THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY-, JAKTJAKY 4. 1921.
Man Says Wilson
Advised Him to
Imprison Wife
Woman Found Locked in
Home in Emaciated Condi
tion Husband Says She
Failed to See "Light.
1 hirago Tribune-Omaha IWe Iaid Wire.
Chicago, Jan. 3. As a result of an
imprisonment for 30 days in her
home Mrs. John Novak is seriously
ill in a hospital at Crown Point, Ini.
Novak, a mechanic, who owns a
home, first built a 10-foot fence
around his two-story frame resi
dence. He then boarded and bar
ricaded all the windows and fitted
doorswith heavy padlocks.
Neighbors suspected all was not
well, but did rot guess the facts
until Novak was injured in a steel
mill. He went to a hospital, leav
ing Mrs. Novak and the children
still imprisoned. The neighbors no
tified the police. They battered their
way in and rescued the prisoners,
vho were emaciated and with no
subsistence except water. Mrs. No
vak's health is said to be permanent
ly impaired.
Novak has been discharged from
the hospital and is again living at
the house. His barricades still
stand. ' Questioned as to his action,
he said he believed he "was entirely
within his rights as a husband."
"If a man can't discipline his wife,
who can?" he asked.
"We have been married nine
years. About two months ago I be
came convinced her affection was
waning. I talked with her, but she
was evasive. I then entered into
communication with the higher
pneuma. A voice from the cosmio
void advised me to go to Washing
ton and talk with President Wilson.
I did. 'John,' said the president,
"there is only one thing to do. Lock
her up. Tut her in solitary and
maybe she wilt see the light. So
then I built the fence and boarded
up the windows. Every day I
would ask her: .
"'Mary, have you seen the light?'
" "What light?' she asked at first
"The great light, the shining
light,' I explained.
"She didn't see it Once or twice
she thought she did, but I fancy it
was merely a cerebral ignis fatuus,
because her attitude toward me re
mained inflexible." ,
8,000 Hungarian Prisoners
Repatriated From Siberia
Budapest, Jan. 3. Some 8,000
Hungarian prisoners of war have
been repatriated from Siberia
through American aid, said Ernest
Ludwig on his arrival today from
Switzerland, where he has been in
chargej of the repatriation of such
prisoners, but 15,000 still remain in
eastern Siberia, unable to leave be
cause of lack of funds and the in
ability to charter ships.
"It will cost $1,000,000 to support
the prisoners in Vladivostok until
the port opens and another million
to bring them home," said Mr. Lud
wig. who before the war was Hun
garian consul at Cleveland. . .,
Harris Productions Cut :
Theater Tickets 50 Cents
New York, Jan. 3. Reduction of
the price of theater tickets in vari
ous cities has been followed in New
York' by the productions of Sam H.
Harris, presidents of the Producing
Managers' association. Beginning
"-.onight the top price will be $2.50
instead of $3.
SusDect in Murder of N. Y.
Gangster Gives Up to Police
,New York, Jan. , 3. Jeremiah Bo
han, a prohibition enforcement
agent, said by the police to be the
mvstrt-imj "Mr. X." soucht in con
nection with the recent killing of
"Monk" Eastman, gangster and
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Advocate of Minimum
Wage Bill Will Urge
Passage in Nebraska
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Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
Mont., the first woman member of
the lower house of congress, arrived
in Omaha yesterday. ' Miss Rankin,
who was a representative from Mon
tana in the Sixty-fifth congress, is
field secretary of the National .Con
sumers' league and is here in the
interests of the minimum wage bill
which is to come up before the Ne
braska state legislature.
She will remain in Omaha until
Tuesday noon, at which time she is
expected to speak at a luncheon ar
ranged in her honor by Mrs. Draper
Smith. Muesday atternoon sne win
leave for Lincoln where she hopes
to speak before the legislature to
interest the members in the passage
of the bill.
According to Miss Rankin, U
states and the District of Columbia
have passed the minimum wage bill,
the "good" legislation moving east
ward. The bill provides for the es
tablishment of a commission to de
termine the minimum wages of in
dustrial workers as based upon the
cost of living.
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House Shortage
In U. S. Estimated
At Over 1, 250,000
National Chamber qf Com
merce to Investigate Con
ditions During Meetings
In Washington.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Laed Wirt.
Washington, Jan. 3. Estimates
placing the shortage of houses, in
America at more, than 1,250,000 will
be placed before the national coun
cil of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States at a meeting to be
held in Washington, January 27 and
28, which will discuss measures to
relieve the situation.
The housing shortage, according
to John lhlder, manager of the na
tional chamber's civic development
department, has reached a point
where 4,000,000 persons are inade
quately housed.
"For a number of years prior to
the world war," Mr. lhlder said,, "it
is conservatively estimated between
350,000 and 400,000 family dwellings
were erected each year. This in
cludes houses and apartments.
In 1919, it is estimated there were
only about 70,000 houses built in the
United States, while the number
erected during 1920 probably will
turn out to have been even smaller
than that figure.
"While it is true there are many
honses for sale, these are nearly all
now occupied by tenants. The num
ber of houses for rent in most com
munities is practically nil, and the
majority of these houses are "not
suitable for the needs of the aver
age wage earner. A man with art
income of $5,000 a year or more
does not have as much trouble get
ting desirable quarters as the wage
earner who cannot afford to pay
high rents. Those earning small
salaries are the ones who are hit
hardest by the housing shortage. It
is for these that decent homes must
be built."
Elks Subscribe $10,000
To Feed Starving Kiddies
Los Angeles, Jan. 3. William M.
Abboott of San Francisco, grand
exalted ruler of the Benevolent Pro
tective Order of Elks, announced
here the grand lodge of that order
had subscribed $10,000 to the fund
of the Hoover committee for the re
lief of central European children.
MOTHERS MEND
For. Expectant Mothers
Used Bt Three Generatioxs
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Bowen's Lower Price.
FURNITURE SALE
affords the opportunity
in Overstuffed Chairs,
Rockers and Davenports
to get them NOW at re- j
ductions in price, mak
ing them the Biggest
Bargains in all our mer
chandising history.
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Hughes May Represent
Sioux Indians in Suit
For Government Land
Chicago Trlhune-Oiuaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Jan. 3. Charles
Evans Hughes is waiting to hear,
not only from Senator Harding, re
garding a place in the cabinet but
from the Sioux Indians of South
Dakota, regarding retention as their
attorney to prosecute a claim against
the government.
In 1876 the Sioux ceded the Black
Hills country to the United States
under duress, they now claim. They
are seeking compensation tor the
land and congress has authorized
them to carry their suit to the
court of claims. Secretary of the
Interior Payne directed that each
band should send delegates to a
convention on the Crow Creek res
ervation December 15, to select
their attorneys. Judge Hughes was
favored by a large number of the
Sioux. The outcome of the council
has not been reported to Washing
ton up to date.
Windy City Rich Field
For Thieves Last Year.
Average $12,435 Day
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, Jan. 2. Thieves' loot in
the Chicago district for the year 1920,
based on burglaries, holdups, and
pocket pickings alone, reached the
staggering aggregate of $4,528,453.40
an average daily property loss of
more than $12,435.
Embezzlements and forgeries, run
ning into the hundreds of thousands,
are not included in these figures as
compiled by Chicago's police depart
ment. Police records show that of
this vast loss, only a little more
than one-fourth, or $1,403,934, in
property and cash, was recovered.
This means that more than $3,000,000
was the net loss.
This compares with a record of
$3,543,594 in property and cash stolen
during 1919, with police recoveries
of $972,699. During that year there
were 8,983 robbery complaints turn
ed in to the police department.
Don't buy until you
have compared our
bargain values.
Every garment marked in plain
figures. Choose any garment
in the store and discount just
one-half two for the price of
one.
Missing Naval
Balloon and Itsv
Crew Are Located
Storm-Driven Sailor-Aviators
Forced to Land in Forest
Lost Four Days in
Woods.
Chicago Tribune-Omana Bee Leaoed Wire
New York, Jan. 3. The missing
navy balloon, A-5598, landed 20
miles northeast of Moose Factory,
Ont, December 14, and the crew
of three men are safe at a Hudson.
Bay trading post, according to a
telegram received at the naval air
station at Rockaway last night. 0
Moose Factory, Ont., is a trading
post and outpost of the Hudson Bay
Co. on James Bay at the mouth of
the Moore river, latitude 51 north,
longitude M west, about 700 miles
due north of Toronto.
The telegram bringing news of
the landing of the balloon came
from Matice, Ont., and read:
"Driven by storm Monday. Dec
13, to lower Hudson bay. Forced
to land at 2 p. m. in dense forest
on Tuesday, Dec. 14, about 20 miles
north by east of Moose Factory,
Ont, lattitude 51.50; longitude 81.
Lost in forest for four days.
"Crew safe at Hudson Bay com
pany's post, Moose Factory. First
available means of transportation to
railroad by dog sled, which will
take about six days. Leaving here
on or about Dec. 27.
(Signed)
"LIEUTENANT KLOORS."
The A-5598 carrying Lieuts. Wal
ter Hinton, Stephen A. Farrell and
A. L. Xloor, jr., left the naval air
station at Rockaway Point, L. I.'.
on the morning of December 13, to
make an experimental flight, with
some point in Canada as its indefi
nite objective. The balloon had no
cngir.es, traeling entirely by means
of air currents, direction being main
tained by throwing out ballast un
til currents of the desired directions
were reached.
Late on the night of the day on
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Parisian. All through the store we are offering
SUITS, COATS, FURS, Etc.
AT
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From Our Regular Low Prices
Every garment was excellent Parisian value at the original price.
Today we are not looking for profit, but must turn over our stock
at prices that are absolutely rock-bottom. Below are just a few
of the many bargains of fered. '
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$25.00 Garments
$35.00 Garments
$45.00 Garments
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which the balloon left its Long
Island station, it was sighted over
Wells. N. Y. It. was at first re
ported that it had crashed into the
side of Fork mountain, near Wells,
and that its passengers were ma
rooned and it could not be reached
because of the height of the Sacan
daga river.
This report proved erroneous and
thereafter there were a variety of
reports that it had been sighted in
various parts of the northern Unit
ed States and Canada. - Brother offi
cers of the navy refused from the
first, to believe that the three aero
nauts were lost.
United States Not ,
v Inclined to Oversee
Elections in Cuba
Clilcaco Tribune-Omaha Bee. Ideated Wire.
Washington, Jan. 3.T-In spite of
efforts of some leaders of the Cuban
liberal party to ' have the United
States supervise the coming by
elections in Cuba, there is no incli
nation on the part of this govern
ment to participate, it was learned
officially hert today. -
One of the principal reasons for
this attitude, it is pointed out, is be
cause the United States helped Cuba
to set up a competent electoral law
and machinery and it believes that
that the Cubans, having been pointed
in the right direction through the
Crowder electoral law, should be left
to work out their own political sal
va.tion. -
Nevertheless, Dr. Fernando Ortiz,,
vice president of the Cuban house of
representatives, and Dr. Julio de la
Torre, a prominent Havana lawyer,
who have been in the United States
for sex-eral weeks, issued a statement
here stating that President Menocal
and his party cannot be trusted in
their promises to the Cuban people.
School of Retailing Is
Plan of New York College
New York, Jan. 3. A school of
retailing said to be the first institu
tion of its kind in the world will be
opened at New York university next
September, it was announced . today.
It will be known as the New York
University Training School for
Teachers of Retail Selling.
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DRESSES
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Now $17.50
Now $22.50
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$65.00 Garments Now $37.50
$75.00 Garments Now $37.50
$85.00 Garments Now $42.50
$95.00 Garments Now $47.50
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Robbery of U. S.
Legation Sliows
Bad Conditions
Pressing Need for Better
Quarters and Protection of
Cash and Valuables at
Many Foregin Offices.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leard Wire.
Washington, Jan.3 The thorough
cleaning out of the cash box of the
American legation at Warsaw, Po
land, on the night of December 13
by robbers, reveals a serious lack of
protection of confidential and other
valuable papers and materials in
American embassies and legations
abroad,. . .
With the current appropriation in
adequate to simply clerks to the em
bassies and legations, safes and office
furniture, are in, the class of luxuries.
The American minister to Serbia at
present Is forced to typwrite his
own dispatches and reports. . -
The American mission in Berlin
is housed in a building where water
soaks through cracks in the walls
during a rain. The American em
bassy building at Constantinople is
in a bad state of deterioration. - At
Budapest the only quarters that
could be obtained Avithin the means
available of the Jrmerican mission
are declared to; be shocking. The
approach is through a cburt ' yard
and then up two flights of rickety
stairs, smelling of sewer fumes.
All requests for furniture sent in
by American ambassadors and lega
tions abroad have been refused by
the State department for three years.
Dozens of officers, are using ordinary
unpainted, wooden kitchen tables
for desks. Archives and other trade
and diplomatic records are tjed up
with string in bundles, for want of
filing cases. In several countries the
legation has no safes and more than
one consulate has no way in which
to secure the thousands of dollars
in cash paid in weekly as visa fees.
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Omaha Our
women of Omaha by the
1
Police Commissioner to
Address Epworth League .
A silver loving cup will .be awarded xj
the Epworth league having the larg-'
est representation at the monthly
social and business meeting of the : !
Epworth League union of Omaha in .
the Dietz Memorial church, Tenth
and Worthington streetsnext Mon- i
day evening. J. Dean Ringer, police '
commissioner, will speak on "Crime
in the Big Cities." .
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