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LITTLE PROFIT IN DORMITORY Audit of Wayne Norma! Shows Building Not Good Money Investment Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—An au dit of the Wayne State Normal school covering a period from March 13, 1928, to December 2, 1929, has been completed by State Audi tor C. A. Sommer. The dormitory system is desired at this school for the purpose of better discipline and supervision of students but they are not profitable to an investment. The income from this source during the year was $16,704 from a total ol 335 pupils. Fees collected during the 2014 months covered by the audit were $56,410.98. Miscellane ous receipts were $10,829.45, includ ing cafeteria profits totaling $2,000 and $146,77 Interest on warrants. Dormitory rent varies according to the accommodations, and runs from $5 to $7 a month, but during the year they do not average more than 10 months. The Wayne Dormitory corpora tion is building a new wing for Nei hardt hall which will accommodate 70. Tills Is being erected at a cost of $55,000, 6 per cent bonds having been Issued, these to be paid, with interest, out of the receipts from the dormitory. Dormitory Income will be sent to the state treasurer, to be credited to the normal cash fund, the same as has been done in the past, and vouchers will be submitter to the state auditor for the interest and principal when they are due. Warrants will then be drawn against the normal cash fund. Since Kingsbury hall is considered unsuitable and unsafe, it will prob ably be torn down as soon as Nei hardt hall Is completed. < IfRISTMAS CIIEER FOR WARDS OF THE STATE Lincoln. Neb.—(UP)—Christmas in the 17 state institutions, In which are the 8,000 wards of the state, will be a merry one with the board of control making plans for the event. Bounteous Christmas dinners that will have all the trimmings, will be served, and in those institutions where children live, toys will be pro vided. These are bought largely through contributions from the public. Because the boys at the farm for dependent children, near Lincoln, were so successful in raising turkeys, the king of birds will grace the boards Christmas at that institu tion. The state hospital at Hastings produced 200 turkeys and 1,400 geese this year so they will have a choice of either one. The inmates of the penitentiary raised many geese and ducks. Officials of the penitentiary, with its 800 prisoners, will do allowed to buy 800 pounds of chicken this year for Christmas. The institute for feebleminded at Beatrice raised from 50 to 60 tur keys this year. Chicken will be bought for the Christmas dinner at the Norfolk hospital; the soldiers’ home at Milford; the Lincoln hos pital. STATE COMMANDER OF LEGION NAMES COMMITTEES Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — 8tu ding coaimittees which will have cl urge of American Legion activities in Nebraska during the coming year were named Thursday by Dwight Griswold, state commander. Additional committees are ex pected to be appointed as needed, Griswold announced. These Include the national department convention committee, the Junior baseball com mittee and any special committees that may be needed. Chairmen of the various commit tees are: Americanism, C. H. Velte, of Crete; child welfaje, Louis W. Horne, of Lincoln; aviation, Walter R. Johnson, of C naha; legislative, Oswin Kiefer, of Bostwick; nation al defense and O. M. T. C., Phil L. Hall, of Greenwood; community ser vice, C. G. Warren, of Nebraska City: soldiers home, J. Ed C. Fish er, of Beatrice; trophies and awards, Dr. T. J. Kerr, of North Platte; boy scouts, Clark Booker, Jr., of Gothenburg; Fldao, Wade R. Mar tin, of Stratton. NOTED SPEAKERS FOR BAR ASSOCIATION MEET Omaha. Neb.—(UP)—Frank J. Loesch. Chicago, member of Presi dent Hoover’s crime commission, will be one oi the principal speakers at Nebraska Bar association conven tion to be held at Cornhusker ho tel, Lincoln, December 27 and 28, Secretary Harvey Johnsen an nounced here today. Former Gov. Samuel R. McKelvie, member of Mr. Hoover’s agricultur al board. Judge J. A. Van Orsdel, of the court of appeals of District of Columbia, and Anan Raymond, president of the association, who recently moved to Chicago to be come head of the legal department of a large Chicago bank, are alsc on the programs. NEBRASKA HAS BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR 1930 Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) —A pros perous 1929; an optimistic prospect for 1930. That was the thought expressed today by Governor Arthur Weaver for Nebraska a* he reviewed the year just closing aad tried to look in the future at the year just dawning. “Nebraskan.? have no cause to look ^rlth doubt upon what 1930 may hold for them,” the governor said. “Because of n general rainfall dur ing the fall months and a splendid stand of winter wheat, the outlook for crop conditions for the next year is all that can be desired. The closing year has been one of more than ordinary production, while prices for most products have been fairly good.” WAUNETA WOMAN HAS RARE OLD BIBLE Wauneta, Neb. — (UP) — Mrs. George Theobald of Waur.eta is the possessor of a Bible translated by Martin Luther and compiled in 1737. It has been in the possession oi Mrs. Theobald's family for 194 years. It is made of parchment and is bound with wood and leather. It is in an excellent state of preserva tion. Brass bands protect the covers which bear the marks of heavy rings that once locked It bo the pulpit of some old church. JUDGE WOODROUGH HOLDS OPPOSITE JUDGE MUNGER Omaha, Neb. — (UP) — Eighteen days between the purchase of liquor and raid on premises where the buy was made is entirely too long, Fed eral Judge J. W. Woodrough ruled Tuesday in auashing evidence in the case of Preston B. Myers, pro prietor of a down town drug store. Judge Woodrough, however, re fused to quash indictment against Myers and he will be tried on the sales count. Diatriot Judge T. C. Munger of Lincoln, who had volunteered to help Judge Woodrough dispose of a huge liquor docket her#, a few weeks ago ruled on this very point and held the search and seizure to be legal, refusing to quash the evi dence. LENIENT WITH THURSTON BANK Nebraska’s Chief Examiner Says Losses Greater Than Should Have Been Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—The lenient Attitude of the state banking de partment in permitting the Thurs ton State bank to remain open longer than it should caused greater losses to the depositors than were necessary, A. C. Shallenberger, chief bank examiner, declared Tues day, n a report on the closed Thurston bank. Two officers of the bank, E. G. Hancock, president, and Mike Mln arek, cashier, now are awaiting trial in district court of Thurston coun ty on charges of falsifying the rec ords. H. D. Hancock, cashier of the First National bank, of Pender, also is charged with aiding and abetting the officers in connection with fal sifying the records. According to the charges, the of ficers reported to the state banking department that they had on de posit in the Pender bank $2,900.93 but an investigation revealed there was no such deposit. Flagrant violations of the bank ing laws in excessive real estate holdings and in having excessive bad and unsecured loans, were dis closed, Shallenberger reported. Jan uary 12, 1928, about the time the bank was closed, the real estate holdings were $55,634.61, or 370 per cent of the paid-up capital and about five times the legal limit of 75 per cent of the bank’s $15,000 paid up capital. "In view of these existing condi tions, it appears that this bank should have been closed at a much earlier date,” Shallenberger said. “It would seem that the lenient atti tude of the state banking officials has caused greater losses to the de positors than were necessary.” BANDITS ROB STATION, KIDNAP ATTENDANT Lyons, Neb. — (Special) — Two bandits secured about $75 when they robbed the Redding oil filling station. The attendant, Roy Brum mels, was covered by a gun while the robbery was in progress. Then the bandits forced him into their car and drove him some miles west before he was given hs freedom. RADIO FANS COMPLAIN ABOUT ELECTRIC APPLIANCE Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — Whether radio fans can seek relief from a village board when electric appli ances cause their radios to emit only cat calls and growls was the subject of an opinion given Tues day by Attorney General . A. Sor sensei.. An electric bleacher in a milling plant at Clarkson is alleged to be playing havoc wth radios in Clark son and the radio users have com plained to the village board, which threatens to pass an ordinance con demning the bleacher as a nuisance. The owner of the bleacher ap pealed to Sorensen as to whether the village board had powers to de clare his bleacher a nuisance. Citing the state law that em powers village boards to pass regu lations that would prohibit a nui sance, Sorensen said only court ac tion might decide whether the board had the power to have the use of the bleacher discontinued and then the question would be on whether the bleacher was a nui sance. "Should the village board at tempt by legal attion to compel you to discontinue the use of the bleacher, you might defend on the ground that it is not a nuisance or you might perhaps bring an ac tion to enjoin the board from inter ferrlng with your use of the bleach ers," Sorensen said. YLUUS LOOT BEE. NEB., POOL H ALL S AIT Bee, Neb. — (UP) — Robbers who Monday night broke int* the Frank Vondra pool hall here knocked the combination off the safe and made away with approximately $200 in cash. __ JURY FINDS MAKER OF WILL WAS INCOMPETENT Madison, Neb. — ( UP ) — Finding Adam Seip was incompetent when he willed to his wife the income from his $50,000 estate with the pro vision that the «»tate be divided be tween his brother, a niece and five benevolent and charitable institu tions. a Jury in district court here awarded half of the estate to the widow and half to the brother, Wil liam Seip. METHODISTS PLAN STUDENT CENTER AT UNIVERSITY Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—A Metho dist student center- to be construct ed at a cost of approximately $75, 000 will be built within the next :wc vears for the 2,000 Methodist stu dents enrolled at the University o! Nebraska, Rev. W. C. Fawell, direc tor of Wesley Foundation, an nounces. A campaign for $100,000 will be launched to gain funds for the cen ter. Approximately $75,000 will b. used to construct the center while the remainder will be for an endow ment. Italian Ace Loses American Bride The marriage of General Piero R. Piccio, Italian Ace to Loranda Batchelder of New Orleans, which took place in New York in 1920, was annulled by the Rome Court oj Appeals. Tbe court held the marriage agreement was not spontaneous as there was an element of constraint. International Newsreel Racketeering and Booze Grafts Among Big Chicago “Industries” Edward D. Sullivan, in Liberty Magazine. A1 Capone, better known as “Scarface,” Is the head of one gang of more than 800 powerful gangs now at work In this country under prohibition. In 1926 the gross income of his one gang was $70,000,000. That figure is from the records of Edgar A. Olsen, United States dis trict attorney at Chicago. Last year, 1928, $30,000,000 was spent in Chicago for protection alone. The gross to the gangs was well over $150,000,000. In 1927, E. C. Yellowley, federal prohibition administrator for Il linois, Wisconsin and Indiana, was offered $250,000 if he would keep his eyes and hands off one alcohol plant in Chicago. Morgan A. Collins, as head of the Chicago police in 1927, was offered $5 a day each on 250 barrels of beer moved daily. That was the offer of one gang. Had he accepted it he would have had 10 more like it. I can tell you about these two bribes because they were refused. I cannot tell you about 100,000 other bribes like those throughout the country, because obviously as daylight they have been accepted. Chicago has become a laboratory and school of standard practice for prohibition crooks throughout the country. By hundreds of thou sands everywhere within the United States they are at work day and night with untold millions at their command, thwarting the law, corrupting elections, tainting the judiciary, and rasing assorted hell with every routine obstacle to criminality. Within two years, as matters are progressing, not less than 12 great cities of America will be comparable with Chicago in the pro portion per population and wealth of the prohibition political-crime alliance. The power of booze criminals Increases daily and automatically throughout the country. I have been a newspaper man for 20 years, and I have a pretty good working knowledge of what $1,000 will do in political bribery. If you are curious to know what $30,000,000 will do in a city like Cci cago in a single year—just read the daily papers. Although there were only 18 murders in London last year and II the year before, there have been 760 murders in Chicago within the same period. In London every single one of the murderers cither was executed or took his own life, In Chicago 11 men were executed. Six were negroes and have nothing to do with this story; they had no power, pull, or gang connections. In the 10 years of Ai Capone’s reign in Chicago there have been 4,000 homicides. At least half of them have had some relation to booze, gang, and racketeering activity. Temperament "Blocs”. From The Nation. It is manifestly impossible to classify all senators rigidly by blocs, for the reason that so many of them belong to more than one. An agile joiner like Arthur Capper, for example, is capable of belonging to half a dozen at once. I have endeavored., however, to make a list of some of the more interesting blocs, and a suggestion of their di verse natures. It Is plainly incom plete, but here it is: Sons of Wild Jackass Bloc—In cludes such men as Norris, LaFol lette, Borah and Nye, who suffer from the naive delusion that the rest of the country is entitled to the same measure of governmental care and solicitude as the fat manu facture represented by Messrs. Grundy and Evanson. Polecat Bloc—Self-constituted and self-designated by Brookhart, in connection with his custom of being explicit about the alcoholic content of the refreshments served at din ners which he attends as a guest. Bewildered Bloc—Sonletimes ri baldry Identified In the press gallery as the ‘ Whereinthehcll are we at bloc”. Contains an approximate dozen of fledgling senators of the general caliber of Hebert, Walcott, Patterson. Goldsborough and Hat field. They don't know where they’re going, and it is extremely difficult for them to ascertain whether they are on their way. Oh Dear! Oh Dear! Bloc—Con sisting of Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. Fluttering anxiously from one dis tressing situation to another, this bloc probably allows its thoughts to stray often to those dear placid days at Antioch college, where piety and scholarship were one, and a good man was Indistinguishable from a great one. Uncut Ivory Bloc—Phipps of Colo rado. Kean of New Jersey and little Freddy Hale of Maine—all solid in the moot substantial meaning of the word. Charles Dickens Bloc—Sam Short ridge of California. Think of an owl with sideburns, spending the days in melancholy meditation on Needs Advice. From Tit-Bits. Teacher: Willie, can you tell me how matches are made? Willie: No. Miss, but I don’t blame you for wanting to know. Teacher: Why, what do you mean? Willie: Mother says you’ve been trying to make one for more than a year. Q. What is the story of the grave of the amiable child, near Grant's tomb? M. H. R. A. Near Grant’s tomb on the edge of the bluff is a little monument marking the grave of "an amiable child.” The inscription has been the decay of parliamentary govern ment, and—what is worse—oc casionally bursting into discourse or, the subject in what it conceives tc be the best manner of Burke, Pltl and Fox combined. What's Left Bloc—Long known at the old guard. Now consisting oi Mores, Reed and Bingham. -♦ ~ Wales “Wants to be King.” Richard Dent in Collier's. There is in the possession of tht English royal family a book of presi cuttings very much treasured by the princes. It is labeled ‘'Tilings we have neither said nor done,” and it ocntains very nearly every gossip column article that has ever ap peared about them. Let me anticipate that book will never be published, and attempt tc kill one or two myths about Prince Charming. In the first place Wales is not always smiling; he is as serious about his job as a successful stock broker is about stockbroking. In the second place, that, famous smile is part of his stock in trade The public expects to see it and the prince obliges. But next time you see him close up at an official function when he is smiling, just look at his eyes. Unless something really humorous has happened there is no smile in them. In the third place, though the prince is fond of dancing, he very frequently goes for weeks without putting a foot to the dance floor. Dancing is a recreation and busi ness comes before pleasure. Fur ther, when he does dance until 3 o'clock in the morning, he does not get up at 6:30. as reported, to run around Buckingham palace gardens. In the fourth place, he is neither a reckless nor a bad horseman. Un fortunately, as he has admitted to me himself, he has bad hands. In tue fifth place and most im portant of all, he does want to be king cf England. He wants to be, mere than any other man on this earth, and he has not the least Idea of letting his brother take over the job for r.im. blurred by passing time but the in scription may still be read. “Erected to the memory of an amiable child. St. Claire Pollock. Died 15th July, 1797 in the fifth year of his age. ‘Man that is born of a woman is cf few years and born to trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down; he fleeth as a shadow and continueth not.’” At the time referred to this was called Straw berry’ Hill and here was the coun try home of George Pollock, a New York merchant. Shortly after, he failed in business and was forced to sell and went to England. In a letter to Mrs. GuUan ver Planck, under date of January 18, 1800, is the record of the child’s grave. OMAHA HAS LONGEST l'LRIOD FOGGY WEATHER Omaha, Neb.—(UPj—The fog and haze blanket which has obscured the sun hers constantly since De cember 7 continued Monday despite a drop in temperature to below the freezing point Sunday night. All rec ords for continuous cloudiness have been broken. Pavements which have been wet because of heavy mists falling during the fog period, froze Sunday night making motor traffic, extremely hazardous. The icy streets coupled with the thick fog Monday morning resulted in many minor collisions and forced drivers to use utmost caution and travel at very low speed. JIM DAHLMAN TO RUN AGAIN Predicted Omaha’s Execu tive Will Face Serious Opposition This Time vincula, xncu. —\ur;— oames Dahlman, Omaha’s perennial mayor, celebrated his 73rd birthday Sun day by laying plans for re-election next spring. Dahlman, who has ruled the Nebraska metropolis for more than 20 years faces the hard est battle of his career in the spring elections, politicians say. Indications are that he and his associates who have been elected time after time on liberal platforms, will face a different kind of battle this time. Efforts of his opponents so far have been toward inducing men almost as liberal In their views as the mayor himself to enter the fray. Practically every city department has been under fire during the last several months. Newspapers have treated the administration none too gently and it is understood on good authority that the opposition will have active support of one daily and possibly of both. Dahlman who is dean of Ameri can mayors in cities of the first class, however, insists that the op position will melt away on election day and that his ticket will again sweep into office by liberal major ity. NO AUTHORITY TO PAY SERVICE FEE TO BANKS Lincoln, Neb.—County treasurers have no authority to pay banks a service fee for the care of county deposits, according to a statement issued by State Auditor Johnson. It is the opinion of Mr. Johnson that treasurers paying this fee become liable and examiners are instructed not to allow such deductions. In case they are made, the report will show the county short. A letter tc Mr. Johnson from the secretary of the Nebraska Bankers’ association stated that some counties were pay ing a service charge of 1 per cent, others 2 per cent, while still others were negotiating. GAS PrPE LINE~TO~ DAVENPORT, NEB., COMPLETED Davenport, Neb.—(UP)— With a crowd of 400 witnessing the cere mony, the final link in the 89 miles of pipe line of the Nebraska Natur al Gas company was laid two miles northwest of here late Saturday. The pipe line now is completed be tween Chester and Grand Island. After tests have been made of the pipes, it is planned to send 35,000, 000 cubic feet of gas a day through the line. PAIR HELD FOR YOUNG MAN’S MYSTERIOUS DEATH Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)— The mys terious poisoning of Herman Hard ing, 20 years old, whose death re- , suited Friday night eight hours af ter he was taken ill in Omaha, will be investigated thoroughly at an inquest called for tonight. At the inquest will be Omer Mil ler of Omaha, brotherinlaw of young Harding, and the 18-year-old widow, Mrs. Harding. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Miller, of Omaha, were arrested Saturday night at their Omaha residence and were to be questioned in connection with the death. After officers questioned her, Mrs. Miller was released. Mrs. Harding had made her homo with the Mil lers following her separation from Harding. According te, the parents of Her man Harding, threatening notes had been received by them, warning Harding to remain away from Oma ha if he valued his life. The par ents alleged the notes were signed by Mr. and Mrs. Miller and the young wife. SEVEN CAR LOADFOF ROUGH FISH TAKEN Arlington—Carl Kjellsen and C. E. Smith, both of this place, made a draft of fishes in Lake Hendricks, on the state line in the eastern portion of Brookings county this week which they believe has broken all records in the state along this line. While seining the lake for rough ish with a net 4.000 feet long, under the ice, they drew in seven carloads, of rough fish, the major portion of which were secured in one draft. Four carloads of fish were shipped ,o the New York market alive, the oalance frozen, and the carloads went between 22,000 and 24,000 pounds The work was all done under the supervision of Commissioner R. L. Ripple, the game fish being re turned to the lake. As the fish were sold on the track, and checks de livered to the fishermen at once, they realized u neat sum for their eifforts. FORMER COMMISSION HOUSE MAN GOES TO PRISON Omaha, Neb.—(UP)—Joseph Fer nald, former local commission house executive, who boasted when arrest ed in Dallas, Tex., last October that he would expose the Nebraska creamery trust,” began serving a two-year prison sentence for for gery Saturday. He pleaded guilty to .he charge. He surrendered after a nationwide search lor him had proved fruitless. His “creamery trust” story failed to incite sympa Jiy for him and he later admitted it was simply a move to save him from criminal prosecution USED PRESSURE TO SELL BOOKS High Power Agent of Kan sas City Concern Forced to Make Restitution Inman, Neb. — (Special) — John Layng, representative of a Kansas City publishing house, was released after being in custody for nearly two weeks in Holt county, when a representative of his company came here and settled with a number of chool districts. Layng was charged with fraud ind misrepresentfciion. He was sell ng the “Book of Knowledge," and massed as an official sent out by he state department of education to place a new course of study in he schools of Nebraska and thus standardize them. He returned $430 to the district and orders for 14 sets of books were cancelled. All costs were paid by the company It was said that Layng had not turned in any of the orders he re- . ceived. Layng would go to the school house, give teacher and pupils a alk, check up on the libraries, and then going to the school boards con vince them that the books now in ■he schools would no longer be ac cepted by the state department. In tome districts he said that the state tn order to help out the schools .vas paying $40 on each set and that ha district should pay the balance of $60.90, which was really the full price of the set. One of his methods was to an ■ •agonize members of the schooi boards, cause internal strife in the 'coard, and set them against the county superintendent. He de manded that the checks be made oavable personally to him. Districts soon began comparing aotes. He worked in this vicinity or three weeks before his activi ies were investigated. iSK DAMAGES FROM ALLEGED BOOZE DEALERS Madison, Neb. — (UP) — Claiming hat she and her infant daughter Mary Ann Sattler of Inman, have suffered humiliation and disgrace through the alleged sale of liquor to Edwin H. Sattler, husband and father of the respective plaintiffs, Mrs. Clara Sattler has filed a $25, 000 damage suit in Madison county district court, naming Mary and Andrew Laprath and Mr. and Mrs. William Feldhan of Ndrfolk as de fendants. On Tuesday, December 10, the. petition states, Sattler went to Nor folk to transact business with a per son, not named in the suit. The person he was to see was out of the city and Sattler was forced to remain in Norfolk longer than he had planned. It is alleged while he was waiting in Norfolk the de fendants sold him a quantity of li quor sufficient to cause him to be come drunk and “physically unable to navigate and take care of him self.” _ MORE SHEEP BEING FED OX NEBRASKA FARMS Lincoln, Nsb. — tUP) — Increased sheep feeding on Nebraska farms is indicated in the receipts of sheep at country points, the state and fed eral division of agricultural statis tics reports. The Scottsbluff district may feed a record number this year, the re port indicated. The increase seems to be general throughout the Corn Belt states and in western moun tain feeding areas. An increase of 5 to 10 per cent may be expected in the sheep feed ing operations in Nebraska this year, the report said. Railroad sta tion receipts at country points to November 1 showed an increase of 6.5 per cent and direct shipments from markets to the country are 6.7 per cent over the same period last year. Shipments into the Scottsbluff district totaled 1,084 cars to No vember 1 as compared to 729 to the same date last year. BIG LIQUOR SEIZURE MADE NEAR PIERCE Pierce, Neb.—Three hundred gal lons of finished moonshine whisky were seized on Christ Bussman s farm, near Hadar, Neb., a small vil loge southeast of Pierce. Bussman was taken into custody and brought to Pierce, where his preliminary hearing was held. He pleaded guil ty and paid a fine of $127 and was released. Two federal prohibition agents, with Sheriff E. A. Lnmbrecht, went to the farm late In the afternoon and there found a completely epuipped aging plant and the 300 gallons of liquor end 20 burlap bags each containing five one-gallon jugs of liquor. All but the liquor found in the bags was poured out in the base ment of the Bussman home, and the aging equipment, consisting of oil heaters, aging compound, bar rels, jugs and boilers were taken to Pierce and stored In the courthouse AGED HAVELOCK HOTEL MAN CLAIMED BY DEATH Havelock. Neb—(UP)—James G. Holliet, 86 years old, for many years the proprietor of the Holliet hotel here, died Monday night. Holliet, a republican, was a representative in the state legislature from 1903 to 1905. He came to Nebraska in 1884 from Illinois and in 1890 opened hir hotel here. He operated the hotel until 1907. COMMON LAW WIFE FAILS TO GET ESTATE Omaha. Neb.— (UP)—Mrs. La vinin P. Christian, Brooklyn, N. Y„ was awarded the $3,600 estate of her husband. George R. Christian, former Wall Street broker who died mysteriously in a hospital here a year ago District Judge Dineen turned the estate over to her Mon day. Helaine I. Harrison of Phil adelphia. who claimed to be Chris tian's commcn-law wife, contested the case, producing a will which purported to leave the prnnerty to her