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Omaha Daily
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THE WEATHER
Goudy
VOL. XLVII. NO. 128.
OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1917. TWELVE PAGES.
Newt SUatft. Etc.. St.
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ENDEARING LOVE LETTERS
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FROM DODDER TO MRS. MIM
READ TO MOTHER AND BABY
Minneapolis Woman Who Gained Affection of Omaha
Undertaker Acknowledges Intimate Relations Exist
ed Between Them Before Dead Man's Body Was
Found in Automobile North of Florence.
Just a Military Sandwich-With Side Dishes
LOCAL RIVER M
ASK GOVERNMENT
TO DRAG MISSOURI
Navigation League Would Buy
Barges for Service Between
Omaha and Decajtur; Much
Traffic Available.
Mrs. Edward, L. Dodder sat in court with her 2-year-old
1 .by in her arms while her dead husband's love lttersto an
other woman were read to the jury Tuesday' morning.
Mre .7 Aratli nliimn Vtllr Q '
iui j iia mviaiif Auiiip isauviv-
eyed and a decided brunette, com
placently acknowledged ' the intimate
relations which existed between her
and Mr. Dodder. She is the woman
to whom the - prominent Omaha un
dertaker addressed endearing terms
as "dearest sweetheart," "darling,"
"the dearest girl in the world" and "I
sure am glad someone is happy and
would rather it would be you than
anyone else."
ONE ENDEARING LETTER.
A leftef, postmarked "Omaha.
Jan. 2, 1917," only three days before
Dodder's supposed suicide, was sent
to Mrs. Moran, 1725 North Third
street. Minneapolis, Minn. It reads:
"My Only Sweetheart:
"Time of departure Dec. 21, 1916.
Arrival of first and only letter, Fri
day. Dec. 29.
"According fo your schedule, I
should wait until the. 4th before an
swering. Excuse the unseemly haste,
hut I am afraid if I did not answer
now I would not get at reply before
fall.
'I sure am glad someone is happy.
And would rather' it would be you
than anyone else. .
"Thank God, Christmas and New
Year's are over the bluest Christ
niia and New Year I ever knew. I
think I'll go jump in the rivet." .
Buy Eats for MabeL
He said he would like to boy Mabel
some "good -eats." "Any time she
wants to come tq Omaha I'll buy her
some steak nd fried chicken," the
letter run.s. . ' '
"I hope Mabel will be happy," the
letter continues, "with her husband.I
want somebody to be happy in this
world. (True love never runs smooth;
lots of stones in the way.
"Well, darling, your boy sure does
'ove the ground you walk on. Life is'
ilinost unbearable living away from
. on. I hope the time will come when
,ve can be together always.
"A bi2 hug and a kiss and all the
ove there is in this boy's heart for the
earest girl in the world, Ed."
To Show Motive for Suicide.
The letter was introduced by the
lefense in Mrs. Dodder's suit against
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RED REVOLT WINS
IN BLOODY BATTLE
AT TSARSKOE-SELO
Mauravieff, Bolsheviki Commander-in-Chief, Announces
Utter Rout of Provisional Government Forces and
S'.eps Are Taken to Cause the Arrest of
Both Kerensky and Korniloff.
London. Nov. 13. The comniete defeat of Premier Ker.
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i ensky and General Korniloff is announced in a Russian commu
nication received here by wireless.
After bitter fighting near Tsarskoe-Selo, the revolutionary
army completely defeated the counter revolutionary forces of
Kerensky and Korniloff yesterday. The" soldiers and work
men's deputies have ordered ihat all measures necessary be'
taken for the capture of Kerensky, who is retiring, according
to the cQpimunication.
Q OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
The official announcement, signed
The government has been asked to
dredge the Missouri river at two
points between Omaha and Decatur
in order that an adequate channel for
navigation might be assured at all pe
riods of the navigation season.
W. A. Ellis, assistant commissioner
of the Commercial club' andmember
of the Missouri River Navigation
league, has written the government
engineers asking for this service at
the hands of the government.
A snagboat makes trips up and
n 'tne'.jrissouri many times dur
ing the navigation, season and pulls
many snags such as old drift wood,
stumps, etc., but it is pointed out that
this snagboat works up and down the
river far above points whe,re any navi
gation is even attempted. It is held
that this is useless and that if the
government would devote its atten
tion merely to putting into navigable
shape the part of the channel upon
which a regular navigation line is
maintained the work of the govern
ment along this line would be of more
practicable value. The two points in
the channel which are said to need
dredging the worst are Blenco cross
ing and the point a the mouth of the
Little Sioux.
' To Purchase, Barges.
Every effort is being made to in
crease the shiDDinsr facilities , on the
he Aetna Insurance company to show I Missouri between Omaha and Deca-
he motive for suicide upon which re
covery of the insurance Dy nis
widowed wife depends. The case is
on one of several insurance policies
amounting to nearly $15,000, the re
covery of which hinges on the jury s
findings.
Kelly Case Will
Proceed; Begin
To Examine Jurors
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Red Oak, la., Nov. 13. (Special
Telegram.) AH hope of reaching an
agreement of the attorneys and dis
missing the Kelly case was abandoned
today. The examination of the jurors
was begun. '
Rev. Mr. Kelly, accompapied by his
wife, was brought into the court
room at 10:30 o'clock as the first juror
-took the stand. '
Kelly looks well and apparently has
no fear of the result of the second
hearing of the case iu which he is ac
cused of committing the Villisca ax
murder of 1912. He has been in jail
here since theJast trial.
There were only a few spectators m
the court room today. The audience
was made up chiefly of the special
panel of jurors. Sixty of the special
panel of 100 were excused today until
tomorrow morning. .
Thirty-eight jurors were examined,
14 of whom were passed for cause.
When court adjourned at 5:30 o'clock
this evening it was predicted by the
attorneys in the case that the jury
would be completed by tomorrow eve
ning. ' ' i -
"Y" Fund in Nebraska
Mounts to $126,000
The Omaha Young Men's Christian
ssociation war fumt was swelled to
the grand total-of about $61,790 dur
ing Tuesday when an aggregate sum
3f $8.172.2o was O btained bjr local
workers. The state total was $126,000.
Several large subscriptions of $1,000
were received- by the association.
Secretary Denison. of the Y. M. C.
A. predicts the total sum of $100,000
alloted to Omaha will be secured by
the end of the week.
Wounded Americans Among
- Canadian Troops in France
Ottawa, Nov. 13. The names of the
,.o!lowing Americans appear in today's
Canadian casualty "list:
Wounded D. E, Currie, Seattle,
Wash.; Elmer Rivers, South Derkeley,
t'al. '
tur for next summer. Mr. Ellis has
also written ome letters out in
search of some available barges which
the company here would like to pur
chase. The United States engineers'
office at St. Louis has "replied , to a
letter, offering some of the govern
ment barges, but they of 600-ton ca
pacity each, and the company here
wants, barges of not over 150 tons ca
pacity. Farmers Elated. '
TheJarmers in the vicinity of Deca
tur are growing more and more en
thusiastic over the river navigation
facilities for marketing their 'grain
direct n Omaha. The Decatur Ele
vator company, with Hugh Gallup at
the head, is now constructing a new
elevator at Decatur of 25,000 bushels
capacity in order to store the'grain
which the farmers will haul in there
faster than it can be shipped ou.t, and
which will accumulate especially dur
ing the winter months while the river
is frozeii over. This elevator full, of
grain, in the spring will assure a lot
of hauling for the- boats and barges
on this lin eas soon as the ice breaks.
Liberty Loan Bonds Reaph
New Low Level z $99.90
New York, Nov. 13. Liberty loan
4 per cent bonds made a new low rec
ord on the stock exchange here to
day, a lot of $10,000 selling at 99.90.
"MY GOD! I'VE FOUND HER," STREETS RON RED
wrron pdv m mctuaujav mi AS FACTIONS FIGHT
HLiiiu gin ui iiLiiiniim un
STAND IN SMITHMURDER CASE
FOR PETROGRAD
Bloody Garments Are Exhibited in Crowded Court Room
To Assuf 5tate inTayirig Tangled Skein of Evi
. dence, Gathered in the Lonesome Moor
Of Florence Lowlands.
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Handful of Loyal Military
Cadets Slaughtered After
Desperate Struggle Before
tfiMrarorstrisaacr
"I saw what I thought was the dead branch of a tree. It
was my wife's leg with her stocking on, and the next step I took
I met my wife!"
" 4My God VI yelled, Tve found her!" . . .
Nethaway half rose from his seat on the witness stand and
froze the blood in the veins of, his listeners in the crowded court
room with the unexpectedness of his weird cry. He sank back
in his seat immediately and gave the rest of his testimony in his
natural high-tension delivejry.'
HUSBAND ON STAND.
Claud L. Nethaway, husband of the
murdgred woman, was called to the
stand at 4 p. m. Tuesday after' a
tangled skein of evidence, including
the bloody undergarments, an uniden
tified man's handkerchief and a mys
terious piece of underclothing, had
been placed before the jury.
The bloody undergarments of Mrs.
C. L. Nethaway, the murdered wom
an, with which hef hands were bound
and folded upon, her breast, were
brought into court and identified. A
large, man's size, white cotton hand
kerchief, blood stahned, with which
her face was covered, was also dis
played to the jury.
EVIDENCE IMPORTANT.
A small oblong piece of undercloth
ing was identified -by Judge Ben S.
Baker, who arrived at the cut shortly
after 'Nethaway found his wife's body.
Judge Baker testified to finding the
oiece of a woman's undergarment
hanging to a weed between the sherfi
on which thq body was found and the
level of the railroad right-of-way. He
found a path where someone had
climbed through the weeds up the
steep bank. Near it was the piec of
underwear; a little farther on a wom
an's hair switch, and farther still,
spread out on top of a weed, a wom
an's handkerchief, which Nethaway
identified as belonging to-his- wife.
Scissors Were Used. '
The remarkable fact is that the
piece of woman's underwear found
Eagle Spreads Protecting Wings
Over Parachute Leapers at Fort
An omen of early peace has come
to bmaihi, a sign of luck for the
American army.
During the last few days a great
American feagle coming from no one
knows where wheeling and circling
in great sweeps across the sky, has
daily visited the fialloon fields where
2,000 busy young soldiers are practic
ing balloon observation.
The eagle is particularly attached to
the Florence field, a large bare plot
of ground recently leased byMhe bal
loon school because parachute, leaps
might be made there unhampered by
trees and telephone poles.
Only in the last week have para
chute leaps been permitted the eager
students, who have long clamored for
opportunity to take this mostlaring
of chances, which will give training
useful "over there" when the German
airmen get busy and attack the United
States balloons.
Last Sunday three daring young
aeronauts made their maiden leaps
safely, while a crowd of ,000 persons
were attracted to the spot. Not the
slightest accident marred the day and
the boys'crediNthis to the fact that
during the jumps the eagle spread its
wings protectingly over them and over
the huge kite balloon from which they
jumped.
Eagles are rare in this part of Ne
braska and it is thought this one has
flown from a long distance tovisit the
school. Some believe the dally pres
ence of many kite and free balloons
above the Fort Omaha grounds has
caught the eagle eye and caused the
mighty bird to leave his distant eyrie,
and forsake the mountain fastness fo
join his man-made brothers of the
air. All the students are begging Leo
Stevens to let them take the parachute
leap while this protection is given.
All Omaha is interested in the un
usual visit and is predicting luck for
the American army and an early
peace.
by Judge Baker is white ami clean -i
and has jagged, rather than torn
notches along the edge. It appears
to have been cut out with scissors.
This piece of underwear does not
match the bloody pieces of undergar
ment found on the murdered woman.
It is of different material. The blood
stained garments vere heavily ribbed.
The oblong piece is soft and of fine
ribbed maternU.
The bank below the shelf upon
which the body was found is 35 feet
high. It is eaten out by gulches and
water gulleys, making ascent very
difficult.
Nethaway on Stand.
Claud L. Nethaway, husband of the
murdered woman, took the "stand at
4 p. m. at the call of the prosecution.
He walked to the witness chair brisk
ly and took the oath in quick nervous
manner and sat down facing his in
terrogators. Throughout his testi
mony he remained comparatively col
lected but talked in a rapid, jerky
manner so swiftly that at times his
words were indistinguishable and the
court had to request hint to speak
slower and with greater distinctness.
Nethaway is a rather small, well
built man with iron-gray hair, thin-
ninrv rtt- friA Karlr nrwl run ft in or t O
Ulltf (A k HIV Ull'l Ulllltlg M
points in front where it curls up fr.ornf'.
its parting in tne middle, giving nis
face a peculiarly keen and intellectual
expression. A thin, pointed nose con
tributes to the general appearance
commonly called "hatchet faced." His
small, oeeply sunken eyes are con-1
tinually covered by his small eyelids
which are raised only occasionally as
he glances sharply about the room.
The thought of his dead wife, con
stantly before him, has evidently had
its effect upon his mind and nervous
system.
Testifies Fully. '
He testified in the minutest detail
at every opportunity. He rehearsed
his movements from the time he left
nome at i:ou sunuay aiiernoon un,i
ill itc w a 3 laivcii iiuui ma vvue a uuuji
and carried ffotpe.
At 1:30 he drove to his office in
Florence, where he had a date to take
a man to see some real estate.- He
said Henry Moore called him in the
morning to be at the office in the
afternoon. He called up Mr., Wik
trom, 1519 North Thirty-eighth street,
in Omaha, .among other things, and
had some sort of dealings with a
Mr. Tucker. His testimony became
definite when he called up Mr. Wick
strom's home and took Mr. Wick
strom up to the Al Close's house.
He had an engagement to meet
Myron L. Learned at 3 p. m. at the
Briggs station. He said he met him
a little after 3 o'clock. He said he did
not go home before that time.
Mr. and Mrs. Herdnian testified
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I'ctrograd, Monday, Nov, 12. There
are conflicting reports from Moscow
and other large cities. The Bolsheviki
report officially that Moscow is still
in their , hands, although a telegram
to the committee of public safety on
Sunday said that the Kerensky adher
cuts there had driven the Bolsheviki
into the Kremlin, where they were
.besieged.
' "Among'thc reports heard is one in
dicating that Leninc and Trotzky are
aboard the cruiser Aurora and are di
recting operations from that place of
safety.
At the corner of the Grand Mors
kaia and the Gorokovaia, near the
telephone exchange, during the long
battle on Sunday, in which the Bol
sheviki regained possession of the ex
change from the military cadets, there
were intermittent fusiladcs from
rifles and machine guns during the
morning and the afternoon, as the
Bolsheviki, stationed 100 yards down
the Morskaia, made spasmodic sbHies
toward the exchange.- A curious
crowd peered around the corners,
hugged buildings and crouched in
doorways to escape the bullets.
Slaughter of Cadets. ,
An armored car manned by mili
tary cadets and stationed in the
square around the Cathedral of St.
Isaac cleared the streets there with
a fusilade in reply to occasional fir
ing from Bolsheviki infantrymen
hiding behind the marble columns in
front of the great cathedral. Some
time later the fuel supply of the car
became exhausted and the car was
captured by Bolsheviki sailors, who
killed two of the occupants by firing
through the portholes. They then
broke in the steel door and dragged
the third occupant, who was wound
ed, to the streets. He was killed by
the sailors while a crowd of spec
tators within the Hotel Astoria cried
out in protest. The bodies lay in the
street for half an hour until hospital
(Continued on Pe Two, Column Three.)
Chaos Reigns in Russ
Capital; Food Scarce
Copenhagen, Nov. 13. -A dis
patch to the Berlingske Tidende
says that Eric Hjorth, a Swedish
director who left Petrograd Satur
day and arrived at Haparanda, de
clares that the situation in the Rus
sian capital is terrible.
Virtually all administration has
ceased, authorities having given up
all attempts to continue work.
Bolsheviki soldiers and sailors
were sweeping through the streets
like robber bands, committing all
sorts of crimes and excesses.
Food was exceedingly scarce and
prices were so high that it was im
possible to pay them.' Nearly the
entire population was awaiting the
arrival of Kerenesky trofeps to be
relieved of the terrorism.
I.M1, RAIDED;
64 HEN TAKEN
IN BY POLICE
Assisted by Federal Authorities
Local Detectives Swoop Down
on Headquarters, With
Good Result.
Acting under secret orders, and
led by L'nited Stages Marshal J'lynn,
and a large corps of deputies the lo
cal police Tuesday raided, the' Indus
trial Workers of the World headquarT
ters, Thirteenth and Douglas streets,
and arrested 64 men and one woman,
who gave the name of Mrr.' Elmer
Buse when booked at the station.
The raid came as a complete sur
prise and the police seized a large
quantity of literature, said to be of a
seditious character, which was turned
over to the federal authorities. The
police will investigate thoroughly the
records of those arrested. They be
lieve that they have some men who
are wanted here and elsewhere.' The
police have definite knowledge of only
one of the prisoners, T. A. Jenkins,
one of the leaders of the organiza
tion. He was not in the hall at the
time of the raid, but came in the hall
shortly afterward and was placed un
der arrest.
No resistance was offered and only
one man tried to escape.
While loading up the emergency
car at the hall, he took advantage
of the confusion and slipped out the
opposite door of the car. He was
quickly overtaken and went peaceably
to the station. The general temper
of the men was, in fact, quite hap
py. They sang, laughed and joked
(Continued on tae Column Four.)
Cr eight on Student Said to Have
Passed Highest Grade in Air Corps
Ralph T. Wilson, sopJiomore at the
Crcighton College of Arts, has been
accepted for service in the aviation
corps 6f Uncle Sam's army.
It is said that Wilson passed the
rigorous mental test of the aviation
examinations with the highest grade
of any recruit who has entered this
branch of the service. His physical
examination also was perfect. Wil
son has been sworn in and expects to
be summoned within a week.
Wilson was in his sixth year at
Crcighton. He lias been prominent
in athletics at. the blue and white in
stitution, playing tennis, base ball,
basket ball and track. He ha won
five class medals and a number of
elocutionary a id oratorical prizes.
He was a captain in the Creighton
cadet regiment until Kis enlistment.
Bolsheviki Are Defeated
In Sanguinary Fighting
Stockholm, Nov. . 13. -there Svas
sanguinary fighting on the Nevsky
Prospekt, says a dispatch, and the
Bolsheviki failed to hold -even the
workingmen's quarter of the city.
The foreign ambassadors, the mes
sage reports, arc now in communica
tion with General Korniloff
by Mauravieff, commander-in-jhief,
follows: m
"Yesterday, after bitter fighting
near Tsarskoe-Selo, the revolutionary
army completely defeated the counter
revolutionary forces of Kerensky and
Korniloff.'
"In the name of the revolutionary
government, I order opposition to all
enemies of the revolutionary democ
racy and the taking of all measures
necessary to effect the capture of
Kerensky. I alsp forbid similar ad-
ventures which are endangering the
success of the revolution and the tri
umph of the revolutionary army.
Kerensky in Petrograd.
Stockholm, Nov. 13. Getrenat
Korniloff has entered Petrograd,
where the entire garrison, except the
sailors, went over to his side, accord
ing to P'trograd dispatch to the
Social Demokraten, under Monday's .
date. . j -.'..' ' '
I : Telegrams from. Finlandjnuouncft.
the" arrival of Premier Kerensky in
Petrograd with his troops. Finnish
newspapers declare unreservedly that
the Bolsheviki already has been over-
Messages .from Moscow and south
ern Russia announce the country is in
complete .control of the Cossacks, who
acknowledge the , leadership of Ker
ensky. The Bolsheviki troops were
defeated badly at Tsarko Selo and re
treated to Petrograd. ,
Another message, says Premier Ker.
ensky announces that the scat of gov
cm men t will be removed to Moscow.
Generals Korniloff and Kalcdines
have issued from Novo Jcherskask,
headquarters of the Don TCossacks, a
proclamation summoning the Russian
people to unite against the Bol
sheviki. I
Copenhagen, Nov. 13. Premier
Kerensky's troops are in control of
part of Petrpgrad, especially the
Nevsky Trospekt, according to a
telegram received by the Stockholm
News agency and forwarded to Co
penhagen. The Bolsheviki are said to have
taken refuge in the Smolny institute.
Fighting at Moscow.
Petrograd, Nov. 13. Tha American
consul general at Moscow, telegraph
ing' to Ambassador Francis under
Sunday's date, confirms reports of
fighting there, between the, Bolshev
iki and the provisional government
forces. The consul general says:
"It seems the government troops
are .winning. John F.' Stevens is here,
but cannot get in'touch with him, as
consulate is center of fighting. All
Americans safe. Rumor Cossacks al
ready arrived."
Ambassador Francis, who says he
will remain here to look after the in
terests of his government and the
safety of American citizens, has re
ceived no offers from the Bolsheviki
government or any word from Wash-,
ington since November 3.
Mr. Stevens, as chairman of the
American railway commission, went
to Moscow to act as special adviser
to the government in connection with
the operation of the Russian railways.
The employes of the official Rus
sian telegraph agency have one on'
strike. They refuse to transinit Bol
sheviki propaganda. '
The seizure ut tne central tele
phone exchange by the military ca
dets was made possible by deceiving
the Bolsheviki guard, to whom the
cadets presented forged credentials
from the Lcnine government. Two
Americans spent Sunday with the ca
dets who defended the building Miss
Bessie Beatty of the San Francisco
Bulletin and Albert Kheys Williams
of Boston.
The military cadets were prompted
to undertake the -venture in the be
lief that Premier Kerensky" and his
army were soon to retake the citv. -
They numbeted not more than 60 and
had only little amriunition. Early in
the afternoon the cadets realized their
(Continued on Page Tro, Clumn One.)
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Orders for Knitting and
War Cook Books were
filled during the one
week ending Friday,
November 2, all on cou
pons cut from The Bee.
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