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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY. JANUARY 1, 1922.
Half Interest
in Big Omalia
Oil Firm Sold
f.. V. Nichulat Company Gels
iS'cw Capital from White
Llaglc Cotirrru of
Wirliitit.
"I'lie acquisition of one-half iiiter-
ct in the I V. Xicholai Oil coin
jMuy by tlie White I'agle Oil ami
riming rompany. with headquar
ter at Wichita. Kan., will be fol
lowed on January 16 by reorganiza
tion of the Omaha company, accord
ing to an announcement made jc
terrUv. The following statement was made
hy t- V. Niihola, president of the
I.. V. Nicholas Oil company:
"The difficulties of the U V.
N'ii'hola Oil company, which con
, sisted only of the need for additional
'working capital, ha been complete
ly overrome through a reorganisa
tion, entirely satisfactory to all in
terests concerned, creditors and
Stockholders.
Future It Insured.
"The need for additional working
capital has not only been taken care
of, but new interests have come into
the company which absolutely insure
the future of the company, both
from a financial standpoint and from
the standpoint of there being always
available an adequate supply of pe
troleum products of uniform grade
and superior quality. As it haj been
the policy of the company to sell a
high grade gasoline at a close mar
ket figure, the new alignment is dis
tinctly advantageous.
Mr. Nicholas was emphatic in his
expressions of satisfaction over the
new alignment. He explained that
the White Eagle company has the
lareest refinery in Kansas and con
trols large interests in the way of
production centers, refineries and
tank' line cars.
The Nicholas Oil company was es
tablished here in 1913, succeeding
the Meridian Oil company, which
was started by L. V. Nicholas, who
is the author of the popular trade
line, "Business is good, thank you.
. Has 700 Stockholders.
Mr. Nicholas stated that his com
pany has 35 oil filling stations in
Omaha and an organization of 150
employes. A recent audit of the com
pany's books shows net assets of
$1,200,000. There are 700 stock
holders. Mr. Nicholas is president
of the National Petroleum Market
ers' association.
H. F. Bagby, vice president of
the White Eagle Oil and Refininj?
company, is here in connection with
Ins company s interest in the Uma
ha company.
There will be no interruption in
the operations of the Nicholas com
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Gale Dwindles
To Stiff Breeze
Chicago Corn Receipts
Shatter All Records
Chicago, lrc. .11. Corn receipts
at Chicagu for 9'l, with the last
rrk coiinuird broke all record,
being l8-U8o,KiO bifdirU, or more
I luii double (hone of 10) and SO.
UV.OOi) btmhrU in rxces of tie fu
iner high tunrk, 1 Imir also srt a new
record of ,JM5.l'uO barrels. Arrival
of wheat and nats were below the
average and of barley were the
smallest since 188-'. Wheat receipt
were 45.0.15.000 bushels, oats
".'J.tKKI bu hels and barley, 7,7.M
bushels.
Aggregate receipt of the five
grains were IM.fXi'MHMj bushels, in
increase of 1 I7,o32.(K0 bushels over
1J0 anil only exceeded four times
in the hiMory of the Chicago mar
ket. 1 Miipments of all mains for the
vrar were JO7.037.OlU bushels, an
increase of (i-',4S'J,0tR) bushels over
last year. Corn shipments more than
doubled, and oats were not far be
hind, while rye and wheat were be
low the average.
Suspect Shot in
Head by Sleuths;
Charm Fails Him
Rabbit's Foot Found in Pockcl
of Man Wounded in Box
Car Raid Expected
to Die.
Loses Velocity Before It
Reaches Omaha No
Suow Here.
A high wind, which swept over
Wyoming and western Nebraska Fri
day, lost its velocity , before it
reached here, according to weather
bureau reports.- A -stiff breeze, how
ever, was perceptible in the city close
to sundown. No damage was re
ported. Cheyenne suffered most from the
gale, which swept the city at 64 miles
an hour. Lander reported 60, Val
entine, Neb., 56; Denver, 40, and
Rapid City and Sioux City, 46 and
48.
No record is given out from the
local office unless the wind's Iveocity
exceeds 40 miles. It was about 32
here, said M. V. Robins, meteoro
logist. Some snow came in the wake of
the high wind in western country
and Dakotas, but the forecast locally
was for only somewhat colder last
night. This afternoon it will 'be
warmer out in the state, according
to Robins.
Russ Congress Retains
Lenine as Soviet Head
Riga. Letvia, Dec. (By A. P.)
Nikolai Lenine retains his position
as executive head of the Russian
soviet government as a result of the
unaimous action of the ninth all
Russian isoviet congress just before
its sessions closed late Wednesday
night, according to a radio dispatch
received here today from Moscow.
State Inspector in Omaha
Packing Plants, Says Stuhr
Lincoln. Dec. 31. A cold storage
inspector of the state department of
agriculture has been working in the
packing plants in Orhaha for a
week, assigned to see that pure food
laws were not being violated. Secre
tary Leo Stuhr of the state depart
ment announced Saturday. Secre
tary Stuhr expected a report from
his inspector today. No advices
have been received by Mr. Stuhr
to the effect that men were being
housed in the plants.
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Internal Revenue Officer
Changes for South Dakota
Sioux Falls. S. D., Doc. oh
(Special Telegram.) William Kel
Icy, for over five years in charge of
the Sioux Falls office of the inter
val revenue 'collector for South Di
kota. has resigned, effective Decem
ber 31.
Leslie Jensen of Hot Springs will
?ssume his new duties as collector
of internal revenue for the district
of South Dakota January 4.
Two Motorists Fined.
Sergeant George Emory and Offi
cer Kirk of the police motorcycle
squad testified in Central police court
todav that Eugene Flesther, 37 JO
North Forty-eighth street, was
speeding 35 miles an hour on North
Eighteenth street yesterday after
noon. Flescher admitted that he
was in a hurry to "finish up bnsl
r.e" Police Judge Foster fined
him $10. L. F. W. Horstman was
ned $12.50 for reckless driving.
Johnny Kearns. 511 South Twenty-fourth
street, Council Bluffs is in
the Jennie Edmundson hospital with
a 45-caliber bullet hole in his head
from which death was expected dur
ing the night.
Kearns was shot by two officers
when he broke the -seal on a car
load of tobacco on the Milwaukee
railroad at Weston, east of Council
Bluffs about 1 yesterday morning.
The tobacco was en route to Chi
cago and the officers are said , to
have boarded it at Omaha.
When the shot was fired, an auto
mobile in which Kearns had come
to Weston and in which were sever
al other, men, sped away. ,
Kearns was brought to Council
Bluffs in a police car. He is well
known to the police. Last summer
he was arrested, in Plattsmouth for
having burglar tools in his posses
sion. ' '
He had a revolver, flashlight and
rabbit's foot on his person when
taken into custody.
Bluffs Man Feared Omaha
'Wild Women,' He Tells Court
George Martin, Council Bluffs bon
vivant, breathed blithely in Central
police court yesterday when Judge
Charles Foster entered a dismissal
entry on the docket, on the showing
that A revolver- carried by Martin
was not loaded.
The Council Bluffs man was ar
rested by Federal Officer Robert
Anderson on the alleged offense of
impersonating a federal officer,
Martin explained to the judge that
he had become habituated to carry
ing as much as $50 in his pockets
and that he was motivated by a de
sire to get a close-up of Omaha's
night life when arrested at the
Vogue cabaret. H also confided
the information that there are "wild
women" in Omaha and he wanted to
protect himself in . case of any
predatory designs against him.
North Bend Woman Asks
Divorce From Columbus Cop
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 31. (Spe
lean Irfrs. Lena Kiser. North
Bend, mother of five sons, the oldest
21. has instituted, divorce, action
against her husband, Samuel Kiser,
policeman at coiumrjus. iurs.
Kiser .claims that her husband
abandoned her three years ago and
since then refused to return to their
home. - "
Mrs. Kiser also alleges that 'her
husband has been paying "undue at
tention to other woman. Mrs. Kiser
asks for divorce with custody of the
children and sufficient alimony or
other equity, as the court may de
cree. . "
Iowa Falls Woman Killed
Accidentally With Gun
Falls. Ia.. Dec. 31. (Special
Telegram.) Mrs. V. K. Tennis wa3
instantly killed here yesterday after
noon by the accidental discharge of a
cVinm,n hf.9nd hpr husband re
cently came here from Waterloo and
were preparing to drive to that city
to spend New Year's with relatives
In adjusting the robes so her hus
band could get into the car, the gun
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antomobile painter by trade and the
accident occurred at .uougan gatds:
nere ne woricea.
Fair, Normal Temperature
. Predicted for This Week
U7Vi;,icTAn TW 31 Weather
predictions for the week beginning
.Monday are:
Lower Missouri valley: Generally
fa,.- .vr.nl fnr rains or snows Over
southern and snows over northern
parts about Tuesday; temperature
near normal.
Road Conditions
iFnrnlahra Iit Omaha Aofo Clnh.)
tancoln Highway. Ksst Rosds good to
J!-shlltown: roads In tne LMr tp
vicinity ya good, some snow but packed
bur.!. . ,
Lincoln Highway- West Hoadi rood to
Grand Island and west.
O. Im. IX Highway Roada tin: no de
tours icnt btlwfn lmptrtal and Cbss.
Highland Cutotf Roads good.
S. T. A. Roads Good.
CornhusVer Highway Good.
Omaha-Topcka Highway Good.
Street Road Ki. client. i
George Washington Highway Roads
good. This Is the preferabla route to
Simix City at the present time.
R!ack Hii;a Trail Roads good to Nor
folk. , .
Kins of Trails yorth Roads good 13 j
Missouri Valley; lima rough in tha vna-
wa vicinity.
Kins; or Trails South Rnads fin '
Hiawatha. Hiawatha to !.eaenwortn. j
roada a littls rough: detour between,
Leavenworth and Kansas City das to,
road work in progr-ea.
Rircr to Rier Road Cool. !
White Tola Road Goad, Fair detour i
car Casey.
I. O. A. 8o-tline. Road good.
Blue Grass Road In poor condition to
Glensrood with one or fw tud detours. I
eaat f Glenwood rad ara fa'r. I
Weather reported clear everywhere:'
Mgaj winds aorta aa west portions si l
N-srssLa. j U
aeuif mcut ou Italian I American Professors
Jtourics rut Uvcr to Jan. 41
Koine. Dec. 3I.-(D A. 1M-At
the instance of the iiiiniter of in'
iiutry and the treasury the Ling to
day signed a decree postponing until
January 4 the December nettlement
which was to have oceurrrtl tcday on
all the Italian bourses,
Carried Off by Turks
Athens, Dec. Jl.-(Dy A. P.)
Several American professcr of the
orphanage at Diriudia, about 20
miles fruin Constantinople, arc de
clined by an Armenian newpapcr of
Cntutiintiuople to Iiai e been carried
otf by Turkikh naiioiulist. nay a
Constantiiiniile dispatch. The fate
of the deported American is nut
known,
Pontoffice Holiday.
Charles 1!. lUack'i ftnt order as
the new postmaster was to declare
Jaiiuary 2 a department holiday. The
Sunday schedule of mail crice will
be follow ed. There wit) be no tic
I'very except of perishable matter,
parcel post and special deli fry.
French Willing to Outlaw
Torpedoing Mcrchutit Craft
Paris. Dec. -U.-fHv A. P.)-T! e
French delegation at Washington, it
i understood in ofliciat quarters
bere today, already lias given hearty
assent to the application of interna
tional law to the operation of sub
marines, whiili in the French In
terpretation, satisfies the demand (
Great Britain that submarines in
time of war be prohibited from lor
pedum;; inn Mian t thipt.
Frcuth (.enrrti I'ropotci
International Police Army
Paris, Dec. 31. General Ssrrait
expressed belief that an international
r my consisting of battalions f
French, Ameiican, British and Bel
gian soldiers would insure world
peace, in n article published here.
This Store Will Be Closed All Day Monday.
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Our Annual January
White Sales
Will Begin at 9 O'clock
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Years
Tuesday, Jan. 3rd
During These Great Sales You' Will Find in All
Parts of This Big Store
M o uii tain s of W hi t e
in M a gni f i c en t Array
All at Prices UnDaralleled in
Mountains of white in choicest linens, Madeira pieces, damask cloths, domes
tics, white goods, silks, white stamped pieces, infants' goods, knit underwear,
handkerchiefs, laces, bedspreads, towels, collars and cuff sets, gloves, corsets,
blouses, hosiery. That will be the time for you to ffi:
Make Your "White" Purchases for" 1 922
You will be charmed with the showing we have prepared for you. You will
be delighted with the low prices we have been able to arrange. You will bjiy
liberally for you will be quick to
See the Wonderful
Offered in the 1922 January White Sales at This Big Store
Advant
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January 7th
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Our Muslin Underwear and Silk Under
wear Sales will begin Saturday, January
7th, with the very lowest prices in years.-
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