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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2$. 1921. SN - 1 Y r Railroad Officer Shot by Fleeing Holdup Suspect Victim Diet in Hospital Po lice Nab Two After Comb ing Railroad Yunh Searcb Continue. Loiiii A. Gustafson, .30, tpecial egent for the Northwestern railroad, died in St. Joseph hospital at 3 . m. yesterday, a result of a gunshot wound inflicted !y a flccin high vavman whom he attempted to Hop at Fourteenth and Wcbrter street, at 7:15 p. w. Monday. , The man w ho fired the iliot is be licved to huve been one of two bandits who earlier, in the evening held up John Orten. State hotel, in r.n alley between Hurt and Cuming street, junt eat of Sixteenth street, and robbed him of $10 and a gold w atch. Two Are Arrested. After combing the railroad yards all night, police early yesterday arrested two negroes in connection with the holdup and the shooting. They were Irank Johnson, 119 . North Eleventh street, arrested by Detectives Trapp and Munch, and F. Ahrom, 918 Capitol avenue, arrested by Patrolmen avrin and McDcr inott. I'oth men arc held for in vestigation. Itoth deny all knowl edge of the affair. Gustafson was shot in the neck. So far as has been determined, Der by Austin, negro, 2624 Linney ..- nil til OIllv W-itllCSS. lie SSVS it was the taller of the two men who did the shooting. Both were ne groes, he told police. The high--wayman shot once before G-jstafson fell, according to Austin, and three times afterward. Gustafson's family lives in Atlan tic T Gustafson lived at 1708 Calilornia street. Following the inquest, his tody will be returned to Atlantic, la. Funeral of "Ed" George Is Held From His Home Funeral services for Kohn Edward George, prominent real estate man who was killed in an automobile ac cident near Fairmont, Sunday were held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 from his home, 212 Aorth Fifty fifth street. Ed V. Smith left yesterday for Los Angeles, taking with hir.i the body of Ray M. Welch, president of the Omaha Cooperage Company, who also was killed in the accident. The following resolution on the death of Mr. George was passed this noon by the Chamber of Commerce executive committee: Wherein, through the death of J. K. George the Chamber of Commerce liaa lout one of Its valued and representative mem bers and the city of Omaha one who has ever been Its friend; and, Whereas, during his residence of 2S years In Omaha he has always worked unselfishly for Its betterment aiM civic up-bullcllg, and through the greatness ot ' his heart and the sincerity of his pur- t pose, he has endeared himself to the cm sens of this city; and. Whereas, the executive committee of the Omaha Chamber of 'Commerce, reat- and to the city of Omaha, desires to hon or and perpetuate his memory, inereiore do 11 icwivtu, iu.i " c - give voice to our sadness caused by the death of Mr. J. E. George, conscious of the great loss it has caused the com munity, and that we express our respect for his life and character and our sym. pathy with his family 'and business as sociates, be It j Further resolved, that these resolu tions be made a part of the records of the Chamber of Commerce and that a copy be sent to his family. Fairmont Editor May Be Named for Ministership Washington, Sept. 27. (Special Telegram.) Representative Mc Laughlin presented to the president the name of Lou W. Frazier, editor of the Fillmore Chronicle, published at Fairmont, Neb., for a minister ship to one of the Latin-American countries. Mr. McLaughlin told of Mr. Frazier's qualifications for such a position and how he had preached the gospel of republicanism through his newspaper fof many years. The president said that the State depart ment insisted upon men being sent tothe Latin-American countries who could speak Spanish, but ha hoped that he might be able to find a place for Mr. Frazier. Massena Home-Mined Coal Is Selling for $7.50 a Ton Massena, la., Sept. 27. (Special.) This community is being supplied with coal at a figure tar below that paid in surrounding towns.' coal at $7.50 a ton can be had here. The rnal rnmpo fr-nrt lif AmHnr flank- which is 13 miles from here. Much coal is being taken from the bank and there 13 a constant stream ot trucks loading at the shaft. Prominent Rancher Held - On Manslaughter Charge - Sioux City S. D., Sept. 27. (Spe cial Telegram.) Paul Grirres, a . prominent rancher of the Alzada dis trict, ' is under arrest on a man slaughter charge resulting from ths death of Myrt Goes, an employe. The men had a dispute and Grimes claims he did not fire the fatal shot until Goes made for him with an uplifted-ax. ' ' v ' - ' Road Conditions Uncoln Highway, East Rosds good, patour seven miles west of Marshalltown mail for one ralle east. Lincoln Highway, West Detour Water loo to alley. Road good to Grand Island and west. . i 1.D- Highway Detour west of Ash land. Road good to Harvard. Road work Harvard to Hastings. Highland Cutoff Fair. 8. T. A. Roads Good. Cornhosker Highway Excellent condi tion. Road work at Swedeburg. George Washington Highway Con f!"""" work to Blair. Detour over High Road. Good to 8iouz City. Blnek Hills Trail Road work Omaha to Fremont, to Norfolk roads aro good. Castor Battlefield Highway Tourists report this road In good condition with ut few exceptions. King of Trails. North Ooo4 to Onawn. road work north of Onawn. , King of Trails, Sooth Construction rk on Sooth Twenty-fonrth street, fol low Thirteenth street tn Hirrtwtn wm on Harrison to Twenty-fourth street. , TJs good to Leavenworth. Leavenworth ! MoTwii P" Ro Kxcllent t ttJ; " - Short Line Excellent coadi- . lu Oraw Bead Coed. Iowa Pastor to Open Bible Institute Here Congressman Says Midwest Must Unite To Get Lower Rates Atlantic, la., Sept. 27. (Special.) If the governors of the midwest states join in a demand on the In terstate Commerce commission it would, beyond doubt, result in a ma terial reduction in freight rates, was the assertion of Congressman Wil liam K. Green to friends on his vis it to Greenfield. 4 "It is a curious circumstance that so far nearly the only reductions ob tained have been on petition of the railroads themselves. Shippers and others apparently have been negli gent in appealing to the commerce commission for a reduction. "Freight and passenger tariffs are too high. One of the things needed at the present time to relieve the situation is lower rates, especially on the farmers' products. I believe the governors of these midwest states should take concerted action," ""said the congressman. Brictson to Appeal From Firm Receivership Order Attorney Frank L. Weaver and O. A. Brictson lest last night for. St. Louis to present to the United States circuit court of appeals an appeal from an interlocutory order ' here naming Ralph West receiver for the Brictson Tire company. The papers in the case practically are complete. Their haste in getting to St. Louis resulted from a desire to get their appeal before the court by September 30, thus practically assuring a Hearing in the present term of court, rather than waiting . until the next term which will convene next May. Head of Iowa Masons Warns Against Joining Ku Klux " Cedar Rapids, la.. Sept. 27 Grand Master Alberson of the Iowa Ma sonic grand lodge has issued a proclamation to the Masons of the state, in which, after stating that it had been intimated that the Ku Klux Klan was in effect an adjunct of Free Masonary, he declares that af filiation with an organization like the Kit Klux Klan is unpatriotic. He told Masons ,hat "it is in direct violation of the teachings and tradi tions of masonary." . All Wires Removed From v Adair Business District Adair, la., Sept. 27. (Special.) The appearance of the business dis trict of Adair is greatly enhanced by the placing of all electric and telephone wires tinder the pavement. The work of burying the wires has just been completed by the Adair Telephone company and the Iowa Electric company. The change was made at the request of the Adair Commercial club. The cost was $13,000. . Audubon County Farmer Defendant in Slander Suit Atlantic, la., Sept. 27. (Special.) J. Swinchart, " Audubon county farmer, talked too much, at least that is the charge made by L. R. Dickey of Adair, -who Is suing the former for $10,000 for alleged slan der. The suit has ' been brought in the Audubon county district court. Dickey says his reputation was dam aged and his feelings Dadly hurt by things said by Swinehart. . Postoffice Orders Washington. Sept. 27. (Special Tele gramsPostmasters appointed: Carl Ebert, vice Robert W. Raebel. resigned, Montgomery, Dickinson county, Iowa; An gela M. Collins, vice L. P. Sudler. re moved. Pioneer, Humboldt county, Iowa. Postof flees discontinued: Harlan, Cherry county, Nebraska, mail to Merriman; Zena, Arthur county, Nebraska, mail to Tryon. Good trucks do not increase chauffeur, garage, or insurance ex penses. Thej lower tire, gasoline, repair and depreciation costs. Pi lerce m . I- mm mm m mm mm mm rmm i mm mm mw aw aw - var amm FRED C. HILL MOTOR CO. Omaha HOLDING A HUSBAND A)U Crrioa)' "Revelation, a Why Cract Draper Calmly Faced Hvfh Grantland and Nearly . "Took" Edith FaiHa with Her. For a long moment I knew noth ing ave that my baby boy wai alive and safe in my arm, heard nothing hut hit crooning little voice taying, "Mania, mama," over and over again, a if he never would tire of the word. Then, i the acrid moke cleared a bit with the opening of the won- dow and doors iy one ot itugii Grantland'i men, I av the old col ored woman kneeling by the pros irate fieure of the man 1 knew only as Tim saw atso with horrified eyes that another of Hugh Granttand's men had torn the coat and shirt from the officer's shoulder, and was stanching the blood that welled from an ugly wound in his shoulder. "He drilled you, major," the man said respectfully, "but 1 don't think-" "Tic it tip quickly." Hugh Grant land snapped, 'and let mc get my coat on." I saw his face change as he looked at the man on the floor. "Send for a doctor." he ordered ''You don' need no doc tor," Tim gasped. "I won t be here by the time he gits here. Don't take on so, Aunt Sukey. It's the best Hung that kin happen to me. But I aidn t hurt the km though that she devil wanted me to" His voice failed, and his eyes closed. "Give him some brandy," Hugh Grantland interposed, and one of his men poured a drink from a flask and gave it to the dying man, who drank it docilely, lay quietly for a minute, then roused himself and opened his eyes. "Have you got the she-devil?" he demanded. "No, but we're going to. if vou help us by telling all you know," Hugh Urantiand answered quietly. "Curse her," Tim replied fervent ly. "I'll spill atl I know if it'll put her where she belongs. I had to do what she said. She knew some thing-" Hugh Grantland motioned to one of his men, who crept behind Tim with a notebook and pencil. "She always made me stay some where near her," he said. "She told me she wanted thus young one taken and put out of the way for good, and he gasped for breath. "She had it all planned out," he went on. Hie last few days I stayed at the house of that man across the road, and at night she'd slip out and we'd go over to the studio. She had the keys and I fix ed some boards in the closet floor at the side where I could come up and down from underneath and hing ed a board in the floor of that window-scat of drawings with a hook and eye underneath the floor. The day the baby got in there I was hid under .the floor all day waitin'. That. devil had drilled the kid so he d get m there and hide under the drawings And he had a picture he called his Danzie's drawing at the bottom of the pile I gave a strangled exclamation, for 1 saw the diabolical way in which Grace Draper; had played upon the little chap's love for his grandmoth er to send him to what she meant to be his death. Hugh Grantland put his uninjured arm .back, and I felt his fingers clasp mine firmly with a strength that sustained me. I ' "The baby came running back to the studio," Tim went on with pauses between the words. "I could hear his little feet, and he climbed into the box and rooted to the bottom of it, as she had taught1 him to do. I slipped the hook of the board be neath, caught him as he fell out, and gave him a whiff of a choloform sponge "It Didn't Take Much' Only the fact that the man was dying kept my fingers from his throat. "It didn't take much to put him out, he went on. lhen 1 throve ed a, toy the baby had out on the path to the orchard,' as she'd told me to. When she give me a signal that it was all right I took the kid and carried him she guiding me. But the baby woke up and called its mother twice before I could get my hand over its mouth. I nearly lost my nerve then, for I heard vou. me'am, come shrieking out, but that she-devil pushed me on and stopped you." , So my ears had not deceived me that night I My arms went closer round my boy. "I got the kid to the house of the man across the road, and I had hard work to keep him from finishing the" boy. He drove me off into the hills, where we met a big automobile, and since then I've 'been passed from one automobile to another till I got down here. That woman is head of of a gang " His voice trailed away, and even less experienced eyes than mine could have told - that he was very near his end. And so wre left him in charge of the old colored woman Ntw fk if of a Wife" and the county police to rush to the uilroad. Tor both Hugh Grantland and I knew that if Mother Graham was to live we ntut put her idolied grand.on in her arnu without delay. Dimly I realized my husband's agony also, but the door that had shut between him and tne upon that terrible day of Junior' disappear ance when Dicky, motoring with Kdith Fairfax, did not get home for hours afterward, had never opened, and I felt no desire to open it. Exhausted, I slept during most of the journey home. I did not he Hugh Grantland until we reached New York, and were whisked from the station into a powerful touring car. It was after dark, as he had planned, when we drew up to my home. Tom Chester appeared as if from the ground with the informa tion that Aunt Dora l'aige, upon whom the major feared the effect of sudden excitement, all our household was gathered in the living room. "Miss Fairfax?" Major Grantland queried. "She brought the other one over as you asked," Tom Chester replied. A great light broke upon me. Edith Fairfax , had been working with Hugh Grantland from the first, pretending friendship with Grace Draper in order to keep her unsus picious of the net closing around her. We entered the living room filed with people. Dicky, as always since his toy's disappearance, staring straight in front of him Grace Draper and Edith Fairfax standing together near a door, a little away from the rest. Dicky sprang to his feet at sight of his boy, and rushed toward us. TAILORED AT E THE STANEREK TAILORING TREATMENT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY OUR TAILORS AT FASHION PARK TO SUIT MEN OF FULL CHEST DEP'ELOPM ENT AND ERECT SEE OUR WINDOWS TODAY "Oh. my GoJl Madge, is he all rirht?" he cried. Junior auswerri mm wiiu a 'joyou cull ot 'To-pat ra-pa!" and ! sprang into his outstretched arms. ! And then we heard a shriek from ; Leila another from Mr. Durkee. ! I turned to e Grace Draper , forcing I'd it h Fairfax t the door with one hand while with the oilier sue nrm a miy diii mauiy immui iu the Virginia uiil', head. With in credible swiftness she had grasped the situation the saw tu enter, and had done the only thing possi ble to save hcrclf. "You think you've got nie!" she cried and then she laughed, a cool, light chuckle, as if she were really amused at the paralysis which had seized us all, "I'm glad to see you appreciate at its full value my pur pose to hold this iuteresiing stoo! pigeon" she gave Kdith' arm a vicious jerk "a hostage until I get safely away. If you make a single move I'll end her to wait for inc. Oh, you're not through with me yet, Madgie, you asinine little dupe I How royally forgiving you were. Iiahl You make me ill, you and your colossal conceit about .he men you think ready to jump over the moon for you. I wonder at Dickybird's patience and blinders,' but Madgie. dear Madgie, haven't you wondered where your wandering Harry is to night? ,. , "According to schedule he oughl to be performing feats of derring-do for his Lady Fair, and signing re leases for your intcroting friend in the hospital. But just tell Lillian with my compliments, that she'll wail a long time, for legal irceilom to jump over the broomstick with that i sappy Kobert " ' j She flung Edith Fairfax viocntly! against Tom. Chester, sending them ' both reeling, and was out of the door, speeding into the darkness. "After her!" Hugh Grantland shouted, but only Tom Chester and Alfred Durkee obeyed. For a far different cry assailed ! ; "VVi - V - V- - I -'1VX V ry 9Urai efotfnnci 6x JOHN A SWANSONms. Wli I HOlZHANtM. our ears a Mother Culuin. sUa'ger in c ih weakness, with Jim and kaiic on either side of her, and Aunt Darn I'itigc atuiiiusly bringiu, up 'he rear, came into the room, and, almost (aiming, but with inclljlil.' bli on her worn, old (ace, dasped her idolized grandchild in her trembling arm. And then Dicky, as if released from duty, glanced uuickly at me, and rithed out of th door. 1 had undressed Junior, put him to bed in my room, and was sitting by hi side trying to set the excited child to sleep, when Dicky came in, Dicky' face was sombre, hi man ner taciturn, "Grantland' going," he iiid. "You'd better go down and say 'thank you,' No," in answer to my unspoken question, "we didn't get her not yet," grimly. "Hut they've arretted the iiuh aero the road. He'll he put where he belongs any. way." I descended the stairs, slowly, found. Hugh Grantland in the hatj, with tny father and Alfred Durkee. In another minute I was atone with the army officer, who, with tense, white, baffled face, seized tightly the hands I held out to him, while hit eyes held tlvs look which I have seen and regretted before. "She eluded us," he said hoarsely, "yet I shall not rest until slu is no more a menace to you. lint l can . protect you if you" "I will never disregard your warn Don't Miss It! Begia It Tomorrow J MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS I Adtle Garrison's New Phsso of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE MadKS tells "what happened afterward" to Dicky and Grace Draper. Hugh Urantiand and Edith Fairfax, Pr. l'ettit and Claire Foster, Lillian Underwood and Robert Savsrin. Tom Chester and Harry Underwood. Beia Dean all our other old friends and some fasrtnating new friends in this LATEST fine REVE LATION of the HEART of WIFE. STANEREK FORTY FIVE DOLLARS CUSTOM S E R VICE WITHOUT THE ANNOYANCE OF A TRY-ON . READY-TO. PUT-ON CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN AND WOMEN ing kgain." 1 said earnestly, ud h: lined my luud to hi lips, "Kcmember, 1 am at your call al ways," he said, and went cut into tlie mgnt agam. while I dragged my self up the Hair wondering why Fate shoulj have arranged things that tin man should care so hone lestty, while my husband see ued so careloi of my happiness. Hut when I entered my room, tlu mental door which had been shut be tween my husband and me teemed to open ever so slightly. For he wa kneeling beside the bed, our boy gathered in hi arm, his face buried in the cmid cutis. OCR boy. Ah, there it wa. the key which could open any d or be tween my husband and me! 1 felt the ice around my heart yield'ng a Dicky lilted bit head, and. seeing me, put out hi arm and swept me to my knee beside him, holding me tightly as if he would never let me go. "I don't deserve to plead for my self," he whispered, "though, honest ly, sweetheart, you haven t nny rea son to be jealous, however much you may have to be angry and disgusted. But won't you let him plead for mc?" Junior's plaintive voice lifted itscli in a familiar request one he rlways makes at bedtime. "Fa-pa. tits Dooner. Mo-na, ti Dooner. Fa-pa. tiss ma-ma." Dicky's eyes met mine. What 1 saw in them swept away the laM vestige of my resentment, and over our restored darling our lips met. CARRIAGE. IT TENDS, ALSO, TO MAKE MEN SEEM ERECT IF THEY ARE NOT, THE MODEL PICTURED IS FROM THE SATUR DAY EVENING PdST OF THIS WEEK'S ISSUE: Man Kills Self After Badly Injuring Wife Muwllr. U-, ,vept. ,7,---Aiur dan. gerou!y injuring his wile in an at tempt to murder her, V. l. Clark. 4 fanner residing thire and one lull unit s cat of Ju te, committed suu id -by hanging hiituelt, Mr. Ctaik i ill a critical condition a result of a great lo of Mood whirh Mowed freely from a jagged gah in her i.rik. inflicted when htr husband at tacked her with a butcher ktuie. Motive for the tragedy ti.is not been determined. rtoffatiha Vfllil OM daft TST . THEATRE next Sun v4 ,7 I" fARK teuTQrek COMPARE OUR VALUES ALWAYS