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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1925)
Harrop Outlines Munv Ownership Plan for Trams Three Street Railway Com ‘ miseioners Included in Proposed Ordinance Pre sented to Council. t Roy M. llarrop, candidate for. vice ITpreeldent of the I'nited Staten last year and now chairman of the Munici pal Ownership League of Omaha, pre sented lo the city couni il AA'edne* ' day morning the draft of a proposed ordinance for municipal ownership of “Hie street railway system. The ordinance provides for the creation of a board of three street railway commissioners, to be first appointed by the public defender of 3bulging county, thereafter elected on nonpartisan ballot for terms of six ..ears each and at a salary of ?4,50U each per year. Motor Kusses tin lulled. The Harrop plan contemplates giv ing tho board power and authority to "acquire, construct, own, maintain and operate" street railway systems within a distance of 25 miles from Omaha city limits. He includes mo tor busses and any method of trans portation which may be deemed ad visable. lie predicates his plan on the be lief that the present bond holders of the Omaha &. Council Bluffs Street Tlailway company will accept « re newal of nearly $10,000,000 bonds which will mature in 1928. Would Condemn Present System. Harrop would have the city con deinn the present system according to provisions of the existing laws issue bonds for only $5,000,000 and pay off the indebtedness out of earn ings on a plan similar to the one now in force with reference to bonds for i he municipal water and gas plants. He would have the city-owned trac tion system pay taxes the same as being paid by the private company. He believes that if Omaha will heed itis advice the city will have 6-co’nt car fare and at the same time pay for it- street railway system oru,the installment plan out of earnings. Two Die of Diphtheria. Kmerson, Jan. 21.—Vera, 13, and I-’.dwin. 5, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rejam, living south east of here, died of diphtheria. Strictly private funerals were held and the authorities are taking every precaution to prevent the spread of t he disease. Dick Turpin Dead. Wheatland, Jan. 21.—Dick Turpin, 7S, and a resident of this section for (hi years, having come her# with an overland train of cnttllt from Texas v hen a young man, died tt the Wheat land hospital, after but a few months' illness. To promote health and maintain comfort In your winter quarters a i-mperature of 65 degrees is better than a temperature of 75 or 80 de grees. I ROW LOOMS OVER VOTE LAW CHANGE 1 Cunttnu*d from l'*** One). per cent to carry a school bond elec tion in cities ot that size. The house finance committee de cided today to make a week-end tour to various slate Institutions in an effort to gather first-hand Informa tion concerning the reul needs of these Institutions. The various penal and charitable and educational Institutions of the state have asked for such stupendous .ncreases over those of two years ago that there Is much concern among members as lo whether such In creases are really warranted and tile Institutions are crippled as badly as their superintendents claim . Dee of Boyd, occupied fully half an hour of the time ot the house in a bitter denunciation of the Nebraska crow, which, according to I.ee, is more responsible in his country for disappearance of corn, pheunants and prairie chickens than any other anl null. Manicurist Bill in. “Why If I told you folks from lids section of tha state the large num ber of crows existing in our settlen of the country you would call me a liar,'’ 1 At* explained In the course bf his oratloai on the despised crow. The object of his utterance was ad vancement to third reading of a bill which* would place a 10-ccnl bounty oh^each crow killed and carried to the court house of the state. Be cause of certain technical errors In the bill It was re-referred to the com mittee from whence it came. Tonight, members of both branches were guests at the penitentiary where confined "jasz artists'’ In the hands of Warden Kenton and Gus Miller, superintendent of the reformatory, staged a show for the solons. The bill aimed to force manicurists, cosmeticians and cosmetologists to have a standard education in their art was thrown into the house hop per by Stone of Douglas. The taiTl, according to a nuhiber of beauty spe cialists thronging legislative halls, Is to force better sanitation and train ing on those who work to beautify and keep trim the nails, hair and faces of the public. Illness Led Girl to Abandon Babe, Defense Claims - —. Counsel for Unwed Mother Contends She Was Insane When She Left Child to Die. A worried, friendless girl, looking forward anxiously but joyfully to the arrival of a little baby, fearing to tell even her mother of her expecta-j tlons. This Is one picture of Blanche Gal vin which will l>e shown to the Jury, which tries her for murder in Council Bluffs February 4. This is the de fense's, picture. There will be another picture, tlie prosecution's, to lie shown to the jury, and it will he a darker picture. The state will paint her as a woman ot little character, dreading the com ing of her second fatherless child, pitinning for its destruction and ac complishing its death by exposing it to Icy October winds. Defense Claims Insanity. John H. Tinley, the girl's attorney, sketched in the outlines Wednesday ot the picture which he will present to the jury at the trial. His object will be to show that Miss Galvin was temporarily insane, maddened b> agony, when she took her hour-old in fant out of the apartment where it was born, laid it on the sidewalk and left it there. Tinley declared Wednesday that he has marshaled an array of facts which will prove conclusively that tlie young mother had been looking forward eagerly to the day of the child's arrival. A complete layette, with tiny pairs of knitted bootees which she had made herself, will b? shown to the jury as proof that she had no murder in her heart. Miss Galvin went over the scene of the alleged crime Wednesday morn ing with Mr. Tinley and Deputy Sheriff *)ra Klnscll, describing her ac tions on the night when the child was born. This was done at the re quest of Mr. Tinley, who wished to understand the location and the events of that night. DoAor to Testify. Important witnesses at the trial will be an Atlantic (la.) doctor, and an official of the Atlantic hospital. The doctor will testify, Tinley says, that he told Miss Galvin that the child would not arrive for a week after the day on which It was actual ly born. The hospital official will testify that Miss Galvin had made a reservation at the hospital for about the date figed by the doctor. Tinley will produce other witnesses, he said Wednesday, to show how cir cumstances had conspired to bring about the birth of the vhild when the mother was alone In a Council Bluffs apartment, with no doctor within reach. Girl Served on Jury. He will show, he said, that the girl had been serving on a Jury in At lantic, aJid that this Jury was die missed for the weekend on the day before the child was born. The girl's mother wished to take advantage of this recess by driving to Council Bluffs to visit her sisier, and Insisted that her daughter go witli iter. The Nebraska Lawmakers in Session | Leonard . Vfienry JbchreK?[ JjsS “--J Stephen fan girl, fearing to give her mother a hint of her condition, felt that she did not dure refuse to go. After their arrival in Council Bluffs Miss Galvin became ill, and remained in the apartment while her mother and siatei* went for au automobile fide. While the girl was thus left alone, the child was born. Under these trying circumstances, Tinley will claim, the young woman could not have acted with full knowledge of what she was doing. Father of Child. Tinley will place on the stand the father of the child. This man. accord ing to Tinley, married another wo man two weeks before Miss Galvin s child was born, although he and Miss Galvin were engaged. The man can not he arrested, Tinley said, but he will be forced to supply facts which will aid the defense case greatly. This man is now 23, and Miss Galvin is 22. Wilber Community Club . Presenting Daily Programs Wilber, Jan. 21.—The Wilber Com munity club is presetting a commun ity program each day this week. The celebration began Sunday with appropriate music and addresses at the Methodist church and will ter minate January 23 with a retail con ference of Willier merchants, a spe cial program at the high school as sembly room in the afternoon and r, banquet supper at the Methodist Church in the evening. A play will he staged at the W’ilber opera house the last night entitled “The Road to ihe City." under the auspices of American I.egion Post No. 101. with a local talent, cast under direction of T. J. Llttrell. , York Pioneer Drops Dead. York, Jan. 21.—Michael Shambaugh. a farmer residing jn the neighbor hood of Bradshaw and a pioneer Bet tier of York county, dropped dead of heart disease Monday afternoon while In a York business house. Mr. Sham baugh had been 111 for some weeks with heart disease, but felt he bad entirely recovered. Court Opens at Osceola. Osceola. Jan. 21.—District court opened sessions In Osceola Monday. Judge Harry D. I^indis of Seward priding. Numerous equity and pro 1 bat. cases will be heard. Klks Holds Jubilee. Beatrice, Jan. 21.—Beatrice lodge of IJks opened the basement of its club rooms on North Fifth afreet with a Jubilee* Thursday evening. launch I eon was served. PRINT CRAFTSMEN MEET WEDNESDAY T. W. McCullough of The Omaha Pee will speak on the life^md char acter of Renjamin Franklin at the meeting of the Omaha Club of Print ing House Craftsmen at Hotel Rome next AVednesday evening. I.loyd Wallace, superintendent of the Thomas D. Murphy company’s plant at Red Oak, la., will speak on color work. Presbyterians Unite With Methodists at Table Rock Table Rock, Jan. 21.—Members of the Presbyterian church at a meeting called by Rev. Paul C. Payne, chair man of the Presbytery's committee on vacancies and supplies, to consid er union of the two churches, Method ist and Presbyterian, of this place, owing to the fact that the Presbyter ians were unable properly to support a minister without outside aid. As a result of the conference, 19 members of the Presbyterian church united with the M. K. church Sunday eve ning and others are expected to do so in the near future. Mills Funeral Today. 8p<m-IaI DUpatch to The Omalia IS**. Osceola, Jan. 21.—Funeral serviceR for M. A. Mills will be heM Thursday afternoon at 2:30 at the family resi dence in Osceola. All business places In the city will be Hosed dur ing th* funeral hour in honor of the former legislator. -• Horses Bring Higli Prices. Seottsbluff, Jan. 21.—At a farm sale near this city twro teams belonging to George Shildt established a new price record for this section, one bringing $495 and the other $4S0. The horses were draft animals of Perch eron strain, but were not purebred stock. Sanders Cleared of Charges. Madison. Jan. 21.—Eddie Sanders, charged with stealing Catl A. AVar den s automobile In Norfolk last No vember, and who was found in pos session of the car at Omaha, was ac quitted by a Jury In the diatrict court of this county o^ all charges. Woodmen to Celebrate. Osceola. Jan. 21.—Osceola, camp No, $20. N. W. A., will observe its Jlth anniversary Friday evening. January 22, with an old-fashioned basket lunch. Rev. H. A. Taylor will give an address on ' Modern AA'oodmen of America." Burgess Bedtime Stories «_—-* It, THORNTON W. HI RCJE88 T|i* simpler iftlnjis m*y chance to i»e •file hH liter they may l*e »*• *ee. - Peter Rabbit. Peter Becomes Keally Anxious Peter Rabbit was free, but just the same be was a prisoner, lie was free because be could leave Ihe little bramble-tangle In which he was hid ing whenever be pleased, lie was a prisoner because he didn't dare leave that little bramble-tangle. All night Hooty the Owl had watched that bram ble tangle, ready to pounce on Peter the instant he left it. Peter had thought that with the romlng of day he would have a chance to get away, but hardly had Hooty given up and gone to spend the day In a dark place when Terror the Goshawk took his "It's of no use." said Peter, ‘‘I can't hide and that * all there is to it." place and witched that bra mb* tangle. Several times Terror flew away to Mint for food, but he never went far. Peter didn't dare leave the bramble tangle while thei% was any chance that Terror might be near. Each time Terror returned and resumed watch. Twice during the day Reddy Fox qima and peered Into the bramble tangle. A little before shadow time Terror the Goshawk flew away and Peter knew by the way in which he flew that he had gone for good. With a little sigh of thankfulness Peter pre pared to leave the hramble-tangle. He had just poked his head outside and was looking this way and that way when Hooty the Owl arrived on his watch tower again. Peter saw him just in time and hurriedly drew hack. "Oh, dear," whimpered Peler, "1 wonder If that fellow Is going to keep me here another night. I'll starve to death If I can't get out of here soon. It vas bad enough over In the dear Old Briar Patch, but it Is worse her*. My, those fellows must be hungry to bs 80 patient. They must want me very much indeed. If Hooty keeps watch all tonight and Terror cornea hark tomorrow morning. I don’t see how 1 am going to get away from here. If only I had a white coat like my cousin, Juniper the Hare, I might have some chance. Rut without any leaves on the brambles I am In plain sight all the time. Those fellows can look right down through the bram bles and are me sitting here. If only t could hide they might think that somehow I had managed to get away, and then they would stop watching.’’ Then Peter really began to usa his wits. He began to look about for some means of getting out of sight. He crept under where the brambles were thickest, but It didn’t take him long to find out tW even there he could still he seen by sharp eyes. He hunt ed nil through that little bramble uncle, but there wasn't a place In It where he couldn’t be seen. "It'a of no use." said Peter. "I can’t hide and that's all thera 1» to It." And right then 1^ thought of some thing. He thought of a way of hldln ^ that was so simple he couldn’t un derstand why he hadn t thought of it before. , "1 guess I must be getting stupid, t guess my wits must hsve been asleep," muttered Peter. (Copyright ll!l) The next story: "Peter Gets Out of Sight." ___ Former Registrar Dies. Sidney, Jan. 21.—George ¥. Blan chard, 84, one of the earliest regis trars. of the Sidney land office, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ark., last week. ___ ^nmp.qon Eelclen Lovely New I Daytime Frocks from L’Aiglon 695 Made entirely by hand from fine English broad- < ; cloth, hand-drawn work, and French flounces \ hand embroidered. The small round white * ! collar is also dainty with drawnwork and em- '{ • broidery. These delightful frocks are of plain color; flowers are of another shade; collars are white. ; Sun yellow with lavender—blue with pink— ; pink with blue—peach with blue—mellon with blue—flame with blue—lavender with pink— : old rose with blue—white with pink—sizes 16 to 40. Second Floor. “The Best Place to Shop, After All” Bills Filed Yesterday V✓ By Associated Pre$». TJncoln. .Tan. 21.-—Following is s digest of bills Introduced In the legislature to il a y; Renats Flies. S. F. 73. by Griswold- To fill vacancies on non-political ballot prior lo ths gen eral election by the filing of petitions with the secretary of Rtatp. S. F 74. by l*augh|fn—Provides for s nurseryman's lien upon real estals for planting trees, shrubs, etc. 8. K. 75. by I.atighlin—Prohibit* per sons from practicing law for other* In Justice or police court* or any other; court In the state without a license or having been admitted to the bar. House Rolls. If. R. 111. by Hinman—-Provides that when persons who appeal from Judgment rendered againat them give bond, one of the conditloni of the bond shall be that sureties waive right to answer and defend in any court and shall authorize clerk to confess judgment tfiereon. H. R. 112, by Wittier—Provides cities of second class permission to operate hos pitals and levy maintenance tax, on vole of 60 per cent of people. H. R. 113. by Wingett—Makes unlawful the taking of peyotea or mescal and pro vide* penalty. H. It. 114, by Wingett—Cuts county highway budget from 75 to 60 par cent of motor vehicle tax fund. H. R. 115, py Stone (by request)—Cre ate* board of state examiners for heir dteAsers, cosmeticians and cosmetologist*. H. R. 116, by Coulter autJ Whitney — F*tsb!lshf.* ss new game r-serv* all that portion of state on the North /Matte r.ver and nearby territory. if. R. 117. by Miner— Requiring persons who sell foodstuffs acd who u** coupons, etc., to pay monthly Means* tax of 925 n month. H. R. 119, by Haffarman—Providing for payment by counties on option of 10 cents on each and every pocket gopher, crow, chicken hawk and ground squirrel killed. H. R. 119, by Hefferman—Providing for creation of new school districts by county superintendent, the only fact and pro ceedure neresaary being ths existence of unorganized territory and the making of the order. Farm Sells at $175 an Acre. Beatrice, Jan. 21.—An 80-acre tract, part of the Sherman Taylor farm near Wymore, belonging to Mra. Gue Helml* of that place, has been aold to Fred Krlder for $175 an acre. Tile deal was a. caah one, and ae the land la unimproved, It lobka aa though prlcea were picking up. 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