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VOL. 53—NO. 67. gS? f! TtSTSn _ OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923, ♦_Wk.™’, Vg^TS TWO CENTS - VTcSt
FIRE 2 JUDGES, URGE DR YS
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Wappich
and Dineen
Attacked
In Letter to Governor Bryan,
F. A. High of State Anti
Saloon League Says Liquor
Laws Not Enforced.
Too Many Discharged
By P. C. POWELL.
Staff Correspondent The Omaha Bee.
Lincoln, Sept. 2.—Immediate sus
pension of Police Judges William
Wappich and Frank Dineen of Oma
ha, followed by filing of ouster pro
ceedings against those officials under
the Sackett law, is urged upon Gov
ernor Charles W. Bryan In a letter
written to him by F. A. High,' su
perintendent of the Antisaloon
league.
High, in his letter, charges the two
Omaha police Judges with failure to
enforce the liquor laws and laws per
taining to houses of ill-fame and gam
bling places. Continuing, High points
to official records to prove alleged
delinquency of these officials In im
posing adequate fines or imprison
ment upon alleged violators of these
laws from April 2, 1923, to August 5,
1923.
Few .Jail Sentences.
following is me recora oi juuga
Wappich's activities on the police
bench as compiled by Antisaloon
league workers:
Unlawful sale or possession of
liquor: Number of cases, 38; number
dismissed, 15; number given jail sen
tences, none.
Keeper of gambling house and in
mates: Number of rases, 43; number
of cases dismissed, 43.
Keeper of disorderly house and in
mates: Number of cases, 241; number
of cases dismissed, 165: number fined
only 81 each, 12; number given jaU
sentences, 2. One served three
days and another four.
^^00 Here is the official record of Judge
^"lJineeh:
Unlawful possession and sale of
liquor: Number of cases, 38; number
of cases dismissed, 15; jail sentences
given, 1.
. Keeer of disorderly houses and in
mates: Number of cases, 20'J; number
cases dismissed, 92; number fined only
81 e tch, 33: jail sentences given, none.
Following is Secretary High's letter
to the governor:
“Enclosed you will find court
records of Municipal Judges William
Wappich and Frank Dineen of
Omaha, from which it appears that
those judges have failed to enforce
the laws relating to sale of intoxicat
ing liquor and its companion evils,
houses of ill fame and gambling
houses.
"These records show that these
judges have continued for a long
polled to make a farce of the above
laws, notwithstanding protests on the
part of law-abiding citizens.
"Therefore, we earnestly request
you, as governor of the state of Ne
braska, to cause action to be brought
at once against Judges Wappich and
Dineen and that you Immediately sus
pend them from office under authority
given you by the amended statutes of
Nebraska (Sackett law) found in chap
ter 116, section 1, of the 1923 session
laws.
“For your convenience we submit a
digest in full of their official actions.
“Yours respectfully,
"F. A. HIGH,
"Superintendent Anti-Saloon League.”
Montana Will Enforce
Stcrliization Statute
By International Newi Service.
Helena, Mont., Sept. 2.—Despite
protests Hied with Montana state offi
cials. plans were being made to com
ply with the newly enacted Montana
statute providing for sterilization of
feeble-minded persons in the state's
custodial institutions.
Sterilization, if authorized by the
state hoard, can only he ordered when
asked by parents, legal guardians or
Ihe subjects themselves.
A number of applications for ster
ilization from Inmates of the state
Insane asylum at Warm Springs and
Ihe state school for the feeble-mind
ed at Boulder, have already been re
ceived.
Surprise Party Given
Assistant Postmaster
A surprise party w'as given Fri
day night for Dew fitter, who was
re. ently appointed assistant post
master of Omaha. Aoout 40 em
ployes of the South Side station were
gathered at Mr. fitter's home.
A. Martin, one of the enfployps,
presented Mr. fitter with a bouquet
from the employes. Mr. fitter and
others made speeches.
Tcachcrt* Back From Europe
Mrs. Maud McPhail, 33011 Hickory
street, and Miss Janet Watson, a
teacher in the Dlncbln school in
Houth Omaha, have returned from a
trip through France, Italy, Switzer
land, Belgium, Scotland and England.
A thrill of their trip was an air
plane ride from Zurich, Switzerland,
to Muiylch, Germany, made in four
hours, or eight hours less than it
requires by train
What Future Generations May See
a-'-i* • •
Italians Will
Ignore League
in Greek Fight
Rome Says 10 Killed in Bom
bardment—Settlement of
Dispute lip to League,
Claimed
By Asfioriatrri Pres*.
Athens. Sept. 2.—Signor Montagna,
the Italian minister, on behalf of the
Italiun government, this afternoon in
formed Foreign Minister Alexandria
that Italy will refuse to recognize the
decision of the league of nations in
the present controversy between Italy
and Greece.
London, Sept. 2. — ibve thousand
Italian troops have been landed on
Corfu, says an Athens dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph. These sol
diers were sent ashore from 15 naval
vessels.
Grade Crossing Peril
Avoidable, Says Expert
"Accidents at grade crossings are
for the most part avoidable," said H.
A. Adams, safety agent of the Union
Pacific railroad, yesterdny, "and I am
glad especially that the Omaha Bee
thought the matter of looking Into
the cause of these accidents of suffi
cient Importance to get the material
for the story run in Kunday's paper.
"The majority of accidents occur at
crossings where the view is open for
some distnnee on both sides of the
approach, and not at hidden points.
"When we can educate motorists to
realize that a heavy train, traveling
at a high rate of speed, with almost
Irresistable momentum, cannot be
stopped within 20 feet, and that they
are risking, not only their own lives,
but the lives of nil in their automo
biles, we shall see the accident list
grow smaller."
School House Burned.
Teoumseh, Neb., Sept. 2.—During
an electrical storm the school housu
in the Ijifayette district, north of
Brock, was struck by lightning and
completely destroyed by fire.
“Paying Guests” Are Sought
by Titled English Women
London, Sept. 2?—One of the
algnilleant signs of tho times Is the
number of titled women who are Ink
Ing boarders berause they are hard
up. They are advertising for them,
too, but they do not rail them “board
ers."
They refer to them as "paying
guests"—a ternr. which. It Is said, has
not yet obtained currency In America.
There Is no real difference between
"boarders" and “paying guests," ex
cept that, the latter are charged more.
Ilynirders are regarded as quite vul
gar, while paying guests are assumed
to be people of some social position.
One titled lady advertises that she
has a wide circle of titled people
nmong her friends and acquaintances
to whom she will Introduce “paying
guests" and that nobody will know
they are not her own particular
friends. It l« added In the advertise
ment that "liberal terms ’ are "ex
pected.”
Social Advantages.
“A lady of title," runs another ad
vertlsement, "will accept, the chap
eronnge of a few young Indies of
good breading for whom, she will
guarantee "exceptional aoclal advan
tage*" and ' will organize dances, par
ties and entertainments."
Another advertisement runs, "A
lady of title who used t<> entertain on
a lavish scale before the war, hut Is
no longer Hble to Indulge her fond
ness for hospitality on such a gener
ous scale ns formerly, will receive
some highly recommended paying
guests st large and magnificently fur
nished ancestral mansion standing In
midst of beautiful and extenslea
estate. Only people who have been
accustomed to moving In the best
society will be received."
Kates Higher.
That Is one way of hinting that
the rates charged will be considerably
more than nt a first class hotel.
One advertisement that appeared
recently read: "A few American
young ladle* whose parents enn ap
preciate value of a refined and cultl
vated Kngllsh accent received ns pay
ing guests liy two ladles of title who
will Instruct them In the mnnners
and deportment of people who move
In the brat Kngiish society. liefer
ences exchanged."
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Paper Wheels No Longer
Purr Under Pullman Cars
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common strawboard paper, auch a*
Chicago, Sept. 2.—Toe paper car
wheel that Intrigued the imagination
of America years ago. and which once
served on every Pullman car, is now
only a memory, according to the Pull
man News.
The steel wheel has succeeded the
paper-cored wheel In every Instance.
The public's Idea back In 1880, that
the paper wheel's superiority was
that the paper center would not be
susceptible to the expanding and con
tracting Influences of heat and cold
was a misapprehension, as the real
reason for Its value lay In the dead
ening of sound under passenger cars,
particularly Pullmans. It was suc
cessful for 25 years and then the all
steel wheel began to take Its place,
until today there Is not a paper-cor
ed wheel on any Pullman car, ac
cording to the 'News.
In manufacturing the paper wheel
butchers formerly used to wrap
meat In. was needed. At first 16
sheets were placed together, dampen
ed. pressed and baked .Three section*
or 48 sheet* were then pressed to
gether and dried for from 30 to 00
days In a kiln. The final process was
to take four sections of 4S sheets or
192 and press them together. This
made up the block from which the
wheel was made and It was allowed
to dry In the kiln six months.
All that then remained was to
turn this block on a lathe until It
attained the desired spherical form.
This paper center would be incased
In a steel tire and sides, the latter
being clamped together. A 38 inch
wheel with three-inch tire weighed
about 1,070 pounds. The present
Pullman all-steel wheel, of which
there are 12 under each car, 1* 36
inches In diameter and weighs 925
pounds.
Table Rock School Man
Goes to Atlantic, la.
Table Kook. Neb.. Sept. 2.—Prof,
arwl Mr*. C. 8. Gilbert left for their
now home at Atlantic, la., where the
former will tfrke charge of the schools
a* assistant superintendent. Mr. Oil
bert was superintendent of the Hum
boldt school* for the pa*t two years,
prof. Junies C. Greenwood of Lincoln
linn been chosen as his *ucce**or here.
He has had several years' teaching
experience, and for the past two years
has hern taking work at the Univer
sity of Nebraska.
Two AuloiMft Injured
in Craoh Near Julian
Tecttmaeh, N*b., Hept. 2 (lerald
Procter, non of Mr. and Mr*. T,ee
Proctor, now living nenr Jullun but
formerly of Teeumaeh, hnd hi* lwiuk
broken In *n Automobile mcrldcnt, nnd
hi* eouain. Noel Proctor, of SoMter,
Kan., had hi* collarbone broken.
Two other* riding In the enr were not
*erloii*ly hurt. The enr rnn Into a
ditch And turned over. The Procter*
were taken to a lieepltnl In Nebraaka
Pity.
Son of Coluinbutt Judge
Honored in Air Service
Columbus, N»b., Hept. 2 — Co Ion #1
V\ N. Hensley. son of Judge and Mrs.
\V. N\ Henskw of Columbus, ipis
drawn th* highest honors available
to officer* In ihe aviation nervier.
Lr<j>m a field of *«vsral hundred com
petlng army officers, Colonel Hensley
has been made commander of Mitchell
field, Long Island, New York, the
largest nnd most Important of all the
army aviation fields.
Ashland Pastor Plans
to Engage in Farming
Republican City, Neb , Sept 2.—
Rev. W. F. Haskins, pastor of the
Methodist church at Ashland, has an
nounced his Intention of retiring from
the ministry, temporarily at least,
and plans to move to Republican City,
where he will operate a farm that he
owns. He Is making thn change
partly In order that he may lw> with
his mother, who Is getting along In
years.
Former Mayor Killed by
Own Gun in Indianapolis
Indianapolis. Ind , Sept. 2—-Joseph
K. Hell, fill years old. former mayor
of Indianapolis and seventh district
democratic chairman, was Instnntly
killed here late yesterday at the Indi
anapolis Hun club. Mr. Retl had just
returned from shooting on the range
and was cleaning his gun when It
was discharged.
Country Club
Kdwnnt K I’pttl* rntprtnlnod ihr
el luftnbtrv of Ml** Kle.mor furpon
for * W'hMIiik piirty 1n*t PVPnlnK *t
the fountr\ Hul>. f*rpentrr I*
to he umnlfd to Donald Pettis of
Lincoln on Tuesday
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Tidal Wave, Typhoon, Fire Combine
to Make Disaster Worst in History;
Yokohama and Tokio Are Wiped Out
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JAPANESE DISASTER AT A GLANCE |
Cities of Tokio and Yokohama reported wiped out by earthquake,
fire, typhoon and tidal wave Saturday.
Hundreds of sea coast cities and towns withi na radius of 100 miles
of Tokio reported destroyed.
Loss of life estimated at over 100,000.
Millions homeless.
Martial law proclaimed in Tokio.
Tens of thousands of buildings reduced to debris and consumed by
flames.
Scores of villages buried by landslides.
Imperial palace at Tokio destroyed.
Prince regent and members of the imperial family safe at Xikko.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing to open country.
Shipping in Yokohama harbor suffered heavy losses.
Communication and transportation paralyzed.
Water supply of both Tokio and Yokohama paralyzed.
Famine threatens the devastated area.
Relief movement has been started.
American Asiatic fleet ordered to Japan to give assistance.
Japanese warship* proceeding to Yokohama. Merchant vessels
ordered from Osaka and Kobe to stricken area.
Thousands injured when Tokio arsenal blows up.
Mount Hakone rumbling, eruption feared.
Ffear Felt for Safety of Hundreds
of Americans in Stricken Japan
Failure of All Efforts to Communicate With Earth
quake Area Arouses Grave Appre
hension in U. S.
By t nlversal Service.
Washington, Sept. 2.—Apprehension
for the safety of Ambassador Woods
and the hundreds of American resi
dents and tourists in Tokio and Yoko
hama and other parts of the Japanese
empire was expressed today by the
State and Navy departments and the
Japanese embassy when efforts to
communicate wtih the earthquake and
fire-stricken area failed.
The State department announced
that it had not received a word from
Ambassador Woods or from any other
consular official in Japan since the
earthquake.
The department has been unable
even to establish whether or not its
inquiries have reached any of the
diplomatic or consular offices in the
empire.
Japanese embassy officials, await
ing with their traditional stoicism
throughout the night afi3 today for
some official information on the dis
aster. had only the reports given out
by the Radio Corporation of America.
The embassy experienced the same in
ability as the State department in
getting messages through to T*kio or
Yokohama.
At the Navy department, where the
most powerful radio stations in the
world have been working all night
and all day today trying to establish
communication with the Asiatic fleet,
it was stated that it had been found
impossible thus far even to reach Ad
miral A. E. Anderson with the order
of Admiral Eberle. chief of operations,
to proceed to Yokohama.
Admiral Eberle s instructions to the
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic
fleet, issued after a conference of
Navy department chiefs with Secre
tary Denby, wer.e to rush to Yoko
hama with all possible speed and
render every possible assistance to
the stricken people. Japanese and
other nationalities, as well as Ameri
cans. in the earthquake and Are swept
districts.
( able ( ommuriioatiiin Broken.
This order was dispatched to San
Francisco by commercial telegraph
lines and thence hy navy radio. No
acknowledgment or any other recog
nition of its receipt by Admiral Ander
son has yet come bark. Cable com
munication has been broken. 1t was
stated, by the terrific earth shocks.
Sacred Concert
Opens State Fair
Seven States Represented in
10,000 Persons W ho Attend
Opening Day.
Lincoln, Sept. 2.—Over 10,000 at
tended the opening of the 55th annual
stale fair at Lincoln today. The pro
gram consiated of sacred music by a
band and a number of solcdsts.
Automobiles from Kansas. Okla
homa. Colorado, South Dakota. Iowa
and Wisconsin were seen parked on
the fair grounds.
Exhibits are being completed and
the various superintendents announce
that a majorijty of the exhibits will
be arranged by Monday.
Two Vi onion Are Struck, One
Badly Hurt by Lightning
By Inlernsliensl >rw. Sen ,re.
Estes Park. Colo., Sept. 2.—Miss
Ethel Ridenour, prominent society
girl of Kansas City, Mo., and Dr.
Mary Lee Edwards of New York
city, were struck by lightning while
viewing a midsummer snow storm
near Chasm lake, on Long Peak, near
here.
The lightning stripped Miss Ride
nour of all her clothing and she was
stricken unconscious, being reported
In a serious condition.
Dr. Edwards suffered only slightly
from the effects of the bolt.
Wealthy Orain Man at»
Sioux City Hangs Self
Sioux City, Sept. 2.—His body dang
ling from a rope In the basement of
his home, Edward Kayser, wealthy
grain man, was found dead At noon
today.
Kayser'* wife found the body and
cut I he rope by which he was sus
pended rotn the celling.
Financial reverses ate given ns the
motive for the suicide. Secretary of
the South Dakota (itsin company,
Kayser is said to have suffered heavy
financial losses during the last few
months. He was 45 years old.
Couple Near Table Hook
Have Colder. Wedding
Tnbl# Rock. Neb., Sept. 2 Mr. nnd
Mm. J. K Wlaaler, who live * few
miles southeast f>f here, Juit non*®*
I he county line In Richardson ooun
tv, celebrated their gulden wedding
with over 100 gucHta In at tendance.
J. IMward Wlmlcr and Mar> l.ugrn
hill were married in Aiiguat, tS7;t. at
Kail® City. Re\ Mr. Ureenmillcr of
the Lutheran church officiating. Tho
Journey from the home to Kill* City
In 15*73 waa ipad* in a lumber wagon,
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the trip each way occupying most of
a day. Mr, and Mrs. Wissler are the
parents of nine living children. 25
grandchildren and one great-grandson.
All of the children were present ex
cept Fred and John. A bounteous
dinner was served and the couple was
presented wirti a purse of gold.
Officers Find Stills
and Hooch Near McCook!
McCook. Neb., Sept. 2.—Yesterday
Sheriff Mark Brennan and deputies
nf Hitchcock county and Sheriff
(leorge McClain and Deputy Sheriff
I'eter Karthauser of Bed Willow
county raided the farm of Robert
Dram. Just over the line In Hitchcock
county, about 10 miles southwest of
McCook. They were rewarded by un
covering the largest moonshine
whisky plant yet found In this sec
tion of Nebraska.
Hidden in a canyon, under a dense
growth of sunflowers, were found two
20 gallon stills. 35 gallons of whisky,
five gallons of alcohol. 500 gallons of
mash, 12 barrels of mash In soak,
with copper coils in two of them, a
150 gallon water tank, two copper
boilers, throe oil stoves. *5 empty
sugar sacks. Imss of raisins and a
multitude of minor items of equip
ment, making over two large truck
loads, which were hauled to Trenton.
The owner has not yet been appre
hended.
Hop Shipments Halted
hy Cholera at Red Cloud
Bed Cloud. Neb, Sept. I.—Stock
buyers report a falling off In the num
her of hogs being marketed Just now.
When the hog cholera was spreading
many farmers, fearing their herds
would take the disease, ahipped all
hogs that were to heavy to vaccinate.
• veil though they were not thorough
ly fattened. Now they are holding
the Immune hogs until they are well
rounded out V u rinating was done
on a large scale In this country and
cholera Is dying out.
M. E. Church at Kearney
Asks Return of Pastor
Kearney, Neb . Sept 2 At the
final conference of the Kearney Meth
odist church, it \v:\n unanimously vot
es) to request the bishop to return the
present pastor, Kev. Oliver Keve. for
the seventh year. There have been
over 100'additions to the membership
of the Methodist church in the past
year, the total now reaching 1,100.
The Weather
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Hundreds of Towns Skirting
Sacred -Mountain of Fuji
yama Destroyed With
out Trace. i
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Water Famine Is Feared
By Universal Service.
Pekin, Sept,. 2.—The new Chinese
wirelesi station at Musu* reports
that the earthquake which visited
central Japan desro.ved all the
cities, towns and villages between
Tokio and Osaka. Fire is raging
throughout the district.
All railway lines entering Tokio
are dislocated for a distance of 100
miles.
By rnlTersal Sendee.
Shanghai, China, Sept. 2.—One hun
dred thousand are dead as the result
of Japan's earthquake and flr* hor
ror, which Is reported to be <me of
the greatest tragedies of history.
This estimate was made In press
reports from Japan reaching here
late today. Indications are that it
Is a conservative estimate.
Earthquake, tidal wave, typhoon
and fire combined to make the dis
aster one of the most horrible ever
recorded.
Uncontrolled blasts of flame are
sweeping terror, death and destruc
tion over what Is left of two of
Japan's greatest cities—Tokio and
Yokohama.
Palace Is Destroyed.
All effort# to save the imperial
palace at Tokio were for naught. In
spite of heroic and desperate attempts
to prevent the flames from reaching
the palace, that noble structure,
symbolical of the history of the em
pire of Japan, is this afternoon a
blackened heap of charred ruins.
The imperial family is safe. Short
ly after the terrific earthquake the
itgent and members of the imperial
family, with their retainer- and mem
bers of the imperial household, fled
to Xikko.
Hundred* of towns skirting the
base of Fujiyama, the sacred moun
tain of Japan, were wiped out, not
a trace remaining to show where
they once were.
Seacoast towns and villages were
reduced to debris as the result of the
powerful earth vibration, followed
by tidal waves of gigantic propor
tions.
Village* Are Flntomhed.
Scores of other villages were en
tombed by a great landslide set in
motion by the earthquake.
Does of life Is so appalling, that
the 4magination cannot conceive the
true extent of the calamity whi, h
has taken hold of Japan with a grip
of death.
Airplanes ire being rushed to Tokio
from Osaka to get details of the hor
ror and to carry whatever assistance
is within their power.
Japan is stunned in its misery. Su
perstitious mobs run aimlessly to an<|
fro muttering prayers to the gods
of destruction that have so ruthless
ly beaten them down.
Pandemonium prevails In • \ ery
section of the empire. Refugees aie
jamming every possible road from
scenes of death and destruction
By TnfxrrMl S-erx ire.
Sliangh.ii, Sepi. 2.—One hundred
thousand deaths is the estimate at a
late hour this afternoon of the earth
quake shocks and tidal waves that
swept the Japanese coast cities, in
cluding Tokio and Yokohama, at 2
o'clock this morning.
The bodies of the victims are lying
in the streets, in the burned ruins and
under the various masses of debit*
where they wore buried alive.
Arsenal Explosion Injures Thousands.
Tokio and Yokohama are g gantic
masses of Maxing ruins Ail sections
of Tokio. except Shiba, were burned,
the destroyed buildings including the
Imperial theater. Imperial university.
Metropolitan police stations, fir* sta
tions. nil the principal banks and*
stores and all newspaper offices, in
cluding the Japanese Advertiser and
the Imperial hotel.
The Tokio/arsenal blew up this af
ternoon, injuring several thousand
and speeding the fearful fires which
are causing general destruction in the
wake of the earthquake shocks.
The whole city of Tokio was shaken
again this afternoon. All vacant
grounds nr* filled with refugees.
Thousands are fleiing to the country
and to whatever ships me in the har
bor.
The fires are spreading in nil direc
lions. and in both Tokio and Yoko
hama It is not expected that anything
is saved except a few buildings
Martial la« in Tokio.
Reporters in airplanes me being
sent from Osaka and the only com
munication now possible within ihe
quake area |i h\ airplane.
A Japanese lieutenant arrived th a
afternoon at ixsaka by airplane, car
rying a message front the Japanese
minister of war requesting immediate
relief. All warshis have been ordered
to Yokohama and dote ns of ships
from Kobe are ahead) on their wax
to that port.
Martial lax*- has l rn declared in
Tokixv The destruction coxersahun
dred-mile district both sides of T ikto
and Yokohama a
Tidal Maxe sxxept Harbor.
Resides the terrific quake shocks
which rocked the distrix'l for hours,
a gigantic tidal x\ x c sxxrpt the ha:
her of Yok'banta i.trtxtng awax
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