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i THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. JULY !.. 1921. Escape of Bank Bandit Will Be f j Probed by State Sheriff and Attorney General Both Launch Investiga tions Bride ofa Day Is Being Held. 7 .9 'A Des Moines. Ia.. June 30. (Soe- cialfTelegram.) A sweeping inves tigation into the circumstance sur rounding the escape of William dewy Hankins, a prisoner awaiting tenietice on a robbery charge, from i -he custody of Deputy Sheriff Fred f McAfee Tuesday night was ordered byj Sheriff W- E. Robb today. Or ders regarding the prisoner had been rM disobeved. bhenff Kobb declared in a statement. ! Simultaneously, Ben GiDson, at torney general, announced that he vAjtild ask a report from Sheriff f Robb concerning Hankins' getaway. Gibson will also ask reports from , state agents at Des Moines. He will ' make a thorough probe of the mat i' ter, he says. Under a law passed Vitt 4ti lief rri oril ocatviK1r Vi at , torney general is given the right to : demand reports from any peace ot . ficers in the state concerning laxity in rnanagement. I Hankins was recently convicted at Knoxville of robbing the Pleasant- : ville bank of $50,000 along with J Fred Martin and Bill Davis. The j trio Were brought to Des Moines for ,! safe keeping and put in the Polk county jail. They were to be taken f to Knoxville Saturday for sentence I Hankins would have been sen tenced to prison for 40 years, as that the minishmcnt for the crime Ten Witnesses Heard In Case of Mine Union Chiefs for Contempt Columbus, Kan., June 30. A jury was obtained yesterday afternoon and when the trial of Alexander Howat and August Dorrhy ad journed 10 witnesses for the state had testified. Howat and. Dorrhy, president and vice president of the United States mine district No. 14, are charged with criminal violation of the Kan sas state industrial relations court law, for the alleged calling of a strike last February at the H mine of George K. Mackie Fuel company. Nine of the witnesses were mem bers of the miners' union, employed at the mine in question and the JOth witness was the pit boss of the mine. Testimony was given to the effect that work had been stopped at the mine to force payment of money that was claimed due J. Mishmash a former employe at the mine, and that the order stopping work had ceased to be in effect when payment had been made. Two Farm Bills Are Introduced By McLaughlin Changes in Postal Savings Banks Would Give Farm ers Money Wants In terest Raised. i fixed bv statute. The first step in t the1 investigation being made by X Shi riff Robb was the detention of NiiMri Genev Wright, 21, who be Jytc3i the bride of the bandit yes Av' terday. I rate Hangs on mu. The fate of Tom Lewis, the negro hermit, hangs today upon a bent M swingle nail driven into the heel of S the left shoe of the accused mur- t derer of Sarah Barbara Thorsdale. V Hearing today was devoted to tes timony relative to fitting the shoes il into the tracks found near where " the body of the murdered teacher 'i u9i rfkrnvered on the river bank. IV Tn addition to this, the bolt alleged S to have been used by the murderer wast introduced into evidence by Sheriff Robb. Ray Lockhard was the- chief witness for the prosecu tion. Lockhard testified that he was a special deputy assigned to the case and told the court that Lewis' shoes ' were fitted into at least five different prints made in the and along the rivef. 1 Supreme Court Reverses Vl' . ViUIlVlClIUII Ul U1MIBUEI. ,Vl ricrre, S. D., June 30. The state fw uoreme court today reversed the : decision ot tne Minnenana circuit court in the case of George W. F.gan, publisher of- the Sioux Falls Press i afici'fori'iier Candidate for governor 4 of South Dakota, who was convicted of ftresentinsr false and v fraudulent proof in support of a claim for loss under an insurance contract and sen tenced to two years in the pcniten- y., A new trial was ordered. maha Asked to Arrest Escaped Iowa Burglar Omaha police were asked to arrest .?., George Lizdos, 17, confessed bandit Ynd burglar, who escaped from Des ' . Moines after he had robbed 17 homes in the Iowa capital's most fashion able residential district. While being questioned by the Des I Moines chief of detectives, Lizdos ', askfd for a drink of water. After ;. getting a drink he leaped through a ! window and escaped. ' Xilemency for Grand Island v .Murderer to Be Opposed i Grand -Island, Neb.. June 30. Strong opposition to the pardon or parole of J. G. Hamblin will be filed with the state board by the ( relatives of Rachel Engle, shot and 1 killed by Hamblin in 1906 and con , demned to death by the jury which 5 heard the case. Some resentment ' was felt here at the time the court t changed the sentence to a term in y the penitentiary. Patronage Conference Soon; Reavis at Capital Washington, June 30. (Special Telegram.) Representative Evans spending nearly a month in Nebras ka and attending his class reunion at Lvnn Arbour. Now that all the tierabers of the Nebraska delegation re i Washington it is expected that i jjp-epuDiican memoers win De J Stats marshal. Seek More Pay for Court Witnesses Equalization of Conditions in .Nebraska With Other States Asked by Jefferis. By E. C, SNYDER. Hmhlnnlon Correnpondent Omaha Be. Washington, June . 30. (Special Telegram.) At the suggestion of the acting United States marshal of Nebraska, J. B. Nickerson, Congress man Jefferis introduced a bill at the beginning of the present session in creasing the witness and mileage fees of witnesses in federal cases in Nebraska. This act was introduced in the 66th congress but failed of final passage. Owing to the very active interest shown in the bill it is the intention of Mr. Jefferis to write the measure into law if such a thing be possible. In all statesvest of Nebraska fed eral court witnesses are allowed $3 a day and travel pay besides. In Nebraska witnesses are allowed only $1.50 a day and nothing for time used in traveling, allowing only for actual attendance in court. The Jef feris bill seeks to make the fees uniform all over the United States. At every term of court in Ne braska witnesses are subpoenaed to appear in court Monday morning. Where there are no Sunday trains the witness is compelled to leave home Saturday in order to reach court on time, otherwise he is in contempt. It may be that the case does not reach trial until Wednesday or later. In the meantime his at tendance is compulsory. A witness traveling 40 miles to attend court and remaining five days would re ceive $11.50. His subsistence alone under present conditions would cost at least $15, and probably more. A juror in the same court under same conditions and from the same town would receive $28. Curiosity Costs Life of Man j Who Falls Through Viaduct Sioux City, la., June 30. Curios ity cost the life of E. R. Herdman of Revere, Mo., who was instantly killed early this morning by a fall through an opening in a street via duct. Herdman daw an automobile crash through a barrier erected block traffic. Arriving on the scene he discovered the front wheels the machine hanging over the edg of the hole. As he was inspecting the predicament of the automobile h fell to his death. I he automobil driver was unhurt. Bank Files Bankruptcy Petition on Butter Firm An involuntary petition of bank ruptcy was filed in federal court yes terday by the Bank of Highmore, Ne braska, against the Alfalfa Butter company, incorporated under the laws of Nebraska. H. Wittner an J. F. Rector are the petitioning cred ltors. Walter N. Swanson, automobile salesman, formerly in business with Jce Peterson, filed a debtor's petition asking to be declared bankrupt. Reavis at Conference ' Favorable Report Is Made i ? On Norris Fanning Bill (, Washington, June 30. Favorable report on the Norris bill to create a $100,000,000 government corporation : to promote the exportation of agri . cultural products was ordered today ,' by the senate agricultural committee. Chairman Norris was instructed to urge the senate to give the bill a prominent place on the calendar be i fore; the agreement for three-day s recesses is adopted. iFree "Black Strap" Urged V; By Nebraska Manufacturer V) Washington, June 30. (Special nfeleeram.) W. H. McLucas of "rt.Yairbury, one of a group of 30 man- v- a. jk'toti in the national capital, today V ,led a brief with members of the Ne iV'Vaska delegation asking that "black !.irap'' molasses be placed on the j .'Ve list in view of the fact that it is 'Med as a binder to keep the feed t V' gemer. KiiAiiT C.itrr TTntl Man Ta Appointed U. S. Marshal ioux City, la., June 30. Fred s of Sioux Cnty has been an ted United States marshal for Tthern district of Inwa. aeeord- 5 to a message received from Con- Jssman W. D. Boies. Mr. Davis, who now is en?a?ed in df hotel business here, formerly was - ...c- r. - n r rman r.t I - ....11 1 low and J, asmngton, . , ;1 1 On Government Changes Washington, June 30. (Special Telegram.) Congressman Reavis was at the White House today with other members of the legislative committee to reorganize the several departments of the government. Mr. Reavis also attended the conference called by General Dawes to discuss the beginning of the new budget de partment of the government. Omaha Man Pleads Guilty To Bigamy in Lincoln Court Lincoln, June 30. W. Harold Carey of Omaha pleaded guilty to a charge ci bigamy in a Lincoln ;us tice court and was bound over to the district court. Carey said he was innocent, but was willing to plead guilty. He said he thought he was divorced from his first wife before he married a second time. Strike of Ice Wagon Men In Dubuque Is Broken Dubuque, la., June 28. Dubuque, without ice during the last two months, rejoiced today when an an nouncement was made that the strike of teamsters and truck drivers had been settled. A regular schedule of ice deliveries will once more be put in operation. Fairbury Country Club Will Open House July 4 i-airbury, Ieb.. Tune 30. (Sot cial.) The Fairbury Country club will formally open the club house and park July 4. There are about 100 members and each is given the privilege oi Dnnging a tew tnends rireworks will conclude the day'a program. Nebraska Uni. Athletic Mentor Goes to Illinois Galesburg, 111., June 30. Paul I. Schissler of Hastings, Neb., for the past two years acting director of athletics at the University of Ne braska, has been selected as director of athletics at Lombard college for next j-ear, J By E. C. SNYDER. Washington Correspondent Omaha Be& Washington, June 30. (Special T e I e g r a m. ) Congressman Mc Laughlin of the Fourth district in troduced two bills today which he believes to be of vital interest to ag riculture. One of the bills amends the federal farm loan act so as to raise the loan value of permanent improvements from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of the insured valuation. The other bill, to be known as the industrial savings act, provides for a board of trustees, including all the members cf the president's cabinet, to take over the direction of the present postal savings banks. The bill authorizes the payment of 4 per cent interest on time deposits, instead of 2 per cent, as provided in the present postal savings law, and permits unlimited deposit, whereas, the present law limits the time de posits of any one patron to $200. The bill further provides that 50 per cent of the deposits in the postal savings bank shall either be loaned through the federal farm loan banks or invested in tederal larm loan bonds, in accordance with the pro visions of the federal farm loan act Mr. McLaughlin contends that his bill, if enacted into law, will provide ample credit for the farm ers of the entire nation. Gage County Wheat Yield Is From 15 to 23 Bushels Beatrice. Neb.. Tune 30. (Special.) T. C. Sherrill. livinar on Bear creek northeast of Beatrice, is thresh iner hit wheat croo and reports s yield of between 15 and 18 bushels to the acre. He says the grain tests fl nnnnrft to the bushel, the best yield reported comes from the Stein- mever tarm near uiaionn. i uc grain averaged 23 bushels to the acre and testea oj pounus iu un bushel. Gage county farmers are hnsilv enoraeed in harvesting their j oats crop, most ot tnem naving iaiu their corn bv. It has maae rapm rrnwth the oast few s days ot hot o - ' weather. Tourists Arrested for Fishing at Cambridge Cambridge, Neb.. June 30. (Spe cial.) Otto G. Gewinner ot uncom, employed by the department of ag' riculture and also acting as game warden has been busy nicking up tourists who were caught in the park fishing without licenses. Une trom Colorado and a number ot lxeorasna men were nnea ry rouic juu6c Grandstaff of Cambridge. Republic, Kan., to Picnic On Deshler tair Grounds Deshler, Neb, Jane 30. (Special.) Renublic. Kan., will hold their semnH annual oicnic on the Thayer county fair ground here next Sunday. A large delegation will make the trip in autos. There will be a ball game between Deshler and the Re public team. Bank Buys Block Beatrice, Neb., June 30. (Special Telegram.) Kilpatrick Brothers sold their block here to the Union State bank for $26,000. Hugo Arnold, head of the bank, came over from Kansas City to make the deal. Nebraska Town Closes Free Soup Kitchen Grand Island, Neb., June 30. (Special.) Grand Island's soup kitchen experiment will be discon tinued ith the end of this week after having been in operation ap proximately one month. From May 2S to June 29 there were served 3,921 meals. Th; local merchants and wholesa'e houses contributed most of the material for the meals, to which contributions were also made by restaurants and private homes. The experiment initiated by Mayor R'lsberry has ben very pop ular with the housewives of the city since, during the month, all owners of residences were requested not to feed transient' callers. Few called for a second meal. Of ttc msny jobless men who have applied at this kitchen tor work and food, 566 were placed in temporary jobs on farms, or with local mer chants or industries. There has re cently been such a material falling off of callers, by reason of employ ment in the harvest fi.lds, that the kitchen was regarded to be a neces sity no longer. Woman Fights Off Kidnaper Gang Declares She Was Dragged Into Auto and Carried to Bluffs Resort. Telling a story of brutal treatment imilar to historical descriptions of the dark ages, Mrs. Walter Pezrada, 1820 Dodge street, appeared at Cen tral police station Wednesday night with the report she had escaped a gang of men and had run all the way to Omaha from Council Bluffs. The woman told police two men in an automobile seized her at Four teenth and Farnam street Wednes day nigtit, dragged her into their car and drove with her to a resort in Countil Bluffs, the location of which she cannot remember. There they met a crowd of seven men, she said, whom she fought eff with her fists and escaped, running across the bridge into Omaha. Chief of Detectives Van Deusen has assigned two detectives to the case to verify the woman's story. Her husband is a Mexican inter preter, the police say. Two men were arrested on the bridge Wednesday night, by Council Bluffs police and are being held un der $1,000 bonds for investigation in connection with Mrs. Pezrada's Story. Bluffs police sav the resort - to which Mrs. Pezrada has reference is iust north of the Illinois Central bridge. The woman and her husband were closeted with Bluffs police officials most of the morning yesterday. Hydro-Electric Project At Hebron Nearly Completed Deshler. Neb.. June 30. (Special.) Work is progressing rapidly on the hydro-electric power plant on the Blue at the Hebron mill. Manager T. H. Carter expects to have the machinery installed and the power in operation by the first of August, furnishing power for the mill and! the city of Hebron. Train Jumps Track Valentine. Neb., June 30. (Spe cial Telegram.) An extra freight ran off the Chicago and Jorthwest ern tracks between Kilgore and Nenzel, doing considerable damage to the track. Traffic over the road was delayed several hours. Girls, If You're 18, and Less Than 21, and Want To Be Wed Without Parents' Consent, Hurry! Girls, if you are 18 or over, and less than 21, and want to get married without papa's or mama's consent, you'd better do it before July 28. On that date the new state law, making the legal age limit of women 21 instead of 18, gois into effect. Of course, you can go to Council Bluffs and get married after that date because in Iowa the legal age of woman will remain at 18. But it's inconvenient to go over there. The new legal age law is also making many complications in the guardianship affairs of the county court here. One girl who will be 18 in October was expecting to get possession of an estate of considerable size. She will have to wait another three years, unless the proceedings can be transferred to some state where the legal age remains at 18, which' is doubtful. Another estate which has been in court for several years, and which, by the terms of the will, cannot be settled until the vouneest child is of age, will have to wait another three years because the young- -.i .1 'U !. . :( in l. in i . est cmia is a gin wno wm dc io in August, Jill min no penalty LXERE is afoodthatnour - X Xishes and strengthens, tvithout taxing the stomach or . dogging the digestion. has been famous these many years becauseoflts splendid nourishment and the quick ness and ease with which it is digested, Delightfy to taste, arid ready to eat from the package Officials of U. P. Receive Orders For Wage Cuts 12 Per Cent Decrease Will Be Effective on Payroll of July 15 Other Roads Not , Yet Notified. Instructions regulating the reduc tion in wages of employes of the Union Pacific system have been is sued by officials of the company. The instructions are the result of the order issued June 1 by the United States labor board authorizing a 12 percent decrease in wages of employes of all railroads. The order will effect 31 labor organizations and 2,000,000 employes of 104 railroads of the United States. Hundreds of railroad employes in Omaha are hit by the re duction. Effective July 15. At Union Pacific headquarters of ficials said the order issued by the labor board would go into effect automatically and that there would be no confusion. The new wage scale will not effect salaries until the payroll of July 15. Officers of other railroads in Oma ha declared yesterday they had re ceived no instructions regarding the reductions and until they do wages will remain on the present basis. The Union Pacific and Burlington railroads are the two roads into Omaha most effected by the de crease. No Difficulties Expected. Local officials declared they ex pected no difficulties with labor or ganizations regarding the decreases. I think the labor men feel them selves Very lucky at the small de crease authorized as I believe they expected a greater decrease than the labor board authorized," W. F. Thiehoff, general manager of the Burlington for western lines, said to day. Methodist Ministers Picnic at Cambridge Cambridge, Neb., June 30. (Spe cial.) The ministers of the Hold redge district of the Methodist Epis copal church met in the Cambridge city park for the first annual picnic. Rev. E. T. George, D. D district superintendent, called all the pastors and their families together for a picnic. The purpose of the picnic was for the preachers' families to get acquainted. A picnic dinner was served and Dr. George furnished ice cream for. the crowd. There were 50 who took part in the games of the afternoon. Convict Dies as He Lived, Cursing Law In Battle With Police Chicago, June 30. Leonard Banks, paroled convict, bank robber and gunman, shot it out with the polite today and died gamely. He perished as he had lived, cm sing the law and its officials on the pavement where the police had emptied their auto matics into him. Luck was agi'inft him. H! fired three shots at Officer McMaiion at close range. One was deflected by a button, the second nipped off the officer's cap and the third ripped a furrow through the shoulder of his blouse. McMahon then went into action and his first shot scut tlanks down. Three other policemen ivsh ed to the scene and killed Banks, as he was struggling to get to his kices and take another shot at McMahon. Banks was at liberty under writ of supersedeas in connection wi.li the robbery of the Stockmen's Trust and Savings bank. He was ajso ne lieved to have been a pal of 'Big Tim" Murphy. H Fairbury Youth Passes Annapolis Examination Fairbury, Neb., June 30. (Spe cial.) Cecil McFarlane, 18, son of James G. McFarlane of this city, has been recommended for an ap pointment at the naval academy at Annapolis. Md. He has passed the required mental examination and will receive the appointment provided he passes a satisfactory , physical test. Mr. McFarlane is a student at the Weslevan university and a member of the'l20 foot ball team. . . Tourist Camping Park Now Provided at Pierce Pierce, Neb., June 30. (Special.) The city council has granted per mission to the Pierce Commercial club to use the city park for a tour ist park. The club has arranged for a suitable place to park cars and in stalled tables, stpves and water con venient for the campers. Situated as it is, is makes one of the prettiest camping places on the Meridian highway. Elgin Aviator Wrecks Plane in Fall at Valentine Valentine, Neb., June 30. (Spe cial Telegram.) The aeroplane of A. C. Carlson of the Carlson Aero club, Elgin, Neb., was practically demolished here today when a change in the wind caused the ma chine to light on one wing. Carlson was unhurt. Sweden is planning to electrify the state railways between Stockholm and Goteborg at a cost in excess of $16,000,000. 1 Disarmament Plan Of Borah Passed In Naval Measure Lower Branch of Congress Agrees to Disarmament Amendment to Naval Ap propriation Measure. Washington, June 30. The house agreed late Wednesday to the Borah disarmament amendment to the naval appropriation bill. The vote was 330 to 4. Represen tatives Moores, Indiana, republican, and Representatives Carew, New York; Campbell, Pennsylvania, and voted in the negative. Wild shouts greeted Representa- J O'Brien, New Jersey, democrats, tive Kelley, Michigan, in charge of the bill, when he moved to concur with the senate in the Borah amend ment. They subsided only vhen Representative Mondell, republican leader, had the clerk start reading a letter from President Harding in which the president declared it was "wholly desirable" to have the ex pression of a favorable opinion on the part of congress relating to world disarmament, and "not of par ticular concern what form the ex pression shall take." After referring to the Borah amendment as "narrow and restric tive," Mr. Mondell declared that in asmuch as the bill would go back on the last day of the fiscal year to the senate "where one persistent and insistent gentleman can block the wheels of legislation," he doubted whether it would be wise to haggle over the exact wording of the amendment. lfVl There is no "if" about it. Your first suit of Ready Clothes will "sell" you for life! YOUNG MEN AND MEN'S CLOTHING SPECIALISTS 1809 Farnam i D. E. Cable Louit F. Schonlau C. G. Kaetiner Mail orders filled on this sale. 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