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The-hmaha Morning Dee iliii;:] - -■ ■■■ ■ ■" ——■■ For my unron<|tieral>lo nnul. t CITY EDITION VOL 53—NO. 192. - OMAHA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 26. 1924. • ( TWO CENTS " 0F";v\hl>V,d. SEM"** ^_~wnllam Kro,>t llr,,l,T' J v By JUil (1 Tear): Dally and Sunday. »5; Sundas. II.BO. within the 4th ton*. Outatda the 4th Zone (t Tear): Daily and Sunday, *1S; Sunday only. $6. ____^^ Bill to Lend 50 Million to Stock Farms Administration Pushes Nor beck Proposal to Encour age Diversification in the Grain States. Loan Up to $1,000 Each By P. C. POWEIX. Wmhlnxtoii Correspondent The Omaha Bee. Washington, Jan. 25.—Spurred to 1 haste tiy continued pessimistic re ports from the wheat belt, the sen ate agricultural committee went Into executive session today and whipped amendments on the Norbeek $50,000, 000 relief bill In preparation for a full committee vote on the measure tomorrow. Following the meeting. Senator George W. Norris, chairman of the committee, expressed belief that the committee would vote in favor of the measure at Its meeting tomorrow. The Norbeek bill is the only one of three relief measures, Including Norris and McNary bills, which has whole hearted approval of the presi dent to date. It is reported that it was largely through the administra tion's influence that the committee began the sudden whipping of the bill into shape today. l.oniis of SI,000 In Farmers. v Following final action on the Nor beck bill tomorrow, the committee will again resume its consideration of the McNary export corporation bill. Hearings on the Norris bill have been completed. Action by the com mittee on either bill is not expected for many days. The Norbeek Hill, as amended to day, provides for' extension of $50, 000,000 to wheat farmers for pur chase of hogs, sheep, l>eef and dairy cattle. No farmer shall receive more than $1,000 from this fund and he is permitted a |>eriod of five years to return the money to the government at fi per cent interest. The $50,000,000 would be expended in the next three years, $20,000,000 tlie first year, a like amount the sec ,,nd jear and *10,000,00 the last year. The livestock purchased by the farm ers and their offspring are secur ity on which the government will ad vance money. The original bill called for *1,000.000 fcoin the *5,000,000 for use 111 the administration of the fund. This pro vision was stricken today and where withal with which to operate the plan will be provided In the regular appro prlation bill. Magnus Johnson's View. Another amendment cut the secre tary of the Interior and secretary of labor from appointing the commission to hatulle the proposition with the secretary of agriculture and leaves the administration of the plan abso lutely in the secretary of agriculture, lie names those to handle the funds and decides upon details and he is the final tribunal under the bill as amended. Senator Magnus Johnson In a two hour speech insisted that contact of fers w ith farmers should be county commissioners, exclusively, with roun ly farm agents, agricultural agents and other farm organizations abso lutely barred. Objections to the Johnson plan were chiefly to the ef fect such procedure would tend to build a political machine for county politicians and senators. A com promise was effected whereby It is optional with those in charge of the loans to use any one they see fit in dealing locally with borrowing farmer*. Could Be I'sed in Nebraska. This fund. Senator Peter Norbeek told The Hoe's correspondent, can be ^ised by Nebraska anil Kansas wheat farmers, as well as the larger l»ene factors in North and Kouth Dakota, Minnesota, Idaho and eastern Ore gon. It must be proved to those In charge of the fund that the borrow ing farmer has not the cash or credit available with which to stock his farm. Committee hearings revealed that .4 per cent of the farmers in North Da kota had no stock on their farm or money or credit with which to pur chase stock nnd open the road for di versified farming and reducing of wheat acreage in thn northwest. With the administration openly in favor of tills bill, It promises to be pushed through the senate with speed, providing administration Influence !a sufficient In the agricultural com mittee to report It out tomorrow ns promised. The fate of the McNary and Norris hills is less promising St present, ns many observers believe many senators and representatives will state that with the tariff commission Investiga Hon of wheat values in Canada ami the t'nited States nearing a conclusion and a confident belief It will result In an increased wheat tariff and with the Norbeck bill passed and money advanced they will go no further at this session. It was at the request of the admin istration that the senate committee Is to lake first action on the Norbeck bill. The house committee Is to do nothing wltii It until It passes the senate and then rapid consideration is expected In the house committee. New Secretary for (firla' Training School Lincoln, Jan. 25.— Ml** Maude 1* Ale Peck of Oeneva assumed the rtutlea of the secretary of the Girls' Train jnK school at Geneva, today. Ml** Alcl'eck succeeds Mia* Anna Johnson. Wife Asked to Give Up Husband bv “Other Woman,” She T ^ 1$' ■ - v4>v “Would Give Soul to Everlasting Torment for L on Earth to Lavish on W esleyReads Lettei .*»■ traduced in Divorce Case. Letters of lovo were introduced to day in the trial of a suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Vera Fuller Bristol, 2719 Hickory street, against Wesley Bristol, coffee salesman. Mrs. Bristol declares the letters were written to her and her husband by Goldie Hager of Colfax, Ia. One of the letters asks Mrs. Bristol to give' up her husband. The Goldie letters aro filled with ex pressions of great love for Mr. Bristol and friendship for Mrs. Bristol. "I first noticed Goldie'? attentions to my husband when we went to her house for dinner,” Mrs. Bristol testi fied. "That was in August, 1920. Goldie neglected her household duties and showered attentions on my hus band. X found her powdering his nose during our visit there. Then I ac cidentally got hold of her letters to him.” "Dear Husband.” In or.e letter to Mr. Bristol, Goldie addresses him as "Dear Husband.” This letter ia dated In April, 192$, and is addressed to Mr. Bristol, care of general delivery. Portions of the let ter follow: "I am lonely and feel no awfully l*ad today that I just must write a. little let ter and bring myself cloae to >ou in mind at least. '*! didn't go to church aa T expected and wanted to. ... I am so hungry for a night of you. Your idg picture ia my greatest treasure I do worship you ho and it ia difficult to put down on paper in ao many conventional phrase* how much my heart ia yours. And it aches, too, when 1 think of Vera bv your aide. . . . 1 suppose 1 should be generous when she pleads ao hard for no little, but J cannot give you up—or even share you with her now that l am away from Verne. T would almost aa anon know you were dead That may give you an idea of how deep It goes when 1 get * letter like the one yeeterday. And yet I know you love me ns much aa 1 love you. >’© ftftcrlfire Too Cirral. "It Just seems as though no sacrific could be too great to get you away from there. I love you so much, husband or mine. You are my husband, aren't you . Just, aa much as muon aa you have al ways been and my love la back of you in your work trying to glvte you the hope and encouragement you would get if l was there. I want you to feel, dear tnat it" entirely for your own sake that I am hoping for your success But I guess you know by now how queer I am about your money. • I know what you would say about me going out nursing And really I that Betty needs me too much . -Here* a Mg hug and a long uweet kies for you and another kiaa. too. I love, you. love you. dear, and 1 want you. "Bj's bye. Infer mine, until tomorrow. Tour loving ""•thMftl.^ BRIfiT0U" A.k. AT If* to dull M«t*. And her© Is a letter received r» Mrs. Bristol at her home, dated May 8, 1S23, In which tjoldla asks Mn. Bristol to give up Mr. Bristol: "Mv r>c*r Friend —I wonder If I m»y rail you mv frlrnd. or >m I maklna s tnlatak* In thlnklns It even oosslhlr for vou to feel any friendship for me arter all this grief ami trouble. Your sad let ter came to roe thla morning It would take a Voman with a heart of atone not to feel aorrv for hurting you ao. And vet my heart haa been torn. too. tor l love Wesley with all my heart and aoul •*I wonder If you will think I am silly If l tell you I've loved him all mv life— for I had mv Ideal to dream of lust as all girls do. It was 1u*t my misfor tune to marry the wrong roan and mv only excuse is that T was ao voung and homo was so uncongenial that I took what seemed the easy wav out. “But Just as all such marriage* lead to unhanpiness. so did mine We simply were never meant for one another, and God only knows what It has meant to live with a man for whom 1 cared noth Man of DreaUfca. “Ard when It seemed fcs though life was no longer endurable, when 1 had come to the end of my tether—there came a man who was the materialization of all my girlhood dreams -who stood before me, the living, breathing man In mv heart Before he ever aroke. mv h«*art knew him. So. T say. I've loved him—Idolized him since I was old enough to dream. - “And vet there was no thought of him loving me It seemed so wondarful that 1 mss content to know he lived. “Mv da vs were counted bv the houra T spent with him. To see hla dear face, hear his voice, was heaven to me. 1 had hungered ao long for him It seemed as though I roust speak to him or go crazy. Then came the time when I learned of hi* unhappiness at home and of his growing dirsatlsfaction with the lack of affectioiH there. Then it was I begun showing my love for him. “I am sorry to say ! gave both of vou a bad Impression last summer. Cer tainly. I was foolish, because I was hope less I began to realise I had found my mate too late. “Perhaps had I been successful in win ning your regard when I tried ao hard to win ll—I am saying perhaps—I might have, for the sake of friendship, re nounced the love In my heart for your sake. Would fils's I*p Soul “Tou have suffered at my hand*, but what tortures 1 have suffered In know ing you held the most precious object on earth to me—why. woman—I’d give my soul to everlasting torment If I could have a little time on earth to lavish my love on Wesley, r. who claim to be a Ood-foaring Christian woman, would, without hesitation, do that for the sake of a little happiness I’ve been denied ell my life. I've never known what na.p plness meant only when I was In >. es ley’s arms. Sin —No!—a thousand times no! God naver gave two people the power to love one another as we do only to call It sin. He Is tny life, my breath—I cannot live without him. I am spiritually, mentslly. morally a far better woman for loving him and being loved by him. “I've always made of our love a reason for better living; for striving harder for the finer things of life The thought of Wesley always give* me tha desire to do better—to b§ better—-to help people to do right to live and love rlean and pure. . “Nothing In the world means as tnucit to ms es the right to live for him. to care for him. to make * home for him. to give him evervlhlng In mv power to make him happy. Why—my only ambition for three years has been to please him. Bad he asked me for my life, It would have been hla—my heart, he could have lorn out and trampled on and ss long as i was breathing I would have given, given, given. For that Is my love, to give always and 1*» glad and thankful foe Owner of Car Dewrletl in “Lovers’ Lane” Fn SougFit Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 25.—Officers here are trying to apprehend the owner of a deserted car found In "lovers lane/' on South Twentieth street east of the city. A note for $»76, nindo by Joseph liar a to the Bremen (Knn.) State hank was found In a tube box under the seat Which wa* partly covered with blood. The car Is believed to havf been there for several days. Authorities got In touch with Bre men bank officials this afternoon and they will try to communlnste with Bara to Identify the owner of the deserted mschlne. Forfulfru F’lan Danc«*. St. Rrjm's Catholic Order of For esters, ("ourI No. 99(1. will hold a dance Monday night at St. Francis ha' Thirty-second and K streets. what he gives me. If hi* .happiness could be found in loving you. then no sacrifice could be too great. "Ood doesn't make many women as good as you. and I shall take it as a great favor from you. if you Will accept my heartfelt friendship and allow me to be wour confidant and companion. Make my home your home and let us both be happy once more. •*It is with a sincere wish for your sympathetic understanding and my be lief In your desire to be fair that I aign myself. Tour friend. Gold! Hager.A County Board Member . Freed of Fraud Charge By .Gradated Preai. North Platte, Neb., Jan. 25.—T. M. Collagen, I.lncoln county commis sioner, charged with the embezzle ment of |900 worth of county funds, was found not guilty of the charge here late today, when District Judge Tewell directed the Jury to return a verdict in his favor. In directing the Jury to return a verdict of not guilty, the court de clared that Collagen had brought witnesses into the court who showed that he had paid them approximately $1,000 for their work on the South Platte river bridge shortly after the floods of 1921. t'ohagen drew two | county warrants for $1,168, and he is said to have embezzled $900 of this amount. Fair and Warmer Is Predicted for Today “Fair Saturday, though somewhat warmer” was predicted for Omaha yesterday by M. \ . Robbins, go>ern I inent meteomloglst. Omaha Friday wan in the grip of a moderate cold wave which was prevalent over the northern and mlddlewestern stf^tes. A fall In tem perature of 3ft degrees at morning observation Rt 7 was experienced here. The merrury fell to 6 above zero. Coldest In the United States was Moorehead, Minn., where the mercury fell to 22 below. Light traces of snow were reported at Valentine, Omaha and Sioux City. Huepital Hac New Device for Rheumatism Treatment Fremont, Neb., Jan. 2e,—A newly invented electrical device to treat rheumatism and pneumonia baa been installed In the Fremont hospital, and the first patient to undergoe treat ment. Mrs. Roy Dunbar. Fremont, suffering from acute articular rheu matism. is* believed to he showing a marked Improvement. According to Miss lamia Nielson, proprietor of the hospital and former ly with the A. E. F., this Is the only machine of its kind In this vicinity. It Is known as the diathermia and has be«n used in several cases by large hospitals hi the east with much suc cess. After treatments administered over 48 hours, Mrs. Dunbar showed steady Improvement, with a normal temper ature and fair condition, __ 1 mown >laii Spent Dry’s Gift Anti-Saloon Head Say’s $23, 000 Given by Stranger Used for Publicity Purposes. Church 1 e in Court New York. Jan. 25.—William M. Anderson, state superintendent of tlie Anti-Saloon league, today con tinued his narration of the $25,000 he obtained from n comparative stranger in 1912 and 1913, and added to his recital the name of another .comparative stranger, to whom he en trusted the expenditure of the gift. Every ramification of the remark able story -was given in detail by Mr. Anderson, who was on the wit ness stand for the second day in de fense of the forgery charge being heard against hkn in supreme court. Most of the story was drawn by the cross-examination of Assistant Dis trict Attorney Pecora. A -person named by Mr. Anderson as llenry Mann, as mysterious as •'John T. King.’’ who. according to the league head's testimony yester day, made hint the $25,000 gift, was (he added member of the story's cast. It was he, Anderson testified, who spent the $24,700 the league head said he advancedAo the league In 1913 14 for "publicity purposes" and he spent It. the witness declared, without giv ing in return a receipt or a voucher, and without making an accounting of any kind to Anderson. hraroncMn Sit In rrnnt. Interest throughout the day was riv eted on the continued cross examine tion of Mr. Anderson. Today'* crowd was the largest of the hearing, and the audience included a large sprinkling of men in ministerial garb and a dozen deaconesses of the Methodist Episcopal church, who gat on a front bench. The defense witnesses, both clergy men. had brief staya on the writnesa stand. The Rev. I>r. Robert Ragnell. president of the league from 1809 to 1914, told of Anderson's engagement and added that hr. had Implicit trust and faith in Mr. Anderson'* honesty. I'nde/- cross examination, he denied ever having heard of "King” or "Mann.” as did the Rev. James \ . Chalmers, a proteatant Episcopal minlater, who also testified for the defense. The trial was put over un til Monday. (•ot (lift In Hotel. Mr. Pecora, apparently dissatisfied with the witness' statements of ye* terday respecting hi* knowledge of the mysterious "King." continued questioning on this subje-t. Mr. Anderson declared the last time he had se* n "King” wns in th e\Val dnrf Astoria hotel shortly after he as sumed the office of league superin tendent. They had dinner together, he said, and "King” paased over on envelope wrhlch Anderson later found to contain in curreney. f-:- SUNNY SIDE UP ^ ___i-J Comes now the word that John L. McPheeley of Mlnden aspirss to sit upon the supreme bench from the Fifth Judicial district. One Of the regrets of my life !e that I will be unable to vote for Mac. He Is fitted by ability and experience for the po sition. He has been practicing his profession In Nebraska for 40 years, and has bullded an enviable reputa lion. A friendship that has steadily grown for more than 35 years impels me to state that It would he groes negligence upon the part of the voters of the Fifth Judicial district to fell to take advantage of a Golden Opportu nity. Recent cases of martial infelicity recall to mind how Mrs. Bill Tahl of the old home town In Missouri smoothed things out In her own household. Bill was much Inclined lo dallying with the howl that exhllnr ated, and was also much given to flirtatious cornnninlngs with the de cided brunettes of the community. Mrs. Tahl might have found ample excuse for divorce, but she had an other plan. (Sue night Bill rolled In home gloriously drunk. IJld Mrs. Tahl weep and wall nnrl gnash her teeth? Hid she chide BID? She did not. She waited until her liege lord and tanked up spouse was snor ing peacefully, and then procuring h ball of sacking twine and a heavy needle, elm proceeded to sew Hill up in a blanket. Then alia sal by his bed side and awaited his awakening. When Bill awoke he whs hopelessly anil helplessly (led up. whereupon with a blttcksnake whip Mrs. Tahl proceeded lo remonstrate, wielding the whip with arms made strong by long hours of toll ovei lhe w’lishtub. The sudden reformation of William Tahl was the wonder and admiration of the community uml It lasted. II is rumored thal there Is a likeli hood of our National guardsmen being again called to patrol the Mexican border. In lbs event ihai lliey are called for Ibis duly I venture to make protest against any suggestion that any considerable number of them he located ah Hernltig. X. M where 'snip Cody was located on tin pica ‘t was near the aforesaid bolder a This protest, I am sure will he sup ported hy any of the Nebraska sol dier* w ho suffered at I'amp t'ody and who may now lie members of the Nebraska National guard. Coincident with the announcement that Governor Hryan Is to be a can didate for re-election. Frank Harrison comes to town. Whereupon we may hope for political doings tlist will add much to the gaiety of the common wealth. Frank can shrug hi* shoul ders. lift hi* left eyebrow, give hi* light hand a flip, nnd throw more monkey wenches Into political ma chinery than any other man In the west. A* nn innocent bystander I am going to move back a few rod* to escape any possible chance of being hit hy flying fragment* of cog wheels and pinions. "We Must Hare Cash" I* * "ign adorning an cart Doug's* establish-, ment. The institution was locked when I passed hy. thus preventing me from entering ami establishing a com munity of feeling. The world do move! A few years ago, when men and wom u took their church affiliation* so seriously that they had doubts about members of another denomination being eligible for heaven. Key. J. K. Wagner of the First Methodist church would not have dared to tell the stories he told the I'oncordsrs the other night. Hut everybody laughed when ho told the story of a man who figured on locating in n city and asked shout church facilities. According lo (lev. Mr. Wagner the reply was that the “Campbellltes" had their church over l»y the waterworks, the nuptials had their church over hy the reservoir, the Methodist* built next to tlie gas house, and the Presbyterian* located their church sext to .Ir- ire plant. Which reminds me nl the two old Hard Bhell ltaptlst pi in her* who at tended service* innihuit.il hy a die tuple of Alexander I unpliell When the preacher was about half way through s sermon expounding the tenets of hi* fsllli. one old Hard dill’ll leaned over In the other anil said: "Thai man Is nlsuil I.:. 11 right." “lies ill ilghl. but I I go lo hell before I'd admit It. leplled the olhsr W M M. f A Great Deal Depends on Which Gets There First the north western WHEAT FARMER Use of Business Methods on Farm Urged by Editor Farmers in Danger of Drifting Into Peasantry Unless They Co-Operate, Says Har . vey Ingham. "Farming must be put on a busi nos* basis or It will not be many years until we have no farming worthy of the name and traditions of America." • Thla la the judgment of llarvey Ingham, editor of the Dee Moines Register, expressed In a short talk made in Omaha at a luncheon given yesterday In his honor by Charles W. Russell at the Omaha club. Mr. Ingham said that In his judgment the farmers of the coun try were In danger of drifting Into a peasantry, unless adequate farm or ganizations were developed and an adequate understanding of ths situa tion facing the farmers, particularly in the middle west. Is arrived at by the manufacturing and Industrial in teresla In the eaat. "The business of raising corn and w heat and cattle," said Mr Ingham, "must ba put on the same organised basis aa the business of producing oil and steel and cement " He cited these three Industries, not because they are sn.v better organized than many other Industries, but because their organization la typical of the sort of organization which he said the farmers must achieve. t orn Ares IJmIM. •'Corn Is raised on a more limited area of the earth's surface" con tinued Mr. Ingham, “than Oil.” "The corn area ta more limited than the area tn which iron and cos! are found, which Is the basis of steel production. Rralns have heen found to organise the steel Industry, the oil business nnd cement business ns well ns many other Industries and brains will be found and must be found to organize agriculture so that the basts of agricultural production will bear a proper relation to the cost of production." Mr. Ingham expressed the thought that the tariff on manufactured prod uct* In the eastern states was In many caen too high. He also ex pressed the thought that If the tar Iff on manufactured goods la to re main at Its present level, then the eipdern munufat m era must realize that the farmer Is entitled to a pro lection for his product, which will enable him to market under similar price condition*. Referring lo the deflation period 'which fell most heavily upon the fanners In Hie middle west. Mr. Ing ham wild that Hie eastern tnnnufnc tillers and Industrial leaders had fail ed to realize the consequences to the farmers until these consequence* lie gab to show themselves In hank full Ules throughout tlie middle west. Farmers Need Help, '‘Attention l« now lielng glien lo (lies* banks, and while tills pmb tilili will help the luniks, the steps that aye now l-lng taken are nnl go ing to l>e of much value lo the farm er Mi l oolldge and the adminls ration In Washington must work out a plan more far-reaching than the mere aid to dietresed banks.” Asked concerning his views on the polltlral situation. Mr. Inghain said that in hie judgment, unless some thing definite was done by the ad ministration in Washington to help the farm situation. Mr. McAdoo, sltould he t>e nominated, would carry all of the middle-western states, lie also gave it as his opinion that Mr. Brookhart would t* renominated and reelected to the I’nlted States sen ate in Iowa, and that Mr. Norris would be re-nominated and re-elected to the senate from Nebraska Mr. Inghant was in Omaha for only a few- hours, stopping off on his way to Des Moines front a short \a cation In California. George Nelson Dies at Home in California George Nelson, 35, tiled suddenly yesterday at his home in Lung Beach. Cal. He i*ss formerly employed here by the Commonwealth Insurance company rtf which Ills father, Frans Nelson, was president. Before com ing to Onuiha, he wan employed In hanks at llartlngton and Crofton. The family left Omaha for Califor nia a year ago. Mr. Nelson was active In affulra of the Dundee Presbyterian church. 11» Is survived by hie par ents. his wife and two aoiA. III# mother and wife will accom pany the body here for burial, reach, Ing Omaha Tuesday. Burial will tie in Foreat laiwn cemetery, U. P. Appeals; Farmer Loses $73 Judgment for Dead Cow Frem«»nt. Neb.. Jan. 25.—An Appeal to the district court saved the t'nlon Pacific railroad $75 udgment ordered in justice court for the death of a cow owned by Uoyd K. Walter, Dodge county farmer. Walters cow broke through t ho fence from her pasture anti wandered to the trucks. A train came along and the row wa* killed. Walter claimed the roe would not have strayed onto the track* if the com - pany had erected barriers sufficient to keep off all trespassers The railroad countered with the claim that it was not the fault of the company that the cow happened to wander from its own field. The Jury* upheld the railroad « claims and the verdict of the lowe* court was reversed. H. Taylor Will Bo Jmlgo »n CroMmg Safely Poster Uncoln. Jan. ?5.— If. ti. Taylor,1 former chairman of the state railway commission, today was appointed to serve on a committee of fixe which will Judge posters winning motorists of railway crossings. Taylor was ap podded by the A met lean Railway ms social inn ami w ill be associated In the judging with the president of the American Automobile association, the president of the Council of Safety, Interstate t’ommrive t'ontntlaeioner »' C. Mi-Cord, and a member of the American Hallway commission Prizes of 9MM. $300 and $100 will he awarded in the poster contest and an additional prize of $100 wilt l*e paid for the U'*t sloRan subndttrd to go with the poster accepted w The Day in Washington The White House announced that President t oolidge regarded the Tea pot Home evidence a* meriting crim inal action. Albert II. Kail remained in seclu sion awaiting iiis turn on the wit ness stand Monday before the Tea pot Dome eonnniitee. 4. W'. Zevely, attorney for Harry Sinclair, testified before the Teapot Dome committee that Sinclair loaned Xlbcrt II. Kail I25.0IMI in liberty bonds after Kail had left the cabi net. The house way* and means com mittee agreed upon reductions in several miscellaneous taxes. Secretary Weeks received the latest Miis< le shoal* offer of south ern power interests while the house military committee was holding hearings on the question. The leliigh Talley Railroad com |i:tiu before the mixed claims com misMon asserted it had obtained evi dence that the Itlack Tom explosion was brought aliout on orders of five tiemiah government. Arrangements were completed for the immediate calling in Washing ton by the president of a confer ence of representative* of intere*!.* affected by the acute economic con dition in the northwe*! to di*cuss relief action. Couple Married Twice #o All Can Attend Ceremony T.itile Risk. Nob . Jan. 2.V—Wayne Ecknrd and Miss Ruby Kllen Fiti water, both of this county, were married twice in one day. This was brought about hy the new marriage law. The couple went to the morn ing services at the Frog Pond school house near the Gage county line, and later, accompanied hy Kldcr Fit* water, father of the bride, went across the Kansas line where the marriage ceremony was performed. The young couple returned to the afternoon services at the school house, where the ceremony »si re i tea ted hy the same clergyman for those who were unable to attend the first ceremony. Huron Stockyard# Burn, Kntailin^ $14,000 Loss Huron. S. P . J«n. C.x—The Huron Yards company k\:tid* here tvrro completely destroyed by fire today, entailing * J*"*a to the yard!* ami huildim;* of |34,0<)B, covered by in au ranee. Heiween TOO ami <00 bog’* an l a «:ir!oad of abeop wer* burned to death, all covered by Insurance The egplpalon of a atove In the office la aald to ba\o eolieed the fire Marrietl in Council llluff#. Th* telkxxMnii paraont obtained mar 11 gr ^ v* lloenae* in c'.xynril Oluffi tax <* V Hannan s.'iih, Ki” . 5* A * \N .4 £ ! w f f * x ’ i n a K * " .. $ d John N#|»«xn Hiwxp*' Nrl *%«•••.M Mari* bi.*nar«>k Hoxxrll* Neb A' 1 hu» Ada n « *'i> k ( ■ ' t 11 . * Kltnor* i'rn»* l»i»v*Mixrl l» . •& William lixer# reuucll l* <*<(* 'l Marx Krloar «oun. 11 IllnfN x P Jam#! Sli Hiixek Omaha it It *n* \\ ,x|f Omaha K . 1 7• *i »1. N fix Helm* L’t anda*x»x f .’p*nha e* I'rnina - k ’« I I 'xd \pi’l#l)U'«s Woodbin* la « Maa fbi> *x* * % N«o)a la ,4 More Loans to Fall Are Disclosed President Sees No Excuse for £25,000 “Gift” and Ex pense Money Given by Sinclair Lawyer. Ex-Secretary Is Bedfast Rr l nlvmial dfrrlw. Washington, Jan. 25.—Col. J. W. Zevely, agent and personal counsel of Harry F. Sinclair, owner of the Teapot Dome lease, loaned former Secretary Albert B. Fall $25.000 of Sinclair's money, Zevely told the sen* ate Investigating committee today* Jle also gave Fall $10,000 for "ex penses’’ to P.ussl^ he said. Frederick C. Dezendorf, formerly In the publlo land office, testified that l^cause he made an adverse report cn all land In California sought by the Standard Oil Interests, he was demoted by Fall an dhls report was "lost." He said that subsequently Fall took into his own hands the government case to oust the Stand ard Oil, dismissed the proceedings end turned the property over to the Standard. The $25,000 loan and the allowance of $ie f>oo for expenses bring the ac knowledged gifts or loan* to Fall on account of hi *transactlons in the oil lease* up to $135,000. This briefly summarizes today's tes timony. To Recall Roosevelt. Tomorrow. .xrcnie Kooseveit. woo resigned from Sinclair's employ Ire cause the was convinced there had l>ceii corrup'ion in obtaining the^Tea !>ot Dome lease, will be recalled. G. D. Wahlberg, private secretary to Sinclair, was charged by Roosevelt with having said he saw canceled checks for $88,000 paid to Fall's fore man. also will Ire heard aga.n at tomorrow's session. Other sensational developments to day were: 1. President Coolidge announced, following a cabinet meeting, devoted exclusively to discussion of the oil lease scandal, that hla reading of the testimony strongly Indicated criminal wrong-doing, and that the guilty will be brought to justice if the evidence r.o wiping taken sustains this view. Tlie executive feels that any finan cial Injury to the government must lie righted, but that prosecution of Individuals guilty of criminal act* i\a most Jmjrortant consideration. \n Excuse for loan. The White House regards the tes timony given by 35evely today as more damaging than an yet devel oped. The president's view is that assuming there was possible usiifi ■-ation for the Doheny loan to Fall on the ground of friendship, there was certainly nO such reason for Zevely, Sinclair's man. to lend the ex secre tary any large amount. 5. Secretary Denby, who was a party to the leasing of the naval oil fields, admitted at the cabinet meet ing that he is now convinced "tha wool was pulled over his eyes" in the granting of the leases at Full's suggestion. The secretary urged fed eral action in the matter to do io tha bottom of tho entire mess. 3. Edward I. Doheny. who testi fied yesterday that he made a loan of $100,000 to Fall on an unsecured note five months before signing the con tract fur the lease of naval res< rve No. 1. was closeted throughout the day with hla attorney and bu?:ne*s advisers, eight in number. Fall Really Sirk. 4. Fall, broken In health by expos ure of his conduct in dispensing the leases, and deserted by all sa\e h’s frienda In the oil companies, spent the day In bed under care of a physician at the home of Colonel Xevety, with whom he traveled from New Orleans. It was said by the physician that Fait is really a sick man. the trip to Wash ington having caused additional con gestion in the chest. 3. Senators Caraway and Ws’sli conferred on the text of the Joint res olution. which will be introduced next Monday, calling on the president to take immediate action to cancel tha leases made by Fall of the naval re serve. f Republican leaders In the hou-e supported democrats In demanding swift action by congress and thepres blenlt to revoke the leases and com pel restitution by and possible prose cution of all persons Involved Work Goes Unhalted on Naw Oil Reserve 0 New Ycrk Jan S3.—Official* of the Pan American Petroleum and Transport company here today de nied reports they had received order* from Washington to stop all opera tions of the company's lease of naval icserve No 1 In California. The re port was circulated by s financial news service. If *uch order* h*'* been issued it was said they probably would be given at Washington to R. 1- Doheny. head of the company, or sent to the company * Caltforw a headquarters at la's Angeles. Washington, Jan. iS.— Inquiries at the White House, the lVpartment of Justice and ihe Interior and N«' > departments this afternoon failed lo reveal that any orders had been is sued to stop operations on the naval reserves in California which wens leas.si to the Pan Vmerican Petroleum mpanv bv Secrcary Inisi . ran to