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LIBERTY BONDS
mat iioTrn rnn
hui lioilu run
PURPOSE OF TAX
Government Obligations Are
Tax Free arid Assessors Are
Listing Them for Infor
matidn Only.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
" Lincoln, Neb., April 23. (Special.)
. Prof. M. M. Foeer. head of the Four-
Minute men service of the state, has
hem annealed to hv some oartv out
- -ri " J 1
in the state to know why assessors
are listing government Liberty bonds
for taxation. Prof. Fogg has 'passed
the inquiry along to Attorney General
Reed with the information that min
ute men have been telling their audi
ences that the bonds are free from
taxation and wanting to know if that
is true.
In reply Attorney General Reed
. says that it is true and quotes section
seven of the national act as follows:
'That none of the bonds authorized by
section one. nor of the certificates author
ized by section five, or by section six, of this
act. shall bear the circulation privilege. All
such bonds and certificates shall be exempt,
both as to principal and Interest from all
taxation now or hereafter imposed by the
United States, any state, or any of the
possessions of the United States, or by any
local taxing authority, except (h) estate
or Inheritance taxes, and (b) graduated ad
ditional income taxes, commonly known as
surtaxes, and excess profits and war profits
taxes, now or hereafter imposed by the
United States, upon the income or rofits of
individuals, partnerships, associations, or
corporations. The interest on an amount of
uch bonda and certificates the principal of
which does not exceed in the agRregate
Ann Awneii hv nnv individual. nartnershin.
association, or corporation, shall be exempt
Trom the taxes provided for in subdivision
b) of this section."
The" listincr of the bonds is for in-
formation purposes only and not tor
taxation, and to prevent fraud on the
part 6f men who, perhaps not having
bonds, might represent that they
owned them in order to account for
. money otherwise invested, which
might be taxable. They could exhibit
a bond borrowed of a friend in order
to deceive the assessor, but by the
latter, taking the number of each
bond; this could be detected.
Assets of Defunct' Bank to
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; neilliuui uum amy i unu
(t"rom a Staff Correspondent.)
; Lincoln, April 23. (Special.)-The
State Banking board has been ordered
by the district court of Burt county
to make a 30 per cenj. distribution of
amounts collected from the assets of
the defunct Farmers State bank of
Decatur to reimburse the guaranty
fund.
Dudley D. Whitcomb, the receiver,
has so far been able to collect from
the assets enough so that the amount
now ori hand is $43,337.78. The total
claims against the bank amounted to
$99,4404.
The claims of the depositors have
been paid in full by reason of the
guaranty fund being called upon" to
i the amount of $79,051.81. The amount
. t be paid out by tne court oraer wut
cfaim Heavy Damages as
Result of Auto Accident
Beatrice, Neb., April 23. (Special
Telegram.) Maud Kasparek of
Odell, Neb! whose husband was
killed in an auto accident near Blair,
last September, when a car driven
by Edgar Vigus crashed into a Ford
occupied by Kasparek and three
other Odell residents, today brought
suit for $25,000 damages in federal
court at Kansas City, Ksns., against
Vigus, charging that he was driving
on the wrong side of the road in a
careless and reckless manner when
the cars collided.
Leander Taylor, a member of the
Odell party who was seriously in
jured, also brought suit for $30,000
damages against Vigus.
Bright Lad Suggests Name
For New War Activity Club
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, April 23. (Special.) The
selection of appropriate names for
some of the war activity clubs is not
all confined to the "grown-ups." Re
cently State Superintendent Clem
mons was attending a school meeting
it Wauneta, where the high school
had organized a new war saving club.
, When it came to the time for the
election tf a name a little youngster
ibout 10 years old arose and proposed
thai the club bear the name "Wauneta
Sammy Savers." As this corresponded
to the well known "W. S. S." of the
national activities organization the
name was adopted.
State Auctioneers Will
.' Convene at York in- June
Benedict, Neb., April 23. (Spe-
;ial.) A committee from the State
Auctioneers' association, consisting of
Colonels E. T. Hoover, Yorkj'C. W.
Lucas, Holdrege, and George Ttlden,
Benedict; met at Hotel Clarke, in
Hastings, to arrange the program for
the state convention to be held in
: - York, June 10, 11 and 12.
Business sessions will be held on
ftine 10 and 11, and a picnic June 12.
The York county Coirynercial club
nas been very liberal with assistance
md has taken much interest in the
tneeting.
Senator H. P. Shumway Files
For Lieutenant Governor
- Lincoln, Neb., April 23. (Special
Telegram) Senator H.- P. Shumway
if Wakefield filed this afternoon for
'.he Republican nomination for lieu
tenant governor.
. Senator Shumway has been ill at a
local sanitarium five weeks. He was
;he Republican candidate for the
same office at the last election, but
was defeated by the present Encum
bent, Edgar Howard, by 19,046 votes.
State Furnishes Hundred
f Nurses in War Service
f- (From a Staff Correspondent)
Lificoln, April 23. (Special.) So
far;more than 100 nurses from Ne-i
braska have gone into war service,
according to Miss Margaret Mc
Grcevy, secretary of the State Asso- j
ciation of Nurses.
Fourteen left Lincoln today for
service. Sixty have gone from the
North Platte section of the state and
he. other 40 from seuth of the PJatte.J
Woman Distributed
"Finished Mystery"
Sheet During Night
Broken Bow, Neb., April 23.-(Spe-cial
Telegram.) A woman giving her
name as Sarah Aronson was arrested
today for distributing literature at
Callawav, bearing on "The Finished
Mystery." She was brought to Broken
Bow and jailed.
M. S. Eddy, chairman of the County
Council of Defense was instrumental
in causing thj woman's arrest and is
actively investigating.
County Attorney Kelly has filed a
state charge against the woman under
the sedition act.
The literature was distributed dur
ing the night and the prisoners suit
case is filled with it. She was ready
to take the train when arrested.
ROBINSUfQUIT
KEARNEY HOSPITAL
Superintendent of Institution
for Tubercular Patients Finds
Too Much Friction, So
Resigns Position.
Keamcv. Neb., April 23. (Special.)
Dr. L. S.'B. Robinson, superintendent
of the State Tuberculosis hospital, has
tendered his resignation to the State
Board of Control, effective June 1.
Dr. Robinson today preferred to make
no detail statement, but admitted
tliere as a condition of unrest at the
hospital such that he could not pursue
his work to advantage.
"I am the physician in charge, but
am called upon to do not only this
work, with steadily increasing number
of patients at the hospital. Numerous
minor differences arise from time to
time. Lack of harwiony and co-operation
in the working forces exists,
which makes it necessary for me to
shoulder the responsibility of three
people, let alone my own. Specific
cases I do not care to cite for public
perusal, but I will acquaint the board
with them when the need arises. In
the meantime I will continue to give
my best efforts to the institution until
the day I resign."
At this time there are 80 patients
at the hospital, compared to about 30
when Dr. Robinson came to Kearney,
in January two years ago. Employed
at the institution are 33 people, the
board having granted additional help
of late.
Today but 26 are working and the
number fluctuates every day.
In hospitals for tuberculor patients
the average in employes- is two and
one-tens for every patient. One of
the difficulties here has been not so
much a shortage of help as constant
changing. Dr. Robinson states that
his corps of nurses is very efficient at
this time, but he intimates that the
remainder of the working force can
not be so recommended.
Dr. Robinson admitted there were
other fields to which he could turn
his attention and specialize in his line
or work, giving it his entire time and
making a creditable showing.
Hold Funeral of Beatrice
Boy, Killed While Flying
Beatrice, Neb., April 23. (Special.)
Funeral services for Lawrence M.
Reel of Beatrice, who was killed in an
airplane accident at Long Beach, Cal.,
were held at the home of his father,
A. C. Reel in West Beatrice Tuesday.
The first account of the accident
reached here Monday.
Reel was attending a private school
of aviation, preparing to enlist in the
signal corps. The day of the tragedy
he and his companion started on a
flight over the coast. In some way the
motor was crippled, the plane falling
200 feet, striking in the surf at a shal
low point off the beach. Reel was in
stantly killed and his companion sus
tained probable fatal injuries. "Fatty"
Arbuckle, famous moving picture star,
witnessed the accident, and went to
the rescue. He and his companion
brought the injured aviator and the
body of Reel to shore.
i.'H.
Masons of Stockville
Hold Meeting and Banquet
Stockville, Neb., April 23. (Spe
cial.) Saturday afternoon and night
was a "red letter day" for the Masons
of Stockville. Level lodge No. 196,
conferred the degrees upon County
Attorney Fred J. Schroeder, who ar
rived that day from the officer's train
ing canv at Funston, where he has
been since January 1, A banquet was
given by the women of the C. C. in
the night
Willis E. Davison, Harvard,
Found Dead in Bed Monday
Harvard, Neb., (Special.) Willis E.
Davison, carpenter, was found dead in
bed at his home Monday morning. He
had been suffering with asthma for a
number of years. He was 70 years old
and had been a resident of Harvard
for nearly 20 years. He is survived
by his widow and one son, Earl M.
Davison. Mr. Davison was a member
of the Masonic order.
Wife of Former Lieut. Gov.
Pearson Dies at Moorefield
Moorefield, Neb., April 23. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Mrs. James Pear
son, wife of former Lieutenant Gov
ernor Pearson, died last night from an
attack of congestion of the brain. She
was a member of Germantown Royal
Neighbors lodge and the Yeoman.
Funeral services will be held at Ash
land Thursday.
John James, Aurora Farmer,
Commits Suicide by Shooting
Aurora, Neb., April 22. (Special.)
John James, a farmer residing three
miles north of Aurora, committed
suicide Monday. He fired a 22 caliber
bullet through his brain and died sev
eral hours later. James has been re
garded as of highly nervous tempera
ment. He was a married man, having
several children.
Fremont News Notes.
Fremont, Neb., April 23. (Special
Telegram.) Word reached here of
the death at Hagerstown, N. M., of
George H. Losey, former Fremont
man. Mr. Losey was for a term a
member of the state legislature, and
for several years after retiring from
the farm residing in Fremont. The
Losey family removed to New Mex
ico four years ago.
i R. P. Turner. Fremont business
man, formerly lieutenant of the home
guards, left for France to take up
Young Men's Christian association
work. He was escorted to the depot
by the home guards and Boy Scouts.
NEBRASKA LEADS IN
TOTAL STAMP SALES
Has Big Margin Over Other
States in Per Capita Buy
ing; Treasury Reports
Issued.
Nebraska leads all other states in :
the union in total sales of war sav-
ings stamps and thritt stamps, through
postoftices and federal reserve banks,
for the month ot March and total
sales' from the beginning of the cam
paign to March 30, inclusive. This is
shown in reports just issued by the
Treasury department, which are as
follows:
March.
Grade. State. Tot Sales.
1 Nebraska J .0S.sn.
rr
Capita.
064
1.35
110
.90
.91
.89
2 Dist. of Columbia.
3 South Dakota
4 Oregon
5 Iowa
tSfll,.M3.0
7ilH.21S.38
S35.0fi9.3t!
2 lfi3.4TS.li2
'23T-.16S.0S
1,34.101.77
4. 1(i,',!:!3.99
2,393.9Sii.20
:I55. 7 .'.(.74
9f.3. 264.55
2,543.Sii9.17
1.293.901.53
l,45S,S4S.8l
1.31,904 03
1,768,812.43
124,072.31
D, 151. 1,30. 10
C1.til0.35
?,2S5.9S0.s0
2,SS6.9ti4,43
tifl fills. 95
213,030.85
492.7ti3.4ti
S12.0S2.47
ti4S,197.09
::47.S00.29
191,120.49
155.931). 18
1,020,318.12
1,045,407.19
4,415.412.00
93I.33fi.57
169,950.53
223,609.70
1,31 5,496.38
910,334.43
720,705.54
905,285.80
580.505.44
612.1SG.80
79,441.47
314 017.1 1
75i;319.41
217, 420.00
143,021.70
253.401.17
382.842.78
240,023.80
151,186.10
t Arizona
7 WashliiKton ....
8 Ohio
9 Indiana
10 .Montana
11 Connecticut
12 Missouri
13 -Kansas
14 Oklahoma
15 Minnesota,
IS California
17 Delaware
IS ItKnois
19 Nevada
19 Texas
19 I'enn. (east)
22 Wyoming
23 New Hampshire
23 Colorado
25 Arkansas
25 West -Va
27 Maine
28 Utah
28 Vermont
28 No. Carolina ....
31 Wisconsin
32 New York
33 Tennessee
34 Idaho
35 Hhodo Island ..
:iti Massachusetts ..
37 y'eim (west)
3 Kentucky
39 New .lersey ....
40 Virginia
40 Mississippi
42 New Mexico
42 Maryland
44 Michigan
44 Florida
44 No. Dakota
47 Louisiana
45 Georgia
49 Alabama
50 So. Carolina ....
.84
.82
.76
.72
.71
.68
.68
.59
.58
.52
.50
.49
.49 !
.49
.48
.47
.47
.45
.45
.44
.42
.4:
4S
.41
.40
.39
.37
.55
.3
.29
.28
.22
.21
.21
.19
.13
.10
.09
Totals $57,909,441.55
Total Sales
for Campaign.
J0.55
Per.
""nplta.
$11.06
S.73
3.14
3.11
2.23
2.12
2.09
2.03
1.98
' 1.98
1.90
1.81
1.83
1.82
1.58
1 58
1.58
1.55
1.54
1.52
1.52
1 48
1 46
1 44
1 42
1.40
1,34
1.2b
1.19
1.13
1.00
1.06
1.0S
1.03
.95
.88
.84
.78
.77
.77
.73
.67
.63
.62
.59
.57
.53
.49
.35
.30
.20
Grade. State.
1 Nebraska
2 Dist. of Columbia
3 Missouri
4 Kansas'
5 Oregon 4
6 Washington ....
7 Colorado
8 Indiana
9 Montana
9 Delaware ......
11 Iowa
12 Ohio
13 Arizona
14 So. Dakota
15 Texas ...
15 Calif. (So.) ...
to Apr. 1.
$ 2,343,991.81
1,378,807.86
11,183,305.09
6,990,624.611
1.925,925.57
3.305,620.00
2,126,409.56
6,940 245.15
937:603,1 4
404.831.68
4.673, 836. 40
9,685.358.40
484,070.37
1,103,851.23
7,245,228.90
1,870.010.21
1S6, 089. 10
S.0M.S.11.S8
3,006,594.07
2,822.072.33
3.630.160.10
1.167,225.1 1
652,422.20
205,283.35
8.624.421.3!
8,1116,221.87
8,127,712.13
573.258.54
1,694.514.38
12.273.7S3. 68
1,893,693.44
475,020.24 v
. 381,249.7
650 465. 1 i
2,701,'812.8
3.467.084.96
1,966,418.48
1,708,60 0 3
1,881,192.42
2 432.S05.S7
l!040, 840.94
236,216.06
1,553,202.07
1.159,870.51
397,146.80
692,785.17
1,852,076.17
976.925.11
1,015,246.28
721,956 96
342,045.30
15 Nevada . .
18 Connecticut
v
19 Minnesota
20 Calif. (No.)
20 Oklahoma
22 Maine
23 New Hampshire ,,
24 Wyoming v. .
26 Wisconsin
26 Penn (east)
27 Illinois
28 Vtah
29 West Va
30 New York
31 Arkansas ........
32 Idaho
33 Vermont
33 Khoda Island ....
35 Penn. (west) ......
36 Mass.
37 Tennessee ,..
38 Virginia
39 No. Carolina .....
39 New Jerse:"
41 Maryland .
42 New Mexico
3 Kentucky
44 Louisiana
45 No. Dakota
46 Florida
47 Michigan
48 Mississippi
49 Georgia
50 Alabama
51 So. Carolina
Total $149,361,972.92 $1.41
Addition by Nebraska headquarters: To
tal cash sales In Nebraska to April 20,
$21,611,077.00 per capita sales, $16.08.
Mr. Turner is the first business riian
to give up his business in Fremont
and go to France for Young Men's
Christian association duty. Mrs.
Turner and two children will remain
in Fremont.
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WILSON ATTACKED
BY U. S. SENATORS
Debate on Blanket Authority
Bill Marked by Sharp Criti
cism of Pesident and
Official Family.
(By Associated Pre.)
Washington, April 23.A vchem-J
cut attack upon President ilson
and some of the members of his of
ficial family by Senator Sherman of
Illinois, republican, marked the last
day of unlimited debate in the senate
on the Overman bill which would
give the president general powers for
reorganizing govenment agencies
during the war.
In a long speech opposing the
measure and asserting that the ex
ecutive had not used properly author
ity already possessed, the Illinois
senator criticised particularly Sec
retaries Raker and Wilson, Postmaster
General Buricson and George Creel,
chairman of the committee on public
information.. He declared the presi
dent had surrounded himself with so
cialists and that he should "scatter
the bunch of economic fakirs and
howling derv'shes" now in office.
Working at Cross Purposes.
Senators Kansdcll of Louisiana and
McKellar of Tennessee, democrats,
spoke for the bill, urging that many
departments are working as cross
purposes under the present peace
time system and that "red tape" must
be eliminated if maximum results are
to be obtained. Since the president
will be responsible for success of the
nation war effort, said Senator
Kansdcll, he should be given the
authority he thinks necessary.
In an effort to hasten effort after
3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon each
senator will be limited.by agreement
to .W minutes discussion of the bill
itself and to 20 minutes on each
amendment offered.
Baker Termed "Half Socialist
Scn.itor Sherman said today Sec
retary Baker "is half socialist and the
other half pacifist," and that Secre
tary Wilson and Postmaster Burleson
are state socialists. He also paid
his respects to Assistant Secretary of
Labor Post, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Vrooman and inveighed
against what he called the spread of
Bolshveki propaganda in this, coun
try. Attacking the Non-partisan league,
the Illinois senator said its presi
dent, A. C. Townley, represents Ger
man influen:e and "lias got pro-German
money tome place."
Referring to the Council of Na
tional Defenre as a "nondescript" or
ganization Senator McKellar, who is
a member of the Military committee,
said the president should be given
power to eliminate the "$1 a year
men" on thit body; select those who
are efficient mil put them to work at
reasonable M.laries. If this govern
ment had a centralized system for
thenirchase of supplies, he declared,
$1,UTO,000,000 could be saved annually
during the war. .
FOEMEB NEBRASKA
MAN KILLS SELF
AT SPRINGFIELD
Springfield, III., April 23. Francis
J. Irwin, who said he served as chief
clerk in the office of the adjutant geiv
eral of Nebraska before he came here
two weeks ago, shot and killed him
self in a hotel here early today. He
left a note asking that his sister, Miss
Clara Irwin of Washington, D. C,
be notified.
At the offices of the Chicago,
Peoria and St. Louis railroad, where
Irwin had been working as clerk to
the trainmaster, he complained of his
head hurting him and was absent
from his place yesterday.
lit the man's room were found a
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Nebraska, Adjutant General Clapp
said todav. So far as he knew no t
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been employed tliere, General Clapp
stated.
Chicago Flier Killed in
Airplane Smash in France
Chicago, April 23. Second Lieu
tenant Dinstnore Ely of Chicago, 111..
formerly of the Lafayette escadrille.
died Sunday from injuries received
in an airplane accident.
The French government has
awarded the war cross to Sergeant
David E. Putnam of Brookline,
Mass., a member of the French esca
drille No. 15o; William A. Wellman
of Cambridge, Mass., of escadrille
No. 87. ami Phelps Collins of De
troit, a member of the Lafayette esca
drille. Collins was killed Marclf 13
in an aerial combat. Putnam, Wcll
nian and Collins enlisted in the for
eign legion early in the war and
tought in the trendies.
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The Accessories Include the Following:
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coats, vests and union suits. ,
Spiral Puttees Army boots and .shoes
and heavy army shoe laces.
Hats With and without emblem, also
John B. Stetson broad brim.
Underwefar Wool union sui$, light
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Toilet Needs Shaving outfits and toilet
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