Missing Alcohol
O
Agent Back, but
Visitors Repelled
Wife and Federal Agents De
cline to Reveal Past or Pres
ent Whereabouts of
Frank Peterson.
Frank L. Peterson, head of the
Roseville distillery who disappeared
January 21 and whose accounts are
sold by federal agents to show a
shortage of 6,000 gallons of alcohol,
has returned to Omaha, Elmer E.
Thomas, prohibition director, admit
ted Friday.
> Thomas said that a complaint was
being drawn up and that Peterson
would be placed under formal arrest
Friday afternoon.
Not at Home.
A reporter for The Omaha Be*, who
visited Peterson's home at 803 South
Fifty-ninth street was informed by
Mrs. Peterson that her husband was
not there.
She refused to say where he was.
or whether or not she knew where
he was.
•'I have nothing at all to say. 1
won’t tell you anything about It at
all,” she Insisted,
Asked whether she wished to make
a statement on behalf of her husband
tn denial of the charges, she repeated
that she had nothing to say.
Legion Worker.
“I don't know whether he wants to
make a statement or not,” she said.
"I certainly don’t*
Mrs. Peterson and federal agents re
fused agents refused to say where
Peterson had been since he left Oma
ha. January 21.
Peterson is prominent In American1
5»glon circles In Omaha and is a
termer captain in the Nebraska Na
tional Guards.
Humboldt to Entertain
Two Distinguished Guests
Humboldt, Feb. 13.—The Chamber
fit Commerce of this city will have as
guests at» dinner Monday evening
■February 16, Judge B. I. Salllpger of
Carroll, la., and H. J. Corwin, mayor
fit Topeka, Kansas. They will make
ghort talks. Judge Sallinger will
Silpeak at an open meeting of the
Ftnlghts of Pythias lodge No. 25, after
the banquet and Mayor Corwin will he
the guest of Rev. B. H. Dawson, pos
ter of the Christian church.
Student at Chadron
Knocks Doan Teacher
Who Slapped His Face
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Chadron, Feb. 13.—One of the. boys
of the Chadron High school gave his
teacher a heavy blow nnder the chin
in return for slaps across ihe face
while being reprimanded for improper
conduct in tlie halls at the beginning
of t-he noon intermission,
Tlie blow sent tlie instructor sprawl
ing to the floor.
Tlie student was taken before the
superintendent, who seriously consid
ered expelling him. However, it was
agreed that the instructor over
reached his authority in slapping Jlie
young mail, and tlie student was per
mitted to remain in srhool.
STAT SATURDA Y
Fourteen Farms
. Sold for $334,955
Average of $201,77 an Acre
Paid for 1.660 Acres
Near Cre6ton.
Columbus, Feb. 13.—Authentic fig
ures compiled by E. E. Luedtke, cash
ier of the Citizens’ State bank at Cres
ton, in the northeast part of Platte
county, show that during the past 90
day’s 14 farms in that vicinity have
been sold, most of them for March 1
transfcrP at prices averaging $201.77
an acre. Luedtke declares every sale
was a cash deal.
The 14 farms total 1,660 acres, and
the prices paid total $334,955.
Practically all the sales were of the
nelghbor-to-nelghbor type in which
there is no inflation of prices for re
sale purposes.
Woman Near 90 at Death.
Columbus, Feb. 13^-Within a few
months of her 90th birthday, Mrs.
Anna Claussen, a resident of Colum
bus and vicinity since 18S5, died at
the family home here yesterday. She
leaves her husband, one son and one
daughter. /
Simmons Demands
Immediate Action
on Farmer Relief
Tells House Floor Leaders
West Exjiccts Vote at
Once; Scores Petty
Bills Before Body.
Special Dispatch to The Omnhn Ilee
Washington, D. C.t Feb. 13.— l.egis
lation, which Congressman Robert
Simmons of Nebraska believes petty
and Inconsequential anil which Is get
ting precedence over more important
matters in the house, brought forth
the ire of\the young Nebraska con
gressman yesterday. In a speech to
the house he denounced the present
tactics of house leaders and demanded
that petty matters be set aside.
"During the last campaign Presi
dent Coolidge promised he would
name a commission to Investigate
agricultural conditions, to find a way
In which the farmer could be helped
to prosperity,” said Simmons. "On
the strength of this promise the
farmers of the west flocked to the
president's standard. The president
named his commission, and that com
mission has made its recommenda
tions, many of which would be of
immediate relief to our western farm
ers. So far the leaders in the house
have neglected to bring out fhe
recommendations of the commission
for pctiop. Their excuse is, ‘We
haven’t time now.’
"The house has plenty of time to
consider such momentous questions
as to whether tourists to the capitol
should be forced to pay 23 cents to
guides conducting them through the
capitol and long debates on the
weighty subject of reducing the price
of vises to American travelers in
Europe.
"I do not claim that these meas
ures should not he considered, but I
do think that more important mat
ters, such as farm legislation, should
be considered at once.”
Today
When You Hunt Real Es
tate.
Pity Mrs. Glass.
Lincoln s Return.
A Job for the Fords.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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When you are doing one thing, it
is hard to continue interest in other
things. That’s what makes it hard
for the average American concen
trated on his particular enterprise,
ty pay attention to government,
science, grand opera, studies on
atomic construction, and the latest
developments of the mechanism, the
theory in biology.
This is written during a pause
in a land-hunting expedition. The
day’s task is the selection of a 10,
000-acre tract along the new line
of the Seaboard Air Line railway.
When your mind is on land, other
things dwindle.
The most important personage
today seems to be Mrs. Giaae, who
keeps the excellent hotel at Stuart.
Her father bought a few hundred
acres on the ocean front. General
Grant, as president, signed the gov
ernment deed. It cost*25 cents an
acre. "We got tired of paying
taxes, even if it was only a dollar or
two, so we sold the land for $1 an
acre. That was a profit of 300
per cent on the cost. We thought
we did pretty well.’’
She sighed, and so would you
have sighed. The land would be
cheap at $2,000 an acre now. Com
pare Cassandra’s wailings and warn
ings with a case like that. There
are real estate tragedies, like the
Indians selling New York City for
$24, that not even Euripides could
handle.
Get the right piece of real estate,
somewhere, and having got it, grap
ple it to your bosom with hooks of
steel, don’t let anybody get it itvny
from you that you may not curse
your folly, as you grow older.
That being snid, what is the news,
apart from Mrs. Glass’ calamity?
Not much. If Lincoln had come
back to spend his birthday he would
have found us in a land closely
united, once more, but with many
subdivisions, for every American,
at least 10 lots neatly laid out, each
an opportunity once missed, never
to be equaled. , ^
He, who represented, no mf>nrv,
and constant, earnest, worried
thinking, would find us a nation of
money unlimited, and little think
ing. He would find children learn
ing one or two of his speeches by
heart, grown men celebrating his
birthday with golf or other substi
tutes for mental occupation. And
he would find, if he brought one of
his speeches up to date and deliv
ered it, adapted to our day, that we
do not tolerate ultra-radicalism, or
bolshevism, and our best minds
minds would tell him so, plainly.
Lincoln would find two or three
men in the senate denouncing the
plan to turn over public property at
Muscle Shoals, wo.rth hundreds of
milligji?, to private exploitation. He
would want to shake hands with the
few objectors. But the spirit guid
ing him back to earth would say:
“Don’t do that. Those senators are
not considered respectable. They
have been put nut of the party that
you established. Don’t you see
that they are opposing the man
agement of the country by its nat
ural rulers, the big corporations?”
The La Fnllette followers “clash,”
as newspaper English puts it, in
their efforts to. establish a perma
nent third party. The clashing is
unnecessary, also the discussion
about admitting socialists to the
third party.
This is not a country for three
parties, or two parties, either.
It is a one-party nation. The one
party has two divisions, republican
and democratic. The democratic
half is a sort of spare tire, carried
behind prosperity’s band wagon. It
is there, just in case, kept ready
inflated, that if an accident should
lianpen, a republican blow-out
would hardly be noticed by the pas
sengers. The democratic substitute
might be a little smoother, more
conservative than the republican,
but very little.
Happy a people that have no his
tory. Happy, perhaps, but dull. The
history of America as written for
this period would say: “Continual
development of intensely scientific
industry, with great increase in
wealth marked the second quarter
of 20th century.
“Civilized Europe, and partly civ
ilized Asia, saw in the great repub
lic only what Venice had repre
sented a few centuries before,
wealth to he envied, and extracted,
if possible."
If this country had time t« think
seriously outside of real estate busi
ness and stocks, the gentlemen that
oppose aircraft* construction and
defense, to maintain the profits of
battleship builders, might find them
selves on trial, to decide yhether
they were traitors, or onl/ fools. A
congressional committee listens to
the statements that 12 anti-aircraft
guns could ward off any aircraft
attack.
Army fliers testify that trained
air pilots “snap their fingers at
anti-aircraft guns,” the question is
not one of opinion. The govern
ment knows that anti-aircraft guns
are useless, thanks to the following
experiments: A dummy airplane,
very conspicuous, and offering the
same target as a regular machine,
was dragged through the air behind
a real flying machine, at rather
slow speed and at rather low eleva
tion. The anti-aircraft gunners,
excellent marksmen, did their best.
And how many hits did they score?
Not one.
There is no defense against air
plane attack, except airplane de
fense. One flight of airplanes,
which means two inexpensive ma
chines, can sink any battleship, in
the v»orld. Fortunately, the nation
may not find it necessary _to depend
exclusively on our politicians, low
class statesmen and high class graft
ers. Henry Ford and other manu
facturers may do for the people
what they lack, the brains and en
ergy to do for themselves.
It is said that Mr. Ford’s son, in
many ways as able as his father,
and with the blessing of youth, is
deeply interested in aircraft. If
predictions are verified and the
Fords, father and son, undertake
the building pf all-metal airplanes,
in quantity production, one great
problem will be solved.
If Ford will supply machines
plenty of young Americans will be
ready to fly them. We may not
have at first such machines as the
British are building, to go six miles
a minute, and faster, if possible.
But with enough flying machines,
any flying man from Asia or else
where would receive a warm wel
come in this country, before reach
ing the ground. And they would
reach the ground, soon after.
The Fords have the power, knowl
edge, industrial genius and money
to put this nation ahead of all oth
ers in air defense. Let them do
that, and their fame will outlast
the memory of war.
(Copyright. 19!*.»
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Dairy Industry Boosted
in Address at Columbus
Columbus, Feb. 13.—Business men
were urged by M. N. Lawritson, as
sistant manager of the Nebraska
Dairy Development society, in an ad
dress to the chamber of commerce
here to discourage the uae cT oieo
margerinp and other substitutes for
dairy products.
"Thertf is no danger' of dairy de
velopment being overdone In Ne
braska," Mr. Lawritson declaredl "as]
the consumption Is constantly in
creasing. The greatest threat to Ne
braska’s dairy Industry now, how
ever, Is the use of substitutes of In
ferior food value.”
Lawrltaon conducted a dairy cow
demonstration here.
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Funeral for Ex-Inspector.
The funeral of John W. Long, for
mer Inspector of weights and meas
ures, will be held from Bethel A. M.
K. church, Twenty-fifth and Franklin,
Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
r* “FWT” Signing Off 1
All Winter Styles
Come Saturday for the Be»t
Values You Ever Saw
Coats Dresses
F. W. Thorne Co.
1812 Farnam Street
—X
I “Abraham
| Lincoln—
j Servant of a
| Great Cause”
This Subject Will
Be Discufiicd by
Rev. Ralph E. Bailey
•t
The First Unitarian Church
(The Church of Liberal
Christianity)
3114 Harney Street
SUNDAY AT 11:00 A. M.
Th« lourth of » series of biographi
cal .ermon. on the subject: “Re
ligiou. Liberal, of American Life.’
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Ask for Children’s Musterole.
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j
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We Picture Only Examples of the
Bargains in This Sale
Please note below how our entire stock is plainly
marked for this sale. Every piano tagged in plain
figurgs. One price to all and lowest made since
the war. Note the discounts on new Players and
Uprights:
Value $550. New Value $.125. New A 7
rlayer rut to... Upright cut to
Value $0*0, New Value $400, New $00*7
Player rut to... Upright rut to
Value $700, New Value $421. New »OQC
Player rut to... Upright cut to
Value $760, Naw Value $4*0, New $337
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Value $77*. New Value 147*. New $3R3
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Value $150, New Value $*60. Naw
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