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Death Reveals Benefactress of > “Mystery Girl” M rs. Minnie Dunn Hollis, Buried Yesterday, Placed Flowers on Grave of Wo man Mysteriously Slain. Death revealed yesterday the iden tity of tite “mystery woman” who had placed flowers each Decoration day on the grave of the “mystery Kiri." who was slain in a ravine wast of Omaha in November, 1920. She was Mrs. Minnie Dunn Hollis, 62# Smith Sixteenth street. Mrs. Hollis died of heart disease Thursday afternoon. She had lived in Omaha 25 years. Orrin Hollis, her husband, who is head ticket man with Ringling Brothers circus, denies that she had any knowledge of the “mystery girl s'’ identity. Police have never found any solu tion or clue to the crime which has gone down in police annals as one of the unsolved mysteries of the city. “When you enter the driveway of the West Lawn cemetery today, bearing the casket of Mrs. Hollis to its grave, and observe along that driveway a little headstone on which is inscribed just two words ‘Mystery Girl.' It was placed there by your loved one." said Rev. H. It. Wltcotnb at funeral services for Mrs. Hollis yesterday. "Mrs. Hollis felt that she must have p an opportunity of showing her moth er love toward that unfortunate girl, whose mother probably knows nothing about the circumstances. She did not forget this poor girt when she placed a marker over her grave •—no, on numerous occasions she brought flowers to decorate that lone ly slave," said Rev. Mr. Whitcomb. Rev. Mr. Whitcomb spoke of the innumerable acts of charity, and good deeds left behind in memory of Mrs. Hollis, whom he referred to as being a courageous. unselfish, lov able, and motherly character. The following members of the La dles of the Maccabees acted as pall bearers: Mcsdames Effie B. ,Grosser. R. M. Homan, Mary E. Blair, Addio Palmer. A. H. Burr and VV. Roth. Dr. Smith Wants Radio Station at His Church Suggesting that he would be able to preaeli to from 10,(>00 to 50,000 In stead of 1.200 at each service. Rev. Frank G. Smith, pastor of First Cen tral Congregational rhureh, advo cated Sunday erection • of a radio broadcasting plant at the church, Thirty-sixth and Harnev streets. A tower is to he added to the $500,000 rhureh over the pastor's study on the west side. This would serve ns one of the aerial towers. • Rev. Dr. Smith suggested also that, in the tower a carillon or chime be placed and sacred hymns he broad cast all over the country on Sunday I morning. _ Dr. Smith preached two weeks ago at the Woodmen of the World broad- ' casting station. He was astonished I to get over 100 lettein from persons who had heard him. Dctertixe Almost “Idpiitificil** as One of ‘’Blue Car"’ Bandit' Detective Goralski was almost identified as one of the "blue car" bandits yesterday when Edward Up dike, whose home tile bandits "visit ed," was confronted with the sus peets. Detective Goralski had. according to custom, been lined up with Arthur j stout and Pete Nelson, brought bark j few days ago from St. Joseph, Mo. Goralski had a good alibi in his badge. Stout has been identified as a mem her of the gatig. Nelson while not j postively identified, Is said by police to have information of a shrewd automobile theft ring and will prob ably talk if “things go right." Policemen to Co-Operate in City Cleanup Activities Nine policemen have been assigned by rolice Commissioner Butler to in operate with the health department in promoting "clean ii|i week," to b” observed from April 39 to May 5 These officers have started to notif' ing householders whose premises need attention. Ashes and cinders are practically the only kind of rubbish which the citv trucks will not haul away. — J. M. Beveridge, at a meeting next * “** Wednesday of public school prin eipals, wdil ask that teachers and pupils co operate in the work. Fines of Five “Masters Total $40..j0; One Is SIO.aO Five alleged "mashers'1 swelled the municipal till hv $40.50 yesterday. They were arrested by motorcycle officers and Charged with accosting women and girls with whom they had no acquaintance. A. C. Ritso, 1115 South Twelfth street was fined $10.50. Others were Johnny Johnson, 1414 South Thir ' teenth street; George Plmmlck, 2501 Manderson street; Ray Harwood, 1109 South Tenth street, and IT. C. Othmer. 4460 Karnam street. They were fined I $7.50 each. 26 Finrfl for Intoxication While three women, presumably j members of the W. C. T IT., sat at the press table in municipal court yesterday, 26 persons fared Judge Wappieh on charges of drunkenness > and were fined. The women declined lo give any names, nor were they [ Identified by any In the court room. A sanctuary for wild birds Is to be established at Buckingham palace in j Uondon. ONE OF OURS By WILLA GATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. |L-; (Continued from Yeiterd&r.) NOl'Mk Claud** Wheeler, lliiug on n Nebraska rnneh with hi* pnreut*. I* forced to quit school, a Mnnll college in Lincoln, in hi* third year, in order to cart for the ranch while hi* younger brother. Ralph, and father, Nat. t,pond most of their time on the Colorado ranch. Iliiylimt, an older brother, operate* ati implement store in Frankfort, the scene of the story to date. While Jn Lincoln Claude made wtnuncli friends of KrliHt family, a motherly wid ow and five sons. truest Havel and Leonard Dawson are young farmer frkreis of Claude. Claude and ids mother are deeply Interested in German advance Into Belgium during early stages of world war. Claude weds Knhl rtoyee, religions daughter of .Jason Boyce, Frankfort mill er They live in their new horns on Wheeler property near the Dawson’s. Knld if Indifferent te Claude. Leonard and his wife discuss Enid's attitude to ward Claude. After a visit to the latter’s home, where he finds him alone at cold dinner, while Enid fight* for prohibition in a town meeting. Leonard declarei t laude has been "stung " f laude. alone, ponders on the absence of live on part of hi* wife for him. Hears her 'returning home and flees to hi* bed, feigning sleep. News of illness of Knid's younger sister, Caroline, comes from China, where she is a mission teacher. Enid decide* she must go to her. Claude i* to live with hie mother, she also has Just told him. She began to gather up the dishes. Claude stepped quickly out into the light and confronted her. ‘‘It's not only your going. Yon know what's the matter with me. It's because you want to go. You are glad of a chance to get away among all those preach er?. with their smooth talk and make believe.” Enid took up the tray. “If I nm glad, it’s because you are not willing to govern our lives by Christian ideals. There is something in you that rebels all the time. So many im portant questions have come up since our marriage, and you have been in different or sarcastic about every one of them. You want to lead a purely selfish life.” She .walked resolutely out bf the room ind shut the door behind her. Later,/when she came back, Claude was not there. His hat and coat were gone from the ha track; he must have let himself out quietly by the front door. Enid sat tip until II and then went to bed. In the morning, on coming out from her bedroom, she found Claude asleep on the lounge, dressed, with his over coat on. She had a moment of terror and bent over him. but she couW not detect any smell of spirits. She began preparations for breakfast, moving quietly. Having once made up her mind to go out to her sister, Enid lost no time. She engaged passage and < a hfed the mission school. She left Frankfort the week before Christmas. Claude and Ralph took her as far as Denver and put her on a transconti nental express. When Claude came home, lie moved over to his mother's, and sold his cow and chickens to Leonard Dawson. Except when he went to ace Mr. Royce. he seldom left the farm now. and he avoided the neighbors [Jo felt that they were dic cussing his domestic affairs—as,, of course, they were. Tile Royce* and tlin Wheelers, they said, couldn’t be have like anybody else, and it was no use their trying. If Claude built the best house in the neighborhood, he just naturally wouldn't live in it. And if lie had a wife at all. it was like him lu have a wife in China! One snowy day. when nobody was about. Claude'took the big car nnd went over to hi* own place to close the house for the winter and bring away the canned fruit and vegetables left in l lie cellar. Enid had packed h-T best linen in her cedar chest and had put the kitchen and china closets in scrupulous order before she went away. He began covering the up bolstered chairs and the mattresses with sheets, rolled up the rugs, and fa-u ncii tlie windows securely As he worked, his hands grew more nnd more numb and listles". and his heart was like a lump of ice. All these things That ho had selected with care and In which he had taken such pride, were rin more to him now than the lumber piled in the shop of any sec ond hand dealer. How inherently mournful and ugly Sip li obji- s were, when tile feeling that had made them precious no long er existed! The debris of human life was more worthless and ugly than the dead and decaying things in na ture. Rubbish . . , junk, his mind could not picture anything that so exposed and condemned all the dreary, weary, ever repeated ac tions by which life is continued from day to day. Actions without meaning . As ho looked out and saw the gray landscape through the gently falling snow, tie could not help .The most persistent rheumatic twinges yield to Sloans. Sloan's Liniment-Jifls pan! For rtwwindwm. truinm.wtwlnn.chmt cokh THE OMAHA BEE DICTIONARY COUPON 1 Co.npr 98c • •cure* this NEW, authentic Dictionary bound in black teal grain, illustrated with full pages in color. Present or mail to this paper this Coupon with ninety-eight cents cents to cover cost of handling, packing, clerk hire, etc. 22 DICTIONARIES IN ONE All Dictionaries Published Previous to This One Are Out of Data MAIL ORDERS WILE BE FILLED—Add for postage! Up to ISO miles, 7c, up to 900 miles, 10c. For greater distances, ask Postmaster rate (or 3 pounds. I thinking lmw much better it would be1 | if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed down under j the snow, to wake with their hurts healed and their defeats forgotten. 1 He wondered how he was to go on ! through the years ahead of him, tin | less he could get rid of this sick feel ing in his soul. At last he locked the door, put the key in his pocket, and went over to the timber claim to smoke a cigar and say goodby to the place. Thera he soberly walked about for more than an hour, under the crookbd trees with empty birds’ nests in their forks. Every time lie came to a break in the hedge, he could see the little house, giving,itself up so meekly to I solitude. He did not believe that he would ever live tlie're again. Well, at j any rate, the money his father had ! put into the place would not be lost: ! he could always get a better tenant ! for having a •comfortable house there, j Several of the boys in the neighbon j hood were planning to be married ! within the year. The future of the house was safe. And lie? He stopped short in his walk; his feet had made an uncertain, purposeless trail all over the white ground. It vexed him to see his own footsteps. What was it—what was the matter with him? Why, at least, could he not stop feel ing things, and hoping? What was there to hope for now? He heard a sound of distress, and looking back, saw the barn cat, that had been left behind to pick up her | living. She was standing inside the i hedge, her jet black fur ruffled j against the wet flakes, one paw lift I ed, niewing miserably. Claude went I over and picked her up. ‘ What s the matter, Blackie. Mice getting scarce in the barn? Mahailey will say you are bad luck. Maybe you are, but you can't help it, can youT” He slipped her into his overcoat pock et. Hater, when he was getting Into his car, he tried to dislodge her and put her in a basket, but she dung to her nest in his pocket and dug her claws Into the lining. He laughed. “Well, if you are had luck, I guess you are going to stay right with me." She looked up at him with startled ijellow eyes and did not even mew. CHAPTER VI. Mrs. Wheeler was afraid that Claude might not find the old place comfortable, after having had a house of his own. She put her best rocking chair and a reading lamp In his bed room He often sat there all even ing. shading his eyes with his hand, pretending to read When he stayed downstairs after supper, his mother and Mahailey were grateful. Besides collecting war pictures. Mahailey now hunted through the old magazines In the attic for pictures of China. She had marked on her big kitchen calen dar the day when Enid would arrive in Hang-Kong. "Mr. Claude." she would say as she stood at the sing washing the supper dishes, "it's broad daylight ' over where Miss Enid is. ain't it'.' Cause the world's round, an' the old sun. .he's a shinin' over there for the yal ler people.” From time to time, when they were working together. Mrs. Wheeler told Mahailey what she knew about the customs of the Chinese. The old "wo man had never had two impersonal interests at the same tune before, and she scarcely knew what to do with them, She would murmur on, half to ■ Claude and half to herself: "They ain't fightin’ over there where Miss Enid is. is they? An' she won't have to wear their kind of clothes, cause she * a white woman. She won't let ’em kill their girl babies nor do such awful thinga like they always have, an' she don't let ’em pray to them stone 1 Idols, cause they can't help 'em none j I 'spect Miss Enid II do a heap of good, all the time.” Behind her diplomatic monologues, however, Mahailey had her own ideas, and she was greatly scandalized at Enid's departure. She was afraid | people would say that Claude's wife had "run off an ’lef’ him.” and In j the Virginia mountains, where her social standards had been formed, a husband or wife thus.dcaerted was the objeet of boisterous ridicule. f'hs once stopped Mrs. Wheeler in a dark corner of the cellar to whisper, “Mr. Claude's wife ain't goin' to stay off there, like her sister, is she?" If one of the Yoecier boys or Susie Dawson happened to b« at the Wheel er a for dinner, Mahalley never failed to refer to Enid in a loud voice. "Mr. Claude's wife, she cuts her potatoes up law in the pan an’ frits ’em. She don't boil 'em first like 1 do. i know she’s on awful good qook, I know she is.” Nile felt tiiat easy references to the absent wife made things look bet ter. Ernest llavel eamo to sea Claude now, but not often. They both felt it would he indelicate to renew their former intimacy. Ernest still felt ag grieved about bia beer, as if Enid had snatched the tankard from his lips j with her own corrective hand. Like I Leonard, he believed that Clauds had made a bad bargain in matrimony; but instead of feeling sorry for him. Ernest wanted to see him convinced and punished. When he married Enid, (’lauds haul been fSIse to liberal principles, and it was only right that j he should pay for his apostacy. The very first time ho cams to spend an ! evening at the Wheels’ after Claudel came home to live, Ernest undertook to explain his objections to prohibi tion. Claude shrugged his shoulders. “Why not drop it? it's a matter that doesn’t interest me, one way or thu oilier." (Continued in The Morning Bee.) Services for Suicide Are Held at St. Philomena, Funeral services for Eou‘s Mar- I etizzo, 4,», who comriITtted suicide Sunday afternoon in the garage ad joining his home, 721 Hickory street, were held Monday afternoon at St. | Philomena church. Itev. James W. 1 Stenson officiated. Pallbearers wrre Louie Caniglie, Joe Caniglie, Fred Caniglie Filadelfio Caniglie, Tony Mllone and Fred Cuva. Burial was in Holy Sepulcher ceme tery. * Our Children By ANGELO PATRI. Badges. ' I suppose badges are of some serv ice to people or they would nut use them so much, but 1 mistrust them. Too seldom are they pinned on the right bieast. 1 lost all faith in them long ago when 1 saw the silver star for meritorious conduct pinned ott Michael, Michael in school and Mickie on the playground. Mickie was the terror of all the small boys until they! grew some and became big boys. Then they settled scores with him. He could swear as fluently and much more pictueresque ly than many an old hand on the dock. But in class he was different, and the teacher pinned a star on his manly bosom. To be sure It didn’t stay there long, but then, it had rest ed there and that was enough for me. But there was a worse badge than that of the shining silver star. Worse by far. There was the dunce cap that the teacher placed on the head of chunky little Margaret who couldn't remember the *'«" on toe and couldn't forget it on the end of “go." I felt sorry for poor Margie. She cried so hard. She sobbed and she sobbed with her face to the wall, but the teacher wouldn't notice her. I could not hide my concern for the forlorn child crouching miserably un der the shameful hat and the teacher said, “better look out young man. You'll be wearing it next yourself. That is, if Margaret ever leaves off wearing it for a time.' That made Maggie turn around in anger and hurl the thing to the floor and rush out of the room like a whirlwind that filled the corners of the room with its lamentation. Maggie was absent after that and ]X»>V' ‘"TT-k^. facsimile Stfnrfm^8* *M CrvT^^* Bum Copy of Wnpps. C ASTORIA Fo^Inftnti^ndChfldreiL Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria *"< n«»l MBMST. »n>T«aa om, •/frmours star ' V. Packing House Secrets There are 1300 licensed meat packers in the United State*. I n addition are thousands of local abattoir* and farm slaughterer*. The product of all these compete with each other. Probably there is no other business in existence so keenly competitive as meat packing. \ The Ham What A . mil of Fare A w® ?3 y“uT,k ”» STAB the sixty ways yo matter o{ HAM ^yttwhole. A matter economy « * , y lt often, of experience »uy 4«mou«ec»"'"" I I ne\er saw her again. I used to wonder where she was and hope that she had found a school where there were no such things as badges, whether stars or caf*s. Of course, that happened long ago in the old days when teachers and parents were not so enlightened as they are today. lint I hear the echoes of Maggie's weeping now and again. "Tomboy. Want to sit with the boys?” “What, j wrong again? But then Id be aston I ishrfl if you were right.” "C'luntsj. 'Can't you look where you are going? j.Slay out of the room until you can come In without falling o\er every thing.” "Ah, A?A"A? Fine child, i Wonder when your brother will make | a record like that. Well. I'm glad there's one child in the family to keep up its good name." I mistrust badges whether of words or labels or caps. They so rarely find themselves on the right breast. And in the background, 1 hear Maggie weeping. Maggie who ran out and never came back. (Copyright; H2J > League of Nations Nothing hut Bluff, Says Doris Stevens "Nothing but a bluff, the poor rickety old thing that has no pow er I 1 to make itself Anything real." is the , way Doris Stevens, wife of Dudley Field Malone, characterizes the I league of nations. "I am against the league," she said, "because It has no power to prevent war, because there is practically no way to amend the league and because there Is no provision for permitting women equal representation." ADVERTISEMENT. ADV ERTISEMENT. 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