Nebraska Newspapers

    _ The Omaha Sunday Bee
VOL. 62—NO. 29. o'iST F. T^ETSft m&g-tfk£ /NwO A, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1922. •• FIVE CENTS
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Busin ess
Stages Big
Comeback
Omaha Industries Show Large
Monetary Increases Dur
ing 1922 Despite De
crease in Prices.
Labor Situation Clears
Old Man Business staged a big coma
back in Omaha during 1922.
Momentum gafcied by industry of
the city during the past year should
carry Omaha on to even greater
gains during 1923, In the opinion of
financial experts.
The city's gain during 1922 Is shown
by cold, unglossed statistics. But the
story of the great industrial revival
cannot be told entirely by figures.
i here was a feeling of uncertainty
I In business circles at the beginning
of 1922. Labor controversies loomed.
The packing Industry, one of the
greatest in the city, was Just emerg
ing from a butchers’ strike. The
butcher workmen's union did not of
ficially call off the strike until Janu
ary 30.
Confusion Increased.
Tli# more recent strike of railway
shopmen added to the confusion. It
threatened to spread to other branches
of the railroad service, maintenance
of way and the brotherhoods. Omaha
is a great railroad center and is de
pendent on its railtaads.
for a time the city was threatened, i
it seemed, with a coal shortage. The
miners’ trike dragged on, and a com- |
mittee of fuel experts was formed to j
meet emergencies.
But through it all business con- I
tinued to gain. The totals for the
year are amazingly large; they show
a gain in almost every important
branch of industry.
Bank clearings, a feeler of the city’s
business pulse, gained $78,370,659.
Receipts at the Union Stock yards
In cattle, hogs and horses showed big
increases. Sheep receipts decreased
220,175. (lain in cattle was 309,675
head; hogs, 174,106, and horses and
mules, 2,092 head.
Bank clearings are larger, as are
hank deposits. Grain receipts show
a gain of some 11.000,000 bushels and
grain shipments are correspondingly
greater. Value of manufactured
products In Omaha totaled $345,446,
385, as compared to $326,193,559 In
1921. Jobbing business totaled $434,- !
000.545, as compared lo $345,952,026 !
• n 1921. an Indication of a healthy con j
dltion in the Omaha trade territory. ,
* Heavy Freight Business.
These lignins, furnished by the bu
reau of publicity of the Omaha Cham- 1
her < 'ommerce, really are more sig
nificant than can he shown in terms
of dollars, because Omaha's maim
factoring and wholesaling has gained
despite lowered prices.
Value of packing house output i
shows a slight shrinkage from the
total of 1921. but the smelter output
had a healthy gain during the past
year.
During the past year $51,41S,375
worth of groceries and provisions
were distributed by Omaha concerns,
as compared to $49,436,820 worth in
1921.
Railroads report a heavy freight
business. The Union Pacific and Bur- '
lington lines have announced the
placing of large equipment orders.
Little Unemployment.
from the Chamber of Commerce
bureau of publicity comes word that
a record number of conventions (160)
was held in Omaha during 1922.
Comes another announcement from
tha same source that even a larger
number of conventions will be held
here during the ensuing year.
There is comparatively little unem
ployment In the city, nor can ominous
rumblings of serious labor difficulties
he heard. Retail business during the
holiday season broke all records.
Speakers no longer expound opti
mism to groups of business men. They
declare there Is no need for it. Busi
ness men have optimism aqd are
practicing it. lienee they are enter
ing a new year of industry with a
» spirit 4hat can scarcely fail to result
% in even greater progress than was
shown in 1922. •
State Forbids Merger
of Two InsuVauce Firms
Lincoln, Dec. 30.—(Special.)—The
state department of trade and coin
merce today issued an order forbid
ding the consolidation of the Com
monwealth Life Insurance company
of Omaha and the Standard Life In
surnnee company of Decatur. 111., and
wrote a letter to Attorney General
Clarence A. Davis asking him to di
rect a reorganization of the Com
monwealth company.
The department In its report
charges that since the majority of
stock of the Commonwealth has been
acquired by J. R. Paisley and W. K.
Whitfield, officers of the Standard,
they have manipulated securities nnd
otherwise mixed the business of the
two companies in such a manner as
to ha unfair to the Commonwealth
policy holders.
Delaware Armour Stock
Sold on Chicago Exchange
Chicago, Dec. 30.—First actual trad
ing in the $80,000,000 preferred stock
of the newly chartered Armour & Co.
of Delaware, a subsidiary of Armour
it Co., was reported on the Chicago
stock exchange today. A sale of 100
shares at $99 a share on the basis of
when issued was recorded.
The issue is expected to be offered
to tho public next Tuesday, the first
** trading day of the new year, at a price
around $99.
Beatrice Man Accidently Shot
Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 30.—(Special.)—
Rudolph Holienfeidt. caretaker of
Chautauqua park, was badly wounded
in the arm when a shotgun carried by
Joe Hepperlen was accidentally dis
charged while he was trying to drive
a raftiit from its hiding place in the
grovq.
F. W. Mondell Looms
as Successor to Fall
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. F ~W Mjonjleltl
Washington. Dec. 30.—(Special.)—
The forthcoming resignation of Sec
retary of tile Interior Albert B. Fall,
announced exclusively in The Omaha
Bee, has started a furor over the suc
cession.
Probably tlie most outstanding can
didate for the place is Kepresentative
Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming. Fol
lowing the publication of the story
of resignation, Mr. Mondell's friends
immediately started a movement for
their candidate.
It is urged for him that he is thor
oughly familiar with the work of the
department, is a western man with a
western man’s view of things, is a
disciple of the reclamation policy and
that whilo he brought nbout the plac
ing of the forestry service in the De
partment of Agriculture, is open* to
reason on the subject of conserva
tion.
Mr. Mondell has never Joined the
ultras of either school. He believes
in conservation, hut does not think
it should go to the extent of stop
ping development
6 DoIIar-a-Year
Men Indicted by
U. S. Grand Jury
J
Assistant War Secretary Un
der Wilson Among Seven
Accused of Army
Camp Thefts.
Washington, Dec. 30.—(By A. P->— I
Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary
of war tinder the Wilson administra
tion, and six "dollar a year" men as
sociated with the council of national
defense, were indicted here today by
the special grand jury involving war
frauds on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the government in construc
tion of war time army camps and
cantonments.
The others indicted are: William A.
Starrett, Morton C. Tuttle, Clemens
\V. I.undoff, Clair Foster, John H.
McGibbons, James A. Mears.
The indictment charges conspiracy
to maladminister existing laws and
regulations to control the giving of
contracts to friends, associates and
clients under the "cost plus" system,
which It is charged resulted in a loss
to the government of millions of dol
lars and reduced the morale of labor.
The indictments are the first big
salvo in Attorney General Daugherty's
attack ou many war time contracts
which the Department of Justice holds
after exhaustive investigation to be
fraudulent. Others are expected to
follow and it is estimated that the
amounts involved when the attorney
general's program is under way will
run into hundreds of millions of dol
lars.
Mass of Evidence.
Today’s indictments came as the re
sult of cnosiderntion by the grand
Jury of a mass of evidence which the
attorney general has been gathering
for 18 months. It was presented by
former Kepresentative McCulloch of
Ohio, now a special assistant attorney
general.
The indictments, charging 4? overt
acts and applying to all named alike,
charges that contractors, their agents,
engineers, architects and officers of
the government entered a conspiracy
to set up a system profitable to the
contractors and prejudicial to the gov
ernment and to control the giving of
contracts to friends, associates and
clients, past and prospective.
The emergency construction com
mittee of the council of national de
fense, the indictments charge, was
used as the vehicle for carrying out
the alleged plan. The government
charged that the alleged conspira
tors used their membership on the
committee to unlawfully influence oth
er officers of the United States in
the plans and policies for carrying
out the wartime construction pro
gram; to attain the “cost plus” sys
tem; to eliminate usual safeguards
for the government and to defeat
checking up and supervising the con
tractors.
The indictments further charge
that the alleged conspirators used
their positions for their own gain
and assisted contractors in evading
the true intent of contracts and in
collecting large and unjustifiable
fees. As a result of the conspiracy,
the indictments charge, the United
States government lost "millions of
dollars, the morale of labor was re
duced, and the government was de
prived of protection during the emerg
ency construction period.
Three Speeders Fined.
Roy Benbow, Forty-third and Dodge
street; Creighton Melacy, chauffeur,
and Frank Olson, 4321 Capitol avenue,
were fined $25 each and ordered not
to drive for 10 days by Judge Wap
pich in Central police cpurt for
speeding. They were left 1n the “bull
pen" several hours with threats of se
| vere jail sentences.
'Navy -s
Announced
by Harding
President Asks Congress for
$6,500,000 as Beginning on
Program to Modernize
American Battleships.
Marks Change of Policy
Washington. Dec. 30.—In order to
keep the first line of the American
navy on a par with the eea forces
of the great powers, President Hard
ing asked congress for a special ap
propriation of $8,600,000 as a begin
ning on a battleship modernization
program.
The plan behind the request marks
a change of policy resulting directly
from the Washington arms confer
ence and was described by Secretary
Denby in a letter accompanying the
president's recommendation as of
"major and vital Importance" in na
tional defense. Before the conference
it had been the practice to build new
ships rather than modernize old ones,
a policy which no longer can he fol
lowed, because of the construction
limitations imposed by the naval
limitations treaty.
Secretary Denby reported that a
detailed study of the problem had
been made by naval officers, and that
the $6,500,000 asked for would make it
possible to begin work on 13 vessels.
Ultimately, he estimated, the program
would cost a total of $30,000,000.
Details I-arking.
No detailed Information as to wliat
slips will he affected by the first ap
propriation or whut work will be
done on them was given to congress
by Mr. Denby or made available at
the Navy department. It is known,
however, that in general tlie tenta
tive plans call for equipment of ail
of the 14 inch guns ships of the fleet
with deck protection against aircraft
bombs and high angle fire, "blister"
protection against torpedo attacks,
and modernization of the main bat
teries to give them a range now us
able with aircraft spotting.
British ships of the same general ]
type have already been brought up
to date in this way as a result of les
sons learned in the war. The work
was begun in British navy yards dur
ing the war and a specific provision
permitting it to he completed, if not
more than 3,000 tons was added there
by to the. displacement of each ship,
was included in the naval treaty.
Old Kquipment t'seri.
The new ships which the United <
States was building and has agreed to
sgrap under the treaty were equipped
with all of the devices which it now
becomes necessary to add to the older
craft. The new ships would have had
main batteries with a range of 34,000
yards and the Interior construction of
the hulls was calculated to minimize
the damage from torpedo attack.
The old 14-inch guns which are to
l>e retained under the treaty, were de
signed and built before aircraft spot
ting made possible effective gun fire
beyond the limit of vision from the
ship. They were also Built before the
great war proved the effectiveness of
submarine attack with torpedoes.
It is doubtful that the moderniza
tion program will include any of the
i2-inch gun ships of the American
navy, which, because of their lighter
guns and lighter side armor are not
regarded by naval experts as ships of
the first line of battle. There are
six such ships now in the active fleet,
and two of them, the North Dakota
and Delaware, will be scrapped when
the new 16-lnch gun ships, West Vir
ginia and Colorado, are commis
sioned. The British have disposed of
virtually all of their 12-inch gun bat
tle craft.
Burlington Station
at Falls City Robbed
Falls City, Neb.. Pec. 30.—(Spe
cial.)—A lone masked bandit entered
the Burlington passenger station here
at 3 this morning, held up Night
Agent B. L. Allsman and another em
ploye and robbed them of more than
$50 after forcing them to lie on th*
floor face downward while he rifled
the register. The Hiawatha station,
18 miles south of here, was held up
in exactly the same manner last
month.
Catholic Priests Transferred.
Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 30.—(Special.)
—Father Cronin, who has been pas
tor of St. Mary Catholic church at
Wymore for a number of years, has
been transferred to Lincoln as pastor ;
of the church of the Blessed Sacra- j
ment. He will be suoeeeded at Wy- '
more by Father J. .T. Ilennesey of j
Bloomington.
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«
s. lV*!livs Sending More
Troops Toward Mosul
Athens, Dec. 30.—'The Turks are
sending reinforcements in the direc
tion of Mosul, the rich oil district, the
I ownership of which is In dispute at
the Lausanne conference, according
I to advices to the Central News from
a reliable source.
A division of 6,000 Turkish troops,
I it is stated, has already left Van for
j Mosul.
Lausanne, Dec. 30.—(By A. P.)—
Plans for an Armenian national home,
financed by a possible $20,000,000 ap
propriation by the United gtates con
gess or a popular loan in America
In addition to funds from other coun
tries, were presented to the Near East
conference today by the American del
egation.
Charles Wooster
Dies at His Home;
111 Only One Day
“ Sage of Silver Creek,” Over
come After Taxpayers’
Meet, Dies — Promi
nent in State.
Silver Creek. Neb.. Dec. 30.—(Spe
cial.)—Charles Wooster, known to Ne
braskans as the "Sage of Silver
Creek,” died at his home two miles
east of Silver Creek following an ill
ness of little more than a day. Af
ter attending a meeting of the tax
payers league at Hastings, he return
ed to Silver Creek and, as was his
usual custom, he started for his home
afoot. After having gone hut a short
distance, he fell to the ground, ex
hausted. Within a few moments the
hired man front the Wooster farm
drove by on his way to town and Mr.
V ooster hailed him and was taken
home. A physician was called and he
was found to be suffering from cold
and exhaustion.
Active In r*ollticn.
Mr. Wooster was a stormy petrel
in Nebraska politics for more than
a generation. His exceedingly in
dependent disposition made him ever
restive under any policy or nny direc
tion which he did not like and his
speeches in conventions of political
parties and farmers’ organizations
were correspondingly critical. More
than once he turned a convention Into
au uproar by his keen and sometimes
bitter invective.
One of his particular activities In
the last dozen years was his attack
upon (lie right of the Union Pacific
railroad to hold titale to a 400 strip
right-of-way through Nebraska,
claimed under a grant of the United
States government dating hack to
the '60. It was after the supreme
court of the United States had up
held the company’s principal conten
tion Mr. Wooster became active.
When the company began to claim
physical possession of the land, Mr.
Wooster appeared before state legis
lators and harried and worried the
railroad representatives year after
year. It was largely due to his labor
that a law was finally passed which
undertook to deprive the railroad of
its power of eminent domain. This
is still awaiting the test of the courts.
In this long campaign, Mr. Wooster
matched his wit and logic against
many an able lawer, with victory not
always resting with his opponents.
Charles Wooster was born in Hills
dale county, Michigan, May I, 1843.
He grew up in Hillsdale county, a
farm boy until 18, when he enlisted In
company G, Second Michigan cavalry,
September 2, 1861. He was given an
honorable discharge at Macon, Ga.,
In July, 1965, and mustered out at
Jackson, Mich., September 1, 1865.
During the war he saw considerable
service. He was at New Madrid dur
ing the bombardment of Island No.
19. also at Hamburg landing in Mis
sissippi and was at the Blego of Cor
inth in the spring of 1862, and In the
batle of Farmington during the seige
of Cflrinth.
Wounded in Leg.
Mr. Wooster was wounded at
Thompson, Tenn., on the Nashville
railroad and was in the hospital for
three months. He! was shot through
the leg. Tiring of In the hospital
and eager to rejoin his comrades, Mr.
Wooster requested (ha surgeon to al
low him to return to his regiment hut
not being allowed to do so. he re
turned to his regiment on his own
authority, finally rejoining his com
pany. The cavalry, under Stanley,
had gone on south from Murphysboro,
so Mr. Wooster got onto the back of
an old horse and overtook the cavalry
about 15 miles south of Murphysboro,
on the Shelbyvllle road and there fell
into the ranks of his own company.
He was equipped with horse, saber
and pistol and almost immediately
was in the line of battle, his wound
not even being healed at this time,
hut In spite of it, he went on an
eight-mile charge. He was in the
battles of Danridge and Mossy Creek
after the seige of Knoxville, and also
on raid from Kentucky to Tennes
see to cut the Tennessee railroad In
anticipation of the battle of Stone
River. He was in the battle of Chica
maugua all of the second day, and
then participated In the raid after
Joe Wheeler.
During the winter of 1863-64, Mr.
Wooster re-enllsted, and was home on
furlough for a short time in the
spring of 18G4. He participated in the
14th army charge, under Thomas,
was in the battle at Franklin in
1864. He was out on skirmish duty
at the time the battle of Nashville
was fought. He followed the army
from Nashville and was on the Wil
son raid down through Alabama, hav
ing numerous engagaments and
skirmishes, even fighting after Lee’s
surrender. He returned to Michiga
after his discharge, going to the farm.
He was a student at the Hillsdale col
lege, and also taught school.
In the wintr of 1868, he was mar
died to Helen M. Hitchcock in Adams
township, Hillsdale county. He camo
to Nebraska in 1872, filing a soldier's
homestead claim and remained on the
(Turn lo I’aae Two. Column Two.)
The Bridge of Sighs
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Judge E. P. Holmes
Named New Head
of Bar Association
Body Goes on Record Against
Taking Powers From Fed
eral and State Courts,
in Closing Session.
Judge Edward P. Holmes of Lincoln
was elected president of the Nebraska
State Bar association at the closing
session of the 23d annual meeting in
Hotel Fontenelle yesterday afternoon.
The new vice presidents are: L.
H. Cheney. Stockville; N. T. Gadd,
Broken Bow, and L. H. Laughlin, Be
atrice. Anan Raymond of Omaha was
re-elected secretary. Virgil J. Hag
gart of' Omaha Is the new treasurer.
Judge E. E. Good of Wahoo was elect
ed to membership In the executive
council of the association.
i i'Kps Legislation.
Resolution offered by Judge How
ard Kennedy and adopted, recom
mends enactment of suitable and prac
ticable legislation to assure the appli
cation of the merit system to the mak
ing of appointments to, and to ad
ministration of, the civil service in
any state, and the association in
vites co-operation of other organi
zations to that end.
In another resolution the associa
tion invited the Commercial I.aw
League of America to hold its 1923
convention in Omaha.
Tlie following resolution, offered by
C. A. Sorenson of Lincoln, also was
adopted:
Whereas, there Is In process of or
ganl/ation a movement to take from the
federal and state courts their long-exer
cised power to declare void and non
onfon able lavs which art* contrary to
and in conflict with the constitution:
therefore
He It Resolved by the Nebraska State
Bar association in convention assembled
at Omaha this noth day of December,
1922, that we are out of sympathy with
such movement and, on the contrary, fa
vor strengthening the power of the courts
to declare laws unconstitutional which
are so in fart.
1 Myden Plan Defeated.
John Dryden, chairman of the com
mittee on legal education, failed in
his efforts to have the Nebraska Bar
association pass a resolution making
certain training a requisite to admis
sion to the bar, after heated debate
in the Fontenelle hall room Saturday
morning.
Judge Dryden's report recommend
ed that every candidate mtfst be a
(Turn to I'Hge Two Column One.)
WHERE TO FIND
The Bie Features of
THE SEND A Y REE
PART ONE.
Sporting New* nml Feature*—
Page* 6 and 7.
Editorial Comment— Page H.
Amusement*— Paget 9. 10 and 11.
MiimIc New*— Page II.
“Gotham I* Place to Chuck Your
Bluff,” by O. O. McIntyre—Page 5.
PART TWO.
Society and New* for Women—
Page* I to ft.
Shopping W ith Polly— Page ft.
Of Especial Interest to Motorlnt*—
Page fl.
Radio New*— Page 7.
“The Married Fife of Helen and
Warren”— Page 7.
Market* and Financial New*—
Page R.
Want Ad*— Paget 9 and 10.
Floyd George’s Article— Tags 1?.
MAGAZINE SECTION.
“Bit o’ Foollshne**,” blue ribbon
short story by Franklin P.
Ilarry— Page 1.
“The Room on the Hoof,” by Will
Payne— Page 3.
Happy I.and— Page 4.
The 1'ecnie W eenie*— Page 5,
Cutout* for the Kiddie*— Page #.
Fetter* From the Flttle
Eight Wartime
Prisoners Are
Offered Release
Former Members of I. W. W.
May Ha\c Freedom, blit
Must Leave U. S.
Within 60 Days.
Washington, Dec. 30.—Eight for
mer members of the Industrial Work
I ers of the World, sentenced four years
ago to varying terms at Leavenworth
penitentiary for conspiracy and viola
tion of wartime legislation, were of
fered freedom today by President
Harding on condition that they leave
i the United States. Sixty days were
t allowed for the prisoners to arrange
their affairs preparatory to deporta
tion, a bond being required during the
; interval which will Insure their cm
j burkation for some foreign land.
The president’s action was said both
at the White House and at the Depart,
ment of Justice to have been confined
strictly to the cases acted upon and
did not indicate any intention to ex
: erclse similar clemency toward the
j score or more members of the same
| organization who are still imprisoned
for failure to observe the espionage
act and other emergency laws.
It was emphasized the extension of
clemency was strictly "provisional”
and that the unexplred sentences
would become Immediately operative
should any one of the eight return to
the United States.
According to officials of the De
partment of Justice, tiie deeisicn to
commute the eight sentences to ex
pire immediately was reached after a
review of reports made to President
Harding in scores of cases, the views
of the prosecuting attorney and the
presiding Judge being attached in
each instance.
Day’s Activities
in Washington
The house and senate adjourned
over New Year’s until Wednesday.
The house completed consideration
of the annual postoffice appropria
tion bill carrying $5S4,014,000,
The Treasury department, through
Secretary Mellon, endorsed the Cap
per agricultural credits bill.
The senate passed the $325,000,000
naval appropriation bill without the
Borah economic conference amend
ment, hut with the house provision
urging a further naval limitation
agreement.
The first annual conference of se
nior circuit Judges, called to discuss
the condition of business In federal
courts and adopt means to relieve
congestion, adjourned.
President Harding commuted sen
tences of eight former members of
the Industrial Workers of the World,
convicted of conspiracy and violation
of wartime laws, to expire at once
on condition they leave the country
The government filed with the su
preme court two briefs challenging
the jurisdiction of that court In ap
peals brought by foreign steamship
companies from the prohibition rul
ing of Judge Hand at New York.
The special federal grand jury re
turned an indictment against Benedict
Crowell, former assistant secretary
of war, and six other wartime offi
cials of the War department in con
nection with the award by the gov
ernment of wartime contracts.
135 Indictments
Probably to Be
Dismissed Here
j _
"Blur Sky"’ Lases Never May
I
Be Tried Because of Lapse
of Three Court
Terms.
Thirty-five indictments resting in
district court against persons charged
by the state legal department with
violations of the "blue sky” laws
probably will be dismissed in Jan
uary.
A conference Saturday between
O. S. Spillman, attorney general-elect,
and Presiding Judge Charles Leslie of
district court indicated the probabil
ity of dismissal of these cases because
three terms of court have elapsed since
the Indictments were returned. De
fendants are entitled to "speedy”
trials. Judges and lawyers explain
(here is some elasticity in the term
"speedy.”
Neither Judge Leslie nor Mr. Spill
man were Inclined to give any definite
expression as to the probable result of
these indictments.
"The district Judges will meet next
Monday and we will assign the dock
ets,” said Judge Leslie. "I recently
had the district court clerk prepare a
list of these Indictments, and 1 wrote
to Attorney General Davis and also to
Mr. Spillman."
Judge Leslie and Mr. Spillman con
sidered the situation that in the dis
trict court each of several defendants
cited on one indictment could ask for
separate trials, whereas in the federal
court codefendants could he grouped.
A year would ho required to try all
35 defendants in one court.
It was suggested that the state
could insist on trials in the district
court on the ground that the state
legal department has been diligent In
pushing these cases. It is further
argued that the passing of three
terms of court since indictments might
justify dismissals. Attorneys for
some of these defendants hav indi
cated they will enter motions for
dismissal.
Rain or Snow Forecast
'for Middle of Next Week
| Washington, Dec. 30.—Weather out
look for week beginning Monday:
Upper Mississippi and lower Missou
ri valleys: Generally fair except rain
or snow about middle of week. Tem
i peratures normal or above first half,
then colder.
Northern Rocky Mountain and
plateau regions: Considerable cloudi
ness and snows or rains. Tempera
ture will average near normal.
Southern Rocky mountain and pla
teau regions: Generally fair first part
with temperatures above normal and
unsettled and colder; probably occa
sional snows or rains after Tuesday or
Wednesday.
' Salem Store Robbed.
Kails City. Neb., Dee. 30.—(Spe
cial.)—Merchandise valued at several
hundred dollars was taken when the
Parish drug store at Salem was en
tered. The robbers climbed over a
transom.
I The Weather
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Sheriff Is
Accused of
Rum Theft
Pastor-Hangman Robb of Dr?
Moines Charged With Tak
ing Liquor \\ orth SHU,*
000 From Jail.
Jailer Files the Charges
Pes Moines, la., Pee. 30.—Sheriff
W. K. Robb, Polk county's preacher
sheriff. who gained nation-wide promi
nence last fall through officiating at
the hanging of two murderers at Port
Madison penitentiary was placed un
der arrest here today. Sheriff Robb
was charged with unlawfully dispos
ing of intoxicating liquors as the sen
sational hack fire action by his Jailer,
William McMurray, whose own sons
had been arrested by the sheriff for
j complicity In the theft of $30,000
i worth of bonded whisky from tbs
j county Jail Wednesday night. Ths
! sheriff's bond was fired as $1,000
| which lie furnished and the hearing
was set fur January 3.
George Robb, brother of the sheriff,
j and himself a minister, who has been
| acting ns a deputy for his brother,
was also placed under arrest, charg
ed with larceny, on Information sworn
I out by Jailer McMurray and released
on $500 bonds. Neither charge was
made in connection with the theft of
47 cases from the Jail Wednesday
night.
Pater additional charges were filed
against Sheriff Rol.b by McMurray,
which alleged that the sheriff hnd il
legally sold cider presses, and other
paraphernalia used in making liquor,
which had been seized In county liqu
or raids.
McMurray charged that on August
8 Sheriff Robb sold mure than 70
quarts of whisky to D. S. Hill, propri
etor of the American Printing and
Lithographing company, and promi
nent democratic politician.
Raffia of Words.
j McMurray was denied admittance to
the jail about 1:30 this morning. His
son, Kverett McMurray, recently ap
pointed custodian of Wnveland park,
was in the jail office In the custodj
of Deputy Sheriff Robb. Assistant
County Attorney Seburger announced
that Clyde McMurray, another son ol
the Jailer, also is sought.
McMurray was permitted to talk to
his son through the barred entrance,
As he left the jail Sheriff Robb drov«
| up In a motor car. There was batfls '
of words, in which McMurray charged
Robb with having permitted laxity in
the management of the liquor room
and In which Robb called Ills Jailer a
"liar” and doubled his fisls.
“An Atrocious IJe”
“It's an atrocious lie!” L. S. Hill,
proprietor of the American Printing
and Plthogrnphing company, said
when told that Jailer McMurray had
charged that he bought more than 70
! quarts of whisky from the preacher
sheriff on August 8.
He admitted, however, that he had
tried to obtain liquor from the sher
iff's ofOce, but declared he had been
unsuccessful.
Mr. Hill declared lie knew of no
reason why Jailer McMurray should
name him in connection with such a
liquor transaction.
Frisco Man Drops Dead
During Football Game
Stadium, Stanford University, Cal.,
Pec. 30. Charles H. Bentley, vise pres
ident of the California Packing cor
poration and prominent resident of
San Francisco, died of apoplexy while
attending the football game here to
day between Stanford and Pittsburgh.
S«1 etnn Ceremonies Mark
Funeral of Onofrio Stagno
Impressive ceremonies were held for
Onnfiio Stagno at St. Anne church,
Saturday morning at 9. Mr. Stagno.
pioneer resident of Omaha, was
stricken by heart disease Wednesday
night.
Solemn requiem high mass was
celebrated with Rev. Father Michael
Stagno, a son, as celebrant, Rev.
Father J. \V. Stenson, deacon; Rev.
bather Tbeobold K-ilnmaja, sub
deacon; Rev. Father J. Borer, master
uf ceremonies. Most Rev. Archbishop
J. J. Party gave the absolution.
Assisting at the altar were tlio
Right Rev. Mons, A. M. Polaneri, Rev.
James Ahearne, Rey. p. j. Judge.
Kev. p. c. Gannon, Rev. J. c. Buck
ley, Rev. P. A. Flanagan, Rev. E. J.
Flanagan, Rev. P. J. Moran, Rev.
Leo F. Patrick, Rev. George Smiskol,
Rev. Father Malnger and Rev. O.
Latsche.
Burial was in Holy Sepulchre.
Largo of Ill-Fated Mail
Plane Arrives 12 Days Late
Betters from the mall cargo of the
ill fated air mail plane, which was
If*t in the Koekies for days while
fliers searched for Its skipper, Pilot
Boonstra, have just reached their des
tinations In Omaha.
Stamped on the outside of the enve
lopes in red ink is the legend:
Delayed by forced landing Air Mall
I lane. I'orrupiim Itldae, I tali. Derrm
19»»15' 1!,S” It coon-red December il.
Included in this delivery of mall was
a letter from Col. Henry C. Akin,
Santa Ina, Cal., to The Omaha Bee.
Boonstra was found alive and un
harmed on an Isolated ranch in the
mountains. His plane was out of com
mission and he could not report his
forced landing because of no tele
phones.
Anovva (Nek) Man Victim
of Stomach Hemorrhage
Charles A. Johnson. 5S, Anoka,
Neb., diotl at a local hospital yester
day of hemorrhage of the stomach.
Tie is survived by two brothers and
-Mrs. Anna M. Nelson, a sister-in-law.
The body will >>» sent to Manilla, la.,
for burial I