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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, AFR1L 2. lal Several Killed, j Score Injured in l Southern Tornado Every Business House in Small Mississippi Town Destroyed All Communication Cut Off. Abandoned Baby Brings Joy to Childless Couple Jackson, Miss., April 26. More than a dozen persons are reported to have been killed and a score in jured in a tornado Tuesday at Brax ton, 18 miles from here. Every business house in the place was destroyed and many of the resi dences either totally or partly wrecked. The loss is estimated at more than $100,000. Among the dead are Dr. J. H. Chandler, T. M. Everett, president k of the Bank of Braxton; M. T. J Kelly and Mr. Killball, farmers. The dead were taken to Dlo and the injured to Weathersby, nearby towns. The wind lasted only a few min utes and was followed by a heavy rain which has swollen the streams in the vicinity out of the banks, threatening: crops. Five persons took refuge in the bank vault and escaped, while the president, who failed to reach shelter, was killed. Braxton is a town of about 500 inhabitants in Simpson county on the Gulf and Ship Island railroad. The town is cut off from all com jnunication. The Gulf and Ship Is land railroad is blocked with fallen timber. Texas Town Flooded. Texarkana, Ark., April 27. Flood warnings for the. Red river and sul phur river were issued last night by government weather observers here as the result of torrential rains which fell in this locality yesterday and last night and which drove many persons from their homes, paralyzed street car traffic here and put the city water pumping system out of commission. The precipita tion was 4.53 inches. V Scores of negro families were iven from their home by the rain which inundated the lowlands. The water supply was cut off several hours but finally was restored, as was street car service. No loss of life has been reported, although property damage will total many thousands of dollars, it was estimated tonight. The eastern divis ion of the Texas and Pacific railroad terminating here and the T. S. N. branch to Shreveport, La are out of commission because of washouts. The storm caused extensive dam age around Marshall and Longview, Tex., also, according to reports re ceived here. Mr. M. A. Tate and the baby she found in the front hall of her home Tuesday night. ; Physical Valuation of Public Utilities Based on Price Trend Lincoln, April 27. (Special.) A precedent in basing physical valua tion of public utilities, for rate mak- . : i i "trend of prices"instead of present inflated prices or aolual 6st prices has been set by the Nebraska rail way commission in a valuation find ing in the case of the Southern Ne braska Power company. The opinion cuts a proposed stock dividend of $75,000 down to $40,00. The opinion furnishes another prece dent in dividing what is found to be the water right value of a power plant with the public in this case a 50-50 split and permitting the company to capitalize only half "of this value. " ' The company's system on the Re publican river at Superior has a big dam with a three-mile mill race, a distributing system covering the city of Superior and transmission lines to Nelson and to the cement mills out of Superior and 23 acres of land ad joining it . Alliance Plans to hntertain K. of C. Alliance, Neb., April 27. (Spe cial.) Elaborate preparations are being made for the entertainment of several hundred members of the Knights of Columbus here on May 30, when the fourth degree wilt be exemplified, with a class of at least 100 candidates. Applications have already been received from candi dates in more than a dozen towns in the western part of the state. This will be the first time that the fourth degree has been put on in Nebraska outside of Omaha and Lincoln. Prominent members from other etatfe nr 9 cn rxnrrtM. inrludinf? J. H. Redden of Denver, supreme master of the fourth degree, and Federal Judge Wade of Mason City, la. Ncbraskans prominent in K. C. circles who will attend are Judge George F, Corcoran of York, master of the fourth degree for the dis trict of Nebraska; Bishop Duffy of Grand Island, and Bishop O'Reilly of Lincoln. The degree work will be followed by a banquet, program and dance at the roof garden. J. W. Guthrie of Alliance is in charge of arrangements. Legislature Asks Member Be Named District Judge Lincoln, 1 April 27. (Special.) Petitions are being circulated and signed by members of the legisla ture asking Governor McKelvie to appoint Representative James A. Rodman of Kimball, judge of the district court In the 13th judicial district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Juudge H. M. Grimes at North Platte Monday. The Rodman petitions were start ed by Senator B. K. Bushee of Kim- , ball All of the members of the senate and 80 members of the house signed the petitions. Historical Society Gets -Pen That Signed Park Bill Lincoln. April 27. (Special.) ohn w. Kobbms. state senator irora hnuelas countv. who soonsored S. F. No. 189, the state park board bill, which has recently been signed by the governor, has presented the State Historical society with a copy of the enrolled bil1 and the pen with which the governor signed the bill along with the $2,000,000 soldier measure. i I : 1 M t '4 i- I x b' i " . .'V' . "I shall fight to keep this baby, even from its mother, should she appear again," announced Mrs. M. A. Tate, 2543 Capitol avenue, hold ing close the month-old baby girl she found in her front hall, at 10:30 Tuesday night. A note, a bottle of milk and an extra diaper are all that was left with the infant, who was clad in a flannel nightie and wrapped in a thin blanket. The note read: "Mr. and Mrs. Tate: Please take my daughter and give her a home. Please keep her and adopt her. I have called her Helene. MOTHER.". Couple Childless. The Tates are childless and Mrs. Tate has frequently expressed the wish that a child be left on her doorstep. "I didn't close my eyes last right I was up with the baby all night, I was so excited and happy," she said. The baby weighs about &!A pounds, has blue eyes and blonde, fuzzy hair, and is about one month old, judging by its size and the milk formula used in the bottle of milJc, Mrs. Tate said. Mrs. Tate's sister-in-law, Mrs. C. R. Tate,' gave the baby its first bath yesterday. She then hurried down town to buy a layette for the infant. No clew to the parentage of the baby is held by either the Tates or the police, they say. "I'll wait a little while to see if its parents make any attempt to claim it, then I shall have it medically ex amined and make application for adoption papers," said Mrs. Tate. Naming the baby was an important ceremony yesterday in the Tate household. They added Mrs. Tate's name, "Augusta, to the "Helene" re quested by the unknown mother. Substitute Primary Measure Signed By Governor McKelvie Lincoln, April. 27. (Special.) Governor McKelvie signed the con ference substitute for the Douglas primary bill and it now becomes a law unless held up by referendum. The substitute bill is almost iden tical with the Brown primary bil1, which was killed in the lower house. There are the changes which the bill makes: State party conventions to be held a month betore the primaries, in stead of vice versa. In presidential years, these con ventions to elect delegates to the nation"! ' conventions, but national committeeeman to be chosen in primaries as heretofore. Delegates to county convention an members ot county committees to be chosen by precinct caucuses. Candidates for state oriices. United States senator, congress, legislature and county offices will continue to be nominated in the primaries, the bill making no change in them. Alliance Police Seize "White Mule" During Raid Alliance, Neb., April 27,-(Spec-ial.) Four men were arrested and several pints of "white mule" seized by city and county officets in a raid on the Wilson barn, an alleged gambling resort and rendezvous of bootleggers. The barn is two blocks from the main business section. Armed with a search warrant the of ficers swooped down upon the barn at 2 a. m., arrested the proprietor, Virgil Schrautmeier, and three other men who pretended to be asleep when the officers entered. The liquor was found concealed beneath a trap door in a box stall, the floor of which had been covered with straw. Schrautmeier was arraigned in coun ty court on a charge of illegal pos session of liquor, pleaded not guilty, and was fined $100 and costs. The other three men were discharged. Alliance Salvation Army . Post Closed Permanently Alliance, Neb., April 27. (Spec ial.) Acting under instructions from the Des Moines headquarters office, Ensign Henrietta Parkes and Lieut. Helen Walenski, Salvation Army workers, have permanently closed the Alliance post and moved to Hastings, Neb., where they were formerly sta tioned. Lack of a large enough field to support a post was assigned as the cause of giving up the work here. The post was established last October. Corps Cadet Pearl Tharpe, who was stationed here during the winter, has returned to her home t Waterloo, Iowa. West Point Will Vote on $58,000 Bond Issue West Point, Neb., April 27. Special.) A special election has been called "to vote on a proposed bond issue of $58,000, to be used in the construction of a municipal lighting and power plant. A com mittee has been appointed to in spect various municipal plants of this kind throughout the state and to obtain information to be used in constructing the plant The election will be held Mav 24. Equipment Company Fights Payment of Damage Claims Lincoln, April 27. (Special.) The Liebers Farm Equipment com pany of Lincoln has appealed to the Nebraska supreme court ' from a $2,700 judgment obtained by John T. Ryne, injured when the company's truck hit him a year ago. The com pany claimed the driver of the truck was not authorized to drive the machine on the trip resulting in the accident. Cashier of Defunct Bank Used $10,000 Bonds, Report Lincoln, April 27. (Special.) H. H. Barge, cashier of the Farmers State bank of Hoskins, Neb., which was closed early this week, today confessed to misappropriation of $10,000 worth of customers' bonds, according to a telephone message to Attorney General Davis from the county attorney. State Awards Compensation Two Omaha and Three Lin coln Men Get Pay for Their Injuries. Lincoln, April 27. (Special.) John Gavin, .who lost 50 per cent of the use of his thumb in a rip saw in the Yale Hopewell plant at Lincoln, gets $10 a week tor nine weeks under an award made by Commissioner-1 rank A. Kennedy. Alfred C. Johnson of Omaha, hit in the eye with a hot rivet, and in jured in the head when he jerked his head back under the pain of it, gets $15 a week, on condition that he submit to medical treatment until his final disability can be determined. Ben B. Loiler, who lost the tips of three fingers when a piece of steel fell on them at the Omaha plant of the Paxton'& Vierling Iron works, gets $15 a week for 10 2-3 weeks longer. He has already been paid compensation lor several montns. Other cases decided were: Herman McCurley, Lincoln, negro plasterer, $15 a week for 43 weeks for injuries in a fall. H. E. McGrath, Lincoln, $15 a week for 55 weeks, injury to eye. Influx of Hoboes Is Blamed for Crime Alliance. Neb., April 27. (Spe cial.) An influx of bums and hoboes is oenevea Dy me ponce 10 De re- i sponsible for a number of attempted burglaries here during the last few nights. Prowlers pried off the door of a coal chute at the rear of the Golden Rule store, but were foiled in their attempt to gain entrance to the store by an iron door. A brick was hurled through a rear window of the Fourth Street market, but nothing was missed from the store. A mysterious fire, which caused dam age of several hundred dollars to a dry cleaning establishment and a shoe repair shop, is believed to have been started from a cigaret thrown into a basket of clothes in the dry cleaning room by some prowler who had gained entrance through the front door, which was tound open by the firemen. A masked man was seen prowling about the yara ot j. M. Burns, after the family had been alarmed by someone trying to un lock the front door. The would-be bandit escaped while Mr. Burns was getting his shotgun ready to re ceive him. The state df Illinois will go into the road-building business as an ex periment this spring. A Smashing Sale of Floor Lamps and Lamp Shades Saturday at Union Outfitting Go. New Styles in Floor Bates and Floor Samples in Silk Shades Included v If you have been wanting a different shade for your lamp or want a complete Floor Lamp for your home, you can save many a dollar in the Union Outfitting Company, Saturday. The bargains in Shades are sen sational as it is a clearance of floor samples. In addition a special purchase of complete lamps (floor bases and shades) is also offered. As always, you make your own terms. Advertisement Wages of plumbers in Fairfield relief county, Connecticut, have been cut1 . $3 per da. COLLEGIAN CLOTHES give by far the most in Appearance and Service for the dollar invested. .3;ji ... For this reason, men who bur wisely prefer COLLEGIANS. Come in and in spect our models you, too, -will see wis dom in buying Collegian Clothes. The Home of Collegian Clothes N. E. Corner 17th and Harney St. - Ml 1 IvOil foil hi L3 "The Lookout intheForetop" IT IS the mission of Braudeis Stores to be the medium through which the buying public is given advantage of mar ket conditions. Our posi tion is that of a willing servant in matters that re late to merchandise, and we have spared no effort or thought in making our service complete and satisfying. The "Lookout in the Foretop" system guarantees that result. A Thursday Special ONLY IN THE LOT Values from $45 to $59 These are smart models in tricotine, check velours and wool mixtures; in a variety of styles; the trim tailored and chic box effect models; in the season's best col ors. Come early, as we have not a complete line of sizes. ' Second FloorWest Month-End Sale of Women 's New Spring F In Three Low-Priced Sale Lofs To make room for shoes which are arriving daily we have taken several hundred pairs of new spring footwear and grouped them in three lots at exceptionally low prices. There is a com plete range of sizes in each group, but not in each style. Values up ,85 to $14 y Pr. Gray suede strap pumps Patent vamps, gray suede quit ters' Black kid strap pumps Black calf strap pumps Brown suede strap pumps White kid pumps Values to $9 85 Pr. Black kid oxfords Brown kid oxfords Black kid strap pumps Values up to $11 85 7 Brown suede strap pumps Brown kid oxfords Black kid oxfords Brown kid strap pumps Brown calf strap pumps Black kid strap pumps Gray Kid Pumps SOMETHING NEW! We have just received 1,200 pairs of women rs cretonne boudoir slippers in a variety of pretty colors. We will place them on sale Thursday at, per pair, Main Floor West Thursday. Specials in Art Goods CLAY HCENSE - BUBKEKS Green and bronze colored; round and octagon shapes; . with lids; special, each, 29c BOSE AJnq VIOLET COXE Bf. CEKSE From the Orient; spe- clal, per box, , , . JL J w SOLID JLAHOGAJY CANDLE STICKS Five different styles; all of graceful patterns with hand- polychromed candles; special. complete, STAMPED BtOTGALOW APBOKS FOB CHILDREN In pink, blue and tan; 10 and 14-year sizes; special, each. Third Floor-West. Thursday Specials in Underwear WOMEN'S VESTS Keyser Jersey silk tops and fine lisle bodice and regulation styles; all sizes; very special for Thursday at, WOMEN'S LISLE SWTS Lace trimmed; tight knee, closed gore; sizes 34, 36 and 38; special, for Thursday, at, WOMEN'S LISLE VESTS In pink or white; regulation. straps; all sizes; special, each, at. CHILDREN'S LISLE SUITS Fine material; tight or loose knee; half or no sleeves; sizes 2 f" to 16 years; specially priced for ' jMf Tknrsday at, per suit, J . Third Floor Center. 25c A-Special Representative of the Makers Is Here Demonstrating "Omaha's Latest" THE BOyshforM v Brassiere A SPECIAL representative from the makers of these nationally accepted brassieres will be in our corset department to demonstrate the many exclusive features of these won derfully constructed garments. Such a demand has sprung up here in Omaha among women who have visited New York recently and learned of the advantages of BOYSH FORM BRASSIERES that we have stocked them. We are ready with the new things first. The purpose of the BOYSHFORM BRASSIERE is to give the bust the new flattened effect, which it does in perfect comfort. THE BOYSHFORM BRASSIERE can be worn' under eve- PnCCS! ning gowns street costumes or waists of the sheerest ma- , rf ' q ETfi terials without the use of a camisole. J..OU tO O0U Third Floor North. Kids-See "Buster Brown,' and "Tige" Not a movie'- "Buster" and "Tige" are alive and put on a i . ... i fine show at the Brandeis Theater Thursday, 4:30 p. m. last day j get your free tickets at Children's Shoe Dept., Main FloorWest '