Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 2

fllttW JM (AND LINCOLN DAILY NEWS) THE WEATHER For Lincoln and Vicinity: Partly tonight and Saturday; not much change in tern, peraturc. Lowest temperature tonight about 25 For Nebraska: Partly overcast tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. FORTT-THIRD YEAR. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1924. TWO CENTS, WEAVE WEB FOR FORBES Government Agent's Deals Are Now Being Scrutinized.

MOBTJMEB ON THE STAND Tells of $30,000 Gift From St. Louis Contractor, Says He Accused Fortes of Double Crossing Him and Was Charged With Same Thing by Forbes. CHICAGO, Dec. '5. Colonel Charles R.

Forbes received $30,000 from John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor, as the result of a hospitalization contract deal between the two men, Elias H. Mortimer, star witness for the government in the Forbes-Thompson fraud testified today. This occurred while Forbes was head of the United States veterans bureau, Mortimer stated.

The witnesses also told of Forbes being embarrassed by newspaper inquiries into the letting of the Northampton, hospitalization contract. The defunct Pontiac Construction company, subsidiary of the Thompson and Black company of St. Louis, -secured the contract. Mortimer testified that at one time he charged Forbes with double-crossing him and that Forbes had made a similar charge against him. CHICAGO, Dec.

5. Acode book said to have been used by Col. Charles R. Forbes, John W. Thompson, St.

Louis contractor, Elias H. Mortimer, star federal witness, in the transaction of alleged illegal deals in the assignment of hospitalization contracts, was placed in. tha records of the Forbes-Thompson fraud trial here today. John W. H.

Crim, government prosecutor, charged that the code was used to avoid disclosure of the operations of-sForbes and Thompson. Mortimer, once a paid agent of Thompson, identified the code book. Forbes, former head of the veterans' bureau, was labeled "Chief" and ''McAdoo." Mort.mer was known as "Moxie." Thompson was "Thornton" while Merle E. Sweet, Forbes" secretary, was "Pickles." Today's hearing was slow, the jury consuming much time examining the code book. COP OTRTJROCEEDMS All Alibis Are Bad Alibis When You Face the Judge, Says Class of Twenty-seven.

"I WILS in a dentist's chair and couldn't get away in time "My wife called me on the telephone "I told my friend to move it, and he moved the wrong car And son on and on, ran the inexhaustible variety of tales and truths that are presented at Judge Chappell's bar of justice in the northwest corner of the second floor of police headquarters, on those days when "two hour parkers" park in court to wait judgment for their infringements. "Yes of course, such things often work a hardship on you," says the judge, quizzically, "One dollar and costs" or it may be a dismissal if the alibi sounds plausible enough. The percentage of escapes slumped sadly on Friday however, when only six were not fined out of thirty-three arraigned. Fines $1 and $2 25 costs were levied upon: Mrs. Frank O'Connell, William Bond.

Ernest Mumby. Harvey Rathbone. J. Meehan. F.

S. Oldt, J. H. Heft. Mrs.

John Stryker, O. L. Bragg. T. F.

Smith. Johnson. C. E. Hinds.

Charles DicKlnFon. Max Mozer, Mrs. X. Sherman. U.

E. Strayer. William Speck. Mrs. Thomas Woods, Laverne Cashmaa, G.

L. Kidd. R. C. Barthelman.

G. Schneider. T. FaraoU. S.

W. SulHvan. Dr. Buchanan, and Frank Webbers were dismissed O. V.

Acton, H. Shephard. A K- Capon and W. M. received continuances.

G. R. fnlhaak was fined $1 and costs. and F. Boulter was $5 and $4.70 Free Bridsre at Louisville.

LOUISVILLE. NS 5 -The toll hr'd-o ovo- he flail" river at Lonisi 'lie jiwi V- oome a it lias fr-f-o dTidfd -niil pay of ih" aTd Sarpy fwnlips; BT-o to rolr; unti" yas Tr-f-) paid 'n which tjf tV rTnaird'T of pircha." IP a fnm -will rol- leofd by July 1. on amount of -aj-f-r irafflr as A5CHST CHINESE AST SOON TO WED The announcement of the en' gagement of Miss Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, former national and Canadian women's golf champion, i to Dr. Wilbert Green Frazer, of tawa, Canada, has just been made. Dr.

Frazer is a native of Pembroke, Canada. OFFICERS ON FIRM LINE CEITICIZED FOB, FAHTTRE TO CAPTTTKE BANDITS. YOUNG HUSBAND WHO IS MISSING WOMEN WAR OYERPAPER BEAUTY SHOP PROPEIETOS I AND EMPIOYE IN LAWSUIT. Insists Neter Knew Had Signed Agreement Never to Enter Employ of Grand Wand Competitors. The supreme "(fdtirt listened to arguments Friday on whether the contract which' Mrs.

Lulu May iGotcb. signed in July, 1923, by which she bound herself never to work in Grand Island in competi- with Mrs. Sarah A. Dow, whose ministrations add youth and beauty to the women of Grand Is- land, is enforcible at law. Mrs.

Gotch had worked for Mrs. Dow for a vear and a half, had managed her shop for her when Mrs. Dow had to take an invalid husband to California for his health. After her return Mrs. Gotch expressed a desire to take a posi graduate course in Marinello, a sort of super-beauty 9ys- tern, and Mrs.

Dow said she would advance her $100 to pay for the course if she would sign an agreement with her. There is a dispute as to what the agreement was to be, but none as to what it is. As signed, it conj stituted an agreement on the part of Mrs. Gotch that in (Jonsidera- tion of the payment of the $100 she would stay a year with Mrs. Dow and also bound herself never i to work for any other beauty shop in Grand Island.

Mrs. Dow says that Mrs. Gotch fully understood it, I and that she kept the copy five jdays before she signed it Mrs Gotch says she never understood it to mean anything more than that she would stay in her employ for 'a year. A banker drew up the pa- 1 per for them. I Mrs.

Dew had never learned Marinello. but Mrs. Gotch did i know something about it. Mrs. Dow didn't want to go and take the course because she said that when she got back the women, ever anxious to try something new.

would overwork her. and she wasn't 1 in good health anyway. She said that she intended that if she ad- I vanced the money for the course that no competitor in Grand Island should profit by the added skill of Mrs. Gotch. and so she put in the clause that she should be barred I from working in Grand Ifland dur- ing the rest of her natural life.

Mrs. Gotch claim is that she thought the only promise she was 1 raakinc was that sh would stay with Mrs. Dow for a year. Five months after was sicnfd she got a betu-r offer than the SSS a week i she was getting, aid wat to 1 Cheyenne. Mrs.

Pow corjontiag. Mrs. Gotch said fiat she suppojed this cancelled th whole acree- men! LaM June to Grand Islard and took i with a rival brauty shop Vr? Dow called VT attention 10 the contract J.P ad picn'-d and s-ays that stu -went to trunk 'and fad it 01 and 'or 1 first had surrxd 1 ns Trf -1 to Tvork j'or no o-: 7 and was th" Mrs IX'W Th- wa- ad-, arrf-d or Considerable Variation Between Report From Deputy Sheriff and That Brought Back by Bethany Banker. Three Omaha'deputy sheriffs are receiving an unofficial panning for failure to catch two gentlemanly bandits whose apparent long suit is shaking hands and wishing good wishes. Considerable variation exists between the report given State Sheriff Carroll by Deputy Sheriff Phillips of Omaha, one of the official party, and the story as brought to Lincoln late Thursday by Harry Heiliger, assistant cashier of the looted Bethany bank.

The deputy sheriff reported that the bandits drove into an alley and abandoned the Ford coupe stolen in Lincoln and stole a high-power Hupmobile which overturned at Dead Man's curve, twelve miles west on the Dodge road. The report from Omaha also had it that the Ford was of special gear for speed and that the rear was punctured with bullet holes from the officers' guns. The deputy sheriff stated that the official party was at one time within ten feet of the bandits. Here are some of the variations: The Ford was not abandoned in an alley. The bandits used the one car and only one in Omaha and it was the coupe stolen in Lincoln.

This car was an ordinary stock car without special gears. No dents were found in the rear of the coupe. The bandits ran out of ammunition -before the chase was ended. One of them was not shot by an officer. He cut his hand on glass.

car did not overturn airBeaa Man's curve'feut did go in" a ditch where the bank robbers abandoned it and walked eight miles to a farm house. The officers were in a Nash car possessed of much greater speed than the Ford coupe. They claimed, however, that their car was in a jam the day before and was not up to form. The deputy sheriff stated that the bandits fired on the officers at least twelve times before the fire was returned. This in itself is criticized unofficially.

The unofficial critics contend that the officers naturally should have used their guns much sooner. It develops that four farmers 'in addition to the deputy sheriffs are being unofficially panned. These farmers who harbored the pair and who drove them to Omaha, were given to understand that they were dealing with law violators and gunmen. The first report to the Omaha police did not come from one of the farmers. It was a milkman who phoned a private detective agency and the police were notified by a private detective.

The milkman I had seen the suspicious looking I pair at one of the farms visited. Further evidence regarding the movements of the bandits in Lincoln after they had marooned the "bankers in a corn field late Tuesday morning, was found by Captain Anderson of the police department. Two men answering the descriptions of the bandits engaged a room at a local hotel Monday, and checked out Tuesday shortly before noon, which would coincide with the time of their return from the robbery. The men who stopped at the hotel Monday and Tuesday morning gave their addresses as Omaha. They were young and good looking, well dressed, one was of lisht complexion and the other dark.

and in other particulars resembled the robbers. In addition, the auto- i mobile stolen by the robbers aad used while staging the robbery. was later found abandoned very near the hotel in which they are believed to have stopped. Bayard This city will have a community Christmas tree and program this year. Sidney js also I to have its first community 'ree land a movement is on foot 1o sion- jsor such a program in Bridctporuj NEBRASKA SCHEDULES DRAFTED AT J.

H. HOWARD. Fairbury man who left his home November 28, telling his young wife that he was going hunting. He has not been heard from since. A search is being instituted by relatives for him.

Howard is twenty- one years old, five feet eleven inches tall, weighs about 160 pounds and has light hair and blue eyes. LIGHTS OUT FOR SAFETY THREE HUNDRED TURNED OFF THURSDAY NIGHT. 'or j-r 3" C-ard "-lard '07 a Sh" ic ir an of -o a broil ori it? Prof. R. O.

Scott. Nebraska's faculty representative in the Missouri VsWey conference, Athletic Director Dawson, Coach Schultc a Herb Gish will attend the annual meeting of faculty representatives and coaches of the MISSOU-I Valley cc-nference at Kansas City Saturday. Missouri valley schedules in the various spo-ts w.n be d-afted Ne- braska will mvite the con. ference to holds its a a tracV meet here again in 1925 The meet last spri-g held t-e-e was a financial sue- cess for the first time histo- of conference ath efics ant! 'of NtbrasVa will ask i be held Fo'tbs and track schedules wi)l be worked out- Commissioner Schroeder Declined to Take Chance en Possible Personal Contact With. Any live As a public safetey measure, Commissioner Schroeder ordered Thursday night darkness along streets where all-night circuits run.

Six high-voltage circuits were dead for the night Arcs on the two all- night circuits were watched for burn-outs and drops. There were no accidents. "I was afraid to turn on the juice feeding wires into outside arcs," said Mr. Schroeder. "We could not watch them all and there was the possibility of a burnout and the dropping of a live wire.

Contact with such a wire probably would mean death. We watched the two all-night circuits. Cluster lights, of course, were on." Everything is in readiness for the turning on of all arcs Friday night, according to the head of the water and light department. During the day wires continued to carry considerable ice. In the event of a.

heavy wind and the whipping of wires, damake was still in prospect. At Twenty-sixth and streets Thursday a lead of the gass company sagged and shorted the city's wire directly underneath. This trouble was corrected by linemen of the two public service utilities. General Manager Hill of the gas company said Friday that Ms company had experienced but little difficulty. Lines out of the city were in the clear and the few mishaps were local aad of short duration.

The traction company's light department was in good shape Friday. The traction company reported cars running on schedule practically all day Friday. Some of the early morning trips were from three to four minutes off. E. R.

Heiny, superintendent of transportation. said that the increase in patronage is but slight. Increased revenue in time of storm is offset by increased cost. ASKS DAMAGESFOR CRASH Anna Rockenbach Files S10.200 Suit Against F. L.

Swanson for Injuries in Colliison. Anna Rorkenbach filed a personal Injury suit Frank IT Friday for ed in an aijto on T) tiichway. and f.outh of Mallard. MOSS NAMED FOR JUDGE GOVEBNOE APPOINTS FAIB- BUBY DEMOCBAT: Successor to Judge Colby Was One of the Nebraska Boosters at the New York Convention. A contest between democratic aspirants before a democratic governor closed Friday when Governor Bryan announced the appointment, of W.

J. Moss of Fairbury to be judge of the eighteenth judicial dis-, trict to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Judge L. W. Colby. 1 The office to be filled is listed in the statutes as non-political but no attorneys affiliating with the republican party cared to ask for the place.

The aspirants were W. J. Moss and W. H. Barnes of Fairbury and Judge E.

O. Kretsinger and Frank A. Dutton, of Beatrice. Mr. Dutton, city attorney of Beatrice, withdrew in the interests of harmony when the contest began to warm up.

Later he turned up in support of TOUCH OF WINTER IN WEST NEBRASKA Snowfall Was Sufficient To Block Branch Lines of Railroads. OPENING DRIFTS WITH FLOWS Troubles Still Hamper Traffic in Missouri Valley. DID MUCH DAMAGE Mr. Moss. All members of the Fairbury bar with the exception of a newly arrived attorney, endorsed Mr.

Barnes when Mr. Moss became an applicant. The Beatrice bar aided Kretsinger very some of its leading members endorsing Mr. Moss. This gave rise to a statement that unless the Beatrice bar withdrew its support from Moss the Fairbury bar would transfer its support to Kretsinger.

In the meantime Mr. Moss hustled and obtained petitions signed by citizens and some attorneys in both countries of, the district. This method gave him double the number of petitioners backing other applicants. Mr. Moss is an active democrat.

He was one of the Nebraska democrats who attended and suffered thru the weeks of the democratic national convention as a. spectator, and booster for Governor Bryan. Governor Bryan has appointed Mr. Moss to serve until his successor is elected and qualified. Under an amended constitution a dispute has arisen as to the length of term the appointee is entitled to serve.

Governor Bryan is personally of the opinion Mr. Moss Is to serve the unexpired term up January 8 and then to continue In the office for the following full term of four years. Many attorneys believe the term is until the next general election in 1926. Suggestions had been made that perhaps Governor Bryan would show the incoming governor the courtesy of an opportunity to fill the place after January 8 by an appointment. "On account of the amount of sentiment and endorsement In favor of Mr.

Moss," said Governor; Bryan, "I feel that the people of Gage and Jefferson counties have practically made their own selec-j tion." I He said among the well known attorneys who endorsed Mr. Moss were Judge W. H. Kelligar of Auburn, who in 1904-8 was judge of the counties now in this district. Alfred Hazlett and his law partner, i Fulton Jack, F.

A. Dutton and For-. mer Judge Pemberton. all of Be- atrice, and H. H.

Wilson of Lincoln and C. J. Campbell of Lincoln, were the others named by the governcA as endorsing Mr. Moss. John Drinkwater John Drinkwater, noted playwright, will marry Miss Daisy Kennedy, talented violinist, December 16 in London.

After the wedding ceremony the couple will hold a reception, which will be one of the greatest gatherings of famous authors, poets, playwrights, musicians and theatrical stars. It is Mr. Drink-water's second marriage venture, the first ending in a divorce. LEO KORETZ BEGINS TIME NOW SERVING ONE TO TEN YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. May Not Live to Complete Minimum Term So Coiirt Thinks Ends of Justice Will CHICAGO, Dec.

-(United Press by Radio.) Broken in health and crushed in spirit and with less than $5 of his $2,000,000 left, Leo Koretz, oil stock swindler, today to start serving his one to ten years sentence, imposed late yesterday by Chief Justice Hopkins. The sentence of one to ten years on each of three indictments of larceny in connection with Ms swindling operations are to run concurrently. It was indicated by physicians that Koretz will not live six months. He is suffering with a bad case of diabetes" along with other ailments. Justice Hopkins declared in view of Koretz' illness, his refusal to fight extradition from Halifax, where he was arrested, and Ms plea of guilty, the ends of justice would be well served if the sentence ran concurrently.

Koretz accepted his sentence with little demonstration. He grinned wanly and said he was ready to go. Koretz will be taken to Joliet state penitentiary late today or tomorrow, State's Attorney Crowe said. WOULD WHTFOI A YEAR Secretary Hoover Thinks Radio Legislation Would Be Unwise at This Time. WASHINGTON.

Dec. i tary of Commerce Hoover in a let- ter to Representative White of Maine, member of the house merchant marine committee, today recommended that congress pass no legislation affecting the radio industry for another year. Hoover requested merely an extension of the authority no-cr exer- i cised OVT the industry by the i partment of commerce. In th i mean li in'' ra3io would continue practically on a self-r'-jmTatirje basis, with the depariTOPnt acting 1n a capsrity. Whit" 5s author of a bill proviflroi: for ion of radio in detail.

REPORT ONJJOAL AND GAS Street Department Head Prepares to Open. Filling Station to General Public. The head of the street department expeots to open his municipal filling station for sale of gas to the general public on or before December 15. His report to the council for the montth of November indicates that he sold to the public 5.070 gallons during the five days he operated without official or legal sanction. An electric power pump purchased by him is ready for installation and a new hand pump will arrive within a few days.

His report for November: IOTH. To'nl ciil from r-jW c-- 1T7I-; cal- Moisture Came in Time to Help Winter Wheat in the Far West Where It Was Very Dry. Snow plows were used on Burlington branch lines in western Nebraska and Kansas Friday morning. The snow there was of considerable depth and it was necessary to send plows over the branch lines. Superintendent of the Omaha division reported snow as deep- as fourteen inches along his O'Neill line.

There the snow did not drift and did not cause trouble. Southwestern Nebraska was covered with a deep covering of snow. Weather bureaux precipitation reports did not show a great deal of jsnow at Valentine, altho Sioux 'City and O'Neill had about the moisture fall as here. In two days Lincoln had one and one-quarter inches of rain. This would be equivalent of about fourteen inches of snow.

North Platte reported a little more than an inch of moisture. Omaha reported less than an inch, while east of Omaha in Iowa more than an inch of rain fell Thursday. The wire situation -was still bad. Press reports continued to come by radio altho pretss wires were promised the newspapers by Fii- i The Burlington reported these wires in service out of Lincoln: One telephone wire to Wymore; partly restored wire service to Omaha; wires -west to Dorchester at noon; wires west to Milford at noon; wires down on Wymore division west of Chester; some wires down on the McCook division. Slow progress was made in wire 'service restoration.

The cold did not greatly interfere hut the ice covered poles and the large num- be'r of wire breaks made progress slow. I The Lincoln telephone company reported that its storm damage might reach $75,000. The Postal telegraph and Western Union companies lost many wires and all of the railroads entering Lincoln sustained some loss. The extent of loss was surprising even to line repairers. At no time was it intensely cold and at no time did the wind reach a high velocity.

The damage was caused by the great weight of ice that formed on the wires. West of Hastings and Kearney the snow the ground to a depth that stopped highway transportation, altho train service was not seriously delayed. The Burlington's train hoard at Lincoln showed almost every main line 'train on time or so nearly on time to cause no inconvenience, In the southwest country the jsnow was looked upon as a wheat crop saver. There the wheat, tho 'needing moisture badly, had not been greatly damaged and the snow came in time to save it, to give it a chance to grow more, as the ground was not frozen, and 'will give it more strength to with! stand the winter ahead. In the eastern part of the state reports are that many wheat fields have ibeen badly damaged.

Lincoln streets were covered with ice Friday morning and street traffic was greatly decreased, altho commercial vehicles and many 1 business cars made their usual i trips. At Friday afternoon the plant department of the telephone company reported that weather condition 1 were better, but that the actual conditions were worse. Where last night the count showed 1,150 poles down, the total has now reached 1,600, while wire breaks have increased from 2,400 to 3,500. The damage reports come from practically every point in the company's territory, between the Platte river and the Kansas line and east of Adams county to the Missouri river. Only one small part, in the southeeastern portion of this section, is the damage light.

Not only have toll lines been put out of business, but the farm plants on the local exchanges hava been hard hit. On the Lincoln exchange farm lines at least 500 poles are down. (Continued on Pacts Sli-A.) Stella People Married. STELLA, Dec. Wheeler and Miss Helen Mason were married at Hiawatha, nesdav.

Mr. and Mrs. Ferrin Doss and Miss Carrie Mason were witnesses. VICE CONSUL SHOT DOWN AN AMERICAN IN BELGRADE VICTIM OF A WOMAN. State Department at Washington Refuses to Comment on Case and Gives Out Meager Bulletin Only.

WASHINGTON, Dec 'A. Dayton, American vice consul in Belgrade who was shot down by a woman there, lias been taken to a hospital where he is receiving medical treatment This report came from Consul Kenneth S. Patton to the state department today. Dayton's condition is not serious, Patton said. State department officials refused to comment on the case.

A Lithuanian woman, whom Dayton had known while vice consul at Kovno, shot him yesterday and then committed suicide. Dayton is a son of J. Charles Dayton of Auburn, N. T. He was born at Atlanta, in 1897.

After attending Hamilton college, he served in the army from 1919 to 1922. Following service as clerk in. the American consulate at Kovno, Lithuania, for some months, he was made vice concul there in December, 1923. Last June he was transferred to Belgrade, Jugo-Slavia. WOULD SAFEGUARD SHOALS McXellar Has a Bill to Keep Property Under Control of This Nation.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. An amendment to the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill, designed to prevent the project from being sold or leased to foreigners was introduced. in the senate by Senator McKellar, I democrat, Tennessee, today. Another amendment offered by Senator McNary, republican, Oregon, would require any lease granted by the war department to conform to the provisions of the federal water power act Western and southern senators continued to work out other modifications of the Underwood bill which would meet objections to the measure.

BUSINESS IS ON UPWARD CHINESE FLIE LOITDOX. LONDON" (T.y Mail )- of a tone tra- ar rapid 1 naJnnc i I a a rrom I 5Tm i Va- 1 5 "ii-h a nl 4 -12- f. a 'oiir" 1 i roul find Car Ir.srector eTijIators in Meeting. XT. a a in a car driven Th TrhT.Ti and thai at 1V IK 7, T' 7-neTi-waj far dTc-T hi 'h" a at I 1 o' i IT a a jir- Vf-d HacT.

flttnr An editorial by Gsorge E. Roberts, the most famous a in America, will appear in the Saturday Worning Journal. Every morning a signed editorial written by an expert, and ss'tctsd and edited by i i a A i White. you following these articles by the world's rrost famous men? STATE BANKJT ffGREI Organization Headed by Ora E. Adcock Boys Building Owned by Failed Firm.

The Slate bank of Mc- Grpw. Sci'l-sblnff county, has i ceivcd approval o' the guaranty I'TJnd commission and I Knuds-on of the department of 0 and commerce to oper a new banking The bank charter 10 Te or- cpniaz hai boticht the building 'nrni'-rly by failfd nir- S1a1" of MrGr'Tr. The i a i Ora fr); is 'h'- jinnr.pal stotkholdT. owr.s C. Frarhlin n.

and Jo-'ji'h Hay H. MASELAGE BUSINESS SLACK. R'-. A .1 Holl-iCffworth had fharp" of I rrssrnat' JT 4 a i at a-'l' i i an- to report a j.aflor. 1V -arn p'rirr'3 tr'tf, 'air3 to tl 3-.