« • 0 ===r- The i ima' (A Corning Bee mw* ---:- ---111_nn m , - VOL. 53—NO. 86. 122 ? TtST SfZ Wrt™. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1923. * SUSP & WS-??. ZT& TWO CENTS " 0r7^eSi Legislators May Meet in U. S. Court Will Desert Oklahoma Capitol to Escape Interference of Militia, Report — Au thority Is Given. Women Plan Procession By Universal Service. Oklahoma City, Sept. 25.—Okla homa stands tonight before the marshaled forces of battle's stern ar ray. Fighting men are the city’s in flammable fortress into which a spark of temper at the crisis would touch off the flames of war. Moder ation stands tonight the bulwark of peace for which the state invokes prayer. , Such tonight was the situation here as two opposing and enduring fac t'ons approached final conflict to morrow noon over what each in its grim conviction believes to be a right ful struggle for the preservation of constitutional law. Governor J. C. (Irop Jack) Walton stands pat tonight on his “shoot to order” levelled at the legislative quorum which he condemns as a "Ku Klux Klan legislature seeking to as semble in defiance of law.” President Coolidge and Attorney general Daugherty were appealed to tonight by Governor J. C. Wal ton to use their good offices to pre vent members of the lower house of the Oklahoma legislature from eonvenlng in any federal building in the state. Supplementing Walton’s order to stop the "unlawful assembly” any time and any place by the use, If necessary, of all the armed military forces of the state, Adj. Gen. Raird It. Markham issued a special military order from G. H. Q. commanding tersely that "such attempted meet ing or session will be dispersed.” Would Incite Riot. He issued the order “on the grounds that such a meeting Is an unlawful assembly and calculated to bring about a breach of the peace, provoke riot and institute a reign of anarchy and bloodshed,” and for bids the assembly being held. Insofar is could be learned to night. the state capftrd stW -stands as the theater of action in tomor showdown between the Klan in Session. Muskogee, Okla., Sept. 25.—The fiery cross of the Ku Klux Klan is blazing tonight over the local "Klavern,” where a meeting is said to be in progress. High Klan officials from Atlanta are reported in the city. The klan cross was recently barred in Oklahoma by Governor J. C. Walton under a martial law, decree. "rebel” legislators andN the gov ernor. However, there was an un confirmed report current here to night that a sudden switch in plans by tile legislative quorum had centered on a scheme to meet in the • federal building here, where it was said the members would be free from interference by state troops or executive order. When the opinion of 1'nited States Judge John H. Cottcral was sought here he was quoted as de clar that lie knew of no reason why (Turn to Pag* 3. Column 1.) Columbus Man Victim of Highwayman in Omaha Columbus, Neb.. Sept. 25.—Olen Provost, Columbus automobile dealer, reports that he was held up and rob bed of $450 in cash and checks and his wrallet stolen at the point, of a pistol by a bandit who accosted him on prominent downtown street corner Omaha at 10:30 p. m. Provost says he felt a hand in his hip pocket and turned around to feel the barrel of the bandit’s pistol, concealed in the highwayman's coat pocket, prodding him in the ribs. The bandit procured the wallet and con tents and fled Into the crowd where he disappeared. Provost said he did not report the holdup tc the Omaha police. He said he did not mind the loss of the money ho much as the loss of his wallet. Temperature Climb* to 96 Degrees at Beatrice Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 25.—Today has been the hottest of the fall season, the temperature registering 1*6 de grees. Because of the warm weather corn Is ripening fasts and Is out fit the way of damage by frost. Prac tically all of the winter wheat has been planted and former* report the ground In fine condition for seeding. Nebraska City Ready for Transfer Day Ceremonies Nebraska City, Neb., Sept. 25.— Nebraska City Is ready for the ob servance of transfer day here on Thursday, when the city will cele brate In connection with the transfer qf Arbor Lodge to the governor, who Will represent the state at the cere monies, (lovernor Bryan was highly pleased with the appearance of the estate. Southern Pacific Traffic ^ Manager Is Dead in Frisco ^0* Kan Francisco, Sept. 25.—Charles M Fee, traffic malinger of the Mouth mi Pacific railroad died at the Mouth #rn Pacific hospital here today after a protracted lllnes* Former State Solon Visits Son in Omaha —Uatchell Thoto. Edwin M. Searle of Los Angeles, Cal, who Is visiting at the home of his son, Edwin M. Searle, jr., presi dent of the Omaha Life Insurance company, came to Omaha in 1867, following the civil war. He enlisted at the age of 15. Fol lowing his arrival In Omaha he en tered the service of the Union Pacific at North Platte, at that time the weste/n terminus of the road. He was a member of the Nebraska legislature from the 77th district in 1913. | Former Omahan Freed in Chicago Released on Habeas Corpus After Taking Children From Council Bluffs. After spending a week .in jail for breaking a screen door at the home of his father-in-law in Council Bluffs, and taking his three small children away, Howard Walker, formerly of Omaha, was freed yesterday In Chi cago. "You can't arrest a man for steal ing his own children," said Chief Jus tice Caverly of the Chicago criminal court in releasing Walker on a habeas corpus action. Walker’s wife W’as killed In a street car wreck last winter, he said, and his father-in-law, W. F. Losey, sued the street car company and took pos session of his grandchildren and left Omaha. Walker learned they had l>een taken to Council Bluffs and for cibly removed them to Chicago. The three little ones, Harriet, 5; Howard. 3, and Thomas, IS months old. were in court. Yeggmen Enter Two Storeg and Pogtoffice at Benson Sperlnl DSpatrh to The Omaha llpe. Lincoln. Sept. 25.—Yeggmen last night broke Into the safes of two stores and the postoffire at Benton, Neb., according to word received by the state sheriff's office. The stores broken into were, the Benton Hardware and Implement company, where the burglars obtain ed $30 in cash, and the office of the Corn Belt Lumber company where the'snfe contained nothing of value. At the postoffice the prowlers broke open a package of pennies nnd scat tered them about, hut took nothing. Tools from a blacksmith shop ad joining the hardware store and from a Burlington too] house were used to gain entrance to the stores. The robbery was discovered by J. Miller, proprietor of the hardware store, when he opened the place this morning. Efforts Made to Collect Paving Project Pledgeg Columbus, Neb., Sept. 25.—Efforts to collect the unpaid subscriptions to the Bnrnurn creek paving project, In order that funds may be available to pay fpr the riprapping now being installed to protect the south bank of the Loup river and prevent the current from cutting around the south end of the Loup bridge, are being made by the county supervisors. Unpaid pledges total about $5,000. Administrator Ig Named for Egtate of Judge Pogt Columbus, Neb., Sept. 25.—County Judge John Gibbon appointed the Guaranty Loan & Trust company ns administrator of the estate of Judge A. M. Post of the Sixth Judicial dis trict of Nebraska, who died here last month, following a petition filed In probate court by Mrs. Post. The estnte amounts to approximately $15,000. Woman and Boy Are Injured When Two Autog Collide Fremont, Neb., Sept. 25.—Lynn Speaker, 17, was severely cut and bruised when the uuto he was driv ing nnd the car driven by Mrs. Kd Dunn collided. Mrs. Dunn also was cut. Both cars were completely wrecked. Cecil Diehl, 19, who was riding with Mrs. Dunn, escaped with out Injuries Politicians Beat Jail Feed Bill The Omaha Bee’s Campaign to End Douglas County Scandal Fought at Last Legislature. Endres Predicted Riots Four members of the Douglas voun (y delegation In the lower house, with Sheriff Endres, precipitated defeat of a senate bill last winter which would have ended the jail feeding sys tem that caused Sunday’s riot in the county Jail. Therte men are: George B. Collins, George 8. Col lins, A. tV. Elsasser and Charles Kautsky. These merf were looked upon In the legislature as the active floor mem bers Interested in manipulating legis lation in the lower house In such a manner as to kill by avote of 51 to 26, It was a significant fact that 2$ members of the lower house member ship mysteriously disappeared before there was a roll crII on this bill. Upheld by Democrats. This same bill, introduced by State Senators John J. Earkin and William N. Chambers of Omaha, passed the state senate by a vote of 22 to 10. Every state senator from Douglas county voted for the bill. The Douglas county delegation in the lower house split along straight party lines on the bill, the democrats voting solidly against it and the re publicans voting solidly for it, ex cepting Tom B. Dysart, who Joined the democrats and voted against the bill. Here is the Douglas county vote on the bill: For: Allan, Dyball, Baldrige, Beld ing, Strehlow, Timme, Smith. Against: Collins. G, B.; Collins, G. S.: Dysart, Elsasser, Kautsky, Quinn. The bill provided that the sheriff should order and prepare the food and that instead of the sheriff re ceiving the difference between the amount allowed by state, federal and county governments it should revert hack to the taxpayers and go Into the county treasury. Under the present arrangement the sheriff re ceives 50 cents a day for feeding each county prisoner and 75 cents for fed eral and state prisoners. The introducers of the bill, together with a representative of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and the Doug las county commissioners, developed facts Indicating that the Douglas county sheriff clears from $7,000 to $10,000 a year In feeding prisoners. Another fact developed was that at the county hospital inmates are /ed at a cost ranging from 14 to 20 cents a day against the 75 and 60 cents collected by Endres for county jail inmates. Then, too, If. was shown that prisoners wait tables at the county Jail while waiters must be em ployed at the hospital. Kndres Predicted Iviot. Endres or one of Ills deputies was on the ground constantly from the time the bill was Introduced until It was killed In the lower house. "Why if you take the feeding of prisoners from me it will cause riots In the jail, the men will break up the furniture and I must control them, through feeding him," lie said. "It's the old gang In Omaha after me, to get my scalp for defeating Mike Clark. They want to cause a lot of trouble among the prisoners by taking the feeding of them away from me *o I can't make good my election promise to clean up bootleg gers and gamblers In Omaha. “ lam feeding the priaoners better than they were ever fo^l before. They are perfectly satisfied." Headed Off Action. The hard, undisputed economic facts presented to both the senate and house committee forced the bill out of both committees with a favorable recom mendation. But by demanding one hearing after another on the hill in tho lower hnuHe committee, Endres kept the bill from consideration on the floor of the house until near the close of the session. Meantime, his “faithful quartet," the two ColHnses, Kautsky and Elsasser, was busy. Probably more than one half of the members of the legislature go to Lincoln with a pet hill or scheme. They want votes badly and they are willing to trade votes. The "faithful quartet," aided a num ber of "the boys in putting their stuff over," republican and democratic members ns well. They had two or three months to prepare for the flnnl vole on the bill. Ilefendeil by Newspaper. Klnnlly, Itepresentatlve Ed Smith of Ornnha, who was storing the hill In the lower-house, admltter only two things that would save the .bill as a result of the lobbying of Endres and floor work of his quartet. One was editorial support of tho bill by a democratic newspaper In Omaha. The other was, word from Governor t’hnrles W. Bryan to his democratic brethern In the lower house to vole for the bill. Bryan, as vlters on other hills he was interested In showed, controlled nearly every democrat lo vote In the lower house. The Omaha Bee had supported the lilll stanchly in news columns and editorials. The democratic newspaper, now hurling rocks at Kndres for the riot at the Jail, his profits from feed ing prisoners and Ills poor food served to prisoners; never opened Its editorial mouth once In favor of the bill. Newspapermen asked the governor for public approbation of the hill. The governor absolutely refused to be quoted upon Man Critically Hurt in Motor Collision Motorcycle ridden by Arthur J. Benash, 4407 North Twenty-fifth street, employed as a carpenter's helper at the Union Pacific shops, crashed into a three-quarter ton Orchard & Wilhelm truck at 50 miles an hour on South Twelfth street Tues day noon. Benash was knocked un conscious. He was taken to Lord Lister hos pital. The only thing which saved him from instant death, according to witnesses, was the fact that his head struck a spare tire on the truck. The truck driver was George J Haller, 716 North Twenty-second street. Witnesses to the accident said tie slowed down for the Inter section, but that the motorcycle was traveling at too high a speed to avoid the oncoming truck. When the call arrived at the station no doctor was available. The injured man’s condition was reported critical at the hospital. Police emergency car was sent to the home of his mother, Mrs. Joseph Benash. 1622 North Sixtieth street, to take her to the hospital. Blue Sky Board Gives 6 Permits Minneapolis Concern and Be atrice Oil Company Denied Right to Sell Stock. Special Dispatch to The Oir.aha lire. Lincoln, Sept. -25.—The bureau of securities announced today the follow t ing permits of stock issues: The Meridian Highway Bridge com pany of Yankton, S. D.. to issue $100. 000 worth of stork, to he used in build ing the Yankton bridge. An amendment of a permit previous ly given to the Block Brothers Flour Mills of Beatrice permitting the com pany to Issue $75,000 in common and a similar amount in preferred stock, the company now being allowed to issue $125,000 in preferred stock and and $25,000 in common stock. Ellnger, Inc., of Lincoln to issue $20,000 in stock, the company being considered as a closed corporation. The Fremont Packing company of Fremont to issue $30,000 In stock, this company also being a closed corpora tion handling produce. The Overland Mortgage & Finance company of Omaha, another closed corporation, to issue $100,000 In stork to he used in financing a mortgage and real estate business. The J. M. Koilol company of Colum hus to issue $11,000 in stock, provid ing certain restrictions imposed by the burenu of securities are observed. The bureau of ecurities denied ap plications from the White Salmon Development company of Minneapolis and from the Blue Valley Oil A- Gas company of Beatrice. The Minneapolis concern desired to issue lO.OOn shares of stock with a par value of $12.50. Its request was refused on the ground that the nature of the com pany was such that a proper inves tigation was Impossible. T^r Blue Valley Gas & Oil company planned to is»ue $125,000 shares of stock of the vnlue of $1 each. Big Prizes at Cozad s Harvest Festival Cozad. Neb.. Sept. 25.—Th*1 fall festival will open here tomorrow’ and run for three days. Seldom have there been better crops nn wan unable to give bond of $1,000 for bla rtdceee and wee lodged in the count; I Cabinet Weighs Tariff on Wheat Reduction of Rail Rates on Grain Also Considered as Possible Remedy. By Associated Pmi. Washington. Sept. 25.—Reduction of freight rates on wheat and flour des tined for export and increase of the present tariff on wheat were consid ered for the Ills of the wheat farmers of the northwest. The discussion, which resulted in no definite decisions, followed presen tation by Secretary Wallace of a re port on the world wheat situation, pre pared at the direction of Mr. Coolidge. Both plans, in the opinion of the presi dent, are worthy of serious considera tion. and. as either requires action by congress, it was believed that the president has in no wise ohanged his mind against calling congress in spe cial session. Sand Hills Stock Is Now Getting Fatter - - - - 9 A string of fin* feeder rattle was brought to the Omaha market by J. E. Enters of Emlers lake ih the sand hills country. He said that within two weeks there would he a large number of cattle pent to the Omaha market from the sand hills country. •'Ornss Is commencing to get cured,” said Mr. Enders. "but it has been too soft to fatten cattle on for the past few weeks, which has caused the delay in shipping from that sec tion. The cattle have not tieen show ing up good as a consequence of the soft grass. "The flies also were an Important factor In keeping the cattle In poor condition, but during the last two weeks, the flies have disappeared, the grass Is getting good and the cattle are showing signs of Improvement." No Shortage of Cattle Is Feared in Atkiiikon Area "There will lie a lot of cattle from the Atkinson district this fall," snid Henry Hookstra, “in spite of the talk of a shortage. There has been little calf trading on the rnnge There Is lots of feed for them and they are being held for a later market and fattening." Mr. Hookstra was at the Omaha market with a shipment of cows He said crops were in fine shnpo around Atkinaon and the fnrmers all doing well. Railway Trainmen Oppose Henry Ford's Candidacy Lincoln, Sept. IS.—Capitol lodge No. 170 of the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen today made public a resolution passed it a recent meet lug of the organisation, which puts the lodge on record as being opposed to Henry Folds candidacy for presi dent. The resolution states that Kurd has openly opposed organised labor and gives this ns the reason for the la tier organisation's opposition to his candidacy Slight Lull in Labor Demand End of Harvesting Causes a Temporary Surplus of Un skilled Workers Here. Men returning from harvest fields in the northwest have created a tem porary surplus of labor In Omaha, according to the report of the United States Department of Labor, through Its employment service, for the month of August. These men. however, are being rap idly absorbed into other lines of work, the report says. Skilled labor In Omaha Is finding plenty of employment on projects un der construction, and this condition is expected to continue for some time. Road construction in the city and county, as well as railroad work, con tlnues to draw heavily on available semi skilled laborers. General farm help is In demand, with an acute shortage of this class of labor existing. Domestic and clerical workers and salesmen are In fair demand. For the state as a whole, road con struction, railroad work and other activities are drawing heavily on re turning harvest field wdtkers. Mois ture has retarded building and road work somewhat, but operations un der way and contemplated promise adequate employment of skilled and semi-skilled labor until cold weath er sets In. A slight surplus of common labor is reported from Lincoln, with a good call for general farm labor. Similar condition Is reported front Hastings. Grand Island and North Platte. Additional contracts for [street paving at North Platte award ed since last month have augmented the demand for common "labor. Five Men Are Fined on Intoxication Charge* Albion, Neb. iSept 24—Rootles tie i s did some business at th* county fair here. Five men were arrested for drunkenness These arrested and fined were Orris Holton and Dun J. Mach, each $10; Carl Anderson o( Ttlden. $15; Ralph Townsend. $15. and l'tifene McRrlsn of gpaldlnir. $25. Farm Close to Beatrice Sells for $125 an Acre Reatrice, Neb. Sept. 25. — Mrs. t'ltarle* Elliott disposed of her farm of SO acres, three miles southeast ol the elty, to Mrs .lulls Winn for $125 an acre, or $10,000. The Weather For f4 hours uniting 1 p. m Srptrmhrr n. 1*11; Tempemlun* Ht*lu*t M: lowest m*«n 74 nor ntAl, <4 Total cxcfM sine* .Umutrv 1, 1.7* Hrlutlx e llumlitifv IVrentniif 7 «. in Si Noon M 7 p m . 44 I’m (pit nt Ion In-hr* *i«.| II undr nit h» Total. Oi Total sine* Jniiumv 1* SI •»5; Hourly Trmprmtmrv * a. m *r l p m. %\ • a. m..... ** I p m . • * ««.•...<&[ i v w . S * h m .Mt 4 p. m. .,.. , *1 I a, m .IT I l p. nt.. . . x ? I» • m. 71 "V p m _ .?* il * m : i m l* noou..il I i r m.. . .14 22 Arrests Netted in 16 Seizures Federal and State Dry Agents Invade Omaha’s Best and Worst Places to Get Liquor. Sleuths’ Car Is Stalled Omaha’s bonton beer Joints, where the city’s gay night life has been holding sway, were closed with a ae ries of raids made yesterday by agents from Federal Prohibition Di rector Rohrer’s office and Thomas Carrol, state liquor officer. Sixteen ’’beer castles,” homes, soft drink parlors, and ‘'hole-in-the-wall” types of intoxicating liquid dispensar ies were caught in the dragnet. Twen ty-two arrests were made. Two places, noted as the city's most fashionable establishments were invaded. One was the Chicken Dinner farm, operated by F. A. Parr, 6755 Military avenue. At this place, as the hour hand approached midnight, the electric piano was given "juice” and to the accompaniment of jazz music Omaha's finest and the city’s worst danced the latest steps. Rooms Curtained Off. The building, a wooden structure. Is about 100 feet long. The piano is in one comer of the room and on each side Is grouped small private "drinking rooms.” Each place is se creted by heavy curtaina. The other well-known place raided was that of Charles Sapp, 1314 Pierce street. The f^leral agents confiscat ed 73 gallons of whisky and a quan tity of wine. The activities of Rohrer's agents took {hem to the extreme parts of the city. While trying to get to "No Man's Land,” an island, five miles south of Bellevue, the automobile in which the agents were riding broke down. They had to walk more than two miles to get to the suspected place. They found 800 gallons of mash, part of a still and five gallons of wine. Ben Squires, alleged owner, was arrested. Other Places Raided. Following were other raids made: l Rose Palermo, 2149 North Nine teenth street; illegal sale. David Robb. 2012 Clark street (rear), two quarts confiscated. Lawrence Bchstead. Bellevue; 248 quarts ofc beer taken; Frank Jones, alleged bartender, arrested. Joe Cheskek, 18 Chandler road. 184 quarts of beer and three gallons of wine confiscated. Raney Veneski, 1719 Monroe street; 164 quarts of beer and 18 gallons of wine confiscated. Bennington “Visited.’’ Henry Ott and Chester Wette, Ben nington; one gallon of alcohol found. John Grasso. 1721 South Tenth street; Illegal sale. Jerry Ceceka. 5460 South Twenty fourth street; one gallon of alcohol. Jack Wilson, 5225 South Twenty fourth street: 43 quarts of beer found. Mrs. Joe Morgan, 5423 South Twen ty-third street; illegal sale. Nichols Herbolich 1424 South Thir teenth street, bartender for James Sutej. 1424 South Thirteenth street: sale and illegal possession. The agents charged that Herbolich poured the whisky into a sink but a pint was obtained by hurriedly jerking out the Pipes. Lincoln Boy, Crushed by Ice Wagon, Dies Sperial Dispatch to The Omaha Dec. Lincoln. Sept. 15— Lincoln suffered its second fatal street accident in as many days today when Kenneth Wil liam Take!, 4. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yakel, 614 B street, was crushed beneath the wheels of an tea wagon. The boy was rushed to St Elizabeth hogpital where an operation was per formed. but he died two hours later without regaining consciousness. There were no witnesses to the ac cident and it is presumed that the lad was playing on the rear of the wagon when the driver, who came from the other side of the street and could not see him. shouted to his horses to start. There is no bla^tie attached to the driver, John Wunder, 155 t? street, who is employed bv R C. Haskell, 9J7 L street. -^ Farmer Get* Black Eve When Auto Crank “Kicks** Wvntore. N’eti , Sept IS,—Chester Novotney. > fanner near Odell, this county. Sunday received a severe bruise on the temple and above the eye, when the automobile which h* was attempting to crank, "kicked." and the crank was Jerked from hia hand. The eve is black for a radius of three Inches around. Recently his wife fell while going to do the milk ing and broke her right arm above the elbow. Cage County Farmer* Are Busy Plowing for Wheat Wymote, Neb , Sept. IS.—Southern tinge county farmers are now plowing In full force for fall wheat sowing. An aveiase of one field in four ia plowed, and some farmers have the seed sowed The acreage put in wheat appears to be considerably less than the previous year Ninety eight per cent of the farmers claim corn is now out of danger of frost. In southern (■age county.