3owa Inventor
£ of Gyroscope
* Takes Own Life
i- f^ear of Spending Life in In
pane Hospital Cause of
Act—Educated at
Hastings.
By Anorialfd Pr««
t*' 'Camden, X. J., Feb. 6.—Prof. 12. J.
Christie of Marlon, la.. Inventor of
a gyroscopic unicycle, which lie hoped
could obtain a sperd of 250 miles an
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hour, committed suicide in a hotel
here today.
Professor Christie had been at the
hotel elni« September. He lived
quietly and seemed to be possessed of
funds.
He was a graduate of Iowa uni
versity and waa a friend of the late
Charles H. Stelnmetz, electrical wiz
ard. He served as an instructor in
mathematics, astronomy and chem
istry In Indiana Normal university
and later was on the faculty of Saint
John college, Annapolis, Md., and
Hastings college, Nebraska.
He was for a short time president
of Garfield university, Wichita, Kan.
During the war he did experimental
work for the government. During his
lessons in astronomy he used a gyro
scope" made especially for him to
demonstrate the rotation and momen
tum of the earth. This led him tq
speculate on the possibility of apply
ing the principle of the gyroscope to
some new form of locomotion. He
constructed his first model at Cedar
Rapids, la., in 1919.
Christie's body was found on the
floor fully dressed with a pistol in
his hand. On a bureau was a note
addressed to Coroner Robert G.
Schroeder of Camden, which read:
"I have taken my own life because
I would rather die now than spend
the rest of my life In an Insane
asylum. Kindly prepare my bodvsnd
notify my brother. Honorable John
T. Christie, Marlon, la."
In his pocket was found a Phila
delphia newspaper clipping describ
ing his work on the gyroscopic unl
cycle In a workshop In Philadelphia.
Christie was about 58 years old.
Bossie and “Wife”
Sail From France
Deposed City Clerk Returning
to United States on Beren
garia to Face Charges.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 6,—Claude F. Bos
sie, deposed city clerk of Omaha,
Neb., and a woman said to be his
wife, were reported to have sailed
from Cherbourg, France, on the
steamship Berengaria, a message re
ceived hero today said.
Bossie is charged by his first wift1.
who is now living in Omaha, with de
sertion. He is said to have left the
first Mrs. Bossie and gone to Kan
sas, where he married a woman said
to be Mrs. E. Walmsiey of Redlands.
Cal. He is. being returned to the
United States because his passport
was alleged to have been obtained by
fraud, in that he represented the wo
man accompanying him as his legal
wife. The first Mrs. Bossie, It is said,
has not been notified that she has
been divorced from the former clerk.
Martin Ryan Dies.
Martin Ryan, 79, retired farmer
who was a resident of Omaha for 18
years, died Tuesday at his home, 422
N'orth Thirty-fourth street. He Is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Jere
miah Ryan, Omaha, and Mrs. Steven
Conners, Carroll, la., and seven sons.
Funeral services will he held Friday
morning at 8:30 from the home to St.
Cecelias cathedral.
Nebraska City—Mrs. H. T. William
son, 70, was seriously burned this
afternoon when her clothing caught
on fire from a heater at her home.
The (fames were not extinguished un
til they had burned from her body.
Her condition is regarded as serious,
but hope is entertained for her re
covery.
Ex-Professor Wins
Bok Peace Plan Prize
Charles H. 1-evermore.
Philadelphia, Pa.—Charles H. I.ev
ermore of New lork, student of in
ternational relations, writer, and for
mer college professor, was announced
as the winner of the $100,000 prize of
fered b>' Edward W.-Bok, Philadelphia
publisher, for the best plan to pre
serve peace among the nations of the
world.
The first $50,000 of the prize wa*
turned over to Mr. Levermore by
John W. Davis, former ambassador to
Great Britain.
The second $50,000 will be given to
Mr. I-evermore when and if the ref
erendum of the country approves his
plan.
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Beet Growers
r Agree on Scale
Mexican Labor to Be Relied
Upon to Replace Russians
Who Take Farms.
Gering, Neb., Feb. 6.—The Great
Western Sugar company, having
reached an agreement with the beet
growers upon the scale to be paid
for the 1924 crop of beets. Is now
engaged in making labor contracts
for tlie season. It is probable that
the labor contract will be similar t.o
the one recently made with the Colo
rado beet growers. $23 an acre, with
a bonus of 50 cents a ton over 14
tons per acre.
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number of Mexican* Imported to work
in tlie beet fields of this auction. The
labor supply heretofore drawn from
Russians in Lincoln, Hastings and
other cities has been dwindling rapid
ly of late years. More and more these
Russian workers are becoming land
owners, making It necessary to,re
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last year brought the beet growers
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Village of Old-Timers.
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The above map .how. the motion, of our telephone ,y.tem in Iowa and Sebra.ka, where M»
by Sunday night: .leet .torm. About iJOO of them pole, were on the long dwtanee Une.and
lines. In addition, the heavy coat of ice on the wires and the strong wind caused thousand
| long distance and exchange system in this territory. ,
Telephone Damage $200,000
hi Sleet Storm
The sleet storm which swept over Iowa and Nebraska last Sunday
afternoon and evening, caused about $200,000 damage to telephone
property.
A survey of the destruction to telephone property shows the following.
3,800 poles broken down or destroyed.
34,0 miles of wire out of service.
$200,000 property loss. >
It is a tremendous job to re-set 3,800 poles, to re-attach the cioss arms ^
and wires to them and re-establish communication, but service is being
restored as rapidly as possible by more than 600 repairmen, most of
whom have been on the job constantly since the storm. The anitea
snow on the roads, particularly in Iowa, is making the restoration o
service very difficult.
We take this opportunity to thank our customers for the splendid way in '*hich
you have accepted the unavoidable interruption of telephone service, an
assure you that we are doing everything possible to hasten the re-opening
communication.
If you desire to talk to any point to which service was shut off by the
storm, please ask “Long Distance” if the lines are yet open. Every hour,
almost, some line is reopened.
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