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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1921.
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well groomed, stopped his sedan call
and called to her.
"I'll give you $10 for one of your
curls," she says lie offered, display
ing a pair of sluais.
"At first I reiused," Anita told
detectives yesterday. "But when he
insisted he would give nie $10 for just
one curl f consrnted.
"fie took hold of my braid and
clipped it, but I didn't know he took
nearly all of it until I got home.
"He asked me to wait while he
had a check cashed to pav me and
I told him I lived at 4016 North
Thirty-fourth street and he could
bring me the money there."
When the man failed to appear,
police were notified.
Detectives say a man of the same
description has been accosting girls
in other parts of the city.
Ocean Bathers .
i Find Gun Sought
In Kennedy Case
Burch Shaken After Witness
Identifies Him Motorist
In Roadster Police
Say He Used.
Los Angeles, Aug. 11 Bathers
on the beach at Santa Monica today
found and turned over to the au
thorities a complete 12-gauge shot
gun lying in the shoal waters along
the shore.
The sheriff of Los Angeles county
and the district attorney have re
cently caused search to be made
along the Santa Monica beach for
such a weapon, believing that the.
circumstances around the shooting
of T. B. Kennedy here a week ago
indicated that his slayer had after
wards disposed of the weapon by
throwing it into the ocean, which is
about 10 miles from the scene of the
shooting in Beverly Glen.
Sheriff Cautious.
The stock of another shotgun was
turned over to the sheriff here early
yesterday by a camper, who said he
had found it also in the shallow
waters along the beach. The first
. find lacked the barrels.
The sheriff had sent men to Santa
Monica at noon today to examine
the latest find. Their report was
not expected for sonic hours, as the
offering of rather large rewards for
the recovery of the weapon, which
rewards were offered by private in
terests, caused the sheriff to move
cautiously in accepting any new
finds as evidence.
Identified by Motorist.
Arthur C. Burch of Evanston, 111.,
former college friend of the dead
mjin, held in jail since the day. after
the killing, was said to have been
r identified yesterday by a motorist, j
'p'Jia. iys he encountered Burch in
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Girl Finger Print Expert
Careless Crooks' Jinx
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"Bill" Haywood
Inmate of Soviet
Prison in Moscow
America Looks Good to Head
Of I. W. W., Says Former
Connecticut Man, Escap
ed From Reds.
been in the glen on the night of the
shooting.
The meeting occurred, he said,
near Santa Monica canyon mouth,
where officers recently declared that
they believed the slayer of Kennedy
had gone in a machine, throwing the
gun used into the ocean.
The witness said that his lights
flashed into the car driven supposed
ly by Burch and that the man in
side the car was wearing dark gog
gles, although It was then late at
night.
Tn the jail late yesterday the wit
ness requested that Burch put on his
dark glasses, which up to this time,
it is said, he had always donned
when witnesses had been brought
against him. Burch refused and he
was led into a private room with the
new witness. What' occurred within
was not revealed but Burch came out
noticeably shaken.
Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain, com
panion of Kennedy the night of tK-'
slaying, who was reported early yes
terday as knowing something which,
sne carea to tell, wouia permit her
imn!edTate"iree(iorii, " denied late last
night that she had made such a statement
Mais oui, e'est cal
She is mademoiselle Bcrtilion of
Omaha.
Woe to the absent-minded crook
who lets his bare fingers touch any
thing at the scene of his crime, for
this bride-detective will hop on his
trail.
She is Mrs. H. B. Ruffner, chief
of the finger print bureau of the
Omaha police department.
Native of Omaha.
She's only a slip of a girl, 26, and
is a native Omahan. Her parents
are Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bridges
of Carter Lake club and only three
weeks ago she was led away by Cu
pid into changing her name from
Emily Byrum to Ruffner.
The picture shows M'amzelk
Emilee in action.
She didn't pose for it. (She was
caught' actually getting finger prints
left on a huge pane of glass re
moved from the skylight over the
I. Berkowitz fur store, 2818 'Leav
enworth street, by burglars Mon
day night, who escaped with $6,000
worth of furs.
Dusting Prints.
Here she happens to be dusting
that little chemically prepared pow
der which is placed over the finger
print, then brushed lightly away
and the box by her right hind,
known as a quick shutter graflex,
takes the snapshot of the jesult
which may prove disastrous in a
trial of suspects for the crime.
M'amzelle Emilee learned the art
of finger printing in the War de
partment at Washington,, while the
brave soldier boys were-"over there"
shooting Germans.
Returns to Omaha.
She returned to Omaha a year
ago and became assistant to Hans
Nielsen, then chief of the finger
print bureau of the Omaha police
department.
When he was made head of the
state finger print department,
M'amzelle Emilee was promoted to
be chief of the Omaha bureau.
She likes the work that's why
she's on the high road to success.
New Tax Levy Is
Held Up by Old
Debts of County
Clerk Dewey Recommends
3.70 Mills; Optimistic at
Prospect of Clearing Off
$318,000 Bonds.
Boy, 15, Hanged Self Trying
"To Grow Big and Strong'
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culture literature describing metnoas
of neck stretching is believed by po
lice and county officers to have
caused the hanging of Charles N.
Roberts, 15-y ear-old son of Dr. C. M.
Roberts, a chiropractor, whose-body
was found hanging to a transom in
his room yesterday.
A friend, Jess Daley, aged 19, said
young Roberts had an ambition to
grow big and strong and had been
reading closely physical culture lit
erature describing how' the neck
could be developed.
The father of the boy is being
.held pending additional investigation.
Husband Says Wife Sold
Barber Shop Under His Feet j
Arthur O. Ettcr alleges that his
wife, Theresa, sold his barber shop
right out from under his feet, as it
were, and that she spent the $1,200
she got for the tonsorial establish
ment without his consent and with
out his aid.
This occurred two years ago, he
alleges in a petition for divorce filed
in district court yesterday. They
were wedded in 1909, and though1 the
proverbial barber is talkative, he
says she talked so much that she
kept him awake at night by her har
rangnes in their home at 2553 Ma
son street.
Berkowitz Fur Robbers
"Ran" Bridge, Sleuths Learn
In escaping from Omaha police,
four men who are believed to have
robbed the I. Berkowitz Fur com
pany, 2818 Leavenworth street, last
Monday night, rushed thn toll house
on the Douglas street bridge at 4
o'clock the following morning in a
Ford car, according to information
coming to detectives.
The toll operator at the east end
of the bridge told Detectives Trapp
and Munch that four men were in
the car and that the two in the rear
held guns. The car was also carry
ing several bundles of fur, detectives
learned.
Soviet Russia Grants U. S.
Citizens Permit to Leave
New York, Aug. 13. Official an
nouncement that soviet Russia has
granted permission for all Ameri
can citizens to leave the country,
if they desire, was made by George
Chitcherin, soviet minister of foreign
affairs, in a cable message received
today by the magazine Soviet Russia.
Squaw Man Kills Youth
Who Courted His Daughter
Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 13. Percy
Steifel, 22, of Niobrara, married, was
shot and killed at Fierce last night
by Gus Barr, a squaw man, who told
witnesses that Steifel paid attention
to his daughter.
To Lay Cornerstone
Alliance, Neb., Aug. 13. The cor
nerstone of the new Methodist Epis
copal church here will be laid Sun
day, August 28. Ceremonies will
be conducted by the local order of
Mason. A public program will at
tend the laying of the stone,
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County, Clerk Frank Dewey yes
terday sent to the board of county
a recommenaauoii
for a levy of 370 mills for Douglas
county this year.
"Douglas county is to be congratu
lated upon its present financial con
dition," says Mr. Dewey.
He bases his optimism upon the
fact that the levy for 1920 was 3.482
mills and that the levy for 1921 would
be only 2.80 mills if it were not for
an additional .90 mills necessary to
retire $318,000 of old county bonds
which became due and payable this
year.
Pay Off Old Debts.
In other words, nearly one-fourth
of this year's taxes will go to pay off
county debts contracted in years long
gone.
The total levy for bond retirement
and interest this year is 1.13 mills,
which will produce $397,975.44 to pay
off these bonds: old refunding bonds
due July 2, 1922, $268,000, and court
house bonds of $50,000, due October
1, 1921, plus interest due.
Should Be Appreciated.
"Retiring a total of $318,000 bonds
in one year and keeping the levy
down to 3.70 mills on the dollar
valuation as a total county levy
makes a very creditable showing and
should be appreciated by the . tax
payer," says Mc Dewey.
The total levy as recommended
by the county clerk in the actual
county valuation of $352,190,659 is
as follows:
Mill Amount
Funds Levy Produced
Oeneral fund 2.00 704.381.32
Bond sinking fund ..l.li 397.S75 44
Bridge, fund 2S 88,947.66
Rod fund 3 70.438.13
Mothers' pension 1 15.219 07
Soldiers' relief 01 7.043.81
Total 3.70 $1,303,105.43
Man Convicted on False
Evidence of Girl, Charge
Denver, Aug. 13. Homer C.
Jones, Stratton, Colo., motion -picture
show owner, is serving a long
prison term on perjured testimony
of a 14-year-old girl, the state par
don board was told yesterday.
Attorney C. C. Sackman of Den
ver, appearing for Jones, said he had
an affidavit from the girl on whom
Jones was convicted of committing
an assault, admitting that she was
coerced to testify against Jones and
exonerating the prisoner.
As the result of the statement,
Warden Thomas J. Tynan of the
state prison was urged to permit
Jones to file an application for a
pardon to be considered at the Oc
tober meeting.
Vice President and Wife
Congratulate Dr. Harding
Marion, 0 Aug. 13. Congratula
tions from President Harding to his
father, Dr. George T. Harding, on
his marriage yesterday to Miss Alice
Severas, his office assistant, at Mon
roe, Mich., had not been received last
night. Felicitations were received yes
terday afternoon from Vice Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge.
To hold a flash light on a person's
arm and leave both hands free is
the purpose of a wire bracket in
vented by a Pennsylvanian,
Packers' Union
Heads to Meet
Here Monday
Discussion of Wage Scales to
Feature Meeting of Amalga
mated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen.
Omaha will be the Mecca for
packer employes again next Mon
day morning when international of
ficers and delegates of the Amalga
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America rally
here to discuss wages.
Wage agreements between the
employes and the packers terminate
September 15.
Union leaders anticipate an at
tempt to reduce wages.
Plans will be laid at this confer
ence for organized opposition to any
reduction in wages which may be
proposed.
Jacob H. Davis, president of Dis
trict No. 5, of which Omaha is the
headquarters, received a telegram
yesterday from Dennis Lane, inter
national secretary-treasurer, that he
would accompany Cornelius J.
Hayes, international president, and
Patrick E. Gorman, international
vice-president, to Omaha from Chi
cago Sunday night to attend the
Monday conference.
Gorman presided at the last wage
pow-wow of packer workmen in
Omaha, at which time a national
strike was evident in the offing.
Among the delegates from Can
ada and districts in the United
States, will be these district presi-j
dents:
John Kennedy, District No. 1,
New York; John Blaha, No. 2, Buf
falo; Alex Nielubowski, No. 3, Chi
cago; E. W. Jimmerson, No. 4,
East St. Louis; John Malone, No.
6. Fort Worth; E. W. Robinson,
No. 7, Denver; A. G. Pike, No. 8.
San Jose, Cal., and T. A. McCreash,
No. 9, Spokane.
Riga, Aug. 13. "Bill" Haywood,
head of the Industrial Worker, of
the World, is being detained in Rus
sia, according to information received
by an American prisoner in Moscow
a fortnight ago. According to this
information, American penitentiaries
possess far more attractions for Hay'
wood than Moscow in its soviet glad
rags.
The same prisoner, formerly Lit-
vinoff's secretary at Reval, now is
enjoying an indefinite vacation in the
soviet Cheka prison at Moscow.
A hitherto unheralded American
prisoner in Russia has escaped and
reached Red Cross headquarters here
yesterday. He said he had walked
300 miles in four nights and days.
His name Is Adams Karat of Hart
ford, Conn., a machinist, born in
Vilna, but a naturalized American
for 24 years.
Karat left New York March 16
and arrived in Moscow, April 14,
1921, via Reval, where he left his
prissport with the American consul.
He says he intended to go to Petro
grad to aid an aged uncle. He was
arrested after three days in the immi
grants' home at Moscow, where, he
says, there are 300 Americans. This
is regarded here as untrue, unless
it includes the radical deportees from
America.
Karat saw Joseph Sabitzky, with
his wife and two children, who are
from Harrison, N. J. Sabitzsky was
owner of a factory in Moscow, but
there are no workmen in the factory.
While Karat was in prison his bag
gage, containing $800, shirts, and
suits of clothes, was commandeered.
He was accused of being a spy. He
says when he refused to confess he
was beaten by red guards. He was
kept in prison for 30 days on rations
of half a pound of bread and water.
Then Karat worked in a factory
where he slept on the floor without
a bed.
Karat says he saw Haywood who
was denouncing , the "bolshies," but
who was nervous and wanted to get
out.
When a new sunshade is closed it
becomes a hand bag, the handle dis
appearing within it and the carrying
being done with loops.
Farmer Found Dead
Stranger Steals
Ben Neal, wealthy and prominent
farmer of Feru, Neb., who was
found dead, lying across the foot of
a bed in his home Thursday night,
with a revolver clutched in his right
hand and a gaping bullet wound in
the left side of his head, and his
wife, who said she was awakened by
a shot at 11:30 p. m.
American Farm Bureau
To Open Commission
House in East St. Louis
Chicago, Aug. 13. The committee
of 15 appointed by the American
Farm Bureau federation, announced
that a co-operative live stock com
mission house would be established
at East St. Louis. This is the first
tangible result of the study of co
operative live stock marketing. The
co-operative house will be estab
lished at the national stock yards im
mediately.
A committee consisting of five live
stock men was named to organize
the commission house. They are:
John G. Brown, Indiana; E. H. Cun
ningham, Iowa; C. L. Collins, Colo
rado; J. E. Boogh-Scott, Texas, and
H. W. Mumford, Illinois.
The company will charge the regu
lar commission for selling live stock,
but the earnings will be prorated to
producers on the basis of business
done. A stocker and feeder com
pany for fattening range catrle will
also be established.
The vital statistics are published
on the want ad page.
British Government
Opposes Free Tolls
For American Ships
Washington, Aug. 13. The Brit
ish government has indicated that it
does not regard with favor the
proposition to exempt American
coastwise shipping from the pay
ment of Panama canal tolls, as pro
posed in a pending bill by Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho.
Since the" bill was placed on the
senate calendar Thursday in a po
sition where it may be considered
at any moment, it is said diplomatic
negotiations will be started.
Although American coastwise
shipping does not come into com
petition with British shipping, the
latter being excluded by law from
the coast trade, the British ob
jection is understood to be founded
on the argument that to replace less
of revenue involved by granting
American coastwise shipping free
passage, there must inevitably be an
increase of the general charge on
other ships using the way, including
British vessels.
Little Girl's Hair
Man in Sedan Offers Her $10
For Curl; Clips Entire
Braid and Drives Away.
It cost Anita Crabb, 12, her long
braid of curly blonde hair Friday
to learn not to trust a stranger.
Anita was walking near Sprague
street in Creighton boulevard in the
afternoon, when a middle aged man,
smoothly shaven, dark haired and
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flj) Dr. McKcnney
An alarming number of diseases originate in the
mouth countless thousands of germs are being bred
in the neglected areas resulting in hundreds of deaths
that could have been prevented by exercising proper
care.
Our Prophylactic Service is thorough, modern, and
aims to prevent the decay and loss of the natural teeth
and the disastrous results of diseased mouths.
A thorough sterilization of all instruments used
in and about the mouth.
We teach you how to take proper care of the
mouth after it is properly cleaned.
CONSULTATION IS FREE.
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McKenney
Dentists
1324 Farnam St., Corner 14th and Farnam.
Phone Douglas 2872.
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COMMERCIAL PRINTERS -LITHOGRAPHERS - STEEL DIE EMBOSSERS
LOOSE LEAF DEVICES
Having purchased the entire sample line
of a leading New England manufacturer,
exhibiting in Grand Rapids, at a very sub
stantial discount, we are passing the advan
tage to our friends in this special sale, which
means a saving to them of one-third from the
already greatly reduced prices quoted in the
July market.
Reproductions of such well-known Wind
sor types, as Barnstable, Salem, Duxbury,
Governor Bradford, Barbara, Concord,
Brewster, Yarmouth, Plymouth and many
others.
As this sale only includes one piece, or
one set of a kind, an early choice is advisable.
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OR. BENJ. F BAILEY
SANATORIUM
Lincoln, Neb.
This institution is the only one
in the central west with separate
build-' 3 situated in their own
ground.;, yet entirely distinct, and
rendering it possible to classify
cases. The one building being fit
ted for and devoted to the treat
ment of noncontagious and nonmen
tal diseases, no others being admit
ted; the other Rest Cottage being
designed for and devoted to the
exclusive treatment of select mental
cases requiring for a time watchful
care and special nursing.
ADVERTISEMENT
Doctors Recommend
Bon-Opto for the Eyes
Physicians and eye specialists pre
scribe Bon-Opto as a safe home remedy
in the treatment or eye troubles ana to
strengthen eyesight. Soldundermoney
refund guarantee by all druggists,
See Sixteenth Street Window Displays
-a few of the values offered:
101.50 Barbara Breakfast Set of Fumed Oak
decorated in blue, Table and four Chairs,
complete 67.50
95.00 Duxbury Breakfast Set in Old Ivory,
Table and four Chairs 63.50
77.00 Windsor Breakfast Set. in Mahogany,
Table and four Chairs 52.00
71.00 Windsor Breakfast Set in Walnut,
Table and four Chairs 48.00
103.50 Yarmouth Breakfast Set in Blue and
Ivory, Table and four Chairs 69.00
14.50
115.50 Brewster Breakfast Set in Black and
Gold, Table and four Chairs 77.50
97.50 ' Governor Carver Breakfast Set in
Green Enamel, Table and four Chairs, com
plete 67.00
23.00 Victoria Arm Chair in Mahogany,
at 15.00
23.50 Rocker to match 16.00
13.50 Barnstable Mahogany Rocker, 9.50
Barnstable Mahogany Chair, 10.00
16.00 Barnstable Mahogany
Rocker to match 11.00
24.00 Salem Arm Rocker in Ma
hogany 16.50
29.00 Salem Arm Rocker in Black
and Gold 19.50
14.50 Duxbury Rocker in Mahog
any 10.00
22.00 Governor Bradford Mahog
any Arm Chair 15.00
23.50 Rocker to match. . .16.00
16.00 Governor Carver Arm Rock
er in Mahogany 11.00
23.50 Windsor Arm Rocker in
Mahogany 16.00
16.00 Brewster Sewing Rocker in
Mahogany 11.00
16.00 Barbara Sewing Rocker in
Mahogany 11.00
16.00 Windsor Arm Rocker in Ma
hogany . .. ; 11.00
AUGUST SALE
OF FURNITURE
We positively save you from 25 to 40
on any article purchased during this sale!
Monday and Tuesday SPECIALS
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Simmons Bed
Bed Spring and
Mattress Complete
$24.75
We Carry a Complete Stock of the Famous
August Prices Home Outfits
5 -Room Outfits Complete $268
4-Room Outfits Complete $224
3 -Room Outfits Complete $165
Aik us about our exchange
department. We accept
your used furniture as part
payment on new, up-to-date
furniture.
Open an account with
We sell on credit
us
at Ie.s than others sell
for cash.
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Special Prices This Month
During this sale we have cut our prices to rock bottom.
Beautiful Living Room, Dining Room, Bedroom or
Kitchen Outfits, including Rugs and Stoves, have been
reduced to the lowest possible price.
August Sale of Phonographs
$225 Cabinet Phonograph for $112.50
$175 Cabinet Phonograph for., $ 87.50
$100 Cabinet Phonograph for $ 49.50
You Save 50 or More
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