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    THE HER: OMAHA. FRIDAY, PECEMPER 16. 1921.
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Three Outlaws
Besieged in Cave
; By State Troops
Kentucky Guards to Use Tear
Cat to Drive Out Trio Hiding
In Cave Who Killed Two
Raiding Breathitt Jail.
Jackson. Ky Dec. IS. State
guard planned to use tear gas
lirenade today in an elfort to drive
from a cave three alleged member
of the mol nt mountaineer who last
Saturday stormed the llreathitt
county jail here, killing one man and
fatally wounding a woman.
The men were discovered in the
cave late yesterday. Captain Hoi.
hrook of the Mate force ent Al
fred Nobel, a friend of the fugitive
trio, into the cave last r.iplit to ask
the men to come out. They tent
him word that when they came out
it would be "feet lirnt."
Force Inadequate.
Captain llothrook did not feel that
his little force was adequate to hold
both entrances of the cave, which
extends through a hill on John Lit
tle creek to the head of Cancy
creek, o he returned here this
morning to get more men. lie
planned to leave within an hour with
10 or 15 additional men. Blood
hounds were brought here aain to
day. Raid County Jail
The three men. Hud Nobel and two
sous, are alleged leaders of the gang
of seven men who stormed the
llreathitt county jail here Saturday
midnight in an effort to free four
relatives who were believed by the
attackers to have been held there.
Jail oflicers. however, scenting an at
tempted jail delivery, had previously
removed the prisoners to Winchester.
All were held on murder charges..
The attack led to a fight between
the jail ollicers and the attacking
party. Those killed and wounded
were members' of the jail staff, the
raiders having escaped unwounded.
Five alleged members of the attack
ing party were captured later in the
mountainous regions of Breathitt
county. ,
"Stop All" New.Order ;
To Pickets in Strike
( uiitlnurd From I'nga One.)
from the wire, halting a car loaded
with workmen going to the Cudahy
plant.
Recognize Neighbors.
Ellick Kiminski beat up John V.
Wood, negro, at Thirty-third and Q
streets before dawn. Both men were
taken to the police .station, where
they recognized each other as neigh
bors and fellow-union men. They
live on opposite corners of Thirty
tli'rd and R streets and belong to
the butcher workmen's union.
"I thought he was a strike
breaker," said Kiminsky.
v "I was doing picket duty," said
,Yood.
Mike Daun, 5115 South Twenty
sixth stre.et. was arrested at Twenty
fourth and N streets at 6:30 yesterday
morning just as . he was about? to
strike W. B. Long, 2717 Lake street,
with a hachet, police reported.
. Employes Returning.
"Former employes are coming
back to work every day; operations
of packing houses now 75 to 80 per
cent of normal; all departments oper
ating and the strike not - seriously
crippling the plants; no meat short
age in sight."
This was the word given out by
managers of all "Big Five" packing
plants in Omaha yesterday. . t
At the same time union officials de
clared it is "only a question of time
till the packers begin to give in."
Following a mass meeting of strik
ers Wednesday night in union head
quarters, where more diligent pick
eting was urged, the picket lines
around the packing houses were
strengthened greatly yesterday.
"Our plant is running so close to
normal that any talk of a meat
shortage is a joke," declared O. W.
Waller, manager of the Swift plant.
"Iu fact, there is a surplus of meat.
Our trouble is to dispose of the
product on hand. The only reason
our buying has been a little slow in
the last 10 days is because there is
a surplus of meat on the market."
Work Nearing Normal.
M. R. Murphy, manager of the
Cudahy plant, , said a number ol
former employes, skilled men, re
turned to work yesterday and that
the plant is now operating at 75 per
cent of normal, killing cattle, hogs
and sheep and buying freely.
Ralph Dold said he expects the
Dold plant to be "operating at nor
mal by next Monday. Several old
employes returned today, he said.
"We now are killing hogs at the
same rate as before the strike," said
K. M. Schaefer of Morris & Co.
' Operation of the entire plant is 80
per cent of normal. We are hiring
"old employes and are well satisfied
with conditions."
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Off on 4,000-Mile Air Trip
i..- Ml 4
Brt Geneva 1 Mitckell akJitut .. 3i ssell
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the United States air
service, and Lieut. Clayton L. Bissell. sailinir for Europe, are otf for a
4,000-milc journey through Europe, most of which they expect to cover bv
airplane. General Mitchell will investigate and report on the development
of military and commercial aviation m England, France, Germany, Holland
and Italy. .
Telegraphic Briefs
Indians Sent in rrisnn.
Calcutta. D.c IS. (By A. P.) Seventy
thrss participants in the non-co-opcratlontst
movement, including the son
of Mahatma (Jhandi were sentenced to
day to six months' imprisonment , at hard
labor as a result of their activities in
connection with the national volunteers.
Films Ridicule Teachers.
Milwaukee, lee. 15. The Milwaukee
Teachers association today passed a reso
lution urn Ins; film companies to stop the
production ot comedy films in which
teachers and professors were shown in
comio attitudes. The resolution declares
that such comedy is d .omental to the
children who ro to school.
' Frelthter Ones Arnund.
Chatham, Mass.. Dec. 15. The shipping
board freis-hUT Schndsck on the last l-
of a vovape from Manila to Hons; Kon
to New York under the flan ot the Barber
line, went aground on Slonehorse shoal
early to, a v. but floated aain several
liours later. - It was believed that she
vould proceed without delay.
Grand Canywi Hotel Man Wea.
los Angeles. Pec. 15 Charles brand?,
for It years manager of a hotel atGrand
Canyon. Ariz., died there, aged . ac
cording to word received here tonight.
He was regarded as an authority on the
tirsnd Canvon of the Colorado by many
orid travelers. Burial will he on the
edge of the canyon.
Garermnent Defeated.
London. lec. li. The government suf
fered a defeat to the parliamentary be
eiertion In th southeast division of Soutli
wark. Thomas Naylor. laborite being re
turned over Owen Jacobin, roahtion-llb-eraU
Naylor received .56l otes: J a coo
sen, i.tli and Horace Boot, indewl-
.t-COBsuvaUvs, 3 JwJ. .
Grand Jury Launches
Probe-of Des Moines
Municipal Jail Delivery
Des Moines,.. Dec. 15. (Special
Telegram.) The I'olk comity grand
jury at noon began- a sweeping in
vestigation of the wholesale jail de
livery from the municipal jail
Wednesday. Witnesses were called
in rapid succession to testify to the
circumstances surrounding, the . es
cape of the- seven prisoners, five- of
whom were being held for the com
mission cf felonies.
Neither Chief of Police Saunders
nor Assistance Chief Newell were
summoned. '
Ulis Dedmond, negro, one of the
men. who participated in the jail de
livery, was captured by the police
shotgun squad in a cornfield south
east of town late today. Police be
lieve that the other six men are hid
ing in the immediate vicinity.
A reportf rom Sac City that five
men from Des Moines had stolen a
car there late Wednesday afternoon
lead police to believe that the ja'l
breakers had eluded them and got
out 'of the citv.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results
Victim in Hail
Yards "Big Man
With Big Heart"
One of Largest Switchmen iu
Country Wife 111, He
Maintained Home for
Three Soim.
"A big man with a big heart," it
the way fellow worker of George
Ellis, switchman, who was killed
early yesterday, describe him.
Klli.. who had worked for the
Union Pacific for 33 vears. was Nit
of the largest swiichiucii in the
country. A card filled out recently
as a record showed that he wa f
feet . inches tall and wcigned -JU
pounds.
Struck by Train.
11 is death occurred when he
stepped between two passenger
trains in the Union station yards and
was struck by one of them.
Ellis lived with his three sons,
Harry, 31; Karl, 21. and George, jr.,
17. at 4.120 South Nineteenth street.
Mrs. Ellis is an invalid, unable to
perform household duties. She lives
with a married daughter, Mrs. D.
W. Wilson, of Omaha. Hence the
cares of maintaining a home for the
three sons fell on the shoulders of
the big, silent switchman.
Employe Since 1888.
"I guess we boys will have to go
to our sisters to live," said George
yesterday. There was a catch in
iiis voice as he went on: "I saw dad
at 10 last night for the last time, lie
was just going to work."
Ellis was 57. He took a job as
switchman in Council Bluffs in 1888,.
and was transferred to the Omaha
terminal in 1890. Funeral services
will be held Saturday and burial will
be in Graceland Park cemetery, ac
cording to present arrangements. Be
sides Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Ellis is sur
vived by two other daughters, Mrs.
J. C. White of Davenport, la., and
Mrs. Thillip King of Salt Lake City.
Killed by Train
Creston. Neb., Dec. 15. (Special
Telegram.) Herbert Luedtke was
killed when a Northwestern train
struck his automobile on a crossing
east of town.
Grain Growers' Officer
Explains. Body's Plans
((ealliiued r'rem Tata .)
the plan wa io large it could not be
handled iut now. After the annual
meeting in March the finance cor
poration it to be worked out.
In the eion miration were ask
ed a to whether it wai necessary for
stockholder iu the finance corpora
tion to hold 10 per cent of the stock
before they could have acce to the
book. Mr. Mycrt answered that
such wa true.
"We thought we mitiht he able to
get $5,000,000 or. maybe $25.0(10,000
from the American farmer but the
remainder of the stock would have to
be sold to investor," he aid. "The
director of the corporation are the
only one who can vote the mock auu
that keens the management of the
finance in the hand of the farmer'
directors. We could not atfdrd to
have big investor, inimical to the
farmers, have any authority in this
manner."
The official convention closed
Thursday noon.
Resolution Adopted.
The following resolutions were
adopted and together with the secre
tary s report are to be mailed to
every co-operative organization iu
the state.
"We heartily sympathize with the
purposes of the U. S, Grain Grow
ers, Inc., to improve methods of
preparing, storing and handling
grain and its products; to reduce the
costs of marketing such products;
to reduce speculation, manipulation
and waste; to increase the consump
tion, building up new markets and
develop new uses for such products;
to market the same directly with
regularity, and to preserve for the
growers their profits. Since the
plan for promoting the Farmers'
Finance corporation the most im
portant subdiary of the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc., is now held in abey
ance until March, 1922, and since
no plan has been announced for the
handling of grain on the terminal
markets, it is impossible to reach
definite conclusion in regard to the
entire pUu.uf the V. S, Gram Grow
er, Inc., ; until the result nf the
meeting to be held in March, 1922,
i known.
Reolution Attacked.
The resolution did not pas un
challenged. Cliarle Wooater, 78,
veteran farmer of Silver Creek, Neb
who had opposed (auctioning the
plan throughout the convention, tie
liveretl a bitter attack against pat-
age of tlie retolution or endorsing
the Gram Grower plan.
Other resolution, in part, offered
by Mr. Shorthill and adopted, are:
Reduction of freight rate and
elimination, of all tinnecetsary rail
road salarie. wage and working
rules; to demand of congret the
right of the state to settle railroad
controverie arising in the state and
of a strictly state nature; hearty en
dorsement of the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence waterway and immediate
action by congress; plan of Man-'
agerg' association endorsed; use of
N'rhraska-made goods and farm
products by Nehraskans; policy
whereby the War Finance corpora
tion can make loan to Nebraska
farmer through existing farm or
ganizations favored; speedy reduc
tion of all unnecessary governmental
departments; reduction of taxes; bet
ter crop and grain report system; en
couragement of members o'f farm
ers' elevator companies to hold meet
ings to discuss problems of marketing
and crop conditions. v
Elephant Worth l,Q0O.0OO
Marks Frozen to Death
Berlin, Dec. 15. An elephant val
ued at 1,000,000 marks, belonging to
the Sarraani circus, Germany's
greatest circus, was frozen to death
at Frankfort, according to a tele
gram received here.
The animal was poorly housed'
and half starved. The refusal cf the
chief of police to extend a conces
sion to the circus to show in Frank
fort threatens to condemn the entire
animal park to death by starvation.
The fund of the circus have been
exhausted and food and credit; are
refused. ' i
Bluffs Boy Falls to
Death in View of His
Brother on Playground
In full view of Ki elder brother,
Tame Gordy, 10, ton of Mr. and
Mr. C. W. Gordy. 201 Logan
ttreet, fell from the children' slide
on the playground at the East
Pierce street tchool iu Council
IHiilis, Wednesday afternoon, ut
taming iiijurie which resulted in l 4
iliath ymierd.iyt morning at lhfl
Mercy hospital.
Charlie Gordy, 12, helped pick lift
his younger bnther and carry hiti
into a school room, where Dr. W,
P, llomback attended him. Sur
geon operated upon him at th
Mercy hospital Wednesday night,
A knife ha been invented fof
butcher to the back of which a taw.
blade can be clamped.
TOM EGAN
Well Known Irish Tenor
Will Give a Concert of Irish Song
at the
Auditorium
Tonight, 8:30 P.M.
He will be assisted by Lillian Breton, dra
matic soprano of Drury Lane Opera,
London.
An Irish freedom jubilee will
be held in conjunction with
the concert. Dr. J. W.
McCrann will preside.
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