The Omaha Sunday Bee
VOL. 51 NO. 8.
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, . 1921.
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TEN CENTS i
U. S. Labor
Conditions
Sub-Normal
Industry Is Struggling to Get
Back to Prewar Basis
Situation Worse Than
Year Ago.
Payrolls Show Decrease
GRAFTON S. WILCOX.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 6. Industrial
employment conditions in the United
States are far from a prewar basis.
Although nearly three years have
passed since the world war armistice,
American industry is still struggling
to get back to a normal condition
wherein factories boomed and there
was plenty of work for all.
i Employment conditions of the
country arc not only sub-normal, but
in June, 1921, they were worse than
they were in the same month in the
year before, according to latest
figures of the bureau of labor statis
tics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, and with the re
duction of forces wage reductions
have been general.
Most Important Decreases.
The carefully compiled statistics
tor 3 selected manufacturing mdus
' tries and in' bituminous coal mining
A show that there was decreased era
r ployment in all lines except in the
wool industry, as tompared with
June, 1920. There was in the woolen
industry an increase of 3.9 per cent
in the number of persons employed
in June, 1921, than in June, 1920.
"The most important decreases in
employment shown by these com
parative figures were 46 per cent, in
car building and repairing; 39.6 per
cent in iron and steel, and 37.5 per
cent in automobiles.
When compared with Junj, 1920,
the amount of the payrolls in June,
1921, shows decreases in 13 of the 14
industries. The one increase re-
ported 8.3 per cent appears in -the
woolen industry. The largest de
crease appearing during this period
V are 65.U per cent in iron ana steel,
I 47.7 per cent in paper, 40.6 per cent
A 1 - . 1 . I OC 1 i .'- .
in icamer, anu Of.i per teiu m autu-
mobiles.
Increases on Payrolls.
Comparative data for June, 1921,
and May, 1921, show that in 10 in
dustries there were increases in the
number of persons on the payroll in
June, as compared with May, and in
four a decrease. The largest in
creases, 8.9 per cent, 7.2 per cent and
5 per cent, are shown in men's ready-to-wear
clothing, leather and bitumi
nous coal, respectively. A decrease
k-.sJ&i $.7 per -cent appears in iron and
S. ibttel and one Of 2.4. per cent in car
v bV:Mjag and repairing j
When comnarinsr Tune. 1921. with
Mav. 1921. 11 industries show an in
crease in the amount of money paid
to employes and three show a de
crease. w
Murder Suspect
Identified In Jail
Three Persons Say They Saw
Man Run From Fogg
Drug Store.
James Hordes, 4111 South Twenty
ninth street, who was arrested
Thursday as a suspect in the Fogg
murder case, was released yesterday
under $500 bond. Detectives Franks
and Aughc have ordered Hordes put
under bond pending securing more
witnesses in the case. . ' ' j
Three persons identified Bordes
yesterday, the detectives say, as the
man seen running away from the
Fogg pharmacy at 11:30 last Satur
day night after Frank W.. Fogg was
found dead in the rear of his store,
apparently shot by a bandit.
Charles Cohen, 4620 Ames avenue,
a street car conductor, picked Bordes
out of six men at Central police sta
tion yesterday as the one who got
tpn his car at Twenty-eighth and
Tarnam streeets at 11:30 and left it
at Twenty-sixth and Farnam streets.
Detectives say Bordes has no strong
alibi. '
-VV.-
Increase in Tonnage
Routed Through Cannal
Washington, Aug! 6. A total of
115,599,214 tons of commercial cargo
was carried through the Panama
canal during the last fiscal year, or
23J4 per cent more than in any pre
ceding year, while the tolls amounted
to $11,276,890, or 32y2 per cent more
than any preceding year, according
to the Panama Canal Record. In
addition, government vessels which
passed the canal, tolls free, carried
453.769 tons of cargo.
American, 'British and Japanese
vessels carried 89 per cent of the
total commercial tonnage, the Ameri
can amounting to 45 per cent; Brit
ish, 32. and Japanese, 7 per cent.
The total number of ships passing
the canal was 2,892. of which 1,212
were American. 970 British, 140
Norwegian and 136 Japanese.
Weeks and Denby Recommend
Tariff Embargo on Dyes
Washington, Aug. 6. Secretaries
Weeks and Denby have come out in
support of an embargo on dyes and
chemicals and have urged restora
tion to the Fordney tariff bill of the
embargo provision stricken out by
the house. Their attitude was made
known today, when Chairman Pen
rose of the senate finance committee
-iiade public letters from them to the
committee.
The cabinet officers explained that
they favored an embargo because of
national defense; needs,
Day of Big Girls and
Big Prices Fast Going
Chicago, Aug. 6. Statuesque stage
beauties, languidly waving a costly
fan and moving as if they were on
wheel, have had their day. Along
with them pass the high theater
ticket prices.
Come now smaller girls of the
"cute" variety and less money for
the spectator. All of which is on the
authority of Florenz Zeigfcld, wide
ly known connoisseur of female
pulchritude and creator of the
"Follies."
"A big reduction in the price of
theater tickets is inevitable," said
Mr. Zeigfeld, "and that means salary
reductions. There must be a reduc
tion of one-third on the salary of
actors, musicians and stage hands,
and then the seat prices will be ad
justed accordingly."
Fremont Grain
Company Will
Be Reorganized
Frank Fowler Agrees to Re
tire as President New Of
ficers and Three New
Directors To Be Chosen.
Fremont, Neb.', Aug. 6. (Special.)
Nye-Schneider-Fcwler Co., $3,
000,000 grain firm which has been in
financial difficulties, will be re-organized
at the annual meeting of
stockholders Monday in accordance
with an agreement reached by com
mittees of creditors and stockholders
here today.
E. N. Mitchell of Lincoln will be
come president, Paul Colson of Fre
mont, vice president; Emil M. Hahn,
secretary and D. B. Davies, treas
urer. Harry S. Byrne of Omaha,
J. E. Phelan and L. N. Perrin will
be elected additional directors.
Agreement to this effect was
signed by Ralph Van Vechten, vice
president of the Continental and
Commercial National bank of Chi
cago, heading the creditors' commit
tee, and Frank Fowler, retiring pres
ident of the company.
"This arrangement contemplates
active efforts on the part of the bank
creditors for the early re-financing
of the business," said Mr. Van
Vechten.
Stockholders stated that Mr. Fow
ler was offered enough proxies to
assure his own reelection, but step
ped aside in order to " meet the
wishes of creditors.
Omaha May Get
Pulitzer Air Race
Event Is Offered for City's In
ternational Aero Meeting
In November.
The 1921 Pulitzer prize race, the
aviation classic, has been offered to
Omaha for the International Aero
congress meet this fall, Earl Porter
announces.
Sadi Le Cointe, Frenchman, who
won the race last year, and J. E. C.
Cox of Houston, Tex., owner of
"Texas Wildcat," the fastest plane in
the country, wl'ch was in the Paris
races last year, have signified their
intention to be present.
Already $15,000 in prize money
has been posted, according to Por
ter. A commercial derby, acrobatic
contest, 100-mile sprint, 200-mile
passenger-carrying contest, novelty
races, a bombing contest,- parachute
jumping and consolation races are
planned.
Railroads will arrange fare and a
half for all visitors to the meet, ac
cording to Porter.
International Red Cross
Calls for Big Conference
Geneva, Aug. 6. (By the Associ
ated Press.) The International
League of Red Cross Societies has
issued an appeal to all governments
urging them to participate in a con
ference at Geneva, Aug. 18, in order
to study ways and means of relieving,
the famine stricken areas of Russia.
Praise for the initiative already
taken by Herbert Hoover, chaiwnan
of the American Relief administra
tion was expressed.
WHERE TO FIND
The Big Features of
THE SUNDAY BEE
"The Infernal Machine," by F.
Britten Austin, a Blue Ribbon Short
Story Part 4, page 2.
"Wonder Planes," by Sterling
Heilig, a Startling . Account of
Aerial Progress Part 4, page 1.
"When Nebraska Legislators
Toted Guns," by Victor B. Smith
Part 3, page 6.
Exclusive Photos of, Ku Klux
Klan Initiation Part 1, page 6.
"The Bogie of Fear," Arthur
Somers Roche Serial Part 4,
page 3.
"The Terror," Another cf the
Series "The World's Greatest De
tective Cases" Part 4, page 1.
Sports News and Features
Part 3, pages 1 and 2.
Society and News for Women
Part 2. 1
Omaha Swimming Pools Roto
gravure Section, page 1.
"The Married Life of Helen and
Warren" Part 2, page 6.
"Prince of Poets Leaves Paris for
U. S. Tour" Part 3, page 5.
"Synchronizing Music to Films,"
by Jack Lee Part 4, page 6.
Editorial Comment Part 4, page
4.
Scottsbluff Photos Rotogravure
Section, page 3.
For the Children Part 4, page 5.
"How to be a Movie Cop," by
James J. Montague Part 4, page 7.
Senate lient
In Dark On
Peace Pact
Members Express Curiosity
And Some Impatience Re
garding Negotiations for
Treaty With Germany.
Democrats Plan Action
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Um Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 6. Curiosity,
accompanied by some impatience, is
being manifested by the senate con
cerning the new treaty of peace with
Germany which, according to dis
patches from Berlin, is now in the
final process of negotiation.
So far the senate has been kept
completely in the dark about the
negotiations. Although members of
the foreign relations committee
keep an ever watchful eye on the
administration's moves in interna
tional diplomacy, their ignorance
concerning the treaty-making , now
in progress, is paralleled only by
their inability to obtain information
while the Versailles treaty was be
ing framed. The only light they
have been able to get has come
through newspaper dispatches and
this has been dimmed by adminis
tration declarations that they are
wide of the mark. ' .
Democratic senators may be ex
pected at an early date to begin
prying under the veil of secrecy at
tending the negotiations, and it
would not be surprising if some re
publicans joined with them in ask
ing questions about the progress of
the treaty-making.
Plan to Make "Capital."
There is also a strong likelihood
that the democrats will take occa
sion to remind the republicans that
one of the principal complaints they
made against, the Wilson administra
tion during 'the campaign was its
refusal to take the senate into its
confidence while the building of the
Versailles pact was in progress. The
democrats, it is reliably reported,
are planning to make all the capital
they can out of the alleged "dead
l. parallel."
Inquiries at the State department
concerning relations with Germany
elicit no information beyond the bare
admission that Ellis Loring Dresel,
American commissioner at Berlin, is
engaged in deliberations with the
authorities at Berlin.
Most of the irreconcilables, al
though they would be better pleased
ii they were kept more closely in
formed., of developments, were, grati
fied to hear that the .administration
is actually engaged in the negotia
tion of a new treaty, because they
regard such action as convincing
proof that the Versailles pact is
scrapped forever, so far as the
United States is concerned. , The
"mild reservationists," however, are
not entirely convinced that the Ver
sailles treaty is to be scrapped alto
gether. Canvassing Attitude.
Notwithstanding the darkness
which has enshrouded the negotia
tions to date, it is regarded as a
foregone conclusion that President
Harding will not submit tne new
treaty to the senate until he has
thoroughly canvassed senatorial
opinion and assured himself that the
pact will command the necessary
two-thirds majority.
In response to the clamor in the
senate for withdrawing the troops
from Germany, word has reached the
capitol from the inner recesses of
the administration that President
Harding and Secrettry of State
Hughes are desirous of keeping the
American forces in Germany until
the peace settlement is finally con
cluded. Daughter of Omaha
Commission Man Dies
At Lake Okiboji, la.
Violet Trimble, 22, daughter of
Charles G. Trimble, 4643 Dodge
street, Omaha commission man,
died Saturday at Lake Okoboji, la.,
where she has been spending the
summer, according to a telegram
received by Mr. Trimble.
He left immediately for Lake
Okoboji.
Miss Trimble has been an invalid
for years. In company with her
mother and two sisters she left
Omaha this spring for the Iowa re
sort. The telegram' does not give de
tails of her death.
Scores Search for Body
Of Missing Insurance Man
Ogden, Utah, Aug. 6. Spurred
on by offer of a $500 reward, scores
were searching for the body of Ro
land R. Mason, Idaho Falls, insur
ance man, whose wrecked automo
bile was found late Tuesday night
in Weber river below a 30-foot em
bankment. The search has been ex
tended to a deep irrigation canal
near the scene of the wreck, some
believing that if Mason was mur
dered his body was thrown into that
canal.
Moderately Fair Weather
Is Forecast for This Week
Washington, Aug. 6. Weather
predictions for the week beginnig
Monday are: Upper Mississippi and
lower Missouri valleys, moderate
temperature and generally fair.
Plan Custer Fair
Broken Bow, Neb., Aug. 6.
(Special.) Activities are now in
progress for the staging of the Cus
ter county fair, which opens August
23 and continues four days. The at
tractions secured for this year's fair
by President Purcell and Secretary
Ford are better than ever. About
$3,000 is hung up for speed events.
Senate Plans Probe
Of Movie Industry
Washington, Aug. 6. The senate
wants to know how badly the Ameri
can moving picture industry is suf
fering from foreign competition.
Without debate it adopted a reso
lution offered by Senator Wadsworth
of New York, asking Secretary of
Commerce Hoover to supply, all the
facts about the importation of for
eign films.
Senator Wadsworth said he had
received frequent reports that movie
producers had been severely hit by
the importation of films from Ger
many, France and other countries
since the war and that they were
having difficulty meeting competition
from across the Atlantic, where the
high cost of stars is not so high as
in the United states.
Seeks Divorce
From Attorney
At Broken Bow
Omaha Woman, Claiming to
Be Common-Law Wife,
Say Lawyer Broke Prom
ise to Marry Her.
Edwin E. Squires, member of the
law firm , of Sullivan, 'Squires &
Johnson, Broken Bow, Neb., was
sued for divorce and &!5,UU0 ali
mony by Floy E. Squires of Omaha,
in district court here yesterday. She
says she is his Common law wife
and that he has refused to make
good his promise to go through a
regular marriage ceremony.
Ihe plaintiff says Squires is
worth $150,000.
J. B. .Randolph, her attorney here,
was reluctant to give out informa
tion yesterday, but stated that Mr.
Squires is one of the best known at
torneys in the state and that his en
gagement to marry a singer in the
east was recently announced in the
Broken Bow papers. .
He said that Squires was attorney
for the woman in getting a divorce
for her about seven years ago.
She says that on January 9, 1915,
"in consideration of love and af
fection" she and Squires, who was
a widower with one daughter, took
each other as husband and wife.
They kept the common law mar
riage quiet "because of the feelings
of his daughter and mother," says
the petition. .
On December 8, 1920, he left her,
she says. He had explained to her
that the common law wedding was
just as valid as any other, she says,
and had promised to marry her in
the regular way. He asked her, she
says, to say nothing about , their
marriage . because of his 'daughter
and mother. .'-'' -,
She turned over to her attorney
a large number of letters alleged to
have been written by Squires to her.
Boy Killed by Fall
Through Skylight
Neck Broken in 25-Foot Drop
From Viaduct at Bur
lington Station.
Charles Lorenzo, 9, Fifth and
Pine streets, was almost instantly
killed at 4 yesterday afternoon when
he fell 25 feet through a skylight
at the Burlington station.
The lad suffered a fractured skull
and a broken neck. He was playing
on the Tenth street viaduct with
Fred Glato, 13, Thirteenth and Pa
cific streets, when the accident oc
curred. Young Glato had thrown
Lorenzo's cap over the viaduct rail
ing. Charles had leaned over the
railing to reach for it when he lost
his hold and fell through a skylight
of the structure along the baggage
way.
The lad died almost immediately.
Young Glato was heartbroken
and crying bitterly when police ar
rived at the scene.
George "Doc" Markert
Meat Inspector, Dies
George Markert, 50, familiarly
known as "Doc" Markert, 4321
South Twenty-second street, died
suddenly Friday night in South Side
General hospital. He had been a
rheat inspector for the bureau of an
imal industry, stationed at Armour
& Company packing plant, for 25
years. He was a widower and is
survived only by a sister in East
St. Louis, 111. His body will be
taken to St. Louis for burial.
South Dakota Bank Robhed;
Cashier Locked in Vault
Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 6. Two un
masked bandits, driving an automo
bile believed to have' been stolen in
Mitchell last night, held up Ellery
J. Branch, cashier of the Farmers'
State Bank of Fulton today, and es
caped with between $1,000 and $1,500.
Branch was alone in the bank at the
time.
Branch was forced at the point of
a gun to open the safe for the rob
bers, who overlooked the Liberty
bonds and $1,600 in one compart
ment of the safe. Before leaving they
locked Branch in the vault, where he
was found by customers a few min
utes later and released.
Arrest Pawnee City Man
And Seize Booze Still
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 6. (Special
Telegram.) Deputy State Sheriff
Fulton arrested Oscar Jones at his
home 14 miles northwest of Pawnee
City and confiscated a complete still.
The officer says that Jones has con
fessed to furnishing booze to Clark
Ottinger and "Bill" Kennedy of this
city, whose trials are to be held
here today. Fulton also reports the
arrest of Ed Larey and the finding
of a stil,1
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Kearney Youth
Author of Eight
Forged Checks
Girl Bride Stands By Husband
Following His Confession
Had Purchased Garage
And Home With Checks.
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 6. (Spe
cial) L. D. Springer of Kearney,
held here on charges of forgery in
connection with passing or trying to
pass forged checks, has given the
county attorney a signed statement,
admitting his guilt. He states he
was the author of eight checks,
which he disposed of, or tried to
cash, in Fremont, Lincoln, Pawnee
City and Tecumseh. ;
He came here a week .ago with
his young wife and stopped at a
local hotel. Springer gave the name
of John H. Davis and contracted to
buy a local garage and the residence
property of the owner. Two checks
were offered at Tecumseh banks, one
for $300 and one for $250, which
Springer tried to deposit and then
check from. He did not succeed.
Ke gave the hotel keeper a forged
check.
At first Springer told conflicting
stories, but finally he admitted his
guilt.. He waived a preliminary
hearing in the county , court, was
placed under $1,000 bond to appear
in the district court, in default of
which he went to.jail. Springers
parents live at Kearney, his father
being L. J. bpringer. ihe motner
came to Tecumseh and stated her
son was not yet 18 years of age,
whereas he had given his age as 23
years.
Sorineer's wife accompanied his
mother home to Kearney. She was
advised to have her marriage to the
youth annulled, but did not seem
so disoosed. ' 1 hey were married in
June, previous to which they attend
ed school in Kearney ana tne state
normal at that place.
Beatrice Men Arraigned
On Bootlegging Charge
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 6. -(Special
Telegram.) Five residents of Beat
rice, "Bill" Kennedy, Clark Ottinger,
Tom Hawkins, West Day and
Frank Vickers, were arraigned be
fore County Judge Messmore for
violating the Volstead act in va
rious ways. Kennedy, Ottinger and
Day were each fined $100 and costs,
Hawkins $10 and costs. All appeal
ed the district court.
The case against Vickers was con
tinued to August 19. The men were
released on bond. The'r arrest is
the result of raids made the last
week by Sheriff Emery and Chief
of Police Dillow and their deputies,
who have been active in trying to
rid the city and county of boot
leggers. Buenos Aires Confronted
By Grave Political Crisis
Buenos Aires, Aug. 6. President
Yriogen is confronted by a sudden
political crisis, which seems to
threaten him with the loss of the
control of congress and at the be
ginning of the campaign for election
of a new president next March. Both
houses ot congress lhursday and
yesterday, were without a quorum.
The trouble grew out of a demand
on the .-' resident by a majority of
congress for an explanation of his
failure to apply the provisions of the
homestead law, enacted last year.
Political observers see in the situ
ation the first indication of the con
summation of plans for the combi
nation of socialists and cotuervists
to effect the defeat of the president.
Virginia Publisher Dies
Danville, Va., Aug. 6. Representa
tive R. A. James, 62, of the Fifth
Virginia district died today of heart
failure. He was publisher of the
Danville Register and Danville Bee.
idy Loves a Fat Man
Germans Gaining
Entrance to U.S.
Under Seamen Act
Hundreds of Aliens Ship at
One Cent a Month
Desert Ships at Amer
ican Ports.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be. Leased Wire.
Washington. Aue. 6. With Ger
mans shipping: as seamen at 1 cent
a month on American bound vessel?
and deserting at every point," exist
ing laws to the contrary notwith
standing, the statement of Secretary
of Labor Davis in regard to this
and other violations of the immi
gration law under cover of the sea
mans act brings to the front once
more a condition against which im
migration officials have heretofore
protested in vain.
The number of deserting seamen
,in 1920, according to the report of
the commissioner general or immi
gration, was 13,543 as against 3,888
in 1919, in spite of the fact that
22,738 vessels were boarded by im
migration Oificials, 288,710 identifi
cation cards issued and 4,775 seamen
afflicted with loathsome or con
tagious diseases removed to hospi
tals for treatment, or permitted to
depart foreign on the vessels on
which they came.
Formerly a deserting seaman was
subject to arrest and return to his
ship on application of the shipmaster
to the port authorities. Abrogation
cf this provision in the treaties be
tween the United Staes and foreign
countries, following the passage of
the La Follette seamans act, was
promptly taken advantage of.
That registration alone is ineffec
tive, either in the case of alien sea
men or other aliens, is demonstrated
by the fact that in spite of registra
tion aocompanied by photographs,
thp number of seamen who entered
the country in violation of law of
la tsyear, exceeded by 10,155 the
number who remained in the coun
try unlawfully after deserting in 1919.
Plan Proposed for
Resumption of Car
Service in Des Moines
Des Moines, la., Aug. 6. A tenta
tive proposal that street car service
be resumed here with a 7-cent fare
and elimination of busses was made
today by business m-jn at the con
ference with street railway officials,
provided certain operating economies
were made.
F. C. Chambers,, the receiver, who
was ordered to suspend service by
Federal Judge Wade under fore
closure proceedings, agreed to put
the suggestion before the bondhold
ers' committee.
Freight Rates on Soft Coal
To Nebraska Prejudicial
Washington, Aug. 6. Freight
rates on bituminous coal from Illi
nois mines and from the so-called
inner group of mines to destinations
in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minne
sota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebras
ka, Kansas, North Dakota, South
Dakota and Missouri were found to
day by the Interstate Commerce
commission to be unduly prejudicial
in many cases when compared to
rates from other points of origin to
the same destinations.
State Board Refuses to
Exchange $300,000 Bonds
Lincoln, Aug. 6. (Special Tele
gram.) The state board of educa
tional lands formally refused today
the offer of E. F. Pettis of the Om
aha Trust company to exchange
$300,000 worth of Massacnusctt
state bonds held by the state for a
l;ke amount of Nebraska municipal
bods held by the trust company.
Man Killed In
Auto Collison
At Grand Island
Contractor's Skull Fractured
When Hurled to Sidewalk
In Crash at Street
Intersection.
Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 6.
(Special Telegram.) William Soth
aian, building contractor and a mem
ber of the firm of Goehring-Sothman
company, was instantly killed" late
this afternoon, when his run
about collided with City Attorney
Harold Prince's sedan car at the
corner of Cleburn and First streets.
Mr. Prince was not injured, nor
was his car seriously damaged.
Mr. Sothman's car was badly
wrecked and the impact was such as
to throw the occupant across the
parking to the cement sidewalk. The
fall fractured the skulL
Mr. Sothman was approaching the
intersection from the south. Mr.
Prince was driving toward his home
from the east. Witnesses say that
both cars were going at a fairly
good speed, that they collided at
about the center of the intersection,
and. that both were hurled or
swerved to the north side of the
street, although the heavier sedan
was not as severely damaged as was
the lighter car.
Mr. Sothman had been a resident
of the city practically all his life.
He leaves a wife and two children,
his mother and a brother and sev
eral sisters. His youngest child is
only a week old.
Two Arrested When
Clock Strikes One in
Three-Cornered Row
An alarm clock at the home of
William Brown, 524 North Seven
teenth street, went off unexpectedly
Saturday afternoon.
It struck Frank Neal, who claims
the same address for his home, so
hard that a police surgeon was
called to bring Frank's forehead
back to normalcy.
The altercation arose when Mrs.
Viola Neal, mother of Frank, sought
to eject Brown from the place. Mrs.
Neal claimed she bought the house.
William declined to move so soon
and picked up an alarm clock in self
defense, he said. The clock struck
Frank.
Brown was arrested for disturb
ing the peace. Neal was held as
complaining witness. '
Crossing Crash Victim
Recovering From Hurts
Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 6. W.
L. Harrett, local sewing machine
manager, injured late yesterday in
a railroad crossing accident, is re
covering from his dazed condition
and the minor cuts and bruises re
ceived. Mrs. Emma Harrett, sister-in-law
whose little son was in the car with
the uncle and was killed instantly,
has arrived from Lincoln, where she
fs employed at the Victoria hotel.
The funeral of the little boy will be
Held bunday afternoon at 4, the
burial being here beside the body
of his father, who died in Lincoln
18 months ago after an operation.
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Law Dodged
In Sales Of
20 Stocks
Securities Bureau Head GiveJ
Out List Which Escaped
Jurisdiction of State
With Schemes.
Deny 136 Applications
Lincoln, Aug. 6. (Special.) Sale
of stock in 20 companies which have
operated in Nebraska and which tret
listed by state authorities as "pro
motion schemes" escaped through
technicalities or other means from
jurisdiction of the state authorities,
according to a statement issued to
day by Guy T. Touvelle, head of the
state bureau of securities.
Included in this list arc the Co
lonial Timber and Coal company,
Guaranty Securities company, Bank
ers' Realty Investment company,
Skinner Packing company, North
American Hotel company and the
Nebraska Hotel company. Others
are: Kansas-Oklahoma Consolidated
Oil company. Midland Packing com
pany, Merriam Potash Products
company, Missouri Valley Cattle
Loan company, Nebraska Building
and Investment company, Omaha
Iron company, Omaha Potash and
Refining company, Perfection
Cooker company, M. F. Shafer com
pany, Allied Stores. Brictson Manu
facturing company, Central Steel
and Lock Nut corporation, Douglas
Motors and Great Western Tire and
Truck company.
Law Violated, Hart Says.
J. E. Hart, secretary of the de
partment of trade and commerce, in
a statement issued this week, de
clared that bonds of the Colonial
Timber and Coal company were i
handled by the defunct Pioneer
State bank of Omaha against the law
of the state and in contradiction of
orders from the State department.
ihe Bankers- Realty and Invest
ment company began extensive op
erations in Nebraska in 1915, after
Willis E. Reed, former attorney gen
eral, gave an opinion to the state
railway commission, which at that
time had jurisdiction over stock sale
permits, to the effect that the com
pany was exempt from the law, ac
cording to a statement today by
Touvelle.
Touvelle also drags the former at-
torney general before the public by
charging that he sponsored and
headed the Gulf Coast Development
company.
State Bureau's Data.
Touvelle, ui his statement, irivef -
the exact facts and figures of the"
activities of the state bureau of Se
curities in the handling of stock sell
ing companies from its incipiency on
(Torn to Far Two, Column Two.)
Bodies of Four
Found in House
Man Kills Mother, Wife and
Stepdaughter and Commits
Suicide, Police Say.
Corbin, Ky.. Aug. 6. Richard
McHargue, 45, a machinist, his
mother and wife were found dead
in their home near here today with
the partly incinerated body of his
stepdaughter, Thelma Atkins, 14.
The indications are. the authori
ties announced, that McHargue,
who had been on a prolonged spree,
shot his mother, beat his wife to.
death with a club and after slaying
the girl and building a fire around
her, shot and killed himself.
The bodies .were found by a
neighbor. Blood-stained bed cloth
ing indicated, the authorities be
lieve, that McHargue slew the mem
bers of his family while they slept.
The women were lying near their
beds, and the torso of the girl was
in a heap ot charred wood m the
center of the room.
U. S. Treasury Perfects
Gold Measure Machine
Washington. Autr. 6. Perfection
by the bureau of standards of a
spectroscopic analysis of gold has
given the United States treasury a
method which, it is declared, will
measure the fineness of the metal
more accurately than one part in
a million."
The method is described as con
sisting of "small electric sparks
leaping between two sticks of gold,"
photographs of the sparks taken
through a "difraction grating,"
showing at once the presence of the
most niinuate particles of baser
metals.
Tests just completed showed that
the 1,000 "fine gold" of the San
Francisco mint, the highest grade,
was only 99.997 pure. Specially
minted samples were passed by the
new device as 99.999 per cent pure.
$500,000 Needed to Build
Homes for Puehlo Homeless
Washington, Aug. 6. An estimate
of $500,000 was made today by the
American Red Cross as necessary for
adequate relief work in Pueblo, Colo.,
although that would not cover a
building program for homeless flood
sufferers. The announcement said
?;50,000 had been subscribed by
various Red Cross chapters and the
public in response to President Hard
ing's appeal.
Will Try Agent
Beatrice. Neb.. Aug. 6. (Special.)
F. Taylor. Unadilla Burlington
station agent who was arrested a
few days ago for being short in his
accounts, was taken from Wymore
to Nebraska City at which dace
he will have his hearing. i
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