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TWO SLAYER ELUDES CAPTURE Bryan Receives Relief Fund Raised by Huskers Five Negfroes Held as Witnesses in Murder Of Widow and Maid. MIDDLEBURO. Jan. IS A simpUflwl throrv of the motive behlnrt the bnital murder of Mre. Agnea Il.

ley and her maid wa adopted by authorltie today the ai for the 5 killers had gpr. ad to wider territory. rroc'eedlng on the belief that Oeorge cirawford, n. negro employe of the wealthy an. committed the crime with the aid of an arromplice.

the officera said they had practlrnlly decided robbery was the motive, altliough no valuables were taken. Tha murderer, a they reconstructed the crime, sought money or valuables and planned no killing until he found himself recognized. Then Mrs. Ibl. and her elderly Mina Buckner, were beaten to death llte crime took place Tuesday night or early Wedne.sday morning In a cottage on the estate of the widow of Spencer Ilslev Milwaukee banker.

Five Witnesses Held. Somewhere in Virginia five ne- froes, four of them men. one a woman, were held today as material Officers were sure the quintet had been in touch with Crawford Jiust before or after the mtirder. Their whereabouts and the names were kept as a protection agaln.st violence. Hopes of capturing the su.spects themselve.s rested lncrea.slngly on activltlty of police forces In ea.stern and southern cities, for It waa generally believed the men had left this immediate vicinity.

Identity of the second still was problematical. Evidence held by Washington police which they considered linked Crawdord definltelv with the crime discovered today to consist of ft letter, anparently in his handwriting, found In Mrs. Tl.sley’s automobile which was abandoned near the capital the day after the crime. In the letter, authorities aald. Crawford promised money to a negro woman living near Corner.

Va He had her Sunday. they said, and money was probably the robbery motive. THE LISCOLS JAM'ARY 15, 1932. ROOSEVELT GETS Chicago to Fight Union HAWAU PACES FIRST APPROVAL Kdict Against Privately Driven Cars in Funerals DRASTIC LAW North Dakota Democrat Convention Urges Candidacy. VALLEY CITY.

N. Jan. CTi Franklin Roosevelt of New York today had hl.s flr.st formal endorsement for the 1932 democratic presidential nomination. He received it unanimously from the North Dakota state convention here yesterday. The convention adopted a resolution endorsing Roosevelt and asking per- CHICAOO.

Jan. opix)sitlon to the Automooile Chauffeurs Livery uhlon edict rtiat no prhatelv driven automobiles be driven In funeral processions ha. developed. States Attorney John A Swan- officials of the CUU hko Funeral Directors' and Police Commissioner John AUmau decided yesterday to fight the order Tlve Chicago Tribune said that Swanson and Allman were reported in accord on a policy of arresting anv union driver who refu.sed to move his car in accordanc' with orders. no matter how many private machlne.s are in the proce.sion.

Swan.ion asked that police be assigned to funerals where trouble mav be by Macdonald. of the rnlverslty of Nebraska called on Clov. Charles W. Bryan to present the eheek for I5.906.M. the Huskers' share of the football game with the olorado Aggies at Denver.

sp Ir the funeral of Janie. McComb, veteran fjolltical leader, whose cortege only two cars were last Wednesday Fdward Reilly, pre.sldent of the union, said, are onlv trying to help our.selves and our brothers wlvo Dan coin Memhem of the oartv (left to Director H. D. C.ish, E. WEST COAST HIT BY SNOW STORM Cfunderson, Head Football Coarh Brian, Cleorge Ko.ster, charles Island.

intry Blast Strikes Orchards; Roads Blocked And Two Killed. BUFFALO COUNTY WELFARE HOARD TO BE APPOINTED KEARNEY, Ja. Buffalo county supervisors prepared today to apixilnt a county welfare board under a law enacted by the 1931 It was expected also that a trained worker would be named to take over the work. Wednesday the board rejected a petition and the request of various civic bodies for creation on ft county unit Board members said tliey rescinded their action because of the inrrea.sed number of appeals from needy and for child welfare work. BAN FRANCISCO.

Jan. storm, which increased the Sierra Nevada mountain snow pack to the highest point in hlstorv. blocked highways, hindered Today Mourn With the Bnbc Mr. A. E.

Smith Consents Fattening Germs Wall Street Smiles BY ARTHUR BRISBANE. David Beach Is Again a Candidate For V. President mission to use his name on the ballot at the state presidential preference primary March 15. Circulation of petitions to place Roosevelt's name on the ballot already ha.s begun, although the governor has yet officially to accept the recommendation of the convention. The petitions must be filed with the secretary of state at Bi.smarck by February 13.

In Its resolutions, the convention said that his leadership, the national democracy will offer to the country that guarantee of a livelihood to all and a return to George T. Murray of Berthold. A N. brother of Gov. William Mur- LaSt ACaiH ray of Oklahoma, attended the con- vention to it He did not Governor to Death Or Life in Prison for rime of Rape.

HONOLULU. Jan 15 I'v In efforts to ctirb a.v'aults uptai women in CKwernor i aw rcnce Judd to reeoinmend to the forthcoming six'clal of the llawalian legislature th.it the crime of lie mad' by death or life imprisonment announced in a Ci blc io Secretary Wilbur of the interior deiartmcnt. In which he defended against congressional charge.s of partial re.snon.slblllty for the rltv's crime situation. While Judd prepared for the leclslatlve Monday, defen.se City Ordinance for $750,000 Bond Issue Received by Clerk An ordinance authorising Issuance of 1750.000 of water ft.xten.slon bonds by Lincoln, was received Frldfty by City Clerk Berg from the bond attorneys representing the purrha.sers and will be to the council Monday. The council Is expected to reid it threp times and ps.s.s the meas- with the emergency r1au.se.

Receipt of the ordinance indicative. Mr Berg fsld. that the history of the bonds ha.s been approved, and that the attorney opinion will be here shortly. Tlie opposition sprang up follow- chafed at the delay In pre- the etand Uiry murder rharged against Mrs. Grahvlll'' soc lety leader, her son-in-law Lieut.

Ihomas Ma-sD and two enlist men Next Week. The are held ithout are out of work. None of our men are entitled to be informed has done anything to cause anyone embarra.ssment. but at one funeral this week the people In attendance threw mud on the hearse at the Undiscouraged by his make a ripple in the, national political whirlpool four years ago, i David Sherman Beach of Bridgc- port, is back again this year as a candidate for president of the United States on the same platform of God, one religion, one country, one vote, one ticket," and a lot of other A printed sheet of his personal present Governor name but indicated petitions may be clr- VriUirV tn culated later to put the Oklahoma lauure pxccutive on the presidential ballot in March. damaged communication lines in California left Its imprint on the west coast today.

Traffic accidents in which two persons were killed were attributed to the weather. Sacramento was plunged in darkness when a gale ilew down part of a ball park grandstand, severing high tension wires. Weather observers at Summit, estimated the mountain snow pack there to be well over 130 inches. A fifteen-foot wave disabled a ferry boat on San Francisco bay. It was towed to safety.

Below freezing temperatures were reported in several fruit growing sections of southern California. Growers, however, used smudge pots and the damage by frost waa believed to be small. A snowfall of more than two Inches was recorded in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, where it had not snowed for years. Ruth, baseball playor whose salary has been cut shipping and sympathize the Eng- ly, told that the war made It impossible to supply her llsh ladi. pets dog bLscult.

She remarked: war ceased to be a Ruth probably thinks our financial situation has cea.sed to be a cm the other hand, if he accept.s the cut. he will get $70,000 a year in place of $80,000. with a long rest in winter, and will probably decide that things might be worse. Tlie political news is the statement that Governor Alfred E. Smith not object to the use of hLs name as a candidate for the presidency on the demixratic ticket in state Whether or not Governor Smith Ls to be nominated, the announcement puts a new complexion on the 1932 fight.

The individual that might be held responsible for keeping Mr. Smith from the nomination could not get a two-thlrds vote In the convention, or a very big popular vote afterwards. HEINY TALKS ON TRANSPORTATION TO N. CLUB Tw'o hundred members of the I. Sc N.

Service club, employes' literature, containing his picture as. ij-ation of the low'a-Nebraska Light presidential aspirant and that of' Power heard an address on Piank O. Lowden, ex-governor of methods of city passenger trans- Illinois for vice president has been portation by E. R. Helny.

manager received by mall at Secretary of pj Lincoln Traction Thnrs- State Frank office. It is evening at the Llndell hotel, supposed that he took the liberty ot Entertainment for the evening naming Lowden as his running jncluded comedy by William mate without consulting the 1 shepherd, Frank Jones, Clarence and Fred Hall. Those tak- He wants the United States government to sell beer in bottles through the postoffice department. There is from among whom I Clarence' Hansen. James Anderson select cabinet officers and other ad- ministrative officials if is elected W.

N. Jackson, president of the president. The Connecticut man Is not filing himself in the regular way, but wants voters to write in his namo and on their tickets when ing part In a harmonica were: J. E. Bennett.

Schmidt, James Seward, contest Edward Gknn How Old? Dr, Rentschler of the Westing- houso laboratories enumerates interesting scientific achievements of 1931. DLscoverlng the last of the missing elements, we now po.sscss all the 90-odd substances of which everything in the universe is composed. Later we may the 90-odd are variations of only one substance, or form of motion. The production of 10.000 degrees of heat Fahrenheit with a great burning glass shows that the story about Archimedes arranging to burn enemy ships in the harbor 'aith a glass concentrating the rays, might be true, although it probably is not. Producing an electric current of 18,000,000 volts that may help to break down the atom Interests scientists.

What Interests human beings most is the treating of disease germs with special diets. By feeding them up they are made fat and can be seen under the microscope. By cutting down their food supply they become invisible, seems to be the ambition of some of our young ladies. they vote at the primaries. PAWNEE TO VOTE SUNDAY PICTURES (Special to The Star) PAWNEE CITY.

Jan. LikelUiood that Pawnee City may vote next spring on Sunday movies was seen here this week in an announcement that the city council would be a.sked to submit the question to a vote at the election. Sunday movies are at Table Rock, another Pawnee county town. He look a day over fifty. And feels like forty.

At the age of 62. That's theliappy state of health and pep a man enjoys hen he gives his vital organs a little stimulant I When your svstem it stagnant and you feci sluggish, heaiiachy, waste money on or "regulators" or similar latent medicines. Stimulate the iver and Use a famous prescription every drug store keeps. Just ask them for Dr. syrup pepsin.

This appetizing syrup is made from fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin. One dose, will clear up almost any case of headache, bthousncss, constipation. But if you want to keep fine shape, feel fit the year lake a spoonful of Dr. svrup pepsin every few days. eat Dctler, sleep better and feel better in every way.

You will need to take another laxative. Give the children a little of thb delicious syrup two or three times a week. A gentle, natural stimulant that makes them cat and keeps the bowels from clogging. And them from so many sick spells and colds. Have a sound stomach, active liver and strong bow'el muscles that expel every bit of waste and poison everj' davl Just keep a bottle of Dr.

syrup pepsin on hand; take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. Sec if you feel new vigor in every way. Syrup pepsin expensive. Wall street has been smiling for several days in succession. Stocks continued to lift their drooping heads.

Thursday, railroad stocks leading. New York Central, that sold above $250 two years ago. has crawled up from the low mark of $24 a share to $33. Somebody bought more than 69,000 shares Thursday. Government bonds were strong, to Secretary firm stand on the matter of preserving national credit.

Secretary Mellon hears himself accused In Congress of being interested in American business on a big scale. Somebody wants to impeach him because, before he took office he able to accumulate a few hundred millions of dollars. Whom would they have as secretary of the treasury, somebody that can prove that he has always been unable to make a living? club, acted as ma.ster of ceremonies at the meeting which closed with a luncheon. Augustine, am going to nominate the second richest man in the orld for secretary of the treasury. What do you think, the public will say to This writer, who know the second richest man in the world was, or the first richest man either, expressed the opinion that the people would be glad to have the national finances in ths hands of somebody acquainted with finances.

From the Mosque of El Ak.sa, in Jerusalem, where it had reposed for many centurise, there has been stolen an ancient, written volume of the Koran, valued at $100,000. When he was on earth, thirteen hundred years Mohammed have attended to such a matter by performing the necessary miracle. He did that often and sent for angels, 10 times as big as any of our skyscrapers. The Jerusalem moique whence the Koran volume was stolen was within forty years as old as the Kabba shrine. In Mecca, that every good Mohammedan must visit.

The Mosque's Importance is proved by the fact that Allah transported Mohammed from Mecca to Jerusalem In one single night. It would surprise the prophet. Allah also, to know that any good flyer can make the journey now in less time. Charge Teacher Taoed Mouths of School Children Instructor Says Class Suggested Method Keep Silence. EVANSTON.

111., Jan. charge that adhesive tape was stuck over the of second grade boy pupils in the Central clemcn- tarv school to keep them from breaking the clas.sroom out of turn, were under investigation today. Mrs. Ralph Watts, the complainant, sent letters to the superintendent of the school dLstrict and others, charging that the mouth of her son, Willard. 7, was so te-ped, and referring to the use of the gag as Miss Vivian Heiiss, the teacher, admitted use of the tape but denied any hardsip resulted.

she said. let my class decide what should be done with pupils who spoke out of turn. Their idea was that paper should be placed over their mouths. That was done. I merely attached the paper with of adhesive tape.

The paper was not kept Nabbed on Charge Lewd Production LOR ANELES, Jan. 15 Nance stage and fifty- eight of her co-workers had another ride to the police station in the early morning hours today. For the second time within a week. Miss starring vehicle, the modernized Greek comedy, raided by Police Captain Jones, head of the anti- vice at the close of last pojidormance. Tlve players already awaiting trial January 19, again were charged with participation in lewd a violation of a city ordinance.

They later were re- le.ved on their own recognizance. The raid was conducted by Capi tain Jones do.spite a re: straining order the Superior court after the first raid. The restraining order Is returnable January 18. 1 tired of being a press agent for his said Captain Jones. i Baker Attends Concert CLEVELAND.

Jan. D. Baker, recipient of a presidential boom, substituted music for oratory la.st night. While democrats over the country were holding the former secretary of war, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential nominee, spent the evening at a symphony concert. Deaths in U.

S. (By thf AsiOcUtfd Anne Cornelia Jordan Undberg. wife ot Irving A. Llndberg, collector general of customs of Nicaragua. WILMINGTON.

Del Charles A. Ritchie, 32, player in stock companies. jiromptly n.x to the nature of the charges against sild Mont- gomerv Winn of the Fortcscuc-Mis- staff hands of the defense are tied Dt'piiiy Prosecutor Griffith Wight the crse wotild not be pre.scnt- ed the grand Jury until next week. He explained the prosecutKm has not completed it.x inve.xtlpation of the of Jo.xeph Kaliahawat. for mhose death a week ago the four are accused.

The Hawali.tn wns one five men charged with the wife. The hrst panel from which Jur- ons to trv Mrs and her co-defendants will be was drawn yesterday. The twenty-six i men Included Chinese, five Ha- wailans, Japane.se, two Portu- guese and ten Anglo-Saxons. i AtTRORA an GES DAY FOR FARMERS (Rpeclal to The Star) AURORA, Jan. 15 Wedne.sday will be rorn.

hog and jxuiltrv day in Aurora. In connection there will be an egg show, with prizes furnt.shed by the local bu.slne.ss firms Tliere will be spe.ikers from the extension servtre Gross will on eorn; W. Derrick on hoes and J. R. Redditt.

on poultrv. The meetings will be held in the Mazda theater and the Ea.st Ride theater, startln at 10 a m. Tickets will be given to earh farmer in attendance for a fre? lunch at noon. It Is honed that the attendance will be suffl- eiont to form a county organization to handle poultry and llve- strx'k problems The show is under the direction of the Farm Bureau with County Agent Cook in charge. Eggs from the show will be given to charity.

WHAT ABOUT DOPE? M.ANY cough syr- upstonttin opium, chloroform, ether. Smith Triple Cough contains NO )OPF. It ilofffi'i ate to. Triple a niw "ifiiical discovery stops coughs Al I LY lit Cl TAX E.STIMATE. WILBER.

Neb. Jan. 15- F. H. Tavls was named chairman of the Baline county commissioners here Tuesday.

The annual expense bill wa.s placed at $184,000. The tax e.stlmate was fixed at about $3,000 lower than on the preceding Dr. F. J. Stejskal of Crete was elected rounty physician.

50 0 DISr.OUNT Chain Repairs. Genuine Weed Double Service Cross 8 to 23 cents. Call hen in Trouble Sever Cloas P.R. Chevalier SERVICOR B1275 13th at 1917 Before President Harding was Inaugurated. he told this writer at St Anyone with money looking for an example to follow might consider this one.

Felix M. Walburg of New York has four sons. Thursday their father was slxtv years old. The sons might have given him a pair of slippers or a new automobile. Instead they chose to pay on his birthday all the expenses for that day of the ninety- one Jewish charities In New York.

To run these charities costs eleven dollars a minute. They contributed eleven dollars, multiplied by sixty, multiplied by twenty-four. (Copyright. 1932, by King PeaturM Syndicate, Holmes Elected Head Of Clear ihg House George W. Holmes elected president of the Lincoln Clearing House at the annual meeting of the association Thursday evening at the Lincoln hotel.

Other officers chasen are Byron Dunn, vice presi- i dent and Edward A. Becker, secre- tary and manager. W. A. Selleck, retiring president, acted as chairman of the meeting.

MINISTER IS ILL. BEATRICE. Jan. John Penner, long-time Mennonite minister and pioneer of Gage county, Ls critically ill In a hospital here. He is nearing his eightieth birthday.

for BnadPUU imetHlle RIM CftS -CWEft TEftft BBAND PlLLA.fotdO knowi Sofnt. Bay Haw I SOLD IT DftDCGISTS 36 Pidrt HI-CUTS 1.77 Odd and End alzea. For quick aale. liic Big hoe Store 10-5b-() LINCOLN Open Saturday 8 a. m.

to 9 p. m. Whitt you can buy for $10 at Tailoreii Lady Frocks of Corfu Silks in vibrant new spring colors 10 Hovy style conscious these new dresses are with their dropped shoulder effects, ample bows as trims, their very definite high waistlines, in a gorgeous array of colors. Pierre Biltmore Commodore Savoy Red combined with Navy Black combined with Gypsy Commodore combined with Beige Voison combined with Marguery. Sizes 14 to 42 CHOICE OF HOUSE SALE OF DRESSES AND Novelty and Dress Slippers Children's Rubber Overshoes SPECIAL GROUP OF 38 DRESSES of Better HOSIERY Ail Si All Continued Clearance Sale in Wear nd Some very exceptional values Included in this lot.

some CQ formerly priced to $49.50. High I at 1 This group Includes practical and attractive frocks, formerly priced as high as $29.50, now grouped COATS 5 COATS formerly selling at $19.75,. 3 13 COATS, formerly to $49.50 most of them furred, now at one price wear the old coat thru the rest of the cold winter when there are these splendid values In fur trimmzd styles at a discount Undergarments log VAN $1.00 Our recular J3 and 14 Frenrh Kid Glove hlaek brown belce contrastine color trim (5 to 7 1 Ciasn Style $2.95 14 VAN A ALTE braa- sieres in size 30 Our entire stork of Singlettea, In 32, 38 and 40 Cold weather calls for Woolly Wyn bloomers in allk and wool -VAN $1.00 RAALTE A RAALTE Woolly Wyn and 1.00 wool The 1 piece silk and wool im- dergartnent by VAN RAALTK in same knit as Woolly Wyns A special price on One lot of our Silk Mesh Hose (Smoketone, Brown and Black) 980 14 Leather JACKETS $10 1, formerly priced at 124 50 (size 1, formerly priced at 76 (size 1. formerly priced at $18 50 (size 16) 5, formerly priced at 113 50 (sizes 8, 10 and 12) 6, formerly priced at $10 95 (sizes 34, 36, 38 and 40) Our regular $1 60 4 Button Suede Glove sllp-on styles In sizes to 7. Black.

Grey, White and Beige $2.95 Our wool gl styDs reduced from; $1.25 to 95c 95c to 75c Genuine Peccary Pig; kins natur.i! color In size.a to 7 Regularly $5 now. $3.85.