Three Suspects
Captured After
Hot Gun Battle
Eliots Co Wild as Police Chase
Fugitives in Alleys and
Streets Around
Station.
Three suspects engaged In a run
ning gun duel with police Friday aft
ernoon after they had escaped from
Ihe custody of two officers at the
very doors of the police station.
They were captured after a chase
through the streets and alleys around
the police station, and were lodged
in jail for Investigation. None of
the bullets took effect, though the
officers emptied their guns in return
ing the fire of the fugitives.
The three men, who gave their
names fl« Ernest Verguel of Platts
tnnuth. Neal McMillan, State hotel,
*nd J. R. Gould, 201R Harney street,
Were flret seen speeding across Six
teenth and Harney streets In a light
touring car. Pillbox Officers Max
Targaczewskl and Robert Oreen gave
chase and caught them at Fourteenth
and Douglas streets. The officers
then got In the car with the men and
ordered them to drive to the police
station.
As the car was turning into the po
lice station driveway, one of the men
In the rear seat leaned forward and
strui'k Targaczewskl on the jaw with
a revolver. All three men then
* leaped from the car and fled.
As the officers leaped out of the
oar to follow them McMillan turned
and opened fire. Targaczewskl drew
his gun and returned the fire, empty
ing his gun without effect.
The three fugitives separated In
their flight and one of them, Vergfiel,
fell into the arms of Patrolman Ches
ter Rishling, who was coming to
work. Targaczewskl succeeded in
overtaking and rapturing another,
and the third, who had clambered over
a high billboard near the station, was
captured In an outbuilding behind the
Joe Block Paper company at Eleventh
and Farnam streets.
A quantity of merchandise was
found In the car In which the men
were riding. Police are checking up
to see whether the goods were stolen
OMAHAN HEADS
RAINBOW VETS
Twenty-five world war veterans of
the Rainbow division organized a
Rainbow Division society at a meet
ing Thursday night In the American
l.eglon club rooms In Council Bluffs.
Oliver S. Relley of Omaha was elect
ed president of the society and Ray
mond Hodges of Omaha wa# elected
vice president. Walter Nead of Coun
cil Bluffs was named secretary and
treasurer.
Preliminary plane were mad# at
the meeting Thursday night for the
entertainment of all veterans of the
Rainbow division during the American
l.eglon convention In Omaha next |
» September. The society will attempt 1
to have the Iowa Rainbow Division
society hold its annual convention In
Council Bluffs at this time, and will
ask the American l.eglon convention
officials to set aside one day when
all legion delegates will be guests of
the society at a meeting In Council
Bluffs.
The society will apply at once to the
National Rainbow Division society for
a charter.
“Closing the eyes accentuates the
hearing,’’ observes somebody. That
may work in church but not In heavy
traffic. _ ^ ’
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Burgess Bedtime
Stories
V_____'
By THORNTON W. BIRO ESS
Blest be he whose kindly deed
Supplies a suffering neighbors need.
— Blacky the Crow.
Blarky Is Provided For
Farmer Brown's Boy stopped run
ning as he saw Blacky the Crow fly
out of the henhouse and watched
him disappear in the Green Forest,
cawing as if he thought himself very
clever.
“Well,” Said Farmer Brown's Boy,
"I never before have known Blacky
to trust himself Inside of anything.
He must have been hungry. In fact
he must have been almost starving.
Nothing less would have made him
hold enough to walk right Into that
henhouse. . I hadn't thought ' of
Blacky. Of course, with everything
frozen over he must find It mighty
hard work to get a mouthful. He
saw that henhouse door open and
saw the hens picking up corn. He
was so hungry that he just took a
chance. I'll fix him.”
Now, that sounded like a threat.
It sounded as if Farmer Brown’s Boy
meant to do something to Blacky the
Crowe He didn't. He Intended to do
something for Blarky. He went
straight Into the bain, and when he
liHd put tlmt corn out there especi
ally for him.
came out- he brought with him sev
eral ears of corn. These he took over
to the fence, some distance away and
tied them to one of the fence posts.
‘'There," said he, “that black rascal
will he sure to find these, for those
sharp eyes of Ills don't miss any
thing, He can eat over here in com
fort. It isn't near enough to the
house to make him nervous. I guess
that while tills Icy crust lasts 1 will
have to keep Blacky supplied With
food. The Green Forest wouldn't he
right without Blacky the Crow. Nn
slr, It wouldn't he right. Blarky Is
aa much a part of the Green Forest
as the trees themselves."
Now, though Blacky had disap
peared from Farmer Brown's Boy's
sight, he himself could see Farmer
Brown' ■ Boy-. He saw Farmer
Brown's Boy doing something at that
post, and he became very curious.
As soon as Farmer Brown's Boy had
gone hack to the house Blacky flew
to a tree where he could see that
post better. He blinked his sharp
' ey-es several times. *
"That looks to me very much like
corn,” said Blacky to himself. “Yes,
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sir, that I* corn or I don't know
corn when I see It." But what did
Farmer Brown's Boy leave it on that
fence post for? He never has done
such a thing before. There is some
thing queer about this. My, but I
would like some of that corn this
very minute!"
For *a long time he sat in that
tree watching. First, he would look
at the corn, and then he would look
over at Farmer Brown's house.
Blacky the Crow was suspioiotis. He
suspected a trick of some kind. He
tried to make up his mind to fly
away from there and think no more
about that corn. But he rouldn’t. No,
sir, he couldn't. After a while he ven
tured to fly slowly over that fence
post. Tits sharp eyes saw the string
with which those ears of corn were
tied to the post. 'Chat made him still
more suspicious. He flew' to another
tree, and there for a long time he
sat silent and watchful. But Farmer
Brown's boy didn't appear. Antt at
last Blacky made up his ntlnd to
have a closer look at that corn.
He flew over and alighted on that
fence post. Even then he hesitated
for some time to try that corn. But
finally he began to pick at it. Then
he made up his mind that there
wasn't any trick. He made a shrewd
guess. He guessed that Farmer
Brown's Boy had put that corn out
there especially for him. "Caw! Caw!”
shouted Blacky joyously. Farmer
Brown's Boy. hearing it, knew that
that was Blacky's way of. saying
thank you.
(^opyrijcht, 1925.)
The next story: "Jumper the
Hare's Race for Life.” ,
Truck Hits Wagon.
Oliver Smith, driver of a truck for
the Oilinsky Fruit company, reported
to police that his truck had holiided
Thursday afternoon with a team and
wagon of the American Express com
pany. The hftrses escaped injury and
damage was slight. H. P. Perrine
was the driver of the express wagon.
Stock Market
Trend Is Down
Department of Agriculture
Review Here Shows Low
/ er Prices.
The tfnited States Department of
Agriculture review of the livestock
market in Omaha for the week is as
follows:
t'attle: Liberal country loading,
coupled with narrow demand for
dressed meats and resultant conges
tion proved bearish factors in the fat
cattle market here and elsewhere and
trend to values has been consistent
ly downward throughout the period
under review.
Local packers have complained of
shortage of storage space and this
has laid a noticeable effect of cutting
down of buying orders and with in
quiry of shippers limited the entire
deal has lacked life with the drift
to prices sharply lower.
Beef Steers Isiwer.
In general beef steers and year
lings are quoted as mostly BO and 75
cents lower with emphasis on the
75-cent decline from a week ago. Best
sleers for the week, medium weights,
landed at ?10. Market for killing she
stock followed closely that of beef
steers, although the lower grade did
not share in the full decline. Bulls
dropped 25 to 75c. Vealers showed n
decline of around 50 cents, closing
practical top, $10.25. Market on Stock
ers and feeders has been a dull af
fair. Supplies have not been liberal,
but feeders have been discouraged
by the lower trend of fat cattle and
this narrowed inquiry and losses of
25 to 50 cents on both steers and thin
she stock from a week ago.
Hogs Irrpgular.
Ibigs: Market for hogs followed an
uneven trend. Late last tveek and
early this week values soared to new
high price levels, top reached a new
high altitude for the winter packing
season, $11.03. Increased supplies and
lower trend to dressed i>ork products
resulted in sweeping declines and cur
rent prices show the early advances
Wiped out and spots 10 cents lower
from a week ago. Thursday’s bulk of
sales ranged from $9.90 to $10.00; top,
$10.75.
Sheep: Depressed dressed lambs and
mutton trade coupled with generous
supplies resulted In a lower trend of
values of all classes of sheep ami
'aliibs, 111 a general way Thursday’s
price list shows fat lambs 25040c
lower; sheep, 50$ 75c down, with feed
ing lambs off as much as 75$)90c.
Closing bulk for fat lamb* was $17.25
$17.35; top, $17.60; fat ewes, $8.50$’
9.25; feeding lambs, $16.50$ 16.60.
SISTER OFFERS
TO AID BROTHER
Columbus, Neb., Fph. 13.—Refusing
to permit a sister to make a sacrifice
for a wayward brother, District
Judge T,ouis Llghtner sentenced
Frank Archer, jr., of Omaha, to the
penitentiary for from one to five
years.
Archer was convicted recently of
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New York Life
Insurance Company
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FRED B. GREUSEL,
Special Agent
| Information Without Obligation
337 Omaha Nat’l Bk. Bldg.
Phone AT 0937, Omaha, Neb.
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having defrauded a Oreston. Neb.,
garage man out of a $7*5 automobile
in 1922. by representing himself to be
the owner of two *500 registered Lib
erty bonds which he used in making
payment for the car and which
proved to have been stolen front an
Arnold Park, la., hank,
When Archer was arraigned for
sentence yesterday, his sister, Mrs. J.
N. Holtmyer, residing on a farm near
Omaha, volunteered to apply all the
money she could to make restitution
to the garage man for his loss If the
court would parole her brother In
order that she might have him placed
In a sanitarium, hut Judge Idghtner
held that the testimony showed he
was in full possession of his mental
faculties on the day of the swindle.
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^urgess-Nash and Oakford Company’s Stock of
Pianos and Musical Merchandise, at
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The Most Sensational Sale of Pianos, Phonographs and
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We have purchased BOTH the Burgess-Nash
and the entire Oakford Music Co. piano stocks
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sale of pianos, phonographs and musical mer
chandise ever held in the middle west.
Burgess-Nash and Oakford
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Burgess-Nash and Oakford Music Company
have enjoyed the reputation of handling only
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stocks from these firms include the finest in
America, such as the Steinway Duo-Art Repro
ducing Pianos, Chickering, Weber, Steck and j
Aeolian. Their Grands, Uprights and Player
Pianos embrace the celebrated Steinway, Kurtz
man, Steinert, Smith & Nixon, Bush & Gerts,
Wurlitzer, Vose, Haines and many others.
String instruments include the famous Paramount line, and band and orchestra in
struments include the renowned Holton line. Their stocks of sheet music are among
the finest and largest in Omaha, including the Schirmer Library and all standard
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$10.00 DOWN
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Oakford Price.$500 Oakford Price.$50
Chickering Grand $375 Shuman Player.. $298
Burgess-Nash Price, $800 Burgess-Nash Price, $600
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j $100 Mandolins... $65 5-String Banjos $5
Enbones $11 $20 Violin Outfits $11.75
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A MUTUAL ORGANIZATION —FOUNDED IN 184$
New York Life Insurance Co,
(Incorporated under the Laws of New York)
346 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y.
Eightieth Annual Statement
To the Policy-holders:
I am addressing an audience of about seven and a half million people. I directly,
address one and one-half million thoughtful men and women each of whom is respond
sible in some fashion for about four others.
My theme is your relation to each other and to your neighbors through the Ne\»
York Life Insurance Company.
I assume that mere figures about the Company have ceased to interest you in th^
old way. Whether we have in assets more or less than a billion dollars or do more of
less than seven hundred million dollars of new business in a year is interesting now,
chiefly because these once amazing facts tell how widely useful you are as a part of a
vast social enterprise which is both beneficent and beneficial.
May I in this yeartof grace try to give you a new thought about yourselves and if
I may so put it—about your duty to others.
You are the plain people that Lincoln referred to.
Few of you are very rich; few are very poor.
You are always quick to help your neighbor, even at some sacrifice to yourself.
If your neighbor is ill you sympathize with him, and if you know of some way in
which you can help him you eagerly offer your services.
If Diphtheria threatens him and his family and you know that he does not under
stand about the Diphtheria serum, you almost force him to get it and get it quickly.
You do the same about Typhoid or Pneumonia or Scarlet Fever.
If you are a farmer you tell your fellow-farmer of any process you know' by which
his crop may be increased or how his methods of marketing may be improved.
You are moved by the same impulse if you are a physician or a lawyer or a
merchant or a teacher or a mechanic or a clerk or a day laborer.
You do these things spontaneously. You expbct no reward. You know your
neighbor would gladly do the same for you.
In other words, your neighbors’ welfare has become a part of your own lifeS
your welfare is their concern, too.
This we call the milk of human kindness.
You could perform your greatest neighborly service in 1925, almost work a miracTa
in beneficence, if you would recognize the remedial power of life insurance in your
relations with your neighbor. Y ou hesitate because you think that w’hether or not
your neighbor insures his life is his private affair.
Insuring his life is no more your neighbor s private affair than is the condition
of his health.
Improvidence is just as real and just as dangerous as Disease. The poverty which
follows both is worse than either.
The future welfare of your neighbor's children and his own security in old ageare
your concern. You have observed the beneficent work of life insurance. ^.Why not
talk seriously to your neighbor about what you know?
Has it brought you peace of mind? Tell him so.
Has it taught you to save money? Show him how.
Are you getting more out of life for yourself and your
wife because you know your children will be provided
for? Explain that to him.
You will generally have a sympathetic auditor because he himself has seen widows
saved from dire poverty, families kept together and children educated by life insurance.
Y7ou and your neighbor have seen life insurance help your community and
Stale in other ways; by loans on farms, homes, business buildings, the purchase of the
bonds of your Town or County or State—through the purchase of Railroad bonds and
the bonds of the great public utility corporations that are so rapidly increasing humarw
efficiency and human comfort.
Can you, in short, talk with your neighbor about anything more vital, more in
harmony with every neighborly impulse?
Show him how this Company is benefiting him constantly even though he is not
a member of it. Tell him that he ought to become a member.
Send for one of our agents. Introduce him to your neighbor*
In brief follow the neighborly impulse here as you w'ould in other things—on the
perfectly sound theory that your neighbor’s welfare is your concern.
If in 1923 you each did this neighborly act and added one person like yourself
to our membership you would about double the outstanding insurance of the
Company. This would be a great piece of public service; it would be a fine neighborly
thing to do, and it would directly benefit you because, if the Company's outstanding
risks were doubled, its fixed charges would relatively decrease, and this saving would
lower the cost of your life insurance.
This is a policy-holders’ Company. It exists because you are provident. Its
strength and security are unrivaled. Its assets belong to you.
Your neighbor doesn t clearly know' all that. He doesn t realize that you are a
joint and several owner of more than a billion dollars. He probably doesn’t fulK*
understand what a prudent and desirable neighbor you are.
Tell him all about it.
DARWIN P. KINGSLEY,
Presiieri
Outstanding Insurance Dec. 31, 1924.. $4,695,000,000k00
New business paid for in 1924 ..... 746,000,000.00
Earning power of Assets, including cash in bank, Dec. 31,1924 5.06°^
Investments made in 1924 (excluding Loans on Policies) 122,000,000.00
Paid to and on account of Beneficiaries and Policy-holders
in 1924.. 169,000,000.00
Balance Sheet, January 1, 1925
Bond* at Markat Valu* a* determined by the Ineuranca Department, State at New York
ASSETS
Real Estate Owned. $7,314,032.75
Firet Mortgage Loans—
On Farms. 68.143.085.50
On Residential and Busina*s
Properties . 230,422,054.50
Loans on Policies . 168,308,446.91
Bonds of the United States... 84,354,410.00
Railroad Bonds. . 303,504,995.93
Bonds of other Governments,
of States and Municipalities 109,255,521.45
Public Utility Bonds. 43,251,785.00
Cash, including Branch Office
Balances . 5.804,721.62
Other Assets. 55,537,150.76
Total.$1,055,896,210.42
LIABILITIES
Policy Reserve. .(820,467,244.09
Other Policy Liabilities ...... 30,952,800.09
Dividends left with Company
to Accumulate at Interest . 16,126,659.14
Premiums, Interest and
Rentals prepaid . 2,969,867.36
Taxes, Salaries, Accounts,
etc., due or accrued 10*551*658.07
Additional Reserves . 10,390,417.00
Dividends payable in 1925 54,136,792.24
Reserve for Deferred Dividends 7,108,161.00
General Contingency Funds
not included above.«•«•*•«* 10U12.611.52
Total.$1,055*596.210.42
DIRECTORS
I.AWRI NCE F. ABBOTT DAVID R. FRANCIS DARWIN P. KINGSLEY FI FMING H REVELL
JOHN E. ANDRUS MYRON T. HERRICK RICHARD l. MANNING GEORGE M. REYNOLDS
CORNELIUS N Bl ISS CHARLES D. HILL IS JOHN G. MILBURN U BRIDGE G. SNOW
MORTIMER N.Bl'OKNE R ALBA R. JOHNSON GERR1SH H. MILL IKEN HIRAM R STEELE
NICHOLAS M. mm FR E’FRO Fl. kWINSTON FRANK PRESaHE1* iXS'AR S STRALSi
GEORGE B. CORTGLYOU W iGLARE) V. K1NG^ FUi.E.YN S. UAY1LS WAKFJJliJ
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