Today
The Unanimous Senate.
A Sensible Widow.
Great Is Iowa.
Wrigley in China.
^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE J
President Coolidge will observe
that the senate is in no doubt as
to public opinion on the oil scandal.
The country is awake, and not one
senator voted against Walsh’s reso
lution calling on the president to
cancel the oil leases.
Mr. Coolidge is an absolutely
honest man, everybody feels it.
But hd is also the nation’s execu
tive and something more than
slow, cautious movement and the
appointment of respectable, aver
age ordinary men as lawyers in the
case is demanded.
As things stand now, the oil
scandal might well make Walsh the
next president, especially when
genial Magnus Johnson says:
“Well, I think we have to have
an independent, nonpartisan repub
lican candidate for president, out
our way now.”
' “Out our way,” the northwest,
and other regions, west of Hoboken
and Harvard do not see the thing
through the eyes of quiet New
England politics.
“Out our way,” they know that
if someone had bribed a post
master to let him steal $200 worth
of stamps, that somebody and the
postmaster would have gone to jail
inside of 30 days.
They want some action, and
President Coolidge will do well to
give it to them. Let him ask him
self, “What would Roosevelt have
done?” Roosevelt really was an
able politician.
» Lenin’s widow wants no statues
or other monuments in honor of
ll£r dead husband. “If you care to
honor his memory,” she says,
“build schools, orphanages, kinder
gartens, nurseries, hospitals, li
braries.”
That will sound surprisingly
civilized to those who think that
everything Russian has horns and a
forked tail.
Iowa’s newspapers start a cam
paign of advertising, bragging
about that fine state. No wonder, for
they have things to brag about. The
corn fields of Iowa alone produce
more wealth than all the gold mines
of the United States. The state
knows no illiteracy, or at least, less
than any other state in the union.
Its crops are worth $1,000,000,000
a yepr. The entire population, in
cluding all hired men, grandmoth
ers and babies, could ride at the
same time in Iowa’s automobiles.
It’s really a marvelous state.
California and Florida rejoice say
ing:
“More power. Get in those cars,
drive here and spend it.”
■ Nothing is more fascinating than
higher mathematics. Consider
Wrigley, who makes chewing gum.
Silent on a peak on Catalina island
he looked westward over the Pacific,
toward China, and mused thus:
“Five hundred million Chinamen
oier there. The average Chinese
hps 18 sound teeth—that makes
900,000,000 good teeth going to
waste—chewing no gum, contribut
ing nothing to a great industry.”
He hurried back from Catalina,
sent gum missionaries to China. At
the first the Chinese, courteous,
chewed and swallowed the gum.
Wrigley cabled over just one word,
"persevere.!’
•Now he has a big gum business
in China, and talks of starting a
factory there. Imagination, mathe
matics and perseverance work won
ders. •
Have you a little savings bank
account for each child? It works
wonders. In 1769, our Benjamin
Franklin, then in London, put 100
pounds into a^und, the interest to
accumulate for 150 years—and
then be used for useful awards.
Yesterday, British trustees of the
fund, distributed 4,000 pounds in
three awards, for scientific work.
Thus the interest on $500 carefully
invested and accumulated makes it
possible to have an income of
$20,000 a year. Great is the power
of compound interest. Start y<fur
little account.
"Labor members of the new Brit
isjj cabinet refuse to buy court
dress, silk knee breeches, buckles,
sword, etc., for court functions.
Ope labor minister says that while
ordinary evening dress is permis
sible he has no such outfit, and will
g<! in his ordinary clothes.
That will surprise and shock
some plain American democrats
that have been sent to the Court of
St; James.
XJerman labor, asked to work 10
hours a day instead of eight com
plains, “You want to make the
workers pay the reparations to the
allies.”
It’s a silly complaint, for no new
plan is being tried.
The regular routine is for men in
high places to make war, and for
man in low places to supply the
blood and corpse while war lasts,
and indemnity afterward. That’s
the process that, after awhile, per
haps in 1,000 or 10,000 years, will
make the men in low places do a
little thinking. But thinking is
painful and won’t come in a hurry.
1'ollowing the Teapot Dome
scandal, peddlers arc already selling
little teapots to he worn as demo
cratic badges. Politics is a child
isfe business. Motto fhr republican
senators, "I go to cleanse the pots.”
(Copy rl(f lit, 1024.)
Claim Made Dr. Case Forced
to Quit Ollier Churches
Chicago, Jan. 31.—Charges that the
HaV. Carl b. Case, pastor of the Oak
Park Baptist church, named by Ar
thin- [.eland, parishioner, its core
sp&ndcnt I" Ids action for divorce,
lift churches In Brooklyn and Buf
falo when faced by similar nccusa
linns and that Behind lilmself was
engaged to marry Ills stenographer
when lie started divorce proceedings
vein mrido by Judge Charles M.
Knell today.
As a result of the charges and eotln
i«B charges, Judgo Knell continued J
the case until February III. I
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Reign of Terror
Feared if Quick
Justice Fails
Slayer Captured; Confesses
New York Record; Identi
fied as Bandit; ‘’Reign
of Terror'’ Feared.
Inspector of Police Jack I’sxa
nowski Friday morning predicted a
"reign of terror” for Omaha unless
something is done to check what
lie termed the laxity of Omaha
juries in meting out punishment to
slayers.
He declared that even after gun
men are arrested and their guilt
proved beyond the shadow of a
doubt juries hesitate to inflict the
death penalty.
"It lias been shown time and
again that police officers rarely
shoot first,” he said, ‘‘but you
ean't get Juries to believe it.”
Cowed by the horror of his recol
lection of the slaying Thursday of
Detective Frank Aughe, and overcome
by a haunting vision of the electric
chair, with its gruesome straps and
head plate. Joseph Dunn paced back
and forth in his cell in the city jail
this morning and pleaded for advice.
Thursday, in the parlance of the
underworld, he was “stir-wise.” Dur
ing his examination by a deputy
county attorney, he carefully avoided
answering incriminating questions.
Friday morning his cunning was
gone. A sleepless night in a Jail
cell, the thousand and one noises of
a Jail, sapped hi9 nerve and his self
control.
“Oh, my God, I didn't mean to kill
him,” he walled. "Isn.'t there some
way out?”
The steel bars of his cell, unrelent
ing as the law which holds him In its
grip, a struggling, futile creature,
give back his only answer.
Friday afternoon he was taken
to the Bralley and Dorrance under
taking establishment, where an in
quest was to be held at 1 into the
death of Frank Aughe.
County Attorney Henry Real said
he will demaryi 4he death penalty for
Dunn when he comes to trial.
Mortgage on Home.
Beal Friday wrote a letter to Chief
ol Detectives Van Deusen, asking
Van Deusen to order his men to shoot
to kill, in an effort to bring to an end
a long series of murders in Omaha.
The order was Issued by Inspector
Jack Pszanowskl.
Movement w as on foot Friday morn
ing to raise money to pay off a
$3,000 mortgage on Auglic’s home.
His widow will receive $1,000
from the Woodmen of the World
Fife Insurance association; $ I ,.">60
from the Police, and Firemen’s Re
lief and Insurance association; $.100
from the police pension fund, and
$50 a month front this fund so long
as she does not remarry.
Funeral Saturday.
Aughe was 49. He joined the de
partment In 1906 and in another year
end nine months would have been re
tired on a pension. He was one of
the most popular detectives cfe the
department, and .was several times
cited for merltorius service.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 2:30 at the home.
1 Shoot to Kill!
February 1, 1924.
Charles H. Van Deusen,
Chief of Detectives, Oma
ha, Neb.:
My dear Mr. Van Deu
sen: In view of the many
promiscuous shootings and
killings in the last few
months, it is my opinion
that all men apprehended
carrying loaded revolvers
be charged with a peniten
tiary offense and be bound
over to the district court
under bonds of not less
than $1,000. I shall so in
struct rlfy men, and kindly
ask that you do likewise.
And, in this connection,
beg to advise you that it is
a police officer’s right and
duty when apprehending
any criminal charged with
a felony, to take his life, if
necessary, and, therefore,
suggest that you advise
your men to take no un
necessary chances, but
whenever the criminal
shows resistance, shoot to
kill. Very truly yours,
HENRY BEAL,
County Attorney.
Three platoons of patrolmen, all the
detectives on the department and two
platoons of firemen will attend the
services and escort the body to the
grave. Charles Baarman. a brother
in-law of the dead detective.'is a fire
man at the Twenty-fourth and Cum
ing streets station.
Pallbearers will be Inspector of Po
lice Jack Pszanowskl, Chief of De
tectives Charles Van Deusen, Detec
10 Hold for Murder.
Assistant County Attorney Dan
Gross declared lust night that
with tlic arrest yesterday of Joseph
Dunn for file murder of Detec
tive Frank Aughe, the number of
person* waiting trial for murder
in Douglas county reached 10.
lives Fritz Franks, Frank Murphy,
Frank Killion and William Davis.
Honorary pallbearers will be Henry
Heitfeldt, Commissioner Henry Dunn,
Otto Llckert (retired police sergeant),
Chief of Police Dillon, Capt. William
Russell and Charles Baarman.
Details of Slaying.
Aughe. for the past two and one
half years working partner of Fred
Franks, was killed by Dunn half an
hour after the latter had held up and
robbed M. G. Kreymborg, proprietor
of the Crosstown drug stoye. Twenty
fourth street and Poppleton avenue,
at 3:30 yesterday afternoon.
Dunn, identified as the drug store
bandit, was about to leave the B. A.
Beranek & Son drug store at Six
teenth and William streets where the
shooting occurred, when the emerg
ency car carrying Detectives Killiou
und Davis, Murphy, Aughe, and Les
ter Warner, emergency officer, passed
the place.
Bee Want Ads Produce Hesults.
Early Spring
Hats
P re sen ting the
choice of any hat
in the popular
price section.
Lovely new models portraymg ,the more
advanced fashion modes in silk, moire,
haircloth, visca braid and combinations;
clever little close-fitting effects, slightly
turned off the face models, and many nov
elties. The variety of colors includes all
the successful shades.
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Julius Otkm
1512 Douglas Street
“BUY BEFORE SPRING”
An inspection of the Re-new-ed Cadillacs and
other makes of cars being shown in the pre
show exhibit of the J. II. Hansen Cadillac
Company will convince you of the exceptional
automobile value you can procure by pur
chasing now'. .
Open Evenings for Your Convenience •
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26th and Farnam Streets
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'River Steamer
in Wreck; 5 Lost
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Boat Strikes Hidden Obstruc
tion in Ohio River—Sinks
in Three Minutes.
By Associated Tresi.
Paducah, Ky., Fob. 1.—Two pas
sengers and three negro deck hands
were missing today as a result of the
wreck of the river steamer Thomas C.
Powell In the Ohio river near Wilson's
light, eight miles from here, last
night. Survivors landed here by the
towboat Marcia Richardson told
graphic stories of the wreck and ex
pressed belief that those missing were
trapped below by an on-rush of water
or pinned by shifting freight when
the boat listed.
Shepherd Green, captain and pilot
of the Powell, declared the boat struck
a sunken obstruction while moving In
mid-channel and sank within three
minutes. As soon as he felt the blow
Captain Green turned the steamer and
ran for a submerged bar. The boat
grounded with only the Texas deck
and the top of the pilot house above
water. The survivors found tempo
rary refuge on the Texas deck and
later some of them were moved ashore
In the boat's yawls.
Mrs. Mary MeReynolds of East St.
Louis, the only woman passenger, was
rescued with difficulty after shifting
freight had pinned her against the
Side of a cabin.
The boat Is believed to have struck
a large lee floe.
The dense fog and presence of Ice
in the river added to the difficulty of
rescue work.
The Powell was enroute to Nash
ville, Tenn., and carried 13 passengers
and a crew of 17.
Aged Woman Dies.
Mrs. Dorothea Sorenson, 67, wife of
Joseph .Sorenson, 2114 Spencer street,
died Thursday at the home.
Mrs. Sorenson Is survived by her
husband: two sons, John and Walter
of Omaha: one sister, Mrs. J. J. Skow
of Beatrice. Neb.; and a brother,
Peter Madsen of Blaln, Wash.
Funeral services will he held Sat
urday afternoon at 2 at St. Marks
Lutheran church. Twentieth and
Burdette streets. Burial will he in
Forest Iavn cemetery.
Supreme Court Is Too
Slow, Attorney Says
.Special Dispatch t» The Omaha Dec.
Lincoln. Feb. 1. — Announcement
was made this morning by the clerk
of the supreme court that 364 writ
ten opinion have been filed by the
court in the last 11 months, and 92
cases have been argued and decided
on their merits without written
opinions, making a total of 436, ex
clusive of motions for new hearings
and dismissals.
The figures were given out In re
sponse to a statement by Judge W
L. Dowling in Omaha yesterday that
only 232 cases were handled by the
court in this period.
Omahans Ask
Tram Extension
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Dee.
Lincoln, Feb. 1.—Eighty citizens of
Omaha living on or near North Thir
tieth street today petitioned the state
railway commission for an extension
of the. street car line from Thirtieth
and Spaulding streets to Thirtieth
and Fort streets, a distance of 14
blocks.
The petition says that such a line
would provide a through line on Thir
tieth street from Florence to Omaha.
Popular Saturday Free Concert
Feb. 2, 1924, 3:30 P. M.—Lasts One Hour
The seventeenth this season of these popular Saturday
concerts. Come anej bring your friends. The following well
known local artists make up the program: Celco Solo, played
by Richard Merton; Piano Solo by Regina Leone Franklin,
pupil of Karl E. Tunberg; Violin Solo by John Flemming, pupil
of Mrs. K. M. Zabriskie, accompanist Miss Hazel Belt; Piano
Solo by Miss Louise Johnson, pupil of Miss Ida Morse; Reading
by Sylvia Silverman, pupil of Amy Woodruff; Piano Solo by
Molly Bartos, pupil of Agnea Smith, and Celco Solo played by
Howard Brockway.
Schmoller & Mueller
Telephone DIAMA 1514-18-18
AT 1856 . rlADU LUi Dodge St.
Where the Railroad
Dollar Goes
n '
Practically all the money the railroads take in
is immediately put back into circulation. Rail
roads do a large volume of business on a narrow
margin of net income. Out of every dollar earned
from operation by the railways of the United
States there was absorbed in 1922, by
Wages and Salaries. 44.4 cents
j Fuel . 9.4 “
Other operating and maintenangg ex
penses (including such Items rails
and ties, loss and damage). 25.6
Taxes .> 5.4
Hire of equipment and joint facility
rents .. L5 “
Net operating income . 13.7 "
100.0 “
| Out of this 13.7 cents of net operating income, 12.2
cents went for interest on bonds and other fixed charges,
leaving 1.5 cents for stockholders. Adding 6.9 cents of in
come from outside sources, net corporate income was 8.4
cents, of which 4.9 cents was paid in dividends, leaving 3.5
cents available for appropriations and surplus’
Gross earnings of the railroads in 1922 were $1,567,
000,000 more than in 1917. This $1,567,000,000 and more,
too, was immediately paid out again, as follows:
t $018,000,000 in ADDED wages to railroad employes.
135.000. 000 in ADDED cost of coal, mostly miners’
wages.
122.000. 000 for ADDITIONAL taxes.
500.000. 000 ADDITIONAL for materials and sup
plies largely representing wages.
The stockholders and bondholders of the railroads got
c none of the increase.
It is significant that good times are always coincident
with heavy buying on the part of the railroads and that had
times are periods of light railway purchases.
The Union Pacific System is one of the most important
enterprises west of the Missouri River. Its nearly 50,00(1
employes, and their families, constitute a buying power
which is the main reliance of many businesses. The pur
chases of the Union Pacific System from firms located on
the System, or which have offices on our lines, aggregate
millions of dollars each month.
The railways are planning to spend hundreds of millions
of new money during 1924 to better serve the public.
“Our transportation movement during 1923 is the out
standng industrial accomplishment of the year. The waste
of the year 1920, with its car shortages, its derangements of
price levels, stoppage of industry, probably amounted to nol
less than n billion of dollars, and the American people and
no economic fabric could have stood that loss that did not
have a total Income in excess of sixty billions. One great
contribution to the business stability of the past yonr has
hern the fact that we have had a free and regular and
orderly movement of transportation.” From address by
1 Secretary of Commerce Herbert ( . Hoover, January 0, 1924.
(’. R. GRAY.
Omaha, Nebraska President
February I, 1924
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
10 Persons Die
in Three Fires
9-"
Mother Throws Gasoline Into
Sto\c; Perishes itli
Three Children.
By Jnterimllonal News Service.
Akron, (#., Feb. 1.—-At* a result, po
lice believe, of throwing gasoline Into
the kitchen stove, to hasten the
breakfast fire, Mrs. Arthur Smith.
22, and her three children were
burned to death this morning. The
children were Minnie May, 3; Kath
leen, 2, and a 9-month old boy.
The bodies were charred beyond
recognition when firemen arrived and
the house was destroyed. A boarder,
Albert Raines, was aroused from sleep
and leaped from a second story win
dow. Ho was burned badly and
bruised.
According to reports, after nor own
clothes Ignited from the blazing gaBO
line, the mother ran into the bedroom
where the children were asleep. Their
screams aroused Raines but he could
do nothing. The husband was at
work at a rubber factory.
By Associated Press.
Unlonville, Mich., Feb. 1.—A man,
hiH wife and their two children were
burned to death in their farm home
five miles west of .here, early today
when a five gallon can of kerosene
being used to start a kitchen fire ex
ploded. The dead are Edward Bowles,
33. his wife, who was partly para
lyzed, a boy of 5 and a girl of 2.
New York, Feb. 1.—A rapidly
spreading fire in the exclusive and
fashionable Russian Petroushka club,
cost the lives of Theodore H. Bauer,
manager, and his wife, last night.
Mr. and Mrs. Bauer were dressing
for dinner on the fourth floor when
fire broke out in the gypsy room and
quickly licked up the rich curtains
and draperies and spread to the
woodwork. Guests at dinner left the
building In good order.
The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Bauer
were upstairs was overlooked, and
Oiey were trapped. Mr. Bauer wasj
well known as a hotel and dub
manager.
One-Sleeve Gown Ik Latent.
Paris, Feb. 1.—Fashion wonders
never cease The one-sleeve gown has
made its appearance.
The etraiiKP Innovation isshowh
for the first time in the collection ct
Lucille at the spring opening of that
famous shop.
Another novelty shown is the ?lee\e
less coat showing the long, tightly ^0
wound gown with sleeves beneath.
The lines are absolutely straight
to the "waist” while below the hips
there are lavish lace trimmings.
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Shop Saturday
at the
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Selection at the very be
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Patent and morocco boxes in
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Smart fabric gaunlets from the
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Those are frocks of becoming smartness. Al
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i Basque effects, tierred
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