THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3t, 1920.
'$1,000,000 State
Treasurer Bond
v For 1921 Filed
Largest Individual Security in
Nebraska Costs $5,000
Risk Taken by Nine
Concerns.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 30. Statf
t reasurer D. B. Cropsey's $1XX),000
bond for the biennium beginning
lanuary 1. was filed with Secretary
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Ot Mate UariUS M, irosocrry luuay
bv Harry S. Byrne of Omaha.
The bond, required by law, is the
largest demanded of any individual
in Nebraska. It probably exceeds
the bonds demanded, of all other of
ficials at the state capitol. '
The bond as filed with the sec
retary of state was approved by Gov
ernor McKelvis on the recommenda
tion of Attorney General Davis and
. Insurance Chief AV. B. Young, act
ing for Secretary Hart of the de
partment of trade and commerce.
Nine Companies Sign. '
The bond, as signed, is an ;inter-
csting document, lhe risK is not
carried by any one company but is
signed by nine separate bonding
concerns. The Fidelity and Deposit
company of Baltimore, whichyfs rep
resented by Mr. Byrne, took the
largest amount, carrying $250,000.
The remaining $750,000 risk is divid
ed between the following companies:
the National Surety company, the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty
company, Globe Indemnity companj',
AJaryiano vasuaiiy company, nnicr
ican Surety company, New Amster
dam Casualty company, London and
'Lancashire company and the Lion
Omaha.
Insurance Chief Young reported
that the nine companies have a total
capital of $22,850,000 and that their
admitted assets are more than $112,-
ouo.ooo.
Bonding companies are limited by
the government from assuming risks
on any one individual to exceed 10
per cent of its capital stock. For
this reason, and for the state's pro
tection, it was necessary that the
bond be divided among a number of
companies. In the event of the fail
ure of any one of the companies, the
syate may take action against any
one or more of the other companies
in the event of a loss on the state
treasurer's bond. , '-
Costs State $5,000.
It -costs the"- state of Nebraska
$5,000 per biennium to insure its
state treasurer. This is the fee or
premium charged by the bonding
companies for assuming the $1,000,
000 risk. The treasurer is the only
state official, either elective or ap
pointive, to have his bonding pre
mium paid by the state. All state
officials and employes are required
to pay for their own bonding.
Mr. Byrne arranged for State
Treasurer CroDsev's bond for the hi-
j ennium just ending. He boasts that
he has arranged the bond of almost
every state treasurer during the last
15 years.
Members of Governor McKelvie's
code 'cabinet are bonded for $5,000
each. Executive officers are under
$10,000 bonds. (The premium costs
each executive officer approximajtely
$62.50 per biennium. Code officers
pay premiums amounting to1 approx
imately two and one-half times the
amount of executive officers.
During the past few weeks a great
number of bonding huse represent
atives have visited the state capitol
in an effort ,to sign up the various
state officials and employes who will
begin new terms the first of the
j ear.
Reconsignment Charge on
Open Car Freight Denied
Lincoln, Dec. 30. (Special.) Ap
plication of the railroads of the state
to install a new charge for recon
signment of all.frieght in open cars
and coal and coke of from $2 to $5
has been denied by the stat railway
commission.
F. Montmorency, general freight
agent of the Burlington, appeared
before the commission 'and repre
sentee that the Interstate commerce
commission had granted the rate on
interstate traffice and the roads de
sired the same kind of ruling on
interstate traffic, Thomas L. Hall,
retiring commissioner, wrote the
opinion denying the application.
Snowdrift Causes Arrest
Of Bootleggers In Iowa
" Waterloo, la., Dec. 30. Two
hundred gallons of whisky, a new
truck and two men. Joseph Posner,
Chicago, and John L. Burns, St.
Paul, Minn., were captured here
early today.
The .bocce runners were stuck in
a snow bank near Waverly and an
offer of a gallon of whisky for as
sistance caused two youths to notify
the police. v. ,
$40,000 Bond Issue Will
Pay Ca68 County Warrants
"Atlantic, la., Dec. 30.-(Special.)
Cass county will issue ,$40,000
worth of bonds to take care' of un
paid bridge warrants. Cass county
expended $62,000 for road improve
ments this year. It will be reim
bursed to the extent of $20,000 by the
State Highway commission from the
maintenance fund.
Alleged Nebraska City
Burglars Plead Not Guilty
Nebraska City, ,Neb., Dec. 30.
(Special.) Flex and Virgil Gillispie,
arrested several days ago on a charge
of burglarizing the H. G. Markel
hardware store here a few days be
fore Christmas, were arraigned in
county court and entered pleas of
not guilty. Bond was fdxei at $1,000
;ach.
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For Plattsmouth Banker
Flattsmouth, Neb. Dec 30. (Spe-i
aal lelegrara.) runeral services
were held here today for T. W.
Roberts. 51, president of the Platts
mouth State bank, who died of heart
disease, three days ago. He was1
nriHpnt rif fit hatilr fntir v,ari and
beiore that time was cashier ot the
' bank.
' Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 30. (Special.)
At a meeting of the city commis
sioners. F. A, Dutton was appointed
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finger, who was recently appointed
Judge-elect Colby's court reporter.
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Embezzlement of
$116,000 Charged
To Insurance Man
General Manager of Bankers'
Company Arrested at Lin
coln on Complaint of At
torney General Davis.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec 30. (Special
Telegram.) Houghton N. Kenyop,
general manager and treasurer of the
Bankers Fire Insurance Co., was ar
rested here at 6 last night on two
complaints siggned by Attorney
General Clarence A. Davis,' charging
him with embezzling $116,000.
The first complaint ''charged that
the embezzled Liberty bonds, the
property ot tne company, vaiuea ai
$50,000. The second count charged
that he embezzled mortgages owned
by the company, valued at $50,000. '
Held in Hotel.
The ' second complaint charged
him with receiving and converting
to his own use 1,600 shares Sf the
capital stock of the company valued
at $16,000.
Keyon was bold under guard
in the Lincoln hotel by state agents.
He was taken to the hotel for safe
keeping when Judge "Hayes could
not be found to fix the amount of
his bond which he offered to furnish.
Associate in Jail.
Kenyon came to Lincoln, thre
years ago from Chicago and estab
lished the Bankers Automobile In
surance company. Charles Maixner,
former cashier of the Ceresco bank,
was president of the company. Maix
ner is now in the state penitentiary,
having been sertenced about a week
ago after pleading "guilty to em
bezzling bank funds. Bank examin
ers said that the bank held a large
quantity of worthless paper that had
been given the insurance company
and sold the bank. ,
Attorney General Davis refused to
comment on his investigation ,but it
is reported that a probe will be
started immediately into the finances
of, both the fire and automobile in
surance companies.
New York Central Asks to
Lease Chicago Terminal
Washington', Dec. 30. Authority
to lease andylatcr purchase the Chi
cago Junction Railway company
terminal properties at Chicago was
asked of the Interstate Commerce
commission today by the New York
Central Railway company, set at
$33,333,333, of which $22,987,516 is
to be paid to the Chicago Junction
company and $10,345,817 to the
Union Stock Yards and Transit com-
pany, a New . Jersey corporation
which owns property already merged
with the Chicago Junction company.
The application said larger freight
terminal facilities were necessary for
the New York Central.
Tanks to Guard Women
Chicago, Dec. 30. Squads from
the Evanston tank corps and auto
mobiles ' manned by policemen
armed with rifles will guard Evans
ton, Chicago's wealthy north shore
suburb, from the reign of moron ban
dits who have terrorized women of
the town, according to plans of the
mayor, H. P. Pearsons. The tank
corps has one tank.. Detectives
garbed as women, with revolvers
concealed in handbags, also will pa
trol the streets.
Aid Reiief Work." .
McCook, Neb., Dec 30. (Special.)
The Red Willow county Red
Cross has decided to give $500 from
its funds for the Near East relief.
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Butcher Held Up;
Bandits Get $850
Diamond From Man
Abe Milder, Returning From
Visit With, Sweetheart, Is,
Touched for Money,
; Watch and Pin.
While Mrs. Greenberg sat at a
table picking ducks and her husband,
R. Greenberg, butcher, -1552 North
Twentieth , street, waited on Morris
Kuperman, 1820 North Twentieth
street, Wednesday night, a long
negro highwayman entered the shop
ordered thV butcher to throw up his
hands,' admonished the wife to sit
where she was and forced the cus
tomer from the store, after which
he strolled to the cash register, re
moved $58, wandered frAm the store
and disappearedin the darkness.
Abe Milder; 2860 Capitol avenue,
returning home from a visit with his
sweetheart, was held up b two
negroes at Twenty-eighth, and Dodge
streets at 1 a. m. and robbed of $75,
a $90 watch, and an $850 diamond
stickpin. ' j y
Robbed by Highwaymen.'
Two highwaymen robbed N. Phil
brick, 840 South Nineteenth street,
of $3 at Eighteenth and Leaven
worth streets. '
L. H. Carter, Lincoln druggist, re
ported the theft of a handbag full of
clothing from his automobile at Six
teenth and Harney streets. y
R. I. Robertson, 109 North Ninth
street, reported the theft of 30 silk
shirts, a dozen pairs of silk hose,
three suits and an 'overcoat worth
$600. '
Auto Thieves Busy.
Ed Preston, 1906 Capitol avenue,
reported the theft of an overcoat,
suit and sweater.
Miss Donna Gustin of Lincoln,
visiting at 924 South Twenty-eighth
street, reported the theft of a hand-
"bag from ah automobile. The bag
contained two sorority pins, watch,
and' clothing.
Burglars took $12 from the safe of
the Bailey Coal and Supply company,
3420 Vinton street. G. T. Wickstrom,
2444 Laurel avenue, reported the
theft' of his automobile from Nine
teenth and Cass streets.
MUSIC AT CANDY LAND
New Year's Evd.
Special arrangements .have been completed for
the entertainment of our patrons on New Year's Eve.
Music will be furnished in the Walnut Room. We
will remain open until 3 a. m. Just the place fo a
dainty luncheon and in a refined atmosphere.
CANDY LAND
1522 Farnam St
l'etrow & Grannow, Prop.
Pullman Workers
Offer to Accept
Wage Reduction
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Over 9,000 Employes in Car
Works Express Willing
ness to Stand Cut Up
, To 20 Per Cent.
By O. A. Mather.
Chicago Trlbune-Omhs Bee Leaned Wire,
Chicago, Dec. 30. More than 9,000
employes of the Pullman; company
in the car works at Pullman, 111.,
have made a voluntary offer to ac
cept wage reductions up to 20 per
cent. This offer, which is purely
voluntary, inasmuch as the company
had not suggested any wage reduc
tions or material reduction of forces,
was made, to the company through
the employes' industrial relations
committee.
The offer of the Pullman em
ployes has not been acted on by the
company, but will soon be consid
ered. ,The extent to which wages
will be reduced will be decided on
in conferences and then will become
effective. If the company avails it
self of the full extent of the offer, it
will mean a saving of about $3,656,
000 a year on its payroll
Officials of the comoanv exoressed
the belief that the action of the em
ployes in voluntarily 'offering to take
less wages is the first action of this
kind to be taken by, workers in any
large plant. In several other indus
trial plants the (workers have axreed
to wage reductions, but only when
faced with the alternative of part
time operations or a shutdown.
The wages of Pullman shop em
ployes has more than doubled in
the last four years, according to the
company. In January, 1918, the aver
age wage of all employes was $3.85
a day, while last month the average
daily wage was $6.7 an increase ot
about 76 per cent in a little less than
three years. Thus if the men and
the company agree on a reduction of
20 per cent, it will, mean hat the
average wage will be lowered about
$1.37 a day to $5.42. ,
South Side
BoyJDies Soon After
Coasting Accident
Lester Vacek, 12-year-old son of
James Vacek, 5830 South Twenty
second street, died Wednesday night,
10 minutes after he suffered injuries
from a collision of his sled with a
large coaster sled, at the foot of the
Twenty-second street hill, between
W and Y streets.
The large sled is owned by Ru
dolph Yeehont, Twenty-second and
W streets, and at the time of the ac
cident it was being turned around
at the bottom of the Rill.
The boy was carried to his home
by playmates and he died in a few
minutes. He had been struck on
the head and over, the heart Funeral
services will be held Friday morning
at y, at the Church ot the Assump
tion. Burial will be in St. Mary
cemetery.
Army . Discharges Free 4
Youths Nabbed as Vags
Four young men arrested at 2:30
yesterday . for investigation as
they emerged from a restaurant at
Twenty-fourth and M .streets were
discharged from vagrancy charges
by Judge Fitzgerald in. South Side
police court when they showed dis
charge papers from the army.
The men were Orville Mevere and
Cuthbert Carnes of Akron, O.; Clif
ford Anderson of Rome, Ga., and
Ralph Malone, Casper, Wyo. Meyere
showed a discharge paper which
credited him with' service in major
engagements in France. He told the
judge the quartet was on its way
home to find work.
Man Before High CourtnOn
Wet Case Nabbed by U. S.
William Watson, 1134 Edwards
street, who appealed to the state su
preme court from a conviction in the
district court on a charge of illegal
possession of liquor, claiming that
the huge supply of alcoholic bever
ages found in his home by the raid
ins: sauad was in his possession long
before prohibition became effectivep
was arrested Wednesday night on a
similar charge, but made out on a
federal warrant, andjvwas taken to
the county jail by Deputy United
States Marshal Young.
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South Side Resident Dies
After Two-Months' Illness
Patrick O'Brien, 84, died at his
home at 2207 N street, Thursday aft
ernoon following an illiress of two
months. He had been a resident of
the South Side for the past 15 years,
having; moved here from Atlantic, la.
Mr. O'Brien is survived by his
wife, four sons, Charles and John
of NewvYork city and Henry and
Frank of Oklahoma, and a daughter,
Mrs. Frank Gillogly, South Side.
Barney Dugan To
Marry War Nurse
Josephine Neary and Drug
Store Man to Marry
January 4.
Bernard (Barney) J. Dugan, pro
prietor of the Alexander Drug com
pany, Seventeenth and Douglas
streets, and Miss Josephine B.
Neary, former war nurse, will be
married at St. Phimomenas church
January 4, according to announce
ment made by them yesterday.
Only immediate members of the
two families will be present at the
ceremony, which is to be conducted
by the Rev. J. W. Stenson, and
which will be followed by a wed
ding breakfast at the home of Miss
Lora Power, 127 South Thirty
eighth street.
vMiss Neary came to Omaha 15
years ago from Chicago, where she
graduated from the Mercy hospital
nurses' training school. She con
tinued nursing in St. Catherine nnd
St. Joheph hospitals in Omaha until
the United States entered the world
war. She then enlisted and served
several months in southern training
camp hospitals. She was sent to
France soon after the armistice was
signed and was assigned to a hos
pital in southern France where she
remained six months. Two sisters
were also overseas nurses.
Following the wedding ceremony,
the bride and groom swill make a
short bridal trip east and will be at
home in the El Beudor. apartments
January 15. . . v
Eggs in Storage for Year
And Half Ordered Sold
Milwaukee, Dec. 30. Following
disclosures' that one lot of approx-
imately 25,000 dozen eggs had been
hoarded from 18 to 20 months, the
state division of markets refused the
request of the Badger State Cream
ery to keep the eggs in storage any
longer and issued orders that they
be thrown on the market for imme
diate sale.
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Papers of London
Renew Attack On
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Annamqit of U. S.
Times Takes Great Space to
Deny Britain Pledged to
Aid Japanese In Case of
War With America.
London, Dec 30. Insistence on
the desirability of restricting naval
armaments and the holding ot a con
ference on the subject by the United
States, Great Britain and Japan was
renewed, today by London news
papers. ' .
The Times, saying the belief was
widely prevalent in the United States
that Great Britain was bound by
treaty to support Japan in the case
that country should enter a war with
America, devoted more than half a
long editorial, seeking to convince
Americans that this belief was "gro
tesquely false." v
Recalls 1914 Treaty.
The newspaper recalled that when
the United States and Great Britain
in 1914 signed the peace commission
treaty "Great Britain immediately
notified Japan of the fact. Japan was
told that the agreement to submit
disputes between the United States
and Great Britain to investigation by
a ' permanent international commis
sion constituted an exemption on
Great Britain's part to aid Japan." "
"If that does not explode all un
easiness about an Anglo-Japanese at
tack," said the newspaper, "the sus
picion must be beyond the powers of
reasoning."
Post Also Active.
agreement between the three powers,
the Morning Post contended such
an agreement should not infringe
upon the province of the league of
nations.
"The British government," said
the Daily News, "definitely favors
such an international conference on
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Turkieh March. (From "Ruins of Atheng") Violin
Quartette D Midfer Allegretto ma nontroppo
Polonaise, "Io ten TiUnia"
(I'm Fair
Life
Banjo Seng
EUh If With All Your Heart
Since You Went Away
Le Coucou (The Cuckoo) Piano
Andrea Chenier Nemico dell ptrie7 (The Enemy
Stein Song
That Naughty WalU -
AlabamaMeon ,
Alice Blue Gown-Walts
Tripoli-Medley WalU
I Lova You Sunday Medley Fox Trot The
Oh Geel Oh Goth I One Step The
My Sahara Rose Medley Fox Trot Accordion
One Step Accordion
the Blue for My Kentucky Home
the Blue
Green (The Village Vamp)
I've Got the A-B-CD Bluea
Forgive Me Lord
Old Rugged Crow .
Avalon (Fox Trot Song) '
Rock-e-Bye Lullaby Mammy
Mr WUIiam
Your Neat
Why Don't You Answer Me?
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,, Paul Whheman and
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Wisconsin Town Takes
On Arid Aspect After
Federal ?Dry" Raid
Hurley, Wis., Dec. 30. Hurley
took on a more arid aspect today,
following Tuesday's liquid raid, and
a stranger tried for threes hours to
buy a drink of whisky but without
success. Forty-eight hours ago it
could have been obtained easily.
With 37 of the 53 saloons closed
by the federal agents, the places still
onen had only drinks that are within
tne law for sale. -
Wives and other relatives of the
men taken to Ashland for arraign
ment were busy trying to arrange
bail money.
disarmament as was proposed by
Toseohus Daniels, United States
secretary of the navv. and maintains
it is the function of the'' league- of
nations to call it."
Former Head of Bond
Firm Held on Charge
Of False Statements
Portland, Ore., Dec. 30. Fred S.
Morris, a fornier head of Morris
Brothers, Inc., I a bond house, was
arrested on a federal warrant techni
cally charging he aided John L.
Etheridge, also a former president of
Morris Brothers, Inc. in obtaining
naturalization papers when Ether
idge was not entitled to them.
The warrant, according to the
United States attorney, was based
on the allegation that Morris, while
aiding in Etheridge's naturalization
proceedings, concealed knowledge
that Etheridge had served terms in
New Jersey state prison. Etheridge
came to this country from England
in 1903. He is now under arrest at
Minneapolis on a charge of larceny
by bailee.
Householders in Madrid. Spain.
are now baking their own bread on
account of suspension of work by
the bakers in that city.
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National Guard
Man Made Cliief
Of Militia Bureau
ceed Maj. Cen. McCarter
Who Goes to Line of "
Command,
Washington, Dec. 30. Col. George
C. Rickards of Oil City, Pa., was
appointed today by President Wil
son as chief of the militia bureau of
the War department.
Colonel Rickards, who is a Penn
sylvania national guard officer, and
attached-td the infantry reserve of
ficers' corps, will assume his duties
tomorrow, succeeding Maj. Gen.
Jesse McCarter, who goes to a line
of command.
Colonel Rickards will have the
rank of major general and will be
the first national guard officer to
hold this position. Appointment of
a guard officer who is a member of
the reserve corps to this post-is pro
vided for in the army reorganiza
tion bill passed at the last session of
congress. ....
Italy Not Worth Dying
For, D'Annunzio Sayj
Rome, Dec. 30. D'Annunzio has
issued a proclamation declaring that
it is not. worth while dying for Italy.
He said he was leaving Fiume bv
airplane.
Wife Fined $100 On Wet
Charge; Hunby Sent to Jai)
Mary Bell was fined $100 for ille
gal t possession of liquor by v Judge
Fitzcerald in Smith SiHc nnlirr rnttr'l
Sesterday and her husband, Mik
ell, 1102 South Twenty-seventh
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