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* _
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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.
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Pri ce Than Prairie Hay
Hanover. Kan., Dec. 17.—A dealer
here is shipping baled straw to a Kan
sas City flrfn and states that ho real
izes a better price for it than for No.
3 prairie hay. considerable of which
is being shipped from hero slso. Prob
ably 25 carloads of straw will lie
shipped from here in the next month.
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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.
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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. Rasse, Lyn
elected as directors of the Chamber of
Commerce for the coming year. - Noon
lunches will be discontinued until the
first Tuesday In January, 1926.
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