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i THE BEE:1 OMAHA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 13, 11)21.
Court Recalls
Man Paroled on
Woman's Word
Judge Day Takes Case of
Djurecn Under Advisement
After Threatening to Re
turn Him to Prison.
Farnani Djureen, 2402 Cass street,
lio was arrested Tuesday for in
vestigation into the escape of two
accomplices of William League, who
was shot and killed in a gun battle
with police during an attempted
robbery of the Mrs. William
Crutchfield home, 2527 Patrick ave
nue, Monday night, was haled be
fore District Judge Day yesterday
afternoon.
Djurcen was ordered to explain
why he had not worked since he.
was naroled by Judge Day Decem
ber 8, 1020, from a one to seven
year sentence in the penitentiary.
His parole was granted on the
recommendation of Miss Grace Bal
lard, county attorney of Washing
ton county. .
Djureeu protested to the judge
that he has been working.
Returning Cuff Links.
He was asked to explain his
Tresence in a soft drink stand on
North Sixteenth street when he was
arrested.
"I went there for just a few
Sriinutes," he told the judge. "I was
returning a pair of cuff links to a
iriend."
Judge Day took the case under
advisement. Just before the hearing,
ht threatened to revoke the parole.
Confessed to Thefts.
""Diureeu confessed to stealing au
tomobile tires in Herman, Neb., and
.. . . 1 r .111 a .a i! 1 t S tl.A fttlittltlartf
for one to seven years from Wash
ington county. It was from this
sentence he was paroled in Decem
ber. While Djureen was awaiting trial
In the Washington county Jail at
Llair, "Wiugv" Davis wis arrested
in Omaha. ' On Davis was found a
letter in which the writer threatened
to tell who had committed many
Jobberies in Omaha if he and "his
gang" did not get Djureen paroled
irom prison. -'
Djurecn was arrested this last time
because police say he was. a close
friend of William League, the dead
robber. AH friends of League arc!
being taken into custody in an ef
fort to find the two men who fled
Monday night when the shooting
started.
Bakers Raise Weight
Of Loaves of Bread;
Cut Doughnut Price
f- I . " . l . T. . j L ...
umana oaKcrs assert mat uny
rre increasing the weights of their
loaves of bread to meet the reduced
price of flour,
fjohn W. Long, city inspector 'of
weights and.', measures, weighed
loaves of various bakers yesterday
and found that the 10-cent loaves
weighed fronr 12 to 14 ounces, and
15-cent loaves from 17 to 21 ounces.
"Our 10-cent loaves now weigh
14 ounces, a9 against II ounces last
summer, and our 15-cent - loaves
weigh i ounces as compared wnii
17 ounces during the summer," said
P. F. Petersen of the Petersen-Pegau
Baking company.
The price of doughnuts has been
reduced from 40 to 30 cents per
dozen and rolls from 20 cents to IS
cents per dozen.
The bakers generally state that
they are keeping faith with the pub
lic in the rjjatter of increasing the
weight of bread -when the price of
flour is reduced.
Sentence at Second Trial
More Severe Than at First
rlcnry Monder, 301 North Six
teenth street, admitted he was fined
$100 and costs last October, in police
court, on a charge of having illegal
possession of intoxicants.- ' He ap-
pealed his case to the district court
anrt linnn hpnriiur of that anneal he
was found guilty and the fine was
sustained. Fie filed a motion for a
new trial. '.
lie had the new trial yesterday be
fore District Judge Day and a jury.
The jury found him guilty and the
court imposed a jail sentence of 50
days. f
Monder now wishes he had paid
the $1UU hne in the hrst place.
Mother of ine, Married
32 Years, Sues for Divorce
Hannah J. Kerr, mother of . nine
children, brought action for divorce
vesterday in district court against
William H. Kerr, alleging cruelty.
The Kerrs were married 32 years
ago at Elk City, Neb.
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Contest Winners
To Be Named Soon
Winners in the greatest newspaper
contest ever held in the state of Ne
braska will be announced in The
Sunday Bee next Sunday.
Awards of the prizes in The Bee's
$100 Movie Star picture contest will
be made public at that time.
The contest closed last Saturday
with the end of the three-day limit
for sending guesses to the identity
of the last two published pictures
of motion picture stars in The Bee.
Since the close of the contest a
corps of clerks has been as busy as
beavers checking the guesses of
more than 3,000 contestants who
stayed until the last of 60 puzzle pic
tures. Because of the sircar, number of an
swers received, the largest number
ever entered in a newspaper contest
in the state, this work of tabulating
the coupons and checking the
guesses will take the greater portion
of the week. .
The coupons arc being re-checked
to eliminate all possible chance of er
ror in the awarding of the cash
prizes to the winners.
Elks' Women's Club to
Present "The Mikado"
In Cause of Charity
,
Rehearsals of the light opera, "The
Mikado," are under way by members,
of the Omaha Opera association in
the ballroom of the Elks club. Pre
sentation of the opera is to be given
soon at the 'Brandeis theater, under
the auspices of the Elks Women's
club. Proceeds of the show are to
be turned over to the Elks Women's
club . for distribution among chari
table institutions in this city.
Mrs. C. S. Marshall, chairman of
the entertaniment committee of the
Elks Women's club, is active in as
sisting in the work.
James Carnal is directing the cast
in the play. Miss CharHne Johnson
and Lawrence Dodds, well-known
among Omaha'6 younger set, have
the leading roles. Oscar Lieben and j
Charles Gardner, both prominent in i
the affairs of Ak-Sar-Ben, are in the
cast.
Dates for presentation of the opera
have not been set.
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Omaha Commissioner Will
Speak at Beatrice Meeting
Beatrice. Neb.! Jan. 12. (Special.)
The annual banquet of the Cham
ber of Commerce will be held Febru
ary 4. J. David Larson, commission
er of the Omaha Chamber of Com
merce, will give the principal ad
dress. .
Hubby Says Wife
Threatened Death,
Then Threw Book
She Also Swatted Him With
Handbag, Pefendant In
Divorce Suit Tells
Judge.
Eugene Yarn testified in District
Judge Wakeley's court yesterday that
his wife, Martha, called at the home
of his mother at 539 South Twenty
ninth street December 9, 1920, and,
after demanding a bill of sale to her
grocery store at 3124 Leavenworth
stieet, threatened to blow out his
brains, struck hiin with her handbag
and threw a telephone book at him.
He sa'id he once found a note writ
ten by her to relatives in Fremont in
which she said thai she was going to
kill herseli. .
Several drug clerks testified that J
Mrs. Yarn sought to buv strychnine I
tablets. At one drug store her hus
band stepped up to tlie drug clerk
after Mrs. Varn had left, with what
she thouffht were strychnine tablets
and told the clerk that she was going
to kill herselr.
Don t worry, the clerk replied.
I suspected she was nervous, so I
sold her calomel i ablets instead of
strychnine." '
The couple were married February
4. 1920. Mrs. Yarn broucht suit for
divorce December, 4.
Junior League to Give
Revue at Local Theater
The Junior league will hold a
recherche revue in the Gayety
theater during May. Two perform
ances will be given and seats will
cost $4 and $5 each. The boxes will
be auctioned at the Country club
A professional stage director' will
come from Chicago to coach th
young entertainers who will appear
in this production. The league re
ceived $2,000 last year from- its
frolic at the Country club.
The proceeds of the forthcoming
revue will be devoted to the chil
dren's ward of the University of
Nebraska Hospital. '
Miss' Gladys Peters, qraen of Ak-Sar-Ben,'
is president of the league.'
Sacred Heart Pupils
March Out Calmly as
Roof of School Burns
The practical value of fire drills
at the Sacred Heart Junior school,
Twenty-second and Binney streets,
aiid the splendid poise of H. E. Grce
ling, 2010 Locust street, served more
than 200 pupils yesterday morning
when the roof of this school was
discovered afire.
Mrr Creeling observed the blaze
when he was half a block away. In
stantly he turned in the fire alarm
and then hastened to the school,
where he quietly and quickly ad
vised the teachers. The children
believed they were going through a
regular fire drill until they got out
side and saw the burning roof.
Rev. P. J. Judge, director of the
school, sent the children into the
Sacred Heart church. Mothers of
,the neighborhood rushed to the
scene of the fire. Sessions were re
sumed in the school during the aft
ernoon. ' I
Burglar Scampers
Away When Unarmed
Man Shakes His Bed
"If I only had a gun," mused G.
C. Vaughn, 1413 North Eighteenth
street, at 4 yesterday morning, when
he heard a burglar ransacking his
home on the first floor. Mrs. Vaughn
and two children, Robert, 4, and Mar
vin, 6, trembled in fear.
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn were awak
ened by the noise of crashing glass.
Mr. Vaughn's first impulse was to
descend and take his chancer with
the intruder, but Mrs. Vaughn re
minded him of the tragedy of Mon
day night.
An ' inspiration seized Mr. V4ughn,
who shook his bed violently, where
upon the burglar escaped into the
dark night. The police were then
summoned.
The burglar obtained $3 and was
not apprehended.
Painters See Madame X
More than 150 delegates to the
convention of Iowa-Nebraska Master
Painters and Decorators' association
here this week saw "Madame X''
from specially reserved loge seats
at the Sun theater last night.
Brief City News
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Out For Honeymoon Joseph
Stodolny, who was- granted a brief
leave, on Tuesday from the county
jail to marry Lillian Ilislop, was re
leased yesterday on a bond of 200.
lloiie Warmlne Beech camp. M.
V. of A., will hold a hous warm
ing party nest Friday night in its
new quarters In the Swedish audi
torium. They will entertain all
camps of Modern 'Woodmen and
Loyal Neighbors.
Annoyed by ClJckcns A woman
who did not give her name tide-
phoned to Mayor Smith yesterday,
requesting him to give personal at
tention to her complaint that a
neighbor's chickens were annoying
her. She told the mayor to tele
phone Colfax 0075.
Convicted of Fraud-A jury in
District Judge Troup's court re
turned a verdict of guilty yester
day afternoon against Joe Fierson,
alias James T. Lyons, after consider
ing the case one hour. The charge
was passing worthless checks and
the penalty is from one to 20 years.
Enst Omuliu Incorporated East
Omaha has been incorporated as a
Village, according to official action
of the board of county commission
ers yesterday. Trustees until the
next election will be Larry Ander
son, J. M. Santee, J. Ei Maddox, E.
Bass and Roy McCabe.
Stolen Again Bert LeBron's
vanishing automobile has been re
ported again to the police as having
been stolen from Nineteenth and
Harney Streets. This car has been
stolen so many tlmea that the police
have designated it th "vanishing
auto." .
Practitioner Sued Albert C.
Hunger, assistant state attorney gen- I
oral, brought an action In district
eourt yesterday against l)r. Ethel
Thrall M,altby, alleged' to be practic
ing as a choropractto without having
been ti till tied by the state chiro
practic board.
Girl Subpooiiaod Louise Boeke
has been summoned to appear as a
witness at the trial of Dr. II. S.
Kent, in district iourt, January 24.
She was not called at the first trial,
l'olice alleged that she was the
mother of the "cistern twins,"
although she denied the allegation.
Larson Speaks J. David Larson,
commissioner of the Omaha Cham
ber of Commerce, delivered the prin
cipal address at the annual meet
ing of the members of the Des
Moines Chamber of Commerce. His
subject was "What Shall Commercial
Organizations Take in Financing In
dustries?" ,
Shoots at Husband Mrs. Feter
Boyd", 2505 Dewey avenue, fired a
revolver at her husband, Feter.
Tuesday night when she found
him at the Fullman hotel' in
company with Mabel McFarland, 6(7
South Sixteenth street. Mr. and
Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. McFarland
were arrested.
Rossetto Acquitted Fred Jtos
setto. former postoflice clerk, ap
peared yesterday before Federal
Judge T. C. Munger on a .charge
of stealing a postal package from
the malls. By direct advice from
Judge Munger. a Jury acquitted the
defendant on account of insufficient
evidence.
Offlcers Klccted Bobert L.- Wheel
er was elected president of the In
dustrial Loan and Investment com
pany of Omaha at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders Tuesday
night. Lyle Hersey was . elected
vice president. Joe Roth secretary
treasurer and manager; Gorton
Roth. E. E. Litz, Henry F. Wulf
and W. L. Wheeler, directors.
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