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k 12.00 a Year. 5c a Copy S OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924 Whole Number 443
AUSTRALIA HAS
FISH THAT CRY
Explorer Says They Moan in
Treetops and Nurse
Their Young.
New York.—There ure thousands of
squure tulles of fertile, well-timbered
land practically unexplored in the
“Never-Never" of the great northwest
of Australia, according to Cupt. Charles
Beltrund Alexander, explorer, pearl
merchunt and trailer of Broome, West
ern Australia, who urrived here re
cently on the Cunurder Berengurla on
Ills way home vlu Sun Francisco.
Cuptuln Alexander said the British
government hud decided recently to
spend, £11,000,000, to which Australia
was contributing £5,000,000, for build
ing steamships und developing the cat
tle trade from Derby, 100 miles north
of Broome, which was the port for the
new pusture country culled the Klm
berleys.
Captain Alexander sold the possibili
ties of the northwest of Australia were
unlimited. On a recent exploring ex
pedition he found an ebony forest cov
ering more than 100,000 acres und an
other of cypress pine twice us large.
Home Life of the Platybui.
“There are ull kinds of wild nnl
mals,” be said, “including the wild buf
faloes, bounding kangaroo und _ the
wallaby and tliut remarkable lish only
found in Australian waters, culled the
plutyhus, which leaves the sea at mid
night, climbs to the top of the tallest
tree und after uttering three plaintive
moans dives down Into the water be
low. Why the pour tlsh does this no
one knows. The plutyhus has a duck
bill, nurses its young and is web
footed."
Within 150 miles of Broome, the
captain continued, there ure cannibals.
“These aborigines of Australia are
very unfriendly. They use speurs,
boomerangs und wukohrls, a kind of
dub with pieces of Hint In the end.
The aborigines huve no knives, or
steel or Iron implements of any kind
and take a year to cut a canoe out of
a tree trunk with flint axes of the kind
used In the Stone age.
“The chief industry of Broome Is
the peurl fisheries which ure controlled
In New York. We export about 1,400
tons of mother-of-pearl u year, which
Is worth $2,000,000 und the Industry
employs 200 vessel* with 1,000 native
fishermen, mostly Malays and Jap
anese. The output could easily be in
creased to .*1,000 tons a year by putting
wpw on more boats at id more men.
Send Mother«of-Peai I Here.
“The fisheries extend from Cape
Londonderry on the north of Australia,
south to Kx mouth gulf, more than 1,000
miles. The best spot Is considered to
be the ‘hundred-mile beach,' where
Broome Is located. U provides most
of the mother-of-pearl that Is exported
to New York for making buttons. Oc
casionally we find rare pearls In the
oysters. I sold one for $15,000 a little j
while ago in Loadon und another for
$8,500.
“Air pumps are used for the divers
who work In a depth of .'10 to 42 fe»A.
Until 1910 the pearl was ull sent t»
London und the New York button tnak
ufacturers bought tfieir supplies there
but now It Is all handled here.”
Tlie captain said that It was unsafe
for white men to venture far Into the
Never-Never lund unlaw they were in
u party and well armed.
The climate Is sub-tropical and
healthful, he said.—New York Times.
France Revive* System
of Industrial Training
Paris.—The dearth of skilled work
men In France Is causing a revival of
the apprentice system In the form of
training schools in factories. One of
the most advanced of these Is In a
Paris automobile factory, where sons
of employees are given a two-year
course of lectures, demonstrations and
experimental work, and finished off
with a year In the shop, doing a man's
work.
The hoys get alternative lessons In
theory and practice, and are given a
week or two at a time at some ma
chine with the regular skilled oper
ator.
.Somewhat similarly, the thentera *f
Paris have established training courses
for scene shifters In several of the
beat equipped houses.
Skunk With Head in
Glass Tumbler Killed
Plymouth, Mass.—Noticing a skunk
with something shhty on ltp head,
Henry Knight killed the anlrrtal. He
found that Its head was encased In a
Jelly tumbler.
The skunk. In orde* to get the
jelly out of the glass, apparently had
put Its head In so far that It could
not get It out aga'n.
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; Bride Get* $50,000 '
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0 New York.—Blanche Phillips «
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$ marries $150,000 from the estate J
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0 Mr. Phillips, who died Novem- J
J ber 22, provided further In his *
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Panorama of Omaha’s Wholesale District, Freight Depots and Shops
WOULD KILL KLAH
FORMER HEAD
TELLS COOLIDGE
t'lurke Hays Hooded Order Is “Cheap
Political Machine," Dealing In
Character Assasination and
Violence.
DEMOCRATS ARE TO SWAT IT
Democratic National Committer Held
Certain to Propose Anti-klan
I’lank, As Predicted by
CriiHader Service.
Waflhington, 1). C., Jan. 4.—Edward
Young Clarke, Imperial Giant, of the
Ku Klux Klan aggregation of hooded
cowards, who as Chief Kleagle and
promoter took charge of that bigoted
band with a few scattered chapters in
•he South and spread its virus of hate
over the country with unparalleled
rapidity, began here recently a move
ment for either its "reformation" or
destruction.
Armed with documents which, it is
said, will further condemn the klan
before the bar of public opinion, he
established headquarters in the capital,
Issued statements deploring the ten
reney of the order toward lawlessness
and political dictatorship and, in or
der to assure a public hearing, ad
dressed a letter to President Coolidge
asking the President’s co-operation in
forcing the lawless element out of the
klan or, this being impossible, a
complete stamping out of the menace.
Clurke's llccord Unsavory
In order to judge of the motives back
of Clarke’s move, it is necessary to
scan Clarke’s past record. Some of
the chapters in the life of this leader
of the klan in its campaign of “moral
ity and unglo-saxon domination” are:
Feb. 9, 1910: expelled from his
church after his pastor had formally
charged him with lying, extortion,
fraudulent and unjust dea’ings, im
proper handling of funds, false and
malicious slander, inordinate ambition,
insubordination and "hypocrisy and
treachery". Clark never appealed
from this action und no litigation fol
lowed.
On Oct. 31, 1919. found guilty with
his business partner, Mrs. Elizabeth
Tyler, of disorderly conduct. The two
had been picked up a few nights be
fore in a notorious underworld resort
Iu Atlanta, Ua., run by Mrs. Tyler.
Both were in under-garments.
Feb. 28, 1928: indicted at Houston,
Texas, on a charge of taking Louise
Martin from Houston to New Orleans
in violation of the Mann White Slave
Law.
Democrats to Itepiidiate klan
It is practically certain that when
the Democratic National Committee
meets to select the date and place for
the party’s national convention the in
corporation or an antl-Ku Klux Klan
plank in the platform upon which the
Presidential candidate is to run will
be vigorously urged.
In thus following the prediction of
the Crusader Service, the Democratic
Party will be the first of the two big
parties to follow the precedent set by
the Federated-Farmer Labor Party,
like Workers Party and other embry
onic Labor parties In repudiating the
Klan.
It is generally agreed by committee
men representing Northern States,
where the Democrats hope to make
substantial gains next election, that If
the platform Is silent on the Klan
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COOLIDGE FREES
NEGRO LIFERS AS
CHRISTMAS GIFT
Washington, Jan. 4.—Christmas
pardons and commutations for eleven
men serving terms in Federal peni
tentiaries were announced today by
President Coolidge. These pardons
do not include Marcus K. Garvey, who
was recently convicted in New York
on the charge of using the mails to j
defraud, and whose fanatic followers]
have been sending frequent petitions
to the President for a pardon for
their leader, but do include Alvin E.
White, held in Leavenworth Prison,
and Willis Swofford, a prisoner at
Atlanta.
White was serving a five-year sen- ]
tence for having forged a paycheck
while employed in the Navy Depart
ment.
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Madam Anna Schell, 1314 North
Twenty-fifth street, Webster 5569.
Meetings every Tuesday night.—Adv.
blocks of Catholic; and Jewish voters
will desert the party. Moreover, the
Negro vote in the North has become a
factor in the councils of the Demo
cratic chiefs Chief Murphy of New
York is among those who have called
attention to the apparent willingness
of the Negro voter in the North to
vote the Democratic ticket where that
party gives them the square deal al
ways promised but never performed
by the Republican Party.
And it is not only among the North
ern Democratic committeemen that
one finds fierce opposition to the Klan.
Democratic committeemen in Texas
and other Southern States are also
joining tho fight against the hooded
order.
In view of this tendency on the part
of the Democrats to condemn the Klan,
it Is with added interest that the Negro
voter contemplates the Republican al
liance with the Klan In such States as
Indiana, and Republican silence In
most of the other States.
STROM CLUB IS
PROMISED OMAHA
BASEBALL FAHS
President Burch, Who Will Be J924
Manager Signs Crack First
Baseman of Syracuse
Club. Hits .340
KERRIS LIKELY TO RETURN
Barney Burch, president and man
ager of the Omaha Western League
entry announces that if his money
will turn the trick, Omaha will have
a regular ball team during the com
ing summer. His first step to make
this a fact occured during the past
week when he purchased 1st base
man John A. McCarty from the Syra
cuse International league Club. The
purchase price was reported to have
been in the neighborhood of $5000.00
This deal has been on the fire for
some time. At the recent meeting of
the leaguers in Chicago, Burch and
the Syracuse magnate got their heads
together, but Burch was unable to
close as the easterner wanted more
time to think the matter over. But
the ultimate signing of McCarty is
taken as a positive indication that
“Big Train” Konechty will not don an
Omaha uniform in 1924.
M''Carty played with Columbus in
the American association before join
ing Syracuse. Wnile with the Asso
ciation club the new Omaha first
baseman played in the outfield. He
hit .340 with the International league
team last season and is considered a
good fielder at the initial sack.
W,ith McCarty at first and F’risco
Thompson .former Nebraska State
leaguer, at second; Kerr at shortstop
and Jimmy Wilcox at third, Burch
believes he has an infield that will
stick with him throughout the sea
son, something the 1923 infield failed
ALABAMA TO END
CONVICT LEASING
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 4—‘Ala
bama’s disgraceful convict lease sys
tem will be abolished at “an early
date,” according to the Birmingham
News. Negotiations under way be
tween the State Convict Board, which
turns over the convicts to capitalist
exploitation, and the coal operators,
who do the exploiting, are said to be
predicatory of “sufficient success to
insure a change from the present
leasing system.”
NEW COLORED Y. W.
C. A. FOR HARLEM
New York, Jan. 4.—The Young Wo
men’s Christian Association of New
York is planning to replace with a
modem dormitory the present build
ing at Seventh Avenue and 137th St.
used by the segregated Negro Y. W.
C. A. of this city. The Association
is trying to sell the present building
for $72,000, and plans to apply the
proceeds to a modem structure.
to do.
In the outfield the Omaha manager
has Dick O’Connor, Joe Bonowitz,
Don Brown, Althaus, and a recruit
by the name of Pedersen. The
chances are that Nick Cullop, recent
ly sold to the Yankees, will be sent
back to the herd. Should this hap
pen, Cullop will probably be used in
the outfield, as he is a good batter,
being a better hitter while playing
the outfield than he is when taking
his turn on the hurler’s mound.
Burch is dickering for a pitcher
from a big league club. Just who the
chucker is we are not at liberty to
say, but if Barney lands his man he
will be a mighty valuable addition to
the hurling corps. Already Burch
has Byron Speece, Harry Lee and Bill
Bailey as the nucleus around which to
build his pitching department. A
small army of recruit hurlers will re
port to Burch at the Shreveport (La.)
spring training camp.
PROMINENT NEW
TORN CITIZEN IS
CALLED BY DEATH
William Henry Smith Passes Away at
Ripe Old Age After an Active
and Useful Business
Career
AMASSER LARGE FORTIHE
Arrived in Metropolis Youth of Six
teen with Only Few Dollars and
Found Employment in Wall
Street. Son Lives Here
(Special to the Monitor)
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 4.—William
Henry Smith, one of New York’s most
useful and prominent citizens passed
away at his home, 638 Lexington Ave
where he had resided for the past
thirty-five years Christmas Day in
his eighty-eighth year. Despite his
years he had been quite active up to
within a few weeks of his death.
I Bom in Baltimore, Md., February
24, 1836, of humble parents, young
Smith came to New York when six
teen years old with seven dollars in
his pocket and with no education. He
found employment with some of the
leading families of this city, prom
inent in banking circles. He spent
his leisure hours in study and was
dependable and alert. He was em
ployed at a responsible position with
the Bank of New York for forty-five
years. During this time he engaged
in the catering business which was
largely conducted by his wife and
served meals and lunches to the bank
ing firms in Wall street. He invested
in real estate, the rise in the value
of which gave him a neat fortune.
An earnest and devout Episcopal
ian he was for years chairman of
the property committee of St. Phil
ip’s Episcopal Church and was re
sponsible for its removal from Mul
berry street to West Twenty-fifth,
and subsequently to its present site
in Harlem.
The funeral was held from St. Phil
ip’s Church Friday, December 28 and
•was attended by a large concourse of
friends. The Rev. Hutchens C. Bish
op, officiated, assisted by the Rev.
George Frazier Miller and the Rev.
Joseph Alton.
Mr. Smith is survived by his wid
ow and eight children, one son being
J. Frank Smith of Omaha, Nebraska,
who had just returned to the west
from visiting his father.
SPANISH WAR HERO SUCCUMBS
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 2.—John C.
Jordan, former chief gunner of Ad
miral Dewey’s flagship, The Olympia,
and famous for gallant service at Ma
nilla Bay, during the Spanish-Ameri
can War, passed away peacefully in
this city after a brief illness. His
death marked the closing of a unique
career, which began with his enlist
ment in the navy in June, 1887. Dur
ing the battle of Manilla Bay, Mr.
Jordan took charge of the guns on
the Olympia, and for his excellent
sendee during that period he was
later assigned to important duties at
the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
He leaves relatives in Washington, D.
C., where his body was brought for
burial.
Mr. and Mrs. Doris Thornton mo
tored over to Nebraska City, Sunday
to visit relatives and friends.
GIVEN $10,000
FOR $50 LOAN
Grubstake Enabled Prospector to
Recover Land Sold by Guar*
dian—Held in Asylum.
Olympia, Wash.—Combining a curi
ous case in legal practice with the
glamour and romance of the Alaskan
gold fields is the decision of the state
Supreme court affirming the King
county case and sustaining the claim
of Henry Embola to a return of $10,
000 for having added $50 to a'previous
loun of $270 made to John Tuppela. ▲
shift of fortunes, from being the In
mate of a madhouse to the ownership
of a half-milllon-dollar mining prop
erty, Is pictured for Tuppela.
Nor was It the rich mine owner who
contested the $10,000 payment for the
$50 loan or speculation. He wanted
to pay the money, but his trustee re
fused. So suit was started against
Tuppela with C. H. Farrell as guar
dian ad litem.
Confined in Insane Aeylum.
The circumstances were unique.
John Tuppela bad Joined the Alaska
gold rush and after years of prospect
ing was adjudged insane and confined
in an Institution in Portland. He had,
however, acquired valuable mining
claims.
Iteleased four years later he found
Ids mining properties had been sold
by his guardian. In 1918, destitute
and out of work he met in Astoria
Henry Embola, an old friend of 30
years’ standing. Embola advanced
money for his support and took him
to Seattle, where he was taken in by
a relative of Emhota.
Tuppela unsuccessfully sought funds
to fight for his claims, which were
then estlimfled to be Worth $500,000,
and finully made the proposition te
Embola :
“You have already let me have $270.
If you will give me $50 more, so I can
go to Alaska and get my property
buck, I will pay you $10,000 when I
win my property.”
Court Rules Loan Waa Crubstake.
Embola agreed and immediately ad
vHHced the money. Tuppela went te
Alaska, finally recovered his property
and, remembering his agreement, re
quested Mr. Cobb, his trustee, to pay
the full amount, and upon his refusal
to do so this action was Instituted.
Supreme court denies contentions ot
a mere loan, of usurious interest and
inadequacy of consideration. It holds,
ra;hei die money was advanced as an
investment; that the transaction was
in the nature of a grubstake contract,
which lias been upheld by this court,
and the risk of losing the money In
this case was as great as under a
grubstake.
Judgment for the $10,000 is accord
ingly uffimied. Morullsts are uforded
a pretty theme for dissertations on the
dividends of friendship.
Public Health Service
to Study Common Cold
Washington.—A d•tailed stsOy. of
corimioti bolds is to ti« made by the
public heultli service hi so-opesation
with a number of the country's lead
ing universities. l)r. Hugh S. Cam
ming, surgeon general, says colds, I®
llucn/.u and similar conditions are re
sponsible for a great deal of suffering,
loss of time, disability and a not In
considerable number of deaths.
lie says there ure few, if any, in
dividuals who do not suffer from some
acute respiratory condition at least
once a year, losing from a day to a
week or more as a result, and some
attacks develop Into more serious oon
dltlons, at times eveu a latent pul
monary tuberculosis being lighted uPv
Comparatively little is definitely
known as to the real causes, distribu
tion, manner of spread and epidemi
ology of these so-called minor respira
tory aliments, Doctor Gumming says,
and this detailed study being under
taken is expected to be of value In at
tempting to prevent these afflictions.
The work Will be actively under
taken at Harvard university, Johns
Hopkins Medloal school, Georgetown
and Howard universities, Washing
ton; Tttlane university, New Orleans;
Ohio State university, University of
Ghlcugo and UnlversLty of California.
It Is anticipated the studies will as
tern! over two or three years.
Honest Man Pays Board
Bill After 33 Years
Follansbee, Arlz.—John Davis has
paid a board bill which he owed Mrs.
Elizabeth Grimm of this city for 38
years. The bill was $4.
Davis was unable to pay the bill
when he left the Grlmin home, but
he returned. Mrs. Grimm will frame
the $4 as a memorial to “the most
honest man.”
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