DIVORCE TRIAL MAY BE LURID Husband’s Cross Petition Tells of City Bred Wife’s Wrong Doings ALLIANCE, NEB—(Special)—A rttvorce suit that contains all the colorful details of the most modern screen romances is on file here with a petition by Vera Gaddis and cross petition by Prank Gaddis, who charges cruelty and infidelity. He also names Leo Berry as core spondent. The story goes back to the time when Gaddis had Just returned from Prance, where he fought in the war. While in Chicago taking treatments for an injured hand, a romance began with the daughter of a woman who ran a Chicago woman’s apparel store. They were married and came west where’the city girl became a house wife on a western. Nebraska ranch. All went well for a time and then her longing came for the buzz of the >loop district. About that time another man came on the scene. Gaddis details alleged clandestine relations between Berry and Mrs. Gaddis, beginning in the summer Of 1025. The husband claims that his wife ridiculed him because he did not “act like Berry.” In Janu ary. 1927 Mrs. Gaddis was 111 In the hospital and Berry is alleged to have taken her flowers and delicacies, his visits were so frequent and long that some times the nurse had to request him to leave so she could attend to her patient, it is said. Gaddis took her some sausage at the hospital, he says and Mrs. Gad dis upbraided him because his gift of sausage was not as good as some Berry sent her. MORE ALIMONY MUST BE PAID Nebraska Court Says Madi son County Man Tried tr Conceal Property LINCOLN, NEB.—(Special) —The supreme court, in an opinion by Justice Dean, has ordered an in crease from $1,000 to *3,000 in the amount of permanent alimony that Emil Haase, resident of Madison county, must pay to his divorced wife, Hattie, and also an Increase from $10 to $15 of the monthly pay. ment to be made henceforth for the support of their children, now in her custody. The court says that the evidence shows that Haase owns from $16,000 to $20,000 in property, part of which he attempted bo conceal by a trans fer to his father, and that the al lowance by the trial court is Inade quate. It says that this is another of those domestic tragedies where apparently there was fault on both sides, but the laws of God and man place upon the normal man the sacred duty of supporting his wit* and children. POWER COMPANIES SHOULD GIVE UP PROPAGANDA LINCOLN, N E B.—tU P)—Powei companies should stay out erf poli tics nnd close their propaganda fac tories, Attorney General C. A. Sor enson declared in an address before the power conference here Wednes day afternoon. “Tire facts brought out by the in vefltdgatioti of the federal trade commission will cause embarrass ment to the power companies for many years because of their attempt to got their propaganda against public ownership into schools, churches, county press, and women» clubs," he said. NORFOLK PIONEER IS KILLED AT CROSSING NO RPOLK—tSpecial)—J oh n Faubel, 70 years old, pioneer of this locality, was killed at noon Wed nesday when Union Pacltic freight train No. 77 switching over a cross ing ran him down. ALLEGED COUNTERFEITERS ARE CAUGHT IN OMAHA OMAHA - -Police say they have brought to light an interna tional counterfeiting ring, with the amet, Wednesday, of Jean L. Le taiier, George D. Eareland and Jesse Beccerria. Officers seised plates, molds and metals for making 5. 10 and 25 cent pieces and $5 gold pieces, they said. ACT OF SELF DESTRUCTION BLAMED ON BOOZE RAIDS OMAHA — (UPi — The gambling and bootlegging cleanup of Omaha Is believed by police to have ligured In the self destruction of Max Bushman, proprietor of a lower Douglas stret-f hotel, who shot and killed himself Wednesday night. His place was raided several years ago and lie twice served a three months Jail sentence at Fremont for r ceiving stolen goods. Bushman was a broChennlaw of Morris Milder, wealthy oil man and political lead er, whose desire to usurp the throne ot Tom Dennison, recognised politi cal king, is held responsible for the cleanup going on here, according to gossip In political circles. ANNOUNCE CONTEST FOR HIGH SCHOOL TOPERS FREMONT — Midland colleges third annual Trl-State Press con test for high school newspapers of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska will be Iv* Id from March 30 to April 20 un der the auspices of Theta Gamma Epsilon, Midlands honorary Jour nalism fraternity. William Suoman. pres.dent c< tlw fraternity, an nounces. Both Uie Record of Sioux City Central and The Toma h.Aw k of 8*oux City East high received first class ratings in Division A in t? 1S3S oor.ter*. NEBRASKA STATE BANKS PAY REGULAR ASSESSMENT LINCOLN—All state banks in Nebraska, including the 559 which filed an injunction suit last Decem ber to prevent tire state from col lecting a special assessment for the state guaranty fund, have paid to the state banking bureau their regular semiannual assessments levied under date of January 1. The total was about $127,000 which hae been used to retire outstanding cer tificates against certain failed banks. There were 720 banks that re ceived notice of the regular Jan uary assessment, which was one tenth of 1 per cent of their aver age deposits for six months pre ceding. SAFETY RECORD MOST UNUSUAL Union Pacific Employes Be Honored for Their Accomplishment OMAHA, KEB.—(.UP)—More that J,000 employes who are believed to have set safety records never before equalled on any railroad, will be honored by the Union Pacific rail road here Saturday. Among the number are 1.600 fore man of the system between Omaha and Ogden, 702 of whom have gone five years without injuries to them selves or men working under them. Each will be given a certificate of merit signed personally by President Carl R. Gray. Among the foremen to be most signally honored will be Jerry Shannahan, switch engine foreman, at Kansas City, Kan.; Matthias Franzen, section foreman, of Cedar Rapids, Neb., and Thomas Dugdalc, foreman of the Omaha shops. Some of the outstanding safety records believed never before equalled include: Entire switching yard office in Council Bluffs yards went from Au gust 9, 1925 to October 4, 1928 with- | out a single reportable accident. Since June 11, 1927, the 820 track employes of the Colorado division of the i-oad have worked without an injury that caused so much as a day's lost time. A gold card will be presented J. L. Gallavan, of Den ver, general roadmaster for the Colorado division. Since June 1924, the 320 men in the car shops at Cheyenne, Wyo., have worked without a reportable injury. They have worked since January, 1926, without loss of a sin gle day. A ''reportable" accident, un der Interstate commerce commission rules is one which prevents a man from working inside of three days. Hundreds of Union Pacific of ficials and workmen not receiving awards will attend the ceremonies of presentation of medals. GOVERNOR NAMES TREE PLANTING COMMITTEE LINCOLN.—(UP)—A committee to formulate a plan for tree plant ing and the beautification of Ne braska was appointed Thursday by Governor Weaver. The group is to represent all industries and insti tutions in which there should be im provement by the planting of trees, flowers and shrubbery. It will co operate with the federal and state agencies on tree planting and land scape beautification. HASTINGS PLANS FOR STATE G. A. R. MEETING HASTINGS— (UP>—'The contract agreement between the Hastings Chamber of Commerce and G. A. R. bodies for entertainment for their annual encampment here next May. was completed and the contract signed recently. The Chamber of Commerce will furnish headquarter rooms at the Clarke hotel for the G. A. R., Wo men Relief Corps, Daughters of Veterans, Sons of Veterans, and a suitable place for holding the pa triotic institute on the afternoon of May 21. Badges, printed programs ami ballots for the election of dele gates will also be supplied by th<~ Chamber. COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER OVERRULED IN LYONS CASE LINCOLN—The supreme ccurt has overruled the action of the com pensation commissioner in allowing Emil Sohl compensation as against Ludwig Janecek. The latter owned a well digging outfit at Lyons. Burt county, and made an arrangement with Sohl by which he was to man age the business and get half the profits, with a guarantee that he would get at least $100 a month The court says that this constitu ted a partnership, and that the law does not permit one partner to draw compensation for injuries received in the course of doing business. The attorneys for Sohl contended that it could not be a partnership where half the profits were being giver him for managing the business. MISS MI’LLKN REAPPOINTED FEDERAL COMMISSIONER OMAHA— —In absence ot fudge Woodrough Federal Judge T C. Munger of Lincoln Thursday re ♦ppointed Miss Mary Mullen United States commissioner Judge Wood rough will be out of ..he city un til after expiration of Miss Mullen present four year term next Mon day. She is a sister of Arthur Mul len. democratic national committee man for Nebraska. TWO CONVICTS ARE TO BE DEPORTED LINCOLN—i UP*—Two convict.* ,'rom Douglas county will br deport 'd under action of the pardon board «-ho e findings made si the meetim >f February 12 were made puult niursdaf. Antonio Fernando, who begar jrrvtng a one to three year tern rom Douglas county for grand lar reny December 14, IKT will be dc jorted to Mexico William Atkin* tlao sent up from Douglas, fc ireasing and entering, will be d* ported to Rumania. Luxurious Evening Wrap -....... ... This luxurious evening Wrap is the pet creation of a famous Paru maker. It utilizes heavy gold embroidery upon velvet material new shads of “Worth green.” S' 5 Habitual Offenders From the Kansas City Star. Time after time, it has been shown, the courts, the prisons, the entire machinery of the law, must deal with the same material. Much of the work of the police is taken up with known or habitual offend ers; again and again the courts and the prisons are called upon to handle members of this class. Often the first offender is related, direct ly or remotely, to the socalled crim inal element which continually de mands attention. Were it not for the repeaters the cost of law en forcement would be materially re duced and efforts of enforcement agencies could be made much more effective. The condition gives special point to the views of E. R. Cass, president of the American Prison association, at the organization’s annual meeting here. Mr. Cass expressed doubt as to the value, in permanent results, of many of the present methods of handling prisoners, the methods that have to do with reforming the offenders and turning them back Into the social order. In spite of the apparently excel lent records of prisoners, according to the standards of measurement employed, the final outcome often is failure. “The converted prisoner sometimes backslides.” the youthful offender, free from the reformatory, often lands in a state prison; the prisoner on probation may again come before the court and receive another sentence, while even “the honor man (in prison) becomes in outside life, in too many instances, a man of dishonor.” So it goes, leaving the enforce ment mill to grind the same grist over and over again. Mr. Cass favors a thorough, disinterested study of the whole question of prison meth ods. That no doubt would help. It probably would be found, as too of ten has been shown to be the case, that a fundamental difficulty is un due consideration of the convicted offender himself rather than his probable future conduct, in the light of his record, as a restored member of society. For example, a prisoner may be shrewd enough to make an excellent showing with prison offi cials for the purpose of gaining hta release, yet remain essentially "un refon*'ed” and at heart the criminal he previously has been in fact. That poesfbility has been demonstrated repeatedly. The obvious remedy seems to be punishment of such nature and du ration as will leave the person af fected little chance of resuming his career and serve at the same time as a wholesale example to other po tential offenders. The S-4 Experiments Credit, to the navy department, it seems to us. is due for the ex periments it is now making off Block Island with the “S-4.” the submarine which was lost olf Princetown a year ago with fts whole crew. Most of us will have a vivid recollection of the harrowing days that followed the sinking of that boat, of the efforts to save the men who were imprisoned in it, and of the criticism that was directed against the navy, not only for its apparent helplessness of the mo ment but for lts failure to have provided submarines with any ap paratus that would enable them to be raised quickly in event of just such a contingency. That criticism must have been most unple&tfnt FILLING CRFVH’FS There Is a liquid cement on the market now that is excellent for filling crevk-iw around the bath tub or cn the tiled floor. Putty fills in wood cracks and can be painted so it is perfectly concealed Cracks ab sorb moisture so it is a sanitary measure to keep them filled. Q Was all Capo dl Monte china made for Napoleon Bonaparte, or were the masers permuted to use hie mark a aaiam with N under neath on the chtna they sold to the general public? M. C B A. The Capo dt Monte factory ito listen to, and It would have been only natural for naval officers to resent it. Some of them did resent It, and some declared it was sense less, pointing out that for every device intended to increase the saiety of a submarine in event of accident there is a corresponding increase of weight, and hence a cor responding decrease of operating efficiency and hence a greater chance of accident. The wiser policy, they declared, was to build boats so manageable that they would not have accidents. Nevertheless, in spite of the bit terness that marked the discussion, there was a noticeable willingness on the part of the department to tackle the main point, which was the development of feasible safety devices for submarine crews. Only a few months went by before there came news of a “lung,’' or special breathing appartus, by means of which crews might escape from sunken boats with some expectation of getting to the surface alive. It was tried out with marked success. Now comes this series of experiments with the ‘‘S-4,’‘ which has been raised and especially fitted out for the work. The first object is to as certain the practicability of “pad eyes,” by means of which, it is be lieved, lifting chains can be attached more quickly than by the old meth od of running them under the hull. The next object will be to ascertain the practicability of the ‘lung" under emergency conditions. No doubt other things will be learned which will be valuable to know. All this is the result of a great deal of thought, a great deal of work. and a great deal of honest desire to prevent a repetition of what we witnessed last winter. Most of us will not only hope for success in the experiments but will applaud also the spirit in which the navy depart ment has gone about its task. Cafe Charge Drives Dinner Guest Insane Paris. —The high cost of dining drove Jacques Simon Insane. He had finished a splendid meal and was indulging in a few happy mo ments of meditation when the waiter presented him his bill. The first glance appalled him and the sec ond drove him Insane, with the re sult that he had to be taken to the Lariboisiere hospital. «4444444444*4444444 ♦ *• ♦ RHINE FLOWS THROUGH 4 4 HUNDREDS OF CITIES ♦ 4 ♦ ♦ Duisburg, ' —Thirt y eight 4 bridges span the Rhine, and 4 4 467 cities and villages dot its 4 4 shores. These facta are appar- 4 4 ent from a new map of the 4 4 historic German stream Just 4 4 published here. 4 4 Eight of the bridges across 4 4 the Rhine are located in Hoi- 4 4 land, four at Bale in Switzer- 4 4 land. At Cologne. Bonn, Cob- 4 4 lence, Bingen and Mavence 4 4 there are two and sometimes 4 4 more bridges to accommodate 4 4 the railway, pedestrian, auto- 4 4 mobile and tramway traffic. 4 4 Many of the villages and ♦ 4 cities are over 1.000 years old. ♦ 4 ♦ « ♦44444t*tt444t4te I was started by Charles III in 1736. He took much Interest in tt and sometime* worked In the pottery. It was moved to Naples in 1771. and a branch was started at Madrid. King Ferdinand IV was also inter ested in these lactone* The china to which vcm refer with the mark of a crown end N under It wa* made ! ut the Napole* factory The N was for Nani** rather than Napoleon. The public was privileged to buy tha product* The manufacture waa abandoned In 1B31._ •Ho they finally got married*" «Yup— if* all over but Um ahoot id** LINCOLN WOMAN POUND TO BE ROBBER ACCOMPLICE LINCOL N—While her email daughter waited in a car nearby, police say, Nellie Meyers, of Lin coln, participated in a house *<- b bcry Saturday night that resulted in her aiTest and the recovery of scores of stolen articles. Though a male companion eluded officers, the woman was captured after a chase of several blocks in which pursuers emptied their pis tols in the air. In the automobile, parked a block away from the robbed home, police found the womans child in the care of Mrs. Jean Johnson. The latter explained that Mrs. Meyers and the missing man had asked her to wait for them while they visited friends. A woman’s footprints found around numerous roebed homes, led police to believe that Mrs. Meyers was the man’s accomplice, they said. The recovered articles, wearing ap parel, jewelry, toilet accessories and i even tabie lamps were found in her rooms. They had been given her, she said, by her companion. COMPANY MUST PAY THE CLAIM Nebraska Supreme Court Assesses Double Indem nity Against Concern LINCOLN. NEB.—(UP)—The su preme court held Monday that Jacob Ita, of Merrick county, died from blood poisoning contracted in an accidental injury and that the Elkhorn Life and Accident company was liable for the double indemni ty clause in its insurance contract. The policy specified that the company would pay double—$6,000 —if the person died from the ef fects of an accident but not if death was caused by infection. The court held that the company failed to specify that it would not pay if in fection was contracted in an acci dental injury and then caused death. OMAHA BANKER SOON GOES TO CHICAGO Omaha—(UP)—Omaha bade fare well to her most prominent citizen Tuesday, when 500 of the city’s business, religious, educational and social leaders joined in a testimoni al banquet to Walter W. Head. Head, president of the Omaha National bank since 1920, resigned to become president of a large Chi cago financial institution. He will assume his new duties March 1. Among prominent persons who came here for the banquet were James E. West, of New York, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America; Fred Sargeant, president of the Chicago and Northwestern railway: Governor Arthur J. Wea ver; Oscar Hansen, of Chicago, with whom Head will be associated, and R. E. Brown and Henry Krug, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., bankers. Since coming here from St. Jo seph in 1917 Head had become easily Omaha’s foremost citizen. There was hardly any worthwhile project in Omaha or Nebraska with which he was not Identified. He holds executive positions in more enterprizes probably than any other man in the history of the state. He came here ns vice president of Omaha National, being elected president in 1920. Several years later he was honored by being elect ed president of the American Bank ers’ association, a position he held for one year. WOMAN LAWYER HANDLES TAX TITLE CONTROVERSY LINCOLN—A woman lawyer, Miss Helen McGerr. of Lincoln, made her bow in supreme court where she appeared to defend the right of Os car and Albert Peterson, land own ers of Rock county, to read their titles clear. Eack in 1S22, Jabe Gib sen bought three tax certificates against this land, but did not seek to foreclose until after five years had passed. Miss McGerr main tained that the law plainly says that such action must be begun in five years, while Gibson’s attorney says that the law has been repeat edly changed with the result that there are now two conflicting sta tutes, one giving a perpetual lien for tax certificates and the other re quiring foreclosure in five years. Ke argued that a proper interpreta tion of the laws would make eight years the limit. The case has attracted consider able attention in investment cir cles, and an Omaha lawyer was em ployed to intervene as a friend of the court. He argues that the statutes, construed together, fix seven years as the limit. BANK FAILURE. NOT LOVE AFFAIR CAUSED TRAGEDY OMAHA—(UP)—Loss of $5,000 in r. failed bank and not an unsuccess ful love affair was what crused John Mimranick to kill himself at North Platte. Sunday, according to Anton Nespesny. with whom Mim ranick made his home here. The man never paid any attention to women, Nespesny said. WAKEFIELD PIONEER IS LAID TO HIS FINAL REST WAKEFIELD— — Although a coroner*’ jury found that Mrs Hhoda Hoyt. 31 years old. come to her death through a criminal op eration pti formed by an Omaha doctor, there probably will be no criminal prosecution cf the physi cian. Deputy County Attorney John Yeager, who conducted the Inquest. MVS The Jury in It* verdict returned Sate Tuesday recommended that ac tion be started against thp doctor Yeager said, however, that evidence wae insufficient SCHOOL FIGHT TO HIGH COURT Director Says He Resigned “to Save Bloodshed”— Right to Place Resisted LINCOLN. NEB.-^(UP)—De scriptions of a school board meeting in which threats of bodily injury became so serious that one of the members resigned to “save blood shed” were told in supreme court Monday by attorneys interested in the case of Charles W. Purinton against Frank Lief which originated in York county. The meeting was held June 11, 1928, in district 33 of York county. Purinton is alleged to have refused to re-employ a teacher who kept company with a man to whom he objected. Her parents and the young man attended the annual school board meeting. Such a demonstration of physical force was made, according to Purinton. that he was forced to hand in his resignation. The board had appointed Frank Lief to serve the remainder of the term but Purinton re-claimed his position. When taken into court, the dis trict court decided in favor ot Purinton and Lief has appealed. ASK COURT TO REMOVE STING LINCOLN, NEB.— (UP) —Attor neys for W. A. Fraser and other of ficers of the Woodmen of the World appeared in supreme court Monday, to argue their motion to eliminate those portions of the opinion in the Globe Life company case that chal lenge their motives and accused them of fraudulent conduct in the bringing about of the investment of Woodmen funds in the life com pany and in carrying out the pro ject. They said that if this were al lowed to go into the law books it would forever besmirch their names and that it would hold them up to the ignominy of the members of the order. They said that these find ings were wrong, in the first place, and unnecessary to be included in the second place, after the court had held that the sovereign camp, by whose authority they had act ed throughout, had no power to or der the investment made. Attorneys of the members who complained objected to the deletion. They insisted that it is no defense for a person who does wrong to say that he did so in obedience to or ders from a superior. They said that the question of fraud entered into the case, was argued and considered by the court for much of its opinion is an analysis of evidence on that point. They claim that the officers really controlled and dictated the action of the sovereign camp, and that Fraser had defeated a motion before the camp to have the Wood men retain 51 per cent, of the Globe stock. They charged that the mo tion to delete was equivalent to ask ing the court to help conceal from the members the details of their conduct and to exonerate them from betrayal of their trust, as found by the trial court. DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE AFFAIR BLAMED FOR DEATH NORTH PLATTE—(UP)—Failure m love is believed to have prompted John Mimranick, 4C years old, a '.inner, to kill himself with a shot gun. His body was found Monday near the North Platte river railway bridge. Mimranick went to Or>aha more than a week ago to be mar ried but, when he returned a few days later, he had no bridi. TWO NEBRASKA NURSES GIVEN ROCKEFELLER AWARD LINCOLN—(UP)—Miss Myra Tucker, instructor at the Univer sity of Nebraska Hospital School of Nursing at Omaha, and Miss Arta ^ewis, superintendent of nurses at Mary Lanning hospital, at Hastings, have been awarded the Rockefeller Foundation scholarship, for three months of study and observation. The two nurses leave for Mont gomery, Ala., Tuesday to spend the first two weeks in a study of public health nursing. The same subject will be studied for two weeks in the East Harim maternity center, it New York City. BLAME FIRE BUG FOR LOSS ON FARM NORFOLK—Fire bugs are trying to burn up the Herman Hille farm buildings. When the family left home one day last week a fire was started in the basement but it went out. Sunday night the barn was burned. TWO KENESAW, NEB. BANKS ARE CONSOLIDATED LINCOLN—i UP>—The Kenesaw sta.e bank and the First State bank of Kenesaw have been con solidated. Examiner H. C. Batty, of the state department of trade and commerce reports. The deposits of the Kenesaw State bank, amounting to 1125 000 will be taken over by their successor, the First State bank. YOUTH LOSES MEMORY IN MYSTERIOUS MANNER OMAHA-