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Official Paper of the City of Alliance
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VOLUME XXVIII.
(Twelve Pages .
ALLIANCE, DOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1921
NO. 44
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GHAS. JEFFERS
IS REAPPOINTED
CHIEF OF POLICE
TITY MANAGER WILL MAKE NO
CHANGE FOR PRESENT
INow Engaged in Working Out Plans
for a Reorganization of the
Fire Department
CityManager N. A. Kemmish has
.Teappointed Charles Jeffers police
chief of Alliance, despite the fact that
there have been some objections made
.und despite the fuither fact that ap
plications for the place were handed
in by or or two -men who were fairly
-active in city politics during the recent
campaign when the city manager plan
was adopted.
' Mr. Kemmish has also reappointed
TYank Rickman as chief engineer with
supervision over the power plant and
buildings of the city water and light
department. Carl H. Rockey has been
appointed superintendent of distribu
tion. The city manager is now working
out a plan calling for a reorganization
of the fire department. He met with
the members of the department on
"Wednesday evening and told them
.some of the ideas he has in regard to
. the organization, and has met with a
anost friendly co-operation on the part
of. the firemen.
The following statement has been
issued by Mr. Kemmish in regard to
recent developments in the adminis
tration of city affairs:
"In our public safety department we
-will not have a superintendent' over
this entire department but it will be
-divided into two divisions consisting
of the chief 0 police-land the chief of
the firedepartment. These two will in
turn report direct to the city manager.
"Our police department is a very
important one. I have taken time to
run down several stories only to find
that they consisted largely of some
one's opinion of what should be done
.rather than the facts or law covering
.sujh cases. Tt haa' been our policy to
retain old employes unless there is a
good reason for changing them. It
lhas always been my policy to assist
those working with me and be con
siderate so long as they show a dis
position to conscientiously do their
Aery best. I have every reason to
Relieve that in appointing C, W. Jef
Jers as our chief of police that he will
-do his best to see that our city ordi
nances and laws are lived up to re
gardless of who the defendant may be.
Jfte and the department will no doubt
be criticized. This is to be expected.
-Some will think he is too strict while
others will think he is not strict
enough. Our city ordinances, state
laws and federal laws are our only
guides. It is our duty to see that
these are lived up to. If these laws
and ordinances are not what the peo
ple want it is up to the law making
loodies to change them.
"Our fire department has not as yet
1een 'arranged for. We had a meet
ing of the firemen on Wednesday eve
ning and we will soon have this or
ganization worked out and will be able
to announce our policy land plans at
.some future date.
"We will not have a general super
intendent, for the present at least, in
u rpublic utilities department This
will be divided into two divisions. The
jtower plant and buildings will be un
der the direction of Frank Rickman as
hief engineer who will report direct
to the city manager. The distribution
f our public service utilities, outside
of the power plant, we have appointed
Carl H. Rockey as superintendent of
distribution. His duties wil consist
of caring for the distribution of serv
ice in our public utilities division which
will include electricity, water, sewer
and streets and alleys."
Opening Game of the
Midwest League Is
q Played at ScottsblufT
A crowd of enthusiastic Alliance
"baseball fans attended the opening
t ho Midwest at ScottsblufT.
when the sugar city team defeated
the Casper aggregation, i 10 1, in a
ac hattlo u.Viirh fnllv renaid the fans
foi taking the trouble to see it The
Alliance men were in ScottsblufT to
attend the session of the North Platte
Valley Fhrine club.
There has been a competition be
tween Denver, ScottsblufT and Casper
to Fee which would draw the largest
crowd for the opening game. The
grandstand and bleachers were both
packed, the Alliance men say, and the
- parking spaces for automobiles were
filled to capacity. The only scores
were made in the third and seventh
innings, but outside of these two, the
.game was practically a no-hit affair.
The' feature was the wonderful pitch-
uiff 01 runney, wno snowed up strong
for the ScottsblufT aggregation at ev
ery turn of the game and out-gener-aled
the opposing batters.
Three more games with Casper
were scheduled for Thursday, Fridav
and Saturday, and Sunday the first of
four games with Greybull, Wyo., will
be played.
Following is the score for the open
ing game:
Casper. ab r h po a e
Jackson, cf 4 0 0 2 0 0
Garrily, If 3 0 14 10
McNeel, 3b 4 0 0 1 2 0
Slattery, lb 3 0 0 13 0 0
Hartzell, rf 2 0 0 0 0 0
Dorica, 2b 3 0 0 1 1 0
Bostick, ss 3 0 0 0 1 0
Hale, c 3 0 0 3 0 3
Hoffman, p '3 0 0 0 3 0
Totals 28 0 1 24 8 3
ScottsblufT: ab r h po a e
Clark, If 3 112 0 0
Newberry, 2b 3 110 4 1
McKnight, ss 4 1 2 0 2 0
Flynn, cf 3 2 0 2 0 0
Roche, lb 4 2 2 16 1 0
Hays, rf 4 0 1 3 0 0
Walker, 3b 4 0 0 0 3 0
Benninghovcn, c 4003 1 0
Kinney, p 4 0 0 1 2 0
Totals 33C
27 13 1
Left on base, ScottsblufT 3, Casper
4. bacrince, Hale, Clark, Newberry.
Two-base hit, McKnight, Hays, Mc
Neil. Struck out: By Kinney, 2; by
Hoffman, 2. Bases on balls: Off
Kinney, 2; off Hoffman, 2. Hit bats
man: By Hoffman, Flynn. Umpire,
Palmitter. Time 1 hour 35 minutes.
The score by innings:
Casper 00000000 0 0
ScottsblufT 00400030 x 7
GOV.M'KELVIE
VETOES MOVIE
CENSORSHIP BILL
SAYS THAT IT ABRIDGES GUAR
ANTEED RIGHTS
Declares Home the Proper Place
Teach Morals Curtails Con
stitutional Liberties
to
. Governor Mckelvie at noon Thurs
day annourtcOd his veto of H. R. 113, a
bill to censor all moving pictures in
Nebraska, which had been rushed
through the closing hours of the legis
lature Wednesday night.
The announcement was made just
after the two branches adjourned,
although gossip before adjournment
forecasted his action.
In a statement the governor made
public, he warned that a censorship
of dramatic films was a step toward
censorship of the press, and an in
fringement on the state constitution
guaranteeing that "every person
may freely speak, write and publish
on all subjects, being responsible for
the abuses of that liberty.
Inauguration of censorship, he said,
would be an admission that the home,
the church and the school had failed,
and their importance would be "sub
ordinated to the paternalism of the
state." .
The governor said public opinion
would be "subordinated to the pa
predicted that within two years any
present abuses that might exist
would be eliminated and there would
be no suggestion of censorship.
"There is no more reason to pass
laws against the showing of pictures
that do not have a strong moral in
fluence than there is to prevent the
publication of books and newspapers
that carry the same stories as are
shown upon the screen," th governor
said.
"The right kind of parents do not
permit their children to read indis
criminately, neither should they per
mit them to see pictures indiscrimin
ately. "The guardianship of the child in
these matters is a parential responsi
bility and to transmit it to the state
would be simply to lessen the respon
sibility and minimize the importance
of the home.
"What we want is not that parents
should be encouraged to relax their
proper vigil over their children, but
that they should be called to realize
that the state must not and will not
relieve them of these resopnsibilities."
WAN AM AK ER'S DISCOVERY
John Wanamaker, of department
store fame, took in $24.67 the first
day he was in business. He kept
$0.67 for change and spent $24.00
for newspaper advertising. He says
today:
"If I ever have a monument for
discovering anything, it will be for
finding out that the only advertis
ing of direct and instant benefit to
both merchant and customer is in
the newspaper of known circulation."
BOY CHARGED
WITH ARSON
GETS OFF EASY
ALLOWED TO PLEAD Gt'ILtY TO
A MISDEMEANOR
Father Permitted to Take .Nineteen-Year-Old
Son Hack to
Arkansas City, Kan.
Lloyd A. Wright, son of E. B.
Wright of Arkansas City, Kan., who
was held in connection with the burn
ing of the barn on the J. C McLean
place, nineteen miles northwest of
Alliance on April 17, was permitted by
County Attorney Basye to plead guilty
to a misdemeanor charge in county
court Tuesday afternoon, and was fined
$100 and costs, amounting to about
$150, which was paid by his father,
who came here from Kansas when he
heard his son was in trouble.
The father came to Alliance as soon
as he received word that his son was
in trouble. He brought with him his
bank book and for two days continued
to have the complaint against hia son
charged with attempted arson, dis
missed. Judge Tash had already filed
a transcript of the case with the dis
trict court, and had held the youth for
trial before Judge Westover. The
father admitted that he had very little
money, but told the judge thut he had
nArcnn.lal iVtti nunai (ka 1 . 4-n '
,.v ..v. v, ,,i uoiii iu vuu. nils Mini represents notes guar-
consent to a settlement. Some months anteod by John Krause, when the
ago, Judge Tash announced that, in the plant was in operation. It was neces
future there would be no more "com-1 sury for the company to borrow con
promise with crime" in his court. In sideruble money durin gUs operation,
this Tn:-tance he could do nothing, the! and Mr. Krause guaranteed payment
matter having passed out of his hands, of the notes provided the potash sold
Later the county attorney, accom- did not birng in sufficient money to
pnnied by the father, appeared in meet them. The money realized was
court, where the county attorney filed $03,000 Fhort. Claim for this amount,
an amended complaint, charging a was made against the John Kruuse
variety of attempted arson that ranks ' estate by the company and was al
only as a misdemeanor. There are lowed.
several degrees of this crime, it being I The suits were consented to by" the
less of an offense to set fire to a pile company in order that the Krause es
of rubbish outside a building than to trite might be in a position to recover
set the blaze inside, and the offense its claims aainst the plant, and also
with which young Wright was charged ( that the estate might be finally settled,
could be classed as the lesser crime. I It has been in the courts for some
The youth pleaded guilty to the
amended complaint and the fine was
assessed. The father drew his bank
book and was perfectly willing that
every cent he had should be paid as a
fine, but despite the fact that the judge
was none too favorable to the pro
ceeding, he made the penalty a fairly
light one.
The father explained that the boy
had been a good, obedient son to him,
and that he believed that the youth
would have a better chance to grow
up into "the right kind of a man at
home, under a father's influence, than
at the penitentiary. This view was
concurred in by County Attorney
Basye. Judge Tash some months ago
announced his theory of reformation
and it fails to jibe with the procedure
in this case.
Postoff ice Patrons Are
Urged to Mail Letters
as Early as Possible
According to bulletins received at
the local postoffice, the new postmas
ter general, Will H. Hays, is seeking
to improve the postal service and de
sires the co-operation of the patrons
as well as the men who do the actual
handling and delivery of the mails.
The patrons are responsible forra con
siderable portion of the delay in trans
mission, the bulletin points out.
Nine out of ten, or an even' larger
proporition of business houses, mail
their letters twice daily, at noon and
at the close of business hours. This
means that the postoffice employes
have to handle but little outgoing mail
save at these hours. The late mailing
hour is especially detrimental to good
service, for even in places the size of
Alliance, when hundreds of letters are
dropped in the box along about closing
time, it is often impossible to get it
distributed and routed the' same eve
ning it is mailed. Then the business
man wonders why his letter arrived at
its destination several hours later than
he had figured.
The remedy proposed by the po.-t
postmaster general is for patrons to
mail letters more frequently, if pos
sible several times a day. This en
able the clerks to devote slack hours to
sorting over the letters during the day
and keep caught up with 'their work
all the time. This plan has been triod
out at Washington, where tons of lit
ters were formerly dumped in the p-t
office late in the afternoon, and sur
prising results have been achieved. If
Alliance business men will co-operate
with the postoffice, they will find
prompt repayment in more efficient
service, as well as do a fcood turn to
the clerks.
CREDITORS ASK
JUDGMENT FROM
POTASH CONCERN
ALLIANCE COMPANY" DEFEND
ANT IN THREE ACTIONS
Friendly Suits Seeking Dissolution of
Company and Settlement of
John Krause Estate
Three suits, aggregating over $200,
000, were filed in district court yester
day against the Alliance Potash com
pany, a corporation organized with
Alliance capital in 1917 and owning a
potash reduction plant at Antioch. The
su'ts are friendly in nature, and are
filed in an effort to settle the affajra
of the company without resorting to
the bankruptcy courts. The plant has
not been operating for over six
months.
The first suit is filed by Herman J.
Krause, as surviving partner of
Krause Bros., on a promissory note,
dated January 25, 1919, with interest
at 8 per cent per annum from that
date. A second cause of action in this
suit is on account assigned to Mr.
Krause by the Newberry Hardware
company, in the amount of $59,833.30.
A second suit asks judgment on a
promissory note for $25,000.
The third suit is filed bv R. M.
Hampton, asking judgment for $63,-
ftf Tl, : , . .
time,
Red Cross Activities
to Continue Tho Home
Service Bureau Ends
At a meeting of the directors of
the Box Butte county Red Cross, held
at the court house Thursday morn
ing, it was decided to continue the
present organization for the'timu le
ing, even though the home service
bureau office in the court house will
be closed Saturday of this week.
Robert Graham will continue as
chairman, Ira E. Tash as vice presi
dent, Dr. H. A. Copsey as treasurer
ana Miss Josephine Ganson as secre
tary. There are a few compensation
cases remaining to be adjusted and a
few other matters of business that
are unfinished. Miss Ganson will no
longer devote her whole time to the
work of the bureau, but has announced
that she will be pleased to continue
to give information to ex-soldiers con
cerning compensation, travel pay, etc.,
if they will call phone 746.
There is still some $750 in the Red
Cross treasury, which will be retained
for work in this county. These funds
will be available for emergency relief
and for financial assistance to x-sol-
jdiers awaiting compensation or ad
justment of claims. Ihe records of
the bureau will be left in the office of
County Judge Tash.
The bands of Campfire Girls, or
ganized under the auspices of the Red
Cross home service bureau, will be
turned over to the Woman's club.
1 nomas M. Temple, representing
central division headquarters at Chi
cago, made the semi-annual visit of
inspection Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of this week, leaving for
Mdney lhursday afternoon. Mr
Temple served under Herbert Hoover
during the war and is now endeavor
ing to organize the Red Cross and
the various women's organizations for
relief work for the children of Europe,
He gave a graphic description of con
ditions in the near east. He urged
that all organizations possible be
devoted to making clothing for chil
dren, using old clothes as materials,
Women's societies which are inter
ested are asked to get in touch with
Miss Ganson, who will secure the nec
essary patterns and instructions.
BIRTHS
Word was received yesterday of the
nirth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs,
Prank Reed of Berea, on April 27,
Mrs. Reed was formerly Miss Hazel
McAllister, a teacher in the Alliance
schools last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Waters of To
ronto, Canada, are tho parents f
daughter, born April 17. Mrs. Waters
was fortneily Miss Mabel Wiker of
this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
AI. Wikt-r.
THE WEATHER
Forecart for Alliance and vicinity:
Partly cloudy toniRht and Saturday.
Warmer tonight and cast and central
portions Saturday. ,
Dr. J. R. Cettys to
Speak at Methodist
Church Next Sunday
The Methodist church f this rity
is offering the public another big day
next Sunday when the Rev. Dr. J. It
Gettys of Lincoln, noted author, lec
turer and preacher will speak at both
the morning and evening services.
As a pastor, Dr. Gettys has served
some of the largest churches in the
west, and college students in particu
lar will remember him as n forceful,
inspiring speaker. As a elmutauqua
lecturer, he has filled many import
ant engagements. He is ut present
the corresponding secretary cf the
Nebraska conference claimants' soci
ety of the Methodist church.
His Sunday morning topic will be
"The Trail of the Sky Pilot" end in
the evening at 8 o'clock, "Solving the
World's Problem." Both of these I d
dresses have been given with great
success before numerous large gather
ings, and are said to be masterpieces
that the public will appreciate.
Lloyd Johnson and family have
moved into their home on the corner
of Laramie and Eighth street, re
cently purchased from R. E. Plumbe.
CITY COUNCIL
HELD SESSION
THURSDAY EVE
SEVERAL LICENSE ORDINANCES
WERE PASSED.
Salaries of Mayor and Councilmen
Set at $300 and $180 New
Sewer District.
The city council held ita first official
meeting with City Manager Kemmish
present at the council chamber Thurs
day evening. Every councilman was
on hand promptly at 7:30, for the first
time in history, and the session was
all over and the lights extinguished
at 10 p. m.
The council devoted the evening to
the consideration of half a dozen or
dinances, several of which were pass
ed. Among those on the list was tho
salary ordinance, which set the
amount of pay the council shall re-
ceive,
The members were exceedingly
temperate as regards their desire for
remuneration, the figur for the ordi- suggested to Virgil that he would take
nary councilmen being placed at $180flteps to close the Wilson barn for sv
per year, while Mayor Hampton, over
his protests, will receive $300 . Under
the statute, the councilmen might
have set their salary at almost dou-
ble the figure. In addition to taking I
less than they might have taken, tne
council has already passed an ordi-1
nance which will dock each member
for meetings missed.
The license fee for plumbers was In
creased from $10 to $23. a year, and
that of electricians decreased from
75 to $25. The electricians' license
was set at the higher figure some
months ago, when one member of the
guild appeared at a council meeting
and told the members of the formsr
council that the electricians wanted
the license fee nut high enough to
keep outside companies, with no in-
vestment, from slipping in and max-
ing cut-throat competition. The next
meetinar other electricians came in and
exolained that they wanted a high li
cense, but the figure set was entirely
too hieh. The old council never got
around to resounding it3 action, and
the new council had to do it
Another ordinance passed Tuesday
eveninir created sewer district No. 39,
Inrludini? all of the real estate In
blocks No. H and E, Nebraska addi
tion to the city of Alliance.
The council also discussed an occu-
rmtion tax for moving picture estab
lishments. The old fee was $50, and
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a check lor mai amount nan uecu c-
posited witn me cuy cier, out me
new council felt that the . amount
should be increased. Various amounts
were suggested, some a3 high as $200
per year. The council will meet next
Monday evening, with this as a special
order of business, and in the mean
time figures from other cities in Ne
braska will be compiled.
Several bills were considered,
among them one of $240 hospital fees
and $72 nursing charges for care of
Myda Virdie, the woman who was an
inmate of Mrs. Evelyn McElhaney's
rooming house. The bill was approv
bv Dr. Gcorcre J. Hand, former
city physician, but the council delayed
oayment until an attempt is made to
persuade the county commissioners to
Meet part of the expense,
SCHRAUTSMEIER ,
FAILS TO KEEP
DATE WITH JUDGE
NEGLECTS TO SHOW UP AFTER
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
Given Forty-Eight Hours to Borrow
Money to Pay Fine, But His
Watch Stopped.
The next violator of the booze law
who appears before Judge Tash may
expect to be given every right the law
allows him, but when it 'comes to ask
ing favors, he'll be barking up tho
wrong tree. The judge's faith in hu
man nature received a couple of stiff
jolts this week, and he hasn't recover
ed from the last one. Of course it
may be a mistake, but as the hours
drag by and Virgil Schrautmeier, who
was allowed forty-eight hours to visit
his friends and borrow money to pay
a $100 fine, doesn't put in an appear
ance, the judge's faith is shrinkiai
visibly.
Last Tuesday afternoon, Schraut
meier was tried on a charge of keep
ing intoxicating liquor in a place other
than his dwelling house. Virgil has
been conducting the Wilson barn,
famed throughout western Nebraska,
as a place that has been suspceted of
skulduggery oftener than any other,
unless you count the city hall. ! Sher
iff Miller, Chief Jeffers and othera.
raided this place early Tuesday morn
ing, and buried in a box stall in a far
off portion of the barn found five or
six ginger ale bottles filled with home
made whiskey. They also found a '
half-pint of the liquor in a box which
Schrautmeier admitted was his prop
erty. Three other men who were in tht
barn at the time of the raid, two
McLaughlins, father and son, and W,
J. Seelah, dairyman, were released,
after being questioned by the county
attorney. Schrautmeier was held for
trial. He pleaded not guilty and de
clared tha the had no knowledge of
the manner in which the booze was
brought to the harn The court dicht't
sm nt to believe him. and assessed a
$100" penalty. Vii'Kii didn't have tho
money, and as a special favor was
given a forty-eight hour leave of ab
swice to produce it
Apparently the pickings were poor,
for the time was up Thursday after
noon at 4 o'clock, and Vjrgil had not
put in an appearance. It is possible
that he is staying out because the
prospects are just getting good, or
his waU-h may have stopped, but
Judge Tash doesn't really expect to
Bee him again. County Attorney Basye
year or so on the grounds that it was
a public nuisance, and it may be that
the alleged bootlegger feels that tho
jiqo will go far toward setting hiro
up jn business elsewhere. At any rato
Judire Tash has vindicated his pet
theory that it doesn't pay to be too.
lenient with men who are charged
with law violation.
This is the Ttecntlv time that.boazo
has been found in the barn, and thero
has been wild stories of gambling and;
other amusements taking place there
One time in the dim, dead past, whea
the police offrers arrested a lessee ,
the barn and charged him witn keep
ing liquor there in violation of law,
the case was appealed to district court.
where it was held that the barn was
J a dwelling house. This decision hasnt
influenced either the omcers or wo
county court in ate lyears, however.
Last Chapter ,
Written m
Guyton Case
The final chapter has been written,
on the Jack Ouyton case, says tno
ScottsblufT News.
District Judge Hobart Tuesday re
leased the bond given by Guyton pend
ing his appeal to the supreme court,
l aiie
after County Attorney J. L. Grimn
, , n - ...
ment of unwiiijngness to prosecuto
Guyton, who was accused of assault
ing Marie Dawkins at the Lincoln
hotel January 15, and later lounct
guilty by a district Court jury.
The order or legal procedure was
this: The district court first sustained
the motion by P. J. Barron, Guyton'a
attorney, for a new trial.
The county attorney tnen niea a
nolle prosqui and the case was dis
missed. Now it only remains to clear away
from the supreme court the appeal
there filed by Guyton after his con
viction.
Marie Dawkins. the complaining
witness, is understood to be in Denver
now. Her affidavit that the testimony
she gave at the preliminary hearing;
and at the trial was false, resulted its.
the end of the case. .