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* The Omaha M orning Bee \___ ** VOL. 52—NO. 241. « TliS? ST* "«■ OMAHA. MONDAY, MARCH 26. 1923.* gy„,r &T* TWQ CENTS " 41 Arrests Are Made in Four Raids _ i Orient Gardens Closed, but Vo Inmates Held—Liquor Is Found Under Tables. Trapp Plans Vice War One of the most notorious cabarets In Omaha, the Orient Garden. 12S North Tenth street, was closed by order of the police ) early yesterday morning when the new central squad, beaded by Detective Andy Tiapp, raid-1 cd the place and found more than 12 bottles of liquor under tables, oc cupied by patrons. The liquor had t een carried to the place in the pock- j ets of the patrons, the proprietor, llobert Wisdom, said, and ownership ' could not be proved by tho police, so j no arrests were made. Forty-one persons were arrested in four raids during the three-hour drive j that the officers made against gam bling and disorderly houses. Andrew • 'alato, 608 South Thirteenth street, was arrested after the squad had Watched his soft drink parlor for more 1 than one hour. He was charged with , the Illegal possession of intoxicating liquor when the officers found sev eral pint bottles of whisky hidden \ in a closet at the end of the bar. j Nab Man With Jug.N While the police were waiting for j t ic patrol wagon to respond to their ; rail. Joseph Quinlan. 1021 South Twen- i 1;. second street, passed them carry ing a gallon-jug of whisky.. He was n .rested on a charge of illegal pos session. A short time later the ceptral squad d-scencled on Levi Bloomfield's place, 1012 Cuming street, arrested 17 in mates and Bloomflied and confiscated « table marked for dice games, cards, a small amount of money and dice. i.i fivers declare that a dice game was In progress when they entered the '• 1 lace. The next place "called on" by the i Kiuad was at 1212 South Seven teenth street. Ivy Haywood was i harged with keeping a disorderly l ouse at this address and 16 persons were arrested as inmates. Among the 16 were three who had been at tested In the raid on Bloomfield's. They had posted bonds and gained their liberty less than one hour be fore the raid on the Haywood wo rn an's place. Lurk Charm Fails. i Luther Tucker, 2515 Ohio street, | b. rested for the second time in one e vening when he was found tn the place at 1212 South Seventeenth street, drew a rabbit s foot from his podket as he was thrust into the ♦'bull pen” before the desk sergeant. "Twice In one night you have laid j rfown on me.” he said, addressing the I i harm. "Your daddy never saw a I graveyard at midnight.” Luther refused to part with the foot, however, and carried it care fully to a cell. Deputy Sheriff Active. Not to b“ outdone by the police Deputy Sheriff Thestrup declared war on places on Leavenworth street. Al though he “looked over” several houses along the street he mad* only j one raid. That was at 2123 1-2 Leav- ' enworth street. Me arrested Ethel I Smith as keeper ef a disorderly house end three "friends” as inmates. One pint bottle half filled with whisky 1 was confiscated. "This is the beginning of a ‘war’] r.rd it may last some time.” Trapp declared. “We are for a fairly open c ty but there Is a line that has to be | observed. If vice were to run wild we just couldn't live here after j awhile.” German Publishers Riled Over Scoop by U. S. Writers By Calinwl Service. Berlin, March 25.—German news paper publisher* representing more than 1,000 pnpers have filed a formal h protest with the government because they were allowed to be “scooped" l>y die Universal Service in America on the exclusive story of the Bergmann reparations offer The story was first told In Univer sal Service dispatches of Dr. Berg rnann's visit to Paris on behalf of the German government to offer 00,000,000,000 gold marks for repara tions and the refusal of Tremier Poincare to receive the offer. The publishers protest egainut the German press having to get such vi tally important German news via New York two weeks after it is pub lished tn the American pijeas. 1 tah Sheriff to Defend Title in District Gourt Salt Lake City, March 25.—Bert R. ■Harries, elected to the office of sheriff of Salt Lake county at the November election, will be compelled to appear :n court and defend hta title to the of fice, according to the decision of ,'udge McCrea of the third district. It Is charged that his election was due to "church interference." The omplalnt alleges "admonitions and nstructlons'' on the part of President Ilcber J. Grant of the Mormon church ffom the rostrum snd in signed statements sent out, At the various ward, meetings bishops and counselors ars alleged to have "in structed” members of the Mormon < hurrh to support Harries at the polls and this is construed by the plsdntlffs »s having violated the state constitu tor!. Bishop Tuttle Unchanged -St. Louie, Match 25. — The condl "on or the night Ilcv. Daniel K. * 'little, Mi, head of the Lpiscopai hurrh tri America, who has been •rltkally ill nt his residence here for -evtral weeks, was announced as unchanged by attending phslclana to night. Owing to hla advanced age, hop* has been abandoned for hta »• •ovtry, U ju stated. If Mate No “Broadway Angel” Wife of Mystery Man Says Mrs. John Mitchell Expresses Faith v Husband Identified as “Mr. Marshall” in ’ utier of New York Model—Officials T iiiate One or , More Arrests Are Due Quite Soo- • International \nm Service. Palm Beach, Fla., March 25.—As serting firmly her belief in her hus band, Mrg. Frances Statesbury Mit chell, wife of John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia,who was exposed as the "mysterious Mr. Marshall." Involved In Investigations into the death of Dorothy Keenan In her New York apartment, declared here tonight she would stand by him. "t don't care if they identify my husband as the man who admired •Miss Keenan," she said. “My hus band was not an ‘angel’ to any Broad way model. Mrs. Mitchell, a daughter of Ed ward T. Stotesbury, prominent New York and Philadelphia banker, de nounced the statements of Assistant District Attorney Pecora in New York as untrue. She declined ab solutely to' believe anything wrong about her husband's conduct under any proof. She asserted her hus band only recently left her here after spending ■--everal days in Palm Beach. Mrs. Mitchell said she could not tell where her husband was the night of March 15 when Dorothy Keenan was chloroformed in her apartment. Early Arrests Expected. New York, March 24.—Disclosure that the mysterious “Mr. Marshall" in the strange slaying of heantifut Dorothy Keenan is In reality John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, son in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, a partner of J. P. Morgan, was followed to night by the official intimation that one or more arrests are Imminent. Information furnished to Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora this evening by Mitchell and “Billie" Bradford, Miss Keenan's maid, leads the officials to believe that black mailers chloroformed the girl to ob tain letters written to her by Mit chell with which to levy blackmail. An overdose of the drug killed the Broadway butterfly. One of the letters is missing and :s supposed to have been stolen. The others are believed to be in possession of the district attorney's office. Had Cautioned Maid. It was learned that Miss Keenan who had many admirers among the men who frequent the Broadway cabarets, warned her maid not to tell Mitchell of her private affairs. Mitchell called up Miss Keenan’s apartment at 3 on the morning she was found dead. When he was told V * j'* that she w“ .ned to his j. compani-' a\ , V” *iled face and exclaimet. “Doroth;. ' Ad.’’ This companion was formerly known as “Wilson,” hut he is now identified ns John H. Jackson, a prominent lawyer. Miss Keenan first knew Mitchell as "Mr. Marshall;" Inter she learned >is real identity and called him up at his Philadelphia home. Mitchell was guarded by five detec tives as'he left the district attorney's office tonight. “Xo, nothing whatever to say,’ he exclaimed when reporters surrounded 1 him. He hastened away in a taxi-I cab. Questioned at Length. Mitchell’s only connection with the case is ttiat ho knew the slain girl, j It was his misplaced affection for | the Broadway butterfly that brought him into the limelight of undesirable publicity. , Mitchell came from Plulndelpbia , this afternoon and was questiond at length by Peeora regarding his rela- j tion« with Miss Keenan. Miss Keenan was found dead in her apartment on March 15, amidst scenes of disorder which indicated that she had tried to fight off her slayers. F3ver since that time efforts had been 1 made to obtain the identity of the ; mysterious “Mr. Marshall.” who was said to have spent at least 11,000 every time he visited the girl. Albert 13. Guimares, a wealthy Porto TJjcan. with whom Miss Kennan was j infatuated, told Peeora that he knew i of "Marshall,” but never knew his ‘ teal name. Miss Keenan was said to j have used part of the money lavished upon her by her rich admirer to buy gifts for Guimares. • Mitchell and his wife are residents i of the exclustve Rittonhouse Square; section of Philadelphia and are lead- j ors of the most exclusive social set , in Philadelphia. — Mitchell is a tall, well preserved, ! tuddy man of 52 with gray hair. He ;s a nephew of the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, formerly the most noted . authority in America upon brain and | nerve diseases. He was graduated I from Princeton in 1S92 and was mar-1 ried to Miss Frances Stotesbury in ; 1909. Ho is the father of two chil-; dren. He is president of the Philadel- 1 phla rubber Works of Philadelphia and Akron, O., and is worth millions. Bernhardt Still Fighting Death Aetrees Struggling to Fulfill Last Wish—That She ould Die on Stage. I By Ciiltmal BerTiee. I Paris. March 23.—Mme. Sarah Bern liardt is still conscious but growing weaker. At this hour her doctors soy . she may live for four days, but hear ing their verdict, the great actress openly smiles and scoffs at the de cree. She knows that the end is near. As the day wore on the anxiety of those about her bedside increased as it became more and more apparent that the end of the last scene in the life of the world's greatest actress was approaching. f The ».11-night and day vigil of h»r family, and her physician* is still being maintained. Little hope Is now held out that she will live through another night. After midnight and ■ until early daylight she slept fitfully but frequently awakened to return to j i the delirious repeating of scenes from - her famous plays. In the upstairs rooms of her house the great tragedienne is finishing the last act of her life's drama while downstairs the house is disordered with the paraphernalia of the sets for the film play she was acting w hen she was stricken Thursday. At each J waking moment she struggles to rise j and return to work—she know's and , says she is dying—and she asks to ; | be allowed to fulfill her oft made | prophecy that she would die on the , (page—at work. The doctors say it i I will be impossible for her wish to 1 come true. 'Government Opens Hearings Against Railway Union ! New York. March 23.—The first of | a series of hearings was stal led here j by the government ngsinst the rail ! way employes department of the American Federation of Labor and other union organizations for the pur pose of gathering evidence for use In Chlcngo courts, when the mstter of a permanent Injunction comes tip on May 2. A temporary Injunction was granted last September by Chicago courts. Judge J. M. DlcJttnson and Orville J. Taylor of Chicago, special assist ants to Attorney t'Jeneral Daugherty, are conducting tho ties ring here The defense Is represented by Frank L. i Mulholland of Toledo, O. j -- Crowded Jail Condition* Boon to Coast Speeders; 225 Persons Released j Los Angeles. March 25.—Louis D. Pahs, chief of police, announced he had ordered the release 0f 22o persons serving short terms tu the d(y Jails. | most of them for speeding, because of Inadequate accommodation*. I The chief raid he found Mil pris I ners in the Lincoln Heights jail, built i : to accommodate 30u. Muny were oh tlged to sleep on concieta floors with no coverings except their clothes. Folic* Judge Chambers announced the pradio* of sanding speeders to Jail would be discontinued because of ttkg flvfjr crowding. Body of Nur$e Found in Canal <'ft Believe ^ uman Miss g Since February 21 Was Murdered. By ( nli crMil Bert Ire. r Brunswick. N, J,, March 21.— .Oifchored to the hank with frozen weeds, the body of Jeanette Brazeale, 22. missing from her home in New Brunswick since February 21, was found in the Delaware and Raritan canal, a short distance frotn her home, and Middlesex General hospital, where she had been employed ns a nurse. Coroner Hubbard said the girl had committed 'suicide, but despite his finding an autopsy will be conduct ed by County Physician Suydam, as it in held that Miss Brazeale was murdered. The body was identified by Alan Hon Prentiss, a cousin of the girl, and by Dr. A. L. Smith, president of the hospital Miss Brazeale. on February 21. com plained of being 111 and at " in the , morning she left the hospital, saying that she was going for a short walk. She never returned. Miss Brazeale s sister told her father that Jeanette w*as in love with a doc tor at a hospital in New York. She did not know bis name. The police are working on the theory that the girl may have been mur dered. Harding Urged t« Banish Politics From Postal Jobs By Universal Sertlre. Washington, March 25.—President Harding is urged, In a letter from the National Civic Service Reform league, to issue an executive order ( rnding political appointments to first, second and third class postmaster ships. lie is asked to require recoin [ raendation for appointment In each ruse of the man standing highest on the eligible list. The letter was called forth by the statement of fortner Postmaster Gen eral Work that the department had been handicapped by “political con- j slderationn" in its recommendations for appointments to presidential post ’ muatershlp places. Woman Held for Murder Claim* Perfect Alibi Hr i iiiteraal herrlrr. Ngtv York. March 2J.—Mrs. Anna Buz?.!, held In connection with the murder of Frederick Schneider, wealthy contractor. announced i through her attorney that she Is will j In* to waive Immunity and go before the grand Jury Monday and tell her story. She line a perfect alibi, the said. District Attorney Glennon skid there Is no doubt In his mind that the grand Jury will indict Mrs. Buzz1. School Home Burnt Spslal l>i.i>at<li to The Omaha n»e Broken Bow, Neb., March lie.—Tha school house at Gandy burned to tha ground, tha loss totaling $12,000, in surance hi $8,000. The faculty had the various departments In regular ; walking order la less than a week. A Colorado Senator Succumbs Samuel D. Nicholson Dies of Cancer of Liver After One Month's Sickness—Un conscious at End. First Serious Illness By AsMicisted Frefi. , Denver, March 2u.—Samuel P. Nicholson, United States senator from Colorado, died here at 9 15 last night. Carcinoma, or cancer of the liver, caused ljis death. He had been ill for nearly a month. Senator Nicholson lap.scd into s state of coma shortly before the end and he did not regain consciousness befojo he succumbed. The malady which caused the death of Senator Nicholson was the first serious illness he had suffered in his life. In his first appeal to physicians, medical science was unable to aid him. For several years preceding his death. Senator Nicholson had experi enced slight pains which he had at tributed to indigestion, according to his brother, Murdock A. Nicholson. A robust, energetic man, the senator had given slight heed to the condition. Three months before his death, these attacks became more frequent and painful, but it was not until late in February that Senator "'Nicholson’s condition became such that he ap pealed for medical advice. Started as Laborer. From a laborer in the gold mines near Ueadville. Samuel D. Nicholson rose to a place as mine owner, mil lionaire, and United States senator. And as a self-made man be was proud that he obtained his education, as he so often expressed It, “in the school of experience.” ^Senator Nicholson was tarn .Febru- j ary 22. 1959. in Springfield, Prince Edward island, Canada. His patents were Donald M. and Catherine (McKenzie) Nicholson. The family i is of Scotch descent. The father of Senator Nicholson was a farmer, but the farm life seemed too prosaic for the boy and after having graduated from the schools of the island lje de rided to emigrate to America. Young Nicholson went to Bay City, Mich., J and completed the grammar school | course in that city. This constituted his formal acquaintance with school books. From that time on his tex* - booka were the world and experience. Kumars of Bold Strikes. In the winter of 1881. rumors of rich gold strikes in Colorado drifted to the prairie farm in Nebraska where he w,ls milking cows arid do ing farm chores and fired the heart of the young man with a d-slre to participate in the wresting of wealth from the mountains. Ueadville then was at Us height as a boom town and it was to this town of toll and excitement that Nicholson went, his worn shoes gone, without an over rent. and with but a small amount of money in his pocket. Nicholson soon found work as a common laborer in the Colonel Seilers mine. Except for a short interval when he worked in the coal mines at Trinidad, Colo.. Nicholson kept at the "hard rock’’ mining of Ueadville and soon became known as a skillful and reliable foreman. Fv gradual singes he was advanced, hokling the posi tions of mining superintendent and manager. During this lime h» was connected with the A. Y. aril the Minnie mine and other valuable prop erties. Harks .lodgment. Familiarizing himself with all tl ■ details of the mining industry and making a close study of the mining situation and conditions in Ueadville ho began to use bis knowledge for (Turn tA Fir* Two, t'olnmn Mi.) Youth Perjures Himself to Spite Lover of His Girl Special Olopalrh lo Til* Onidlia Iter Deatrice, Neb.. Starch 23. — “He stole my beat girl from me and 1 decided to play even," remarked T*d rtassett in the district court yester day. when he admitted that lie had perjured hhnself in testifying In Jus tice court that Ralph Horruni of Adams had sold him liquor. The case again at Ilorrum. who "'us arrested last fall, was dismissed and young Raaaett fined $10u for purchns lng liquor from a strange* who clnlm*d his home was at Lincoln. Bassett was remanded to Jail, and a perjury charge will lm filed against Idm later, according to the county attor ney. Bassett has been working on a truck farm near Omaha Jur> in Denver Bunco Bin*: Trial Still Drlihcrutiup Denver, March 25.—No verdict had been returned at 6 thta afternoon by tlie Jury w alrli reUriil at 10:1•'<.i'ur day morning to deliberate on the fate of the 20 defendants charged in dla tltvt court with operating confidence games. More than 30 Imurs has been spent by ths Jurors under look and key, except when being taken out for tholr meals. Steeple Jack II elk* to II a it inn Ambulance 1 fler I till of AOO I’eet By I nlcmitl MiW. New llaven, Conn , March "... — Elf' for Arthur Schneidlc r. etecple Jack, has reaolved iteclf clown to being one fall after another. Hfhneldler wea painting Uie alack of th* New England Mnrehouei com pany plant here when the rope bred.' In Ilia nmi-foot dement to the ground the ateepte Jade hit th" I oof of tlir engine hOliee and bOum ed over the edge fen- a further drop of t’O feet A* the nebula nee inn tod Idm Sc-hneidler came to, gemmed the dla tanca he had fallen and walked to tha watting vehicle. The doctor* my he will be In a ton , diUon to Unith the Job in a few day* The Way It Strikes Him S<i“5ssr1’' just‘d M I 1 L_ //, s,*/rA Missouri River Ice Jam Menaces Town of Onawa Gorge Gauging South Sioux City Flood Floats Down to lots a \ iilagr. Result ing in Rapid Rise. The Missouri river, after flooding lowlands near Kioux City during the past week, is again menacing prop erty. this time near Onawa. la., ac cording to information received here by The Associated Pres” An Ice gorge, believed to have been part of the same one which was responsible for flood condition* near Sioux City and which floated down the liver during the night, caused a rapid rise In the water opposite Ottawa, resulting in overflow onto sandbars, menacing valuable farm land in Iowa. According to B. K. llarlow. post master at Onawa, the river rose 13 feet after formation of the gorge, but there was no danger of lo.*s of life, he said, as s<|uatters living along the river banka had been moving for the pa t two days to places of safety. From 13 to li families moved out, taking their livestock and other prop erty with them. A rise of about three no e feet. Mr. Harlow said, can be withstood before the water Is apt to overflow on lands planted with valuable crops. The sit nation ia being watched carefully by ferrymen from Onawa as well as oth ers. including the county engineer of Monona county, Iowa, and it is pos sible they will ask for outside help to break up the gorge, which appar ently was showing no signs of disinte grating this afternoon. On the Nebraska side, opposite On awa. the town of Decatur is protected by high banks, with little or no dan ger from ordinary flood conditions, such at- often result along the llig Muddy in springtime. C. A. RjchHids. hardware dealer of Decatur, reported that th« gorge ex tended on either side of the town, and apparently was about six miles !< ' g. Three or four families living In bottom lands ■ outhesst of Decatur have moved from their homes. Shareholders of Defunct Firm to Form New Kmnpanv Cleveland. O.. March 25.—Urge shareholders in the Cleveland Discount comimny. now in receivership, deter mined Saturday to incorporate In Delitware the Union Dlscotint com puny with full powers of a mortgage com panV. Tho Union Discount company will It Is announced, hate s citpitnlJzitfclon of $1,500,000 represented by 300.000 shares. Preliminary plan* are to of for this stock to Cleveland Discount company shareholders. (.miMii of President Die*. Xebrlng, Kla , March 23 — Dr. I! Harding of Mansfield, O,, a cousin 1 of President llaidlng. who. with his wife, Ims been spending the winter ; here, died following a lingering 111 nos*. Mrs. Harding left for Mans I field tonight with the body, after brief services. Tiraldes his widow, Mr. ; Harding is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Foster Diehl of Mansfield. ‘ Hardings Arrive at St. Augustine President and Wife Receive Enthusiastic Greetings From Old Friend*. St. Augustine, Fla . March 55.— Concluding their houseboat cruise along the Florida eat*, coast. Presi dent and Mrs. Harding and their va cation companions arrived in St. Au gustint late today and received an en thusiastic reception from hundreds of old friends. The people of St. Augustine know the president and his wife perhaps more intimately than the people of any other city in the United States except Marlon. O.. for the Hardinrs have been coming to this old Spanish founded city for nearly 50 years. For that reason the arrival of the presi dential party here differed from that at the various other east coast cities visited. It seemed like something of a home coming. Several thousand lined the sea wall within a few minutes after the presi dential houseboat, the Pioneer, was sighted coming tip Matanxas bay while a hundred or so had kept a patient watch during the afternoon. Even the band was there to play as the Pioneer docked. Mr. and Mrs. Harding recognised a number of old friends in the crowd that pressed around their automobile and lined the afreets leading: to the Hotel Ponee de I-eon where the party will stay for a wee’.; before leaving Florida. Ha* aii’s ‘Poison Pen’ Author Gets 12 Years in Prison Honolulu. March 54.—Hawaii's ' poison i>en'’ letter w riter is behind prison bars. Within an hour afier the federal grand Jury had indicted him on a i harge r.f sending obscene letters through the mails, John T. Livesev. e;orekeeper at the Kamehameha School for Boys made a full con fession. pieaded guilty and was sen tenced to 12 years m Oahu prison. His arrest marked the end of a three years search to locate the au thor of scores of such letters sent to the wives of prominent business men. His conviction is regarded as the first move in a drive to stamp out the recent plague of anonymous let lers which Included more than a score ef threatening missives signed "K. K K.." sent to prominent men Blancs l sod to Smuggle t Chinese Across Border Kl Paso. Te\ . March 15 — Aalrplanea with tnutfled engines are smuggling Chinese into the t'nlted States over the Mexican tiordcr in such numbers a* to constitute a scrioua tnenacs. sunt RoNrt Carl W hite, second as sl-tant secretary of labor, here on an inspection bf the Mexican border tn connection w.th the alien smuggling problem. W hite dev iated, a larger border pa trol ««s needed badly, but the pres ent appropriations would not permit Inrreancs. Heiress to Gates' Fortune to Wed Childhood Suitor Chicago, March ?$.—Mias Peiora Angel!, youthful heiress to the estate of the lohn W. Cafes, estimated st rtrto.OtMI. and 1-ester Norris, e n of n St. Charles tllld undorataker and childhood sweetlieaii of Mi.-s Arurelt aie to be married this week, acord ing to i* report received htr» from R. K. Angeil. th* girl's father, who is with tite family at Altadena. Cal According to report# received here voting Norn# arrived at t-oa Angeles , Tiiday, on {ha way to l^ts wadding House to Receive Uni Investigation Report on Tuesday Committee Holds Two Con ferences Vith Regents on Its Findings—Aio Recom mendations Are Offered. Diipahh to Thf Omaha Be*. Lincoln, March 25.—The report of the university investigation commit fee is the legislative headliner this week. The report is due Tuesday, Mem bers of the committee expressed be | Kef tonight that it would be com plete«l and presented to the house on echeduled time. The committee held a long confer { cnce with university regent* Sunday. Another conference w ith ti e regent* ! was under way tonight. The purpose of these conferences is to outline in advance the fidings ; of the committee so the regents may decide if any action is necessary on their part in prepara:mm for the pub licity which will be given the report Members of the commi’tee asserted there would be no recommendations in the report. Their efforts will be to outline 1n full results of their investi gation into numerous charges against the management of the institution. The investigation has been under way for two months. In that rime the committee ha* called numerous faculty members before it and has ; scrutinised the expenditures of the in tiitution with much care The meeting of the committee with the regent* has created much specula - i tion among members of the faculty as well as expending agencies at the uni versify. Dozen Suits Filed Against Former Candy land Owners Special Plspatrh ta Ttle Omaha Bee Beatrice. Nob.. March IS—Twelve suits were filed yesterday against James Stemas. et ai . former owners of f'andyland. SOI Court street, eleven of them aggregate $1,500. A petition asking for $!.I00 was 1 filed by James Blackie, former cm* oloje of Candyland, who alleges that lie worked from May 13. 191". to March IS. 1913. for the sunt of $119 a month, and that he never received any of this amount for his services In the list of suits filed the names of a number of local and foreign creditors epj-ear. Owtrg to the fact that Stemas sold the store the other day, legal complications will ar.se. it was stated. Adams Hoard Authorized to Deal for Lighting St stem Special Plspateh te The Omaha Bee. Beatrice. Neb. Match v.v—At' a j mass meeting of the citirms of Adams, the ‘lllage board was author \ laed to negotiate with the Blue Kite. Iugtu and Bower company of Seward (or a transmission line, which will probably be built from Firth to Oort ! land and from the latter place to Adatn.-. Tho meeting w us called by I the board in order to gv: an ex i prwsaion ftoni the citirers relative to the proposition. The Weather Koffttil. » loudv *!Jtl n>»»vh cv iilfr ! "WuIV I % r$nu»rr*l«b«t .» A. SO •»'*.»»* 91 : a m t4 a a w .94 9 a. m . 94 10 A. in . . 14 11 i. m 94 11 UMV •*, 99 ! I* w • «!»%•« t: s p » 4 p. m H .> p. » H i f. m t I*. «w ,, H If* H Internal War Looms In Germany Rumors of Plots and Counter plots. Thick in Berlin— Government Greatly ^ orried. Police Are Mobilized By I oiv«r»ttl 8«rriff> Berlin, March 23.—The entire Prus sian police force, a small army of 4“ - 000 men, was mobilized Saturday by Minister of the Interior Severing against "threatening danger" to the constitution and the* government. The Prussian preB* is an amazing hodge podge of plot and counter-plot, and the government is in a veritable spasm of alarm over the highly-col ored pictures reflected in the press. If those pictures are true, then the Prussian and central German gov ernment* vould seem to be between the devil and th< deep sea. with the communists and the socialists on one side and the nationalists on the othei. Plots and counter plot* reported in the newspaper* tell of the formation tof "proletarian guards" ii-re and ’ no tionalist shock troops" there, as if the hatred between the two extremes had reached th* stage whore the people are ready to forget the *ituation in the Ruhr and plung* into civil war and fight out their differences behind the “passive resistance front" preset t ed to the French in the occupied area. ( onditions Exaggerated. Much of this hectic description of conditions w ould seem to be great y exaggerated. Herr Severing, who Friday in the Prussian parliament lifted a corner of what he declared to be the ve.l covering nationalistic plans for a, coup d’etat, but which in ma,"/ circles is not taken seriously. Satur day sprang another sensation by sending an alarm telegram to all pro vincial presidents a* follows: "Because of the threatening dang-r from undertakings by radical ele ments issue orders that police every where be held under Intensive alarm readines*. If it become* necessary [ expect energetic action." While some of the Berlin pape 4 assert that General Von Ludendo-ff is the man behind Hitler. In fact hi* chief of staff, others are equally posi tive that there is a strong antagon ism between the two because Hitler it against Chancellor Cuno. whil* Ludendorff has been urging Gdrrr.any to give its strongest support to the chancellor. Protest Action. In Berlin the league of patnotie associations, comprising 130 aasoc.s tlons and groups, met under General Von Der Goltz. a relchstag deputy, and Count Westarp, and adopted resc 1 lutior.s protesting agamet drastic ac tion aimed at nationalist groups and passivity towards the organization of "red army" formations. In the reichstag the national pa ty protested against the suppression of the national freedom party. The Co logne Gazette reports that communist and proletariat "green shirt" guard* are active jn x-arloua cities and towns of the Ruhr. In Berlin, Severing’* alarm has cre ated little stir, the public being used to the cry of “Wolf” as the com | inuniats and nationalists strive tie outdo one another. Charles City Man Kills Himself at Creston, la. Special Di*patrh !o The Omaha Be* Creston. In . March fu—Bichat d Junen*. <5. of Charles City. la.. < . •pitted suicide in a rooming house :r\ this city last night by shooting him self through the head. la spite of th* fact that the house was full no on« heard the report of the pistol and he was not found until this morning. ' He left a note stating that he had committed the deed an.] to blame not one hut himself and to notify ’ * ' brother, Ganelt Junen* of Charles City._ Plans Being Made for State Sunday School Convention !M*|»*tch l« th* Omaha Be* Kearney. X’eb, March ii.—At a meeting held here plans were perf-vi ed for the X'ebrasha State bund. . school association convention, to « held in Kearney June If, 13 and 4, Trof. Augustus Smith of the Boston 1 Conservatory of Music will direct th.s( religion* music of the convention and Mr- Maud Jenh.-* Baldw •• of Ch: , ri; \ will lv« in charge of tbs ch.l ddren's meetings. Marion 1-merer. ». noted Sunday «,-hool worker, w.’.l He in attendance for two days. The convention has been ten ; dered use of the r.ew Presbyterian church for the general meetings. Pageant* w-.ll be held at th* teacher*’ college auditorium, wtnlgatrary chutvla , iti tha city s ill b« thrown ope* tr» group meetings An attendance of ' not leas than f.Ot'fl !* exported be W. H. Kimberley of tha state saaooia'ten. Bnn Put on F.aruixals and Fortune-Telling in Kearnrx SiwW Ptspalch 1 • th# Omaha a#r Kearney. X-b March .. — The • •• viaed city ordinance* put street <|r> ! nivnls out of business in this niutvco 1 paiuy. 4 Fortune teller*, clairvoyant* pa.:nj :»t» and any ai iisie w ho delve into the future, at *o much per delve, elect will be compelled fft seek other field* te harxest. A'.-out a year aso heai ■ . «t l cttlaene were mulcted out of ab.'cl IJ.tH'O by fortune teller and the rc- i. misaionera have not fortotten It. al though none of them were mung as far as is known Sister of ( Irtnrucs'au |)if>. I*wns March T'- M> ‘tin* Fee • nand Prcmis, sister of former 1’tsc sc Clemsncean. diet here Saturday nyi«'. bfce was T® jeers eld %