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GETS JUDGMENT IN HIGH COURT f urety Company Must Pay $2,300 Damages to Holt County Woman Lincoln. Neb., (Special)— Mrs Moran, of fiolt county, se cured a Judgment in supreme court against the Standard Accident com pany for $2,300 and it must also pay her attorney’s fee of $500. The Lakeside bank of Lake An des, S D.. some years ago attached the transfer of some land to Mrs. Moran by her husband, claiming it was fraudulent, and had a receiver appointed. It lost in district court, and the accident company signed ♦he supersedeas bond. The bank lost its appeal also, and Mrs. Moran sued for damages on the surety bond. The insurance company claimed that the trial Judge had now power to fix the terms and conditions of the bond that he did not include, but the supreme court says that as the company signed the bond with these terms in it and never com plained about it to the supreme court, when it had Jurisdiction and power to make any changes believed necessary, it cannot now attack the instrument. ALBION C ROW HUNTER BRINGS IN BIG EAGLE Albion. Neb., _ (Special)— While hunting crows southwest of Albion. Robert Daigh shot an eagle weighing 25 pounds and with a wing spread of 7 feet. The huge bird was roosting in the trees with crows and it was with the intention of killing crows that Daigh shot. This is the second eagle to be shot In Boone county in the last month. COURT ORDERS INSURANCE MONEY PAID TO WIDOW Lincoln. Neb., (Special)— In spite of the fact that the Modern Woodmen never issued a policy of insurance tax on the life of James P. Mickelsen, Wheeler county farm er, payable to his wife, the supreme court says it must pay her $2,000 She was his second wife, and Just Rnf Afii hie fatal Ulnaoc cant In 4 A the head office a policy made out in favor of his children, to have it changed in favor of his wife, but died before it could be issued. The children said she could have the money so far as they were con cerned, but the order was afraid to pay It to her as long as the policy favoring the children was outstand ing. The supreme court says that In spite of the fact that the policy to the children was not involved in this case, the fact that they were summoned to appear and made par ties defendant, and did not defend, gives the court jurislction over the whole matter, and that a payment to the widow will extinguish all li ability on the man's life. GUEST COMMITS SUICIDE IN HOME OF FRIEND Omaha. (UP)— Jac Phil lips, 24 years old, traveling sales man. shot and killed himself in the apartments of R. O. Lipton here to day. according to police reports made to Coroner Steinwender. Lipton said he had met Phillips outatate ond. seeing him on the street last night. Invited him to stay at his home. Mrs. Lipton was in the hospital. This morning while talking to his wife over the telephone. Lipton said. Phillips sent a bullet through his temple. He died en route to a hospital. rvnee leiirnea miu rnimps nan hist been discharged from a hos pital at Kearnev. His parents are said to live at Oakland. la. CLOSED WAYNE BANK TO PAY THIRD DIVIDEND Wavne. Neb. (Special)— George G. Cronkleton. receiver of t,h» Citizens National bank, of Wayne, announces that a third divi dend of 10 per cent. Is available to creditors. This payment will bring _ the total Payment of dividends to 80 ner cent. The cast of collections has been only 36 per cent, on the entire amount collected Interest collected s'ncr* the bank has suspended busi ne" has practically paid all the costs of rece'versblp. lacking ap proximately 8600. The total amount collected to date is 8405216 14. and th* ’•em"in!rg assets amount to $2°8 532 27. SPII.LMAN TO MAKE USE O*- THE RADIO Lincoln. Neb , <UP)—At tomev General O S. Soillman. re oubl'can candidate for United States senator, announced here ♦ednv that he will go on the air f*r t**e belanc- of his campaign TTi“ following Itinerary was given out; Friday. April 8. station KFNF Shenandoah. la., at noon Friday night he will *p»sk at a mass meet ing in Grand Dland Snti**dav Anril 7. Station WJAZ Nnrfoiv at noon Mo**dav Anri) 9. station KFAB ’ temin at 6*f> p. rr, static** wow Omaha 10 p m. RETT. IVES FAY FOR HER STOLEN CRItSIN liadtso** Neb. • Special — A check for 814 S7 has been re ceived bv M*« Oha*le* Duncan fr* oh'cben* itoVn while Che famllv was aw«v fr<m home She put the case In the hand* of Sheriff Nr'th who found that the rhiebrn* had been »*M in Platte Center and One*ton Tt»e thieve* ware uptift hended spyested S"d confined in tad at C©*nmbu* The money was from them and sent t* lira Duncan. I EGIONAirr S INVITED to OM#\HA SPRING DINNER Omaha, Neb., (UP)—Om aha post, American leagion today invited all Nebraska and western Iowa legionnaires to attend the an nual spring dinner of the local post here April 7. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur will be the principal speaker af the banquet, making the trip from Washington for that pur pose. Wilbur will arrive Saturday morning end address Chamber of Commerce at a noon luncheon. If there is sufficient time between tho two speeches, he may motor to Lincoln to pay his respects to Gov ernor McMullen, legion officials said. SCHOOL PAPERS ENTER CONTEST Publications from Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas in Event at Midland College Fremont, Neb,, (UP)—Of ficial publications of 55 Nebraska. Kansas and Iowa high schools are entered in the second annual tri state press contest which opened to day under the direction of Theta Gamma Epsilon, honorary Jour nalism fraternity, at Midland col lege. The registration this year ex ceeds that for 1927 by 19 papers. Papers from schools with more than 500 enrollment have been placed in division A and others in division B. The highest rated paper in each class will receive a silver loving cup. All other papers en tered will receive certificates to show that they were rated as first, second or third class publications in their division. Schools represented are: Nebras ka—Albion, Central City, Columbus, Fairbury, Franklin, Holdrege, How ells, Lexington, Lincoln, Neligh, Nor folk, Omaha Central, Plattsmouth, 8cottsbluff. Stanton, Stromburg and Wakef'ld; Kansas—Abikne, Elm dale, Fort Scott, Frankfort, Garden City, Girard, Hutchinson, Holton, Junction City, Liberal, Marysville, Merriam. Parsons. Pittsburg. Salina, Scandia, Topeka, Wellington, Wich ita. Winfield and Kansas City Wyanclitte; Iowa—Atlantic, Bur lington. Cedar Rapids, Cooper, Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, Davenport, Dubuque, F^rt Dodge, Guttenberg, Hamburg, Linn Grove. Marshalltown, Red Oak, Sioux City Central, Sioux City East and West Union. DEFEAT BOND ISSUE FOR BEATRICE AIRPORT Beatrice, Neb., _ (UP)— Complete returns Wedensday after noon showed a proposal to issue $10, 000 in bonds for acquisition of an air port in Beatrice was defeated by Beatrice voters yesterday. Incom plete early returns indicated the measure had carried. CONSERVATIONISTS TO MEET IN OMAHA APRIL 18 Omaha. Neb.. — Conservationists from all parts of the United States will convene here April 18 for the national convention of the Izaak Walton League of Am erica and the National Spirtsmen's show. Fred H. Doellner. general mana ger of the organization, forecasts the largest attendance in the history of the league conventions. The con vention will cover a period of four days. Mr. Doellner attributes the the Increased interest in the con vention to realization on the part of the league members that con structive conservation measures are the only way to maintain a supply of fish and game and to provide outdoor recreation areas in me i»tx of commercial competition. M. E. SMITH CREDITORS MAY GET MORE CASH Omaha. Neb.. . (UP)—B. H. Dunham, special referee, today made a report recommending that the offer of $125,000 made by Woods Brothers, of Lincoln, in settlement of claims against them in connec tion with the failure of the M. E. Smith company here in 1922 be ac cepted by the stockholders. The latter had asked for $800,000. Dunham said his Investigation had convinced him that the com pany was insolvent prior to its re organization. September 30, 1922, and that first preferred stockhold ers consequently had lost their money before that time. Forty three per cent, of the $4, 127.580 les in the crash of the com pany has been paid. Dunham said Assets of $90,000 remain, which added to the Woods Brothers’ offer, would give creditors $215,000 to ap ply on the balance of the loss amounting to $2,352,720. Should Dunham's recommenda tion be accepted, affairs of the com pany would be speedily wound up. the referee Indicated. Scottsbluff, Neb., tUP) — Before the largest crowd said to have ever assembled in an indoor meeting in Scottsbluff, United States Senator Oeorge W. Norris last night made a plea for nom .nation and election of United States Senator R H Howell, re publican Howell is opposed for tnation by Attorney General O. S Spillman SENDS FAMILY TO it MOW AND THEN ItANGK HE1I Omaha. Neb, •UP><~ Atter buying gifts for his wife anc children. Oscar Parks. 40 years old laundry wagon driver, sent hts fam | lly to a picture show last evening and then went to the basement oi hu home and hanged himself. Ttw body stm found by Mrs Parks or her return from the theater Parkt had bought her a new Baiter drr* a shot time before No reason «s> known fo the act Parker had nitn>» financial difficulties, it was *ak‘ but had been in good swims Out Our Way_ By William? fvrt-T Boll o’ m1 \ Woods” ? < v*haT| * Do mou cape *»! 'BooThim? vou \ AtUf >kj *TR SHOP #KlO\N! WOO ACV< like: a Flock' O' 1 'herooos hemSIJ | HE AiNiT KiCtfHiMA , QoT 6'OE "fin- / \7 ‘SHOP ! /HES,T V<MOW 1tHAT. •* 0oT woo Kmo\m how Y ’ Mice awORocles was | "To <H’ UOKJ WHEW He * met him out iw TH' I WOODS—AMO Them how Mice TH* LlOM WAS l£> AVOPOO-ES WHEW HE got him iw “IH* Boll Pew. elcmT paws t' ee r / x. domt like im \ -rt> Ketch ♦ os'v loafimo o^Th’ street* »T )REMIM05 HIM "TOO \ MUCH OF TH* SHOP, \ HE ALWAYS MAKES| SOME OlRTS CRACK I uke-hard at ) _.\ ? - __ >__/5r^ AM OFF CVW. Cnfl&a. yt wca scwvtcg. twc Giving Vitality to Statues and Ideals Is Complicated Problem Bruce Catton, in NEA Service. In Honolulu there is a man named Manuel who is known to everyone as “the statue worshiper.” Daily Manuel ap pears before the statue of Kamahamaha, Hawaii’s king of long ago, and does obeisance. He is awaiting the day when the statue of the greate leader will step down from its pedestal and move across the street into the palacfc. On that day Manuel is going to be ready to serve. It is rather a weary business, waiting for a statue to come to life. Manuel has our sympathy. Indeed, we in America ought to feel some kinship with him. In our way, we too are waiting for a statue to move. A good many years ago a group of patriots in the Amer ican eolonies threw' off the dominion of the British king and formed a new government. The nation they established was, so to speak ,a monument or statue of the ideal of democracy. And ever since then Americans have been trying to make it live; to make it, not only a magnificent, beautiful emblem, but a living, breathing fact. It hasn’t been an easy task. To begin with, other na tions didn’t like this idea. This American statue was too much of a beacon to their own people. So they put all the obstacles they could think of in the way. But these obstacles failed of their purpose. Then there were hindrances at home; mass ignorance, sectionalism, local jealousies, narrow-gauge politicians, finan cial oligarchies. All of these things, singly and jointly, kept the great figure of democracy from springing into full life. It has been a long wait and a hard battle. Now and then the statue has flamed into glorious activity, under the prodding of a Jackson, or a Lincoln, or a Roosevelt. And now and then, unfortunately, it has lapsed into placid im mobility, unmoved by corruption in high places, frozen by the apathy and indifference of voters. Yet we keep our faith that some day, somehow, we will make it live. For the statue is, when you stop to think about it, rather fine. A great many young men have died for it. A great many earnest men and women have spent their lives to make it go. Innumerable hopes and aspirations are wrapped up in it. At times it has loomed high as a symbol for oppressed and discouraged people all over the world. So we are waiting and hoping. Like Manuel, when the great day comes wc will be ready—ready to follow the liviug, breathing emblem of democracy into a newer, finer day. TO A BROKEN HEART I saw it in the dust today. A broken heart. Just cast away. And stayed my steps to breath a prayer For one so bowed with grief and care. But there were some who stopped to jeer. While I shared with it tear for tear. I could not understand just why I should stand there and softly cry. But as I looked Into the blue, I felt my heart was breaking, too. Drawn closer in this stranger Em brace. I recognused my own sad face. And though there was no sound or sign. I knew the broken heart was mine! Oh. heart, you do not break In vain. For time will heal the wound again. And all the tears that you nave shed. And all the blood that you have bled. And all the pains and all the fears. Will make you stronger with the years. —Catherine Elizabeth Hanson. • • England's Prayer Book Dispute. Pram the Hew York World When the proposed new prayer book for the Church of England was rejected in Parliament last De War ftp. Ptom Answers. Irmdon Customer I want a really high ored dog l>ag Fancier—Yss air. What bout a s*ye terrier? • • g Are there Torrey pines any •dare except in California? C J. H. A. The Torrey pine* occur In re 'trictrd lor a IP b* in Florida Call Mb. Japan and Chins They are a •rms t-f conifer belonging to the IsUortr or yew tribe Tne Call ornla specie* known as Californian wtmeg n the largest teaching a .eight of 70 fwt and occasionally .*•0 100 feet cember it seemed one of life’s great er Ironies that the decision was in part, by the votes of members of the House of Commons who were agnostics, and dissenters. But this possibility is inseparable from the condition of a state church which receives from the Government not only rule but benefits. Parliament for centuries has con trolled the Church of England. It did not surrender control when, in 1919. it gave the Church Assembly the right of initiating church legis lation. The assembly, composed of Bishops, clergy and laity, may "deliberate'’ on church government and "make provision'* thereon, ria recommendations are next submitted to a joint Parliamentary legislative I committee of Lords and Commons and by them to the Houses of Par liament. Measures so submitted cannot be amended in Parliament but must be accepted or rejected verbally they left the Church As sembly. The new prayer book is the pro duct of 30 years It is called tnf Book trf Common Prayer as adopted in 1063 with "additions and deviations—alternative forms of the Composite Book and contains service intended without altering the doctrinal position of the Church of England, to accommodate the views of all factions in the church, the ultra Protestant# as well as the extreme Anglo-Cathoilcs Since ihe defeat of the measure in December Beems So Prom the Manta Barbara News A couple of neighbors were dis cussing their respective husbands "Is your husband generous with | spending moneyt" asked Mrs Blab "I guess he nmtt be,** returned Mrs Drab tartly '1 neter see any • • Q Is the (fuirnt highway an actual road in England, or It Is merely an nu'iusnl M H A In Knguah history, the high way was <lesignaled as the main public lead which was the subject of special royal enactments run* (roiling the policing of it It was therefore popular referred to as the j Hu* * or MBpyn* highway I HANDLING OPPONENTS. By Colton. In answering an opponent, ar range your ideas, but not your words: Consider in what points things that resemble, differ; re ply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to wit; make a full con cession to your adversary, and give him every credit for those arguments you know you can answer, and slur over those you feel you cannot; but above all. if he have the privilege of making his reply, take especial care that the strongest thing you have to urge is the last. He must imme diately get up and say some thing, and if he be not previous ly prepared with an answer to your last argument, he will in fallibly be boggled, for very few possess that remarkable talent of Charles Fox. who could talk on one thing, and at the same time think of another. I * the church scholars have been working to formulate compromises which may pass the Church As sembly on April 28. and Parliament later. But all signs point to a de feat in the Commons even more de cisive than that of December. The path of compromise is never an easy one. It is especially thorny in matters of religious doctrine. Our London correspondent, Mr. Balderston, foresees that when the Commons again defeat the measure the Bishops will agree with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York that they cannot permit Par liament to dictate to the church on spiriual issues*—which is precisely what Parliament can do so long as the church remains national. De liance would mean disestablishment and disendowment; the church would lose immense revenues, and probably suffer a loss in member ship rolls, but it would survive. The King would no longer be the head of it. And its assembly could adopt any form of prayer book it might choose. Freedom from control, as in Virginia in Jefferson’s time, would be some recompense for loss of Government support. Standardized Monotony. From Inter-Ocean Syndicate Chicago.—Are standardized homes one cause for the increasing num ber of divorces? “Married people today eat canned foodstuffs, see ’canned’ movies and live in cramped kitchenet apart ments,” Bert L. Reinhard, president of the Molter Reinhard company and famous creator of Tdleart needlework, said in an address here. “Their lives are touched at all points by standardization, and it is possible that machine-made fur nishings for the home snap the last straw of endurance for thousands of couples to pave the path to the divorce court. “Make with your own lianas as much of the household furnish ings as possible.” is Mr. Reinhart!'? tip to housewives. “This will break the monotony of standardized modern life and make your home more pleasant for both parties in the nuptial bond. “Embroider your own sofa pil lows. bench throws, shawls, doilies, and other household accessories. If you have chinaware that has be come an eyesore, brightert it up by using a |>erforeted pattern, textile paint, and a brush. Treat your large tablecloths in the same way. Paint the sash curtains in your kitchen windows and doors in the colors and designs you like There are literally hundreds of ways in which a woman can reiuvenate her own home effects and make new things for the home. “Impress your own personality upon your home, break the curses of standardization and cheat the di vorce courts of some of its vic tim*.” (ImduMl ItrvoMon Prom Tit-Bits. London “Yes. sir. I always goea to church when you preaches “ “1 am glad to hear that but why when I preach—why not even* Bun ilny S" "1 m sure of gelling a good seat when you preaches. «trl” <j Who designed (ho Indian tree pattern tliat appears on Ctuna 01 shear ,\t c A It was originally the design of a man named John Hose, a w»II knorn English potter Later the name was duuigrd from the !L.» ■-aitgi’- 13 the ffwttaa ,Nt raitw* BODY LAID IN SHALLOW GRAVE Shrouded by Blanket, Nio brara, Neb., Man Rests Near Old Home Niobrara, Neb., w —Wrapped only In a blanket, the body of Leo Lambrigger, aged gardener, was buried as he requested, in a three foot grave, a short distance from his house on a truck farm near here. The burial was done by his broui er, G. J. Lambrigger. The brothers lived together, Neither accepted any religious be lief and when the one passed on the survivor obtained a doctor's certificate of death. The next morn ing, he dug the grave. Calling in several neighbors, the brother put the body in the grave and shoveled back the dirt himself, the witnesses not caring to participate. Lambrigger had said he wanted to be buried in that fashion, so his body would fertilize the soil. The brothers had devoted their time to truck farming and testing new varieties of fruit. It is under stood they had a mutual agreement on burial. The brother who died was a bachelor. The survivor had been married. BURLINGTON RAILROAD PUTS MORE MEN TO WORK Omaha, Neb., _ —Two thou sand maintenance employees were added by the Burlington on its lines west of the Missouri, making a total of 3,800. Repair of tracks and bridges due to heavy grain ship ments has made it necessary to add four hundred more employes than last year. There are now 2.200 maintenance workers on Nebraska lines. Of these, ouu were auaea two weexs ago anu 400 this week. The other 1,600 em ployes are on lines in Colorado Wyoming, Montana and South Da kota. COURT REPORTER HAS ACTED AT 53 MURDER TRIALS Alliance, Neb., . „ -Jerry D. Scott, of Alliance, oldest court re porter jn Nebraska in point of ser vice, is to go to Rushville, Neb., in a few days to report his 54th murder trial. This is a record be lieved to be beyond that of any other Nebraska court reporter. When he first began reporting in 1900, northwest Nebraska con tained plenty of hard boiled cow punchers that equalled dime novel characters, and murders were thick, with men starting to shoot at the drop of a hat. But in spite of his record, Mr. Scott dislikes murder trials, al though he enjoys every other phase of his work. He gives as reasons the nervous tension always present at a slaying trial, and sympathy for the accused, regardless of how guilty the man may be. TO ASK CLOSED SEASON FOR PRAIRIE CHICKENS York, Neb., _ , (UP)—The York chapter ofTfie Tzaac Walton league last night passed a resolu tion favoring a closed season in Nebraska for prairie chickens not less than three years and not more thqn five. A committee was ap pointed that will make plans to get a bill to that effect in the next state legislature. LINCOLN BANKER DIES AT AGE OF 79 YEARS Lincoln. Neb., ... (UP)— Franklin E. Johnson, 79 years old, prominent in Nebraska banking his tory for many years, died here to day. At the time of his death, John son was vice president and chair man of the board of directors of the Central National bank of Lin coln, of which he w’as one of the organizers in 1907. He was vice president of the Federal Trust com pany of Lincoln, and for 25 years was president of the Carson Nation al bank, of Auburn, Neb., -» ♦..— SAYS DIRTY POLITICS Lincoln, Neb., _ (UP)—C. A. Sorenson, republican candidate ior nomination at attorney general, today characterized as "about the dirtiest kind of politics that I have ever known of in Nebraska,’’ the action taken in Lancaster county court, suggesting irregularity by Sorenson in his position with the New State, a co-operative associa tion newspaper. Sorenson said he had not had charge of any of the money of the association since its organization eight years ago. that his books were then audited and his bonds men released.' and that no mention of any possible irregularity had come up until today's "eleventh hour” action for political purposes. NEBRASKAN DISAPPEARS AT SEA FROM OCEAN LINER Lincoln, Neb.. _ Ccrl Voss 55 years old, who left his home here last December to visit relatives in Germany, disappeared at Irom the liner Hamburg, which reaoned New York yesterday. He was a badtelor and had resided here for a number of years A broth er. ftnll, live# on a farm In Grundy county. MARRIAGE OP COCHINS ANM LI.P.D nr COI R | Omaha Neb. <UP>--Dis trict Judge L B Dav today an • nulled the marriage of , pniiv MrPher.on II year# oM, Hasting • otlege girl and Herman M Dirk iruon. 34 yean old, of Omaha Tt»e couple eloped to Blair tut tut urday and were married The di vorce was granted by mutual con vent Judge I lav held that In-rmurh aa the* are mvoi* (Ousine u* mai r'ag- really had never been eon iuit mated under Nebraefea laws