i'HK tttfc: OMAHA. Tt'ESliAY, OCTODEK i. H2l.
rand Jury Holds
J
E. R. Gurney and
Shafcr Brothers
Six Men nI Woman Tilrn
Into CutoIy on Charge
Of Fraud in Financial
Transaction.
traiL4 from r
r.ection with the operations of the
Lion Bonding & Surety compiny, of
which he a preident at the time
it went into receiver hand ev
eral months ago. '
One it for emrx-Mlement tf J60,
POO from the Lion Hooding & Surety
company; a second for enibeulement
of $143,500 of certificates of deposit
and a third for embezzlement oi
$110,000 of notes given by officers
and stockholders of the company.
Capital Impaired.
The indictments against Gurney
ere said to be Used on investiga
tions of his conduct in August, l')-
ivitrn the company underwent an
audit by a New York auditor, wh j
reported to President Gurney an
"apparent impairment" of capital.
It is said that Gurney then got a
number of notes nude out tj him
self, signed by officers and stock
holders of the company, and sent
thee to 16 banks out in the slate,
asking to have certificates o deposit
in return or, in some canes, to liavc
credit given the company, or a
checking account. Also if is suid he
risked to have these transactions made
to appear a of June .10.
The certificates of deposit and
credits were then included in the
company's assets. When the audi
tor was unable to see that this im
proved the situation, the directors of
the Lion company passed a resolu
tion acknowledging that JJOO.OOO in
"voluntary contributions" had becu
received from stockholders, stating
that the stockholders had no claim
to the return of this amount.
No Personal Profit
A few weeks later, it is said, Gur
ney sent back the certificate of de-
josit and other credits in the outside
banks, received back the notes and
tjie whole transaction was wiped out.
Gurney himself did not profit by
the deal at all, it appears. The grand
jury report advises, in this connec
tion, that the banks be prosecuted
for violation of the banking laws. It
points out that the irregularity per
mitted the company xo continue in
business to the ultimate loss of stock
holders and others.
Embezzlement Charges.
The Shafers are charged with the
embezzlement of three promissory
notes totalling $30,000, the property
of the American Bank Build'ng com
pany, and also with embezzlement
of $15,000 from M. F. Shafer & Co.
qf which they were officers but
which is now defunct.
Marion F. Shafer lives at the St.
Regis apartments. Ward Shafer's
home is at 4816 Capitol avenue.
The third man arrested was Sam
uel H. Grace, chareed with embez
zlement of a $20,000 certificate of
deposit belonging to Division No. 1.
Railway Employes department )f the
American Federation of Labor, of
which devision lie was secretary
treasurer. ,
Grace gave bond at once for the
$5,000 required. It was signed by
Charles M, Garvey, owner of the
Puritan laundry.-
Robert G O'Bryan, secretary
treasurer and manager of the Great
Western Commercial Body company,
was brought in and gave $5,000 bond
to answer two charges of embezzle
ment, one August 4, 1920, in connec
tion with a check for $3,173.24 drwn
by the company on C D. Lampert. I
ana another alleged emoezziementot ,
$3,000 from the company.
Woman Also Accused.
Sam B. Musser, president of the
American Brokerage and Develop
ment company, was arrested late in
the afternoon in his office in the
Arlington block. With him was ar
rested Miss Ruth C. Strickland, his
stenographer. ..
Three separate indictments charge
the two with obta-'ning money under
false pretenses. It is charted that
on March 23 obtained $64 from
Kathryn Calvert, on March, 25, $168
from Sophia Stern and on October
14, 1920, $50 from Catherine Gus
lai'sbn for oil leases. They repre
sented, it is alleged that their con
cern had bought a drilling outfit for
$11,000 anrj that a well was being
drilled on the" alleged property in
Montana, all of which representa
tions were false, it is alleged.
Miss Strickland was released late
in the afternoon on her own recog
nizance after she had promised to
appear in court at 10 this morning.
Musser remained in jail.
Tony Bortka, South Side, was ar
rested on the indictment for embez
zlement. - With a partner, John Doe.
he is charged wth having taken
$4,000 from Nick Malinovich as
"first payment" on a farm near
Scottsbluff. . '
Distrct Judge ; Troup issued
an . order late yesterday per
mitVng Attorney General Davis to
retain stock books of the Waterloo
Creamery company, the Alamito
Dairy company and the Great West
ern Body company, as well as "rec
ords and other evidence" in these
companies collected by the special
grand jury. - - ..
(Sermon Informs Woman
Pastor Mate Divorced Her
Port Huron, Mich., Oct 3. Mrs.
Flossie Baldwin first learned she had
been divorced by her husband, the
Rev. George Baldwin, when she sat
in the congregation and heard the
sermon he delivered.- -
Neighbors told court officers that
when papers were served Mrs. Bald
win did not know what they meant
and failed to oopose the action.
The pastor charged his wife was
untidy. There is a 6-months-old
baby. - - . '
Nothing Can Revive Saloon,
. U View of English Pastor
London. Oct , 3. "Tbe American
drinking saloon is dead. Prohibi
tion ha killed it Nothing can re
Yh it" v .
In this trilogy of staccato sen
tences. Dr. R. J. Campbell, vicar of
Christ Church, Westminster, who
has just returned from a long jour
ney through the United States, gave
n
Former Bankers Are Held
rjt V
r-
Earth Rallying From
Meteorological Mumps
(Continued From Pace One.)
some othef cause, is entirely prob
lematical. It is a act, however, that, what
ever the cause, this terristial ball
has been subjected of late to roucrh
usage, notwithstanding that the war
is over. A glance back at some re
cent disasters and natural phenom
ena show the following':
Two million Koreans starving; in
Manchuria owing to drought-ruined
crops. ,
Three hundred buildings wrecked
and many killed by hail storm and
waterspout at Baez, Cuba.
Three volcanoes, Villarica, Llakna
and Lanin, spout flames more than
1,000 feet fro-n-xratcrs.
Drought kills fish in River Seine
ind France suffers most severe
drought in 47 years. ,
Rhine and Moselle rivers, do great
damage in highest flood in 136 years.
Cloudburst and hail storm damage
Rome, Italy.
Vesuvius Shows Activity. ,
Mount Vesuvius shows activity
and earthquake shock is felt from
Leghorn to Lake Lugano.
' Italian destroyers carry inhabitants
to safety as volcano Stromboli re
sumes activity.
Damage of several million drach
mas done in Genoa by severe hail
storms.
Earth slide blocks Corinth canal.
Cyclone devastes three , towns in
Haiti. .
Volcano Kilauea in Hawaii spouts
immense fountains of lava.
Activity of the volcano Popocate
petl in Mexico increasing.
Earthquake shakes Vera Cruz and
four other cities.
Lightning strikes oil wells, caus
ing millions of dollars damage in
Tampico and other districts.
Mexicans pray to "water-goddess"
to end drought: - .
Volcano Colema in Jalisco is in
emotion. - .
Many lives lost in waterspout
which destroyed part of Tangier,
Morocco. .
Floods in Philippines.
Volcano Masaya in Nicaragua in
eruption. '
Typhoon and floods in Philippines,
and especially . on island of Luzon,
do great damage.
Six new craters opened in Mount
Izalico, Salvador.
Heat in the Alps causes glaciers
to shrink and time mountain climb
ers are killed. . ' .
Seventyrfive dead in tornado which
swept southern United States.
Flood inundates Pueblo, causing
$10,000,000 property loss.
Forty-seven perish in San Antonio
(Tex.) flood.
One consolation of the freak
weather, however, is the prospect of
an "open winter."
Snow in Michigan.
Ironwood,- Minn, Oct 3. Sleet
with intermittent flakes of show fell
here this morning. The tempera
ture was about 42 degrees at 10
a m. This is the first sleet and snow
I it tf 4Vk
f . js f ' 1
IV lAckS
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More Arrests Expected
In $1,000,000 Robbery
Chicago, Oct. 3. Three alleged
leaders in the $1,000,000 union sta
tion mail robbery last January will
be up tomorrow for examination by
postal inspectors.
As a result, government officials
believe all members of the gang not
already in custody will be arrested
within 48 hours. One of the trio is
said to have confessed. From him
$61,000 in stolen Liberty bonds have
been recovered.
The men are Frank Rio, indicted a
score of times for bond thefts.
Thomas Dyer and Robert O'Neill.
The latter two have figured in po
lice records in connection with rob
beries and shooting affrays for 12
years. . ' ;
Preacher Is Slugged.
Houston, Tex., Oct. 3. R. Hecox,
traveling preacher of Santa Barbara.
Cal., was slugged and robbed as he
was resting at a school house eight
miles east of . here Saturday night,
according to a report made to of
ficers here today. Hemx was found
this morning. He will live.
Taste is a matter of
tobacco quality
Complete Report
The leport of the grand Jury (o.
lows:
1 bit grand jury, havint; been called
for the special purpose of tnvrtti
caiint alleged violation of the penal
Uwt of our state relating to the
conduct of offiicri and ditecturi of
corporation!, companies, stock job.
binf associations, and promotion
schemes, under vriuui form, has
been in almost continuous session
since September H, and has worked
diligently end faithfully to perform
the duties of the oftiee,
Inamuih at the invetigtin of
corporations or companies on whom
compUuti have been made required
practically our entire time, we were
unable to give other nutters the
necessary attention they deserve, in
fact found it impossible during this
term to properly investigate other
companies that appear to neej in
vesication.
Violation of Blue Sky Laws.
In our investigation we found
numerous instances where the laws
of this state regarding the sale of
stock, issuance of bonds, etc., have
been violated, both directly and by
subterfuge. This evasion of the law
teems to have been aided by
reluctance of the buying publ'c to
call attention of the proper authori
ties to such violations.
However th:t grand jury hi not
spent so much of its time in the in
vestigated of technical violations of
the blue sky law, and whether stock
and bonds have been sold without a
permit as it has spent in see ng
whether the stockholder hat had an
honest "run-for-his-lioney" after the
stock u told. Most of our attention
hat been directed towards the in
tegrity and honesty of purpose of
the management of these varous
companies. The law cannot guar
antee the success of the business
venture, but it should in our opinion
assure to the stockholder that cor
porate business will be honestly con
ducted. We want it understood
therefore, that our time has been
given to a scrutiny oi the doings of
the officials of various companies,
and we hereafter set forth some of
the means and devices that have been
used to loot the corporate treasury
which we believe should be pro
hib'ted. One. Excessive Salaries We
found in some cases companies now
defunct were paying as high as $1,000
per month to officers who gave only
a part of their time to the conduct
of the company affairs. We believe
that the payment of excessive
salaries s:mply because such an one
is president or vice president of a
company, and especially to one who
docs not devote all of his time to
the company, is gross mismanage
ment to say the least.
Two. Sales by Officers to Their
Companies An officer of a corpora
tion occupies a position of trust with
t elation to the company's money.
Certainly he should be extremely up
right in all sales of his own per
sonal property to himself as a cor
porate officer. This jury has found
numerous instances, however, where
corporate officers have sold property
which cost them nothing, or at most
a small sum to their corporations for
large sums of money at fictitious
valuation, and have taken from the
corporate treasury large sums in pay
ment Amounts to Embezzlement
It is the opinion of the iury that
such transactions are fraudulent and
amount in substance to the embezzle
ment of money, and this grand jury
has returned indictments accordingly.
One flagrant example is that of a
chemical formula acquired by offi
cers of a company at. a price around
$5,000, but which was sold to the
comnany of which they were officers
for $100,000, and money taken from
the treasury accordingly. ,
Three. Fictitious Appraisals of
Real Estate Numerous instances of
this device have come before us. The
valuation of property has-been arbi
trarily raised on the books of the
companies to entirely unwarranted
heights, and such new book entries
used to lead stockholders and pros
pective stockholders into the belief
that the corporation had earned a
profit This fictitious appraisal of
real estate was also used for floating
large issues of stock.
It is to be regretted that in some
instances prominent citizens sub
scribed their names on appraisal esti
mates which their better judgment
should have prevented them from
signing, as they were then used to
mislead the unwary investor.
Overlapping Directoratet.
In general it seems that inter
locking directorates are legitimate.
. We state it as our honest belief
that the tobaccos used in Chester
field are of finer quality (and
hence of better taste) than in any
other cigarette at the price.
Liegett & Myers Tobacco Co.
esteriie
CIGARETTES
of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos blended
proper and useful in many fields if
business, ilviwtvrr. tin device h
Luii ud by nuiiy promotion
schemes t s'ureaie from the is
sett of a Urge company part of the
ctt tr the benefit ol uvorei
few of a tmallrr company; aUo in
many c where directort were
the Mine the eit of one corpora
fen have been uei for the beiielt
of another corporation indiscrim
inately. This i a fraud and wrong
ful diversion of money, and in tome
Cases amounts to actual emhede.
nwut of money by such direslurs.
Attorney!. There are iustancet
where attorneys seem to have coun
seled and directed kiheniet whereby
Urge stock Utuct were floated and
payments of money made to om
cert and directors of corporutiout
for no consideration except thrir
ability to milk their company No
doubt those attorneys justify their
conduct on the ground that they
were limply adviturs, telling their
knowledge of the law. It it the opin
ion of this jury, however, that whe.i
an attorney continually consorts
with, advises, counsel and assists
orliceri of corporation! in perpe
fating frauds upon stockholders
that he pastes beyond the legitimate
relations of attorney and client anl
becomes an accessory to the tran
saction. CrLmet Outside Douglas County.
Our investigation has uncovered
several ciimes upon which we can
not return indictments because they
were not committed tn Douglas
county. We feel that a proper spir
it of law enforcement dictates that
the facts of some of these should
be set out so that action may be
taken by the officers of various
counties if they to desire.
Complicated Example.
One of the most complicated of
these is disclosed in the affairs of
the Lion Bonding & Surety com
pany and the following statement is
entirely justified by correspondence
signed by the officers of that com
pany and original documents, all of
which are in the possession of the
grand jury.
In August, 19J0. when this com
pany was probably impaired and was
under examination by the United
States Kovernnient, the officers se
cured notes of several officers and
employes aggregating $300 000.
These notes were sent to 16 banks
in Nebraska who issued therefor cer
tificates of deposit in like amount
All of them predating the certificates
to the date of June 30, and some
of them even altering their books
to correspond. These certificates of
deposit were taken as assets of the
company by the auditors of the
United States government and the
insurance department or the state of
Nebraska, within two weeks after
such a showing the certificates of de
posit were returned to the various
banks which issued them and the
notes returned to the makers and
destroyed. The insurance depart
ment was misled by this action and
the company continued in business
for a number of months afterwards
to the greater ultimate loss to stock
holders and polirvholders.
It is rather difficult to determine
what specific crime was committed in
the perpetration of this transaction.
The several banks who falsified their
records are outside of Douglas coun
ty and we therefore have no juris
diction to indict them for falsifica
tion of their books.
Recommend Action.
We suggest that the various prose
cuting officers in the respective coun
ties where these transactions oc
curred take immediate steps looking
toward the prosecution of these vio
lations of the banking law.
We have returned indictments
charging embezzlement of the i
amount of these certificates of de
posit and notes, believing that the ;
sUU'.'.a relating to embezzlement
most nearly describes the thansaction
which did take place in Douglas
county. We think the attention oS
the public ought to be called to the
fac that it is this sort of manipula
tion by the officers of various com
panies, and the tacit co-operation
therein of various bankers that has
led to -the imperiling of the, stabil
ity of many Nebraska banks. '
We feel that this grand jury 6ught
not to adjourn wtihout rnak'ng some
recommendations in regard to the
Nebraska laws in reference to the
general conduct of corporation af
fairs. It is to be regretted that the
corporate laws of Nebraska are de
cidedly meager, and that we do not
have on our statute books a com
plete code governing in detail the
id
of Douglas
nun nic nt ti corporations at have
several oilier state,
Thete aie rrr:ain definite reeom
mendationi which we think ought to
be mailed into statutory 'aw, and
which would in Urge measure pre
vent, or at least provide mode of
punithnient for numerous other com
panies which were prom oted during
the 11 two or three years.
Sale of Stock.
first Undoubtedly a statute
should be missed making it a felony
for the officers of a corporation to
pay dividends tu the tuxkliuldcrt
thereof out of money received from
the talc of stock. It it probable that
this ttatutr should go still further
and make it a criminal offense to pay
cash dividends out of the apprecia
tion on properties or under any
other guise, unless such dividends
represent an actual earned cash
profit of the corporation.
Second We believe that It ought
to be made a felony for the officer
of a corporation to deliberately
i-til'ze the fund of the corporat:on
in enterprise entirely foreign to the
scpe of the corporate-character and
the legiti'iiate transactions of the
businest for which the corporation
was formed.
Th;rd We believe that some rea
sonable standard of duty should he
imposed upon the officer and di
rectors of corporation to that gross
neglect of attention to corporate
business thould carry a penalty upon
the ofticert and directors so neglect
insr their duty.
Fourth We believe a criminal
penalty should be imposed upon the
officers of corporations who issue
large blocks of stock without con
secration, thus diluting the value of
the stock of the public who have
paid cash therefor.
The Matter of Rents.
In pursuance to instructions by the
court we wish to report that we have
made an investigation of the rental
situation in Omaha.
After hearing the testimony of a
number ot competent anr well in
formed witnesses we failed to obtain
any definite or conclusive evidence
of an organization, combination or
agreement among the owners or
managers of residence or business
property by which they have at any
time sought to fix or control the
rental price of detached houses,
apartments, offices or store, rooms.
We are advised that even if there
were such combinations for the pur
pose of fixing or controling rental
prices in the state of Nebraska, there
are no laws now upon our statutes
by which parties forming such com
binat'ons could be successfully prose
cuted. We have been informed by com
petent attorneys, and it has been ad
mitted by complaining witnesses, that
there is no law upon the statute
books of Nebraska by which or
through which the owners of real
estate can be compelled to rent or
lease their property nt any fixed or
established price, and, in fact, it ap
pears very doubtful whether any such
law would or could be enforced with
out violating property rights guaran
teed by the constitution of the United
States.
Several cases were brought to our
attention of recent increases in rent
als. Some of these appeared some
what reasonable for the reason that
they were based on old leases made
in 1916 and 1917; but in several
other instances where increases were
noted, there appeared to be no jus
tification whatever, and owners or
managers in such cases should be
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County. Grand Jury
severely rebuked for rising rnit4lsand. aide from this apparent neces.
thai aie alirady higher than they sity, we Mid nothing urthcr of iiu-
khould, he.
BUme the War.
While rentals in same instance
are undoubtedly hiwh and abnormal
ly to, we believe that the situation
it one of the results of the world
war, and will evrntually right itself
through the intul.ir channels .(
supply and demand.
We find that building of every
kind has been retarded Uv the high
cost ot construction and difficulty in
securing lours, and it it doubtful if
any substantial improvement can be
hoped (or in the rental situation un
til the tupply is tucti at to tntit
the demand.
Hotel and Innt.
In accordance with the court t in
ttructiont to ee that Sections 3lti4f4i anpratus and a night watchman
VI llli; JICVICU .M.tt-
UteS of Nebraska, relating to hotels
and rooming houses have been com
plied with, we had City Commis
sioner tlarry B. Zimnun appear be
fore us, and he has had an inspec
tion made of such hotels and inns,
and accordingly has presented to
thi grand jury a separate report cov
ering 49 such hotel and inns. This
report shows the higher c'ass of
hotel to be in excellent condition,
but there are some irregularities in
complying wth the law with soe
of the second and third class hotels
We have been informed by Mr.
Zinimao that the proprietors of these
hotels have been ordered to remedy
the situation, and all rt these re
r.uirements as made by conmvssioti -
tr Zimman should be complied with.
mis granu jury jrcommenus uiai
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Douglas county work in conjunction
with the city authorities with the
view of having the hotel and in
kecpers comply not only with the
Mate law, but also with the provi
sions of the Omaha city ordinances.
Douglas County Hospital.
In our inspection of the Douglas
county hospital we found sanitary
conditions ai.d food to be good, and
believe the present superintendent is
Piling his position acceptably so far
as it is possible for him to do.
We found, however, that the pro
tection against fire is very poor, and
the present fire nose being wholly un
fit for use, and we recommend the
immediate installation of new fire
hose together with additional chemi
cal fire fighting apparatus.
We also found tlut there was an
insufficient number of nurses in the
hospital and recommend the employ
ing of sufficient additional nurses to
properly take care of the inmates of
this institution.
Further than the things mentioned
we cannot see where conditions can
be much improved upon, except
through the building of a new ho?
pital, but in as much as rather ex
tensive repairs are now being made
on these buildings this jury does not
feel that at the present time it would
be advisable to recommend a bolid
issue for the purpose of erecting new
buildings. We are very much of
the opinion, however, that the pres
ent buildings are unsuitable and feel
that this matter should receive the
careful consideration of the countv
! commissioners and citizens of
Douglas county. . i
Jury Visits Jails.
The grand jury visited the various
jails of the county and found the
Douglas county jail to be well man-'
aged, clean and habitable and cat"
offer no criticism of its management
or condition.
South Side jail needs some repairs
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it v, we fmd nothing further ol im
We lefomn end thai the ci'y iail bo
equipped with the neceMrv ttetl
icllt lor confining the prisoner in
the new building and tli.it taid cell
be furnished with mattreste whrie
prisoner ate held longer than .'I
hours; a while the new buili'Pg ha
been occupied for ome time there
hat been no change w ith rderrnc u
the accommodations lor the prisoner
in general and the conditions of the
old jail are intolerable, being unsani
tary and over-crowded.
Thi grand jury wislie t coni
n end the management of Rivcrview
Ionic. Thi institution we found li
first-cla condition, wrll managed,
elean and. a the name imulie. a
"home." The additions of chemi-
to be on guard seems anoimeiy
necessary in the protection "M tno
retained at the home and we J
recommend.
Grand Iury to Probe
Ku Klux Klan Riot
(Ciintlnurd Krom r .)
mg. He asked this, he said, to he
would know whom to hold responsi
ble in case disorders occurred.
After a conference with masked
leaders at a house on the outskirts
of the town where the kla'ismen
L'.r .vccrmhltni?. a
t which he trieI
1 lu,,,lli, ,u- ,,. to desist from
violating what he interpreted as
i?w a(a,nst masked men murcluiu;
iii a pumic demonstration, me seen"
returned to the business section of
the town, vowing there would be no
parade, according to eye-witnesses.
Shortly afterwards a crowd esti
mated at 3,000 persons many of whom
had gathered from nearby towns
to witness the parade, saw the front
line of ghostly figures swing into
step and begin their march toward
the main street of the town, down
a road leading in from Waco,
Cheers Greet Marchers.
As the sheeted marchers advanced,
cheers from the crowd greeted them.,
mingled with hoots and jeers from
those admonishing the sheriff not to
interfere, and from the factions,
opposing the demonstration.
When the leader of the column,
bearing an American flag, reached
a street intersection near the main
business part of the town, Sheriff'
Luchanan, followed by his two depu
ties and a crowd of spectators, halteil
the standard bearer and grappled
with him in an attempt to snatch
the mask from his fact.
Other marchers came to the as
sistance of their leader, and in the'
fight which followed the sheriff wa3
wounded.
Immediately confusion reigned. A
lusillade of shots was fired and it '
was someti-ne before order could be
restored sufficiently to determine the
casualties.
Sheriniu, Tex., Grand Jury
Probes Tar and Feathering
Sherman, Tex., Oct. 3. A charge
to investigate the tarring and feather
ing here, Septe-nber 20, of Fred
Zieglcr, former Hotel man, as well
as the activities of any organization
in the county which "presumes to
take into its own hands the adminis-
tration of justice." was delivered to
day to an extraordinary grand jury
by Judge Silas Hare.
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