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' MONDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1922. PLATTSMQUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOTJENAI PAGE THHE3 ARBUCKLE TO RETURN TO THE r.T 0 V l E S JAN. 1 FILM COMEDIAN GIVEN CHANCE BY ARBITER. OF FILMS TO REGAIN OLD PLACE. Los Angeles, Dec. 20. Roscoe Ar buckle. rotund comedian. bprred from the screen since last April be cause of his encounter with the law, v as today restored to the privilcgi of coming back to the place he once occupied in his industry, if he can. Will H. Hays, head of the picture in dustry, announced that all restric tions against the actor were . to end January 1. The Famous Players-Lasky cor poration, which distributed Arbuck le's pictures, announced that no ef fort would be made at present to market some films that were shown or others that weer never released. Joseph Schenck. producer, said he would employ Arbuckle and the lat ter said he was thankful for the chance to work and would strive to make good. Mr. Hays issued a brief statement, paying he felt every man was entitled to his chance and the film industry not only wanted to live and let live, but it wanted to live and help live. Entitled to Chance Mr. Hays said: "Every man in the right and at the proper time is en titled to his chance to make good. It is apparent that Roscoe Arbuckle's conduct since his trouble merits tliat chance. So far as 1 am concerned there will be no suggestion now that he should not have his opportunity to go to work in his profession. "In our efforts to develop a com plete co-operation with the industry, I hope we can start the new year with no yesterdays. Live and let live is not enough; we will try to live and help live. "It became known apart from the brief formal utterances that certain definite features figured in the action that will allow Arbuckle another op portunity to make good. "Completely Chastened" "First, perhaps, was the fact that he seems completed chastened and that his conduct since he was barred from the screen last April apparent ly has been excellent. "Then, too, the action was taken in the spirit of Christmas and it was believed that fullest co-operation in all branches of the motion picture industry would be best advanced by clearing the slate as far as possible. Made Clean Pictures "Again it is known that Arbuckle never made a picture to which any exception could possibly be taken, and he never will. His pictures were not high art, of course, but they were always clean and they brought laughs to millions. "Still again ft was felt that inas much that a jury acquitted him from the charges upon which he was tried, he is constitutionally entitled to the right of any citizen especially to the right of working at anything he knows how to work at. "No plans are in contemplation for the release of the three comedies in which Arbuckle appeared before his trial and which have since been held up, and the action now taken does not in any way concern the release of the films." HAS NARROW ESCAPE From Saturday's Daily. Yesterday afternoon while Riley McFarland was walking from the Plattsmouth Water company pump house on into the city he had a close call from a perhaps fatal accident as the result of a rear end collision with the locomotive on Burlington freight train No. 75. Riley was walk ing along the right of way and while seeing the train coming thought that he had given enough clearance for the passage of the train but missed his guess by a couple of inches and the result was that the bar on the pilot of the locomotive struck him and hurled him some distance, but fortunately did not result in very seriou3 injury, altho Riley could for a few moments almost hear the voices of the celestial choir singing and was badly bruised up. The switch engine was dispatched out to the scene of the accident and brought in the injured man who was able to ret around all right, but was slight ly dazed from the effects of the mix up. However, Riley says it takes more than a mere locomotive to put a good man down and out. A defendant in an eastern court is asking for a new trial because the jury decided his case and gave him two years in the penitentiary by cut ting the cards. He is no good sport. It would seem that a dice box would be a great improvement over most of the juries we are having. Wishing All Merry Christmas! We are appreciative of the kindness of our friends, which has contributed much to our business success, and wish to extend congratulations to all, with best wishes for a happy holiday season, and prosperity for the coming year. Coatman Hardware Co. Alvo, Nebraska MUST FEED 8.000,0000 RUSSIANS THIS WINTER Geneva, Dec. 21. Russia will have a shortage of at least 1,000. 000 tons of cereals this winter, ac cording to the international commit tee of Russian relief, headed by Dr. Fridtjof Xansen. Reports to the com mittee from Russian sources declare that, as a result of this shortage. food relief will be required for 8,- 000,000 people, while the Soviets' themselves cannot support more than 2.250.000. The importation into Russia of at least a million head of live stock, especially horses, which have de creased 50 per cent, is considered necessary to reconstitute the eco nomic situation. MISSING AIRMEN REPORTED DEAD; BURNED IN CRASH Unconfirmed Story Says that Charred Bodies of Army Flyers Found 75 Miles from Tucson. San Francisco. Dec. 21. The char red bodies of the missing aviators. Colonel Francis CV Marshall and Lieutenant Charles Webber, have been found on the Papago Indian reservation, about seventy-five miles southwest of Tuscon, Arizona, the Southern Pacific railroad officials here were advised this' afternoon in dispatches from Tuscon. A cowboy, the advices stated, came upon the bodies near what is known as Indian Oasis. The bodies lay in the wreckage of the flyers airplane. It is not known whether Colonel Marshall and Lieutenant Webber were killed when they crashed to earth, or burned to death afterward. Reported by Indian Tuscon, Ariz., Dec. 21. Up to a late hour this afternoon there was no confirmation of the report of the finding of the wrecked airplane and charred remains of one of the mis sing officers, either Colonel Marshall or Lieutenant Webber. Report was brought here by an Indian late last night that the smashed plane had been found. Investigating parties were des patched to the point where the In dian reported he had found the plane practically consumed by flames and with the charred remains of one of the missing aviators plainly visible. The discovery, according to the re port, was made at Covered Wells. Eeventy-eight miles from Tucson, by a Papago Indian. According to' the story, the plane is said to have apparently fallen af ter a nose dive, the nose of the plane being stuck straight into the ground, with such framework as remained unburned standing straight in the air. The partially burned body of one of the fliers was located under the wreckage, but no attempt was made by the Indian to identify it as either one of the aviators. EFFORT TO BLOCK REPEAL OF CODE FATAL, HE SAYS Former Republican State Chairman Declares People's Mandate Must , Be Obeyed. "If the republican legislature should block the repeal of the code and thus defeat the will of the peo ple of Nebraska, as shown in the late election, it will be playing right into the hands of the democratic," declares Ed D. Beach of Omaha, chairman of the republican state committee in the 1918 campaign when Governor McKelvie won his first election. "Should the legislature play that kind of damphool politics, instead of I the 50,000 majority which Bryan I had this year there will be a 100, 000 democratic majority in Nebras I ka two years from now, and the dem ocrats will elect not only the gov ernor but also the legislature and a full set of state officers. ( "The people are not going to stand for any monkey business. It is up to ' this legislature either to carry out the people's wishes, or to wreck the republican party's chances of victory in 1924. The party will have no chance of success until it rids itself of McKelvism. "Republican members of the leg islature will show good judgment by turning in and helping Governor Bryan to carry out his program. :r it turns out well they can then clai i 'half the credit. If it fails, they can 'blame Bryan for it. But if they ho' 1 out and block the game, they wi 1 'simply be digging a grave for then pelves and their party in the next ' election." BARROWS PLANS TO PUT ONE OVER ON GOV. M'KELVIE Says He Will File Claim for Salary as Acting Executive Ahead of Governor's Claim. Lincoln, Dec. 21. Pelham A. Bar rows, acting governor, wnne uover- nor McKelvie is visiting in the east, announced today he would file a claim with State Auditor George W. Marsh for $23.99 a day for the ten or more days the governor will be absent. "This claim will be filed before the governor draws his salary for the period, so that the auditor will have to decide whether my priority will entitle me to draw on the governor's appropriation,' Barrows said. "I will not allow the claim, be cause if I do, the governor will make me pay his salary out of my own pocket," Marsh said. Barrows this week lost a suit in the district court to compel Marsh to pay him ?935 salary he claimed due at the rate of pay the governor gets, $23.99 a day. One of the argu ments of the attorney general's of fice against the claim was that the governor had already drawn his full salary for the same time, leaving no appropriation available for the act ing governor. "The constitution since 1875 has said that the acting governor shall have all the responsibilities and emoluments of office while in the ex ecutive chair," Barrows said. "I am going to try again and see if the constitution means what it says Barrow's said he was filing the claim specifically against the gover nor's appropriation to "beat the gov ernor to it," on the theory that he would not be at the same legal dis advantage as in his other suit, with the money already drawn by the gov ernor. Barrows said he would carry this case separately courts. probably into the DENVER BANDITS SHAKE OF POSSE; FLEE FROM RANCH Police Believe Band Divided After Hiding Place was Discovered Scores of Men in Chase Denver. Dec. 22. Peace officers of Denver and northern Colorado were prepared to push vigorously today their hunt for Denver's bank truck bandits whose trail they believed had been picked up yesterday at an aban doned ranch house 20 miles east of Greeley. Colo. The four men suspected of being those who Monday shot and killed Charles T. Linton, federal reserve bank truck guard, and escaped with $200,000 in currency after a spectac ular gun battle with guards of the United States mint here, had left the farm house before officers arrived there. Police believed that the band had divided after the chase following the discovery of their alleged hiding place in the abandoned ranch house and that one car containing two men was headed east and the other auto mobile with two or more men in it, was speeding west. They based this belief on reports received during the night of speeding cars. Scores of armed men, including county sheriffs and their deputies, in hastily organized posses, and three automobiles and one armored riot i car loaded with Denver detectives cud policemen scoured northern Col-; jorado in the vicinity of Greeley, Fort Morgan, Fort Collins and Roggen, all of Thursday evening, without catching the quartet. i j The chase led from the ranch I house, in which Henry Fuqua, a farmer, early Thursday notified Sher iff Frank Hall of Greeley that he had seen four heavily armed men to the . outskirts of Greeley, and, later in j the evening, southeastward to Rog i gen, and Hudson, Colo., about 30 ! miles away, where the trail vanished and part of Denver's detective squad abandoned the hunt for the night. J Clews, apparently indicating, defi nitely that the bandits were in the vicinity and fleeing at a desperate pace to escape tne coraon oi armed peace officers seemingly closing in on them, were uncovered yesterday and last night. . Mrs. Gus Downer, residing just outside the northwest city limits of Greeley, reported that an automobile in which a number of men had stop ped at her home and one of the men obtained a pan of warm water and some cotton guaze, after which the car left in great haste. It is known that at least one of the bandits was wounded in the battle with the mint guards. The man who requested the water and guaze from Mrs. Downer told her he wanted it for a man who had been hurt, she said. DEAWS DOWN FINE j Frni Saturday's L'ally. 1 Wilber Sojourner, who has been residing at the Greer camp here for some time, appears to have sojourn- ed too lojig, as yesterday he was a ' caller at the office of County Attor ney A. G. Cole where he received a ! fine of $50 and costs from the hands (of Justice William Weber. The gen tleman was arrested by snenff Quin ton on the charge of intoxication and to, the complaint entered a plea of guilty and for which he received justice in full measure. What is nicer for the bocfc lover than a choice volume of some of the leading authors that are carried the. Journal or an artistic and beau- tiful set of book ends? I HOLD A PARADE TODAY A large representation of the striking shop craft representatives indulged in a parade this morning, proceeding from the labor temple oat past the Burlington shops where they were formerly employed and on over Sixth street to Main street and thence to the labor temple, where the parade was dismissed. The members of the shop craft at their meeting this morning received very encouraging news from their headquarters in Chicago and while not allowed to give the matter the fullest publicity, state that it was very encouraging in every way. M'KELVIE SAYS NATION IS IN DIRE NEED OF LEADERS Nebraska Governor Would Check Tendency of People Toward Direct Action, He Says. New York, Dec. 22. The nation needs leaders, not followers; cajolery and patronage must be displaced by words of wisdom and deeds of pa triotism and the shift from represen tative government to direct action by the people must be checked, de clared Governor S. 11. McKelvie of Nebraska, speaking here today at the annual meeting of the New England Society of New York. Governor Mc Kelvie, who talked on "Landmarks of Progress," is the first person living west of the Mississippi to address the society. The granting of human liberty was pointed to by Governor McKel vie as the lasting monument of the Pilgrims. "It was the Pilgrims who pro claimed equality among men." he said. "It was their ancestors who formed and adopted the constitution, willing to forgo selfish interest in khe cause of the common welfare, be lieving that if the people were pro tected in their inalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness, the natural resources of the land would be developed and the na tion made secure. "We. today, have been gradually departing from these well estab lished landmarks of the fathers, claiming to be more progressive than they. Serious problems confront us. We have launched into numerous new fields of law making, enforc ment and state activity. The theory seems to be that more laws make for more human equality, but the state cannot enforce equality of result, it can only insure equality of oppor tunity. "Our remedies for the present day evils are work, adjustment of trade relations to meet the demands of world-wide humanity and extension of credit to any nation having a form of government worthy of recognition. America has been called the 'melting pot.' It is a well established fact that some of the more serious eco nomic and political problems con fronting us are the direct outgrowth of failure to assimilate into a genu ine Americanism a large number of foreigners who come to our shores. We must have a revival of patrio tism, love of country and unselfish service to the country, that we may carry on functions of government that our forefathers, so wisely chose." BODY OF MRS. JOHN LINDEMANN ARRIVES Funeral Services Will be Sunday Morning at 10 :30 From the St. John's Catholic Church. From Satur Jay's Dally. This morning the body of Mrs. John C. Lindeman arrived in the city from Denver where she passed away very suddenly Thursday morning, and was taken from the Burlington station to the home of her son, Fred Lindeman, where the body will lay in state until the funeral, which will be held Sunday morning at 10:30 from the St. John's Catholic church. Monsigneur McManus of Council Bluffs, a nephew of Mrs. Lindeman, will celebrate the mass. . The friends who desire to take a last farewell may do so by calling at the home up to 10 o'clock Sunday morning. The death of Mrs. Lindeman was acute dilation of the caused from heart and while she has had several attacks of this malady here it was brought to a crisis by the high alti tude of the Colorado city and result ed in death a few hours after the nrrival of the family there. Mrs. Lindeman accompanied by her hus band and son. Fred Lindeman. ar rived in Denver at 7 o'clock Thurs da yniorning and on leaving the train Mrs. Lindeman was stricken with a fainting spell and medical assistance was called to give her relief and the lady was then taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will Daugherty, where at 9:45 a. m. passed away. death coming very suddenly. Mr. Lindeman and son, Fred, and the Mrs. body Daugherty accompanied from Denver. LEAVE FOE HOLIDAYS From Saturday's Daily. The employes of the Burlington shops or at least the greater part of the new men who have entered the employ of the company since July 1, were engaged today in their prepara tions for leaving this afternoon and tonight for their homes for the holi day season ani to spend Sunday and Monday with home folks in different sections of the state. For their con venience the railroad company hi held their pay day earlier this month Ia ovioKIa amlAwiK tin. llw,yilil aA.obwrvfe th flay. Daily Journal, ldo a wee. FORMER RESIDENT LAID TO REST AT WEEPING WATER Edward E. Williams, Pioneer of Cass County, is Buried Tuesday at Weeping Water. The body of Edward E. Williams was brought to Weeping Water, Tuesday morning for burial in Oak wood cemetery geside his wife and . two sons in the family burial lot. ' Mr. Williams was a pioneer of Cass county, having homesteaded a farm four miles west and one mile south of this city and now occupied by E. M. Jumper, in the spring of 1869. He was well known and highly respected by many of the old time : residents some of whom still reside in this locality. Edward E. Williams was born in Canton, Ohio, August 5, 1839, and died in Waverly, Kansas, December 14, 1922. In the year 1850 he with his par-I ents moved to Eastern, Iowa. After a short residence there they moved to southwestern Iowa, where he was i united in marriage to Mary L. West, February 13, 1864. To this union were born eight children, five of ' whom are still living, the three sons being present at the burial of their father. i In the spring of 1869 Mr. Williams ; located on a farm four miles west and one mile south of Weeping Wa ter, where he resided for more than thirty years. On January 12, 1896, Mrs. Williams died. Twenty-one years ago he went to Waverly, Kan-. sas, where he resided until his death. ' His brother, George, with whom he lived part of the time, died very sud denly some four weeks ago and Mr. Williams did not seem to fully re cover from the shock of his brother's death . ' I While in Nebraska. Mr. Williams j was a member of the Free Will Bap- j tist church, but on going to Waverly united with the Methodist church, and was a member up to the time of his death. Rev. C. I. Rose, pastor of the Weeping Water Methodist church, conducted the funeral services. The following relatives were pres ent at the funeral: Ed Williams, Bozeman, Mont.; Will Williams, Guide Rock, Neb.; Wesley Williams, Waverly, Kan., sons; Dan Graham. Percival, Iowa; Charley West and i wife, Elmwood; J. A. Williams, Lin coln: M. Shirley, Lincoln; Alf Shir ley, Waverly, Kan. Weeping Water Republican. ST. LUKE'S CHILDREN'S PARTY The children's Christmas party of St. Luke's parish will be held on Thursday evening, December 28 at the public library auditorium. The Little Helpers font roll offering will be presented at this time. There will be the Christmas tree and Santa Claus for the children of the church school, as well as a program for the little folks. On Friday afternoon the program will be repeated at the li brary for the benefit of the children of the city and the Christmas tree ar ranged for the little folks of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wendell de parted this morning for Red Oak, Iowa, where . they will enjoy a visit over the Christmas holidays with relatives and friends in that city. L. H. Daft, formerly of Green wood, and now a prominent resident of Lancaster county, was here today for a few hours looking after some matters in the county court. Blank books at the Journal Office. PUBLIC JUCTION ! As I have bought the Robert Shra der farm, stock and machinery, lo cated five and one-half miles south east of Murray and one-half mile south of the George Shrader home stead and have decided to sell at auc tion on Thursday, December 28 the following described property: Horses One black mare, ten years old, weight 1,300; one black mare, ten years old. weight 1,200; one bay mare, eight years old, weight 1,300; one sorrell mare, eight years old, weight 1.300; one brown mare, five years old, weight 1,000. Four of these mares are in foal. Service fee to follow. Cattle One milk cow, 5 years old; two spring calves, fourteen shoats. Farm Implements One two-section harrow, one West ern Bell riding lister, one Jenny Lind cultivator,, one New Century cultivator, one bob sled, one New ton wagon, one Moline wagon, one top buggy, one stirring plow, one 1-inch work harness, one 1-inch harness, and many other articles too numerous to mention. This stock and machinery will pos itively be sold to the highest bidder. Terms of Sale All sums under $10, cash, all sums over 1 10. six months' time will be given, purchaser giving good bank able note bearing eight per cent in terest. All property to be settled for before being removed. FRANK VALLERY, Owner. W. R. YOUNG. Auct. W. G. BOEDEKER, Clerk. DR. H. C. LEOPOLD 4 Osteopathic Physician r Uhlan Block Phong 208 TO BE HELD IN CIYNARD, NEB. May, iseenta liSti Commencing at 1 O'Clock P. M. Anyone desiring to dispose of any kind of per sonal property may bring it to this place and it will be sold at public auction at the usual charge. For par ticulars see W. E. Propst. Terms will be made known on sale day. In this sale there will be a dwelling house sold at auction. AUCTIONEER We Greet You All This Christmas, and extend wishes for your material prosperity, for your health and happiness for the com ing year. Kauble A Merry Christmas! This to all our friends and patrons. We enjoy it most when our friends prosper and are blessed with health and happiness. And friendship, what money can not buy. The Mauzy Drug Co. We Extendi to All Heartiest Greetings for a Merry Christmas AND A Happy New Year Popular Variety Store & Rishel