Fire Destroys
V aluabale Law
Firm Library
Loss Can't Be Estimated in
Dollars and Cents, Says
Member of Bluffs
Firm.
Foss from the Brown and Rogers
buildings fires In Council Bluffs early
Saturday morning Is estimated at be- ;
tween $250,000 and $350,000.
Invaluable records in offices of doc- !
tors and lawyers caused some esti
mates of the los sto ru neven higher.
The Rogers building itself was
valued at $SO,000. the Brown build
ing »t $25,000, and damage to the
Nonpareil plant %a* set at $20,000.
C. O. Cuhill. agent for the express
company, set $75,000 value on 15 or
20 wagon loads of Christmas gifts de
stroyed in the express offices. All of
this, of course. Is covered by blanket
Insurance, lie said.
Ths loss of ths Tinloy, Mitchell,
Ross A Tlnley law firm, In dollars
snd cents, based on a commercial
basis, Is about $50,000, Kmmet Tlnley
said.
But the loss to this law firm can
hardly be stated in figures.
Their law library, said to be one
of the largest and most comprehensive
In the middle west, Is a total loss.
With this went \iriefs. printed and
bound, prepared on all rases bandied
In the history of the law firm, one of j
the oldest in Council Bluffs. De- j
stroyed also is the correspondence in j
hundreds of case* from 20 different
counties In Iowa, Mr. Tinley said.
Individual losses from other occu- j
pants of the building, such as para
phernalia and furniture of tiie
Knights of Columbus lodge rooms, ex
pensive furnishings of tlie exclusive t
Rorcupine and Saturday Noon clubs, '
and dental and medical, as well as
surgical equipment, add to the dam
age.
Tiie loss to the Y. IV. C. A. espe
cially will be felt, and Fireman, llo.vt
and his wife lost all their personal be
longings.
Agent Cahill, for the express com
pany, announced temporary' offices
would open immediately at C25 West
Broadway.
Two Bluffs Buildings
Destroyed by Fire
(Continued From Par* One!
L. Berger A- Co., Flleklnger A
Flleklnger, attorneys; Northwest
ern Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, Wheeler Lumber company.
Third floor, offices of Dr. Grant
Augustine, Dr. K. D. Ilawklns, Dr.
Charlotte McOuskey, Dr. II. A.
'Cobb and the Iowa. Nebraska and
Minnesota Wholesale Grocers’
association, John Melhop, jr.
Fourth floor. Tlnley, Mitchell,
Ross and Mitchell law offices.
Nonpareil building, newspaper
plant and hubllshlng offices of The
Dally Nonpareil and offices of M.
F. Rohrer, former mayor of Coun
cil Bluffs, real estate denier.
The Brown and Rogers buildings
were gutted by the flames which
were fanned early in the fire by a
brisk breeze, causing concern among
firemen for the safely of adjoining
buildings.
Streams of water were played on#
the Harle Hans Wholesale Drug com
pany building, on South Main street ,
opposite the rear of the burning build- j
ingt and the J. P. Hess building just
South of the burning structures.
The Hess building Is occupied on
the first floor by the .1. P. Hess real
estate company, .T. J. Hess, Frank
and Arthur Wllllns. attorneys, and on
the second floor by Dr. L. L. Poston,
dentist. Dr. A. A. Robertson, and an
apartment occupied by the family of
Mrs. Catherine O'Donnell,
Mrs. O'Donnell and her six children,
Gene, Ruth, i?eta, Frank, Benjamin
and Roy all dressed and left the build
ing. but no effort was made to re
move their property.
The Rogers and Brown buddings
were owned by the late J. F. Rogers.
The title remains In the Rogers estate,
with Ed Wickham, Bluffs capitalist
and contractor, as trustee or receiver
for creditors. Wickham holds a $43,
000 loan against the two buildings,
both of which are said to he covered
by Insurance.
. The Rogers building was built In
1913, but the Brown building lias
stood for more than half a century, a
landmark and historic structure of
the Iowa town.
The roof of the Nonpareil building.
a cne-story structure, adjoining the
Brown building, caved In on the edi
torial rooms of the newspaper office
and smoko and water, as well ns fall
ing debris ao damaged the press of the
newspaper, the linotype machines and
'other mechanical departments that
the newspaper will not be able to
publish from Its own offices. Officers
of the publishing company announced
the newspaper would be published
from Omaha.
Throughout the burning of the
buildings ft number of small explo
sions were heard, attributed to chemi
cals In the offices of dentistk and doc
tors in the buildings. A number of
fcartrldges in the express offices also
were exploded.
No White Christinas This
Year, Says Weather Man
Christmas day weather will be fair,
Meteorologist Robins thinks.
"Of course, we can't predict posi
tively yet." he added. "There Is a low
pressure area up around Edmonton,
Canada, but I am hoping that will
pasa us without any truoble."
Present warm weather may con
tinue for days. Back In 1877, for in
stance, the maximum temperature on
December 23 was 54. For a week
after that the maximum temperature
scarcely went as low as freezing."
Mr. Robins doesn't expect the
Cloudy weather of today to develop
anow at present.
Arrests for Intoxication
Increase for New York City
New York. Dec. 23.—Arrests for In
toxication during the third quarter of
1922 In this dty showed an increase of
$0 per cent over the corresponding
period of 1921, City Magistrate Wil
liam McAdoo reported yesterday.
In July. August and September.
1922, 2.1&6 persons were arrested as
[■ compared with 1,415 during the same
^ period last year.
Mystery Causes Collars
of Paris Coppers to Wilt
Missing Menagerie, Missing Fortune, Missing Corpse
and Missing Yacht All Figure in One Grand
Fraud Worked on French Banker — Letters
From Ford and Morgan Complicate Tangle.
Copyright, 19’!'!.
Paris, Dec. 23.—A fourfold mystery
—A missing ipenagerie, a missing for
tune of About llOO.OOO.OOti, a missing
corps* and a missing yacht—is caus
ing the collars of Paris police officials
to wilt as they continue investigating
the story- of Mrs. I.eon Marcel Tardy.
17 Boulevard llanse Mann.
The police were pushed into the
mystery through the complaint of a
Paris hanker, later withdraw, that he
lent Mrs. Tardy 50,000 francs (rough
ly $3,5701 for expenses in obtaining
the estate of Miss Fay Heller, said
to have been a resident of Boston.
Miss Heller was said to have willed
her entire fortune of $100,000,000 to
Mrs. Tardy on condition that she
care for the former's menagerie of
animals, some wild and some tame,
which the American woman had gath
ered during a life of travel and de
posited in private parks from Japan
to Bahamas.
Several Missing Units.
The missing Miss Heller was sup
posed to have died Aboard the missing
yacht ‘‘Old Chap" In the Mediter
ranean. There are several other miss
ing links in the story. Here are the
farts which the police gathered:
Mrs. Tardy lias photographs of a
will, which she purports to he that of
Miss Heller, leaving all hoi- jewels
ami fortune to Mrs. Tardy. Wilbur
Heller Ryerson of Boston is named as
executor of the will and he was to
get the yacht. The will was signed j
Lillian Fair Heller.
Carrying the photograph of tiie will
to the banker and telling him that |
the original was in a safe at Mar
sellles, Mrs. Tardy obtained 50,000
francs. She told the banker and
later the police, that Miss Heller was
a rich and eccentric American and
her best friend. The American cruis
ed around the world gathering ani
mals.
Hanker Complains to I’olier.
Miss Heller spent much of her
time aboard her yacht in the Mediter
ranean. Kight days after she made
her will she was alleged to have died
In tho Mediterranean. *A short time
later Mrs. Tardy received the will
from the executor and wanted to bor
row money to Institute legal proceed
ings in order to obtain possession of
the estate. When lime passed and
the banker heard nothing from her,
he complained to the police, but later
withdrew the complaint saying that
he had been paid.
The police investigations, however,
were continued and it was found tlie
whole affair was a gigantic fraud.
Mrs. Tardy, having written the lists
with nearly all the known animals to
amuse her husband.
Among Mrs. Tardy's papers were
found letters from the duke of Somer
set, Henry Ford, J. Plerpont Morgan,
the earl of Kent and others, nil writ
ten on cheap linen paper.
The Paris police, with their usual
thoroughness, report that they are
not able to trace the yacht "Old Chap"
or Mr. Ryerson, or to find- any record
of Miss Heller’s dentil. But they are
still working and may uncover fur
ther mysteries.
Two Men Robbed
in 15 Minutes
by Bluffs Bandits
l nmasked and Armed High*
waymen, Operating on Six
teenth Avenue, Escape
With Loot.
Two unmasked bandits, operating
on Sixteenth avenue between Main .
and High street, Council Bluffs, Fri- !
lay night held up and robbed two men ,
within 15 minutes.
Floyd Campbell, 1514 Ohio street, ,
Omaha, surrendered when the two,
men flashed guns and was robbed of I
$15 and a cameo ring. The robbery J
occurred in front of the Standard Oil |
company offices.
Fifteen minutes later, Nathan Me- ,
Daniel, 220 Seventeenth avenue, Conn- ;
oil Bluffs, was robbed of $3.60 by two !
men answering the same description.
Tlie second robbery occurred near Hie
Burlington tracks.
A squad of police was rushed to
the scene and scoured the neighbor
hood but was unable to find any trace
of the highwaymen.
A woman named Brown was struck
in the face and 15 cents taken from
her handbag by a lone highwayman j
at Fourteenth street and First ave-]
line. She left tire scene before police
arrived, and they weiA able to get
only meagre details of ti.’e holdup
from residents of the viclrfty.
IS. Ramsey, proprietor of a grocery
Htore at 316 Fast Broadway, routed
two thieves Thursday night with a
barrage of bullets which ho put down
with a revolver. Flickering lights at
tracted his attention to the prowlers
in bis place. He lives nearby and
armed himself with the gun before
going to investigate.
He approached the store from the
rear and saw the two thieves working
behind one of the counters. When
he pulled trigger onjhem, according
to his story to police, the robbers
left the place so rapidly that it was
impossible to aim at them. They had
forced entrance through the front door
and left by the same opening.
$50,000 Judgment Is
Appealed by Railroad
Lincoln, Dec. 23.—(Special.)—A 299
page brief lias been filed in supreme
court by the Union Pacific railroad
company in support of an application
for a tltversal of a $50,000 judgment
secured in tinge county by Arlie W.
Culver, a brakemnn, for injuries sus
tained in helping load a heavy hand
car at Raymond, Lancaster county.
He was paralyzed and died two
months after the judgment.
This company complains th&i it was
not allowed to prove its defease that
his paralysis came from another anS
outside cause, by the olwer court bar
ring the testimony of a doctor and a
nurse on the ground that what they
learned was a privileged communica
tion. It also says that the table of
expectancy would not justify a larger
verdict than $18,000. It also complains
that Judge Colby, who presided at the
district court trial, was- Improperly
active in the case, suggesting matters
to plaintiff's counsel and making
prejudicial remarks in the hearing of
the jury.
York Youth Proves Handy
in Escaping From Prison
Lincoln, Dec. 23.—(Special.)—Ralph
Burnham, York youth who stole an
automobile, is now in the state re
formatory, but it is not known just
how long he will be content to re
main. Burnham says he is going
to stay, because his sentence is only
for a year, but he gave n demonstra
tion on his expertness in picking
locks and shedding handcuffs that
convinced the authorities that his stay
Is largely dependent upon himself.
Burnham has a record of having
picked his way out at least four jails
within the year. ’
Mike Moore, who departed with
Burnham from the Red Willow coun
ty jail, arrived at the state peniten
tiary to begin his third term. He is
a persistent bootlegger and Jallbreak
er. He was brought to prison by
Sheriff McClain, his playmate in Red
Willow county, when both were young.
Mike cornea of a good familj
Carriers Block
Rate Reduction,
Unions Allege
Petition Asking Investigation
of Expenditures in Fight
ing Strike Filed With
Commerce Body.
-- ■
Washington, Dec. 23.—A petition j
asking investigation Into tlie expendi
tures of railroads in coping with tlie
national strike of shoperufts employes
has been filed with the Interstate Com
merce commission by the Interna
tional Association of Machinists, it
was announced by W. H. Johnston,
president of that organization. Other
railroad unions participating in tlie
strike, which Is asserted to lie still in
progress on a number of roads, will
.loin in tlie proceedings later, Mr.
Johnston added.
"By wanton expenditure of funds
made available to them through ex
cessive freight and passenger rates,”
the petition charged, "railroads on
which the strike si ill persists are add
ing to tlie burden of transportation
costs borne by the public.” In addi
tion it was asserted that railroad ac-;
counts are being Improperly made up
with "grossly distorted labor and
other operating cost items.”
The Commerce department Was de
clared to have an official responsibil
ity in tlie matter of determining
whether railroad accounting methods;
were correct.
"Progress towards reduced freight
rates, persistently demanded by ag
ricultural and shipping interests of
the nation, has been effectively and
consistently blocked by the carriers
in recent months," the petition said,
"as a result of their costly and ut
terly unwarranted labor policy. The
present freight and pasenger rates
were originally determined by you
on the assumption that adequate stan
dards of economical and efficient op
eration would be fulfilled by the car
riers. Consequently, if at any time
they are not fuliflled it becomes the
duty of your honorable hody to act
in a way that will record the facts of
the situation and effect the necessary
remedies.”
Phone Company Injunction
Also Halts PBX Increase
Lincoln. Dec. 23.—(Special.)—Of
ficials of the Bell Telephone com
pany spent part of Saturday in con'
sultation with members of the state
railway commission. The purpose was
to ascertain just what procedure
would be necessary in order to carry
out the orders of the court which
granted the company a temporary in
junction. There were some odds and
ends upon which it was necessary
for the company and commission to
have a common understanding in
order to avoid conflict.
Durlpg the conference, it was dis
covered that the commission by over
sight in its order, had given the Bell
company a higher base rate for pri
vate branch exchange service 'thnn
it lmd asked; and also that the Bell
attorneys, drawing their petition for
an Injunction, had overlooked this
fact and had, in effect, enjoined the
commission from giving It more than
it asked.
Twenty Persons Injured
in Brussels Demonstration
Brussels, Dec. 23.—(By A. P.)—
Thousands of students from all the
universities of Belgium took part in
a manifestation in the streets of the
capital against the action of the
chamber of deputies in changing
Ohent university into a Flemish in
stitution. Four thousand students
signed ft protest which was presented
to the chamber.
About 20 persons were injured In
street disturbances.
| Los Anpeles Police Court
Bare of Speeder Cases
Los Angeles. Dec. 23.—For the first
time since November 20. when Police
Judge Joseph F. Chambers ^.inaugur
ated a Jail campaign against speed
ers. police courts Friday went through
their customary routine without send
ing even one motorist to jail. There
were no arrests for speeding Thurs
day. Thus far 381 persons have been
j sent to jail in the campaign.
Alumni of 3 Cities
Behind Creighton
in Building Drive
Sioux City, Sioux Falls ami
Minneapolis Pledge Quotas
in Campaign Launched
by l Diversity.
_ *
Wioux City, Sioux Kails and Minne
apolis have nil gotten behind Creigh
ton university's campaign to erect
$1,000,000 worth of new school build
ings up on the hill at Twenty-fifth
and California streets and have prom
ised their aid, their co-operation and
their money to help enlarge Omaha’s
l.ig institution of learning. Last week
Creighton Alumni in each of those
three cities got together^formed per
manent organizations and started
subscriptions to the building and en
dowment fund which Creighton is to
secure in the next month or two.
The Sioux City Creighton Alumni
held n banquet at the AVest hotel early
last- week and selected Ur. II. F. Me
Orane as district chairman and
Thomas .1. Griffin for city chairman.
In the Sioux City district are nine
Iowa counties, two South Dakota
counties and four Nebraska counties.
In C'edar county, Nebraska, alone,
there are 3.1 Creighton Alumni wf$o
are In the Sioux City district.
The Sioux City district accepted its
quota of $400 for each alumnus, a to
tal of $52,100 and promised to ac
count for at least 100 per cent, and
probably more, of that quota.
In Sioux Falls, S. I)., Dr. T. J.
Uritton was selected as sectional
chairman, Robert Ronayne as sec
tional secretary and Dr. It. AV. Mul
len as sectional treasurer. Dr. II. A.
Fitzgerald of Yankton and Dr. .1 -K.
Trierweller of Yankton, Jointly, will
head the Yankton section.
The Minneapolis Alunnil, at a sup
per given at tl\e Andrews hotel, per
fected an organization and pledged
themselves to send tlie new Creighton
ovr the top. They approved the plan
of a permanent Twin City chapter of
Creighton Alumni and selected L. K.
Melrin as sectional chairman.
The organization of Creighton
Alumni Is going forward all over the
country and before the opening of the (
$2,000,000 campaign, permanent chap
ters will have been organized where- (
ever there is a graduate of any school
of Creighton university. All of these ;
chapters will take part in the finan
cial campaign.
Wakeley to Take
Chicago "O’ Post
General Passenger Agent for
Burlington Here Trans
ferred at Own Request.
J,. W. Wakeley, general passenger !
agent for the Burlington railroad here,
has. nt his own request, been trans- j
ferred to Chicago, where he will as- j
some the position of assistant to the i
passenger traffic manager.
A. Cotsworth, jr., has been appoint
ed to succeed Mr. Wakeley here. Mr.
Cotsworth, has been assistant gen
eral passenger agent at Chicago. The
change will take place about January ;
1. Mr. Cotsworth is expected to
bring his family here a few months j
later, lie was in Omaha last .January,
when he took up the duties as general
passenger agent during the Illness of
Mr. Wakeley.
Poor health duritlfc tile last year led
Mr. Wakeley to ask the company to
relieve him of his rather slrenuous
duties here. ITe has been suffering
from eye trouble.
"I regret to leave Omaha and the
west, where so many years of my life
have been spent,” said Mr. Wakeley.
“But under the circumstances this
change seems to me to be necessary.
My three sons are living in Chicago,”
Guardian of Estate
Must Make Settlement
Hastings. Neb., Dec. 23.—(Special.)
—Fred P. Deutsch, attorney of David
Cit3r, was given favorable decree in
county court today in the suit brought
by Deutsch and his minor brothers,
Aelrad Deutsch of Kansas City and
Eugene Deutsch of Lincoln, to force
a settlement hy W. H. Moran of Ne
braska City of his account as guardian
of the Deutsch estate, valued at $40,
000. The court discharged Moran as
guardian, replacing him by Fred
Deutsch.
Fred Deutsch alleged that the
guardian induced him to sign a deed
to city property in Hastings with the
understanding that Jt would fatllitato
the selling of the real estate. But
Morah, he alleged, inserted his own
name in the deed and recorded it in
June, 1020. Moran contended that the
deed was a deed of a trust, while
Deutsch contended that the transac
tion conveyed the property to Moran
and he brought suit to force settle
ment upon the basis of the price of
the real estate in 1020.
The court fixed the amount for set
tlement at $G,000, which Moran is
ordered to pay. Deutsch also alleged
that in the management of a farm
In Keith county, a part of the estate,
Moran did not properly protect the
property from indebtness, which
was also upheld. The court fixed
the total amount due the wards from
Moran at $8,500.
Australia has more places of public
worship in proportion to population
than any other country.
She 11 Lead New Years
Revelers in Song Hit
1
New Year's ere fiollckers at Hotel
Fontenelle will lie given “klitter klat
ters,” novelty noisemakers, to assist
Miss Thelma Combes (above), cabaret
singer and soloist with the Fontenelle
Girls' orchestra, when she leads the
song hit, "Sixty Seconds Every Min
ute,” from the “Greenwich Village
Follies.” Miss Ruth Harmon will give
an Egyptian dance ht the party for
which 4tio reservations already have
been made.
Dancer Banned
from Church
Isadora Duncan Cannot De
liver Address in St. t
Marks at N. Y.
New York, Dec. 23.—Bishop W. T.
Maning intervened recently to pre
vent Isadora Duncan, classic dancer,
from appearing at the Episcopal
church of St. Marks on the Bouwerle,
a notice to Episcopal publications
from the bishops oflire today re
vealed.
Announce nrnit
that Miss Duncan,
who was scheduled
to address the for- ,
inn on "the moral- j
izinpr effects ot 1
dancing in the hu-1
man soul,” would |
not a ppear Xmas
live, was made In
x brief statement
by Rev. William
Norman Guthrie,
rector of the
church, after his d
original statement I
had created a BT,. * —5—
storm of opposl- v» J
lion. " t- ■
Bishop Mannings statement read:
“The bishop of New York has re
ceived letters of earnest protest from
many parts of the country in regard
to an announcement widely published
in the newspapers, that a dancer
whose exhibitions have aroused great
criticism in many of our cities would
appear and speak at St. Marks on
the Bouweriet New York.
“In answer to these letters of pro
test, Bishop Manning wishes to state
that the dancer referred t6 wall not
speak at St. Marks church nor ap
pear professionally in any connection
with the church or its services.
To Hold Memorial Service.
Washington, Dec. 23. — Memorial
services for the late Representative
James R. Mann of Illinois will be
held in the house Sunday, January 14,
it was announced by Representative
Madden of that state.
Low Prices
on
Dentistry
Until Jan. 1st Only
Upper
Or Lower
Plates .
and up.
(Guaranteed)
$10 Gold Crown
for .
1
“You Above All Must
Be Satisfied*'
McKENNEY
Dentists
1324 Famam St., Cor 14th
Phone JA 2872
Dr. Burhorn’s
Chiropractic Health Service
Headaches, backache**, neuritis, nervousness
and rheumatism respond quickly to Chiropractic
adjustments as well as colds, fevers, liver,
stomach and kidney troubles.
Office hours—9 A. M. to 8 P. M. House
calls made when unable to some to the office.
Office adjustments are 14 for $10 or 30 for
$25. Office equipped with twelve private ad
justing rooms and complete X-rajr laboratory.
Lady attendants.
Dr. Frank F. Burhorn
Fourth Floor Securitie* Bldg. JA ckion 5347
CORNER 16TH AND FARNAM STREETS
Delegates Hope
Recess Will Clear
Lausanne Tangle
“Big Four" of Near East Con
ference Attempting to Solve
Difficulties Outside of
Formal Sessions.
Lausanne, Dec. 22.—(By A. P.l—
: The near east conference has taken a
' brief Christinas recess until Tuesday
, afternoon, and there Is general hope
among the delegates that the two
days’ respite will aid the conference
leaders In finding paths of wisdom
and progress.
Christmas week has set the con
ference tack rather than forward;
even the problem of the straits, which
seemed on the verge of a satisfactory
settlement, was placed in peril. * A
new ultimatum from the Turks that
if they could not obtain their desires
on several points, especially with ref
erence to a lionaggression pact In
favor of Turkey, they would not ac
cept internal control for the passage
of warships, has provided settlements
of the straits question.
The J-ausanne big four—Curzon,
Barriere, Garroni and Ismet Pasha—•
are trying to find a solution outside
the conference halls. The entente
statesmen have said to Turkey: “We
will give you your guarantee of non
aggression hut such a pact will ob
ligate tho powers to he responsible
that you will not be a tacked: there
fore. give your international commis
sion jurisdiction not only over the
passage of ships through the straits,
but also over the zones of demili
tarization. Responsibility Implies au
thority to prevent disaster.”
But the Turks say that foreign su
perivislon over Turkish zones would
violate Turkish sovereignty. Lord
Curzon, who will eat ills plum pudding
at Lausanne, Instead of in London,
may win Ismet Pasha over to a com
promise during the Christmas holi
days.
There are other great conference
difficulties—capitulations and cus
toms tariffs, and the latter may
never be settled at Lausanne. With
respect to capitulations, which the
Turks desire to he rid of, the allies
and the United States are taking a
firm attitude. They lack confidence
In the Turkish judiciary and would
he loath to have.their citizens tried in
purely Turkish courts.
The issue is sharp and clear and a
solution of this vital problem has not
appeared.
Amnesty Granted.
London, Dec. 23.—A dispatch to the
Times from Rome says King Victor
Kmmanuel has signed a decree grant
ing amnesty to all persons accused of
political crimes up to and including
the time of the recent seizure of the
government by Benito Mussolini’s
forces.
Nebraskans Wed at Chicago.
Word has been received by friends
in Omaha that Harold C. Ring of this
city, and Miss Myrtle Steinkel of Chi- |
cago obtained a marriage license at i
Chicago.
Darwin Yoko of Lincoln and Miss 1
Verle Austlne of I’tica also received [
a license.
Waiters Form Soup Hotel
Brigade to Battle Fire
That Hazes Toy Village
New York. Dec. 23.—Sparks from
a toy electric 1 rain today laid waste
a whole toy village and caused the
temporary blocking of Broadway,
which surged with Christmas shop
pers.
The fire occurred In the window of
a restaurant at Broadway and Flrty
seventh street where the toy vlllago
and railway had been laid out to at
tract Christmas patronage.
Waiters organized a soup l>owl fire
brigade and battled with the flames
until the fire department arrived.
Police reserves were called out to
handle the crowds.
Christmas “Melon”
Cut for Employes
Eppley Hotels Company Gives
$12,000 in Bonus'Cheeks
for 11 Months’ Service.
A Christmas "melon" of approxi
mately $12,000 will lie sliced on
Christmas morning for several hun
dred employes of the Eppley Hotels
company, who have been in the ser
vice of the organization for 11 1-2
months. Employes of the Fontenelle
hotel, one of the units of the Chain,
share in the distribution.
Bonus checks accompanied by
Christmas cards were mailed from
the Omaha executive offices‘-yester
day, in time to reach all eligible em
ployes on Christmas morning.
The bonus Is approximately 68 per
cent effective—a remarkably high
percentage in an Industry in which
the labor turnover Is abnormally ex
cessive, said E. C. Eppley, president
of the organization.
"This is our first experiment with
a definitely preannounced conditional
Christmas bonus as one of tlie many
things we are doing to stabilize em
ployment in the organization," said
Mr. Eppley. "Last January we an
nounced that a Christinas bon us of
one week’s pay would be awarded all
employes remaining In the organiza
tion until December 25. That 68 per
cent of our organization lias held to
gether over that period is very grati
fying.
“Among our other organization in
ducements have been free life insur
ance protection, free hotel schooling
and the annual vacation with pay.
"We are well satisfied with the
strides made the past year in develop
ing our organization and with our
success in conquering instability of
employment. 1 am sure that all of
these investment^ have repaid us in
many ways in superior service,
organization spirit and a certain
pride in performance which marks
the difference between a man who is
working with you compared with one
who Is just working for you.
“tiatisffed employes help to make
satisfied guests. No business can go
forward by squeezing its own or the
public's dollars. By a liberal rein
vestment of profits in employe con
tentment, employe efficiency and em
ploye service we are able to command
an organization esprit de corps, which
in the long run spells superior service
to the public. Better service means
bigger volume. Bigger volume means
lower cost. The result of this golden
rule business cycle is that everybody
benefits." ,
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Grocer Beaten
and Robbed in
Daylight Holdup
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Store Proprietor Resists U n
masked, Armed Highway
man Who Escapes
With $7 10.
Two unmasked armed bandits held
up and robbed the California Grocery
and Meat market, 3226 California
streets, at 7:30 a. m. Saturday of $740
snd escaped after beating the propri
etor and tearing loose Ilie telephone
wires.
Sam Frohm. proprietor, was at the
cash register while K. Stehr and Art
Peterson, employes of the Shulze Bak
ing company, were stooping over the
baskets In the middle of the floor in
which thy were delivering bread to
file store.
In walked the bandits, one unusual
ly large man and Ills smaller com
panion.
"Stick 'em up," came the command.
Puts Iji Fight.
Stehr and Peterson did. But Frohm
leaped from behind his counter and
started to put up a fight.
He was no match for the bigger
bandit who locked the grocer's head
In a strangle hold embrace and with
his companion assisting, beat a tattoo
on Frohm s heitd with the butts of
their gun*.
Then the big bandit buried Frohm
to the floor with the growl. “Now
stay there or we'll shoot you.”
While the smaller bandit kept his
gun trained on the three victims, the
bigger bandit walked over to the
casli drawer and took $350 cash and
$390 checks.
Screams for Help.
As they started to leave, Frohm
began screaming, "Call the police.
Call tbo police."
This hailed the departing highway
men. and the higgen one with a fierce
look at tlie prostrate grocer, walked
over to the telejihone, jerked loose
tbe cords and the two of them dls
appea red.
Frohm was taken to Central police
headquarters where scalp wounds re
sulting from his encounter with the
bandits were treated by police sur
geons.
No Christmas Pardons
Given by U. §. Judge
Several friends of Incarcerated per
sons called on Federal Judge Wood
rough yesterday, but got no "Christ
mas pardons.”
Five men wefe released by tbe
judge in the last few days for one
reason or another. Karl O'Brien, part
owner of Dublin Inn, sentenced a
few weeks ago to three months' im
prisonment for violation of the pro
hibition law, was pardoned. James
L. Sutej and William Novatkny.
committed November 21 for 60 days
and fined $200. were released after
paying their fines. Philip Tocco, sent
up for 60 days on December 6. was
released after paying a $500 fine.
Sam Xanfito, ordered released Fri
day because of alleged Illness in bis
family, was ordered back to jail to
serve the rest of his sentence Janu- t
ary 2. after Judge Woodrough had
gone to his home, 1313 Pacific street,
und satisfied himself his family's con
dition was not so bad.
GREETINGS—
§
JAY YOUR CHRISTMAS BE BLESSED
WITH" JOY AND HAPPINESS! MAY '
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PROSPERITY AND GOOD FORTUNE SMILE
UPON YOU DURING THE COMING YEAR.
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