bryan leading the column of drys and Senator Hitch cock carrying the banner of the op position. ' - It is interesting to scan the po litical records of the last few weeks ,and recount some of the things which Mr. Bryan has said and also some of the things which have been said and written against him. "It would be impossible for him (Bryan) to give a new thrill or even wake the expectation of one from him," said the New York Evening Post the other day. Mr. Bryan offered, this statement Ust week: "I think it is my duty to the progressive democrats of the nation to go as a delegate to the na tional convention if Nebraska demo crats desire it." Governor Edwards of New Jersey invited Mr. Bryan to leave the democratic party and take his proper place with the prohibition party. Arthur v. Mullen, democratic na tional committeeman for Nebraska, said: "I "have been working with the construction crew and Bryan is with the, wrecking crew." I am not a candidate for the presidential nomination," Bryan !aid a few days ago. "I am always perfectly frank with the American people. I will not decide in advance of the San Francisco convention whether an emergency may arise which would make it necessary for me to accept the nomination. My ambition is not to enjoy the honor of public office, but to discharge a debt of gratitude to the American people." J. H. Mithen. head of the Hitch-I cock-for-President committee, in a 1 public statement, -wrote of Bryan: tit overestimates his importance He assumes that he is better than other democrats; that he is a super- democrat, in a class all by himself, Mr. Bryan retorted by saying that the people run the government and that both of the national conven tions will have prohibition planks in their platforms. And Mr. Bryan also stated that if elected as a dele gate to the national convention and the Nebraska voters instruct for Hitchcock he will not vote for Hitchcock. 0 Mrs. Draper Smith, chairman of the republican women's committee, notes that in at least 54 of the 168 voting precincts of Douglas county there are no contests against women who have filed for scats in the county convention. This is an unexpected situation and offers an inklftig of the interest women are taking in politics and also of the probable extent to which women will be heard 111 the conven tion. 1 In addition to the 54 seats which the republican women are assured of, they expect to win some of the con tested places at the primary election The republican county convention will be entitled to 207 delegates. Miss Nettie Bauer, national or ganizer, who has been sent to Ne braska by the"" women's division of the republican national committee, will speak ihis afternoon in the Lyric building, Nineteenth and rar nam streets. This evening she will addess the colored republican women in Colum- uia nan, iwenty-iourtn ana Lake streets. Thursday evening she will go to Waterloo to speak, as the guest. of Mrs. William H. Jacobson and Mrs. John Robinson. - .Friday. afternoon she will speak in the South Side and Friday night she will address a meeting of republi can business women at the headquar ters of the republican women's com mittee, 310 South Nineteenth. Don't forget to register . for the April primary. If you have changed your residence since your last registration, you must have your registration revised if you would vote. This is the open season of the clad hand. flrWINSTORIEjl V lucy w y FITCH PEBKINS ' Jj WHY? are roses red? (Copyright, 19S0. by Wheeler Syndi cate, Inc.) WHAT is commonly known as "color" is really noth ing but the effect of light, as may be proven by looking at colored objects through a piece of stained glass. White light is a mixture of a number, of colors, including red. . The pigment or coloring matter in what we call a "red" rose absorbs all the rays of 1 white light exorpt the red, which it reflects. The result is that the object appears to be red an arbitrary term which we have applied to such a color. ' If a red rose is examined through a piece of green glass green being the "complimentary color" to red it will appear to be green, while a blue flower, ex amined through th? same glass, would still retain much of its original shade. A white rose will, of course, appear white only in a white light. The colors of flowers and other objects is. therefore, a matter of light and of pigment which absorbs certain of the "color rays" and reflects others. Tomorrow's question WHY does the wind blow? OMAHA CHILDREN ' CAN SKATE RIGHT INTO MOVIE SHOW For Boys and Girls fjdy Problems Solve How to Read. By JOHN MERRILL. Francis W. Parker School. You have seen a moving picture show, and doubtless you know how the pictures are taken and how they are made to appear on the screen. Suppose you have a moving picture machine of your otvn. and that you have a reel entitled. "A Lion Hunt." If the photographer took his pic tures of the lioa hunt at the rate of 16 views a second, and if you send them through the machine at the same rate, the hunt will seem to be actually taking place before your eyes. But if you send them through at too slow a rate, you will not see a moving picture merely a series of separate, stationary views, like those of the old-fashioned stcreopti con. If you run your pictures fas ter tlfan 16 a second, the result will be no picture at all only a blur. Reading, in some respects, is like a moving picture. The words on the printed page correspond some what to the separate views. If you have a copy of the "Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling, and wish to see the moving picture that Mr. Kipling had in his mind when he wrote about the fight of the mongoose with the great snake, you must read neither too slowly nor too rapidly. You Best Imitators of Charlie Chap lin and Mary Miles Minter Will Win Prizes. What the Dutch Twins Caught. They all sat down on the end of the pier. Grandfather sat on the very end and let his wooden shoes hang down over the water; but he made Kit and Kat sit with their feet binr.k straight out in front of them, so they just reached to the edge So you can t fall in, said Grand father. They dropped their hooks into the ater and sat very still, waiting for a bite. The sun climbed higher and higher in the sky, and it grew hot ter and hotter on the pier. The flies ti;:kled Kat's nose and made ier sneeze. "Keep still, can't you?" said Kit V.'i crossly. "You'll scare the fish. Girls don't know how to fish, anyway." Pretty soon Kat fait a queer little jerk on her line. She was perfectly sure she did. Kat squealed and jerked her rod. She jerked it so hard tha one foot flew right up in the air and one of her new wooden shoes went splash right into the water 1 But that wasn t the worst of it! Before you could say Jack Robin son, Kat's hook flew around and caught in Kit's clothes and pricked him. Kit jumped and said "Ow! And then no one could ever tell how it happened there was Kit in the water, too, splashing like a young What Do You Know? (Here's a chance to make jour wits worth money. Earn day The Bee will mblinh a series of nuestlons. nrenaretl by Superintendent J. H. Beveridge of the public school. They coyer thing which you should know. The first complete liit f correct answers received will he re warded hy $1. The answers and the names of the winners will be published on the day Indicated below. Be sure to give our n.ime and address in lull. Address Question Editor," Omaha Bee.) By J. H. BEVERIDGE. 1. What colonial statesman said Give me liberty or give me death"? i. Who first circumnavigated the globe? 3. In what year was coal first used in the production of steam and the manufacture of steel? 4. -Who invented the sewing ma chine? 5. Who were the Tories of the Revolutionary War? (Answers Published Saturday.) SATURDAY'S ANSWERS. 1. Benjamin Franklin. 2. After John Jacob Astor of the Pacific Fur Co. 3. 1682. . 4. Francis Scott Key. 5. John Hancock. Winners: Helen Donahoe, Elkv orn, Neb., and Marjorie Jane In- galls, 1318 South Twenty-fifth treet, Umaha. x Pass Library Ordinance The city council yesterday forma'- ly passed an ordinance for the sub mission of a $250,000 park bonJ proposition to the voters on April 20. It is proposed to build an audi torium in connection with the main public library and to establish sev- ral branch libraries. ' Dr. Secor. Dentist 1st Nat. Bk. Bldg. Adv. whale, W'ith Kat's hook still holding fast to his clothes in the backl Grandfather jumped then, too, you may be sure. He caught hold of Kat's rod and pulled hard and called out: "Steady, there, steady!" And in one minute there was Kit in the shallow water beside the pier, puffing and blowing like a grampus. Grandfather reached down and pulled him up. When Kit was safely on the pier Kat threw her arms around his neck, though the water was running down in streams from his hair and eyes and ears. "Oh, Kit," she said, "I truly thought it was a fish on my line when I lumped!" "Just 'like a g-g-girl," said Kit.. "They don't know how to f-f-fish." You see. his teeth were chattering, because the water was cold. "Well, anyway," said Kat, "I caught more than you did. I caught you J" Then Kat thought of something else. She shook her finger at Kit. "Oh, Kit," she said, "mother told vou not to fall into the water!" "'Twas all your fault," roared Kit. "Y-y-yo;i began it! Anyway, where is your new wooden shoe?" "Where are both of yours?" screamed Kat. Sure enough, where were they? No one had thought about shoes, because they were thinking so hard about Kit. (Rights resflrved by Houghton Mifflin Co.) 'It will behoove every Omaha boy and girl to don roller skates Satur day morning. Without them no kid will quite be in it that day, but whh .them mere rollt-r skates he can see, without the cost of a penny, the comic antics of Charlie Chaplin in 'The Rink" and Mary Miles Minter 111 Judy of Rogues Har bor." Also he can win prizes. The plot of 'the way for every Omaha kid to get into the Sun is as fol- l.-v s: The Omaha Bee, in connection with the management of the Sun theater, lias arranged what will be known as the "Bee Skating Bee." It will b'e held next Saturday morn ing and every boy or girl in Omaha who appears at the box office of the Sun theater at 11 that morning with a coupon from Ihe Bee, and wearing roller skates, will be ad mitted to the theater free of charge. And that isn't all. Not by a whole lot. . In addition to free admission to the theater, prizes are to be given to both boys and girls by The Bee and Sun managements. These prizes will include the finest kind of roller skates for the boys and wonderful Mary Miles Minter dolls for the girls. For the five best Charlie Chaplin "make-ups" to in clude the comedian's famous mus tache, derby, baggy trousers, shoes and cane and everything else that makes the star funny, roller skates will be given. To the lad winning the first prize an especially fine pair of skates will be given. And for the five girls who most carefully imitate Mary Miles Minter with her hair in curls, beautiful Mary Miles Minter dolls will be given as prizes. Woodcraft rv il Tor Boy and Girl Scouts Without Matches. By ADEUA BELLE BKARD. To forget or lose your matches, or let them get" wet accidentally, will not be the calamity it might prove if you always carry a piece of flint and a strong steel of some kind in your ..pocket when you go on a hike. The u?c of flint and steel for starting a fire is only going back several generations to the period when we had no matches, and all outdoor boys and girls, you among them, should know how to flight a fire in this primitive fashion. Prac tice ot home; practice until you can make a sure thing of it every time, then you can rely on your skill when the occasion comes to use it. A piece of strong steel shaped iike the ,one shown i 1 our illustra- ' STRIKE Tiir FLINT ' A G, LANCING, DLUW wi 1 n THE STEEL I AM MORE GRATEFUL. TO Tanlac than., words can press, for it hat given ma health and happiness after twelve long years of suffering, was the en thusiastic statement made the' other day by Mr. Olivine Peltier of Vermont. ' 1 Omaha C. of C. Authorizes Bureau of Agriculture A bureau of agriculture, to have charge of all agricultural interests of the Chamber of Commerce and to handle general relations between Omaha and the rural district of which it is the center, was author ized today at a meeting of the execu tice committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Hugh F. Mcintosh, retired farm er, formerly of Grand Island, was chosen manager of the bureau. Ac cording to members of the commit tee, he was chosem for the position because of his experience as a farm er and his knowledge of conditions in Nebraska and Iowa. - " must not omit any of the pictures; that is, you must not fail to get in your mind the correct image for each word. If you are a careless reader and do not get the correct mental picture of practically all the words on the page, you will fail to see the exciting fight that the writer saw. If you are over-slow the sep arate views suggested by the in dividual words will not combine in one continuous movement or pic ture. If you recognize words readi ly, but are ovcrhasty and rush down the page without taking time to see every picture distinctly, you will get a meaningless blur. If then, you wish to he admitted to the thrilling moving picture show of any.interesting book, you must be able and willing to pay the price and observe all the rules. No skipping, no loitering, no hurrying, but every picture clear and distinct. Copyright, 1!I20, by J. II. Millar. Resume Paving Hearing Hearing of the suit of Jamin B. Root to prevent the county commis sioners and the Allied Contractors (Inc.) from- paving 12 miles of the Lincoln highway with bitulithic compound, was resumed in District Judge Sears' court today after sev eral days of intermission. County Clerk Dewey was on the witness stand this morning, answer ing questions regarding the filing of the specifications in his office. tion is most convenient to use and to carry, but the back of a knife will answer if it must. The flint should be large enough to hold eas ily, and the way to produce the sparks is to strike the edge of the ilint a quick, glancing downward blow with the steel. That part is soon mastered. The trick is to catch the spark and keep it alive. To do this you must use dry, very dry tinder. Hold your flint so that the sparks will fall into your small bunch of tiulcr . and when a volume of smoke arises, fan it with your hand and then gently blow it into flame. Have ready shredded birch bark, or other quick ly lighted stuff, to use as a match i. nd .with it catch your flame imme diately and apply it to your kindliiiL'. It is safest to carry tinder with you,, packed in a small tin box to keep out dampness. You can make this at home. Tear do not cut short strips of old cotton cloth and scorch it in the oven, then pull it apart into small pieces. Try it and see that it lights easily. Dry moss, dry grasF, dried willow catkins take sparks readily; also the dried in ner bark of Cedar rubbed into fine shreds. W a-MA ' Lf ill ft' -r -- - Jill Copyright, 1920, by J. H. Millar. Two Put In Applications For M. Andreasen's Job District judges will appoint an adult probation officer some time this week to succeed M. Andreasen, who was removed Monday. There are several applicants for the posi tion which pays a salary of $125 a month. John W. Glassman and Moses P O'Brien are said to be among the applicants. Inspect High School Two cases of smallpox, reported from the high school of commerce during the last week, prompted Dr. J. F. Edwards, health commissioner, to order daily inspections for two weeks. Only those who were ex posed will be required to observe the vaccination order. Omaha Bee Skating Bee This coupon, when presented by any boy or girl in Omaha wearing roller skates, at the box office of the Sun theater at 11 a. m. Saturday, will entitle the holder to free admission to the theater and the privilege to compete for prizes consisting of roller skates and Mary Miles Minter dolls. BE SURE TO CLIP THIS COUPON! SHIPPING schedules to meet IN TIME promised deliveries to make ON . TIME twelve, fourteen, sixteen, even eighteen hours a day call for trucks of honest build. 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