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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1924)
J4 Indicted on l Vote Frauds in St. Louis Suburb » H — udges, Clerks and Political j Party Leaders Among Lot Accused in Primary Count. | K,v Internet Ions] Sertire. . J St. I.ouis, Jan. 12.—Severity-four iersons, including 47 judges • and Jerks of election and 27 other office . tolders and politicians of both parties, l t fere Indicted by the grand jury at Jlayton. St. Iiouis subtirb on charges f vote frauds in the August, 1922 pri naries. The names are included In me blanket Indictment which was Iprmally reported by the grand jury fed ay. !i Among those indicted are Freder Ik Essen, St. Louis county fepubli Jin boss; former County (pierlt Wil iam Seibel; Anthony P. Foley, and number of alleged gangsters. iThe democrats on the list include .1 G. Bruce, former secretary of the St. Louis county democratic commit u*. ’Three women also are named in the i due bill. «' The politicians and office holders elude men who have been powers i 1 politic* in the county for years, j |e indictments ending a smashing up ; ^paralleled In St. Louis history. {The investigation was begun sev - ral months ago by the grand jury , 4iJ by Prosecuting Attorney Adam j Jenry Jones, democrat. 1 tOthers named In the indictment, j bich contains 42 counts are, Henry jassebaum, formerly secretary of the it. Louis county republican com ■ilttee and now an employe in the ■Ate treasurer's office; Julius Schoen fein, former constable; Albert Well meyer, former superintendent road Machinery of the state' highway UP •a l-tnient: William Shields, republi can judge of the county court; J. C. Klskaddon. former assistant prose cuting attorney: Clarence Powers, ■kan gangster, who, however, is out-. ^Jle the pale of law, having been shot tod killed, February 25, 1923, and ■William Keck, another gruigstef billed In a brawl several weeks ago. f Twenty-one of the court’s Indict ments charge fraudulent abstracting mt ballots from ballot boxes and 21 <3»arge placing fraudulent ballots in Ballot boxes. Study to Be Made of Rural Children Y * _ r ' i ■ Research Work at Iowa Uni versity to Aid Child ’ f ^ Welfare. *' * By Associated Press. jlowa City, la., Jan. 12.—Bettering tile welfare of the rural child In Ipwa Is the aim of a three-year ln ’Sestigatipn by tha Iowa fhlld web Are research station at the Uni versity of Iowa with the financial i W of the Rockefeller ^memorial i junded by John L>. Rockefeller In I liemory of his wife. JJvery child less 1 lan 18 In a typical farming section ■ i Iowa county will be studied with 1 le co-operation of the surrounding community. ' Kvery condition and . Institution 1 'ithin the community or outside it ( ditch may have a relation to the 1 yes of the children will be looked 1 tto. The influence on the children i i th home, school, church, nearby t jwns, means of. communication, and 1 iciai, agricultural and economic or I (nizalions and groups is being con t tiered separately' by specialists In i jeh field from the station and the i niversity. ' pThla study,” L)r. Bird T. Baldwin, i Sector of the station, explains, •'will t |row a definite light on the prob ] fas of the child in relation to the *burban community. From such a ientlfic study new solutions of the 1 fe of the rural child will bo made.” (Under Hr. Baldwin's direction, units i isisting in the work from the univer i »y station are those of child psychol i jw, nutrition, sociology, eugenics, J eld workers, nurses, and others. To ( perating university units include the i elleges of medicine, dentistry', and ducation; d»i»artments of geology, 1 falosophy, political science, speech, 1 te pschopathlc hospital and the ex tension division. The state historical aoeletjc is also helping. Nina's Chauffeur Still j “In Dutch” With His Wife iMadison, Conn., Jan. 12.—Mrs. Ells ■ torth Bassett, whose husband has re i Sgned as business representative of ! (lna WJlcox Putnam Sanderson, : ovcllst, returned home today after i trip'jout of town to recover from ' lie ujlset condition caused by her ! usbnnd’s efforts to see her with a lew to reconciliation. Bassett Is still I i town. living at a friend's house. lis counsel said that he wanted his 1 ife and child to live with him and i tat he would do everything possible > bring this about. Counsel denied i report tjjat an ultimatum had been liven Itfrs. Bassett. J Mrs. Bassett, who refused to see ■er husljnnd w'hen he returned to town was noncnrnmltlal as to her |ttltude. halicas Corpus to Be Filed : to Free Thaw from Asylum I New York, Jan. 12.—Bartholomew Coyne, attorney for Marry K. Thaw, declared today he would file habeas (prpus proceedings in a Philadelphia court next Tuesday or Wednesday as «, step toward releasing Thaw from 4| Pennsylvania asylum for the In line. 'If .’ _j—„-~ *32 Boys Believed Drowned. • Brussels, Jan. 12.—Twelve boys, 5led from 12 to 14. are believed to ave been drowned while skating on I pond at the Belgian frontier near ongwy, Prance. Twenty-five or more (ehool children were enjoying the (port when the Ice gave w*y. Nine Jodies hsve been recovered. j Omaha Bank Clearings. j Bstik clearings fof- last week w. ie (14,421,791.711; last week. $32,814, *95.13; a yesr/ggo, $46,256,079.90 A V. Girls Plan to Bob Hair Evokes Protest in Office at Courthouse mmrEmn^ In the county attorney's office are two girls who are going to diregard and ignore the powers and authority vested in their boss, his deputies and investigators. Not that they mean in any way to disobey any of the 10 commandments or violate any paragraph of Mr. Volstead's sacred document. They are only wrought up because Henry Beal's deputies are opposed to bobbed hair. In spite of *a denunciation of the fashion, the girls are going to make goo dtheir threats. They are Nora Mariarty, Mr. Beal’s secretary, and IJllian Danahy, stenographer. Paul Steinwendef, county coroner, first heard of it, sn<l asked Miss Danahy about it. She admitted it. Words of protest burst from the coroner. Just then Mr. Beal walked out of his offiee.' He grinned. "Paul, it’s no use tolling a wo man anything." said Meal. “X was against bobbed ifciir at home and told my wife so. I wouldn't even argue, and she knew I was serious. But when X returned home from my va cation last summer 1 saw that my wlfe.had bobbed her hair. Cairey Ford, investigator, was the nest »to protest. He told the girls thnkif ids wife had her hair trimmed she would have to prepare herself to face District Judge Day in divorce court. Irvin Stalmaster and Dan Gross the two beau brummels of the prose cutor’s staff, refused t<^ commit themselves. John Yeager. Beal's chief deputy, Willard McKachron and Gordon Nicholson, the married members of the staff, also protested. But the girls seem determined, so what can they do? Movie Cowboy Hero Leads Search for Hollywood’s “Bad^e Bandit” J O fly International Newt Service. Hollywood, Cal., Jan. 32.—An all night man hunt failed today when Captain Home of the Los Angeles police department and Tom Mix. film actor, who led hundreds of possemen In surrounding Laurel canyon in the SarUa Monica mountains, reported that Harry Dunlap, alleged "badge bandit,” had escaped the human cor don thrown about ^ils reported hiding place. Dunlap Is alleged to have made threats against the lives of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Plckford and Is wanted as the notorious bandit who robbed scopes of autoists, assaulting their women companions and mur dered one or more of his victims. Dunlap, It was revealed today, has been traced to the cabin In Beverly Glen, to which Clara Phillips, noted "hammer slayer," Is claimed to liave fled after her esca ^e from the county jail In 1922. Officers who htM failed to trap the bandit In I-aurel canyon last night went immediately to the canyon. It was learned today that during the hunt last night, in which Mix and several of his cowboys partiei pated, and Captain Home, riding a horse loaned him by Mix, crashed through a bridge in Nichols canyon. Captain Home's injuries consisted of severe cuts and bruises and his con dition was declared serious st the receiving hospital. The horse ridden by Captain Home was named Meg and has been used by Mix in several of his recent pic tures. In the fall the horse tum bled several feet down an embank ment to the creek bod and was lodged in the rocks. The horse was found to be painfully hurt when he was extricated several hours later. Mix with ltis posse was fallowing closely behind Captain Home ami nar rowly escaped falling through the [bridge. Prince of Wales Leads Sleuths Merry Chase Paris, Jan. 12.—The prince of Wales spent the day stag hunting in Vlllers Cotterets forest, to the great despair of the French detective* entrusted with the task of keeping him dis creetly shadowed night and day. The antiquated taxi used by the detec tive* Was unable to keep* pace with the high-powered car In which the heir to England’s throne went to the rhase, and the sleuths w«*re out distanced on t lie Chatr-au-Thiervy road. The prince plans to leave for Lon don tomorrow. G. O. P. Treasurer Seeks Demo Meet for Ghlea^o Washington, Jan. 12.—Unsuccessful in his endeavor to obtain the repub lican national convention for Chcago, Fred W. Uphain, treasurer of the re publican national committee, arrived here today with a delegation of Chi cago business men to present to the democratic national committee at its meetng here Tuesday, the advantages of the Illinois city as a democratic meeting place. Mayor Dover and n larger delegation from Chicago will reach here tomorrow. Mayor Kiel and a delegation of St. Louis business men also are on the way here to present the claim* of Ht. Louis, and the vanguard of those endeavoring to obtain the convention for New York have been here for several days. Fabse Fire Alarm Aids Grocery* Store's ‘Trade Aurora. Nob.. Jan. 12,—Thursday night someone saw steam escaping from the roof of the grocery store operated by Meander Swanson, and turned in a fire alarm. Nearly everyone In town railed cen tral to ask where the fire was. Friday, the store was visited hy hundreds of persona and Swanson did a thriving business. Clogged Air Paaaagei Open at Once—Noatrils Cleared If your nostrils are clogged and your bead stuffed because of catarah or a cold, get lily’s Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply n little of this pure, antiseptic, germ destroying orearn Into your nostrils and let. It penetrate through ever air passage of yoyr head and membranes. Instant relief. How good It feels. Your bead Is clear. lour nostrils are open. You breathe freely. No more hawking or snuffling. I lend colds mol cslarrh yield like magic. Don't slay stuffed up. choked up and iniseriilile. Belief is sure. Man Loses Pound a Day in 39 of 40-Day Fast llouglas, Arlz., Jan. 12.—Following a course of fasting, calculated to cure his ailments, E. B. High}-, civil serv Ice clerk at Camp Harry J. Jones here, has entered the last lap of a Cist of 40 days. Higby today started the 39th day of his abstinence from food. He has lost about a .pound a day during his course of treatment. He plans to break his fast Monday, beginning with a diet of fruit Juice. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. I onian Gives Up Husband to Girl, Daughter’s Chum “There Can Be No Happiness Where There Isn't Love,” Says Wife Surrender ing Mate. Hj liitc-rnatloiiHi \>«» Servlre. (Been Bay, AVis., Jan. 12.—Airs. Dora May-ilugh, lunchroom manager here, was worrying tonight mainly over whether her 17 years of service for the lunchroom company which employs her will outweigh the fact that she has given up her husband to the 19-year-old chum of her daughter. She is sure she did the right thing In agreeing to let Lucille Barrett, the girl she mothered, have John P. May Hugh. "There can he no happiness where there isn't love," said Mrs. May llugh. "When John confessed his love for- Lucille, and when Lucille, sitting on my knees, with her arms around my neck, told me of her love for my husband, and both asked me to step aside—well there just wasn't anything for me to do hut get a di vorce and let them tie happy.” They are calling Mrs. May-Hugh a wife in a million here. She holds her head high and laughs and jokes with her neighbors as if nothing had ever nappenen. “It took me Jupt 24. hours to de-. dde,” she commented. She told of taking Ludile into her own home after Lucille's mother died and while V#ra, her own daughter, was attending college in Milwaukee. May-Hugh and his youthful sweet heart will have to wait a year before they can wed legally in Wisconsin. Lucille declared she tiled hard to right off her love for May-Hugh, but found it impossible. “If I can't have my 'Irish daddy’ I won't ever marry anyone as long as I live,” she said. "Tills love of ours is the real thing. I have gone about with boys of my own age, hut I never felt towards any of them as I do to wards Huge Drifts Block Goldenrod Highway Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 12.—The Ool <l»nrnd highway between Beatrice and Falrbury is still blocked with snow as the result of the blizzard which swept through this section of the -state earlier in the week. A force of men is engaged clearing the road and has reached a point 12 miles west of the city, encountering huge drifts. The line will not be opened for several days. The Cornhusker highway between Beatrice and Lincoln was opened last night. In some localities firmer* ire un able to reach town because of deep drifts, the roads being completely blocked. Coolitlge Notes Interest of Women in Citizenship New York. Jan. 12.—President Cool- j idge has observed among American j women during the last few months an "intense and exnpmling interest in , citizenship duties." he said In a mes- j sage to the Women’s National Repub- { lican club which was read today b» [ fore 1,800 delegates In annual lunch- j con session. This Interest in citizenship, said the , president, was revealed to him as "a I widespread and profoundly earnest movement plainly at work among the women In all parta of the country.” Bombs for Mexican Rebels Stopped at New Orleans New Orleans, La_, Jan. 11.-* Four thousand tear gas bombs consigned to revolutionists in Mexico were stopped in trainslt here Thursday, according to the Dally Rate*. Doctor Declares Harry Thaw Sane Or. Ellwand Klrhy of 1*1111:1(1011)111:1, Pa., personal physician to Harry K. Thaw, who declares flint his patient is fully recovered, is sane and nor mal and sees no possibility of a re currence of Thaw's mental malady if lie lives a proper life after his re lease, which is opposed by his mother. Mrs. Lonjsa Johnson. 67. Dies at Her Home Here Mrs. Ijouisa Johnson, 67, died Fri day at her home, 3133 Mason street. She had lived in Omaha for 23 years, coming here from Mount Savage, Md. She Is survived by three sons, Arthur N\, William (1. and Charles O. Johnson; two daughter**, Mrs. O. K. McKirby and Miss Minnie I. John* son of Omaha, and a sister. Miss Mary IV. Goetz of Mount Savage, Md. Funeral services will he held Mon day afternoon at 2 at th i home. Ftirial wiil be in Forest lawn ceme tery. Funeral services will '.ie private. V. M. I. Hazers to Be Expelled 15t .pMH'lalnl Press. 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