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I.W.W. Gang Robs
And Beats Four
Ex-Service Men
"Wobblies" Said to Be Mis-
treating Laborers Who Re
fuse to Join Organization;
One Arre6t Made.
A squad of detectives from Cen
tral police itation was dispatched
to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne
apolis & Omaha railroad yard? Sat
urday afternoon to round up a gang
of I. W, W. who were said to be
causing trouble to train crews and
robbing, beating and kicking off of
trains laborers who refused to join
their organization and pay a mem
bership fee of $3 in exchange for a
red card.
With the exception of A! Hudson,
Bisbce, Ariz., all the I. V. W. made
their escape. There were said to be
fully 300 men in the railroad yards,
either on trains or waiting to catch
a train out. Hudson was well sup
plied with I. W. VV. literature and
red membership cards, police said.
Ex-Service Men Attacked.
Four men, said to be ex-service
men, were robbed and slugged yes
terday afternoon when they refused
to join the I. W. W. ranks, accord-
ing to word received at detective
headquarters. Ray Stennett, member
of the American Legion at Gillham,
Ark., was robbed of $30 and a watch.
J. P. Howard, Clarendon, Ark., and
M. B. Wilwouth, Benton, Ark., who
were traveling together, were beaten
and robbed when they refused to
join. Howard lost $56 and Wil
mouth, a former navy man, lost his
watch and $3. G. D. Kernoham and
E. R. Bivans, both of Fayetteville,
Ark., were forced to sign, up before
they were permitted to ride the
train.
Train crews report having serious
trouble with the I. VV. W. At Lraig.
Neb., 15 men were ejected from a
moving train when the "wobblies"
discovered that they were not mem
bers of the organization.
Acting Chief Pszanowski received
word that a man named Will Ellis
lias suffered the loss of a leg when
thrown from a train at Tekamah,
Neb., but hospital attendants at that
place state that it was an accident.
Railroad detectives report freight
trains literally swarming with bums,
the majority of them being members
of the I. W. W.
Hold Up Four Youths.
Fremont, Neb., July 16 (Special.)
Claiming that they had been held
up by two 1. W. W.s armed with
guns, who took away all their money,
$14, while riding a freight train near
North Bend, four young Oklahoma
men applied to the police for some
thing to eat. They stated that they
were thrown from the speeding train
after they had been robbed, as they
were unable to show I. W. W. cards.
They walked seven miles into Fre
mont. They claim that they were
enroute to South Dakota to get work
in the fields, but were discouraged
when they hit Sioux City and de
cided to go back home. ? , w ,
States Attorney Refuses
To Hold Woman for Murder
Northport, N. Y.; July 17. De
spite the request of Sheriff John Y.
Kelly that Mrs. Helen B. Hemming
be detained in connection with the
killing of her husband, Henry G.
Hemming, by the caretaker of her
Duck Island estate Thursday night
Assistant District Attorney Part
ridge announced he would declina to
cause her detention.
Mr. Partridge said he was con
vinced that Mrs. Hemming had tried
to keep her husband away from her
home and was unaware that the care
taker, Frank Eberhardt, who killed
himself after slaying the broker, had
planned the shooting beforehand.
The killing occurred after Hem
ming, who had been estranged from
his wife, met her in New York and
insisted on accompanying her home
over her objections.
Tests for Presidential
. Postmasters to Be Held
Washington. July 17. (Special
Telegram.) The postmaster general
has requested the civil service com
mission to set a date for examina
tion for presidential postmasters at
the following place:
Nebraska Elwood, Emerson,
Gothenburg, Homer, Hyannis, Kear
ney, North Bend, Oconto, Oshkosh,
Palisade, Rulo. Shelton, Shubert,
Sutherland, Syracuse, Venango,
Troy, Bartley, Bassett, Blue Hill,
Brady, Broken Bow,
Dannebrog, Doniphan.
Iowa Charles City,
Keswick, Nodaway,
.Volga.
South Dakota Elkton.
Home Brew Purveyors Are
Arrested in Night Raids
Detectives were busy Saturday
rounding up purveyors of home-made
liquor. Among those brought to
policf headquarters late Saturday
night were: Marie Turner, 1819
Leavenworth street, charged with
keeping a disorderly house. H. J.
Parker and Dan Mooney, 701 South
Sixteenth street, and Walter Stevens,
1701 Cass street, were charged with
being inmates.
Elaine Castle, 1609 Leavenworth
street, was arrested on the same
charge. At each place large quan
tities of home brew were seized.
Omaha Librarian Is
Awarded Judgment
On Insurance Policy
Fremont, Neb, July 17. (Spe
cial.) An interesting case in the su
preme court came to an end when
Mrs. Phil A. Echols, daughter of
Superintendent of Schools A. H.
Waterhouse, this city, was awarded
the principal of a $5,000 policy taken
out by her husband just before his
death, upon which he gave a note
for the first payment. The case
was started two years ago in the
district court and the plaintiff was
upheld. TJie Mutual Life Insurance
company appealed to the supreme
court. They claimed that inasmuch
as Echols had given a note for his
hrst premium, which had not fallen
due at the time of his death, they
were excused from paying the face
value of the policy to his wife, the
beneficiary. The court decreed that
the note business would have to be
taken up with the agent who handled
the policy at that time and that
Echols was in no way responsible for
the fact that the company had not
received the cash at the time of his
death. The decision also allowed
Mrs. Echols $100 attorney fees. Mrs.
Echols was recently appointed head
of the children's department in the
Omaha public library.
Singer Asks $389,205
' In Divorce Petition
Chlraga Tribune-Omaha Rn fard Wins
New York, July 17. Mme. Alma
Clayburgh, operatic and concert
singer, began suit on four separate
causes of action against Albert Clay
burgh, her husband. demanding
sums that aggregate $389,205.
Mme. Clayburgh alleges her hus
band libelled her in answers to both
of the suits which she brought
against him in 1920 to enforce the
terms of a separation agreement
which they entered upon on October
21, 1916, alleging inconstancy on her
part and setting forth that he had
begun suit for divorce against her
in this state, where there is but one
statutory ground for such an action,
and she asks damages in the sum of
$150,000.
In defending her good name as
to such charges, she alleges, she ex
pended $2,500 in the separation
agreement action, and $8,923 in the
divorce action. She also demands
$75,000 as the value of household
furnishings.
Harding Finds
Precedent for
Stand on Bonus
Grant .Vetoed Similar Bill in
1875 for Substantially
Same Reasons Put
Fourth by President
Chiracs Tribune-Omaha Be Leased Wire.
Washington, July 17. President
Harding has found a precedent for
his course in urging delay on en
actment of soldiers' bonus legisla
tion.
Following the shelving of the
measure yesterday in the senate
which precipitated one of the storm
iest sessions in the history of that
usually dignified body, the White
House issued a statement showing
that President Grant vetoed a sol
diers' bonus bill because it would
bave seriously embarrassed govern
ment refunding operations in prog
ress at the time.
"President Grant," says the state
ment issued at the White House, "in
the spring of 1875, vetoed a soldiers'
bonus bill, which had just been
passed by Congress. In doing so.
he presented reasons substantially
the same as those urged by Presi
dent Harding a few days ago when
he appeared in the senate."
The Grant veto follows:
"To the house, of representatives:
House bill 3341 is hereby re
turned without my approval for the
reasons, first, that it appropriates
from the treasury a large sum of
money at a time when the revenue
is insufficient for current wants and
this proposal is a further drain on
the treasury. The issue of bonds
authorized by the bill to a very large
and indefinite amount, would seri
ously embarras the refunding
operations now progressing, where
by the interest of the bonded debt
of the United States is being largely
reduced.
"Second, I do not believe that any
considerable portion of the ex
soldier, who, it is supposed, will be
beneficiaries of this appropriation
are applicants for it, but rather it
would result more in a measure for
the relief of claim agents and middle
men who would intervene to collect
or discount the bounties granted by
it. The passage of this bill at this
time is inconsistent with the meas
ures of economy now demanded by
the necessities of the country.
"Signed,
"U. S. Grant."
The measure would have given to
each soldier 5100 per year for his
service with, however, the deduc
tion of whatever bounties he re
ceived from either the federal gov
ernment or his state. Estimates of
expenditure ranged from $20,000,.
000 to $150,000,000.
Fremont Man Seeks
Lower Assessment
Fremont, Neb., July 17. (Spe
cial.) L. D. Richards, president of
the Fremont Stock Yards and Land
company, filed an appeal in the dis
trict court requesting a decision
forcing the board of supervisors to
equalize all assessments in Dodge
county. He declared that in justice
to all, assessments in towns over
61 per cent should be reduced to
correspond. There are townships as
sessed as high as 88 per cent and
none lower than 61. Fremont prop
erty valuations are assessed at 71
per cent. The appeal comes as a
result of the refusal of the Dodge
county board to take action on the
matter, saying that the work would
be too much for the office. A dele
gation of Fremonters appeared be
fore the state board of equalization
last week asking that the ruling
should be placed in effect through
out the state.
Illness of Attorney
Delays Stillman Case
Yonkers, N. Y., July 17. John F.
Brennan, counsel for Mrs. Anne U.
Stillman in the divorce action
brought by her husband, James A.
Stillman, is suffering from pneu
monia and will be confined to his
bed for more than a month, it was
said after a conference of physicians.
He is 70 years old. V
Grave fears are felt by close as
sociates of the attorney because of
his advanced years, although the
physicians' announcement said his
chances of recovery were favorable.
His illness will delay further hear
ings in the Stillman case, which was
set for July 27. It is now thought
that the case will not be resumed
before September. I
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Crude Methods
Used to Dodge
Income Taxes
Fines and Penalties Arid Ap
proximately $20,000,000
To Government Revenue
During Past Year.
Washington, July 17. Approxi
mately $20,000,000 was added to the
revenue of the government during
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921, in
additional taxes, penalties and fines
resulting from the discovery of
false and fraudulent income tax re
turns, the bureau of internal revenue
announced.
Fraud upon the revenue by way
of filing false and fraudulent tax re
turns appears in many unique ways,
bureau officials assert, borne tax
payers are extremely crude in their
methods and reduce their taxes by
merely omitting large items of in
come from their returns. Thus in
one instance a prominent merchant
in one of the larger cities owned
and operated two stores. For three
years, he omitted entirely from his
returns, the income of one of two
stores.
In another instance a prominent
man received approximately one
half of his income as salary from a
corporation of which he was presi
dent and of which corporation he
owned practically all of the stock.
The corporation took his salary as a
deduction and a necessary expense,;
the man himself entirely omitted to
report this salary, never thinking that
the corporation's return would be
checked on his individual return.
During the past year many jail
sentences have been imposed, rang
ing from 60 days to one year, in ad
dition to the fines and penalties. In
dictments have been returned dur
ing the past year in practically every
section of the United States and
many of the cases are now awaiting
trial at the fall term.
Not more than 25 per cent of the
working force in any establishment
in Canada shall cftnsist of either in
experienced adults or young girls.
Army Captain Fired
From U. S. Service and
Sentenced to Prison
Chicago Trlbniia-Omaha Be leaacd W'ra.
New York, July 17. Capt Bever
ly Grayson Chew, veteran of the first
division, was convicted by court
martial of forgery, impersonating
fellow officers, conduct unbecoming
an ' officer and a gentleman, and
other charges constituting a bill of
51 specifications for which he has
been on trial at Governor s Island
since May 16. He was sentenced to
dismissal from the service of the
United States and imprisoned for
seven years at hard labor in a mill
tary prison not yet named.
The evidence involved ' Chew's
wife, Marjorie Blanche, formerly of
Richmond, Va., who has appeared
on the stage and motion pictures
as Jean H. Sothcrn. She was in
dicted with him by a grand jury in
Washington in December, 1920, for
grand larceny. Both pleaded not
guilty, and upon release on bail Cap
tain Chew was turned over to the
army authorities.
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Railroad Wreck Gains
Divorce for Chicagoan
Chiracs Trtbun.-Omaha Bea Laaitd Wtra.
Chicago, July 17. Nathan Licker
man says he lost his wife's love
through a railroad accident and he
made out such a clear case in the su
perior court that he was given a di
vorce. Lickernian says he was an army
officer two years ago, stationed in
New York, where he met his wife,
Rose. When he received his dis
charge they were married and started
for Chicago. At Batavia their train
collided with a freight train. Mrs.
Lickernian returned to New York to
recover from the nervous shock. He
came on to Chkago and later went
back to New York to claim his bride.
At her parent's home he was met
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by the father, who told him to "get:
out" as Rose did not want to see hire,
again. He told the court that he
has not seen her since the wreck
that cooled the fervor of her regard
for him and that she refused to an-j
swer any of his letters or messages, j
Packing Firm Official
Admits Taking $150,000
Austin, Minn., July 17. Enibeitle
ment of at least $150,000 from
George A. Hormel & Co., packers,
was admitted by R. J. Thomson,
comptroller of the company, in a
statement issued jointly with officers
of the concern. I
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