The Beatrice Daily Express from Beatrice, Nebraska • 1

TTn Beatrice Daily a i HOME EDiTiOH THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday cooler Wednesday Three Editions Daily Our Net Paid Circulation Is More than 3000 Daily When Volume 37 No 162 BEATRICE NEBRASKA' TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 1922 Price Three Cents I j- PAPERS INFORM WIFE HER SPOUSE HAS WED ANOTHER $18000000000 GOLD i PRODUCED IN WORLD LADS ARtNjIVEN THIRD DECREE PEACE OR WAR UP TO MUSTAPHA GOVERNMENT OF ANGORA MUST COME TO THE BAT TODAY ON BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR BUSINESS New York Oct 10 Millions of dollars of surplus investment money in the United States presaging an unprecedented business revival were disclosed today as the result of the government call for a 34 year loan on a half billion dollars at four and one-quarter per cent Oversubscription of the loan asked for refunding of the part of the national debt by one billion dollars to two billion dollars was assured today as applications for hundreds of millions rolled into the financial banks from the coffers of American business Widespread increase in production of American industries during August the critical month of New Brunswick Oct 10 The of Ray Schneider that his pal Clifford Hayes killed the Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs James Mills in their trysting place under a crab apple tree was plumbed to its depths by authorities today Believing that story is full of holes authorities took the boy who is held as a material witness in Summer-field jail through the third degree Schneider charged that Hayes fired four shots into the bodies of two dark figures on the Phillip farm believing the figures to be Pearl Bahmer 15 his QUESTION PATERITY OF A and her Nichola" Bah' PAPILLION NEBRASKA BABY mer Hayes held on charges of first degree murder protested his innocence rail and coal strike was reported in a statement issued by the department of commerce at Washington today In almost every industry there was not only an increase over the produc- I tion for the previous stated h1 highest in many months and often the best record since the depression at the end df A sharp drop in railroad income was caused by the strike according to figures made public at Washington today by the association he told interviewers at the jail I killed them do you suppose I would have stuck around Iew Brunswick all the A part of story as much as she could have been expected to know -was corroborated by Pearl Bahmer On the night of September 14 she said she was out with Schneider remaining until about 9 When she returned home she continued she found her stepfather on the porch intoxicated and consented to go with him while ho attempted to the effects of his drinking They passed Schneider Hayes and Leo Kauffman on a street corner she said and the three youths followed therrt After they had walked some distance she said she became tired and wanted to return home but her father insisted she continue She began to cry she said and the trio rushed up Schneider doffing his coat and expressing his determinaton to beat Bahmer The encounter ended without blows however she said and she and her stepfather returned home story tallies with perfectly upto this point except that Schneider says Pearl and Bahmer walked on toward the Phillips farm Lincoln Nebr Oct 10 Dwight Huff an employe in the Burlington shops at Havelock is in the camp hos-ef railroad executives Reports filed in a serious condition as a re- by the interstate commerce commis- OI being run down by a car sion showed that the income for Au- which was driven by Arvid Erickson gust was but 265 per cent of the Havelock about 9 clock Monday class one railroad tentative valuation evonmg The lowest returns since May 1921! Huff along with about thirty oth-August net operating income totalled er employes of the Burlington had $52 579 799 gone to Havelock to attend the pic- ture show After the show they were QCCDAI UCAUII ciMcn on their way home when at Seven-oCVCnML nCAVILT rlnlCU teenth and streets an Overland car FOR POSSESSING STILLS containing- four men bore down on Hastings Nebr Oct (Spe- Witnesses to the accident District court here has dis- ed lhe car was going thirty-five miles posed of the heaviest criminal docket I 11 7he rest en jumped in years Ten criminal cases have the sidewalk but Huff was not so been tried Seven of the prosecutions ajK xvasT7Ln were for the violation of the prohibi- ie ot The blow tore tion laws Six defendants were found bumPgr loose from the car and it guilty of illegal possession of stills 2as l0rcefl Special Police Scnences ranged from $500 fines to United State Deputy $5000 and twelve months in jail Marshal Nilson were less than halt la block away Ihey arrived in time DDIOfUICDC nrnri APd lAlOT to arrest two of the men in the car rnlbunicnh nCDCL AuAmbl Harrv Hinkle and William McVey A DIRTY COMPANION Erickson was later arrested but the 7 Grand Island Nebr Oct An-I Vs still at large drew Haves who claims Lincoln as! 'vas bad1 bruised by the car his home and calendar salesman as and at the camp hospital doctors fear his occupation was the most unkempt man that ever appeared before the local police court Gray and bent he stood before the police judge and as he trembled scales fell from his body to the floor It is doubtful if he had taken a bath in the past half century He had Washington Oct 10 Since Columbus discovered America the world has produced 875000000000 fine ounces of gold valued at $18-000000000 it was estimated today by the commerce department About $8000000000 of this world gold production the department declared is in circulation as money or in banks and public treasuries $2-000000000 in the United States treasury while the other $10000-000000 has been used in the industrial arts or has disappeared in the 430 years since the keeping of accurate gold statistics began CALIFORNIA FARMER THINKS WAS SWINDLED Omaha (Nebr OcL 10 A belief that he plight possibly have been swindled began to dawn upon A Anderson Turlock Calif farmer when he reported to police that he had been waiting here since Saturday to be paid $20000 which he had won in a horse race taking place Thursday at Vancouver Anderson said he I drew $1400 from the bank and mort-! gaged his farm for $6000 giving the money to Charles Anderson who said he was a Minnesota man and Lowney who purported to be a His horse won and he received a message to come to Omaha where all bets would be paid THE STATE HAS ESTABLISHED CASE AGAINST CLIFFORD HAYES Are Ready to Go on Trial With the Evidence in Hand New Brunswick JOct The state has established a complete case against Clifford Hayes accused of the murder of Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills and is ready to go to trial on the evidence in hand Prosecutor Beckman announced today have a complete case and I am sure conviction can be said the prosecutor -r The prosecutor declared he had witnesses to back up the statement of Ray Schneider who accused Hayes of the murder of the minister and the choir leader This would indJpatie that the prosecutor has evidence thus far obtained that has not been revealed believe in the truth of Beekman said However Beekman added that the investigation has not been closed have eliminated no one in our he said Raymond Schneider accuser of Clifford Hayes as the murder of Dr Edward Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills today was shown by testimony furnished the prosecutor to have: 1 Threatened to murder the father of Pearl Bahmer girl for whose sake be said Hayes shot the couple on Sept 14 2 Repeatedly threatened to shoot his own wife 3 Been responsible for the attempted suicide of the Bahmer girl in the Raritan canal a short time ago These developments in the murder mystery heightened the public sentiment against the imprisonment of young- Hayes who is in jail at Somerville as the result of story Schneider says Hayes shot the minister and the choir singer by mistake SCORES SLIGHTLY HURT IN FREIGHT YARD BUMP C'oscob Conn Oct 10 Members I of two train crews and about a score of passengers were slightly injured today when a New York New Haven Hartford train sideswiped a freight train in the yards here The passen-i ger train a local from Stamford to I New Haven ana the motor of the (freight were derailed There were no jseridus injuries HASTINGS YOUTH DREW GUN ON OFFICERS Hastings Nebr Oct 10 (Special) When Harvey and Richard Sy-nherd brothers were approached by officers who were about to place them under arrest on a charge of theft Harvey Sypherd drew a gun on the officers and shot The two were overpowered The men had been syphoning gasoline from filling station tanks and also stealing automobile curtains and Other movables from machines The men live at Hastings and their arrest Occurred at Ft Collins Colo BEATRICE GIRL TO WED A NORTH DAKOTA MAN David Byron Hill over 21 and residing at Blanchard North Dakota Tuesday was issued a marriage li- cense in company with Miss Ruth Ada Wheelock over 21 of Beatrice Miss I Wheelock is the daughter of Wheelock of this citv EPIDEMIC OF B0XELDER BUGS HITS QUEEN CITY An epidemic of millions of elder has hit Beatrice The critters favor the warm south sides of buildings and seem to be for a flight somewhere They go blundering and buzzing through the air becoming tangled in hair and furs and flying against the faces or pedestrians and autoists who leave their windshields down millions of says Warren deputy sheriff They fly as high as County Surveyor Phil office on the third flooi- of the Gage County Court House and gather in bunches and squads on the screens Detroit Mich Oct 10 Mrs4 Irene Hackett 25 left the home of her husband and his parents to stay with her own people in Marine City until her husband could locate another home for them This was last May One day she picked up a Detroit newspaper and read in the marriage license column a notice that her husband 30 years old and Margaret Miller 18 had been granted a marriage license Mrs Hackett left her 2 jear old son Milton with her parents and came to Detroit to swear out a warrant charging her husband with bigamy According to Mrs Hackett her husband has been married three times and is at present married to two wives His first wife of whom Mrs Hackett but recently learned has a daughter 12 years old Mrs Hackett declares her husband has never properly supported her and that at one time she was forced to work at the Detroit postoffice Recently she sent him $500 for business purposes but he spent the money on a motorcycle she declares FRED VICTIM LAUGHED AT WHILE ON STAND Says Chained Her and Companion and Assaulted Them Omaha Oct -Mrs Gene Jenkins one of his alleged victims took the stand in the trial of Fred Brown alleged kidnapper and woman chainer in Judge court here today and told how Brown had chained her and Miss Kathryn McNaman in a dungeon beneath the shack west of Benson and assaulted them The sympathies of the large crowd which overflowed the court room seemed to be with the diminutive defendant Judge Leslie had to threaten to clear the court when spectators laughed uproariously when Mrs Jenkins testified she had signalled to Miss McNaman not to hit Brown with a big block of wood because she feared the blow would not render Brown unconscious and he would shoot them both Direct testimony was completed and the court adjourned at noon Mrs Jenkins testified that she and the McNaman girl were standing at 24th and Cuming street waiting for a Krug Park car when Brown drove up and offered them a ride asked him to stop at her house but he refused to and kept on Mrs Jenkiiis said we were passing Krug Park I told him we wanted to stop there and he said you have no date there you have a date with He pulled a revolver and holding it in his right hand drove the rest of the way to the shack He drove the car right into the shack after opening the door tied our hands and feet! and took us down into the dungeon! He tlien slipped the chains around our necks and fastened the other end to the cement Mrs Jenkins said she had asked Brown why he had taken them to his shack am holding you for she said he replied- Mrs Jenkins protested that her folks had no money and Brown said see about She also testified that Brown assaulted her and Miss McNaman FLYNN OMAHA SLAYER HELD TO DISTRICT COURT Omaha Nebr Oct 10 Tom Flynn twentyryear-old for Federal Prohibition Agent Rohrer who admits having killed John Salerno local Italian youth Saturday night Monday was held to the district court on a charge of murder following recommendations of a jury CITY COMMISSIONERS HOLD REGULAR MEETING The city commissioners held a meeting this afternoon and allowed bills Mayor Farlow who left the city a few days ago on a trip to Bridgeport had not returned in time to attend the session Warrants were ordered on the following funds for the payments of claims: General water $1-25147 street $8315 fire $57322 police $525 lusher $95-25 judgment $14474 The petitions asking that the commissioners call a special election to vote for a swimming pool wore not presented as they had not been properly filed AMERICAN LEGION WILL NOT MEET THIS EVENING Through some misunderstanding it was announced by some of the Legion members that the local post would meet Tuesday evening in the chamber of commerce This is a mistake as the art exhibit of the club will be held there Prof orchestra will furnish thb music CHANGE IN SPEAKING DATES OF RANDALL H- Randall republican candidate for governor has changed his speaking dates to fill those made by A-Randall candidate for railway commissioner who suddenly became ill sb will not be in Beatrice Friday night October 13 as previously announced Hon Howell republican candidate for United States senator will arrive in Beatrice at 6:30 from Wy-more on Friday evening and speak here at 8 been detected stealing cigars from the 1 HOG CHOLERA APPEARS counter of a local soft drink parlor 1 i si nTHC PnilWTY and then selling them to customers at! UE OUUIvl I greatlv reduced prices He was fined i Nebraska City Nebr Oct S25 and costs and sent to jail The Special) Hog cholera has broken other prisoners rebelled at being in i out among herds of swine in the the same cell with him and stated i northwestern part of the county and that it was unconstitutional in that bas already caused considerable loss the constitution of the United States prohibis the infliction of cruel and IN GOOD STANDING unusual punishment which they said AITU UIO CTIUC: had been inflicted on them when Wllrl rllo rlvt WIVto Hayes was made a fellow prisoner Coldwater Miss Oct An un- 'known colored man at the Bank of PMIPKFM FFFn FfiR THF Coldwater requested change for a $1 r-LCU run I nc bni Turley cashier asked the BEATRICE AUTO CLUB old man where he lived and the Members of the Beatrice Automo- answer was that he lived at Shirtcol-bile Club have been notified through lar a community in De Soto county the mail by Henry Gardner secretary Further inquiries brought out the STRONG BRITISH FORGE WILL FACE THE TURKS Straits Will Be Protected Against Nationalist Occupation Mudamia Thrace Oct 10 Peace or war in the near east was put up to the government today while Great Britain quietly shifted more troops into strategic positions in preparation -for any eventuality Ismet Pasha Kemalist representative at the conference here was presented by General Harington the allied proposal for evacuation of Thrace on condition the Turks did not further violate the neutral zone The Ottoman delegate forwarded these to Angora promising a reply from Mustapha government for this afternoon Limitations for a permanent neutral zone around the straits and the number of Turkish gendarmes which is to be permitted in Thrace were also mentioned in the allied note Meanwhile the British fortified a line of defense east of Scutan for protection of Constantinople More guards have arrived Field artillery is in place airplanes are flying busily overhead If the Turks should decide for war the curtain will roll back to disclose strong British forces ready for battle along a line of defense-that cuts off troops from Constantinople and the straits The Mudamia conference is temporarily adjourned pending a reply Allied representatives forced this state of affairs the French threatening to lead a bolt from the parley if Ismet Pasha did not secure an immediate answer RELIGIOUS FANATIC FINED FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT Grand Island Nebr Oct 10 (Spe- cial) Alvin Afflerbaugh a religious fanatic was arrested here Saturday for disturbing the peace When he ap- peared before the police judge he be i gan to berate law enforcement and was fined for contempt of court MONSTER RADIO MERGER HAS BEEN EFFECTED Ramifications Will Extend to Uttermost Parts of the Earth New York Oct 10 A $170000-000 combine of American British German French and Argentine radio plants giving America control of the air communication was announced today by Captain Powhatan Pace of the Pan-American Wireless company The monster merger was negotiated the Radio Corporation of America and plans now on foot to include the Orient and Australia in the project the central station of which will be the Radio Corporation plant in New York SOME ROMANCES OF EVERYDAY LIFE Washington Oct 10 (Capital News Service) Swiss insurance companies have increased their rates on women risks as much as -15 per cent The reason given is that short skirts high heels and low necks increase the likelihood of a woman Tailing and hurting herself or catching pneumonia Michigan had a law which prohibited an unnaturalized citizen from possessing firearms The state supreme court said it was unconstitutional on the ground that it was not right to give a skunk a stronger weapon its enemies than a farmer might possess against hawks and foxes who steai chickens A Sioux City Iowa policeman had a great deal of trouble with a certain girl auto-speeder whom he arrested and warned time and again Finding his remonstrances of ik) avail the officer married her to reform her' Speeding is said to be on the increase on the beats of: marriageable policemen in Sioux City Three Men One of Them BURLINGTON WORKER RUN DOWN BY CAR a Striker Arrested Huff Internally Injured ed he has sustained internal injuries The three men who were taken into custody were brought to Lincoln and lodged in the county jail The officials- continued the search for the fourth man Erickson it is said is a striker It was his car that ran Huff down statement that he had living wives and was Vin good standing with all of He said he married them all in De Soto county REVIVE HOPE OF NEW BURLINGTON LINK Kearney Nebr Oct 10 (Special) Hopes of the Burlington road building the Kearney-Bridgeport link have again been revived The road recently entered into a contract with certain oil companies at Casper Wyo to deliver a thousand cars of oil a day to New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico This means over twenty trains a day and ij is thought it will be neces-sarc to build this line as it -would be a gravity haul from Casper all the way SPIRITED BIDDING AT BIG FUR AUCTION St Louis Mo Oct 10 Spirited bidding marked the second day of the semi-annual auction sale of furs here the largest of its kind in the world Sales of pelts yesterday totalled nearly $900000 and of this sum $650000 was reaixcd from the! sale of gov- eminent owned furs TO ELECT 0 SENATOR FROM TEXAS Washington Oct -At a conference here and in Chicago this week effor is will be made to enlist strong administidtion support for a move to elect a republican senator from Texas The republican senatorial campaign committee may rush speakers into Texas to aid the candidacy of George Peddy republican coalition candidate against Earl Mayfield who received the democratic nomination Mayfield is being opposed on the ground that he is a Ku Klux Klan candidate rather than because he is a democrat DIPLOMATS TO BE DEPRIVED OF COCKTAILS I Washington Oct Importation of iiquor by foreign diplomats sta-! tioned here hitherto freely permitted i may yet be banned by the American government as result of the Daugh- erty ruling it was authoritatively i learned here today The status of the diplomatic privilege which has enabled foreign envoys to dispertge a recherche hospitality to official Washington since July 1919 is admittedly shroud-1 ed in uncertainty Greencastle Ind Case Paralleled Here Mother Deserted BabuVs Father Papillion Nebr Oct 10 The shape of a ear as compared with thoge of its supposed father is to help determine whether Clarence Harper is the father of his ten weeks old baby girl whose paternity is in question in district court here A Anderson superintendent of the Bureau of Investigation of the Omaha Police Department testified that the baby had and he said he could determine similarity of ears and other marks of identification Mrs Harper who was a dancer before her marriage left her husband October 15th 1921 he alleges and the baby was born July 24th of this year Mrs Harper asked $25000 alimony Harper in a cross petition questioned the paternity of the baby SIS TURNS SHOTGUN ON BOYS BATTLING BROTHER Lynchburg Va Oct A quarrel over chestnuts they had gathered was settled with a shotgun in the hands of a 14-year-old girl with the result that Denny Wright 10 and Billy Simpson 11 are suffering from buckshot wounds described by physicians as painful but not fatal The girl Norine Mason interceded in the argument in defense of her little brother but told the police she had fired only to frighten the other boys away MOTHER OF 11 CHILDREN PARDONED BY PRESIDENT Muskegon Minn Oct 10 Mrs Anna Hozer was at borne with her eleven children after serving three months of a half year term for violating the liquor law She was pardoned by President Harding Mrs plea was in the name of her thirteen months old baby who went to jail with her and of the expected one soon and which had she not been released would have been born behind bars COYOTES GETTING TAME IN LIBERTY VICINITY Liberty Nebr Oct 10 (Special) Coyotes are getting very numerous in this part of Gage and over in Paw-n be counties They seem to be growing tame and are venturing close to the farm houses (luring the day time -a phenomena that settlers who have lived close here for many years have never before observd BRINGS HOME PRIZES ON HIS ORPINGTONS Mehuron of this city who sent some of his fine Buff Orpingtons to the Pawnee county fair last week brought home a number of prizes He secured three firsts a number of seconds and thirds Mr Mehuron also captured most of the prizes on his birds at the Gage county fair DISTRICT PRESIDENT ADDRESSES R0TARIANS The principles of the Rotary club are as old and firm as the Golden Rule Paul Rankin head of the eleventh district who lives at Dubuque la said Tuesday evening at the Ro-tarians meeting at the chamber of Commerce Dr A Rush introduced the speaker Osbon director of music in the public schools gave two solos accompanied by Mrs Holmes on the piano Mrs Reilly gave two readings PROCTORS ARE DIVORCED BY DISTRICT JUDGE COLBY Alberta Proctor Tuesday was grant-red a divorce from Harry Proctor by Judge Leonard Colby in ristrict court She charged cruelty and nonsupport She was granted $1000 alimony and $15 monthly for the support of their infant child Proctor is a mechanic by trade GRADUATE COLLEGE OF UNI LARGER THAN IN 1921 Lincoln Nebr Oct The University of Nebraska always proud of increasingly large enrollments has given out the information that' the Graduate College increasing from 416 to 557 is a third larger than it was last year Registration in the College broke all records this year and continues to increase standing at the present time slightly over 800 according to report from the University of Nebraska PHONY CHECK PASSER MAY BE ROLAND HANNON There seems to be a suspicion dawning here that the young man who passed a check for $200 on a St Joseph Mo novelty dealer drawn on the Union State bank of this city is that elusive ana flitting young gentleman who was in Beatrice a short time ago and gave the name of Roland Hannon While here he claimed to be an architectural clay modeler and was at work making a clay model Of the new Paddoek hotel He was a very glim and persuasive talker had been much around the world and in succeeding in passing several checks on trusting and unsuspecting persons here that ho was able to make his living by hia wits GIRL IS CHAMPION DAIRY CATTLE JUDGE St Paul Minn Oct 10 Miss Elizabeth Willerton Ohio is the champion junior judge of dairy cattle in America The young lady was awarded the prize at the national dairy show here She was the only girl There were 28 boys and the boys admitted there was no cftivairy in the decision was i cared on a dairy Miss Wiilaru and I know my cattle just as a city girl knows the streets of her home WOMAN DIES ON TRAIN IN LINCOLN MONDAY NIGHT Lincoln Nebr Oct 10 Mrs Mike Burda of Tobias died from heart failure on Burlington train No 7 as it was about to leave the Lincoln staij tion Monday evening The body was taken to Castle Roper and Mathews undertaking parlors and her husband! vho was accompanying her went on to Wilber intending to return Tuesday morning Mrs Burda was an elderly lady and was making the trip to Wilber with her husband when she was suddenly seized with the attack Funeral serv-rvees have not yet been arranged Complete details of the death could not be learned FALLS CITY COUPLE GET MARRIAGE LICENSE Haralabakos 29 Falls City and Miss Elsie Hoessele 22 Falls City were granted a marriage license in County Judge court Tuesday German Maiden Makes Accusation Against Farmer Omaha Neb Oct 10 -Fraulino Marie Bohne twenty-one pretty German girl who speak a word of English today told police of an alleged attack upon her by a Bennington Neb farmer with whom she came to America several weeks ago to marry his son Spumed by the son the farmer himself attempted to make violent love according to the story answered an ad in my home paper at Hanover she said Nebraska man said he wanted a pretty German girl to go to America with him to marry his son I was selected out of fifty other girls times the father tried to make love to me Last night he came into my room I fought him off He tore my clothes ran out into a cornfield then I managed to get a ride with a passing Police turned the girl over to the welfare board pending investigation of the club that expected to be on deck Thursday at 6:30 at the Beatrice Chamber of Commerce when a chicken dinner will be served members KIWANIS CLUB MEETS AT OF WEDNESDAY The Kiwanis club 'will hold its regular weekly meeting and luncheon Wednesday at noon at the Chamber of Commerce LLOYD GEORGE IS GIVEN NO PEACE London -Oct 10 Lloyd critics are giving him no peace in the crisis Labor today had joined in a widespread cemand among opposition parties that the premier design Resolutions calling for immediate resignation of the government and elec i ion of a new parliament were adopted ny a joint council representing tiace councils and the labor party The situation in the near east furnishes a useful lever for evicting Lloyd George his enemies believe Kin Charges Wife Was Unfaithful New York Oct 10 A suit for divorce brought by John Howard Cromwell wealthy lawyer and property owner against his wife Mrs Rose Barker Cromwell who is 33 years old half the age of her husband was disclosed-today when Supreme Court Justice Joseph Morschauser heard a motion in the suit at White Plains Cromwell is said to be a lineal descendant of Oliver Cromwell In his complaint Mr Cromwell charged that his pretty blonde young wife had been unfaithful to him naming ten dates In only one instance was a man named a Harry Cohn whom the retired attorney alleged hao been entertained by Mrs Cromwell at a cottage she hired at Asbury Park Through her attorney Hyman Bushel Mrs Cromwell entered a complete denial of all the charges and Mr Bushel subsequently charged that the suit was damnable After studying briefs submitted by both sides the court granted $3000 counsel fees and an additional allowance of $1500 for disbursements for investigators The Cromwells were married on Aug 31 1917.