THE OMAHA. SATURDAY. APRIL 9, 1921.
Autoist Impaled
On Guard Rail at
Railway Crossing f
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Fails to See Tram Until Ap
proaches Guard, Swerves
and Rail Pierces Wind
shield and Abdomen.
Suffering a severe wound in the
abdomen received when the guard
rail at the Belt lme crossing on
Twentieth' street crashed through
the windshield of his car and pierced
his body at 2 a. m, yesterday, A. W.
Allen, shoe merchant of York. Neb.,
lies near death in the Swedish Mis
sion hospital.
Folice were summoned to the
crossing by a report of a fatal auto
mobile accident.
Captain Haze and Emergency Of
ficer Teal responded and found with
. Allen, A. L. Marble, also of ork,
and John Lininger, 2616 South Eiev.
cnth street, and another man who
gave his name as Mr. Phillips and
'his address as Fifteenth and. Harney
streets. ...
Taken to Hospital.
Alien was taken to the hospital.
Folice surgeons say he cannot re
cover. .. .
The men told police .three women
who were with them at the time of
the accident fled before the officers
arrived. . ,
The party was' driving along
'J wentieth street and as they ap
proached the crossing, a tram was
traveling east on the track.
Allen, who was driving, accord
ing to the police, did not see the
train m time to bring his car to a
dead stop, and swerving to the west,
lan into the guard rail." which shat
tered the windshield and pierced his
abdomen.--
Start On Lark.
Allen has a wife and two children
in York, according to the police.
Lininger said Allen had come to
Omarfa to buy a sewing machine.
They "went out on a lark" and
Started off at the Orpheum Garden
cabaret, he said. There they met the
three women who joined the party
and went for an automobile ride,
he declared.
The accident resulted.
'Damage suit for $100,000 -w as filed
vesterdav asainSt the Missouri I a
eific railroad in consequence of the
accident.
WOMEN LAWYERS
Mrs.,M. Van D. Bell of Cov
ington, Ky., has the distinction
of- being the first and onty wom
an federal court commissioner.
She is assigned to the eastern dis-
trict of Kentucky and has handled
many cases of bank defaulting,
embezzlement and moonshining,
especially the latter in the past
few months. Besides being fed
eral commissioner, Mrs. Bell is
also deputy clerk of the United
States cour in Covington and
still finds time for home duties.
Bank Depositor Wins
. Judgment for Funds
Aurora, Neb., April 8. (Special.)
John C. Grisel was awarded judg
ment of 5850.82 against the Ameri
can Sta:e Bank of Aurora, as a de
positor, by Judge George F. Cor
coran it- the -district courr. unsc
sold a piece of property through au
acrnt in 1919 and the audit left a
check a' the American State bank.
can State bank following an en
dorsement in which the bank said
that the funds were to be deposited
to the credit of Grisel.
I fin's! tnlk-pH with Charles
W. Wentz, general manager of the
bank, r.nd Wentz told him the
money was in the hank and for him
to cheek on ' it. Evidence showed
Wentz had deposited the funds to
he erciHtof ; W. C. Wentz, but
, .vhen Griscl's checks came in
and Wentz deposited enough funds
;n Griset's account to meet them.
When the bank closed on March
17, 1920. Grisel found that he had
r.o accjunt in the bank. "His checks
had he ;n paid, but there was $850.82
of his original deposit unpaid.
Idle Workmen Scored by I
Saunders Countv Farmers!
Wahoo, Neb., April . (Special.)
Farmers are taking tjhe continued
drop n prices philosophically and
even joke about the price of corn.
They are going ahcad with their
work and plan on raising, just as
big a crop as ever, ihey are in
clined to score the. labor element
that threatens to restrict production
because of falling prices and say that
it is the duty of every man to pro
duce regardless of his line. They
also say that if the building trades
would ntdtice their wages in compar
ison to the reduction already ex;
perienced by farm labor many farm
ers would immediately resume their
interrupted building plans and men
now idle would be given immediate
employment.
Women of Wahoo Demand
Postmistress Be Named
Wahoo, Neb.. April 8. (Special.)
Women of Wahoo say there is
no real reason why the next post
master cannot be a woman and have
launched a campaign for the nomi
nation of one of their sex. They say
there were nearly as many women's
votes cast for the administration
there were male votes and that the
town is, nearly due for a postmis
tress. Tlcre arc several whose qualifica
tions are all right and who are per
fectly willing to spend the next four
years selling stamps and reading
postal cards;
Farmers Near Wymore
Give Corn to Starving
Wymore. Xeb., April 8. (Special.)
In the drive now in progress in
this county for corn to be sent to
ihc starving people of China, liberal
responss is being made and several
t-ST loads will be shipped to Omaha
Saturday. The banks of the county
donated 1,000 bushels.
Liberty Produce Dealer
Files Bankruptcy v Petition
Liberty, Neb., April 8. (Special.)
A. U. Gore of this city has peti-
. : .1 .U. A"'.t-A C(-., AXetrif
court to adjudge mm a oanKrupi. ne
uives his debts at $8,715.64 and his
i-sscts at $348, all of which is cov
ircd by exemptions. He has been
engaged" in buying butter and eggs.
Pig Losses Small
Wahoo, Xcb.", April 8. (Special.)
Harry Woodworth, Chester White
hog breeder, says his losses on
serine oies have amounted to prac
tically nothing as a rcsalt of the j
UiiUMufl weather. - ,
4 Omaha xliens,
Held Undesirable.
Join Deportees
British War Vet, English De
serter, Bulgarian Bolshevist
Insane Spaniard Board
"Deportation Special.'
Radio to Flash
Market Reports
Daily to West
Department of Agriculture to j
Inaugurate System Apcil 15
to Give Farmers Market
News as It Breaks.
"Q. S. 77. .
"Everybody Listen."
That's the wireless call signal that
will be flashed out from Omaha
every dy, beginning April 15, to
the farmers of the middle west.
And then will follow wireless first
aid to the farmers, from the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
' This first aid will comprise mar
ket reports.
Tentative Schedule.
Secretary Wallace of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has announced
these reports will be sent to all agri
culture interests py radio from the
postoffice department stations at
Cmaha, St. Louis," Bcllefontaine, Pa.,
and Washington, D. C.
Here's the tentative schedule for
Omaha:
Complete report on the Kansas
City market at 11:15 a. ni.
Grain and potato report, giving
prices and conditions at the Chicago.
Minneapolis, Kansas City and Win
nipeg markets at 2:15 ;i. m.
' Daily Radio Marketgram.
Daily, "radio marketgram" cover
ing market conditions at 1 p. m.
Each. of the four stations has i
sending radius'of 300 m'lcs.
This means that farmers located
in 12 central and 10 ?astern states
will be able to obtain, either direct
or through local receiving agencies,
information relative to prices and
conditions at the lending market
centers and 'shipping points the same
:'ay that business is transacted.
South Dakotan Is
Indian Commissioner
' A "deportation special." two
coaches filled with undesirable
aliens whom Uncle Sam is return
ing to their native lands passed
through Omaha at 2:10 a. m. yester
day, picking up four more deportees
at the Union station.
These are James Meldrum, Brit
ish war veteran; James Alexander
Sroith, English deserter; Minck Bel
cheff, Bulgarian self-confessed bol
shevist, and Alfonso Ronuro, in
sane Spaniard. -
W. M. Brashear, federal immigra
tion officer, and Inspector Kline al
so joined the party which proceeds
to Moboken, to take ship.
Couple Narrowly Escape.
Steve and Helen Millush, South
Side couple, narrowly escaped join
ing the deportees. They are under
the same ciders to go, but a tempo-rary-stay
of deportation was grant
ed them by Washington authorities,
through "efforts of their attorney,
Hird Strykcr.
Steve was to be returned to Ser
bia and Helen to Canada because
they falsely entered this country as
man and wife. They were married"
two years ago, have a child and
own their home.
Stryker is awaiting instructions to
make their temporary stay of de
portation permanent.
Accused of Auto Theft.
Meldrum, convicted of stealing an
automobile at Cody, Neb., in order
to find his mother, he says, will go
back to Scotland, as does r James
Alexander-Smith, discharged from
the army at Fort Riley. He is said
to be a deserter from the English
army and feigns dementia.
Belcheff served 3 five-year term
at Leavenworth for counterfeiting.
At the police station last night, he
denied the charge, stating he was led
to plead guilty, though innocent, be
cause he could not understand Eng
lish Aliens from almost every Euro
pean country will be included on the
"deportation special," which started
from Seattle and San Francisco.
Burlington Official to
Probe Plea, for Branch
: C. G. Burnham, vice-president of
the Burlington railroad, with head
quarters in Chicago will be in Orrfa
ha Saturday for a short visit. Mr.
Burnham has been called to Cham
bers. Xeb., where the citizens have
asked of the state railroad commis
sion that a branch of the Burlington
be built between Chambers and
Erickson.
Mr. Burnham will investigate the
claims of the Chambers citizens. Bur
lington officials have already ex
pressed themselves as being out of
sympathy for the extension of the
road.
"Sprig Is a Log Tibe Cobing;"
Now Frost Booked Tomorrow
There'll be a twang of cold in tin I
atmosphere today if the prediction
of the weather man is correct.
Yep, he has promised some frost
to boot.
Sprig is a log tibe cobing," de
clared a visitor to the federal weath
er bureau -yesterday when he heard
the prediction.
M. V. Robins, in charge of the bu
reau, issues no particulai warning t
fruit growers in regard to the com
ing frost.
"It'll not be a heavy one," he sai l.
Summer Tourist Rates to ,
South Dakota Announced
Summer tourists rates between
Omaha and South Dakota points
have been announced by the North
western railroad officials. The rates
go into effect June 1 and are in
force until September 30.
Rates from Omaha to the points
announced are: Deadwood and
Lead, $34.78; Hot Springs, $30.40;
Belle Fouche, $35.86; Rapid Citv,
$32.62, and Lander, Wyo., $46.01.
AH rates include federal tax. Stop
overs are limited to October 31-
Bank Sues Lion Bonding
Firm for Cashier's Bond
'The First National bank. Bridge
port, Neb., filed suit in district court
yesterday against the Lion Bonding
and Surety company for $1,639 al
leging this su mto be due on the
bond of Harry E. "Dunlap, cashier
of the bank who was under $5,000
bond. "
An official of the bonding company
declared yesterday the claim has not
been paid because the bank has made
no proof of any embezzlement
Bargains
Want Ads.
of all kinds in Bee
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K&wfceT,
Rock Island Cuts
Operating Force
11,000 Last Year
At Eud of First Year of Priv
ate Control Company Has
34,531 Employes on Pay
roll of $5,132,813.
Charles II. Burke, newly appoint
ed commissioner of Indian affairs.
Commissioner Burke is a former
representative from South Dakota.
While in the house he as chairman
of the committee on Indian affairs.
Mother of. Eight Children
Charges Abandonment
Madison, Neb., April 8. (Spe
cial.) Carrie E. Hamman of Nor
folk has brought suit for divorce
against. Herbert M. Hamman charg
ing abandonment. She alleges in her
petition that eight children have been
born to them, five of whom have
been adopted in other families and
three of whom are with the mother.
She also wants the custody of the
children at home. t
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' Chicago, April 8. Eleven thou
sand fewer employes were; on the
payroll of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railway company on Feb:
rtiary 28, 1921, than there were the
day the government relinquished
control of the road February 29,
1920, according to the annual report
of the road made public today.
The report says that on December
31, 1917, the date of the beginning of
the federal control, the employes
numbered 40.326, and the monthly
payroll amounted to $3,524,430; that
on February 29, 1920, the date of the
ending of federal control, they num
bered 45,950, and the monthly pay
roll was $5,850,869, while on Febru
ary 29, 1921, the eend of the last year
of private operation, there were 34,
531 employes and the monthly pay
roll amounted to $5,132,813.
"The startling feature of the pres
ent situation," the report stated, "is
that after the government had your
property for nearly three years it
cornea back to you with an increase
of approximately $44,000,000 per an
num over the payrolls December 31,
1917, when the property was taken
over. This is about 59 per cent on
the outstanding common stock.
"If our claims of $12,000,000 on
account of undermaintenance and
$2,000,000 on account of difference
in material and supplies returned to
us at the end of federal control
should be allowed the balance dus
the government would become a bal
ance of some $8,000,000 due to this
company." ,
Stone Company Office
Visited by Yeggmen
Yeggmen, who are hiding out in
Council Bluffs, made their presence
in the city known again Thursday
nipht.
When J. M. Gravitt opened the of
fices of the Council Blutfs Hydraulic
Stone company, Eleventh avenue
and Eighth street, yesterday, he
was greeted by sledge hammers, cold
chisels and hacksaws strewn about
the company's safe.
The door of the safe had been
knocked two inches out of place, by
chiseling" metal from around its
edges and the combination had been
knocked off with-the sledge ham
mers. But the yeggmen had not
succeeded in getting at the contents
of the safe.
The tools had been secured from
the second floor of the building, into
which the yeggmen had forced their
way thrbugh the rear door.
Pershing Warns Against
Foreign Influence in U. S.
Philadelphia, April 8. A warning
that foreign influences, Uangerous in
their tendencies, are again at work
to "weaken the close ties of friend
ship that bind us to people besides
whom we fought in the great war."
was sounded here by Gen. John J.
Pershing, who addressed two mass
meetings in concluding exercises of
All-American day.
Praising patriotism of foreign
born persons whom he saidhe had
seen fight under the American flag
in the Philippines, in Mexico and in
France. General Pershing said that
often their enthusiasm for America
has surpassed that of any native
born "who have not always lived up
to the obligations of their hirtfr."
Coming From Poland.
Mrs. Ike Kaplan, wife of Ike Kap
lan, Manning, la., is expected to ar
rive here within a few days with her
two children from Poland. She has
reached Boston. r They will be re
united to husband and father at the
home of his brother, Jake Kaplan,
1818 North Twenty-fifth street.
Check Juggling
Greer of Aurora
Banker Explained
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Auror.i, Neb., April 8. (Special.)
The adventures of Charles JV.
Wentz, former vice president and
general manager of the American
State Bank of Aurora, who disap
peared tiom Aurora with $37,000
worth of securities on March 15,
1920, were fully detailed in district
court here by A. McDcrmott ot
Omaha, Arthur B, Cole of Lincoln
and Mavor Frank E. Quinn ot
Aurora. The evidence was given in
the case of Julia A. Strauss against
the receiver of the American Sta
bank, for $25,000.
Mr. Quinn testified that the $37,-
000 in securities .were snatched out
of the bahd of Mrs. Wentz by Gust
A. Hyers, state sheriff. These secure
vies wee later turned over to J. b.
Hart, secretary ot the state banking
board.
Arthur Cole testified that he was
cppealed to by Mrs. Wentz to pro
tect her husband from State Sheriff
Hyers. Cole said that Wentz at the
time was a physical and nervous
wreck.
McDermott. now of Omaha, but
formerly of this city, was the man
who found Wentz at the Harney
Hotel in Omaha. In his evidence
he said that Wentz was drunk and
was a physical, mental aod nervous
wreck at the time he was found,
Hie claimants of the $37,000
worth of securities which were se
cured by Hyers and turned over to
Hart ins'tt that the transfer of these
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ccurmcs was mcgai ana umawiui
-.iiid without the consent of Wentz
or the American State bank, and
.hey ask their return.
Pastor of Wymore Church
Accepts Call to Oregon
Wymore, Neb.. April 8. (Special.)
Rev. H. F. Beard, pastor of the
Baptist church for the past year, has
resigned to lake effect July 1. He
und his family will move to Oregon,
where he has accepted a call as pas
tor of a churc.li at an advanced
."alary.
Revival at Lcwistou
Lewislon, Neb., April 8. (Spe
cial.) A revival will begin here Sun
day. Ktv. Elliott ft Kockwaltct
will preach and the singing will be
conducted by Miss Marie Danielsou
of Fremont.
Mail Service Examination1
Pawnee City. Xeb.. April 8. (Spe
cial.) John M. liutlrr of Lincoln,
chief clerk of the railway mail serv
ice, conducted an examination in the
civil service here.
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Bridge
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THE Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
Railway Company, operating the
present toll bridge across the Missouri
river between Omaha and Council Bluffs,
addresses, through this medium, a few
statements of fact to the voters of Omaha
on the proposition pf voting bonds for a so
called "free'" bridge between the two cities.
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It must be" obvious to everybody that
bridges' cost money to build, that they
cost money to maintain and to paint and
to police, and to light, and to keep free
from snow and ice-in winter, and to sweep
and sprinkle in summer therefore Some
body Has to Pay.
Under the "toll" plan only those who use
the bridge pay. And they pay in propor
tion to the amount of use they make of
the bridge. Those who do not use the
bridge at all pay nothing; those who use
it occasionally pay only a little; those
who use it daily pay ' more, while those
who cross it many times a day with au
tomobiles and trucks hauling merchan
dise pay still more. This is as it should
be, just as we pay for our Water, Gas,
Electric Light, Street Car or Railroad
Transportation or anything -else we 'use.
Under the so-called "free" plan EVERY
TAXPAYER in Omaha would pay, re
gardless of whether he ever uses the
bridge or not and regardless of how sel
dom he may have occasion to cross it on
foot or in his automobile. And the tax
payers, collectively, would have to pay a
larger amount annually for interest on
investment, sinking fund, maintenance
and operation of a so-called "free" bridge
than they now pay in bridge tolls as we
shall show.
The preliminary estimate of. the bridge
engineer, retained by the city of Omaha,
is that the proposed bridge will cost One
Million, Four Hundred Thousand Dol
lars. Now everyone who has ever built
anything knows that the final cost is in
variably, much in excess of the prelimi
nary estimate. This is particularly true
in all public works. For instance in the
case of a so-called "free" bridge built at
St. Louis, the preliminary estimate was
, Three and One-half Million Dollars and
the bridge when completed cost over
Seven Millions, or DOUBLE the ORIGI
NAL ESTIMATE. . ,
Assuming the actual cost of the proposed
bridge at Omaha 'to be only $2,000,000
and that bonds could be sold bearing
interest, the.annual interest charge
alone would be $110,000.00. Depreciation
or sinking fund would amount to $60,
000.00 annually. Maintenance, lighting,
policing, etc:, would easily amount to
$40,000.00 more annually, making a total
of at least $200,000.00 to.be paid in the
form of increased taxes solely by the tax
payers of Omaha and Council Bluffs.
Not a dollar of this large sum would be
contributed by the non-resident tourist.
The man or woman who owns only a
small home in Omaha, or personal prop
erty of any kind upon which they pay
taxes, and who never go to Council Bluffs
in an automobile, would receive no bene
fit whatever from a so-called "free"
bridge, but they would have to pay their
share of the burden through increased
taxes just the same.
WATCH FOR FURTHER "FREE"
BRIDGE FACS.
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