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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1921. Tributes Paid To Dead Heroes Are Appreciated Legion Post Receives Many Letters From Parents and Friends for Gold Star Decoration. Not Enough Suit Letters which express thanks and appreciation for the attention shown to bodies of returned soldiers sent through Omaha are being received daily by Adjutant Hough of the Douglas County American Legion post. These letters come from parents. friends and even sweethearts of the dead boys and give thanks especially for the little gold star which is pinned on the flag covering i each casket. a J. M. Buck, a civil war veteran, is the originator of the gold star decoration. Fired by the apparent neglect of bodies coming through Omaha, this veteran had a number of gold stars made after his own pattern. Printed on them, was an appropriate motto. With these stars and a handful of flowers, Mr. Buck went to the Union station whenever a shipment of overseas bodies was due to pass through and paid tribute to the younger veterans who died in France. His actions became known to th American Lection and now as th bodies come here for distribution thr are reoresentatives from the American Lceion. Grand Army, Woman's Relief corps and other pa triotic bodies ready to show due re spect to the dead and the flag, for which they tell. In a speech before the members nf the OoodfellowshiD committee at the Chamber of Commerce Monday noon, Adjutant Hough told how let' rr arknnwledcinsr these littl at tentions were being received at Le gion headquarters daily. During his speech Adjutant Hough outlined the activities ot tne Amer ican Legion and the program it had outlined for future years. He laid stress on the part being done to aid wounded and disabled ex-service men. He asked the business men to do all they could to further aid for disabled soldiers and to co-operate with the Legion in its work. The Foodfellowship committee nHeH it active meetings Monday, There will be a few informal meet ings but there will be no more pro tinrre lint it Sentember. Chairman Dysart was renamed chairman for the coming year. Attacks Juvenile Court Operation in Habeas Corpus Writ 4 In a writ of habeas corpus, filed in district court Monday, demana : th, release of William Nesla dek, 17, sentenced to Kearney last Saturday, John N. Baldwin, public defender, declared the juvenile court ftinrtinnincr to be unconstitutional, "I will take this case to ine smc "United States supreme courts .." lii nwin . i e i wucu . n neccssai " nl-iintno his action. Nesladek was one of three sen tenced to Kearney Saturday for taking Alice McGill, 16, in an auto mobile and keeping ner oui scv days and nights. Princess Players Back to Broadway t:m.-. New York were fur 'uished members of the Princess Stock company by the Actors tt..:., ocenriatinn when the com- wnv was forced to close Saturday :u t,.nnu nf harl hiisiness. - 1 IS Ilk UI-ujv " I . According to , members of the company, substantial oacK salaries are due them, most of which was oaid in I. O. U.'s by tne managers, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Adams. . W. Frank Delmaine, represents th arriation. ' was in Omaha last week and furnished tickets home to the actors. The as sociation will prevent reopening of Princess Players stock until the back salaries are paid. New Police Station Is Not So Nifty, Says Commissioner Some changes at the central po lice ctafinn are exnected to follow an inspection trip Monday by Police Commissioner Dunn ana neaun Pnmmiccinner Pinto. "The worst thing I ' ever saw," saiu lunn, was mc uun yen where prisoners are kept while wait inty trial- "In the little room was only one window. Fifty men were crowded like igrili'npe in 9 ran " Dunn also stated that he intended to buy new furniture tor the de fective ilinfiritnflt t!lf ma in floor and to equip the policeman's gymnasium m tne Dasemeni. Ordinance Recommended To Stop Sunday Ice Sales Prohibition of ice sales on Sunday is promised in an ordinance intro duced in city council Monday and recommended for passage by city commissioners. If passed the or dinance will prevent municipal ice stations from functioning according o R. B. Howell. William Russ, representing the Ice Travelers' un .on, declared the ordinance was aimed at peddlers who buy ice from the ice companies and sell it at an ex orbitant price on Sunday. Beet Company Sues Omaha Bank for Holdings Bonds Hearing of a suit involving $295, 000 worth of bonds of the Beet Growers' Sugar company of Idaho was begun in District Judge. Sears' court Monday. The company is suing the Omaha National bank, which leld $500,000 of the bonds in escrow o insure performance of a contract o supply 100,000 bags of sugar to .he Cullen Brokerage company at 5 a bag. The sugar has been de livered, but because of matters still n dispute the bank has declined to turn $295,000 of the bonds. Summer School Opens. Summer session of 12 weeks at the High School of Commerce, opened Monday, T .WW II. I llll ! McCook Man Gets Comptroller Post Under Bucket Bill J. Raymond McCarl, Secre tary of Republican Congres sional Campaign Commit tee, Given Juicy Plum. Brief City News To Miss Virginia La Roche went the distinction of being the first fair bather ordered off a Chicago beach this season for "too much girl and not enough suit" Officer Gibbons, stationed at Clarendon Beach, is the official censor. Suit Against Estate Administrator Tried Aurora. Neb.. June 27. (Special.) Judge Corcoran of York started the trial of the case of Sylvester K, Robey against John Nicholson, ad ministrator ot the estate ot Larl Nicholson. This is an action for' specific per formance of a contract made by Carl Nicholson for the sale of his farm near Aurora to Robey. The sale was made November 7, 1920, and on De cember 24, 1920, Nicholson killed his wife, his three children and him self. In the lawsuit over the contract, the administrator claims Nicholson was insane when he made the sale. Hamilton County Wheat Goes 25 Bushels or Better Aurora, Neb., June 27. (Special.) Hundreds of acres of Hamilton county wheat will yield 25 bushels an acre this year and there are many fields which will yield much better. R. P. Fiss threshed a 40-acre field and found that he had more than 1.400 bushels of wheat that tested 61 pounds to the bushel. Tunnel Which Drains Basin Is Completed Aurora, Neb, June 27. (Special.) The big tunnel to draw the water from the Vetter-Liebhardt basin has been completed, eliminating danger of distruction of crops in that fertile valley. For more than nine months J. H. Van Wormcr and his men have been tunneling through the hill. The basin has been for some years a large lake, growing nothing but frogs and cat-tails. Today fields of com and wheat take the place of the swamp. It lies like a big dish with thousands of acres in the watershed that drains into "it. Aurora District Has 1,003 Children of School Age Aurora, Neb., June 27. (Special.) Total number of children of school age in the Aurora district is 1,003, of whom 470 are boys and 533 are girlc, according to the census just taken. The number between the i ages of 7 and 16 is 653, of whom 305 are boys and 348 are girls. Last year the census showed a total of 900 of school age in the district. Washington, June 27. J. Ray mond McCarl of McCook, )Ieb., secretary of the republican congres sional campaign committee, was nominated today by President Hard ing to be comptroller general of the United States, a position created by the new budget law, which becomes effective Friday. , Joseph T. Booth was nominated by President Harding today to be register of the land office at Evans ton, Wyo. Donald McAllister was named re ceiver of public moneys at the same place. Graduate of Nebraska UnL Mr. McCarl is about 40 years old and has been secretary of the con gressional committee for about three years. He is a graduate of the Uni versity of Nebraska Law school and was secretary to Senator N orris, re publican, Nebraska, for a number of years. As comptroller general Mr. Mc Carl will have charge of government finance, expenditures of appropria tions, auditing of all expenditures, settlement and adjustment of claims of and against the government and management of all fiscal affairs with the exception only of postal accounts, which are to be under a special comptroller ot the Postoffice department, also created by the new law. Term of 15 Yean. Many government activities will be co-ordinated under the comp troller. He will inherit the duties, personnel staff, documents and offices of the comptroller of the treasury, whose position and those of six auditors for various govern ment departments are abolished by the new act. The comptroller's term of office is 15 years and he is made ineligible for reappointment. His salary will be $10,000 a year and he will be sub ject to removal for improper con duct by joint resolution of congress, requiring the president's approval. Merchant Observes 47th Anniversary of Career Grand Island, Neb., June 27. (Special.) S. N. Wolbach, pioneer merchant, and senior member of the present firm of Wolbach & Sons, celebrated the forty-seventh anni versary of his business career in Grand Island. A ton and a half j cake was a feature of the celebra tion. Aside from his merchandising business, Mr. Wolbach has been president of the First National bank since its organization, 37 years ago. and the celebration was almost turned into an ovation to the principal by business men. and citi zens, particularly those who have gone through the' grasshopper and other hard-time periods with him. Cars to Run on Dodge Dodge street car service will be resumed July 10, according to officials of the street railway company. Cars have ben detoured since September, 1919, because of the grading project under way. Circus Coming Hagenbeck-Wal lace circus will play in Omaha Mon day, July 11, according to notices given out by the circus advante man Monday. As usual the press agent says, "It's .bigger and better than ever this year." Another O'Grndy John R. O'Grady, 324 North Thirty-sixth avenue, wants his friends to know he is not the John O'Grady who was tripped up in the police net follow ing an argument over the merits of Omaha and Council Bluffs. To Jail for 60 Days Kenneth Weir, alias Robert Mars, was sen tenced to CO days in jail Monday morning by Police Judge Foster. Weir was convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses. The plea of his wife had no effect on the Judge. "Bob" Smith Returns Robert Smith, clerk of the district court. returned Sunday from Washington, D. C, where he has been the past two weeks and declared it the "busiest place In the country." Smith was called to Washington on business. While there he visited Alexandria, Va., the Washington home. Two Auto Accidents An auto mobile, driven by John Hiesser, Eighty-third and Miami streets, went over an embankment east of the Locust street viaduct Sunday, but nobody was Injured. W. F. Crumore, restaurant operator, was struck by an automobile driven by D. H. Hawhk. 6016 Florence boule vard, receiving a cut over the eye and body bruises. 'Have a Heart' for Babies of Omaha The Bee Fund Keens Sweet And Cool Milk for Poor Infants. a PTIT rnn Tinrn in run untu ORIHGFEtT Just put those weary, shoe- crinkled, aching, burning feet into a Tiz bath. Tiz is grand, glorious for tortured feet. It draws the swelling and poi sonous exudations right out Stops the pain of corns. Ends torture and puts your feet into perfect condition. Your shoes won't seem tight and your feet will never hurt or get sore and swollen. Think of it, Jio more foot misery and you will wear smaller shoes. Get a box of Tiz at any drug store and get in stant relief for a few cents. Prince Albert's a new note in the joys of rolling! Talking abont rolling your own cigare tes, well tell you right here that Prince Albert tobacco has 'em all lashed to the mast! YouVe got a handful-of-happiness coming your direc tion when you pal it with P. A. and the makin's papers I For Prince Albert is not only de lightful to your taste and pleasing in its refreshing aroma, but our exclusive pat ented process frees it from bite and parch! You smoke with the bars down, day and night! And, for a fact, rolling up Prince Albert is about as easy as anything you know. You see, P. A. is crimp cut and it stays put and you whisk it into shape before you can count three! And, the next instant you're puffing away to beat the very old band! Prince Albert is so good that it has led four men to smoke jimmy pipes where one was smoked before! It's the greatest old buddy, the friend liest smoke that ever found its way into a pipe, or ciga rette! If you never got ac quainted with a pipe for goodness sake go get one and get some P. A. and go to it! Print Abrt I mU M tnppy rtd bagt, tidy ni tint, handtom poand and hall pound tin Aa midert and in th pound eryttal glatt humidor with tpongo moitttntr top that koopt th f o bacso in tueh ptrfttt condition. the national joy smoke Copyright 1021 by R. J. Reynold Tobacco Co. .Wlutra-SaUa.ff.Ct "Have a Heart" is the editorial heading in another section of Mon day's issue of The Bee. Readers of this newspaper testify daily that they "have a heart" for the ill-fed babies of the poor. They demonstrate it by contribu tions to The Bee's milk and ice fund, an annual summer institution. Each year hundreds of poor infants are furnished with much-needed milk and ice to keep the milk fresh and sweet, by means of funds donated through The Bee. The Visiting Nurse association ad ministers the fund and gives ample proof for the need thereof. Large or small, the contributions are al ways welcome. This summer's fund stands as fol lows: Froviowily nrknowlrtlicd .f6S0.1t BriMon I'hrltttan church 10.no Cah , 10.00 Total 1660.11 Infection From Splinter Causes Death of Woman Mrs. Carrie Ohm, 43, 1733 South Ninth street, died Saturday from in festion caused when a splinter pene trated her finger. The splinter was from the gate to her chicken yard and the accident occurred 10 days ago when she opened the gate to feed the chickens. Tetanus develop ed. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon. Newspaper Plane From Los Angeles Makes Landing Here Frank Clark, flying a one-seatcr Fokker airplane, arrived at the air mail station in Omaha at 4:35 yes terday afternoon from Los Angeles. He is a messenger from a Los Angeles newspaper to Chicago where he will pick up relayed pictures of the Carpenter-Dempsey fight from Tilot Jack Knight and rush them to Los Angeles. Clark will hop off for Chicago at noon tomorrow, following a govern ment mail ship. Enroute from North Platte to Omaha he was forced to land at Osceola to find his way. The young pilot flew his plane with the gov ernment mail plane from Cheyenne to North riatte yesterday. 'EVERYdODYSi STORE TUESDAY IS One Dollar Day in the DOWNSTAIRS STORE Don't Lay Aside Your Old Shoes Because They Are Worn Call Douglas 2100 and our Shoe Repair Department will call for your shoes and, after having repaired them in a most satisfactory way, will de liver them to your home. You may also have them put on your charge account. Mina Taylor and Polly Prim Aprons, $100 The home tasks seem lighter if you can go about doing them in an apron that you know is becoming. Tuesday yu may choose from any number of pretty styles in ginghams, chambrays, and linenette stripe checks, plaids, plain colors and white, daintily trimmed in self or contrasting colors. Downstair Stor. Children's Dresses, $100 The sort of wash dresses that children need a goodly supply of, are here in plain, stripe and plaid ginghams in sizes to fit the girl from 6 to 14 years. s Dowmtair Store. Duster Coats $joo When driving it's such a sat isfaction to have a light weight cover-all coat to protect your good clothes from the dust and dirt. These are in linen color, checks in brown and black and white. Sizes 36 to 52. One to a customer. Wash Skirts $00 Tub skirts look so cool and they simplify the question of plenty of changes. Slightly soiled, in both white and colored poplin and gabardine. Boys' Wash Suits $po Probably 1,200 in all a wonderful purchase, wonderfully priced sturdy materials, serviceable colors, in Junior Norfolk, in Middy styles, in dozens of those styles which are so becoming to the little boys up to six years. Downstairs Store. Women's Pumps and Oxfords, $1 00 Pr This opportune sale of white cloth pumps and oxfords makes it possible to purchase white shoes, just when you need them, at a price which is less than the usual wholesale cost. Most all sizes and widths. Downstair Store. Voiles, Seven yds. $00 The home sewer will delight in -these cool-looking voiles when she sees them and pictures in her mind a dress made up with ruffles and frills or a more simple style with just a little touch of contrasting color. Downstairs Store. Summer Blouses $100 You will want more than one of these blouses of lovely voiles, batiste, dimities both long and short sleeves, collars and collarless. All wonderful values. Also about 100 odd blouses priced 2 for $1.00. Downstairs Store Home Needs Kitchen Needs Dresser Scarfs, $1.00 54-inch scarfs' of splendid quality butcher linen. Table Cloths. $1.00 Two-yard damask cloth, hemmed, ready to use. 12 Yards Sheeting, $1.00 36-inch unbleached sheeting. No filling or dressing. 8 Yards Scrim, $1.00 Serviceable quality of 36 inch scrim in neat colored fig ures. Bed Sheets, $1.00 70x90-inch bleached sheets in round thread quality, 3-inch hem. Torn, not cut. Downstairs Store. Aluminumware, $1.00 3 and 4-quart sauce pans, 6 and 8-quart preserving ket tles. Egg Whip, $1.00 Dunlap egg whips, silver blade, complete with crock. 24 Tumblers, $1.00 Jelly tumblers with tin cov ers, assorted shapes, hi or size. Water Set, $1.00 Two-quart pitcher and 12 glasses, Colonial shape. Cut Glass, $1.00 One lot cut glass vases, com ports, sugar and cream sets, other pieces. 12 Glasses, $1.00 Downstair Store. Women's Cotton Stockings 3 Pair for $1.00 Women's very light weight fine cotton stockings, double toes, soles and heels. Black, white and brown. Women's Vests 3 for $1.00 Women's gauze vests of an excellent quality fine cotton, pink and white, both the regu lar and extra sizes. Girls1 Union Suits 3 Suits for $1.00 Girls' cotton union suits, low neck, no sleeves, loose knee. All sizes. Downstair Store. 300 Attractive Rag Rugs to Go for $100 Just the thing for the hall, the bedroom, the bath some in plain colors, some in delightful hit and miss colorings rugs which give a homey touch to .the home. 27x54 inches. 30x60 inches. , Othci rugs: 24x36 inches, 2 for $1. Downstair Store. J)
