THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921.
;Power Company
Employe Found
Dead at His Post
May Have Fallen Against
Wires When Heart Failed,
Is Theory of In
vestigators. Chris Christensen of Council
Bluffs, operator at the central sub
station of the Nebraska Power com
pany at Twentieth and Harney
Mrccts, was found dead yesterday af
ternoon in a corner of the substation
by Jerry Howard, another operator.
The body was found lying on the
floor by Howard as he came on
duty.'
De. ;as due to heart disease or
accidental burns, according to in
vestigators from the county at
torney's office who were called.
Christensen was 50 years old and
Is survived by his wife. He had come
if' survived by his wife. He had gone
to work at 6 a. m. yesterday and was
Scheduled to be off duty at 2 p. m.
He had been dead about four hours
when found, according to county at
torney's investigators, who said an
inquest probably will be held.
The hands and side of the body
Had been burned as Christensen fell
against live wires in the corner of
the substation which stands back a
little from the street next to the
Oakland Motor company.
The body was taken to the Hulse
& Riepen. morgue.
Judge Discharges Woman
Arrested in Beer Raid
Judge Wappich in Central police
court discharged Mrs. E. An
derson, 1901 Center street, ar
rested Saturday night on charges of
operating an alleged disorderly
house, on the ground that a person
can have a party with a "little beer"
without being interrupted by the
police morals squad.
"If Mrs. Anderson is guilty of
fcuch a charge, then more than half
of the people of Omaha should be ar
rested," said Wappich.
Detective Danbaum who headed
the squad stated that although he had
no evidence that Mrs. Anderson was
selling the beer he seized 125 bottles
of beer in an ice box.
Six persons, the detectives said,
were seated around a table drinking
the amber fluid; '
Rohrerls Still in Dark ,
As to Size of His Staff
With many liquor complaints be
ing made daily ' U. S. Rohrer, new
federal prohibition ' director for Ne
braska, is still kept in the dark as to
the .number of agents he will have
to work on these cases.
''All I'm sure of is that I won't
have as many as I need," said
R,ohrer. "No word of any assign
ments to this state has come to me
yet."
Rohrer has had no occasion yet
to invoke his ruling not to permit
druggists to withdraw alcohol on
their permits if they have once been
convicted of Jviolation of the dry
layrs.1 I
" "Maybe these druggists are sparing-
me the 'trouble by not applying
for any alcohol," he said.
Husband, Sued for Divorce,
Says Wife Refused His Money
Frank Hayes, answering tne peti
tion of his wife, Kathleen, an Omaha
school teacher, for divorce, declared
in district court that he has
supported her as much as she asked
since their marriage in Chadron,
Neb., in November, 1920, and that
she has taught school voluntarily.
She taught school here from
February 1 to June, this year. He
lived in Lincoln during that time
and she visited him there and he vis
ited her here. He says he gave her
$200 during that time and often
asked her whether she needed more.
Phrenologist Amendment
Offered in City Council
City Commissioner Butler intro
duced an amendment to the ordi
nance prohibiting the licensing of
fortune tellers, to make it include
phrenologists, in city council meeting
yesterday.
Butler has been appearing at the
city hall with a large bump on his
head, which connected recently with
a falling tree.
"I'm especially anxious to have the
amendment added," Butler told his
fellow councilmen. "This bump on
my head might be misinterpreted by
some wandering phrenologist."
Marine Corps League Tlans
To Escort Bodies of Dead
Plans to meet marine dead when
bodies arrive in Omaha will be made
by -members of the marine corps
league of Omaha at a meeting which
will be held at the home of William
Dana, 3903 North Eighteenth street,
Thursday night. , It is planned to
send; escorts with all' bodies of ma
rines that pass through Omaha. A.
H. Mayer is president of the Marine
Corps league. Any ex-marines wish
ing information regarding the or
ganization may reach, him at Ken
wood 0584.
Both City Hospitals Minus
i Patients Dr. Pinto Reports
For the first time in many months
both the city emergency and deten
tion hospitals are without, .a single
patient. Dr. A.-S. Pinto, health
commissioner, is rejoicing.-
Health department records show,
however, that Margaret Elias, 1,
died of scarlet fever in the emergency
hospital Sunday. Dr. Pinto says
there are several scarlet fever cases
in homes, but that contagious dis
ease, is unusually scarce throughout
the; city.
Indians Pay U. S. Rent
To Keep Out of Courts
Rather than contend against Uncle
Sam in the courts, Mike and Emil
Prokop and Edward Jazek, Indians,
paid a $260 back rent bill due on
land leases in Thurston county.
A large number of defendants in
more than 100 suits filed by the gov
ernment for unpaid rent, are gradual
ly settling their cases rather than
permit them to come to trial, acr
cording to R. C. Hoyt. clerk of the
iederal court. MV
J. H. Hansen Reports
Pickup in Auto Trade
Rapid pickup in the automobile
trade is reported by J. H. Hansen
of the J. JI. Hansen Cadillac com
pany, who, with S. J. Alexander,
territory representative, returned
yesterday from a 1,200-milc auto
trip through the Nebraska territory.
"The automobile business is get
ting back to normal at a rapid rate,"
was his comment. .
"Virtually every dealer we visited
was sold out and ready to place or
ders for more cars. This probably
is due to the fact that the farmers
have harvested a good crop and are
Ivauling to market as fast as possible."
Dalilman Warns
Of Impeachment
Commissioners Buying Sup
plies From Favorite Mer
chants, Butler Charges'.
Commissioner Dan Butler in
timated that members of the city
commission were paying political
debts by making purchases of sup
plies from their favorite merchants
Tuesday at a session of the city
council which was fraught with ad
monitions to "go slow."
Maydr Dahlman declared that the
city commissioners might be im
peached if they continued to make
purchases in the open market when
the city ordinances called for the pur
chase of supplies by competitive
bids.
The row started when Commis
sioner Butler proposed that Com
missioner Koutsky's action in re
jecting bids on sewer pipe, sand and
other materials used in paving be
reconsidered. Koutsky declared he
had reiected the bids and had gone
into the open market because he
believed he was saving money.
Camping Tourist Held
For Stealing Pistols
James Glass, Lansing, Mich.,
tourist, camping at Elmwood park
en route to Pueblo, Colo., is in the
city jail charged with the theft of
two revolvers from another camper.
L. Griswold, another camper from
Concord, N. H., told Detectives
Ryan and English he gave Glass
money to buy food and when he left
his tent Glass stole the revolvers.
Glass at first denied the theft' but
later told detectives he stole the guns
and pawned them in a Douglas street
pawnshop to get some money so he
could repair his automobile.
F. W. Thorne Company Sold
By Sheriff on Judgment
The F. W. Thorne company, 1812
Farnam street, was sold out at
sheriff's sale Saturday to Raymond
V. Cole, president of the Cole-McKay
company for $2,600. A judg
ment obtained by the Omaha-National
bank recently for $3,078 was
the direct cause of the sale. .
F. W. Thorne will be retained to
manage the business, Mr. Cole said
yesterday and the name will be
changed to the Thorr.e Shop.
Two Children Can't Live on
$350 a Month, Says Guardian
Mrs. Lucile Hoel, 2122 Sherman
avenue, has petitioned district court
to increase the monthly allowance of
$350 of Beatrice Hoel, 14, and John
D. Hoel, 16, to $450. The children
are her niece, and nephew and arc
the children of the late Frank J.
Hoel, treasurer of the McCord-
Brady wholesale grocery company.
Mrs. IfUcile Hoel, the guardian, de
clares the present allowance insuf
ficient to keep her wards from privation.
Butler Aims Ordinance
At Taxicab Companies
City Commissioner Butler intro
duced . an ordinance in city council
yesterday providing that a $10
occupation tax must be paid on every
taxicab or other automobile used for
livery. The tax must be paid on cars
whether drivers are furnished or not,
the resolution provides.
Companies now pay $25 for their
first car, $10 on the next and are
permitted to run their fifth car with
out a tax.
Flags Go to Half Mast When
Bodies of Soldiers Arrive
Mayor Dahlman lias assured Ad
jutant Harry. Hough of the Ameri
can Legion that his request to have
flags lowered to half mast on the
days bodies of soldiers who were
killed in France arnve in Omaha
would be granted. He will issue an
order asking that flags on all build
ings be lowered to half mast when re
turned bodies are in the city.
Contributors Put
Bee's Milk Fund
Over $1,000 Mark
Sum Declared Sufficient to
Supply Children With
Proper Nourishment Dur
ing Rest of Summer.
Yesterday's donations carry Th?
Bee Milk and Ice fund past $1,000;
the estimated sum needed to provide
poor children of Omalia with these
two prime essentials this summer.
Therefore, the fund will be. closed
August 1.
"If there is any money left at the
end of the hot spell we will continue
to snd milk to the children' who
need it the most," said Miss Flor
ence McCabe, superintendent of the
Visiting Nurse association, which
administers the fund.
Three little girls, Marie Tracy,
Mary Romer and Katherine Billotte,
living near Thirty-seventh street
and Fowler avenue, gave a candy
social Saturday, which netted the
fund $1.
Other contributions are as fol
lows: Previously acknowledged SM5.SS
M. K. P COO
A. O. U. W. Lodge No. MS, Ord,
Neb (.00
Lndles' Aid, Congo Church, Avooa, 1
Neb 8.00
M. O. B 8.50
Marie Tracy, Mary Romer and
Katherine BUlotte . , 1.00
Brief City News
Total S 1,019.86
Nonpartisan League
Considers Move to
Amend Constitution
Lincoln, July 26. (Special.)
Whether the Nonpartisan league will
get behind an initiative campaign
calling for amendments to the con
situation which will forever bar the
legislature from invoking a law
changing the primary and forcing
farmers to register political affilia
tions will be decided upon at a mass
meeting to be held by league: lead
ers in Lincoln in the near future;
That was the statement made' to
day by A. E. Sorenson, attorney for
the league.
These propositions were proposed
yesterday by Arthur G. Wray of
York in a speech delivered in the
office of the secretary of state at
the time referendum petitions against
four laws passed by the last legis
lature were filed.
Officials of State
Institutions Meet
Kearney, Neb., July 26. (Special.)
Annual conference of officials of
the state institutions of Nebraska
will be held in the library building
of the Kearney Industrial school
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26
and 27. Miss Katherine Worley,
chairman of the state board of con
trol, Lincoln, will preside. '
Governor McKelvie will make an
address Tuesday night and: heads of
various institutions of the state will
speak at other sessions. The meet
ing will close Wednesday night with
a concert by the Industrial school
band.
Ex-Manager of Farmers' Body
Accused of Embezzlement
Lincoln, July 26. (Special.)
John M. Gilmore, former general
manager of the Kramer Farmers'
Co-operative association, was ar
raigned .today injustice court here
charged with embezzling and con
verting a $300 check to his own use.
Louis Meinke, president of the as
sociation, signed the check. A short
age of $5,500 in the funds of the
company is charged in a report filed
by an accounting company. Gilmore
pleaded not guilty and was released
on a $1,000 bond. :
Veteran Central Teacher !
Resigns to Be Married
Miss Daisy F. Bonncll, for many
years a teacher of natural sciences at
Central High school, announced her
marriage in a letter of resignation
received by Superintendent of
Schools Beveridge.
Miss Bonnell wrote from the
Crescent, Shaughnessy Heights,
Vancouver, British Columbia, break
ing the news to her superintendent.
$20,000 Suit Is Filed for J
Death of Boy Hit by Auto
Meyer Horn, a salesman for Pax
ton & Gallagher company, who ran
down and killed Harry Campbell, 13,
at Thirty-second and Cuming streets
July 19,-was sued for $20,400 by the
boy's father, Roy W. Campbell, in
district court yesterday.
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Howard St., Between 15th and 16th
Patrolman Promoted. Patrolman
joe Treglla was promoted Tuesday
to be a detective on the morals
squad of the Omaha police depart
ment. Ignore Safety Zones. Superinten
dent of the 1'oliee- Dunn will issue
orders within a few days Instructing
police to permit autoists to Ignore
safety zones in the downtown sec
tions of the city.
Alimony to Two Wives. Edward
Drinkman, city detective, must now
pay $65 a month alimony. District
Judge Goss Tuesday ordered him to
pay $25 to his present wife, Gladys,
pending the outcome of her. divorce
action. Brinkman pays $40 a
month to his first wife.
Divorce Set Aside. District Judge
Goss set aside the divorce granted
Marie Haines from Robert Haines by
District Judge Sears June 28. The
divorced husband declared that his
wife was preparing to remarry nt
Council Bluffs, and had obtained a
license under her maiden name.
Full Naval Honors
To Mark Last Rites for
Two Boys Here Today
Two funeral services with all naval
honors will be conducted in Omaha
today. The services are to be in
honor of Dclbert Logan Shipley of
the U. S. S. Ortolan, who was
drowned in San Diego bay, July 8,
and whose body was not recovered
until July 20, and for Arthur Sharpe,
killed in the Argonne drive, whose
body was returned from France Sat
urday.
The Shipley services will be con
ducted at the Brailry & Dorrance
chapel, . Nineteenth and Cuming
streets, and burial- will be in the
American Legion plot in Forest
Lawn. The Sharpe 'funeral will be at
Stack cV Falconer, Thirty-third and
Farnam streets. ;
. Naval petty officers will act as
palbcarcrs at the funeral.
Next Naturalization
Class Numbers 41 5
Hearings for 415 would-be Amer
icans are scheduled for the four-day
session of the naturalization court,
beginning August t. This is the
second largest "class" put through
the mill, according to A. H. Bode,
naturalization examiner.
M. F. Laycock of the St. Louis
division, is in Omaha now examin
ing candidates for the November
session. Not so many applications
are in for this hearing
Several may be denied citizenship
because they sought exemption from
army service during -the war,. Bode
indicated.
Wife's "Unbridled Tongue"
' Humiliated Him, .Hubby Says
Patrick Hajilon, answering the di
vorce petition "of his wife, Gertrude,
in district court yesterday, declares
she has abused and humiliated him by
her "unbridled tongue," and has filed
insanity charges against him. She
also did not run her rooming house
to suit him, he says.
Domestic Science Class
Prepares Model Luncheon
The graduating class in domestic
science at Commercial high school
entertained Miss Belle Ryan, J. II.
Pcveridge, Leon O. Smith, J. I
McCrory and rJvight F.. Torter,
school officials, 'at a model luncheon
yesterday.
Miss Charlotte Townsend, school
nurse, also , was a guest. Her duty
was to determine if i well balanced
meal was being served. The lunch
eon was served in tin school dining
room.
The average ' decrease in pay per
employe in loading industrial plants'
throughout the country during the
past year .'was 6.4 per cent.
Hedberg Deeds All
His Property to His h
Two Stepchildren
Albert Hedberg, editor of
West End Advocate of V alley, Neb.f
came into court Tuesday and volun
tarily deeded all his property to his ,
two stepchildren, Ernest and Ru
sell Steel, 12 and 14 years old.
The hoys are the children of Hcdn
berg's first wife by her lirst hus
band and no relation to Hedberg,
On June 11 a crowd from Valley cam
into juvenile court and testified that
the iledhcrgs were mistreating thfl
two boys. Judge Scars has given!
Mrs. Louis Swevcl, ' their grand
mother, the custody of the boys.
A .short hearing also was held be
fore County Judge Crawford on
Hedherg's administration of the es
t.ite left by the boys' mother.
OMAHA
LINCOLN
Wednesday
9 A. M.
Wednesday
9 A. M.
The
Ever) Sale Must
Be Final
No Exchanges
No Returns
No Credits
0
rets
Sale
Every
Omaha Woman Has
Been Waiting for
A Gigantic Clearance of All
if me 5iraiiinnier Ores
39.50
Values
19.50
Values
Linens
Ginghams
Organdies
Plain and
Printed Voiles
These Dresses
Will Exceed
29.50
Values
Georgettes
Tricolettes
Crepe de Chines
Taffetas and
Combinations
Your Greatest Expectations
The most astonishing merchandising feat we have accom
plished this season. When you see the smart styles, the
great variety and the genuine goodness of these wonder
ful dresses, then only can you fully appreciate what a
tremendous bargain you have received.
It's the most gloriously
fascinating array of fine
dresses at such a price
this town has ever seen
The styles vary from the straight line tailored Dress to the
most elaborate summer Dress, of either Silk or Cotton.
A splendid variety of colors and sizes to choose from.
Sizes for
Women or Misses
Ranging 14 to 44.
Don't Fail to
Be Here Early
Wednesday
Savings Piled on Top of Savings