,mz£2i£nmJ The Omaha -unday . iee j",ra’ P V E T T WO ” ~~ OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1925. 1-B COMPENSATION LAW DECISION MONDAY _ ■■ ■ ■ —— I.— 1 - a Labor and Employers at Hearing Maimed Men Exhibit Injuries to Governor in Pleas Against Compensation Law Amend ments Saturday. Omahans at Lincoln Sperlnl ni.patch to The Omaha Bee. Lincoln, April 4.—In a dramatic hearing In which plea* of employer* and employes were heard, Governor Adam McMullen was urged by labor i +*» repeal the hill passer] by the legis lature amending the workmen's com pensation law, while employers as vehemently urged ills signature to the measure. The governor announced his decision would he made public Monday. Representatives of both sides agreed to one fact; that the handling of the workmen's compensation law under the Bryan administration had serious ly jeopardized its future, both from the standpoint of employer and em ploye. The startling fact was set out that during the last year of the Bry an administration, fees permitted phy sicians and surgeons in compensation cases had increased $70,000, or 44 per cent over any previous year. Changes by Legislature. Employes urged that Governor Mc Mullen insist that Frank Kennedy, commissioner of labor, cut fees to reasonable figures, rather than per mit one of the provisions of the new law, limiting surgical, hospital and medical fees to $200, to become oper ative. It was pointed out that when Ken nedy was labor commissioner before he had reduced medical and surgical fees and could do it again. Briefly, Changes made by the recent legisla ture follow: Fixing $200 limit on hospital and tnadical care. Changing total disability clause so tmployes totally disabled shall re ceive compensation for 400 weeks, In stead of for life, as present law pro vides. Permitting expert conclusion* on «J^0t prior diseases, or Indiscretions. " play in prolonging rehabilitation to Influence compensation awarded. Permitting employes to waive corn pen Ration claims, as safeguard to * employers against hernias already In existence as well ns other physical ad would enter Omaha by the way of (lit* Yutan bridge recently built over Uu* Platte river. Mil F-i ii ly Will Filed. A petition for probatlnic the $”0,000 esiale of Johp McCHpty, 1)6, who wan burned to death Thuradav nlplit, wna filed In rminty court Saturday mnrninK by J. J. Preen, who . mad* apsclal administrator* Ex-Pastor and Wife of Brother Skip L)i\ine )\ ho Kail Away ^ ill* Girl Choir Singer Now Sought in New Elope ment. Family of 1 1 Deserted Xenia. O., April 4 —W. W. Culp. 40, of South Tb»nd, Ind., former pas tor of the M. E. church at Spring Valley, whose sensational elopement with his 18-year-old choir leader [created a furore in Ohio two years I ago, has eloped with his sister-in ilaw, according to word received here today by Prohate Judge S. C. Wright. Culp is said to have eloped a week ago for the second time with his .sister-in law, Mrs. Dorothy Culp, 22. wife of his brother, Clio Culp, 27, of Nappannee, Ind. William K. Miller, chief probation officer of St. Joseph county, Ind., lias notified Judge Wright. Culp Is said to have become en amored of bis sister in-law when ehe and her husband visited the Culps in South Bend. Three weeks after the visit Culp deserted his wife and 30 children, one having been born to them since his Greene county affair and disappeared, according to Judge Wright. The girl disappeared simul taneously from her home in Nap pannee. Both returned to their homes a week later and were received when they expressed penitence. Culp said his sister-in-law reminded him of the girl with whom he eloped the ^irst time. They admitted they had gone to Chicago and obtained employment but that they were sorry for the misdeed. They remained at their homes a week and then, a week ago, both disappeared again. This time they took all their clothes and per sonal belongings. The woman de serted her husband and two children when she left home. Judge Wright advised South Bend authorities that in the event Cufp is captured he should be prosecuted on the new charges there, although the case against him here has never been settled. Two years ago Culp left bin wife with nine children when he eloped with the choir singer who was mak ing her home with the Culp family. They were located In Michigan after several weeks’ search. The girl was released to her parents, but Culp was charged with desertion here and was fined $500 and costs and sentenced to a year In the Dayton workhouse. He served only a few days of his sentence when he was released nn a technical error in the commitment papers. With his wife and children he went to Nappannee, Ind., where he obtained employment In a cabinet factory. Bator he moved the family to South Rend, Ind. JOINT CLUB MEET AT SHENANDOAH Special DUpakh to Tli« Omulna Bee. clarinda, la., April 4—Representa tives from all federated clubs In Fre mont and Page counties will meet with the Woman’s club of Staenan doah, at luncheon Tuesday. The county chairman and state committee members will also be guests. Six clubs In Clarinda, which will send representatives ore: Delphian chap ter, Mrs. A. A. B-rry, Mrs. It. D. Russell; Sigma Delta Phi. Mrs. C. E. Arnold, Study club, Mrs, Karl Peters; Woman's club, Mrs. K. O. strong, Mrs. If. Lyman; Current Events, Mrs. T. E Farrens, Mrs. G, K. Clayton; C. L. S. C., Mrs. George Troy, Mrs. Lee Oagley. Mrs. Ralph Duff of Clarinda Is county chairman. Huge Kur Stock Sold. Montreal, April 3—Approximate!' $1,750,000 worth of furs changed hands during the four day sale of the Canadian Fur auction sales com pony. f-----N Conscience-Smitten Mon , Rcttirns $15 Stolen Ttco Years A pa; $1 Interest V_J Special DUpafrh to The Omaha Rrr. Heodwood, S. !)., Apr. 4.—The world took a step forward towards the time "when men to men will brothers be fore a' that" yesterday when a purse containing $15, lost two years ago, was returned by a consciencesmitten Californian to the master of 1 tend wood lodge No, 7 A. K. & M. with a request to find the owner. The owner proved to be Howard Wheeler, son of' M. M. Wheeler, Cashier of the First National bank of Head wood. It was identified by a lodge rceipt Two years ago Wheeler left his pocketbook on the ledge of the ticket office window at San Pedro Cal., after having purchased a ticket for Los Angeles. A man, confessedly “hard up,” found it, picked it up, and spent the contents. Finally, getting $14 ahead, so he writes he returned the original $15 and $1 for Interest to the lodge in dicated on the receipt, trusting it would be restored to Its owner. Indian Slaver of Man and Babe (Jets Prison Term “Medicine Chief*’ M ho Beat Cellmate to Death Sen tenced for L5 to 25 Years. Cortez, Colo., April 4.—'White man'll Justice”—swift and certain In this Instance—was visited today on j Mormon Jo*, aged T'te Indian medi-j cine man, and tonight he is en route to the state penitentiary at j Canon City, under sentence of from i 15 to 25 years for the slaying of aj fellow prisoner in the Montezuma j county jail. Through the lips of Superintendent McKeaji of the Consolidated Ute In dian agency, Mormon Joe today pleaded guilty to second degree min der before District Judge W. N. Searcy of Durango and was sentenced immediately. The medicine man slew Joe Chavez, a Mexican prisoner in the Jail, when the latter gibed, at the Indian for his part in the alleged burial alive of his granddaughter beside the body of his daughter. Knraged at the Mexican's taunts. Mormon .loe tore n leg fronj a; table and clubbed him to death. Mormon Joe. together with the Plat Nay, his son in-1.»w, were brought here and held by the federal government for the alleged murder of Nay s 1 May-old girl. who. is was charged, was buried alive by the side of Its dead mother on the advice of the medicine man, who attended the sick woman. A coroner s inquest fo\ind Nay re sponsible for the death of the papoose an*l held Norman Joe ns accessory to the crime. Nay tonight is en route to Pueblo, Colo., where hia case will be laid be fore a federal grand Jury next Tues day. Mormon cuse also will I)© considered. , Mormon Joe’s conviction of murder will result in the virtual nulliflr.ulon of the government’s accessory rase against him, United States District Attorney Stephan at Denver .pre dicted. ' Of course any Indictment, if It is returned, will stand,” he said, "but by the time .b»© i* released from prison the affair probably will hive blown over and the charges will not be pressed.” . STATE AGENTS . CHECK AUTO TAGS Plate apents and deputy sheriffs nre In Omaha fur the week end check Ink auto license taps. Drastlo measures are presently tn be taken against those who still have their 1924 tags and those who arc using paper dealer's taps. York Couple Married 61 Years York, Nidi., April I Mr nnd Mi* \ T (Unique eelrbritUid thidr tU«t wedding nnnlvrrenry heir Mnrh 31. They were ni»rrloil hi Hillsboro. In., In 1MIU nlid mined to York In ISM). Clinique line been rnopriHlhP wpiillni nb«ei vrr In York nml Polk roun (Ip* for 2 ■ yen ft. Up line been fermlnr. for H jrari it ltd mn limll y.wrlrr out of York for 15 ypnre. The Clmiqilre hove four rhlldren living, 15 ginndrlilldrpn nml two grout grnndi lilldiPii. Tnpiib four person! were present et a eurprtio party gl\cn In tumor of the anntveieery. Saline County Courthouse Removal From Wilber Again Being Agitated ^ 6jJ.:ne Count\ : ru c xt Wilbur~^jjjl - W rV7“ " ; Wilber, Neb,, April 4—Considerable strife is on in Saline county over the removal of the county seat, or the building of a new courthouse. Wilber was founded In 1872 by Charles 1). Wilber, one of the early settlers, and the county scat was brought here about 1ft years later, having been at "Pleasant Hill’ and "Center,” Inland towns, before that. It has remained here continually finre, hut there hn« been strenuous legal battle and agi tation on between Wilber and Crete for the seat of government for "» the Standard 9i dl refinery here was to have been unloaded from n truck. In the suspects’ car. which careened off the highway and crashed into a tree w h n Davis, a bullet in his head, slumped from the drivers seat, po lice said they found bullet proof vests and a hundred rounds of nmmunl tion. Deputy sheriffs Inter raided Davis' home in Dong Dench and arrested hi* wife, I>aisv. She was booked at the county jail In Dos Angeles ns a ma ferial witne's. Mason lacing held on suspicion of robbery, in the I,one Dench apartment deputies said the\ found more bullet proof . \ est s, $1,500 in cash and a number of diamonds. POLITICAL FORUM RECEIVES GRANT ■Williamstown. Mill's., April 4—An nouncement Ihnt the Carnegie cor pcralkm of New York has miulc u grant to become operative this rear for the first time In suppoVt of the institute of politics, the fifth annual session of which will be held here from July "3 to August nns made 'today by Dr. Harry A. Garfield. pre« blent of William college anil chair man of the institute. Two Italian Deputies I'ie111 | )iirl \\ i111 S\t nril Roms, April t The fascist deputy. Doftai. and c\ 4’"imuandant Deputy Viol i fought a duel with swords to | day near one of the bridge** across j t ho TilH*r. The fascist duellist was j wounded in the forearm In the second Ipusago, and the due] was ended on nrgeons* orders. The affair was the outcome of a challenge issued after a scuffle in the chamber of deputies, re suiting from YD la’s criticism of the concentration «»f blackshirts in the re cent municipal elections nt Casertn. Marriott in Council llluffs. The folios In* person* oMnined msr rlofe license* In CViunell Pluffs >o*le?d*\ Ns me end Add re** Air i h» rh * OJsotl *'re#>rt Net*.. f' J «'«rrle M, Millr* Crruo, Neh .. 5 1 J'nrl Howard. I1 a kefs City. N*li !M K\ a Ti'idti. W Hotel’s go, N»*b l * Nets Andersen, Omaha Alice AtulienHrn, Uinehe. C* John W Whttesldr \ , n!ft\ ill.* Nrh ‘ i t ie .lunm W*.»|»|n»: VValrt \.'i< | Pi i| J 1 .owt*. nine Vprlos* Not* U I ih.tl Man Taylor, Monti u r, Nrh . . . "1 ! John Ktirpi’ri l.im-sln, N >h , r* \ lisVi'iii\lVrt|i|u)in t Jnrotn. Nrh. . ; 4 Defer Haneiit. Neh,....... xe t LOOMIS RETURNS FROM CLEVELAND H. f». Loomis. manaser of thei Onifths National Rank building and; secretary of tbc National Association of Building Owners and Managers, returned Friday from Cleveland, where, he attended a meeting of the officers and directors of the associa tion. The meeting was called to prepare plans' fur the 18th national conven tion. to 1** held in Cleveland, June S to 12. Arrangements were made for the de leg .ties to insjw t several of the new Cleveland buildings as "lab oratory studies." The delegates will ‘ tional exhibit is maintained by the | General Klee trie company. Loomis stopped in Chicago on his return and lnsi>ected several of the newer buildings there. CANNED HEAT VICTIM TO JAIL William H Barclay, ,*r>, of Penvcr, who committed a rubbery while under i the influence of canned beat, which, he had eaten to be -mo intoxb ited, was Saturday sentenced to remain in the county jail till July 1. Barclay broke into the Rosenborg store at 102 South Eleventh street, within a stone s throw of the police| station, taking $61 worth of Mrs Rosenberg's property. Fifteen minutes later Barclay, still j strangely inspired, returned to the! store and began discussing the rob bury, lie had his disastrous enroun ter with canned heat on February 27 l’apillion Nows. Part Otihrof of v tlnsf-ld !r.m» *« ' #d b*«*tn#a» In I'm ;* t>n Tb . •*' » Kd Fa ray ns* ratio.! to W. od«o U | tl! K* . I:»* bv th# »-riou* xlln#»* - T hi* | • Mother at that C.x p. >!p and Mu ’ Ph.-pv rf*p«rf#d |mw S\ <*al \r U f -ol *'«#•* « #ro not on #!«>* x n PiSh*-r#<*l ■ » d* onto!#.! *Thn I O’ - Affair# of \ ’ . \RR xva# tM-#*#nted Hs tip vpimc 1 \ # x'hlrh w■* « e 11*111v rr* io\P,| b\ |. \ ft #p th# entertainment a #rlcnd‘.| turn h tv.** #rr\ f(l V un v*a bore la*t Sim la v rv nliu to Mr and Mr# M«> »n S Ar-u • J ml it# .1 M Wheat h he# n ■ ft red |e hi* home 16 ftav# # ih a #- ■•. # no, *f trripp# Tin- hich #< bo xl atudart* m'o'o.l a f#»\ hour* of dan- n* at th# t • * b x H Krlitav e\#n.«r After >Un ir,« th#* to paired to th# heme of l»r J \Y Snider, xx h#r# th#v were Mtslly entertained, a t*i tab ere thA per toot* of an #l#«nr>t lunch tl K Harnhatl. IbaIrurittr in the t>n fral Hlrh reboot. Onnhs, ’.* rn .■* ng hi* annual #t>r|nn \H,atlnn tht* A dattjehtar taaa born la*t Wednesday to Mr and M • * Rmll S'hxuland Th# )M 111 do o'),!,', . cf the PaMillion lltrh a* ho«l wa* up»d ** th* h.hM MonHaf evening lt.niUh Ro*.* n.i* aw#tiled fimt rdar# tn th# t!r*ni*u •l«»* with Jatnr* Ni« k#r*on #** >md a n <1 \ en«# Sor#n*#n ta #* *o .i>d#d fm t»i» • • b# h i.o rou* .*#• o t n M -• V Arbilthtool * ri'Hinl Th# \x iiy'rr t~f th# Feat place will r*ttr#*iM.f Patinhon n •'# ■l atil.: de. b'-i'ix i x , -Cput «M, h o l. I-# hrId 'ft x'tnah '»t »h# -->ro M ■ ai d M * ijov >'h. k« <> - an»t\ ax|tptMated J»#t T* dax p\.*> -ig hx :x numb#’ of their h#!*hherr and fr«#ixd-' The axt'txins »i« •r#,Af in mti* ■ #t aftar wht#h a Ptneh «*• rer* # • Th# *»nlor i-l#** ri*x 1*Ha n >»nan # Hunt#-# # 111 b# fi#*ent#d h% th# mam t*#i# ef th# •#nix*r cl*#* May *. Industrial Omaha Has Bif the H-dd to lean* are Tame* Hougl.iss, C’.irerce Kdnev, Tohn Thrown and Maxwell Hamilton. 5 The coach is V. K l.cavitt. !!.inkers VXonorati'U mi I'.haret* of Derrption Rant i iv. N m .\y | * 1 B Herndon president of the defunct State National hank of Albuquerque \. \! W. O llammell, cashier of j the defunct Sierra Oountv bank of Hillsboro, N M . and C 1’ M p; « secretary of the Albuquerqve ldve | Mock and \grlcultu-al l.iun com* i panv. were fohnd not guilty late ?»v> * I com t of charges of conspiracy to *le | oeive the War Ktnai.ce iDdouhon, 1 «'ii"l«'r in Hnepitiil. r a l -v- * - *»i i «eivn»l nmnar of she >*•• «b» * j (\ninrtt TUuffs Si tee? Hailway com* puny. is In * ho* pit h I on *-count of < * ’■ -i* U« to h. 4 hi his Ue»k next »sclfc