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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1924)
| New Organization to Be Formed at 1925 Legion Meet Auxiliary President to An nounce Plans for World Wide Gathering on Oma ha Visit Sunday. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20.—Mrs. O. D. Oliphant, national president of the women’s auxiliary of the Ameri can Legion, will officially announce when she visits Omaha Sunday that women from all parts of the world, with the exception of the former enemy countries, will meet at the 3925 legion convention to organize a world wide women’s organization as an auxiliary of the Fldac, a world wide service men's organization. This will bring to Omaha in J925 leading women from all parts of 'the World. Mrs. Oliphant said. Mrs. Oliphant, a newspaper woman of Trenton, N. J., said that her or >ganizatlon hopes to make the Omaha convention of the auxiliary the larg est In its history. "Omaha has the ideal location and Is showing the proper spirit,” said Mrs. Oliphant. “We must not forget that the women spend much more than the men do at these conventions.” According to reports received at national headquarters, approximately 35.000 women will attend the Omaha convention. Mrs. Oliphant will he accompanied to Omaha by Bess B. Wetherholt, na tional executive secretary of the auxil ary. «e “I ani anxious to meet Everett Buckingham, who is the Omaha con vention committee secretary,” she said. “His fame has spread to New Jersey'. With such alien at the head of the various Omaha committees, I known we will have a great conven tion.” Mrs. Oliphant Is termed “Practical Mrs. Oliphant” by national officers of the legion. NEW INSURANCE COMPANY HERE Raymond F. Low has resigned as vice president of the Foster-Barker company" and has organized the American Reserve Life Insurance company, a legal reserve mutual with offices in the First National Bank building. Associated with Low as directors k are T. L. Davis, vice president of the ~ First National bank; W. B. Roberts, former president of the Union Light and Power company; E. A. Creighton, treasurer of Foster-Barker, and Sam 3V. Reynolds, coal merchant. The officers are Raymond V. T/JW, president; T. L. Davis, vice president, and W. B. Roberts, secretary and treasurer. Low has had over 14 years of In surance experience and has been an officer of the Foster-Barker company since 1915. Rates for Electricity Reduced at Bridgeport Bridgeport, Nov. 20.—Officers of the Western Public Service company that recently took over the local plant and is furnishing power through u transmission line from Us Scottsbluff power plant have offered residents of Bridgeport a reduction of approx imately 20 per cent in rates for elec tricity, effective November 1, follow ing action by the city council In mak ing a contract with an engineering firm for a preliminary survey for a municipal light plant. 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In the opinion of county and city police of ficlals and expert furnace men here. "£he couldn't go in head llrst,be-( cause she would have been dead be fore she could draw her body in, and she couldn't go in feet first, because the pain of -tlie blazing coals would have caused her to faint," said Coun ty Attorney Henry Beal. "I quite agree with the prosecutor on this point. - "The woman's association with In dian mystics adds an odd angle to the case. Who these were, we don’t know. What extraordinary angles there may have been, what exotic per sons connected with the affair, *what impulse or even what strange powers were concerned, we can only conjec ture. It is a case from which a Sher lock Holmes might unravel a most unusual plot." Steinwender Agrees. County Coroner Paul Steinwender agrees with this view. "How the coroner at Columbus fig ures suicide out of it I can't under stand," he said. “There's a murderer in it somewhere, I am satisfied. It may have been some outlandish being from the land of mysticism and voodoo. An unusual person, at any rate, who would go through with such a grue some episode." W. A. Haberstroh, furnace man, 1402 Military avenue, declares it is "utterly impossible for an adult to crawl into a lighted furnace. "The very touch of the hot metal would cause an involuntary reaction on (he part of any person who tried to do so.” he said. "The size of the door, It by 14 Inches, would make it a hard struggle to get into the fire box even if the furnace were cold. Look for the murderer." Murder, Opinion of Police. * Police officers were virtually unani mous in the opinion that every cir cumstance in the case pointed to murder. The theory that the woman could have withstood the agony of the flames, even had she been able to crawl into the door without finding something to brace herself against was ridiculed. “The feat could not be accomplished even If their were no fire," said Po lice Commissioner Henry Dunn. "Hcu dinl couldn’t have turned around In side that furnace to close the door. She could not have climbed in feet first, for she had nothing to brace herself against. “In my opinion, an examination of the skull will show that she was killed and her body stuffed into the firebox.” Inspector Pszanowskl recalled a case in point when a burglar whom he had been pursuing attempted to hide in a cold furnace. Feet Stuck Out. “It was a large furnace and he was a very small man," Pszanowskl said. "He climbed In head first, but he could not pull his body inside the furnace. Ills feet projected and I saw him. It would have been a physical impossibility for any one to turn around inside a furnace, even if they could withstand the agony.” "I would question the woman's son,” he added. "His failure to tell his father of the discovery of the body is a very suspicious circum stance.” Chief of Detectives Ben Danbaum asserted flatly that the woman had been murdered. "The theory that she crawled into that blazing mass of coals is simply ridiculous," he declared. "Moreover, it would be a physical Impossibility.” ('apt. George Allen and Capt. Bert Thorpe were also convinced that the suicide theory was untenable. "Maybe,” Says Van Deusen. i Chief of Police Van Deusen was the only man to grant that the sui cide theory was barely possible. “Many years ago, I rernenib'er, a fireman on a Union Pacific engine dived head first into a firebox of his cab," ho said. "His body was not completely in the firebox, but he died almost Instantly as the flames pene trated to his lungs. In that case the door xvas a large one and was set on the floor of the cab, which is a dif ferent thing from that in the present case. Still, the suicide theory must be j?lven consideration." "Couldn’t be done,” said J. J. Mar tell, manager of the Cole Hot Blast Furnace company. "That woman's body was certainly stuffed into the furnace after she was killed. And It must have been some strong man that did it. The furnace door, 11 by 14 Inches, would not admit a large body.” Alliance and Bridgeport to Be Joined by Highway Bridgeport, Nov. 20.—Construction of a $250,000 state and federal aid highway between Alliance and Bridgeport will be started early next spring and rushed to completion in time for the late summer traffic, ac cording to agreement reached at a conference of state and government engineers, county commissioners of Morrill and Box Butte counties and Interested farmers. The road will run along the east side of the rail road, 30 feet wide, with a four-inch lime stone bnse and a four-inch gravel covering. Reds Strongest Class in Beatrice Poultry Show Beatrice, No’,. 20.—The Beatrice poultry show closed here today after a run of three days. Earl Smiley of Dincoln scored the birds and the ribbons were equally divided among the home exhibitors and those from a distance. The Keda were the strongest class with Buff Orpingtons and White Leghorns a close second. Some of the older breeds such as the While Wyandotts. Light Braliams and Barred Rocks, were not repre sented. Wymore Home Robbed. Wymore, Nov. 20.—While the fam ily was absent last night a burglar entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claton Lasher, near the Central High school building here and stole jewelry and other articles valued at $150. Mr. Lasher la a hardware merchant of Wymore. V Fertilizer Sales Increase. 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