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IS CONVINCED MAN INNOCENT Omaha Attorney Appeals Case Growing Out of Shops Strike TAncoln, Neb., April 9. (Special) A. H. Bigelow, attorney tor Mauro Bruno, has asked the supreme court for a rehearing- Bruno was convict ed of shooting with intent to kill a neighbor named Joe Vargo, because the latter had said he would go back to work In the railroad shops In Omaha after having gone out with Bruno and others on a strike. Mr. Bigelow says that he files this mo tion not because of a last ditch flghl hour and a half address by a nation al organizer to Join the Ku Klux or ganization. Those falling to Indi cate a willingness to Join were dis missed. The speaker appeared un hooded hut his name was not given out. FARM BUREAU RESENTS PLAN Challenge of State Teachers’ \ssociation Does Not Meet Approval Lincoln, Neb., April 9. (Special)— Nebraska farm bureau officials have taken up ’the challenge of the State Teachers' association that farmers lack leadership in rural education and ought to have the control of their schools taken from them and given to a county board that shall name the superintendent and select teachers. Secretary Steward, In an Interview, given out Wednesday, said this raised a very important question that the farm bureau was ready to debate and consider with the as sociation. The latter's plan also In cludes a pension fund made up by contributions from the the state and from the teachers themselves. SEEK RELEASE CONVICTED MAN Friends of Former Treasurer of Thomas County Pre sent Petition Lincoln, Neb., April 9, (Special) - A hundred friends of Jerry Hell man. former county treasurer of Thomas county, now serving a term In prison for embezzlement, appeared In person before the etute board of pardons and paroles to ask bis pa role. They were backed up by pe titions yards long. Heilman was a former railroad man who went Into politics. He udmitted having drawn $6,800 salary In advance of having earned It to put It luto a telephone company, but dened the charge that the total taken was $16,000 as the result of a third audit. v Many of the men In the delegation were county officials * or business men. They told the board they had the utmost confidence In Heilman's Integrity and they wanted him to come back ami take up life there. The deficit of $5,800 was made good. The courthouse burned while the Investigation was on, but Heil man's friends do not think he had anything to do with this. They said his conviction was the result of a political feud, and that only the few left on the other side object to his release. BUILD BIG ADDITION TO STATE HOSPITAL Cherokee. Ia.. April 9. (Special)— The stale will erect a $150,000 build ing nt the hospital to accommodate the receiving wards for men. The Institution Is overcrowded. INDIANS STILL PRESERVE THEIR TRIBAL COUNCIL. Winnebago, Neb., April 9. A cau cus was held In the American Legion hall here to make nominations for 'Members of the Indian council for .he coming year. Only lndi s of the Winnebago tribe participated. Sixteen names were put before the house and from them 12 were chosen to oppose the 1J members of the present council In a genera) election to he held May S. The Tdlans, while citizens and hav ing the right to rote In all elections likewise retain the old Indian coun cil. a relic of the days when the white man and his laws were not. It Is the function of the council to discuss and act upon matters that are peculiarly tribal, such, for in stance. as the renting of lands on the reeervation that ate yet unallott ed and. therefore, belong to the tribe In general. It also deals with claims against the government and makes recommendations to congress relat ing to proposed laws that are In tended to affect the tribe and its In terests. Frequently there is much rivalry as to who shall be on the council and sometimes not a little bitterness le engendered. Of late years the strug gle hua been between the so-called "qld Idluns’’ and the younger genera tion known as the “progressives." The balance has been pretty well pre served, but with the death of ninny of the older Indians the progressive party Is gradually getting In the lead. George Wliitewlng, Lawrence Smith. Peter Samson and John John son were among the older men who took part in th« caucus. Lawrence Smith acted as chairmsin and Charles D Have aa secretary HAS A HEARSE ON HIS HANDS Undertaker Who Sold Busi ness Unable to Unload Vehicle on Purchaser Lincoln, Neb., April J3.-—(Hpecial) —Charles A. Swanson, erstwhile un dertaker at Wahoo, still has his auto hearse on hand. Three years ago he agreed to sell out to Chris Ruer statte and not engage In the busi ness there for five years. He ob jected to the figure of $1,000 placed by appraisers on the hearse and the buyer said to keep it and he would rent It. Later Buerstatte got a hearse of his own. Swanson couldn't sell his hearse for $1,000, and claim ing that Buerstatte had broken his contract by not taking It. he started up In business again. Bueratatte se cured an Injunction In the lower court and the supreme court has held that he was entitled to a per manent order. It also sold that It Is not against public policy to make a contract of the character mentioned, when It covert) only a limited area and as short a period of time aa five years. OIL PIPELINE TO BE ASSESSED Sinclair Nebraska Property Will Help Bear Some of State's Expenses Lincoln, Neb., April 1$.— (Special.) —Nebraska taxpayers will share In some of the benfita of Harry Sin clair’s Teapot Dome lease. In order to carry the oil to the refineries of Kansas and elsewhere Mr. Sinclair has expended millions In a pipe line, with pumping stations and other property of a taxable character, much of this being In Nebraska. It will be put on the tax lists this year. Offi cers of the company and the assess ing authorities are to meet shortly and decide on a method of fixing valuations that will be fair to all of the political subdivisions through which the line runs. NEBRASKA MAN NEUTRAL IN INSURANCE WAR Lincoln, Neb., April 12.—(I. N. S.) —At the closing meeting of the con vention of the state Association of Insurance AgentH, Friday evening, Grand Island was selected as the 1985 convention city. C. T. Flower of Grand Island was elected presi dent; John L. Avon! of Sidney, Joe Steele of Falrbury, P. H. Davis of Norfolk, and John Guthrie of Alli ance, were elected vice presidents; and Fred Groth of Lincoln, was re elected secretary-treasurer. The con vention adopted a resolution declar ing lta neutrality In the insurance war between the TTnlon and Western Bureau companies. NEBRASKA EDITORS TO MEET IN OMAHA Omaha, Neb.. April 12.—Omaha will he host to the Nebraska Press as sociation August 21, 22 and 23, It was announced, following an all day meeting of the board of directors and financial secretary of the association here. KNEW TOO MUCH OF STOLEN GLOVE CACHE Lincoln. Neb., April 12.—(Special) —-William Welter, a Johnson county farmer, must serve the three to six years In prison that a district Judge sentenced him to. The supreme court refuses to disturb the finding of the Jury that his alibi was not good. A bundle of gloves, a part of the loot, was found In his home. A neighbor testified that a lot of tbe stolen goods were hidden In tin cans on his prem ises, and that Welter had Invited him to help himself, but wan told that he would be killed If he Informed on him and Jacey Banker, his com panion. Welter insisted that he had no knowledge of or part In the rob bery. SPIRIT LAKE TO HAVE MOVIES ON 8UNOAYS Spencer, la., April 12.—(Special.)— Spirit Lake ha* voted for Sunday movies by majority of 112. Spencer will hold an election on the question of Sunday movies April 21, bb the new council Is In favor of allowing the people to decide the matter for themselves. Milford has voted against Sunday movie*, while It was curried at Hartley by a large majority. PREPARE TO RAISE BEETS IN TWO COUNTIES Spencer, la.. April 12.—(Special.) — The beet sugar Industry for Clay and Dickinson counties is assured, and a load of sugar beet machinery has been received here and sold. C. A. Genet of the Relmond beet sugar factory, has been In Spencer, and says that he will have enough Mexi can laborers here next week to take care of all the acreage that is planted. 3RAND ISLAND MAN TO SUCCEED ALDRICH Lincoln. Neb., April 12. -(Special.) —W. H. Thompson of Grand Island Is to be made the new member of the supreme court to succeed Judge C. H. Aldriclv who died some weeks ago- The Fifth district has no repre sentation now. and the governor waited until the primary result be came known. Mr. Thompson ran so far ahead of other candidates that his selection Is expected to be an nounced. Mr. Thomps*,u has beep one of the Bryan lieutenants fur years. DEMANDS CASE B DISMISSED Attorney Once Convicted vVants More Than Mere New Trial Lincoln, Neb, April 10. (Special)— Attorney* for It. O. O'Bryan, whose convict ton on a charge of conspiracy in connection with thp sale of stock in the Or eat Western Commercial Body company was recently reversed, have asked the supreme court to order the case dismissed, presenting a number of legal propositions that they say sustain their position. They say that O'Bryan by brow-beating and threats, was made to give testi mony against himself before the grand Jury, and that while ft is pos sible the case will never again be brought to trial, lie Is entitled, under the circumstances, to have his mind bet at rest and not continue to live under the shadow of fear. REFUSEDSEAT ON EXCHANGE Omaha Commission Com pany Carries Case to High Nebraska Court Lincoln, Neb., April 10.—(Special) —Clay & CuBfpany live stock com mission torn of Omaha, have appeal ed to the supreme court from a de cree that denied them the right to ownership' of a seat in the Omaha live stock exchange that they pur chased some time ago for L. C. Mo Adams. Later on McAdams was ex pelled for takln.< secret commissions In violation of the rules, and the seat that his employers paid $2,350 ■ was forfeited and the membership can celled. The firm presented on appli cation, accompanied by the. proper fee, for a transfer of the rnember *hlp to another person, but the ex change refused. The court sustained this position. The company says it did not retain McAdams' services any longer than it was convinced that the suspicions as to his conduct were Justified, while officers of tVn ex change sav that the Arm had knowl edge of irregularities before they did. INSURANCE COMPANY WOULD EVADE PAYING Lincoln, Neb., April 10.— (Special) —A new point In insurance law is brought before the supreme court in < the appeal of the National Fire of Hartford from a judgment for $2,086 In favor of F. M. Kellie, a fanner of Hayes county. This was his loss on a policy held for $5,000. He had giv en a note for the premium and paid part of the sum due. When tho fire ocourred the note wag past due. and the company contends this makes the policy void. The lower court up held the contention of Kellie's at torneys that the part he had paid on the note was sufficient to carry the policy beyond the date on which the fire occurred. SAW HER F1R8T MOVIE; INVALID 30 YEARS Columbus. Neb., April 10. (Spe cial)—Mis* Bertha Krause saw mo tion pictures for the first time in her life this week even though, site has lived in Columbus since her birth. Although Edison invented motion pictures in 1893—Just 31 years ago— 80 years have elapsed since Mies Krause has left her bed. For the en tire period she b|.s been an invalid. Her amazement and delight knew no bounds when C. A. Wise, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. .Sheldon, brought a motion picture machine to the woman's bedside, put a screen on the bed room wall and ran off two reels of motion pictures showing Columbus street scenes. “WILD MAN'* JUST A HOMESICK BOY Yankton. S. TV, April 10. (Special)-— Reports of a "wild man" in dm vici nity of tiayvilie took Sheriff James Foley down there in a hurry. The man was said to be wearing a knotted handkerchief about his head, and to be well armed, with gun and knife. The sheriff found his man. and he proved to he u 16 year old boy, who said he wa* out hunting. Ills folks had sent him out from Chicago to work, and he was lonesome and homesick, he said, and wanted to go back. County Judge Virgil 1). Hoyles gave him meals and lodging until lie could be sent back to bis folks, and found him anything but wild. YANKTON FARMER IS HELD AS MOONSHINER Yankton, H. D., April 11. (Special) —Nels 1-arson, living 12 miles north of Yankton, was arrested by state and federal officers, and Is under $600 bond to appear In circuit court for trial on a charge of manufacturing liquor. A still, some mush, and liquor were found on hie place, officers said. WOMAN WHO ESCAPED CAPTURED IN MISSOURI Lincoln, Neb., April 10.— < Special) —State Sheriff Carroll has received word of the apprehension at Oregon Mo., of Mae Walbue, who escaped from the state reformatory ut York in 1‘ecemher last. She and her hus band were arrested there on a charge of passing forged checks. Wal ace Is wanted in York county on a similar charge, and watch will be kept ot ids case in Missouri so that h • may be brought here when the authori ties there are through with him. [ -- BOY LOSES FINGERS AND ONE EYE WHEN STOVE EXPLODES Ralph MeNaughton, 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mc Naughtoii, Lawton, la., lost two fin gers and the thumb of his right hand and his tight eye was gouged out when the stove at the MeNaughton home mysteriously exploded Sunday evening. The boy was rushed to a Sioux City hospital where attaches Monday reported his condition as fav orable. It could not he learned just what caused the explosion and it is under stood that the members of the Mc Naughton family themselves are ignorant of what caused it. When the stove exploded the pieces of the shattered oven door struck the boy, one piece striking him in the right eye and (he other in the right hand. GERMANSAGREE TO PROVISIONS OF DAWES PLAN Conference of Premiers Ap proves Proposal After Long Debate BY KARL H. VONWIEGAND, Universal Service Correspondent. Berlin. April 14.—Germany accept the Dawes report in principle. Con firming Universal Service’s Saturday cable despatch, following h six-hour conference Monday with the prime ministers of the different German states, the government took a formal decision to answer affirmatively the question put to Berlin by the inter allied reparations commission. The query, as put by the repara tions commission, was: “The reparations commission is ready to give its approval to the re port of the experts and to recom mend its acceptance to the interested governments. However, before the . reparations commission does this, it desires to ask the German govern ment whether it is prepared to as sure the co-operation of Germany in the plan of the experts?-’ Germany, it Is announced, will Tuesday give the laconic answer “yes.” The answer will he sent In a written communication to the re parations commission. As nothing more than acceptance i in principle and co-operation was asked of Germany, the latter will not raise any questions nor make any reservations until the discussion of the plans of the experts is begun by Jhe governments, The conference of premiers voted unanimously the approval of the na tional governments proposed deci sion. The vote, however, was pre ceded by many hours of debate in which particularly Hr. Kugene Von Kntlling, the Bavarian premier, sup ported by the premiers of Wuerttem berg and Meeklenberg. raised grave doubts as to tiie practicability of some of the angles of the Hawes1 re port. They especially demanded that the total sum of Germany's reparations he fixed. FARM AID WAITS ON U. S. SENATE Party Leaders Confer—Dis cuss Mellon Probe and Immigration Washington, April 14. Moment ous questions confronted the or ganization republicans of the Somite today when they went Into party con ference to discuss a course of action. Their principal task was presented by the pending Japanese exclusion amendment, to the Senate immigra tion bill, on which an agreement was sought despite the feeling of leaders that whether they decided to support or oppose the proposal it would be adopted when It reached a vote. In addition, however, they had be fore them the Issues developing from President Coolidge's vigorous protest against the trend of the Investiga tion of the Internal revenue bureau, which lias brought the question of all the Senate Investigations of the executive departments in sharp relief with an open breach between tlie chamber and the White House threatened. Another problem that was press ing for consideration was the matter of precedence for soldier bonus or revenue legislation and behind that lay the crowded condition of the calendar generally with farm relief and other important measures re quiting attention. COOLIDGE GRATEFUL Northampton, Mass, April 12.— President Coolldge sent a telegram to his old friends and neighbors ex pressing thanks for their support of him since h« became president. .... . i-, .... LONDON FAVORABLE London. April 12.—Two days study of the reparation experts' report by treasury office officials has fc.iled to uncover any important proposals which are not acceptable to Great lh it a In. COUZEN3 TO HOSPITAL Washington, April. 14 - Senator James Cougens, of Michigan who has been ill with bladder and Intentinal trouble, was removed today to Johns Hopkins hospital at Hultimore, for further observation. | COURT IS WITHOUT RIGHT TO SENTENCE WOMAN TO LABOR Universal Service Bpringfleld, 111., April 14.—Hard h<uor and hard labor are not to go band in hand in Illinois. So ruled the state supreme court In setting aside the sentence of Mrs. Lena Panohire, sentenced to "work out” her sentence of $1,000 and 100 days in Jail by working on county roads for about three years at the rate of $1 a day. Mrs. Panchlre had been sentenced for contempt of court In a bootlegging case. She Is unable to pay the fine. "The county court was without authority In sentencing her to hard labor,” rules the supreme court. “The law concerning punishment J of misdemeanors is not applicable here.” japansThreat FAILS TO SCARE U. S. SENATORS Members, in Effect, Vote Exclusion Amendment Into Immigration Bill BY JAMES R. NOURSE Universal Service Correspondent Washington, April 14.-—Aroused t.. an angry temper by the threat of Japanese Amabassador llanibara, the Senate, in effect, voted Japanese ex clusion Into the Immigration bill by the overwhelming vote of 76 to 2. The vote was on an amendment which repudiated the "gentlemen’s agreement” under which Japanese have been enabled to enter, and to strike from the bill this diplomatic refuge which Secretary of -State Hughes sought to have recognized. All that 1b now needed to make Japanese exclusion certain is the adoption of a formal amendment which will direct that no aliens in eligible to citizenship shall be per mitted to enter the United States. Even without the adoption of such an amendment the bill, us It now stands, strips the Japanese of every vestige of right they had under the “gentlemen's agreement,’’ or other diplomatic exceptions and leaves them without any status whatever, so far as immigration is concerned. The Senate received reports after its action that President Coolidge may veto the bill. It is taken for granted that the president will Vie guided by Secretary Uvlghes, and the latter already has supported the posi tion taken by Haniliara in protest- . lag against any act of exclusion directed against the Japanese as a race. The vote taken last Saturday when the bill passed the House, and the overwhelming vote recorded in the Senate on shutting out the Japanese from Immigration indicate that enough votes may be mustered to pass it over a veto If the president should disapprove it. Amabassador Hanlhara's threat was the factor which switched the votes to the side of the exclusionists. CRAZED LIQUOR MAKER NABBED Hurls Wife and Family From Window—Shots Barely Miss Officer Chicago, April 14.—Alone In his home with his seven weeks’ old son, Anton Ulmonek, reputed bootlegger, exchanged scores of shots with be sieging police Sunday on his farm at Hodgkins, 111., before lie finally was subdued. Crazed by moonshine liquor, said to have been of his own distillation, Ulmonek threw his wife through a closed window, and hurled after her two of the children, Mary, 11 years old and Tony, 18 months old. Mrs. Ulmonek, who had been cut by the glass, ran to the home of neighbors. After Ulmonek had frus trated efforts of neighbors to re move the baby, an appeal for as sistance wns sent to the neighboring town of Ba Grange. By firing rifles and shot guns from windows on ail sides of the house, Ulmonek kept the police at bay. He was captured after he boldly stepped out in "Trout of the house and had fired point blank at Chief B. G. Matthews of the I-a Grange force, missing him by a hair. The depu ties then grappled with the mad man and shackled him. Several rifles and shot guns ns well as a large stock of ammunition were found in the house. The baby, John, lay crying but unhurt In the crib. FAVOR NAVAL AIR DEPOT Washington, April 24.—The House naval committee today voted in fa vor of a naval air station at Sand Point, Wash. __ Nebraska Bread Weight Law Is Knocked Out Washington. April 14. (I. N. 8.) — The Nebraska law establishing a standard weight loaf of bread was declared invalid by the supreme court of the United States today. The law was attacked by the Jay Burns Baking company, which held it violated the federal constitution by illegal confiscation of property and impairment of contract and “an im proper exercise of the state police powers." ■BATTER, liPT WILL ECHO IN EIGHT PARKS Stage Set for Another Sea son of Great American Sport GAMES TODAY American League St. Louis at Chicago. j Cleveland at Detroit. Philadelphia at Washington. New York at Boston. National League Boston at Philadelphia. Brooklyn at New York. Pittsburgh' at Cincinnati. Chicago at St Louie. BY THOMAS L. CUMMISKEY, Universal Service Sports Corres pondent. New York, April 14.—Baseball will claim its legions Tuesday. A blue suited man, of a thankless task, wilt bellow: “Batter up!” Up to the plate, as thousands yelp and cheer in unalloyed joy, then sud denly still, will go a player, swing ing a bat. Comes the chatter of the player® on the field, on the bench, from the coaches on the sidelines, the pitcher winds up, letB go the first ball, and emotions break bounds in shouts and screams of pleasure, or in a rumble of disappointment. The major league races will be on, A racket that will grow’ and grow, that will stretch away to the fall, until after the world’s series, will commence. ^uuimya i u men In eight major league cities there will be a similar scene. There wilt be the colorful preliminaries, of marching players, of bands playing, and the throwing out of a ball by President Coolidge at Washington and in other cities by mayors or pro minent officials. Behind the wire screens back of the plate will rise the rat-a-tat and crackle of typewriters and telegraph Instruments, the low drone of the scribes, sending the play by play. Before bulletin boards of thou sands of newspapers, beside press tickers in countless clubs and else where, will congregate other fans, thrilling, too, to the lure of America’s game of games. What a grip baseball has! How far reaching the interest? How tremendous its sway! Big Advance Sale All day Tuesday, for several days-, qtueues of fans have been buying tickets, possessed, of a common Joy, thanking the luck that gives their city the first game. The joys of opening day will not be without pangs. The scythe of Father time, the exigencies of the game, have taken away old favorites, replaced by new stars or hopefuls. It is so each spring. This is so, too, wun managers u* six cases. Jack Hendricks Is man ager of the Cincinnati Reds, so finely handled by the late Pat Moran, one of the most beloved leaders the game has known. Dave Bancroft, former shortstop and captain of the Giants, - Is in charge of the Boston Braves. Young Stanley Harris, looking: more like a college captain than » big league boss, is running thv Washington Senators. Lee Fohl. stolid, hard working, has replaced. Frank Chance, a more colorful man. on the Boston Red Sox. Chance haft taken hold of the Chicago White Sox. in place of the inimitable “Kid’" Gleason. George Sisler is leading thy St. Louis Browns, formerly handled by Fohl. Staler Back In Lineup One of the high lights will be the reappearance of Sisler, a very popu lar player, at first base for the Browns. Chicago fans, as those everywhere, will render great ac claim to this star, thrown from base ball all last season by the near blindness of an attack of sinus. Can he come back? All baseball asks. He will give something for an answer Tuesday. But it probably cannot be fully answered for week* yet. A happy sign is his two hits, one a triple, and faultless fielding Saturday in the Browns and Cardi nals game In St. Louis. "Stop the Yankees!" “Stop the Giants!" This will be the great cry of the opposing clubs. They and their fol lowers are tired, upset, over the three years’ monopoly of the pen nants by the two New York teams. Barring possibly the White Sox, Phillies and the Cardinals, who are badly off In catching, all clubs are rated 20 per cent, stronger. A more thrilling race than the past three' years Is expected. The Yankees and Giants surely seem in for a tough time. The Yan kees are generally considered a bet ter bet than the Giants. Fully half a million are expected to attend the opening games. If it was other than a day of the worka day world, the capacity of the parks would surely be insufficient. As it is, many are sure to be taxed. There is every reason to expect a splendid season of thrills, close race* »nd big crowds. Member of Legislature Has Senatorial Aspirations Cedar Rapids, la.. April 14.—(Spe cial)—Representative C. F. Clarke who has been a member of the legis lature for the last six years, an announeed that he would not be a candidate in the June primaries. Wil liam H. D. Stepanek, local business man, immediately announced that he would seek the nomination. Clarke wants to go to the Senate If “Billy’" Haskell decides not to again become a candidate.