THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 29, 1920. '
COURT GRANTS
POVERTY PLEA
OF ALSON COLE
Murderer Given Another
Chance to Save Life When
v Omaha Judge Honors
Application.
Alson - B. Cole, who fith Allen
Vincent Grammer, is under sentence
of death in the Nebraska peniten
tiary on September 10, for the mur
der ot Mrs. Lulu Vogt, this date
having been selected after more than
a dozen respites and reprieves, was
granted a further stay yesterday by
Judge J. W. Woodrough, of the
United States district court, upon
the application of J. B.- Priest of
Lincoln.
The stay was procured through
the granting of an application for a
writ of habeas corpus, returnable
October 4, m the lederal court at
Lincoln. The writ ' is directed
against Warden W. T. Fenton of
the state penitentiary. The order
directing the hearing was signed in
Omaha Friday afternoon by Judge
Woodrough and was filed in the fed
eral court in Lincoln yesterday by
Mr. Priest.
At the same time of signing the
order for an application for the
habeas corpus writ. Judge Wood-
rough also signed an order permit
ting cole to plead tor his life in
the' federal courts of the United
States, without expense to himself,
he having made a plea of poverty.
All His Money Gone.
' Cole's application set forth that
he has been confined in the state
penitentiary for more thah two years
and that all property which he had
at the time of his arrest has been
used to pay court costs already in
curred, and that he is at this time
unable to obtain funds with which
to further prosecute his fight for
life. The signing of the poverty
order will permit the murderer to
carry his 'case through all ,of the
courts of the country and finally to
the United States supreme court in
case of an adverse decision on his
hearing for a writ of habeas cor
pus. ' !
The two orders were signed by
Judge Woodrough, acting for Judge
T. C. Hunger at Lincoln, who now
is sitting as a member of the circuit
court of appeals in Denver and who
will not be able to return to Lin
coln in time for the hearing.
Cole's companion, Grammer, in
(he murder for which they both are
under sentence of death'now has an
appeal pending before the circuit
cou.-t of appeals at St. Paul on an
application for a new trial based on
his plea of insanity. Two respites
have been given the two convicted
men since the case was first argued
in May of this year before the cir
cuit court. '
Two Weeks to Hear Case.
A decision on the appeal from the
findings of Judge Muoger, who over-
new trial when the case was trans
ferred from the state to the federal
courts, is not expected until about
the middle of the next month.
According to Cole's attorney, the
hearing on the habeas corpus writ
ordered today by Judge Woodrough
will necessitate at least two weeks'
time, as many witnesses from How
ard county, the seat of the crime, will
be subpoenaed to prove the allega
tion that the jury a"t the original
trial was influenced by the attitude
of spectators and that Cole's con
fession in an .Omaha hotel was ob
tained through other than regular
channels and methods.
May Involve Police.
Startling revelations concerning
the methods employed by both the
Omaha and Lincoln police and
county officers of Howard county in
wringing Cole's confession from him
in which he admitted murdering Mrs.,
Lulu Vogt, mother-in-law of Gram
mer, for which he and Grammer now
are under sentence of death are
promised to be brought out at the
hearing' which starts in Lincoln
Monday, October 4.
"More Light" Needed
At Municipal Dance,
Reports City Inspector
The municipal dance at Miller
park Friday night received the offi
cial . K. of City Dancing Inspector
H. L. Bridwell, who had only one
criticism of the affair that there
were not quite enough lights in his
report to the city welfare board.
"There was no vulgarity and no
misconduct that I saw," declared
Bridwell. The crowd was well
mannfred and well behaved."
The dance was held on the boule
vard and over 2,000 persons attended.
"It was a huge success," declared
Commissioner Thomas B. Falconer.
"There was as nice a crowd there
as could be gathered anywhere in
Omaha."
Dr. Jennie Callfas was not present,
Men Held On Suspicion of
L Robbing Rubber Company
, Walter Davidson, Harley -hotel,
arrested by detectives last Thursday
for investigation, was charged yes
terday with the alleged robbery of
the Goodrich Rubber and Tire com
pany. Tires worth $5,000 were
stolen.
Davidson was taken into custody
after Harry Martin, Delmar hotel,
who was alsd arrested, told the po
lice he gave Davidson a key to the
rubber company.
The tires have not been recovered.
Martin is being held as'an accessory
to the crime. Chief of Detectives An
derson saidT
Zimman Dares Thomas to
Run If Mayor Resigns
City Commissioner Harry B. Zftn
man suggested yesterday that in cake
Mayor Smith resigns in September
and Elmer Thomas announces his
candidacy for the office of mayor
that he may see whether or not "tfte
city commission approved of h I
ideas oi running me city. i
"He will find out how. he stands.'Tj
declared iimman. t want to say
that I for one will not vote for him.'.
Lighting Futures
den C-Adv,
-Burgess-Gran-
Constructing Big Drainage Ditch
u rat if
Ak-Sar-Ben and the government
air niil fields will be benefited by
the drainage ditch of the Little Papil
lion district, which is now being con
structed 20 feet deep from 300 feet
north of Eighty-first and Cass
streets along the Northwestern and
Missouri Pacific railroad tracks to
Sixty-first and L streets.
A big walking dragline shovel of
the Callahan-Walker Construction
company has been working on the
ditch 24 hours a day -for the past six
weeks.- The work js expected to be
completed by December 8. The
ditch wilt1 care for flood waters and
provide subdrainage in the district.
County roads and railroads run-'
ning through the district will be
URGE ED P. SMITH
TO CONTINUE IN
OFFICE OF MAYOR
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Business Men Seek to Influ
. ence Executive's Decision
Following Report He In
v tends to Resign.
A number of business men of
Omaha, both republicans and demo
crats, have visited Mayor 1 Ed P.
Smith during the last two days to
urge him not to resign September
1 in acc6rdance with a well grounded
belief in political circles that tin's is
his intention.
Unless I experience a change of
heart I shall resign September 1,"
the mayor is quoted to have stated
by an intimate friend of his yester
dav. The mayor refuses to talk on the
subject.
Hope He Will Remain.
Among Mayor Smith's friends
hope is expressed that the pressure
which has been brought to bear
upon him will persuade him to re
main in office. It is urged by them
that his presence in the mayors
chair is needed to push through va
rious projects to which the plat
form on which he was elected was
pledged to .the voters of Omaha. The
most important among them yet to
be carried through are the eight big
projects of the, city, planning com
mission. Another matter which may cause
the mayor to at least delay his resig
nation until September IS, according
to city hall gossip, is the resolution
now before the council, calling for
the resignation of Chief of Police
Marshal Eberstein. As this matter
will not probably be taken up until
all of the city commissioners have
returned from their vacations, it will
not likely be taken up by the coun
cil by September 1. Commissioner
Roy N. Towl is not expected back
until that date. The other absent
commissioner, Ure, will probably re
turn Monday.
Secretary to Leave.
Thr-mayor's private secretary, Ole
M. Olsen, will leave his present du
ties September 1 to become city
plumbing inspector. The mayor re
fuses .to discuss the appointment of
a successor, and this is taken in city
hall circles to indicate the city's
thief executive plans to leave the ap
pointment to his successor,
belief is general that the mayor
would like to leave his office. Sep
tember 1 and September 15 are given
as probable dates of his resignation.
Commissioner W. G. Ure would
automatically become mayor and
would act in this office unless the
city commission were to name an
other commissioner to the position.
Must Fill Vacancies.
The commission must appoint
someone to fill the vacancy on the
commission in case Mayor Smith
leaves the office, but this appoint
ment would not carry with it the of
fice of mayor unless the council
were to so designate.
Selection of a probable successor
is apparently up in the air among
the city commissioners.
The mayor js said to have stated
to close friends some time ago that
he wishes to leave the city hall to
go into private law practice.
Tax Laws Revision Urged.
Denver, Colo., Aug. 28. Prof.
T. S. Adams of Yale university,
chairman of the United States Treas
ury department advisory board on
taxation during the war, urged
changes in tax laws before the ex
ecutive committee of the American
Farm Bureau federation here today.
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Walking Dragline Shovel at Work.
freed from perennial floodings and
washouts and farm lands will also
benefit.
The drainage district was organ
ized under the state laws through the
efforts of the Ak-Sar-Ben association
Easy Money and Diplomacy.
By ED STREETER,
Author of the Famous "Dere Mabel"
Letters.
Dear Sun: I got yure ftter tellin
about what you thot youd do when,
you got out o college, Sounded
more to me like a list of things you
thot you wouldnt do. Remember
there aint a job that wont look
hopeless if you get the right persun
to tell you about it. Bisnis is like a
paintin. The further off you get the
better it looks. My advise to you is
to spend a cupel o years .decidin
what you want to do. Then go out
an take what you can get. An .youll
be lucky to get it.
It donj make so much diferunce
what you do so longs yure not lookin
fer easy muney. The only thing I
ever found about muney that was
easy was losin it. About one doler
in a milyun jumps in the boat. The
ret weighs fore punds a peece an
fights all the way to tne gunals.
It used to be a man ud frame his
fust doler. Now he ether acts kind
o shamed o it or else he refuses to
take it an goes on strike fer twice as
much. If the folks' in this town ud
spena more lime nggcrin oui ways
to make doler bills instcd o thou
sand doler ones the locul savins bank
wouldnt be layin off its bookkeeper.
Bout the heviest work most on'
em do is to sit around Pooch Fris
bee's store an tell each other how if
you changed a dolar into Japines
Sen Sen and then changed that into
Eyetalyun Liars an then take that to
Englind and get Pounds an Ounces
fer it, youd dubbel yure money. Yes,
says I, an the way youll dubbel it is
by wearin it in two.
'They been thinkin about big
money so long it dont seem wuth
while to go out an make a few
dolars. An most on em dont. Its
an ill wind, that dont blow nobody
over, tho, as the sayin is, fer all this
talk has gave Hank Peters the fust
job he ever had in his life. He
spends his time figgcrin out how
much muney he could make if he
had any. The other day he came
runnin in the store all of a heat.
"I got it," he says.
"Got what?" says Pooch, movin
away.
"A way to make muney," says
Hank.
"Oh," says Pooch reeleeved, "Is
that all?"
Hank's Premise Was False.
Then Hank set down an says all
fie needed was five hundred dolars.
"tries to start a rabit farm with his
grandfather's beever."
You never can prove Hanks wrong
cause he always starts with some
thing imposubel. He had a skeme
that was a sort o cross between a
Cooks toor and a slight a hand per
formance. The idear was this forin
exchange wnich meajis that every
country is so crazy "aoout the other
country's muney that they give' you
twice what its worth just to have
it lyin around. Then He started
skipping. round Urope so fast it
made us dizy.
Hank couldnt help makin muney
on that trip any more than Bryan
can help makin speeeches. Just to
lissen to his travelin expences
mount up was a luckshury. Ridin
the bumpers to. New York an goin
stearage to Itullly was ' the only
Letters From Home-Made Father to Son
and includes all owners of pro'perty
in the area.
Field work in drawing up the dis
trict was handled by the Nelson En
gineering company. City Commis
sioner Towl was consulting engi-
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"theyll go out are live on t
practickel part. Just by goin to
Itully he made enuff to buy a Ford
an when he got to Paris he turned
in all his muney agen an bot his
self a auto. We found him travelin
thru Swisterland in a limmyzine an
by the time he got to Ingland Ik was
buyin a private boat to come home
in. I ferget how he got back to Pa
ducah. I think he bot him a rail
road. ' I
"Why dont you do?" says Pooch,
whose always takin the pleasure out
0 things.
"Well," says Hank, "I would only
theres one point Im not sure on an
1 aint got time to go over to Milford
an find out."
"Pooch says they all remind him
of a fello that sees a trick man tak4
a rabbit out o a high hat an then
goes home an tries to start a rabit
farm with his granfathcrs beevur.
Speekin o Urope, I kind o lost in
terust in this here Leege o Nashuns
lately. I dont have time to reed
the whole paper an Id, rather read
about the diferunt wars. It takes
so much time fer two countryS to
say "Howdedo" to each other that
a ambishus nashun with more pow
der than branes can fight a cupel
o wars an get back in its hole before
the Leege o Nashuns gets thru the
openin overchure.
One reason fer this is that diplu
mat9 is very delicut creeters. They
cant work em before 11 in the morn-1
in an not after 3, with 2 hours out
fer noon Winner. Now when you
figger how its a disgrace to say any
thin ofishul in less than five hours
you can see how a meatin o the
countrys wouldnt be no hummin
hive o industree, as the papers say.
Diplumats have a motto somethin
like the boy skouts; "One deed a,day
an no more." When a bunch o
them get together ' the fust thing
tl:ey do is to hand in there papers
showin there themselves an not
somebody else. Havin taken three
or four weeks to stablish this, tho
they all knew each other since they
was kids, they have " the openin
prayer o thankgivin on account o
havin fixed it sos there couldnt be
no more war.
Then one o them gets up, an in
the cours o four hours says there
a war goin on. Everybody that can
read knows that anyway so they
leave the stenogruffers to take down
the speech and go out an play golf.
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Peace Negotiations
Still Continued by
Poles and Russians
London, Aug. 28. (By The Asso
ciated Press). The Russo-Polish
peace negotiations were continued
on August 25, says a wireless dis
patch from Moscow today. The
delegates discussed the Russian
terms, which the Poles declared un
acceptable. The Poles, according to the wire
less, relied chiefly on the recent Po
lish militaries. A member of the
Russo-Ukranian delegation stated
there was no, Polish basis for peace,
but merely a rejection of the Rus
sian terms. He added:
"Our proposals are not final, as
wcare willing to make peace. We
do not quality our policy by the
condition of things on the various
fronts, as for us this war is to ob
tain peace."
The negotiations are continuing,
the wireless states.
Detective Gives $50" Liberty
Bond to His New Nephew
Detective Joe Wavrin was passing
out the cigars yesterday.
' Joe was announcing the birth of
a nephew on the 67th birth anni
versary of the baby's grandfather
and Joes'father, Joseph L. Wavrin,
retired fire captain, 3009 South Fif
teenth street.
Beside passing out the cigars, De
tective Wavrin drew out a $50 Lib
erty bond from the bank and gave it
to his tiny nephew, who was born
to Mr.- and Mrs. August Petersen,
6549 South Forty-eighth street.
Plane With Prize Pig for
Milwaukee Leaves Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 28. An air
plane, piloted by F. V. Gardner,
carrying the prize pig, Cornhusker,
of the University of Nebraska Agri
cultural college1, left here at 9:30 this
morning for Milwaukee, Wis. The
pig js the gift of- the college and
Governor McKclvie to Governor
Phillips. Tiie plane is scheduled to
arrive at the Wisconsin state fair
grounds shortly after 3 o'clock this
afternoon.
. . ... war- . .
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he Lodge reservashuns."
The next day they come together
lookin gjum an start an investuga
shun. They pick out the ten fel
los whose frock cotes is in the best
state o wear and send em out as a
comisbun. In a munth or so the
comishun comes back an reports of
ficially that to the best o there no
ledge there is a war goin on.
Hearin this the diplumats decide
that the nex thing to do is to de
cide somethin. So they apoint a com
itee an all the rest goes home. The
comitee writes a letter to the am
basadoor o the coutry what makin
war sayin they understand his esti
mabel country is makin war an will
they stop it right away.
The ambasadoor writes back in a
week or so sayin hes honored by
gettin the charmin note o the conn
tee an he's be glad to stop. Where
upon he throws the note in the
scrapbaskit with his bills an goes on
playm penuckel.
Everythin runs smooth til some
secrut service man happens to read
the niornin paper an sees the war
hasn't stopped at all. He reports it
an theysend another comishun to
find out if its true. While the comi
shun is on the way one o the warin
nashuns get licked an quits fightin.
So they come back an say the war
is over but the peepel is in a terubel
condishun. -
Then ,the diplumats turn the whole
thing over to some .charity socyity
an go home savin, "Wasnt that a
nice peece o doplomucy?"
It'll be a bad day fer the Senaturs
when the Leege o Nashuns argy
ment drops out, tho. They proved
they didnt have nothin else to talk
about or theyd a talked about it
long ago. I wouldn't be sprised to
see a lot o em out of a job. Pooch
says he guess they'll go out an live
on the Lodge reservashun.
Yure muther is not at all well. As
soon as she gets caut up with the
preserves an laying in the winter
wood I want, her to take it easy.
She ought' to just confine hersel to
the washin an cookin and cleanin.
After a woman gets to a certain ag
she deserves a rest.
I think I'll close now an walk
down to Pooch Frisbee's. I like- v.
keep my chum on the pulse o civil
affairs.
yours civily
Amos H. Amcsb
Fath.
Coprrlfht, 10, by Ed. Btrctter.
Alleged, Forgers Plead
Guilty at Nebraska City
Nebraska City, Neb., Aug, 28.
(Special). Carl F. Richards and E.
D. Edwards, arrested in Omaha sev
tral weeks ago and returned here on
a charge of forgery, pleaded guilty
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I Demonstration and Sale "Karpen" Furniture
I "Karpen" Easy Chair GIVEN AWAY Next Friday Night
. Our entire main floor
"Karpen" Furniture, which
most comfortable furniture
' "Karpen" Cane Davenports. .175.00
I "Karpen" Chairs and Rockers
' '. .$62.50 and up
! "Karpen" Overstuffed Davenports, ex
I tra high grade floral tapestry, in
1 s fancy designs, at. i .$197.50
j High Chair
! Golden Finish
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This is
really a
' wonderful
bargain
we have to
offer you
in a high
grade,
golden -finish
high chair,
this week
only
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$3.95
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Attractively Priced
Never before have we
been in a positioi to offer
you such wonderful val
ues in rugs. You'll
find here a pattern
to suit your long
a w a ) t e d
dream yet
at prices that
will not be a burden
to the purse.
27x54 Velvet Rugs,
$7.45
7:6x9 Seamless Tap
estry Rugs
$24.50
36x72 Velvet Rugs,
$9.85
8:3x10:6 Seamless
Velvet Rugs
$54.50
i Solid Oak Table William and
I Mary design, 6-ft. extension,
Jacobean finish. During our
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Mahogany William and Mary: Bedroom Suite Highly polished.
During our August Furniture Sale j
Dresser ...$69.50
Dressing Table . -849.50
Bed ...S52.50
Chiffonier (in place of chiffonette a illustrated in. cut) . .g 49.50
in county court. They were placed
under bonds of $800 each for their
appearauce before the district court.
Richards, who was recency paroled
from the Kansas state penitentiary,
where he was serving a sentence for
autonfobile theft, was returned to
Lnasmg.
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You can furnish two, three or more rooms with beau- i
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income if you take advantage of the savings in this '
August Sale. And as always, you make your own terms.
3 ROOM
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$199.50
4 ROOM
OUTFIT
$275.50
9x12 grass Rugs
$12.95
9x12 Hih Grade
Seamless Axminster
$79.50
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Russian Teacher Dies
London, Aug. 28.--Dr. A. A. Sach
inatov, professor of Russian lan
guage at the University of Petro
grad, is Iead, according to. dis
patch from Stockholm, quoting ad
vices received there. It is said he
died' of starvation.
STS.
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Souvenirs Free
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Present this coupon and re
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garding the beautiful easy
"Karpen" chair that will be
given away next Friday night.
See he comfortable Easy
Chairs, Davenports and Ami
Chairs, all specially priced for
"Karpen" Week.
"Karpen" Cane buites,
which includes Davenport, Chair and
Rocker j $325.00
Cretonne 'chaise Lounge $69.50
Hundreds of other pieces to select from.
of
Outfits
$344.50
5 ROOM
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Tea Wagon Mahogany finish,
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heavy rubber-tired. During
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