Today | Apology, Not Pardon. Women Starve Foxes. Hiram and Hitchcock. Acting or Pouring Tea? ^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ President Coolidge will look into the Craig-Julius Mayer contempt case. Lawyers tell him there is no precedent for a president granting n pardon in a civil contempt ease. The president will probably estab lish his own precedent. \\ hat is really called for, how ever, is not a pardon, but an apol ogy from the judicial system that makes a federal judge imagine that he can imprison, without trial by jury, a public official that crit icizes him. Woman in her changing moods produces results surprising. Many foxes must go hungry this winter, because women decide that seal skin is not fashionable. Uncle Sam, who has a sealskin monopoly, finds it hard to sell his skins, even at reduced prices. Therefore, he cuts down, by many thousands, the number of seals skinned, leaving them to live and breed. The carcasses of skinned seals are the food of many foxes, and these go hungry. The inter-dependence of life in varying forms is fascinating. One state offers a bonus for dead coy otes. Field mice, free of coyote danger, multiply and destroy alfal fa fields and sheep die of hunger. They say, Frank H. Hitchcock will look after the practical side of Hiram Johnson’s presidential cam paign, while Senator Johnson at tends to the spiritual and fighting part. That’s an excellent combination and Hitchcock, who has occasional ly done his best for dead onesdhat did not know they were dead, will be glad to work for a genuine live one, for a change. It is announced that Rosamond Pinehot, talented, beautiful and ambitious daughter of Amos Pinchot, will play the leading part, that of the nun, in Reinhardt’s play, “Miracle,” A sensible father is Amos Pin chot. permitting his young daugh ter to develop and use her talent for the public benefit and uplift, instead of condemning iver to pour tea while waiting for some little gentleman with serious intentions to come around. Barlow Morris Dimond, accused of helping to murder two bank messengers in cold blood, faces de tectives and the electric chair, all because his fingerprints stained the lining of “the get-away sedan” with marks of blood. Very embarrassing are those fingerprints. If their story is con firmed, Mr. Dimond will never murder any other bank messeiv gers. _ Light is shed on the new crime, developed und#r prohibition, in connection with Mr. Dimond’s lit tle killing scrape. He admits that his brother, Jos cpl» Dimond, took out the license for the “get-away” car under a false name, not “to stick people ' up and then shoot them down, you understand, but Just for running in from Canada with whisky, or other times when we were doing what wasn’t quite right.” “Quite right” sounds quite up to date. In a feeble way, attempts are made to “clean up” certain plays on the N^w York stage. In such cases the way to clean up is to clean out. Stupid indecencies, get ting worse and worse, are permit ted and the reputation of decent theaters and decent players suf fer!. In Paris, at one'dramatic insti tution, a row of women walk tow ard the footlights, apparently all dressed in evening gowns. At the footlights they turn, to inarch back, and the (presumably) delighted spectators perceive that these “artists” have on only the front half of a dress, absolutely nothing of the rear half of a cos tume. The French authorities evidently believe that the front half of a dress is enough. Our theatrical people—some of them—think that with us the upper half of a dress is enough. A good deal of clean ing is necessary. A woman singing in Liverpool was heard distinctly by listeners at Garden City, Long Island. The woman’s vocal cords had sent a song 4,000 miles across land and water with ease. How sion will science trans mit power, without wires and with out loss, as it now transmits sound? And what will such trans mission mean to flying machines and railroads? It will mean the junking of 90 per cent of all coal cars, for one item. Coal, turned into electric power at the mines, will be sent through the air, not hauled, bumping over steel rails. Cotton prices for January, March and May all went to new high prices yesterday, and all _ well above 36 cents. That will help general American prosperity. Wise financial advisees print lists of preferred stocks in "gilt edged” railroads. If you invest or speculate in railroad stocks, re member that the gilt on the most deeply gilt-edged cannot be war ranted to stick. And it is quite likely that common stocks may prove a better investment than the preferred for a while, and as good in the end. If things go well, with railroads practically “writing their own ticket" in the way of rates, for Home time to come, it ought to be possible to push up dividends and swell enormously the selling price of the common stocks—the prefer red would only get the echo of temporary and violent prosperity. If things go badly, because of motor and flying machine competi tion, the preferred stocks wHI flop as swiftly as the common. In a hansom cab company there was little choice between common ami preferred atock after the taxi ap peared. < I Wheat larilf Need Is Shown Minnesota Congressman esti mates Production Cost in U. S. Twice That in Canad.a Washington, Nov. 27.—North Da kota' wheat producers were called upon today at th# public hearing be ing conducted by the tariff commis sion to present their evidence in connection with the proposal of the. wheat council of the United States for an increase of r>n per cent in the 30-rent tarrif on wheat. Little testimony was heard at Jhe opening session yesterday, which was adjourned until today to permit the North Dakota producers to put their evidence in form. Representatives Voupg and Burtness appeared in their behalf. \\ on’t Limit Scope The commission expressed the opin ion today that there was no occasion at this time for defining or limiting the scope of the inquiry. A limita tion as requested yesterday by for mer Senator McCumber, counsel for the wheat council of the United States, who asked that only hard spring wheat lie considered and that cost of production be limited to the spring wheat sections of the United States and Canada. Representative Anderson of Minne sota, president of the wheat council, made an extended statement of taxes, yields and other details for both Can ada and the UnltPd Stutes. He sub mitted statistics showing land values were higher in the United States, (hereby influencing cost of production. Taxes, he said, had Increased 2 1-2 times In the last eight years in the United States and were relatively higher here than across the border. He estimated that Canadian produc ers enjoyed the advantage of lower freight rates averaging about 8 cents a bushel. IToduetion Cost High. The cost of production in the Unit ed States was estimated by Represen tative Anderson to be TOO per cent above Canadian costs. He placed the cost of producing in this country at $1.57 a bushel and In Canada at 72 cents. Yields per acre were higher in Canada than in this country, he said. Questioned as to whether an in crease in duty would result In larger use in the United States of hard win ter wheat as a substitute for hard spring wheat, Representative Ander son said he was of the opinion it would. Rex E. Willard, agricultural econo mist of the North Dakota state col lege of agriculture, appearing as rep resentative of North Dakota farmers bankers and business men said farm ers In that section were In dire flnan ctal difficulties as a result of low wheat price*. He submitted statis tics to show that during the last sev en years wheat prices yielded a prof It in only one year—191!. Mrs. Brandeis Gives Testimony Mrs. E. John Brandeis, accompa tiled by a maid and two attorneys, appeared Monday before District Judge L. B. Day in the court of do mestic relations to give testimony supporting her petition for divorce from her husband, E. John Brandeis. She testified that her husband struck her. Decree will not be signed until a transcript of the testimony has been made. Property settlement made out of court provides that Bhe shall be paid an annuity of $8,000 and that her maiden name of Ryan shall be re stored to her. Wives Meet; Do Not Speak. Mrs. Leo Brunson and Mrs. Marie Griffin met at Central police station Tuesday morning, but they did not spfeak. The meeting occurred Inadvertent ly In the office of the chief of de tectives. Mrs. Brunson is the wife of Leo Brunson, companion of Henry Me Ardle, slain on North Eighteenth street last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Griffin is the wife of Jimmy Griffin, one of three men ordered held by the coroner’s Jury on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the slaying. Frank Murphy Promoted. Frank Murphy and Glenn Wright were promoted from patrolmen to the rank of detective sergeant, and Janies Acton was demoted from the rank of sergeant to the rank of patrolman by the city council Tuesday morning. BENO’S of Council Bluffs Says to You: —“Live and learn” runs an old proverb and it has a particular appli cation in the field of . purchasing the ap parel needs of your family. —More people are learn ing each day that a store with low operat ing expense such as Beno’s can sell fine things at a low margin of profit. “Come on Over” A Good Department Store in a Splendid City Store hours 8 to 6 each day. rear Seals Lips of Underworld in Shooting of Henry McArdle Mandates of Criminal Ethics, Enforced by Bullets, Im pose Silence on Witnesses. "Kli-h, be careful! There's Jimmv Griffin!" If police and detectives are to he lielle\ed this warning has boon quite a common one in Omaha's under world—a world where life is surpris ingly cheap, wherf alcohol and "hot ’ automobiles are comniodllies for barter and where failure to observe a peruiar code of ethics is not for gotten till a well aimed revolver has spat its death-dealing contents. Cold and hardened are the men of this world. Yet they are not fear less. and the mention of Jimmie Griffin seals their lips more tightly than a rope gag, according to the police. Griffin is being hold in connection with the McArdle murder. But de spite all efforts of police, Griffin remains adamant, lie is confronted with strong circumstantial evidence, but he remains sullen and morose, re fusing to attempt even to throw the blame elsewhere. Ketoses to Talk. "I'm not doing any talking." he repeats, when approached from time to time. Those who remember the famous— or infamous—Maybray gang of Coun cil Bluffs also remember the name of Jimmy Griffin. Yet so far pollre have been unable to discover a single time when Griffin has served time in prison for a law violation. Bertlllon Chief A1 Anderson has written to Washington for records of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kan. But they have not arrived. Since the Inauguration of tl.s Ber tillon system at central police station, however, the escapades of Griffin are Early Trial lor Alleged Slayers County Attorney Wants Me* Ardle Case on Criminal Calendar at Once. i • Trials on charges of murder In the first degree for Jimmy Griffin, Wil liam Welter and Jesse Banker, will begin as soon as they ean i>e placed on the calendar. County Attorney Henry Beal said Tuesday. The men were present at an Inquest into the death of Henry McArdle yes terday, at which the coroner's jury reached a verdict reronmienriing their being held to the district court for the murder of McArdle, The case Is too important to allow It to age” In the opinion of the coun ty attorney. He declared that the sooner the case was brought up for trial the better it would be. I believe the men T ill be tried separately,” Beal said. "Witnesses are all ready to testify now and It will be better to get them Into court while their memories are still fresh.” • " ANY GARMENT Waists Kimonos Draperies Skirts Dresses Ginghams Coats Sweaters Stockinfs Bach 15-cent package of "Diamond Dyes” contains directions so simple any woman can dye or tint any odd, worn, faded thing new, even if she has never dyed before. Drug stores sell all colors. | Jim mg Ctifjin. less diffleull to follovv. The record shows that Griffis was arrested in connection with an alleged automobile thievery ring on September 14, 1917, charged with hav ing a stolen ear in his possession. Ha was not convicted on the charge. Killed on l.iqunr Charge. On November 4, 1917, he was again arrested with William A. r.ee for having liquor in thejr automobile. This time a fine of $100 was admin istered. Again on May 16. 1923, Gliffln was arrested by U. S. Hobrer, federal pro hibition agent for Nebraska, and charged with the unlawful posses sion and transportation of iiquur. But he was discharged. A lapse of four months and then on Septemter 20, 1923, Griffin w-as arrested and held for Investigation in oonnection with the payroll stick up on September 8, when Metropoli tan district funds were taken. And again he was released. Down at the bottom of the Bertll lon department sheet, under the “pre vious record" heading is a notice which readsi “Arrested In St. Joseph on June 23. 1918. on suspicion, lte leased Juno 24, 1918." Kora in Iowa. If police have more data on Grif fin's record they are not revealing it. They kmow he was horn some where in Iowa; that he at one time was occupied as a horse dealer and that his age Is 47, his weight 166 pohnds. it is fear of Griffin in the hearts of denizens of the underworld who are ‘‘in the know" that makes It dif ficult to get danmging evidence, po lice assert. Fined on Liquor Count. Harry Henfping, druggist of Fre mont, Neb., arrested Monday night at Thirtieth and Farnam streets, waa fined $100 In municipal court for Il legal possession of liquor. Three pint bottles of whisky were found In n bag in the rear of his car. He denied ownership of the liquor. Your Credit IS GOOD HEBEI GOOD CLOTHES Men, Women, Children. QUALITY DIAMONDS— Elgin Watches, 1847 and Com munity Silverware. Advance Styles In EVERY Dept, j Sts Big Store# mean larjrt volume low## | price# and eaey terms. Drees wall eiriiogl 1 ! mi##ing the money. Open voui Trim 1 Tomorrow, or write for Free Catalog. j •«•*«’# CrsstfMi Credit tHr> HARRIS-GQARS 507 0 511 SOUTH 1615 ST PHONOGRAPH Wees Tumble! 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