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Luis Firpo Shakes Himself Loose of Legal Octopus and Sails for Europe Hy Auncinted Press. ^ ' EW YORK, Dec. 17.— Luis Angel Firpo again sails the seas, this time to the eastward. Having cast off the last tentacle of a legal octopus that caught hfm at every turn, the South American seeks rest in Eu rope. Behind him — . . is word that when he comes bark to the United States he will re-enter the school of Jimmy J)e Forest, veteran ring master. Firpo leaves a string of legal mis adventures. The Argentine first faced an in junction on the eve of his bout with Fill Brennan. A New York rluh claimed he had signed n previous agreement. The appllcatl/in was de nied. Following his victory over Brennan, Andrew D. Scott of Nutley, •V J., filed suit for $3,487, alleging i irpo retained him as business man ager. Thrn Sailor Maxted declared his rights to moving picture percent ages hail been overlooked to the extent of $50,000. .Maxted won an 1 an attachment on Ffrpo’s receipts * In Hie bout witlj Willard. Ilis meeting with .lack Dempsey, tile champion, when lie went down eight times and the champion twice, came next, and as he weighed in, Firpo was served with a summons, the nature of which was not learned. Andrew D. Me Corkiiuiale of I.ong Beach obtained mi attachment on the proceeds of the bout, alleging the existence of a contract which called for 25 per cent of Firpo's earnings and de manding $3,300 for expenses. Then I.uis clashed witli federal officials by becoming an America i citizen by courtesy, lie said lie hail taken tiie action under mis apprehension. He was held up at Kev West, Fla., for interrogation as to income state ments, but New York authorities de fended him. Then Mrs. Minnie Swartzlander of New York was awarded $500 damages against the Argentine In a suit, de claring he had ruined her furniture. After a sojourn in the homeland. Firpo was readmitted to the United States'as a ‘visitor," after being de tained at Ellis Island with other mem bers of his party and a Miss Blanca Lourdes Picart, who said she was a friend of the boxer, but not one of his party. Firpo was allowed to land. Ho was arrested at liis training i ramp at Saratoga Springs, where he was preparing for liis match with Harry Wills, on a warrant charging perjury in connection with the boxer's statements regarding his relations with Miss l’irsrt. Again Andrew I). Met orklndale appeared upon the scene and ob tained a $25,000 attachment upon the money which Firpo was to re ceive, and New Jersey ministers and reform organizations went to court in their efforts to prevent the Wills bout. Wills, however, was pernijttesf to batter the South Amer ican for 12 rounds. After the battle the perjury charges were dismissed and a federal grand jury refused to return an in dictment against hifn. GUARANTEE FUND WIN THREE GAMES Guarantee Fund Lifes defeated the Huffman-Crosby three straight games in the feature match in the Greater Omaha Bowling league last night. The Guarantees also rolled the high three-game total, crashing the pins for a count of 2,961. Ken Bclple led the individual bowlers with a score of . till for three games While A! Wart * i how rolled the high single game, ’ toppling 247 maples In his second game. The Hoffman Crosby five to talled 2.730 pins. Tile Badger Bodies rolled the see-j end lies: score of the night when they defeated the Mapacubua, 2.874 to 2,720. Droste of the Mapacubas led la scoring honors with 220 for high single game while Kennedy with 214 did the best for the Badgers Bodies. Frank Jarosh aided materially in his team's victory when the Ak-Sar Ben quintet trimmed the House Waste Pipe Cleaning five, 2,841 to 2.510. Jarosh not only rolled 664 for the high three games hut,also cracked 230 pin* for high single game. At Albany, N. V.— Freddie >lm well. Brooklyn, was awardud declalnn over Andy Tucker, New York. 10 round*; Jerry William*. Albany, knocked out Chubby Smith. Troy, three round*; Sammy Blenfleld. lirooklyn, awarded Judge'* d« « laion over Sammy Marion, New York, 10 round* _ | N°w | Playing Deliciously Humorous Intriguingly- Mysterious Appealingly Romantic THE HARROW STREET (► Dorothy Devore—Matt Moore LLOYD HAMILTON in “CRUSHED" Carol & Louise Dcre "Music That Charms” •>- - — Curlers to Start Competition for , Malcolm Cup The Clan Gordon Athletic nssocia tlon, at a recent meeting decided to hold the first round of the annual curling tournament at Miller park next Sunday. The entry list for the tournament is open, but will close at H a. m. Sunday. Competition for the Mal colm epp In the singles will be held Sunday. The following drawings were made for competlton for the John L. Kennedy trophy. Finals wilV. he played New Year's day, ice permit ting. Heathers, C. IV. Masters, skip, against Alsie Craigs, R. Galt, skip. Bobby Burns, R. G. Watson, skip, against Bonny Scotland, R. Melvin, skip. Calidonans, Jimmie Gunn, skip, against Gordons, John Henderson, skip. Omaha Scots, W. P. Horne, skip, against Balmorals Ed Tracy, skip. Anyone interested tn curling Is in vited to compete in the tournament. No admission is charged. Cudahy’s Fight Bill Complete The Cudahy Athletic club has com pleted its program of fistic encounters for the show which will be held- Fri day evening. “Rusty" Evans, Y'ork (Neb.) light weight, will meet Irwin Bige in the 10-round main event. Bige won a three-round decision over "Kid" Mack In Denver last night, according to reports received from the “Mile High" city. “Sailor" Liston and Mike Rosgall meet in the 10-round setnl-wlndup, while Everett Strong and Lew Ritchie, the latter of Lincoln, fight in the third preliminary. % Two other good preliminaries are on the program. Boston College Hockey Team t liable to Get Gaines Boston, Dec. 17.—Boston college with its greatest hockey team since the sport was organized here, prob ably will have to disband for lack of games with other colleges. The man agement was able to book only two contests, the annual fixture with West Point on February 23, and a game with St. Thomas college of St. Paul here Christmas night. The lat ter engagement has been camaeled because the faculty would not sanc tion a- game on Christmas, and the w;est Point date may have to he tbandoned. At Buffalo.—Jimmy Slattery. Buffalo. defeated .Tack Schoendorff, Milwaukee, two rounds. .lack Brrna'ein. Yonkers, de feated Tnnv Ruaan Cirnegle T*a . sty -ounds; Willie Cunningham. Buffalo, de feated Phil Verdi, Rochester, six rounds. Art W'snder. Buffalo defested Johnny Sarco Buffalo, sir rounds; Joe Hall. Buf falo. defealed Wally Hopwood. Toronto, four rounds. A i <?!.?•! «i»rJps 2:20 Eft 8:15 You Will UIIDDV Have lo n U I* Vm I LAST 2 TIMES TOMORROW 4.D0IJ>H ZUKOBondJESCELLKKW* CECIL 0. MIGHTIEST )t MILLE,f' 5DECTACLE i^onr Ur de an it riALPntaso* A PARAMOUNT DrUDDUCTiON (FAI10US PlAYUrtS-lACAY COQPOGATlON Symphony Orchestra Nights: 50c, $1 00. $1.50 Plus Matinees: 50c, 75c, $1.00 Tax Will not he shown elsewhere in Omaha within one year. ! - " - HELEN HOAGLAND At tha Organ Playing “Love’s Old Sweet Song” Featuring fhr Mighty Harp Unit Built and In atallrd by the Plpa Organ Sarvlca Co. of Omaha On the Stage Irene Fleming COAL! COAL! 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M .quilt, ml Cnltimhla Itiu Irak /f %V FCII ItS OF THE Dftv ’ fired Shnpp i %' Matin** a» Ml Daily Sun Mat and Week "Broadway By Night" Waterways Built * Up Abroad Before Locomotive Came Their Extensive Use No Argu ment for America Since Distance Makes Rail roads Necessary. ARTICLE V. By WILL M. MAUPIN. To get a comprehensive grasp of the problems con fronting the railroads and the industries of the interior sections, one should not be come confused by specious efforts to deceive by pointing to the intensive development of European waterways. Those who point to Euro pean waterways and the great commercial cities located thereon, overlook or seek to conceal certain fundamental facts. These large European marts are located on water ways for the simple reason that water communication was the only kind known when those cities were found ed, centuries ago. Every great European mart wras such before railroads were even dreamed of. The water ways were developed from necessity. When the rail roads came in Europe they had to adapt themselves to conditions as they found them. Waterways have al ways been used in Europe, and always will be, because they are the fundamental avenues of communication. In the United States, with our great distances, the first century of the republic’s existence saw com merce largely confined to the Atlantic coast and near by Interior points reached by water communication. Uarge inland cities were unknown be cause of lack of transportation. Then came the great era of railroad build ing, and cities were locate! because of railroad advantages. Railroad,* sought the lowest grades compatible with distance, and cities sprang up in their wake. Omaha (ireat Because of Roads. • Omaha i» not a great railroad center because a city Is here. Omaha is a great city because railroads 1'enter heff. Thews' are facts -that should lie kept in mind when compar ing European waterway* with our own: fiver there they had built great cities on waterways long before the hew world was discovered. Those cities carried their freight by water when Omaha was an Indian camp. Chicago would never have been the Chicago it is If water transportation had been Its only recourse. Neither would Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, nor Omaha. Ilallroad building brought about a development in the United States within 50 years that centuries of waterway developments would not ap proach. They brought about the set tlement of a continent In less than half a century. The eastern seaboard with its rivers, its canals and the ocean had stood still- for piore than two centuries. Then came rhe rail road anil in the flash of a few years the Louisiana territory, the northwest territory and the Mexican territory, until that time merely names In our school geographies, were settled b.v millions of people and great 'states were carved out of the wilderness. Interior Real Problem. With this brief explanation one may approach the problem under dfs mission—the real transportation prob lem of the country. The practical ■ question confronting the railroads and the interior Indus tries is not. as the propagandist for the seaboard Industries and ocean shippers would have us Relieve It Is, the sacredness of the Panama canal, but the preservation of interior rail cc mmuhlcation, of interior industries, and the continual development of the middle west, An Indication of how much loss of revenue the railroads have suffered by' reason of water competition be tween the east and west coasts in the item of iron and atcel articles, pipe and wire may lie estimated by a com parison of the amounts moved by rail and by water during the months of June. July and August of the years 1921, 1922 and 1923. In 1921 the ton nage hauled by rail amounted to 63,473 and hy cans! to 91.19*. In 1922 by rail 63.799 by canal 260.949. In 1923 by rail 82.563, by canal 446,510. Because of the loss of revenue thus entailed upon the railroads, they have been Unable to reduce local rates be tween interior points, and between interior prints and basing points. .M'djlle West Hampered. In short, liec-auee of the favorable position of toast Industries, due to lower ocean rates than are possible by rail, the middle west is being dis criminated ugaihst, its rail communi cations hampered, Its development re tarded and Its industries slowed up. Because the railroads see this, and because the middle west sees this, and both are seeking relief by an clijuatment of long haul rates, propa ganda has been organized to convince the people that the railroads are In a. conspiracy to- close the Panama j canal. If the railroads serving the t#i ri tory between Chicago and the inter mountain territory are denied some measure '■of relief now possible under rectlon 4, and are compelled to accept the terms of the Gooding amendment. It will be Impossible for them to regain some of the traffic which the water lines have taken from them. Their losses, too. will become Increasingly greater ss in terior industries decrease under the proposed amendment. No Harm From Kate Readjustment. If the latlroads are permitted to increase their revenues by recovering in reasonable part transcontinental traffic now lost by reason of the Panama canal rates. It Ls clear that; no shippers or communities now served by them will lie Injured. The only Injury that can possibly result will be to the water lines, and they will not be giving up any traffic they have developed by building up con suming' territory or traffic naturally tributary to their service. As lias been pointed out to the Interstate Commerce commission this would re sult onty In relinquishing to the rail roads a part of the traffic developed by the railroads and which the water carriers have taken away from them since the war. The propagandist of the coast In dustries and ship owners using the Panama canal Is free in his charges against the railroads, and very in sistent upon the «aoredne«s o^rjijo Panama canal. It will lie nntiiaMi, however, that he says nothing .^bAt tho discrimination against tliS^MBl roads as compared with "ceiuwsjBf Ians and .canal users In the dWBr of regulation, control and rate fixing. This discrimination against the railroads and in favor of tho vessel owners will be described In a sycfj^tl Ing article. The lopsided character of freight rate control will be covered ■ It) the next article. « Gasoline Tax Endorsed by Fairbury Chamber Kulrbury, Dec. 17.—Fairbury Cham ber of Commerce has appointed-. a committee to draft resolutions favor ing retention of the present 96’i per cent of. the automob le fees, endorse ment of the proposed 2-cent gasoline tax. and retention of this tax for use of the county on county bjghways. A. M. Ne’son, H. F. Holstein, l.yn -brn ’i s-;-r> ’ end 1.. S. 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