s"c“osB,r,oN | The Omaha Sunday Bee 1 1 j______ ■■ -. PART TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1925. 1—B Callahan Cleared in Samardick Attack i ___ New Loop for Bluffs Tram, Plan Retail Business Men Want Street Cars From Across River to Go West to Twentieth Street. Circle Downtown Area Many Omaha business men west of Sixteenth street, between Dodge nnd Harney street, want, to see the Coun cil Bluff street cars closer to their plares of business. rj^^ftey want the Omaha end Council Bluffs Street Railway company to re route the Council Bluffs cars so that, instead of bringing the passengers around the wholesale district where no benefits are derived, a new loop reaching lntot the retail district be created. The plan, according to the retailers who have given It careful study, Is sound. It la the hope of the business men to induce the traction company to have cars go as far as Fourteenth and Harney, Instead of Fourteenth, and Howard streets, then west on Harney to Twentieth street, north of I Twentieth to Dodge street, east on Dodge to Tenth street, south on Tenth to Douglas, and then to Coun ji cil Bluffs. ! Circle Business Section. I It will circle the entire downtown section, say the. retailers. Every large department store, public, and office building would be included In the loop. Passengers from Council Bluffs at present must walk fro'm Fourteenth street to Omaha's retail center. "When the route was first established It was In the heart of the business area. Now It Is too far away from the business section. The retailers also say the company hlready has a track built at the vari ous turning points on the proposed new loop. They say there will not be i a hill to climb and the street cars i will go ddwn the Dodge street grade. Company Too Busy. B. A. Deussler, general manager traction company, said his company was too busy to worry about any new loops or extensions. He also refused to say whether the loop plan was possible. Paul Kuhn and H. Malcolm Bal drlge are to outline the loop plans to the members of the executive com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce who will be asked to aid the retailers. Clarke G. Powell, commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce, said the proposed loop would he a good thing for Omaha. SUMMER CAMP FOURTH FULL Camp Sheldon, the Omaha Y. M. C. A. summer camp near Columbus, Neb., has already filled up one-fourth of Its entire quota for the summer. The camp period for boys from 12 to 15 years ha* 35 paid applications. Only 128 Omaha boys will be accept ed for the camp period and all the boys who have enrolled so far are old campers, some of whom are going to Camp Sheldon for the fourth consecu tive summer. Registrations for new campers opens next Saturday morning at 8:30. J. H. Beveridge Is chairman of the camp committee of the Omaha "Y" • HU J. O. Masters, Dr. Frank O. Smith, W. Dale Clark, J. S. Hedelund. Victor B. Smith, Herman Crowell and E. E. McMillan are other members of 1 the camp committee. E. E. Mlcklewrlght. boys’ work sec retary of the Omaha "Y,” will be Camp Director and J- Shaller Arnold, t superintendent of schools at Benton, ksekaw. will be associate director. Carl tvTfce will be camp physical director and Howard E. Ohman will ba In charge of nature study, musio and an tsrtalnmsnt. Morgan Mysrs, of ths Unlvarslty of Omaha, who has spent • years St Camp Sherdon. will bs camp banker and storekeeper. There will be a leader for every eight boys but these leaders have not all been selected as yet. KLINGBEIL GUILTY Grand Island, Neb., Feb. 21—Ar thur Kllngbell was found guilty of grand larceny by a Jury In district court here today. In connection with the Chapman bank robbery, for which he waa tried. The Jury returned Its verdict at 140 p. m., and attached a recom mendation for euapended sentence. IRodDscveEt - Lodge Letters Begin in The Omaha Bee Next Sunday THE Intimate pereonal letters Which passed between Theodore Room velt and Henry Cabot Ix>d*e during years when they occupied high places at the head of the nation's affairs will appear In The Omaha Bee In a notable feature which will etart Sunday, March 1, and appear dally and Sunday for alg weeks. "Dear Cabot” la the way the president addressed the senator. The senator salutes the president es "Dear Theodore," and they discuss Inti innte sffalrs of their families snd personal pinna as well as affairs of stale. fh The letters Include the time when Roosevelt was governor of New York and was considering running for the vice presidency and continue up to the period following his election to the presidency In l!»»4. Home of them go back to the ’80s when Roosevelt waa a ranchman. They are written from various places where the two happened to be, at their homes, on vacation trips or campaign tours or In the national capital. They form a record of great event* In the nation * history, written hy two remarkable men who took leadlnr parts. , __ ” 1 1 '•."" . ' - - : \ i, Proposed New Loop for Bluffs Trams It Court Sessions Too Far Apart in 71; Slayer Made Will Then Hanged by Mob Special Plapatch to The Omaha Bee. St. Helena, Neb., Feb. 21.—After the recent publication of the story of a lynching here In 1884 which was thought to be the earliest and only event of Its kind In this town. It was learned that John McBeth was hanged hy a mob here in 1871 for killing Henry Locke, a settler In thle locality. A few of the old settlers In northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota recalling the event. McBeth crossed the Missouri river from Vermillion, 8. D., being driven out of South Dakota after having been acquitted at Yankton on a technical point of the murder of a fellow soldier at Fort Buford, and took up his abode with Lo'cke, a Her man settler who lived alone on the bottoms and cut wood for a living. Shortly after, Locke was found dead in bis cabin and Jameson was gone. A reward of $500 for hks capture was offered and several months after the crime Jameson was found on a farm near Omaha and brought here b> Sheriff Plnney. The entire neigh borhood gathered on the scene and quite a number of people from Tank ton were present, all bent on seeing the man punished. There was no Jail here and courl did not meet for months, so, aftet considerable debating In which It was said the prisoner could not he held until a legal trial and had alreadj escaped conviction, a vote was taker and a large majority voted to hang him. Informed of the decision, .Tamesor made a speech on the front porch ol the hotel, admitting the murder ol both l^)cke and the soldier at Fort Buford, lie then aakeil for a priest to whom he made his last confession Then he made his will, giving one third of his property to a slater lr Howling flreer, Ky., one third to th( St. Helena Catholic church and the other third to the prlestI after which he was taken to a scaffold on a hll and hanged. PASTOR’S WIDOW INHERITS HOME UpM-lal Dispatch t* Th* Amah* Ha*. Shenandoah. Ia., Feb. II.—A $12,000 hom* In Ivis Angeles has been In herltad from a alster by Mr*. A. A. Walbum, widow of th* lat* Rev. Mr. Walburn, who was once paator of many Iowa Methodist church*#. Mr. and Mr*. Ben Perkins will move west with her. Mrs. Perkins is s daughter. Duke of Westminster and Wife to Separate lyindon. Feb. 21.—Negotiations are now going on between lawyer* rep resenting the duke and the durheaa of Weatmlnater with a view to avoid Ing th* divorce proceeding* which the duchess Initialed several months ago. In all likelihood they will settle their matrimonial difference* by signing a deed of separation, the Universal cor respondent learned today. NEBRASKAN, 86, DIES IN OMAHA Daniel Daggett, 84, pioneer resident of Nebraska, died Friday morning at the home of hie daughter. Mrs. C. R Kennedy, 1320 North Thirty eecond street. He oame to Omaha to ]lv< with Mr*. Kennedy and Dr. Kennedy 13 years ago. He was a retired ranch man of Keerney, Neb., where he had lived for more than 40 year*. He was a member of the Cored lodge of Odd Fellows. He la survived by three daughters, Mrs. Clyde Moore Mrs. Kennedy end Mrs. Minnie WIs ner, a teacher at Maaon school, and a son, Willis Daggett, of Kearney. Funeral services were held Katur day at 3 p. m., at the Stark funeral home. Burial was In Forest Lawn cemetery. MISSING PARTY OF AUTOISTS SAFE T.ns Angeles, Feb. 21.—Fear that in automobile party containing four women and a Jx>s Angeles real estat* dealer had been lost In tha mountain! near her* during a snowstorm wai allayed tonight when th* parly tel* phoned they were safe. They hsrt been held up In th* mountains by severe rains and snow. Composer Dies. By Wireless to The Aaaorktteit Press. Aboard Steamship Degrnase, At Sen, Fell. 21.—Marco Hnrlco Rosal organist and composer who wrote 11 • notional music ami presided at tin organ in the maiTlage of the kins and queen of Italy In 1894, died yea terdav after a brief Illness. Death came to Signor Mossl ns he w'a.s on hi* way to his home land, two day* after the Degrease sailed from New York f'>r Havre. He "** born In April, 1101, ♦ College Senior | Lies Down to Nap; I Dies in His Sleep James Walker Gilmore, 23, senior student at the University of Ne braska college of medicine, died Fri day evening of acute pneumonia at the University thospital. Gilmore went to sleep Wednesday evening and could not be wakened by his fraternity brothers at the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity house, 3817 Farnam street. Ills pulse beat was found to he rapid and his tempera ture went to 103 8 10 at the hos pital where he was Immediately taken. lie never regained con sciousness. Ills case was * acute pneumonia, said Dr. Irving Cutter, dean. It is rare that a person's temperature reaches that degree, said Dr. Cutter. Gilmore was a resident of "Mur • ray. Neb. Funeral services will be held Sunday at Murray. A number of his fraternity brothers will ac company the body to Murray. Tax Law Repeal to Be Considered Marriage Law and‘Anti-Sheik Bill Also I p This Week. Il.r Asuoelated I’reM. I.Incoln, Feb. 21.—Revision or re peal of the intangible tax law, pass age of the bill repealing the 10-day notice clause in the marriage law and consideration of the "anti-sheik" and child labor bills are high lights in the legislature's program for the com ing week. It will l.e a short legislative week, however, for sessions will not start ‘until Monday afternoon, and prob ably on Thrusday afternoon both branches will adjourn until Wednes day, March 4, to nllow members to go home and wind up mortgage and loan matters. A joint open hearing on the child labor proposition is to be held Tues day evening by senate and house con stitutional amendments committees and shortly thereafter it is the inten tion of friends of the proposed federal amendment to bring tho question of ratification out on the floor. Recause dozens of other bills on general file have precedence, however, a vote on ratification Is not expected until at. least the week after next. Tax Hill I p First. The Intangible tax hills are head Ing the list up for consideration In the house committee of the whole and probably Will be debated Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. That of Gilmore Adams, a farmer, repeals the whole law governing the taxation of securities, while that of Byrum of Franklin, a lawyer, makes intangibles taxable at 75 cents on the dollar in stead of 25 cents, os is now the law. With repeal of the act, they would he taxed at 100 per cent as is real property. Senator Cooper's hill, making It n felony for a person to allenlate the nffecilons of a wife or huaband, Is one of the foremost measures await Ing action on tile senate floor. This bill, aimed at "sheiks and designing women," Is likely to come up Mondax afternoon, with Senator Cooper fight ing to advance it to third reading. The marriage bill is due to be passed by the house Monday. It Was laid over today at tile request of Marker of Lancaster, who wished tlnn deferred until r full membership was present. DAIRY SOCIETY* PROGRAM TOLD The Nebraska Dairy Development society, organized last year, expect* to increase the efficiency of cows by taking away the nonproducers and popularizing the producing cow, ac | cording to Otto H. Llebers, manager of the society, Friday at ths Chamber of Commerce. He said a campaign would he held this year whereby the organization would advocate the use of purebred , sires, streee ths Importance of good feeding and care of dairy cows, sow more pastures to sweet clover and encourage boys' and girls" club*. Llebers ssld cows In Nebraska pro duced an average of only i.tiOO pounds of milk, or 102 pounds of f.«t, last year. The average of the country h 4 200 pounds of milk, or K.O pounds of fat, per cow. Nebraska Baby Boy 14 Pounds at Birth KllMls, Noli , l oll M I ho flr-l Im In Inn nf Mr nml Mr*. I'rfd Wolf, farmer* ll\inu four mlln oust nf Into, weighed II pound* hI birth, wn* 211 Imho* lone mill Iho lireesl IihIn o\or horn In fill* part nf Iho nlnlo. Ilr. If. II KaMon n.ai* ll In Iho hirer*! Ii.lln ho Inis nor soon llo Im* taken measure men!* fur 111* rernid*. Ro> mild* I* ’i nml hi* wife 21. Thr> me of Iho (1011111111 stork wlilrli •rttlod till* part oi the stmt. [Deadlock Seen in U. S. Plums Here Howell ami Jefferis Head Rival Camps Over Appoint ment of Postmaster and Federal Attorney. Senator Against Black Nebraska politicians are eyeing the federal plum tree, which Is to be shaken next July. Four jf the choice federal appoint ments Iri dlils district will be made In that month as follows: T'nlted States district attorney, collector of Internal revemie, T'nlted States marshal and postmaster for Omaha. Two rjval camps, headed by Sen ator R. R. Howell and Former Con gressman Albert W. Jefferis respec tively, have already been formed to support two set* of candidates. The fight will center principally on the ap pointment of the United States dis trict attorney and postmaster. Howell Opposes Black. Senator Howell Is known to be op posing to the reappointment of Post master Charles E. Black, which Is urged by Jefferis. Howell Is believed to be supporting the candidacy of W. G. Ure, former city commissioner, who Is a close friend oT Robert Smith clerk of the district court and a local republican leader. On the other hand, Howell Is sup porting the reappointment of J. C. lvinsler as United States district at torney, while Jefferis is throwing his support to T. J. McGuire, assistant state attorney general. Compromise Expected. The deadlock over the appointments to these two offices will probably and In a compromise between Howell end Jefferis, It Is predicted, each naming the appointee to one office. The reappointment of Dennis H. Cronin as United States marshal is looked upon as a foregone conclusion, as both Senators Howell and Norris are supporting him. Albert R. Alien Is also expected to be reappointed to be collector of In ternal revenue, as Senator Howell Is strongly supporting him and Jefferis has r.• it the field. YOUTH SHOT WHILE RIFLING GARAGE Sperlnl DUpatrh lo The Omaha Bee. York, Neb., Feb. 21,—Victor Neu jalir, IS, residing in York county, near Sunrise, lies In r hospital In York, suffering from r gunshot wound re ceived when he was found rifling the cash register at Cane's garage at Gresham. Karl Cane, the garage owner, has be»n robbed several times recently and had arranged an alarm, which sounded when the register was opened. While out of the garage he hpnrd the alarm and saw Nepjahr emerging from behind the counter. Neujahr failed to stop when ordered to do co and Cane shot him, the bullet passing through his leg. Marked money was found in his possession. LAWYER FREED IN FORGERY CASE Spri Ini UNpnteh to The Omehe Bee. Hnstin;:», Neb., Fch. 21.—At 4:05 this afternoon Judge W. A. Dilworth sustained the motion of the defpnsc and instructed the Jurv to relura e verdict of "not guilty" In the case of the state against James R. O'Con nor, Kansas City attorney, charged with uttering and publishing a forged will of John O'Connor. It was O'Connor s second trial. He was previously convicted end sen tenced to from ! to 7 years in the penitentiary on the charge, but the supreme court remanded the case on the ground of Insufficiency of evi dence. Judge Dilworth held the* the state had failed to show more evi dence. Farmer Fine Special Dispatch In The Omaha Bee. Missouri Valley, la.. Feb. 11.—The Northwestern railroad Is trying to protect the Blair bridge, eight miles weet of here, against the danger of finding Itself off the river. The bridge crosses the Missouri where the river makes a wide sweep snd touches the Nebraska bluffs, doubling hack a few miles south of where it flows under the bridge, about the same distance east. This leaves a tongue of land two miles wide snd over three miles long, that the river makes sn annual effort to cut through. Workmen are constructing a mon star mat. several thousand feet long and 75 feet wide that will be sunk along the shore north and east of the bridge The company has spent hun dreds of thousands of dollars to pro tect that part of the river bank In past years, and nearly every spring the work has to he done again. T-ast year the river, south of the bridge, cut to within a few hundred yards of Noble s lake, a fine body of water a few miles southwest of hsre, and men who have watched the river for years, sav It will finish ths Job this year CHARLES WOOSTER DIES ON FARM Charles Wooster, 49, only son ol the late Charles Wooster, sr . died Friday afternoon on his farm near Silver Creek, where he was born Heart dlseaae was the cause His mother and sister, Margaret, are on thair way from Northampton, Mam. to attend the funeral, which will ha held at the lu>me Monday afternoon. The body will he taken Omaha Monday evening for Maaonlt servlrea Tuesday morning, afte which It will lie cremated He Is survived by hla wife and five children at home. Five alstera and his mother live In other atates. Hla father. Charles Wooster, "the sage of Sliver Creek,'' died eeveral months ago. Purr Bred Milch Cow* Bring Good Price* at Sale *P*Hal Dispatch to The Omaha Hee. Beatrice, Nab , Feh. 21.—Silty five head of purebred Holstein milch cows were sold near Wymore, Neb., today by Jaap*r Mitchell. The average price was a trifle over $100. The top was $190. Buyers w«r# present from points In Nebraska and northern Kansas. Beatrice Get* New Well. lMapatrh to The Omaha Bee. Hentiloe. Nob. Fob. 31 The 1 .ana \V«*tern company of Kan*** tlty will alnk ;««I * 1111 < * n 11 wotlM hero in an of fori to Mcum an Attenuate ftupply of oily waltM The cnVnp«iny will bw paid on a eliding m ale according to tha \ohinu» of water aeon red. and if It la unmiooeMMful It win coat the city nothing It la aau| w urk will I** •ttrttd at one*. 3D.jy. Croni O'n/eiLL. Virginia Faire Denies She Even Knows Peterson Mi's Virginia Fair*, the young woman named hv federal officials as hiving accompanied Frank T^. Peter son from Omaha to Chicago. New Orleans and Havana. Cuba, denied Saturday In an interview at the Grand hotel. Council Bluffs that she knows Peterson. "I am an actress have appeared tn several New York companies and am here visiting friends in Omaha and Council P.luffs, 1 she said. Brunette Beauty. The young woman declined to so\ who heb friends are. She Is tall, dark, extremely good looking with snapping black eyes and Is dressed In the height of fashion. She Is said to have been In Ha vans when Peterson was apprehended there and she came back to Omaha the day he was brought bark here, February is. He is Tinder SS.OOfl bond to answer charges of disposing of 5.nan gallons nf alcohol the proper ty of the Bossville company of which he was local manager. Peterson Successor Named. Emmet S. Fowell has been arpotnt ed manager of the Roseville company, alcohol distributors, succeeding Frank L,. Peterson. Powell has been assistant manager of th* local office for two years and received hie appointment Friday. Prohibition Director Elmer Thomas concurred In the appointment of row ell as a successor to Teterson. Farmer Hangs Self. 'Allen, Neb, Feb. St.- Fred Rensted. 5S, farmer near here, committed sui cide by hanging. His eon found the body hanging In the corncrth several hours later. Ill health was the cause r ' Barnyard Yowls Anger Tavern Guests; Humane Shelter Gets Livestock; “They’re Stolen,” Cries Farmer John Bader, a farmer, drore In lo Omaha Friday yyith a irm kload of pig* and ralve* K.ncine trouble on the way delayed him and when he arrived here he parked hi* truck in front of the Hotel Home, engaged a room for hlm*elf and went to bed Along about II. the pig* and calve* got hungry and began to let the world know In thr customary manner. Tlir ralve* "malt h h ed" long and piercingly. Thr pig* squealed im patiently and loudly. Folk* trying to sleep In th* hotel began calling thr clerk and wonder ing "ythal'a the hies In thr barnyard attachment to thl* tavern?” Thr clerk went out and looked at the truek. Thr tdg* and calve* renewe«l their clamor. Hoy* wa* the rlerk to know the hone*t farmer was snoring in hi* room. Hy midnight It w.*« a question as to which wa* making the most uproar, the animal* or the hotel guest* \t lt:X0 poller were notified Ity I, Manager John Boucher of the Nebraska Humane society was on the job and at ? the truck w.»* landed at thr humane society headquarter*. Twenty second and liaivl street*, haying been towed thither. Mr Rader, arising befory> daylight, rushed to the hotel clerk and said hi* Intek of hog* and ealyes had horn stolen Then hr wa* told yylterr to find them \nd h« > Saturday morning thr animal* werr safely disembarked In the stockyards and had a bounteous breakfast. *- in _ , - ■» 9 Innocent of Attempt to Hurt Charge Jury Deliberate* but Three and One'Half Hours on Case; ^ erilict in at 2:30 O'Clock. Goss Hears Home Looted Frank Callahan, 4369 J.afayette avenue, a produce dealer, was acquit ted Saturday afternoon of charges of shooting with intent to kill and shoot ing with intent to wound. Chief Fed eral Prohibition Agent Robert Sa mardlek. The jury at first stood 9 to 3 for acquittal and reached the unanimous verdict at 2:30 Saturday afternoon aft er deliberating three and a half hours, in the jury room of District Judge Goss’ court. The alleged shooting occurred May 15, 1924, at Twenty second street and Poppleton avenue, while Samardick was making a raid. While waiting for the verdict. Judge Goss received word from his wife that thieves had entered a store room of their apartment in the Stratford Ter race and stolen a suitcase and some preserves. Youn