BANKER DENIES HE WENT WRONG Omaha Banker Who “Die1 Time” to Make New Start in Life Omaha. Neb.. ~ (UP)—Pro* testing that he never embezzled “a red cent" and declaring he would start life anew. In Omaha. Willard V. Matthews, former president of the defunct Pioneer State bank of Omaha, returned >ere after being released from the Nebraska prison Wednesday. Matthews was sentenced to 10 years on a state cnarge of embez zlement and to five years on a fed eral charge of using the mails to defraud. The latter charge was dis missed last week by Federal Judge J. W. Woodrough, who said Mat thews had been punished enough. PLAN DEMONSTRATION OF HOG TATTOOING Omaha. Neb. (Special)— Through the co-operation of Dr. W. T. Spencer, live stock commission er of the Omaha Live Stock ex change. plans have been made by the Ak-Sar-Ben Live Stock show management at Omaha to stage hog tattooing demonstrations at the show, November 5-9. by 4-H club teams from Nebraska and Iowa. These tattooing demonstrations will serve to focus attention on the tattooing of hogs from accredited counties. Packers have been giving the 10c per hundred weight bonus to hogs from accredited counties ■tnce July 1 only on the hogs which bear tattoo marks. Many farmers have not availed themselves of the , opportunity to get this bonus and have not been tattooing their hogs. The 4-H club teams will consist ot two numbers each. The Nebras ka teams will be selected by state club lender, L. I. Frlsbie and the Iowa teams by assistant state club leader. Frank P. Reed. It is ex pected that demonstrations will be given on three different days of the show. DEAD STUNT FLIER NOT WORLD WAR HERO Omaha, Neb, -Aaron C. Gray, stunt flier, who was killed when his parachute failed to open during an exhibition at Dalton, Neb., Tuesday, was not a member of the French Foreign Legion, did not shoot down 27 German planes during the World war, and did not lose his arm as the result of an ac cident In which his plane burned. He was not an army aviator at all, said a special dispatch from his home at Kelso, Wash. He never was in battle on land or in the air, the dispatch added, and he lost his arm in a sawmill accident. He enlisted In the tank corps at Portland, Ore., in 1917, and was on tils way overseas when the Armis tice was signed. He returned shortly afterward and was dis charged at Camp Dix in 1918. Two Women Mourn Now, In addition to his parents, several brothers and sisters in Washington and other states, his divorced wife and an 8-year-old son in Kelso, two women at Bridgeport, Neb., mourn him. They are his brim1 of a few weeks, the former Olive Draper of Scottsbluff, and Miss Dorothy Barton of Redington, Neb., who believes Gray meant to seek annulment of his marriage to Miss Draper and to marry her. They had been flying together re cently The brides and the girl who be lieved herself his only sweetheart met in sorrow at Bridgeport, Wed nesday. But it is Miss Barton who will accompany the body Saturday to Kelso for burial. The ’ .ide says abe will not go. WANT FISH AND GAME COMMISSION IN NEBRASKA Atkinson, Neb.. (UP)— Tentative plans for the creation of a fish and game commission in Ne braska were announced by Prank J Brady, president of the Nebraska Isaak Walton league here today. The plan, which has been en dorsed by the last three state con ventions of the league contemplate appointment of one commissioner from each of the six congressional districts by the governor. The com mission will hire a director to carry out policies formulated by the com mission. Btate superintendent of game fisheries and other officials having to do with gome laws will be under supervision of the director. "We hope by this plan to take administration of game laws en tirely out of politics.” Bradly said "Two commissioners would be named for two years, two for four years and two for six years, so that no one governor can ever hope to control the commission. The com mission will hire a director accord ing to his ability and fitness and he can be removed at any time This plan is somewhat like the oner in force in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Utah.” The legislative committee of the league will present the plan to the next legislature. Bradly said, and work for its adoption. ROAD GRADERS UNCOVER BONES OF THREE PERSONS Wakefield. Neb., (Special' —The bones of three human beings were unearthed by a road grading outfit while working northwest of Wakefield a few days ago. The find was mrd: near th? Francis K mbell f irm, near th? fence along the highway. The road in the process of being grad?d end widened, and as a wider swath was cut off th* bank by the grrdr the rkelctcns were exposed. BANK .'hU'Pi>EAI Bk EMBEZZLER TO OPEN Lincoln, Neb., (UP)—The McLean State ban*., one of the three institutions that were closed when Paul Wupper, bank president disappeared, will be opened in two or three days, Secretary Bliss oi the department of trade and com merce announced here today. Stock holders have raised between $40,000 and $50,000 to take up bad notes put into the bank by Wupper who owned a controlling interest. All but about $5,000 of the money has been raised. Bliss said, and the losses in the McLean bank will be made good. Stock which Wupper owned is to be made good also and reissued. GIVES UP HOPE SAVING SHARP \ttorney for Man Who Killed Wife with Hammer Will Not Appeal Lincoln, Neb.' (UP)—The chances that Prank Sharp, con victed hammer murderer of his wife, •nay escape the electric chair, were diminished today whrn his attorney announced an appeal will not be taken to the board of pardons or to the United States supreme court. Sharp has been sentenced to die October 19 fcr killing his wife, Har riet. in March, 1926. Max Beghton, who was appointed oy the court to defend Sharp, salr* the man has had a fa:r trial and that he will make no further effort to save him. BANK CRIPPLED BV EMBEZZLER TO REOPEN Lincoln, Neb., (UP)—The McLean State bank, one of the three institutions that were closed when Paul Wupper, bank president disap peared, will be opened in ",W3 or three days, Secretary Bliss of the departmeit of trade and commerce announced here today. Stockhold ers have raised between $4lk000 and $50,000 to take up bad notes put Into the bank by Wupper who ownei a controling interest. W. C. T. U. SPEAKER BAYS COUNTRY FACES CRISIS Grand Island, Neb., (UP) 1 —"Our country now is lacing one of the greatest crisis since the pas sing of the 18th amendment,” said Rev. Marie Wilcox, of Red Cloud, In her annual sermon to the Ne braska W. C. T. U. here today. CONVICTED OF RECEIVING COW THAT WAS STOLEN Nebraska City, Neb, —A verdict of guilty was returned late Tuesday against Roy Babcack by a jury in district court following one hour's deliberation. Babcock faces a term in the state peniten tiary of from three to 10 years. He will probably appeal to the su preme court. Babcock was convicted of receiv ing and harboring a stolen cow taken from a farm in Iowa early in June by William Bassinger, who is serving a five-year sentence in Fort Madison for the theft. The cow was taken to the Babcock farm southeast of Nebraska City, and placed in the pasture. Bassinger had been employed by Babcock for some time and the state contended that Babcock knew the animal had been stolen. HOTEL SWINDLER FAILED TO WORK HIS GAME Columbus, Neb., —A man giving his name as Parker, believed to be the same man who during the past two years has collected dam ages for a “fracture" of the left wrist in falls in hotels from coast to coast, failed to work his game on a hotel man and an insurance company representative here. He left the city suddenly without pay ing his hotel bill. Ttie Columbus representative of the insurance company became suspicious of Parker and telephoned his Omaha office. He was informed that Parker had tried the same game at the Fontenelle hotel at Omaha two years ago and at a Orand Island hotel last Friday. MASONS OF COUNT* TO MEET AT WAKEFIELD Wakefield. Neb.. (Special) —The 12th annual meeting of the Dixon County Masonic association will be held here next Monday eve ning, October 8. About 250 members of the order from over the country are expected to attend. A banquet will be served by the women of the Order of Eastern Star at 6:30 o'clock. The program of the banquet will be presided over by Rev. P. M. Orr of Norfolk, as toastmaster, and re sponses will be given by Past Grand Master A. R. Davis of Wayne. Neb.; E P. Voter of Laurel; G. I. Parker of Newcastle, and Don Cunningham of Wayne. 1IE FOUND WAY TO END OWN LIFE WITHOUT PAIN Omaha. Neb., (UP>—The body of Eugene D. Bowen, 40 years old. was found in a hotel room here last night. After tieing a rope around his neck he fastened a hand kerchief saturated with chloroform around his face. When the anaes thetic lulled him into unconscious ness he fell from the bed and the noose completed the work of self destruction. STATE GAME WARDEN AFTER LAW OFFENDERS Lincoln. Neb, —State Game Warden O'Connell nas been makinR a cleanup of violators of the game and fish laws, and from the list of persons prosecuted is taken these names: Bartlett, William McLain, hunting without permit. $15 and costs; Clearwater, Alva Mapex and Albert Pruss, $100 and costs each for seining; Butte. W. L. Brennamn $15 and costs for hunting after sunset; Ainsworth, L. Horst, $15 and costs shooting after sunset Warns Investors to Seek Banking Advice "Just now we are going through the greatest era of speculation the world has ever seen. The disease is epidemic. I would not ‘hang crepe,’ but the present great danger is that in our rush to get rich without work many of those who are now risking their all in speculation may fina, when the creBt of the present wave has subsided, that they have lost their little fortunes which carefully invested would have secured them against want.” This is the warning which was broadcast by Silas H. Strawn, retir ing president of the American Bar association, as guest speaker of Halsey, Stuart and company on the | radio recently. Mr. Strawn talked on the subject "A Lawyer's Views on j Sound Investment." He stressed i two principal sources of danger for the average person in placing his I money. First, speculation, where he plunges without knowledge of what he is doing in the hope of amassing riches quickly. Second, the wide spread tendency among people of accepting financial advice without any knowledge of who is back of it or what may be the motive. "Every day we are amazed by the stories of the ways in which poor people have been buncoed out of ' 'their all’ by crooked so called in vestment concerns. While it is true,” said Mr. Strawn. "that laws com monly known as Blue Sky laws have been adopted in almost every state, designed to protect lhe investor against fraudulent anc unscrupulous methods of dealers, no law has yet been devised to make people honest or that will protect the careless or inexperienced invertors from their own folly.” On the other hand, Mr. Strawn Insisted that the investment field today is too extensive and compli cated for the average man or woman t* be able to decide wisely for him self concerning all investments. Therefore, he says, "investors must depend upon the advice of invest ment banking houses of character and reputation.” Aside from the reputation of the house as a check upon its depend ableness for investment advice, Mr. Strawn pointed out the less com mon but very significant method of noting what houses do the financ ing for high grade corporations when they are in the market for new money. “No corporation,” says Mr. Strawn, "can afford to have its securities distributed by any but high class experienced dealers.” Thirty Million Tourists An automobile association esti mates that some 30,000.000 Ameri cans will tour the country in auto mobiles this year. That one sen tence, as well as any statement that could be made, represents the dif ference between modern American civilization and all others. Thirty million people—more than lived in all France at the time of the French revolution—running about the country in carefree vag abondage! Thirty million people vacationing, wandering across prairies and deserts, through cities and over mountains, getting recre ation in the open, widening their horizons! The earth never saw anything like this before. There have been nomadic na tions The great plains of Russia and Siberia know tribes of roam ing horsemen, who pitched their tents in the fall 1,000 miles from the place where spring had found them. From the landlocked Cas pian sea to the Carpathian moun tains they roamed endlessly; now and then they swept on past the Carpathians and overran Europe with fire and sword. But those peoples roamed of nec essity. Their migrations were caused by economic conditions; the search for fresh pasture lands drove them on The American nomad roams for the fun of roaming. No neces sity drives mm on. me open roaa calls him every summer, and away he goes—to return a few weeks lat er. brown and fit, ready for an other year on the same old job. This’ is a highly significant fact; the automobile has done something more important than make a few extra millionaires. To each Ameri can it has brought a new kind of freedom, a new kind of patriotism Is that too strong a statement? Contrast the lot of the average American todgy with the lot of his father. A generation ago many men lived out their lives without leaving their home county. Their travels, unless they were fairly well to do, were limited to hurried business trips. Today the man who has not enjoyed the open country of a half dozen neighboring states is a rarity. No longer is it a proud distinction to have been across the continent. This is sure death to provincial ism and sectionalism. It means a wider patriotism. The man who knows the beauties of the whole American countryside cannot help having a deeper, truer love for his country than if he knew only his own neighborhood. The American is no longer a transplanted European. Among the things that have set him apart, nothing is much more important than the automobile. Builds New Lake In Connecticut Power Company to Flood 6,000 Acres North of Danbury Near New Milford, Conn., a new /ake is about to make its debut. The old Rocky river, a somewhat vag rant stream flowing down from its sources in the lower Litchfield hills of the Berkshire range to meet its older sister, the Housatonic, is now going to be put on the map as a life-size lake. In 1926 the Connecticut Light and Power company began the project of turning a river into a lake that will touch the five towns of Dan bury, Brookfield. New Fairfield. New Milford and Sherman. The work is about completed. The lake will be 10 miles long, afford 60 miles of shore and will cover 6,000 acres of land. A few islands left over from four smaller lakes it absorbed will dot its surface. Several large bays, one toward Sherman at the north, another toward Danbury at the south, are promised. Great changes in the adjacent country have been brought about by the creation of a lake from a river. One hundred houses have been moved or demolished, several ceme teries have been moved, miles of road have been relocated. 500 men cleared trees from the basin Commercial enterprise has already seen the opportunities for resort and cottage possibilities on the shores of this lake* to be the largest in Connecticut. Skating, fishing, boating and bathing are among the anticipated by-products of the com panv's plan for an additional gen erating capacity of 40,000 kilowatts of energy direct from the lake. In addition, water can be pumped back from the Housatonic river into the lake when a surplus of energy re sults from other plants of the com pany. A great dam has been built to turn the waters of the Rockv river into a reservoir, a unique dam of earth instead of concrete owing to the nature of "Hie soil. SIR WILLIAM WATSON’S BIRTH DAY To the Editor of the New York Times. American admirers of the poetry of William Watson were glad to s?e the verses in praise of his work which appeared over the name of Robert Underwood Johnson in the Times of August 2, the day on which Sir William celebrated his seventieth birthday, receiving among many messages a congratulatory cablegram from the American Acad emy of Arts and Letters. The poet is now living in his cottage at Peacehaven, Sussex, not for from the City of Brighton, on the English channel. There his wife and younger daughter are happily recovering their health, which had been seriously impaired by long residence in the Lake Country—a region richer than the south coast in picturesque scenery and poetic associations, but vastly inferior in re gard to climate. Sir William's anniversary was sig nalized by the appearance, through Been Celebrating. Prom Lustige Kolner Zeitung. Jones: (Staggering to registrar): I want to register twin', gentlemen. Registrar: But why do you say “gentlemen'’ when I’m alone here? Jones: Heavens! Then I had better go home and see if it is only one child after all. Q. Is there a place in the Ameri cas where both the Atlantic and Pa cific oceans can be seen at once? T H A. On a clear dav both oceans ran be seen from the Summit of Irazu, a mountain in Cartago Prov ince, Costa Rica. It is 12,600 feet high j Deauville Chic There arc many striking fashions to be seen at Deauville—so many that it is a problem to choose the smartest. Here is one of white, transparent velvet until a bril liant border that might haz e been painted on. (InUrnullonul Illustrated News) Thornton Butterworth. London, of a new and perhaps finally revised edi tion of his selected poems—a vol ume containing, as many believe, a number of poems unsurpassed by any living writer of the English language. Joseph B. Gilder. New York. Aug., 7. 1928. Q. How many species of flowering plants grow wild in the United States and Canada? D. T. E. A. The number is estimated at about 10,000. Stung Again. From Passing Show. Lady of the house (to new garden er): William. I want you to clean the beehives and when the bees sting you let me know immediately, as I want to try some new anti-stingo I have mixed. Q. What can be used to get spots out of glass that needs resilvering? N. J. n. A The bureau of standards says if the glass is swabbed wiyi a 5 per cent, aqueous solution of hy drofluoric acid, the spots may some times be removed. Care must be used not to allow the acid to come in contact with the hand* DENIES REMOVAL OF W. O. W. HEADQUARTERS TO COME UP Omaha, Neb. • (UP,»—Only ordinary routine business will come before the regular meeting of the executive council of the Woodmen of the World fraternal order here October 4, W. A. Fraser, sovereign commander, said today. Fraser said that agitation for removing nation al headquarters from Omaha to some southern or eastern city would not be considered at the executive council meeting. "Nothing of great importance is to be considered and you can say positively that the question of mov ing headquarters will not be brought up at this time,” Frasei said. METCALFE DAT OVER NEBRASKA Radio Parties in Each Pre cinct Thursday to Hear Candidate’s Address Omaha, Neb., ' _ (Special)— With a view of getting the greatest distribution and the best possible radio reception the time of broad casting the radio speech of Richard L. Metcalfe, democratic nominee for United States senator, set for Thursday, October 4, Metcalfe day, has been changed to 9 o’clock. The speech will be broadcast over KOIL, Mona Motor Oil company station and a chain, and the voice of Mr. Metcalfe will be carried to the re motest parts of the state. Thousands of announcements of the radio speech are being sent out to admirers of Mr. Metcalfe. It is planned that in every precinct of the state, at least one radio party will be held. During the day an informal re ception will be held for Mr. Met calfe at democratic headquarters, Castle hotel, and in the evening commencing at 8 o’cock and preced ing the radio talk, Mr. Metcalfe will address Metcalfe volunteers, demo cratic workers and friends assem- j bled in the ball room of the Castle I hotel. An official announcement regard ing Metcalfe day has been sent by T. S. Allen, chairman of the demo cratic State Central committee to every county chairman in the state. Mr. Allen’s communication is as fol lows : "Thursday. October 4, will be ob served throughout the state as Met calfe day. On that day democratic speakers' will lay particular em phasis on the candidacy of Richard L. Metcalfe for the United States Senate. Mr. Metcalfe’s friends and neighbors in Omaha are planning an informal reception for him at democratic headquarters at the Hotel Castle, during the day, and a rally will be held in the evening preceding the radio talk. “The radio speech will be broad cast over KOIL, beginning at 9 o’clock. We are arranging to have at least one radio party in every precinct in the state. Precinct com mitteemen and committeewomen are urged to work out the details for these local radio parties.” At senatorial committee head ouarters word came from William Ritchie Jr., national representative of the Smith-for-President clubs in Nebraska that members of those or ganizations are responding whole heartedly to the plan of observing Metcalfe day. elector resigns as he IS NOW POSTMASTER Lincoln. Neb., (UP) The resignation of Grant Mears, veter an legislator, as republican elector from Nebraska was received here today by the state republican presi dential committee. It w’as an nounced that the vacancy will be filled at a meeting of the commit tee October 8. Mears resigned be cause he recently was appointed nostmaster at Wayne, and thus was disqualified for service. TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE WAS PRONOUNCED SUCCESS Pierce. Neb., (Special)— The Pierce county teacher’s insti tute which was held last Thursday and Friday was one of the most successful ' institutes ever held in the county, from the standpoint of interest and attendance. Nearly every teacher in the county was present for the opening roll call and remained until the close of the last lecture. About 150 teachers were present daily. BASSETT, NEB.. BANKER HELD FOR IRREGULARITIES Norfolk. Neb.. (UP)—Vol na Stockwell. Bassett, banker, was in jail here today on charges of ir regularities in bank funds. It was understood he will plead guilty by agreement and that sentence will o' massed in Omaha. CENSUS ESTIMATES SHOWS BIG POPULATION GROWTH Lincoln, Neb.. (UP)—Dur ing the last eight years Lincoln has gained 16,152 in population, accord ing to census estimates released today by the bureau of census, de partment of commerce. The pop ulation of Omaha increased more than 21,000 in that time, the report said. The federal census for 1920 gave Lincoln a population of 54,948. The estimated census for 1928 in creased this figure to 71,100. For Omaha, the federal census read, 191,601 in 1920. and the estimated census was 222,800. FORMER BANKER GIVEN 10-YEAR PRISON TERM Nebraska City, Neb., (UP) —Thomas Murray faces a sentence of from 5 to 10 years in the peni tentiary, as he continues his efforts through attorneys to clear himself of charges of forgery. The former president of the defunct Dunbar State bank heard a motion for a new trial in his case refused yester day and then listened to Judge James T. Begley pass sentence upon him. A motion for a stay of sen tence for 30 days was granted fc he judge. OPENS SEASON ON PHEASANTS Nebraska State Game War den Says Birds to Be Shot in 9 Counties -* Lincoln, Neb., (UP)—More than 5,000 sqare miles, constituting nine Nebraska counties will be open for pheasant shooting from October 22 to 31, it was announced here to day by State Game Warden Prank B. O’Connell. The f '.ties are: Wheeler, Merrick, Sherman, Valley, Buffalo, Howard, Hall, Garfield and Greeley. A limit of five birds a day and five birds in possession at one time ha