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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JUNE 12 1921.
New fitnesses 1 f
Subpoenaed In
Ford Contest
"i Newberry Campaign Manager
Suffers Near Collapse While
On Stand Cancelled
Checks Introduced.
Washington, June H. New fields
twere opened Friday in the senate
""consideration of Henry Ford's con
' test for the seat of Senator Newber
iry of Michigan, when at the instance
of Ford counsel, subpoenaes were is
sued for William Q. Durant, former
S oresident of the General Motors
r company; Andrew Green, jr., presi-
President Harding
. "Delves Into Politics
Cantina4 From Pt Ob.)
aoes not mean mat all the com
mittee were satisfied with it, by any
matter of means, for it met the' full
aims of hardly anyone. But some
thing had to be done, and done
quickly, to meet the strict mandate
of the last national convention, and
it was determined to give the re
port a unanimous backing. The
committee supported the subcom
mittee valhantly, although the pro
pomon oi sentiment as to some
phases of the plan ran about even
in both organizations.
The next thine, the ooliticians de
clare, will be to see what the effect
of the change will be upon the re
publican party in the south. The
charge was made in. the meetinar
that it would operate to discourage
dent of the So vav Process com- "T.V.: ""V "KY"'.." v"ov-""'B
a t m, IS bnith a Mu, ' "Puwiwnt "cm ounaing up organ
J'TlllJI mill t-tj iwu - mm
'i York stock broker. None of the
: men were drawn into the criminal
'' prosecutions which preceded ' the
contest, but will be asked Monday
; to tell of any connection they may
; have had with the Newberry cam
"Tpaign financing in 1918.
i'7 Paul H. King, Newberry- cam-
paign manager, was forced to with
. draw from the witness stand today
when he evinced symptoms of
nervous collapse during examination
concerning expenditures under 'his
control. Charles A. Floyd, secre
tary of the Newberry campaign com
mittee, took his place. A stack of
cancelled checks, said to number
. 1,800, figured in the examination of
-Floyd.- -
These checks, though ranging in
amounts up to $17,500, marked
"paid" by the banks and said to have
been given to many individuals, in-;
,,' eluding Floyd, the witness explained
as "reconcilement checks." No
.; money actually passed upon them
. he insisted, but they , evidenced
money previously paid out and their
total of $160,000, he said, constituted
.' practically the entire amount used in
the Newberry primary election cam-
. paign. They are a bookkeeping
.matter, he said, but the cross-examiners
sought to prove they were
; duplications and concealments for
-.the expenditure of even greater
'.sums.
; Mixed Jury Returns
, Verdict of Murder
y Against U. S. Soldier
;?; Tacoma, Wash., June 11. Edward
' Filion, a Camp Lewis soldier, whose
home was in Ontario, Canada, was
' found guilty of murder m the first
! degree for the killing of Karl Timbs,
'a taxicab driver, May 8. The jury
voted not to hang Filion. ' .
v The jury of six men and six
-Avomen debated on the verdict for
2Q hours. The evidence in the case
s showed Filion and three other
f soldiers, George W. Sharp, a half
"c breed Cherokee Indian of Okla
homa ; Carl P. Perrin and -James
I Sparks hired Timbs' taxicab, hit
.it Timbs with a rock and asphyxiated
: him with chloroform. Filion did the
s-actual slugging with the rock.
. - Sharp's trial is set for Monday.
,j. His- relatives have retained W. W.
( Hastings, former congressman from
' Oklahoma, to defend him.
Lumber Men Demand
Lower Freight Rates
j Philadelphia, June II. Lower
I railroad rates by July 1 were de
.manded in a resolution adopted at
fTthe closing session of the National
Hardwood Lumber association
; which represents 1,447 firms and
corporations.
J". The resolution referred to the
i trainmen of the country at large as
,r "sounding a strike note for July 1,"
.-and declared that public opinion
Jwould be with the strikers unless the
"railroads' act at once in recalling
. their announcement refusing to re-
duce freight charges.
' Opposition to the Snell bill, now
' before congress, appropriating $50,
000 for forestry purposes was voiced
1 on the ground that it proposed
:l regulation of private industry and
f "delegated legislative power in
'v; ambiguous terms to an executive of
ficer." -
ife of Slain Publisher
a Pleads Not Guilty to Murder
' Cleveland,. June 11. Mrs. Eva
'" Kabor, widow of Daniel E. Kaber,
of Lakewood, O., and her daughter,
Mrs. Marian McArdle, pleaded not
;V guilty to the charge of first , degree
murder of Kaber when arraigned
before Judge Maurice Bernon this
, morning. The court set their hear-
- ing for June 28,vand remanded both
- women to jail without bail.
i Clearing House Statement
; f: Shows Huge Reserve Gain
V. New York, June 11. The actual
condition of clearing house banks
" and trust companies for the week
shows that they hold $48,286,420 re
serve in excess of legal require-
v ments. This is an increase of $23,
't 191,830 from last week.
SEND The Bee
ahead of you to
your summer home
or camp when you
leave the city for
your vacation
All you have to do
is telephoneAtlantic
1000 or drop the
circulation depart
ment a postal card
The Bee will he
waiting on the
doorstep to wel
come you when
you arrive - - -
izations, because the voters are al
ready largely disfranchised by state
laws and now. find their privileges
curtailed in the national organiza
iion.
In refutation of that view, the
contention was made that it should
have the effect of making the re
publicans of the south exert them
selves for a betterment of their
condition, bcause of the ncessity
they now tind themselves under of
getting their votes out and counted
or lose all contact with the national
party.
Bird in Hand.
As a cold and brutal fact, the
prevailing sentiment in the national
committee was' that the welfare of
the' southern republicans was sub
ordinate , to the " more important
question " of encouraging in the
northern states Ahe .vote which was
cast . for the -republican ticket last
fall. The . state.'.' irt -which it was
polled will have 76 additional dele
gates in the next, national conven
tion and. there is .'no question .that
some of the recruits to the repub
lican , party will be found in the
convention of 1924.
. The committee regarded these
northern votes as a bird , in the
hand as against a whole covey in
the bush, when the bush is located
in the south. '
President , Harding s friends say
they expect he will be found from
this time on devoting increasing at
tention to domestic problems. Ke
viewing the speeches he has made In
the last 30 days, they classify them
as having very clearly and most
amply 'elucidated his attitude toward
the participation of this country in
future associations or. nations along
the line of the league of nations, and
that the subject may now be con
sidered as closed until such time
as the executive may make a rec
ommendation to the senate UDon a
definite plan which can be proposed
to the other nations.
Disarmament Mooted Question.'
It is said to be the president's de
sire to stress the domestic problems
to greater degree and the executive!
is to take a larger share in the coun
cils of the legislative branch now
dealing with them. '
Congressmen report that there is
a veritable wave of agitation on dis
armament sweeping over the coun
try. Their mails disclose that the
churches are taking up the subject
and that it is indeed a more mooted
question with many elements of the
population than the tariff or taxa
tion for the hour at least, r ;
It is said that two opposing camps
are found; in one the people are
looking upon disarmament in the
broad, emotional way they regarded
the league of nations when first pre
sented, and when th.e nation seemed
to show a majority favoring it. In
the other there is a more cautious
and conservative element of thought,
representing the belief that it will
not be wise for this country to dis
arm or reduce its military program
without complete world concur
rence. President Harding,. the administra
tion and a majority in congress hold
to the latter view, and it is expected
to dominatethe course of the exec
utive in future procedure. The pres
ident at this time finds the disarm
ament in congress to his liking.- He
is not likely to be hampered in any
respect by congressional interfer
ence with his plans, it is thought; and
he still stands before the country as
being in full sympathy with the gen
eral humanitarian view of disarma
ment with "Americanizing reserva
tions," "so to speak.
Man on Fire Department
In Omaha 23 Years Dies
Lorenzo H. Winslow died yester
day at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Oscar Karbach, SQ6 South
Twenty-fourth avenue. He was
born in New York state iri 1851', and,
came to Omaha in 1861. He was a
member of the Omaha fire depart
ment for 23 years, retiring in 1910.
Funeral services will be in charge
of the Omaha fire department at
the Hulse & Riepen. chapel Monday
at 2:30, Rev. C E. Cobbey officiating.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn ceme
tery. President Made Honorary
Member of Knights Templar
Washington, June 11. President
Harding was the guest tonight of
Columbia Commandery No. 2,
Knights Templar, by whom he was
inducted into honorary membership.
Similar honor was paid by the local
commandery to George Christian
the president's secretary, and Gen
eral Sawyer, his personal physician.
A delegation of Knights Templar
from Marion, O., the president's
home, were present and participated
in the ceremony.
Watermelon Season Is on,
Hungry Man Takes Three
The watermelon season is on.
C E. Coleman, Nineteenth and
Paul streets, was arraigned in police
court for robbing a melon car,
"What were you going to do with
three melons," queried Judge Fos
ter. "Lawdv sake, judge, I was going
to eat 'em."
Foster gave Coleman three days
for each melon stolen.
Man Tires of Spelling Name;
So Has It Changed in Court
If your name was Sam
Lijkkegaard you'd get tired of spell
ing it out for people every time you
had occasion to use it, wouldn't
you?
Sam said he did and the district
court, yesterday authorized him to
change it to Le Gore, Thus- does
France triumph over Scandinavia. -,
New York Building
Trades Charter Is
Under A; F. L. Fire
Demand for Revocation of Or
ganization's Permit Is Made
at Annual Convention of
Labor Federation.
Farmers to Get TNT
At Cost to Government
Denver, June 11. Demand for the
revocation of the charter of the build
ing trades council of New York City
and the formation of a new organiza
tion to replace it unless it immedi
ately complies strictly with the laws
of the building trades department of
the American Federation of Labor
was before the annual convetion to-
dav for consideration.
the demand was presented in a
resolution jointlv bv the delegates
of the Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paper Haneers of
America; the Bricklayers', Masons'
and Plasterers Internatonal union
and the International Hod Carriers.
Building and Common Laborers
union.
Council Opposes A. F. L.
They charged that the council one
of the largest in the United States
enforced laws that were "in opposi
tion to the principles of the organized
labor movement of America and de
prives certain unions of representa
tion in said council, because of their
refusal to comply with the laws."
They objected to the council barring
delegates that were not business
agents and declared that the council
had no right to dictate to the unions
as to. what salary should be paid
such representative.
ihe settlement of jurisdictional
and inter-union disputes in the
building industry by arbitration and
without stoppage of work was an
other issue before the convention.
Irish sympathizers had a resolu
tion calling for a boycott of all
English manufactured oods until
Great Britain stoooed its "war of
reprisals, killing of people and de
struction of property in Ireland."
Federal ludge Landis
Named As Arbitrator
In Building Lockout
Chicago, June 11. Federal Judge
K. M. Landis was selected as arbitra
tor in the building trades lockout,
caused by wage dispute that went
into effect May 1, throwing out ot
work nearly half of the 60,000 build
ing trades workers in Chicago. The
selection was made by Edward M.
Craig, secretary of the buildins em
ployers association and Thomas
Kearney, president of the Chicago
Building Trades council.
Ihe " lockout was precipitated
hen the unions refused the con
tractors, suggestion that they accept
a reduction from $1.25 to $1 an hour
for skilled mechanics and from .$1
70 cenM an hour for building la-
orers. ihe contractors maintained
that the wage scale being paid was
responsible for high building costs
and consequent falling off in con
struction. .. ., ..- .
armer Confesses That He
Killed and Buried Wife
Aberdeen, S. D., June 11. State's
Attorney Ray Williamson, of Brown
county, announced this morning he
had. obtained a full confession from
Dan C. Wampler, 43. farmer, of
ear Hecla, S. D., that Wampler had
murdered his' wife May 17 and
buried her body in a cornfield near
their home.
Accordine to Williamson. Wam
pler claimed to have killed his wife
because she had refused to give him
divorce and he was mad. He
probably will be arraigned this after
noon in the circuit court at Webster.
Man Accused in Booze Ring
Probe Promises to Give Bond
No further arrests have bsen made
ere in the "Omaha-Lincoln liquor
ring cleanup, according to federal
officials. '
Warrants for Omahans issued by
Thomas Allen, United States district
attorney at Lincoln, arrived here
Friday afternoon.
Jay O'Hearn, battery dealer, for
whom a warrant has "been issued on
the grounds he is a "go-between" in
the ring which i is alleged to have
been hauling liquor from Omaha to
Lincoln, has promised to appear and
give bond, according to Lloyd Mag
r.ey, assistant United States attorney.
Man Beat Wife Recovering
From Operation, She Says
"Samuel Karamj 1122 South Thir
teenth street, beat his wife, Eliza
beth, last January while she was in
bed recovering from an operation,
she alleges in a petition for divorce
filed in district court yesterday. In
February his treatment became so
brutal, she says, that she had to
leave their home..
Sovereign Grand Commander
Of Scottish Rite Retires
New York, June 11. Illustrious
Barton Smith, 33d, most puissant
sovereign' grand commander Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite Mason for
the United States, last night an
nounced his retirement from that of
fice. .
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entire amount had been allotted to
the various agencies of the govern
ment. Custodian Gets "Huffy."
A few days after this interview
the custodian was called up before
his chief and shown a letter from
the War department in which the
writer stated that he understood the
department was willing to return
the TNT to the War department
The custodian took this letter and
across the bottom wrote the brief
comment:
"It's d d lie."
The letter, with the appended
comment, is now part of the official
record of the Interior department.
Tests made by the bureau of mines
at Pittsburgh showed that TNT
blended with grenade powder, made
a better blasting explosive than any
f the commercial dynamites. It
was found to be less dangerous to
handle and more effective in blasting
work. As there was only a limited
supply of the grenade powder, allot
ted from the War department, how
ever, the larger part of the 26,000,
000 pounds of TNT was used with
out mixing.
It was turned over to the bureau
of public roads, Department of Agri
culture, and delivered to the various
state highway commissions for the
building of highways. The actual
cost to the commissions was the cost
of handling, about 10 cents a pound.
As the cost of commercial dynamite
is 30 cents a pound the direct saving
of this one item was over $3,000,-
000. In addition, the armv had 7.-
000,000 detonators, worth five to six
cents apiece, for which there was
practically no market, thus effecting
an additional saving of ?2o0,000.
Saving to Government.
In addition there was a saving to
the government of the cost of de
stroying the TNT. As a matter of
fact, three carloads of picric acid,
belonging to the French govern
ment, were dumped in New York
harbor at a cost of a quarter of a
cent a pound. Afterwards the picric
acid floated to the shores of Long
Island where it had to be picked up
by the government at a very heavy
expense. It is estimated by Dr.
Munroe that this proceeding cost
more than if the explosives had been
shipped to New Mexico and there
cartridged for commercial use.
From the turning over the TNT
to the Department of the Interiof
dates a new policy in the handling of
the government's munitions, as is
evidenced by the recent allotment
to the Department of Agriculture of
the 11,000,000 pounds of picric acid
for distribution among the farmers.
There may be mentioned 300,000,000
pounds of smokeless powder, vast
quantities of which had actually been
burned in order to get rid of it. '.A
halt was called to this proceeding
and great display advertisements
were published all over the country I
reading "tind a use for smokeless
powder make a fortune." The en
tire lot was sold to a corporation un
der a most favorable contract.
American Rotarians
Welcomed at Liverpool
Liverpool, June 11. Five hundred
delegates from Rotary clubs in the
United States, bound for the inter
national convention of Rotarians, to
be held in Edinburgh, arrived totfay
on the steamship Corona. Tha dele
gates were welcomed by the lord
mayor and a delegation of Liverpool
Kotarians. The delegates found a
rousing' reception awaiting them
here. A. brass band of the Liverpool
Boy bcouts played on the landm?
stage and the youths waved Rotar
ian flags and cheered.
The lord mayor, in an address,
declared the visit of the Americans
could not fail' to strengthen the ties
of friendship between the two coun
tries.' The delegates were in fine spir
its,, displaying what the. local news
papers referred to as demihtful
abandon." A' special train will take
them to Edinburgh.
Profits of Shoe
Men Declared to
ic Be Exorbitant
Federal Trade Report to Con
gress Says Earnings "Out of
Proportion to Increase in
Cost Per Unit."
Fleet Steeds Gone When
Sheriff Gets to Race Track
George Sully of South Dakota filed
suit m district court Friday to at
tach two horses in the Charles Irwin
string at Ak-Sar-Ben field, alleging
they were stolen from him in South
Dakota by a man who took them
south to race.
The horses, he said, were Herder
and Phoebe. A deputy sheriff failed
to find the animals at the Ak-Sar-Ben
field.
Washington, June 11. High prices
of footwear which obtained during
1918 and were increased in 1919 re
sulted from "abnormal conditions of
supply and demand, both economical
and psychological, arising from the
war," the federal trade commission
Lodav reoorted to the house of repre
sentatives. The report was submitted
in response to a resolution.
"Incident to these conditions." the
report added, "were large margins of
profit taken by tanners, shoe manu
facturers, wholesalers, jobbers and
retailers," whose large earnings were
declared to be "out of all proportions
to the increase in their cost per unit."
The advance in the price of shoes
finally was terminated by the "so
called buyers' strike" in the spring of
1920, according to the report. . v--
Last Attempt Made 1
To Save Wife-Slayer
Chicago, June 11. An llth-hour
attempt to save the lite ot L-ari
Wanderer was begun today by his
attorney, who went before Governor
Small and sought a reprieve. The
plea was based upon the claim that
Wanderer's mind was affected by
his experiences in the world war and
that his daily contact, with whole
sale killing so distorted his mind
that he became unbalanced and was
" rot mentally responsible when he
slew his wife, her unborn babe and
the ragged stranger. His plea will
be heard by the state pardon board
Tuesday morning.
Two other cases will come before
the pardon board at the same time
that of Grover C. Redding and
Oscar McGavick, negroes, sentenced
to death for their connection with
the murder of a sailor in uniform
during a race riot last year.
Indictments Returned
In "Funeral Trust" Probe
Chicago, June 11. Assistant !
States Attorney James E. McShane,
investigating the alleged '"funeral
trust" in Chicago, announced the
grand jury has voted true bills
against IS officers and members of
the Chicago Motor Liverymen's
association, charging them with con
spiracy, boycott, blacklisting and
illegal acts injurious to the public
trade.
The investigation was started
when the liverymen refused to per
mit the use of their equipages for the
funeral on Sunday of a soldier killed
in France.
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Sales Daily, 2 and 730 p. m.
Nationalist Headquarters
In Dublin Raided by Police
Dublin, June 11. Crown forces
yesterday raided the headquarters of
the Irish nationalist forces and ar
rested 42 young men alleged to have
been engaged in attendance upon a
class where signalling was being
taught.
Mexican Drouth Broken
Mexico City, June 11. Heavy rain
fell here yesterday afternoon, end
ing a protracted drouth which oc
cassioned much distress and
prompted the holding of many re
ligious services.
Omaha Bank Clearings.
Bank clearings for the week end
ing Saturday were $36,293,833.81,
according to the Omaha Clearing
House association reports. Clear
ings for the corresponding week last
year were $56,906,784.03.. For. last
week they were $24,778,420.81, " -
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ment of diseased gum tissues prevents illness and loss
of teeth.
You can't any more allow disease to attack your
teeth and mouth than you can allow it to attack
lungs, heart or kidneys,' for practically every disease
has its inception in the mouth.
Health belongs there, but more often death lurks
there.
Our prophylactic service may save you - an ex
pensive illness, great loss of time and possibly your
teeth.
McKenney Dentists
1324 Farnam St. Corner 14th and Farnam.
Phone Douglas 2872. . ,
weet Daddy' Letters
Of Chorus Girl Land .
Her and Lover in Jail
Mason City, la.. June 11. Miss
Geraldine Brace, chorus girl, in
court here was called upon to ex
plain 130 love letters, most of which
were addressed to "Sweet Daddy."
The discovery of a suitcase full of
them by Mrs. William Schulz also
had the effect of bringing Mr.
Schulz into court to explain with
the girl. They were arrested on a
statutory charge. Schulz is 40 and
the girl 19.
Mrs. Schulz charges in court that
her husband had been supporting
Miss Brace. She denies the charges.
"I only went out riding with him
why shoutd I get the dirty end of
this?" she' explained. "Besides, I
didn't know he was married for a
long time.
Geraldine writes in one letter now
in the hands of the prosecution that
she "felt cheap to take Schulz's
n.'ney and to accept his support in
the matter of paying board and
room rent.'" "
Geraldine danced her way from
Chicago here then, out to Dallas,
Tex., where, it is alleged, a letter
begging her to. . return to Mason
City and carfare from the 'auto me
chanic reached her. -She returned.
Outlook for Harvst in
Soviet Russia Improved
Riga, June 11. The outlook for
the grain harvest of soviet Russia an,
pears better than might be expected
from the adverse weather, according
to the soviet commissioner -of agri
culture, M, Osinsky, who now is in
Riga. Medium to above medium
conditions in winter crops prevail
in most of Russia, except in the i
black soil belt in four or five of the j
Volga governments, which have suf- j
fered severely from the drought. i
Former Chief to Turn Over
Lonliscated Loin to U. S.
-i A "friendly" suit brought bv the
government against" Marshall feber
stein, former chief of police, was de
cided against him by Federal Judge
Woodrough yesterday.
The decision orders Mr. Eher
stein to pay $556 which he took from
Thomas Kcllv. who -was arrestpt
while Eberstein was chief, to the
government for taxes assessed
against Kelly for violation of the
prohibition amendment.
Woman Sues Her Divorced
Husband for Alimony Due
Agnes L. Wood filed suit in dis
trict court yesterday against her di
vorced husband, James C. Wood, for
$333.50 due on alimony and fees al
lowed her in the divorce decree she
obtained in Council Bluffs a year
ago.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
Beginning Monday, June 13, store hours will
be from 9 a. m! to 5 p. m. Saturday 6 p. m.
Tafel Dancing
Frock $59.50
White Organdie
(Corbeau) $50
The Pensive Air of These Two Maidens
Has Naught to do With Matters Scholarly
They are gazing into the immediate -future
when they will reach home
without a "decent summer thing to
wear" and a too brief time to remedy
the lack before leaving for the lake.
She at the left, whose coiffure indicates
her temperament, will want a sum
mer dancing frock like the one from
Tafel, (the Russian who designed for
the Follies), of cornflower blue chiffon
over cream silk lace with a series of
silver and ribbon flower garlands
down the front.
She will -want the white organdy
from Corbeau that has a ruff of six
pleated collars and a chain of field
flowers down the front; and the morn
ing frock of rose linerie piped and
appliqued in white, ;vvhich also comes
in blue with gray trimmings.
The sterner maiden, whose mother
has always indulged her fondness for
frillies, in dressing her tailored sort
of daughter, will find the white
flannel skirts and flannel golf blouses
trimmed in plaids and yividNcolors,
a compromise quite satisfactory to
both sides.
There is a white crepe de chine sport
dress with an orange scarf collar and
bandings, that is distinctive enough
for an informal dance, and much
better suited to her type of beauty.
A slender frock of violet linene
trimmed, with cretonne, would com-
plete a well balanced wardrobe.
Rose Linene $25
White Flannel
Skiri for $15
Coif Blouses $15
Crepe de Chine
Sport Dress, $75
. Morning Dress of
violet linene, $30.