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j The Earth's Core.
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ling George of Greece was
.otified yesterday that Greece
could do without him and request
ed fco leave the country, taking his
queen with him. They left last
night. King George will not, like
Henry the Second of England, ex
claim, “Shame on a beaten king,”
'turlS his face to the wall and die.
He Will turn his face toward Paris
or Monte Carlo, excellent cooking
and plenty of snobs in both places,
amt play king in safety. That’s
better than being a real king, any
where outside of England, now.
Strange new murders based on
“human triangles” will continue,
until men change. Read Mrs. Vet
ter’* confession, condensed. She
and her husband are accused of
murdering Jack Storey.
“Just before my baby was born,
I told my husband all about Jack
Storey and how I knew him, be
fore T was married. Every night
my husband would come home
from work and say, ‘I don’t trust
you,* and I am suspicious about
that baby.’ I swore that I had
been a good wife, ever since I
married but every night he accus
ed me. So I said, ‘I’ll bring Jack
Storey here to the house, and you
can hide, listen and you’ll know
by what he says that I have been
straight since I married you.’ ”
She brought Jack Storey at 2
In the morning. She and her hus
band killed him, with an iron bar
and a knife. They wrapped his
body in old carpet rags, put it in
the Ford sedan, “and put the baby
in fhe car over him in the swing
crib. We drove to Howard Beach.
Together we threw his body into
the Water. My husband had put
bis revolver in his pocket. I took
it aid put it in the crib, under the
baby, it was loaded.”
? That was all, except that they
took the dead man’s pocketbook,
With $200 and she turned his
pockets inside out, “so the police
jwould think he had been killed
for his money.” There are, in
little wooden houses, you see along
£he road, tragedies that surpass
imagination and jealousy under
lies many of them.
J This earth has a hard core, like
h baseball, or a golf ball. It it a
gigantic sphere, bearing a pres
sure of 25,000 pounds to the
^square inch, according to reports
made to the Washington academy
. of sciences.
While that central aphere,
4,000 miles in diameter, is prob
ably made of iron, a great magnet,
perhaps some believe it may be
made largely of gold, platinum, or
both. Those heaviest metals would
woilc downward toward the center.
What desperate efforts men would
make to dig down to that central
coFe, if they could be sure that the
gold and platinum were there. Men
will dig a hole through the earth
sonje day, using the sun’s power to
dig, hut by that time, gold will no
longer be so important.
Platinum, more valuable than
gold, may be worth $700 a pound.
That sounds costly. But think of
radium, with which the market is
now glutted. We had almost a
monopoly of the precious sub
stance here, for a while. But
great deposits of radium yielding
pitch blende found in the Belgian
Congo have upset the market, and
the price dropped to about $35,
000*000 a pound. A short time
ago, it was thought there was not
more than half an ounce of
radium, in all the world.
It is now believed that radium
in the sun accounts for the endur
ing power of that star, sending out
light and heat through hundreds of
millions of years, with a certainty
of lasting hundreds of millions of
years more. We had plenty of
radium here, once, if it be true
that lead is radium that has lost
its power. If the stars are
fountains of radio active power
do they grow quiet like our earth,
and become planets of some bigger |
sun, when their radio active en
ergy dies?
Yesterday the greatest power
machine on earth was started at
Niagara Falls. A 700,000 horse
power water wheel turbine turns
the rushing water intot an obedi
ent servant. The electric genera
tor for this power unit weighs
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more than 600 tons, 3,500 cubic
feet of water per second plus the
drop, are required to run the tur
bine. Two similar plants will
sfart next year and in a century,
that will all seem as primitive as
Fulton’s first steamboat. The real
power to be tapped is in the sun,
and in the turning earth below our
feet. We are like microbes, living
on a driving wheel, and building
windmills for power.
Mr. Hughes tells Russia this
country can’t deal or negotiate
with them, until they stop their
propaganda, “to overturn the in
stitutions of this country.” We
must have little faith in our in
stitutions, if we think Russia can
overturn them and, Russia uses
only words, “free speech.” What
becomes of our constitutional dec
laration in favor of free speech?
We talk freely enough about Rus
sia, heaven knows, and our presi
dent denounces its government,
to his heart’s content. What’s the
difference?
The nations of the world cele
brated on Monday, the 20th
anniversary of the Wright broth
ers’ “first flight.” Frederick
Landis reminds you that a news
paper man, reporting the event
seriously, and accurately, was dis
charged “for trying to play a joke
on his readers.” Also some con
gressmen that voted funds to try
out Morse’s “new idea” of send
ing messages by telegraph were
put out of office by their constitu
ents, who disapproved ‘“squander
ing public money on foolish ex
periments.”
fCopvriirhf. 1923.)
Naming Reavis Manager
for Coolidge Was Surprise
Lincoln, Dec. 19.—The announce
ment that former Congressman F^nk
Reavls had been appointed campe'yn
manager of the Coolidge forces In
Nebraska came as a surprise to re
publican Incumbents of the state
house, who denied previous knowl
edge of his selection.
According to Max V. Beghtol, part
ner with Reavls In a law firm here,
the ex-congressman will return to
Lincoln January 1, when It Is under
stood active work for the selection
of Coolidge at the primaries will be
started.
Judge Seeks Re-Election
Lincoln, Dec. 19.—Another district
Judge filed for renomination today.
Judge Lewis H. Blackledge sent to
the secretary of state the necessary
filing fee. Judge Blackledge is from
the Tenth Judicial district.
BEATRICE—Thieves visited the
business part of the city Tuesday
night and stole automobiles belong
lng to Dr. G. H. Brass and Andy
Kaiser. Several tires also were tak
en. Officers found the oars in a
remote part of town. The culprits
escaped.
Love Drama
Unfolded in
Little Serbia
Village Maiden From Jugo
slavia Spurns Man Who
Paid Passage Money and
Weds Sweetheart.
Bessie Slrilta, IS, night school stu
dent.
Mike Kovakervich, 25, randyinaker.
Fred Ktrika, B2, Bessie’s austere
unrip.
Joe Sherman friend of Mike, and
‘‘angel’’ of the piece.
That is the east of characters in a
drama of love and marriage licenses
and unrelenting guardians which un
folded Itself in South Omaha and
Council Bluffs Tuesday night and
yesterday.
The little drama had It* de
nouement Tuesday night when
two detectives, summoned by Un
cle Fred, broke up a hilarious
pre-nuptial celebration at the home
of Mike Kovakervich, 5111 South
Twenty-sixth street, and arrested the
prospective bride and bridegroom.
The couple was later released by
Captain Carey of the South Omaha
station, and the party continued.
The anti-cl|max came Wednesday
morning when Bessie and Mike were
married by a Justice of the peace In
Council Bluffs.
The young couple was Justly In
dignant over the interruption of the
party. For hadn't Joe Sherman, 5115
South Twenty-sixth street, a friend
of Mike Kovakervich, advanced the
prospective bridegroom $250 to he
paid to Frank Kopovlch, Thirtieth
and R streets, to cause him to re
linquish his claims on the girl, and
didn't they go to Council Bluffs yes
terday and get a martlage license
after the most^ approved American
fashion? He had, and they did.
Good Melodrama.
The story of the romance, which
stretches from the Serbian colony In
South Omaha to far off Jugo slavia,
reads like a melodrama. Only the
old mill, the papers, the orphan child
and the village clock pointing to mid
night are missing.
Four months ago, Bessie, then In
her native village of Plaskl-Lika, In
Jugo-Slavia, sent her photograph to
her Uncle Fred. Uncle Fred showed
It to his frlenw, Frank Kopovlch,
and Kopovlch was smitten with
the maiden's Innocent Jugo-Slavlan
charms.
Brought to America.
"I'll tell you what,” offered Uncle
Fred, “you pay her passage, and I'll
have her come over.”
Kopovich agreed. He gave Strlka
$250 to be used In paying the girl's
passage, and three weeks ago she sr
Wedding Ends Tangled Romance
] -'tiedti Siti'ka.
rived In South Omaha. Then, for
the first time, she saw Kopovich, and
the "stuff was all off.'
Bessie had hern graduated from
high school In Jugo slavia, and In an
other year and a half would have
completed a course In dentistry. So
she began attending night classes at
the House of Friendship, learning all
about Knglish verbs and things.
She met Mike Kovakervich, and her
desire for education wilted. How can
anyone cherjsh a true affection for
problems of syntax and sentence con
struction at night school, when love.
In the form of a stalwart candvfnaker,
with movie tickets 'n ever'thing waltp
Just without the portals? Bessie
couldn't see.
They became engaged. Uncle Fred
objected. It wasn't right. Frank
Kopovich had paid $250 to hrlng
Bessie to America, and she no sooner
arrives than she falls In love with
another man!
Uncle Fred put down the avuncular
foot, with the result that Bessie
packed her belongings In a trunk,
dropped It out the window of her
room, and sought refuge at the home
of a friend. Oraga Bumonia, Twenty
eighth and 8 streets.
Uncle Fred Relents.
Then Uncle Fred relented. He
agreed that If Mike would pay to
Frank Kopovich the $250 Kopovich
had paid for the girl’s passage mmey,
he would send the couple forth with
his blessing! This was don*. But
after the marriage license was ob
tained, and the pre nuptial celebration
was In full swing, Strika had a change
of heart.
Two hundred and fifty dollars was
a meager price Indeed to he paid for a
Jugo-Slavlan girl in the bloom of
youth, with the pinkness of th# wild
rose In her cheeks, and her lips like
cherries.
He had them arrested because, al
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though they obtained a marriage
license, they did not get married, and
according to the law of the Serbian
church, no marriage ceremonies may
lie performed during the period of
Cent, which will last until January
21.
The police descended on the jolll
ficatlon at Mike’s home like the
ghost of Hanquo, and with similar
results. But after Mike explained to
the captain, things were all right
again.
When the man signed his name In
a big book In Council Bluffs, he said,
he thought that was marriage
enough for anyone; but If the law
demanded that he go and be married
by still another man In „nother of
fice, why, who was Mike to question
the wisdom of the law? Who In
deed?
They will be married by a priest
of their faith sometime after I^ent.
City Council of
Kearney Is at War
With Gas Company
Power Firm Is Accused of
Charging Excessive Hates
for Their Ser
vice.
Kearney, Neb., Dee. 19.—The Kear
ney city council has declared war on
tlie gas and power company. Billie
presented tty the latter for service
rendered the municipality were held
up at council meeting. The electric
current bill was turned over to an
auditing committee for Investigation
and recommendation and the gas bill
was allowed at the franchise rate,
after considerable debate.
The council alleges that the gas
company is charging a rate 90 cents
In excess of that fixed by the fran
chise, while the electric rate Is al
leged to be 2 cents per kilowat higher
than the cost at which the local
power plant furnishes current to
other points. It is further found by
tests, according to information filed
with the council, that the local gas
contains only about 340 heat units,
as compared to a standard of 800 heat
units. However, the franchise only
stipulates "good gas" be served.
A conference is being held with the
.Centrul Power company representa
tives, manufacturers of both electric
ity and gas, in an effort to reach a
settlement.
SHELTON—Mrs. Ernest Reese,
97, wife of a farmer living 12 miles
north of Shelton, died Monday night,
following a paralytic stroke. She
was born in Germany and came to
this country at the age of 20. Her
husband, three sons and two daugh
ters survive. The funeral will be
held Thursday afternoon at the
Lutheran church. Interment will be
in the Lutheran cemetery._
Half-Hour Sales !
9 A. M. to 9:30 A. M. Thursday
Well-made dolls with bisque Each,
UlcSScQ head and arms, and with cot- _
Mama ton f'lled body. Dressed in J I I"
I dll id rompers, bonnet, half hose J
Dolls and patent leather slippers.
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der at the courthouse that night and
Joseph Souder subsequently told him
he had located him by telephone at
his home. On his second trip, he
told of finding that some of the tax
receipts apparently were gone and
of his discovery that the door of the
book safe was ajar. He also detailed
how Baker, at this time, reported
the door of the money safe in the
same condition. After the fire it was
reported certificates of deposit repre
senting about $50,000 and around $10,
000 worth of bonds, with approximate
ly $1,200 in cash were missing from
the strongbox.
Souder's attorneys called A. B.
Hoagland. secretary of North Platte
Elks lodge, to show that a remark
Souder is said to have made on Mon
day following the fire that no one
man "ould have carried the books
from his office to the top part of
the building, was made after he
(Hoaglandl^ had told Souder he had
heard it was rumored they had been
carried upstairs and burned Souder's
office was on the first floor.
Souder's counsel also called to the
stand J. T. Keefe, attorney for the
Union Pacific railroad, to show that
before the fire Souder was making
an investigation of a commissioners’
record for Keefe with reference to a
special tax levy, his testimony being
offered in an effort to offset the
state's contention he was looking for
this so lie could find it and burn
it upstairs.
The latter part of the afternoon
session was taken up with an attempt
by the defense to introduce Indict
ments against other Lincoln county
residents, the intention of which, ac
cording to Attorney Hoagland, is an
effort to show someone other than
Souder might have an arson motive.
Two of the Indictments they succeed
ed in getting in. one of them being
that returned by the grand jury
against Elmer Baker, jointly accused
with Souder.
Holiday Spirit
Aids Shoe Fund
Cold. Damp Weather Nearing
and Poor Children Must **
Have Shoes.
Father Is sick most of the time
In the wretched three-room hovel. Oc
casionally he gets a job. Mother
scrubs offices at night.
Five little children, bright though
ragged youngsters all of them, call
this place home.
.Shoes are out of the question un
less they can get them through the
Free Shoe fund.
Are you with us?
Then let’s go! And you will get
your reward In added happiness.
Address checks and letters to "Free
Shoe Fund, The Omaha Bee,"—
please.
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