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1”““ The Omaha Nij irning Bee / n.urh fhsnsr i„ »«np«-Hture. M. M. M* X T X A. V . . ^ mJ|n „ ^,AMr ,„rri |,U ___ life,—Owen Meredith. ^ CITY EDITION VOL. 54—NO. 147. OMAHaTwEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1924.* TWO CENTS'" Wc*-",4.J Fear of Rival Drove Bruner t< > Slay Wife h* -m oaia %/ ___aid -1*31 --« - C. of C. for Tram Fare Hike Here Immediate Increase, Aboli tion *nf Occupational Tax of Company, Repair of Dam ^ aged Paving Only. 1'rged. Earnings Too Meager The Omaha Chamber of Commerce went on record Tuesday afternoon for an Immediate increase of street car fa res. ^ The executive committee approved report of a special tramway coni mi (tee of the chamber whlc h also urges the abolition of the occupation si tax raid by the Omaha & Conn <il Bluffs Street railway, and the amendment to state laws which would permit the citizens to vote a "com prehensive franchise." The demand for a higher fare is based on the state railway commis sion's $14,100,000 valuation cf the property. The committee contends that the company should pay a 7 per r®jit dividend, or have a net oper ating income of $950,000. Figures for the current year would indicate that the railway will earn $561,000 in 1024, falling short $389,000 of the desired amount. The committee “does not believe itself competent to arrive at the exact arumm* of the increase in fares which should be grunted the company in outer to yield a fair return." The tramway committee, which was v appointed October 15, consists of Guy 6P(\ Kiddoo, chairman: John Gamble, G. W. Hull, George Kelly, Fred Knapp, Paul Kuhns. .lodge McGilton, George Pray, E. T. Rector and L. C. Wholes. Repair Damaged Paving. The committee recommends that the company be required to maintain paving to the extent to which it is damaged or destroyed by the opera tion of car lines, “but that it should not bo required to pay for new pin ing or for maintenance required by 1! •» ordinary wear and tear of gen traffic. If the company desires to present a charter amendment to the people before the next general election, in order to secure the relief suggested here this should be done, but the cost of such a special elec tion should be borne by the com pany." Passengers Pay All Extras. The report goes on: "Your committee bases its recom mendation that the campcoy be re lieved of the paving burden upon the fact that at present the cost of pav ing between the company’s tails is, in the final analysis, paid by the street car riders and benefits only the own «•; s of property which abuts upon street car lines. Your committee be a lleves that the cost of paving the T streets through which street car lines run should be distributed,in the same way as the cost of paving the streets where there arc no street car lines." The proposed immediate increase in fares, the committee states, should expire December 25, 1925, and a. new idle be made effective at that time by the state railway commission based on the company’s expenses and pi aspects at that time. It is recom mended that the traffic bureau «>f the Gliamber cf Codimerce appear before the commission in any proceeding* as representatives of tha chamber and the people of Omaha. DAWES TO QUIT s, TREASURY POST Washington. Per. 2—Comptroller of the Currency Henry M. Hawes has derided to leave the government serv ice to engage In private business It •was learned officially at the White House today. IIi* resignation hap not been sub milled to President Ooolidge, but It 1* expected shortly. The comptroller, who Is a brother of Vice Presidentelect Charles 0.1 DawM, is understood to he slated for the presidency of tVie Pure Oil com \ vany. New Pastor at Beatrice. Hperinl BifipHtrli to Tl»# Otnnltu Bff. He.itrice, Xeb., Dec. 2.— Rev. <\ K. Hlmerly of Kansas City, Mo., who has just. closed n successful revival at the Church of Rod in West Beatrice, has accepted the call a* pastor and will locate here with his family. -- We Have With Us Today Henry Kahrs, Farmer, Dulge Foie, Neb. Mr. Kahrs went to western Nr braskn lii years ago and bought land cheap on a tableland north of Dodge lade, at that time considered nearly worthless. George Roberts, tuna ha i#e iruin, has much land In that vl dolly now. They raise excellent w heat. Mr. Kulir* farms about I .non acres with his brother. John. Tm \ plo.\ With a giant trai lor which turns H|i • "furrow" 2* feet wide with 'lisk . plows. w We and his wife drove In Omaha In a new sedan, atnppini fn routs to visit hia brother, Fred, xt Was! Point. MYSTERY SLAYING PUZZLING POLICE; T.os Angeles, Deo. 2.—With six No vember murders still unsolved, Los Angeles police tinned their attention today to a new mystery, involving the killing of a girl, whose name is link nown. Detectives investigated a report that the girl's body had been shipped from here to Seattle in a trunk. Known only as "Babe,” the girl was slain in a hotel here six weeks ago, according to detectives, who said on the night of her disappearance screams were heard in her room. Bank Bandits Get $2,550, Kidnap Two in Unique Holdup Ask Change for Dollar. Scoop l p Cold and lake At tendants Along W ith Them. Bethany, Neb., Dec. 2.—The two young bandits who robbed the First State bank of Bethany, a suburb of Lincoln, this morning were still at large tonight. Despite the fart that the state sheriff's office had been called and ef forts had been made to guard every road out of town, the bandits made their escape. The two young men entered the bank at 11:30. One of them pushed n $1 bill in front of o. 1<\ Heiliger, cashier, and asked fur change, 25 cents in pennies and the rest in nickels. Heiliger proceeded to give the change, when he found himself faring a revolver. ' March to the back of the bank,” ordered one of the young men. The other approached Jlarry Heiliger, as sistant cashier, and in an instant both were under guard of one of the men at the rear of the banking room. Demand Currency. The other quickly gathered up $2,050 in currency and then demand ed that O. F. Heiliger get them the currency from the safe. He told them there was none there, but that there was a little gold. They obtain ed $500 in gold. “Now, we’re going to take you with us for a ride,” said the taller of the two bandits, as he ordered the two brothers to accompany them from the bank. The bandits even ordered them to lock the hank door. This they did, and the two banker's wrere forced into the bandits Ford touring car. They drove rafiidly south out of th« town. Boast of Other “»lob.” “Rememlicr the hank robbery at Normal about a month ago0'’ inquired one of the robbers. The bankers as sured him they remembered it well. “We re the guys that pulled it," the robber assured them. “Got a cigaret?” asked the other bandit. One of the HeUigers handed him an opened package. The young bandit took it, lighted one, gave one to his companion and put the package in his pocket. “Remember Me?” “Remember me?” asked tlie other bandit, looking Harry Heiliger in the face. Heiliger looked at him and said he did not. “I was In your hank, looking the place over, about three weeks ago,” the young man assured him. At Fifty sixth and Randolph streets. Lincoln, in a hollow place, the car was stepped and the brothers were told to get out. “Beat it into the cornfield,” ordered the bandits as they drove swiftly to the south. The hankers saw them disappear over the hill and then ran hack to Bethany and spread the alarm. NEW JAPANESE ENVOY NAMED Tokio, Dec. 2 -Tsiineo Matsudalra. former vice minister of foreign «f fairs and member of the old lialmyo family of Fukul, hits been chosen am bassador to the Frilled States In suc cession to Masanao Manillarn, who returned from Washington several months ago following the acute sit nation brought on by passage of th' Japanese exclusion law through con gress. it is unofficially announced here in today's edition of the Hochl Rhimbun, Independent Tokio new* paper. Grower* Plan Audit of Supar Company Book* Bridgeport. Dec. ? Rooks of the Great Western Rugar company will he audited bv an accredited account ant. hired by the North Platte Valley Pert Growers’ association, as n means of ascertaining information upon which to base demands for the 1925 contract, according to action of the l.oard of directors that was Instructed to employ a public accountant to make the audit. Report of the chemists employed by the association Mint worked with the company chemists during the recent campaign showed the beets of Ne braska to contain more sugar this ve.tr than ever before, with an aver age of over IB per cent of sugar non tents. I.inrr Slill Grounded. London. Dec 2. Advices to the Lloyds from Hamburg stated that an attempt in float the liner Mlnnekahda of the American line, vv hich went ashore off Glur kat.idt, Germany. Sun day, had bean unsuccessful. Spark Pi of Iowa Is Prize Steer 0 _ _ Amos Animal Gris Second Place in Chicago Livestock Show; Is Reserve Champion. Auction Upon Thursday By I'niversel Service. Chicago, Dec. 2.—Deacon 1054, a pure bred Hereford steer, entered by John C. Shaffer, Chicago newspaper publisher, today was named grand champion of the International Live stock exposition. The steer, weighing 95<» pounds, was reared on Shaffers Ken-Uary ranch at Littleton, Colo., and is 11 months old. The award was made by Walter Biggar of Grange Farm, Delbeattie, Scotland, chief judge of the exposi tion. Deacon 1054, which will go to the slaughtering bench in a few' days af ter being auctioned off to the highest bidder, is the third purebred Here ford to win the coveted honors of the international livestock exposition, which now' is in its 25th year. In all other years the grand championship was swarded the Aherdeen-Angus, or shorthorn families. The prize animal was sired by Dea con Domino, jr.. by Miss Perfect ion 139th, and was fed on bran, oats and corn, the records revealed. Spark Plug Second. Judge Biggar awarded second hon ors to Spark Plug, the entry of the Iowa State University at Ames, la. Spark Plug, a crossbreed, weighing 1,400 pounds, and born September 4, 1922, therefore becomes the re serve grand champion. The auction of the prize animals w'lll take place Thursday in the pres ence of President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge. Fancy prizes usually are. paid, in 1919 the grand champion be ing sold at $2.62 a pound on the hoof. It is usually dressed for Christmas beef. other champions crowned at the exposition today were the barrow entered by the University of Minite sola, a fine Berkshire specimen, and the reserve title going to a Damp shire entered by Oklahoma A. A M college. The Speed wav farm of Indianapolis displayed the champion barrow in the fat Yorkshire division, reserve hop ors going to the Michigan Agricul tural college. Columbia Stock farm of Kansas City, Mo., was awarded the .fat spot ted Poland China harrow event, and R. F. Harris farms of Seymour, III . the champion fat Tairtworth barrow Wheat King Named. The Heart's Delight farm of Chazy. X. Y.. displayed the champion fat Dorset wether, and the University of Wisconsin the champion fat cheviot wet her. Ceremonious Sultan, 7 year old polled shorthorn hull, was again named grand champion of the show in his division, establishing a new record in all breeds and species. He was grand champion in 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1924. The animal is owned by the Leemon Stock farm of Hoopeston, 111. Jerome, owned by Highland farms, was adjudged the senior champion Percheron stallion. Another award made today was that of the "Wheat King''—the title going to J. C. Mitchell of Dahimla, Sask. Mr. Mitchell displayed samples of Maid Marquis hard red spring wheat with which he annexed the title in 1719 and repeated in 1920. In the 14 years in which wheat ha* been judged in connection with the live stock exposition the title has gone to Canada 13 times. The single exception was In 1921 when a Mon tana farmer, exhibiting a grade of wheat Imported from Saskatchewan, carried off the honors. Canadians also took nine out of 1>. awards in the timothy seed and clover seed competition. BROKER BROTHERS SHOT IN QUARREL Now York, Dec. S - Louis and Sum ucl I.lehslcr, brokers, wars taksn to a hospital this afternoon Buffering from bullet wounds while detectives began a hunt for N'nnh Aaron. The brothers told police they had been shot during a quarrel over busi ness matters. Woman Suffers Injuries When Blown Down hv W inti Bridgeport. Her r Unable to walk against the strong: wind that prevailed in the Sunni district Saturday, Mrs. A. Beecher, a realdent of the Dalton country, wa* blown down aa ahe walked along: the *idewalk and auf feted a broken wri*t and some torn ligament* in hep arm. The wind wa* the HtronK»*nt ever noted In this terri tory, blowing: at time* 70 fnlle* an hour an«l filling the air with every thing: light that could be picked up Window* wore broken and aevei.il *lgn* blown down. Mimicn Doctor Sentenced to Ten Wars in Penitentiary yU|!Hl« It lo Tltf OiiiiiIih Itrf Mtntlen, Neb. I tec !>r. (‘barle* 11 Abbott, found guilty h uerk ago i on i statutory rh^tKe, \*a* today sen fenced tc» JO years In the penitential * Notice "f ap|ie,»| waa hied and Abbott I potted (3,000 bond. “VMaiO Bumped /nfo Fleeing Suspect When Shots Fail to Stop Him Trust Omaha detective* to ‘‘get their man.” If they can't lilt him with a gun they can hit him with a flivver. Detective Cummings played this neat trick on Emmett Stewart, col oied, of Council Bluffs, Tuesday after noon. Cummings snd Detective Treglia w»re riding In Cummings' machine near Eleventh and Howard streets, when they saw Stewart and rerog nlr.ed him as a man wanted as a shop lifting suspect. Treglia Jumped out of the machine and ordered Stewart to stop. Stewart broke into a run. and Treglia chased after him. Stewart gained a lead and Treglia. pulled his gun and fired In the air. From then on Stewart was only a rapidly moving pillar of smoke. Congress Gets Down to Work $800,000 for North Platte Project Included in Meas ure Before Senate. Washington, Dec. 2.—With only brief debate, the senate today passed the $ 1 *6,000,000 deficiency appropria tion bill. The bill was blocked In the closing I day* of the last session as a result of a filibuster by Senator Pittman, democrat, of Nevada, who objected ! because appropriation for reclamation projects in his state was decreased. When Pittman announced that an adjustment satisfactory to him had been made during the summer by the Interior department the confer ence report on the bill was immrdi ately approved. The hill now goe* to the president for signature. Washington, Dec. 2.—Congress put on its working clothes today and got down to business. The senate tackled the $1*6.000.000 urgent deficiency bill, left over from last session, which has already passed the house and which provides money for a varieftv of guverninent needs. The house started grinding on the big appropriation hills that are ex pec ted to occupy almost all of the present session. The issue between the republican regulars and the insurgents has been left burning—with a time fuse at tached. The appropriation hill called up in the senate today carried heavy sums for the soldiers' bonus, Irrigation projects, tax refunds and endorse ment. of the naval disarmament treaty. A hundred minor appropria tions swelled the total. $5,500 IS VOTED TO FIGHT DISEASE The city council Tuesday morning passed an emergency ordinance which allows the health department an ad ditional appropriation of $6,500 to combat an outbreak of smallpox and to meet Increased expense of operat ing the emergency hospital. Health Commissioner A. f* Pinto outlined that there has been an In crease of $400 per month for the last six months in the operation of the emergency hospital, that the drug bill has been $600 more per month for three months and that this year's garbage contract will run $2,500 more than last year. Seven new rases of smallpox were reported on Monday and Tuesday morning. Five of the recent cases were of pupils attending Immaculate Conception parochial school. Twenty fourth and Bancroft streets, which has been given general vaccination or ders During the last few weeks pupils st St. Peter parochial school. St. John high school. Mason and Windsor schools have been vacci nated. During November the health de partment recorded 36 cases of small pox. and only six were reported dur ing October. During tlie last two months mem hers of the health department have been taking vacations of two weeks each without pay to meet some of the deficit jn the fund. Dairy Tool Work to Be Continued Another Year Fremon». Pec ? -Organisation of ♦ he Trl-county Test association for another year will he completed December 20, when members of the body will convene in Fremont to plan activities of the coming year. ,T. .1. Farrell, North Bend, presi dent of the association, presided at a meeting held In Fremont to transact routjne business. Prof* Davis of the state college of agriculture addressed the gathering on the feeding and care of dairy rows. The purpose of the organlzatIon is to promote and Increase dairv farm lug In this portion of Nebraska Corn Soil* al $1. Beatrice, Neb,. Dec For the first time this year, tin price of corn Jumped to $1 today, and it Is h i id « number of farmers expect to put their grain on the market at this tlym* Whe.it has gone up f#* $1 116 a bushel. I rain K ill* Tlin-r Springfield, ( * , I *« «- ' Mrs Ida ('roves, and iter two children. Philip, in. and Kdllh. IT. were Willed ohen then* automobile \uta struck by a train • ♦ Belle Center. Cummings wheeled the tar around and started In pursuit, while Treglia continued to run and shoot. They fol lowed Stewart to Thirteenth and •Jackson streets. Stewart was still unpunctured and going strong. Cummings in his Ford slowly crept up on Stewart ns he crossed Jackson street. He nosed the car to Stewart’? side and then—a quick flip of the wrist and the front wheel caught Stewart in midair. He flew a ways, dropped a ways, and bounced a ways, Then he stopped, and the officers bundled him into the car. They took him to the police station where he was found to have a bun die of underclothing concealed under his coat. Police say it was stolen from the Burgess Nash company. H* will be charged with larceny. He re reived only minor bruises. Senate Has New Shoals Proposal l iiclenvootl Sponsors Plan to Lrase Nitrate Plant to Pri\ ate Interests. Hv International N>w» gerrlce. Washington, J>er. 2.—A brand new proposal for disposing of the govern ment's huge $100,000,000 water power project at Muscle Shoals. Ala., was sponsored in the senate today by Senator Oscar W. Underwood, demo crat of Alabama, on behalf of the congressional group that formerly supported the offer of Henry Ford. The Underwood plan, tinder alterna tive proposals, would direct the sec retary of war to lea“e the project to private* interests before .Inly 1, 1921, or then organize a $50,000,000 govern ment corporation to operate the plant for the manufacture of cheap fertiliz ers. Jlis b ll would dedi- ate the great Wilson dam and its adjoining nitrate plants to he used for the national defense in time of war and for the production of fertilizer in time of peace,” e'en If leased to a private I corporation, the project would re main a pail of the national defense, subject to federal seizure on five days* notice. Insure Cheap Fertilizers. Under either private operation or government ownership. Underwood's hill would lay down drastic terms to insure cheap fertilizers. First, an annual total of 46.000 tons of fixed nitrogen must he made, and slmdar amount of fertilizing nitr * turned out every year. This limit begins with the fourth year of operation, with lesser amounts demanded for ’he first three years And the selling price of the nitrates would be limited to a profit of not more then £ per cent of the fair annual cost of the production. In introducing the hill. Underwood explained It was a substitute pro posal for the offer which Henry Ford made for the Muscle Shoals project two years ago and wihdrew during the recent recess of congress Would Hasten Manufacture. "My bill would provide a start for the manufacture of nitrates in this country," Underwood said. "I am not at heart a government ownership man. but I believe the manufacture of nitrates is so imi>nrt j.nt a part of our national pro gram, 1 am willing to have the gov ernment enter that business if pri vate interests do not desire to accept our terms. The government has built its own battleships Now it ran make Its own nitrates Roth are truly war functions. SINCLAIR RAISES “GAS” PRICE HERE The Sinclair Refining company raised the price of gasoline at it** Omaha stations and tank wagons 2'4 cents Tuesday morning. making filling station price 1. ’4 cents and lank wagon price 13*4 cents a gallon. The Standard, Ni« bolus und other big companies, up to noon, had not joined the rise, maintaining their prices at 11 cents at filling stations and It tents by tank wagon delivery "The increase by the Sinclair com pany was a surprise to us." declared President Richardson of the Stand ml Oil Company of Nebraska. ' I cannot any whether we will follow or not." Division Manager .T V pippel nf the Sinclair company said It could no longer continue doing business at a Jes* "Gasoline costs cents a gallon at the refinery and the freight to Omaha i* 2*4 • ents. a total of 1A\ cents We were selling at 11 from tank wagons and you can t maintain trucks and pay drivers on such a small mat gin of profit. Nor can you maintain expensive filling stations on i margin of « little more than cents The "mystery station" price stood it 13 cents and the II. M Michel station price at 12% cents a gallon Tuesday It is believed other com panics will follow the Slnclalt i |*c within a short time IVrsliing in I'tiiiHinn. Panama, Dc« 2 The t\ S S I tab. carrying the American dcl.ua Hon to the centennial of the battle of \\scin ho, to i.rt celebrated in I unu. Petti on Drcembei M. sailed front heir yesterday General Pershing and his fellow delegates wete visited b\ the members of the Panama cabinet. Coolidge’s jNote Urges Tax Slash Surplus Anticipated at End of A ear. Executive Tells Con gress in His Special Message. |Government Cost Cut By H. K. REYNOLDS. International News Service Staff ( orrespondent. Washington, Dec. 2.—President Ooolidge today told congress how tr keep on reducing taxes. It can only be done, he said, hy continuing the government's present policy of strict and unyielding economy. Trans mitting to congress the federal hud get for the fiscal year 1925 26. tht president revealed that a surplus ol *67,000,000 is anticipated at the cm; of the current fiscal year on June 3b P‘25, and that the surplus for the n*»xt year Is expected to he nearly *374,000,000. “We are now in the fourth year ol our campaign for the reduction o] the cost of government." the presi dent /-aid in a special message rear' in both houses this afternoon. “Out aim is to reduce the burden of tax's In this we have heen successful. Wt ire fast reducing our expenditute? to a minimum consistent with ef ricienr service. We have before Uf an estimated surplus of $67,000,000 for the current year and $373,000,000 f"r the next year. Shall we embark upon new projects involving expend! lures which will prevent the accu rnul.ition of these expected surpluses or Fhall we continue the campaign for economy? I am for economy. If we continue the campaign for econ my we will pave the way for furthei reduction in taxes." Mr. Coolidge added, however, that ’his promised reduction could not he effected immediately, and Indicated that he was not in favor of the tax prrihlem l»eing taken up by a special session of congress after March 4 a.« has l»een suggested in some quarters. Before it undertaken." he ex plained, "we should know more deli nitely by actual operation what our revenue* will he under the present tan but the knowledge of our re\e nue* under the existing law will n\aii us nothing if we embark upon any new large expenditure program." In arcordan1 e with the president's economy program, the government s ordinary expenditures fnr the next f *ral year will he mo-* than $6A - bOO.OOO less than thev were th.« year. The total expenditures for 1325*26. in eluding * he payment of 300,000,000 toward the reduction of the public debt, will he $3.267,*1.37*. compared with $3,534.$* 3. *08 this year and $3 506,677.715 last year. Navy Expense Cut. Nearly half of the saving to !>•* effected will be in curbing the expen diture* for tlie* army and iuv» Ov estimate being $_‘9.00©.0oo le-* than the amount spent this year. "This reduction is made," the presi dent said, "in accordance with my be lief that we can have adequate na tional defense with a more nodes! outlay of the taxpayers' money. Further stud may point the wav to additional reduction without weak ening our national defense, hut rather perfecting it. The nation is at peace with the world. We no longer have International competition in naval construction of major units. We are concerned primarily with maintaining (Ttim to Taee Two. ( nlnmn One.) HONEY MEN WILL MEET WEDNESDAY The Nebraska Honey Producers' association will meet at Burgess Nash audit or iu in at 10:30 a in. Wednesday, and will have luncheon at the Bur gess Nash ten room at noon. Speak ers at the meeting will be H H Bind <»f Medina, l> .1. II Wagnei of Wash ington, 1). C„ and A. II. Punn and •I. il. Jessup of Council Bluffs. Norfolk Kiwanis antes Officers and Directors Norfolk Neb l)ec ? Kleien men were elected officers and members of the board of directors of the Norfolk Kiwanis club The following men were elected * officers: I. P Nicola, president C K. Burnham, vies president: V B. Carpenter, district trustee .1. \ Duff, treasurer. Those elected to the board of di rectors were .Terri V Brown 1 B. OfKson, C. .1 Fleming Frank Turk M Frasier. Dr M II Hill and M S Mi Pilfer Detroit Pastor Dies. t>»trott. tvc. •: v\ titiHin n«»r one of the leading sponsors of the Ford for president boom, is dead at Ids h 'me In pcarhoi n The Weather ' K»r 14 hnyr* ciulini at 7 p in IV. fin l»e» ? I’lrolpliallon Incite* anil llntitlifilth* r,.?ai tten**. 11»tml nine* ?stui.«t> t 24 4. itefii lam \ 411 IIhmiIi Tfmpcrnlurei * * m ii 1 i* m.4: * • m :'n 3pm .... 141 Tam "4 1 |t m . M | Ism ' * 4 i' m 1 a m ,.i' 4pm 1® i m 4 4pm «4 Ilia 4*i j p m 47 11 ■••• . •• » p m . ii GORE NOMINATION SENT TO SENATE Washington, Dec. 2.—Several score of nominations, many of them cover ing appointments made during tlie i *•<css of congress. were sent to the • apitol today by President Coolldge. The nominations include those of Howard M. Core of West Virginia to tie secretary of agriculture: Wilbur J. Carr, New York, and John Van A. Mar-Murray, N. J.. assistant secre taries of state; James Rockwell Shef field. New York, ambassador n Mexi co. and Kdgar A. Bancroft, Illinois, ambassador to Japan. Father of Slain Girl on Stand as State Rests Case — I.lim-r .MrKninicy Calm 1 n • l«*r of Attor neys; (Garments of Dead (»irl Displayed. Sp«*<‘ial DUpatrh to The OmuliH Rrf. Bedford, la., Dec. 2.—The state rested late this afternoon in the trial of Carl Hough, c harged with the mur der of Lillian McKcnney near here last August. The defense will open its ease to morrow morning. The case* may he given to the jury early next week, authorities declared today. A thrill was furnished the sperta >ors who packed into the court room this morning when Klmer MeKennev, father of the slain girl, was called to the witness stand MeKennev was calm throughout the questioning, hut occasionally, when the garments of his dead daughter were < ••dayed, he passed a ha r.d across his He said he and his family lived In Bmnson. la . until a few* year* ego when they moved to Herrick. 8. D. "Lillian graduated from high school there he said ‘‘She was a good girl, i didn't like to see her go with Hough. The last time I saw her she was with him. T1 t was about T the evening of August . ‘‘Next morning we saw she hadn't been home and had taken some of her clothes and gone off with Hough. I didn't see her again, only her body, which I identified here August 15.” Hough's attorney, in cross-examina tion. sought to show that Lillian was so big and strong that Hough could not have killed her. Mr McKenney said she was about Hough's height, 5 Yoet 4 inches. She sometimes worked in the harvest fields, he said. William Kruger, Cushing (la.) garage man. testified that Hough ftp ! pea red at 1 i« place the Friday follow ing the murder and reported that hial <ar was hrokgn down on the outskirts of the town. Kruger towed it in and | found it was out of gasoline. Hough ! asked for money and Kruger loaned him $2. Hough never called for the car. State Agent Hiram Long detailed the steps by which he traced Hough from Bedford. DOCTOR ISOLATES INSULIN ELEMENT Chicago. Deo 2.—Medical circles here today were discussing the dis covery of Dr. Arthur I.noke, 26-year old < hem-st of St. Luke hospital, by which he claims to have isolated the active elements of insulin, diabetes remedy and the diphtheria antitoxin, permitting their labarotorv synthesis. The discovery, physic ans declared, would permit the inexpensive manu facture of the drugs and do away with the present necessity of obtain ing them by laborious processes from animals. Dr. I^ocke’s announcement stated he had effected the isolation by . eiectro-dlaly sis. WILSON SERVICE SET FOR DEC. 5 Washington. Dec. 2—The senate; today adopted the houae resolution setting aside Decetnl>er T» for joint memorial services for the late Presl dent Woodrow Wilson. \rtinp Spanish Premier Vppeals* to New>papers Paris Dec 2.—Admiral de Magan. ! acting Spanish premier, recently sum |moned the editors of the Spanish newspapers, says De Matin's Madrid correspondent, and appealed to them < r the ground of patriotism to defend King \tfonso \fter announcing to1 I ihe editors that a revolution w »sj | being planned abroad, the acting I prime minister declared that the revo : lutionaries counted on the support of France.'or rather the French govern men!, which only represented a sec tion. albeit the most numerous of Trench opinion I or«l\ Pro$;r«'$M\ Tordyce. Dec 2. Improvements being made show Tordyce one of the! progressive towns of northwest Ve hraska. I'ommunllv hall is being re paired and painted the old hospital Is being converted into a modern banking building the hotel has been] sold and will ho opened under new management, and a 2 4 hour electric; light service is being installed V w hii Vmlia-"Hilnr. Mnli'.i City. IVr 2. Is’ U ..-ml • •I'lrmllj i c|Mv I.-.1 Ihrtl XlUrito T':<n!. wrwwv of th. Ii-('..iii\, l. to to to \V»*hlnitlon XlfM. in nmtui.vi.t. i w Iiaii 111. lo.io lUMtoliKtlon. «ir . on rlin1.il "till J. 1,. Arl 111 * IN- of Ati.tln T.x. Woman Now Doubts Love of Poisoner Ardesta ^ orthey Pleads Not (iniitv ^ hen Arraigned; TeIN Story of Life of Hardship. Early Trial Expected Bv P. C. POWELL. staff f orrevpomlent of The Omaha Bee. Broken Bow-. Xeb., Dec. 2.—Custer county authorities quickly wrote 'finis'' today to the first chapter in ihe case of the slate of Nebraska against Frank Bruner, 47. and Mrs. Ardeata Northey. 47. Yesterday Bruner was arraigned and bound over for the murder of his v ife, a murder he has confessed in full. Tiiis morning was Mrs. Northey's day in court. Implicated by Bruner in his confession, she was led into the courtroom and jointly charged with him. Somewhat dazed by the rapidity "f events which have led her to a cell in the Broken Bow jail, she stood and listened abstractedly to the read ing of the complaint which declares that she supplied Bruner with poison which he placed in his wife's Tea. tVher. the reading was completed she turned to Sheriff Henry Talbot. He explained that by waiving hear it g in court sha could save much trouble. Early Trial Date. ' Well. I sure ain't guilty " she -toutly declared and w s bound < . er to the district court. Unless this v. ■ , n for whom Bruner murdered .« wife hreiks down and confesses before Monday, when Judge B. O. Hostettler opens district court, the next chapter will he written when attorneys are named to defend the woman and Bruner and '.he date of trial ia fixed. Neither of the defendants hr, re money to employ attorneys. County official* are firm in them belief th.,' Mr*. Northey will continue her pro testations of innocence and when tiie two face trial Bruner probably will be saved from the electric chair hv placing the blame for the murder on Mrs. Northey. In other words the short-skirted woman of 47. with her bobbed and hennaed hair, will he pictured in court as the “master mind'' in the sordid love story and poisoning which ha* be»n unfolded since Mr*. Bruner died after drinking a cup of tea in which her hushand had placed poison tablets. Wife I..irked \ffertion. Both Sheriff Talbot and County At torney Shaper believe every word of Bruner's confession. They look upon Mrs. Northey as a desperate, poverty stricken woman facing old age anu willing to sacrifice the life of another woman for .a home and the IlSO a month which Bruner earned In the Burlington roundhouse. The officers see in Bruner suffering from an ex ’egerated case of «si jealousy who feared that in refusing to heed Mrs Northev s directions that he poison his wife and marry her, she would turn to another man Bruner, in .a statement to the coun ly .attorney today, stated that hi« . iiief objc tion to his wife Was her lack ,.f affection. All that woman could d" was work. Bruner told officer* today in speaking of his wife. He didn't care for his wife be cause she wasn't a good talker and couldn't mingle In society with him.'' Mr* Northey said in speaklrg of Mrs Bruner I don't believe he really cared for me but he didn't want at y one else around me." Mr* Northey Chatty. Mrs Northy was willing to talk on all subjects, especially Bruner •atul their 7 \ oar old love affair. In one breath she told officers that the reason Bruner didn't g*«t a divorce wa.« because he feared his wife had too nuii a on him ' to make s legal separation possible In the next she would inform officer* that he prom ised “to get rtd of her." "How did he plan to get rid of (Turn to t'sv'f Two Column Three.. • —— .i -- ■ Summary of the Day in Washington A deflcien. \» hill carrying lira,. (inn nno was passed by the s»na-» Serrral score of nominations were sent to the senate by Treav dent Ooolidge Henry M 1 Vines Indicated he de sired to resign as comptroller of tho currency. More hearings on the MayfleM election case wore decided n by a sennte committee. President t"oolldce held a SfO'tul brwftkfn^t conference with repub It* a ns of the wns;p. Tho Interior department appro priatton hill, railing for $.\ts.»>*»«» oa** reported to the htium Senator I'ndet w-a»od, democrat. Alutaira offered a new M .**. u» Shoals proposal, while eome of hi »eU«uuM \v» *e end* i\» u ig t,> re vive Hem \ Kwi'i interoi IVeeiilent « 'nolidse * budget ***e and the hud#et rixmi '1 vl*; as the cost of runntrf the K 'e mient in the pent f «| K-' were »iihm;ned to aonfreu* i