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FOUR THE UNCOLN STAR-WEDNESDAY, JUNE IS, 1932. HERE IN LINCOLN Spntylni, lundsrapinf, F2205 -Adv (iullivan'i moflfif Si storge B2111J Varatinn Plans All to your vacation sure to ordff Tbft before you on your vacation. I Ratarday, June 18. 1932 at 4 m. Is latest date lor filing com- plaints against 1932 a.ssessments.

b. Morgan, county M'Uliams Pleads CfUilty Ralph Williams pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal possession of liquor and was fined 1100 by Municipal Judge John L. Polk Wednesday morning. Paul Megee Xot Arrested Paul Megee, 4502 street, an employe of the Cornhu.sker hotel, is not the Paul McOee who was arrested on a charge of Illegal tran.sportatlon of liquor. 117 Births l.aat Month -Births In Lincoln in May touted 117 while deaths totaled but 68, health department records show Fifty-eight male children were born and fifty- nine female children were born.

Forty-two males died compared to the twenty-six females. rosmos Hold Plrnlt Nearly 100 attended the annual dinner of the Cosmopolitans and Cosmopollles held Tuesday evening at Capitol Beach. Following a picnic dinner, games and other entertainment was provided for the children and a dancing party for the adults Those In charge of the arrajngements were Mr.s. A. Forke, Mrs.

Wled- erspan, Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. George Kraushaar and Mrs, George K. Lewis. Plneit Lovers! Lump Attffi District Judge Shepherd late Tuesday approved settlement for 1250 compensation and medical service claims held by Bknory Nellis against Dr.

George R. Miller of York. Nellis was Injured in a car accident near Syracuse while in Uie employ of the defendint. Plan Fair a meeting of the Missouri Valley Rabbit Breeders association Tuesday evening at the Y. M.

C. A. plans were discussed for making exhibits and entries at the Nebra.ska State fair. K. A.

Brown for the meeting which was attended by fifteen members, Club To Hear Sennlng Prof. John P. Seaning of the University of Nebraska department of jxilitl- cal science will address the Co-operative club Thursday noon In the Lincoln hotel on Citizen's Place in Music will be furnished by Lois Lefferdlnk. violinist, accompanied by Josephine McDermott. Hr.

Murdk-k To P. H. Murdlck of the Trinity Methodist Church will be the at the luncheon of the Knife and Fork club at the Cornhusker hotel Thursday. The title of his address is, "I am hungry." This will be the la.st luncheon until fall, as it Is planning a picnic to clone the season June 23. Textimony Ends cler.nlng up odd.s and ends of the complicated details of the suit of Nick Paper as the Run Amusement Co.

against the film dlstributor.s, attorney. Max V. UcKhtoi, I And expected to formally rest his ca.se iina Other Economies California Trio Is Strong for President Hoover HIRST TO HEAD PERSHING RIFLES to right: John McNab, who placed Hoover In the running four years ago; James Rolph, and Joseph Scott, who will renominate the picsldent. All are from California, home state. LIBRARY BOARD SLASHES BUDGET late Wednesday.

The defense believes that two days will be sufficient for its evidence. Wednesday wa.s the eighth day of the trial before a Jury in Federal court. rordpensatioti compensation order in favor of Howard Effected. Nearly a per cent cut in the city library' budget for next year was approved at a meeting of the city library board Wedne.sday afternoon. Alice Longworth-Dolly Gann Fight Revived at Chicago; Sister To Be Heard From if Ousted Latta and against the Olson Con-! The board approved a reduction of struction Co.

was entered late Tues- $3,524 from the budget for tht year JOAN CRAWFORD ROBT. MONTGOMERY In Letty with LEWIS STONE NILS ASTHER MAY ROBSON ADDED Those Blues Trout Fishtng Screen Cartoon PsramMunl Krwt dik.v by District Judge Chappell. Latta an Injury to his back. September 22, 1931, while In the employ of the construction company. Judge Chappell ordered payment of $52 for m'silcal attention, compensation at the rate of $5 04 for six weeks and further compensation at $3 65 a week for 255 weeks.

The defendant company had previously paid $239.40 compensation and $103 for medical attention. About People Just past, which was $47,090. The new budget is for the year beginning June 1. Included in the program was a 10 per cent cut of salaries of all librarians tmd assistants drawing more than $100 a month. Wages of the jwiltor at the main library were fixed at $75 a month and of his assistant at $55 a month.

The assistant has sleeping quarters fuml.shed at the library. The salary reductions will take effect July 1. The other reductions from the last budget will be made in msln- i tenance expenditures. iperatlon was performed on le Rober Thn pirturn all I.Inroln la praialnx JOHN LIONEL I LIONEL rJ BARRYMORE An Olendafe Roberts, Tuesday afternoon after it was that the bones in his arm were broken in such a manner as to make this neces.sary. Glendale was injured Monday night at the Boy Scout overnight camp.

He and Jimmy Blote were knocked off the horse they were riding when they rode beneath a tree, Glendale is the of Mr. and Mr.s. W. D. Roberts.

2784 Arlington street. He was operated on at thp Lincoln General hospital by Dr. H. W. Orr.

BY MARGUERITE YOUNG. (Associated Press Staff Writer.) June thing was clear through all the fogginess of the vice presidential today: SomeUxing will be heard from stalwart Dolly Gann should anything happen to her brother, Chailes Curtis. However potent may be Alice" Longworth's reported maneuvering fh the down-wlth-Curtis movement. It take a magician to tell how Dolly likes It. Nor to see that the very presence of the social precedence opponent of the vice presidential hostess slowed the tempo of Mrs.

campaigning! Arriving, she tossed off suggestions of a successor for her brother with a single fighting gesture. Today Mrs. Gann was ceasele.ssly conferring with the yesterday she held a levee for women delegates and committeewomen and put to many of them 1 the blunt question, meaning state delegation. This little matter was the lead- REFUSE TO MOVE AFTER PAY TO CAMP Ing feminine bid for attention as a meeting, and, with the tions committee far into the early hours to press many causes, 'tit true. A woman.

Dr. Martha Robert De Romeu of Porto Rico, sat on that committee for the first time In as a militant feminist and a convinced resubmlsalon- ist. But how could these compare with the Gann -Ixxngworth matter? The story going the convention rounds is that Teddy daughter sugge.sted skids for the Indian vice president and incidentally object to seeing her own brother, Teddy, on the national ticket. Dolly Means RusIneM. was nothing on the surface to confirm this but there were speculative glances turned toward I Mrs.

Longworth as she paused to I talk with Secretary Hurley, Secretary apd Mrs. Mills and many others of her many influential friends. no confusion about Mrs purposes, however. She recounted the ardors of her recent camixiign for Herbert Hoover before County authorities were attempt- the rank and file went to the sec- Showa 1SC.7« Added Lupin .3.6.7 UNCOLN Mr and Mrs. Young and their daughters.

Misses Irma and Joyce, of Mitchell are visiting at the home of Mr. brother, Julius A. Young, in Lincoln. Tom Howard tn What Screen Cartoon Pio Pie Blackbird BETTER PROSPECT Wednesday, claiming they had paid ON WINTER WHEAT the use of the grounds. Former Friend Woman ing Wednesday to get a group of.

gypsies camped two miles north of Women went before the resolu- Havelock to move on, after the farmer on who.se land they were, I irttfM and neighbors had protested. L. W. Gade, farmer, said the first carload of the gypsies came in about 11 Tue.sday morning. said their car had broken down and offered to pay $1 if they could camp there until Thursday noon.

Gade agreed. Sliortly after they paid the dollar, he five more cars came in. Tliey rcfu.sed to leave, deputy sheriffs called on earnestness of any stumping politician. gave the glad hand to all comers. GETS CONTROL OF OMAHA COMPANY National Assembly In Meeting Here Names N.U.

Man General. Meeting Wedne.sday morning on the Unlveniity of Nebraska campus the national assembly of Pershing Rifles elected B. Byron Hirst of the Nebraska chapter majrrr general Richard Moran of Omaha, also a member of the Nebraska group, elected national adjutant, with the rank of major. Those voting at the election were the major generals of the brigader throughout the country. Hirst whose home is Cheyenne, member of Scabbard and Blade and was military editor of the 1932 Cornhuaker, university yearbook.

Moran has been active on the university campus in school publications and as publicity director of the Peralxlng Rifles. Delegates and guests attended luncheon Wednesday noon at the university club which Carl Hahn who was major general of the organization two years ago, acted toastmaster. Speakers at the luncheon Included Claude 8. Gilllsple of Nebraska, retiring major general of the national organization; Capt. Lyon, national advl.sor; and Capt Walter T.

Scott, company advisor At Uxe business meeting Wednesday morning in Nebraska haJl. administrative jxroblems discussed In addition to the election Nineteen Here. The business during the afternoon and the convention is scheduled to adjourn ThursdP.y morning. Ohio States Is represented at the convention by Major General Vernon Cordell and others are Major General Marsh of the University of California and Major General KeilJi of the Unl- serslty of Tenne.ssee. Four officers of loaTr rank are attending from Ohio StAte at are four from the University of lon-a.

The entire group of delegatee, including the Nebraska men. numbers nlnteen. NEW CONSTRUCTION FIRM ORGANIZED RY OMAHA GROUP Tlxree Omaha men have formed a new corjxoratlon to in the general building and construction work, under the title of Inland Construction Co. will start business with capital stock Issued, Members of the firm are J. Jackson, M.

P. Laughlin. and Harry Smith. The Hurts-O'Connor Realty organiaed as a farming and investment corporation, is capitalized at L. E.

Hurtz is president; Laura H. HurU, secretary; Charles J. treasurer, and Julia vice president. Tekamah has a new corporatlcm named the City Carom club, cap- Ital stock $1,000, which will conduct a refreshment, tobacco and recrea- tlon jxarior business. Morley and Lee Higgins and L.

E. Gatewood are Interejited i nie Beiden Park as.soctaUon In 1 the Cedar county village of Beiden a park, swimming pool, tourist camp, and picnic grounds. It will have $700 stotk paid up to I atart business. The ii'orporators are C. L.

Russell. O. E. Barb, P. I Petersen.

O. A. Kllburn and Morris Kvols. eormerp aloe WINKLER SLAIN STRAWBERRIES Moftitef aieaxeberrlee. Mimmora drown, and packed tbla oaaean in Waablngten.

The finait Irult, and batter than any you can imaflna. On aala Srlday at aniy near gallan, taami ablo, It'a true. Laave now. Don't otond ovor a hot Buy en tb Black Cborrioa. largo cant, 6c Wraoh Curranta, 10c Ib, Grand Grocery Co.

tt. Busineas and obligations of the Equity Life Insurance Co. of Omaha will be taken over by the Home Guard life In.surance Co. of result of stock control in number of deals pulled by them the former concern coming into thl.s spring. Sheriff Warn ft of Salesmen New warnings agaln.st salesmen were lasucd Wednesday; by State Sheriff M.

L. Endres. He urgsd housewives particularly to be careful in dealing with house to hou.se salesmen due to the large IS A RACK6T with ANN TRACY FRANCES DEE ADDED "WHAT AN IDEA" SCREEN SOUVENIRS OEPHEUM CAPITOL YOUR PET NHlRw aetoTHT Niai CAWIMOaN 'JT aCH OMAHA, June 15 After completing an auto trip through the South Platte territory, J. H. Wright, of the Nebra.ska Iowa Grain company estimated Nebraska winter wheat crop this year will approximate 25,000.000 bushels.

The June government report estimated the crop at 18,250,000 bu.shels. PI.AN SUMMER MEETINGS. The first of the Junior chamber of commerce summer meetings at the three local country clubs wUl be held Tuesday. June 24, at the Shrine club. The afternoon will be spent in golf.

A dinner, program and dance will follow. Similar affairs will be held in July and August at the Lincoln Country club and Eastridge. Dies in North Dakota Word was received In Lincoln Wednesday of the death at Agate, N. Tuesday of Mrs. P.

B. Hengney, 47. of 4-gate. She wa.s formerly Miss Mae Hacker of Friend. The body will be brought tq the han of officers of the latter under foreclosure proceedings.

Some years ago the Equity Co. borrowed of a bank at Omaha, pledging 65 per cent of its stock as collateral. Payments 'The latest report of fraud came from Hastings where a man had repre.sented himself as agent for a tire company. Carrying a complete line of samples, and order blanks, he offered a special price this loan were made from time to 1 time until the amount was reduced to about $37,000. Later the note was transferred by the bank to A.

M. Morrissey and Frank Bartos, two ot the chief executives of Home Guardian. They still hold it. and as vance. Persons buying from him never received their tires or tubes and the company he claimed to represent had no record of such an Friend where funeral services will' payment of the balance owing was NclSOn DieS be held at 10 Saturday i made at the due date they have as a a morning in the Catholic church, steps to foreclose on the In AutO ACCldent; Mrs.

Heagney, who had many The Omaha company ha.s, about $5,000,000 of insurance in iSe oUriea tiCre force, of which $4,000,000 is in Ne- Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Nelson, 1412 braska.

Tlie Home Guardian on De- street, were called to Sidney, cember 31. 1931, had $3,165.000 of Tuesday by the accidenUl death of friends In Lincoln, is survived by a brother here. Francis Hacker of 1110 South Thirty-fifth street; a brother and sister in Portland, Mrs. Henton and Herbert Hacker, and bv her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Prank Hacker of Friend. AOOEO- Bllly Inn" Finn A.Caddi« Riplay It or Not COLONIAL Brcathleaa, Thrills, Chills, Surprises. I JORDAN LI NOIN aotce ana ADDED A RIOTOUS COMEDY EAST SCREEN SOUVENIRS State NOW 8PENCEB TRACY ANN DVORAK In HOWARD SKY DEVILS' Oraatar Than "HeU'a Tha "Cock-Eyed World" ot the Air Harley Drug Co. HOME OWNED 58 YEARS Special DRUG SALE Wcdacaday and Thursday 22C Nebraska policies ndlng. A legal obstacle to the merger a suit begun in Douglas county by Mr.

couain, Dr. A. E. Nelson, 60, of Sidney. Services will be held In Sidney and the body will a stockholder in the Equity several: be brought to Lincoln for interment months ago attacking the manage- in Wyuka.

ment for paying excessive salaries i Tlie body Is being brought here to the officers, overvaluing real for burial beside the grave of Dr. estate for loaning purposes, and. son. Arthur, who lost his other specifications. This action Is life three years ago by drowning still pending and until it is disposed while vacationing in Minnesota.

Dr. of the a.ssets of the company will Nelson had frequently visited Lin- be ti up in court. coin. He was killed when his car The Equity's annual report to the overturned between Sidney and Om- state ln.surance bureau that aha Monday night. His wife and Guv H.

Furness, president, drew daughter, who accompanied him, $9,600 as salary last year, and Paul! were uninjured. Hadens, secretary. S7.200. The pres- 40c Tooth Paste 30c Eastman 116 Film XU 29c Adhesive 1x5 50o Chamberlain Lotion S8e Pagan Prln- araa Face Creama 1 Ib. Jar 9 FIteh Bhampao 2So Tonic Free AS Italian Balm Tk3T .90 Paekara Pina Tar Shampoo 1.00 Bathaawaat .15 Qanulna Aaplrin Tableta, 1 dor.

AS Bonua Playing Woodbury .90 S. T. 37 Tooth Paata 33W Aqua Velva 1.00 Lysol Only .39 Patmoliva Shav. Ing Craam 1.00 Wildroot Hair Tonic 99 .90 Burma Shava 1.00 Pepsodent Antiseptic 50o ipana Tooth 50c Phrophy- laetlc Tooth Brush l8e 91.00 Ambrosia Set 50c PalmolivB Shampoo 2SC 25o J. A J.

Talcum 2 for 2S( brother Galle Pumes.s, held an overwriting contract with the company under which $16,760 was paid him as commissions during the year, according to the About 15 years ago, the Equity was organized and began business as a mutual company. Some years subsequently it was converted Iftto a stock company. The Home Guardian is operating as a mutual. It is about seven years old. PYTHIANS TO PICNIC.

(Special to Th Star.) CRETE, June 15 The Knights of Pythias, District No, 2 composed of the lodges at Wilber, Milligan, Crete, Dubois, Lincoln, College View and Sutton will hold their annual picnic at Tuxedo park, Crete on Tnursday. Speeches and games In the afternoon will be followed by supper and a dance. The Pythian Sisters will be guests. Tonight is the Night A New and Different Dance Band Hear them at their Come dance to their enticing Melodies. CAPITOL BEACH W.

B. A. DISTRICT MEETING. A district meeting of the Benefit association will be held at Walsh hall Friday, the high spot Df the program being the initlatioi. of a large class of candidates brought here from all sections of the state.

Mrs. Ella M. Lee of Boone, field director, will be the principal speaker. In addition to the Nebraska delegations that will attend, a large group also Is expected from Council Bluffs. Review No.

8 of Lincoln, and No. 58 of Havelock will be the hosts. CHICAGO BANK CLOSED CHICAGO June Madison Square State bank on the far west side was clo.sed today by State Auditor Oscar Nelson. Directors asked him to protect the $1,000,000 in depoaia. They formerly were $4,500,000.

PLA-MOR Dancing: Here TONIGHT Eddy Playing Mixed and Old Faahloned. We have something neve for you Tonite. Coma out and get In on the fun. Another big dance here SAT. and SUN.

NITKS Adm. each. Dancing Fras 9 Miles Waat on City Tax Collections Must Show Increase To Meet Expenditures If 1931-32 tax collections bv the city treasurer mea.sure up to those of the prcvlou.s year on July 1. Com- sloner Bair, head of the finance department Wednesday, the income for June will have to reach at lea.st $130,000. Of this.

$72.000 had been paid when the Cfflce closed Tuesday evennig. For the same days In June a year ago. the records show payments of $86,000. Collections for the year to Tuesday night, tabulations made City Clerk Berg show, were $784,000, as again.st $801,454 for the date a year ago. The amount to be rai.sed a year ago, however, was $827,780, with the $854,680 that must come in if the city Is to meet the expenses up for the year ending Augu.st in- is due primarily to the annexation of Havelock.

The la.st half of the 1931-32 taxes were delinquent June 1, Mr. Bair said, and now bear Interest at 12 per cent, until paid. The council members next Tuesday will start preparations for levying the tax for 1932-33. They will befiin sitting as a board of equalization to hear complaints against real estate a.ssessed valutions. The first day will Include only organization of the board, and fixing the hour when the meetings shall be held.

The board is required to sit at least three days, and not more than thirty days. Milford Jones Shot in Back, Body Found at Detroit Cabaret. DETROIT, Mich. June 15 The body of Milford Jones, said to have been an aasoclate of Fred Burke, notorious gang.ster, now- serving a life term in prison, found in a cabaret here this morning, a bullet wound through the back. Police questioned Jack Green, pro.

prletor of cabaret, and took into custody three young women who were in the plsce at the time of the shooting. They said the shooting apparently occurred about 6 m. Fred W. Frahm, chief of detectives. said body was found slumped before the bar of the cab- I aret when police arrived.

I Jones, formerly of St. Louis, was said by Frshm to have been a com- Ipanlon of Burke and Gus Winkler, recently freed of bank robbery 1 charges. POUND CtEfiiiine Sprinji: kegrm 3.5 lAmb Stew lb Lamb Shoulder Roast, lb lie Lsmb Chops, Ib. 15e Chops lb lor Pork liOin Itoast, lb 8r 3 Lbs Swift Oleo i9r Premium Minced Ham. Weiners, 3 Lb.s, Pork Liver Hambtirfer Rolilng Beef Fork SsuaatE Bacon Squares 10 Sugar 40c 10 days old Capitol DELIVERY.

B5319 137 So. 11th 4 25c SUMMERS. FORMER NEBRASKAN. FREED ON BOND ON COAST LOS ANGELES. June IS Willlam.son S.

Summers, firmer U. S. district attorney for Nebra.ska and once deputy attorney general of Nebra.ska. was freed on bond here late Tue.sday after being brought before a U. commissioner on a charge of failing to make an income tax return for 1931.

No date has been for the trial. H. G. Balter, U. S.

attorney here, who filed charge, declared that Summers has received $50,000 in fees from persons he has Induced to settle on certain southern California lands on the theory that the titles, issuing fr(mi a Spanish land grant, were Illegal. Was Cuckoo Gangster. Mllfopd Jones, who wts shot to death in Detroit Wednesday morning, was a member of the once notorious Cuckoo gang of St. Louis Jones, Gus Winkler and Fred Burke were arrested in St. Louis six ago.

after a spirited chase bv detectives. In the sutomo- bile was found a small srsensl. Police said the three had planned a bank raid. It was a picture taken of the three at that time to which Winkler, after his arrest at Benton Harbor a year ago. attributed reports of his alliance with Burke.

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Complete GlataBsj Far Ntmr ar fm Pm. ROBBER CAPTURED BY ELDERLY MAN COUNCTI, BLUTFS, June 16 Adams, 60, operator of a filling station and ice house here, captured and subdued a robber 40 years his Junior today and held him for police. The man said he was Charles Franklin, 29, of Chicago. At the police station, Franklin was found t- be armed. Adams said he was rending outside the station when he saw the man enter the Ice house and reach into a cash box.

Adams said he grappled with him for several minutes, then hit him on the head with a JAZZ PIRATES TONIGHT AT Star-Litt MODERN DANCE Frl. and old time music as you Ilka It. Qola Bare and Possum Trackers. Sat. Sun.

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