Nebraska Newspapers

    Former Captain
351st Infantry
Drops From Sight
Arthur A. Emley of Winner
Last Seen on Believed
Hike Toward Omaha;
$100 Reward Offered.
Fremont, Neb., Aug. IS.—Word
reached here today of the mysterious
disappearance of Arthur A. Emley,
31, son of a prominent 'Wismer, Neb.,
family, suffering from a nervous
breakdown, and temprorary mental
disorder. Relatives offer a reward of
$100 and all expenses to anyone giv
ing Information that will lead to his
discovery.
Emley Is a graduate of the Nebras
ka university and a veteran of the
world war, serving as regimental ad
jutant and captain of the 3olst Infan
try of the 88th division.
When last seen Emley 1# reported
to have been noticed walking toward
Omaha. It was believed today that
he might he might be somewhere in
Dodge county en route to the state
metropolis.
Emley is described fce being S feet
B Inches In height, welgs about 150
pounds, has light brown eyes, brown
hair. His heard when unshaved is of
e reddish hue. He was dressed In
blue overalls, white shirt and wore
fc wlde-brlmmed hat.
Officers or others who euceed In
finding a trace of young Emley are
asked to get In touch with J. H. Em
ley or B. W. Emley at Wisner.
MOUNTAIN FIRE
RAGES UNCHECKED
By International New* Serviee.
Bos Angeles, Aug. 16.—Every avail
able man who could be rounded up
by the sheriff at San Bernardino,
near here, was rushed early today
Into the San Bernardino mountains
to combat the serious conflagration
raging In the sugar pine flats region.
The Are, believed to be of Incendiary
origin. Is reported to have destroyed
the Ewell sanitorium.
BODY F0UND"MAY
BE OF SLAIN DEPUTY
By Associated Preos.
Rome, Aug. 16.—A body believed
to be that of Giacomo Matteotti, so
cialist deputy who disappeared June
12 under circumstances which caused
an investigation on the theory that he
might have been slain, has been
found in a wood two miles from Scro
fano. Although the body was in an
advanced state of decomposition, It
bore visible traces of "wounds.
• WOMAN BEATEN;
AUTO IS STOLEN
Los Angeles, Aug. 16.—Mrs. Maud
Tarker couldn't drive her new auto
mobile, so she asked Clarence Fish
er, a roomer at her home to teach
her. She was picked up unconscious
on the side ot the highway last night
and brought to town where she told
police Fisher had driven the car to a
lonely spot, struck her eeveral violent
blows and driven on after throwing
her out of the machine.
FILIPINO POLICE
PURSUE REBELS
By International New* Service.
Manila, P. I., Aug. 16.—Filipino
constabulary today started in pur
suit of a hand of 100 Moroa who
revolted and fled into the hills after
killing the counsellor to King Cotabato
of the Moros. The rebel hand Is
headed by a Moro ex-sergeant of the
constabulary and are reported to
have entrenched themselves In strong
positions In the hills.
PHILIPPINES G !
AIR MAIL SERVICE
Washington, Aug. 16.—Letters
tnailed In the Philippines will be ac
cepted for dispatch by the air mall
service from San Francisco to point*
In the east through an arrancement
made by Governor General Wood of
the Philippine* with Postmaster Gen
eral New. Additional postage will bo
collected in the Philippines to cover
tha air mail charges.
AGEDSHEIKSAND
FLAPPERS FROLIC
Los Angeles, Aug. 16.—Members of
the Centenarian club, ranging In age
from 80 to 101, held their annual
frolic here yesterday. A feature ot
the gathering was a foot race for
men of 00 and over, with a bobbed
haired "flapper” of 05 officiating as
starter, _
HOOVER SPEECH
TO BE BROADCAST
Hull Francisco, Aug. 16.—The Pa
cific Itadlo exposition will be opened
here tonight with Herbert Hoover,
secretary of commerce, as the princi
pal speaker. Mr, Hoover s address
W,H be broadcast at 8 p. m. racinc
coast time.
Fortner Residents of
Kearney to Organise,
A permanent organisation of for
mer Kearney residents now living in
Omaha will he effected at a picnic.
Sunday afternoon at Krug park, when
Norris Brown will Speak on the'intp
j,ct, "A Friend Meets Friend.'
Fornk-r Kenrney residents of
Omaha hold their first picnic last
summer and 850 amended. Thi*
year's attendance 1* expected to be
much larger,
Mr. Brown will speak at 4 In the
park’s private picnic grove. Which
has been reserved for Kearney resi
dents.
Pastor at Conference.
Bev. K. M. E. Nlermann, pastor "f
lion Lutheran church. Is attending
the annual mission conference In <'hl
3xign this week. .Twenty-eight dl*
trlcts of the United States, Canada
end South America are represented el
th» conference.
/ Can’t Understand Lillian Going
Away With a Man, Says Her Chum
I _UM .——*
£iffian McKinney |[jf^
Here are two picture* of Lillian McKinney taken from snapshot*. One
show* her as a high school girl In a picture taken last spring.
Knowledge of any suitor of Lillian
McKinney, 21, daughter of Elmer
McKinney of Herrick, S. D., the girl
who was found dead near Bedford,
la., was denied by neighbors of the
McKinney family, according to her
girl chum, who lives In Omaha and
who visited at the McKinney farm
last May.
Mrs. J. Schleuter, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. F. W. Christiansen, 1045
South Twenty-ninth street, was a
high school chum of Lillian. They
were in the seme pageants and high
school plays. The Christiansens lived
on a neighboring ranch the McKin
neys. They moved to Omaha last
September, but ha>e not correspond
ed with the McKinney family.
Mrs. Schleuter gave birth to a 10
pound baby boy Friday night at the
home.
"I can’t understand Lillian going
away with a man,” said Mrs. Chris
tiansen. "She was a quiet girl and
never had any beaux. She was a
good girl, and intelligent.”
Counsel for Leopold and Loeb
Asks Definition of “Normal Mind”
By GEORGE R. HOLMES.
International News Kerrlro Staff
Correspondent.
Criminal Court. Chicago, Aug. IS.—
A ripping, slashing attack on the tes
timony of Dr. H. Douglas Singer, one
of the state’s alienists, who pro
nounced Richard Loeh and Nathan
Leopold mentally sound Just from
observing them in court and studying
their histories, was made in Judge
R. Caverly'a court today by
the defense lawyers, who are trying
to save the young collegians from
the gallows.
Darrow Griila.
Clarence Darrow, chief of the de
fense counsel, put Dr. Singer through
the grilling. He brought out that Dr.
Singer had come to this country from
England only 20 years ago. and in
the time he has held many public
positions, including that of "state
alienist" In Illinois. Darrow laid this
was a political appointment, but Dr.
Singer denied it.
Just before Darrow started bis sar
donio questioning of ths tall alienist,
he asked leave to put into the record
of the Loeh-Leopold case a certified
copy of ail the penalties impoeed for
first degree murder in Cook county
in the last 10 years where there were
pleas of guilt entered, together with
th ages of the murderers.
This move was in preparation for
Darrow's closing address, when he
will contend that never in the history
of Cook comity have boys of 19 been
hanged for murder after pleading
guilty and throwing themselvea on
the mercy of the court.
Darrow savagely attacked Dr.
Singer for trying to examine Loeb
and Leopold In the state's attorney's
office after their lawyer had forbid
den them to talk to anybody. He
accused the alienists in company with
the state's attorney’s office of “vio
lating the constitutional right# of
these two boys."
Denies Purpose.
Dr. Slngtr denied that he had any
such purpose. Crowe objected stren
uously to Darrow's questioning along
,this line.
Darrow speedily brought out that
Dr. Singer had been unable to extract
any information from the boys at the
time he had seen them, because they
answered all questions with "I refuse
to answer on the advice of counsel."
"And from that you determined
they were mentally normal?" asked
Darrow, his voice rising.
"That and other things," returned
Dr. Slngef.
"Answer my question, yes or no,”
shouted Darrow.
"I can't answer It that way," re
plied Dr. Singer.
Crowe again broke in with an ob
jection, and be and Darrow wrangled
angrily.
Finally, after a long exchange of
sarcastic remarks. Singer, said he
could not tell Just from looking at
the boys whether or not they were
actually mentally diseased or not, but
he was confident that his observation,
coupled with his knowledge and study
of their histories, was sufficient to
enable him to state that they have
no mental disease.
Never Asked Question.
"You never asked them a question,
did you, in your whole life, and they
never spoke a word to you in their
whole lives, did they?" cried Dar
row,
"I never asked them any."
"I never expressed a positive opin
ion until long after this trial be
gan," the alienist defended himself.
"You have been in court every day
since this trial began, haven't you,
and you have heard all these alienists
testify?” rasped Darrow.
"Yes."
"And you hav* heard no evidence
here of any mental disease from any
one of these witnesses?"
"None that Indicated mental dla
Aase to me, excluding, of oourse. the
opinion evidence." J
, Darrow asked Singer to defln* a
"nnrniNf mind" and the alienist said
he cou^d not do it, «s he didn’t deal
In those general terms. f
"Yet you say these boys hnve nor
mal minds," said the attorney.
"I said their minds were within the
range of normality,” replied Singer.
Objection Overruled.
Darrow then produced a small red
book written by Dr. Hart, a Cam
bridge authority, on Hie subject of
mental diseases.
Crowe's objection was overruled
tantly by Judge Caver I.v.
"What Is Hie mind." Said Darrow,
after reading several excerpts from
the book.
"The mind." replied the alienist,
"represents what wa really call the
eye. It Is the sum of all our ex
periences, our feedings snd our mem
ories.”
“Is that the best you can do?”
“It Is.”
Darrow’s next question was whether
the mind was a product of the brain,
and Singer aaid not entirely—that the
mind was a product of all the forces
of the body operating together.
The alienist and the attorney en
gaged in a long argument over the
transmission of Impulses to the brain.
Singer said there were a lot of nerves
in the body that only Indirectly
reached the brain.
“Kmotlons act intuitively, don’t
they, doctor?”
•Primitive emotions act without
consciousness.”
“Is there s difference between emo
tional reaction and intellectual re
action?" -
"When Intellect develops it becomes
an Integral part of emotion, and the
two cannot be separated.”
For the rest of the hectic cross
examination conducted by Clarence
Darrow, chief of the defense counsel,
it consisted mostly of wrangling and
argument over definitions snd inter
pretations of medical terms. In which
Darrow shouted at the doctor and
the doctor shouted right back at Dar
row.
The short session also produced a
new word for the I-eopold-Ixieb dic
tionary of psychatrlst terms—"irhizo
phrensic personality"—or a condition
of the mind that sometimes leads to
insanity, particularly during adol
escence.
Darrow produced a text book of
mental diseases, written by Dr. Sing
er, the witness, in conjunction with
Dr. William O. Krohn, another state
alienist, and examined him extensive
ly pn this, striving to show that the
state alienist was testifying in con
travention to his own writings. Dr.
Klnper, however, warmly disputed
this, and they wrangled at length.
Darrow had not completed his
cross-examination of the state’a third
alienist when court adjourned at
noon until next Monday.
LA FOLLETTE MEN
TO BOOST NORRIS
O’Neill, Neb., Aug. 16— M. F. Har
rington, O'Neill attorney, who tins
been agreed upon aa permanent
chairman of the convention of aup
porter* of Senator Robert. M. 1a
Folletle called for Grand Island
next. Tuesday to nominate lAFollette
as an Independent presidential candi
date In Nebraska, announced today
that he will favor the nomination alao
of Senator George Norris, republican,
who Is seeking re-election.
At the same time he said he would
oppose the nomination of a ticket of
candidates for state jjfflce.
RAIL HEADS SEEK
OTHER HOLDINGS
Washington, Aug. 16.—The Gulf,
Colorado A Santa Fe railway today
applied to the Interstate commerce
commission for authority to acquire
by lease control of that part of the
Pecos A Northern Texas railway be
tween Coleman and Sweetwater. Tex.
The road also asked authority to
lease the Concho, Kan Saba A l.lano
Valley Railroad of Texas.
The Pnnhandle A Santa Fe railway
applted for authority to acquire con
trol of the Pecos A Northern Texas
Railway company.
DAVIS ENVOY ON
WAY TO LINCOLN
Clarksburg. W. Vs., Aug 16,—E.
G. Smith, s prominent figure In the
Dsvls for president movement, wss to
day en route to Uneoln, Neb., to at
tend the notification ceremony Mon
day for Gov. Charles W. Frysn,
democratic nominee for vice pres!
dent, aa the peraonal representative
of John VV. Davis, the democratic
standard bearer.
No Veterans Bureau
(Change for 3 Months
By Cnlvrresl Service.
Washington, Aug. IS—Regional
offices of the veterans' bureau, for
claims and ratings, under the new
scheme of organization will lie locat
ed at all points where large sub dls
trlct offices now are operating
It Is believed that all existing dls
trlct and sub district offices w ill r»
main in commission foi at least three
months.
U. S. Gold Policy
Europeaiffactor
Reparation Settlement and
French Budget Other Un
derlying Factors.
_____
By International »na Service.
(Cnpyriaht, 1»34. >
Tsindan, Aug. 111.—Tt some times
happens that features of Importance
In any particular situation are also
the points tipon which immediate In
terest is most intent. But, perhaps,
it would he true to'say that more
often those questions upon which at
tention Is focussed are of an Inci
dental or transitory character, and
that the forces which matter in the
long run are working beneath the
surface of public notice.
At the present time, the three most
Important underlying factors deter
■tnining Kuropean prospects probably
are:
(a) The reparation settlement end
what logically follows from it.
(h) The French budget.
(c) The gold policy of the Federal
Reserve board of the United States.
Settlement Important.
The Importance of the first step In
the German settlement upon the lines
at present being agreed Is that It
makes also possible s. long sequence
of quite different steps of great mo
ment. It will have Its own immed
iate value In relieving the extraord
inary money stringency In Germany.
A settlement of the peace treaty ob
ligations over a reasonable period of
years, unlocks the door to the pros
pect of monetary stability, • This
leads at once to the possibility of get
ting rid of Inflation arising because
of governmental difficulties. This
sgaln leads to a sufficient prospect
of stability of credit and currency to
enable an expansion of credit facili
ties, ree from real danger, to accom
pany Industrial development.
. The next series of consequences Is
that there will be Introduced Into the
public and commercial economy of
other nations, particularly France,
known and settled elements In re
lation to Germany In plare of vain
hopes, political promises and make
believe. In other words, the unknown
or uncertain factors In budgetary re
ceipts are reduced In number.
To establish government finance
still further on facts and not fancies
some more definite understanding
about Interallied debts Is required.
When the prograrA of reparations Is
fixed the program of International ob
ligation will also be susceptible of
firm negotiation, and one more Item
will be transferred from the realm
of contingency to the realm of fact.
The French Budget.
In the framing of the French bud
get. unconscious self-deception will no
longer be possible. The Idea of con
tingent receipts from Germany must
be replaced by a definite program
which no prudent finance minister
could transcend. The credit of Franco
in relation to overhanging obligations
can be placed on a definite basis. The
recently evinced disposition of the
French to tax themselves adequately
will be put to the true test. Certain
It Is that at last the French provincial
peasant la awake to the fart that the
franc Is no longer a franc, In the
sense to which he has been pathet
ically clinging, and that a very con-j
siderahle part of his past savings
has actually gone and has h»en de
voted that unemployment which be
eels other countries. In maintaining
a larger standing army than others
can afford, and In restoring devastat-1
ed areaa at costa far beyond the com
mercial neceasltiea of the case. It
may be that when the true level of
the frono la fully laid hare by remov
ing all the adventitious wrappera of!
current rlrcumatancea, aome stabiliza
tion process may be possible. So far
as Italy la concerned, satisfaction at
her new success with her national
budget la qualified by some doubt ss
to her political stability. In Austria, I
despite unfortunate escapades with the
franc, the rehabilitation of national
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Pioneer, 90, Recalls Country Road
at Twenty-Fourth and Farnam
Henry Newell, 3214 North Twenty
fifth street, was remembered Friday,
his ninetieth birthday anniversary, by
members of his family, who wished
him "many happy returns."
^Jr. Newell lives at the home of a
son, W. H. Newell, ajid has resided
In Omaha 53 years. He has been a
reader of The Omaha Bee for 50
years and hopes to read his favorite
newspaper for another half century.
This venerable citizen was em
ployed as repair man by The Omaha
Bee more than 20 years ago. He has
been a 33d degree Mason for 53 years
and from 1899 to 1910 h,» was custo
dian of the Masonic temple.
In the merry birthday party of 44
gnests were K. H. Newell, grandson,
and Chyrl Newell, great-grandson, of
Emerson, Neb.
"Grandpa." Newell recounted days
In Omaha more than 50 years ago,
when Twenty-fourth and Farnam
streets was a country road and when
Indians came Into town to beg sugar
and commercial finance has been suc
cessful beyond expectations. Czecho
slovakia will slowly recover from her
excess of xeal In pursuit of financial
virtue. Poland has gone so far as to
seek good financial advice.
The Gold Basis.
Allied to these problems Is the
question as to the avoidance of future
Instability by the adoption of gold as
a standard of value. Here much de
pends upon American policy and how
long the l'nited States will continue
to absorb a large proportion of \the
world’s gold supply and to bury It
out of harm's way. When this policy
Is found to be too costly, and at the
aame time In the Interest of their
own price level It Is considered neces
sary to export the gold, presumably
Industrial interests will be too strong
to allow that export to be merely an
exchange tor manufactured commod
ities. The gold may come to Europe
In the form of loan capital on such
terms that Its use as a basis of cur
rency throughout Europe may grad
ually l>e attained without prohibitive
cost. If. of course, gold Is not Used
in thst one of the uses most Influen
tial formerly In maintaining Its value,
then the prospecta of flunctuation In
world "gold prices’’ must be disturb
ing.
Those few but Influential thinkers
who are prepared to "regulate" paper
currency to secure a stable price lev
el. without holding It to any physical
standard auch as gold will see no ne
cessity for such a course. They might
Indeed, trust the political institutions
of the l'nited States, Great Britain
and France, or even Germany, for the
fair working of a “tabular standard”
of value, but would they not very well
hesitate to put such a power Into
the hands of less stable political or
ganization* of Eastern Europe?
.kbotrdeldlnmrfor l.cahaK
for their pappoose*. He remember*
the whistle of the steamlioat ha It
tied up at Hone Tree landing and re
calls the advent of the telephone and
the electric light in Omaha.
In the picture. Mr. Newell is shown
in a chair, behind him are W. H. New
ell. hi* son. K. H. Newell, grandson,
and the child I* t'hyrt Newell, great
grandson.
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CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMS HERE SOON
Competitive examination* have been
artnouneed as follow* by ihe United
States civil service:
Clerks and carriers, postoffice serv
ice. September «; forest and field
clerks, forest and reclamation serv
ice*, September 13; Junior telephone
operator. Seventh corps area head
quarters. September 13.
RED CROSS FIRST
AID CAR HERE
The special lied Cross first aid car,
which nas been touring the country
from Washington, I). C„ is In Omaha.
Or*. Robert L. Drowning and W.
h '==
r:. Redden. who accompany It, will
give first aid demon*!ration* at Io*hI ^
fire station* Saturday afternoon.
CHURCH ATHLETIC
CLUB ORGANIZED
Eighteen young men of the Mosher
Memorial chapel have organized a
young men'* athletic club whose pur
pose will be to promote clean athletics
,n the community.
The officers are Ed Bohier, presi
dent; Albert Glup, vice president; Wil
liam Iteynek, secretary; George Bo
bier, treasurer, and Henry Breesman,
sergeant-alarms.
Under the suiiervlslon of J. O.
Adams, a veteran of the 32d division,
a boxing and wrestling exhihlton will
Ik* put on df) the near future.
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