Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

FOinSDED IN 1881, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933. 71111 Cir iTrarTQ lAooom 1 tin ULTI ID CENTS ClMwhera. RATIFY LAME DUCK MEASURE ROBBERS OF BUSINESS SES OBJECTS OF HUNT Cash Taken From Stores and Offices Totals $150 Clues Left. Lincoln police were busy Monday following the few leads left them In the robberies of safes and cash registers in four Lincoln business houses Saturday and Sunday nights. Two other places were entered.

Officers advanced the opinion that all the breakins and burglaries were the work of one or two men. The loot, how'ever, does not aggregate more than $150 and at two of the places visited the yeggs got nothing. The largest amount taken at any one place was $75 at George 1213 and $40 was taken at the Demma Fruit company in the same building with the Lincoln Market at 2201 O. The market reported loss of $89 cash and $427 in checks but the money was later found in its hiding place. The other two places robbed Sunday night were the Champlin Oil company at 1410 and the Orcutt news stand at 1725 O.

The thief or thieves entered the oil company office by breaking the garage door and prying open the door between the garage and office. In the office they took $15 from the cash register. The register itsielf was smashed, as w'ere two desks, from which nothing was taken. The combination knob was knocked from the safe at but the contents were not touched. From the cash register $10 was taken.

Entrance was gained thru a back window, and a door opening into the office room was pried off. W. E. Jackson discovered the robbery. Gua Demma found the robbery at the fruit market.

The rear door at Music store was found loosened at one side, but it was not apparent that someone had been trying to force the door, and aothing was disturbed Inside. The other two places entered were the Sldles-Duda-Meyer com pany offices at 1228 and the Trunkenbolz Oil station at 940 No. 16th. Nothing was obtained at either, altho at the oil station the inner cash drawer of the safe was damaged, while at Sidles-Duda- Meyer the combination from the safe and the wheel and combination had been hammered from the vault. HEARING IS CONTINUED Service Charge Case Set for Feb.

13. Hearing on the action of L. A. Ricketts, trustee in bankruptcy, against the Lincoln Trust company and others, to fix charges for the First Trust company as compensation for servicing the $16,000,000 in securities of the former Lincoln Trust and IJncoin Safe Deposit companies, was continued by District Judge Frost until Feb. 13.

The order follows: matter came on for hearing on the motion for a continuance of the hearing to fix service charges of the First Trust company, successor trustee of the Lincoln Trust company, and the said motion Is sustained to the extent only that the hearing upon the application of said First Trust company is passed until Feb. 13, at 9 a. m. and the time for filing objections is extended until the 8th of February, at which time all objections are required to be on file." COMMHT (sm 3.05 BEER BULLARD WILL PR GAS TAX LECfflN Alleges Records of Former Treasurer Show Many Dealers Delinquent. Bullard of McCook announced Monday that he would offer a resolution asking for Investigation of the gas tax collections during the administration of T.

W. Bass, retiring state treasurer. He said he had been informed that the records, now made accessible to gasoline dealers thru an order of court, will show many dealers delinquent. The court order was obtained by C. M.

Sutherland, representing oil dealers who, alleged their object was to get at the records for the purpo.se of checking accounts with a view to stopping bootlegging of gasoline and sale of gasoline by irresponsible dealers who do noi pay the state tax. G. D. Godfrey of Lincoln, who served as field man for the Nebraska gas tax evasion committee the past year or so, and who gathered information over the state, has been appointed by Treasurer (Continued on Page 6.) SLR GIRL BUR SLY III Nausler and Grace McCoy Avert Collision But Overturn. Marvin L.

Nausler. 315 No. 35th and Miss Grace McCoy. 2805 No. 66th, are at St.

Elizabeth hospital suffering from serious injuries sustained when the car driven by Nausler overturned twice Monday afternoon. The upset was caused by effort to avoid colliding with a truck, driven by Pete Schuindt, 325 Groveland ave. Nausler w'as going east on Oak and the truck was proceeding northward. Seeing the danger of a crash, Nausler swerved and struck the curb, careening against the other curb, he said. The impact caused his machine to overturn tviice about 150 feet from the intersection.

Miss McCoy was riding with Nausler. Both were taken to the hospital by a City ambulance, where they were attended by Dr. George E. city physician. Miss McCoy suffered injuries op her head and right knee.

Nausler suffered head, back and right shoulder injuries. Would Amend Volstead Act Removing All Penalties for Product. WASHINGTON. (UP). The senate judiciary committee recommended that congress legalize 3.05 percent beer and wine.

Amendment of the Volstead act removing all penalties for manufacture, sale and transportation of malted and fermented beverages of that alcoholic content was ordered reported favorably. Senator Norris voted for approval of the bill. The committee, defeated 8 to 6, an amendment by Senator Bratton, N. to reduce the alcoholic content to legalized beverages to 2 percent. The beer-wlne bill later was reported to the senate and referred Immadiately to the finance com mittee for study of its revenue possibilities.

Senator Borah obtained adoption of an amendment prohibiting the sale of the 3.05 percent beverages to minors. He said it was adopted without a record vote. The committee adopted an amendment offered by Senator Dill forbidding advertisement of the legalized beverages in states which to remain dry. The beer-wine bill is to be received by the senate and referred to the finance committee for consideration of revenue potentialities. Speedy action has been promised by Senator Harrison, Mi.ss.) senior minority member of that committee.

President-elect Roosevelt in conferences last week with democratic leaders put the beer bill among the measures he wanted enacted at this session. Senator Blaine, Wis.) said that the prohibition of advertising In dry states extended to the malls and radio as well as to newspapers and periodicals. Chairman Norris of the committee said the amendment in practice would practically bar from the radio all advertisements of 3.05 percent beverages. Four republicans and two democrats joined to vote in favor of reducing the alcoholic content to 2 percent. After that was defeated they voted together again against making a favorable report on the bill.

The vote on a favorable report was as follows: For Blaine, Hebert. Schuyler, Aahurst, Walsh, King, Dill and Norris. Against 6: Borah, Robinson, Hastings. Augustin, Bratton and Neely. Three senators were absent, Schall, Black and Stephens.

If all had been present and voting against beer and wine the Volstead modification w'ould have been adversely reported by one vote. Chairman Norris said no arrangement had been made to poll absent senators. The prohibition on advertising w'ould not apply to foreign newspapers mailed to the United States nor to foreign stations. Norris said Canadian stations could accept such advertising regardless of its reception in the United States. Another amendment adopted w'ould permit wine manufacturers to reduce by dilution as well as extraction the alcoholic content of beverages to the limits prescribed in the proposed modification.

FEAR NSULA ATYBK Police Advise American Officials to Transfer Wives From Building. YOKOHAMA. (UP). Police advised American Consul Buvatt and his officials Monday to transfer their wives from the consulate, and placed a guard around the building after 500 striking Japanese employes of the Singer Sewing Machine company had been dia- penrsed near the consulate. Police arrested 145 demonstrators.

Seven police officers were stationed in the new granite consulate building, 20 around the grounds, and 300 In an adjacent park. Police suggested that wives of consulate officials, including Mrs. Duvault and Mrs. Merril Denninghof, be ready to take refuge in the large vaults of the building, if necessary. Duvault advised American Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, at Tokyo, that police warned him strikers might attempt to attack the consulate.

The consul and his staff, however, appeared to think police had overestimated the danger. Duvault, as w-ell as members of the embassy staff at Tokyo, were said to believe that the police were either unduly alarmed, or were seeking to demonstrate their zeal for protecting Americans after the raid of Japanese thugs on the Singer Sewing Machine building here last week. The raid grew out of the strike of 5,000 native ployes, and was not considered primarily an anti-American demonstration. Police gave their warning to the consul Saturday after 150 strikers and sympathizers clashed with police while en route to demand an audience with the American manager of the Singer company, Alvin K. Aurell.

So far as could be learned, there has been no direct threats against the consulate. The consul was told that the Japanese labor federation, w-hich is supporting the strikers, met in the suburb of Kawasaki on Friday and decided to hold demonstrations at the consulate and at the Singer headquarters at the new Grand hotel. CLT IT OFF! THF ON THE WAY POLICE HUNT ARSON GANG start $500,000 Fire in Brookljm Factory. NEW YORK. An arson gang that fired a $500,000 macaroni factory in Brooklyn was hunted by police, but the clues were slim.

Pasquale Fariello. night watchman, told detectives four men burst into the Savola Mfg. company. Sunday night, snarling, you want to live be They wrapped an overcoat around his head, drove him miles away and dumped him on the street. When he got to a police station, he was told flames had practically ruined the inside of the factory.

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DRY REFORMERS TO MEET Nebraska Division Reform Association Here Thursday. The Nebraska division of Organization for National Prohibition Reform will meet at the Lincoln hotel Thursday, Mrs. Mae L. Hamilton, Omaha, presiding. Mrs.

Hamilton is state chairman. Frank H. Gaines, Omaha, will speak at the luncheon on and the Nebraska Other speakers include Mrs. Frederic C. Clarke, national organizer, St.

Louis, whose subject will be the prohibition organization: Mrs. Hamilton, whose subject is "After Repeal What?" and Mrs. Margaret P. Hynes. Omaha, vice chairman, who will give an address on "Our Literature and Its Uses." Mrs.

Renew Protests Against State Laws Relating to the Practice. LEMARS, la. Fifty farmers gathered eight miles west of Merrill and w'ent to the Fred Trometer farm to prevent a tuberculin cattle teat by Dr. J. M.

Lichty in a renewal of their protests against the state testing law. The protestors took Doctor Lichty to a telephone in an attempt to have him talk to Dr. E. L. Howard in charge of Plymouth county testing.

Doctor Lichty. unable to locate his superior, left the farm without making the tests. When he first came to the place he met by the protestors who advised him he could not proceed. The doctor w'arned them he would call the sheriff. Trometer said he had no objection to the tests but if reactors were found he wanted them destroyed on the farm and not sold to packing houses.

The farmers said they would send a telegram to Governor Herring to a.sk for destruction of tubercular carcasses on the farm to prevent the sale of the meat in competition with the sale of meat from healthy cattle. The farmers, active recently in a movement to prevent the foreclosure of farm mortgages, said their action w'as the first of a general movement to prevent tuberculin testing. Farm leaders said their movements would be of a political nature similar to the campaign conducted by the Anti- Saloon league. COONCIE WOiO ilT POffiR COMPANY ACTS Decides to Take Chqrge of Activities in University Place. City council adopted a resolution Introduced Monday afternoon by Commissioner Schroeder, directing the legal department to take steps thru injunction proceedings or otherw'iae, to halt the activities of lowa-Nebraska Light Power company in University place and put them under direct The resolution: "Whereas, heretofore on or about the 21st day of September, 1926, a lease agreement w'as entered into by and between the Lincoln Public Service company, a corporation, and the city of University Place, a municipal corporation, providing for the lease of the electric distributing system and street lighting system in said city for a term expiring June 30, 1933, wherein among other things it was provided that addition, betterments, improvement or extension that shall cost in excess of the sum of $100 shall first be approved by the and "Whereas, thereafter on or about the 12th day of October, 1926, said city of University Place, a municipal corporation, became consolidated with the city of Lincoln, a municipal corporation, under the consolidation acta of the state of Nebraska, and said city of Lincoln thereby succeeded to all rights of said city of University Place, and "Whereas, lowa-Nebraska Light and Power company, a corporation.

as successor to the Lincoln Public Service company, is now operating in that part of the city formerly known as University Place, and has erected approximately 100 poles in said portion of the city without first securing the approval of the city of Lincoln, and is claiming, and has claimed, that its Lincoln franchise now ex(Continued on Page 7.) FWD SHORTAGE IN FUNDS Alleged Deficit in City Account Found. HASTINGS, NeJj. (UP). An alleged shortage of $2,500 in the funds of E. R.

Howard, late city water and light commissioner, was announced found by city officials here Monday. Howard was found dead in the garage at his home late Saturday. The ignition switch of his car w'as turned on, but the engine not running. The shortage, city officials said was in the cash fund used by Howard for paying freight charges and making cash disbursements from his office. A jury was convened here Monday to investigate the death.

No verdict had been returned at 2 p. m. NEW TAX EXEMPIN SOBMITTED EAl EABINCS ON MENT BILL Agriculture Committee to for Mortgage Moratorium. W'ASHINGTON. (UP).

A dect- SANDALI IN WASHINGTON OMAHA. (UPl. United States District Attorney Sandall is in Washington conferring with the attorney general on procedure in the retrial of Tom Dennison, political leader and other alleged co- Augusta Graaf, Beatrice, will be conspirators in the alleged Omaha in charge of a demonstration and liquor sjudlcate. Sandall hopes to an informal question and answer present the case for retrial in the period w'ill be conducted by dis- spring. The jury disagreed after trict and county chairmen.

I the first hearing. LADY BAILEY FLIES AGAIN Reported to Have Given up Long Flight. NIAMEY. PYench West Africa. i.P).

Lady Mary Bailey, South African aviatrix, took off Monday for Oran, Algeria. The report that Lady Bailey turned northward, to recross the Sahara desert, indicated she has given up her projected flight from London to Cape Towm. She was missing four days last w'eek after taking off from Oran on the second leg of her flight and was found, exhausted and suffering from thirst, near Tahoua. French West Africa. She flew the 250 miles from there to Niamey.

USE PORK GRAFT. KANSAS CITY. A strip of skin pelled from the abdomen of a young pig has been used by surgeons in a grafting experiment to save the crushed foot of John Gentry, 6, victim of a coasting accident. If successful, another piece of pork will be used later in rebuilding the foot slon to hold limited hearings, beginning Wednesday, on the farm allotment bill was reached by the senate agriculture committee. A vote on the number of commodities to be included in the billion dollar measure will be delayed until after producers, processors and manufacturers have been heard.

Chairman McNary announced the number of witnesses had been left to his discretion. He said representatives of all interested groups would be heard, but added he hoped to conclude all testimony in six or seven days. Democrats of the committee are anxious for speedy action. In order that the measure may be brought to the senate floor and passed before March 4, in accordance with the wishes of President-elect Roosevelt. The probability that President Hoover will veto the bill if congress agrees on it has not changed this determination.

Senator Brookhart said he thought the most practical program W'as that sponsored by Senator-elect McAdoo, authorizing the government to establish a minimum commodity price and to commandeer the estimated exportable surplus of all crops for sale in world markets. Proceeds of the latter sale would be given to the farmer, Brookhart estimated the farm allotment bill would take almost $2,000,000,000 in Urges Moratorium. A resolution urging state governors to proclaim a temporary farm mortgage moratorium was introduced in the house by Representative Kleberg, Texas). It ha.s the backing of several democratic leaders, including Representative Bankhead, Schools, Churches and Cemeteries Chief Beneficiaries of Provisions. Representative Crozier and two other members submitted a bill to the house Monday afternoon amending and more clearly defining the law relating to property exempt from taxation.

It exempts only property used for school, church and cemetery purposes, and property used exclusively for purposes of public charity or public benevolence, without gain or profit to owner or user. Fulton caused to be filed a redraft of his original two and a half million state bank, this time using the $1,200,000 of bonds the state treasury owns along with $1,300,000 of tax moneys for capital. Nobody who owns oajik stock can qualify as a director, and the board is made up of farmer, laborer, business man. lawyer and accountant, one from each congressional district, to be named by governor and tax commissioner. Another bill would reduce the Interest on judgments from 7 percent to 6, and another deny a receiver in mortgage foreclosures where it is suspected the property is not worth the amount of the mortgage.

Another restricts investments of state board of educational lands and funds by striking out municipal and irrigation and drainage district bonds, permission to help finance construction of dormitories at state university and normals. Another permits women to serve as jurors. Houiir BilU. H. R.

215, by Fulton and eight Appropriating $1,300,000 of tax moneya and the $1,200,000 of government bonda In which the atate hai Invested aurplua treasury funds, as capital for a atate bank to be loca'ed in the capltol; makea mandatory the depoalt therein of all public funds as well as funds In the hands of trustees, receivers, administrators, executors and all others acting under state authority; directors to be appointed from congressional districts, one each, to devote all their time to bustnesi and draw $4,000 a year; no one may ba named dl rector who owns stocks In any existing bank, but rhall be one farmer, one business man. one laborer, one lawyer and one accountant; branchea to be establtahed In each county, with county treasurer, county clerk and county attorney as directors; prescribes character of loans; Interest charge to exceed 5 percent on loans; pays 3 percent on time deposits; state to guarantee all deposits, (follows In main bill Introduced earlier by Fulton. H. R. 216, by that no person shall be employed at a wage or salary urawn wholly or partly from public funds who ahaU have a spouse (Continued on Page 7.) The Monday afternoon at ter considerable debate approved a resolution by Vance of Seward calling for an investigation of the University of Nebraska.

Speaker appointed the following: Vance, Bock, Bushausen, Chase and Mueller. Rohlff of Douglas moved that the rosolutlon be tabled but was voted down. The resolution expressed confidence in the chancellor and others connected with the university but states in fairness to the university and to the taxpayers the committee should be appointed. The committee has power to administer oaths and take testimony. Speaker Monday urged members of the judiciary committee to report out during the day, H.

R. 63 the code revision bill. The speaker indicated that, if necessary, he will offer an amendment for tho sake of settling a dispute as to proposed placement of game commission enforcement under the state sheriff even to the extent, if demed advisable, of striking the entire section in the bill dealing with that subject. A similar amendment was offered the committee at a recent meeting by Lorensen, democrat of Brown. possible that we can agree and report it said Chairman Chairman LaVelle of house banking and others interested in the committee bill providing for agreement between depositors and creditors to continue failing banks when plan approved by banking department, stated that misunderstandings apparently had been smoothed out with probability of advancement in committee of the whole without opposition.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. (UP). Missouri ratified the lame duek amendment to the federal constitution, thereby putting into effect the 20th amendment, by becoming the thirty-sixth state to ratify. The house of representatives, meeting several hours ahead of scheduled time, approved a joint resolution previously passed hy the senate.

Missouri thereby won from Massachusetts the honor of being the thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment and make it a part of the federal constitution. Action was by unanimous vote. The Massachusetts leglslatura was to meet at 1 p. c.s.t., to ratify It so the Missouri speaker hastily gathered together enough legislators to meet In the forenoon instead of waiting until 2 p. m.

as scheduled. WASHINGTON. (UP). Ratification of the lame duck amendment was described as a long step toward placing control of the government in the hands of chosen representatives of the people In a statement by Senator Norris, author of the amendment. only opportunity the people of the country have to express their Ideas and wishes in regard to national legislation is the expression of their will thru the election of their representatives at the general election in November," Norris said.

"Under a democratic form of government, especially, the wishes of the people should bo crystallized into law as soon as possible after these wishes become known. the old system, not only are these representatives, just elected by the people, prohibited (Continued on Page 7.) SIATIVE RECESS AS LITILE scon MAY TOUR U. S. NEW YORK. (UPl.

Aeronautic circles reported that Howard Scott, father of technocracy, was negotiating for an airplane in which he planned to tour the country to make speeches. Altho the twentieth and last legislative day for introduction of bills Is around the corner," attempt probably will be made in the house at least to postpone the day of final reckoning by seeking adjournment on Thursday to carry over until the following Monday. While certain democratic leaders have endeavored to hasten the twentieth day for the purpose of curtailing introduction, another element craving more time for more bills with the legislative reference bureau already swamped. Talk of possible introduction of a code repeal bill is being whispered about by those who look upon the so-called "repeal" as a super-code bill with more ccxle than now exists or has existed. They see In the executive bill an expansion of appointive power and profess to count in It seven departments where five now exist.

Confessing that it does carry some economies, they maintain that it hasn't remote relationship to repeal. The democratic platform calls for repeal. There has been a more or less concerted demand, among democrats, for re(Continued on Page 6.) GSENA1E CONSIDERIN THE BANKING MEASURE NWRK WIU AUIII Confident Roosevelt to Sign Shoals Bill. WASHINGTON. (UP).

Senator Norris, who has been battling republican presidents twelve years in an effort to obtain government operation of the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer plant, said he was confident President-elect Roosevelt would sign the necessary legislation this year. Norris returned from an inspection in company of Mr. Roosevelt of the Muscle Shoals property constructed during the war from the manufacture of nitrates. shall introduce a government operation bill on the first day of the special session after March Norris said. Night Sessions Threatened to Speed Action on Glass Bill.

WASHINGTON. With night sessions threatened to speed action on the Glass banking reform bill, the senate began consideration of the three remaining major controversial features. These deal with separation of national banks from security affiliates, removal of the secretary of the treasury from the federal reserve board, and creation of a federal supported corporation to liquidate closed banks. Senator Long La.) opposed all three provisions, but he showed no inclination to delay action. He spoke only forty minutes on the three proposals, obtaining unanimous consent to proceed ten minutes longer than the debate limiting agreement allow'ed.

Senator Glass Va.) author of the bill said he had a compromise to propose on the security affiliates section, but did not say what It was. Members See No Need of Waiting for Governor to Guide Them. The suggestion of a former member of the legislature that the present session might as well take an adjournment to await the complete recovery of Governor Bryan, met with no encouragement from members of that body. It had been alleged that the legislature lacks leadership and that little will be accomplished without his strong hand as a guide. Secretary Porterfield of the office said the governor is improving every day and while he is still kept confined to his bed by advice of physicians, he he devoting more time each day to affairs of state and it will not be long until he will be consulting daily with legislators.

"Governor Bryan has clearly outlined a program to be followed in accordance with the needs of the times," said Secretary Porterfield, the legislature contains men of ability who will see that it is carried out In accordance with his wishes just as well as If the governor were present in person with strong which he should not use if he were present." Deputy Secretary Felton of the department of agriculture said he was the proposed recent 1(X) percent" as he believed it would result in a great saving to the state to have the personal Influence of the governor. can tell the world," said Speaker we are not going to adjourn or take a recess of a couple of months or any other long period. There is no need of it. We are further ahead now than we ever have been at this stage of the session. As for leadership, just because some members of the legislature have introduced resolutions to investigate everything Is no sign the majority are of that type.

We are going to carry out program and pledges of the democratic platform, just the same as (Continued on Page 6.) TO OFFER SILVER BILL Wheeler to Make It Amendment to Glass Measure. WASHINGTON. Senator Wheeler told the senate he would offer his bill to monetize silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold as an amendment to the pending Glass bank bill. announcement was after Senators Thomas and Ashurst Ariz.) again had demanded currency relief. OPERATE ON BABE.

AURORA, Ul. Seven day old Eugene Robert Viola was reported "doing well" by Dr. R. Carl Dienst, who performed a major operation on the stomach. The operation was necessary to open the passage from the stomach to the intestines, which.

Doctor Dienst said, was not sufficient to permit flow of fgpd..