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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Pink Teddy
Ends Three
Year Chase
Omaha Girl Starts New Year
In Jail Facing Charge of For
gery--Love of Silk Lin
gerie Gives Tip.
Many Bad Checks Passed

A passion for pink lingerie OF the
most expensive sort led to the arrest
on New Years eve of Ethel Harden,
Is, at the home Of her parents at
Bloomfield, Neb., on charge Of
forgery. The arrest was made by
Sheriff Condit of Fremont while Miss
Harden. who worked as sales
woman at the Associated Western
Jewellers. 1914 Farnam street, and
roomed at 4032 lizard street. was
home on a holiday vacation. ..
Miss Harden, it is alleged. is
wanted for series OF forgeries in
volving the passing OF bad checks
amounting in the aggregate to
large sum of money on numerous
stores in Omaha, Fremont, Lincoln
and other Nebraska cities. Officers
say the forged checks put out by the
woman have been passed at intervals
since 1917.
Detectives Give Up.
Numerous efforts have been made
by private detective agencies OF Lin
coin and Omaha to run her down
during the three years of her alleged
criminal activities. Her identity was
not established until Wednesday and
then she was betrayed by a beautiful
pink silk teddy bear, which she had
presented to friend. the daughter
of Brock. Neb.. banker, according
to the story that has thus far been
unraveled.
Miss Hayden. who is the daughter
of druggist, formerly of Brock and
now OF Bloomfield, attended col
lege at Fremont, where she gradu
ated from the pharmaceutical school.
She had as her intimate friend while
at the Fremont college. Katie David
son, member of a prominent Gres-
ham family. Miss Davidson, it is
alleged. had the privilege of checking
on the account of a member of her
| family. She wrote peculiar back
hand. '
Omaha Firms Lose.
A check for 81 one day came into
the Gresham bank bearing the sigma
ture of Will Davidson by K. d. The
check had been cashed by the Bur
gess-Nash company. The check was
at once found to be a forgery.
Numerous checks for varying
amounts cashed by Omaha concerns
turned up with the same forged sig
nature, all in back hand.
Miss Davidson married, becoming
.s-afrs. Francis ~Barbee. The checks
still continued to come in, her mar
ried name being used by the un-
known forger. Later banks in Otoc
and Nemaha counties began to re
ceive forged checks. These were
cashed in Omaha, Lincoln and Ere
mont. They were for amounts
ranging from SIS to $50, the names
of Mamie Reeve and Nellie Lare of
Brock and Mary Ritter of Talmage
being used One check bore the
name of Elsie Hardin.
1t was this check that gave a
clue to Sheriff c. D. Davis OF Ne
maha county He Investigated and
found that Miss Ethel Hardin had
presented to a bankers daughter at
Brock All expensive garment of pink
lingerie. Following the clue he
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03

IsFacing
Busy Term
Formidable Program Mapped
Out for 50 Remaining Days
Before Adjournment
On March 3.
Tariff Bill Up This Week

Washington, Jan. 2.-Congress to-
morrow will start its new years
work with a formidable pro
gram for the 81 working days re-
naming before sine die adjournment
March 8. Congestion. as usual, is on
the senate side, house activity being
concentrated on completion OF the
appropriation bills with the sundry
civil budget under debate and the
postoffice bill waiting.
Tariff revision is to be an import
ant matter this week. Chairman
Penrose of the senate finance COM
nittee plans to return to the senate
tomorrow after a years absence, and
with his committee, begin considera-
ton OF the emergency tariff bill
passed by the house. Hearing on
general tariff revision planned DUR
ing the extra session after March a.
will begin Thursday before the house
ways and means committee.
Consider Disarmament.
The senate foreign relations COM
mittee will hold a special session
tomorrow to consider international
disarmament. 1t will take UP the
resolution of Senator Borah, repub-
lican, Idaho, proposing request on
the president to initiate negotiations
with Great Britain and Japan toward
an agreement or a so per cent cut in
naval building for a term Of years.
The committee also will consider a
resolution by Senator Walsh. demo-
crat. Montana, proposing that the
president be asked to appoint an
American representative to meet with
the league of nations disarmament
committee. Senator Hitchcock, of
Nebraska, ranking democrat on the
committee, will ask to have Senator
Walsh appear. Democrats are dis
posed to favor Senator Walsh's plan.
immigration Bill Up.
Emergency immigration legisla-
ton Is to be taken up tomorrow by
the senate immigration committee,
which will begin hearings on the
house bill to prohibit virtually all
immigration for 10 months. Repre-
sentative Johnson. republican. Wash
ington, chairman of the house I'M
migration committee, is expected to
be the first witness.
Final action on the bill to revive
the war finance corporation, design
ed to aid agricultural interests, is
expected this week The bill is now
before President Wilson and, if We
toed, an effort is planned to pass the
matter over his disapproval
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Senator-Elect to Urge
Bill Making Liberty
Bonds Legal Tender

Atlanta. Ga, Jan. I'm a copy
righted statement published in
the Atlanta Constitution Thomas
f. Watson, United States senator
elect from his state, announced that
at the extra session of the 9th con-
gress he will introduce bill 10
make Liberty bonds and other gov
ernment war paper legal tender.
Mr.. Watson, according to the an
nouncemcnt. declares that such
action would have an electrifying ef-
feet upon American business life and
that upon enactment of the legisla-
tion 'all apprehension of panic
would as quickly disappear"
The announcement declares for
ending the war with Germany by
resolution and favors establishment
of prewar trade relations with Rus
sia and with Germany.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Mayor Mack of Red Cloud
rs Stricken by Apoplexy

Red Cloud, Neb.. Jan. 2.-(Spe-
cial Telegram. Mayor Ed A. Mack
is very i'll as the result of stroke
of apoplexy Some Improvement has
been noted in his condition. Be-
cause of the interest and solicitude Of
the citizens, physicians bulletins are
being posted downtown giving the
news from his bedside. Mr.. A. Mack
has been a business man OF Red
Cloud for nearly 20 years. He is an
undertaken by profession.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Train Wrecked
F. Near Beatrice
Posse Searching for Bandits
Believed to Have Placed
Big Rail on Track.
rc.vy.asAt: 1870: By rAs CAicass rnbsnA

Beatrice, Neb., Jan. = - Especial
Telegram.l-A posse, organized by
the Gage county sheriff, is securing
the souther1s~ part sof the state.in
search OF men who were partly sue
cessful in wrecking Union Pacific
passenger train mile and half
south of Beatrice at $50 tonight.
A 30-foot steel rail was placed
across the track at a place difficult
to see. Engineer George Nicely of
Beatrice saw the obstruction in time
10 check the speed Of the train, but
the force of the impact threw the
locomotive from the track. 1t re-
NAMED upright and no one was in
jured.
Authorities are OF the opinion that
the obstruction was placed by ban
dts who hoped to wreck the train
in order to loot the mai, and express
cars. The train runs between Man.
haitian, Kan. and Lincoln, Neb.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Twenty Professions
Represented in 10th
Session Of Assembly

Lincoln, Jan. 1.-THE 40th session
of the Nebraska legislature, which
convenes Tuesday, January 4, will
be composed of representatives OF 20
different professions and occupa-
tons. Secretary OF State Darius NJ.
Amsberry has just had printed di.
rectory showing the occupation of
each member of the coming session.
The directory shows there will be
S. farmers in both branches. 46 in
the house and nine in the senate. The
next largest group will be lawyers.
of whom there will be 81, IA in the
house and seven in the senate.
The occupations OF other members
are: bankers. merchants, editors,
publishers, insurance. machinist. con-
tractor, real estate, lufnberr1en,
druggist, broker. student. bridge
constructor, public officials, imple-
ments, physicians. laundrymen and
carpenters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Negroes and Whites
Stage Free-For-Al

Five white men and four negroes
engaged in a iree-for-all fight at
Fourteenth street and Capitol avenue
Saturday night.
VIII Nemecek, white, 1913 William
street, received several severe blows
on the face and suffered sprained
hand. He told police one of the
negroes grabbed him and without
any words struck him several times,
knocking him down and hitting his
head against the sidewalk.
Louis Cook, l248 South Thirteenth
street, received a blow on the Jaw
which prostrated him. Peter Synek,
1906 South Twelfth street; Frank
Slogr, 1881 South Thirteenth street,
and Emil Deabek, l4l4 South FIT
teenth street, quit the fight with
minor, bruises and injuries.
Persons living in the vicinity OF
the battle called the police. By the
time they had arrived, the negroes
had been put to fight. disappearing
in a nearby alley.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Opposition by
Penrose May Kill
Tariff Measure
No Action in Senate Expected
On Bill to Establish High
Duties on Agricultural
Products. -.

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire
Washington, Jan. 2.-Opposition
by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
to the passage of the emergency ag-
ricultural tariff bill at this session,
is expected to mean that but little
further effort will be made to put
the house bill through the senate.
1t is considered likely that the
finance committee may report the
bill to the senate with few impor-
tant amendments. After reaching
that stage the bill is likely to be left
On the senate calendar with no at
tempt being made to force a vote.
When it became evident that the
till could not be rushed through
the senate before Christmas follow
ing its passage in the house. its
sponsors practically abandoned any
hope of favorable action. 1t was
realized that with many democrats
lined up against it, it would be inn
possible to force prompt action un-
der senate rules. In view of this
situation, it has been agreed that the
only possibility of an action in ad-
vance of general revision of the
tariff lay in the proposed re-enact-
ment of the Payne-Aldrieh bill as a
temporary measure at the beginning
of the special session in March.
The course followed with the
emergency agricultural tariff bill is
likely to be much the same as in
the cases OF the tariff bills passed
by the house last spring: These
measures were reported favorably
from the senate finance committee
but are still on the senate calendar
with no serious attempt ever having
been made to force vote upon
them. Senator Penrose is credited
with being chiefly responsible for
sidetracking all piecemeal tariff leg
islation. his position being that gen
eral tariff legislation should be
awaited before anything is done
along this line.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Woman Tries to End Life
After Little Family Rumpus'

With bullet lodged in her chest.
Mrs. Joseph F. Bredin, 32l5 Charles
street. lies in serious condition at
the Methodist hospital following an
attempt to end her life at her home
after quarrel with her husband at
5 o'clock yesterday morning.
According to the police report.
Mrs. Bredn had been quarreling
all night with her husband. She took
revolver from dresser drawer
and went into bedroom where she
fired bulle, into her chest.
Brcdin, former bellboy at the
Paxton hotel, would cot talk of the
affair after the shooting. lust lit
tie family 'rumpus' and we don't
want any roteriety," Bredin tolo
newspaper men.
Police surgeons said Mrs. Bredin
would recovei.. ..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Governor Miller Of
. New York Takes Oath

Albany, N. Y, JANA governor
was acclaimed in New York state
today. Shortly after noon the roar
Of field guns in Capitol park gave
the signal to the 100000 Empire
state residents that Nathan L. Miller
Of Syracuse. had taken the oath as
the 47th chief executive of the state
and had assumed the duties of his
Office. :,
Governor Miller, in his inaugural
address, promised economy in public
administration, declared that party
considerations are not to be ig-
nored," and intimated that he was
not an ardent advocate of welfare"
legislation :.
Alfred L. Smith. the retiring gov
ernor, introduced his successor in a
graceful speech, and shared with the
new governor the applause of the
audience,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Colby Spends New Year
Day in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, AIN. 2,-Ba;nbridge
Colby, the American secretary OF
state, arrived in Buenos Aires.
The Argentine coast guard cruiser
Libertad, bearing Secretary Colby
and party, entered port this MORN
ing, accompanied by chartered
steamer carrying committee Of well
come sent out by the American So
ciety of the River Plate, and another
steamer with representatives Of the
Argentine Commission Nacional de
Ia Juventud" and other official par
ties.
Arriving at the Wharf, Mr.. Colby
was officially welcomed by the rep
-esentatives of the president, the
ministry of foreign affairs, United
States Ambassador Stimson and a
crowd of Americans and Argentin-
ians. He was escorted to his quar-
tiers in the Plaza hotel by naval
| pi1ard
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Plans Complete
For Reopeningg
Commerce High
Glasses Will Be Resumed Jan.
uary lO-Recitation Periods
From 8:l5 A. NJ. to 5:l9
P. M. Planned.

J. II. Beveridge, superintendent
Of public schools, announced yester-
day that the High School of Com
merce will not be opened for
classes until Monday morning. jan
uary 10, on account Of the fire
which destroyed part of this insti-
tuition Saturday night.
The superintendent conferred yes
terday with members of the build
ings and grounds committee of the
school board and Principal D. E.
Porter Of the High School of Com
merce. 1t was decided to arrange
a temporary schedule for this
school, the classes to be held be-
tweer e:l5 a. M. and SIG p. M, pu-
pills to study at home and recite at
the school.
Preparations were being made to
receive 329 new pupils this week. but
the fire has disarranged those plans.
Some of. the equipment for the new
annex was placed in. the building
Saturday, only a few hours before
the fire.
AT the regular meeting OF the
Board Of Education tonight the
members will discuss the High
School of Commerce situation. Plans
are nearly ready for new technical
and commercial high school on a
site already acquired at Thirty-third
and Burt streets. The latest esti-
mate on this school was S2,0OO,0O0:
The bond issue has been authorized
by the voters, but the bonds have
not been sold. At the last meeting
of,the school board President w. E.
Reed stated that he believed the
board would seek a market for these
bonds about March !, that the build
ing program MAY proceed during the
carly snrinp
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Woman Passenger Killed
When Plane Crashes Down

Ontario, Cal, Jan. miss Esther
Gamble, 20, of Ontario was fatally
injured when an airplane in which
she was a passenger fell into an
orange grove near here. She died
while being carried to a hospital.
Clarence Bargunier, pilot of the
airplane. escaped withou. serious in
jury. He said, he believed swirl
Of air from a train passing below the
airplane prevented his planes and
rudder from working properly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Prisoners Confess
7 Bold Robberies

New York, Jan. 2-Three men ar
rested here confessed, police said, to
a systematic plan of operation by
which they carried out successfully
seven robberies in New York city
during the past three months. The
prisoners, Joseph Cohen, %; Morris
Bernstein, 28, and Louis Henig, %,
were held under $4,000 bail each.
Each man was assigned special
duties in, each robbery, police de-
clared they told them. Bernstein
acted as advance agent, selecting
suitable phases to rob, and assisting
Cohen in gathering the loot. Cohen
used the revolver with victims which
were intimated, and Henig acted as
watchman at the door of the places
robbed. q. rt.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Relatives Of Avoca W oman
Contest Probating Of Will

Avoca, Ia, Jan. 2.-[SpeciaL) 2. :
Heirs of Margaret Ann King, who
gave her entire estate to the Church
Of the Lattef Day Saints, are seek
ing to prevent the probating of the
will on the ground the woman was
Of unsound mind at the time the
instrument was executed. The pro-
ceeds of the estate. according to the
terms of the will, are to be used for
the benefit of an old peoples home
at Lamont Ia. ~
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Avoca Man Is Honored by
....E Japanese Governor

Avoca, Ia, Jan. ?. - Especially
Garret Van Houte, former Avoca
telephone man and at present an
officer on the steamer Pawlet of the
Pacific Steamship Co., is to receive
a silver loving cup from the COVER
nor of a province in Japan for his
efforts in rescuing the crew Of the
shipwrecked schooner Tumamo
Marn.
Companions of Van Houte also
will be similarly honored. The sill
yer cups are being sent to the Of
fices Of the Pacific Steamship Co.
in Portland, Ore. Van Houte is
first mate of the Pawlet. which plies
between America and the Orient.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Funeral Services Today
For Brayton's Oldest Man

Brayton, Ia. Jan. 2. = Funeral
services will be held Monday for
John r. Jenkins. 80. former post
master and merchant of Brayton. At
his death Mr.. Jenkins was Audu-
bon's Oldest settler. He also is the
last OF the older generation Of Jen-
kins in this community. He was a
native of Kentucky and served four
years in the Union army.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Judge Who Sentenced
Three Lads to JOyIess
Christmas Loses Job

West Orange, N. j., Jan. p
Police Recorder John B. Lander.
republican, who sentenced three
mischievous boys to forego Christ
mas presents. then relented, lost his
job.
Lander incurred the dissleasure
of West Orange residents by his
sentence Of the trio CT boys. He
directed their parents to send them
to Bed every night at 6 O'Clock for
a month and not to permit 'hem to
receive Christmas gifts. When Pc
titioned to revoke the sentence in
that it was too severe,A Lander an
nounced his heart had softened and
struck out that part referring to
Christmas.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
DR.. Savidge Marries Five
Couples on New Years Eve

Five young couples called at the
home of Rev. Charles w. SaviSge
on New Years eve and were oined
in the bonds of holy fnatrimony by
Omaha's marrying parson." They
were: Olive Margaret Quiett of
Lamer, Colo, snd Ora E. Saunders
OF Lake View, Ia; Martha Romey
Winkler of Omaha and Leo Woisnak
of Mason iCty, Ia; Lillian Byrum of
Springfield, ILL.,, and Henry G. Brown
Of Ounah, Tex; Myrtle A. Seal and
Henry E. Offerman, both Of Omaha,
and Blanche KAY and DIR. Edwin H.
Hollister,. both Of Ashland, Neb.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Robbers Take Registered
Mail Pouches From Train

Atlanta. Ga, Jan. 2.--Three postal
clerks in the mail car of Central Of
Georgia passenger train No. 8. At
lanta to Savannah, were held up
near Griffin and two registered mail
pouches were taken by masked
man. according to reports received
here
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Church Uses Card System
To Determine Attendance

Aurora. Neb.. Jan. 2.-lSpecialJ
With a view OF determining its
members attendance at the meet
ings. the Christian church here has
given a card to each person. to be
punched as the individuals enter the
building. There is a place on each
card TO indicate just what services
are attended. At the end of three
months, the cards will be called in
and the church board will make q
sf6dy of them with a view toward
increasing attendance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
l5.Year.Old Boy Sentenced
To Kearney Reform School

Lodge Pole. Neb,. Jan. 2,-(Spe-
cial Telegram. )EElmer Force was
sentenced to the state industrial
school at Kearney in county court
by Judge Chambers. Force, Is
year-old boy, floater and an or
pl,an, had recently escaped from the
state OF Idaho industrial school, Of
ficials Of which refused to come after
MIN.
The county Jail at Sidney is filled
with prisoners held on variety of
CHARGES.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Danbury Man Is Taken to
McCook on Liquor Charge

McCook. Ncb., Jan. Z.-lSpecial.) y
Julian Copley OF near Danbury was
arrested, charged witt, having llq-
Ss,or in his possession. He was
brought ITO McCook and placed in
the county Jail. Preliminary ex-
animation was begun in Justice court.
but the case was continued until jan
uary II. Copley being placed under
$500 appearance bond. A gallon jug
OF liquor was found under the floor
OF corn crib and the coil of still
taken as evidence. ---->-------
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Man Turns in Alarm
To Extinguish Blaze
From NeU Years Booze

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
New York, Jan. 2. - Patrolman
John Winner was standing post.
Suddenly man dashed past
him and ran 10 the firebox at the
corner. He opened the box and
pulled the alarm. The patrolman in
quired as to the location of the fire.
The man said:
1T is inside Of me. of course. /
drank some OF this Washington street
booze and I'm burning up. l want
the fire department to run a hose
down my throat and extinguish the
flames"
At the station the man said lie was
Joseph Marone, Il, OF Wooster, 0.
He told the lieutenant that he had
one drink and decided that the
quickest way TO get water was to
call the fire department.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Knife Features Negroes
Argument in Bowling Alley

Lee Saunders, ll6 North Eleventh
street, and Lonnie Osborne. two ne
groes employed at the Omaha bowl
ing alley, engaged in an alteration
at that place Saturday afternoon,
during which Saunders was cut with
knife by Osborne.
Detectives Francl and Heller
were sent to quiet the trouble and
Osborne, the officers said, attempted
to assault them with the knife. Os-
borne was placed in Jail charged
with cutting with intent to wound.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Lincoln BARRIERS Will
Reduce Prices Today

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 2.-Beginning
tomorrow many of the barber shops
of Lincoln will return to schedule
of prices prevailing four years ago.
Shaves will cost 20 cents and hair
cuts IS cents. A few shops will re-
turn to the time-honored 25-cent
haircut. -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03

Martinsburg. w. Va, Jan. 1.-The
interviewer Mills. Inc. employing
1000 persons, will reopen on full
time Monday morning, after three
weeks shutdown. Company officials
said continuance of work on the full
time schedule depended upon de-
vclopments in the industry,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Cat Disconnects Gas Tube;
Man and Wife Asphyxiated

New York, Jan. 2. Gas which
escaped when rubber tube was dis
connected from feed plug in the
floor by a cat, caused the death of
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Weber in their
Brooklyn apartment.
The dead cat, its paws resting on
Ahe tube, lay under the gas stove.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Rainbolt Home Robbed

Robbers forced am entrance
through rear window at the home
of c. S. Rainbolt, Ola Florence
boulevard, Saturday and escaped
with a travelling bag valued at $50
and suit OF clothes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Aged Man Arrested

]. E. Vance. 70, 1904 Farnam
street, was arrested by Detectives
Palmtag and Danbaum, charged with
illegal possession of liquor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
The Weather

80. Forecast.
Nebraska--Fair and warmer
Monday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-01-03
Mills to Reopen Monday

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charges.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-08-26

h j. w. Dawson, of Becida, is in the
city this week doing some finishing
work on his new house on Park ave.