THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918.
CHARGE AGENTS
FOR INSURANCE
FORGED NOTES
Attorneys for Chalco Bank Al
lege Insurance Men Forged
Notes and Applications
for Insurance.
Direct charges of forgery were
made Friday morning against
Igents of the Mutual Benefit Health
and Accident association of Umaha by
Attorneys Thomas J. Nolan and Dan
Sheehan, representing the German-
American State bank of Chalco, Neb
The attorneys for the bank allege that
agents of the company foreed the sig
natures to promissory notes which
they took as first payments of prem
ium on policies and that they also
forged signatures on applications
which thCy turned in to the office of
the company.
Attorney Phil Horan, representing
the insurance company in the hearing
before the state insurance board, has
said that the company will not stand
behind any of its agents which have
been guilty pf unethical practices.
Attorneys for the bank at Chalco
say that in many cases agents secured
the signatures from anyone they
could, sometimes to a note, some
times to a blank sheet of paper, and
then sold the note to the bank at a 10
per cent discount and made out an
application themselves! to turn in to
the office of the company.
S. S. Stewart, negro barber, testi
fied at the bearing Friday morning
that ne ngnea a paper wun a ioun
tain pen handed to him by the agent
without knowing that he was signing
a . note. . Ho identified the signature
on the note in court, but denied that
he signed the signature in pencil on
the application for the policy.
Harry Wyman, auto mechanic, said
that the agents bad secured his sig
nature while he was at work on an
automobile by saying, after he had
refused to be insured, "Well, put
down your name and address, any
way" He did so on a blank piece
of paper, he testified. He said in
court that neither the signature on
the note or the signature on the ap
plication was genuine. .
Joe Lee, porter for Schnauber &
Hoffman, grocer, said that he told
the agents when , he signed the note
that he was only a porter. Yet the
application for a policy turned in to
the company by the agents listed Lee
as a member of the grocery firm.
It is expected that the bank will
conclude its testimony at the present
hearing by Saturday. The insurance
company has not decided whether or
not it will offer testimony at the Oma
ha hearing. The bank, the insurance
company and the agents will all be
represented and will offer testimony
when the hearing is completed before
the full insurance board at Lincoln.
Only State Auditor W. II. Smith Is
conducting the hearing here. The
hearing is being held in regard to the
petition of the bank that the insurance
company pay $26,000 still due on
worrniess notes wnicn me agents suiu
the bank. ... . I
Students Urged to Remain
In School by Navy Leader
Students are not urged to enlist,
but are asked to continue their
studies, according to a special plea
sent out by the War and Navy de-
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partments. umciais are empnauc in
insisting that young men, under the
draft age, who are able to attend
schools or colleges are doing their
country a real service in acquiring an
education and war officials advise
them to remain in school until a more
urgent need for their services arises.
Ensign Condict, in charge of navy
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recruiting in inc vmani uisinci, nas
received the following telegram -in
regard to the matter from Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy:
"The secretary of war and the secre
tary of the navy have encouraged
young men under draft age to remain
at school until there is imperative
need for their services.
"I have complaint from Oregon that
recruiting officers are branding young
men going to school as slackers be
cause they have not enlisted. Please
see to it that nobody in our service is
permitted to make such allusions to
tfiose young men who are following
the advice of the War and Navy de
partments." Jury Disagrees in Trial
'Of Alleged Draft Slacker
The jury hearing trial of John M.
Simpkins of Dixon county, Nebraska,
charged with failure to register for
the draft, failed to agree and was dis
charged in federal court late Thurs
day night, after it became evident
that no verdict could be reached.
Th jury was selectee) and the en
tire case presented within an hour.
Simpkihs admitted that at the time1
of the draft registration he was 30
years of age and that he failed to reg
ister. In extenuation he claimed
that he had a day before , June 5 been
informed by his mother that he was
31, and that she had sent him a bap
tismal certificate on which the date of
birth, originally written April 17,
1887, had been crossed out and re
written 1886. ?
In spite of these documents the de
fendant said that while he did not
know how old he was, his parents,
after considering the matter, had de
cided that he was really only 30, and
he was willing to take their word for
it. He claimed to have registered
after his arrest by the United States
marshal, in September.
Omaha Boy Receives Big
Promotion at Kansas Camp
Sergt. Wallace Drummy, son of Po
licewoman Katherine Drummy, has
been promoted to second lieutenan4
by special orders from Washington.
Lieutenant Drummy will have charge
of transportation at Camp Funston.
His appointment came on the day he
was to have left to attend an officers'
training camp in Jacksonville, Fla-
"Safety First" Guild Now
; Piloting Army Airplane
Jack Guild, former Union Pacific
safety first agent, who quit the rail
road game to enlist and was sent to
Berkley, CaU to study for air er
vice, writes home that he has finished
his ground work and is now taking
lessons in navigating an airplane.
FANNING TAKES
RAP ON SELLERS
OF WARSTAMPS
Two Hundred Thousand Dol
lars Worth Returned in Ne
braska by Camouflaged -Patriots.
Postmaster Fanning Is of the opin
ion that the attention of the public
should be sharply drawn to what he
terms a class of "camouflage patriots"
whose activities have been associated
with the sale of war savings stamps.
A large number of people, he de
clares, made large subscriptions of
war stamps in meetings and in other
public ways, and have since hedged
by reselling their stamps to the post
offices. Sales of this sort in Ne
braska will total between $150,000 and
$200,000.
Reports on these resales come
through the local postoffice and have
been so large as to attract the atten
tion of the authorities. This sort of
thing, in the view of the government,
does not represent the highest type of
loyalty. There may be cases in which
the resale !s justified, but the purpose
to be brought about by the sale of
stamps is offset when the government
has to take them back.
It is Fanning's purpose hereafter to
report sales of this kind to the coun
cil of defense for investigaion. He is
also of the opinion that in cases which
cannot be shown to be entirely justi
fied there should be publicity given
these "camouflage patriots."
Twilight Musical Concert
At Hanscom Park Sunday
A twilight musical concert will be
given at 'Hanscom park by the Union
Pacific band Sunday from 6:30 to 9
p. m. I he program of 12 numbers is
interspersed with popular and patriotic
melodies, among them being "They
Go Wild Over Me," "William Tell,"
"American Patrol," "Grand Selection
from Rigoletto," "Baby's Prayer at
Twilight" and "The Star Spangled
Banner."
Garage Man Held on Charge
Of Receiving Stolen Auto
F. G. Knolls, proprietor of a gar
age in 2419 North Twenty-fourth
street, was arrested Friday morning
by Detective Pazvnowski on a charge
of receiving and concealing stolen
property. An automobile, alleged to
have been identified as a car stolen
from the Consumers' Refining com
pany June 5 was found stored in his
garage. t
800 Men Are Arrested in
Des Moines Slacker Raid
Des Moines, la., July 25. Over 800
men, arrested tonight by United
States secret service men and city
and county officers in a slacker round
up, apent the night in jail when they
were finable to furnish classification
cards.
Two hundred officers combed pool
and billiard halls and the streets of
the city.
Story
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EDWARD A. RUMELY
Elan Who Bought the New Yorh Mail for the Kaiser
'JCopfrijkt, Ills, V. ft as4 Canada, U X. T. Strait 0. All rtthta NHmilT
' (AriM of article hetehlnf h. 1
' -nrrr of Dr. Edward A. Bumely, who
lia. bma arrested on charge of taa
1n bought the Mew York Evening Hall
with money fornlehed br the Herman
government and et hating need It lor
liermaa propaganda.) , j
. By FRANK STOCKBRIDGE.
(former Managing Editor of the Stoning
Stall.) ;
I ; recognized Captain Albert in.
atantlv. although Dr. Rumely had in
troduced him as "Dr. Albrecht" His
haughty, military bearing, the icars
of his Heidelberg duels that only
ervcd to emobasize and bring out
the strong, clean cut lines of his fea
tures, make his tace one that it is im
possible to forget :
'I am glad to see you again," I
aid. "It is now 11 years since we
met." ' . t
Captain Albert appeared puzzled.
"Were you then in Berlin?" he asked.
"No. vou were in America," I re
plied. Whatever his answer, it was
lost in the general conversation, as
Dr. Rumely and Dr. Dernburg" were
fcy this time talking rapidly, j i
1 We seated ourselves at the break
fast table, after a wait of a few
ininutes for an expected sixth guest;
ome one whose name was mentioned
but who did not appear and whom I
do not now identify. It was an ex
cellent breakfast, of many courses
fell but the coffee. The coffee was
typically German.
There was much rapid fire conye'r
hation across the breakfast table; I
do not remember much of it, for my
mind was busy trying to piece to
sether what 1 , knew about Captain
Albert He had seemed surprised
that I remembered meeting him in
'America in 1904. Surely many thou
sands of people must have. met him
at that time what was there about
his previous activities in the United
States that made it an annoyance to
Imn to have them recalled at this
' time? ; ". .
' Breakfast on Significant Date.
It must be remembered that on the
Hate of this breakfast the first week
in" May, 1915, nothing had occurred to
disurb the friendly relations between
the United States and Germany. Pub
lic opinion as to the merits of the war
awsdivided in the east strongly anti-German,
in the west preponderat
ingly pro-German. Dr. Dernburg was
circulating freely about the United
States, ostensibly as the representa
tive of the German Red Cross, lectur
ing in crowded halls to audiences that
cheered his references to the success
es of German arms. Attention had not
been focused upon the activities of
Von Bernstorff, Von Papen, Boy-Ed
and the rest of the criminal crew that
were doing the kaiser's dirty work in
America. . Captain Albert's name had
hardly been mentioned publicly in any
connection. The people of the United
States were in utter ignorance of what
was going on among them. C
The Lusitania at that moment was
till in mid-ocean, racing eastward
toward her doomt America had not
et found hjr soul. f :..',.
My previous meeting with Captain
'Albert had been at the St Louis
aieiW' Eair in1904 I jremsmbered
Lewald, the German imperial com-1
missioner to the exposition, to air
Hugh Gilzean-Read, then the editor
of the Manchester Guardian. All the
newspaper representatives in at. Louis
were invited, and it happened that I
sat opposite Captain Albert, whose in
terest i American journalism was
even then discernible from the ques
tions he asked of the newspaper men
about him.
m Hundreds of Names.
I remembered, too, Captain Albert's
interest in the work that the German
commission was doing, of registering
the German-Americans. . This work
was directly under Captain Albert's
charge. - In a room in the great Ger
man navilion was a table with chairs.
pens and ink; and to those who visited
the place an attendant presented folio
sheets like the pages of a hotel regis
ter ior incur isnaiurca.
"Only if you are of German blood,"
the attendant explained. "This is Das
Goldenes Buch der Deutschen in
Amerika the Golden Book of Ger
mans in America and after the expo
ition these sheets will be bound to
gether in a great volume and pre
sented to our kaiser as a token of re
membrance from his absent sons.
Hundreds of thousands of names
were inscribed in the book; each per
son signing was required to inscribe
also his American address and the
part of Germany from which he or
his ancestors came, it was ot tnis
"Goldenes Buch" that I thought as I
recalled my earlier meetings with
Caotain Albert How many of them
did the kaiser count now as his sup
porters in America?
Breakfast over, we got down to
business. Dr. Dernburg and Captain
Albert seated themselves on a sofa
at one end of the room; Dr. Rume
ly occupied a chair near the middle;
Lambin and myself made ourselves
comfortable in adjoining easy chairs
at the opposite end of the room.
Cigars and cigarettes were handed
about
"What's this all about?" Lambin
whispered to me.
"Search mel" I "rejoined. "Let's
stick it out and see." We did not
have long to wait
Dr. Dernburg, Dr. Rumely ex
plained, was himself a newspaper
man: his father had founded one of
the big newspapers of Berlin. We
might, the thought, get some valuable
suggestions about running a news
paper from him.
Lambin Subjected to Examination.
Dr. Dernburg began at once to ask
questions. Captain Albert occasional
ly interposed with an inquiry of his
own. The questions were asked prin
cipally of Lambin, and related to the
financial management of newspapers.
The subject is one upon which Mr.
Lambin is an expert and an enthus
iast, and in a few minutes he was ex
plaining in detail methods of book
keeping, the cost of white paper and
the hundreds of other technical
phases of newspaper production.
1X7
E are never without Dr. Cald
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Lome and never will be as long as we can get
it Wc have used it for the past four years and
it has saved us many a doctor's bill It is fine
for the children and they love to take it.
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From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by
I Mb and Mrs. Harry Robbing, ZZ07 So.
. ' A ot, Uwood, lad,
L)r. Caldwell's
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The Perfect Laxative
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