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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1920)
THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUMB 14, lyzu BIG CROWDS AT AMATEUR GAMES IN SPITEOF HEAT Riggs Optical Co. Team Wins . Fourth Consecutive Game By Defeating "Drive-It-Yourself" Co. Plenty o excitement, sensational fielding, remarkable pitching, snappy playing and surprise were presented the amateur base ball followers yes terday afternoon at the various dia monds, where the teams of the five leagues affiliated with the Municipal Amateur Base Ball association, were fighting it out for the 1920 su premacy honors. Despite the fact that the tempera ture hovered around the 100 mark, the players displayed plenty of pep ind the spectators witnessed the best brand of ball staged thus far this season. Probably the biggest surprise of the day happened at Fontenelle park, when the Riggs Optical Co. won its foutth consecutive game by taking the Drivc-It-Yourself Co. warriors, City league leaders, to a 4-to-2 ti enticing. This was the first defeat of the season for the Tin Lizzies. At no time of the game were the Optical lads in danger of losing, al though errors behind Pitcher Sel Smith proved fatal to the Drive-It-Ycurself bunch. "Smith allowed but four hits, while the Tin-Lizzies se cured eight off Rokusek of the Op tical team. Bowen Team Wine. The Bowen Furniture Co. won a 13- to-9 game from the Stroud & Co. team. "Zip" Woozly, on the mound for the Bowens although hit hard, kept his hits well scattered. Skomal's fielding and McAndrews hitting featured for the Furniture team. Ralph Beers' pitching was practi cally responsible for the Paxton Vicrling's S-to-1 victory over the Nebraska Power Co. A home run and a three-base drive also featured. The Beddeos, by losing their sec ond consecutive game, dropped into second place in the American league race. The Columbian Optical com pany upset the dope yesterday when they won a 10-inning fray by the score of S to 3 from the Clothiers. Lyle Barton, on the mound for the Beddeos, pitched a nifty game, but errors in the tenth round proved his downfall. Barton allowed five hits and struck out nine men, whlie Baker, hurling for the Optical lads, whiffed 13 and allowed the same number of hits. Fords In First Place. . By winning 7 to 2 from the Fed eral Reserve bank, the Paulson's Fords jumped into first placejin the American league. Ritz. in the box for the Fords, allowed but four hits and whiffed 11, while .Reed, pitching for the Banks, was touched for nine hits. He fanned 12 men. The field ing of McAuliffe and B. Hubatka for the Fords featured. While the Harding Creamery com pany registered a 6 to 3 victory over the Phillip Department Store and the Town sends took the- Maney j Milling Co. to a 11 to 2 trouncing, the Creamery lads took first place in he Booster league race. Koy win- ter' hitting and the hurling of Art Klauschie .for the Creamery team featured. Smith, on the mound for the Gunners, had his opponents at his . mercy throughout the entire game. The Leavenworth Merchants for feited their game again yesterday to the Sprague Street Merchants, thereby making it the second con secutive forfeit of the season. , W. O. W. Forfeit Game. The Woodmen of the World team also forfeited their game to the Shamrocks in the Gate City league, while in the same circuit the Brode gaard Crowns, with the score 9 to 2 in favor of the Vachal Pharmacy team in the second inning, walked off the field, thereby giving the latter team a forfeit. Instead of disap- -pointing the large crowd, the Phar niacys played a pick-up team and won. 11 to 9. The McKenney Dentists won their eighth straight game, defeating the Ramblers, 9 to 0. Curley Rand, on the firing line for the Dentals, whiffed 13 and allowed but two hits. The batting of Cottrell and Rand also featured for the McKenneys. Two slugging frays marked the contests in the North Omaha league, a Class C loop. The Commerce Juniors beating the Omaha Views, IS to 6, and the Ames Arrows win ning from the Excelsiors, 21 to 17. Take Precautions to Prevent Spread of Bubonic Plague in U. S. Pensacola, Fla., June 13. Follow in a tfte announcement hv state la- George Gardina here Friday was .undoubtedly due to bubonic plague, ' steps were inaugurated by the city autnonues ior an immeaiate clean up campaign in an effort to prevent a spread of the disease. A special meeting of the city commission will be held Monday morning to discuss the situation. The Gardina case is ihe only one thus far reported. Public health officials already have started a survey of the city to localize what might be regarded as a dangerous area. The"y have de termined upon a thorough exter mination of rats and will take spe cial precautions to see that no ships tie up along the docks without prop er rat guards, v Commerce from this port will not be interfered with, it was stated, but all vessels and all freight cars leav ing here will be fumigated and all ports will be requested to enforce fumigation regulations on all ships that arrive from Pensacola. Officials here expressed confi dence the plague would not attain alarming proportions. Beatrice Girl Is Promoted. Beatrice, Neb., Tune 13. (Spe cial) Miss Nellie Powell, who has been employed by the Western tTjnion Telegraph company here for a number of years, has teen appoint- Hamburg, la., and left Saturday for that place to assume her new duties. School Girl Beats Adding Machine in Rapid Calculation ? Esther Kaplan- j Miss Esther Kaplan, 13-year-old Kansas City school girl, who recent ly established an international rec ord as a rapid. calculator, has suc cessfully defended her laurclr. against a special cemonstrator for an adding machine company. Miss Kaplan solved six problems of ad Jition in 47 seconds The best Miss Mae S. Dorsey, an adding machine demonstrator, could make in the tpecial exhibition on an adding ma chine, was one minute and 42 sec onds with one error.- Four other types of adding machines entered in the contest were withdrawn after Miss Kaplan demonstrated her cal culating speed. The girl will com pete in the international contest at Cincinnati in June. HARDING WILL WIN NEBRASKA, LEADERSASSERT Nominee Is Especially Strong Candidate on Account of Experience in Senate, Says E. J. Burkett. Lincoln, June 13. (Special.) While there is some disappointment among republicans in Lincoln that the vice presidential nomination did not come to the west after the presidential nomination went to Ohio, they are not inclined to be other than loyal to the work of the Chicago convention and, generally speaking, seem to feel that the com bination of Harding and Coolidge is a strong one. Both men are known to be honest and with records back of them which will appeal to the average American citizen as beingt all that any man could ask for. It 'has been a long time since the United States had a president with congressional experience like that of Harding- and as it brings him in close touch with the legislative and business branches of the government he ought to make a mighty good president, ac cording to sentiment here. Former United States Senator E. J. Burkett is enthusiastic over the nominations. "I cannot think of a man who is better fitted to meet, the present needs of the country, than Harding." said the senator. "He has the stuff in him to make a good president and I believe he will do it." Harry Lindsay, cleric of the su preme court, knows "Senator Hard- mi? personally. He is a man that all can vote for," said Mr. Lindsay this morning. "A better choice could not have been made." Dr. B. F. Bailey has visited Marion, O., the home town of Sen ator Harding, and says that there is no question but that Senator Hard ing is the clean, honest man that his reputation has given him. "He jwill make an ideal president and a win ning candidate." However, Charlie Bryan is not pleased with the nomination. In fact, the democratic brother of a three times democratic candidate for the presidency, admits that he is disap pointed with ihe nomination of Harding and even intimates that the democrats may nominate a man who suits him better, but would not indi cate who he thought that man would be. Beatrice Farmer Is Held for Statuory Offense Beatrice, Neb., - June 13. (Spe cial.) George Meints, a young far mer living near Beatrice, was ar raigned before Justice Ellis on a statutory offense. He waived pre liminary hearing and was bound over to the district court. He fur nished bond in the sum of $1,000. nor) 11 II riiTMrll I V 1 A special toasting y process brings out ii f till tKe delicious com flavor JBRgJSYCbmllabs 7hs Original VTuck Cornflakes At Your Grocer THE JERSEY CEREAL FOOD CO.,- Cmil.Pa. JlsotoQun of JerwyWhok WluatFaacafcc Float 2014 A BURGLARS DEFY COPS IN SUNDAY ORGY OF GRIME Money, Diamonds and Gold Taken When Homes and . Business Houses Are Looted. Burglars, sneak thieves and pick pockets were busy in Omaha yester dayv The thieves specialized in jewelry and automobile tires. The loot was valued at mors than $1,100. Four yeggmen were chased by the police when they were caught in the act of entering two downtown stores. In both instances they es caped, after exciting chases. Two thieves eluded Policeman William Cich after he caught them breaking the show window in Har ry's place, a jewelry store, 501 North Sixteenth street. Cich and Robert Filtner, Northwestern hotel, chased the men at 4 Sunday morning for several blocks, but they escaped by disappearing in an alley. Several rings and small gold pins were taken from the window after it had been broken in with a plank. One of the thieves was dressed in light trousers while the other was dressed in overalls. Steals Stamp Vender. Two young bandits made their way into the Omaha Wall Paper company by breaking in the front door and were looting the place when they were discovered by the watchman, who pursued them Un successfully to Thirteenth and Jack son' streets. Nothing was missing, according to the police report. A sneak thief walked in the Haynes drug store at Fifteenth and Douglas streets at 9 Saturday and carried away an automatic postage stamp vendor containing $30 in cash andd $15 in stamps. Another elusive sneak thief walked into two offices in the World-Herald building and escaped with two purses belonging to two office girls employed in the building.' Miss Catherine Crawford, 412 World-Herald building, lost a silver mesh bag valued at $75 and and $5 in small change. Miss Leora Arklin, 542 World Herald building, lost a $25 brown leather vanity case containing $1.50 and car checks. Window Washer Steals. A man who was employed by Mrs. J. F. Belford, 2621 Harney street, to wash the windows Satur day afternoon, disappeared after tak ing her husband's watch and a twin stone diamond stickpin valued at $190. Burglars gained entrance to the home of Mrs. R. H. Roberts, 2610 North Twenty-eighth avenue, by cutting the screen in the dining room window. The thieves ransacked the house and carried away $300 worth of the jewelry and two small checks. Fifty dollars' worth of jewelry was the loot obtained by. thieves who cut the screen in a window in the home of Fred C. Potter. 2S04 Spaulding street. The burgiars left a plush-lined watch box, part of the loot of another burglary, police be lieve. Auto Tires Stolen. The American Tire Syndicate, 411 South Twenty-fourth street, lost 11 automobile tires and six inner tubes frcm its garage at Bennington. The thieves gained entrance by breaking a window. Ihe loot was v.tlued at $300. Gus Hammel, 5415 South Twenty first street, lost $85 to pickpockets who jostled him while he was board ing an Albright street car; he told police. Evaucation of Kiev Is Completed by Poles Warsaw, June 13. The evacua tion of Kiev has been completed, the Poles withdrawing to the re gion of Zhitomir. The American Red Cross workers, according to latest reports, had made prepara tions to evacuate Kiev with the armies. News of the evacuation of Kiev reached Warsaw Saturday night, which -was the first report from Kiev in several days.' Just prior to the cutting off of the communi cation by the bolshevjki, General Rydzmigly, the commander at Kiev, sent a dispatch that he would make a stand unless otherwise ordered. With difficulty the Mes got through a personal order Trom Gen eral Pilsudski", the commander-in-chief, to the Kiev commander to evacuate immediately. General Duenny, the Russian commander who fought against Denikine, is bfinging up reinforce ments, the dispatch says, but the military authorities assert that the fight for Kiev is not yet ended by any means. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. n ant rercnce i 0 o in 0- CI ! th(BL. uiii Would Honor Delegates for Battle With Heat in Nominating Candidate Valley Forge and Chateau Thierry Had Nothing on Chicago for Courage and Suffering of Patriots Who Have Cool, Comfortable Homes Awaiting Them Noise of Voteless Galleries Waste Time and Handicap Work of Body. n By DOROTHY DIX. Chicago, 111., June 13. (Spe cial Telegram.) Boy, page the muse of history, and when you find her ask her to inscribe on the scroll of fame in letters of gold the names of the delegates to the 17th republican convention. For the heroes who have fought, bled and died for their country from Valley Forge to Chateau Thierry have nothing in grim courage and suffering on the delegates who have fought, suffocated and perspired for their candidates during this conven tion. Heat Big Obstacle. I bow my head in awe before a patriotism that doesn't wilt down into a complaisant pulp in the dev astating heat of the convention hall and before principles that have enough backbone ii them to stand up stiff and straight when the mer cury is sizzling in its tube. As for me. long ago I should have compro mised on any candidate preferably the ice man and got the whole steaming business over so that I No machine can do what this new receipt-printing cash register does (D It prints the merchant's name. (D It prints the price of each article. (D It adds the items. (D It retains an added and printed record. It also does other important things for merchants, . clerks, and customers. Old registers bought, sold, repaired, and exchanged. Easy payments. Liberal allowance for old registers. i Write or telephone to our office. H. B. Whitehouse, Branch Manager, 219. South Nineteenth Street, Omaha We make cash registers for every line of business (DJ could go home and be comfortable once more. Yes, little as they looked it, those Kbt, sweating, coatless men, with wilted collars and mussy shirts, mopping their faces and giving a lifelike representation of the agony of a live lobster on the grill are he roes and martyrs to our idoitic way of choosing a president. For somewhere, far from this in ferno of noise and heat, that has the Black Hole of Calcutta looking like a pleasure resort, they have homes with shady front porches, and elec tric fans, with the water splashing the elephant ears in the garden bed, and long, cool drinks handy to the elbows, and yet they stay on here and grill and fight over the nomina tion. Women to Change JDate. Of one thing I am certain, and that is that when women get to be a real pow,er in politics, and have a voice that is more than the mere echo it is now, in running things, they m change the date of holding conventions to some It prints the total of all items. .11 - SM H2 E 23 I time of the year that isn't so phy sically exhausting, and whn every body doesn't look so frumpy and complexions are not so apt to run. And I hope and pray that they will have sense enough to clear the gal leries and hold the most solemn meeting in which human beings ever take place in more or less seclusion and dignity and quiet instead of making of it a free-for-all hullabaloo, a bedlam of noise and riot in which no one can possibly give serious con sideration to the great issues with which he is grappling. Gallery Delayed Vote. It was the gallery, that has no vote, that wasted the convention's time. It was the gallery that cheered for an hour on end when one vote switched from one candidate to an other. It was the gallery that was perpetually trying to start some thing, that loved the sound of its own asinine bray, and that should be suppressed. The plan of electing a candidatt by noise seemed to be in particular favor in this convention, and the partisans of the various nominees seemed to believe that even if Hie race isn't to the s.wift, the nomina tion is to the leather lunged; -!iao the edifying spectacle of thousands of people trying to shout each other down, some yelling "We want Wood," others "Give us Lowden," while still others shrieked "John son," "Harding," while poor Mr. Lodge, his own voice worn to a frazzle trying to talk down the rab ble, vainly pounded with his gavel for the siience that would not come until the gallery had yelled itself out. I wonder if that is what we mean when we talk about the voice of the people being the voice of God? (CopyrlKht, 19;o, by th Wheeler Syndl- 11. - Convention By FREDERICK PAISLEY. Chicago Trtbnae-Omsha Be Lraaed Win. Chicago, June 1J. Along Presi dential Row tripped Miss Vio let Oliver of Fresno, Cal., whose mission is to put tne raisin on the dietetic map oi Chicago and the rest of the world. She encountered a re porter, by name, William J. Bryan, and asked: "Won't you affix your signature to my list advocating the raisin as a food?" "Certainly," smiled Mr. Bryan. "It is indeed a splendid food. I have heard the prohibitionists sometimes employ it as a beverage, but I never did." j Mention -by Governor Allen of dis tinguished men who have worn the American army uniform Washing ton, Jackson, Grant, etc. failed to win applause , at the Coliseum A perspiring little man bustled up to Chauncey Depew in the Con gress hotel lobby, seized his hand and before the pufnphandle process ceased, cried: "So glad to see you, Mr. Depew. I guess you remember me, all right." "Well," replied M.r. Depew, res cuing his hand, "your face is fa miliar." "I thought you would. I thought you would. I'm the fellow in the gallery that waved th black derby so hard Wednesday when you mads that great speech." "What is the quotation?" ob served J. H. Stewart of Wichita, Kan. " 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.' They " -MAIL S T IE B2 S Sidelights appointed me to notify the vice pres idential nominee of his nomination." Girl's Back Broken On Way Home From Storm Lake Dance Storm Lake, la., June 13. Miss Ethel Lewis of Sac City received a broken back Saturday morning when the car in which she was going from a dance overturned. There were ix young persons in the car, and they were returning to their homes from the regular Friday night dance in Storm Lake. C D. Shaw was driving. When they reached the John Connell cor ner, about three and one-half miles southeast of Storm Lake, the car turned turtle. Miss Lewis was thrown through the fence. . Miss Lewis was taken to the Swallum hospital in this city, where tt was found that her back was broken. She is paralyzed from the waist down, and is in a critical condi tion. Arcadia to Celebrate. Ord, Neb., June 13. (Special. Arcadia will celebrate this Fourth of July. An elaborate program has been arranged. The Ord band of 40 pieces has been engaged to fur nish the music. Ord's base ball team will play Arcadia for a purse of $100. Special iuncheon, 75o Paxton hotel. Main Cafe. Adv. J. SMITH COMPANY 10 MAIN ST. 0.17 0.32 , 0.48 0.09 TOTAL $0106 Copy of receipt printed Tor each customer.
