At IS BEK: olAH A, FKllUY. FEBRUARY 18. 1921. Economists Get First Blood in Salaries Fidit D Attempt to Override Favor able Report on Bill to Reduce Salaries of Offi cers Fails, 50 to 41. v "Fireworks" Is Guaranteed on Blue Springs School Nearing Completion the additional cost for light and heat ing plant the completed building wa,s to cost $70,000. The contractor became involved in business difficulties and was unable to finish the structure. The bonding company complete! the contract; which finally amounted to a little more than '$100,000. The school is a combination grade and high school, two stories ,with gymnasium and auditorium. The old building, which stands close to the old building site is to be demolished and the grounds decorated by , landscape gardener. The auditorium, which is in the basement, has a seat ing capacity of 800. Teaching of German 'ill Be KcHumed in Washington Washington, Feb.' 17. The study, of German, barred from the school of Washington in 1917 through ac tion of congress, will be resumed next year. The board of education announced it had approved text; books to be used. Salvation Army Lassies' To Nurse Lepers in Java Blue Serines. Feb. 17. fSoecial.1 rVMlCnllfJltlfin The Blue Springs school house, UlioUlllItll IU1J which is nearing completion, will be ready for occupancy by March 10. Bonds for $51,000 were sold, but with City salesmen Bee Want Ads. Representative Druesedow to 'Have Family Hear Discus ' sion on Annexation of Sarpy County. IF Lincoln, Feb. 17.. (Specials First blood was drawn today by the house economists in a fight to cut salaries of the governor and Other stato officers from $1,000 to S-,000 a year, when an attempt to override a committee report for favorable recommendation failed by a vote of 50 to 44. Representative Harry Foster of Omaha led the fight to keep the salaries up to the present standard. Keprescntatives By rum and Clifford led the fipht to etlt them down. Ryrum and Gilford are authors of the bill. Foster Starts Battle. Hostilities opened when Foster moved that a minority report of the committee on fees and salaries be adopted to postpone indefinitely consideration of the measure. That brought a flood of objections from the farmer clement and others who quoted the prices on corn, the advance in sugar and the general prosperity of state officers as argu ments against present salaries. Retorts followed concerning the ludicrousiiess of putting a governor and supreme count justices on a salary that would make a "master plumber" blush with shame. Omaha Opposes Bill. The vote didn't satisfy Foster and his companions and they demanded a call of the house, which swelled the vote a little, but failed to put the minority , report over. The Omaha delegation was with Foster in his fight. So the fight to pay state officers the following salaries must be car ried to the floor of the house: Governor, chief justice and su preme court justices. $6,000 a year; state treasurer and attorney general, $4,500 a year; secretary of staHe, tuditor of public accounts, judges of district court, commissioner of public lands and buildings, mem bers of State Railway commission and superintendent of public instruc tion, $4,000 a year; lieutenant gov ernor, twice the salary of a state senator. fUxny These three Salvation Army lassies are going to devote the rest of their lives to the care of lepers in the leper colony in Java. Left to right: Elizabeth Brooks of Cole Orton, Ang.; Alice Riggs of Sheffield, Eng.; and Germaine Mueller of Paris, France. They were photographed in Bos ton on their arrival there on their journey to the faraway East Indian islands. The Salvation Army, Mission among the lepers of Java has been established for twenty years. , Almost the entire work of caring fpr these incurables is done by the Salvationists. Repeal of Sihian I Law Favored by j Committee Vote i Norval Bill Changed lo In-! corporate Much of Old Law And 1 More Teeth Are Added. Five Bills Are Killed in Senate Ten Measures Passed in Third Reading and 30 Placed On General File. . Smith Defends Bill For Standard Bread ; Loaf in State Senate , . i Lincoln, NelV , Feb. 17. (Spe cial Teicgram.) Standing alone with 100 hostile Nebraska bakers surrounding him, Representative E. D. Smith of Omaha today told the senate' committee on miscellaneous subjects what he claimed was the people's side of the bread controv ersy, resulting from the itnroduction of his standard weight bread bill. '"If the bakers drop the weight an ounce it means little to one con., sunier on one loaf, of bread," said Smith, "but in a year it means, hundreds of thousands of dollars more to the bakers.' , We have standard weights for a barrel of .flour, standard weights for a bushel of apples and standard weights for many other commodities and why not for bread. Let the bakers standardize their bread loaves and then let the people decide which quality of loaves thev choose to buy." Smith pointed to fitccess in en forcing the law in cities and states having a standard, weight law and declared that he was willing , to amend his bilt so bakers in Nebrska might have a greater leeway in a j standard loaf than in any other state with a standard loaf law. The , committee made no recominenda tiou on the bill tonight. Deshler Factories Are, Nearly Ready to Start Work Deshler, Neb., Feb. 17. (Special.) The Automaticc Machine , and Sales campany has moved from the knitting factory -building up town. They have their machinery installed and expect to be turning out their time and interest computing ma chines by March 1. Joseph Knobloch, proprietor of the Deshler knitting mills, has two knitters enroute here from his former home in Chemnitz, Austria, the noted European knitting center. He is arranging to purchase five or six American-made machines and will have ms plant in operation by fall. The output at first will consist of hosiery and underwear. St lan Charged With Arson o Be Tried in Plattsmouth Nebraska City, Neb.. Feb; 17. i SneciaLI Frank Popel. .jr.. charged with arson in connection with -the $hipinS Board Steamer Vm,urr Vintel here IS r' . . - ana wno was recently Lincoln, Feb. 17. (Special.) The Norval bill, repealing the Siman foreign language law, will be reported out for passage by the com mittee on education tomorrow morn ing, but it will only slightly resemble the measure originally drafted by Norval. In fact it will only carry Norval's name, while the rest of it is a re-enactment of the Siman law, with more teeth added to it. The Siman law is strenghtened in amend ments adopted by the committee and prepared by Senator Perry Reed. Its principal feature is prohibition, with a penalty attached, against pre venting the use of the English lan guage in any public gathering. It is argued that since the law has thrown a certain protection around the use of foregin languages, that a measure to grant the same protection to the English language ought to meet with general approval. The bill makes it unlawful for any social, religious or commercial or ganization to forbid, prohibit o.djS criminate against the use of English in any meeting, school or proceeding. Any officer, director, member or person who seeks to enforce such a prohibition renders himself subject to a fine of $25 to $100 or 30 days in the county jail. The clause forbidding the prohibi tion of Enclish is calculated to remedy such situations as that which arose at Emerald, west of Lincoln, a few days ago, when a majority of the congregation voted to restore German as the language of the church Sunday school and confirma tion, i The first section of the Reed amendment is understood to incor porate the foreign language clause of the new constitution, while sec tions 2 and 3 step off and reiterate the? Siman law. , . , 1. Provision is made that nothing in the act shall interfere with the strict observance of the sabbath with serv ices in an ylanguage. The proposed measure is strict in prohibiting the teaching of foreign languages, in any guise, in any grade school, for any purpose. ' y Compulsory Play Latest Order of Day in Petrbgrad - Tetrograd, Feb. 17. Compulsory plavgoing is the latest order of the dav here. The soviet government has decreed that a fine, payable in food rations, is to be inflicted on all persons, who bv official invitation, omit to go to the theater to enjoy a scries of communist plays which are now being oroduced. says the bolshevik newspaper. Rabotchi Golos. , , " Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17. (Special.) House Roll 296, a joint resolution lo submit a constitutional amend ment making forcible assault an un pardonable offense in Nebraska, was killed in the Nebraska senate Thurs day morning, on a report of the judiciary committee, recommending it for indefinite postponement , The senate passed 10 bills on third reading, accepted some 30 commit tee reports for general file and kill ed five bills. These bills were killed: S. F. 101 Affecting county attorneys' salaries In small counties. P. F. 12 Increasing number of county attorney' assistants in Douglas county. S. F. 283 Appointment of county judge to fill vacancies. 8. F. 384 Change of venue regulations. The following bills were passed on third reading: S. F. 61 Raising count reporter!? sal aries from -IIOU to 1.1,000 a year. Passed, 24 to 5. Opposed were Qannon, lillan, Ulrlch, Watson ' and Wiltse. S. F. 88 Regulating public morals. Passed, 24 to 8. S. F. 84 Institution care for mother. Passed 60 to 1. S. Fl 95 Changing majority age of women from 18 to 21. Passed 30 to 1. S. F. Ill Building and loan filing fees. Passed 30 to 1. S. F. 143 Filling station regulations. Passed 31 to 0. S. F. 170 Bars claims against aMates In probate over a year. Passed 315 to 0. 9. F. 197 To encourage bee InrUiHtrv. Passed 81 to 0. S. F. 21 Repealing wartime act pro tecting soldiers' affairs in courts Passed, 31 to 0. "Home Brewer" Acquitted In Nebraska City Court Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 17. (Special.) Fred Thacker was ac quitted in district court here on the charge of manufacturing home brew with more than one-half of 1 pef cent alcohol. Evidence of the state chemist showed that the liquor exam ined by him that was taken from the home of Thacker when he was arrest ed, contained mpre than 3 per cent alcohol. Witnesses were produced who testified that they had drank several quarts of the liquor and that it contained no "kick." This is the second man acquitted on a liquor charge at this term of the district court. Lincoln, Feb. 17. (Special.) Representative Robert Druesedow of Omaha intends to bring his wife and children to Lincoln Monday night to see what he terms the fire works,'.' when Sarpy and Douglas county residents favoring . the Druesedow consolidation bill will ap pear before the committee on privi leges and elections. 1 wouldn t nave the kids miss that show Monday night for all the monev in the world. Druesedow said today, "for believe me it is go ing to be a show,," Was Nt Asleep. 'I wasn't alseep'when I introduced that bill. I felt and feel yet that a majority of the Sarpy county resi dents want to get away from the bad roads and bad court house odium that has been placed on them. I can't understand why those other fellows are so anxious to keep the proposition away from a vote of the people." Druesedow has many letters from Sarpy caUny residents favoring the consolidation. One from William P. Mangold, secretary of the Gretna public school district, in part sayst Want People to Decide. "If at the present time it could come to a vote of the people,, as it should be decided, it would be an nexed by a substantial majority. The antagonism of one part of the county against the other divides the vote on good roads and a court house so that we will not get any improvement until we are annexed." Here's the sentiments of M. J. Bender, Rural Route 5, South Side, Omaha, as expressed in a letter to Druesedow: , "You republicans aren't going to let that democratic bunch from Papallion keep this measure from the people. Let the people rule. There's a bunch of people who sign ed a petition against consolidation who want their names withdrawn, declaring they didn't know what they had signed." Man Sentenced for Booze Killing Files Appeal to High Court Lincoln, Feb. 17. (Special.) To determine if a man can he sent to the penitentiary for one to 10 years for the death of a friend who volun tarily accepts a drink of home dis tilled liquor and dies from the ef fect. Lawrence Thiede. sentenced to such a term from Adams county .11 November" 18, has appealed his case to the Nebraska supreme court. Charges against Thiede, Carl j Stromer and William Forney of "unintentional manslaugher" were filed bv the county attorney, fol lowing the death on October 16 of Julius Kroll, bachelor farmer of Prosser, Neb., who the day before had participated in a "party" in a deserted house and had drunk home made liquor with the cfowd. Ord Knights of Pythias To Celebrate Anniversary Ord, Xeb., Feb, 17. (Special.) The Ord Knights of Pythias will celebrate the 'lodge anniversary Monday night with a banquet and program. The occasion will also be the completion of the initiation of a large class w;ho have affiliated with the order during the past three months. Grand Chancellor Com mander Taylor is expected to be present as is also several other promi nent members of the order. Ord lodge is one of the strongest of P. P. lodges in the state. months aeo. ' granted a rehearing by the supreme court alter being convicted ot tne charge, will be tried in Plattsmouth. Attorneys in their application before Judge James P. Begley declared their client could not be given a fair hear ing in Otoe county on account of- the bias and prejudice against him. Af fidavits of 150 business men of the1 city were shown declaring Popel could not have a fair trial here. Deshler Buys Tractor For Utility Machine Deshler, Neb., Feb. 17. (Special.) The city of Deshler has pur . chased a tractor and will use it for igrading the streets and roads near town, to pull the street sprinkler and operate the pumps at the city water plant in case of emergency. An addi tion will be built in which to keep the tractor where it will stand ready to be belted to the pumps on short notice. Civil Service Tests for Postmasters Will Be Held j Washington, 1). C, Feb. 17. (Special Telegram.) civil service examinations lor presidential postmasters will be held on March l at the following places: Johnson. Neb., J1.300: Jackson. Wyo.. Ji.JOO; Clutler, la.. l.3: Lestervllle. S. V., 11.400; Medicine Bow, Wyo., $1,100. Postmaster appointed, Iowa: Dunkertoti, B, ck..l?.wl,..c,unty. T0 Oi Canfteld. ice Nellie SI. Krnhn. resignei: Farltn. Green county. Harold Hall, vice James H. Hatcheson. resigned; Grunewald, Lucas county, t harles U Miller, vice liorald C Ucane. resigned. Wyoming: Bonnld, Johnson oountv. Dorm Klnaer. new oMice; Carlile, Crook. 5?Ui.iS&h,rt, K- Uespell. vice Mary Zlamtrshleld, resigned Sinking After Collision. London, Feb. 17. The American shipping board freight steamer Cliff wood. New Orleans to Rotterdam, .has been in collision with the Brit ish steamer St. Augustine Abbey at the entrance to tlie Kiver iiaas, ott 'the Dutch ,coast, Lloyd's shipping agency reports. ,7A Central j News dispatch from Amsterdam says the Clif fwood is reported sinking. ' College Springs Bank Loot Is Found Near Blanchard Blanchard, la., Feb. 17. (Special.) More than $20,000 in securities stolen from safety deposit boxes in the College Surines bank were re covered by two boys exploring a junk pile under a bridge near here. VOTE FOR HENRY S. PAYNE V3 Jk LAWYER x l 302 Neville h 4 Pitv W M A Mumnia it UU III 111 I.N L sinner Special Piano Player Offer Pay No Money Down Just turn in jour Aid piano or phonograph as first payment on a new Artemis Player Plnno. At the end of !!0 days begin yonr regular monthly payments of $12 per month. Surprise the family with a new player piano, an instrument that every member of the house hold can play and enjoy. This Beautiful Artemis Playe Piano Only 1 - gifSt' $535 It is a full size instru ment, plays 88-note mu sic, choice of oak or mahogany case, beauti fully finished. The player action is the highest type and excep tionally responsive. The Artemis Player Piano compares favorably with instruments sell ing at $600 to $700. L'rty Bonds Accepted Same as Cash Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. Mal$e your first cash payment in 30 days. $12.00 per month F-REE with player, beautiful bench, scarf and $10 worth of music rolls of your own selec tion. ' Out-of -frown Customers: We Ship Pianos Everywhere. Write for Free Catalog. Name Address Town 1514-16-18 Dodge. St. Omaha, Neb. .We Sell Everything in Small Musical Instruments and Sheet Music. $10,000 Purchase Sale of Sample Curtains and Draperies Bought from a Large Manufacturer and to Be Placed on Sale Friday at the Lowest Price s Offered in Many Months ! 5,000 SAMPLE PIECES the entire sample lot of largest Eastern mill. Terry Cloth, Cretonnes, Nets, etc., all on a bargain square at, each, 1,000 PAIRS SCRIM AND LACE CURTAINS, 2V2 yards long j a great value, at, per pair, 560 PAIRS NOVELTY VOILE and Marquisette Curtains, lace edge and insertion; 2V2 yards long ; these won 't last long at, per pair, 250 FACTORY SAMPLE CURTAINS AND PANELS, extra wide curtains used one to a window ; special, each, 3,000 YARDS MERCERIZED MARQUISETTE 36 inches wide, a fine quality; white and cream ; at, per yard, ! . 50 PIECES COLORED DRAPERY MADRAS; latest pretty shades, Old Rose, Gold Brown, etc., for window and door draperies; one of our greatest bargains, per yard, v 1.95 95c 25c 100 PIECES CRETONNE; the latest designs and colorings; 36 inches wide; a wonderful lot specially priced for this sale at, per yard, 50 PIECES FILET NETS and fancy Dotted Swiss full 36 inches wide ; we limit these goods 10 yards to a customer; special, per yard, 2,000 YARDS SCRIMS, 36 incha wide, at per yard (Limit 15 yards to a customer) 8000 YARDS LACE EDGING Wide and narrow lace; white, ivory and ecru; special, per yard, 400 WASH RUGS Hit and miss ; extra durable quality in two lots : 25x50 inch size, in all colors; special, each, 18x36 inch size, in all colors, special, each, 39c 98? 69f GREAT SALE OF FELT BASE Just the thing EQf. for bath room, kitchen and pantry; Baicment West 49c Sale oWall Paper For Friday W Offtr These Extreme Values In Our Newly Enlarged Department. All over designs and plain effects, new colors in ivory, gray, tan and bine; for the downstairs rooms; O'ig shown with cut borders and bands; Friday, per roll, tO Papers for the attic and spare room, about a dozen patterns to select from; sold with borders; Qn Friday, per rW, . O 2 Other selections in wide choice of papers; borders Q and ceiling to match; per roll,, 12J2e and XC See Our New Bed Room Papers. Basement West Any Girls' Coat In Our Basement Stock Choice $2, $3 and $5 All the girls' coats left in the basement department are grouped in three remarkable low price lots excellent values in each lot. 1 .Basement Soeth V Sale of Domestics and Wash Goods 19c 29c SHIRTING CHEVIOT In the wanted staple stripes; for men's and boys' work shirts, etc.; warranted fast indigo dye; 2 to 10-yard lengths; 27 inches wide; special, yard. "PEPPERELL" R. UNBLEACHED SHEETING. Made oft fine heavy round thread yarn; easily bleached in laundering; 26 inches 1Q wide; special, per yard, 1 X V C MERCERIZED DRESS POPLIN In a big as sortment of plain shades; for Spring dresses, waists, etc.; 27 inches wide; f?Q special, per yard, sC FOUNDATION SILK AND SILK AND COT. TON CANTON CREPE Plain shades; for foundations, underwear, interlinings, etc.; 36 inches wide; special value, at, per yard, 9:4 81-INCH UNBLEACHED SHEETING Gen uine Pepperell quality; correct width for full size sheets; also used for making embroidered bed spreads; special, Friday, at, CH per yard, OlC BLEACHED PILLOW TUBING Your choice of Barker Mills or Cabot; two well known brands; 40 inches wide; Q special, per yard, OJC FINE DRESS GINGHAMS In beautiful plaiis. checks, stripes and plain shades; all standard qualities; two big bargains Frl. (Ztg day, at, per yard, 19c and JL O 2 C SHIRTING CALICO Light grounds with neat figures and stripes; for house dresses, aprons and comforter coverings; 2 to Ql 10-yard lengths; special, per yard, O 2C MILL REMNANTS BLEACHED MUSLIN Bleached muslin and cambric; good quality for sheets and cashes or undergarments; 36 Inches wide; special, at per1 yard, BLEACHED BED SHEETS Size 72x90 inches; made with French Center s'eam; Qf hemmed; "ready for use; Friday, each, tOC BLEACHED PILLOW CASES ISO dozen of th'ese cases; made of good grade muslin; in assorted sizes; special, i 22V2C APRON GINGHAM In the wanted blue checks ani broken styles; warranted faetv Ol, colors; special, per yard, xt 2C WHITE SHAKER FLANNEL Good heaTy quality with long nap on both sides; 1 g special, for Friday, per yard, I IOC Basement North 1 10V2C Women's Pumps Made on latest lasts; new strap models; light machine sewed sole; black or brown kid; French and military heels; also 3 to 8: our new g if" price, per pair, OsfrO Women's High and Low Shoes Just 1,000 pair in this assort ment; leather or wood heels, flexible leather soles; sizes 3 to 7; mostly narrow widths; special, -e An per pair, 1 XJO Men's Sample Shoes In black and tan leather; Goodyear welt sewed soles; English and full toe styles; sizes 6, 6 and 7; special, 0 7Q per pair, 0lJ Little Boys' Army Scout Shoes Made of very durable tan leather; blucher style and soft toe; double soles; size ; toe; double soles; r r 9 to 13; per pair,s.UU Men's Dark Tan Dress Shoes Goodyear welt; lace style; sizes 6 to 11; special, per pair, Basement Arcade 5.00 Safe of Men's Work Clothes 2.29 700 PAIRS OF MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S TROUSERS In worsteds, cheviots and cassi- meres; sizes 28 to 46 waist; at, per pair, MEN'S CROMPTON. CORDUROY PANTS Nona better made; fine for working; A ( sizes 31 to 44 waist; special, JeT'O MEN'S LEATHER VESTS Come In moleskin and corduroy shell; sizes up to 50; A f special, each, . p T0 MEN'S WHITE OVERALLS For painters and paper hangers; sizes 34 to 48; AQ special, j let! MEN'S GOOD QUALITY WORK SHIRTS In light and dark plain blue chambray and gray cheviots; sizes 14 to 17; Q speclal, each, QC UNION MADE OVERALLS 1,000 pairs, made of 220 weight plain blue denim; full and roomy; every pair well made; sizes 32 to 42 4 OQ waist; special, per pair, ' leO7 MEN'S MACKINAWS We have jU3t 86 of these macklnaws, made of heavy wool mixed fabrics in practical colors; A AC sizes 36 to 40; special, TTTrO MEN'S UNDERWEAR Derby ribbed shirts and drawers; in all sizes; special, per garment, tJC MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS In plain blue, gray, brown and khaki; sizes up to 17Q 17; special, each, X e MEN'S CANVAS 'GLOVES 1.200 pairs, of mod's canvas gloves; all mad in knit in wrift style; special, per pair, 1UC Extra Good Values in Our Boys' Department BOYS' BLOUSES Striped madras and cales; attached collar; sizes 6 to 15; special, each, BOYS' CORDUROY SUITS For school wear; belt all around; cut full and roomy; sizes 7 to 16; special, each, BOYS' EXTRA PANTS Durable; dark and plain colors; tn cheviots, cassimeres and cor duroys; cut full and roomy; sizes p to 16; special, per pair, Basement West per- 79c ol wear; 7.50 lark and and cor- 1.49 Union Sjiits and Hosiery 1 A Sale of Linens Men's and, Women's Wear WOMEN'S COTTON UNION SUITS Bodice and regular tion tops; taped and band tops; loose or cuff knee styte; gn all sizes; special, per suit, OUC WOMEN'S BODICE VESTS In fine gauge cotton; sizes J Q 36 and 38; seconds of 35e quality; special, each, - JLC WOMEN'S FIBRE SILK HOSIERY In black and white and all wanted shoe shades, with double soles and toes; high spliced heels; lisle garter tops; full seamless; VQ slight seconds of 85c qualities; per pair, 3C MEN'S COTTON SEAMLE8S SOCKS Black and colors, f re double soles and high spliced heels; special, per pair, IOC MEN'S WOOL SOCKS Odd lots of medium and fceavyof weight in black and gray; special, per pair, mOC WOMEN'S HOSIERY Extra large sizes; "Burson" seamless; black, white and cordovan; slight seconds olcg l.fe quality; speeial, per pair, DOC Basement Arcade 17c At Money Saving Prices RENFROW DAMASK Standard make; blue, red or tan; qj all pretty designs,' fast colors; special per yard, 3C FITLL BLEACHED TOWELS Hemmed fends; soft and absorbent quality; pecial, each, FULL BLEACHED CRASH Fancy red border and plain white; in this lot are "All Linen" and Chief Value" oq Linen; special, per yard, siC FULL BLEACHED HUCK TOWELS Hemmed ends, f fancy red borders; soft and absorbent; epeciaL. each, IOC 500 YARDS ART LINEN Natural color; for dollies, scarfs, table covers and bed spreads; 36 inches wide; 17 f" special, Friday, per yard, OC FULL BLEACHED SOFT FINISHED COTTON CRASH TOWELING Fancy red border; Jatwders like linen; speeial, per yard, Basement South 12c