Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 2

JMoial A 24 HOUR NEWSPAPER with an the news of the previous 24 hours WEATHER FORECAST For Lincoln and Vicinity: Fair topight and Saturday; somewhat warmer For Generally fair tonight and 8aturday; slightly warmer tonight In east and central portions. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 25, 1929 TURF fFMT ln Lincoln and MU Limits. A 1 1 l1" I I .11 I I II IMIII Mi Wfl T1 rirtf I nrtl a mm. 1 11 ii ii i .1, 11 1 1 i i I .1. in.

,1 wk vwii mwuvi TO (Mi DM'OJiCTONI TOSEIMf hall DOMESTIC TROUBLES i RESULT IN i i i i Albert B. Fall 1 1 FORMER HEAD OF FATE OF STATE PICKING THE JURY I Zr I CAPACITY SWT1CIEWT TO GW I JUPGMEMT IN THtsJ INTERIOR BUREAU I FOUND GUILTY Bert Stollar Slays Wife, Self, Wounds Mrs. Harvey Swartz, Friday Morning. LUSHTON, Neb. (UP) Matrimonial strife, which had caused a separation last July, was climaxed near here Friday morning with the slaying of Bert Stollar, forty eight, of Long Beach, by her estranged husband, who then killed himself, and the possible fatal injury of Mrs.

Harvey Swarfs, at whose home the shooting occurred. Mrs. Swarta is now in the Lutheran hospital at York in a serious condition. According to Swartz' statement, Stollar drove into the yard of the Swartz farm home near Lushton at about 9 a. m.

He parked his car and advanced toward the house. Mr. and Mrs. Swartz, accompanied by Mrs, Stollar, who was visiting with them, came into the yard to meet him. Stollar had his two boys with him, John twelve, and Cody, fifteen years old.

After he had invited Mrs. Stollar out of the house he demanded that she return to California with him. She re fused and he threatened her and pulled a 32 caliber 'revolver. Mr. Swarta seized Stollar around THEM VOU AOUIT VOVJiAVt I tsr.

ar aeo ifc. I 1 Ui I Fall Convicted With Recommendation of Mercy by the Jury. BRIBERY CHARGE IS UPHELD Verdict Finda He Took $100,000 TromrDoheny as Bribe in Lease of Oil Lands. IBMIaiMM WiPWI S7I Kill (I Iflib iii.mii.i iiini I re niiiiumiiiiMniii: WASHINGTON (UP) For mer Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall waa found guilty by a jury here Friday on a charge of receiving a 1100,000 bribe from E.

L. Doheny, pU millionaire, nearly eight years ago. The Jury recommended mercy. Fall, who leased the valuable Elk Hills, Calif, naval oil reserve to Doheny's Pan American company in 1922, had been on trial here since Oct 7. His illness at one time threatened to cause a mistrial.

The jury waa out twenty three hours and fifty minutes. It re celved the case at 11:30 a. m.t Thursday and returned its ver dlct ta open court at 11:20 a. VOVAPX UttVSU OM THE. gafev ground or ZTSV r(crS3 LJ HflNG stn 1 'wu HOKOtt TTriH nit fen ka AtarM mtmm reaay some time earner.

FalJ who has been ill with a lung ailment since the trial I started, sat atiu in his big green leather easy chair in the prison As btm dock, as the verdict was read. Doheny stood at his left and his El Paso physician, H. F. Bafford, and a nurse were at his right. SHOOTING ndicted For Murder Associated Pros Photo John McGouldrlck, second officer, of the steamship Creole, is being held in connection with the death of Jack Kraft, formerly of New York.

by British agents before it is accepted, Simpson said. The animals must pass certain rieid retire ments as to height, weight and STIPULATION IN A SUIT To Waive Jury in Case of Bliss Against Continental Bank. In a stipulation filed in the district court Friday between Secretary Bliss of the department of trade and commerce, and the Continental National bank over the suit; of the department to collect on checks turned down by the bank for $8,741.24 and $4,708.36, it was agreed that a jury would be waived. Facta in the case were stipulated as to the amount the department had deposited in the bank and as to other matters at issue. The suit of the department was brought when the Continental bank took the amounts named on these checks and charged them against the department's account on the ground that the bank had paid money into the bankers' conservation fuud of the guaranty fund commission to that amount and when it changed from a state bank to a national bank it was entitled to the money.

SIMS HEADS ATTORNEYS Birmingham Man Elected President of Bar Association, MEMPHIS, Tenn. (U. Henry Upson Sims, Birmingham, Friday was elected president of the American Bar association in fifty second annual convention here. Sims succeeds Gurney E. New lin, Los Angeles.

His election was unopposed and was made by acclamation. John H. Voorhees, Sioux Falls, N. was re elected treasurer, and William P. MacCracken, Chicago, secretary.

50,000 Stamps in Picture. A life size picture of a lion'a head, composed entirely of postage stamps, was recently exhibited a painter in France. Fifty thoufjnd stamps from many countries ere used, the artist nuttinsr 3.0C of close work into rr, DETAILS Is Found Guilty Former secretary of the interior convkted by Jury at Washington on charge of receiving $100,000 bribe from E. L. Doheny of oi fame, nearly eight years ago, Mercy was recommended.

P. A. HEAVY BUYING DAY ET BETTER TONE FRIDAY THAN THURSDAY. Some Uneasiness Appea Tickers Again Behind Shortly After Noon. NEW YORK (UP) Heavy touyingtsam back Into the jstock market Friday buying brought on by reassurances from national business leaders and the market got away at the rate of a 12,000, 000 share day.

Only once in history has there ben a 12,000,000 share day and that was Thursday during the chaotic down sweep. Friday, how ever, there was a better tone, al tho an occasional uneasiness ap peared. But the better tone carried soma of the stocks up as much as nineteen points. With trading continuing at pace of more than 8,000,000 shares ticker facilities again proved in adequate and 'Shortly after noon the tape was sixty three minutes behind the market This lack of trading facilities brought difficulty in watching the market and helped bring prices down after the early bulge, to ward p. m.

the list was declin ing with Steel near 204, compared with its previous close of 206. American Telephone was off nearly five points and other lead ers were suffering. It was learned that bankers who conferred Thursday at the offices of J. P. Morgan Co.

had worked out a program for protection of the stock market to prevent needless sacrifice of security values. Arrangements, it was said, have been made for the Immediate for mation of a market pool with substantial buying SEEKSTOllTl0HENY Roberts Announces He Will Move for Trial in January. WASHINGTON (UP) Prosecutor Owen J. Roberts announced after the verdict finding Albert B. Fall guilty that he would move to bring to trial in January the similar indictment charging E.

L. Doheny with bribing Fall in the same transaction. He explained his associate, former Senator Atlee Pomerene, would be busy next month trying a civil case in Los Angeles involving several million dollars worth of naval oil lands leased separately by Fall while secretary to a Doheny company. The leases have since been sold to another oil company. The trial is scheduled to start Nov.

16. The Doheny trial cannot be started in December because the holidays would interrupt it SINCLAIR NOTJOMMENTING Has Nothing to Say on Conviction of Fall for Bribery. WASHINGTON (UP) Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil man, who is serving a sentence in the district jail for contempt of court growing out of bis refusal to answer questions of the senate Teapot Dome investigating commit ft in connection with oil leases during the Fall regime, made no comment on the Fall verdict of guilty. When informed by an attache of the jail at the request of the United Press that the aged plainsman had been found guilty, Sinclair said.

MI thank you, and returned to his tasks as assistant pharmacist. I ON STOCK MM GUARANTY LAW IS IN BALANCE State's Appeal Is Sub mitted to Supreme Court. CLAIMS BANKS ESTOPPED Final Arguments in Case Involving Levying of Further Assessments on Bank. The greater part of the Friday sitting of the supreme court was devoted to hearing arguments upon the appeal of the state from Judge Frost's decision that the special assessments levied under the guaranty fund against state banks is unreasonable, unjust, oppressive and confiscatory and, under present conditions, not a proper exercise of, nor justified by, the police power of the state and that they are void and unconstitutional and in violation of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States and in violation of the section 3. arti cle 1, of the constitution of the state of Nebraska in that the state law deprives plaintiffs of their property without due process of A permanent Injunction was granted, the order being issued wiwout prejudice to tne right the defendants to apply for a va cation of the injunction ahuold at some future time, the conditions so change that the.

special assessments can be paid by the state nanKs and at.tne same time said banks receive in addition compen satory returns upon their invest ment 1 Propositions relied upon by the banks to sustain this decree mainly are: That the stockholders in state banks, which are quasi public institutions, are entitled to a rea sonable return on 1 their invest ments. The payment of this perpetual tax (1 4 of 1 percent) will deprive the stockholders in the majority of the banks from any return wnatever. Say Fund Doesn't Exist. That a guaranty fund to pro tect deposits in banks no longer exists, rne present banks are in no way to blame for this condi tion. To require them to pay SI, 500,000 each year to pay the losses of railed banks for which (Continued on Page 4.) WALSH FEELS FOR FALL Gratified at Verdict, Tho Illness Excites His Sympathy.

WASHINGTON (UP) Com menting on the finding former Secretary Fall guilty of accepting bribe, Senator Walsh. democrat Montana, who prosecuted the Teapot Dome investigation leading to Fall's indictment and the disclosures of the scandal, said: I can't help but feel the sym pathy for Fall which his serious illness and his weakened physical condition must excite in the breast of everyone. Nevtrtheless it is gratifying that the jury did its obvious duty notwithstanding the condition of the culprit. "Every right minded person must be gratified and that this arge measure of justice has been done. Senator Pomerene and Rob ers are entitled to unstinted praise for the courage and the persist ence they exhibited and for the igh talent they displayed in the litigation." SEEK PAROLE FOR COWL Father of Man Convicted at Omaha Dropped Dead.

OMAHA (UP S. Win. throp, Minneapolis, attorney was here Friday to see Judge Woodrough in effort to obtain a parole for Harry H. Cowl. Min neapolis, whose conviction for using the mails to defraud was upheld last week by circuit court of appeals.

Cowl convicted here, of im proper use of mails in connection wiin saies oz suburban lots, was sentenced to a year and a dav at Leavenworth prison. Judee Woodrousrh is holding court in Norfolk and will not re urn until Monday. According to Winthron' Cowl's father dropped dead upon hearing news oz ms conviction. His wife gave birth to a still born child and she is now in a sanitarium in Minnesota. "We feel that Cowl has suffered enough," the attorney said.

Senator Schall is understood to have also interceded in the mo moter's behalf. the wrist and Mrs. Swartz at 1 tempted to wrench the gun from his hand. While thejf were wrestling1 at close Quarters. Stollar pulled the trigger of the gun and me Dunet entered Mrs.

Swartz' abdomen and in her lunsr. They obtained the crun and in snite of her wound, she ran with the others into the house and locked themselves in. Mrs. Swartz telephoned Harrv Ronne at Lushton. a telephone operator, asking that am ne sent, and stollar went back to his car in the vard where he had a high powered rifle and shot gun.

He got the rifle and broke in the back door which had been locked. Before breaking into the house Stollar cut the telephone wires. Mr. and Mrs. Swartz locked themselves in a clothes closet in a bed room.

As i Stollar entered the house. Mrs. Stollar fled un the stairs and it is believed that Stol ler pointed the rifle un the stair way and shot her as she was going up. me wouna was in tne back. Her body rolled to the bottom of the stairs and Stollar nut the rifle muzzle into his mouth and shot himself.

Mr. Ronne notified Rev. Mr. McKelvey of Lushton and some omer men ana tney went to the Stollar home where they found the bodies of Mr. and Mrs.

Stollar lying in pools of blood. Mrs. Swartz, who was still in the closet, was taken to York where she is being attended by Drs. Ashley and Hubert Bell and Stewart Bell. According to the storv told bv Mr.

Swartz, Mr. and Mrs. Stollar, the latter a sister of Mrs. Swartz. had been with Mr.

Stollar in Long Beach and Redonda Beach, and had been married for twenty seven years and have six children. They separated in California and the boy was put in school at Re aonda Beach. Later Mr. Stollar went to California and brought the boy to Lushton in Julv. Mrs.

Stol lar came here Sunday on a bus to get xne boy. She went to the home of her sister on the far, two and a half miles siutheast of Lushton. She had not succeeded in irettine the boy. Mr. and Mrs.

Stollar are sur vived, beside Cody and John, by Mrs. Lillian Owens, Lushton, and Mrs. Ethel Lauffer of California, daughters: and Laurence and Ar chie, sons, with whom Mrs. Stollar had been living in California. Arbra and Cecil Swartz, sons of the injured woman, were in school when the tragedy occurred.

They were taken to their mothers bedside in the hospital in York late Friday morning. MULE SHIPMENT TO BE BIG Frank Simpson of Florence to Send 20 Carloads to India. OMAHA fUP One of th biggest peace time shipments of mules in historv of this section is planned shortly by Frank Simp son, uorence, weo.j who has gained the title of "mule king" of Nebraska. Simpson is to load at Florence and Fremont twentv carloads of Nebraska, Kansas and Dakota mules for shipment to the British government in India. He plans take along thirteen carloads of Nebraska feed on which the animals will subsist until thev be come acclimated to Indian "chow." There will be 520 animals in the shipment which will leave the two Nebraska points Nov.

1. They are to embark from New York Nov. 6. In India the, mules will be used for army and road building purposes. "The British government has Come to realize that Nebraska and the Dakotas raise the best mules in the world, far surpassing their Missouri brothers," Simpson de clared, Each vhoy inspect JOL by WiO AWANTAGL VWTCH WOUU MAKt YX AN iNTttLIGENT JURYMAN IN IRIS JJlSCHAOitD or PREJUDICED, OPIMIOH DfSMlSSED rop SYMPATH1ES PREJUDICIAL TP CUR CXItNT ME REVERSAL ON ORE TO BE PROBED Putting.

It on Free List After First Voting Duty on It, Suh ject to Inquiry. WASHINGTON (UP) The unexplained reversal of the senate finance committee in putting Manganese ore, used by the steel companies, upon the free list after first voting to retain the 1 cent a pound tariff duty on it, will be subjected to investigation next by the senate lobbying investigation committee. A. Buck, vice president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, has been called to appear in connection with this phase of the investigation Tuesday when the commit tee resumes hearings, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, democrat, Montana, announced Friday.

A special report will be made to the senate on the Eyanson Bing ham case, Walsh later announced. He indicated it would cite the facts of the secret employment by Senator Hiram Bingham, republican, Connecticut, of Charles L. Eyanson of the Connecticut Manufacturers association as his secretary. WHEAT PRICES IN REBOUND Steady Tone of Early Stock Sales Induces Gen eral Buying. CHICAGO (UP) Wheat prices rebounded sharply at the opening in the Chicago pit Friday, the steady tone of early stock sales indusing general buying.

Buenos Aires opened higher and the Liverpool market did not show the losses expected after the heavy declines in America yesterday. At the opening future optlons on the board of trade were one half to three and three fourth cents higher. Early sales of December wheat reached $1,21 1 2 and May waa up to 1.34. COTTON GINNED. WASHINGTON (UP) The" bureau of census estimated tat cotton ginned from the crop of 1929, prior to Oct.

18, was 9,099. 082 bales against 8.151.271 in 1928, and 8,117,625 in 1927. Ginnings for ths period Oct. 1 to Oct 18 were 3.152.760. LOW HERE IS 38.

The low temperature for Lincoln Thursday night was 38 decrees. and the same mark was registered at umana. North Platte had a low reading of 28 degrees, while Sioux City had 54, according to the United States weather bureau. i I JUKV HVE BODIES FOUND Lake Michigan Scene of Disaster for Grand Trunk Car Ferry Planes Seek Victims. CHICAGO (UP) The cold gray waters of Lake Michigan gave up their prey stubbornly Friday, relinquishing one by one the bodies of the more than fifty sailors who went down with the grand trunk car ferry Milwaukee.

Bleak dawn saw airplanes winging above the choppy waves thru which coast guardsmen went in the search for victims. No trace had been found of the hulk of the ferry, which was believed to have slid under a storm Tuesday night, xi Five Dodies. including that of Capt. Robert McKay, were known to have been recovered. Others Dossiblv had been Dicked un bv lake craft or by landsmen along! tne snores wnere breakers were casting up wreckage torn from the ferry.

Coast guardsmen said thev be lieved the Milwaukee foundered off Wind Point, a peninsula which extends seven miles into the lake three miles north of Racine. Wis. There the storm struck with the most fury. Waves crashed over the narrow neck of land, swirling over the top of a 20 foot liehthouse at the end of the peninsula. Twenty seven loaded freight cars were clamped along the four lines of rails on the Milwaukee when the big ferry headed into the storm Tuesday afternoon.

The cars probably were thrown from their moorings by the tempest, once free, the cars proved battering rams, tearine the shin to pieces as it lunged and reeled un der the shock of the racing wavesr ir enough were loosened at once, they capsized the ferry as if it had been a shingle. No craft, however sturdy, could have withstood the suaaen rusn oz hundred of tons to one side, shippers declared. It was heroic 'ending to CanL Robert McKay's thirty five years fo outwitting the perils of the Great lakes, begun when he was seventeen. "The ferries alwavs run: damn the weather. was his creed.

The captain assured his superiors at Milwaukee that he could take the ferry safely to Ludington. on the other side of the lake. But when he looked out over the storm tossed expanse he saw what lay ahead of him and his crew of between fifty two and fifty seven men. "Guess we won't take it thi he remarked, half grave, naiz bantering. The Milwaukee's last message, a fragmentary S.

O. was picked up on ms radio at p. m. Tutw fs zfk mi I i fits Ww MISSING BOX i 1 Author Criticized Aaaociated Prism Photo Mention of Erich Remarque, German author, a possible Nobel prise winner causes an uproar among officers of the old German imperial army. day by A.

W. Pfeiffer, Racine insurance agent who had been a naval radio operator. He notified the Racine coast guard. The message, probably cut short when water closed over the head of the ferry's operator, was: "SOS water up to BROWNELL SENT TO PEN Young Man Escaped From Eeformatory to Serve Five Years. Theodore Brownell, twenty four, was given five years in the penitentiary Friday by Judge Broady, when he pleaded guilty to escaping from the reformatory on ept 21.

Brownell walked away from the reformatory with Thelbert Robertson, while the two were working in a potato patch. Brownell was serving from one to three years for auto theft, having been sent up from Boone county and had about six months to serve. He admitted Friday that he had stolen a car at Martel after he got out of the reformatory and had gone to Oklahoma and that he had broken into a store at Grand Island. He also stated that before he was sent to the reformatory he served a sentence in the disciplinary barracks of the army at Ft. Leavenworth.

Penny Kings Door Bell. Peddlers and tramps are out of luck if the invention recently patented in Holland is general adopted. It is a doorbell which rings only when a penny has been dropped into the slot. Welcome visitors will get their pennies back when the uour is opened. Every member of the Jury recommended "the mercy of the court" when the twelve were polled at request of counsel, Thomas E.

Norris, twenty eight year old bank teller, Uected fore Continued on Page 6.) STATE CLUB MEETING'ElS ii Convention Closes With the Awarding of Prises to Various Clubs. NORFOLK. Neb. (UP) A state convention of the Nebraska Federation of Women's lubs has come to a close and lans have been launched for an ther banner year under the new officers. The convention closed late Thursday with presentation of new officers and awarding of prizes.

Opal rover of Peru won first prize in an essay contest, Mary Hammer of Lexington was second and Verna Stewart of West Point third. The civic department of the Lincoln club won first place in the community service contest and Gretna club was seqavnd. The South Sioux City junior club was awarded the trophy offered the junior club having the largest membership. The Auburn business and professional women's department also won a membership award. The third district won the banner for the largest growth in business aid professional departments.

One resolution passed by the federation seeks the abolition of fireworks and explosives in Nebraska as a way of celebrating the Fourth of July. A RATTLESNAKE RECORD Colorado Girlv Slaughters Seventy Five Reptiles in Two Days. BRIGGSDALE, Colo. (UP) The world's record for killing rat tlesnakes was claimed here Friday by Grace Kirkpatrick, a ranch girl, who slaughtered seventy five in two days. Miss Kirkpatrick, riding on her ranch near here, found herself surrounded on every side by hordes of rattlers.

She managed her excited horse expertly and ma neuvered to safety. Then she armed herself with clubs and returned, she related, and began to kill the rattlers, which were assembling to go into winter hibernation. The girl said the snakes were made literally dormant by the cold weather and wera easily handled. JOSEPH BERNEY DIES. OMAHA (UP) Joseph Ber ney, thirty, salesman for a Toledo, 0 drug company, died suddenly from heart disease at Waterloo, Thursday night, his wife waa notified here.

Mrs. Berney and other members of the family left Immediately for Waterloo. The body probably will be brought here or to Columbus for burial, friends of the family said. Berney was a member of a pioneer Columbus family but had resided here for the past several years. a I I OF GRID GAME The Journal will follow its usual custom of announcing all details of the Nebraska Missouri football game Saturday.

John Bentley, Journal sports editor will be on the Columbia end of The Journal's leased wire. Tlie game will start at 2:00 o'clock and vou're all invited. The reports will be megaphoned into The Journal's junior stadium at the rear of the burlding..