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L .==■ THE ( >MAHA MORNING . IEE _ * merely talk about them.—James OH CITY EDITION -— — — 1 ■ ■' ' '' v*r N_ VOL. 54—NO. 111. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1924. *_TWO CENTSln °n*.hc.ml - - -_ Demos Keep Bryan Dark, Says Weeks Campaign Managers Unwill ing to Take Chance on Man W ho May Be President, Speaker Asserts. 'It Is Coolidge or Him” N>‘\v YniU. Oct. 21. Declaring ill aj B i uHo address here tonight that the ^ balloting mi November t will result either in the election of President Coolidge or the election being thrown into congress. Secretary Weeks pre dicted that in the latter event Charles AY. Bryan, the democratic vice presi dential candidate, wo'uld be president by a coalition of democrats and "radi cal elements" in the senate. The voters of the country therefore, the war secretary argued, are confronted v.ith a choice between the two men. “The voters know what the presi dent Is doing," Weeks said. "His rec ord speaks for itself. The voters know that President Coolidge is a man of common sense, raininess, high character, courage ami honesty. They know that he will give them the hon rst and efficient administration they demand. "Aery few voters know' anything about President Coolidge’a principal opponent In this campaign, Charles AV. Bryan. To the vast majority of the voters he is known only as the beoihey of AViliiam Jennings Bryan. Wiiy Davis Picked Bryan. "It has been said Davis, the demo cratic candidate for the presidency, personally selected Bryan as his run ning mate in order to secure the sup posedly powerful support of the Wil liam Jennings Bryan element of the democratic party to whom Davis was not acceptaLde and to nullify as much as possible the effect of the bitter attacks made against him in the dem ocratic convention by William Jen nings Bryan. This statement has never been denied. "Bryan's position on national {.sues is unknown because he has n it partii ip.ited in national politl discussions; In fact, he has hardly done so in this campaign. Although a candidate for the vice presidency, the democratic catn i lien managers are keeping him very much in the background, t hey have not permitted him to npeak in the great industrial cen ters of the east which were called enemy territory by William Jennings Bryan during one of his campaigns. The democratic cam paign managers are apparently un willing to take the chance of letting t 'harles AV. Bryan arouse into ac tive opposition the unpopularity of the Bryan brothers in these sec tions." “Bryans Always Wrong.' Holding’ that through their rears of political and business asso ciations, the minds of the vice presi dential candidate his brother "must 1,. assumed to have been as one on important political issues," AVeeks reviewed the paramount issues upon which the latter has conducted his three presidential campaigns. His defeat in each of these cam i,signs, the secretary asserted, shows ihat "there never lias been a man in ilie public life of this country as per i-tentl" and consistently on the wrong side os great public issues ns William Jennings Bryan and bis brother, Charles AV. Bryan. "They have not given the nation one constructive policy." AVeeks !(kd. "Thev have advocated policies which would have brought distress and chaos to the nation if they had not been rejected. I am not merely . expressing an opinion but a fact dem oast rated time and again in the public records of these men. ‘■r have not the time this evening t„ discuss all the vagaries championed )jV the Bryan brothers, but are not tlic facts I have given you sufficient m prove the utter unfitness of Chailes AV. Bryan for the great oft ice Of president of the l nlted a latest'" ___ Bazar Nets $2tj. gpertnt Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Concord. Neb., Get. 21—A bazar held here by the I.adies Cemetery as sociatlon brought in $245 elear; One quilt, drawn by Mrs. Elmer Nelson, nought $41.85. _ _ French Evacuate. Puesseldorf, Oct. 21. French troop* this morning evacuated the oc cupied zones ot Carlsruhe and Mann helm. . , M’ho evacuation was carried out without Incident. We Have With Us Today tieorge F. An tiller. Newspaper Man, Washington, l». C. Mr. Authler is in Omaha on a tour Of the country, sizing up tho political sentiment and drift for the benefit of Ihe New York World. lie Is a mem ber of the Washington bureau of that fiewspa per. lie got hla start in the profession tn Sioux t'lty and Dps Moines and then, for 12 years was political edi tor of tho Minneapolis Tribune. Ilo is president of tho National ^ i •res* club In Washington. I . ■■ ■' n — il"! lyU *u Gallant Knight 1 Lady Fair, but #° _<mws Him Golden text: A good Samaritan is appreciated—even by the thieves and robbers. J. Leihr of Omaha is chival rous, and a garageman to boot. Sat urday he was chugging merrily along the Lincoln highway a short distance from Columbus, when by the roadside he espied a fair damsel awkwardly engaged in changing a tire of her g«is jinrikisha. “Eye-opener, lulu. pip, queen.” breathed Sir Leihr rapturously. The lady fair also perceived the Knight of Carbureter. “Succor! succor!” she cried. “Here l am,” proclaimed Sir Leihr, putting his foot on tlie brake. He finished changing the tiro. As he stood up lie became aware that two strangers with wicked looking pistols were standing behind him. "Oh, for goodness sakes!” said Sir Cel hr. "Oh, for goodness sakes! FMease point those the other way and be careful: my life insurance has ex pired." "So will you if you don't stick up yer mitts," growled one of the stran gers. Thereupon they relieved the good Samaritan of $27.SH. - "Ta ta, old thing," uuoth the lady fair. "You've been a perfect brick.” And she stepped into Ceihr's car and drove olT with the two highway men. So Ceihr walked into Columbus and wired his brother In Omaha for money to buy a ticket for home. Thus was another man's trust in the deceptive sex blown to smith ereens. Search for Chiefs Slayers Narrows Men Who Shot a ml Killed Minden Police Head Be lieved in Kearney County. Special Ilispateli to The Omaha Bee. Minden, Neb., Oct. 21.—Search for the two men who early Sunday morning shot and killed Chief of Po lice Ace Ransom during a gun battle was narrowed down to Kearney county today when officers ex pressed a belief that the men had not got beyond the county boundaries. State Sheriff Tom Carroll arrived in Minden Monday night, and witli the sheriffs of Kearney, Adams and Buffalo counties, will work with the searching party. John Peterson, Minden garageman, in whose arms Ransom died, left the searching party Monday afternoon to sleep. He had not slept since the shooting of his friend, Ransom. By evening he was back with the posse again, ready to take up the trail of the men who shot his friend. The citizens of Minden are doing their utmost to make the fulfillment of this wish their filial tribute to Ace Ransom. After every trail leading from Mln dep had been followed a.*; far as pos ■ible, tho posse determined that the fugitives had not left the vicinity of the tragedy. With this belief as a basis, the posse will begin today a systematic search of every corner of Kearney county where the men might be har bored. MAN WAS SOBER 10 YEARS, HE SAYS Boston, Oct. 21.—A verdict for the defendant was ordered in a suit brought by Michael Crowley of Bos ton to recover from the estate of Mrs. Emma J. Sinclair $10,000 and inter est claimed to be due on a promise made by the late Frank Jones, Ports mouth, N. If. The plaintiff contended that Jones promised to pay him this sum if he remained sober for 10 years. Crowley, who formerly resided in Portsmouth. N. H., alleged that Mrs. Siilcluir, a daughter of Jones, repeat ed the promise on condition that he did not press her mother for the money. He said lie refrained from bringing suit against Mrs. Jones be cause of this arrangement. The alleged promises were made In 1893. _ POISON CHARGE IN RUM CASE Salem, Mans.. Oct. 21.—Joseph Choulnard, defendant In aUiquor case now liefore the courts here, was ar rested today on a warrant charging an attempt to poison one of the wit nesses appearing against him at his trial. According to the warrant, Chou lnard gave the complainant a bottle which lie said contained medicine for a cold. The supposed medicine burned his tongue and it was analyzed at a drug store. Choulnard told arresting officers the charge was a "frameup.” Mother of Eight Children Divorces Their Father Columbus, Oct. 21.—Married more than 25 years ago, Mrs. Mary Novicki has been granted a divorce from George Novicki on grounds of cruel ty. The decree gives Mrs. Novicki the custody of the minor children and a house and lot In Columbus and directs Novicki to pay her $35 a month for the support of the chil dren. The Novickis have eight chil dren of whom five are minors. Kluii Members Fined. Fairmont, IV. Vu., o-t. 21. -Twelve cases growing out of the shooting of Dun Washington, a negro, by a hand of white men, alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan, eight months ago be cause of tils association with a white woman, were disposed of by Judge J. M. Hhnwalter today when he fined two defendants $50 and coals and iIIh missed the rest. Halibut Protected. Washington, Oct. 21 -Kxchunge «»f ratlflcationa between the United States and Canada of tbo convention to protect tbe halibut fisheries of tin* northern Pacific ocean took place to day. Shenandoah Now Held at San Diego Naval Dirigible Will Remain Moored Until Thursday Before Resuming Flight. San Diego. Cal., Oet. 21.—Safely moored to the 150-foot mast erected purposely for tha* Shenandoah, tlie great dirigible, back here after a swing as far north as Seattle, swung lightly tonight while her officers waited for favorable weather reports in the eastern section of the United States. They expressed the belief this evening that the Shenandoah would not start l>ark to Lakehurst, N. J., before Thursday, possibly not until later. The big dirigible arrived over San Diego at about 4 a. m„ swung down the lower California coast, and short ly after daybreak headed back to ward San Diego. The landing was made at 11 a. m., and 45 minutes later, after 300 bluejackets from the naval air station had hauled her to the mast, site was safely moored. Commander Zachary Lansdowne handled the airship with much skill in landing. He circled twice to get the Shenandoah at about 200 feet above sea level and then noaed the dirigible sharply to the field at North island. It came floating down like a huge whale, the tall sticking up, for several minutes before ballast was shifted to get the proper balance. After that the bluejackets had easy work dragging the dirigible to the tower. Officers of the dirigible declared that the Shenandoah had not been damaged in its rough trip down the Pacific coast, and said that only a few minor repairs would be neces sary to fit the airship for its trip back east. Commander Lansdowne said he would decide tomorrow whether to take the Shenandoah back direct to the east or to stop at Fort Worth. Oasoline, helium, food and oil were taken aboard the Shenandoah this afternoon. , SANTA FE WILL DOUBLE TRACK Chicago. Oct. 21.—Officers of the Santa Ke railway- system announced today completion of construction pro jects opening double track over the entire route from Chicago to the Pacific coast. The last stretch of single track line was In the territory between Albu querque. New Mexico, and Los Ange les. The new link will be put into service about November 1. W. J. Black, passenger traffic man ager of tile Santa Ke said double tracking the entire route to the coast bad been the aim of the system for more than 20 years, improved passen ger and freight service. M isBOuri Chemist to Make Experiments With Intarvin Maryville, Mu.. Oct. 21.—The home economics department of the North west Missouri State Teachers college has been asked by Dr. McKee of Co lumbia university, New York city, to co-operate with hint in working out various uses of Intarvin. Dr. McKee is an Industrial chemist who lias charge of the manufacturing of Intarvin oil a large commercial scale, the synthetic fat being used as food In cases of diabetes. Dr. McKee cante to Maryville for a conference with the local depart meat and described the manufactur ing of the product from glycerol and margarine acid. Dr. McKee states that he expects to put tlie product on the market this fall in an inex|*qtslvo form. The heal college lifts already received a supply which will he used In exp* rl mental work. (luhaii Strike (irows. Havana, Cuba, Oct. 21.—Traffic on the Northern Ttuilways **f Culm, was paralyzed when crews of the pas sen ger trans Joined the freight train crews ami shopmen and other w» ployes in a sympathetic strike to aid strikers In augar mills In the enstern part of Cuba, according to Informa tion received here. . Slayer Is Sane. iOllrtworth, Maim*. Oct. 21. Rolan*I McDonald of AmbcrM, l.VymuoM school boy charged wllh the murder of hi* I ♦•nr her, Mi** Louise (Jerrlmli. last Kpriiiu, ha* boon pronounco*I sane by n conmiisftlon of alienist* ami will go on trial* Man Shoots His Foe in Coast Synagogue Above is shown Solomon Ostrow, who walked Into the Ahabath Sho iom synagogue in Ixis Angeles and shot to death Harry Donny. Ostrow thru fled from the building, shooting two bystanders who sought to re strain him. He was later beaten into submission. Peril to Country in Republican Club Division Chairman Declares Huge Vole Will Elect Coolidge. “No government is safe when only half of the people vote. With a heavy vote predicted for this year we shall see a republican victory for Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes.” This is the statement of William B. Brewster, director of the club divi sion of the republican national com mittee. here Monday. “Minnesota will go republican when election day comes around.”-tie said. ‘People think I am trying to fool them when I say that. But I am From St. Paul and I know what I am talking about. I will be there during the last days of the campaign helping to make the outcome even more sure than it is now. "You will rend November 5 that Minnesota went for Coolidge and Dawes. “Davis hasn't a chance, and knows It. So do all the other democrats. They’ro merely trying to throw the “lection of a president Into congress, Hut they'll not succeed. “I have traveled throughout the country and I can see the drift to "oolidge everywhere. “The people are becoming aroused aver the light being waged by con ’tractive forces against those forces unrest which would tear up our ’onstitutlon and destroy our rights,” He said. RAIL TERMINALS HANDICAP IN U..S. Washington, Oct. 21. — Producers ind consumers of the United States suffer a tremendous annual loss be cause of Inadequacy of railroad ter minal facilities, Secretary of Com merce Hoover declared today. Conges tion in terminal centers is the biggest transportation problem of the day, ac cording to Hoover, who adds that railroad consolidations would go far to remove the trouble. Co-operative associations of Califor nia are acting with Secretary Hoover to bring about an improvement of terminal facilities. Hoover said that the California interests are the great est sufferers from present conditions. DEMOCRAT CLUB HOLDS LUNCHEON The Dougin* County Democratic flub held a luncheon nt the Hotel Rome Tuesday and listened to several speakers. Including K. !•:. Howell. H If. Lovell and Kdwnrd McDonald, randidates for state senator. This was one of a series of lunch r‘oiiH designed to bring the candidates find party workers into closer bar tunny. William Ritchie. Jr., presided. Another luncheon will he given Thursday. '.nidrntified Mail 11 it Iiy I ar Dies Dies al Nebraska Ctiy Nebraska City, Oct. 21.—Tile aged .Hanger hit by a car north of this •Ity Into Holiday died at the Commun ity hospital without, regaining con Hclousness. Efforts are being made lo locate relatives. A message from Shelbyvllle, Mo., said that ho had been an Inmate of tho county Infir mary there for several weeks, but that nothing was known there regard ing him. Australian Ketdgng. New York. Oil. 21 Donald Me Klnnnn. Australian cotiimiaeioner. re signed today and announced he would lotiirn this week to Australia, where he will teenier polities. Ho has been succeeded by .1. A. M. Hitler, an Alt. Irnllnti buslneas titan, recently eon Heeled Willi the Australian exhibit at Wembley, England. Motorists Kill 14,412 During 1923 Auto Accident \ ietinie in Ne braska Total 123 for \ ear, While Death Rate of State Is 9.2. Mississippi Lowest State Washington. Oct. 21.—A total of 14,412 deaths from accidents during 1923 caused by automobiles and other motor vehicles, excluding motorcycles, is shown in statistics assembled by the census bureau covering the death registration area of the United States, which contains 87.6 per cent of the total population. This total represents a death rate of 14 9 per 100,000 population, com pared with 12.5 in 1922, 11.5 in 19-1 and 10.4 in 1920. California topped the list with a rate of 32.6 deaths per 100,000 popula tion and Wyoming was second with a rnte of 24.1. Among 68 cities for which statistics were gathered Cam den. N. J.. led with it rate of 35.4 and Scranton, Pa., was second with 29.2. The state in which the. death rate from motor accidents was'lowest was Mississippi, where the number pee 100,000 was 4.4. Kentucky had the next best record with a rate of 6.7. Among cities where an estimate was possible New Bedford, Mass., w as I lie. lowest with a rate of 6.2 and Fort Worth, Tex., ranked next with 6.3. Figures by States. Figures by states, with the total number of killed and the rate 4*er 100.000 follows: California, 1.239 and 32.4; Colorado, 157 and 15.9; Connecticut, 249 and 16.9; Delaware, 55 and 23.9; Florida, 170 and 1S.2; Georgia. 259 and 8.6: Idaho, 51 and 10.8; Illinois, 1,031 and 15.2; Indiana, 433 and 14.4; Iowa, 242 and 9.8; Kansas, 217 and 12.1. Kentucky, 166 and 6.7; Louisiana, 158 and 8.5; Maine, 91 and 11.7; Mary land. 243 and 16.1; Massachusetts, «12, and 15.2; Michigan, 738 and 18.6; Min-! nesota, 328 and 13.1; Mississippi. 78 j and 4.4: Missouri, 398 and 11.6: Mon tana, 40 and .8.0; Nebraska, 123 and 9.2: New- Hampshire, 59 and 13.2. New Jersey. 672 and 19.9; New York, 1,930 Rnd 17.8; North Carolina, 258 and 9.6; Ohio. 1,078 and 17.6; Oregon, 120 and 14.8; Pennsylvania, 1,592 and 17.5; Rhode Island, 97 and 13.5; South Carolina, 119 and 6.8; Tennessee, 171 and 7.1; Utah, 60 and 12.6; Vermont, 46 and 13.1; Virginia, 200 and 8.3; "Washington, 240 and 16.7; Wisconsin, 292 and 10 7; Wyo ming, 51 and 24.1. 5,618 in 68 Cities. In the 68 cities listed there was a total of 5,618 deaths. The number killed and rate per 100,000 In these cities follows: Akron, 40 (rate per 100,000 not com puted): Albany, 27 and 23,0; Atlanta, 55 and 24.7: Baltimore, 131 and 16.9; Birmingham. 49 and 25.0; Boston, 1S3 and 17.3; Bridgeport, 23 (rate per 100.000 not computed); Buffalo, 137 and 25 5: Cambridge, 28 and 25.1; Camden, 44 and 35.4: Chicago, 589 and 20.4; Cincinnati, 102 and 251: Cleveland. 203 and 22 8; Columbus, 58 and 22.2: Dallas, 34 and 187; Dayton. 27 and 16.3; Denver, 45 (rate per 100, 000 not computed); Des Moines, 18 and 12.8; Detroit, 232 (rate per 100,000 not computed): Full River, 23 and 19.0; Fort AVorth. 9 and 6.3; Grand Rapids. 27 and 18.5; Hartford, 40 and 26.3; Houston, 25 (rate per 100,000 not com puted); Indianapolis, 53 and 15.3; Jersey City, 37 and 12.0; Kansas City, 12 and 10.4. New Bedford Low. Kansas City, Mo., 86 and 24 4; Los Angeles, 224 (rnte per 100,000 not computed); Louisville, 66 and 25.6: Lowell. 18 and 15.6; Memphis, 46 and 27.0; Milwaukee, 62 and 12.8; Minne apolis, 60 and 14.7: Nashville, 28 and 22.8; New Bedford, 8 and 6.2; New Haven. 28 and 16.2: New Orleans, 6S snd 16.8; New York, 964 and 16.3. Newark, 107 and 24.4; Norfolk, 13 and 8.2; Oakland. 50 and 20.8; Omaha, 40 and 19.6; Paterson, 39 and 27.9; Philadelphia, 294 and 15.3; Pittsburgh, 146 and 23.5; Portland. Ore., 39 and 14.3; Providence, 52 and 21.6; Read ing, 27 snd 21.3; Richmond, 26 and 14.4; Rochester, 44 and 13.8; St. Louis, 168 and 20.9. St. Paul, 59 and 24 4; Salt Lake City, 20 and 15.8; San Antonio, 30 and 16.2; ftnn Francisco, 107 and 19; Scran ton. 41 and 29.2; Seattle, 65 (rale per 100.000 not computed): Spokane. 15 (cate per 100,000 not computed); Spring Hold, Mass., 23 ami 15.9; Syracuse, 43 and 23.3; Toledo, 6.1 and 23.4; Trenton, 36 and 28.3. Washington, 86 and 18.1; W liming ton, Del., 29 and 24.6; Worcester, 33 and 17.2; Yonkers, 17 and 15.8; Youngstown, 37 and 24 6. Hold Buyer Sties. Charles A. Kliassen aued John and Anna Kettnaeker and t\ I.'. Haney in dint riot court yesterday, alleging tho> conspired In November, 1922, to well him Hie (’nmmliiR* hotel for $8,009 He alleges It is worth no more than $3,000, amt ask* judgment for the dlf fortnee. Wife Charges Cruelly. Lida Stewart filed suit in Hist riot court yesterday for a divorce from Hubert H. Stewart, a taxicab vheeker, at the Union station. They were dl voreed one© heretofore and she says she brain (be murks of hla cruel treat me j IVi Hie first time In four years, figuratively, the people of Nebraska are able today to rub one coin against another In their pockets. We have been in lietter condition than several of our sister states, hut it has been a long, bard pull. Now the dawn is with us and we can breathe once more and look forward to the coming again of prosperity. The blighting influence of the deflation period seeing to havfc passed. A strange thing that deflation period. At the close of the war the demo cratic party, then,In control in all departments at Washington, purposely whipped up a false prosperity, based upon the Inflated notion that war time activities would continue. Business expanded at an unheard of rate. By 1919 inflation had grown to such proportions that a reaction and panic seemed inevitable The democrats, in control of the federal ,cso*-e board were afraid to 1st down, afraid not to let down. They lost their heads and sent out orders to call loans, to get money into the banks, to run up the rate of interest so litgh that new borrowing would lie stopped. A panic was upon Hie country almost over night. Business of all sorts stopped, billions in values were wiped out. Agriculture suffered most. The farmer not only lost in deflated values, but the prices of farm products were hammered down. Within a few months there were 9,000, 000 idle men and women searching vainly for jobs they could not find. National finances were in a deplorable condition and the future looked dark indeed. Tlds was the condition that faced the republican party in 1921, when it1 look over the reins of government following the defeat of the Wilson policies. * Under restored confidence and intelligent government co-operation business In the Industrial center revived, unemployment disappeared. Now prosperity is returning to the fanners. There is light ahead. In just 14 days the men and women of Nebraska will go again to the polls' to select the president of the United States. There are many issues, so many that at times we may get confused. There is one outstanding fae*,' however—a big fact, and yet simple and easy to keep in mind—we are at the dawn of a new prosperity. It seems certain that the voters of the state will make sure that the dawn shall become the day by voting for: Coolidge and Dawes. Dairy Sire Train at Geneva, Neb. | Second Largest Crowd Since Trip Began \ iews Exhibits.. By WIIX M. MAl l'IN. Muff l rrr'iponfl.nt The Omaha Bee. Geneva, Neb., Oct. SI.—The second largest crowd to greet the purebred sires special was on hand when the train pulled Into the station here today. A scrub bull was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death to I night before court held in the city auditorium. The purebred bull was awarded to Arthur iJirson. The train stoppe at Hebron earlier in the day. At that place E. F. Dill was given the purebred hull, A good crowd welcomed the train. CASKET FLAGS 0. K., SAYS HINES Washington, Oct. 21.—Charges made recently before the New York FedeYa tion of Women's flubs that the vet erans’ bureau had draped the oofllns of soldiers with cheap and shoddy flags, and had contracted for 300,000 which were found to lie minus a row of eight stars, were answered by Director Hines today with an asser tion that all flags purchased since August, 1922—only 2,400 in number— were examined and met with federal reiTttirements. "Samples must be submitted for in spection before an order is placed for flags,'' he said, MACDONALD GIRL TAKES STUMP By Afcnortatrri PrfM. London. Oct. 21.—While Prime Minister MacDonald Is having a strenuous time driving home his ar guments to the voters of the Abera von division of Glamorganshire and other Industrial centers, his daughter, Tshhel, is conducting a gmiling cam paign on behalf of her brother, Mal colm, in the Basaetlaw division of Nottinghamshire. Mies MacDonald confesses she dives not care for electioneering work, de claring: "My line is social work, unlike my brother's, but I'm doing this be cause T want to do all I can to help the government.” New High Mark Readied in \rhor Lodge Registration Nebraska City, Oct. 21.—-Sunday's registration at Arbor l/ulge was the largest on a single day of the sen son, 1,335 names being added to the register. It is estimated that during the season mote than 30,000 persons have visited the state park here. The mansion is now closed for the sea soil, Harry W. Blank New Head of j Franklin Fair Association Franklin, t>ct. 21,—At a meeting of the Franklin County Agricultural viety, Harry W. Blank was elected president in place of L. 14. Koblnett. A. T Heady was re-elected secretary, IM Vatiecr, vice president, and O. Townsend, t rea-stirer Jap Will Lecture. Geneva, Oct, 21 —The Jajvancsc for eiga office lias arranged for a siv weeks’ lecture tour of Japan for Dr Bimbo Nltobe, uudet secretary general of tlie league or nations who will sail for Japan, November 1, from Mu. sallies. Dr Nltobe will devote his lectures to tin- activities of the league at whose last assetohlv Japan took such it prominent part during the framing of the protocol for the pacific settlement of international disputes Republican Fund $26,000 in State List of Contributors Made Public by Walter W. Head, Treasurer. Walter W'. Head, treasurer of the republican state central committee, announced Tuesday that the commit tee had received more than $26,000 in contributions since July 5. Amonjr the list of contributors arec C. D. Robinson, $200; George W. Marsh, $200; Dan Swanson, $250; H G. Taylor: $250; O. S. Spillman. $200. all of Lincoln: Adam McMullen. Beatrice, $376; Charles A. McCloud, York, $500: Charles C. Georce, Omaha, $500: S- H. Burnham. $100: F. H Woods. W. G. Woods and M. W. Woods, $100 each; Isaac M. and W. H. Raymond, $50; H. J. Hall. $50, of Lincoln. O. S. Spillman contributed *300 more on September 20, the record , shows. HUNTER CATCHES LIVE ’POSSUM special Di.patch to The Omaha Bee. Newcastle, Neb., Oct. 21.—An opos sum. considered to be a scarce ani mal In this locality, was captured by James Le Groe while he was hunting near tha Missouri river east of here aftd Is now on exhibition in the Le Groe barber shop in Newcastle. Mr. Le Groe, with the help of hi? dog, treed the animal and shook it from a limb of the tree, thinking it was a coon. When the creature fell to the ground It fell over and shut its eves as if dead, playing ’possum. The dog retreated, leaving the animal alive. The opossum weighed nine j pounds, ANDERSON CASE SENTENCE-UPHELD Albany, X. Y„ Oct. 21.—The court i of appeals today unanimously upheld j the conviction last spring of William i H. Anderson, former superintendent ' of the anti-saloon league of New York state, for third degree forgery. I Anderson now Is serving a term of from one to two tears in Sing Sing prison. MAN IN PRISON' SUED BY WIFE Elva Georgia Skullie filed suit in district court through her attorney. William Nolan, for a divorce from J. E. Skullie. who was sentenced Sep tember 30 to a year and a day in the federal prison at Leavenworth on a charge of writing blackmailing let ters. # She *a>s he used an assumed name and that his real name is Parker. He treated her cruelly. (7. O. P. Cluli Organised. Hr. L. K. Britt organised the South Side Republican ciub nt a meeting held Monday night at the Methodist church. Thirty second and T* streets Officers elected are: Mr. ldllard. president; Mis I.ovet ta Bush, vice president: Mrs, l.cnora Gray, seore lary. Pr. Britt urged his hearers to r>’g Ister and vote The Weather r«»r 21 h«*iir» (Muting . y m fVf.'txi *\ . Pre«i filiation inches .»»'•! hvitiilttMi s I o i>. intnl sine# J tummy 1, ;J nil 3 OH j < lloiirl* Trin|)rmtnr«'«. 3 • m ....... 4P l v m <> I < a. hi 4H .’em 7 a in ....... 4 < S e m | I < * •* in <7 4 e m. 0 H m. 4H by m I I m & 2 * y m > J , I t • in • ' * y m S 4 I l- noon mmim il | v ni t. * . irM - .Afc. 1^4. * Robber Trio Shoots Way to Freedom Yegg* Blow Safe in Bank at Little Sioux. la.; Abandon Wrecked Car, Bag of Silver Near Tabor. One Suspect in Nebraska n.v .ffcROMK rmisi.n;. **•#■1*ff ( c.rri'apiinilnil *»f Tbr Omaha Rrr. Sidney, lu.. Oct. -1.—Three bandits who looteil the bank at Little Sioux, la., and escaped by shooting their way through a group of armed citi zens early Tuesday, were still at large tonight. The automobile In which they fled from the town was found wrecked by the side of a road near Tabor, la . later in the day. Near the abandoned machine was found a sack containing more than $1,000 in silver. All of the bandits had been seep at various times by residents of Ta bor and Sidney, la. Following a search of the wrecked automobile, efforts to apprehend the bandits were begun in four states. The automobile tarried an Illinois 11 cons plate, No. 652S73. and i- be lieved to have been stolen in Minne apolis because of a Minneapolis visi tors’ tag which i* carried. One man. Identified as the heaviest of the lian dif. trio, took a taxi from Sidney to Nebraska City, Neb., Tuesday pftr noon. The other two bandits are be lieved to be hiding south of Sidney. One Man Injured. With state and city officers of the four states aiding, the dragnet is gradually closing In upon the t : ti. That at least one of the men was injured in the accident which wrecked their car Is known. The smallest member of the bandit tri" was seen limping through the fields south of town, A sheet of paper was found among the effects of one of the bandits which bore combination numbers and letters of 99 hanks. The bandits are believed to have started the day’s activities in Council Bluffs, where the Broadway Cleaning company’s jsafe was looted. Ths clean ing establishment Is located on tie highway which leads to Little Sioux. They appeared in Little Sioux shortly after 5. Here they blew the vault of the bank. The blast aroused the townsfolk and a cordon of armed men was thrown about the lank. The three yeggs, all armed, emerged from the bank. The citizens opened fire and the yeggs ran for their parked automobile, a Bodge sedan. Bandits Return Fire. Onee In their car they began to return the fire of the cordon. They used shotguns and drove their as sailants to cover. From then until the careening automobile had disap peared down the road the gun fire continued. About S a car carrying three men. traveling at a high rate of spaed, passed the Bert Fargo farm, two miles south of Trainor. Ia. G. S, Ir win, a farmhand, saw the ear. While he was looking, the machine plunged i ff the road, landed bottom side up in the ditch, rolled over and came to a stop right side up in the road He started toward the scene of the accident and then stopped ar.t watched. The men first took some thing front the oar and carried It to a Pots'll of weeds inside the fence An other member of the trio took a sack and hid It in a jog in the fence. Tie three then picked up various scat tered pieces of their property, ptact 1 them In the car and walked away. Irwin said that no one seemed to be hurt and, because of the sack, he thought that they were whisky run ners. When he looked at the sack « which they had hidden he thought he delccted bottles inside of it. He called the sheriffs office and reported what he had seen. Offer Men I iff. latter Warren Gregory and Johi Hedengaugh. on their way front Tabor to Sidney for fury service, passed the three men walking algnc the road toward Sidney. They of fered to give the men a lift nn.i ais. said that they would go hack ami see If anything could be done with ihe wrecked automobile. The three men refused and Gregory and Reden ci.ugh went on to Sidney, t hortly after lunch Redeugaugh saw iTurn to l’str Two l nlumn S, ,fs.t Fill Up Coal Bin; Cold Winter . Washington. Oct. ?l The l’ he i States is due for an old fashioned witt ier. If the well-known "law of met works out. * In spite of the assertion of tin t’nited States weather bureau that onu distan.-e fot. - . with present knowledge of note.* 'logy. offlotsls admitted today that an >kt fashioned winter is overdue Not since ml tr.s tin country mi. orial a really hitter .'old s, . ,n : t Hinllnp to the records b’olktw nu; ft- ; ■eason there were compai ii»v. ty ;- ' , Vittte: s w'hielt tiidieatr that tVeeinhn . lantiaty and b'elnuuiy will N a sis1 ,1 Hilar eelehraUon. Heavy snow, howling: b!i. ,<rus ilenlv of sleet and biting bold way » - those art' a few of the pleasures i -tore for the country this winter, t; he unoffu- al predictions c-nne true.