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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. OCTOHEK 12. 1921. Freedom Asked For Harvard, Neb. School Teacher Hrlfrt Harris Soli a At torney Tell of Gray JIaireJ Father Vjit ing Son's Release. Lincoln. Oct. '11. (Special Tele gram.) Herbert S. JUrrut. Wesley mi univerfity graduate and superin tendent of chool in half a doen town in Nebraska, jobbed nt a hear in? of the ttatr board of pardons and jjiirolfi at Jud'Te Harry S. Dugan of Hasting told the board of bis gray-haired, gray-bearded father !rayin- for h; on' release from the ocn'tentiary. ' l'oint'ng to Gov. crnor McKelvIe; Jtidpre Dugan said: ) "Today, atandiiiK at the doorstep of hit home in Hastings, this old father, who loves hi.i ion as all I lathers do. has his seared, wrinkled face turned towards the capital city of N'ebra! a, praying no doubt that yon release his en.". ' Harr'.s, it is charped,. In a fit 'of jealousy shot Richard Alter of Har vard in the back while he was j:t tng in the rear scat of Akcr's car. Al:cr. just prior to the shooting, had called on M'ss Edna Korean, school teacher, with whom Harris was rt ported to I infatuated. Just Wild Fancy. "It wasn't premeditated it was just a wild fancy wiiich came into my head to shoot near the back of j his head and frighten him," Harris ' told the board. "I shot too close and graicd his neck." i a j i it...' ' .- uuzcu c.uzcns ironi Hastings, the home of Harris, were present to vouch for his previous good char acter. Dr. Amy Robinson of Hast ings told the board she had gone to school with Harris and knew his sterling character. "Now if you will release him 111 mother him," Dr. Robinson sa d. Harris was arrested in May, 1920. He was sentenced to from one to 10 years. Surgeon to Blame. John G. Hambl'n, charged with the murder of Kachael Engel, 16, Grand Island, asked for a commu tation of his I'fe sentence. An at torney told the board that a sur gical instrument, which broke and remained embedded in the girl's body, was responsible for her death and not the bullet fired by Hamblin. The girl was paralyzed for months after the shoot ng and then died, the attorney declared, from another cause. The daughter of G. E. Shukert, Omaha furrier, appeared before the board and promised to make her dead father's word good by giving Nick Macks'navick work. Mack ainavick is serving from one to seven years for stealing a fur from Dresher Brothers, Omaha. Shukert before his death promised to give him work if he was paroled. 51 Cases Heard. There was a totals of 51 cases lie. : 1. ; A.. W. Carmlchael, 80, asked the state board -of pardons arid' paroles to keep his son-in-law, Harrv Stout, 45, in tiie " state" prison until "my wife and I die," when he appeared before the board this morning. Stout, was sentenced to liie im prisonment for the murder of hU wife, Mrs. Ida Stout, and fie wound ing of his sister-in-law, Miss Marie Carmichacl. , The shooting occurred in Lincoln :n 1914. ..Mrs. Stout and her sis ter had just stepped from a train when Stout fired ton them. , Citizen Committee Protests. A committee of citizens from De Witt, Neb., headed by G. N. Ven ricke, former county attorney of Saline county, of which DeVVitt is the county seat, also appeared be fore the board to protest commuta tion of Stout'i sentence. Mrs. C. W. Stout. 80, of DeWitt. mother of the prisoner, asked the board that, her son be released. He always was sweet tampered and kind hearted, she said. Stout's son, Lieut George 'Stout, a former of ficer of the' American Expe-litionary forre, appeared before the board. "When 'the tragedy occurred my younger brother was just 6 years old," he sard. "Since then I have supported ,him. . He is not well." Former Lincoln Policeman. In his application for a commuta tion of sentence Stout sa;d he -wished freedom so he could "re lieve the older son of the burden of supporting his invalid youngest son." Stout is a former member of the Lincoln police force.- He told the board he would be re-instated on the force if he were released. The prison chaplain testified for Stout, declaring he was a changed man, and that he had become a Christian. State W. C. T. U. Convention Has 125 in Attendance Columbus, Neb., Oct. 11. (Special Telegram.) The second day of the W; C. T. U. state convention was called to order by the president, Mrs. Leta G. Dyar. Devotional was. conducted by Rev. Marie Wilcox, superintendent evangedistic depart ment Roll call of members and officers showing 125 in attendance. The Frances Willard progra-n was adopted by the convention to be placed in the public schools. Dr. Jennie Callfas of Oma'-a gave $400 to complete her pledge for the jubilee fund. . . - A membership fee of ?1 was adopted, 50 cents paid to statf fund, 25 cents to country fund and 25 cents to the local treasurer. The president delivered her annual address urging the association to co operate with the federal officers in inforcing . prohibition. Dr. Jennie Callfas oke of the home in Omaha for working girls. Two Grand Island Women - Fined for Shoplifting Grand Thnd, Neb.. Oct 11. (Snecirl Telegram.) Marie Smith and Mrs. Harel Deuberry, both of whom maintain rooming houses in the city, were arrested and arraigned in the police court on the charge of .L.t:( ti:. :i ...i. possession of Mrs. Deuberry's car , in which the stolen goods had been placed. ', The f-wroer was fined $35 nd the latter $50. The See W?nt Ads. Art the Best Repeal Rail Taxes Adopted by Senate (CmiUm4 la ObO days after the passage of Die tilL Dispoial of these two amendments contituted practically all progress made today on the hill itfelf. Sena tor Smoot, republican; Utah, usdd much of today explaining his pro posal for a manufacturers sales tax and to a political row over the tax bill between Senators Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, and Watson, republican, Indiana. Twits Republicans. Twitting the republicans on the finance committee for accepting the compromise program, Senator Har riso i said he had never known the "old gt-ard" in the senate to be put to such Utter rout , and surrender without giving battle. He sail it was singularly strange that Senator Lodge, the republican leader, attend ed the meeting of the agricultural "bloc" and assisted "in submarining the finance committee." Charging that "certain promises" were made to the "Wall street in terests'" by the republicans in the last camraign, the Mississippi sen ator declared those interests came to Washington last Mav to have the "promises" fulfilled, referring to the White House dinner of May 25, at tended by prominent eastern bank ers Senator Watson said that in the compromise plat the senate republi cans had practically gone back to the house bill; that the democrats on the firance committee had made no prooosals for improving the measure while it was before the comittee and that there was evidence of a fili-. buster b the democrats against this ad other measures in an effort to force the tariff bill over into next year, as close to election time as pos sible. Senator Watson said the republi can had kept in mind "the one great thing we promised in the. last elec tion, repeal of the excess profits tax, and it was for that thing that wc made some concessions." ?athn, whon rv dence bearing on the activities of the klq was pre tented yesterday by Attorney (cn eral Djusherty to Chairman Camp bell, alo wii mi hand waiting to testify. In opening the hearing Chairman Campbell explained that mi Tiber of resolutions had hern introduced calling for a thorough investigation of the kUn. The inveatnut on of whether the order had violated the postal laws would have attention Iron the govern nent, the eha'rman said, as well as charges that Uwlrts act had been committed by nuk4 men. Imperial Wizard Of Klan on Hand At Congress Probe Demand Made on Houc Rules Committee by Congressman Tague for Investigation Of Activities. ..... A.aa P Washington, Uft it. uemana tor i. . , .a an investigation of the activities of Mail OidNS WOITian L"ia 11..- U'Km nviiU 1 if i Art I the house rules committee today ty Representative Tague, democrat, of Massachusetts. Called as the first witness at hear inurs on a number of resolution pro v:ding for an inquiry by congress. Mr. Tague said he first directed the attention of the department of justice toward the klan prior to change of administrations last March. "There is no law to permit men to po out in the dark and take me or my family from my home to punish me whether I am black or white. Catholic or Jew," Mr Tafue de clared. "If the charges as published are true it is time for congress to put out its hand and stop it" Founder Is Witness. William J. Simmons of Georgia, imperial wizard and founder of the klan, was among the firs, witnesses to arrive. He came in with Repre sentative Upsbaw, democrat, Georgia. who has introduced a resolution call ing for an investigation of each and every secret order in' the United States. Attorney General Datigherty also was present at the hearing, which was delayed tor some time while a pack of picture men got photographs of W'ie imperial wizard and the com mittee. On the objection of Representative Rodenburg, republican, 111 nois. how U. S. Delegation On Disarmament Plans Conference be seen, but in any event we pro. pj.e to aliord the aenitled ii.v lions a free and unfeuered oppor tunity I teach the end desired , President Hani ng views the ton- ftrence as an effort to prevent the natural and commendable rivalry ie tween the divers races bordering the Pacific from rtacb:n the stae of armed conflict. Hi conception. American Representative to "hih he incorporated in his .ddre.. , . to the press congress of the world Lonsi Jer roller wi rroeedure .at Honolulu, follow Will Place Canl4 on TaMe, Face Up. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO. t klr. TrtbDM-JIraaU Uar4 Hlr Washington, Oct. II. The pre liminaries of the Washington con ference on the limitation of arma ment will be set in motion tomorrow when the American dclegat on will hold its first meeting to consider questions of policy and procedure. Upon President Harding and the American deleuttes Secretary oi State Hushes, Llihu Root and Sen also said he had told her he had gone t'Totifh marriage ceremony with Miss Masten, although he was mar ried M the ti re. Mrs. Slick said her husband feared prosecut:on on a bigamy charge and that, to help him out of his difficulties, she had agieed to get a divrce so that lis might marry Miss Masten. Pc?toffice Orders Wanhlnston, Oct. It. HpclI Tl gram. I rontiifflc hn been vatabltihcd at wnlk-r. 'Rmnn county. Houth Dakota, with KrJ Pfte-ann at pnMmaater. The following fourth-clana otoffle havA become DrimUIenllal anit ealary poal- .1.. -J j ,u. .v,;in. mum will -rcflve: Iowa. Harpera Ferry. ever, the wizard and the committee . on' -inie. it ii: Roadiyn. n.ooo: Kedillnir, tl.oOO; Uyomina. cumDertana, 11,000; Kort Laramie. 11.000. The Bee Want Ads. Are the Best Business Boosters. And Ta!;es Own life Kana City, Oct. II. Misi Haacl Mastrn, 24, was hhot and fatally wounded today in a beauty shop wlierc die was employed. H. H. Mick, 35, a shoe salesman, aftei shouting Miss , Masten. shot and killed himself. Miss Masten died later. Slick had driven to the place with his wife. He left her waiting in the automobile in which they had come, saying he had business in the bt'ilding. Notes left by Slick refer to Miss Masten as Slick's wife. Mrs Slick. band's infatuation for t.ie g.il. a..d f.n' ileJf2P?i"u0' m elude representatives of the army Phase cf World Problem, "We have heard much in recent years about the problem of the Pa cilie, whatever that may be. I take it to be merely a plu.e of the uni versal problem of the race of men and nations, wherevrr they arc. It hard to imagine justifications in thi day, and age, especially in view of the world's late unhappy experi ence, for armed conflict among civ ilised peoples anywhere and especial ly among people so widely separated as those on opposite borders of the Par lie. "They represent different races, social organizations, political sys tems and modes of thought. He aters Lodge and Underwood de voives the respons. ..i.ty oi eaaer- h d ,hcir w d,, varviB ship in this great in ternational gatli I kVstl.m,, t.rc ,nay well be an amic ermg and there will be an early , , delfrnliliat on t0 fmd out which neeting between the executive and communi,y h the most effet ve he delegation to discuss the po cy f v f J advancement But to be pursued in guiding the delib- ' erations to a successful conclusion ' im. JtMtJfL0tl Alio to hi. cliaeiisseH with the nreti- ? 'SF "Sf w a ST W "a were not included in one group. W. J. Burns on Hand. William J. Burns, chief of the De partment of Justice bureau of investi- and navy, authorities on internation a! law and far cistern questions and other distinguished Americans. Cards on Table. "We have no ulterior motives and when" the conference meets the oth- i cr rations will find our cards on the table face up." said one of the highest officials of the government "We believe it ought to be possible to reach an agreement to limit arm ament, the cost of which is becom ing a grievous burden for peoples to bear, and to remove causes of in ternational friction and misunder standing which exist in the way of an agreement on the limitation of armament. 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Proceeding on the basis that the United States will not halt navy building except in agreement with oilier raval powers, the navy gC"cral board has worked out several alter native plans of the limitation of con struction. The one mot generally favored by the naval authorities is a pro-rata limitation. Under this plan the British navy would be ranked first in strength, the A-nrrican second and the Japanese third. Each of these 1 ations would be obligated not m intreaae its naval strength beyond i'f promt status or its status in a en lain designated future year. Each nuion would be allowed so many dreadnoughts, so many cruiseis, so many detroyers. so many sub marines and so on through lbs classes of vessel. The plan provides that each na tion might build a"y of these classes of ship only to replace ship scrapped. O'Connor Will Com? Will He Uranl in Supreme Court Hastings, Xch., Oct II. (Special Telegram.) 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