• 1 The Omaha’ Tuning’ Dee . A liJu v/ if i xv l i rv a3a i i ^ JL^u Ju ta.?r«,,iirai ,ta> — ♦ IttlT Al"** c plW does no K««d—<* "in; CITY EDITION .. . ' ~ -HOIS IH 31tf) ' ' Thlrof;Stowe* -/ VOL. 54. NO. 28. OMAHA, THUho^i, JULY 17, 1924. * - TWO CENTS'* MiSSSSJr**- y -!!■———> j I Fear Bryan Submerging His Party rt Feeling Grows That Governor Seeks Presidency "Through Back Door" hv Support ing La Follette. Great Days for McMullen ' ' A La Follette Party to Present Full Ticket Directors of the La Fol lette movement in Nebras ka will meet at Lincoln, July 25, to confer with a La Follette representative from Chicago for the pur pose of fixing a date for a La Follette state conven tion, it was announced yes terday by M. F. Harring ton of O’Neill. Harrington heads the Nebraska La Fol lette organization. Grand Island is proposed as the convention’s meet ing place. It is the intention of the party to place a full state ticket in nomination and will go on the ballot as the La Follette party to avoid confusion with the pro gressive party, which al ready has an organization in the state. Word was also received from Chicago that La Fol lette managers are opposed to naming Bryan for vice j president. V_J Hiirh Dowered political ex plosions from democratic leaders of the anti-Bryan forces were heard in Omaha Wednesday when the full meaning of Governor Charles W. Bryan’s announced pro gram began to soak in. The governor made it plain that he wants a hyphenated candidate. A “democrat” cannot win is Bryan's idea. Nebraska, a republican state, will not give a majority against Adam McMullen un less there is a hyphen candi dacy against him. Therefore the governor insists that the candidate be a “demo-radical progressive.” More Than State Issue. The explosions are coming chiefly from the following: Arthur Mullen, democratic na committeeman. Dan Butler, democratic member "S. ,,f the city commission. Neither is the tour that is filling the sounding box of the democratic party in Nebraska confined to state is sues. While no open ■barges lisve as yet been made there Is an uneasy feeling that Bryan is scheming to "Kip" the national ticket by flirting with La Follette In an effort to get himself named as the La Follette candidate for vice president. Bryan's "Back Boor" Hopes. Bryan’s hopes on this score are said to be founded on the La Follette plan to throw tlie election for presi dent this fall into the house of rep resentatives. By blocking the nam ing of a presidential candidate, the senate, whicp selects tlie* vice presi (Torn to Pace Two. Column Fl\r.) f We Have With Us Today J. Carver, Iloinersvllle, S. Itetireil Lumberman. Many a giant forest lias trembled and fallen before the forces working under supervision of Mr. Carver. B it now he haiy retired, and, strangely enough, he Is bound for a country where trees are scarce und usually stunted In gi'owth. He Is enroute to the southwest— northern New Mexico anil suulhcrn Colorado where lie plans to study cliff dwellings amt* Indian pottery and what not. He hopes to obtain some lore specimens of pottery bv getting off the unbeaten path, and A plans to use them for decorative pur poses In this country home. Navajo blankets also Interest him. ]I« ram* west through Omaha l>e tause ha had heard what a won derful city Omaha ia and he declares he Is not In the least disappointed. > f Duchess Who Lost Her Fortune Now in Movies r—?---—"’i Once of the wealthy Italian nobili ty, Duchess Stella <11 LanUi. whose fortune was swept away by the war, has for a year been playing extra parts in Hollywood and hopes some day to have her name In electric lights just as plain Stella
  • * Farm Grain Firm to Save $2,500,000 Big Economy Possible Under Merger of Five Marketing Concerns, Barkers Declare. Farmer Control Assured Chicago, July 16.—The exact mea hod by which American farmers event ually are expected to gain control of the $26,000,000 stock of the Grain Marketing company, a merger of five, of the country's largest grain market ing concerns formed with a view to giving the producers ownership and control of selling and distribution, “cannot he stated at this time,” Mil lard R. Myers, representing several Illinois co-operatives, said tonight in commenting on the project. “it is enought,” he said, “to know’ that the property is to he taken over on a square deal basis and that the stock offered to the public shall be worth the money ut which it is pro posed to be sold.” The Illinois co-operative law, under whose provisions the company was organized, restricts issuance of com mon stock to individuals or associ ation engagaed in producing the com modity to be handled. Another pro vision, however, permits the issuance of preferred stock which is not so restricted, “with or without the right to vote." $2,50(1,000 Saving Possible. The articles of incorporation pro vide for $25,000,000 of preferred stock and $1,000,000 of common stock. Financial men involved in the deal maintain that a saving of $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 annually is possible by uniting the grain concerns. Accord ing to If. S. Ballard; counsel for the Ohio Farm Bureau federation, who has been acting as counsel for the grain merger committee of the Ameri can Farm Bureau federation, whirl) has endorsed the plan with reserva tions, the co-operative laws contain strict clauses to insure producer control of the corporation. Grain pro pucers say that the laws probably will he construed liberally during the period of transition. According to Mr. Ballard, the pro visions of the national Clapper-Vol stead act that each member ahal! but one vote, regardless of the amount of stock he owns, must govern the new corporation because it will engage in lnterstateoommerce. Not Stock Sell Scheme. In explaining plans for the tran sit ion period, Mr, Meyers said the initial working capital must come from the five grain companies whose companies are to b» merged, these companies hold preferred stork. “A certain type of preferred stock can be exchanged for property,” Mr. Meyers said, “and producers will lx* given time to absorb it. This will give the five companies control until producers have bought half the stock. There is a trusteeship of 75 to 100 fartners, and the farmers will have t two-thirds majority on the hoard of directors. “We at the producers' en^i prob ably will take two months to make our appraisal of the properties. We will make no immediate effort t* In dure fanners to buy stock. This 1* not a stock selling promotion pro position, hut the bringing together of grain marketing agencies which have abundance of capital and facili ties for handling all the fra In that Is offered, and of working with the farmers’ elevators and other grain marketing agencies in solving the problem of orderly marketing. In this way they can bring to every grower the world's best market price for hi’4 grain.” “The corporation contemplated un der (lie art which the new concern takes advantage of.’’ Mr. Ballard said, “does not control price, but effect* savings for the producer." York Man Givrn 60-Day Jail IVrm for Srllinj? Liquor York, July 16.— Merlon Perry plead ed guilty In police court to selling Intoxicating liquor and was given a jail sentence of 60 days. % Duke's Romance Moy End in Separation Instead of Divorce __/ Ilf tnlverwel Servle*. Paris, July 1U. Separation Inatead of divorce may he the outcome of the Duke of Westminster's latest) ro mance, according to tonight's tld Inga from the divorce front. It Is understood that the duchess has been asking for nil Income of *u,000 pounds ($100,000), fiee from income tax, while the duke has been offering her 14,000 pound*, taxed, which would make her only about D.ooo pounds clear. The divorce papers today were or dered held up, which seems to hull cate that the duke has capitulated In the face of the mass of evidence which the duchess is declared to ha\« accumulated t Vampire Murderer Who Slew 30 Youths Proud of Notoriety Gained by Crimes Hanover Butcher Feels He Has Accomplished Unique Feat—Speculates on What Scientists Will Say When Shull Is Analyzed R.v S. n. VVEYER. International News SerTlee Staff Correspondent. Hanover, Germany, July 3*.—“No emperor, no king ever was paid so much attention—isn't that so? Is It true that my name has gone all over the world and that people everywhere are talking about me?" Those were the words of Fritz IlattrmaJW, "vampire murderer,” charged with putting to death at least JO young men, ranging in age from 12 to 25, in the most fiendish manner known In crime annals in the world, then cutting up their bodies and selling the flesh. Twenty-one murders already have been proven against him, the authorities say, and half of these he had confessed. Haarmann met International News Service correspondent with an un steady, albeit pleasing gaze. He fixed two large blue eyes on the correspon dent arm In a soft, well modulated i voice, lmpldred the latter to answer his queries. Flanked Ity Guards. Haarmann was flanked by two giant guards. He was standing In the office of the chief of police and fac ing the correspondent, giving the first and only Interview accorded any re porter since the discovery of the hor rible crimes. The only thing that seemed to mat ter to Haarmann at the moment, was -W-I his Importance In the world's lime light. His eyes, which for one minute appeared frank and harmless Ilk# a Child's, the next were like those of a man at least partly demented, capa ble of indescribable cruelty. He evidently was experiencing con flicting emotions. But above it all was vanity—pride—notoriety. To him It seemed like fame. He feels he has do'-e something no human being In the world's history ever did before him or ever will do again. He already is speculating on what the sclen* ats will say when they analyze his skull after he is ex ecuted. He has discounted that sort of death—Indeed, he courts it. Scorns I.ife. He does not want to live. If he had a chance to kill himself, he would do so. but that has been rendered im possible because of the armSH guards who are watching him in his cell day and night. He Is heavily chained and In order to prevent him laying hands on himself, to inflict bodily harm, an Iron bar has been placed rigidly be neath his chin. Haarmnnn's eyes gleamed when the correspondent assured him his crime was unique. He eagerly in quired: "There has never been anything like it in America, was there? You had the Franks murder, yes. I read (Turn to I'aRf Two. Column Thw.) Dawes Report Confab Opens l . S. Has Scat at Board as as Allied Diplomat! Meet in London. Hr International New# Service. Iemdon. July 16.—The London si lied conference, the fifteenth since the treaty of Versailles was drawn, opened at 11:30 this morning in Down ing street and after a two-hour ses sion, adjo'urned to allow three com mittees to draw up reports on vari ous phases of the Dawes report for which the present conference will at tempt to devise a practical plan of operation. Representatives of the 10 nations participating made short addresses of optimistic tone. Premier Ramsay Mc Donald of England was elected chair man of the meeting and opened with a plea that the conference abandon political considerstIon# for business like methods. Ignore Debt Question. At the outset, Premier MacDonald made It dear the conference would not take up the question of Inter allied debts, hut would confine itself to the Dawes report. The English premier also referred to the presence of Ambassador Frank Kellogg. American representative to the conference, declaring the partlrl-1 pation of America "shows the cordial co-operation and good will of the American people." American made It "blear, In respond ing to MacDonald, that the t'nlted Stales was not In the conference In the same capacity ss the other na Rons, thus lending color to teports that the American attitude would be one of a listener only, except when Issues were raised that directly nf fected America, such ns yie guar antees for the proponed $-00,000,000 loan to (lermany, of which America Is expected to furnish half, and the question of American representation on the representation on the repara tions commission. 'spirit of Ifcipetiilness. "Although we sre not here tn the earns capacity as other delegates." Kellogg snld, “we come In a spirit of hopefulness. It is the opinion of the American people that the Dawes re port Is the first step towards com- l p'et» pacification of Europe." Hr tianrlilfd Tre##. London. July 16.—Owen P. Toting, member of the Pawc* committee of experts, today declared thst neither the position of agent general of rep orations nor any other post under tha Dawes plan has been offered him. Therefore, he said, the question of his acceptance does not arise. Mr. Voung said he had received no intimation of any sort from the com mission* r or any other source tha* he would he n*-.ke,| tel assist ill the administration of the Dawes scheme. It Is generally as.piped In Jiiltlsh and American circles that If the Ism don conference, which begins today. Is successful and the Dawes plan Is put Into effect, Mr. Young will lc ashed to take one of the most tmpor tant posts, probably that of chair man of the transfer committee othei c »e known a# at oil general of rep a ration!. It has been |* ported tbit Mi V<>ung had already accepted an offer of a position. The purpose of the conference, It Is dec lared, Is to reach an agreement whlrh will empower tha reparation commission to appoint an agent gen eral and otherwise Tarry out tha Dawes piss J Sliayler Is Back: Received Honors Aided Archbishop of Canter bury at Senire; in Nine Countries. Bishop K. V. Shayler, of the Ne braska Episcopal diocese, returned to Omaha Wednesday morning in ex cellent health from a three month*' trip abroad, during which he traveled extensively In nine countries and par ticipated In many Interesting and historic event*. Going first to England. Bishop Shasler attended the opening of the British empire * great world's fair at Wembley. A little later he assist*! j the Archbishop of Canterbury in J*t. George's chapel, when St. George. England's patron saint, was honor'd with an annual service. At this service were the king and queen of England, Premier MacDon ald and the American ambassador and his wife. The premier's daugh ter, Isabelle, also was at these his toric services. "1 had met the king and queen tie fore." explained Bishop Sliayler. "But I consider the Invitation to take part in these ceremonies a great honor and the experience one of the outstanding affairs of my trip." Bishop Sliayler went w ith SJO j churchmen and laymen to Palestine from England on a pilgrimage or crusade of peace. He then visited In Greece, Italy, Egypt, Albania, on the Island of t'orfu, Syria and France. lie found France struggling for a return lo normalcy, with wom en and children working In the fields atid Industrie*. PUBLISHER FACES KIDNAPING CHARGE NVw York. Jufv 16.—Cortland H Young, publisher of Young** maga zine and other periodical*, was ar rested m hi* wife’s West Forty ninth strict apartment today, charged with attempting to kidnap their 3-yeat old daughter, Ho.sahelle. According to Mrs. Young, the pub Usher broke into the apartment, snatched the rhild from Its l ed and. when the mother rcNisted, seized her by the throat. They were stuggling when a policeman appeared. The‘couple was separated in May. 1*123. Mrs. Voting charged her hu* band with cruelty. Before her mar riage, Mrs. Voting was Dorothy Campbell, a vaudeville dancer and follies girl. c~ ;—-n Spring If nter l ithe ProrUIrs Delights of "Ol' Sn immiii •{ IIole" k/ Bloomfield, Neb. July 16.—No need for residents of this section to long calnly for the joy* of "the or swim nlr.g hole,” or to swelter In the heat •f July * lay* and sigh for the blessed realities «*f « cooling plunge into the 'noting depth*. <1 J. KotnnUz. on the Star route, northwest of Bloomfield, baa created vn artificial lake SO reals long by S0»* feet wide, with depth ranging from •even to eight feet, and fed by pure uptu kling spring water. Those who love to Hp**11 about In the water are taking advantage of his tlmughtfyl liens and the sale of Imthing suits, manly and otherwise, has enjoyed a real boom. Mi. Kemnlts, seeing the popularity the place has attained may make a real summer resort, something that this section needs irutly, < Prosperity Returns in Wide Area Greatly Improved Finaneial Conditions Announced by Federal Reserve Board Bankers. Interest Rate Lowered Further evidence of the revival of conditions making for prosperity In the farming sections of the country came in dispatches to Omaha today. These messages were from widely scattered points and carried news of Improved financial conditions of the farmers themselves, and of resulting improvement In hank loan conditions. The most striking of these dis patches are as follows: Kansas City, Mo.. July 16.— Frozen credits, which caused hundreds of hank failures In Missouri and Kansas in the last three years, are thawing out, W. J. Bailey, governor of the fed eral reserve hank for the Kansas City district, said todny. Good Crops in Nebraska. St. Paul, Minn., July 16—The northwest, first to suffer In the chaos that overwhelmed agricul ture a year ago, is riding back to prosperity on the wave of higher grain prices. K. G. Quam me, president of the Federal Land hank of St. Paul declared today. The northwest Is producing the greatest crop in 10 years, he said. Dallas, Tex., July 15—The ap plication of the Dallas Federal Reserve bank to lower Its redis count rate from 4 1 2 to 4 per cent on all classes of paper was approved by the federal reserve hoard at Washington today, effec tive immediately. Washington, D. C.. July 16 -4 The federal farm loan hoard tot day announced a reduction from j 5 1-2 to 5 per cent In the rate of Interest charged on direct loans to all co-operative marketing as sociations. Kansas ( ity Optimistic. Further advices from Kansas City ; quoted Governor Bailey of the federal j sererve hank as follows: "The farmer is getting his first prosperous season In four years, and hankers aie able to liquidate. A year igo the federal r cserve Itank was lending $35,000.000. Today It l* less than half that amount. “The wheat yield Is splendid, and corn Is in good condition. "I am so prouii of Kansas this year that I could strut. I never «aw conditions so promii^ingr. "IIik1» price of corn isn't so good for men who desire to feed theif grain, but pastures are In fine shape and (trass-fed rattle will bring a (rood price. “The supply of cattle Isn't keeping up with the (growth of the pnpula i tion. and both hogs and cattle should j be profitable ' CHAIN OF SHIPS TO GUIDE FLIERS Washington. July 16.—Assignment of navy vessels into a chain that will kuide the army's wot hi fliers hack to the Tnited States from Europe were made today. Fight cruisers and destroyers will he distributed plentifully to guaran tee ever safeguard to the aviators in the dangerous passage across the Atlantic nml through the far north regions about Greenland and Iceland The cruiser Milwaukee will leave New York Friday to distribute sup plies at points along the route. LINCOLN POLICE SHOOT ROBBER Lincoln. July 1* — Howard Jacknonl wii* *hoi In th* Ii'k early today In a I, running (tun flsht with pollc*m*n1 who atirpriswd him while h* w.ts rob Hna « r*aid*nt In Smith IJncoln. Jarkann cam* h*t* front Council Bluff*. II* cut t*l*phona wire* l*adinitj| from th* house but \v*» ***n by n*lchbor*. who nottflod pollc*. Hailroati PasM-nger Traffic I* hurra sing Golumhus. Neb.. July 14 - Passed- i gpr, tourist and Pullman traffic Is i showing the heaviest aeasonal In- I crease since 1924, a.vordlng to local v railroad representatives and traveling \ representatives cf other line* The * hulk of the traffic from this section \ of the stale Is apparently ticketed l»i incjpalh to mountain and northern lake points Meantime tourist traffic, both on the Meridian and Lincoln highway, shows a dev lease, while tourist leports tndh ate ttafflc is giv ing way once more to tall method* of travel. i’oisont-il |,\ M(>M|iiito llitr. t'nlunibu*. N*b , July 1*.—W*lt*r Thorn, p-ircol pout citrtlft, I* til with blood poisoning n*u»*d by th* bit* of a mosquito. Miss St. Louis Beauty Has Captured Husband T-ast year Charlotte Nash, who as Miss St. I-ouis, captured the perfect title In Atlantic City, N. J., hae cap tured a husband—Fred G. Nixon Nirdlinser, rich Philadelphia theatri cal producer—it was learned recently. Fugitive Cashier Killed by Friend: Payroll Is Found Mine Foreman, Fearing Man About to Shoot. Opens Fire on Coal Firm Employe. Ro. k Springs. Wyo., July IS.— Clyde N Fisher, cashier of the Gunn Quealy Coal company here, who dis appeared yesterday morning at the time the semi-monthly payroll of the company vanished, was shot and fatally wounded early thip morning; hy J. Walker, mine foreman and friend of Fisher. He died a few hours later without making a statement. Walker, who was on« of several who had been searching for Fisher soon after the disappearance of the mine payroll, encountered the cashier a few miles from town about 1 this morning, ('ailed upon to throw up his hands. Fisher is said to have com plied raising one hand. The other, in which he carried an object, re ninined at his side. Walker, devlar ing he. believed Fisher had a re volver. opened flee mpd the cashier fell to tlie ground. Walker ap proached and found that the object in the man's hand wss a water bottle. Fisher was taken to a hospital where he died. Search of the vicinity whieh the shooting occurred revealed a cache of food, watir and blankets, also the en lire amount of the payroll, more lhan }*,000, with which Fisher Is al leged to have fled after obtaining it from a bank. Fisher, according to police and mine company officials, dashed from the tank with the payroll nnd es aped In an automobije shortly before noon yesterday Posses on horsehack vnd in automobiles wei-e soon in pur «ult Two airplanes from a flying ; 'irrus here were pressed into service I *nd for several hours they circled I warhead in an unsuccessful effort to cH-nte the fleeing . sshier Karly* last ! light Fisher's abandoned automobile j aas discovered several milea from own. Fisher had been in the company s employ six years, lie leaves a widow j ind two children, who. acquaintances j lere say. live in lows. Rite* for Mrs. Far re ns licit! at Her Oltl Home ctarinda. la, July Ifi.—Funeral ; wuvioes for Mrs Russell Karren* of i .inrt'ln. Neb. woi, held here \Ved leadav «t the Presbyterian church, of vhieli she was a member. Clarlnda lad been her home until the fall of ?;’S. Her death was the result of Udney trouble of long standing. She lad been in a I.tncoln hospital for j hree nionllis and was given three] 'lood transfusions in the fight against ■ he disease she Is survived by he: lusband, Orth Karrens. Omaha, and wo daughters. Mrs. A! Morit*. l.ln ■'In, and Mrs Russell Hawkins Red tak. Intone# V'krtl In Farmer#. Columbus. Neb. July u —Thiee pc i It Ions for the oreatlon of drainage listrlots and tile building of ditches a handle the flood waters of la'SI i reek, north of Columbus, have l • 4 f g |i We, . a, ,.41 U A m 4 T r W ‘ U • •.M I r Ak.g|44M»l«i U.S. Airmen Glide Down TntoLondon American Pilots Get Heart) Welcome in England After Crossing Channel From France. MacLaren Feared Lost By l'ni\erM»l Serrlre, London, July 16.—The Japanese government has sent out a destroyer squadron to search the waters in the vicinity of Yeterofu island for A. Stuart MacLaren, the Brit ish round-the-world flyer who is six hours overdue at Paramashira island, Japan, according to Tokio cables. Fears for MacLaren’s safe ty increased when after two hours of watching the aviator failed to put in an appear ance. MacLaren hopped off from Yeterofu early today and should have made a land ing at Paramashira in a few hours. By HAYDKN TALBOT. I'aivrrHl Sem Ire staff (laratHinilpBl, London. July 16.—Six sunburned smiling American airmen breeze down Into the Croydon aerodrome this afternoon fresh from a lilt' 18,000-mile hop from Santa Monica, while without question the greatest gathering of British airplane experts which ever congregated in one place, plus 2.000 mere members of the pub lic. chiefly women, extended a wel come In characteristically British fashion, by much handclapping. From 9 a. m., high officers of the royal air forces and the United States government, with a small army of re porters and photographers, waited pa tiently for the news of the departure from Paris of the '‘Boston,” "Chi cago'' and "New Orleans," as the three surviving busses of the world fliers are named. Reports had sug gested the possibility that the Amer icans would leave early in the morning. After about two hours, a British employe, with his usual calm, filled in three spaces on the official bulletin hoard, which records the arrival and departure of passenger planes, with the news that the world record mak ers left Paris at 1:11 a. m. Haying Safe. According to experts, this should have brought them to Croydon about 1:42. hut almost a whole additional hour elapsed before some sharp-eyed person in the crowd loosed a seml hvsterical cry: "1 see them!” Actually it was one of the slowest Paris-to-London flights ever made, hut in an Interview with Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, the flight commander, granted me exclusively for Universal Service, the real significance of th.s fact was made clear. "We were playing safe.” he said, a few minutes after he had climbed down from his machine and while he and the other five fliers were posing for the photographers. "It is ail right to hurry, hut even though ttme is the essence of our contract, safety first is a rretty govt motto. There is a great deal yet to do. and our de!:ght at having go: this far is tempered by the realiza tion that we are still a long way from home. Nothing to Fear. “It la not a case of fear. There is nothing to fear as from our expe riences in Alaska. It seems years since we left Santa Monica. Since that time we have done 244 hours of flying, which represents a period in the air of 10 consecutive days and nights.” To my question as to the opinions of the sextet of fliers regarding fix ing is a sport. Lieutenant Smith said “That is an awkward question to answer. At the outset this is the wit f trip yen would net have taken $10. Ortn.rtOO to have missed, while Just now you would not take Sl.Otap.OfW to do it again. It has been real hard work getting up at 4 e\erv moniag and going until 2 or later every after noon without any holidays or Sun days. In the four months since we started we ha\* had just two day* of rest." line of the earliest arrival* at the aerodrome today was Mr* Stuart M*d fortune enabled me to «-.v*r heat her first remarks to lieutaneut Smith, hrfi.ro the surging crowd. «gainst which for once the metro poll tan n- lice f.u a fvw m.vioeo; s round themselves hopebs* push. -1 vie out of ear ain't 1 want you tn know • sail the very pretty and beautifully gowned voting women to the leader of 4he vmen.au fivers, how tremcndowdy I appreciate the wonderful sports nsnship of vour navy tn sending that ieeirever In aid mv husband That a as certainly one of the finest gee