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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. MARCH 1. 1921 Bill to License vi;,i IT I 111 IV III a! I V 1ft Hj I By State Senate Welfare Measure Regulating Adoption of Children Is Amended to Resemble Old Law; Then Dropped. LiiKuln, Vth. 28. ( Special Tcle Rrain.) The Xcbraska state senate killed S, F. No. 76, a bill to license midlives, dratted by the Child Welfare commission. With the senatorial ase gleaming towards the next welfare bill, S. F. No. , regulating ihe adoption of children, Senator George B. Hast ings of Perkins left the chair where he was presiding in committee of the whole and made, a plea for more consideration of the work of the Chil dren's Code commission, which drafted some 50 bill on child wel fare. In 'spite of it. the vote to postpone indefinitely tit; bill in committee of the whole was 12 to 12 and -President Pro Tern R. S. Xonal of Seward sa.ed the bill only by vot ing against postponement. Restore. Old Law. Then the senate set to work and virtually restored the old law by Mriking uut most of the amendments of the proposed law, including one clause requiring the state Child Wei tare bureau to investigate every adoption ca:se and make a written re port to the court, and by restoring ... .. ; .1,., i,t one sei iuu suuivcu uut ui it uiu law. making six months' stay at a child saving home, with no support i4 from nsrents. a local adootion by the home. "Pretty soon a i.iother can't even claim her ulTnriiiti. The state will step on and take charge of it." Sen ator Dutton declared, speaking against, the licensing of midwives. He said the bill would work a hard ship in western communities where skilled women of the neighborhood help out in childbirth emergencies. Senators Keed and J-Ioagland agreed with him. ' . Makes Plea For Bill. Senator Kobbins of Douglas made a plea for the law, but when a viva voce vote was taken, only two voices were for advancing the third reading. The other bills discussed in com mittee of the whole were advanced to third reading. They were: S. F. No. 146 Giving state rail way commission jurisdiction over all . railroad crossings i:i the state. S. P. Xo. 281 Memorializing con- ' gross to re-enact the Norris Union, Pacific ngltt-ot-way bill, neia uncon stitutional, g. F. No. 226 Amending sewer , law' of last legislature, affecting cities of second class and villages, to make it more workable. II. R. No. 215 Minor amendments in the birth and death registration law. The senate adjourned to 9:30 Tues day morning. " m i- II t . 1 Mail Kobbers on otand as Witness Against Brother (Continued From l'ge One). vault by Fied E. PofTenbarger dur ing the absence of his brother, according to the opening statement by J. J. Hess. . . I-red was the first witness called by the government, tie was brought into the room by a guard from the Leavenworth penitentiary, who never leaves his side when he is not con iined in the county jail. Fred re viewed the mail robbery briefly in Vesponse to questions put by E. G. Moon, government counsel. Concealed Money in Vault. His testimony was the same as .that given by him in the trial, of C. A. Daly and his wife, Mary Daly, up to the time he received $25,000 , in currency from Keith Collins and turned it over to Hugh Reed at the Daly home. His testimony from this point on was new. He told the jury that on the Mon day noon following the robbery he returned to the Daly home and ob tained about $8,000 in cash from Reed. This sum he took directly to the home of his brother, Clyde, and concealed about $7,000 in the out door vault. He said he tied up three bunches of bills, each bunch containing about $2,000, and placed it in a coffee can hAtnr Hrnnntnir i f in t r th vault H P the casing of a thermos bottle and dropped that with the coffee can. The other $1,000, he testified, he took to his own home and concealed in a tub of dirty clothes on the back porch. Court adjourned for the day as At torney J. J. Hess was about to begin cross-examination. It will convene again at 9:30 this morning. Merle Phillips and Fred A. Pof fenbargcr pleaded guilty in federaF court yesterday to complicity in the mail train robbery November 13. Phillips is the 17-year-old brother 'of Orville Phillips. He rode the engine of the mail train, he ad mitted, engaging the attention of the engine crew while the robbery was being committed. PofTenbarger is the "father of the two PofTenbarger boys who were in dicted in connection with the rob bery. Fred jr., is now a Fort Leavenworth prisoner and " was brought to the Bluffs with Keith Collins and Orville Phillips to testi fy before the grand jury. Phillips and the elder PofTenbarger will be sentenced at the conclusion of Clyde's trial, when Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Daly, who were found guilty by a jury, and Hugh Reed, who pleaded guilty to receiving and concealing part of the loot, also will be sentenced. I Application for I Connecting Track j Denied by Rail Body- - Lincoln, Feb. 28. (Special.) The ! Nebraska Railway commission has denied the application Melvin L. Rawlings and others of YYyniorc, Neb., to require the Burlington and ;he Union Pacific, which parallel oiij'andther for a mile cast of Wy more, to build a connecting track. The commission found that condi tions shown at the hearing did not warrant the cost of the connection, and dismissed the application with out prejudice, to allow another show ing as to the advantage to shippers of such a chance. Interests urging the extension were a stone quarry near the paralleling track and ice industries at Blue Springs and Wyniore. One hundred anH fiitv citizens of Raeville, Neb., on the N'orthwestern, have filed a formal complaint with the commission to require the road to furnish a depot with a freight platform and storage room, a six- j pen stock yard end a well tor tins vara, x he village otters the ground, the approaches and the street loca tion for the yard free of charge. Omaha Delegation Will Confer ,on Charter Bill Lincoln, Feb. 28. (Special Tele gram.) The Omaha delegation in the house and senate will hold a con ference Wednesday night in Lincoln to discuss the Omaha charter bill. Following the c-inference, the bill will be scanned in the committee on cities and towns and then thrown out on the floor of the bouse and senate. Two Hog Sales at York York, Neb., Feb. 28. (Special.) Two sales of pure-bred hogs were held in this city. The first one was by Regier & Dimig, who sold 40 head of Jersey Red Durocks. The top price was $200 and the entire lot averaged $77. The second sale was by Guy Davis with 36 Poland Chinas, the top price being $80. The entire herd averaged $50. Omaha Woman Will Fight for Child Code Laws Boy Scouts Win Prizes For Best Bird Houses . Gothenburg, Neb., Feb. 28. (Spe cial.) Bird week terminated here with a very successful exhibit and sale of bird houses, cat guards and feeding sations by the Boy Scouts. Prizes for the best bird houses were awarded the following scouts: Laurence Williams, first; Leslie Hampton, second, and Thomas Norsworthy. honorable mention. The prizes were-, offered by the - Camp Fire girls. The Camp Fire girl served a Boy Scout benefit lunch and supper, pro ceeds totaling $31.14. Mrs. Draper JSmith Anuouuces Intention of Remaining in Lincoln Until Meas ures Disposed Of. Lincoln, Feb. 28. (Special Tele gram.) Mrs. Draper Smith of Om aha arrived in Lincoln today with the avowed determination of remain ing in legislative halls until the end of the session and the Nebraska solons dispose of the extensive Child Welfare commission program. "I have rented a room in a hotel and Pm going to camp right here in Lincoln and fight for every one of these bills," Mrs. Smith declared to night, v "The legisltators don't understand- these propositions and certain news papers have befogged the issues. Ne braska, 1 still believe, is a progressive state and when the lawmakers and people understand what the women are striving to do they ' will co operate with us. Fight for Humanity. "Our solemn mission in politics is a fight for humanity. Man always has looked after commerce, and property and humanity has suffered in his drive for commercial suprem-, acy. To cure this ill the " women who are the homebuilders, must fight as ardently and long as t.he men have fought for commerce and property." Mrs. Smith, with other women, appeared before the welfare commit tee tonight in support of some of their bills. Members of the commit tee warned them that future hearings must be cut short in order to give the bills an opportunity in the lower house. "I am getting tired of all this and believe we should dump the whole bunch of welfare bills out on the house and let it do what it wants to with them," Representative Good ot Peru, a member of the committee, (aid tonight. Good Plan Favored. The Good plan to put all the bills out with few. if any amendments-, and permit the house to liandle the bills in any manner it sees tit was looked upon tonignt as t tie final so lution of the perplexing child welfare program at this session. It is wrlain that this- will be the lot of the movie censorship bi'l and the Byrum-Gifford antidote for this bill. Even StuartvGould, represent ing motion picture interests in the legislature, admitted tonight that this would be the final outcome of the motion picture censorship row. In order to get a speaking ac quaintance with a dozen or more of the welfare bills, which, as yet, the committee has not even discussed, members of the committee an nounced tonight that meetings would be held every night this week. By Friday, and Saturday a decision w ill be reached as 6 whether it will be the best policy to dump them on the house without recommendation 'or attempt to take action in committc on each recommendation. Columbus, Pastor to Make Decoration Day Address Geneva, Neb., F'cb. 28. (Special.) The speaker engaged to give the address on Decoration day. May 30, is Rev. Thomas Griffiths of Colum bus, who is pastor of a federated church there. Rev. Mr. Griffiths war formerly pastor of the Congre gational church in Geneva for 14 year?. . Declamatory Contest Beaver City. Neb. Feb. 28. (Spe cial.) Fay. Meadows won the Beav er City High school declamatory contest and the right to represent the local school at the district con test. He was state champion two years ago. Carleton Freas won the freshman class contest. To clean both the inner and outer surfaces of a person's teeth at the same time a Pennsylvanian has in vented twin cylindrical brushes that are rotated by 'a crank. Howell Measure to ; Rename Water Board i Pases Lower House ! I Lincoln, Feb. 28. (Special.) Iti requires 67 votes to put a bill through the lower house with an emergency clause attached. There were just 66 members who could be tounu today. So R. B. Howell V bill, Senate Filo No. 30, is a law but it must go through the egular channels in be coming effective, because the 67th member was lacking today when it came up for passage. This bill changes the name of the Metropoli tan Water district to the Metropoli tan Utilities district and permits one of the public-owned utilities to bor row from the funds of another from time to time in sums not exceeding $150,000. The Howell faction was obliged to content itself, with he mere passage of the bill, which means it cannot become a law until 90 days after the governor signs it. " Extra 5-Cent Fare for University Affairs Abolished in Lincoln Lincoln, Feb. 28. (Special.) The Nebraska Railway commission has authorized the board of managers of the .Nebraska state lair to withhold the extra 5-cent fare charged over street car lines during fair weeks. for all programs at the fair grounds given under the auspices of the Uni versity of Nebraska. 1 he grounds are being used for university athletic events. The extra fare had been authorized to go to the board, to defray the ex penses of building a street car terminal on the grounds The Lin coln Traction company, which col lected the tare tor the board, was not concerned in the extra amount. The abolition of the extra nickel is for university affairs alone, and does not affect the ftate fair. Satisfy hungry appetites with food that mean, health (and happiness- X I V vem Baked Beans Everybody likes them. But there's no. better en--dorsement than a boy's grin of satisfaction. HEINZ Oven Baked Beans are wholesome, full of food value, ready to serve instantly, and make a deli cious, appetizing, economical meal. REALLY BAKED FOUR KINDS Some other process might be cheaper but oven baking brings out the real bean flaror, retains the natural nutriment of beans and makes them digestible as well as delicious. One of the HEINZ Baked Beans with Pork t and Tomato Sauce . HEINZ Baked Pork and Beans (without Tomato Sauce) Boston . style HEINZ Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce without Meat (Vegetarian) HEINZ Baked Red Kidney Beans Varieties 12 Big Bargain Squares Tuesday On the Main Floor You 'ivwi 't want to miss this sale of Useful Notions Best English Safety Pius, per card, ..5c Three strips of our best yria. Elastic, 1 Or Three spools of best Mercerized Machine Thread, 1 Or Naiad Brassieres, all sizes, r19c Gold Eyed Needles, per paper, 5c Silkene Crochet Cotton, every size and color, per ball, 1 0f Bias Tape, 6-yd. Bolts, specia, each, (JUr Stickerie Edging, a splendid grade ; plain white and assorted colors ; will be sold per bolt 1 0; Main Best Darning Cotton, per ball, 2V2O Shell Hair Pins, special, 5 Inside Skirt Belting, heavy firm quality ; per yard, 1 Of" Dressing Pins, 300 to paper, each, 5o Coals' Best Thread, 250-yd. spools, ea., Or Rubber Jiffy Pants, per pair, SOr Guaranteed Rubber Dress Shields, per pair, j I9r Brandeis Special Dress Clasp, special, 6 cards for 25f Floor South. v Remnants of Gingham 29c Yd :!0-lneh Zephyr Gingham ; 2 te 10-yard lengths; in plaids, checks and stripes, also plain colors;' special, per yard, 20c Bargain Square Main Floor. t Women's Kid Gloves 1.50 Pair In white, black and col ors; kid and cape; sizes, 5 to tj'.o; these are lots left from numerous spe cial sales; special, per pair, 1.50 Bargain Square Main Floor. Odd Lots and irregulars of ' Women's Hose 39c Odd lots and irregu tars of pure thread .silk; semi-fashioifcd; silk to the knee; some in fancy drop stitch effects; black, white,, colors; very special, per pair, 39c Bargain Square Main Floor. Fine Mercerized 'Damask v55c Yd. Lor Tuesday only, mer cerized damask, in a range of pretty patterns, wearing qualities like lin en; special, per yard, 55c Bargain Square Main Floor. Beautiful Val Laces 2c Yard :12 to 2 inches wide; val laces and inser tions; many styles; priced at, per yd., 2c Bargain Square Main Floor. 2,500 Yards of Cretonnes 1 This attractive cretonne is ob" inches wide; suitable for draperies and the popular Dutch aprons; in a large assort ment of designs and colorjngs; special, per yard BargairuSquare Main Floor. Good Quality Vests 25c Women's Vests Cotton lisle; in flesh and white ; regulation style with a, headed edge finish ; very special, each, 25c Bargain Square Main Floor. Fancy Colored Ribbons25c yd Ribbons 5-inch plain tal I'ctas and moires, with coin dots; lipht and dark colors also 4 and 5-inch warp prints, light and dark colors; very special, per yard, , ,25c Bargain Square Main Floor. : Women's Cotton Lisle v. Union Suits Women's Union Suits Cotton lisle, in cuff and loose knee styles; regu lation top witJi beaded edge finish; also bodice top with ribbon shoulder strap; white only; very special, per suit, 48c Bargain Square Main Floor Children's Hose ' 19c Pair Children's Hose Black and brown cotton; sizes 6 to 92; seconds of 35c quality; special, per pair, at, 19c Bargain Square Main Floor. Dainty New Kerchiefs 5c Each Women's and Children's; fancy colored all-over de signs; hemstitched bor ders ; very special, cadi 5c Bargain Square Main Floor. You Might Come in Hungry But You Won't Go Out That Way Well then, drop into the new Brandeis Cafeteria for lunch. After a strenuous morning of shopping, wc'know of nothing more satisfying than perhaps a "Chick a la King" with candied sweet potatoes, or a juicy portion of roast veal smuggled close to a mound of snowy potatoes and brown gravy it's just like eating moTher's cooking. Service from 9 A. M. 1o 5:o0 P. M. Special Sale of Drugs Mcntholatum, special, 18c Imp. Dora Face Powder, I'epsodent Tooth Paste. 39c hpsom baits, package, Palm Olive Soap, 8c Tooth Brushes, Hard Water, Cocoa Castile Roger & Gallctt's Who Soap, dozen, 50c ; bar, 5c Powder, Main Floor West. o,. 12c