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The < MAH A N ORNING BEE _. VOL. 52—NO. 254. „ s.«.j c„.. «■«» ■•*> a. OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1923.* ,n. «*."» TWO CENTS " 0fT2,Jc2Jl, Omani ”, u. under act oi eiucn i _ ... . ■ ■ -*• -- - ■ — - ■ * " 11 Johnson Is Accused of Antagonism Architect on Closing Da> of Capitol Probe Says He Balked Former State En gineer in Ambitions. Findings Are Held Back B,v I\ f. 1*0WEI.L. Staff Correspondent The Omaha Ber. Lincoln, April 9—Legislative inves tigation uf charges majlc against Bertram G. Goodhue, architect, by George TV. Johnson, former slate en gineer, ended touay with a 20-minutc argument by Goodhue and Johnson. A decision will not be made public < for several weeks. Goodhue, in his argument, asserted i hat Johnson had been balked by him in an attempt to become general super visor of tlie state house building. "He wanted to obtain stib bids, as semble these himself, purchase mate rial. and construct the building fo. the state," Goodhue said. “I leave you to judge where in his charges, Mr. Joint son is being guided by motives of the purest devotion to the Btate, or is wreaking his personal revenge, is venting upon me his per sonal malice, for disappointing—shall vve say?—legitimate ambition. Confidence Is Basis. This world of men and affairs ex .sts only upon a basis of confidence. Before confidence was attained and established as the great working prin ciple governing human,relations, crea tures—hardly human beings—used to sneak about trying to bat each oth-'r over the head when the other wasn’t looking. "Now, no business transaction takes place, no human intercourse of any sort occur*, except upon this basis of confidence, and to confidence every reputable architect is entitled. Gen tlemen. I am sorry to have it to say, but it seems to me confidence is pre cisely the thing that has not been accorded me as your architect. ’’The present investigation proves, or seems to prove, that at least one individual, your former state en gineer, has not regarded me as able, willing, and glad to work with my clients to the end that your state capitol shall be what it should at the least expense consistent with good de sign. good material and good work manship. .!o)ui*nn His Antagonist. "I early felt Mr. Johnson's antagon ism. Throughout, he has enjoyed every possible advantage of position, personal acquaintance, access to ill documents, down to keeping the nn.i *utes with Ins own hand, even includ ing, It would seefn from the evidence before you. the privilege of violating Ihe United States mail. "An architect's reputation is a very frail thing. It can he clouded even by 'nproved charges. So I hold, no mat ter what decision you may reach, even my reputation lias been hurt—how much I am not now prepared to say.'' Johnson, in his argument, again charged that no matter .what tlescrin on of materials Goodhue wanted in !he building, he should have opened bills and forced down prices as only competitive bidding can do. •‘Every figure Indicates that if the architect continues as he lias been do 'g that the cost of the state house will be nearer *10.900,900 than *5.009. t/00," Johnson said. Sijfnb oil County Main Roads Planned l»y Commissioners Henry McDonald, chairman of the county commissioners, announces that lie will offer a resolution at the next board meeting to have signs put up at all important main roads, more especially new roads that have been i.pved the last two years in th< eoun ly. "I have received numerous com plaints from Donglas county citizens on tins matter,” said McDonald. "I know that the people would take more advantage of our roads that have cost ua thousands arid I would say a million dollars if they knew whpre thp roads were and- if they were properly marked.'' Commissioners Kubat and Tii.gcs nave already agreed with McDonald's idea. Kagles Working for 2.000 j\cw Members by \ugut-t The Omaha aerie of Eagle** la in a drive to initiate 2 000 new member* before August as part of a plan to set the grand aerie meeting here in 1916. It waa held here in 190#. . The grand aerie w ill meet this year iri Denver, August 6 to 11, and plans are being made by the local members io entertain thousands who will pass through Omaha with their wives and (laughters at that time. p. .1, Hsrrett is In charge of tin drive with headquarters at the Eagles home until S each evening, after which he can he reached at his home, ::319 Lafayette avenue. Telephone, Harney 5412. Winter Wheat Condition Below Normal. Says Report The government report on condition of winter wheat Just Issued given it as To.2 per cent, compared with 78.4 per cent last year; 91 the year before I and a 10-year average of 84.1. Estimated yield this year is 572,000,- j 000 bushels, compared with 586.000,- j U00 bushels harvested last year, 600, j 000.000 bushels the year before and a Pve-year average of 565,000,000 1 nshels. Senator Sterling Named on Senate Silver Rody Washington, April 9.—Senator i Sterling, republican, South Dakota, | was appointed by Vie* President | <.'oolidg* today to take the place of ihe late Senator Nicholson of Colo rado on ike senate's silver lnvestlgdi , m* committee, j Priest Sought on Rum Charges Surrenders Denver, April It.—Father Walter A. Grace, former pastor of the Shrine of St. Anne at Arvada, sought by federal authorities in connection with the alleged forgery of whisky permits, walked into the office of | United States Marshal William A. Dol 11,on shortly after 4 this afternoon and surrendered to the authorities. A search which become nationwide began several weeks ago after the issuance of a warrant for the arrest Father Grace. Shortly after surrendering, he was arraigned before United States Dis trie' Attorney Granby llillior. and ad mitted to bail In the sum of $2,500. The bund was made returnable June , 15. Harding to Make New World Court Campaign Issue President Determined to Make United States Member of Uoaffue Tribunal il Possible. IIv t imen.nl **rv!c-e. Washington, April 9—President Harding’s five weeks of joyous vaca tion In the south appear to have hardened his determination to do all that is possible to make the United States a member of the court of tin league of nations. It will he his issue in the cam paign of 1924. if he should decide to he a candidate. It will he the major topic in tin speeches which he is to deliver to the couhtry in his tom next June. It will he the item of chief importance which he will lay before congress when it reconvenes in December. . Authoritative information to this effect. coming through official channels, was the most significant | incident of the president’s first day at his desk since his return. Hclieies I’lan Winner. The president left no doubt ill the minds of his tailors that he believed be would win on the court proposal. Frankly, the White House is of the opinion that while the greatest bloc of opposition to the league of na tions covenant came from the west the sentiment in that section of tlie country is now strutigly supporting the league court proposal. The president has been informed that, the farmers, seeking an outlet for their products, will welcome and sup port the court proposal. Announcement of the president's plans foreshadow hig events within the party, and a possible split. It will lead nievitably to a hitter and pro longed fight In the senate, which may possibly he carried Into the presiden tial contest. Most of the republican leaders In the senate are lined up in opposition to the president s proposal. Reorganization of the republican na tional committee is also probable at a result of the president’s determina lion. The present chairman, .lojhn T. Adams, belongs lo the irreconcilable group. \\ ill Try lo Dissuade Maiding. Senator Watson arid other repub* lican leaders in the senate still cling to the hope that they will be able i > dissuade tlies president from forcing the court proposal upon the party as an issue. Watson is to «<e the presi dent on Wednesday, and Hodge is also expected to see him during th» week. Among the eaily callers today upo.i tiie president was Secretary Hughes, who was closelr followed b; Sc Id1 v Hoover Roth an- for Anieiican mem-1 hership in the league court, Jusi as both were for the legue of nations itself It is learned that llugl -s went over with the president a rougli draft of the speech which Hughes is to de liver here April 27. "opening the cam paign for the league court." In tins speech Hughes will undertake the task of pointing out how it is possi ble to join a court belonging to the league without having anything to do with the Fugue. It became known today that the president will make approximate!; ;J0 . speeches In his western tour Capitalist Found Dead in Pullman Stateroom New York, April 0.—The body of John Blackwell Cobb. t.». r.tplUtliM-, was found in his stateroom cm a train from Hot Spring1*, Ark., on its arrival at tlif Pennsylvania station this after noon. Cobb, v. ho lived at Stanford, Conn., for many years, was vice pirn ident of the A morion n Tobacco com pany and a director of the t'niic I Drug company. Mr. Cobb had been wintering at Hot Springs and was believed to have been stricken with heart, trouble Sun day night. When lie failed to emeige from his stateroom at the tall road station •« port pi entered and found hU body. Physicians said he had been dead several hours. LOST YOUR DOG? Dors ami other domestic animals stray off, Ret lost or are stolen every day. A few lines at small cost in the "Lost and Found” column of The Omaha ffce starts u hunt for the lost animal, which usually results in locating it and getting it back safe and sound. N’o matter what your lo may he, let an Omaha Hce "Want” Ad do the searching fur you. Three lines—three times—ten dimes Term in Pen 0 Last Aet in Nelms O Five-Year T , . Victor T . »• .»ap ,vAv * ter i \v'\s‘ ..ranee ot , sisters. Is Sentenced for Fraud By l mveriMi! hmlie. Washington, April 9.—When Victor E. Innes completes a (lve-yenr term in the federal penitentiary, to which he has just been sentenced by the Lnited States district court at Atlanta, for using the mails to defraud, he will have settled the score, as far as the courts are concerned, in one of the most baffling of crime casfW this coun try lias known. Ilis conviction was icportfd to tin Department of Jus tice today. Yet the veil of mystery that has ie mained impenetrable for nine years may never be lifted to clear up the disappearance of Mrs. Kloise Nelms Dennis, pretty young divorcee, and Iter sister. Miss Beatrice Nelms, beautiful young business woman of Atlanta, the last trace of whom was lost when they boarded a train at New Orleans for the west in the sum mer of 1911. Completes 1‘rison Term. Only a f< w weeks ago Innes com pleted u seven-year term in the Georgia stale prison for defrauding Air.-. Dennis. ]Te was immediately re arresied for using the mails to carry out those frauds. It is for this that ho must serve another five years. His wife. Airs. Ida May Innes. also served two years in the Georgia penitentiary. She is now reported dying in Oregon. But what became of the Nelms sis ters. daughters of an old Georgia family, remains a mystery. Captain Fred A. Watt, chief of the Portland (Ore.) office of the bureau of investigation. Department of Justice, arrived in Washington today from At lanta to add the final chapter to the records of bis nine years’ work on the case. \ Arrested in 1911. Watt first arrested Ir.nes. who had been a deputy United States district 1 attorney in Nevada, and his wife, at Uugene. Ore., in August, 1911. after! a nationwide search for the missing! Nelms sisters. The search began when, earW in July, 1214, Mrs. John IV. Nelms mother of the girls. received a ' death note” malted in San Francisco. J he note, purported to have been written by Mrs. Dennis, said she had murdered her sister, intended to kill ltrr brother, Marsha!) Nelms, and to drown herself Mrs. Xelms communicated with the Department of Justice and federal agents were put ou^tlie trail. Mar '.tail Nelms was located In Sait Fran cis-n and he* took up the search also. Women Mart West. It developed that Mrs. Dennis, some time befnie, had intrusted some 520.000 to Innes to invest for her. tatter, w hen she called for an account ing. which was not forthcoming, she i- tacted w-st to see Innes and demand a settlement. She wag accompanied' by her sister. Innes and his w .f. , early that year, had moved from Portland to San Antonio, where they rented a cottage on the outskirts of the city. The federal agents .secured evidence that the sisters, after loavii g New Orleans, tiie last point from which they wrote their mother, had gone on to San Antonio and visited the Innes cottage in June, 1811. There |he trail ended. A ling.- meat grinder, too l uge for family use, and an empty acid carboy, found mar tho cottage, led to the theory that the sisters had been slain in cold blood, ground to a pulp, and tlm remains dissolved by acid Arrested in Oregon. Jnnes and Ills wife, in trie mean tnno, had returned to Oregon and wire located and arrested at Kugene. They were Jointly Indicted by a grand jury at San Antonio for murder, hut '.ere never brought to trial. Tho Texas law requires that a body must he viewed liefore u charge of murder can be prosecuted, and no fragment ary part of cither body had been found. IP fore they could k j free, however, Marshall Nelms secured warrant* for Tunes and his wife for fraudulent Preach nf trust, and the governor of Texas honored a requisition for the r return to tteorgin for trial. They were tried and convicted. Iunis is now R7 years old. If he ; lives out Ills five year federal prison ; term In n ill go free. And thus will end the baffling Nelms mystery. Pilot Killed. Mechanic Hurt \\ lien Plano Falla 200 Feet Log AngHre, April 9.—Edward Mu lone, 24, pilot, wan killed and Her < liHI McKee, mechanic, probably f»* tally injured in an airplane accident i here Sunday*. Tho men attempted a flight in a plan#* owned by a commer cial aviation company. They were ■aid to have Mtmtotl without exhauat pipf'H. When they reached an i«Hi indo of about 200 f*rt the plane burnt into flit men, # McKco #1 iniIff• I out on the right wing and jumped. 11in action threw the plane out of balance and it !« mailed to the ground with Malone Malone whh 5.tld to have come here fi on Tenneaeee. McKee haa relatives in Indiftnapoll*. Croat Northern \ ablation < lut hy Commerce Hotly V (ishlngton, April 0. A tentative ..ilinitlou nf 4:10.7.3t>3.# .d, was fixed today by the Interstate Commerce commission upon tbc limit Northern rallwuy system. The company's own j estimate ut li* total capital Invest n cut :iv determined by ihe par xaiue of ool-tnudlng slock ' and bond*. wi»* j 1607,766,422, Minimum Wage Law Declared Illegal Washington. April 9.—The United States supreme court this afternoon handed down a decision disproving of the fixing of wages by statute and declared that the District of Columbia minimum wage law, a statute sim ilar to' those in effect in a number of states, is unconstitutional and invalid. United States Steel Grants Wa^e Increase Day Laborers Given Volun tary Boost of 11 Per Gent, Effective on April 16— 150.000 Men Affected. By Vsioriiitfil Prfm. New York, April 9.—The United States Steel corporation today an nounced a wage increase of 11 tier cent, effective April 16, for day labor ers employed In the manufacturing plants of its subsidiary companies, with an equitable adjustment for other classes of labor in those plants. More than 150,000 employes are af fected and the increase, it was esti mated, will add approximately one half a million dollars to the weekly payroll. A number of Independent companies immediately announced s similar increase for day laborers. Employes of the-mining, transpor tation and miscellaneous properties of the United states Steel corpora tion. are not affected by the increase. The new rate of pay for day labor ers will be apprfg imately 40 cents an hour. Competition for l.abnr. The increase closely follows those In the textile, copper mining ami certain building trades. Tiie increase was regarded in Wall street as inevitable because of the sharp competition for unskilled labor. Chairman Elbert If. Gary and Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the United States and Bethlehem corpora tions. respectively, repeatedly have tailed attention to the shortage of un skilled labor, which they blamed on the respective immigration laws now in force. Manufacturing plants of the United Statps Steep corporation are now working at 92 per cent of capacity. New business booked this year, the corporation has announced, exceeds the rated maximum capacity of the subsidiary companies. Prices of steel products have been advancing steadily since the early part, of last year, the increases for a nura her of standard products ranging from .'13 1-3 to tiS 2-3 per cent Independent Raise* Wages. Pittsburgh, April 9.—The Jones A l.aughlln Steel corporation, one of the largest Independents In tiie country, late today announced an increase of approximately 11 p< r cent in the wages of common lalxir, meeting th” advance earlier in the day of the Car negie Steel company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation. Tiie advance affects about IS.000 em ployes. Wages of other employes will also he revised upward the announcement (aid. With the anouncemcnt later that notices of a similar wage advance were being posted in the Pittsburgh mills of the American Steel and Wire company, steel men predicted that all common lalmr in all plant* of the United States .steel corporation would be advanced. Office!a of the leading independent .-•<el companies when told of ihe Car negie stc<i company* action, said they had the question of higher wages for laborer* under consideration and would announce their decision shortly. From Wheeling came tiie t' port that officers of the \\ heeling Steel corporation had decided to meet the new wage* of the Carnegie company. About la.000 men are employed in and around Wheeling. Laborers Get Increase. Birmingham. Ala April 9.— It was enounced at offices of tiie Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company here laie today that wages of common labor in nil plants of tiie company would be increased 11 per cent. Coal and ore miners of I lie com pany, togrtiirr with other miners of tho district to the number of 30,000. leeched a wage boost of 12 12 pci cent on March la. Commission Orders Prohe of Pullman Car Surcharge Washington. April 9. An investi gallon of Pullman rales was ordered to«iay by (lie interstate Commerce commission to determine tf tlio con tractural relations between tie Pull man company and tlio railroads Justify tiie imposllion of a surcharge. Maybe if They’d Try Scalding They Could Get a Few More Pin Feathers THERE'S a / little more, DOWN OH KIS BREAST j THERE VET * r -£-i O'J* Z-YOvJVE CsOT MOi.Z) op, ^y Bomb Vf recks Ruhr Canal Inland Waterway Traffic Tied I p l>v Carefullv-Planned ! __ It* Tbr \«M>rialrd Prr*« EsScn, April 9.—The explosion of a lime bomb destroyed the lock of the Dortmund-Ems cansl near Heme eaily today. The canal was blocked, serious ly Interfering with the complicated in land waterway traffic in the Ruhr. This is the most serious case of cabotage vet reported on the Ruhr waterways The lock destroyed is near the Junction of the Dortmund Kins i anal with the main canal that runs down to the Rhine at Duisburg riik Rhurort. where the world's larg est Inland port Is located. The intention of the dynamiters ap parently was not only to block the canal, but to drain the water from the main Rhine Herne canal, which is the main waterway artery of the Ruhr. The French say this main canal has not lieen interfered with, as the locks on l>otli sides of the one which was dynamited were closed im mediately after the explosion to pre vent the draining of the main canal. The Dortniund-Ema canal, itself an important waterway, is blocked by the destruction of the lock. Guards have been placed at all junctions and b <ks as u measure for prevenlioln of lur ther damage. The circumstances of the explosion lndlcat.nl that the bomb had been placed with great care under difficult circumstances. It blew out the gate and tore a large bole In the side of tbs canal. “Free Cathedral" I rged by Minister in Chicago Chicago. April -A new kind of church, a free cathedral "where n creed Is not enforced ami where there may lw> a kind of membership which any one can ntt nh himself to if h< believes In the general purposes of Christianity without defining Ins need,-il statement." was advocated by Rev. Von Ogden Voigt, pastor of a i ongrcgalinnul church here. Rev. Mr. Voigt announced hi* plan before his cnngiegatIon yesterday. IP said he wanted to combine the ritual Ism and the historic sanctity of the Catholic church with the intellectual freedom of the Protestan or free churches. Priest Derbies Spirit Pictures Shown by Sir Vrthur Conan Dovle • • New York. April !> Sir Arthur Conan Dories spirit pictures show ing throngs • if shadowy flgur> gathered about the tomb of the Brit ish I'nknown Soldier in l.ondnn on Armistice day. were derided by the Hev. i'. M. Do lleredla. S .1 Who demonetrated In the photographic de partment of tin livening World, that he roultl cause similar phenomena to appear on photographic plates with out touching them and without bid aid from the other world Father De Heredia. a i.rlhollo priest at Mexico City, has made .1 long study of spiritualism as well as the tricks employed by since magi elans and sleight of hand performers, He described his method of produc log weird photographs a« "trickery and device and -pilllIsm not at all | because ns between living persons hers on earth and Ihe spirits that I lave passed from the I roily, there Is not -ind cannot 1, a control from the living world. I The livening Mufld published two of Father Heredias pictures upon wtilch figures hint been superimposed Thi ■ a mem lie is of the new g impel■'« Miff who w cro prts-’nt at the demon strailun testified Father Heredia did mu touch the plates and did not an proaeh closer to them at any time than tliren feet. M hen he had finished his demon stration lie proved how simple It nil was by exposing the secret to a stnff photographer In the group, who thereupon made a "spirit" picture Unaided. tin his wav out, Father Heredia Is sued a challenge to spiritimllsl ex ponenla to product any phenomenon that lie could not duplicate provided lio was glirn. "as much time to prr I mi re us they have presumabh .'llow id themselves." Sir A lainiin Hoyle, 111 i state ment made alter he had seen the newspaper reproduction* oT Father Heredia'.* experiment* aid that gnat Ignorance of the subject had bttn align n. , Lord Carnarvon Lived in Constant Dread of Hites I rom Mosquitos London. April 9. — An anonymous personal friend of Lord Carnarvon w rote to the Morning Post that one of the tragedies of the lord's death is that he endeavored to avoid mosquitoes all his life. Carnarvon died as the result of a mosquito bite in Egypt. The friend .--aid Lord Carnarvon would n«v»r revisit an excellent hotel in Pan* because he was once bitten by a mosquito there. Wherever he went he would call on a chemist and purchase a lotion to l>e applied In vase there were mosquitoes about. Once when In South America he was invited to a duck shoot and when all in the party had been ladiy stung Carnarvon borrowed a hoise and hur ried to tiie nearest railway station ex plaining: "I would never remain five minutes In a place where I am liable 10 be bitten by mosquitoes Victor B. Smith J oins Omaha National Bank Victor ts. Smith, until recently man aging editor of The Omaha Bee, has teen appointed manager of the new business department of the Omaha .National bank and the Omaha Trust company. Waiter W Head president «-f the Omaha National, stated that with Mr. Smith at the head of the deimrtnicnt hr iv a a very hopeful for the future development of the service to i,mv l is. tomers and to affiliated Institution.' Woman Commit? Suicide BeeaiiM* Male Fled \rre«t Santa Ana. t'a! April '♦—The flight of her husband to avoid arrest several month* ago prompted Mrs. Margaret D. Moon. 21. to swallow poison, *he told doctors while they made a futii attempt to save her hf» The tragedy o**v:urred in the presence «*f her father. Samuel Wooldridge, former t'nlorado supremo court judge, in their home in Garden Grove, near here. Sunday afternoon and the mo tive became known today. Mrs. Moon smiled as the dwtors used emetics and other means to halt the poison in its course to her hear*. She. explained that George N\ .Moon, her husband, fled l>ecem l»er f» to avoid arrest in connection with affairs of a food store in Gar den Grove. She said she could not ltev through toe despondency pn»w log out of it. She died within an hour after taking the poison. Man Dir? From \X oiiml? Iiiflirlnl l>\ W oman New 1'nMle, L*.t., April x Carl 11 Dufford. secretary and treasurer of the Dufford Furniture company, diet! m a hospital from a revolver wound infill ted last week on the sales floor of the furniture store by Mrs Jo sephine I'Vst. • widow, formerly a stenographer In the firms employ, lhe womnu will bo charged with mu*, der. authorities stated. The shooting occurred when Dwf ford sought 1o end their relations of more than a omi h standing Mrs Test told the |H>iice. One Dead. I i\r Hurt in Blast MnUenburg, « oh> , April :» — Davrllne Murphy. 0. Is dead, her 1 brother. Hubert. t». and a sister, 5.! ate not * x pec tod to b\e and three Other children of the family are seriously burned as a result of an explosion of a keg of blasting powder on the Mutphy farm, J;\\ miles east of lure, yosterdaj tote of the youngs!ct * threw * lighted match into 11** powdet Tin explosion broke windowi*i form house within ,h\ vial nuu* of tlie Aluipby place Hotel Room Held Salesman's Home Judge ^ appirh Di‘charge» IT Men Arre«tcd in Raid l»> Trapp. Jude VV. I' Wppich held in central police court .Monday that a hotel room is a traveling salesman s catle. and discharged 14 men who were arrested for ganihlirg after a raid on a room la the Millard hotel ar 11 Saturday night. ‘The salesmans i.fe is one of lonely Utops," <'. A. Allen of Elgin. 111., argued before the court " and 20 of us have informally organized a club. When we meet here we pass the time by playing cards in our rooms—our homes.’' Testimony showed raiding officers had no search warrant and the judge decided they had no right to enter Allen's "home." z Andrew Trapp, head of the police "purity squad, said he engaged a bellboy to go to the room in which the salesmen were assembled and then rushed in with his men. They turned ovrr a tabic, scattering money on the fleer, and hten seized the 14 Twenty-three dollars and a half, a check for J35 and cards were picked up. Trapp said. Trapp charged $li0 bad been of fered by one cif the salesman to square ' the raiders, hut earh of th» Oinihaa Moose in Drite to Double Membership Here Omaha Irslge No. SO. Loyal Order of Moose, is promoting a member ship campaign in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of Mooaeheart, the home and school maintained for more than 1.100 chil dren four miles north of Aurora. Ill This drive for members will be con tinued until June 20 Dr. Ernest E Henson will head a delegation of 25 Omaha Moose to Mooaeheart in Julie when nearly 10. uO0 members from all over the coun try "ill make this annual pilgrimage. Among them will In' President Hard ing, who is a number of the order, and Secretary of loibor J. J. Davis. The objective of the Omaha lodge is to double Its membership before June 20. Action \gainst Fruit (Jrtmrrt*’ Kxprrss Dropped Washington, April t> —Proceed i ng s instituted by the federal trade com mission against the Fruit Growers Ex press. Inc., were dlsn>isae<l today by (he supreme court on motion of tl\e government . The federal Vrade commission "Ur I orders to the Fruit Growers Express controlled by Armour A Co . to chang Its contract with the railroad com panics requiting tbem to use their refrigerator oars exclusively in the shipment of perishable products, especially from the south. The Weather j Kor 74 hour* ending 7 r tv . Tmiptrel u»e. Highest. i7. to*e*t 4'., 4* Krlntitp HiiihMHj. IVrretilage , a tv . *T Noor S3 7pm S Pre« Ipitallon, lnrhr* a ml Ilnodrerlth* Total «' Total since January I, 4 >4. excess, I .'*> • lout l» Temperature* <i • |W . 4X * ni .... . 4 X * a ni . .... 4 44 9 A 11' 4$ 10 a rn .4N Ha n’ . 40 U H *>v>M .... I i 1 V TO ......... 4 4 - TV HI • *'4 S p in. ...4* 4 F »*» .44 •* I' Hi . . . . • | i . . * ^ * T‘ HI. ....... 43 • V TO ... i*3 ' I' HI . . .41 f e n«t*r r«t urr* • ( 1 I’ 'I « ht> • « l'»\on|'on 5* . it l*ll% *1* l,un»lM •« •Nailb i'lku* ,. »* rurn« •» K^pui r*i> n*': 1 A-' Mir rid* n 1 > fttou* \i > \ A«»nUI\t . il ( Jury to fry Claridge Impaneled Blair Banker. Charged ^ ith Falsifying Reports Deter* mined to 'Fight It Out — Townspeople Loyal. jurors Are All Farmers special to The Omaha tier. Blair, Neb., April 9.—Selection of • jury for the rial of V. if Claridge former president of the deftti * t Bank ing House of A. Castetter, was com pleted at 3:3<» this afternoon. Joseph Wardell, a slockbuyer, wher questioned regarding his suitability t» serve on the Jury, declared he ha* been “approached concerning tl» case ' since he veins called as a jury man. ^ "Ale you the Wardell who wel. * corned Mr. Claridge hack to Blair ano offered to give hint half a section of land?" asked Assistant Attorney Gen oral T. .1. McGuire, who is prosecut :ng the case against Claridge. "No. that was my brother, Jim,” re plied Wardell. show Friendship for \ecused. Five other jurymen called wert struck off because they either er pressed some prejudice in the case. •■* a great freling of friendship for Claridge. The information filed by the “la s against Claridge contains eight sepa rate counts, ail materially the same. In brief. Claridge is charged wiil» making fals* reports to the sta a banking department. The information alleges that on four o < asions while he was president of the Banking House of Castetter. claridge sub*, ribed to and published a false report of the amount of a**"’* and liabilities of the hank, “with In tent to deceive J. E. Hart, secrets: y "f the department of trade ar.d com merce " Reports KaKe. Claim. The first of these reports s alleged :o have been made at the close of business February 14. 1S2P, when loans and discounts were given a’ *1.037 5S7.74. Tlie information alleges ' this report was false, because eertaia loans reported as being among tho assets were not the property of the bank. The s;at*- .rdicated it would attempt to introduce evidence to show that the bark merely held the notes on these loans in the capacity of trustee for Mr*. Anna Gastetter, widow of Frank >1 Cast* tier, former president of the Banking House of Castet'ei, who died in 1912. These loans are enumerated as fol lows: Edgar A. Ives and Sarah Al ive*. M>00: Alice Anderson and A. A Anderson. JT.sOO: Florence E. Wilcox, 9T.824. and John H. Grimm. *15.00*'. Mrs. Anna Cast* iter brought suit against J. K. Hsrt -f the department . of trade and commerce, claiming she owned the notes securing these loan*. :.nd received a favorable decision ac cording to McGuire. Town Backs Banker. Failure of the Banking House ot Casteiter was ore of the’most spec tacular i- the state. President Oar- • idge left Blair, but during the entire storm which followed he had the staunch support of his fri«nd* and neighbors living there. "I'm going to stay light here in Blair until the whole thing is over,'* raid Clandge. when the trial was ad journed for the day. * I'm going to fight it out. once and for all '* Expressions of those in the com: room yesterday indicated that Claiidge has i >st none of the stro: „• support from residents in the vicinitj Many expressed their belief in this absolute fidelity. Mrs. Claridge re inained close by her husband's side during the impanelling of the Jury. Jurors Ml Farmers. All of the men choeen as jurymen gave their occupations as farmers Several of those chosen admitted that they knew C la ridge The state exhausted all its s;x challenges, and the defense challenged f.ve prosper tive jurymen. The final jury selections are as follows: Dai Thompson, 50 Bia:i E. S. Anderson, 45. Kennard; Fred Sheer, i Arlington, Cortex cook 4:. Arlingtoi Fred Jungb;c:h 4t. Arlirg ton: Ed Eenard 30 Arlington: Otto Elesche 35 Herman: Charles Van! son, 56 Herman: J. M. Ford. Xf Blair: Dennis Osborne. 35. northwest Washaigton county Arthur MoO.l: 40, Herman, and Ina Dixon. 33. For; Calhoun. A levy < of 4700 001 on the *;a:» guaranty fund was made to meet <1* poaltors" claims on the hat k.r.g hoiis according to S K Bodie «ho was in charge for Hart Of this amount *500,000 win he paid In. k srhr liquidation Is completed Mr Bodm said Attorneys w.ll make op ... g etat ments to the jury Tuesday morning, F auk F Howell and M 11 H >wa-. of Omaha and E K. Carrtgan cf Blair rep resent Claridgr They pom out the fact Jh.it the information against Ctaridge was filed only tv ceiittv, while the l»ank fa.Id in K»! ruary, 1*21. ^loe'linp Dflayotl in Hope of Having I dison and lord Hen tloy M Hanoi'. pnsi h ut of the American Economic league, w hea.lquartcrs in the l.yrtc buikili y announce* that the national waifti etice of his organ ml ion has been |vs: pound from Apiil 5 5 *s vo Max iS 26 We arc doing th > Is aus, we he tievs that by holding the x-oiifcrcnoe next nanith we max be able to obtain the presence of Thomas Edison and Henry Foul as st'eakcra Mr. ltarixxp said "t am informed I hat Mr ExtE non ■» indisposed at thia woe Mr Hanvp stated that S.o®4» invita 4 tarn* will he sent ami that a fund >f ?1,5W' xvill l»» rats,xl in umaha lx assi I dcfla' « th, vpens* of th could cue t,