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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA. tHWAV, INUVISMtifcK 4.. Ml, Piatti Funeral Probably Will Be Held Monday Body Will Reach Omaha Fri day Night Attorney Died On Way Home From Spring. The body of Louis J. Piatti, promi nent Italian attorney 01 unians, wno lied at 5 Wednesday at Hot Springs, Ark., will arrive here at 8:20 Friday night, according to a menage re- ceivea yesterday inurnmi y j -Wear, law partner of Mr. 1'iattl Will 1 Vavlnn. Mr. and Mra. Naylon were in Hot Springi when Mr. nam oicu and will accompany Mr. Piatti to Omaha with tne Doay. Funeral Probably Monday. While funeral arrangement have rot been completed, pending tne ar ;.,,! f Mr. Piatti. the services probably will be held Monday at 10, Mr. Wear aia, at &t. wary wag Father Sinne Kev. Pather Stagno and Rev. Father Quintan will be in charge of the mass. Burial probably will be in Holy Sepuichcr cemetery. Mr. Piatti wa taken ick with a .ll (unlnmhrr 16. From thit. lie developed diabetes for treatment of which he went to not springs a week ago. Me spent tne ween ai a sanitarium 12 miles from the city. He and Mrs. Tiatti intended to re turn to Omaha Wednesday, but upon reaching Hot Springs from the sani tarium, he was taken with a sink- inM an1l flnrl rlierl First news of Mr. Piatti's death was sent to Omaha by Detective Ben Danbaum, in Hot Springs on nft'in'al htisinrss. Mr. Wear was on his way to meet Mr. and Mrs. Piatti, hut was recalled, by a telegram at Nebraska City. Deputy County Attorney. Mr. Piatti's death came as a dis tinct shock to his business associates and friends, and especially' to the Italians of the city, who were wont to go to him for assistance and ad vice. He was a resident of Omaha for 30 yean, coming herefrom New York, where he was. born ;in "1863. He was active in democratic politics and a member of the Douglas Coun ty Bar association. For 12 years he held the position of deputy county attorney. He was a member of the Elks and a leader in Italian societies. . Besides His widow, he is survived by one daughter, .Mrs. Carl P. Sten gel, Carpathia apartments. Pickpockets Rob t Traveler of $70 i. , . . 4Kick Me and Wake MeUp,w Victim of Old Game Tells Police. :When Forest Stacey, Glen wood, appeaMd, at Central pphce sta tion yesterday, , morning he re marked:' "Give me;' a good kick, mid wake me up." He had just lost $?0 to pickpockets. j-SttffJeyj ett route to Los Angeles, met a pleasant stranger at Union station. The stranger was on hi way to Salt Lake City, he said. He suggested a walk in the cool morn ing air. . Arriving at Twentieth and Cass streets the stranger suggested a game of matching dollars. Another man stopped to watch them." He jostled Stacey and soon the 'two strangers left. Then Stacey missed his wallet containing $70. S.; E. Coleman. 502 North Twen tieth street, had seen the two strang ers pick Stacey's pocket and tele phoned police."f But the 'pickpockets were gone before Jhe police arrived. Two Des Moines Nuns Killed By Motorist Who Escapes Des Moines, Nov. 3. Sisters Mary Virgins and Mary Rosalie, nuns "f St. Josephs academy of this city, were killed when struck by an auto mobile at a downtown street inter section. The driver of the car which struck the nuns escaped in the crowd which gathered about the scene of the accidenti . Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3. Sister . Mary. Rosalie, who was killed in an automobile accident; at Des Moines Wednesday night, was Miss Agnes McLaughlin, a member of one of the , pioneer families of this city. She had been a nun in the St Jo sephs academy for several years and was in charge of music." Autoist Extends Helping Hand; Bandits Take Money G. L. Romick,. 819 South Thirty fifth avenue, won't try to help mo torists in trouble out in the country hereafter. - ' He was speeding in his 'car from Missouri Valley to Omaha about 8 Wednesday night when a man mo tioned him to stop, holding up a tire as though he needed help. Romick stopped and the fellow pulled out a revolver and ordered him to hold tip his hands. An ; accomplice came from the weeds at the side of the road. They took $41 from Romick. i . , Grant Cotfnty- Rancher : Visits "Cowboy Mayor" George Moran, Grant , county rancher, talked "old times" over with Mayor Dahlman in the mayor's office yesterday morning. Moran and Mayor Dahlman were "sidekicks' back in 1886, when the mayor rode the range with the best of 'em. . Mr. Moran shipped three loads of cattle to the South Side market He predicts a general revival of the cat tle raising industry, through the ac tivities of the War Finance corpora tion. Suit to Break Will Leaving $15,000 Gift to Nun FaUs Out four hours, a jury in federal court arrived at a verdict at 10 Wednesday night In favor of Moth er Gertrude of St Vincent hospital, whom heirs of the late James Con nery of Newcastle, Neb., sought to keep from a $15,615 gift made by the deceased. The sealed verdict jras opened yesterday " morning. Fudolph Vor- sina, administrator for the Connery Legion Convention Side Shows Tame Compared With Doings on Streets Kansas City, Wo., Nov. 3. (Spe rial Telegram.) The boom of Earl Cline of Nebraska City for national commander of the American Legion collapsed, as did alt of the other boomleti, when Hanford MacNider, popular Iowa legionaire, wat nom inated. When New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania icconded the MacNider faction, It wai apparent to everyone that the Iowan would go over big and one by one the other candidates withdrew be lore the first vote was taken. The name of Phil W. Down el Omaha will adorn the interior ot Vice President Coolidge'a silk hat for some time to come. Down' who wa a guest at the home ot Walter S. Dickey, where the vice president wa residing, ipicd Cool idge's stiff hat on a table and in scribed hi name In it with indelible ink. Amos Thomas is trying to Induce member of the local kg ion pott to charter a steamship for NrUrstkani who plan to visit (he conven tion . at New Orleans. Thoma think a ride down the Mississippi would beat railroad travel ad hollow. There were plenty of place to go, but few of the Nebraikan took in any of the sideshows. The main event downtown was too good to mis. There were foot ball fame, wild west roundups, flying meets, auto races, banquets, smokers, dances and every other imaginable form of recreation, but It was all tame corn pared with the wild scene on the downtown itreets. rolkt who saw the armistice cetebrstion say they were pink teas compared with the forewords staged by legionaire in their annual conclave. Medic Alumni Of Creighton in Annual Session First Clinic of . Convention Held in St. Joseph Hospital Delegates Attend Air Meet. Thirty-five members of the John A. Creighton Medical College Alumni association lathered at at. Joseph hospital yesterday morning tor the tirst clinic ot the annual con vention of the association which opened in Omaha yesterday. J he association numbers more than 700 in it membership. About 200 are expected to attend the an nual meet Another clinic will be held at St. Joseph .hospital this . morning and one at Ford hospital Saturday. Im mediately following the Saturday clinic at 1:30. the annual business nieetiffjr" and etcctlon"of officers will be held at Hotel Fontenelle. The annual banquet was given at the Fontenelle last night at 6: JO, Doctors of the United States army medical corps and members, of the faculty of Creighton medical college were honor guests. Members ot the Omaha-Douglas county Medical society also were invited to attend the banquet and other evening ses sions. Dr. Burton E. Simpson. Buf falo, N. Y., 'spoke last night: Dr. Edward Lyman Cornell, Chi cago, Friday night,: and Dr. Willis S. Lemon, Rochester, Minn.,- Satur day night. Members of the Alumni associa tion will attend the Aero congress in a body each afternoon during . the session. - j ' ; Ohio Woman Chosen Head ot Auxiliary Kansas City. Mo Nov! 3. Mr. Lowell Hobart of Milford,0., was chosen national president 1 ot the American Legion .. auxiliary, the women's organization. The women, who. hell their first national convention yesterday, chose as their official - designation the American Legion auxilary. They voted to make mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of veteran of the world was .eligible for membership and voted to exclude grandmothers. A constitution wa adODted and several resolutions dealing with the treatment of disabled soldiers were adopted. Open Golf Champion of Bay State Hangs Self Newton. Mass.. Nov. 3. .The body of Louis Tellier, Massachusetts open goit champion, was found today hanging by a small rope in a shel ter on the link of the Braeburn Country club. The medical examiner and police (aid death was due to uicide. Friends said Tellier had not been well for some time. Whisky Valued at $100,000 '. Seized in Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Nov. . 3.Seventy one barrel of whiky valued at $100,000 were seized at the Never sink distillery in Lorane, near Read ing, by federal prohibition agent. Armed awards were olaeed in charge of the liquor and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Robert Grossman, one Of the owner of the distillery. , Confiscation of the whisky, ac cording to S. F. Rutter, associate director Cpf prohibition enforcement, prevented an attempt to ship it on forged ; permit prepared in 'New York. Grand Trunk Employes " ' V - ' Reject Wage Agreement Ottawa, Nov. 3 The general com mittee of Grand -Trunk employes, members of the Canadian Brother hood of Railroad Employes, meeting at Toronto yesterday, rejected the so-called tentative wage agreement signed at Montreal last week. Road Conditions (FonUsM ay Omaha Ants Club) Lincoln Hifhwajr. lul Reads food, detour (or eight milts at Marahalttown ; road from Dewltt to Clinton now opto (or trsrel. Lincoln Hlfhway, Tut Detour (or no milt between Wattrloo and Valley; roads good to Grand Island and west 0. It. D. Highway Dstoar at Aihland orldft; read's to Lincoln and west art la cood shape. Hlfhland CtotoKXoads fair. 8. T. A. Road Oood. Cornhuktr High-war Koado rood. Omaha-Toptka Hlshwar Roads (sod. Otorft Washington Highway Under construction to Blair;- detour- orer High road road rough at Blair; good to Slonx City. . . Black Hills Trail Roads . getting In good shape tlnro recent rains. Custer Battlefleld Highway Toartiti report this road in good condition, with bnt (ew excepUona; some snow reported In Montana. King of Trails, North Roads good. King of Trails. South Roads good to LoaTenwerth: there le a- seven and one halt milt detour necessary between Leav enworth and Kansas City due to road work. Rlrer-to-RWer Road Rough at Neola. White Pols Road Under construction to Adair from Anita; slx-mitt detour nec essary east of Casey, good to Pee Mosses. 1. O. A. Short line Roads good. Bine Grass Road Oood. Father to Wage Court Fight for Custody of Girl Man Charges Daughter Abused In Grandparents Home Fol lowing Divorce of Mother And Father. A legal battle for the custody of lS-y ear-old Vivian Kirby will be fought in District Judge Sears' court room today. Vivian was brought to Omaha Wednesday night from Ravenna, Neb., where she has been living with ;ohn Bacon, her maternal grand ather. by Esther Johnson, chief juvenile officer, and placed in River- view Tiome to await the hearing. Abla to Provide Home. Vivian was placed In custody of her grandfather when her father, Bert Kirby. obtained a divorce from Susie Kirby,' his wiitV-AIovember 26, 1918.' Last month he filed a petition in district court, charging that his daughter was being abused in the Bacon home, and asking for a modi fication of the decree,' giving him custody of the child. He has since remarried, he savs. and is able to pro vide a comfortable home for the girl. Accused of Kidnaping;.. When he went to Kavenna to see Vivian some time before the petition was filed, it developed, he was arrest ed on a charge of kidnaping. This charge was later dismissed in county court at Kearney. In his petition he charged therein was forced to care for Bacon's in valid wife, and to perform household duties beyond her strength. Ten Prisoners in Irish Internment Camp Freed Dublin, ' Nov. 3. It is announced that 10 prisoners in the Ballykinlar internment camp were liberated. The, release was considered here as indi cating a general release of prisoners is not distant, j -. v Rich Lumberman Goes in for Oil; Makes Big Strike John H. Kirby, Texas Hqire- tentative at Unemployment Conference, Head New Company. SnM' Meaia, Tea-., Nov. 3. John Henry Kirby of Houston, who epretentcd Texas at 'resident iiaraings unem oloymeiit conference, isn't out of i Job himself. In fact, he has to many that one wonders how he swings them alL Just now the big job on Kirby s hands is iinaing a piare io pui tne liquid wealth of what oil men say it the biggest gusher of Texan history. And thereby Bangs a taie. Business Men Dubious, For some months oil men have been nrosoectiiia around this little town. (By the way, call it Muh-hee- a.) -Among them were represents rives of the Kirby Petroleum com pany. A lot of business men shook their heads. "Isn't it a shame that John Kirby. after an honorable ca reer as millionaire lumberman, head of the National Lumbermen's asso ciation and the Southern Tariff as sociation, should dabble in the oil game and take the dollars of widows and orphans?" But those who knew Kirby and the Midas touch that seemed to af fect every "long chance" he took, or that others thought he took, Kept filent Well Comet in. Then on September 21 the Bass No. 1 of the Kirby company came in. shot skv-hjen over tne aerriCK and showered .he country for acres around with high-grade oil. Of course, then came the chorus of "I told you ao's." Just how much oil the Kirby well will produce has not yet been deter mined. It is rated at from 20,000 to 30,000 barrels a day by cold, calcu lating experts. Those who saw it roar over the derrick that first day said it was a 50,000-barreI gusher. ust now it is canoed, while Kirby rushes the job ot getting tankage. Mobile Pastor Kills Black Bear Weighing 420 Pounds Mobile. Nov. 3. A black bear weighing 420 pounds was killed in the swamps 1 miles north of this city by Rev. .W. G. Johnson, a Mo bile minister. The bear was shot five times before it fell. 7 Hate to Do ThUH Woman Bandit Saut At She Slugt Modltte New York. Nov. J -"J hat to do this, Irnt I am driven to it. sd woman bandit just before hittina- Kay Nafta!, modiste, on the head with a sand bag. Dsird, th modiste dropped into in naiiway oi an apartment house. Two men Stepped ud. seised tha fashionable gowns the was deliver ing, removed 1,W in jewelry from ner nngers. stole her purs and fled, leaving a nruggea Handkerchief over ner mouth. rohce said th modiste's skull would have been fractured but for her well padded hat and heavy coif fure, A fark telephone call hadj iurca ner to the building. Residents Flee to Parks As Quakes Rock Lima. Peru Lima. Fern. Nov. J. Four sham earthquake shocks were felt in thit city yesterday morning. The first and third were violent, but all were distinctly lelt throughout Lima. The secretary of the Lima Geo graphical society declared that the renter of the disturbance wat about 200 miles southeast of here, near lea. uispttchet from that city received liter in the day said the residents were greatly alarmed by the tremor and had taken refuge in the parks. 'Am'mck tiff keeps tie teetkfnm v3 twict Colgate's RlBgON DENTAL CREAM, Why Experiment in Shoe Repairing? 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