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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1920)
. . . , t ... -4 r WJTMrfttlii w V 1 I , HE BEE: OMAHA. WKUNUSDAY, OCTOHEK 13, 1J20. ft . SU: Blow on Head With ; iJ Burglar to t Sleep Council Bluffs Grocer Lies In Wait for Intruder Then r. Bangs Him With T. Heavy Club. Clarence L. McClelland, erocer at , 1722 Avenue A. Council Bluffs, has i cure tor burglars. It u a two-by- lour. Monday night McClelland, who lives near his grocery store, saw two men prowling about the front of his store. He gdt his big stick and crept out of his house to the rear door of his store, which he entered. Then he crawled up in the darkened store to the iront end and waited for the entry ot the first robber The glass window had been smashed in and one of the two men Started to crawl through the open ing he had made, McClelland said After the intruder had shoved his head and shoulders through the opening the husky grocer brought Ihe two by lour down on his head with a mignty crash. He then added more blows. The eyes of the alleged burglar vere closed yesterday morning. He had many bruises. The beaten burglar was D. C. ("Buck") MikeselT, a police char acter. He will be given a hearing in police court October 13. His companion, Herbert Criss, is held lor investigation. I resence of Mother , QfGrl He Slew Makes ' Carl Wanderer Uneasy t'hlt'if o Tribun.-Oroaha Dee lud Wire. , Chicago, Oct. l2.-rCarl Wanderer put in a miserable' day at his trial today. Just back of him in the courtroom sat the mother of Ruth, 1 the young wife whom Wanderer i l slew. The mother, Mrs. Charles j Johnson, was accompanied by her on, a grown man. Their presence disturbed Wanderer very much He had come into court, nattily attired and with a spruce .step and jaunty ... air, but at all time's he could feel ' hp eyes of the desolated -mother and brother of the murdered girl bride boring into his back. He , carefully soided looking at thein and twitched uneasily during the v entire session. v- Mrs. Johnson, dressed entirely in black, had come to court in the ex pectation of testifying, but the iurv has not yet been completed and she was not called. " New Haven Road to Vote Bonds to Meet Mortgage New Haven. Conn., Oct. 12. Stockholders of the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad com pany today atpioved the directors' recommendation for the issue of bonds to meet a general mortgage which will tide over the floating in debtedness of the company, to is sue bonds tor equipment purposes jut ttmA fn in wars the five- year term of a loan to be gtven, the company by the government. . The company's property between New York and Hartford however, has been mortgaged. Girl Witness Says Dry Agent Shot Man After He Surrendered New York, Oct. 12. A dramatic story of the alleged killing of Harry Carlton, chauffeur, by Stewart McMullin, prohibition en forcement agent, during a raid, was told in federal court by Mal vina Carini, 18, who declared she was an eye-witness of the shooting for which McMullin is now on trial, charged with first degree murder. In describing the shooting, which occurred, in her fathers home, the girl declared that Mc Mullin had fired upon Carlton while he was crossing a room with "both his hands above his head." She said that the prohibition agent was holding her by the left arm when he fired, and that he held the pistol "about two inches from Carlton's head."' The girl said McMullin, at the point of his pistol, had forced her to pivc up $?50 in marked money which Carlton had been paid for liquor by prohibition agents. Carl ton, she said, had given her the money for safekeeping. . i Civilian Cops Are Still Arresting ' Many Violators President ofChamber of Com merce Writes Letters td All Members Urging Co-Operation. The campaign launched by the municipal affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce last week in connection with the police depart ment to suppress reckless autmobile driving is meeting with great success. Business men of the city, especial ly those who are' members of the Chamber of Commerce, are getting in line in their efforts o back up the municipal affairs committee in the "safety" work it has undertaken. Monday members of the club were mailed letters by Robert S. Trimble, president of the Chamber of Commerce, in which he urged them to co-operate in the traffic war. "I had feared that .the work of the volunteers would oease to a great extent after the first raid, on speed ers and other violators of rules of the road and ordinance," said Chief pf Police Eberstein. ' Since then over 234 violations have been reported to the police depart ment. Insane Man Thinks He Is Squirrel Police Called Denver, Oct. 12. Arthur G. Seav-. r, 30, inmate of the insane ward ol the Denver County hospital, was de termined to prov his contention that he was a "human squirrel" He es caped from the institution and it re quired several members v of. the po lice department arid part of the city's fire apparatus to shake him from the topmost branch of a tree in the resi dential section, vhere he had slept all night. Bee want ads are business getters. "Fire Burdar" Loots Home; Applies Match Jewelry Valued at $250 Stolen By Man Who Sets Fire to . - House to Hide Crime. , Detectives investigating the theft of $250 worth of jewelry from the home of A. J. Burdin, 2026 Grand avenue, that was discovered after firemen extinguished a mysterious blaze in the rear of the Brrdin home Monday night, say the thief evidently dropped a lighted match while, ran sacking a clothes closet. None of the Burdin tamilv was home at the time. The blaze 'was discovered at 7:30 by a passing autoist. Discovery of the theft of a jewel box and a purse containing $12.50 was made shortly after the fi'emer left the place. The blaze was confined to the rear of the Burdin home. Damage to the house and furnishings amounts to fully $1,000, Mr. Burdin said. He carried no .insurance. , Nine Other Burglaries. The captain of fire station No. 14, Iw-entyfirst and Lake streets, told Mrs. Burdin that no one except Bre men entered the house during the fire. Nine other burglaries were report ed to police durinjr the night. In cne case a watch dog, frightened an intruder awav. Fred Turnbloom. 5802 North Thir tieth' street, found his dog. "Prince " baying beneath 'a window . from which a screen had been removed. He went through the house and, find-J mg noining missing, came 10 inc conclusion that "Prince" had fright ened, the burglars away. Suspect Salesman. A fast talking maeazinc salesman who visited the nome of C. B. Sorde-1 leb, 604 South Twenty-eighth street, is suspected by Mrs. Sordeleb of haying stolen $27 from a dresser. Wrangel Launches Driye Against Sixth Army of Reds Sebastopol, Oct. 12. (By.. The Associated Press.) General Wran gel; the anti-bolshevik leader, has launched his expected offensive against the new Sixth army of the soviet forces, sheltered behind the Dnieper. General Wrangel is car rying out a pinching movement con verging on the town of Kakhovka, northeast of Kherson. Wool Yarn in Canada Makes a Sensational Drop in Price of $1.40 Montreal, Oct. 12. The retal price of Canadian 'woolen yarn male a sensational drop this week when Rely on Cuticnra To Clear-way Skin Troubles Amp ta ), Otatmnt to Mh Jilm to pew- -Mem kaafc oitksal v$mtm If HUNT'S Salve fall la tht treatment of I TCH. KCZKMA, RINOWORM, TETTER ar atbtrltehln kfadtiena. Try a 71 mm bo our tufe. 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This is the first manufactured srti.'le to reflect the very low values of raw wool, although it is thought by woolen manufacturers here that Koods by the ard will soon be brought down also by the action of American1, manufacturers. Drugs also are following the downward trend Camphor, which during the war cost $5 a pound, can now be bought for $1.25. Turpen tine has dropped $1.25 a gallon wholesale, while cocaine is now only ?S an ounce. Missouri and Louisiana capitalists will invest more than $UXKJ000 in carbon works to be erected at Mon roe, La. 30 Per Cent of Stockholders iu Pennsylvania Railway Women New York, Oct. 12.The state ment of stockholders of the Penn sylvania Railroad company for last August, compared with August, 1919, shows the number of shares out standing to be 9.985.314; stockhold ers, 128.363, an increase of 15.440; average holdings of shares, 77.70, a decrease of 10.64.' The number of women stockholders is 61,389, an in crease of 6,198. 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THE, FOREGOING STATEMENTS ARE MADE WITfi THE FULLEST CONFIDENCE THE CONFIDENCE WHICH RESULTS FROM BEING INS TIMATELY ASSOCIATED IVITH AN INSTITUTION OF NATIONAL PROMINENCE WHICH PRODUCES RELU ABLE CLOTHES OF EXTRAORDINARY VALUE. CUSTOM SERVICE WITHOUT THE ANNOYANCE OF A TRY ON v , READ YT O-P U T-0 N TAILORED AT FASHION PARK ALWAYS PRICED TO WARRANT VALUE 1 2 sr tify tf "Tht Mm, 4 hok m drus it ritJj MEN'S, YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNCER YOUNG MEN'S CLOTHING Entire Second Floor Main Building and Annex i SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY JOHN A SWANSON.PRts. WM I HOL7MAN.TM.. COMPARE OUR VALUES ALWAYS CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN AND WOMEN Specials! All Week At Bowen's Doing things out of the ordinary, such as awakening interest in true values, induces this store this week to offer the great buying public a week of bar gains. i Quaker OaU Tw FacIugM' 25c Jet Oil Shoe Poliih 9c Bettl Wood Clothes Pint 2 dona pin In package ' Two Paekag 15c Bowen's Brooms 33c n n nil n n HTV si Septra of the Eadeo Slot Kins 4 " I Because of the splendid work of the Omaha firemen dur ing the fire which visited our store Friday night the damage was confined mostly to the second floor, which contained our Ladies' Apparel Department. This department must of neces sity be closed to await action of the insurance adjusters. Our Men's Store on the main floor is open for business, and unusual offerings preVail. Payments on accounts should be made in the regular way at third floor main offices. Watch the papers for further" particulars as to the gigan tic closing out of all smoke and water damaged merchandise. V Mm 1417 DOUGLAS STREET The Advertising Columns of The Bee Offer Many,, Attractive Bargains Today Onion Outfitting Co, Announces, Special Sale of Bed Linens For Next Saturday Score of High Grade Bed Spreads, Pillow Cates'and Sheet at About x Price Offers Rare Opportunities for the Housewife to . Replenish Her Linen Chest This wall be one of the most important events held at the Union Outfitting: Company this season from a standpoint of value-giving. It may be months be fore another sale of this kind will be duplicated. "After care ful observation of the market conditions, a large purchase of Bed Linens was made at excep tional price concessions. . Hundreds of women are of fered the opportunity of par special purchase for they come ticipating in the profits of this to this sale and choose beautiful Bedspreads, Sheets and Pillow Cases at about half their regular price. The assortment embraces a wide1 range of desirable qual ities and patterns which will give long service.1 ' , This sale is only further .evi dence of the great buying power of the Union Outfitting Com pany, located just outside tht High Rent District. As always, you make your own terms. Bee wan cU v brst business getters ' i ion A t '(..! '.5 .; ' .iv . n ' to' ! n.r -t . 'jjtil. l-unv - iC. i a ' r. , 1(1T.I t! A' X ft. - tiff, ., -..!: i '')'- , ) 1 n !. V tit.r V .'i'K'i. -. Ah . m " ,' . - !. ';:?;'! It- i. ' id :
