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Rain Torrents 411 Over City; More Sunday Total of 1.22 Inches Record ed; 21 Successive Days of Subnormal Tempera ture Here. An tncp and twenty-two hundredths ni rain fell In Omaha during the last 24 hours, Is the report of the local weather bureau. The thunder storm Saturday morning brought .88 of an inch of rain. Saturday was the 21st consecu tive day that the temperature has been below normal. It was 50 at 8 a. m. and 51 at 12, or 8 degrees be low normal. This may account for the storms, according to Meteorolo gist M. V. Robins. Flooded cellars were reported Sat urday morning at Twenty-fourth and Bluffs Creek Ovi Again. The heavy rain e« Saturday morning caused Indian creek in Council Bluffs to rise by leaps un til, at noon. It was overflowing Its hanks at some places. The water was lapping the floor of the bridge at Broadway and Thirteenth street. Broadway hetween Eleventh and Twelfth streets was under water from curb to curb. On Avenue B, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets the water stood more than a foot deep. North of Avenue B, between Thirteenth and Eight eenth streets, large areas were under water. I / Cuming streets. Twentieth and Lake and Twenty-eighth and Pacific streets. No fire calls were made on account of the lightning. More Showers Coming. One-third of an Inch of rain fell in Omaha up to 7 Saturday morning, the weather bureau reported. Rain was falling over Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota. Broken Bow. Neb,, reported 2 inches; Tekamah, 1.6; North Platte, l. 04: Grand Island, .75; Hastings, .59. Forecast is showers and probable thunder storms tonight and Sunday. Colder in west portion tonight. The coldest point in the state last night was O'Neill, with 4 4 degrees. In Yellowstone park there was a min imum of 30. Sidewalk Undermined. Water washed under the brick pav Ing at Twenty-eighth avenue and Turner boulevard and destroyed two sections several yards square. On Twenty-seventh street, south of California street, half a hlock was un der a foot of water for some time after, the rain ceased The baseball park at Thirty second and Dewey avenue was under several inches of water. Water stood for a time several inches deep at Farnam street and Turner boulevard and when it re ceded left a deposit of dirt and cin ders on the paving and street car tracks. Many basements of houses under construction were damaged by water. Columbus, Neb., June 7.—Four Inches of rain were recorded here be tween 11 p. m. last night and 11 a. m. this morning, the heaviest rain fall in so short a period ever record ed here. Electrical disturbances dis rupted 25 per cent of the long dis tance telephone service; hail damages are heavy in several sections. The Loup and Platte rivers are rising at the rate of one to three inches per hour. Broken Bow, Neb., June 7.—More than two inches of rain fell here. - Lightning struck Charles Melham’s barn, setting it on fire. The building, a large amount of hay and farm implements were a total loss. Beatrice, Neb., June 7.—Shower's fell in this section of Nebraska today following which there was a sudden drop in temperature. Overcoats and wraps were worn with comfort, end fires were started in many Beatrice homes. Warmer weather is needed for crops of all kinds and especially corn. , Butte, Mont., June 6—Last night was the coldest Jiine night in the his tory of Butte with temperatures run ning from 15 to 24 abo've. Heavy damage was done to flower gardens The storm was general over western nnd central Montana. Rain, snow and heavy frost prevailed in the eve ning and night hours. Higher tern peratures are promised tonight and tomorrow. M. J. GREEVY HIT BY CAR IN RAINSTORM M. .1. Greevy, deputy city clerk, was struck by a westbound automobile at {Sixteenth and Farnam streets at * Saturday morning during the heavy rain. He was thrown several feet and sustained a cut over the right eye, and various bruises. He was assisted to the city hall, where first aid was given, and he was removed to hia home, 2314 Hick ory street. Hix stitches were taken in the cut at Lord Lister hospital before Mr. Greevy was taken home. Driver of the car. is being sought by police. Harvard Free Picture Show Next Thursday Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Harvard*- Neb., June 7.—Arrange ments for the annual free picture show and band conceria. put on by the city each aummer, have been completed by the Community club, and the open ing entertainment will he held at the city park Thursday. Organisation of the municipal band has been com pleted by Edward Rosenbaum, direc tor. The drive for funds to aid in financing the entertainments met with gucceae. Child llreaka Ann in Fall. Frances Cftta, 6. 617 South' Eight e»nth street, suffered a fractured elbow Friday when she fell from the window of her home to the cement, sidewalk She was playinr in the window and accidental!'- pushed out the screes Convicted Woman Slayer Mr*. Margaret Willis, slayer nf former Omaha physician, must spend remainder of life in prison. Jnry returns verdlrt after hours of delibera tion to defendant. She received the verdict in stony silence. Son Stands by Slayer: Mother Mrs. Margaret Willis, Con victed of Killin}: Ex-Omalia Doctor, Will File Appeal. By International Neva Service, Bos Angeles, Cal., June 7.—Mrs. Margaret Willis, convicted "trunk slayer," battled anew for her life to day. Found guilty of first degree murder last night after 24 hours’ de liberation by a 1urv of eight women and four men for shooting Dr. Ben jamin B. Baldwin, stuffing his body into a trunk and dropping it over a cliff, Mrs. Willis lost no lime in con ferring with her attorneys for a new fight to save her from serving a life term at San Quentin prison. An appeal for a new trial will be made Monday and If that Is denied an appeal to the supreme court will be filed. Tired and her eyes a little reddened, Mrs. Willis clutched her 13-year-old boy, "Sonny,” in her arms today as she said: "The jurors did not know-. Some day the truth will out and until then I'll be brave." “Sonny,” faithful to his mother from the first, wept all day- as he has since last night, when he stood with Mrs. Willis and heard her sen tenced to prison for life. 2 WHEELS STOLEN FROM PARKED CAR Special Dispatch to The Omaha lice. Fremont, Neb., June 7.—Thieves appropriated two front wheels from an automobile owned by Sam Zlotky, Fremont, while the owner and his wife were attending a social function. The robbers worked quietly- while the aulo was parked In front of the M. Krasne home, where the festivities were in progress. The theft was not discovered until Zlotky started for home. WOMAN ROBBED OF HER JEWELS When Mrs. K. fi. Barkening, 3925 South Twenty-fifth street, returned home from an auto ride Thursday evening she was confronted hy- a bur glar, who chased her down the stairs, then fled, taking $250 in jewelry. Mrs. Parkenlng had entered the house ahead of her husband and mother, Mrs. J. M. Faulkner, who were in the garage. The prowler fled out the front door as Mrs. Parkening ran screaming out the back. Japanese Ambassador Gives Protest to U. S. 7 M a Kan so Hainliari. The Japanese government In a note delivered to Secretary of State Hughes by Ambassador Halnhara Saturday. May .'ll, declared Its''solemn protest” against I he exclusion fea tures of the immigration bill, and re quests the American government to take all possible measures to remove the discrimination. Secretary Hughes, in making the note public, declined to comment. SENATE BODIES CANNOT AGREE Washington, June T.—Conferees on the deficiency appropriation bill met today in an effort to adjust differ ences Xietween the house and senate hut reached no agreement st the first session on (he senate reclamation "rider,” which is in line with the recommendations of Secretary 'Works of the fact finding committee. Effort* to reach an agreement were renewed at a meeting held later in the day. Loch Accuses Leoopld of Death Blow Confession Made in Writing to State's Attorney by ‘Weak ling’ Released for Publi cation Today. Chicago, June 7.—All the Maine for the murder qX Robert Franks is placed upon Nathan T.eopold. Jr., by his former t hum, Richard 1 ,oeb, In a confession made hy the latter to State's Attorney Crowe a week ago and made public here today. •'1 want to say that 1 offer no ex ruse. If It was not for the atlgges f-—-1 \ ( liiracn. June 7.—The type writer, supposed to have l>ern used to write tile letter sent l>y Leopold and l/>eli to Mr. Franks, oas found in the lafcoon at .lark ton park late today, near the plare where I^opold had pointed nut that It was thrown. It was taken to the state’* at torney's office. ___y tlon and atlmulanre of Leopold the crime would not have been commit ted," Loeb said In ending his confes slon. Loeb, In his confession, eays that the "plan was broached by Leopold" ns a means of excitement and adven ture and to obtain money. Loeb said he dictated the ransom letter and that Leopold typed It. He said that all the notes and telephone messages had been made in the rough draft several days before so there would be no mistake In the plan. There was a rumor current here today that a young lady friend of Loeb's had been arrested, but the facts developed that a reporter on a local newspaper had taken two po licemen with him to the home of the young lady and Interviewed her but she waa not placed in custody. By If. C. HAMILTON. Inltersel S#nirf Staff rorr*-s|»enrteiit. Chicago, June 7.—The shocking na ture of the murder of Robert Franks, 13-year-old echool boy and the sub sequent placid confessions of two youths, Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, have made the crime as widely discussed in Washington as the political cnnventios, according to James ,1. Davis, secretary of labor, who paused here this morn ing en route to Moose Heart, 111., where he was to address tha gradu ates of the high school there. He planned, he said, to make the crime and Us cause* the subject of his address. Appropriate. The Franks case ha* brought homo Intensely the problem of modern youth's precocity, the cabinet member said, and that is the reason he deems the theme an appropriate one to address to young girls and bovs> who are completing their first step to educations advantage*. It is In the capacity as national head of the Loyal Order of Moose that Secretary Davis will address the pupils. There was a lack of morbidity at the county jail here today. Leopold and Loeb were becoming used to routine prison life. The novelty of Veteran Lawyer Completes 40-Y ears’ Practice at Douglas County Bar Started as Barrister When Courthouse Was at Six teenth and Farnam. Moses P. O'Brien has been s lawyer for exactly 40 years and will observe the completion of four decades at the bar tomorrow, lie Is now' adult pro bation officer of Douglas county. "It was on a Monday, too, that I was admitted to the bar, June 1SS4." be said. “It was In tlie* old courthouse at Sixteenth and Karnatn streets where now the Paxton block stands. There were two district Judges then, Kleazar Wakeley, father of the present Judge Wakeley, and Janie Neville. William Ijants was clerk of the court. "I studied law In the office of my father, Brig. Gen. George M. < i ' Helen, and wp later organized the law firm of O'Brien A- O'Brien. "My bar examination, oral and writ ten, toojk two days. The bar exami nation committee was composed of Judge James W. Savage, Joseph. E. Clarkson and Gilbert M. Hitchcock." Mr. O'Brien Is commander of the Moses P O'Brien \ ____j local organization of Son* of Veter ^ ns. their advent, had worn from fellow' prisoners and they were free to pur sue their own ways. It was interesting to other prison ers and to students of prison life, when it hecams known that after « week in jail neither of these youths has lost a pound of weight. Worry and the change from aOtive life out doors to confinement in a prison has had no effect on them in this respect. District Rebckah Meet. Spccinl Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Broken Bow, Neb., June 7.—The 16th annual meeting of the Rebekah lodges of the 16th district was held at Anseiino, with 68 representatives present. Officers for the coming year are: Mrs. Minnie Cummings, Berwyn, president; Mrs. Gertie Swain. Raven na, vice president; Miss Vera Mart, Berwyn, secretary; Mrs. Gertrude Moore, Mason City, treasurer. The next district meeting will he held at Ravenna. COLUMBUS BAND IS VOTED $1,800 Spfriiil Plfipitrh to Thfi Omaha Ilf#. t’olumbua, Nob, dune T.—The city council voted an additional rppropria tion of *600 for maintenance of the Columbus city band. The council voted unanimously to increase the an nual .appropriation f*»r the band from $1,2(Kb to' *1,800. It is to bp bandied throuph levy to be made Inter and will be retroactive to cover the present concert season. Farm House Burns. Beatrice, Neb., June 7.—The farm house of Michael Kruger, located a few miles southeast of Cortland, was destroyed b.v fire with all contents. The fire started in the roof from an unknown cause and wiped out the structure despite the efforts of neigh hors to save it. Hebron Newspaper Sold. Special Dlspntcli to The Omaha Kw. Hebron, Neb., June 7.—A. V. Wort man Fold the Register-Champion this week, the. new proprietors. Will I^onj? and Mary Thorp*, taking poaa***lon Tuesday morning. AVortman haa owned th* bualnesa for eight year*, the new owner* hav ing hern employed In th* ofltr*. Add Joy to Vacation Pleasures With An Outing Phonograph _— Carry it anywhera—to re sort, camp, beach or sea shore—and it will add joy and pleasure to your outing. The OUTING phonograph is at convenient at your grip; it it li<»ht and durable and looks nnd plays like a high-priced instrument. 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