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The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
Moonshlne7

DIR. II. s. Hatch. superintendent OF
Sunnyside sanatorium. was informed
one evening recently by one of his
employees that there was big fire at
Oakiandon. DR.. Hatch hustled over
to Oaklandon to see the big fire.
He returned later with the explaha-
tion that what the employee had
thought was a big fire was nothing
but the moon shining.-Indianapol
News.
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11

ION tnat ne nad sent mis- brother to
ienrn. After an unbearable time Don
aid returned.
"she called me Douglas, darling"
he said slowly, "as you expected she
would. She has been playing with US
both, Doug"
His hand CROPPED for his brothers
and clasped 1t; the old love enveloped
them both.
Dolores is going to marry her
guardian" Donald said; 'she told me
So"
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
Canal Project for France.

Plans are being formulated for the
construction Of a canal to extend from
the port Of Dunkirk to the basin Of
sasrbrucken, permitting the naviga-
tion of boats up to 800 tons. The
length Of this canal will be approx
mately 800 kilometers 1872 miles). The
canal will be known as lie Canal du
ord-Est"-Scientific American.
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
THE BROTHERS
BY JACK LAWToN.

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The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
Freak Chicken.

A chicken hatched at Forest. Ont.
last spring has his wing feathers all
upwards instead Of downwards as IL
usual 1t has also an extra joint In
the wings. enabling him to fold them
up In two sections one over the other.
In spite of Its appearance the chicken
is normal In other respects.
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11

ner at the nrst So
cial function he
attended. A scrag-
gy-necked damsel.
OF very uncertain
age. bore down
upon him ELUSIVE
ly.
"Well. this IL
q pleasure, Mr..
Bigbore. Charmed
TO see You again
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11

t@. 1870. Western Newspaper Union)
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
"A GRAND SURPRISE
BY ARisTA e. FISHER.

SeSSSSSeSeseSS SSSSeeSSSeSeSeS'
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
Energy In Piece Of Chalk.

Sir Oliver Lodge has estimated that
the piece of chalk with which he was
making diagram on q blackboard con-
tained 300, 1000 600 foot-tons of energy.
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11

Begin Life Fully Grown.
Unlike most creatures, Insects come
into the world full grown. and remain
the same size all their lives.
The Lamar register., 1921-05-11
WANTED TO BE QUITE SURE
Explorer Had BIundered Badly Twice.
but at Last Got on Reasonably
Safe Ground.

The newly returned African explorer
found himself in a horribly tight cor
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Episcopal Clergyman
To Wed Divorce

New York, Aug. 8.-Mrs. Rita
Lydig, society beauty, twice a di-
vorcee, and the Rev. DR.. Percy
Stickney Grant, will be married as
soon as Mrs. Lydig has sufficiently
recuperated from her recent illnss.
DR.. Grant yesterday declared he was
not at all interested in the Episcopal
church's attitude toward marriage OF
d divorced woman.
With the engagement of DR.. Grant
to Mrs. Lydig arises the first ques-
ton of the fate OF little Faith Will
lard, the founding child whom DIR.
Grant discovered on his door step
three months ago.
II have not made up my mind yet
what | shall do with the baby" he
explained. "The child will remain
with me during the summer months,
at any rate. 1t is getting the best
of care and l would not want it to
leave my household until it has gone
through the first summer i'll New
York"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09

Rural Letter Carriers
Hold State Convention

sork. Neb., Aug. 8.-(Speciai leie-
gram The 10Th annual state con-
vention of the Nebraska rural letter
carriers was formally opened here
today with Is delegates from the
various parts Of the state in attend
ance. Mayor J. W: Little on be-
half OF the city delivered the ad-
dress of welcome and extended an
invitation to the state association TO
hold their yearly conventions in York
N. o. Morlor of Columbus and
Chris Johanson of Newman Grove
gave reports from the national con-
vention which they attended during
the early part of the moneh as guests,
Of the York County Commercial
club. The visiting delegates were
driven on a sightseeing trip over the
CITY and were guests at a theater
party this evening. Ex-Congress,
man Charles Sloan of Geneva will
be the principal speaker at the clos
ing session tomrrow. instead OF Gov
ernor McKelvia who wired his re-
QretS.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Old Seal Antiquated,
Committee Reports

Lincoln, Aug. 8.-The old seal of
the state of Nebraska is antiquated
and nearly obsolete in that it does
not show the present sovereignty OF
the state, nor its principal industrial
activity, according to report made
to Gov. Samuel r. McKelvie today
by Representative George A. Will
liams, chairman of the committee ap-
pointed by the governor under a
bill passed by the last legislature to
design a new state emblem.
"The man with the anvil does not
fittingly represent the industry and
labor of the state" the report de-
clares. "The river and steamboat do
not in the least emphasize transport
tation in Nebraska. The log cabin
shown on the seal spells nothing,
while the mountains in. the back
ground, which 50 years ago repre-
sented the boundary of civilization,
has no significance today. There is
not a feature of thcs present seal,
however, much it stood for in the
past, that fifty speaks Of the modern
Nebraska, save the sheaves of wheat
which are engraved on it"
The committee invites the help OF
the press and of the people of the
state in the way of suggestions.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
List of Important
Steamship Wrecks
Along Pacific Coast

San Francisco, Aug. 7.-Following
is list of the more important North
Pacific shipwrecks during recent
years:
June 9, 1904, steamer Clallam, sunk
in Strait Of Juan de Fuca. 81 lives
lost.
January q, 1906, Valencia, off
Cape Beale, lis lives lose.
July II, 1907, Columbia, sunk in
Shelter cove, 28 drowned.
August Is, 1909, Ohio. Swanson
bay, Alaska, six lives lost.
November u, 1909, Argo, Tilla-
nook Rock. seven dead.
January IL, 1910. Czarina, sunk at
Marshheld, Ore, IS lost.
July 7. 1911, Santa Rosa. Point
Argucllo, four lost.
January 9, 1918, Rosecranz, Tyota
Beach. 50 drowned.
April 6, 1918, Mimi, sunk Bay
City, l8 lives lost.
August IS, 1918, State of Califor-
MIA, sunk Gambler bay, Alaska, 40
drowned.
March is, 1914, Trifolium, sunk at
Lands End, San Francisco, five lost.
September IS. 1914, Francis H.
Leggett, sunk off Oregon coast, e.
dead.
November 2, 1915, Santa Clara,
foundered entrance Coos bay, Ore
|gon. IL lost.
November %, 1915. Hanaloi,
foundered Duxberry Reef, 23 dead.
January %, 1916, Aberdeen, foun-
|dered near San Francisco, eight lost.
May 10, 1916, Roanoke, lost at Port
San Luis. AZ dead.
June IS, 1916. Bear, sunk at Cape
Mendocino, five lost.
October, 1918, Princess Sophia,
foundered on Vanderbilt Reef, south
of Skagway, Alaska, 343 lives lost.
December II, 1918, Standard Oil
tanker, George w. Loomis, sunk
while enroute to Coos bay, Oregon,
from San Francisco, 18 lives lost.
March 81. 1921, Governor, Point
;Wilson, 10 lives 10 j
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Packers Read justment
Is Declared Completed

Chicago, Aug. S.-The packing in
duStry has about completed its pos
war readjustment and the position
OF both producer and packer should
rapidly improve, Thomas +. Will
son. president of the Institute ol
American meat packers told hun.
dreds of packers from all sections
of the country in opening the three
day annual convention here today
Mr.. Wilson presented a survey oi
l70 non-packer industries which he
compared with survey of packing
companies to show that the non.
packers did less than four times as
much business as the packers and
made more than 100 times as much
profit. The packing companies sur
veyed earned profits of $7,2l8,06S on
an investment of approximately
$5o0,000000 and sales OF $3,0l3,002.
600 he said.
He also presented a table to show
price declines in wholesale meat
products during the past year rang
ing from 10 per cent to AZ per cent
Practically all hy-products are lower
than in 1918, he asserted.
The per capita consumption Of
meat and lard in the United States
in 1918 was l04.3 pounds as COM
pared with 1858 pounds in 1913, rep
resenting a potential loss of 1906
100000 pounds. he said.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Indiana Officials
Seek Two Forgers

Muncie, Ind, Aug. 9.-(Special
Telegram. )-Police and federal au-
thorities are searching for couple
giving their names as Mr.. and Mrs
Dudley Wolfe of Omaha, who are
charged with having issued bogus
checks totaling between $1,000 and
$1,000 in various Indiana cities and
who last week passed $500 worth OF
checks here
The checks were certified with a
forged rubber stamp and the name
of bank cashier forged to them,
making the offense federal one.
The checks were made on the ac-
count of a wealthy Muncie manu-
facturer and his signature was so
we'll initiated that officers were I'M
able to detect the forgery. The
woman is thought by authorities to
have forged the name Of the manu-
facturer to the checks.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Hudson Maxim Prepares Questions
In Competition With Thomas Edison
Noted Inventor of Smokeless Powder Answers All
But Six of Electrical Wizards Puzzlers-Makes
Things Easy by Giving Solutions.

tunnel a mile long through the
hill?
7. When an express train passes
bystander, whistlng the while, the
pitch of the whistle is abnormally
high as the train approaches, nor.
NAL when opposite the bystander
and abnormally low after the train
has passed. Why is this?
8. What is the correct answer to
the following arithmetical problem!
2x2 plus 8xS-2.
9. In the following problem, in
algebra: X equals A.
Multiplying by X, X2 equals AK,
Subtracting Az, X, minus AZ
Dividing by X minus AK, X plus
equals AK minus AZ.
A equals A.
Explain how it is that starting
with X equals A, we are able to
get X plus A equals A.
(A2 and X2 are used for X square
and a square respectively
10. What is the difference be-
tween 2 and 2 and twice 2?
Here are the Answers.
The answers:
l. A short distance from the
north pole, and he would fire over
the pole.
2. The earth rotates front west
to east under the water, while the
water is accelerated to participate in
the earth's rotation.
8. AT the International date line
in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
4. 1t would not take any more
pickets.
S. 1t would not take any more
stone. ."
E. 1t would require more rails to
build the fence over the hill.
J. Because OF the rarehed state
of the intervening heated air and
gases.
8. The correct answer is "a.
9. The coefficient of the factors is
zero. Consequently zero plus zero
equals zero.
10. One is addition and the other
is multiplication.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Moroccan Tribesmen Shelled
By Guns of Spanish Ships

London, Aug. 8.-Moroccan tribes
men, who two weeks ago signaliy
defeated Spanish troops in north
eastern Morocco, are reported to
have appeared in force before Melilla,
the last stronghold of the Spanish
in that section of the country. 1t is
asserted that panic reigns in the city
and that civilians are seeking safety
on board ships in the harbo-.
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of
General Navarro and several hun
dred men who were reported last
week to have been surrounded by
Moors on Mount Arruit. Madrid
advices indicate the fear in official
quarters that General Navarro's
forces have been annihilated.
Spanish soldiers have been landed
on the Moroccan coast southeast Of
Melilla, where they are under pro-
lection of the guns of warships.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Puts Blame on Senator
For Frauds in Stocks


Truck company; Brictson Manufac-
turing company, Skinner Packing
company, North American Hotel
company (permit revoked shortly
after installation Of bureau Of Sc
curities before its permit had ex-
pired); Nebraska Hotel company.
"These are just a few who took
advantage of this law and sold stock
after they had operated one year.
Held Exempe by Reed.
1.-TWO days ago | authorized a
statement to the effect that the rea-
son the State Railway commission
granted permits. before the birth OF
the bureau of securities, to the
Bankers Realty and Investment
company, was because Willis E.
Reed, former attorney general, went
before that body with an opinion
to the effect that the company was
exempt from the law. And big losses
are recorded as a result of invest
ments in this company.
"The troubles resulting from the
manipulations of the Missouri Val
ley Cattle Loan company occurred
under our administration. But /
wish to say that after we discovered
the trouble existing we sent letters
to county attorneys in every county
in the state advising prosecutions as
a means of returning money to stock
purchasers. Unfortunately only one
county attorney followed Our advice
But the one who did succeeded in
getting back every cent invested in
this company by the residents of his
county. st.
Was Direct Violation.
"We never knew thing about the
sale of stocks and bonds of the
Colonial Timber and Coal company
urtil after the crash of the Pioneer
State bank at Omaha and the Guar
anty Securities company. l believe
J. E. Hart, secretary of the depart
ment of trade and commerce, has
made it plain to the public that the
handling of securities Of the Co.
lonial Timber and Coal company
was direct violation of the law and
dictates of his department.
II am only too glad to explain
Our connection with the defunct
Guaranty Securities company. The
first we knew of its transactions was
an advertisement of its enterprises.
Immediately we called the man who
il now receiver to Lincoln and in
formed him a permit was necessary
before it could operate. He prom
ised to get the permit. Shortly aft
erward it went 'ker PUNK
1T was largely through out eff
forts that proceedings were started
against officers of the Nebraska
Building and Investment company,
which at the present time looks
ominous for those gentlemen.
"The Alfalfa Butter company de-
MED and resisted jurisdiction OF the
state railway commission to grant it
a permit and appealed to the Ne
braska supreme court.
"The Capital Gold Mining and
Milling company likewise resisted
jurisdiction of state authorities and
appealed to the federal court. Lloyd
Magney OF Omaha, assistant United
States district attorney, appeared in
this case.
similar resistance of jurisdiction
was met in handling the Painless
Withers Dental company"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Bumper Com Crop
Will Be Assured by
Another Good Rain

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. S.--A bumper
corn crop is assured with another
good rain, while part of the counties
already have sufficient moisture, ac-
cording to the weekly crop report
Of A. Z. Anderson, federal statistician
of the federal bureau of market and
crop estimates. However it is re-
ported that drouth in the southwest
ern quarter of the state during the
critical period will hold that crop
down to about three-fourths Of full
return. The threshing of wheat is
nearly completed in some of the
eastern counties, while the yield and
quality of oats is continually report
ed as lower.
F.. Nebraska's early commercial pota-
to crop is said to be the most attrac-
tive on the Chicago market, COM
manding prices as much as 81 over
Kansas potatoes and 50 cents over
the Missouri crop.
Alfalfa will show a wide range in
yields this year, and the state aver
age will fall below the yield for 1920,
Mr. Anderson reports.
Inserting a lead pencil completes
circuit and starts in operation a
new electric pencil sharpener.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Frear Charges
"Dye Monopoly"
Busy in Cabinet
Wisconsin Representative De
clares Body Headed by
Chemical Company Too
Active on Tariff Bill.

Washington, Aug. 8.-The charges
that the dye monopoly headed by
the Chemical Foundation company"
has sought to influence three men,
bers of President Harding's cabinet
in an effort to perpetuate its pres.
ent exclusive power in this country
is made by Representative Frear, re-
publican, Wisconsin, in a letter to
Chairman Penrose of the senate
committee, considering the tariff bill:
The Wisconsin member, who lead
the successful fight in the house
against the dye embargo in the
Fordney bill, referred specifically to
the letters written to Senator Pen
rose by Secretaries Weeks and Den
by. Mr.. Frear also declared that
Attorney General Daugherty had
failed to acknowledge or act on his
letter OF July l8, asking that legal
proceedings be instituted to set aside
the Chemical Foundation company.
mo invisible government" said
Mr.. Frear, "has ever shown more
brazen effrontery than this dye
monopoly. Not one line of evidence
in all the hearings, l am informed,
suggests that this government de-
pended upon or received aid from
any dye establishments in the coun-
try during the recent war and the
argument that we should preserve
this $500,000,000 domestic dye mon
opoly, with its excessive prices and
enormous power because of ap-
preaching war and through need OF
private protection, is both prepos
ferrous and ridiculous.
Secretaries Weeks and DENLY ar
reported by the press to have writ
ten your committee simultaneous
that the dye embargo should be cor
tinued for that reason. If so, the,
certainly had little information O.
which to base such statements am
caution is thrown to the winds Whe1
dye interests bring these two let
ters to your committee on the sam.
day, to influence committee action.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09

New York, Aug. 8.-From the
master mind OF Hudson Maxim,
who has invented hundred things
from canned food to smokeless
powder, comes a QUESTIONABLE SIM
liar to that of Thomas A. Edison
which appeared a few months ago
1t is interesting to note that Mr.,
Maxim answered all except six OF
Mr.. Edison's l45 questions.
The fact is the more remarkable
in that Maxim could neither read
nor write when he was 9 years
old. He is 68 now.
Here are some of the Maxim
questions, framed as his guide to
ones mental equipment, with an
swers below:
/. Where on the surface of the
earth would a hunter be standing.
who, seeing a deer to the east of
him. would point his gun north to
shoot the deer?
2. What causes the cold currents
coming down from the north to hug
the American coast?
3. If one were to fly by airplane
around the earth in westerly di-
rection at the speed of the esrth's
rotation, starting from New York
at noon on Sunday, it would be
noon with him during the entire
voyage; but where would the day
change from Sunday noon to Mon
day noon?
Building Picket Fence.
4. Would it take any more pick
cts to build a fence mile and a
quarter long over a hill than it
would to build it mile long on
the level in a tunnel through the
hill?
5. Would it take any more stone
to build stone wall four feet high
ard three feet wide and a mile and
a quarter long over a hill than it
would to build it a mile long on
the level in a tunnel through the
hill?
f. Would it take any more rails
to build five-rail fence a mile and
a quarter long over a hill than it
would to build fivc-rdil fence in
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
One Killed, Several Hurt
In Electrical Storm

New York, Aug. 8.-In the fury
Of a storm that swept much of New
York and New Jersey last yesterday
lightning killed one boy outright.
shocked four other persons, one OF
them a girl, 50 badly that their lives
are despaired OF, drove one of the
victims insane and came near drown
ing others who were knocked un-
conscious in the water %
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
''Step on the Gas and Let's Go
Urges Industrial Expert

Columbus, Aug. 8.-"With no.
100000 self-starters in our nation.
there is nothing to prevent the most
wonderful prosperity in the history
of the world, if they realize all that
is necessary is to apply the self
starting principle to social and eco
nomic problems" declared DR.. Ed
ward Amherst OFT, industrial expert,
lecturing before local audience.
Think good times. Talk good
times. Start buying. Give work to
somebody, if it's only for a day.
Come on, let's go!'.s. ....
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Omahans in Wreck
Describe Horrors

NNUHtlHueu uSc ohCsI
but it was fortunate in keeping the
water calmer."
Mrs. A. f, Welch, 4442 North
Broadway, St. Louis, Mo-, who ar
rived here with her husband, said:
"One lifeboat got away with only
the third mate, a sailor and one or
two women in it. This was very
fortunate, for the next boat launched,
in which l was, capsized. The third
mate with his nearby boat proved a
hero, for he saved at least IS women
from the capsized boat and four men.
He pulled me aboard after | had
been in the water 40 minutes"
Thirty Persons Missing.
Oil-soaked wreckage coating the
treacheries of Blunt's Reef, 100 miles
north of here, conceals the mystery
of some 80 persons missing in the
sinking of the coastwise steamer
Alaska Saturday night, from which
II bodies have been recovered. Out
of the 2l4 persons believed to have
been aboard, 167 have been saved.
The records of the purser went down
with the ship, and the exact loss OF
life may never be known. for check
ing thus far shows that several pas
sengers have been rescued whose
names did, not appear, from the COM
pany's list OF passengers and crew
prepared at Portland, Ore, the city
of departure.
The check thus far indicates that
AZ may have perished.
At Eureka, Cal, 40 miles from the
wreck, are II bodies, IS of which
have been identified as six passen-
gers, including one woman, and nine
OF the crew. Meanwhile along the
rocky coast, patrols continued a
search for bodies. In the hospitals
at Eureka we're many injured sur
vivors. .
Outstanding in their recital of
tragedies of the fog-enveloped sink
ing and explosion of the steamer. was
the tribute to heroism OF Capt.
Harry Hobey, who went down with
his ship; Of his officers and crew,
and the officers and crew of the res
cue steamer Anyox.
But one explanation OF the wreck
was made, when Second Officer E.
D. Dupree Of the Alaska declared
that all uncharted northeast current
dragged the fog-bound ship several
miles inshore into the reef.
1--WE thought we were three miles
outside the reef, when really we were
inside" Dupree said. "An uncharted
northeast current had carried us in
shore. We observed this current
later when our life craft drifted
northerly from the wreck"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Dr.. Burhorn's
Chiropractic Health Service

chiropraetic today is the same as when
discovered, but by the use of the X.Ray its
application to the correction of human all
ments has been made accurate.
If you are suffering with nervousness,
headaches, backaches, high blood pressure,
liver, stomach and kidney trouble, come in
today and find out what Chiropraetic will
do in your case. Consultation is free with
no obligation on your part. If we can't
help you, we will not accept your case.
Office adjustments are IL for $40, or
30 for SIS. Office hours from 8 a. m. to
1880 p. m.
My Council Bluffs office is located in suite
3l2.20 Wiekham block Phone I075. Complete
'x-Ray laboratories in both offices.
House calls made by appointment.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-09
Bishop Quayle to Preside at
Western Swedish Conference

sSaronville, Neb., Aug. 8.-Bishop
William A. Quayle OF St. Louis will
preside at the Western Swedish con-
ference, August Is, when it opens
here. He will also address the con-
terence the evening Of the 10Th. Many
other prominent men will speak at
the conference.