MAKES REPORT
OF 1928 FIRES
Nebraska Official Tells Gov
ernor 79 Deaths Were
Toll of the Year
LINCOLN, NEB.— (UP)—Fires
throughout the state last year caused
79 deaths, and Injuries to 143 per
sons. John C. Trouton, state fire
marshall reported to the governor
in his annual report. A total of
$2,001,853 damage was done to
buildings and to contents of build
ings, the reported stated.
The deaths were divided as fol
lows 41 men, 23 children and 15
women. Eighteen fatalities were
caused by starting r,res with kero
sene and 15 were caused by gasoline
explosions. Playing with matches
took a toll of 10 and electricity
caused 9 deaths.
Of the 143 injured, 74 were men,
38 were women and 31 were chil
dren. Gasoline explosions led the
list of causes with 42 injuries,
Starting fires with kerosene was
given as the cause of 18 accidents
and kerosene explosions caused in
juries to seven while seven firemen
were burned fighting fires.
The total value of the building
afire last year was $28,773,125 and
the total value of the contents was
$11,192,268. The buildings were in
sured to the extent of $$11,912,268
and their contents were insured to
the amount of $9,948,056.
There was a total of 1,405 fires
during the year, the report said.
Of this number, 200 were caused by
sparks from chimneys and 96 were
caused by overheated stoves and
furnaces. Electric curling irons and
flatirons were responsible for 18 fires
and motors backfiring was listed as
the cause of 12 blazes.
Two Omaha "hootch" stills over
heated and caused fires and smok
ing in bed caused seven. Mice and
matches caused seven blazes and
the careless use of matches by per
sons was the cause of 18. Thirty
nine fires were accredited to the
use of clgaretes, cigars and pipes.
POWER CONCERN
LOBBY WINNER
Municipal Plant Plan Said
to Be Directed by Elective
Equipment Concern
LINCOLN. NEB.—(Special)—The
power trust lobby, as it is designated
by tlie lobby which has been back
ing the legislative program of the
Nebraska league of municipalities,
has apparently won out in what
has been one of the hottest fights
of the session, off the floor, and in
which members have been button
holed to the limit.
The power company representa
tives have loudly proclaimed that
the league is but a name used by
Fairbanks, Morse and company,
manufacturers of electrical equip
ment, to advance their business in
terests. which lie almost wholly with
the municipal plants. It also has a
financing department, and has been
conducting a vigorous campaign to
induce towns to buy equipment
from it under contracts that do not
call for payment until the net
earnings have wiped out the debt
incurred, it is asserted.
The league program covered a
number of phrases of the business,
all of them dovetailing to the end
that the power companies might be
prevented from buying any more of
the smaller municipal plants. In
addition to this it was proposed to
allow the towns having municipal
plants to run transmission lines out
-5 miles in each direction, and in
this way supply farmer demand
nnd also sell to towns at rates lower
than they can make current, Just
as the power companies have been
doing. The plan has been criticised
as a covert attempt to link up all
the municipal plants in such a way
that evenualiy it would be a state
power company.
As the bills come out of the house
committee the distance municipal
plants may build out into the coun
try is cut to 10 miles, and in the
construction of such lines the
towns may not enter into contracts
to pay for them out of future earn
ings, but must follow the accustomed
methods of submitting the question
to a vote of the people and selling
bonds to pay the cost. This practi
cally kills the plan, as the distance
fixed will take care cnly of rural
demands and will prevent a linkup
of municipal plants, and as it will
be an almost impossible task to get
voters in a town with a municipal
plant to build out into the country,
there being no profit now in supply
ing farmers because of their small
demand expressed in terms of
amount cf current used.
The senate spent mest of Wed
nesday on similar bills, and as they
were finally advanced several con
tained the same provisions as in
the house bills. Another bill ad
vanced was fought unsuccessfully
by the power interests. This re
quires a CO per cent vote cf the
people to lease a municipal plant to
anyone or to buy current from an
outside source.
DYNAMITE CAP EXPLODES
AND GIRL LOSES FINGERS
MORRILL—(Special)—All of the
fingers on her left hand with the
exception of thumb and forefinger
were lost by Lola Johnson, 10 years
old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R.
Johnson when a dynamite percus
sion cap exploded in her hand. She
found the caps lying in the ditch
behind the school house. A num
ber of playmates vx?re found to
have the caps also. Kers blewup
when she pricked it with a pin
Workmen are supposed to have lei’- ,
tfceoa there
ASKS COURT TO UPHOLD
DEATH PENALTY VERDICT
LINCOLN—(UP)—Pointing out
that premeditation and malice were
proved in the conviction of Morris
Swartz before he was sentenced to
die in the electric chair, Attorney
General Sorensen asked the supreme
court Thursday to uphold the ver
dict of the Douglas county jury.
SEED POTATOES
ARE IN DEMAND
Nebraska’s Crop of Certified
Stock Nearly All Deposed
of Last Year
LINCOLN, NEB.—(UP)—Nebra
ska certified seed potato growers
produced 16 per cent less certified
seed last year than in 1927, and of
the 152,400 bushels certified all but
2.400 bushels were of the Triumph
variety, says the state and federal
division of agricultural statistics.
Production of certified seed in the
United States last year set a new
record in 10,365,087 bushels, which
was 45 per cent more than the 1927
crop and 35 per cent larger than
the previous record production of
1924.
Nebraska production for the last
four years has been 121,200 bushels
in 1925, 60,200 in 1926, 181 500 in
1927 and 152,400 last year. About
two thirds of the 1928 crop was
sold early at contracts approxi
mating $1.80 per bushel but later
bids were 90 cents, f. o. b., shipping
point.
There are 21 states producing
< ertified seed potato's ami all but
8, of which Nebraska is one. showed
a marked increase in harvest of cer
tified seed last year. Prices generally
were 50 cents per bushel lower than
in 1927 and 75 cents per bushel
lower than in 1926 when the total
United States production of certi
fied seed was but 5,081,708 bushels.
The five leading varities in num
ber of bushels certified last year
were Cobbler, Graen Mountain, Tri
umph, Russet Rural and Spaulding
and Rose.
DENIED RIGHT
TO SUE STATE
Attorneys Seeking Return
for Depositors in Closed
Banks Are Balked
LINCOLN, NEB. — (UP)—Denied
(heir request by the house claims
committee for the right to sue the
state for $2,215,000 of the bank
guaranty deficit, Attorneys Clinton
Campbell, of Lincoln, and William
J. Holz, of Omaha, have not de
termined what will be their next
step.
Attorney General Sorenson told
the claims committee, which Thurs
day night denied the attorneys’ re
quest, that legislative action is
needed before suit can be brought
ngainst the state. 'Tire attorneys
have intimated, however, they will
bring suit in district court even
though they fall to gain legislative
sanction
The claim is made on the ground
that the state failed to levy the full
amount of the assessment against
the bankers during 1921 for 1924
to pay losses In the bank guaranty
fund.
FORMER GOVERNOR’S WIFE
HEADS NEBRASKA I). A. R
FREMONT—(UP) — The twenty
seventh annual conference of the
Nebraska Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution was to close Friday
with the selection of next year’."
conference city and completion oi
business matters. Mi’s. Adam Mc
Mullen, of Beatrice, wife of the
former governor, was elected state
regent to succeed Mrs. York Hun
man, of North Platte. Other offi
cers elected are: Mrs. E. H. West
cott, of Plattemouth, vice state re
gent; Mrs. H. J. Czrey, of Kearney,
recording secretary; Mrs. Fred
Lwird, of Fremont, auditor, and
Mrs. R. E Knight, of Alliance, reg
istrar.
BUS LINE OPERATOR
HITS FINANCIAL SNA',
LINCOLN— (Special)— Mrs. Ida
N. Bartunek, who has been operat
ing bus lines between O'Neill and
Sioux City. O’Neill and Gland Is
land. O'Neill and Valentine and
Valentine and Cliadrcn, ran up
against a legal snag before the state
railway commission, where she had
made application to turn the prop
erty over to a corporation the
Pioneer Bus line that she organ
ized, and have it issue $10,000 worth
of stock. She said she had Invested
more than that sum in the plant
and that a considerable pari of the
money had been lost through op
eration and depreciation of the
four cars used
The commission held that it was
restricted, under the law, to ac
cepting as the value upon which se
' uritles may be used the present
fair value of the tangible proper
ty, plus a reasonable sum for
goodwill and going concern value,
which it fixes at a total oi $2,500
It finds that the buses then,selves
are not worth much more than the
Incumbrance of $1 200 Rgainst
them. In allowing $2,500 of stock
to be sold at 85 cents on the dollar,
the commission requires that this
incumbrance be paid off.
YORK PREPARING TO
DEDICATE ITS AIRPORT
YORK—(UP)—With contract for
equipment and lighting fixtures for
the York airport let, local aviation
enthusiasts are preparing for a
formal dedication of the field some
time in April.
The government has leased a por
tion of the field for installation oi
a blinker beacon which will operat:
during the hours from twilight un
til dawn and signal to the passing
airmail fliers. The trans-continenta
airmail route will be changed soon
fo pass over the north edge of the
city
The New Tight-Fit Hng Hipline
(Poeert by Bully Plane)
Only infrequently Joes q model so attractive as the above come out ol
the ateliers of the Paris dressmakers. It shows the new glove-fitting
hipline in a creation of biege crepe designed for street wear. The rope
of pearls od•** a distinctive touch.
Boulder Dam
After Six Years
After six years of slow grinding
in the national legislative mill,
Boulder dam has moved rapidly in
the last month. Shifted from
Boulder canyon to Black Canyon on
the Colorado river by the special
engineering board's report, It has
struggled through both houses of
congress, made its way through both
Houses of congress, made its way
through the bureau of the budget
and the secretary of interior's of
fice, and finally passed the White
House pertais.
The president’s signature has just
made a law of the Swing-Johnson
bill, embodying this most ambitious
of all projects for harnessing a riv
er. Carrying an appropriation of
$165,000,000 to build a vast system of
flood control, irrigation and hydro
electric works, this measure is de
igned to open a new era erf devel
opment in tlie southwest.
As amended by the Senate and
approved by the House, the bill
meets many of the objections raised
against the original measure. It pro
vides a more adequate sum lor con
struction and' puts the burden of
repaving the cost of the ai.-Ameri
car&anal upon the water users ben
efited. instead cf upon reevnues
from the power plant to be erected
near the dam. Also it nukes a
more equable division of water be
tween Arizona and California, al
lotting H .900,000 acre-feet annually
to the former and 4,400,000 to the
latter, as against 4.C00.000 In the
earlier bill.
Congress side, tepped a decision or.
the most debated feature of the
measure—whether the power plant
should be built and operated by the
government or by private com
panies. The bill leaves this question
to the secretary of the interior,
thereby greatly increasing interest
in Mr. Hoover's selection of a man
for that post. It can reasonably be
argued that determination of gov
ernmental policy such as is here in
volved belongs more properly to
congress. This loophole for federal
operation offered the only likely
ground for a veto by President
Ooolidge. who had Insisted repeat
edly that the government should
not "go Into business.”
The next hurdle the project mus
surmount is the possible failure of
six of the seven states In the river's
basin to ratify the Colorado river
compact—as required by the bill.
At present Utah and Arizona are
standing out. Furthermore, Arizona
has indicated she will carry her
protests against federal allotment
of her water and power resources
into the courts. Legal opinion is
divided on the merits of this issue
and linal adjudication is likely to
be obtained only by tedious litiga
tion. Apparently Bowlder dam .still
has a long way to go, and greater
efforts to conciliate Arizona and
obtain her co-cperation would have
smoothed the road it must travel.
Capper’s Embargo.
If the Kellogg multilateral treaty
was a gesture toward the League of
Nations, what can be said of the
Capper embargo resolution except
that it is the spirit and virtually ate
substance of the league covenant it
self? It provides sanctions against
any nations violating the treaty,
and that was one of the provisions
in the league covenant that kept
this country from ratifying it.
Senator Capper's plan is meant
to buttress the Kellogg treaty. It
is meant to force the signatories to
keep faith with it. The Capper
resolution reveals that those advo
cating it recognize that the signa
tories w’ont’ keep faith with it un
less they are forced. The resolution
would apply the necessary force by
the embargo method, which is an
economic sanction. It would au
thorize the president from this coun
try “of arms, munitions, implements
of war or other articles for use in
war," to any conutry that had vio
lated the treaty.
This is nothing more nor less than
Keeping on Top.
Prom Answers.
Clayton (to friend who has got
into financial difficulties!: I sea
you still travel first class.
Other: If I travel second class I
meet all my creditors.
Q. How long have advertising
mediums been used? M. T.
A. Advertising is of great antiq
uity. Egyptian advertising over 4,
000 years old has been discovered.
Picture advertisements were used
for the most part up to the time of
and through the Middle Ages. The
earliest newspaper advertisement is
said to have been in Germany, 1591.
article 16 of the League of Nation
If no other result flows from Mr
Capper's logical enough effort tc
give the Kellogg treaty a substanci
it undoubtedly lacks, the effort,
least, goes to support the conten
tion,made in the treaty debate that
the treaty had no legs. Mr. Cap
per would supply the legs. If the
treaty is to march it must marcl
on the old familiar legs of league
covenant sanctions.
Historically the embargo idea if
not of ^ happy augury. Jefferson
tried it and it prostrated this coun
try’s commerce. It started the first
secession talk heard in American
history. As written, the resolution
involves the widest divergence ol
views as to what articles of com
merce would be affected. "Other
articles, for use in war’’ would seem
to include about everything—food
and olotliing as well as munitions.
American shipping would simply be
put out of business, as it was under
Jefferson's embargo. If this is what
the Kellogg treaty is to lead to. they
were goed prophets who told us in
the Senate debate that we were
going into the League of Nations
through the back door.
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More Bureaucrats.
*5 < From Ohio State Journal.
Compulsory liability insurance
for all onto drivers is proposed in a
bill pending before the legislature
The bill contemplates o state fund,
administered by a bond of three
member to be named by the secre
tary of state, all drivers to make
annual payments to the fund.
This is a bit of experimental
legislation that should not b:
studied briefly cr passed in a hurry.
It is an excursion into new terri
tory. It cannot os studied thor
oughly this session and n > effort to
pass it should be made. There are
sentiment and pity for the victims
cf auto accidents that have caused
many to wish there migh' be a bill
of that nature fashioned, but in
Massachusetts, the only .-tats that
has tried it, the plan was not suc
cessful and today is an admitted
failure in its present form.
Na form of insurance should be
based on sentiment, and no surge
of pity in the human neart is justi
fication for a costly experiment in
that field. Insurance is a highly
organized, scientific line of business
that calls for the best ability in the
country when a new field is being
pioneered. Insurance is good only
when it rests on a scientific actu
arial basis. Insurance thus far has
been written on selected risks. It is
unsafe to assume records on se
lected risks can be duplicated when
every applicant must lie taken- It is
the reckless and careless risks that
make the trouble and cause the cost
to mount higher.
The task of writing a workable
measure of that sort nrav appear
easy to those who view the iield
without estimating the factors of
importance that enter into the ven
ture. It is a task that has defeated
the best insurance minds thus far.
It is no task for a novice in the
insurance field. Every auto in ser
vice should be covered, but the
means for securing that desired
result has not yet been found. After
the lamentable failure in Massachu
setts the lawmakers of Ohio sir. uld
beware of daring the known and
unknown dangers in that field. Let
that bill die.
Q. What was a masque? L. J. E.
A. A masque was a species of
dramatic entertainment which
reached the highest popularity in
the reign of James I, but which also
was a favorite diversion at the
! courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth.
! The masque probably grew out of
| the “mummings” which are heard
of in Eengland as early as 1377.
Masques were commonly played be
fore royalty and the nobility. The
Rev. Ronald Bayne, writing of the
, masque says: "Essential masque
was the appeal of the moment to
the eye, and the ear, the blaze of
color and light, the mist of per
fumes. the succession of rapidly
| changing scenes and tableaux
crowded with wonderful and brautl
ful figures.”
Playing- Ifookcv.
From Answers.
First Youth: So you aren't going
to marry that school teacher?
Second Ditto: No. I couldn't show
up one night and she wanted me to
| bring a written excuse signed by
my parents.
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Q. How many men did John
Sullivan knock out in his tour of
! the countrv in 1883? J. A. R.
A. In September. 1883 he made
a tour of the United States last
ing rbout 0 months, during which
he offered $1,000 to any man he
could not defeat in four rounds.
During that time he knocked out
about 50 men.
FOUR HELD FOR ASSAULT
ON PROHIBITION AGENT
ALLIANCE—(UP)—E. Moyer, 35
years old, an Omaha undercover
prohibition agent, was reported
Tuesday to have been assaulted by
four men at Hemingford Monday
night after making an arrest. The
men were alleged to have beaten
the officer to unconsciousness, tak
en his gun and star and gone to
Crawford where they were cap
tured.
The four men taken into custody
are Fay E. Clarke, 24 years old, pro
fessional prize fighter; William Ir
win, Melville Burkett and Lyle
Burkett. The assault was reported
to have followed the arrest of M.
Burkett.
Moyer had only partially recov
ered Tuesday.
DEMANDS RIGHT
TO JURY TRIAL
Nebraska Woman’s Appeal
Carried to Supreme
Court
LINCOLN, NEB.—(UP)—Tht
right of defendants in liquor pro
secutions to demand trials by jur
ies in the lower courts of the state
was argued before the supreme court
Tuesday. Judge Proudfit granted, on
application, a writ of mandamus
asked for by Mrs. Katherine Gar
ton, charged with illegal sale, re
quiring County Judge Fulton, of
Fillmore county to give her a jury
trial, as demanded, after she had
entered a plea of not guilty, the
judge refusing.
Judge Proudfit held to be uncon
stitutional that section of the liquor
law which said that “magistrates
and police courts are hereby vested
with jurisdiction to try without jury
all violations of this act and all or
dinances wherein the penalty does
not exceed a fine of $100 or im
prisonment for a period of three
months.” He said this was repug
nant to the constitutional guarantee
that the right to trial by jury shall
be held inviolate.
Elmer E. Thomas, representing
the Anti-Saloon league, appeared as
a friend of the court. He said he
had written the law and he ex
plained the conditions which made
it necessary. Attorney General Sor
enson also appeared and said the
matter was one which should be
settled as soon as possible as judges
throughout the state differed in
opinions on it.
RETURNS WEDDING FEE
TO BUY HONEYMOON GAs
Omaha—“Imagine may embar
rassment,’’ a Lincoln, Neb., bride
groom sighed to Municipal Judge
Sheehan, whom he had aroused
from sound slumber after midnight
to tie the knot, “when I discovered
my car had no gas and that I had
given you the last of my money.”
Judge Sheehan was puzzled when,
after he had performed the cere
mony. he noticed the couple sitting
in their parked car apparently mak
ing no effort to leave. After over
coming his qualms, the husband of
a few moments returned, forced to
sacrifice pride for the price of gaso
line.
Judge Sheehan returned the bill
tendered him for officiating at the
marriage, with the remark that,
now married, the groom probably
would have need for it.
CLUB WOMEN TO MEET
AT PLAINVIEW APRIL 3-4
PLAINVIEW—The 26th annual
convention of the Third district
Federation of Woman’s clubs will be
held here April 3 and 4. A program
has been arranged by District
President Mrs. S. T. Frum, of South
Sioux City.
H. H. Wilson, an attorney of Lin
coln, will speak on “America’s Part
in Promotion of World Peace.” Prof.
Newton Gaines, of the vocational
training department of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, and Judge B. S.
Payne, Grand Island, also will speak.
An address wall be given by State
President Mrs. A. F. Nuquist. The
programs will be held in the Metho
dist church and a banquet will be
served in the Congregational church.
Mrs. George W. Kirk is general
chairman of the banquet commit
tee.
The local club has elected the fol
’owing officers for the ensuing year:
President, Mrs. Effie Taylor; vice
president, Mrs. Lottie Kirk; record
ing secretary, Mrs. Maxine Wilson;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Agnes
Howes; treasurer, Mrs. Grace Wat
son. These are all new officers wath
one exception, Mrs. Watson having
served as treasurer the past year.
PAYS S125 AN ACRE FOP.
MAI ON COUNTY FARM
MADISON —(Special)— Albert
Michaels has bought the farm of
Mrs. John Scheer in Kalamazoo
precinct for $125 an acre. It con
sists of 40 acres, unimproved ad
joining a tract of 80 acres owned
by Michaels.
TO ERECT OMAHA MEMORIAL
O M A H A — (UP) — Harry Lewis
Raul, Nevr York sculptor, will be
engaged to erect a memorial monu
ment for Omaha War Mothers’ Me
morial association, it was de
cided at a meeting here last night.
Raul's design was selected after the
mothers had considered work of
several other artists. It will cost
$87 000 and represent a mother on
a tall granite shaft 'with arms
around a soldier and a sailor.
Grouped about the lower part of the
-haft will be General Pershing and
war nurses.
UNIVERSITY ATHLETE
IS HELD FOR TRIAL
LINCOLN—(UP >—Newton “Red”
Becker, former University of Ne
braska trackman, was bound over
to district court Tuesday on charges
of assault with intent to do great
bodily injury. He is alleged to have
beaten a girl he was taking to
Omaha two weeks ago. Upon her
return to Lincoln she filed charges
against him and he was arrested in
Omaha where he had said he was
leaving to loin the Illinois Ath
letic club which “was in need of
a cood miler.”
STOP ABUSE OE
ORPHANED BOYS
Practice of “Adopting”
Them for Farm Work Sea
son to Be Halted
OMAHA, NEB.—(UP)—Rev. E. d
[ Flanagan, head of Father Flana
| gan’s Home for boys here has re
newed his campaign to stop the
practice of farmers adopting orphan
boys in the spring and turning them
back to institutions when the fail
farm work is done.
The campaign, started a year ago,
has borne excellent fruit, but there
is still much abuse, Father Flana
gan said.
“Small boys were never cut out
to do the work intended for a grown
m a n,” Father Flanagan said.
“Working them hard all summer
and returning them to institutions,
physical and mental wrecks is a
most shameful practice.
“Some grasping persons would
take a homeless, dependent child
and work his fingers to the bone as
a mercenary proposition, but with
public sentiment against such prac
tices once aroused, these cases are
gradually becoming fewer and few
er."
SEEKING RIGHT
TO SUE STATE
Attorneys of Depositors in
Failed Banks Hope to
Collect $2,215,000
LINCOLN, NEB.— (UP>—Twc
lawyers, representing depositors in
failed banks, will continue Wednes
day their efforts to collect $2,215,
000 from the state.
Tire two lawyers; Clinton Camp
bell, of Lincoln, and William J.
Holtz, of Omaha, were to present
arguments before the house claims
committee in an effort to obtain
permission of the legislature to bring
suit against the state to recover the
money. The claim was first present
ed to the state auditor who turned
it over to the house claims com
mittee.
In their first appearance before
the committee, late Monday, the
lawyers declined to concede that
legislative consent is necessary and
essential as a foundation tor suit by
bank depositors to recover the sum
from the state, but they did admit
such consent would be convenient
to have.
Attorney General Sorenson, how
ever, told the committee that legis
lative consent is necessary before
suit can be brought against the
state.
The basis for the claims against
the state is the contention that for
four years, from 1921 through 1925,
the state banking department failed
to levy the full annual assessment
against the state banks and the
amount was not levied and should
have been $2,215,000.
Much of the testimony that has
been presented in the Abie bank
case, in which the state banks
fought payment of the special as
sessment, was introduced into the
committee hearing. If legislative
consent is obtained to bring the
suit and the depositors are success
ful, an appropriation would have to
be made by the next legislature.
THINK THEY WERE SWINDLED
BY IOWA PHOTOGRAPHER
BEATRICE—About 75 Beatrice
working girls who paid from $3 to
$15 with orders for photographs tak
en by a traveling photographer have
waited three weeks for their pic
tures and still are waiting. The pho
tographer, who said he was from
a studio in Dos Moines, promised
to have the pictures finished and
returned within 10 days.
The girls have begun to wonder
what is causing the delay.
They told stories of being ap
proached on the street by a Miss
Catherine Herring, who said she was
the photographer’s assistant. She
induced them to look over the man's
work and after that, most of them
were sold. "He took wonderful pic
tures,” said one of the girls, "and
almost all of us were pleased with
the proofs and ordered pictures. We
paid a $3 deposit and some of the
girls paid more. We were to pay the
rest when we received the pictures.
The price was $10 for a half doz
en and $15 for a full dozen and the
enterprising photographer furnished
evening gowns for the girls to pose
in.
WINNING ATTORNEYS
LOOKING FOR PAV
LINCOLN—(UP)—The five Lin
coln attorneys who successfully at
tacked recently the investment by
the Woodmen of the World ir Globe
Life company stock pretested in the
supreme court Monday agamst the
proposal of three Omaha attorneys
that Judge Sheperd of the district
court fix a lump sum as payment
for the attorneys.
The Lincoln attorneys said they
were agreeable to having the record
made so that the district court
should fix the fees, along with a
reasonable allowance to plaintiffs
for expenses and costs, but they
did not want any lump sum order.
ODD FELLOWS PREPARE
FOR DISTRICT MEETING
VERDIGRE —(Special!—Prepara
tions are going forward for the an
nual meeting of the Niobrara Val
ley I. O. O. F. association, which
will be held the last week in April
or the first week in May, probably
May 2. The association will meet
in Verdigre this year. T. A. Tikai
sky is president and W. J. Svobcda
is secretary of the association which
includes the following iodges- Pag*,
Orchard. Plahmiw, Bloomfield!
Creighton, Magnet, i .ynci* Niobrara
and Verdigre.
