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?
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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