Robbers Make Bte
Jewelry Haul in
St. Francis Hotel
Gemi Valued at $12,000
. Stolen From Exhibit In
I,oMy of FrUco
Hostelry.
San Francisco, May 9. Jewelry
valued at f 12,000 u taken from in
exhibit maintained in the lobby of
lh St. Francis hotel, noted local
hostelry, by Shrevt & Ca. The rob
ber had to work literally under the
eyet of Korea of persons who were
in tin lobby at the time.
The theft ia believed to have oc
curred a few minutes after 10 o'clock
lat mght. Four pieces of jewelry,
all of diamonds aet m platinum, were
taken. The length of the thirl'i arm
apparently limned the haul, at other
jewelry in the cac. valued at more
than JJft.tXX), at not touched.
The theft wai discovered by F. C.
Martin, aitistant inansgrr of the
hotel.
t he case stood in prominent
position in the lobby. It eontaina
two glass shelves, of which the
lower one contained two rings, four
brooches and a wrist watch. The
thief had loonened and then re
moved one of the small glasa sec
tiona in the side of the case.
He ia believed to have worked for
days at odd moments in loosening
ine pane, fingerprints were piain
on the glass, and the mark of a h
was on the plush of the case. The
police,, obtaining impression of
these, started searching their iden
tification records.
The jewelry exhibit had been in
the lobby since December. Dia
mond settings of the latest design
were displayed by a brilliant illumi
nation within the case.
Those investigating the robbery
pointed out that the thief probably
was fashionably dressed, as other
wise he would have been conspicu
ous loitering about the lobby.
Robe Stores of 120,000.
San Francisco, May 9. Harriet
Crothera,' also known as Rae Du
ron t. confessed "professional shop
lifter," waits placidly in jail here
fl line nan uutcil vl lliuic uipail-
mcnt store heads recover sufficiently
from their astonishment at her story
to decide what they want to do wit!)
her.
In the meanwhile a checkup is be
ing made to ascertain the value of
goods the young woman late yester
day confessed to Chief of Police
Daniel F. O'Brien and the depart
ment store headi she had stolen.
Tentatively the value is placed at
$20,000. It was a week's work, Miss
Crothers avere.
According to the story which Chief
O'Brien said she .t jld, the girl is a
"graduate" of a three monks' course
in a Chicago shoplifting school.
Spurred by an oath which she says
was administered by members of a
Chicago shoplifting band to devote
15 years of her life to thophfting or
"suffer the penalty," the 21-ycar-old
prisoner told the police she could
have "backed a truck up to any store
in town, robbed it and got away
without detection." She said she
took 79 gowns from one store and
200 from all she visited.
Miss Crothers says a "mob" of
shoplifters is on its way here to
"clean up." She declares she was
caught only because she got care-,
less.
Body of Ex-Omaha Woman to
Be Returned From Vermont
The body of Mrs. Emma I. Jones,
who died in Cuttingsville, Vt.,; last
Saturday, will be brought to Omaha
for burial in Prospect Hill ceme
tery this morning at 9.
Mrs. Jones was the widow of
Henry O. Jones, early settler and
wealthy property owner of Omaha
who died here in 1887. She was a
member of Trinity cathedral for
many years. She will be buried per
aide the grave of her husband. '
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An Unusual
All This Week
You will be
surprised
at the v
variety of
curtain:
materials
shown in
this sale
for
25 c
a yard.
Cretonne, 25 Patterns, per yard. . . , , . . .... ...... .25J
Colored Voile, pink, blue, yellow borders, per yard. . . ... .35
Plain Mercerized Marquisette, 36 inches wide, white, cream,
ecru, per yard ........... . ..... f . ,25J
Plain Voile, Ribbon Edge, 36 inches wide, white, ivory and
ecru, per yard ..25
Marquisette, Ribbon Edged, 36 inches wide, white, ivory,
ecru, per yard.. .-25
Voile and Marquisette, drawn work borders, 36 inches wide,
whita, ivory, ecru, per .yard 25
.Curtain Muslins, Det and Figures, 36 inches wide, yard. . . .25
Many otln anusual values in all styles and prices.
- SIXTEENTH AND
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Their Decrees Set Aside
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This it picture of Elmer McNeil
vorcea from their respective wife and
juage sears yestsraay following ntaruif of motion protesting 12400
alimony graniaa aura, nuuer.
Simple Funeral
Given Davison
Noted Men and Women At
tend Ceremonies Red
Crosi in Evidence."
Locu.t. Valley, X. Y May 9
Men and women of international
prominence m the world of titianre
and society bowed with plain vil
lagers in a common grief today at
the bier of Henry P. Davi.on,
financier, philanthropic and head of
the American Keel Cross during tlic
world war. who died Saturday.
The little ivy-covered chapel of
St. Johns of LattiiiRtown, nestling
among the flowering hills of this pic
turesque Long island village, was
crowded and many hundred unable
to gain admittance' 6tood silently
OUtMck'..'
A special tram conveyed mourners
from New York. Buses carried them
throuRh lanes of apple trees in blos
som and over roads rolling past acre
after aire of velvet lawns of the es
tates of millionaires. ,
Ten trucks carried the floral
tributes to the porch.
J. P. Morgan and Charles Mecle,
partners of Mr. Davison, led the
procession into the chapel. Assem
bled for the service were ail tne
Morgan partners, but Junius S.
MoTgan and Thomas W. Lamont,
who are in London. There, too, were
Otto H. Kahn. August Belmont, for
mer Ambassador Jom V. Davis,
elix Warburg ana a Jiost or omers.
The last wishes of Mr. Davison
ere fulfilled. Members of his fam
ily, although dressed in black, did
not wear deep mourning. - ,
The service was unostentatious,
The simple reading of the Episcopal
ian ritual toiiowea private services
at the home and the. scene at .the
gravesid wase reserved ' for . only
those nearest and dearest. .
Road Conditions
Lincoln Hlsnw.y, Eaat Road ood to
Marahnlltown, ,om, r.tn eart roaa
not Impaasable. Cara maklnr aod tliti..
Lincoln Hijnway, si no. aovu,
O. L. D. Highway Roada good.
Cornhuakar Highway Road food. ,
O 8trt Road Road good. ' e
Black Hllla Trail Roada good.
Omaha-Toeeka Highway Foada fair to
good to Stat Line. -
H. T. A. Roada good. 1
Highland Cutoff Good.
George WaahlngUin Highway Good.
, King of Trail". North Good.
King of Trail. South Good to
Hiawatha. - " - ..
Cu.tor Battlefield Highway This road
ia good through Iowa and South Dakota,
and now passable In Wyoming and. Mon
tana. River to River Road Good . to Dea
Moines. Some rain east but trafdo la
having no difficulty In traveling.
White Pole Road Good to Dea Moinei.
Somo rain eaat but roada are not bad.
I. O. A. Bhortllne Good.
Weather reported cloudy mot point
but charing. Prediction for' clear and
warmer.
Drapery Sale
HOWARD STREETS " !
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and Mrs. Ifarv HulUr. whoia di.
husband were sat aside t Diatrirt
Two Decrees Set
Aside by Court
Children Protect Father
From Payment of Alimony
to Mother.
Diktrict Judge Seart set aside two
divorce decrees yesterday after a son
and a daughter had testified against
their mother, to protect thrir lather
against payment of $2,500 alimony.
Die decrees aet aside were:
Mary lluller. 47, from Michael
llullcr. 50, wealthy restaurant own
er, granted March 16, on the grounds
of cruelty. . . ,
timer McNally. former soft drink
merchant, from I'mnia C. McNally,
February 21, cruelty.
McNally was named by Huller as
corespondent in his divorce action.
At the heartiiir yesterday Michael,
jr., 22, Creifihton dental student,' and
Adeline, 21, graduate , of Central
high school, testified against their
mother, Mrs. lluller.
Mrs. Huller admitted on the wit
ness aland that she had had relations
with McNally for four years, . but
with permission and knowledge of
her husband, she said.
Flames Sweep Pier
Baltimore. Mav 9. Flames swept
a oier of the Canton company here
yesterday, destroying 20,000 tons of
nitrate ot soda and causing damage
estimated at $100,000.
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It's Up
You
Just wKat do you want, just clothes, or .
do you want a suit of clothes in every
sense, one that is hand, tailored,-has
- style, fit and is made of cloth that
holds its shape and will give you
honest wear, or a machine-made suit
of clothes and that's all there is to
: them, just a piece of cloth,- cut like a
suit by a machine.'
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We carry' Stratford Clothes, and they
are hand tailored and show it; they
have fiverything. a suit should fyave.
. ; A Good Suit Is a
' ' Good ' Investment
Wa're merchandisers of Tiigb. grade,
hand-tailored, all-wool clothe for men
nd young men -at a reasonable price.
1809 Farnam Street
.; White r :
The :
Favorite
of the
American
Home
Sewing supremacy has been awarded the .White
by millions of housewives. ;;Each new owner be
"comes another; Unit in the chain of preference.
The WHITE, Nov Serving a
Nation of Women Who Know
A sewing machine that is
price you can well afford.
BUY NOW FOR SPRING SEWING AT
ISth and Harney Streets
THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10, 1922.
Winter Wheat
Forecast for '22
581,793,000 Bu.
MOT
Condition of Crop May 1 Re
ported 83.5 Per Cent of
Normal 38,131,000 Acrei
f rt ..,.1
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Waaliington, May 9, Winter
wheat production tlii year u fore
ea.t today at 5H79J.OtK) bushels by
the Department of Agriculture which
announced the condition of the crop
on May 1 as 8J.5 per cent of a nor
mal, and the area remaining to be
harvrttcd os 1hat date as JH.Ul.OcO
acre. ..,.. ...
The condition of winter wheat on
May 1 and forecast of production
based on that condition and on the
acreage retnaitnag on that date to
be hurveated by principal producing
tutes ioiiows:
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riOTi4H- ami I7U0,,
U.doM and t,ti.it.
v.inriinn as n4 :.
llr.goR II an4 H. !".
r.nnarlvanla and U.l!.(09.
Hhia S and l.Uo.
Indiana St and Sl.M.l. . ,
ilino a and 4I. .
Mirhin and ll.ioi.a".
Mwmiiii-T and ll.4l.a.
N.nraaaa l and S4.Sia.B0K.
rmlahania 71 and Sl.ttl.aa.
The rye production forecast was
79,152,000 bushelr and condition 91.7
per cent.
Hay production was forecast at
10J.S79.OO0 tons, with the May 1 con-
dition area 74.345,000 acres.
block of hay on farms May 1
were 10.792.000 tons.
Pasture conditions, 64.05 May 1.
Spring plowing oJ.5 per cent com
pleted.
Spring planting JJ.6 per cent com
pleted. Man Charged With Setting
Fire to Bride s Apartment
New York, Mav 9. George lock
ers, a baker, 516 Elton street, Brook
lyn, was arrested today on a charge
of arson, following an alleged at
tempt early thin morning to burn the
apartment, of his 18-year-old bride.
Airs. Alice v-urus jotxcri, a mo oi
Brooklyn, fie was arraigned 'before
Magistrate Reynolds in Gates ave
nue court, Brooklyn, pleaded not
guilty and was held for examination
on May 11. '
The lives of 15 adults and 16 chil
dren were endangered .by the fire,
which gained great headway before
the arrival of a fireman, but all of the
occupants of the house escaped.
Jockers and Ins bride quarreled
recently and had been living apart.
Enraged Citizens Demand
'Necktie Party' for Teacher
Bowlinsr Green, O.. May 9. De
manding, that Otto P. Tracy, former
(filotrjes
to
KING of all makes at the
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Wstbridge, O, school principal, be
sent out to "neck tie party, a num
ber of enraged citueni early today
stormed the home of Winn Stein,
near Wilbrlda-r, atiootliif nut the
windows. When Mein called the
sherd's office here (or itanc the
mob iipered.
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EAGLE
BRAND
Condensed Milk
More healthy children have
been raised on Eagle Brand
than on all other infant
foods combined. It is avail
able everywhere pure, uni
form, digestible, nourishing.
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Electricity is Cheapest in Omaha '
$5 per month
It takes but seven words to tell YOU the terms
on which we are selling the MAYTAG washer
(for a limited period). There is no red tape,
just pay the initial payment of five dollars and
a brand new MAYTAG washer will be imme
diately; sent to your home. No more dreary,
weary, wash day? no more backache, worry
and discontent-no more undergoing the tor
tures of wash day. YOUR washday troubles
leave when the MAYTAG washer takes up its
duties. Stop in, let us demonstrate the labor
saving possibilities of the MAYTAG.
llbrte Power Co v ;
Farnam at 15th 2314 M Street
ATlantic 3100 MA rket 1500
WEDNESDAY
A Great Spring Sale of
DRESSES
For the many days and nights of pleasure which the follow
Ing months will bring to you, we have the prettiest of frock,
the gayest of dresses, the smartest of sports wear, In colors,
fabrics and models that are original as they are do
lightful. For Wednesday we are featuring a special group of dresses
at -
$15
Smartness vies with daintiness in producing the prettiest as well as
tht quaintest dresses of voile, gingham, or linen. There are all colors
and tha patterns are so numerous that you can easily make your selee-.
tion with the greatest of pleasure.
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