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Graff Will
Run Against
C.W. Bryan
' Bancroft Man Refuses to Be
Shelved—Will Have Strong
Backing in the Race for
Governor.
Democratic Split Looms
A By R. H. PETERS.
^ siaft ( orreMpundrnt Th« Oraalta Bee.
Lincoln, Feb. 21.—Charles Graff of
Bancroft Is about to deliver a rude
blow to the much heralded harmony
in Nebraska’s democratic party. That
harmony was partly accomplished by
shelving W. H. Thompson of Grand
Island, who withdrew Ills name as a
candidate for national committeeman
in favor of an opportunity to get on
the state supreme bench, but Graff
has resisted every inducement of the
Bryan machine and will run for gov
ernor.
This Is learned from Graff himself.
Two weeks ago. when rumors of
his impending candidacy were in cir
culation, the former president of the
state board of agriculture was em
phatic in his denials that he would
oppose Charles W. Bryan for the dem
ocratic nomination.
But he Is a candidate now.
And behind that candidncy is an
interesting story of attempts made
by the Bryan machine to eliminate
Graff as a gubernatorial candidate.
Graff was urged to consider the de
sirability of his filing' for the United
.States senate. Petitions were even
drawn up asking him to be a candi
date for the senate.
Turns Cold Shoulder.
To these suggest ions, as well as to
those that he withdraw an attack
made upon Bryan at a meeting of the
stats board of agriculture, ho has
turned a cold shoulder.
The attack on the governor, in
cluded in Graff's report as president of
the state board of agriculture, has
been particularly obnoxioua to the
Bryan machine. More than one ef
& fort has been made to have it ex
pughed from the records by Bryan
lieutenants, but they all have been
fruitlee.s.
Graff, a stockman himself, will have
a strong backing among cattle raisers
ip the state, lie is particularly In
terested In the eradication of bovine
tuberculosis, which Is anathema to
i be governor. Further, Graff can
rightfully use the title of "farmer
candidate. ”
ll is understood that Graff will
not make a personal filing, but will
accept petitions asking him to be a
candidate. These petitions now are
being circulated and It is learned, on
good authority, that the rapidity with
which signatures have been secured
has startled Graff's most optimistic
supporters, among who 1s numbered
W. B. East ham, prominent democrat, i
Many Signatures.
One circulator is said to have re
ported 28 signers In 35 minutes and
another petition, mulled out one
r.lght, came back in 48 hours with
a signature on every line.
The support of Kasthani Is a thorn
in the flesh of the Bryan machine
and efforts have been made to get
him away from tJraff. but lie has of
fered no encouragement to those who
have approached him.
An idea of the seriousness with
which the Graff boom is being taken
by Bryan and his adherents may be
gained from the following:
George Jiall, secretary of finance
and an appointee of the governor,
^ went to the former president of the
state board to urge him to withdraw.
The Interview continuing unsatis
factory. Hall declared, "You haven't a
chance.” to which Graff replied.
Then why are you trying to keep me
out?”
Graff says that he Is not like "Some
candidates who won't run unless thsy
are surs of election.
I always havs been a supporter
of Charley Bryan,1* he said. I've even
burned his coal, although it eet my
house afire. But his actings since
he has been governor are such that
I can't support him any longer.’*
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Cool Reception Given
Thomm at Washington
By P. V. POWKI.I.,
ITwhliiloii (<rrrr«i>«ndent The
Omaha Bee.
Washington, Neb. 21.—Elmer
Thomas will rscelve s pollts but
noncommittal audience at th fed
eral prohibition department, when
hs calls there either tomorrow or
Saturday In hla Attempt to obtain
the discharge of U. K. Uohrer, fed
eral prohibition officer from Ne
braska. Tlila much was Intimated
at prohibition headquarters today
In anticipating the promised call
of Mr. Thomas.
That department ts determined
to take no action until the Internal
revenue department concludes its
Investigation of Rohrer'g office tn
Omaha. Then and only then will
action he taken, It was asserted.
“I have nothing to say about the
call of Mr. Thomas st my office to
day and I may have nothing to
^ say after hs calls there tomorrow."
Senator Norris said tonight. In
response to a request for s state*
rnent as to how effective the
Thomas plea for Ttolirer's dis
missal had hern, when Thomas
called Ihla morning.
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Son of Pastor Is
Guilty of Robbery
Father Not in Court; Victimej
of Holdup Identify
Defendaut.
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A verdict of guilty was returned
against Carl I- Jordan, charged
with highway robbery, by a jury In
district court last night.
Manner in which Mr. and Mrs. Fred
3. Wolf, 2217 Capitol avenue, con
i' a led *182 in cash and two rings
north several hundred dollars more
from three highwaymen who held
them up on Capitol avenue, between
Twenty second and Twenty-third
streets, on the night of December 29,
was revealed Thursday during th-j
trial of Carl I* Jordan. 21, son of
an Omaha minister. In District Judge
Troup's court on a charge of high
way robbery. Rev. W. H. Jordan
was not in court.
It was a premonition on the part
of her husband. Mrs. Wolf testified,
whicli caused him to give her *182
which he had on his person, arid
which she thrust Into her blouse. The
rings she put in her mouth. She had
done it before, she said, and was able
to talk without revealing their pres
ence.
Young Jordan, at the time of his
arrest on January 6, gave his ad
dress as 113 North Twentieth street.
He said ha quit school when his
mother died In 1917 and served two
years In the navy. Me explained the
revolver and blackjack which he car
ried by aaylng that he was cashier
of a commissary of tjie Milwaukee
railroad in Chicago and that he car
ried them foe protection. He was Iden
tifled by Mr. and Mre. Wolf as one of
the men who held them up.
How Jew* Can Serve America
to Be Topic of Rabbi Cohn
"How the Jews ran beet eerve
America," will be Rabbi Frederick
Cohn’s subject st Temple Israel Fri
day night at 8:30.
In observanes of Washington's
birthday, "Ell Ell” will be played as
a violin solo by Jean Gorgi.
Saturday morning at 10 Rabbi
Cohn's subject will be “Seeing Ood."
Married in Council BJuff*.
Ths following psrsons obtalnsd mar
rings llconar* In Council Bluffs yratsrday:
Nam* and Addrass. Afl.
William M. Parr, Paulding, 0. 23 |
Marat* L. Blumsr, Mlndrn. la.. -3
T„. R. Blddsns. lalnroln. Nsb . 21
l.rona KuhstzUI. f.ln'*oln, Nrb.. • 22
Crawford H. Smith. Schuylsr. Nab. ...21
Alma May Washburn, Brhuylsr. Nsb. . 2b
Ed Prtsraon. Nsbrarlia City, N*»b ... 22
Alma Schoinsruz, Nsbraaku City, Nab. 21
Albrrt H. Walt*. Fort Morgan, Colo. 61
Mauds Bird, Elmwood, Nob. 47
Wsltor Wood, Elmwood. Nab. 34
Martha Wrd. Elmwood. Nsb.. II
dCIIJah Forsyths. Conn'd) Bluff#. *6
Tsrrsa Fagaln. flouncll Bluffs. •&
Kalp W. Kloppfng, Trsvnor. Ta. 34
Braids M Jsnarn. Council Bluff#. 22
A W Wurdsmann, Columbus. N#b.. *.’4
Mr»a Hsnkr. Columbus. Nrb.
Joseph Toman, Milligan, Nrb. 43
Mildred ftuchsk. Crets, Nsb. 80
Thoinaa M. Gray. Council Bluff*. ..- 23
Gladys M Carding, Council Bluff*.. IS
John Packard. Prlsnd. Nrb . 30
vn«a Mum mu. FH*n4. Nrb .17
The Day in
Washington
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( harles B. Warren of Detroit
was nominated to he ambassador
to Mexico.
The gunboat Tulsa was ordered
to Tuxpam as a protection to
Americans there.
I.usitania awards to Americans
aggregating SI ,WM).ltt were
handed down by the mixed claims
commission.
A house elections committee
recommended the unseating of
Representative Sol Bloom, demo
crat. New York.
Congressional leaders began
preparations for a complete in
vestigation of Northern Pacific
railroad land grants.
A house resolution appropriat
ing KtM.OAO for the oil lease
rases was passed by the senate.
Attorney General Daugherty In
a letter to Senator Pepper, repub
lican. Pennsylvania, vigorously as
assailed his rrltirs.
It was revealed that the senate
oil rommittre is investigating re
ports that Attorney General
Dauglierty had bought and sold
Sinclair oil stock.
Senators examining the ballots
in the Mayfield election contest
said many ballots were being chal
lenged on both sides.
The house Irrigation commit Ice
voted to call witnesses to testify
on power company opposition to
the Boulder dam project.
Senator Phipps, republican,
Colorado, waa assailed in the aen
ats by Senator Ashurst, demo
crat. A rirons, for voting to rut
the appropriation for the Y'uma
irrigation project.
Democrats and rspubllran In
surgents in the Itouse Joined to
gain more amendments to the
revenue hill, although the demo
rrata rejected an Insurgent amend
ment to tax undistributed profits
of corporations.
Omaha Models
Raise Protest
"Toil can nay what you plea**, but
I think ft ‘a perfectly terrible, and
totally unnecessary!"
Thun spoke, with appropriate ges
turea and flashing eye*, one of the
girls who ‘models' In Omalm.
For Omaha hnn It* colony of pro
feaalonal modelaNtrho allow off dreaaca
and hata, and a lot of unmentlonahlea.
Omalian Hculdfl Sophomore
Class at Nebraska Uni
T.lneoln, Feh. 21.-Reginald Kvorett.
'2D, Omoha, win elected prealdent of
the aophomore claaa of the University
of Nebraska. el-t received 142 vote*
36 vote* more than lila nest opponent.
The general point system for men,
a plan whereby the student activities
of university men are limited, wa*
defeated by eight votes, while a simi
lar system for women wo* adopted
l^v a majority of 3*2 vote*. Voting
vaa unusually heavy, over 1,800 votes
being ca/
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Heart Beats
Heard on Radio
Profrm-or Demonstrates With
“Microphone Stethoscope”
at St. Louis.
Hy Aaaeeleted frw*.
St. Louis. Feb. 21.—That the beat
ing of the human heart may be clear
ly audible to the ears of thousand*
who "listen In" to the broadcasting
programs of radio stations throughout
tlie country was demonstrated when
the heart beats of Professor It. B.
Abbott of Purdue university were
oroadcast last night by station KSD
of St, -Louis. '
Following a demonstration of hlH
"microphone stethoscope." a request
was made by those present that he
broadcast the beats of his heart by
ladlo, to which he consented.
In Ills demonstration Professor Ab
bott walked to and fro on the plat
form liefore the physicians and the
fluctuating of his heart, like the lick
ing of a clock, coukl be heard plainly,
increasing or diminishing tn measure
ns he moved rapidly or slowljf.
Jacksonville. III., Feb. 20.—Heart
beats broadcast by radio from .St.
Louis tonight were plainly heard at
the Illinois School for the Deaf here,
according to Colonel C. Smith, man
aging officer. Colonel Smith said he
heard the heart beats of three phy
sicians. Jacksonville I* 100 miles from
St. Louis.
New Evidence Found;
Welter Case Continued
County Attorney Beal stated that
h» would continue the case of William
Ernest Welter, charged jointly with
the slaying of Henry McArdle. he
cause th# state had uncovered new
evidence.
Assistant Deputy Attorney tJcnersl
Harry Silverman hae returned from
Lincoln, where he argued before the
state supreme court the case of
Weltor, appealed from the district
court of Richardson county on a
charge of grand larceny.
Nebraskan Get* Word of
Death of Two Brother*
gpectsl niepalrh to The Omaha Hoc.
Beatrice, Neb., Feb. 21.—Orant
Oodeott. living near Virginia. Neb.,
received a telegram stating that Ills
brother, l.lsh. was killed In an auto
accident near Russellville. Tonn.,
end Ihst another brother. Ham. had
dropped dead of heart disease.
Platlr Out of Hank*.
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 2t.—The Platte
river hn* overflowed It* hunks south
of Fremont and the tow land* ap
proachlnff th* bridge sre inundated.
The alternating warm and cold
* pells have served to check the over
flow to a considerable extent, but the
danger of damage ha* not vet been
Averted. Near Schuyler, It Is ic
ported, two Borges wet* on a ram
| lu'.jgc *inl tin* is bl&tneU fm ti»c latest
I rise in the wattr* vf th*
Rum Flow
Into U. S. Is
on Increase
Coast Guard Repoits 158
Smuggling Vessels Operating
—Heaviest Shipments
From Scotland.
5 Per Cent Intercepted
Washington, Feb. 21.—Liquor
smuggling has increased greatly in
recent months and the rum fleets op
erating in water adjacent to Ameri
can coasts have grown to a strength
of 158 vessels, it was revealed today
by the United States coast.guard.
Within the last three montii* of
1923, figures show, the amount of
whisky shipped here from Scotland
alone, is estimated at 415,703 gallons
in bulk and 26,755 cases.
Shipments of whisky from Europe
since January, 1922, according to the
coast guard, amounted to 104,241
cases. In addition to 415,965 gallons
in bulk.
From Canada, 57.365 cases were
tabulated, while from Miquelon, the
shipment* were 9.000 cases.
The coast guard estimates it had
only been able to intercept 5 per
cent of this Illicit trade. ,
The figures were obtained by a
study of reponsibility of which lias
been thrown on the coast guard in
slopping l-um sumggiing.
President Coolldge has recom
mended that the guard be given a
supplemental appropriation of ? 13,
853.989 to meet the situation.
Rum ships stand off strategic
liointa suc-h as New York, Long
Island Sound, Delaware and Chesa
peake bays, along ‘the Florida coast
and off the mouth of the Mississippi
river. There also has been much
smuggling not so well tabulated, on
the Pacific coast.
Contractors j
Hold Caucus
to Fix Prices
Collusion of Rates Expected
to Result in AH Bids
Being Thrown
Out.
Paving bids have been sub-i
mitted for the city’s first 1924
allotments that plainly indi
cate collusion among paving
contractors.
At the same time that the figures
shown In these bids became available
It was learned that there had"recently
been a meeting of a number of pav
ing contractors In a down town hotel
at which work was parcelled out and
prices were agreed upon. *
Low BM FVom "Outsider.”
The lowest bid submitted was $2.53
per square yard. This bid was pre
sented by a contractor who was not
present at the frame-up meeting.
Bids submitted by Jhoae contractors
at the meeting showed the lowest bid
to be *2.75.
Because of this collusion and a lack
of real competitive bidding, all bids
undoubtedly will be thrown out and
a saving of many thousands of dol
lars secured for the city.
Contractors Interviewed by The
Omaha Bee today advised that there
had been no Increase In wages and
no boost In the price of materials to
Justify s bid of even $2.5$.
During 1923 bids for asphaltic con
crete were let for s total of 252.000
yards at a cost of $544,000, or an
average of $2.15 a yard.
Daugherty Makes Vehement
Defense for Retention of Office
Washington, Feb. 21.—Attorney General Daugherty, in a letter today
to Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, declared his retirement, “voluntary of
otherwise,” would be a concession of the truth of all the "business
charges" against him and that he never would be a party to such a pro
ceeding.
The letter follow s:
“Please accept my thanks for your very kind note of yesterday.
Your complimentary reference to my administration of the Department
of Justice is at this time most highly appreciated.
“I note with amazement your suggestion that my interests are not
to be decided on the basis of “justice or injustice," even though my
henor, reputation and all that I hold dear In this world are at stake.
.Your expressions of personal regard are most gratifying and keenly
appreciated, and I am sure that nothing will ever happen to change our
friendly relations.
“Coming now to the subject matter of your letter I am interested in
your statement that I am on the wrong side of an issue In th^ mind of
(he public. I assume you have In mind the resolution of Senator Wheeler
and his speech on the floor of the senate. You have then concluded that
I am on the wrong side of an issue, without hearing, without evidence,
and accepted as final the baseless, scandalous and defamatory charges
of my political adversaries. You further imply that the public has also
concluded that I am on the wrong side of an issue, without evidence, on
exparte statements, and baseless charges of those same adversaries. You
must realize, as I do, that these charges against me, made on the eve of
a presidential election, are made with other motives than that of injuring
me.
“My destruction is but the accomplishment of one phase ot the pro
gram which will be immediately followed by other and more drastic de
mands by these same adversaries. My elimination voluntarily or other
wise will be a concession of the truth of all the baseless charges of our
adversaries, and will justify them in claiming that we have thereby ad
mitted hteir truth, and such admission will accomplish the ultimate end
and purpose most gratfying to such adversaries.
"I will never be a party to such a program. You say that my fate
does not involve a question of 'justice or injustice.' My dear senator, my
personal interests sink into insignificance when compared with the magni
tude of the issue now involved. Js the preservation of the orderly
processes of the law. and the preservation of constitutional rights of no
Importance? Shall reputations be destroyed and public officials driven
from office by clamor, insinuations and falsehood? The basest criminal
standing before the bar of justice has a right to trial by his peers. Am
1 to be denied a right granted even the basest criminal?
“If I am on the wrong side of the issue to which you refer, and it has
already been concluded against me by the senate, to which forum I have
no access, without evidence as to the truth and falsity of the charges
made against me, and if the public has likewise, as you claim, without
evidence, concluded that 1 am on the wrong side of such issue, then
nothing remains for me to do except to plead my cause before the bar
of public opinion, and In order to do so accept some of the numerous
invitations to make addresses throughput the country and present before
that great tribunal all of the facts bearing upon tiese matters. That
tribunal, my dear senator. by‘which we will all ultimately be tried. Is j
the one before whose verdk-t we must all bow with respectful humility.” j
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Heney Is Sad Because
Opens Message by
Mistake for Doheny
He Is Without Dough
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By MARK MM.IVAbf.
Washington, F>b. 21.—Things are
pretty tense and generally eomber
with us here at Washington, hut once
111 so often there 1* a story that pro
v'dcs ua with a atntle.
rank J. Heney. California lawyer,
lias a nation wide reputation as a
most aggressive fighter against wrong
conditions in government. The other
day Heney was stopping at a local
hotel.
At the same time E- I* Doheny *-aa
also stopping at the same hotel.
A telegram cnmu. The clerk
glanced at It hastily and then told
a bellboy to deliver it to Heney.
Heney also glanced hastily at the
address. Then he opened It snd saw
something or other about a *15,000.000
bond Issue on one of the Pan-Ameri
can petroleum properties.
•'Take It away. It ts not for me."
he said sadly, passing It back to the
bellboy.
“I'm the Heney without the dough."
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First a Boon. Note
Radio Is Muisance
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Chicago. Feb. 21.—Complaint that
radio Is a nuisance, the first of Its
kind here, was received by Health
Commissioner Rundeson from the
Rev. T, Yeoman Williams, of the
South Congregational church.
The minister declared that a neigh
bor has Installed a radio with a loud
speaker. • »
“Programs are received untH mid
night or later and there la no possi
bility of sleep until they are finished,"
the minister asserted.
T
Tax on Undistributed Corporation
Profits Is Blocked by Democrats
Amendment Would Provide
Grounds for Presidential
Yelp of Hill. Declare
Leaders.
Wanking ion, hVk. 21.—Democrats
Jammed the hrnkea on the revision of
Ihe revenue today, after Joining re
publican Insurgents In gaining some
amendments, and infused to support
an amendment offered by Ihla group
proposing a tux on undistributed prof
Its of corporation*.
In opposing tills amendment, Rep
reaentative* Garrett of Tennessee and
Garner. Texas, the democratic lead
ers In tile (ax fight, declared it was
"unsound" ami warned their party
that It must not so change the bill,
already carrying the deninoratlo In
come rate achedules. that ground
would be given for a presidential
veto.
The coalition Just previously liad
overruled a decision of the chair that
the amendment was not in order by a
vole of 1 fit to 150.
With debate on the amendment oc
copying three hours, little progress
whs made with the hill today, al
though Chairman Green of the ways
and means committee. In charge of
ihe measure, predicted later a vote
on passage would be oosxlkls by next
|Tuesday. An agreement wa* reach'd
f ■■ ■■—■
between him and Representative Oar
tier that no vote would be taken be
fore that date. Consideration of the
mem-ure will continue tomorrow, al
though a legal holiday.
A new compromise on the Income
rale schedules developed In negotia
tions during the day between repuhll
can organisation leader*, who ar* de
termined to upset the democratic
rates when the blit Is up for pas
saga, and Bums of the 17 republicans
supported the Oarner Income tax
amendment.
. Representative T-ongwerth, the re
publican leader, said he would tie will
Ing to cut the normal rate on In
conics below $4,000 from 3 iier cent as
recommended by Secretary Mellon, to
2 tier cent If the g per cent normal
tax on Incomes above that amount
the treasury proposal, were retained
The compromise also Includes the
recent offer of organisation repuhll
cant to raise the maximum surtax
from the 25 per cent rate proposed
by Mellon to 37'* per cent. Huch
a schedule. Tgingworth said, would
lie acceptable to several of the In
surgents.
The vote on the t lamer plan was
222 to ist>. with 11 republicans ah
sent, A majority must he gained on
several parliamentary votes by the
republic ins to make possible the over
throw- of the tinnier rates after tin
bill tonus up for final vote
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Grand Jury for
Paving Probe Is
Plan of Koutskv
Commissioner Declares Con
tractors Are “Crabbing" Be
cause Outside Firm Got
Contract.
City Commissioner Joseph Koutsky
believes there should be a grand Jury
Investigation into the circumstances
of a meeting of Omaha paving con
tractors in a hotel last Monday.
The commissioner stated that he
was reliably informed that the meet
ing was held and that there was an
agreement to boost paving bids sub
mitted to the council last Tuesday
morning.
M: L. Flinn Paving company of
Sioux City and A. H. Reed of Council
Bluffs bid $2.6$ and $2.60 on asphal
tic concrete, as agains' the lowest bid
of $2.76 offered by the local con
tractors.
Overtures to Koutsky.
"Because the game got away from
them, the Omaha contractors are
dabbing." Koutsky said. "One of
them .jams to me and said he
would forbid the Finn company
If I would reject the bide and read
vertise. But I don’t intend to reject
the bids. We have figured out the
costs on this work and are find that
the FUnn and Reed bids include a
profit of about 10 cents a square
yard, under average conditions."
Koutsky said the average cost of
asphaltic concrete paving completed
last season was $2.15 per yard, and
that the contractors were cutting
each other’s throat during the early
part of last year.
"Omaha contractors lost $160 POP
here last season." Koutsky asserted.
"The aversgs of ssphsltle concrete
bids received on August 21 last year
was $2 BO 1-2.
Collusion .Certain.
The commissioner stated that the
contractors who met laat Monday
did not know that two outside con
tractors intended to offer bids.
"I had a similar situation two years
ago with sewer constructor*," he
added. "Their bids showed conclusive
ly that they were too high and that
there had been collusion. I told them
we would do the work ourselves tin
less they offered reasonable figures.
We rcadvertised and the records in
the city hall will show the results."
Memorial Services Held
for Fate Senator Allen
Norfolk. Neb.. Feb. '’t.—-District
court held memorial service here to
day in memory of late I’nlted Slates
Senator William V. Allen Fvery
county In the district waa represent
ed. Judge Anson A Welch preside 1
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Will Fight
to Retain
His Office
Attorney General Threatens
to Stump Entire Country, if
Necessary, to Obtain
Justice.
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Replies to Pepper s Note
Washington, Feb. 21. — Attorney
General Daugherty turned on his as
sailants today with a threat to take
to the country his fight to retain his
place in the cabinet.
If the senate, he said, already had
convicted him without hearing and on
“insinuations and falsehoods" nothing
remained for him but to plead his
cause be font the bar of public opinion.
The attorney general'B challenge
was issued after It had been disclosed
tliat the oil committee was Investi
gating a report that he had dealt in
Sinclair oil stock.
This report, brought to Washington
by a special investigator, not only has
been laid before the committee, but
also has been called to the attention
of President Coolidge by Chairman
Denroot and other administration
leaders in the senate.
In his public statement, which took
the form of an open letter to Senator
Pepper, republican, Pennsylvania,
| Daugherty made net specific mention
j of the reported oil stock transactions
[ or of any of the individual charges
made pubiio against him. Instead he
declared in general terms that some
senators were denying him eonstitu
ticuyil privileges which are accorded
"the basest criminal."
The letter was written to Senator
Pepper In response to a note which
the senator sent to him late yester
day after he and Senator Dodge had
urged upon President Coolidge the re
! tirement of Daugherty.
Pepper Kef uses Comment.
Senator Pepper said in a statement
tonight that he had sent bis note to
The attorney general after he left the
i White House because It bad occurred
; to him that perhaps in performing “an
! unfortunate duty" he hed been “»
! the position of saying something
about a man behind his beck." He
added that he did not regard his
<-ommunlcaUon as requiring a reply
and ha refused to comment on
Daugherty's letter.
Woman Acquitted in
Slaying Leaves Asylum
Hastings. Neb., Feb. ID—Mr*
Clara Ri«erts. McCook, was released
from Ingleside by Judge Dll worth in
district court after he had word from
Superintendent Fast of the institution
that Mra_ Roberts was sound and
normal mentally.
Mrs. Roberts was committed by
j Judge teglev at McCook. January
28. following a verdict of Red Willow
-county district court Jury that shs
, was not guilty of shooting James
' Hewitt with intent to kill, but that
she was insane.
Mr*. Roberts is alleged to hsvs
shot Hewitt after the latter had cot.
i tinually sold her husband liquor ar.-J
after her husband had become
abusive.
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Ashton Woman Kills
Herself With Razor
I*oup City. Neb , Feb II -Mr*.
i William Beliel committed stikido at
her home ;n Ashton, about 1! pules
east of this place. She crose early
and securing a rajtor from a trun*.
she chased her husband to the kitchen
and then slashed her throat, dying
I within a few minutes. Relatives say
she had been acting strangely at
i times and had been unable to sleep.
|and a physician had been called to
; determine the cause of he trouble.
The county attorney was called.
| but decided that no inquest sti nec
lesaarv
City of Beatrice Says Gas
Finn Valuation Too High
Lincoln. Feb. SI.—The city of
I Beatrice today filed an answer to the
equity suit brought in the federal
!district court by the Nebraska Ga«
land Electric company. In which it
J contends that the rates fixed by the
Beatrice municipality are not con
fiecatory; that'the company place*
1 too high a valuation on it* Beatrice
1 ropert.Vc-tlSMbb. while UtO.tK"*
would t-e more nearly correct; that
the plant is inadequately and badly
managed, and that eoste are not
equally distribute,! between gas and
[electric service. The city asks that
jtlie gas company’* suit be dismissed.
i 160 anti 80-At rc Farms Are
Bought at Ht'ft'rt'r ’> Salo
I sp. .1,1 PUeatrb t» Th* Omaha Be*.
B*atrtoe. Neb, eFb. *1—Two "ell
j improved farms of the lata Aaron
! Mast. a mile east of Moltne*viUe.
1 were sold at referee's sale. The 1C'
1 acts tract went to 3 W. Gish of
’ Holme-.,tile, for I'io an acre, and
it he SO a.-re farm was purchased by
[ V. B Breper. Beatrice, for til* an
lucre. Considering the location and 1
I Improvements real eeinte men *•- the
hou'd hive brought ‘ better