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The Omaha Morning Bee VOL. 52 NO. 14. l't4 M mm4-CI MttMr Hit H, lM. M Smm , 0, VU A4 t Man h nV. OMAHA. TUESDAY, JULY 4. 1922. Jr MtU II r'i BUH 4 Mil, Ml . ftr.p). "! tM Mk nh, IWM 1M 41 MM (I law) I Ottll U . Hit tMMt Mil. t. TWO CENTS McKelvie Takes Hand in Strike I'rgn Official of Both Sides to" Attend Parley at Hit Office Today. Will Safeguard Lincoln. July 3 (Special Tele gram.) Governor McKelvie today iook( articyi in an attempt to avert trouble in Nebraska in the rait strike when he lent a telegram this after noon to mayor and labor unions representatives in railroad centers in Nebraska urging them to attend a conference at the office at 10 Fri day morning. The representatives a'e to conic from Falls City. Platts inouth, Fairhury, Omaha, Fremont, Madison, North Platte, Grand Is land. Lincoln. McCook, Hastings, Alliance, Chadron and Dakota City. The governor also sent telegrams to the following railroads heads urg ing them to be present at the meet ing: V. F. Thieoff, Omaha, assistant general manager, Burlington; Wil liam M. letters, Omaha, general manager, Union Pacific; H. E. Dick inson, Omaha, general superinten dent. Northwestern: v. F. Kirk, Falls City, Superintendent, Missouri facihc; t. N. Imsman, fairbury, division superintendent. Calls Labor Leaders. An hour before these telegrams were sent out Governor McKelvie called the Havelock and Lincoln la bor union leaders to his office and obtained the names of representatives of the striking shopmen from them and assured these men the o.!ily ef forts of the state weuld be Jo use every resource and every cent, if ' necessary to protect the public. Before the governor made any ar rangements with mayors, railroad and union representatives for a con ference he ordered State Sheriff Gus Hycrs to concentrate his force of deputies at railroad centers in an ef fort to curb drinking of fight-inspir ing prohibition liquor. Wires Trouble Instructions. The governor also sent telegrams to mayors, chiefs of police and sher iffs in all towns and counties in - which railroad shops are located, urging them to notify him immedi ately at any time they are unable to cope with the men. The governor made it plain that rather than lose the life of a single man or menace property he would repeat his Nebraska City incident of last winter and send either state sher iffs or militia to the scene of trouble. "There will be no Herrin affair in 1 Nebraska: .itHlecaHbWfiats will lake advantage of my request to notify me the minute they think the situation is out of their hands," the governor said. Meantime, outside of Jibes and threats, the situation is quiet at Lin coln and Havelock. The office force of E. Flyiin. general superintendent of Burlington lines west, turned out today and iced dining cars and did other work left undone- by the strikers. ' . "Every man m this office is doing everything possible to safeguard the public and to keep from incon veniencing it," Flynn said tonight. Wife of American Slain by Mexican Bandits Wellington, July 3 Mrs. Thomas Cheney, the Mexican-born wife of . an American employed by an Amer ican company operating in the Tani pico oil region, was killed by Mexi can bandits June 29, when she rec ognized their leader, according to a report today to the State department from Consul Shaw at Tampico. As Mrs. Cheney, an American citizen by ' marriage, the department made im mediate representations to the Mex ican government recommending that the murderer be apprehended and punished. The consul's message, dated June 30, said that about a dozen armed bandits who claimed to be followers of Manuel Larrago, had appeared at ' Chocoy station, about 40 miles south west of Tampico on the preceding day. They dmanded a payment of 2.000 pesos. Mrs. Cheney, who recog nized the leader of the band, was killed. When the report was received in Washington, the State department asked Consul Shaw for further in formation as to the nationality of the murdered woman. He replied im mediately that she was a Mexican by birth, but had married an Ameri can employed by an American con cern in the Tampico region. The department instructed Consul Shaw to make representation to the Tampico authorities urging the cap ture and punishment of the murder ers and at the same time sent similar instructions to Charge Summerlin in Mexico City. " SAirmen Make 1,543-Mile Trip From El Paso to Portland Portland, Ore., July 3. Lieut. Alexander Pearson, jr., and Sergt- E. F. Nendell.- who" left El Paso, Tex., at 4:15 yesterday morning arrived " here at 9 this morning. They broke their flight of 1,543 miles with brief halts at Douglas, Ariz., and River side and Sacramento, Cal. Pearson expects to return to El Paso, making the flight in one day. He came to Portland to visit hia parents. lire Damages Baltimore . River Front to $4,804,900 Baltimore. Md, July 3. The fire which swept the Locust point river front of the Baltimore & Ohio rail road last night caused damage esti mated by the company at $-5,804,900, and seriously threatened the public hearth service hospital at Fort Mc-Henry, German Publicist Victim of Assault f 1 mm IP1 a? 'Jf Final Showdown in Mine Strike Expected Monday Meeting at Washington Be tween Operators and Union Leaders Adjourns Without Settlement Being Reached Omaha Rt Leased Wire. Washington, July 3. The meeting of miners and operators of the union ized bituminous coal fields, called by the government in the hope of reach ing a voluntary basis of bargaining, was adjourned today until Monday morning, without definite progress toward as agreement. President Harding will be back in Washington by Monday and a show down is expected at that time. It is considered probable that arbitra tion by a government commission will be suggested if no other solution is found by that time. Steps may also be ordered to increase coal pro duction by reopening some of the mines now closed by the strike. Reports were circulated that it had been intended to place suggestions on the part of the government before the meeting today, but that the situ ation faced was so tense that delay was decjded upon. There has been evidence of bad feeling between some toward an agreement, of the operators and leaders of the miners, which might have resulted, in an even more serious breach. At today's meeting the operators are reported to have submitted a pro gram for regional wage conferences which was. rejected by the miners with scant consideration, the leaders of the workers reiterating their asser tions that they would agree to confer only on the four-state or national basis. The debate is said to have been bitter at times, making it evi dent that government intervention would be necessary, unless there was a distinct change of heart by one side or the other. McCumber Blames Bi-Partisan Vote Washington, July 3. Senator Mc Cumber, republican, North Dakota, in a letter made public by ruin today ascribed his defeat for renomination in the North Dakota primary to "the bi-partisan combination which had been made against me on the one side and the nonpartisan organization, which so loyally supported my op ponent. John D. Gives to Academy. New" York, July 3. John D. Rockefeller, jr., has given $200,000 to the American academy in Rome, to be held as a permanent endow ment, William Rutherford Mead, its president, announced. The income is to be available for any of the acad emy s current needs. Mr. Rocke feller, however, has agreed that the whole or any portion of the princi pal of the gift may be devoted to the corporate purposes of the academy in the judgment of the trustees. Misleading Statement of Omaha Bee Advertising Figures In an advertisement on the front page of Sunday's World-Herald the following statement was made by that paper: "Both the other Omaha papers lost in the same comparison," i- that is, in comparing paid advertising of June, 1922, with June, 1921. So far as The Omaha Bee is concerned, this is a mis leading, if not actually untrue, statement. The Omaha Bee carried 38,124 inches of paid advertising (less legal) in June, 1921. Included in this was 4,316 inches of special advertising1 of the "Fiftieth Anniversary" Special Edition. The Bee figures for June, 1922, contained no such special advertising. The actual figures of paid advertising (less legal) of - The Omahajfeee for June, 1922, were 37,786, a gain of 3,928 inches over June, 1921 (eliminating Fiftieth Anniversary Special Advertising). This was a gain in . regular paid - advertising of all kinds over June, 1921, of 11. The World-Herald was undoubtedly familiar with these circumstances. K would have been "clean advertising" if the World-Herald had so stated. The Omaha Morning Bee THE EVENING BEE T1arAfn Tli? s in Forests of Washington Serious A t 51 0 j I - ty uipU. W.h.. July J.-A form X JL 1 1 CI V. lavv 7 "rt ''u""on Krious any in Assassins Two Men Attempt to Slay Noted German Editor and Politiral Writer Wounded Fiv e Times. Assailants Are Arrested Berlin, July 3.-1 By A. P.) Two men attacked Maximilian Harden editor and political writer, near his home in the Gruncwald, a suburb of Berlin, today. He was taken uncoil scious into the house, where he was found to be suffering from five wounds in the head. The assailants were arrested. The attempt on the life of Max! milian Harden, one of the most not cd European publicists, conies just a little more than a week after the as sassination of Walter Rathenau, the German foreign secretary. Herr Harden, in the course of the war, published many striking articles in hit newspaper, Die Zukunft, most ly denouncing the policy of the Ger man government. He frequently aroused the ire of the imperial au thorities by his statements, and in July, 1917, his publication was sup pressed for the remainder of the war, In one of his articles that attracted much attention he eulogized Presi dent Wilson; in another he appealed tor German democracy. Big Political Upheaval Near . Among Germans Different Factions Meet in Berlin to Arrange for Change in Government of Nation. Copyright, lf2. B?rlin, July 3. Txccutive com mittees of several political parties are meeting at the reichstag yester day to arrange for a change in the Germa.n government. If a compro mise is reached it will probably in clude the left wing, and will likely result in upsetting the present cabi net, with the formation of a pure socialistic - government. This expected political develop ment is the result of the assassina tion of Walter Rathenau and the present wave of anti-monarchist pas sion throughout the country. The government coalition, which is the minority coalition, officially offered the independent socialists a party government. The independents answered with a list of concessions, on which it is reliably reported, is the place of for eign minister for Rudolph Breit scheid, who is the speaker of the in dependents, a clever and strong leader, bitterly opposed to the gov ernment, and who could have gained the foreign ministry had he belonged to the other party. While the independents are com promising with the government they are also dealing with the socialist democrats which remains the biggest of the seven political parties. Nego tiations are under way for the amal gamation of every socialist organiza tion with the federation of labor, in the hope of becoming strong enough to upset the coalition and establish a socialist government. Such an event would put Germany exactly where it was after the kaiser's flight. Thus the assassination of Walter Rathenau has ended years of battle with the left wing parties which, at times, were more bitter than their fight with the reactionaries. It is apparent the radical elements are in ' complete possession of the leadership of the social democrats, while the independents, frightened by the growth of monai'chism, are now willing to deal with them. Any success in the movement will primarily affect Germany's relations with' the entente. the hiMory of the state i threaten mg virtually every county in the Utf, according to State Foremer Fred K. Tape. Probably 40 or 30 new fires have started over Sunday, he said, and practically all the old fires are rehurning, many of thrm into green timber. It is marvrlou that no serious damage i reported trout any partic ular place, it was said, but a con tinuation of the present warm weather will put the blazes entirely out of control. Men arc working only to keep the fire from spread ing into green timber. The first fires in the Olympic na tional forest of any consequence were reported today. One serious blaze is running into Rreen timber along the DurRahush river, burning out several railroad bridges of the Webb Logging and Timber com pany as well as one small camp and some equipment. Final Drive Is Started Against Rebels in Dublin Devastating Machine Gun Fire Sweeps Republican Positions in Sackville Street De fense Weakening. r London, July 2. (2:15 p. m., by A. P.) No word regarding the de velopments of the fighting in Dublin has reached London since the receipt ot messages tiled at 11 a. m.. at which time the national troops were direct ing an intense machine gun fire against the positions occupied by the republicans in Sackville street. The provisional government's military censorship is assumed to be the cause of the delay. Dublin, July 3. The final assault on the positions held by the repub licans in Sackville street was begun at f o'clock this morning and was still continuing nearly an hour later. The other areas held by the in surgents in various parts of this city were occupied by the free staters during the night. Heavy fighting is going on in Sackville street, which is swept by machine gun fire.. The national army forces are operating from O'Conr.cl bridge to the Parnell monument. The return fire of the insurgents is feeble. The machine gunners are main taining a devastating fire against the front of the buildings, particularly pressing the attack on Hamman's hotel, where Eamon de Valera is be lieved to be holding out following his flight from the Gresham hotel. Watched by Large Crowd. Desni'te "trie" creat danger from stray bullets, a large crowd is watch ing the fight from a distance. Details ot the operations ot tne national corns as revealed in the lat-i est official communiques are regard ed as pointing to impaired morale on the part of the irregulars and to the rapid crumbling of their defenses when seriously attacked. The rapidity with which the tree stater's dislodged the insurgents caused surprise. - j Yesterdavs ODcrations in most cases were carried out by the use of armored cars and intense machine gun fire. Apparently only in one case-was artillery brought into ac tion, and that was the attack on Moran's hotel, in Talbot street. Commanded by "Die Hards." The wioinsr out of this hornet's nest relieved considerably the diffi culties confronting pedestrians in the center of the city and reopened the main approach to the great northern railway station and the Central Tele- kraph office in Amies street near by. It is generally believed tne tasK ot clearing the republicans out ot sack ville street will prove extremely dif ficult and involve heavy property damage, particularly in view of the report that they are, commanded by such experienced fighters and "die hards" as Eamon De Valera and Cathal Brugha. The casualties in Sundays light ing in Dublin were 11 killed and 16 wounded. The Stephens Green club, which had been held by the irregulars since Friday, was captured by na tional army forces today, lhe ir regulars had evacuated the position. Captured Bank Robbers Identified as Ex-Convicts Diehton. Kan.. July 3. The three alleged bandits captured by a Lane county posse last luesday atter an attempt to rob the First National bank of Dighton, have been identic fied as ex-convicts according to word received from authorities of the fed eral penitentiary at Leavenworth. One of the bandit trio was slam and two captured near here Thurs day following the robbery of the Dighton bank. The dead bandit was identified as Thomas Martin, who escaped from the Oklahoma state prison, where he was serving a 40-year sentence for robbery. The two held are C. H. Barston, who has served in the Kan sas. Oklahoma and Texas prisons, and Arthur Lang, who served a term in Minnesota. Two Omaha Youths Drive Home From School in East Leaving -Philadelphia Wednesday morning, Nelson B. Updike, jr., and Cornelius Clark of Omaha and Phil Hardy of Lincoln, students at the Hill school, Pottstown, Pa., arrived in Umaha via automobile Sunday night The party, driving Updike's Twin-Six roadster, made a "non stop trip between Chambersburg. Pa., and Chicago in 36 hours, taking turns at the wheel. ' The autoists drove over the Lin coln highway, reporting much rain en route. Following the close of school, June 23, and before starting on the western trrp. the three stu dents drove to Atlantic City and New York. i Holiday Train Wrecked in N. J.; 7 Known Dead Camden-Atlantic City Express Leaves1 Rails and Rolls Down Embankment Split Switch Cause. Atlantic City, N. J., July- 3. At least seven persons were killed and about 75 others injured, half of them seriously, early today when a Camden-Atlantic City express train left the rails at Winslow junction, 37 miles from here, and rolled down an embankment. The actual number killed will not be known until the wreckage is thoroughly searched. There were reports that nearly 20 persons were killed, but officiate; of the Philadelphia and Reading an nounced only seven. The known dead are: John T. Linehan, Philadelphia. Walter Westcott, Gloucester, N. J., engineer. William T. Souder, Atlantic City, fireman. Joseph Diiiasuco, Plcasantville, N. J. Solomon Worth, Mays Landing, N. J. T. N. Selden, Pullman porter. Francis Corbett. The train split a switch at the Cape May crossover and plunged per haps 40 feet down a steep embank ment. The engine and five coaches were piled up at the bottom, a com plete wreck. Identified Dead. The identified dead are Walter Wescott, engineer; William Sound ers, fireman; Sol Worth of Mays Landing, N. J., a passenger. Seven cars of a 12-car train were reported to have gone over the rail road embankment at Winslow Junc tion. Summoned by telegraph and tele phone calls for help over a radius of 20 miles, physicians, ambulances, po lice and firemen equipped with relief rJutfits, lanterns and torches were hastening to the scene. A relief train left here with scores of doctors and nurses. Another had left Camden. Both trains will pick up additional rescue workers along the' route. Special trains took the injured to Camden and Atlantic City. Loaded With Vacationists. Philadelphia, Pa., June 3. Officials of the Reading railway said the Camden-Atlantic City express train wrecked at Winslow junction was northbound with Philadelphia vaca tionists who had spent the day at the shore. One Hundred and Forty-six Years Ago the Declaration of Independ ence was signed by our forefathers. Why not sign your "declara tion of independence" and buy a home of your own? It's comparatively easy! All you need do is watch the "Real Estate" columns of The Omaha Morning -Bee THE EVENING BEE. Even tually you will secure the exact place that spells h-o-m-e to you. JULY Corrtht. MS! I Four Are Injured as Auto Turns Over on Q Street John Schu, One of the Car's Occupants, May Not Re cover Woman Among Those Hurt. An automobile turned over twice near Forty-eighth and Q streets yes terday afternoon, injuring its four occupants, one of them seriously and perhaps fatally. The car was being driven by John A. Genaitix, 3416 T street, who had with him as passengers Mr. and Mrs. John Schu, 3362 T street, and Michael Butkus, 3504 U street. Schu suffered the severest injuries. One of his ears was nearly severed, a rib and collarbone ere broken and he is thought to have received in ternal injuries. Mrs. Schu was cut in many places about the body and Genaitix and Butkus were shaken up a,;id bruised. The injured persons were taken to South Omaha hospital by Ralph Mal lon, Forty-ninth and Q streets, where their injuries were dressed. All but Schu were sent home; The car was being driven swiftly west on Q street. At Forty-eighth street the front wheels caught in the car tracks and the machine turned over twice, throwing the occupants out. The car was wrecked. More Stolen Omaha Autos Identified at Sioux City Six more automobiles have been identified by Omaha detectives in the 22 cars recovered from a gang of alleged motor car thieves in Sioux Six more automobiles have been City. Five men of this alleged gang now are in jail at Jefferson, S. D., said to be their headquarters. The six identified cars ar; a Ford sedan, stolen from M. Mantel. 120 South Thirty-seventh street, March 23 from Fiftieth and Webster streets; a Ford sedan stolen from Mrs. A. J. Chapman, 720 South Twenty-second street, March 2 from Thirteenth and Vinton streets; a Ford sedan stolen from K. Reed, 1614 Harney street, February 23; a Ford coupe stolen from W. P. O'Brien, 510 Peters Trust building, April 7; a Ford coupe stolen from 0. R. Oshel of Red Oak, la., April 15, and a Ford coupe stolen from H. A. Robbins of Lincoln, April 13. Grain Elevator Workers at Kansas City Walk Out Kansas City, Mo., July 3. Union grain elevator workers at 20 eleva tors here walked out today, follow ing a conference between union of ficials and a committee of employers, which was unable to reach an agree ment as to wages and working con ditions. Some of the elevator heads said the strike appeared to be from "one third to one-half effective", at their plants. .Definite figures probably will not be available until July 5, after the holiday. Taxi Driver Held in Murder. Los Angeles, Cal., July 3. Wil liam S. Acker, formerly a taxicab driver of Phoenix, Ariz., was under arrest here today for Arizona au thorities who want to answer charges of grand larceny and suspicion of Strikebreakers at Perry.'Ia., Stoned, Driven From Town 20 Laborers Brought From Chicago to Work at Milwau kee & St. Paul Shops Flee Police Overpowered. Perry, la., July 3. Twenty labor ers brought here from Chicago, pre sumably to work in the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul shops were stoned and chased out of town Saturday night, by a band of strike sympathiz ers. There were numerous fist fights between the Chicago laborers and local strike sympathizers. Several of the laborers were injured. One of them was badly cut about the face by flying glass. Windows in the pas senger coach on which the men ar rived from Chicago at 8:30 p. m. Sat urday were stoned and broken. The sheriff and several deputies and local police officers were on hand when the tram arrived and made efforts to maintain order, but were outnumbered. - ' The men were chased out of town and when last seen they were run ning through a cornfield. According to Emmet Callahan, chairman of the local federated com mittee of the six shopmen's unions, the disturbances were caused by boys and by strike sympathizers. He says the striking shopmen did not engage in the fights. Omahan to Present Wounded Vets' Program to Harding San Francisco. July 3. After a conference here of present and former high officers of the Disabled Veter ans of the World War, it was an nounced today that a special com mittee, comprising Capt. C. Hamil ton Cook, national commander; James Hanberry, senior vice com mander, and Capt. John.H. Dykes, chairman of the rehabilitation com mittee, had been appointed, to go to. Washington to lay the organization's full program before President Hard ing and the veterans' bureau. Han berry left for Washington 'yesterday. Cook and Dykes were to leave today. The trio of officials will lay their case before the president in the hope of speedier action in the administra tion of the money appropriated for builfling hospitals . for sick and wounded ex-service men, it. was an nounced. They also will appear before congress to make a fight for the new Sweet bill and will confer with Col. Charles R. Forbes, national director of the veterans' bureau. James Hanberry newspaper man. is an Omaha The Weather Forecast. Tuesday Fuir and warmer. Hourly Temperatures. s S 7 Kt t 7 M 11 IS 1 p. p. a p. p. s p. 7 p. a p. a. m. 7 a, m. S n. m. a a. at. ! a, m. 11 a. m. It Highest Monday. Oimn . ...-.. North Pl.tL Davvnport J8 (Purblo . .... rvenver M (Salt Lake ... ! Molnr J Snta F . .. Tod city 71 iSberidaa ... Lander II j ...71 ...M ...it Strike of Trackmen Postponed Maintenance of Way Iadcri Delay Action Until After Conference With Labor liourd Today. Kansas City Asks Troops Detroit, July J.-(Hy A. P.)-The threatened strike of maintenance of way workrrs again was drfrrrcd to day, when the executive board of the United Brotherhood of Mainte nance of Way Kmptoycs and Kail way Shop Laborers announced, after an all-day session, that no action would be taken until after a con ference with the L'nited States rail road labor board in Chicago to morrow. The board, which was called to canvass the strike vote oi tne or ganization's 280.UOO members andv 12(I,(X)0 nonunion workers wnosc wishes also were consulted, was in session from early this afternoon until 5 p. m. and indications had been that a decision would be forthcom ing at the conclusion of thej con ference. A statement given out by the committee said: J tie executive committee has been tabulating the strike vote and perfecting the strike machinery. They have been invited to conrer with the united Mates rau ,nA lihnr l,nart and have accented the invitation. The meeting win take place in Chicago tomorrow. State Troops Asked. Kansas City, Mo., July 3. The Chamber of Commerce, following a meeting of a special committee, tele graphed to uovernor nyac, 8kihk him to call the National guard of Missouri into active service at onre . . . 'it. A I n:iMn,l e4.ll- in connection witn mc i The governor was asked to station enough troops in Kansas City to prevent loss of life and destruction of property, which the Chamber of Commerce saia in us ieicgriu ii -lieved to be an imminent possibility. Branded as "Outlaws." Chicago, July 3. With striking shopmen formally branded by the. United States railroad labor board as ' "outlaws," the board tonight directed its efforts toward the prevention of an extension of the walkout by 400,000 maintenance of way men. Following a meeting of the execu tive council of the United Brother hood of Maintenance of Way Em ployes and Railway Shop Laborers in Detroit today to canvas a strike vote, it was announced that the threatened walkout would be held up nending a conference with the labor board in Chicago tomorrow. Members pf the board expressed strong hopes tonight that the con ference would avert a walkout. They declared that the only question at is sue was one of wages and that the way already had been opened for a reconsideration of wage reductions which went into effect on July 1. simultaneously with the shopmen s walkout. May Avert Strike. At that time Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the board, announced that government reports indicated an increase in the cost of living since the board rendered its wage reduc tion decisions and that this could be made the basis of an immediate ap peal to the board by the employes for wage increases. Union leaders were quoted as demanding only that the board hold up its wage cuts pending the appeal. The difference, it was declared, was slight and the belief (Turn to Page Two, Column Six.) Traveling Public Feels First Effects of Walk Out in West San Francisco, July 3. The ulti mate consumer" the traveling pub lic had its first experience today of the efforts of the railway shopmen's strike in the Pacific coast region. Passengers on the Overland Limited of the Southern Pacific lines, coming through the Sacramento vailey where the thermometer registered 104 de grees, were told the electric fans in the cars could not be operated. It was said the electricity must be conserved for lighting the cars and that no electricians were available to make repairs which would have permitted the fans to be operated. Striking shopmen of the Southern Pacific must return to work next Thursday or their places will be de clared vacant, J. H. Dyer, general manager of the company announced. Those returning at that time will retain their seniority and other privi leges, he said. Station Man Electrocuted; Shuts Off Power to Yuma Brawley, Cal.. July 3 B. W. Miles, substation tender of the Holton Power company at Andrade, in southeastern Imperial county, was electrocuted last night it was learned today, by stumbling against a high voltage wire. His body acter as a short circuit, carrying 13,000 volts for two hours and shutting off elec tric light and power from Yuma, Ariz. His death was discovered bv a party sent out to fnd him after attempts to telephone his station ha l failed. Mrs. Siefken Will Attempt to Identify Fred Brown Mrs. Charles Siefken and her daughter, Gertrude, who moved to Chicago shortly after Charles Sief ken and his son. Robert, were killed by a lone bandit during an oil filling station holdup, will return to Oma ha July 8 to attempt to identify Fred Brown, Benson chainman, as the slayer. Brown ViII be brought to Omaha from the state prison shortlv after the Fourth of July for other wit- . ncsses to view him also. County At- v. ut j uuuiwcti aaiiat