Nebraska Newspapers

    TUB UKK: OMAHA. MU.M'AY. .MAUtll SO. U.3.
Ankcny Youth
Seriously Hurt
i by Power Saw
2?alitMii Ifa) t Dtl
From Fifth Story of lloejilial
in Df Moinfi Want Kp
rciur Hrmorl.
lift Moinr, U, Mufh P lpe
tial Telegram )Hjrou Canoe. W.
va prob-lily faulty injured by a
motor driven mw whil sawing
v ood at the place pi hn Urother-ii
bw, Joseph lUrvey, near Ankcny.
i.unoe fell Into the ami received
eeral serious rut before lie toiiM
Ik ettrit 'I he toy wa broiiKlit
to tlie M'thwliit hopitat at lh
Moiiiei. Hymn ia the nut of W. I.
(iauoe o( Ankeuy.
Salesman Leapa to Death.
Drepondrnt over ill-health, Jjillr
iritrntrlij. 47, of Chicago leaped to
Ha death from a fifth tory window
i.t the Iowa Mrthodit hospital here.
(irueiifeM, vh mi a traveling
Mlesman for a Chinas firm, wa
lakeri iy the luxpiul March II, uf
frringr from a nervooa breakdown.
The- tragedy followed a reception
held in the entrance of the women'
and children' ward. The talesman,
who was permuted to walk about
the h.illn. eluded the nurses and
htepped into the bathroom. Care
Jully knocking the ashea from hi
pipe on the window ledge the balc
iiuu laid l.is pipe on the sill, stepped
Ml the edege of a bathtub, climbed
to the open window, and plunged
forward to hi death. II i.t act wa
not discovered until nurse and at
tendant on the tloor below saw the
hurtling body Mrike the ground. Al
though the salesman fell five floors
death was not instantaneous.
Want Receiver Removed.
Firt stops looking toward dissolu
tion of the present receivership of
the Des Moines City Kailway com
I any were taken when Federal Judge
Margin J. Wade at Ottumwa signed
an orlcr permitting the company to
exorcise its corporate power to bor
row money with which to pay its
debts.
The court order was In response
to an offer by the company to as
sume and pay the debts incurred by
the receivership and to pay many
of the, long past due debts of the
company itself if it were again placed
in control of its own property and
the receivership lifted. The offer
Mates that the company on the
strength of its franchise granted No
vember 29, ha arranged for credit
to pay its debts if it can get it
property under its management be
tween March 28 and April 1.
Britain Asks Japan
for Assistance, Rumor
Washington. March 19. An
nouncement was made by the Amer
ican commission to Promote Self
government in India, that Great
Britain. Under the terms of the
Anglo-Japanese alliance, had asked
Japan for military aid if the "passive
revolutionary movement ' in India
leads to a general uprising," while at
the same time, the statement was
denied by the Japanese embassy.
The statement of the society that
such request had been made was
upon the basis of "confidential
sources in Tokio and London,"
while the embassy statement -declared
that the report was "absolute
ly discredited, in Japanese official
quarter in Washington." The
Anglo-Japanese alliance, the embassy
asserted, contains "no clause, either
express or implied, providing for
Japan intervention in the event of
domestic trouble in India." t ;
Profit on Gas Plant in
Omaha Over $500,000
Lincoln, It a r c h 19. (Special.)
Total receipt for 1921 for Omaha's
municipal gas plant -were $1,900,760
and operating expenses were $1,360,
760, according to a state audit issued
today.
When the plant was taken over
in 1920 rates were increased. The
rates have been slightly reduced but
are still higher than those paid by
Lincoln gas consumers.
Coke used for manufacturing gas
fell from J17.S0 per ton last July to
$1 1.49 in November and gas oil from
80 cents in January to 39 cents in
February, according to the audit
figures, .-. V
Flood Waters af Siojix Falls
Reported Slowly Receding
Sioux Fallr, S. D., March 19.
Flood waters of the Sioux river,
which have been surging over sev
eral hundreds of acres of farm lands
and suburban property, are reced
ing slowly. . There was a general
drop of eight inches on the bottoms
northwest of Sioux Falls, where the
water had reached the first floor of
many home?.
Officials of. the Great Northern
railroad said that it would be two
weeks before the traffic would be
resumed on their . Watertown-Sioux
Falls branch, . where! a half mile of
track was undermined by the water.
Chicago Musicians' Club
Of f ices Wrecked by Bomb
Chicago, March . 19. The fourth
bombing outrage in the past week
wrecked the offices of the Musicians'
club and caused a near panic among
guests of the Washington hotel and
the Elks club,. nearby.
An informal meeting was in prog
ress in the club rooms when the blast
took place. -Members -expressed the
belief that internal troubles in the
club caused the bombing, ' The three
other bombings during the week, ac
cording to the police, were the re
sult of labor troubles.
lEberstein Goes Back
' as D. 0. J. Operative
I v.
Plans for Coal j Son of Henry Ford
et..:i.lT,l,.R, ; to Run for Congress
Lewis Declares
Over Half Million Mrn Will
utt April I Utile Aprf
inent I Krat hrd, I'ttiuii
Chief
UtarfhaRBccsleiri.
Marshall Flieisinu i going battt
into the service cd the Kovernmcnt.
The former chief of police, who
retired from that pot following the
defeat of J. Dean Kinder last spring
was tworn in ai a JJrparttncnt of
Ju'tice operative.
Fbcrstem ha received no align
ment yet. It i expected he will
be ordered to the Chicago office.
Kberstein wa once chief of the
local office of the Department of
Justice. He wa made police chief
under Kinger. He had leeri a gov
ernment operative for manv year.
'i'al Al" Reeves
Back Willi Banjo
OKI Gayety Favorite Returns
With One of Bent and CIcv
crest Shows of Season.
Chicago Manufacturer
, Sentenced to Eight Years
Chicago, .March .19. t William
Johnston, 44, a wealthy manufactur
er, was sentenced to eight years in
the Joliet penitentiary on charges
preferred by two. girls. , His attor
neys asked that mercy be shown to
the man on account of his age and
because he pleaded guilty. His wife
and a 20-year-o!d son were said to
be in California.
A performance that bv the entire
absence of anything suggestive makes
a direct appeal to the women features
Al Reeves "fUg Ileauty" combina
tion at the Gayety theater. The
show is not made up of bits, but con
sist of scenes of merit. There is a
costly splash with costumes and
scenic effects.
"Pal Al" personally appears with
hi banjo and a line of chatter that
takes one back to the old days. Years
ago he won the Richard K. Fox
medal in the world's championship
ban.io playing' contest, lhs come
back this year proves that he has
lost none of his cunning with the
strings, his fingers manipulating the
instrument in flawless fashion, bring
ing out the tones clear cut and with
out a blemish.
Harry (Heine) Cooper, a graduate
of other Columbia show, evidences
decided improvement. His comedy
methods are more effective. Frank
Pickett, who assists him in the fun
making, will be one of the leading
comics on the circuit. His specialty
was.one of the big hits of the show.
Peggy Readc and Evelyn Dean in
their song numbers were one of the
most pleasing features of the per
formance. Mae Jenese carries the
bulk of the song numbers, assisted
by Helen Gillis.
Walter Pearson, "the man who
wears the clothes," and Charlie La
Vine, in character parts, add much to
the entertainment.
if r. Reeves shows that his eyes
have not lost their cunning any more
than his banjo hands. He has a real
beauty chorus. The entire company
is well proportioned and the show
rank among the topnotchcrs On the
circuit.. ;, . ' .,
Newark Bankers Buy
' Prudential Insurance
Omaha Bee Leased Wirt.
New York. March 19. Julius S,
Rippel, head of J. S. .Rippel & Co.,
bankers . and brokers ot . Newark,
have acquired all the bank stock
holdings of the Prudential Insurance
company, according to an announce
men. These holdings consisted of
20 per cent of the stock of
the Fidelity -Union Trust company,
and between 400 and 500 shares of
the stock of the Merchants and Man
ufacturers bank.
The market price of the Fidelity
Union, stock is $240 a share and the
once of the Merchants and Manu
facturers stock is $222 a share. The
exact figure in the present transac
tion was not made public, but from
the market prices, it is believed to be
at least $2,000,000,
Flood Stage in Mississippi
, Predicted by Saturday
Memphis. Tenn.. March 19 A 40-
foot stage in the Mississippi river at
Memphis before next Saturday was
predicted by J. H. Scott, United
States weather bureau forecaster.
Flood stage or 33 feet on the gauge
will be reached tomorrow night, Mr.
Scott said.
Refugees are already beginning to
arrive here from the islands and
lowlands, unprotected by levees, and
steamboat lines have given instruc
tions to their crews to pick up these
refugees wherever they may be
found.
Sentiment Strong Against
"Balance of Power" Plan
Fargo. X. D., March 19. With
delegates for 40 counties accounted
for, 82 of the 207 representatives
named for the nonpartisan league
state convention have been instruct
ed to oppose the "balance of power"
plan, and 95 are without instruction,
according to the Fargo Forum sur
vey of the county conventions of
March 16.
More than half the delegates to the
state convention will come instructed
against the "balance of power" plans,
according to a statement by the
league's State headquarters.
i , ' ' . ., . . -Postmaster
Takes Office,
Gothenburg, r Neb . March 19.
(Special.) Don D. Price, newly ap
pointed postmaster here, has as
sumed his -duties. The postoffice
had been without an official post
master since last November when
J. H. O'Kane died. He had held
office eight years.
Xfw York, Mirth J9 Si limi
drcl thousand union miner in the
anthracite and bitumimnit firld will
quit work April I, unk ome on
forrrn tolutiyn of the ptficnt
controvert j offered in the mean
lime, John U Ic". prendrni of
the international ofifaiiiauou of
I' tided Mine Worker announced,
Plant for e valuation of the ininri
jlready are under way, Mr, l.ewit
Mid. In the event of a walkout
rrrwt of pumpmen, engineer, fire
men. watchmen and helper will re
main at their pi to prevent flood
ing of the mine and maintain the
properties, It aid. He ctinutcd
lltat 1.000 men would remain on
duty in the anthracite and J.000 In
the bitumiiiotit mine for tuch pur
poses. Final Order Neat Week.
Final ordi-r fur withdrawal of
the men will be Uttird by the gen
eral policie committee of the union
at Cleveland or Chicago, probably
nent week, it was aid. eiieclive In
case operator and miner f;l to
arrange a new working contract before-
April I.
The order t upend operation
in the anthracite field April 1 al
ready ha been iucd by the miners'
general wage council, in ession at
Shamokin, I 'a. An arbitrations com
mittee of eight, coniKsed of opera
tor and miners, will meet here Tues
day to discuss a new wage scale for-
thi field.
Work in bituminous niiue au
tomatically will cease April 1. Mr.
Lewi asserted, lecause of the opera
tor' refusal to meet with the miners,
in accordance with the terms of their
last contract.
Wages Above Prewar Level
The national industrial conference
board i.-sucd a preliminary statement
on its investigation of condition in
the anthracite coal situation, declar
ing that actual earnings of worker
under the present agreement with
operators arc more than 150 per cent
higher than before the war a greater
increase than that received by wage
earners of railroads and in manu
facturing industries.
The investigation covered the
period from the last half of June;
1914, to the last part of October,
1921, and included 55 companies em
olovinor 94.514 men and operating 179
collieries, with production in 1920
of 54,640.938 tons.
The percentage of increase in
actual hourly earnings for industrial
workers, the report stated, was 113
per cent from July, 1914, to July,
1921; for railroad workers up to
October 1, 1921, 131 per cent, and for
anthracite workers, 166 per cent.
By July, 1921. it wa found that
the average weekly earnings of work
ers in manufacturing industries were
only 83 per cent above 1914; those in
railroad, work in October, 1921. 102
per cent, while in anthracite mining
the increase was 152 per cent.
1 1
Woman Kills Husband;
Claims Self-Defense
Omnh Bm Ieaaefl Wirr.
Atlantic City. N. J., March 19.
Lewis Wills, 38, close friend of
Mayor Edward L. Bader, the super
intendent of rlie Bader Construction
company, was shot and killed in his
home here by his wife, Mrs. Marcel
la Wills, 35. The -wife asserts she
fired in self-defense.; vyhen-Wills, af
ter beating her; threatened another
attack.
Sobbing hysterically and with
blood streaming from, her face, Mrs.
Wills went to the apartment of Har
ry E. Sterch, opposite her own.
Sterch found Wills lying uncon
scious across his bed. ,He died a few
minutes later.
Mrs. Wills was placed under ar
rest charged with murder. '
The Wills' two, daughters, 9 and
)0, were asleep in an adjoining room
when the shooting occurred. The
shot did not awaken them.
Man Gives Assets as $3.55
and Liabilities $1,802,587
Omaha Bee leased Wire.
New York, March 19. Frank B.
Erain, formerly a member of a
brokerage firm and now a mere sales
man, confessed he was broke, in
fact he said he lacks more than
$1,000,000 of being able .to take care
of his creditors, who are many. :
In a voluntary petition "in bank
ruptcy filed in the United States dis
trict court here he gave his assets
as $3.55 and hi? liabiliteis as $1,802,
587. It was set forth that among
the involvements were loans from
banks. The largest unsecured credi
tor was given as Mark H. Crehan of
Boston, who, in 1920, the papers
said, obtained a judgment against
Erain for $647,954 for alleged breach
of contract.
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Southern Ireland
Bracing Itself
for More Trouble
lYtiMon Along T)roiieMonap.
han Ilonler Imrraxing hi
habitant in Hourly Dread
of Uoxlilitir.
Ilou Picks Army Kitle
Midi With Pen Point:
Five Children Hurt
University of
Nehniska Costs
Edsel Ford, son of the multimil
lionaire automobile manufacturer,
will be a candidate for a seat in
congress at the next election, he has
announced. Just-what party affilia
tions he will seek has not been (lis
closed.
Fire Threatens
Neville Block
Blaze Starting in Kase Photo
graph Studio Does 310,000
Damage Before Put Out.
Wife Steps Out of Love
Triangle to Aid Babies
Denver, March 19. So ' that her
husband's soul mate and two love
babies might exchange the stigma of
illegitimacy for a name and respect
ability, Mr. Grace Jarret Stoffcl,
legal wife of George Stoffel, proprie
tor of a local garage,' obtained in
county court a preliminary, de
rf flivnrrp When the final de
cree is granted six months from now,
Mrs. Stoffel says, her husband will
be free to marry "the other, woman"
and thereby will be able to gain a
name for the woman and the two
children she has borne Stoffel in- the
last four years.
Man Who Attacked Jeweler
Is Captured by Crowd
New York, March 19. Charles
Jansen. jr., jeweler, was clubbed with
a pistol and then shot in the shoulder
by a -bandit who attacked him
on his -way to lunch from Ins shop
at Eighth avenue and Twenty-fourth
street. Irailed by a -crowd and a
policeman, James . Harrison rushed
into a hallway and was. ctptjired. ar
rested and charged with the crime.
He said he came to New York five
months ago from Yuma, Ariz., and
that he was a miner.
Fire which originated in the Kase
photograph gallery on the second
floor of the Neville block, Sixteenth
and Harney streets, threatened to
destroy the building shortly before
midnight Saturday night.
The flames shot from the second
floor through the elevator shaft to
the third floor, and thcu through
the skylight to the roof.
Mrs. Josephine Lupton and S. H.
Clay, aged residents of the build
ing, were carried down two flights of
stairs by James McDermott and Po
lice Ofticer Jensen.
The blaze of the roof attracted
a large crowd, which believed that
the heart of the city was threatened
Nearly every piece of fire-fighting
apparatus in the city responded to
the several alarms.
The fire was under control a few
minutes after Fire Chief Salter ar
rived on the scene.
The damage will pass the $10,000
mark because of the water damage
to stores on the ground floor of the
building, according to firemen.
The fire was of unknown origin.
Restaurant Man Fires
Shotgun at Robber
A holdup man, alone and un
masked, walked into the Brissaud
restaurant. 1714 Howard street, while
Mrs. Adolph Brissaud was at the
cash register. Two diners and two
waitresses were in the cafe at the
time.
"1 am not going to hurt anyone,"
said the bandit as he leveled a gun
and backed Mrs. Brissaud away from
the register, while he took S3.
By this time Adolph, her husband,
who was in the kitchen, appeared on
the scene with a shotgun and fired at
the bandit just as the latter was dis
appearing through the door.
His shots went high, however, and
smashed the transom. The lone
holdup escaped.
Woman, 75, Sues Son for
Return of Homestead
Elizabeth Chinburg, 75, brought
suit in district court Saturday
against her son, Henry William
Ploss, charging that after she trans
ferred to him their home, 2420 Craig
street, on condition that he take care
of her as long as she lives, he vio
lated the agreement by getting an
other family to move in with them,
abusing and threatening her and in
forming her that he was going o
send her away.
She said the life there became un
bearable and she had' to leave aiyl
go to live with her daughter. She
asks the court to set aside the deed
which she gave him. The property
is worth $5,000.
Seven Indicted by Grand -
Jury Plead Not Guilty
Seven persons indicted on various
charges by the last grand jury were
arraigned before Judge O. D. Wheel
er in district court at Council Bluffs
Saturday. All entered pleas of not
guilty and were remanded for trial.
They were George Westrip, Ben
Hunt and C. S. Ccmyers, charged
with possession of stolen property;
Albert Wright and Earl Kimball,
facing similar charges in connection
with the theft of cigarets from the
Illinois Central railroad, and Joe and
Rosie Brown, charged with main
taining a liquor nuisance.
Lincoln Domestic Who .
Shot Self Dies in Hospital
Lincoln, March 19. (Special.)
Mildred Whelan, 18, domestic, who
shot herself March 2, died at a hos
pital here. Although she regained
consciousness she never ' told the
reason for her act. Notes were
found unaddressed. . One . read in
part:
"When you get to Heaven you'll
know why I did this."
The girl's parents live at Bladen,
Neb.
A
By PAUL WILLIAMS.
luP)rtiM, 1(11,
Dublin, March 19. F.eciiiig
noilunB but trouble from Urn, Sir
Henry WiUoit, the outh u bracing
ittelf agaiu-t the activities of the
lorce under the former llritih chief
of staff in the execution of the task
of restoring order in I'lster and i
treugtlrrniiig it frontier. For this
purpose SU.Kufl.iXK) h,u rcn set aside.
The tension along the Tyrone
Monatthan border i inmaMiig and
the inhabitant are in hourly dread
of hostilities. About 5H) additional
Irih republican troop have taken up
portions along the southern side of
the border between Aughnacloy ami
Caledon.
Fearing an attack from the north
erner. a detachment of the Irish re
publican army opened fire on Rrotip
of men near .Mullens hill, but there
were tin casualties. All the bridge
north of Aughnacloy lave been de
stroyed and the road have been
trenched. Bridges are being de
molished all along the frontier and
communication between County
Moiugh.ni and County Fermanagh
arc being cut off. Lackey bridge and
Cortmacarra bridge near tlonealv
and a new bridge near Clough have
tiecn blown up. - 1 he road from
Clone to Cavan and Ilelturbet ha
been destroyed in several place bv
mines north of the border.
flic Catholic population within a
large portion of Ulster is now iso
lated from the free state territorr.
The Dublin press asks what i meant
by this method of safeguarding the
ironuer ana ine answer generally
given is war.
Viscount Peel to
Succeed Montagu
New Secretary of India Mem
ber of Conservatives
Premier Still Silent.
Copyright. im.
London. March 19. Viscount Pee!
has been appointed secretary of state
for India to succeed E. S. Montagu.
The new secretary is a conservative
and his appointment will further
trengthen the conservative element
in the cabinet, placating the "die
hard" tories who are the chief op
ponents of Prime Minister Lloyd
George.
Viscount reel, who had not been
mentioned for the post, is now chan
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and
acting minister of transport, which
offices are. being wound up. He
comes of a famous political family,
being the grandson of Sir .Robert
Peel and the son of a former speak
er of the house of commons.
Mr. Lloyd George is itill sitting
tight at Criccicth, saying nothing.
The political gossips declare it now
looks as if he will weather the storm
if he wishes to do so. However, it
is still likely that he will insist on
an early election, at any rate soon
after the Genoa conference.
Omaha Mm mI Hlrv,
l ord. N. J . March ll-rite lul
dreu were injured and 27 then
thrown into a panic wlun an army I
rifle nheil enpli'dcd in Hie eventu
grade room of ihe Ford ptiVlic
school, Kohert Kmai. 13, who
ion n. ihe cartridge in a field near a
road lending from government arte-
I km I and brought it into the school
room, wa. ickmg at it with a pen
point when it exploded. He Mitfered
Mich laceration that a portion ot hi
hand had to he amputated.
Another school boy and three girl
were wounded slightly by fiaginenU
of the kin II and pirce of wood from
a dek top splintered by the explosion.
Over $2.1100,
Cot
f Operation Intitule
?iimiiii of Agricultural
(!iillcgt mid Oilier
lat Uraiulte.
Kenyon Makes Start
t( kIiuii4 Tram ri .
Ii gi!.tttire. btnt tm Mung in
lor the undent, ordered a cIl t'
hiHiWore e ul!ilu'd to ell leu
and reference work at cot. iu
ininli a the pront ot a looLlorc
come chiefly from silling pencil.
'paper and other Mipphrt and the
i legiolatitre failed to mrf!iorie deal
ing in ihee, the bookstore u loiig
. U:ll I I.' CI I about a month.
to riu L.UHU15 ijiiues t it u nt n
Ottumwa. la. Mjr.h l' -Judical
u much to say if the
hgiU.tture di'Mir to cut oil all ae
livitie except ihoe on the rampu.
- - w i ., , it, t :
vigor of the kind that made Kene-i nniveM.iy inum .r run tor one.
saw M. Lan.li feared and famous on I !u!f ,' ",w '';
the federal bench found it counter. I J ,,avc !,n,,.t n,8,,J'
Part today in. Federal Judge W. I. j V thm. inr-t.Mt a rcat.uny of
Kenyon' court from which three of- ' t''le feature are giving val-
fenders received sentence to Leaven
worth penitentiary.
Of the lirct. W. K. Gillespie of
Quincy, III., Judge Kenyon Mid he
would make an example. Taking
money from widows, he said, made
highway robbery fade into insignifi
cance. He said "blue sky artiMs'
had netted $100,000,000 in Iowa alone
in the lat few years. Gillespie re
ceived 12 years, three year each on
four counH of using the mails to de
fraud in alleged oil stock deal w hit h
in these cases cost two widows f.10,-
The former mayor of Lhlon. Ia
Francis E. I'ite. received two vcars'
sentence under the Mann act. Frank
C. Booth, alia "St. Paul Frank," 24.
received two years on a plea of guil
ty to stealing a mail sack at Center-
.-II- i- . .
vine, in., containing ifHu.uou) in se
curities, half of which i still missing,
liable service to the people, some of
winch result indirectly.
Thus il one complaint about the
cost of the agricultural college, it
can be replied that the experiment
conducted there, quite aside from
tins instruction given students, have
brought million of dollar profit to
the state. For instance, when Tur
key Krd wheat v.i brought from
J larding to Confer on
; Bonus Legislation
II MliMa Sntlu II.. I
fvrrjlhui P'ii'i!e ! I'.ni
tarry out tie uul.r of viigit.
without tnpiiliiig the oiv),
Mr, Hauling ail be imalile in
icake any trp to AUtl l-elore ion.
gfc adjurn, it was do laird, ant
linuM cvitino riiiail ill esn
I. l td the IliM ot AugU"t. It would
then be tiio Me for tii .rc-.idn.t m
make the (up, admtinMrat:oti oi.
i,,i.,U with the party muI.
1 I he prriith'til will make peevhf
'in the itrar future, ;trwr, it Wa
"T declared, lie l booked for three
rpiet hi in the near mture, however,
at the murilmg of the llatmlioA
rti-HMiiui i.i. the tirant memorial m
Ohio, ami ihe I m otn iiii-ujun.d in
Valiiiigti-ii
Mr. Ilaidi'ig dining the fr-v min
utes the i r.i.i it( ij! train Stopped
at la Ksuiiiilte to t lunge engine,
willed l-iiiar and shook hand
with the i-nmiuvf, luetuan and menu
bit oi I l.i- Hani iew. He wa
cordially greeted a"d the engineer
Oil the ti.uii 1 1 t ' t irom Jackson
wa told bv the president to lake Ins
lime,
"I will be i art fill," Ihe engineer
rrtiticd, as ihe thief executive shovk
hi hand and wished him well,
Afco!tipauini ihe president liou i?
i t'nder Secretary ol Slate I'lrt-li-er,
who Mid lie had about two dj-
woik to do after reaching Washing
ton before rrlui'iuishing hi preei-.t
position, Mr. I It-trher said he ex
pected to leave the first of next
month to t.ike up hi duties t
vmha,idor to Itrlgium.
Pawnee City High School
. Loses Dehate With Auhurn
Pawnee City Pawnee City high
school debating team was defeated
on their home floor by a decision of
2 to 1. The regular high school
league question was debated. Local
expounders were Harold Bosley,
Roy Becbe and Donald Becker for
Auburn, Isabelle Snyder, Lavcta
Hanlan and Eugene Perry. Judges
were Prof. Eason from Peru State
Normal and Van Pelt and Boots,
law students from the state univer
sity. '
Liherty Man Gets Top Price
of $73 at Poland China Sale
Beatrice, Neb. W. J. Barr sold
35 head of pure bred Poland China
hogs at his home near Liberty, the
top price being $73 per head. The
average was $50 and buyers were
present from points in this sectioa
of the state and Kansas.
Call Meeting of Custer
Farmers and Dairy Men
Broken How, jTeb. A call has
been issued by a committee consist
ing of J. D. Ream and H. E. Meyers
tor a meeting ot the dairymen and
farmers of Custer county to meet
at the city hall March 25, to organize
a dairymen's association.
Adams Couple Sell 360
Acres for Total of $29,000
Beatrice, Neb. A deed was filed
by David Bryson and wife of Adams,
conveying: 320 acres of land near
Adams and 240 seres in Colorado to
Willard M. Folson, the consideration
being $29,000.
' York College
Woodson Spurlock. who won the Rhodes
hofArsh4t- at th University of Nebraska-
this year, - in in Yorlc college taking an
advanced rourse in Latin. He will enter
Oxford next fall.
Thursday evening the college seniors
were entertained at the Hulitt conserva
tory by the Aliases Grace King and Gladys
Harding. ....
Professor Coleman visited York college
this week and gave a series of lectures
as follows: The National Mind. Changing
the National Mind, National Teamwork
and National Regeneration.
Saturday evening the sophomores eur-
prised Pean Ashcraft, their class sponsor,
with a party In his )ionor. The sopho
mores presented him with a college pillow
as a token of their appreciation ot his
loyalty and service to mem.
Soring athletics are now In full awav.
the basket ball season closing last week.
The track men. are. now out of doors
training.- There are quite a number out
this year and the rroapects seem good
for a good track and field team. Tennis
is also going fine. The court Is getting
the final repairs for this season's Blaring
and the players are getting their rackets
nmDerea up ron tnis seasons games.
Every day we see baseball games that
cause about as iinuch interest and en
thusiasm as an big league game.
Wednesday evening the..T. M. C. A.
was addressed by Arthur Htltner, the
new secretary of the T. M, C. A. His
subject .was: The Program of tha T.
M. C. A. apd he gave a very good out
line ot the possibilities for service in
the T.
The silver cups which were to be award
ed at the end of the training tournament
have arrived and are being sent out to
the winners of the tournament. Osceola
wss the winner of tha class A. cup and
this was given them- by the college.
Hampton was the winner of the class
Ft cup and this cup wss furnished by
r BuViock Hardware company of this
Olf.
Lodge Properties to
Be Taxed as Unit
Lincoln, March 19. Lodge prop
erties in Nebraska will be assessed
as a unit, the assessors to make no
division of the property, on the
theory that the use of such property
is not primarily, charitable or re
ligious. XV. H. Osborne, state tax
commissioner, today instructed coun
ty assessors meeting here.
As sentiment favored the tax Taw-
being clarified to allow the remis
sion of taxes only on such nroncrtv
as used exclusively and necessarily
inr . religious ana charitable purposes,
Mr. Osborne instructed the assessors
to proceed on this basis as the law.
as it now stands, is not specific or
definite in its nrovisions. he stater
Discussion over the orcsent svstem
of classifying lands as "improved-
and "unimproved", led to the meet
ing going on record as favorinc a
new classification under the heads or
"lands" and "improvements."
Lyons Defeats Emerson
in High School Dehate
Lyons Lyons won from Emerson
in an interscholastic dehate' on the
State .Question. "Resolved that - trip
movement of organized labor for the
closed shop should receive the sup
port of public opinion.' The Emer
son team, Miss Brink, Miss Bonder
son and Mr. Kruse upheld the af
firmative side of the question. The
negative was upheld by the local
high school team: Inez Johnson,
Irene Orander and Ershal Freeman.
Henry L. Marsh from Morningside
college acted as judge. f
Odell Declamatory Contest
Will Be Held Thursday
Wymore The high school dec
lamatory contest will be held at the
opera house in OdcII March 23. There
will be contests in dramatic, orator
ical and humorous departments. The
winners will go to Edgar April 14,
to compete in the southeastern dis
trict contest.
Marine. Guards Withdrawn.
Chicago; March 19. Armed civi
lian guards replaced the ma
rines who have been guarding the
United States mails here for the past
few months. The change was believ
ed to have been sanctioned from
Washington to give the postmaster
complete control ot the men, the
marines having been subject to army
uiscipunc.
Wayne Teachers' College
I He junior and senior class plays havei
oeen selected and characters cast; practice
n Kum lorwara unuer tne direction of
Mrs. Minnie V. Wittmoj-r-r, head of the"
department of expression. The junior
clsss have chosen "Nothing but the-
"ui". Dy James Montgomery; and the
nnniorg win present "Clarence. ' Booth
Tarkington's comedy. It is usual for the
junior play to be staged about the middle
of April and the senior play is given
during commencement week in May.
Tuesday evening during the motion pic
ture show in the auditorium, the audi
ence enjoyed a short radio concert, wlilch
was made possible by a magna vox placed
on tne stage and connected with an
aerial. Earl Schroer, graduate student
and assistant to the physical science
laboratory, was operator at the radiophone
in the science building and sent out the
concert. ,
Saturday at Wayne State Teachers col
lege, the sceond annual meeting of the
ortneaRt Nebraska Kadio club was held.
The speakers - on the program were: R.
B. Howell of Omaha, chairman of the
Radio Service commission, who discussed
"Problems Relating to Radiophone Recep
tion," and "Radio and the Rural Home,
Prof. I. K. Britell, department of science,
Wayne Teachers' college; Prof. E. W.
Gould of the Norfolk high school; Prof.
C, R. Ohinn, Wayne Teachers' college;
Prof. Earl H. Schroer of Wayne high
school.
The -dramatic club of Wayne Teachers'
college presented two one-act plays, "The
Neighbors," and "The Maker" of
Dreams." The plars were under the di
rection of Mrs. Minnie V. Wlttmeyer. in
structor in oral expression and -dramatic
art.
imim,i. jroin iH''t 'ie laimrrs i 'i " i
Nebraska erc Rowing sprmrt j ) ,L L. Vl. ForrPf4
wheat, l.xperniirnts with the new t-MSIJ'vU VL13 I UUIU
winter variety h-d to its K'"ncr;tl
Grand Island College '
The annual election of officers of the
T. W. and T. M. C A occurred this
week. Quite a number of new .students
were elected to these offices.
Prof. R. B. Stevens of the Bible depart
ment occupied the pulpit at Norfolk
last Sunday.
The Intercollegiate debate between
Hastings college and our own will occur
on Wednesday night of this week. The
negative detaters of Hastings meet our
affirmative team here, and our negative
team will debate against the Hastings
affirmative speakers at Hastings. The
question is: "Resolved, That the Prin
ciple of the Closed Shop Is Justifiable."
The Grand Island college faculty club
met last Saturday night at the home of
Prof, and Mrs. A. J. Kissinger. Miss
Hall of the normal department read a
paper on "Educational Tests and Meas
urements." Part of the paper Included
sn exposition of Jjr, Carl K. Seashore's
"Teats for Measuring Musical Talent."
These tests consist of four records, play
ed on a phonograph and make It possible
tor the individual to record his talent In
pitch, time, hatmony and musical mem
ory. M-mbers of the faculty were sur
prised at their musical ability, some rank
ing low and others high.
f
idontioii. with an increase of several
bu.shclsj of wheat from each acre.
There is another new wheat dis
covered more lately that also is
giving an increased crop, The -amc
u true of oats, and the poultry pro
duction of Nebraska is bring him
ilarly boomed.
Self-Support Difficult.
Some critics a.sk why the state
farm does not make the agricultural
college self-ttipporting. Aside from
the fact that experimental plots can
not be carried on with any thou.aht
of direct financial return, there is an
other ancle to be considered. There
is a splendid herd of dairy cows on
the state farm, yet what happened
when the college started a milk
route? Ihe dairymen and milk deal
ers of Lincoln protested so vicious
ly that today the milk is right now
suit against the state hog serum
plant in behalf of private commer
cial enterprises.
there remains one other method
of lessening the cost of the taxpayer
for higher education, aside from cur
tailing the university facilities or put
ting tcaciicrs on sweainop suji its.
This is by increasing the admission
fees to some of the protessional or
technical schools. At the present
time the university dental college is
self-supporting, the only one on the
campus in which the students pay
the entire running expense.
Earnest questioning is arising
over whether the whole people
bear the expense of training young
men and women for money-making
pursuits, from banking, law and
medicine to agriculture, if this last
can so be classified. Manv state uni
versities are putting on fees of ?oO
and more a year. Harvard s school
of business lately has decided to go
on a business basis and support it
self bv chareinsr $400 admission. Ise
braska university has a similar school
which would pay its own way it each
student paid about $60 a year. If
the state is to provide this training
for merchants and bankers, some as
sert, it should be reimbursed, ihe
objection that this would build up a
class distinction by which many
children of the poor would be unable
to rise brings forth the suggestion
that students might borrow their fees
from the state, to repay the debt
from their future earnings. Certain
ly, under a svstem oi high fees, un
less so modified, the tendency to
build a ruling class built on wealth
would be heightened.
Childless Escape Expense.
Recently a farmer complained that
his share of taxes to the university
amounted to $15 a year. His audi
tor reported that the farmer had a
daughter attending the university,
and that it was costing the state
more than $100 a year to educate
her. Thus it may be seen that any
one whose children use the public
schools receives back many times
what he pays out for their support.
On the other hand, those who are
childless escape a great deal of ex
pense, and broadly speaking, are
beter able to pay taxes than they
otherwise would be.
The cost to the public of a year's
course in the various colleges fol
lows: Number Total Per
College Students Exp'ture Capita
Agriculture 488 $3(10.000.10 S614.7:!
Arts and Sciences. 3,131 3H0.S33.75 121. 63
Business Adm. ... 732 41.SPO.00 67.17
Dentistry 139 25,461.00 1S3.10
Enginering . ; .. . . S48 106,000.00 193.4.1
Uw ;ss :7, 150.00 105.23
Medicine 3PG 112,000.00 282.82
Pharmacy 77 45,793.73 594.72
Teachers' 600 47.230.00 78.71
Hostile to Fee.
Nebraska's legislature always has
been hostile to the fee system, and
probably this is correct as far as the
arts and science courses are -concerned.
The senate, at the last reg
ular session, adopted a resolution de
manding lower fees, and this was
promptly heeded by the regents. Hav
ing removed this source of revenue,
the legislature, in special session,
then cut a large slice "off the appro
priation as well.
Public sentiment does not endow
a skinflint policy toward education.
It does call for the abolition of un
necessary frills and the elimination
of waite. It is time some settled
policy toward the university and the
numerous and various auxiliary activ
ities snouia oe adopted.
to Wait for Pay Checks
Ntw Vuik, March J'. Several
hundred diabled nildicri takiuR
xocaiiiiti.il training in New York and
it. siiluirhs crowded into the district
of fice of the vctrians' bureau and
unsuccessfully demanded their semi
monthly pay.
Hehiud the cashier's window weie
6.tKH) treasury check nude out for
the veteran, but thr..c were held up.
since the bureau was out of funds
because congress had not passed
deficiency appropriation bill.
The disabled, some of them plead
ing hungry and empty pocket, went
up to the fifth floor and begged
Maj. Henry I. Opdycke, district
manager, to see that they got their
money. He had no authority to act
but after telephoning to Washington,
permission was received to Issue
emergency funds to those most in
need.
Bootlegger Makes Rum
From City Garbage
Kane. Pa., March 19. Federal
agents who raided the supposed pig
gery of Andy Orzchowski de
clared .they found the place to be a
well equipped distillery and portion
of the garhagc its owner had gather
ed from the refuse cans of the city
had gone into the manufacture oi
whisky and not into hog troughs.
Fifty gallons of garbage distilled
whisky was seized.
You take railroad
travel for granted these
easy days.
But remember about
Stephenson and the first
locomotive. A lucky
strike for progress 1
E.
STUiff
The discovery of toasted
tobacco was a lucky striks
for us.
If you will buy a packag
of Lucky Strike cigarettes
yourself you will see why
millions now prefer th
toasted flavor. :
5t9s Tossed
Do this today and notice tha
delicious toasted Barley
when you try Lucky Strike.
cn p.
Steamships
Arrivals.
Jlarch 17. Potomac, Bre-
1T. George Wash-
-Tenyo Maru,
New York,
men.
Alexandria, March
lnKton, New Vork.
San Francisco. March 18
Hongkong.
I ristoba I. March 17. Alvarado. San
Francisco; Frederick l.uckenhach. Seattle.
-Manila. March 1 7. fcdmore. Seattle.
1-lverpool, March. 17. Panaman, Tw-
coma.
Hongkong. March 17. Pine Trre State.
Tacoma.
4'onstan2a. March 15. Acropolis, New
Tork. '
leparturcs. j
Shields. March 16. City of Bombay.
San Krancist-0. 1
Cristobal, March 17. Merideti. Mil
Francisco. I
Manila. March 17. Arak.m. Sin Fran
cisco. I
New Toilc. March 18 Montcserrst, Ha
vana. Liverpool; i-'tnland, Antwerp. i
MS
Hot Cross
Buns
Their origin can be
traced to the remot
est period of pagan
history.
Ours don't date back that
far, because they are
made fresh each day.
They are tasty and full of
raisins and currants.
Try them.
You will enjoy them. Eat
one in the shop and take
home a dozen.
"Health in Food"
Northwest Corner
16th and Farnsm