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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1923)
"Missing Girl" Believed Safe With Relatives Vivian Pramer, Who Disap peared from Mason City, Probably Not Daughter of Omaha Movie Man. Reported disappearance of Mias Viv ian Pramer, 20, said to be a daughter of A. R. Pramer of Omaha, connected with a theater owners’ distributing office, was scouted by relatives here Wednesda y. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pramer at pres ent are In Chicago. H. C. Pramer, 2419 Parker street, brother of A. R. Pramer, however, declared to the best of his knowledge the girl hu* been In Oklahoma with her maternal grandparents for more than a month. He set down the report of her dis appearance to a possible confusion of names. The Vivian Pramer, who disappear ed. was last seen at Mason City, la., last Wednesday. At that time, ac cording to the report, she was on her way to Omaha to meet her father, who was about to take a trip to Aus tralia. Apparently she got on the wrong train and disappeared. H. C. Pramer said he Is almost certain his brother does not contem plate a trip to Australia, and that the girl must bo someone other than his brothers’ daughter. The girl who disappeared Is said to have been an authoress of some suc cess. Contract Given to Omaha Firm _ \ Contract for the completion of the Excelsior Springs hospital was awarded to the Jones Engineering and Construction company of Omaha, it was announced today at the United States Veterans’ bureau, Washing ton. The contract price is $99,590 and the time of completion set for June, 1924. YES! The New Coats Are Very Good Looking Our cash prices make them outstanding values. Your initials in black and gold. Pageant Scenes of Two Wars o _ Two more scenes from the AUSar-Ben pageant, "PatrolIc Historic America,” arc shown abovp. The upper is the float “Buddies,” assigned to the American l.egion. which shows a soldier carrying a wounded comrade through (lie barbed-wire entanglements of no man's land. In the rear, a diigout shelters 1 another wartime scene, showing soldiers receiving In structions in the army school*. The lower float, which boars the legend "Bemember the Alamo.” shows the litile group of defenders of the historic fortress sallying forth to he shot down by tile Mexicans. This float is presented by the Woodmen of the World. ' More Americans Reported Safe *V.ashington, D. C., Sept. 12 — Prac tically all foreign residents of Yoko hania have now arrived in Kobe, ac cording to a cablegram received to day by the State department from Consul Dickover. Refugees are bring well taken care of, he said, and the relief committee at Kobe has the situation well In hand. In a later dispatch. Consul Dickover said the safety of the following addi tional Americans had been estab lished: Robert Buchan and wife, Charles Blauvelt, the Rev. J. J. Chapman, Persia Colman, Harvey Colton and wife, Katherine C. Elder of Keokuk, la.; Farewell and wife, the Rev. .f. W. Frank and wife, Fullerton Greseitt and three children, B. Hager, Sophia Hart, Maide Palmer Henderson, Clam Howard. John King, wife and daugh ter; Carl Lewis. Louis Mandelbaum and family, Irene P. Mann, Paul Nip kow, wife and son. Okomoto Yonezo and wife, Mable Pierce, Miss M. Ecton Rowland, Alfred Russell, wife and two children, Willie Russell, George Rus sell and wife. Anna Y. Satterthwarte, Dorothy Tobler, Ilermel Moelle Turn lin, H. A Wheeler and family. The dispatch added that Mrs. Osato and her 4 year-old child, were safe aboard the President Jefferson but that ther>- was no news regarding Mr. Osato and their youngest son. Maria Russell was said to lie safe, but her husband was listed as dead. Nebraskan Missing. Special Dispatch to The l Inis hi* Bee. Gretna, Neb.. Sept. 12.—Evert Grady. 11*. son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Grady, Gretna, has been report ed missing In the wreck of the de stroyer Delphi on the Pacific coast. He was a fireman on the boat. He enlisted two years ago. Jlls father is a harness maker in GrAlna i Sealed for You W SS Wrieley’s is rnadp > = and otter in£edie!!!c<ichicle S qua,i6' obtainable. S °f hiehest 5 leave our modern fae#M,RfCtey s 5 !n Quality and then ™l°lies ,00% S 10 Poor condition yo(J 5 ,J° we Put it in S the wax-wrapped Pack8Se and s ?n£?LED ,T Tight — *» keep it 200d_ S *or you. S „ A,ds <H*es S hffPS teeth white ■a • helps appetite. the Wrapper, ’ They are good for WoeDfe presents =- The Ftauor faster ~ Amrines Die in Japanese Earthquake State Department Officially Reports Death of Former Omaha Girl, Husband and Child. • Two weeks of hovering between hope and dread for the fate of her daughter, aon-in-Iaw and grand daughter, ended late Tuesday when Mrs. J. \V. Marshell, 4910 CaBS street, was notified that they all perished In the Toklo earthquake. The State de partment sent official word of the death of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Amrine and daughter, Shirley, 4. To Mrs. R. B. Howell fell the duty of bearing the sad news, when It was received by her husband. Senator Howell, from the State department. She telephoned to Mrs. Marshell at 4 Tuesday evening. Alone, Mrs. Marshell bore her grief until her daughter. Alice, secretary of the Nebraska Tuberculosis associa tion, and her son, T. L. Marshell, re turned from work. First Reported Safe. Soon after the earthquake the Mar shells asked Senator Howell to find out the fate of their loved ones. He wired his secretary in Washington to pursue the inquiry. The first in formation received here was that all the General Elfectrlo company em ployes in the earthquake area were safe. Then came a message that Mr. Amrine was alive and his wife and child missing. Mrs. Amrine, before h»tr marriage, was Mips Ella Marshell, a teacher In the Lothrop and Dundee schools. She was graduated from the grade and Central High schools here and from Peru Normal. Ella Marshell had a chum Anna Amrine, who lived In Urbana, 111. One summer she went there for a visit and was introduced to her chum's cousin, Tom Amrine, a young electrical en gineer. Friendship, courtship and marriage followed. They lived for several years after their marriage In Maplewood, N. J., where their daughter was born. Then came the opportunity to go to Japan where Mr. Amrine was to become gen era! manager of the Toklo Electric company, an important position for a young man of 35. Stopped Here East May. They stopped in Omaha with the Marshells for two weeks en route to the Far East last May. Arriving in Toklo. they made their home at the Temple hotel from which they moved only recently to a brick house on “the bluff’’ which was one of the centers of the earthquake dis turbance. Miss Erna Reed of Omaha was a elope friend of Mrs. Amrine. “She waa a charming and beautiful young woman,” said Miss Reed. J. W. Marshell, father of Mrs. Amrine. died about two years ago. T. L. Marshell. brother of Mrs. Am rlne, saw in a list of the known dead Americans a few- days ago the names “Mr. and Mrs. Aplne" and, though he said nothing to his mother and sister, he feared this referred to tlielr relatives. Mrs. Marshell has three letters from her daughter, written before the earthquako and received here since. It Is expected that the bodies will be bought back to the United States for burial. Mrs. Osato Ijinds Sal unlay Word was received In Omaha last night that. Mrs. Shogl Osato and son will arrive in Seattle Saturday from her home In Japan. The entire Osato family escaped Injury in tho earth quake that practically destroyed Toklo and Yokohama. Mrs. Osato was formerly Kiss Frances Fitzpatrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Fitzpatrick. She embarked with other refugees on the liner President Jefferson. Girl Is Attacked by Man in Room Grace Ballet-ex, 23, telephone op erator at the Webster exchange, en gaged In » hand to-hand struggle wdth a prowler who stole Into her room at the home of John Doolittle, 1«10 Clark street, at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, she told police. According to her story, she awaken ed to find the man In her room. She grappled with him and in the, scuffle which resulted received scratches on her face and bruises on the back of the head. Mr. Doolittle, Awakened by the commotion, entered the room, and the man fled. Cuba has a population of 3,123,040. Light Feeders Popular, Says Iowa Cattleman Among those visiting the local mar ket looking over the feeder cattle sit uation yesterday was O. A. Riddle of Anthon, In. He said there would !>e quite a demand fur feeder cattle In Woodbury county this sea-on or: re count of tho blit surplus of feed. 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