Bone Drys Retain
Decisive Majority
in Next Congress
Few Wet Leaders Hold Any
Hope for Early Restora
tion of Beer and Light
Wines.
Washington, Dec. 23.—Restoration
of beer and light wines by the next
congress appears extremely improb
able In the light of a careful canvass
of the attitude of new senators and
representatives elected last month.
The advocates of liberalization of
the Volstead act' gained strength hi
both houses, but the bone drys re
tain a decisive ftiajority In each. Few
of the wet leaders entertain any real
hope that the 68th congress will tilt
the lid, most of them admitting that
the wets can not expect to go over
the top until the 1924 election when
the R9th congress and a president will
be chosen.
In the senate as now constituted
there are 68 drys and 28 wets, while
after March 4 the lineup will be 57
drys, 30 wets ;n#l nine doubtful, a dry
majority of from 18 to 36.
In tlie house at present there are
"07 drys and 126 wets, a dry majority
nf 181, but In the next congress there
will be 248 drys, 154 wets and 30
doubtful, a dry majority ranging from
64 to 124.
l.oolt for Reaction.
Those wets who are confident of
notion favorable to their cause by the
next congress muinluin that a con
siderable pro|H>rtion of the ”48 mem
bers listed as dry is prepared to sup
port a moderate liberalization of , the
Volstead act In consonance with the
reaction In popular opinion against
absolute prohibition manifested in
numerous parts of the country.
They also look for a further reac
tion In the next year which will in
fluence senators and representatives
hitherto- classed as dry to ."vote for
modification. In this particular the
Sexpectations have been fanned by the
observations of President Harding In
his recent message to congress.
"If the statutory provision for Its
(the 18th amendment's) enforcement
are contrary to deliberate public opin
ion. which I do not believe, the rig
orous and literal enforcement will
concentrate public attention on any
requisite modification.”
The president has undertaken a
more rigorous enforcement and the
wets believe the motyfioatlon referred
to will be found requisite. Mr. Hard
ing and the governors of 15 stntes ex
changed Ideas on more stringent en
forcement a few days ago and the
president purposes calling another and
larger conference of governors to con
tinue the discussion as soon as incorft
ing state executives have taken office
and the work of state legislatures Is
well under way.
In place of Representative Vol
stead, republican, Minnesota, a bone
dry, who was defeated, ths chairman
of the house Judiciary committee will
ho Representative Graham, republican,
Pennsylvania, who ha# the- reputa
, tion of being a liberal on the prohi
bition quest ton. The congress no soon
er will b« ‘organised- than the beer
and light Wipe fight will be on and the
judiciary committee will be swamped
w ilh bill#, to relax the Volstead law.
Pair samlpes of them are afforded by
measures introduced within the last
month.
Believe In Tax.
Representative Hill, republican,
Maryland, would permit the sale of
beer and wine containing 2.75 per cent
alcohol and taxed at 20 cents a gal
lon.
Representative Britten, republican,
Illinois, proposes 4 per cent beer and
15 per cent wine to he sold, however,,
only In such states as authorize It by
referendum. He would tax domestic
beer $10 and Imported beer $30 a bar
rel; domestic wines $2 and Imported
still wines $5, and Imported cham
pagne $10 a gallon.
Representative O'Brien, democrat,
New Jersey, propaes 7 per cent beer
and 15 per cent wine.
“Prohibition Is here to stay, and
there will be no <j$iange of the law
save to make It nidre effective," said
Representative Fees, republican, Ohio,
elected to the senate last month.
“Congress," said Represenative
Tlnkham, republican, Massachusetts,
"has constitutloal authority to de
termine the alcoholic content of liquor
for beverage purposes, declaring what
or what Is not In Its opinion intoxi
cating and there exists a wide latitude
In this determination. In the opinion
of all well balanced and Impartial in
terpreters of the 18th amendment.
Congress with deliberation and care
- should redefine what degree of aloo
* hollo content Is. and what is not in
toxicating. Congress should forbid the
consumption of any liquor upon the
premises where it Is sold, which would
abolish the saloon and many objec
tionable features of the dispensing of
alcoholic beverages in the past. Con
gress should forbid the search of con
veyances and persons without war
rant by imposing heavy penalties.
“These propositions, with others,
should be advanced In the 68th con
gress as a solution of the unspeakable
nnd infamous conditions which now
exist. They may not be accepted, but
T have little doubt that after the presi
dential election of 1324, rectifications
of the present conditions will be com
pelled by circumstances, political and
social, which congress cannot- resist.”
Relieves Act Will Be Modified.
Representative >1111 Relieves that in
Ihe next congress the Volstead act will
be modified. “In the 68th congress,"
he said, “there will be a group of lib
eral constitutionalists, as I may call
them, who will be well organized, con
stantly on the alert and working at
all times to repeal or modify the Vol
stead act arid restore the balance of(
state and federal rights and duties
upset by the Volstead act. I believe
that this liberal constitutional group,
composed of both republicans and dem
ocrats, who scorn political hypocrisy
and oppose Volsteadism In all Its forms
will hold the balance of power In the
next house.”
4* Woman Bitten by Ctmel.
Tndlo, Cal.. Dec. 23.—Miss Eleanor
Pnardman, the leading woman qf a
ino'ion picture company working here,
waa severely bitten by one of the cam
^s being used In the production.
Physicians said the lose of her right
arm was probable.
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Noted Surgeons Get Only
i $15 a Month in Vienna
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But $15 Equals 1,000,000
Kronen, Says Omaha Doc
tor Back from Austria.
Famous surgeons, who duriug the
days of monarchies were the court
1 physicians of Europe, now are hold
ing positions in the hospitals of Aus
tria and Vienna at $15 a month, ac
cording to Dr. Phillip Levey, who re
cently returned from Austria, where
lie studied for several months.
Rut $15 In American money Is
equal to 1,000,000 Austrian kronen.
Quite a tidy sum even with the high
prices In Austria. *
"Professor Eiselsberg. who is con
sidered the Mayo of Europe, and who
performed a very important opera
tion on the king of Getce, received
kronen equal to $14 in American
money,” Dr. Levey said.
Dr. Levey paid 75,000.000 kronen
to study and practice in the mammoth
hospital operated by the University
of Vienna. Seventy-live million
kronen in American money is equal
to $1,000.
“I would have needed an express
wagon to cart that money from the
bank to the hospital If I had to pay
it In kronen,” Dr. Levey sHid. "I
paid it by check. The hospital need
ed the money, for the rich Austrians
are 'broke.' Hospital authorities now
depend on American surgeons ‘and
physicians who study at the hospital
to pay most of the operating ex
penses. The hospital is a mammoth
place, having 3.000 beds under one
roof.”
As a reward for the 75,000,000
kronen, Dr. Levey was permitted to
select the operations he desired and
he specialized In abdomen surgepy.
"The German and the Austrian ap
peared to have no hatred toward
Americans, but they have the highest
form of hatred against England and
France, and especially France,” he
said.
While in Vienna Dr. Levey visited
with an Omaha boy, Morris Schlaifer,
now in the American consular serv
ice. Young Schlaifer returned to
Austria following the war. He was
among the llrst government officials
to enter Austria after She war. He
is the son of Philip Schlaifer, 1113
South Tenth street.
Steamship Firm
Attacks "’Bone
Dry” Decision
Brief Filed in Supreme Court
Holds Sale of Liquor at
Sea Not Prohiluted
1»T Law.
Washington, Dec. 23.—A plea that
Ameriean ships cannot justly be pre
vented from serving liquor on the
high seas under the prohibition laws,
is set forth in a brief filed in the
supreme court Friday by the Interna
tional Mercantile Marine in support of
Its appeal from the interpretation given
the Daugherty "bone dry” ruling by
Federal Judge Hand at New York.
The brief also declared it Is not un
lawful for vessels to bring their ship
stores of liquor Into American ter
ritorial waters. In this respect the
position taken by the mercantile
marine is similar to that set forth by
the foreign shipping concerns in a i
brief filed recently with the court.
Declaring that should the decision I
of Judge Hand be sustained "it will |
be impossible commercially to operate
American flag steamers in the pas
senger trade of the wbrld” the brief
sets out that the great foreign trans
atlantic liners will always be able to
sell liquor on their westbound voy
ages and against such competitions
the American lines will be seriously
handicapped because. It says, Euro
peans will not travel by American
steamers when they can come l>y for
eign ships and enjoy their usual wine.
Competition In Pacific.
Similar conditions, it adds, will pre
vail In the South American trade on
trie northbound voyages, while vessels
southbound in that trade can stock up
with liquors at Bermuda or Havana.
The most serious competition will
come, It asserts, on the Pacific, where
in the far eastern trade, ships sailing
from Canadian ports would have
diverted to them practically all the
passenger business.
"It seems Inconceivable that con
gress would have intended to extend
prohibition to ships,” the brief as
serts, "whan the result of doing so
would be to nullify the national policy
of the United States with respect to
shipping so Mr as passenger traffic
is concerned.”
The liquor which It is proposed to
exclude from American ships was not
manufactured, sold or transported
within the territorial limits of the
United States, the brief declares, a«l
none of it is imported Into or ex
ported from the Unted States. The
liquor, embodied in the ship as part
of its sea stores, never leaves the
ship, the brief states, but Is consumed
wholly upon the high seas or in for
eign ports.
Would C*ise Bootlegging.
Unless the supreme court reverses
the action of Judge Hand, the report
declares, the majority of the stewards
and other minor employes of Amer
ican vessels will become bootleggers.”
"It is lawful,” it adds, "to pur
chase liquor In foreign ports. To
smuggle on board and bide It there
would be easy and practically im
possible of detection. Stewards and
other minor employe* of American
ships, tempted by large gains, would
undoubtedly have available a suf
ficient supply of liquor for any of
the passengers who might wish it.
In any event, the crews of Ameriean
vessels, as soon as a ship touched
a foreign port, can reasonably be ex
pected to stock up with whatever they
may wish, at least for their own con
sumption."
Should Judge Hand's decision be
sustained by the supreme court, there
.would be a “gradual elimination of
'the American flag froirt passenger
trade on the high seas,” the brief
states. Congress did not state in the
constitutional amendment or in the
prohibition enforcement set that
either was to apply to American ves
sels on the high seas or In foreign
ports, It declares, and prohibition, it
adefe. should not be extended by im
plication when congress has the pow
er to legislate expressly on the sub
ject, "but has not done so."
Employe* of varlou* French aerial
lines operating in Europe are to wear
special uniforms. Gold anil silver
braid are to distinguish the rank* of
operator*
Council Bluffs
Railroad Bridge
Damaged by Fire
n
Great Western Traffic Halted
and Motorists on White
Pole Road Forced to
Make Detour.
Fire practically destroyed tlie Great
Western railroad trestle across the
White Pole highway and a small creek
just east of the city limits of Council
Bluffs yesterday.
*The structure, which was built en
tirely of wood, was reported In flames
so<Vf after No. 5, westbound passen
ger, crossed it and entered the city at
2:45. The next train, No. C, an east
bound passenger, was scheduled to
letwe the Bluffs at 4.
Scores of automobiles were blocked
In the highway ottjxdh sides of the
trestle, most of them driven by farm
ers en route to the city to do Christ
mas shopping, or returning to their
homes after a day in town. As soon
as the congested traffic straightened
Itself out, these machines detoured
through Dutch IIollow.
Railroad officials last night were
unable to state whether the trestle
caught fire from sparks from passing
engines, or whether it was of
Incendiary origin. The blaze was
spectacular In every sense of the
word, with fire and smoke rolling
high Into the air and flaming timbers
dropping with crashes to the ground.
The pumper from No. 4 fire station
was sent to the scene. The only water
supply was the shallow creek. In
which there was only a foot j>f water,
sufficient for only one line of hose.
The blaze started at the east end of
the structure and totally consumed at
least half of it before the flames were
cheeked. V
Great \yestern trains are being
routed over the Northwestern tracks,
pending repair of tho trestle. The
burned structure was 100 feet high
and more than 750 feet long. One sec
tion of it was destroyed by the tor
nado which visited this vicinity on
Faster Sunday In 191!, Damage as a
result of till* fire Is estimated at
125,000.
Stockyards Fever •
Breaks Out in West
Washington, Dec. 23.—Reports have
reached the Department of Agt'lcul-g
ture. of outbreaks of shipping fever or
stockyards fever among cattle and
sheep in the middlewg'st. The disease
known as hemmorhagic septiceinin, is
a blood poiSoning which proves fatal
quickly, according to the Bureau of
Animal industry. Disinfection of
stockyards, which may be effective
temporarily, cannot he relied upon to
protect animals shipping to farms for
feeding, according to the department's
experts. They suggest vaccination of
susceptible animals from stockyards
as an effective means of controlling
the disease.
Officials of the local office of the
bureau of animal Industry stated to
day no cases of this fever had been
found In the Chicago yards. 'Constant
watch is being kept not only for in
dications of this disease but other ani
mal ailments and shipments from
western points are given thorough in
spections.
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Attempted Jail Delivery
Nipped in Bud at Beatrice
Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 23.—A jail de
livery attempt seems to have been
nipped in the bud here today after
Sheriff J. C. Emery had received a
telephone message from the E. Bigler
hardware stores to the effect that
Mrs. Frank Stewart, wife of a pris
oner, had purchased a hacksaw. She
was on her way to the jail to visit
Stewart, who Is held for the murder
of Charles Wolf, when the message
was received. The sheriff called her
to his office on her arrival and she
hid the saw in a stairway, where It
was found later. She was released.
Iowa State Fair Date Set.
Des Moines, Dec. 23.—A. R. Corey,
secretary of tli^ Iowa department of
agriculture, has announced that the
dates for the 1923 Iowa state fair
have been fixed at August 22 to
August 30.
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Club Acts to
Bar Arbuckle
Films in Omhaa
Omaha Woman's Club Com
iniltce Will Appeal to Theater
Managers — School Head
Against .“Comeback.”
The civics committee of the Omaha
Woman's club, led by Mrs. W. S.
^ Knight, chairman, will conduct a
canlpaign to prevent a return of
Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle films to
the screens of Omaha theaters
"We have not yet formulated de
tailed plans." said Mrs. Knight, "but
our first step will be to go to the
'theater managers and make a pica
to their sense of decency and in the
interest of public policy to refuse to
show Arbuckle films her% If that
effort should fail, then w% have in
mind another way to accomplish the
desired end. But we feel that the
managers will agree with us on the
proposition that It would shock public
decency and would be against the In
terests of the motion picture theaters
to revive the Arbuckle films."
J. H. Beveridge, superintendent of
public schools, was outspoken on the
subject In a statement Saturday morn
ing.
Bishop Sends Wire.
“I don't think it would be advisa
ble to make a hero out of a man like
Arbuckle, or at least the kind of a
man he is reported to have been. I
don't think it would be policy, nor for
the best inftrests of our boys and
girls, to see Arbuckle films again on
the screen.”
The National Education association,
of which Mr Beveridge is an officer,
went on record In a resolution con
demning the effort to return Arbuckle
to public favor.
A further protest against the rein
statement of Arbuckle In the movie
Industry was telegraphed to Will
Hays from Omaha Saturday morning
by Bishop E. V. Shayler. Episcopal
bishop of Nebraska. It read:
‘‘Thousands of clean Americans In
Nebraska protest Arbuekle's reinstate
ment. Give him a chance for repen
tance. but give millions of people a
chance for amusement and cleanliness.
Listen not to the demand of dollars.
Reinstatement means greater loss to
you and to entire picture Industry.
"In the name of the Virgin Mother
and the Holy Child of Christmas, lis
ten.”
Ilis letter, besides raising the point
of why he was not consulted, declar
ed that ‘‘unfortunately the Impres
sion fias gained ground that this Is
due to pressure of financial Interests
invested in Ahbuckle pictures.”
Mr. MacFarland quoted the follow
ing telegram from the St. Louis Fed
eration of Churches:
( liurrlv, I’eople Incensed.
"St. Louis church people are in
censed over the proposal of Will H.
Hays, on behalf of moving pictures
interests, to bring Arbuckle back Into
the films. Strong supporting resolu
tions will undoubtedly be passed In
St. Louis by denominational minis
terial alliance and by church federa
tions. Is federal council taking ac
tion?”
"The enclosed telegram,” Ills letter
said, "is merety an indication In my
judgment of the general expressions
which are coming and will continue
*o cortie from our religious and moral
forces, relative to your decision in
the Arbuckle mtetter.
"May I raise the question as to
why there was no consultation what
ever with persons representing the
church whose co-operation you have
sought. It would seem as though
this would have been a matter on
which above all you have wanted
counsel and advice from people who
represent these large bodies reflect
ing so wide an area of public opinion*
Queries Hayes.
New York, Dec. 23.—Rev. S. Mac-i
Fariand, general secretary of the fed
eral council of the Church of Christ
in America, today made public a let
ter to Will H. Hayes, head of the
motion picture industry, calling for
an explanation why lie, as a member
of Mr. Hayes' "committee on public
relations,” was not consulted about
the reinstatement of Arbuckle.
Mr. MacFarland, as general secre
tary of the church federation. Is a
member of the executive committee
of the committee on^publlc relations,
which Sir. Hayes organized recently
from various religious and civic or
ganizations, to aid him In putting the
movies on a higher plane.
Retiring Deputy Writes
Tribute to Mike Clark
The following appreciation was com
posed by Deputy Sheriff Charles T.
Johnson:
“I fe*l th»t*T cannot go out of nfflca
as deputy sheriff without expressing: my
appreciation of the consideration always
shown by Sheriff Mike Clark, under whom
I have worked for the past three years.
Anyone who knows Mike knows that he
is a man of the highest type.
“As for the field deputies, C. W. Hoye,
Nick Halter. Pat Welch. V. D. Quacken
bush and Harry Dworaky, with whom I
have Worked, will say that we have made
raids and confiscated hundreds of gallons
of liquors, yet I never saw or beard of
any one of them tasting a single drop of
It nor doing a dishonorable act. All
were loyal to their oaths of Wflcs under
the honest direction of Mike Clark.
"Without flattering, I want to say that
T consider it one of the greatest privi
leges of my life to havs served under
plain Mike Clark and I want to take
this public means of expressing It."
Farragut Elevator Sets
Record for Grain Buying
Shenandoah, la., Dec. 23.—(Special.)
—Ross I-amb, manager of the Far
mers Co-Operative company at Far
ragut, issues a challenge to all ele
vator managers In the state buying
grain direct from the farmers to show
a greater amount of gr^ln handled by
one elevator.
From January this year to Decem
ber 20 the Farmers elevator of which
lie is manager bought and shipped
126,553 bushels of wheat and 381,480
bushels of corn. This means about
84 cars of wheat and 254 of corn or a
total of 338 cars. The same company
shipped during that period 130 cars
of hogs.
Iowa Engineer Drops Dead.
Esthervllle, la., Dec. 23.—As he
started to cltmb into his engine cab
to pilot a Chicago, Rock Island * Pa
cific passenger train from Esthervilie
to Cedar Rapids, Frank Ilaller
dropped dead. Haller was 50 years
old and a veteran Iowa railroad man.
Department Head in
Store to Open Here
Ernie Cottinire.
Ernie Cottmlre hae been chosen
head of the suit ami coat department
of the Croldstein-Chapman company,
which will open the "store of Individ
ual shops" in the former location of
the Eldredfte-Reynolda company about
February 1, according 5.0 announce
ment of 11. E. Chapman of t“ho new
company. ,
Santa Ignored in
Soviet Russia
Communists Leave Kris Out
of Celebration—Russian
• Christmas January 8.
Moscow, Dec. 23.—(By A. P.)—San
ta Claus is apt to find Christmas lit
tle to his liking in the principal cities
and towns of soviet Russia this year,
in fact, to the young communists, he
will be "persona non grata.”
Members of that organization con
tending that Christmas and St. Nich
olas both are worn out myths, have
announced that the celebration of the
Russian Christmas, beginning Janu
ary 8, will be marked by a series of
elaborate carnivals in which Santa
Claus will be assigned no part. They
have further decided that the singing
of Christmas carols shall be dispens
ed with and the figure..of an angel
may not be displayed on a Christmas
tree appearing in public.
Instead, the celebration plans call
for torchlight processions, masked
balls, dinner parties and gay theater
performances, day and night, togeth
er with various other forms of amuse
ment designed to suppress and offset
any religions ceremonies.
The young communists contend that
Christmas legends have fooled chil
dren and their elders long enough and
that every one should know better.
The Omaha Bee
_Free Shoe Fund
Though The Omaha Bee’s free shoe
fund closed several days ago, many
additional contributions have come
in. Nq more contributions are solic
ited.
Previously acknowledged .92,542.58
llohbl* llyde 2 . (K)
Mrs. John Kruse, Oakland, Neb... 2.00
Vyrl Swan, Upland. Neb.. . 1.00
W. P. M., Kustls, Neb. 1 (»0
Mrs. K. If. Farr. Havcnna, Neb... 3 00
Adrian Srb, Howells. Neb.. 1.00
Margret and Caroline \X upper,
Beemer, Neb.. 10.00
A Friend. Cednr Bluffs. Neb. 2.00
Kiddies* Friend, York, Neb. 3.00
And Ang, Polk. Neb. . 3.HO
No Name, Herman. Neb. 1.00
A Friend. Bancroft, Neb. 2.00
. 2 00
Mrs. William Anderson, Mouth
Omaha .. 1.00
C lay Center. Neb. 2 (H)
Mecond tirade, Henry Yates
Mehonl . 7. (Ml
Chris T. Miller, Hampton, Neb... 4 00
Israel Lovett . 5.00
F. H. Orrutt, Council Bluffs. 1.50
L. A. I,. Kensington. Hhclby, Neb. 5 00
William I.oby. tiiltner. Neb. 1.00
Charles Harrod, tiiltner. Neb...-* 5 Oft
Ernest Johnson, PendeK Neb. 5.00
A other . 2.(M)
F* Krueger. 2'50
Mrs. Augusta Cook, founril
Bluffs . *3 00
A Friend . 2.IM)
Stanley Peterson . 1 00
31 rs. II. M. R. 1.00
M. JJ. C. 2 0(1
H. H. Bughee. 2.50
William Cathroe . 5 00
No Name . 5.00
M- G; W. . 1 00
J. Kllz. Glass, Cozad, Neb........ 5.00
. 1 (hi
Unit Arlan Society, Ord, Neb. ft. 00
Cash . ft. 00
Gladys Marie Knapp, Broken
How'. Neb. .. 1.50
Presbyterian Sunday School. Class
7, Wahoo, Neb.. 3.00
Georg* if. Wilson, Falrbault,
Minn. 2.00
Mr*. J. 31. Shackleford. 1.00
Omaha Jim . 1.00
Allc* <1. Abbott. 3.00
Fred J. Erickson, Oakland, Neb.. 1.00
Hazel M. Silsby, Missouri Valiev
I® . 1.00
Woodmen Circle, W'elrome Grove
No. 54 . 2 CM)
Walter C. Bizney, Central City,
Neb. £.00
Esther Johnson, Pender, Neb. ... 1.00
No Name, Wakefield, Neb. ft.00
K# C. tioddord . 10.00
A Friend . I 00
Wide Awakes. Ord, Neb. ....... 5.00
N. J. tiruenlg .. 2.50
Mrs. John Morrison . 2.fti>!
K. C. S. 5 (Ml
Goodwill Sunday School Class
Sidney, la. 5.00
A Young 3lothrr 1.00
A Friend, Gresham. Nel». 1.00
Fifth tirade Class, Tllden, Neb. . 1.00
The O. K. Club of Omaha 10.00
Karlicl Boris Bard, Wakefield,
Neb . 4.10
Aliie and Buddy .5.00
Mrs. C. Bucbtcl . 10.00
31rs. M. Mortensen . 2 o0
A. R. l«e Murr, Sidney, Neb. 10.(Ml
Peter Burk, Garrison, Neb. 5 00
II. O., Sliirkley. Neb. f 99
(•race Irene Hester. Ezlra. la. ... 2.00
Friend . 2.00
No Name .... 2 00
lash ... 1 .00
31 rs. C. J. D. 1 (Ml
Friend of C hildren .. . 1 .50
Mary Clair* Butchel . I (hi
Mary Estel BeYanct I 00
Henry K. Erickson, Wakefield,
Neb. ft. 50
Ada W. < bomberlin . 2 00
George Thomas and Jack Hins
dale, Palmer, Neb . 3 00
Yietorla ladles Aid Society. Elm
wood, Neb. 2.00
Ruth Halm, Havens, Neb. 1.00
( ora G. Weborg, Oakland, Neb. .. 1.00
J. II. Mtubr, Woodbine, la. I 00
J. C. Buffington . ft.00
Grace P. Johnston, Osceola, Neb. ft 00
Pierce. Neb. 1.00
A Friend. Kimball, Neb. 1.00
Mrs. Sarah M. Young, Nehavrka,
Neb. ft 00
Helen V. Rustfrll . ft 00
Total * , .*_*_». • • Ui •auijxu.i • •f2»807.99
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Committee Delves
Into Affairs of
Two Oil Companies
Presidents of Firms Testify in
Senate Investigation —
Questioned Closely
\bont Prices.
Washington, Dec. 22.—Affairs of
two oil companies, the Prairie Oil and
Gas company and the Standard of
New York, were delved into by the j
senate oil investigating committee
j with the respective presidents of the
I two corporations, James K. O’Weill
land Folger. ns the principal wit
nesses.
inquiry into the identity of the larg
er stockholders of the *two concerns
was pursued at length through ques- ,
! tions by G. E. Roe. attorney for the |
| committee, and brought from Mr. 1
1 O'N'oill that eight Interests owned 37
j per cent of tire stoejs of his company
and from Mr. Folger that four inter
ests held approximately 35 per cent of
his corporation's stock.
Principal Stockholders.
Mr. O'Neill gave the eight principal
stockholders of the Prairie company
with the percentage of their holdings
to the total outstanding stock as Ed
ward S. Harkness. 3 per cent; North- !
ern Finance corporation, -t per cent;
John P. Rockefeller, jr., 12 per cent;
A. M. Harkness, 3 per cent: Trustees
of the Henry 11. Houston estate, n lit
tle more than 1 per cent; General Edu
cational board, about S per cent; I^ura
Spellman Rockefeller memorial, 3 per
cent and tlie Rockefeller Institute of
Medical research, 4 per cent.
The larger stockholders of the
Standard Oil company of New York
with the percentage of their hold
ings as compared to the entire out
standing stock were given by Mr.
Folger as John P. Rockefeller, jr.,
25 per cent; A. M.* Harkness. about
j 3 per cent; Edward S. Harlfness, 3
I per cent, and the Northern Finance
J corporation,, 4 per cent.
Questioned .About Prices,
i Mr. O'Neill was questioned closely
by the attorney and also by Chair
man La Follette as to the reason that
prices for the crude oil posted in
| the midcontinent field by the five lead
[ irg buying companies had risen and
fallen simultaneously timing li)2l and
I 1022, but declared that It could not
' lie considered unusual and was a na
; tucal process. He asserted emphatic
I ally that the rise and fall of prices
Paris Representative
• of Herzberg Store
•
- Heyn photo.
Helen I’. Biclifl.
Helen Farmer Hlekel, style expert,
who has been secured as Now York
and Paris representative fur the Herz
ben? store. Miss BickM recently re
turned from a trip to Europe stialY
inj? spring styles. She Is now in
Omaha familiarizing heivolf with the
wishes of Omaha women. She plans
to visit Omaha several times each
season.
was not preceded by any conferences
between Jho competing companies.
The Prairie Oil nn*l Gas' company
president declared that production of
crude <»1 in the Pnlted States had
reached its peak ayd that within 10
years American refiners would be
forced ttf get at least HO per cent of
their supply from foreign countries.
Cash dividends amounting to $85,
050.000 and stock dividends of 400
per cent on a capitali'/.ntion of $75,
000,000 have been deflated since P.M 1
by the Standard of New York, accord
ing to a compilation presented to the
committee by JWr. K^ger, who added
that during the same period his com
pany had paid $75,500,000 in taxes.
The figures did not take account of
stock dividend of 200 per cent recently
declared and now being paid.
Cries of Baby
Scare Bandit:
$80 Is Taken
Window of Apartment Pried
Open and Flashlight l set!
to Wake Sleeping
Couple.
Waking his victims by thriving the
lays of .1 flashlight in thei“faces as
they lay sleeping, a bnndlt forced I..
A. Kaiser, a resident of Terrace
Court, l’ark avenue and Mason
streets, to pass out of his window a
wallet containing $80 in cash at 2
yesterday morning.
Cries of a baby in an adjoining
room fbiglitencd away the robber be
fore be could increase the amount of
i bis booty.
Mrs. Kaiser, in an effort to drive
away the intruder, offered to Rive
him her watch and ring if he would
leave. Her offer was spurned by the
bandit, who demanded the cash.
Tim couple were sleeping in a first
floor apartment. They hud a win
dow partially open. The robber
forced up tlie window, flashed his
light on tho sleeping couple anil
pointing a gun nt them demanded
that Mr. Kaiser get up and turn on
tho light.
Tho frantic pleas of the wife were
of.no avail and until tho light per
mitted the bandit to survey the room
ho was adamant in lus demands. As
the lights flashed on iio saw tho
pocUt thoolt, width ho demanded.
As Mr. Kaiser passed out the
money, the baby started to cry and
accomplished what a woman's pitas
.uni t mail's threats failed to do.
(ilirislinas for Officers _
(»i\en Reverse Ki*lisli
Boston. 1 tec. 33.— rude Ham came
lo tin antithesis of Santa Claus Fri
day in the minds of 400 officers of
'the Mas ichusetls National guard
; when they received notice to turn
back to fhe federal government sums
■from *30 to *80. paid them in error.
In Massachusetts, it was Teamed.
■*11,000 must lie returned to the fed
eral quartermaster on account of
misinterpretation of the national de
fense net when tlie National guards
were encamped last summer.
Noiseless rubber composition pav
ing blocks,' estimated to wear 15 years
i and made at a price to compete with
ordinary creosoted wooden blocks,
have been Invented in Kngland.
J
fMUSIC fvhileyou dine on
Christmas Ttay
CHRISTMAS and MUSIC ! The two are inseparable. No feast
day has so much lovely music associated with it. How much
added pleasure your family and you will have on that day of days,
if as you sit by a crackling lire on Christmas eve, you can hear
“Holy Night” played softly, yet with rare feeling, on a fine piano;
or hear on Christmas morning the glorious Hallelujah Chorus from
the Messiah; or while* you gather around a nferry dinner, hear
skilled unseen hands play the Christmas music we all love, “O Little
Town of Bethlehem", “It Came Upon The Midnight Clear", or Muriel
Pollock’s delightful, new musical setting for the children’s favorite
“T’was the Night Before Christmas /”
All this, and a wealth of other music, classic and popular, is
at your command at Christmas or any time, if you possess .
AMPICO
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The Ampico is a Reproducing Piano. It plays exactly as the world’s
greatest pianists—Godowskv, Orr.stcin, Levitzki, Rachmaninoff, the cele
brated Russian composer-pianist, and a hundred more, recorded for it. To
possess one, is to add a musically - gifted member to your home circle. The
Ampico is electrically operated; the Marque Ampico is foot - operated.
Because of a special Repeat Device the Ampico will repeat a piece indef
initely. It will play all through dinner without needing any attention.
Piano Department—Fifth Floor
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