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o Women Now in Commons 2 More Peeresses Join Lady Astor—Lady Atholl First From Scotland. By Anoclstnl l’rp«». London, Dec. S.—The spotlight of attention that used to be focussed upon laidy Astor as she sat In the house of commons—one little woman in the midst of 600 big. little and ■ middle sized men—will have to diffuse its beams to all sections of the chant tier when parliament convenes, for ihere will lie eight women to answer the roll, three conservatives, three lalrorites and two liberals. Lady Astor talked her Plymouth constituent* into sending her back to Westminster this week and so did the other iwo women who sat in the Lite parliament, Mrs. Margaret Wint rlngham, liberal, and Mrs. Margaret Philips!>n, conservative. Five other women won in fights with male op ponents. Twenty-six of their sisters were beaten but considering the totnl number of candidates for the 605 seats the women who stood for parlia ment fared little worse proportion ately titan the men. No longer will Lady Astor be the only "noble lady" among the com mons in the house. Two other peeresses won their way to Westminster this week—the duchess of Atholl. the first woman to be sent to parliament from Scot land, and Lady Terrington, who like Lady Astor, Is witty and vivacious, but who, unlike the member from Sutton division of Plymouth, says she is going to wear the best clothes she lias when she enters the house of commons. The Virginia-born lady '*vavs satisfied herself by appearing in her seat in a plain black frock with a demure white collar. Lady Terrington has another point of similarity to Lady Astor, In her love for horses and her ability to ride well. She made her campaign among the villages of Buckinghamshire In the saddl-1. Her victory was the first the liberal party had won in her con stituency since the free trade fight agf.lnst protection in 1306. Resembles .Mrs. Coolidgc. The dutehem or Athoil, who bears a slight resemblance to Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, is one of the best women linguists in the land and Is a fina platform speaker. The three women who will sit with the opposition on the labor benches are all converts to the labor cause. Miss Susan Lawrence joined the la Itor ranks in 1912, as the result of distress she had seen in her investi gations of living and working con ditions among the poorer classes. Miss Dorothea Jewson, most prom inent of the younger women of the labor movement, is the daughter of a wealthy Norwich farmer and a graduate of (lirton college, Cambridge. To acquaint herself with the joys and sorrows of domestic servants she filled the post of chambermaid In a large London hotel. Miss Margaret Bondfleld, In win ning the seat for Northampton, de feated the former cabinet minister, C. A. McCurdy, liberal. She was the first woman member of the trades union congress, of whose general council she is chairman. It was large U through her labors and Influence that the recent boilermakers' strike was settled. Chief Removed. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Plattsmouth, Neb.. Dec. 8.—Mayor i- A. Johnson of Plattsmouth today i.moved Alvin Jones from the office ,.f chief of poliee. The action was taken after the date for trial of Jones nn Indictments returned by the grand jury was set. Jones was Indicted, together with William Grebe and F. A. Holmes, on charges of malfeasance In office and perjury. A plea in abatement that he filed Immediately after the return of the indictment was denied ami he was ordered to teial December 13. Should lie be exonerated at this trial, the mayor said, he will be reinstated in office. Jess Elliott was appointed chief of poliee for the present and will con tinue to hold the office If Jones falls to clear himself. Judge J. T. Begley has ordered the county clerk to call additional jurors in the hope of getting a Jury at once Monday morning when the trial of Sheriff Quinton starts. All Carry Guns. James R. Grimes. Stillwater. Ok!., was arrested Friday at Twenty fourth and Fnrnam streets by Patrol man Joe Zlch on a charge of carry ing concealed weapons. "Oh, wo all carry guns In Okla _ lioma," he explained to detectives Sat ^•Hirday morning. He said he was hunting for a former partner who de. camped with $170 of his money. Headless Body. Milwaukee, Wis . Dec. 8.—The head less body of Mrs. Belle Tompkins, wife of E, P.ay Tompkins, real estate dealer and former manuel train ing Instructor at the Milwaukee Normal school, was found today In a wooded ravine at Donges Bay. 11 miles from Milwaukee. Sheriff Just M isses Man. Deputy Sheriff McBride was Just one jump behind Nr. II. Farnsworth. cal estate agent, otherwise the latter would now he In custody for alleged forgery. The trouble, according to McBride, was that his friend, whose name he infused to divulge, didn't tip him to / the plans of Farnsworth soon enough. When McBride arrived at the ngpnt's office he had just gone. When he arrived at the agents home In the Morris apartments, Jie bad Just gone. With him also went, possibility of arresting him for an alleged worth lew. check he Is alleged to have given the National Hoofing company on May 24. Woman Gets Divorce. Emma M. Bunce, 4112 North Nine tieuth street, was granted a divorce in district court Saturday morning from Deray Bunce, former Justice of ' -“hlc pence. 'H» told me that I whs a good housekeeper, hut wasn’t good look log enough to suit him," testified Mrs. Bunce. She was given $1,000 lump sum and all the houee furnish lugs. Here's a Section of Disappointed Crowd That Waited in Vain for Speeder Parade - ... .. .. .. ._1 ..!-...- — - H'irp n a s’rlion of flip proud wiiirli llnpd flip roiifp of flip inytli Ical “apppdpra parade," iinnouiippd by Mimiripal .liid^p Iliiieeil earlier iii tli«* w ek, at ilium Frida), tin1 hour (hr parade was scheduled to appear. \ Tile watchers wailed in vain. The parade was called off when Municipal .lodge Holmes, presiding judge of (lie inimlcial court, ad vised Judge Dineen that forcing --- . , .. mb— i suppliers lo march from the polite station to the county jail was not a proper form of punishment. "1 never meant to make ’*nt maieli anyway," qiiotli .linlgo Dineeu. Omaha Girl Law Student Tied for First Scholarship Honors Mies Lillian Margolin Setting Stiff Pace in Classes at T diversity of Nebraska. Omaha's building Portia Is lied with a Lincoln man for first honor* in grades so far this semester in the free liman class, college of law, N'e brash a university, it was announced Saturday. Mrs. Lillian Margidtn. daughter of Joseph Myrgolin, 1813 Hurt street entered the Nebraska college of law this fall after taking three.years'work in other enurses at the Vniversi'y of Nebraska. Her progress has been excellent and now, after the mid semester examinations comes the an nouncement that she and Wesley i> Sullivan. Lincoln, are tied for first honors in class work with a grade of 94. One rear ago Miss Margolin was awarded the Pniyliellenlc scholarship prize. She is one of three women students of law In her class. Alexander MeKle. Jr., ranked third in the class standing. MeKie is a graduate of Central High school, Omaha, and was a member of the Nebraska debating team last year. Miss Julia Sheldon. AVayside. Miss., tied with Joe C. llrannk. Geneva, for fourth honors. There were 84 mem bers of the (lass. 25 of them failed to make a passing grade in the ex aminations. The standings of every member of the class were posted on the bulletin board by Dean Warren A. fteavey. Miss Margolin has declared her in tention of opening a law office upon her graduation from school. She has had on ambition to become an at torney all her life. “Jubilee Week” Will Greet Abe Revnolds j cAbe ^e^nold.5 1 "Jubilee Week" will be observed at llte Oayety theater starting with to morrow's matinee, when Abe Rey nolds, inimitable Hebraic comedian, comes in the featured role in "Bubble Bubble," Reynolds returns to Columbia btirlesk after an absence of three years. Cast year he joined the ranks of the ill-fated Shubert units. Abe Reynolds Ls of the type whose characterization does not tieiie the men of his rare. In the musical play, "Bubble Bubble," he will be seen in a role to w hich he is well adapter!. During the showing of the play in New York recently, the eastern press proved generous in the allotment of ■pace to Reynolds and company. Strangler to Prison. By .\ftftnrmt*<J Tokio, Dec. 8.—Captain Masahiko Amakasu, gendarmerie officer found guilty of the slaying on September )B, of Sakaye Osugf, socialist leader and liLs wife and child, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment today, aft er it military trial which attracted widespread attention in Japan. Sergeant Mori, convicted of acting as Captain Amakasu a accomplice was sentenced to three years in prison. Three other soldiers, also accused of complicity In the slayings were ac quitted. Osugl hail lieen deported to France because of his radical activities, and returned to Japan shortly lieforn he was slain. Amakasu admitted he killed the Osugls by eliangllng them to death after he had arrested them and taken them to a gendarmerl sta tion. lie declared he had committed the murders In his capacity as a citi zen because the socialist's principles sml his actions were detrimental to the peace of society during the cha otic times which followed the earlb qua I- c. Driven hy (ionscifnrr Topeka, Kan., Bee, 8.—A man who gave the name of James ltarg«r U'esivlp, 77 years old, of Minneapolis, Minn., surrendered at the 1'nlted States marshal's office here with the statement that ho was a draft evad er, had been claa-'d as a deserter since 1917, and had traveled halfway Heroes America to give himself up. Westvlg decimal that a guilty con science had driven him to surrender. For Home time h" said, he had been In the service of the Santa Fe Itnll road In California, ss a special agent. Jury for Ex-Treasurer. North Platte, Neb., Dec. 8 -r-Eleven prospective Jurors were examined by attorneys for the state and defense ttiis sfternoon In the case of Salmi. I M. Houder, former treasurer of I,In roln county, charged with arson, em bezzlement and numerous other of fenses The trial got under way this morning after Judge Teweli over ruled motions for a contlnunnrs and a change of venut Colder Weather Due Next Week Washington, Dec. 8.—Weather out look for the week beginning Monday: Upper Mississippi and lower Mis souri valleys: Much cloudiness, prob ably occasional rains over south end snow or rains over north portion. Colder at beginning and again latter half. Northern Rocky mountain and pla teau regions: Occasional rains or snows west and generally fair except probably snow about middle of the week east of divide. Frequent altera tions in temperature. Southern Rocky mountain and pla teau regions: Generally fair, except probably local rains or snows alKiut the middle of the week or over the southeast portion Monday. Tempera ture alsjut normal tlrst half und be low second half. Pacific states: Generally fair In southern and probably central Cali fornia and occasional rains on the toast and rains or snows in the inte rioij elsewhere. Temperature about normal. Win Pri zes. Chicago. Dec. 8.—Honors were swarded last night In contests staged in connection with the boys and girls congress attended by 1.500 boy nnd girl club members here for the Inter national Livestock exposition. In the contest for judging clothing, Nora Flowers of Rolling Fork, Miss., took first place; Mary Field', Lincoln, and Hertha Davis, Spencer, la., was second and third, respectively. Iowa clubs placed first among 20 states In rlothlng exhibits. In the club exhibit of canned goods Nebras ka and Missouri tied far fifth place. Anti-Mask Bill Passe?. Oklahoma Citv. 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He sent her to the end of an Oak Park street car line and informed a morning newspaper and the police where she would he found. The little girl disappeared after she had gone to a neighborhood grocery store Sunday evening. She said her captor took her to a room in a resi dence which police identified as that of Robert Phillips in Harding avenue. Neither Phillips nor his wife, knew the girl waa being held in the attic room which Williams rented. They had returned unexpectedly from a visit out of town and fear that the little girls screams would alarm them, was believed to have saved her from harm. Search for Boy Ends on Finding Skeleton j Seal-tilt for Jimmie Glass, who dis appeared eight years ago from home at Greeley, Pa., ended when his father identified shoes found on the boy's skeleton, which Jimmie wore when last seen. Editors Discuss Ethics. Grand Island, Neb., Dec. 7 —Twen ty-four editor* of central Nebraska are here today, President I.cggilt o' Ord presiding, in quarterly session of tne I,oup valley district of the slate association. It was « business session purely-. The adoption cf u tentative rode of ethics pertaining to free p "Hlelty, paid publicity and barred puIllicity Is on the program. Buy your home this year. Head the Classified ads. . Two Confessions Tangle Mystery 1 Hr* Katherine Haim-, Ifel kJter &Qgfe*imAnn. fOtto Xx?m--[ When Cdward I.chinan was shut liv a man and a woman be interrupted in a factory robbery in Chicago, lie gawped: "l«et Bockelinan!" and died, Waller Bockrlnian was arrested, and Klhel Beck, hiw commnnlaw wife, "eon feswed" to the police wile was with Itockelman when the killing look place and that Bockelinan was the sla.ier. Bockelinan denied the crime. I.ater Otlo Malm, haidened safe blower, w*s arrested and confessed that he was the real slayer and that hiw wife, therine Malm, a "two gun woman," was his accomplice in the murder a. :i in till other crimes. Mrs. Malm, too. confessed. Then the Beck woman repudiated her confession, but she had told the Vory in such detail the police are completely at sea. Standing behind the quartet are Assistant Jailer Straashelm and Assistant State’s Attorney John Sharbaro. Barney Google Gloats Over Defeat of Sassie Susie at Tiajuana Track There is great rejoicing In Barney Googles raring quarters today. Spark Plug's most bitter rival. Sassy Susie, tempted to take extra honors at Tlajurina Friday and finished lgnomi nously. Sasse Susie is one of the entrants in the great cross continental race now on. The purse of 1100.000 was a great attraction to the "Gunnel" and. so great Is his confidence In hla slender legged beauty, he felt that le mid race the horse hard and then hurry to Tiajuana for the fifth event of the Friday card. Sparky Has Hdce. "If I had known In advance that the old gentleman was going to enter his alligator in that rare I would have hitched my puddle Jumper to the fher sooner." Barney Google said Friday night. "I know that my Brown Eyed Sparkey is a better horse than Sassy Susie ever thought of helpg and I sure would have trlmifced that gang right. "It's no\ so had at that. Sas*\ Susie not only lost but she finished last and hot a proud last at that. There wasn't a horse there that has anything on Spark Plug. I saw m st of them when we raced at Omaha last spring." *^lie*NeW HIGH POWERED ) "SIXES \ \ \ All phies f. n. b. 1.arising plus Feder al tax Double frame mounting of power units, low hung chassis, greatly oversized brakes, new rear axle, — modish body lines, generous equipment. Designed and manufactured in the big Reo shops, not assembled! J. M. OPPER MOTOR CO. 2555 Farnam Si. RIO DISTRIBUTORS Omaha. N*h Spat key was not at all sura what all t lie excitement was about last night. He was sure that simply run ning his wonderful race to reach Chicago first would not necessitate all the fuss and extra oats. Rut he accepted the rations and attentions without a mumier and made himself at home in the mamouth hotel garage In which he found his quatters. Barney Google is now threatening to xisit the Tin Juana race track when lie finishes the cross continental rare in the hope of winning some •'easy" money. He declares that he Is not sure that this will be done, how ever." Drill for Oil. Red Cloud. Neb.. Dec. 7 — Workmen are erecting the derrick to be used In drilling for o.l three miles northwest of here. The work is In charge of the drilling company who are putting down a test xvell rear Campbell County’s Smoke Screen Must Go Hopkins Declares Court House Not Immune From Ordinance. K. W. Pitt, city smoke Inspector, called on Charles L'nltt, county com missioner. Friday, to request that the smoke nuisance at the court house be ;ibated. He made the visit at the request of Mayor .James C. Dahlman, who conqploned of quantities of smoke pouring from the court house stack, in violation of city ordinance. Smoke Inspector Pitt is connected with the city building department, under the jurisdiction of Commission er John Hopkins. Commissioner Hopkins Saturday morning declared that the smoke ordi nance will be enforced impartially, and that the court house enjoys no immunity. Hopkins said lie would confer nest week with the city legal department, concerning methods of enforcement, provided the nuisance is not Immed lately abated. "Wilt you order the arrest of all the county commissioners?" he was asked. "No, I think Charles L'nilt would be enough.” Commissioners Hoard rrnm. "If those people in the city hall think the smoke that pours Into their windows comes from the court house, tell them to stand on a chair and look over the court house to various business establishments and office buildings. They are the source of the smoke nuisance," declared Charles Cnitt, county commissioner, Katur day. Other commissioner* rallied to his support. "We buy the best coal available," interposed Charles Kubat, commis sioner. Cnitt re entered the del>ate. "And we use stokers—he hissed. "And dampers,” roared Kubat. "The only reason people in the city hall say smoke comes from here is he,-ause they look out the windows to the south and the court house Is all they s“e. 1st them look beyond." Harding Memonal Fund Is Sought A fund of *3.000.000, of which Ne braska is asked to contribute *25,000, is to be raised, to buy the old h-'iiK-stead of the iate President War ren r:. Hardin?, John I,. Kennedy, active s-ate chairman of the Hardin? memorial association, in a statement last night, said that the contributions may be forwarded to him, or can be paid in at any hank. The old Harding home in Marion, .1 . is to tie taken over by the mem orial association. More ground is to b added and t eautified, and a mausoleum is to be provided for the body (if tbe late president, and his widnw at her death A fire-proof build,ng is to tie ( instructed on the property. f"r the preservation of rec ords, spei-ches, and a chair of di plomacy to be erected in connection with one of the great universities in the country. Plan Speed Meeting. Omaha's improvement clubs are about to act to curb speeding. At a meeting Monday night at K. in the off - e of Ralph Ccad, date will be set. Rr.d plans discussed for a mass meeting of all improvement clubs and other persons Interested in the subject, to be held in the near future. 14,000 Murders; 1,000 Punished K|x><ial lliapabh to The Oaiaha Bee. Reward, Dec. 8.—The state will not ask the death penalty for Mr. arid Mrs. Adolph Vajgrt or their daugh ter, Alby, 13, charged with first de gree murder in connection with the slaying of Anton I-ana, a farm hand r. F. Barth, deputy county attorney, told the Jury in district court here this morning in opening his argu ment. The defense rested its case at 10, and at 11 Barth entered the court room to op* n the argument for the state. He declared In his opening sen tences that 14,000 murders wers com mitted In 1922 and less than 1,000 persons were convicted in connection with the crimes. He deplored a sen timent which he said was prevalent In the country which permitted a per son to commit a crime, and then, with the aid of a clever attorney, to escape punishment. Two Named to Head Board of Trade Chicago. Her. j.—Frank L Carey president of th» grain firm of Nya .lenks * Co., was nominated for pres ident of the Chicago board of trade on the regular ticket yesterday. Fred erick SC Lewis. pre«ident of the gra.r firm of F. S. Lewis & Company, was nominated for vice president. Mr. Carey has been actively engaged in the grain trade for more than 30 years. The election is January 7, 1924 Grip Full of Securities. Falls City, Neb., Dec. 8.—When Burt Blunt, giving Des Moines snd Ames. Ia.. as ids home, arrived here v.n side-door Pullman with a grip full of greenbacks, travelers checks and liberty bonds in his possession, he was arrested oh suspicion. In the sheriff's office. Blunt proceeded to prove that his signature and the one on the bonds were identical and was released. 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