THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921.
Nebraska Rate
Expert Pleads for
Lower Freight
U. G. Powell Testifies in Be
half of Lower Grain Rates
Shows Hardships Now
Imposed.
By E. G SNYDBR.
Wo.hlnfton CorrMpeaAtnt Omaha Be.
Washington. Aug. 24. (Sjc!al
Telegram.) Nebraska got its sec
ond wind at the grain and hay raw
road rate hearing before the Inter
state Commerce commission when
Sate Railway Commissioner Thome
Brown of Lincoln, who. is represent
ing Nebraska at the hearings, called
U G. Powell of Lincoln, expert rate
man and statistician of the Nebraska
railway commission, to the witness
stand.
Mr. Powell was in the witness
chair for less, than three-quarters of
an hour and made what was consid
ered a good witness for those con
tending before the commission for
railroad rate reductions.
Earn More Than Share.
In restyling' and in cross-examination
by attorneys for the railroad,
Mr. Powell insisted that grain earns
for the railroads more than a fair
share of the revenue when compared
with other freight that moves in
large quantities. He also contended
that coarse grain, particularly corn,
is unduly burdened now by freight
tates by reason of the fact that Di
recor General McAdoo, in 1918, had
raised the ,corp freight rate up to
the wheat rate, thereby giving it an
extra upward jump compared with
wheat.
Mr. Powell showed that at the
time this was done corn was worth
about as much as wheat and so it
stood the extra increase, as h,e ex
pressed it, "quite handily." Now,
however, he said, the pr'ce of corn
has slumped so much fester even
than the price of wheat that when
coupled up with the extra increase
in the freight rate, which it 'received
during the past four years, it is far
too heavily oppressed.
Compares Earnings.
To support his testimony that both
wheat and corn cam more than their
fair share of the railroad '.Venue, he
compared the carload earning on
various grains wi4h such other com
modities a9 cement,v petroleum, ap-
pies and ? lemons " from" California,
butter arid eggs from Iowa and Ne
braska to Chicago, agricultural im
plements from Chicago and lumber
from the south. ' ,
With Mr. Powell's testimony the
group of middle west states com
pleted their case in asking the Inter
state Commerce commission to grant
rate reductions and tomorrow the
carriers will present their side of the
question. .It is expected they will
consume about two days in testi
mony and that arguments will then
be heard. It is believed a Dromnt
decision will be handed down by the
Bishop Stuntz Dedicates
Church at Stromsburg
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Stromsburg, Neb., Aug. 24. (Spe
cial.) Eight hundred people wit
nessed the dedication of the new
$40,000 Methodist church here. Work
was begun two years ago, the cor
nerstone was laid July 4, 1920, and
the edifice was completed last week.
Fourteen ministers took part in
the ceremony, chief of whom was
Bishop Homer C. Stunta. When
the day of dedication came a debt of
$16,000 hung over the church, but
this amount was raised in a short
time.
The buliding is modern in every
particular. It is built of dark red
brick, with stained glass windows. In
the basement are a gymnasium, din-
in e room, kitchen and bathroom. Up'
stairs are the main auditorium, large
Sunday school room, choir rooms
and smaller Sunday school rooms.
V. H, Van Horn is the pastor,
Railway Officials
Will Inspect Route
For Proposed Spur
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (Special.) In
answer to request of citizens living
between O'Neill and Thedford, Neb.,
H. L. Cook and B. E. Forbes of
the State Railway commission: Prof
G. E. Condra, E. Flynn, general
superintendent of the Burlington; W.
F. Thiehoff, general manager, and
Judge J. H. Berryman of Bassett,
Neb., will make a personal inspection
of a proposed right-of-way between
the two towns. Friday.
The party will leave O'Neill Fri
day morning in motor cars and in
spect the right-of-way and interview
citizens in towns in an attempt to
ascertain the feasibility of the pro
posed Burlington spur to run be
tween the two towns.
Residents interested in the prop,
osition intend to petition the Inter
state Commerce commission to issue
an order forcing the Burlington to
build the spur. It is hoped that fol
lowing the trip the railway commis
sion wilt recommend the building
of the line to the Interstate Com
merce commission.
O'Neill Man Arrested for
Threatening Aged Father
O'Neill, Neb. Aug. 24. (Special.)
Because he threatened to do vio
lence to .his own wife and children
commission in view of the emergency an(l to his aged father, and to burn
nature of the case,
Continue Investigation?
Of 'Nebraska State Bank
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (Special.) In
vestigation of the Nebraska State
bank at Sidney will continue, it was
announced by Assistant Attorney
General J. B. Chase upon his return
from Sidney.
Both Chase and J. E. Hart, secre
tary of the department of trade and
commerce, refused to state what dis
coveries had been made in the trans
actions of bank officers.
E. G. Stoll, bank examiner, is stilt
at Sidney and is continuing in at
tempting tb unwind, the complicated
affairs of the bank. , .
J. Jorgensonj a Sidney, real
A.
estate man, has been appointed , re
ceiver for the ?, bank. Chase i.'ai
nounced.
O'Neill Divorce Granted; ; .
45 Minutes After Filing
O'Neill. Neb., Aug. 24.-(Spciai.)
Forty-five minutes after heft peti
tion was filed and. her husbiind jmade
voluntary appearance, Pearl - Jutte
was granted a divorce from Walter
Jutte by Judge Robert R. Dickson
and her maiden name, Densberger,
was restored. Pearl was a June
bride. The divorce is not the Holt
county record for speed, merely the
runner-up, six minutes being the rec
ord, established several years ago.
At the conclusion Judge Dickson
raked the attorney for the speedy
action.
Radio to Announce Prize
Winners at County Fair
Hooper, Neb., Aug. 24. (Special.)
The wireless station at., the Dodge
county fair at Hooper will send out
bulletins at 4 and 7 in the afternoon
of each day. Reports of winners of
prizes in the live stock divisions will
be sent out the first evening, August
30, at 7. :
Seek Check Artist
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 24. (Special
Telegram,) Edward Fenton, itiner
ate window trimmer, who visited the
city the other day, is being sought by
the officers for passing a number of
worthless , checks on business men
amounting , to approximately $50.
Sheriff Emery learned that he
boarded a train at Lincoln for the
east
down the barn of the latter, which
contained 420 bushels of new wheat,
unless the father paid him $200, Wil
liam Thomas Adams of Ewhig is in
the county jail here under a $500
peace bond. The son and family
have been living with the father,
Herbert Adams, on the Joseph Fish
er ranch, five miles north of Ewing
and have had considerable trouble.
Reward for Slayers
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (Special.)
Governor MeKelvie offered a reward
of $200 for the apprehension of the
murderers of D. S. Bingham, former
Lansing (Mich.) newspaper man,
who was found dead on top of a
box car at Naponee, Neb., on July
17, It has been presumed that Bing
ham was shot by I. W. W.s. ,
Baby Is Suffocated
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (Special)-
When Mrs. Leslie Sanders of Lin
coln awakened Wednesday morning,
the hand of- her 4-months'-old'
daughter, Perline, was cold, Inves
tigation revealed the child was dead.
A physician stated that the child died
of suffocation.
Road Conditions
(Furnished by Omaha Anto Club.)
Lincoln Highway, Eut Good at Mil
ourt Valley, rouch at Danlaon, we&thtr
cloudy.
Lincoln Highway, Trt Dctoar Elk
horn to Valley, roads good to Grand
Island, weather cloudy everywhere, put
tinr In graveled road from Central City
to Chapman.
O. jl D. Highway Roads Tough t
Ashland,- raining at Aahlaad and very
aHprwry. detour Greenwood to Waverlv.
Better route to LtncoLn. take the K. T.
to Union, follow the O ' street road to
Lincoln from Union.
Highland Cutoff Road rough.
S. Y. A. Road Fair, detour on and
na-aalf mile 8eward to Tamora.
George Washington Highways-Take
the High road to Blair, read very muddy
at Oakland. still raining. Weather
cloudy everywhere.
Black Hill Trail Road work Omaha
to Fremont; Fremont to Norfolk, road
fair, some shower.
King of Trails. North Road good,
Hfht showers north of Missouri Valley.
King of Trails, . South Road fine,
weather cloudy.
Rtvar to River Road Fair to Dec
' Hetties, weather cloudy.
Whit Pl Read Good to Pee Main as,
weather cloudy.
Blue Oraasj Road Roads geod, WMth.tr
gioudy.:..
ADVKBTISKSnOT
NEVi YORK HAS
SOLD 625,000
BOTTLES OF IT
Biggest Thing of Kind Ever
Seen in That State, Says
Big Wholesaler.
The fact that 625,000 bottles of
Tanlac have been sold in the state
of New York since its introduction
less than cne year ago is a big busi
ness item that will attract unusual
attention throughout the entire east,
for nothing ' like it has ever hap
pened before. It breaks all records.
Mr. George B. Evans, manager of
the Gibson-Snow company, the well
known wholesale druggists, with
branches in Albany, Buffalo, Roch
ester, and Syracuse, recently an
nounced that the preparation was
now selling m their trade territories
alone at the phenomenal rate of apt
proximately 500,000 bottles a year.
"If the present rate continues,"
said Mr. Evans, "this state alone will
probably require considerably over
750,000 bottles a year. This is a tre
mendous figure, but I am really con
servative in making this statement."
Tanlac is sold in Omaha by . the
Sherman & McConnell Drug Co.
and by leading druggists everywhere.
Moweris.
Value-Giving Store
Dining
Furniture
At BOWEN'S
This Week at
30to50 Diicoant
I Will Inaugurate New
System of Automobile
Numbering Next Year
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (Specials
Next year a new system of number
ing automobile licenses will be in ef
fect under a plan being worked out
by George Johnson, secretary of the
department of public works.
Each county will have a key num
ber and all cars in that county will
run in serials.
Douglas county's key number will
be 1. The first auto owner to get
his license from the Douglas county
treasurer will be given a- license
plate numbered "1-1," the next to
apply will get license plate rtumbend
"1-2," and so on.
Lancaster county's key number
will be "2'J and under present plans
the key nimbers will be issued by
the state In accordance to the size
o the counties.
Bank Changes Hands
Nelson, Neb., Aug. 24. (Special.)
President George Kern and Cash
ier John Yung have sold their inter
est in the Cadams State bank at
Cadams, this county, to C. A. Golden
of Firesteel, S. D. The change
takes effect at once. .Mr. Golden is
an experienced business man and
banker. Mr. Yung will remain with
the bank for a time as assistant
cashier.
Explanation of
Expense Bill of
Governor Asfced
Albion Man Inquires Why Mc
Kelvie Charged $5 to Slate
'Tor Subsistence1 Wfcen
Entertained by Senator.
Albion, Neb., Aug. 24. (jSpecial
Telegram.) Explanation of an ac
count of $5 alleged to have been
charged to the state by Governor
McKelvie "for subsistence!" when
here as a guest of State Senator W
H. I Man is asked in a letter written
to the governor by James Auten of
thjs city, farmer and former state
representative.
Auten asserts Senatotf Illian
denies charging the governor any
thing for his room or meafs during
the executives stay in Allnon when
he delivered a high school com
mencement address here Itast spring
and suggests that taxpayers would
appreciate an explanation ' of the $5
expense bill
McKelvie to Make Reply
To Charges on Saturday
Lincoln, Aug. 24. fSpecjal.)
Governor McKelvie left for Orleans,
Neb., to be gone until Saturday. Be
fore leaving he announced that
newspaper men wished a statement
from him concerning tihe charge
made by a citizen of Albion, Neb-,
that while Governor McKelvie was a
guest of Senator Illian , there lie
charged the state $5 for sustenance,
he would be ready with one then.
The letter, a copy of , which was
sent to an Omaha newspaper un
friendly to Governor McKelvie and
received yesterday afternoon, did
not reach the governor's office until
this morning.
Alleged Head of Boxcar
Thjeve.8 Sent to Prison
Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 24. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Judge Medin of the
circuit court sentenced Antonio
Dovali, a Mexican, to a term of two
years in the Sioux Falls penitentiary
for robbing a freight car in the rail
way yards at Canton. Dovali is
said to have been the head of a band
of noted box car thieves who during
the past four years operated exten
sively in Illinois, Iowa, South Dako
ta and other states.
Paroles Alleged Bandit
Beatrice, Neb.,-Aug. 24. (Special
Telegram.) Robert . Newton, who
recently was bound over on a high
way robbery charge, when Mr. and
Mrs. George Monroe of this city
were held up and relieved of $300
as they were en route home in their
car, was paroled by Judge Colby.
Paul Geister, his pal, was sentenced
a few weeks ago to from one to seven
years in the penitentiary. Both are
Beatrice boys, 19 years old.
W. C. Dorsey to Assist
In Grand Jury Probe
Judge YV. C. Dorsey of Blooming
ton has been named to assist Attor
ney General Davis in the grand jury
probe of wildcat stock selling
schemes in Umaha next month.
Alliance Mayor Joins
National Budget Move
Alliance, Neb., Aug. 24. (Special.)
r-Mayor R. M. Hampton of Alli
ance has accepted the invitation of
the national budget committee to
serve as honorary chairman of the
local committee of that organization,
which is engaged in a nation-wide
effort to gain popular support of the
efforts of General Dawes, director of
the budget, to affect a reduction of
the burden of federal taxes. The
mayor will join with the chief mag'
istrates ot l.oyu .other cities through
out the country in fostering the
spirit, of popular approval ot the pol
icy of federal retrenchment. "
Says Rich Hubby Forced
Her to Do Manual Labor
Lincoln. Aug. 24. (Special.)
After 22 years of married life, Mabel
Luick is ready to quit and. in a
petition for divorce filed here today
demands $25,000 alimony, a motor
car and custody of the child. The
husband, Otto J. Luick, is a wealthy
Lancaster county farmer. Mrs. Luick
charges her husband forced her to
do manual labor ana struck and
abused her. '
Fined on Liquor Charge
Beatrice, Neb-, Aug. 24. (Special
Telegram.) "Bill" Kennedy and
Charles Ottinger pleaded guilty in
district court to the charge of hav
ing liquor in their possession and
were fined $100 and costs each, which
they paid. The auto, which was con
fiscated by the officers when the men
were arrested, was released, as there
was no evidence to show that the
men were transporting liquor.
Logan County Farmer
Sues Lumber Concern
For $1000 on Stock
Lincoln. Aug. 24. (Special.)
Charles W. Brown, a Logan county
farmer, is another man holding a
good-sized money sack, waiting for
big dividends in a stock-selling con
cern. Brown today filed suit in the
Lancaster county district court
against the Sarvis Lumber company
and Ferry Anthony of Lincoln, a
salesman, in an eifort to net back
$10,000 which he alleges he invested
in $100 shares of barvij Lumber
company stock. In his petition.
Brown alleges that Anthony held
out the following inducements to
him to purchase stock:
Company owned large tract of
timber lands in Colorado on which
three saws mills were located.
Company was manufacturing and
selling lanre quantities of lumber.
Company was paying 12 per cent
dividends and would shortly make
24 per cent dividends.
Company guaranteed 7 per cent
dividends.
Company officers were capitalists.
And all of these inducements,
Brown charges, proved false.
Alleged "Peeping Tom"
Pleads to Intoxication
Alliance, Neb., Aug. 24. (Special.)
Arthur Reynolds, Burlington pas
senger brakejman, accused by a num-1
ber of Alliance residents of "Peep
ing Tom" activities in the residence
districts, pjeaded guilty in county
court to a charge of intoxication and
was fined $50. Reynolds was ar
rested following an escapade in
which the, complainants said they saw
him peeping into the windows of
their homes late at night.
The entire neighborhood was
aroused and pajama-clad heads of
households, revolvers in hand, sought
to intercept the intruder as he flitted
from house to house, but he was
captured only after a chase of sev
eral blocks by two husky young high
school lads.
Lincoln Commissioners
To Control Motor Buses
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (Special.) Lin
coln city commissioners in an or
dinance ready for passage plan to
control motor busses which have
grown in great numbers recently in
the following manner:
Force owners to get licenses, give
exact running schedule, give fares
charged and in the event they fail to
keep schedules fine them. Every li
censed bus must operate not less
than eight hours a dav and a fine
would be assessed for honking of
horns to , attract pedestrians who
might ride in the busses.
Man Who Violated Parole
Is Captured in Oklahoma
Lincoln, Aug. 24. (bpecial.)-
Word waa received here that John
Potter, a : Darole violator from jtbe
state penitentiary, had been captured
in Oklahoma. Officers left to bring
Potter back. Potter was sentenced
from Douglas county for breaking
and entering in May, 1920. On April
28 he was paroled to a farmer living
near YValthill and shortly after be
ing paroled disappeared.
Scott's Modern Caravan Is
Headed by a Cleveland Six
Read What General Scott, himself , says about this wonderful,
modern Car:
Omaha, Neb., August 24, 1921.
Mr. Ralph W. Jones, Manager, '
s Card-Adams Motor Co.,
' Omaha, Neb.
Dear Sir;
Before leaving Omaha for Buhl, Idaho,
permit me to thank you for having examined my CLEVELAND.
Six, and your report that the car is in perfect condition is just
what I expected when you took the car from Elmwood Park ,
to your service station. This car has been running in abso
lutely perfect condition from the start.
It may interest you to know that my
CLEVELAND SIX which has been the pilot car of SCOTT'S
MODERN CARAVAN from Brooklyn, New York, to Buhl,
Idaho is the only car of the caravan which has required no
, repairs since entering upon this journey at Brooklyn ;
on July 28th.
The small consumption of oil and gasoline
is the most remarkable within my knowledge of automobiles,
and I have driven several different makes during the past
fifteen years. During the past four days my engine has run
without any additional oil whatsoever, and I have been
averaging better than 19 miles on each gallon of gasoline,
and pulling a trailer which weighs more than 1,000 pounds.
In brief, my CLEVELAND SIX has demanded
no attention whatsoever, and I have started it each morning
with the utmost confidence that it would function perfectly.
Although your service stations from New York to Omaha
are most convenient, I have skipped many of them, due to the
perfect condition of the car, and I thank you for having
examined and given me the favorable report which you have
done this day in anticipation of our departure from Omaha
tomorrow morning for Buhl, Idaho.
Yours very truly,
:;?. . - (Signed) Wm. D. Scott.
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Thursday's
Big .Feature
"Children's Juvenile SmV
Mil
AU of our broken lines of Children's Wool
Juvenile Suits. 125 suits to choose from,
sizes from 2 to 8 years.
(Mostly Small Sire..)
Blue Sergei TwMdi Worateda Black and Whit. Checks
and Handsome NoveltiM.
Extra fine qualities that sold as high
as $15.00 will be sold Thursday at $4.95.
AND
Boys' Knickerbocker extra School Pants; all sizes from
6 to 17 years, in all the desirable ma
terials and patterns, and splendid qual
ities that sold to $6.00. YOUR CHOICE
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$?95
ALSO
A great assortment of broken lines of Yeong Men's Suits,
sizes 85 and 36, and Boys' first long Pants Suits, sizes 32,
83 and 84 all choice materials
and swell models. These suits
sold regular at $25.00, $30.00
and $35.00. THURSDAY..
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