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    TWEJ ttW. UMAtlA, OATUKUAX, AUGUST 1J, 11)21.
Mid-West States
Combed for Clue
In Kennedy Case
Careers of Mrs. Obenchain
and Burck Investigated to
Find Relations Wdth Shot
gun Victim.
Loi Angeles, Aug. 12. The motive
that impelled the slaying of John B.
Kennedy, for whose murder Arthur
C. Burch and Mrs. Madelynne Obfn
chain were indicted here yesterday
engrossed the attention of the dis
trict attorney and sheriff and their
assistants today,
District Attorney Woolwin said
that he helicved all the essentiaf ele
ments of proof in the case wire now
on hand but that the establishing of
a definite motive for the shooting
would strengthen the case ma
terially. Investigate Careen
To aid in this phase of the case an
inquiry into the former relation ot
Kennedy, Burch, Mrs. Obenchain
and possibly other persons at Evans
ton, 111., and points in the midwest'
was authorized today. Investigators
were set to work at Evanston and
elsewhere for the purpose of delving
into the history of those implicated
in the case, in the belief that a bet
ter understanding of their past ca
reers would help in developing the
motive for the shooting.
Mrs. Obenchain was reported weak
and nervous today and was under
the constant care of a jail matron.
Pnrrh tnflitltnins hi attitude ' of
jocularity but his face was. deeply
graven with lines that were not
there when he was taken into cus
tody less than a week ago..
To Seek Death Penalty ,
It was learned today at the: dis
trict attorney's office- that when the
case comes to trial, the death penalty
will be sought against Burch. No
intimation of the attitude of the dis
trist attorney in regard to the pen
alty of Mrs. Obenchain was given.
In Calitqrnia, the jury in a first
degree murder case may recommend
the death penalty or may recommend
life imprisonment.
The discovery of the butt of a
doubled-barreled shotgun in the Pa
cific ocean near Santa Monica was
announced today by sheriff's officers
investigating the slaying of Ken
nedy. , . - ' .
The butt was found last Saturday
by a camper, it was announced. It
was lying on the beach after the
surf had receded.
Metal Partt Busted.
The camper, William Wylie,- of
Los Angelesj said' he did not learn
until yesterday a shotgun was being
sought in connection with the Ken
nedy slaying. Then, he turned . the
butt over to a local newspaper wWc,h
had offered a reward for discovery
of the weapon used in the slaying.
The newspaper had Tsent. it to the
sheriff's office late last night:"
At the sheriff's office, it was stat
ed, the butt was from a 12-gauge
shotgun. Two 12-gauge cartridges
--were found near the Kennedy cot
tage, where the young broker was
found last Friday night with the
back of his head blown off.
The metal parts of the gun butt
were rusted when turned over to the
sheriff, but - Wylie; it was declared
said they were bright and shiny
when he found the butt.'-";
Found Where Expected
The discovery, Wylie said, was
made near a point. where the-; divers
employed by District Attorney
Woolwine had been searching for the
missing weapon. .
The district attorney selected this
point because the mileage register
of the speedometer of an automobile,
ksid to have been' rented Friday by
Arthur C. Burch indicted for the al
leged murder, showed the car. trav
eled just far enough, to rcaclrn. - -
The indictments were returned De
fore Judge Sidney Reeves of the
superior court, who had been re
quested by the grand jury to remain
at the hall of records to receive a
report after his usual court hours.
Judge Reeves took the bepch a few
minutes later and remanaea oom
prisoners to the county jail, to be,
arraigned Monday.
' Chicago, Aug. 12. Ralph R.
Obenchain is speeding to Los An
geles, hoping that he ,may be of use
to his former wife,-, Madelynne- Con
nor Obenchain, held in connection
with the murder of John B. Kennedy.
-The Rev. W. A. Burch of Evanston
is also enroute to the coist. He is
going to his son, Arthur, who. is held
with Mrs. Obenchain.
Madelynne divorced Oberchain last
year that she might marry Kennedy,
whom she loved. She brought'
against her husband a charge of in
fidelity, which she now admits is un
true. He did not deny "it. He wanted
her to get the divorce, for he thought
, only of her happiness. The stigma
on his name did not matter.
Letters Published.
' Kennedy was killed a week ago on
the steps of his summer home in
Beverly Glen. Madelynne was with
him. Since then accusation has
linked her name with that of Burch.
Her love letters to Kennedy have
been published in newspapers all over
the land.
And yet, at her word, Obenchain
dropped everything, packed up as
quickly as he could and-caught the
first train that would take him to
her. .
He had waited for a message from
her. He did. not want to rush out
there until he knew he was wanted.
He did not intend to be in the way.
He thought perhaps he might compli
cate matters, that he might do more
good by staying home.
Yesterday he got the telegram
from her: : ' .
"Wire me at1 county jail if you
can come at once. Will be indicted
in morning. Don't worry. Made,
lynnc." t
Believes Her Innocent.
"I am not going just because I
promised," Obenchain said. "I am
going because I believe she is inno
cent and Decease I may be able to
help her. There will be no conflict
of authority between her attorney
and mer The fact that I, too, am a
' lawyer means nothing in this re
gard." . .
Tht oil Ohrnrhain it a man
ot few words. He is not sentimental
in his speech. He has no fine
uhxases to convey his -feelings g to
Bigamous
By MARGERY REX.
International Kewt Service.
New Haven, Conn., Aug. 12. The
Nutmeg state will no longer provide
the spoke of life especially the life
matrimonial that variety is supposed
to lend.
Connecticut has abolished the big
amous marriage which its statutes
have heretofore declarer to be no
bigamy unless the contracting parties
live together in the state. .
Governor Lake has signed a bill
amending the marriage and bigamy
laws in his state, where so many dis
satisfied husbands fled to take an
other partner leaving their perfectly
good wives at home.
Little was known of this legal
ldophole for marital monotony 'until
Vice Chancellor Joseph Merrilt Lane
of New Jersey took advantage of
it in September, 1919 to have two
wives and' yet escape imprisonment.
Since that time we have had the
cases of the broker, Herbert -Thornton
Andrews of Jersey City, and the
eloping church treasurer, Shubel K.
Siver of New Brunswick.
Andrews the Bravest.
Of all these Andrews was bravest.
He not only ran away from his first
wife to marry a younger and more
comely woman, but he brought the
second .wife, Esther Tatnal! Andrews,
back home to dwell in peace and
unity with his first choice, Mrs.
Maud Andrews. t-
Not until the neighbors' began to
take notice and complain about the
plural matrimony of Andrews was
any -action taken
After the publicity and criticism
that followed, wife No. 2 fled. Mrs.
Maud Andrews held the citadel,, and
it was reported that a reconciliation
had taken place.
But soon came the nsw.that Esther
conceal them. Published interviews
with him in which he was quoted as
saying "I loved her "then, I love her
now," he denies.
But he has not denied his affec
tions. Since he left Madelynne a
year ago last December he has never
been seen in the company of any
woman.
: Two Years Ago.
The lasttime Obenchain went to
Los Angeles it was to marry
Madelynne. It was a little more than
two years ago. They were married
January I, 1919. They lived to
gether until April, when Obenchain
came home. Madelynne came home
in November, and it was only a few
weeks until they separated.
And while Obenchain was pre
paring for the trip, Madelynne, in the
jail, was sobbing because she could
rot attend the funeral of "mv Bel-
ton" and District Attorney Thomas
Jee Woolwine was asking her in
dictment and that of Burch.
Nearly Quarter Million
Paid to Stock Salesmen
Tar to Inice Two, Column One.)
who sold stock after July 19, 1919,
did not know that it was against the
law as the bureau of spmritiee tlf
with officers of the company and did
nor notuy tne stock-selling agents.
Commissions Received. j
Following are the nampe nf tJinco
receiving' commissioners and the
amount oi tne commissions as listed
by Barkley in his report to the Lan
caster county district court:
Calvin Burke, Lincoln, $104.50;
Dora Brvan. Lincoln. $1;4;- Wil.
liam Brunkcw, Western, $210.55; M.
A. Berry, Bethany, $163.50; F. W.
Bryan, Lincoln, $3,201.79; Ed C.
Bute, Plymouth, $J3.50; J. A. Bing
ham, Lincoln, $3,583.93: F. H. Beers,
Lincoln, $Z0.9U; S. E. Backlund,
Stromsburg, $30.83; S. P. Baer,
Pawnee City, $3.31; J. C. Buttomer,
Milford, $612.54; J, W. Buchanan,
Unadilla, $3; J. F. Berggren, , Wa
hoo, $1,164.27; N. F. Babson, Col
lege View, $7,622.56; J. Z. Briscoe,
Springfield, Ore., $6.36; F. A. Bur
ling, Edgar, $53; Zona- Berg, Super
ior, stfmiii r ; ridvt t;.
coin, $1,870; .G. C. Crane, Nebraska
City, $I61.Z5; J. K. Carrothern, Lin
coln, $9,466.29: Ella R. Conn, Pana
ma. $54.1 i-'T. T Trnhv Srnttshliiff
$2,465; G. P. Crandall, Lincoln, $1,-
-suu.U; f. t. Lranwell, Minden,
$15.36; J. P. Craig, Lincoln, $7,
260.17; D. F. DeLap, Norris City,
III., $14.54; J. J. Dinneen, Exeter,
$319.03; B. H. Davis, Syracuse,
$786.90; J. W. DicTcson, Amboy,
Minn., $2.15; Dr. DeBcll, Long Pine,
$34; Peter Deidel, Lincoln, $437;
William Dachtler, Milford, $27; E.
E. Ely, Lincoln, $358.40; S. H. O.
England, University Place. $281.78;
L. F. Fisher. Edgar,. $10.60; W. H.
Frost, -Lincoln, $341.22; F. E. Gor
don, Lincoln, $4,926.55; Mrs. F. E.
Griggs, Raymond, $4,240.93; R. G.
Grant, Raymond, $399.67; E. O.
Gregg, $1,369.50; August Gross,
Western. $18.18; J. H. Gore, Lin
coln, $11,862.40; E. C Graves, Ray
mond, $106; Charles Granike, Up
Marriages Are
and Herbert could never be parted
and that after a divorce was pro
cured they would marry again.
Alas for such plans 1 Andrews was
threatened with arrest, not only for
bigamy, but also on perjury charges.
Andrews, of course, in applying in
Connecticut for a license had said he
was single at the time.
Tolerated Wife No. 2.
And all the while Mrs. Maud An
drews declared she tolerated condi
tions while wife No. 2 lived under
her roof only for the sake of her
children.
Merritt Lane had no such fears of
prosecution. He was free from fear
of a bigamy charge. He cannot ever
be charged with perjury for his biga
mous marriage, because the facts in
the case were sworn to by Grace
Hcrcht, whom he married in this
fashion, and not by him.
And when Grace Hercht swore he
was single she" believed it to be the
truth, so she has said since.
Mrs. Hercht-Lane also swore that
they never lived together in Con
necticut or anywhere else after the
marriage. But Prosecuting Attorney
Kenealy of Stamford, now a state
senator, was ready to draw up a bill
amending the bigamy statute so as to
make marriage , of already married
persons bigamy whether thecon
tracting parties lived together after
ward or not.' " " L
Mother Seizes Opportunity.
Meanwhile the chance for another
try at marital happiness was not
lost upon such anxious observers
as Shubel K. Siver, church treasur
er of New Brunswick, JN., J., and
Adelaide Gouin, waitress, of ' Perth
Amboy. Siver had a wife and sev
eral children. He is over 40. But
he was strongly attracted to the
young waitress, a girl of 17.
Funds are necessary even for big-
land, $6; Pearl Greenwood, Lincoln,
$113.10; H. A. Gordon, Lincoln, $1,
381.09; John Heilman. West Point,
$20.89; T. C. Hilton, Blair, $32.25;
D. R. Hendricks, $13,186.91; L. S.
Hurst, Bethany, $2,291.09; Mattie
Hansen, Wahoo, $159.12; William
Hudson, Eagle, $318.20; D. B.
Hunter, Lincoln, $11100; Mary
Hintz, F. J. Jahnel, Blair, $8,
034 46: P. N. Johnson, Norman,
$301.49; J. R. Johnson, Lincoln,
$1,367.50; L. V. Jones, Peru. $237.60;
Feme Johnson, Lincoln, $356.75; B.
F. Jones, Lincoln. $656; E. T. Jef
frie, Harvard, $615.94: Mrs. L. R.
Kesterson, .Superior, (deceased) $8,
751.51; W. Kru, Sprague, $1,413.70;
J. L. Laughtonschlager, Lincoln,
$1,348.36; D. L. Laughtenheiser,
Lincoln, $158; W. E. Laughten
schlager, Western, $30.45; H. L. La
meyer, Lincoln, $102.11; Luther,
Geneser, 111., $7,207.09; William
Lemke, Walton, $665.65; E. C. Mc
Pherren, Lincoln, $1,732.15; August
Mever, Blair. $251; M. J. Mohlman,
Beatrice, $4,955.71; Victor Meljnck,
Touhv, $33: George McPherson,
Linco'ln, $7,491.03; J. E. Moore. Col
lege View. $1,329.34;. J. M. Moore,
Lincoln, $12,856.16; W. Mumma,
Lincoln, $1,282.90; A. O. Mumma,
Lincoln, $4,336.35; R. H. Martin,
Lincoln, $200; J. W. Pillsbury. (de
ceased) $1,297.25;. W.- A; Prindle,
Omaha, $1,374.36; N. M. Parsons,
Lincoln, $6,812.11; C. R. Roney,
Lincoln, $3,496.36; Daniels Rice,
Linccln. $14,204.14; Ed Reeves, By
ron, $573.55; William J. Stewart,
Omaha, $13,111.07; John Schroder,
Bethany, $1,122.86; H. Schmidt,
Western, $1,119.15; W. J. Shaw,
Lincoln. $1,370.62; G- C. Stone, Au
burn, $1,471.23; Myrtle Stearns, Lin
coln, $3,070.34; Joseph Sukovaty,
Swanton, $6,414.09; F. J. Wilsey,
Milford, $1,911.30; A. A. Wilsey,
Beaver Crossing, $1,104.80; B. H.
Walters, Lincoln, $1,632.45; A. M.
Walradt. Bethany, $921.68.
Plan Traffic Campaign
Columbus, Neb.,' Aug. 12. A
more rigid enforcement of the city s
traffic and parking ordinances is
to be inaugurated, by the police de
partment Warning cards have been
printed and the policy is to be adop
ted of arresting violators after a
single notice. . .
To Lay Cornerstone
Alliance, Neb., Aug. 12. The, cor
nerstone of the new Methodist Epis
copal church here will be laid Sun
day, August' 28. Ceremonies will
be conducted by the local order of
Masons. A public program will at
tend the laying of the stone.
Twins Weighing 11
And 17 Ounces Born
In Louisiana Town
Bogalusa, La., Aug. 12. Billie and
Tack Adams, twins. of Mr, and Mrs.
William.- Adams, are believed by
local doctors to be, the smallest liv
ing folk. Billie weighed 11 ounces at
birth and Jack 17. Mrs. Adams' six
other children are of normal size.
The midgets appear to be in perfect
health.
Abolished
amous marriages. Siver had little
money of his own. But for the
sake of the waitress he left home
and family and robbed the cashbox
of his church to the sum of $6,000 in
Liberty bonds.
With the Liberty bonds in his
pocket, Adele at his side, both bound
together in bigamy, . they sought
freedom and happiness in the Maine
woods.
Investigators caught up with
them, however, and brought Siver
and his bigamous bride back to civ
ilization and court.
Siver is now in prison for an inde
terminate sentence of from two
to seven years. His wife has sued for
divorce, naming No. 2 as corespon
dent. .
Lane is free, but is no longer vice
chancellor of New Jersey and has
suffered undoubtedly from the ex
posure of his private life.
Andrews is still at large, since the
authorities in Connecticut thought it
might be foolish to prosecute him
under the prevailing statutes. And
Mrs. Andrews, No. 1, has threaten
ed to divorce him.
How many more men or women
have taken their troubles to Con
necticut for solution is not known.
Other cases may crop up later on.
Many such marriages may have been
affected which may not become
known for a long time. J ' j
But now the loophole .is closed,
with the state's action in amending
its laws. The bill signed includes
the words, "Who shall live together"
in the portion of the statute which
bears upon residents of other states
who married in Connecticut
At last the farce of the lawfully
bigamous marriage is ended. Con
necticut, as one of the oldest states
in the union, will be freed of the
reproach which such legal inconsist
encies have brought to it.
Silesia Question Up
To League of Nations
(Continued From Tage One.)'
proposal was abandoned in favor of
the British premier's suggestion that
the matter be left to the league. .
To Continue Agenda.
"The supreme council has decided
to refer the upper Silcsian question
to the league of nations," said Mr.
Lloyd George upon leaving the coun
cil meeting shortly before noon to
take the train for London. "Our de
cision was unanimous."
"Did Ambassador Harvey vote?
inquired a correspondent.
"I said," replied the premier, "that
our decision was unanimous."
Mr. Lloyd George left Paris for
London on the regular noon train.
It was understood the supreme
council would continue the agenda,
especially the discussion of relief to
Russia, during the absence of Mr.
Lloyd George.
opinion today that there would be
... trnKi in tWp Tinner Silesian dis
trict provided the high commission-,
ers were instructed io snuw B.nv.i
impartiality. .
The council at its sessions early
this week decided the sending of
reinforcements was not necessary
for the time being.
Early Report Asked.
In turning over the entire question
to the league, the supreme council
has requested the league's council
'to consider the matter as of the ut
most urgency and to make its report
at the earliest time possible."
Just before Mr. Lloyd George left
the council, Solicitor General Pol
lock and Commander Talcott, the
British delegates to the trials of
persons accused of war crimes which
were tried by the German court at
Leipsic, appeared before the 'council
and presented their report, advocat
ing ; dropping further inquiry into
the matter.
The council requested allied rep
resentatives to make reports to their
governments what attitude they
judged the allied countries should
adopt toward the German court.
Would Protect Game
Chambers, Neb., Aug. 12. The
South Holt County Game Protec
tive association is the name of an or
ganization of farmers and business
men of Chambers and vicinity re
cently banded for the purpose of
aiding protection of the game laws.
Farmers Organize-
Broken Bow, Neb., Aug. 12.
Farmers and stockmen of Custer
county have organized a live stock
improvement association for the
purpose of promoting better live
stock raising. Officers were elected
for one year.
New Revenue Agent
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 12. O." B.
Hill has been appointed deputy rev
enue collector in i.Nebraska and has
been assigned the "territory embrac
ing Nemaha, Richardson and Otoe
counties, - j
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Man Arrested for
Murder of Priest,
Sticks to Story
William Hightower Maintains
He Had No Knowledge of
Crime Case "Coming
To Head."
Ssn Francisco, Aug. 12. William
Hightower, itinerant baker, stoutly
resisted all efforts of the police to
connect him with the mutder of Rev.
Patrick Heslin, Colma priest, and
after two days questioning still
maintained he had no knowledge of
the crime. He was taken into cus
tody after he had led a group of po
lice and newspaper men to the
priest s grave on the seashore
Wednesday night.
Captain of Detectives Duncan Ma
theson, Assistant District Attorney
Isidor Golden of San Francisco, and
District Attorney Franklin Swart of
San Mateo county said tonight that
tl'.ey were "nearer a solution of the
crime than ever before."
"Things are coming to a head,"
Swart said. "
Informed of Wife's Death.
Hightower was confronted by the
police with information from widely
different sources, tending, they said,
to show he had knowledge of the
priest's death, but he remained calm
and undisturbed.
He showed emotion only once, the
police said. This was when handed
a long delayed telegram which told
of his wife's death in Stillwater, Okl.
When he read the telegram High
twer broke down and sobbed.
The inquiry developed conflict of
Hightower's story of the use he made
of a srnall automobile, rented from
a local garage the night the priest
disappeared, in company with a
stranger who said a dying man
sought spiritual consolation.
Stories Disagree.
Hightower said he took the ma
chine from, the garage about 4
o'clock, went to San Jose, souh of
here, with Dorris Shirley, a waitress,
with whom lie said he was living,
and returned to San Francisco at
10 o'clock. Finding no one in the
garage, he said, he left the machine
outside. Against this story is the
testimony of a garage employe that
Hightower did not leave the garage
until 6 and the police were bending
every effort to trace the movements
of the car between that time and 9
o'clock, the hour that the priest dis
appeared. The police have been unable to
locate Dorris Shirley and several
clues to the present location of Dolly
Mason, the woman from whom
Hightower said he received first
knowledge of the grave's location,
have proved worthless.
The. San Francisco angles of the
case have been about exhausted, Dis
trict Attorney Swart of San Mateo
county declared, and it is proposed
to take Hightower to San Mateo
county tomorrow. The inquiry will
be continued there, he said.
Seen Near Grave.
Similarity of string found in High
tower's room and that used to bind
together some boards near the grave
was noted at the inquiry today,
Swert said, and evidence . was
brought to show that Hightower
often had visited the cliffs, near the
site of the grave. The two small
sons of Policeman Michael Dolan
had seen Hightower there, Swart de
clared. .
A letter mailed Wednesday by
Hightower to Dolly Mason was re
covered today from the San Fran
cisco postoffice and read with High
tower's consent.
"I believe there is something in
what that drunk told you," the let
ter said. "I am beginning to think
it might have something to do with
the priest. See me at once; there is
a reward offered."
The police said, however,' this let
ter might be part of a plan laid by
Hightower to substantiate a story
devised when he determined to col
lect the rewardxof $8,000 offered from
various sources for recovery of Rev.
Mr. Heslin.
Unable to Explain.
Hightower has not explained to
the satisfaction of the police, a con
trivance they described as an "in
fernal machine," found in a search
of his room, where a rifle and a strip
of blood-soaked burlap also were
brought to light. The machine was
arranged to fire simultaneously, 10
shells loaded with buckshot, and
Hightower admitted he had taken
this with him on a preliminary visit
to the place where the body was
found, but did not indicate what use
of it he had intended.
A Sacrameneo angle of the case
developed when it was reported some
of Hightower's possessions were
found there. They had been stored
since last September.
Examination of the contents of a
trunk left in San Francisco by Dor
ris Shirley gave no clue to High
eower's recent-actions, the police said,
nor did it reveal any clue to the
woman's present location. Articles of
women's apparel bearing Denver
store marks were found and the
name "Mrs. E. H. Davis" was inked
on a shoe.
SOgood cigarettes
tor iuc from
one sack of
GENUINE
fefrETt mm
DURHAM
TOBACCO
ii ii si n n in
Woman Crosses Ocean
To Watch Husband Golf
Mrs. Thomas D. Armour, of Scot
land, who came Jill the way from
her home city to see her husband
go down to defeat in the golf cham
pipnship recently staged at Wash
ington. Guests at Soldiers' Home
Must Pay Higher Rates
Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 12.
(Special.) A few of the members
of the Soldiers' Home do not like it,
but there has been no general, and
especially no personal complaint to
Commandant Waite against a re
cent order by the state board of
control charging 40 cents a meal for
guests of members, or $2 a day, if
circumstances compel week-end vis
itors, relatives or guests of mem
bers to remain at the institution for
a day and a night.
The former rate was 25 cents per
meal, with a comparatively small
charge for lodging. The board's or
der to the commandant also re
quests a report once each month of
the meals served and lodging given.
The home records show 110 such
meals served during July. Since the
order went into effect, August 6,
none had been served up to August
11, inclusive.
Linen Sales
, Oddments of fine
: Irish and Scotch linen
table cloths and nap
kins will sell Satur
day : for half-price
Hand- embroidered
Madeira linen center
pieces and luncheon
cloths are also half
price.
Silkoline
. 25c a yard
For comfort cover
ings this 36-inch silk
oline in a selection of
choice patterns is un
usually fine for 25c.
Second Floor
Redfern
Corset Sale
A Redfern is indis
pensible to fashion
able new clothes and
s when the- price is re
duced such an offer
ing is of especial in
terest. The Redferns
offered Saturday are
numbers that can not
be replaced for Fall.
They are highly de
sirable at the new
prices. A f i 1 1 i n g
should you desire. ,
Wenona Corsets
Saturday 98c
Just a few in size 19
onlv- Second Floor
A Sale of
Children's
Half Hose
A variety of the most
desirable styles. For
merly priced to 85c.
Saturday, 25c a pair.
Half and three-quarter
socks in plain
shades and two-toned
effects. Formerly
' sold up to $1.85. Sat
urday, 50c.
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Wide Revision
Of Freight Rates
On Grain Planned
Strong Hope for Better Prices
On Farm Products Justi
fied, Statement From
White House Says.
Washington, Aug. 12. Strong
hope for better prices in the agri
cultural markets is justified by rc
(tactions . in the railroad rates on
grain for export, already in effect
and proposed, according to a state
ment issued at the White House to
night.
Recent reductions in the export
rate on grams between Chicago and
Nfew ork, the statement said, wilt
be followed by sweeping revisions
of grain rates generally, including
those from Mississippi river points
and on the lines of the gulf, in order
that the entire agricultural interest
may share fullv in the benefits.
"In general," the statement con
tinued, 'advances ; in . freight costs
are passed on to the consumer by
adding them' to the selling price.
But in grains, hose domestic price
is dominated by ,the foreign price of
the exported surplus, the producer
suffers when rates go up and bene
fits when they go down, therefore,
through the exports represent a
minor share of the total grain pro
duction, the lowering of exports af
fects the entire crop.
Hope is Justified.
"These reductions of rates, to
gether with the arrangements for
financial assistance to export trade
and the assurance that Europe is
going to need extraordinary quanti
ties of American foodstuffs, consti
tute a justification for strong hope
that the tendency in the agricultural
markets will for some time de de
cidedly toward better prices."
Reductions of transportation rates
on grain for export was described as
one of the most important measures
the administration has initiated for
the relief of agricultural and of gen
eral industrial conditions." The re
ductions, it was explained, were in
sisted upon by Secretary Hoover as
a concession to the argicultural in
terests when, on behalf of President
Harding, he negotiated with the car
riers the basis for settlement of their
claims against the government
growing out of federal control.
Basis of Adjustment.
"This was made the basis of the
adjustment," the statement con
tinued, "the railroads relinquishing
their so-called .-'labor inefficiency'
claims, and undertaking to inaugu
rate reductions in the export grain
Good-bye
tdrapMm .d6en & Co.
Fashion's seasons do not coincide
with those of the calendar, for
Fashion is always ahead of time.
So, inconsistent though it may be,
Fashion turns to thoughts of Autumn.
In advance of the season yes! But
there is the girl to get ready for
school the suit to select that you
didn't buy last spring, and the one
smart frock to find that you prom
ised yourself for, oh, ever so long.
The pleasure of viewing the mode of
the approaching season is yours
here at Thompson-Belden's.
Interesting Newness
in the Fall Fabrics
Richly colored silks that are particular
favorites; satins, canton crepes and
pebble crepes. Soft coatings of finest
wool, skirtings with distinctive striped
and plaid patterns. Our present dis
play is one of unusual scope for so early
in the season.
It's Always a Pleasure
to Show Everything New
Fabric South Aisle Main Floor
rates, while the administration
undertook to assist them by secur
ing early settlement of their claims
against the government."
Moreover, the statement declared,
it was discovered under the old con
ditions, that the- Canadian railways
and ports were getting the lion's
share of the grain movement to Eu
rope, including quantities of Ameri
can grain.
"To meet this condition," it said,
"and insure that the American pro
ducer would not only get his full
share of the sales in foreign markets,
but would also get the highest pos
sible price, a movement for reduc
ing export rates was inaugurated
by the administration."
Auburn Pastor Has
Strange Well Which
Yields Oily Watei
Auburn. Neb., Aug. 12. The Rev.
G. W. Hawley's well of sparkling
water, for years a popular resort of
refreshment for chautauqua patrons
and campers, has deserted its flavor ,
and has substituted a brownish
liquor with a direct touch and smell
of gasoline.
The Rev. Mr. llawley, mindful of
legends from other sections of the
country where common wells have
suddenly turned into paying flows
of oil, called in scientists and
geologists to examine his well, but
met with the suggestion that leak
age from underground gasoline tanks
in the vicinity was polluting his
water.
Whereupon Dr. Hawlcy, following
the suggestion, personally traced the
sources of all gasoline tanks in the
neighborhood and put a 24-hour
gauge on all filling station tanks in
the village.
The result of this test was that
none of the tanks showed leakage
either underground or at the gauge.
Now, the Rev. Mr. Hawley is won
dering whether to incorporate his
well and appeal to prominent geolog
ists, or. to use his words, "take a
bottle of his inflammable well water
and go on the road selling oil stock."
A match, applied to the water causes
instant ignition.
American Legion Men Given
Ovation on Arrival in Paris
Paris, Aug. 12. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) Two hundred and
fifty representatives of the American
Legion, headed by Maj. John G.
Emery, national commander of that
organization, arrived in Paris at 4:45
oclock this afternoon. They were
received with military honors and
cheered by thousands of Parisians,
who greeted them as veterans re
turning in triumph.
The vital statistics are nublished
on the want ad page.
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