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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5. 1921. 3 9 "A m Court Orders the Return of Estate Taken Durins War Widow of Coffee King" Who Died in Germany to Receive Large Sum When Judges Naturalize Husband. Wage Reductions, j Brokerage Finn In All Parts of U. SI ! Accused of Fraud At Court Hearing Sleel, Tool and Gun Plants Announce Cuts From 10 to 20 Per Cent. San Francisco, Jan. 4.--A de rision which is expected o result in a return of the $7,000,00(1 ?stn(c of. August Sielcken i New York to the widow 'of its founder. Mrs. Clara Sielcken, following its seizure by the alien property custodian dur ing the war, was handed down in superior court here today. 'Hie court held tha,t Sielcken, known as the "coffee king," had been proved to have been natural ised in California am! ordered the "restoration" of his certificiatc of citizenship. Duplicate papers, made cut as of the original date of natu ralization, are to be issued and de livered to liis widow." Mrs. Sielcken then plans to de mand the return -to her ot his es tate in this country. Sielcken died in Haden-Baden, Germany, in 1l16. His executors, ' seeking to 'claim, the estate, asserted his certificate; of naturalization had been lost in a shipwreck in 1867. The case came up in the state courts because at the, date Sielcken j was naturalized those courts were i performing the duties of federal dis-j trict courts. Sielcken settled in ; California in l.X(9 and spent ome years here befrorc removing to New York. Negro Is Lynched. ' rS Meridian, Miss., Jan. 4. Robert 'Lewi. a negro, accused of the mur der of T. W. Greer, a railroad watch man, was lynched here today by a mob which forced the policeman who had arrested Lewis to surrender his prisoner. Detroit, Jan. 4. The Packard Motor Car company's plant, closed several weeks ago, reopened in some departments Monday with sev eral thousand men on part time. A number of other automobile plants now closed for inventory will short ly put small forces back to work, it is expected. Wages Are Reduced. Ironwood, Mich., Jan. 4. A wage reduction of IS per cent was an nounced yesterday by the Steel and Tube Company of America, vChich operates the Newport and Anvil Palms mines here. Winchester Cuts Wages. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 4. A wage reduction of 10 per cent, ef fective January 1, was announced yesterday by the Winchester Re peater Arms company. Denver, Jan. 4. The Denver Rock Drill company announced Monday that it would put into effect imme diately a wage cut of 20 r cent. The "high cost of overproduction" was given as the cause. About 325 men are affected. Poet Speaks Here. Memories-of the conquest of the west are passing away with the dy ing of the heroes of those days, John Neihardt, : famous Nebraska epic poet, told a group of his ad mirers at a luncheon in the Univer sity club , Tuesday noon. Neihardt won the prize given by the Ameican Poets' association for the best book of poetry published in America in 1919. He read selec tions from his poetry at the luncheon. Owners Accused of Making Gift to Woman to Be Used In Purchasing Total Hold ings of Company. Portland, Ore., Jan. 4. Evidence which they contend shews conclu sively that Morris Bros., Inc., Sep tember 21, 1919, presented to Mrs. Stella M. Etheridge a gift in the sum of $100,000 and that she in turn used this money in purchasing the total holdings of Morris Bros., Inc., was produced in federal court yesterday by attorneys for W. D. Whitcomb, temporary receiver for the wrecked bond house in chancery proceedings before Robert F. Maguire, tempo rary master in chancery. Major Peck of counsel for the re ceiver sought to show that the Eth cridges formed a $1,000,000 corpora tion by taking over the assets of a $100,000 corporation which wa.i in solvent in the sum of $125,000. As a basis for this charge he had marked for identification a trial bal ance issued by the old corporation shortly before the new company was formed, showing that the surplus was a trifle more than $2,000. Listed among the assets of the old corporation was $100,000 deposited in the Forest Grove National bank in the name of Mrs. Etheridge,' but which she herself withdrew in full several days before the trial balance was made, he said. Other alleged frauds appear in the trial balance, it was charged, making the insolvency more than $123,000 in all. Omahan9 to Marry Chicago, Jan. 4. A marriage li cense was issued here today to Chi 'es C. Leary and Eleanor Ras both of Omaha. Promoter Is Held For Iowa Officers Chicago Police Arrest Man Wanted for Embezzlement In Sioux City. Chicago, Jan. 4. George P. John son was arrested today on a charge of embezzlement from Sioux City, la. Johnson, according to the informa tion given the Chicago police, pro moted a milling company and after selling stock amounting to $75,000 came to Chicago. Johnson said he had been indicted for embezzlement and had been re leased on bonds. Sioux City, Jan. 4. George P. Johnson of Sioux City, who is under arrest in Chicago, on an order from Sheriff W. H. Jones of Woodbury county, la., is under indictment here on a charge of embezzling $75,000 from the Alfalfa Cereal Milling com pany, and also on the charge of lar ceny ot a $4UU note. Johnson was excused from trial in district court here last fall when he furnished an affidavit from Chicago saying that he was sick there and would be unable to stand trial for at least six months. Since that time it has been learned that the twice in dicted man was in physical condition to stand trial and his arrest was ex pected. Mine Officers Re-Elected Says Journal Publisher Indianapolis, Intl., Jan. 4. While canvass of the 400,000 ballots cast in the United Mine Workers of America election December 14 may not be completed for a month,! Ellis Searles, editor of the Mine Work ers' Journal, declared today there was no question of the re-election of President John L., Lewis of Illi nois, and Vice President Phillip Murray of Pennsylvania. They were opposed by R. II. Ilarlin, Washington, and Alexander Howat, Kansas, respectively. tungsten Different! An exclusiveA'ictor product ! Tungsten- im Steel- (old plated) Only after years of search and experi ment was it discovered that tungsten was the perfect reproducing point for playing Victor Records Its great advantages more than justify all the time the scientists and metallurgists of the Victor Company spent in achieving this triumph The virtue of tungsten is in its peculiar fibrous nature. It gradually wears itself away and doesn't damage the record. 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The hedging system long followed in the grain trade was opposed today by repre sentatives of farmers' organizations who appeared at the first of a series of extended hearings by the house agriculture committee on bills de signed to put a heavy tax on strictly speculative dealing. There was no evidence, however, to indicate that the organizations wanted the government to abolish grain exchanges, and while some witnesses declared present conditions were "bad," they were unable to offer off-hand substitute plans which might afford greater protection to the grower. A. L. Middleton. president of the Farmers' Elevator company of Eagle Grove, la., said the experience of farmers in his section had prejudiced them against future selling or even hedging. The system of hedging by which a man buying actual corn sells an equal amount in futures, had been regarded by the trade as legiti mate, although he added that it led to a. temptation to reckless specula tion. On one hedging transaction his company, he said, lost 20 cents a bushel. x Representative Tincher, republi can, of Kansas, said he was surprised to find that farmers, owning a co operative elevator company, had been "gambling." Asked if that was Bowen's Lower Price FURNITURE SALE affords the opportunity in Overstuffed Chairs, Rockers and Davenports to get them NOW at re ductions in price, mak ing them the Biggest Bargains in all our mer chandising history. Advertisement permitted under his charter or by the laws of Iowa, Mr. Middleton said that so far as he knew, there had been no prosecutions and that more than IS per cent of the elevators in his state made a practice of hedg ing.. ! C. II. Hyde of the Oklahoma Farmers' union declared farmers of the southwest opposed future spec ulative trading as a whole. Income Tax Blanks Will Be Ready Soon Is Announcement Washington; Jan. 4. Eorms for reporting individual income tax re turns for 120 on net incomes of more than $5,000 will be ready for distribution January 10, the bureau of internal revenue, today announced. At the same time forms for reporting farm income and expenses and part nership and personal service cor porations' income will be available. Forms for reporting individual in come of less than $5,000 will be ready at an early date, the bureau stated. Studebaker Plant Opens. South Bend, Ind., Jan. 4. The Studebaker corporation will resume work on a scheduled production of 90 automobiles daily January 10, it was announced here today. The out put will be increased gradually until it reaches 500 cars daily, it was said. Postmasters Appointed - Wnsliiiiirlon, Jan. 4. (Snncinl '!!. cram.) Postofflccs dlsontluo-.1: Ar--la, T.aramla county, Wyoming, mall M t'nnipstool; Kthol, !hrry county, No braska, tnn.ll to Prentice. I.lta Marlcncp has been nppoinl"'l postmaster at Sprlne Willow, .shirMin countv, Wyoming, vice Sadie IlimlmRii. ii'slKtied; Ediile P. Falrley at Bartlett. Wbipler county, Nebraska, vice Maude Madilnx, resiprned. Pnstoffice at Bnttendorf, Roolt rjunty, Iowa, discontinued, mail sent to Davenport. 8.881 Failures in U.S. in Last Year Liabilities $259,1 21.803 Com pared to $113,291,237 With 6,451 Bankrupt. New York, Jan. 4. R. G. Dim & Co.'s record of failures for 1 9 JO, made public today, showed 8,881 commercial failures throughout the country, with $295,121,805 in indebt edness, against 6,451 failures in 1919, involving liabilities of $113,291,27. The increase of 2,430 in number ot commercial insolvencies last year as compared with those of 1919 is rela tively much smaller than the expan sion ot $18!, 800,000 in labilities hlinwiiiK the vie in number ot fail ure to have been 377 per rent and of indebtcdnes 160.5 per cent, the report said. After four successive vtsvs of di iniiiishing , commercial mortality, it continued, business reverses of 1920 increased shaiolv. This was said lo be "not unnatural" marked by justment. period general economic read- Divoreed by Phone. Chicago, Jan. 4.--A divorce suit by Ioiik distance telephone was heard before Judse Jesse Italdwin in circuit court todav when he K'aiil ed a divorce to Mrs. Theodore H. KoKclstrotn, Mrs. J-'oelstroiu's father, J. 1). Holmau ( I'cnterville. la., was unable to come to Chicago, so lawyers took bis testimony over the telephone. A nV KRTISEMKNT. I) V Y Ki'lS KM KT. vil? if ii.'W, r .s r '7TTV Let Us Do Your Family Washing Your garments will be clean, sweet - smelling; the linens snowy white. We use Refinite Per fect Soft Water. We call for your wash deliver it ready for ironing. Costs but a few cents a pound. Tape's Cold Compound" Breaks any Cold in a Few Hours Instant Relief 1 Don't stay stutTed up! 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Rates at Hotel Whit comb from $2.00. 400 ouuide rooms. Write for folder1 containing map of city. J. H. VAN HORNE, Manager. J HofEL Whitcomb Civic Center SAN FRANCISCO -s-t t T Gigantic Semi-Animal Clearance Sale of Men's and Women's High Grade Footwear At Reductions From 25 to 50 .Tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock begins our great semi-annual clearance sale of men's and women's high-grade shoes, including such makes as Laird & Schober, Wright & Peters and Ziegler Bros, for women and Johnston & Murphy and Howard & Foster for men at reductions from 25 to 507c Come early. Sale Starts Tomorrow, 8:30 Sharp FOR WOMEN LOT NO. 1- $18.00 Laird, Schober & Ziegler Bros. Beaver, Brown, Gray and Field Mouse Shoes now $85 u LOT NO. 3- $15.00 Wright & Peters and Ziegler Bros. Brown Kid, Russia Calf, Suede and Patents now 9 LOT NO. 5- $11.00 Brown, Black and Colored Kid Shoes, with military and Louis heels, now $fQ85 LOT NO. 2- $14.00 Slater & Morrill's Brown Russia Calf, Brown Kid and Black Kid now LOT NO. 4- $12.00 Russia Calf, Brown Kid, Black Kid and Novelty Boots go at 7 85 LOT NO. 6"' 700 pairs broken lines Novelty Boots and Street Boots that sold up to $12.00, now 4 1 800 pairs that sold up to $10.00, in patent button and lace, kid button J Extra. SpCCial and lace, some with combination tops, while they last Zf FOR MEN LOT NO. 1 $15.00 Howard & Foster's Russia Calf and Black Calf, fa all styles and lasts, LOT NO. 3- $11.00 Russia Calf and Black Calf in everal makes go at $ LOT NO. 2 $14.00 Slater & Morrill's Russia Calf, Kid Black Calf, all style toes, now LOT NO. 4 500 pairs broken lines, worth up to $10.00, go at i 10T NO. 5 Johnston & Murphy's and Stacy Adams $17.50 shoes, in $ 1 JlackvCalf and Russia Brogues, now JL Xj FRY SHOE COMPANY 16th and Douglas Streets SKE OUR WINDOWS skr orrt i WINDOWS D