Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-25

| fatner store at lies MONIES, Wnere
he was paid such a small salary that
he quit and started a shoe store oil
his own. From that beginning, his
enterprise and modern methods rap
halls, as they exist today, as Omaha
greatest menace to public safety.
I'VE find" the report said, that
the majority of pool halls are the har-
borning places for professional crimi,
mails and degenerates, as well as the
meeting places for boys of immature
youth. The language generally used
in these places is vile and profuse and
associations formed there invariably
result in the contamination of the
Notwithstanding him on the road to
ruin. We believe that 90 per cent
Of the crimes committed in Omaha
have their inception in pool halls.
To Regulate Pool Halls.
THE Jury strongly urges that an
ordinance providing the severest regu-
lation of pool halls be at once adopted
by the city commission and instruc-
tons given to all police officers that
the ordinance must be rigidly en-
forced. If the pool halls cannot be
restrained, they should be abolished.
That the conditions set forth in the
report on pool halls apply equally as
we'll to public dances and dance halls
was the grand jury foreman's conten-
ton. The report said that the board
of censors have been derelict in their
duties and are open to severe criti-
cism, due to their laxity in enforce
ment of laws regulating the conduct
Of these places"
The grand jury urged that immedi-
ate action should be taken to suppress
fake auction stores which apparently
continue to thrive without molesta-
ton on the part of the police"
Must Have Licenses.
The grand jury charged that the
city license inspector has been ex-
tremely derehct in his duty in COL
Letting licenses, but added that in
vestigation showed that "his powers
are decidedly limited" Recommends
ton was made that an ordinance be
passed enabling the license inspector
to deny the right of anyone to do
business that comes under the head
of his department, who fails to take
out license.
First-class hotels and the court
house were given clean bills in the
grand jurys report.
1t was noted, however, that "in
Omaha there are number of So
called hotels which are nothing more
than cheap rooming houses catering
principally to the unemployed. The
sanitary conditions are extremely bad
and warrant careful and frequent in
spection by the health department"
Teh body also recommended that
the use of the driveway in the base
ment of the courthouse as a public
storage for automobiles should be dis
continued"
More frequent grand juries were
uprged in the closing paragraph of the
body's somewhat bulky report
1t was recommended that the court
nv oAtei ouiiiiiioi Siauu july DIT
least once year.
Movie Man Indicted.
OF the total of forty-three indict-
ments returned by the grand jury in
its months session the last batch on
the eve OF adjournment included one
for arson and one for libel.
Following his indictment on
charge OF arson. Joseph Kohlberg,
proprietor OF moving picture thea
ter at l4l5 Farnam street, which was
destroyed by fire, was arrested on a
capias writ and detained in the county
Jail until bond was furnished.
The indictment charged Kohlberg
with "intent to defraud the Phoenix
Fire Insurance company of Paris,
France; the Farmers Insurance COM
pany of Cedar Rapids, Ia; the Cam
den Insurance company and the
North British and Mercantile Insur-
ance company of London and Edin-
burrgh on policies aggregatins $4,000"
Arch R. Kelley, proprietor of the
Kelley Mercantile agency, was in
dicted on charge of libel. 1t is al
legged that Kelley's agency in present
ing bill to Bertha Lesch, cook at
the South Side hospital, Sought to
scandalize, villify and defame her"
Indicted for Murder. !
Gyoke Sarati was indicted on a
charge of first degree murder. He
killed Djoko Cvajin on February IS.
A true bill against Joseph Viii
liams, charging first degree murder,
was returned. Williams was the
slayer of Henry Martin on Decem-
Der 16.
Other indictments on which arrests
were made on capias writs we're:
Joseph Green, robbery; Edward |
Jones, alias Edward Swanson, grand |
larceny; Ray Jordan, forgery; Fred
M. Arnold, insufficient funds to meet
a check; Walter Z. Driscoll forgery;
John w. Jordan, robbery; James Ball,
Burt Miller and Everett Rookstoole.
breaking and entering.
Follows Court Instructions.
George E. Haverstick, who acted
as foreman of the grand jury, in sub
hitting his report declared that the