Trainmen May
Get a Per Cent
^ a ire Increase
V
Reported Agreement of ext
ern Roads ith Brother
hoods Not ^ et Received
at Omaha Offices.
Wage Incresses amounting to shout
5 per cent, but olTset somewhat by
remain concessions and compensa
tions to the railroads were reported
ns the basis of an agreement between
representatives of 31 railroads and
the Order of Railroad Conductors and
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, according to press dispatches
from Chicago.
General Manager Edward Flynn of
Burlington lines wesB of the Mis
souri river was In touch with the
Chicago Burlington office and report
ed that officials there had received
no notification of a settlement yet.
Increase Tartly OlTset.
Local railroad officials pointed out
that while settlements Involving In
creases of about 5 per cent to train
men have been made In the east,
i hat western railroads are probably
less able to grant such an increase.
"It is probable that if such an in
crease is granted the concession made
by the employes regarding changes in
rules eliminating some of the over
time pay now received by them will
lo some extent at least offset the in
crease," said General Manager Flynn.
"Since the war western railroads
have been paying time and one-half
for all hours put in by the men over
eight."
What Increase Means.
Accepting the increase for its face
value, however, the passenger train
men will receive an increase of 24
cents a day. freight trainmen 30 rents,
conductors 33 cents, hrakemen 20
rents and switch tenders 20 cents,
according to the dispatch, which states
that approximately SO,000 men will
be affected and the annual pay rolls
of these 31 western roads would he
increased something like $5,000,000 if
the reported basis of the negotiations
is incorporated in the final agreement.
The railroads affected represent
about 90 per cent of the mileage west
of Chicago. The Chicago Great West
ern, Chicago & Alton and the Elgin,
.Toilet & Eastern are not parties to
the negotiations, which have been
under way since March 19.
L. E. Sheppard, head of the con
ductors, and W. N. Doak, vice presi
dent of the trainmen's organization,
were the principal union representa
tives. __
Sold to LeFlang.
The Industrial building on the
northeast corner of Seventeenth and
Webster streets has been sold to
E. M F. LeFlang for $127,000 by Max
Rapp. The structure was formerly
the M. F. Shafer A- Co. printing plant.
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Man Thought Tort ured and Slain
in Louisiana Now a Captive, Claim
----
II, Int^rnHtlnnnl >rw«
Atlanta. G*., April '"Thom*, F
Richard* 1* still alive and a captive
of Ku Klux Klansman."
This I* the keynote of an amazing
«tory. which Hr. A. C. Busey, the
"man of myatery.” who h*s dl“p‘
pearcd from the federal prlaon here,
boasted would aolve the infamous
hooded mob murder* of Mer Rouge,
La., which shocked the nation dur
ing the winter of 1922-23,
In his startling tale, rivalling the
fancies of fiction. Busey flatly re
pudiated the charge* of the state of
Louisiana that Richards and Watt
Daniel, his bosom friend, were "fed
Into a torture maabine," by a black
robed mob of klansmen in August,
1922.
Busey admitted Daniel had heen
murdered, but he Insisted that Rich
ards left the scone of the crime an
unharmed man—hut a captive °f
those whose hands were red with
Daniel's blond. The two bruised,
mangled bodies, which authorities
later found in Lake La Fourche and
which wore identified by friends of
Richards and Daniel, Busey classed
ns “fake," secured from the riff-raff
of medical colleges.
Held Close Captive.
For the last 20 months, Busey
claimed, Richards has been held a
captive by friends of the man who
killed Daniel. The captive has heen
hurried from state to state, surrepti
tiously and usually in the dead of
night—a fugitive front the klan as
well as from those who represent
the iaw.
From his prison cell, Busey wrote
a friend:
"I told the secret. Richards is
alive and I can lead you to him any
time. His mother lives at West Mon
roe, La., and for her sake things
must move. Some one is pleading
for her and the prayer of a mother
will he answered shortly. If I have
to serve all niy time, I will do it like
a man. but Richards will he returned
to his mother at no distant day.”
Busey'* Story.
Here is Busey’s story.
Richards was induced to be
tray his bosom friend to the mask
ed hand of murderers on that warm
August afternoon when the klan
went raiding along the highway*
of Morehouse parish. He lured
Daniel in to the klan's hands and
when hours later, violence ended
in murder, they carried Richards
away to captivity lest his lips send
a half dozen of their number to
dangle at the end of a hangman'*
noose.
Up Into Arkansas, the murder
ers carried their captive and then,
on a wide sweeping arc across the
state aftd southward into Tpxbs.
Weeks of captivity lengthened into
months and finally into a year and
more. And today, Richards still
lives, s harried, broken man—near
death—but still under the vigilant
eyes of those w ho fear his lips may
spell for them a muredrer a doom.
This la the story of the "man of
mystery” for whom the Department
of Justice la conducting a nation
wide search.
“Richards must remain In captiv
ity,” Busey told a friend. “If the klan
produced him it would spell the
death warrant for half a dozen meh.
Richards alive would prove Daniel
dead an ! give the state its frist eye
witness to the crime, FntH Daniel’s
body is found or Richord's produced
no murder charge can he proved
against any Individual in Louisiana.
This is proven hv the state's failure
to bring a single murder trial even
to this day, although the murder was
committed a year ago.*’
Name In Archives.
In the secret archives of the high
c*t Imperial kfhn officers Busey was
marked down as a man who saw*
the murderers, at work on that fate
ful August night. It was even re-,
ported that he stood upon the banks
of Lake La Fourche the night that
Daniel died. It was said he heard the
screams of the victim w*hen the
black-hooded slayers beat him and
at last tied him to a. gigantic saw*
mill cog wheel and rolled him down
a gentle hill to mangled eternity. It
was said Busey watched a furtive
group carry Daniel’s form away and
bury it beneath a cypress log.
From other sources It was learned
that an army of detectives employed
by the klan’s imperial palace have
honeycombed the southwest seeking
Richards' hiding place. A fortune,
estimated by some as high as $250,000,
has been spent on the search. The
murderers, however, have hidden him
from even th| klan. it was said, fear
ing that the recent (dashes between
klan authorities might lead to a be
trayal.
It wqs said that Capt. .1. K. Skip
with, cyclops of the Morehouse klan,
blamed by state authorities for the
murder, wasted his personal fortune
on a similar search, Captain Skip
wit h also circulated a number r»f re
ports that Richards was alive during
the famous Bastrop "open hearings.”
One of the reports was carried as a
j news item by International News
Service on January 15, 1923.
This report was immediately de
; nounced by Mrs. Anna Richards
< larrison, mother of the missing man,
as unfounded. She declared she was
satisfied her son had been foully mur
dered.” Richards’ widow or w*ife
shared this view, for she has since
remarried.
i Byproduct ion In whole or in part abso
lutely prohibited.;
(Copyright, 1934.)
The destructive Japanese beetle has
gained a strong foothold in New Jer
sey.
A BANK STATEMENT
Easily Understood
The Bank Owns:
I. CASH.$ 7,967,729.84
(Gold, bank notes and specie on hand or im
mediately due from Federal Reserve bank
and other depositories)
II. UNITED STATES BONDS. 1,000,000.00
III. BONDS and WARRANTS. 745,448.56
(Of municipalities and corporations)
VI. BANKING HOUSE. 1,000,000.00
(A very conservative value; property is
assessed for taxation at $1,110,000)
V. LOANS and DISCOUNTS. 16,678,441.14
(Loans to Individuals, corporations and
banks, payable on, demand or within an
average of 40 days, largely secured by
collateral)
VI. MISCELLANEOUS. 123,666.70
(Interest earned hut not collected, $33,
740.22; customers' liability on letters of
credit, $87,731.92; overdrafts, $2,188.56)
$27,515,286.24
Obligations:
I. DEPOSITS .$23,175,937.09
(Due individuals, corporations and banks)
II. CIRCULATION .. 996,000.00
(Bank notes in circulation)
III. LETTERS OF CREDIT. 117,366.89
(Sold to customers, payable when presented)
IV. TAX RESERVE. 108,910.02
(To pay taxes, when due)
V. FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.87000000
$25,268,214.00
Capital and Surplus, $2,247,072.24
(Consisting of capital stock, $1,000,000; surplus and un
0 divided profits, $1,247,072.24; invested by stockholders as
an additional protection to depositors, in excess of all
obligations)
Die CinahaNational Bank
jamam aitfth Si.
Ri\(T Floods
Six Bi«r Mines
Six Thoii-itiul Men Out of
\\ «*rk a* Hc'iilt of Overflow
of Lackawanna.
Scranton, Pa., April S.—With dam -
age estimated at more than a million
dollar* already done, official* of the
Glen Alden Coal company spared no
effort or expense today In attempting
to change the course of the Lacka
v, anna river, which late yesterday
broke into the podge mine and flood
ed five other big collieries, throwing
6,OOfl men out of work.
Two men are missing In the mine
flood, considered hy mining men one
r>f the most serious In the history of
the anthracite coal region.
The missing men are Simon Jones,
and Arthur Morgan, SO. They
ire believed to have been drowned
md swept away by the great wall of I
water which surged into the mines.
Today son men, aided by steam
shovels, automobile trucks and mules,
continued their desperate efforts to
swing the swollen Lackawanna back
:o Its natural course.
Water la rushing into the mines ,
through the great opening In the
Podge mine at an estimated rate of ^
’00,000 gallons per minute.
The latest plan being entertained (
;y officials of the Glen Alden com- (
lianles is to run a freight train into (
;iie river to check the flood.
U. P. Land Probe
Sought in House
Public Lands Committee Ap
proves Recommendation of
Cabinet Members.
Washington. April S—Acting upon
the recommendation (|f Secretary of
the Interor Work and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace, tile house pub
lic lands committee today approved a
resolution providing for an investiga
tion of the sale nf government lands
in the west to the Union Pacific rail
road.
Taul Rlgdon, secretary to Carl R
Gray, president of the 1 ninn Pacific
railroad, expressed surprise when
asked about tho pending investiga
tion.
"Mr. Gray is out of the city," he
said. "But 1 am sure that this is
as much news to him as to me. I
know of no land* that the t nion
Pacific, could have purchased from
the goernment. I have been under
the Impression that it was another
railroad that was Implicated in this
talk.”
Children to Demonstrate
Piano 1 caching Mcbod
Kearney. Neb.. April 'Ten chil
dren. representing the State Teachers
collet-, training school and affilia'ed
rural schools, left Sunday for Cin
cinnati, where they will appear before
the music supervisors at their na
tional conference. They will demon
strate the Klnsceila method of teach
ing piano to children in groups. Mrs.
U'na Snidow Sawyer, of the depart
ment of music at the local college, Is
a personal friend of Miss flertrude
Klnsceila. originator of the Klnsceila
method, and has promoted the work
with zeal. Kearney is the only city
in Nebraska, except Idncoln. which
has been asked to send a representa
tion, and Nebraska is the farthest
west of the 11 states which sre send
ing children to the convention.
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Nebraska News
Nubbins
Bcatii<«.—I- A Blau.er was brought
h«.foro County Judge Messmore on
tbo rharge of passing a no fund rhsrk
on a liberty merchant. H* la case
was set for hearing April II and he
was released on bond.
Beatrice.—Charles Funk, on« of tha
night officer* on th* police force here
the past year, has tendered his resig
nation to take effect April 18. He
will proably be succeeded by E. M.
Dlllow. former ehlef of police, who
has been acting aa merchant police
man for some time.
Kearney.—Kearney's new symphony
orchestra, organized and conducted by
B. H. Patterson, snd sponsored by the
Kearney Women’s club, made It In
itial appearance In concert Sunday
afternoon. Concert* are scheduled
monthly during the summer, or more
frequently If the attendance warrants
an increase.
Callaway.—IT. N. Carter, 65. died at
hla home In Hoton valley efter a few
days’ Illness, die moved here last fall
from Oklahoma. He was 65 years of
age.
Da Witt—Mrs. I* J. Cross. Tl.
pioneer resident of tills place, widow
of the first doctor of this town,1 died
at her home, here. One daughter,
Fanny, at home, and one son, Guy,
a physician here, are the only sur
vivors.
Fall* City—Kxca ration work on
the new $155,000 hotel was started b>
Ttohrer Bros., local contractors. Mon
day. The new hotel site Is opposite
the new $230,000 court house now
being built.
Central City.—Pa rent Teacher as
eo» iation passed a resolution In favor
of a supervised play ground for the
summer months.
York—National fJ. A. R. day and
the 62d anniversary of the battle of
Shiloh were appropriately celebrated
at the Methodist church by all the
patriotic organization* «* f the cit'
Rev. Dr. Ii. K. In-Wolf made the
address. \ description of the battle
was giviMi by John Rett, one of the
four old soldiers now living In York,
who participated.
York The farm home of Mr. Jess
Nhamhnugh of York county has been
destroyed bv fire.
Heaver City . A bill ha* been Intro
dufed In congress by Representative
A. C. Hhallenlwrger for the purchase
of a sits and the erection at a cost
of not over $75,000, «»r a public build
lug In Reaver City The town stand*
ready to grant to the government
title to the town square as a site.
Medical student* in New Kn gland
used to taks laughing gas for amuse
ment before they learned Its actual
valu* ^ i
NORTHERN PACIFIC
EARNINGS LOWER
New York, April The Northern
I iii-lfk Railway eompan\ earned net
Income of 112,9*1,425 In 1923, Howard
IIIMott, chairman of the hoard, re
lairted to stockholder* toilay at the
ir.nunl meeting. Farming* were equal
to a bout $5.22 n *hure on the 324*,
[*06,000 capital stock, compared with
16.07 in 1922.
Current asset* on December 31 were
I’d.2*7,2*9, an cacao* over liabilities
[.f I19.261.0C1.
Net railway operating Income for
January and February, 1924, showed
, surplus of 31,976,190, an Increase
iver 1923 of 39*6,914 and over 1922
if $2,797,465.
Peace Squabble
Splits Society
Jniversity of W isconsin Club
Divided on Question of
Pacifism.
Madison, WIs.. April * —The Social
Science club of the University of
Visconsin, made up of radically in
•lined students, has split Into Pwo
groups over the question of pacifism.
The more conservative element in
he club remains In the old organlza
ion. Those who believe in pacifist
loctrlnes opposing all wars have split
rom the original group.
The split came as a result of a
neeting in music hall Sunday. An
ittempt was made to pass a pacifist
■esolution. It was defeated.
The pacifists then announced that
hey resigned from the club to affile
ite among themselves. The nucleus
at the new club Includes Miss Mer
cedes Zander, Two Rivers, Wis., presi- I
dent; G. Colville Owen, Racine, W!s„
vire president: David Sinclair, Pasa
dena, Cal., son of Upton Sinclair;
Irwin Griggs, Kansas City, and Lee
P. Dusansky, Minneapolis.
The remaining members in the cluh
declare that they have organized to
see both sides of every question and
that they do not feel justified in going
on record as pacifists.
The resolution which failed to pass
and caused a break in the member
ship read:
"We, the members of the Wisconsin
Social Science rluh, realizing uiat the
last war has definitely shown that no
social or economic problems nn he
solved by resort to physical violence,
pledge ourselves not to bear arms in
any war and to oppose the prepara
tion and prosecution of any war."
Record Sugar
drop Forecast
<Hivenimt*nt figure* Show
Pro*prrtivr Prodiiclinn
of 21.600.000 Ton*.
Washington. April * A record
world sugar crop is forecast In re
port* received by the Department of
Agriculture, Indicating * production
of 21,600,000 short ions this year, **
rompared with 20.400,000 short ton*
last year and tne previous record
crop of 21.0nti.Wn short ton* In 1913
1914.
Tlii* year s forecast indir.-itr* a 'Snt
•
prodirction of 71 per cent and a sugar
beet production of 29 per rent, where
as in 1I1S-14 nearly t'.0 per cent or
the totar supply was beet sugar, of
which more than 90 per cent w*« cf
European orftrin.
Cane sugar production Increased
rapidly during and after the war to
compensate for the decreased beet
sugar production in Central Europe.
European countries, the department
savs, are expected to attempt to re
gain their pre-war position in sugar
production, but there is no indication
of any intention of cane sugar pro
ducers to give up the dominant posi
tion in the world sugar market Which
they have attained in tire last 30
years. Consequently, agricultural of
ficials say. sharp competition format-,
kets is to he expected within the next
few years between producers of cane
and beet sugar.
Heet sugar production this year Is
expected to be about 6,200,000 tonr>;
the Cuban crop of cane sugar is fore
cast at 4,471,000 tons. The Louisiana
crop is short, but is more than offset
by the larger beet sugar production
of contlnenial Cnited States.
Pair Takt*n on Charge of
Srllinc Hootch at MrCool
York, N'eti . April * —Walter
Fifewer rf Thayer and a man work
ling on a farm near Thayer were sr
rested at McCool Saturday night by
the town marshal, while attempting
to sell home made hootch, which they
had In fruit jars in a car belonging
to a Thayer gnrar<*. They were
brought to York and lodged in the
city jail, where they remained 'til
Monday when they were returned to
McCool for preliminary hearing.
In the last 1(1 years. 5.000 patents
have been granted American women,
more than the total for 105 years
previous.
Burgess Bedtime
Stories
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II) THOICNTON W HI KliKSS.
Who ( !pp» Seei.p with wati hfal e sp
W i . fpt full many m purerlp
— Sam my Jar.
Sanuii) .lay Sees a Funny Sight.
No one take* more interest in the j
affair* of his neighbors Ilian does I
Sammy Jay. What there is going on 1
In the Green Forest that Sammy Jay !
doesn t iyiow about is hardly worth [
knowing about. Sammy gets a lot of (
fun out of life in watching his neigh- !
bm*. If you could get Sammy Jay to !
tell you all he knows about the other !
people of the Green Forest you would I
learn a great many interesting things. |
Hut Sammy a interest isn't confined
lo those who live in the fireen Forest,
lie is quite as much interested in hu
man lieing* il" never misses a
chance to watch Farmer Brown and
Farmer Brown’s Boy yelled just to
make him run faster
Farmer Brown's Boy. So when Sam
my paw Farmer Brown’* Boy start
out from the sugar house Sammy
quietly followed. He did it very quiet
ly. This is always hi* way. lie kept
his tongue still. He flew from tree
to tree behind Farmer Brown's Boy,
near enough to keep the latter in
sight, hut far enough to run little risk
of being seen himself.
He saw Farmer Brown's Bov when
j the latter found the footprints of
| one of the little Bears. He rhu< kled
to himself as Farmer Browns Boy
started to follow those footprints. His
eves sparkled. He knew all about
those young Bears and what they had
been doing. He knew all about the
mischief they had been in. He knew,
too. that they were not far away. "1
hope those youngsters will not dis
cover that Farmer Brown’s Boy is fol
lowing their footprints, and run away
before he ran catch up with them/'
thought Sammy. Then he hurried so
las to be nearer Farmer Brown s Boy.
lie knew the loiter was so Intent on
thone footprint* that he would f**i no
• Mention to anything el*#
Farmer Brown* Boy moved very
slow ly and rnr*full Hi |
fool down so as to make no sound.
With hi# hunds he carefully pushed
aside branchea that were in th* wav.
The wind was Mowing In his face, so
ha iiior that hi# o ent would n
carried to the young Bear* *om*.
where ahead of him. II* didn't re»!!y
hope to get very near them, but h*
did hope to get n*ar enough to at
lea»t #e* them
So slowly, carefully, silently Farmer
Brown's Bo followed those footprint*,
and just a# silently Sammv Jay fol
lowed Firmer Brown's Boy. Presently
Farmer Brown's Boy ram# to a great
tree w hich had been blown down, tear
ing It up by the roots. Those tracks
led around ba< k of those root*. Farm
er rnwn's Roy started to follnvy them
around. Just a* h* came around them
he came face to fate with a young
Rear' It happened that the young
Rear had started to go hack th* wsy
he had come.
It is a question which was- th*
most startled and surprised. For a
second or two Farmer Brown's Bov
and the young Bear stood perfect!*
still, staring at each other. Then th#
young Bear turned like a flash an1*
started to run. Farmer Brown g Bov
yelled just to make him run faster
At that yell there was a crash from
behind gome bugheg Jugt at one s:df
of Farmer Brown'g Boy. and a seconi
crash from the further edge of thoe<
upturned rootg. Farmer Brown'g he#
yelled again, thig time in sheer sur
prise. Three frightened young Bear*
staited to do the thing they had beef
taught to do in the time of danger—
that Is. to climb a tree. And all thr*k
chose the same tree. They got In each,
other's way and all three were bawl
ing. It was such a funny sight that
Sammy Jay laughed so that he nr*
fell from his perch.
fopvrirh*
The next story: 'Sammy Jay B**«
two Bluffers.
r
Canarir* tn Appear on
KF\F Radio Program
_——-^
Shenandoah, la April V—Th® im
ported canarie* of Mr* C. c. Anno
Of • Willmvdale fa»m. Clarnda. did
not appear on th* radio program at
KFXF anticipated. Th* little
songsters. temperamen*al s« all rr®at
singers. will not sing in a strange
room. Before th» next program the
canaries will| he kept In th# broad
casting studio several day* and then
appear on the program ^hen their
< ue come*. Clarinda talent gave the
best of the program.
Bee Want Ad* Produce Resulfa.
Orchard <f Wilhelm Co. carry all grades
of furniture for mansion or cottage home.
Furniture i s
shipped in
tough crates.
After furniture it
"conditionedit
is wrapped in
pads for delivery.
A completely equipped modern shop
manned by skilled artisans is t
part of our Upfitting Department.
What Is
UPFITTING?
WITH the exception of the furni
ture that is manufactured in
Onmha, most furniture comes
hv freight over long distances; once
upon-a-time it came up the river: much
of it is packed in crates; some of it is
“knocked down” (shipped in parts).
It is the function of the upfitting de
partment to uncrate furniture, fit it to
gether. sec that all doors, drawers and
moving parts work perfectly, and re
polish such parts as have been dulled by
the pressure of packing pads, and to re
place any parts that have been broken
in transit. The failure to do any one of
these things correctly and thoroughly
relegates the furniture in question to a
lower class.
It is well to note that only your “home
town*’ store can do this work thoroughly,
finally delivering your furniture in a
padded truck, with each piece of furni
ture wrapped in a pad. Although we
say “finally,” finally is hardly the
word; our customers must be satisfied,
and in the last analysis, only the cus
tomer who fails to tell us can be other
than satisfied.
Now a store that offers as much as this,
must also look with groat care and con
cern to its operating rests, and with this
in mind a completely equipped modern
shop was installed seven years ago, and
as a result we have been able to reduce
our upfitting costs and at the same
time most manifestly improve the serv
ice to our trade.
This advertisement is one of a series de
voted to interesting things about our business.
Orchard & Wilhelm Company
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